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Modern Talking Picture<br />
Moves General Offices<br />
LAKE SUCCESS. N.Y.—Modern Talking<br />
Picture Service. Inc.. the distributor of<br />
business films, has moved its general offices<br />
to 4 Nevada Drive. Lake Success. N.Y.<br />
11040.<br />
The company's executive and Eastern<br />
sales offices as well as its Manhattan film<br />
library remain at 1212 Avenue of the<br />
Americas, where the general offices formerly<br />
were located. Carl H. Lenz. president,<br />
is remaining at that address.<br />
The reason for the move, says Lenz.<br />
there for some time.<br />
The telephone number at Lake Success<br />
and New Hyde Park is the same: (516)<br />
437-6300. These offices also can be reached<br />
direct by dialing a special New York City<br />
number: (212) 895-0925.<br />
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MAY<br />
12-27, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France.<br />
24-25, National Ass'n of Concessionaires midyear<br />
board meeting, Sheraton-Chicago Hotel, Chicago.<br />
24-27, National Ass'n of Theatre Owners board<br />
meeting, Sonesfa Hotel, New Orleans.<br />
is to provide space for expansion and for<br />
development of an on-line computer film<br />
booking system that will efficiently handle<br />
film scheduling for the entire country.<br />
JUNE<br />
Modern makes a million and a half bookings<br />
of sponsored films a year on behalf 19-26, Atlanta International Filrr Festival, Symphony<br />
Hall of Atlanta Memorial Arts Bldg., Atlanta.<br />
of some 800 clients. The films are shipped<br />
27-30, NATOs of Louisiana and \ississippi joint conto<br />
community groups and other audiences<br />
vention, Biloxi, Miss.<br />
by 30 regional film libraries.<br />
Modern also has a plant at 2323 New<br />
JULY<br />
Hyde Park Road. New Hyde Park. N.Y. 12-14, Mid-Atlantic NATO convention, Cavalier h<br />
1 1040. adjacent to the Lake Success offices, Virginia Beach, Va.<br />
which houses advertising and promotion, 18-22, NATO of New York and NATO of New Ji<br />
combined convention, Concord, Lake Kiamesha, N.Y<br />
printing, data processing, warehousing and<br />
other functions. Fontaine Kincheloe jr.,<br />
AUGUST<br />
vice-president in charge of advertising and 24-27 Theatre Owners of New England annual con<br />
promotion, and Philip Murphy, public relations<br />
manager, have moved to that ad-<br />
vention. New Sheraton Hyannis Inn, Hyannis, Mass<br />
dress from Manhattan. Harry W. Bogaards<br />
jr.. vice-president, production, and Jerry<br />
Naidus, promotion manager, have been<br />
Four Star Int'l Sales Dept.<br />
Moving From NY to Coast<br />
NEW YORK—Four Star Entertainment<br />
Corp. is moving its international sales department<br />
from New York to the West Coast<br />
offices of the parent company, Four Star<br />
International, as of Monday (24).<br />
Making the move to the coast will be<br />
Madeleine de Ryke. vice-president, and<br />
Betsy Cullen. manager of international sales,<br />
together with their respective staffs. The<br />
relocation will provide a closer working relationship<br />
with the production divisions. The<br />
international sales department will be based<br />
at 400 South Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills,<br />
Calif.<br />
ON TUESDAY, MAY 11th,<br />
Allied Artists Will Exhibit<br />
11 Films at Cannes Festival<br />
NEW YORK—Eleven films to be released<br />
by Allied Artists<br />
are being shown at<br />
the Cannes Film Festival. Three of the 11<br />
seen at official Festival screenings are: "The<br />
Anonymous Venetian," starring Tony Musante<br />
and Florinda Bolkan; "The Boat,"<br />
starring John McEnery, Jean-Pierre Casse!<br />
and Claude Jade, and "Sacred Fire," starring<br />
Sonia Petrova, Lilian Aden and Pierre<br />
Fuger, which was the film selected to open<br />
the<br />
Festival.<br />
The remaining eight Allied Artists releases<br />
being shown at the Cannes Film<br />
Festival are: "Romance of a Horsethief,"<br />
adventure comedy starring Yul Brynner.<br />
Eli Wallach, Jane Birkin, Lainie Kazan.<br />
Serge Gainsbourg and Oliver Tobias; "shinbone<br />
alley." full-length animated feature<br />
starring the voices of Carol Channing and<br />
Eddie Bracken: "Ways of Women"; "Queen<br />
of Hearts"; "Loving and Laughing"; "The<br />
Awakening"; "Heads or Tails" and "The<br />
Guns."<br />
— MR. EXHIBITOR —<br />
DID YOUR THEATRE GROSS<br />
$ 3280<br />
00 (WE DID)<br />
SAMUEL G0LDWYN STUDIOS PRESENTED<br />
"AN EVENING OF THE FABULOUS '20s"<br />
Gaylord Carter plus Samuel Goldwyn's<br />
"THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH"<br />
One Performance Only (All Seats $2.50)<br />
At Pacific's Wiltern in Los Angeles<br />
Bill Ramsay Samuel Goldwyn Studios, 1041 N. Formosa Ave.<br />
Hollywood, Calif. 90046 (213) 8511234<br />
LETTERS<br />
Commends BOXOFFICE Editorial<br />
To Ben Shlyen:<br />
In the May 10. 1971, edition of Boxoffice,<br />
I noted your editorial titled, "Food for<br />
Thought." Other articles and editorials have<br />
also touched on the same small-town exhibition<br />
problems when trying to buy film.<br />
I have a small 300-seat house in a farming<br />
community, where years ago a $12.50<br />
Gene Autry or Roy Rogers from Republic<br />
paid lots of our bills. But, today, after 30<br />
years in<br />
the business, things are very different.<br />
Your reference to such pictures as Airport"<br />
and "Love Story" hit the nail on the<br />
head. 1 buy and book out of Philadelphia. I<br />
finally solved the problem about "Patton,"<br />
"M*A*S*H" and "Hello, Dolly!"<br />
Universal tells me the "company policy"<br />
is at least one week now for "Airport."<br />
Paramount advises they must have four<br />
weeks yet for "Love Story."<br />
We are only open in the winter months<br />
four days—summer months we can go to<br />
five and sometimes six days—all of which<br />
means that "Airport" and "Love Story" will<br />
be dead ducks by the time they are released<br />
to me.<br />
I am trying to keep the only theatre left<br />
in our county (Susquehanna) open.<br />
Those New York policy-makers would do<br />
make the rounds to houses like<br />
well to<br />
mine—they might change their minds—<br />
maybe.<br />
Thanks for calling these matters to the<br />
attention of all segments of the industry. If<br />
the right changes are made, it will be<br />
thanks to you. Keep up the good work.<br />
My nearest competition is 25 miles away<br />
in Binghamton, N.Y. Years ago, I had a<br />
first-run status. In those days, they seemed<br />
glad to get Montrose out of the way as<br />
early as possible, instead of letting the<br />
prints lay idle for several weeks.<br />
You have the facility, Boxoffice, to keep<br />
hitting those policy-makers hard. Keep up<br />
the good work.<br />
Montrose Theatre,<br />
Montrose, Pa.<br />
EDWARD J. CLIFFORD<br />
Allied Artists Openings Big<br />
For 'Portraits of Women'<br />
NEW YORK—Allied Artists" satire on<br />
pornographic movies, "Portraits of Women,"<br />
has entered its fourth week at the<br />
Fine Arts Theatre in San Diego and its<br />
second week at the Rivoli Theatre, Hartford,<br />
Conn. It just completed a highly successful<br />
engagement at Chicago's Cinestage<br />
Theatre.<br />
May openings for "Portraits of Women"<br />
include the Loft Theatre in Tucson, the<br />
Valley Art Theatre in Temple, Ariz., the<br />
Town Theatre in Bloomington, Indiana and<br />
21 other theatres throughout the country.<br />
John Donner. wrote, directed and- is starred<br />
in<br />
the film.<br />
BOXOFFICE :: May 24, 1971
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