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A N U A R Y
'ol. 100
10, 1972
No. 13
THE
OH, FOR THE GOOD OL DAYS!
EXTRAORDINARY success of
four current United Artists' re
leases, namely, "Fititaier on the Roof,"
"Diamonds Are Forever," "Sunday,
Bloody Sunday" and "200 Motels," and
a number of other companies' current
releases, hopefully, are harbingers of a
healthy year ahead.
It also serves as a reminder that UA
had an anniversary this past year that,
somehow, was overlooked, marking the
20th year since the company was ac
quired by the Benjamin and Krim interests
from Mary Pickford and Charles
Chaplin, who were among its original
owners. Ordinarily, such a milestone
gives rise to a "celebration," at least by
the company involved. But, maybe, UA
is letting its aforementioned hits serve
the purpose.
Speaking of this occasion with a former
UA associate, he waxed nostalgic
about what he termed "the good old
days" and cited some reasons therefor.
He said that UA set its forward strides
in the first seven years of the new man
agement—from 1951 1958. "It keeps
pushing forward, adding to its product
output, improving productional quality
and extending and intensifying its pro
motional efforts," he said. Adding, "Since
nothing succeeds like success, the UA
management goes after it, without stint
ing anywhere along the line. It firmly
believes in what it has to sell—and
SELLS it to the limit." Checking back
over the record, we found that condi
tions in 1958 were basically the same as
they are today, namely, that quantity
as well as quality of product played a
big part not only in the distributor's,
but in the exhibitor's, success.
In the particular instance of UA, that
firm stepped up its feature output to
include "a minimum of 26 blockbuster
features." And they supplemented it
with other product to give the full sea
son a total of 36 films. Max E. Young
stein, then a UA vice-president, an
nounced plans for "the biggest exploitation
campaign in the company's history."
No believer in the "soft sell," he
advocated a livelier activity and declared
that the motion picture business cannot
afford to be subtle or quietly clever, but
needs as much "excitement and noise"
as possible.
He said further, "It is no accident that
this year, when our pre-selling manpower
is at a peak, we are in the strongest
position in our history in terms of
both business and product. Effective
merchandising demands effective manpower.
It is ruinous and self-deluding
to release important product without
the promotional men and momentum
that develop the mass market."
Statements of that kind are coming
from exhibitors these days and, while
acknowledged by some distributors, the
action thereon is not being implemented
on a broad enough scale. Hopefully,
however, there are some noteworthy
exceptions indicating that, as meritorious
product increases, so will its promotional
activity.
In the instance of what was seen as
a need back in the late '50s, applicable
to the present, was the statement made
by Roger H. Lewis, then national director
of advertising, publicity and exploitation
for UA, when he said, "Today the
emphasis in selling and pre selling must
be on the local level; the best efforts
of our planning staff are meaningless
unless they are carried out intelligently
and aggressively into the field."
True indeed, the job done at the local
level—the point of sale— is an essential
not to be overlooked at anytime, least
of all by the exhibitor who must tie in
his own efforts with those of the distributor
(and vice versa)
greatest success of any advertising and
promotional campaign.
to make for the
This is especially true in this day of
multitudinous forms of competition
for time as well as the entertainment
dollar—as the public's shopping (for
entertainment) has become accentuated.
To beat this competition, strong product
must be coupled with strong promotion
to make it an unbeatable combination.
The so-called "good ol' days" have a
habit of recurring as producer-distributors
bring out more salable product,
stimulate interest therein—within the
industry and with the public—and renew
and strengthen these efforts whereever
merited.
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Heritage Enterprises Is Expanding
In Production and Distribution
NEW YORK— If
By JOHN COCCHl
the name Heritage Eor
lerprises, Inc., isn't familiar as a theatrical
distributor, it's due to the fact that good
fortune has so far relieved the company of
the financial risks of distribution. This was
indicateJ by Donald Hascns jr., executive
vice-president and chief operating officer,
in referring to a $1,400,000 distribution
agreement with National Telefilm Associates,
Inc. Involved in the deal are the sale
of
17 features and the purchase of five classics
which Heritage will release internationally
to theatres and television.
Company Founded in 1968
Heritage was founded in 1968 by .Vrthur
-Skip" Steloft as an outgrowth of Heritage
Producl'ons, a successful radio and TV production
company which he sold to Sir Lew
Cirade ol Independent Television Corp., and
Heritage International, producer of motion
pictures, .sports specials and cartoons. After
selling the latter company to Wolper Television,
Steloff formed Heritage Enterprises
to prod. ice and distribute low to mediumbudget
features, and TV series and to acquire
product for theatres and television.
The company's first effort, co-produced
with Cincmatografica Calderon, S.A., of
Mexico, was Samuel Fuller's "Shark!," starring
Harry Sullivan, Arthur Kennedy and
Burt Reynolds. For the year ending March
-^1. 1971. gross sales rose 329 per cent to
S^U-SOOO, as compared with $241,500 the
previous year. Net income rose 173 per
cent to $100,900, or 18 cents a share on
547.442 average shares outstanding. Comparable
figures for the previous year were
$35,525, or 12 cents a share, on 283.614
average shares outstanding.
Heritage has sold rights to five films to
the Bri'.ish Broadcasting Co. and is currently
dickering with the Fanfare Corp. on a distribution
agreement. Havens said that his
company prefers, however, to release films
on an i-idividual basis through various domestic
liistributors.
Plans 20 Productions ^ early
Have;is firmly believes in the Joseph E.
I.evine and Joe Solomon way of producing
and distributing films for maximum results.
He also feels that science-fiction will be the
next film trend and intends to have 13 pictures
in that genre for 1972. Current plans
call for Heritage to produce an average of
20 films per year. The company's most ambitious
production will be "Young Crusoe."
budgeted at S.S(K).000 and starring Woody
Strode. Mark Lester and Trevor Howard
as Blackbeard the Pirate. A television pilot
film will
also be made within that budget.
Donu-stically, Heritage has these films
ready for release: "Octa-Man," with Pier
Angeli. Kerwin Mathews. Harry Guardino
and Jeff Morrow; "Moving Target" (or
"The Greek Connection"), produced in
Athens with Michael Rennic and Ty Hardin;
"Every Man Is My Enemy" (French-Italian).
with Robert Webber, Elsa Martinelli and
Jean Servais; "Slaughterhouse" (Italian).
Claudine .Auger, and "The Army of Branca
Leone" (Italian), with Vittorio Gassman.
Catherine Spaak and Gian Maria Volonte.
Havens expects that "The .Army of Branca
Leone," a major release in Italy, will be
a tremendous comedy hit if handled properly.
On the other pictures the names of Angeli
and Rennie. both recently deceased,
won't be a detriment, he said. The story's
the thing in both instances and the buffs
will want to see their last films. Miss Angeli
made "Octa-Man" in Hollywood shortly before
her death.
Other acquisitions will probably go to TV
and include; "The Girl." a black and white
German film; "Gangster '70"; "Last Rampage,"
with Ty Hardin and Giorgia .Moll;
and three Japanese science-fiction pictures
made by Toho, "The Human Vapor." "Gorath"
and "The Last War."
Among its foreign rights, Heritage owns
several films never released in this country:
"Island of the Lost." Richard Greene and
Luke Halpin; "Sweet and the Bitter." Paul
Richards and Torin Thatcher, and "Longest
Hunt," Keenan Wynn and Brian Kell\.
Other films include the Ivan Tors productions
"Gentle Giant," "Africa-Te.xas Style!"
and "The Daring Game."
Havens joined Heritage, independent producers
and distributors of films for theatre
and television, earlier this year from Caym.in
Development Co., where he was a
general partner. Cayman owned and developed
land in Barbados, W.I.
In 1966 Havens was a founder and
president of the Cannon Group, motion
picture producers and distributors. From
1967 through 1971. the Cannon Group
released 34 motion pictures, including the
highly acclaimed "Joe." Prior to that he
was a loan officer with Chemical Bank
New York Trust Co.
Kinney. Golcdmark Agree
To Form New Company
,Nt\V 'iOKK Kmney .Services, Inc..
and Peter C. Goldmark. electronics pioneer
in the development of the long-playing
record, color television and electronic video
recording, have agreed in principle on the
est.iblishment of a new company to be
called Goldmark Communications, Inc..
with majority ownership hv Kinney and
with Goldmark as president.
Cioklm.irk. who retirevi List month after
36 years with Columbia Broadcasting System,
and Steven J. Ross, president of Kinney,
announced the new plan in which the
company would concentrate on the "development
innovation of techniques and
systems" for cable television as well as other
electronic methods for delivering material
to home television and in other areas of
communication.
Roy While Will Speak
At Show-A-Rama
KANSAS LI IV—Roy B. White, new
president of the National .Ass'n of Theatre
Owners who also heads Mid States Theatres
of Cincinnati, will speak at the opening session
of Show-A-Rama 15, annual exhibitor
convention and tradeshow to be held at the
Muehlebach Hotel Convention Center here
Februan' 28-.March 2. White will detail fu
ture plans and past accomplishments ot the
National exhibitor organization.
Richard Durwood. president of United
Motion Picture .Ass'n. sponsor of the annual
event, announced that the 1972 international
gathering will present a new concept for
the format of the business sessions, in which
there will be no speeches by panelists. Instead,
Durwood said, business sessions will
be thrown open for explicit questions from
delegates, with moderators referring the
queries to the panelist considered most authoritative
in that facet of "theatremanship."
Seminars will cover such subjects as automation,
theatre equipment and new developments,
and concessions. There also will be
two business building seminars on Thursday.
March 2. morning, running simultaneously,
with one devoted to metropolitan theatres
and the lUher to small-towns ranging up to
15.000 population.
Durv;ood said there will be three film
company seminars featuring extensive future
product presentations and "how-to" sell
campaigns on specific pictures. Many major
companies will have product reels followed
by brici sales presentations and advertising
developments. Film company seminars are
schedultd for Wednesday. March 1. and
Thursday. March 2. afternoons.
Announcement of top awards and honors
lor the 1972 Show-.A-Rama event, including
the coveted and sought-after titles of
"Male Star of the Year." "Female Star of
the Year." "Motion Picture Company of the
Year" and other awards will be announced
in the next few weeks, according to Richard
Coiiley. general chairman of Show-A-
Rama ,':nd president of Petite Amusement
Corp
Herbert Schlosberg Elected
President of Tronsvue
IIOI I ^ WOOD— Herbert B Schlosberg
has been elected president of Transvuc
Pictures Corp.. at a special board of directors
meeting held Monday (3) to name
a successor lo A. C. Curcio. who resigned
that post to return to the presidency of
.'\merikana Film Corp. Transvuc directors
also named B. S. Wagner to succeed .Schlo.-
berg as
corporation secretary.
Schlosberg announced immediate plans
lor moving Transvue's advertising and exploitation
department from New York to
the firm's West Coast corporate headquarters,
in line with its previously announced
release schedule of 12 feature
films for 1972.
BOXOmCE :; Januarv 10. 1972

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World Premiere and Easter Attraction
at Loews State 1 and Loews State 2 (WEST wes, SIDE)
and Loews Orpheum (EAST s

Sales Club Honors Stanley Durwood
For Development of
KANSAS CITY—Stanley H. Durwood.
president of American Multi Cinema. Inc..
be honored as
Marketing Man of
will
he Year" tonight (10)
it a dinner at the Pla-
Inn by ihc Market-
/.i
ing and Sales Executes
Club local
v.inch with the presentation
of the organi/.iiion's
Steuben glass
Wise Old Owlaward
for his work in
Stanley H. Durwood
pioneering and developing
the multi-cinema concept.
Paul Yeoman, chairman of the club's
marketing man of the year committee, emphasized
that Durwood's selection lor the
award was due in large part to his revitalization
of a market which had been declining
by changing the concept of the motion
picture theatre to appeal to a new life style,
in introducing the multi-theatre plan to provide
entertainment for every
taste.
The "Wise Old Owl" award. Yeoman
said, is given to the individual which in the
opinion of the Marketing and Sales Executives
Club membership has contributed the
most in service to his own firm, to his profession
.ind to the welfare of Kansas City.
Durwood was cited for pioneering the
concept of multiple theatres in shopping
centers by opening the nation's first such
twins, the Parkway I and 2 at the Ward
Parkway Shopping Center in 196.1. Since
that lime, this nicihiid of film marketing
MCA Appoints Herb Stern
For FCC. CATV Fields
Nl-W 'toRK Herbert S Siern. vicepresident
of Universal Television and head
of the law department of Universal Studios,
has been named to the new position of
executive-in-ch.irge of MCA, Inc.'s activities
dealing with the Federal Communications
Commission. CATV, copvright .md
other related fields, it was announced by
Lew K Was-scrman. president of MCA.
A successor to Stern as head of Universal's
law department will he named in
the near future.
"Our .ippoinlment of Herb Stern to his
new position" said Wasserman "reflects the
company's recognition of the importance
of and the fast changing events taking place
in these areas of corporate interest."
Stern joined MCA's New York office
in 1950 as a member of the law department.
He later headed the administrative
and legal functions of MCA's domestic and
foreign television distribution. In 19(S5 he
moved to Universal Studios in Holly-wood
to head up its law department.
Multi-Cinema
has been expanded to include four, sLx, and
eight theatres at a single location.
American Multi Cinema now owns and
operates 41 multi theatres with 1.54 screens
in 1 2 states; it has scheduled eight new
theatres with 40 screens for 1972 openings.
After pioneering the twin theatres. Durwood
went on to develop the first quad-plex.
the Metro Plaza Theatres here, in 1966.
while also expressing his faith in downtown
Kansas City by making huge investments
in theatre properties, refurbishing them and
in some instances dividing them into multiauditorium
theatres, some with intimate
"screening room" atmosphere.
He also has devoted himself lo many civic
activities, including the Chamber of Commerce.
Downtown. Inc.. United Motion Picture
Ass'n. Har\'ard Club. Rotary Club and
others. Durwood created the Kansas Cits
Downtown Redevelopment Corp.. a wholh
owned subsidiary of Durwotxl. Inc.. to fulfill
his desire to restore and revitalize the
downtown area.
The presentation to
Durwood tonight will
include a complete program utilizing slides,
films and clips detailing his accomplishments.
Durwood will receive the fifth such award
to be presented by the local club. Previous
winners were: Ralph Hedges, president.
Robo-Wash. 1968: Ewing Kauffman.
Marion Laboratories and owner of the
Kansas City Royals. 1969: John Oakson.
vice-president, marketing. Hallmark Cards.
1970. and Henry and Richard Block. H&R
Block. 1971.
.lOINS II
TO/ijJEW
SALES ( ABINKT—Hcnr>
n. "111" Martin, loft. I niM-rsal >iceprcsident
and (jcneral sales niaiiaeer,
and Vbe Swcrdlow, riuht. recinnal
nia!iai;rr. fl;:nk fiirnuT I os Angeles
brani'h inaiiaucr Robert Carpenter at a
testininnial luneheon in the Bcscrly-
Uilshire Hotel in BiM-rh Hills, (arpcMliT
joined
Martin's Ne« ^Ork sales
cabinet as a.s.sitant to the general sales
manager Monday (3).
Mid-South, Interstate
ABC Divisions Merge
D.ALI^.X.S— iwo .American Broadcasting
Co. southern division circuits were merged
January 1. with the transfer of .-\BC Mid-
South Theatres of New Orleans to ABC Interstate
of Dallas, which now will be headquarters
for the consolidated operation.
The cnnouncement was made from New
York by Samuel H. Clark, group vice-president
in charge of non-broadcasting operations
of .ABC. parent compan\ of the two
circuits and others in the L' S. Under the
merger. Interstate, now operating more than
80 theatres in Texas, also absorbs the 20
theatres of ABC Mid-South, formerly operated
out of New Orleans. TTiese theatres
are located primarily in Louisiana, Mississippi,
Tennessee and Arkansas, with one
other house in Texarkana. Tex.
William E. Mitchell. ABC Interstate president
here, said that since Dallas is one of
the industry's most important exchange centers
the merger will centralize various operational
activities.
Bookings for the expanded operation will
be under the supervision of Joe S. Jackson,
vice-president and general manager. William
R. Curtis is treasurer and controller, and
Francis Barr is advertising director. Mitchell
said local management of the .ABC Mid-
.South theatres would be unchanged.
Division managers of the .ABC Interstate
theatres in Texas are Conrad Brady. Pat
Hudgins, George Sorcnson and James Neinast.
Division manager ol ihe merged theatres
is G. B. Bicknell.
Five Top ABC Executives
To Retire at Yearend
NEW YORK—.Samuel H. Clark, group
vice-president of nonhroadcast activities for
.American Broadcasting Companies. Inc.. has
.uinounced the retirement, as of Ihe yearend.
of ABC theatre executives Kemiit Carr.
T. J. "Jimmy" Howell. E. H. "Em" Cieissler,
Marc Barre and .A. Don Allen.
Carr has been employed with .ABC in
\arious areas and in different capacities, for
the past several years serving as president
and general manager of ABC Mid-.Soulh
Theatres. Howell also has served in various
areas, most recently as a vice-president and
chief film buyer for ABC Mid-South.
Cieissler has been president and gencr.il
manager of Wil-Kin. Inc.. and its gmding
hand in the wave of new theatre construction
and equipment. Barre has been controller
of ABC Southeastern Theatres and
financi.il officer in charge of area accounting
in .Atlanta, while .Allen, who started his
career with .ABC Midwest Theatres, has
been its vice-president and general manager
for many years.
Said Clark: "All of these men have served
our theatre interests long and well, and it
is always hard to replace men of their caliber.
However, in view of Ihe length and
value of their ser\ices. we cannot stand in
Ihe way of their plans for the future and we
wish them well."
BOXOmCE ;: January 10, 1972

Loews Corp. Profit Has Gcrin
Of 40% for First Quarter
NEW YORK—Loews Corp. reports its
fiscal first-quarter net income rose more
than 40 per cent to a record $15.8 million,
or $1.09 a share, largely as a result of growing
tobacco and candy sales. Theatres account
for over five per cent and hotels for
over 15 per cent. Earnings for the year-earlier
period, ended Nov. .^0. 1970. were a
restated $11.2 million, or 78 cents a share.
The year-earlier figures reflect the adoption
of the equity method of accounting for
Loews' investment in an associated company,
v/hich increased previously reported
quarterly earnings by $660,000, or five cents
a
share.
Sales climbed to $193.9 million trom
$188.3 million. Fully diluted earnings would
be 85 cents a share, up from 63 cents a
share a year earlier, assuming holders of
warrants issued Nov. 29, 1968, would apply
the 6 7/8 per cent debentures at par as payment
of the current exercise price of $35
a share.
Loews' Lorillard division produces such
cigarets as Kent, Old Gold, True and Newport;
the company's candies are produced by
its Reed Candy Co. unit. Together cigarets,
cigars and candy currently account for over
70 per cent of overall business.
S. Fleischman to Address
Adult Film Ass'n Meet
LOS ANGELES — Stanley
Fleischman.
one of America's noted attorneys in the
field of civil rights and an authority on
censorship cases, will address the Adult
Film .Ass'n members Monday (10) at the
Deauville Hotel in Miami. Fla. He told
BoxoFFiCE, in an exclusive interview, that
the key issue for the nation and for AFA
members is "how to preserve the broad freedom
attained for the screen over the last
decade."
Fleischman, who is co-counsel of the
AFA. said he sees what he believes to be
"a great deal of lawless conduct engaged
in by local law enforcement officials and
a disinclination by lower court judges to
correct this lawless conduct."
However, he said he "is hopeful that the
Supreme Court will continue on the path
charted over the last decade, affording
broad protection to freedom of speech and
the press including materials dealing with
sex."
TWI National Sets Eight
Features for This Year
HOLLYWOOD— Robert .Saxton, president
of TWI National, Inc., Hollywoodbased
independent company, announced that
the firm will market a minimum of eight
films this year. Starting with its January
release of "Captain Milkshake," the list
includes "High School Dropout," "Our Life
Together," "Truck Stop Girl," "The Long
Highway," latter to be produced by Harold
Roberts and Elmer Whiles, and "Taste
of Terror. " All are budgeted in the $300,-
000 category.
New Loews Promotions
Bernard Myerson, president of
Loews Theatres, has announced the following
executive promotions effective
January 1: Don Baker, left, to vicepresident,
advertising. Ted Amow,
right, national director of advertising
and promotion, has had ass't vice-president
added to this title. Lloyd Jacobs
has been elevated to vice-president in
charge of construction and engineering.
SMPTE Charts Convention
Apr. 30-May 5, New York
NEW YORK—The 1 1 Ith semiannual
technical conference of the Society of Motion
Picture and Television Engineers will
be held April 30-May 5 at the Hilton
Hotel here. The theme will be "The New
Filmmaker—Changing Trends in Motion
Picture and Television Production Methods."
Technical papers to be presented will
emphasize the changing methods and technology
today's filmmaker faces.
As an added feature, student members
be allowed to attend the
of the SMPTE will
technical conference sessions free of the
usual registration fee. Student non-members
will have an opportunity to join the Society
for only $5 per year, which will enable
them to participate without further charge
at this convention and all conferences for
the next 12 months, in addition to receiving
monthly copies of the SMPTE Journal.
The equipment exhibit held concurrently
with the conference will be 94 booths comprising
the latest equipment and services
available to the industry. Those firms desiring
to participate in the exhibit should
contact John J. Burlinson jr.. National
Screen Service, 1600 Broadway. New York.
N. Y. 10019. for complete details.
Dom Capano. president of SOS Photo-
Cine-Optics. Carlstadt. N. J., is publicity
chairmin for the convention.
Michael Wilson to Do Script
On 'Betsy' for Warners
NEW YORK—Academy Award-winner
Michael Wilson has been signed to write
the screenplay of "The Betsy," the film
version of the new Harold Robbins novel,
which will be produced bv Cinema Video
Communications for Warner Bros.
Wilson, who received an Oscar for "A
Place in the Sun," includes "Five Fingers,"
"Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Sandpiper"
among his film credits.
Bruce Geller and Alden Schwimmer,
Roobins" partners in CVC, will produce
"Ihe Betsy" next year.
20th-Fox WUl Distribute
5 Films for Third World
NEW YORK—Twentieth Century-Fox
has entered into an agreement with Third
World Cinema Productions, Inc., for the
worldwide distribution of five motion picture
features produced over a three-year
period, it was announced Monday (3) by
Gordon 1. Stulberg. 20th-Fox president and
chief operating officer.
Among the first films slated for production
by Third World under this agreement
will be "Savior, .Savior, Hold My Hand,"
an adaptation of a novel by Piri Thomas to
be published this spring by Doubleday.
"Savior, Savior" will be directed by Ossie
Davis and will star, among others, Rita Moreno.
Production is slated to begin in the
spring with filming in New York City and
Puerto Rico. Thomas is best known for his
critically acclaimed and highly controversial
book on growing up in Harlem, "Down
These Mean Streets."
Third World Cinema is a new film production
company founded by a group of
leading black and Puerto Rican artists
whose aim is to broaden the participation
of members of minority groups in all the
communications media. As part of its program.
Third World now has placed more
than 40 in trainee positions in the various
of the East Coast Council of lATSE.
locals
In the near future, the firm will open the
Institute of New Cinema Artists, a training
school offering a two-year course in filmmaking,
open to minority group members.
Actor-director Davis is president of Third
World Cinema. Members of its board of directors
include Diana Sands, James Earl
Jones, Brock Peters, Miss Moreno, Thomas
and John O. Killens. Hannah Weinstein is
executive vice-president, with Thomas serving
as vice-president and attorney J. Lloyd
Grant as secretary-treasurer.
Di Muro Is Acting Head
Of Universal's Law Dept.
NEW YORK—Joseph Di Muro, senior
attorney of Universal Studios, has been
named acting head of Universal's law department,
it has been announced by Lew R.
Wasscrman, president of MCA, Inc. Di
Muro has been with Universal since 1964,
prior to which he was a senior attorney on
20th Century-Fox's legal staff for 14 years.
Herbert Stern, whom Di Muro succeeds,
has assumed the position of executive-incharge
of MCA, Inc.'s. activities in areas
dealing with the Federal Communications
Commission. CATV. copyright and other
related
fields.
To Produce 'The Maiden'
NEW YORK—"The Maiden." a
novel by
C\nthia Buchanan to be published Monday
(10) by William Morrow, has been acquired
by Omnipotent Productions for filming. Lily
Tomlin. a star of NBC-TV's "Laugh-In,"
will make her screen debut in the title role.
Peabody Award winner Jane Wagner will
do the screenplay for producer-manager
Irene Pinn.
BOXOFFICE :: January 10, 1972

—
and
AFI Follows Polish Films
With Henry Fonda Series
WASHINOION, U.e— Ihc American
Film Institute Theatre here, presenting a
survey of contemporary Polish cinema
through Januai^- 13, will follow this series
with a Tribute to Henry Fonda, January
14-18. The actor, who will be appearing
in the Plumstead Playhouse production of
"The Time of Your Life" at the Kennedy
Center, will appear in person on Sunday
(16) at 8 p.m.
Fallowing its Washington premiere. "Piiland
Today" will be presented at the 1 os
Angeles County Museum of Art, January
14-30; at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley,
Calil., in February, and in Chicago under
the auspices of the Chicago International
Film Festival in March. Thirteen new
and recent features and eight shorts are included
in this retrospective, in association
with Film Polski.
All of the Polish films have English subtitles,
except for Jerzy Kawalcrowicz' "Pharaoh"
(1965), which is dubbed. The other
titles and their directors are: "Family Life,"
Krzy.sztof Zanussi; "Everything for .Sale."
Andr/cj Wajda; "The Bear," Janusz Majewski:
"Manuscript lound in Saragossa," Wojciech
Has; "The Challenge," Wojciech .Solarz;
"Hunting Flies." Wajda; "The Birch
Wood." Wajda; "Taste of the Black Earth,"
Kazimi.-rz Kutz; "Landscape After Battle":
"Behind Ihe Wall"; "Passenger," Andrzej
Munk, and "Gangsters and Philanthropists,"
Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skorzewski.
The Fonda festival consists of: Friday
(14), "Twelve Angry Men" (1957) and "The
O.x-Bow Incident" (1943); Saturday (15),
"The Grapes of Wrath" (1940); Sunday
(16). "My Darling Clementine" (1946):
Monday (17). "Mister Roberts" (1955); and
Tuesdav (18). "The Best Man" (1964).
Academy Screening Shorts
For Oscar Consideration
HOI.I VW(JOD—The Academy of Motion
Picture ,\rts and Sciences began
screening 55 entries for consideration for
short subjects film Oscars Wednesday (5t.
A volunteer preliminary reviewing committee
of the short subjects branch, of
which Willi.im T. Hurtz and T. Hec are
co-chairmen, will view 39 live-action films
and 16 animated films. Final screenings
by the entire short subjects branch will he
held Wednesday (19) ;md Fridav (21).
with Ihe full branch voting to nominate
five achievements in the live-action and
.inim.iied
classifications.
To be eligible, a short-subject film
one 3,0(M) feet in length or less—must
have been made and distributed for profit,
and must have been shown in Los
Angeles County for three days during 1971.
Short subjects are among the three kinds
of film which are actually entered for
Oscar consideration (the others are documentaries
and foreign-langu.ige films). All
others are automatically considered if they
fill eligibility requirements.
8
Nat'l Sociefy of Film Critics
Votes 'Claire's Knee' Best
NtW \()KK— Ihe National Society
of Film Critics, composed of 24
iritits from national publications, voted
"C laire's Knee" as Ihe best picture of
the year, it «as announced \n chairman
Richard Schickel. The yroup ediidiictetl
its annual vote at the Vl^on^uln Hotel.
Jane Fonda «on Ihe best actrevs
award for "Klute" and Peter Finch «as
named best actor for "Sunday. Bloody
Sunday." Kllen Bursty n recei>ed the
best supiMirtin}! actress nod for "The
Last Picture Show." while Bruce Hern
was honored as best supporting actor
for "Dri^e. He .Said."
Bernardo Bertolucci was chosen best
director of 1971 for "The Conformist."
Best screenplay was named as "Sunday.
Bloody Sunday." with Penelope Gilliatt
as recipient. Best cinematography honors
went to Mttorio Storaro for "The
Conformist." .\ special award was
Hi\en to "The .Sorrow and the Pil>"
(Le Chagrin el la I'itie) with Ihe notation,
"For a film of extraordinary public
interest and distinction."
The awards will In- offjeiallj presented
at a reception to he held at the \l-
Conquin on Snndat (.10) at h p.m.
National Board of Review
Chooses 'Macbeth' Best
NLW '\()RK—Rom.iii Polanski"s version
of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" has been chosen
as the best picture of 1971 by the Committee
on E.\ceptional Films of the National
Board of Review of Motion Pictures. The
public organization inaugurated the practice
of annually selecting the best films of the
vear in 1920.
The board's ten best English-language
tilms were "Macbeth." "The Boy Friend."
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich."
"The French Connection," "The Last Picture
Show." "Nicholas and Alexandra,"
"The Go-Betwcen." "King Lear." "Peter
Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter" and
"Death in Venice."
Best foreign-language films were named
as "Claire's Knee." "Bed and Board." "The
Clowns." "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis"
and "The Conformist."
Gene Hackman was voted best actor for
"The French Connection" and Irene Papas
was chosen as best actress for "The Trojan
WiMiien." Best supporting awards went to
Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman. both for
"The Last Picture Show." Ken Russell won
the best director award for "The Devils"
and "The Boy Friend."
New UA Des Moines Mgr.
NKW YORK—Don Bloxham has succeeded
John Dugan as manager of the
L'niied .Artists branch in Des Moines, it has
been announced by James R. V'elde. vicepresident.
Blovbam was promoted from
salesman. Dugan has retired.
Myron Weinberg Killed
In British Auto Crash
NEW YORK— .M>ron K. Mike" Weinberg.
43. former vice-president of .-Vllied
.Artists, died December 30 in an automobile
accident near Cheltenham. England. Mrs.
Barbara Connell. a New York filmmaker,
also was killed and a third passenger in the
auto. Davis Bernstein, also of New York,
survived.
Weinberg, after work on Broadway and
in summer theatres, entered the film industry
here as a theatre part) consultant for
hard-ticket pictures, handling advance sales
on such films as "Porgy and Bess," "Exodus."
"Cleopatra."' the revival of "Gone
With the Wind " and others. He worked for
Paramount. Columbia, 20th-Fox and others
before joining Allied Artists in 1969 as
vice-president in charge of marketing. He
resigned from AA two months ago to become
an independent film producer and
packager.
Weinberg leaves his parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Henri Weinberg, of Queens. NY.
Actor Maurice Chevalier
Dies in Paris Hospital
P.ARIS—Maurice Chevalier, 83. debonair
French film star and entertainer, died Saturday
(1) at Necker Hospital, where he had
been for three weeks under treatment for .i
kidney blockage. Funeral services were held
Wednesday (5) in the little church at
Mamesla-Coquette, where Chevalier had
lived, j'jst west of Paris. Burial was in the
vault bu'lt after the death of his mother in
1929.
Chevalier's early films included "The
Love Parade, ' "Love Me Tonight " "The
Merry Widow." He was in "Gigi. " the 1958
film which won nine Oscars. In 1967 he
appeared in "Monkeys. Go Home!" and in
1970 in ""The Aristocats," bolh Disney productions.
President Georges Pompidou joined hundreds
of friends in paying tribute to the
actor who symbolized Paris with his tuxedo,
straw hat. cane and pouting lower lip.
Peter Duel 31, Found Dead
In Hollywood Hills Home
HOI 1 > WOOD IVlcr Duel. M. film
and television actor best known for his work
in the current ABC-TV series. "Alias Smith
and Jones." was found fatally shot in his
Hollywood Hills home on December 31
Duel was bom in Rochester. N.Y.. the son
of Dr. ;ind Mrs. Ellsworth S. Deuel, and
grew up in the nearby town of Penfield. He
attended St. Lawrence University for two
years, then enrolled at the -American Theatre
Wing in New York. After two years there
he became assistant stage manager and performer
with Shakespeare Wrights Repertory.
This led to his signing tor ihe motion picture.
"Wounded in .Action. " then to a costarring
role in the national road company
production of "Take Her. .She's Mine." and
a role in the film. "Generation." After moving
to Hollywood, he appeared in a number
of television series. Duel was a bachelor.
BOXOmCE :: January 10, 1972

AIP Names L. A. Gordon
V-P for U.S. Production
HOLLYWOOD — Lawrence A. Gordon
has been appointed vice-president in charge
of United States production for American
International Pictures, it is announced by
James H. Nicholson, president of AIP. and
by Samuel Z. Arkoff, chairman of the
board.
Gordon will be in charge of all creative
.ireas of the company for the U. S., reporting
directly to Arkoff and Nicholson. "This
newly created position has been established
to expand domestic production and to permit
involvement in additional important pictures."
"Mr. Gordon's background and knowledge
also will facilitate American International's
participation in the near future in
television production," Nicholson and Arkoff
stated.
Gordon has resigned as vice-president in
charge of project development of Screen
Gems, Inc. Prior to that he was vice-president
in charge of motion picture and television
development for American International
Productions.
Justice Willican O. Douglas
Is a Radnitz Film Fan
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Justice
WiUiam
O. Douglas has seen every Robert Radnitz
production, including the prolific family
filmmaker's latest, "The Little Ark."
The Supreme Court Justice was present
at a recent Washington screening of the
adaptation of the Jan de Hartog novel sponsored
by Radnitz for the National Education
Ass'a and The American Library Assn.
Radnitz' award-winning films include "My
Side of the Mountain," "Island of the Blue
Dolphins," "Misty." "And Now Miguel" and
"A Dog of Flanders," his first film also
photographed in the Netherlands.
A Robert B. Radnitz production filmed
in The Netherlands for Cinema Center
Films, "The Little Ark," dramatizes the suspenseful
adventures of two Dutch orphan
children in the search for their foster father
during the disastrous floods of Holland in
1953. The motion picture was directed by
James B. Clark from a screenplay by Joanna
Crawford, based on the novel by Jan de
Hartog, and was produced by Radnitz. National
General Pictures will
release.
Lenny Bruce Film Acquired
For Nontheatrical Use
NEW YORK—Fred Baker, president of
Fred Baker Films. Ltd.. has announced that
nontheatrical distribution rights to "Lenny
Bruce Without Tears" have been acquired
by John Freide, president of National Talent
Service. The documentary, a compilation of
newsreel footage and filmed stage appearances
of the late comedian, will be geared
to the college market and video tape network.
"Lenny Bruce Without Tears" was reviewed
in BoxoFFiCE in the Jan. 3, 1972
issue.
MOTION PICTURES RATED
BY THE CODE & RATING
ADMINISTRATION
The following feature-length motion pictures
have been reviewed and rated by the
Code and Rating Administration pursuant
to the Motion Picture Code and Rating
Program.
Title
Distributor
Brian's 5k)ng (Columbia)
RoHng
\g\
Billy (E.K. Corp) |r]
Brigadoon (reissue) (MGM) \g\
Curse of the Full Moon (Mishkm) GP'
The Daisy Chain (Hollywood Cinema
Associates)
(x)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Blood (Mishkin) GP*
Eagle in a Cage (NGP) GP*
Far From the Madding Crowd
(reissue) (MGM) ^
GP
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
(Cinema 5)
[r]
The Godson (Artists Int'l) GP*
Here Comes That Nashville Sound
(Donald A. Davis)
The Hitchhikers (Sebastian Films)
Journey Through Rosebud (GSF)
King Lear (Altura Films)
Le Boucher (Cinerama)
Lovers and Other Strangers (**)
(Cinerama)
[g]
[r]
GP*
GP
GP*
GP*
The Little Ark (NGP) \g\
Naughty Marietta (reissue) (MGM) [g]
The Muthers (Hollywood Cinema
Associates)
The Next Victim (Maron) \r\
Relations (Cambist)
(x)
[r]
Rose Marie (reissue) (MGM) \g\
Smic Smac Smoc (GSF)
GP'
There's Always VaniUa (Cambist)
[r]
The Student Prince (reissue) (MGM) |g]
Tower of the Screaming Virgins (Maron) [r]
The Visitors (UA) \r\
(**) This rating supersedes the rating listed in Bulletin
No. 78.
'"This film contains material which may not be suitable
for pre-teenagers."
'Soul to Soul' Is Awarded
Ethiopian Festival Prize
ADDIS ABABA—"Soul to Soul," featuring
the music and tradition of black soul
and gospel artists, has been awarded the
Golden Lion of Addis Ababa, the highest
honor at the Ethiopian Film Festival. Many
of the sequences in the film were shot during
the 15-hour all-night "Soul to Soul" concert
in Accra to celebrate the I4th anniversary
of the independence of Ghana.
"Soul to Soul." a Nigram-Aura production
in cooperation with the Ghana Arts
Council, is a Cinerama release of a Josef
Shaftel presentation. Denis Sanders was the
director and the artists seen perforrr'ng incluae
Wilson Pickett, Ike and Tina Turner,
Santana and Roberta Flack.
Cinemation Industries Files
For Public Stock Offering
NEW YORK—Cinemation Industries,
Inc., announced that it has filed a registration
statement with the Securities and Exchange
Commission covering a proposed
public offering of 275,000 shares of its
common stock, to be made through an
underwriting group headed by Edwards &
Hanly Securities, Inc.
Of the proposed offering, 235,000 shares
would represent new financing by the company,
and 40,000 shares would be sold for
the account of certain stockholders.
Cinemation Industries, Inc., is based in
New York City and is engaged in the business
of distributing low-to-medium budget
feature-length motion pictures, primarily in
the United States and Canada. Up to
Nov. 1, 1971, the company had released
for distribution a total of 29 such films,
four of which were produced or co-produced
by it.
The company's portion of the net proceeds
from this offering will be used to
repay sundry indebtedness, to repurchase
warrants now held by SMC Investment
Corp.. which entitle the holder to purchase
95,100 common shares at a price of $9
a share; and for additional working capital.
Upon completion of this financing the
company's outstanding capitalization will
consist of 563,200 shares of common stock,
and 47,500 common stock purchase warrants.
Otto Preminger Is Touring
For 'Such Good Friends'
NEW YORK—Otto Preminger, producerdirector
of "Such Good Friends," will embark
on an extensive series of public appearances
on behalf of the Paramount film beginning
January 13 when he will travel to
Chicago to meet with local press and appear
on television and radio programs. Thereafter
he will travel to Washington, D.C., Philadelphia,
Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit. Los Angeles,
San Francisco and Boston.
Preminger was made an honorary member
of the Directors Guild of Canada in
Toronto last week. His "Such Good
Friends," was shown at the Ontario Film
Center, which is part of the Ontario Government
Science Center. The screening climaxed
a Preminger film retrospective similar
to that presented at the Museum of
Modern Art in New York last month. Two
New York Times critics, Vincent Canby and
Roger Greenspun, have included "Such
Good Friends" on their lists of the best
films of the vear.
Dick Dickerson to Post
With U.S. Cinema Corp.
NEW YORK— Barry B. Yellen, president
of U.S. Cinema Corp., has announced
that Dick Dickerson joined the company
as head film buver for the circuit December
27. Dickerson formerly was a film
buyer for Loews Theatres.
BOXOFFICE :; January 10, 1972

. .
. . . Dimension
. . American
^oUffUMMcC ^efiont
Two More Productions Added
To January Filming List
1 wo more pictures were added to the
Januar>' produciion list as TW'I National,
Inc., announced its "Captain Milkshake"
and Vulcano Productions slated "Bluebeard."
Cast with unknowns. "Captain Milkshake"
is being made by the independent
company which plans to film a minimum ot
eight pictures during 1972, according to
president Robert Saxton. The picture is a
general audience film and Saxton. who not
only heads the Hollywood-based production
company but also is a theatre owner and
vice-president of NATO of .South Carolina,
claims TWI will provide exhibitors with the
kind of product they can afford. Meantime.
Vulcano announced that Richard Burton
would pla> the title role in "Bluebeard."
which starts filming Januar\ 15 in Budapest.
Hungary, with Edward Dmytryk directing.
Dmytryk also wrote the screenplay, a black
comedy, with Ennio Deconcini. Albert Salkind
produces . . . Dean Martin and Rock
Hudson are being co-starred by Universal in
"Showdown," an original western drama that
will be produced and directed by George
Seaton, according to Lew R. VVassemian.
president of .MCA, Inc. "Showdown" was
written for the screen by Theodore Taylor
from a story by Hank Fine and is scheduled
for the cameras sometime in April in New
Mexico. The film marks a reunion between
Martin and Seaton. who last teamed on
Lester M. Goldsmith signed
"Airport" . . .
Gerald Vaughan-Hughes to collaborate with
Kurt Vonnegut jr. on the screenplay of "The
Tin Men," which he will produce for Sourdough,
Ltd.. and Columbia release. Based on
Michael Frayn's humorous novel about a
computerized society, the film will go into
production in England at mid-year . . .
John Calley, executive vice-president in
charge of production at Warner Bros., disclosed
that an option has been taken on film
rights to "The Freedom Trap," a soon-to-bepublished
novel by Desmond Bagley .
British producer Harry .Mian Powers will
make a film version of Neville Shute's
novel, "The Pied Piper," to be filmed in
France in June. I he story is about an Englishman
on vacation in France, who gets a
group of English children out of France to
England at the height of the Nazi blitzkreig
marking the onset of the Cierman invasion
of France in 1940.
Jerry Gershwin to Produce
Civil War Era Western
Jerry Gershwin acquired James NL
Cain's "Past All Dishonor" a suspense-adventure
western with a Civil War era background,
and will produce the feature under
his reactivated independent company. Jerry-
Gershwin Productions. The picture is being
geared for a mid-March start, with Mark
Levy as associate
By SYD CASSYD
producer. Gershwin plans
. . . Sidney Lumet
a three-picture slate for the 1972-73 season
. . . "The Brothers," an original story by
Robert Mann, has been purchased by Alan
Lansburg Productions for production as a
feature-length motion picture through General
Electric tomorrow Enterprises. .Mann
will write the screenplay and Larry Savadore
will handle the executive producer chores
Pictures has set Richard F.
Walter to screenplay "Group Marriage" for
producer Charles S. Swariz. Production on
the property is scheduled to follow completion
of the company's "Sweet Sugar." which
rolled early this month
will direct and Sean Connery star in the
United Artists release "This Story of
Yours." Connery portrays a London detective
who ends a search lor a child molester
by killing him. The script is by John
Hopkins . International signed
Bridget Boland to write ihe screenplay for
"CamiUe," the Alexandre Dumas love classic,
for which a worldwide search is being
made for an actress to play the title role.
The picture is scheduled to be filmed in
France beginning in .April with James H.
Nicholson and Samuel 7.. .Arkoff producing.
Universal,
Crosby Productions
Team on Suspense Drama
"You'll Like My Mother," a suspense
drama based on the novel by Naomi A.
Hint/c, will be co-produced as a motion
picture by Universal and Bing Crosby Productions.
Charles A. Pratt, president of
Bing Crosby Productions, wholly owned
subsidiary of Co.x Broadcasting Co., will be
executive producer, with Mort Briskin producing.
Lamont Johnson will direct from a
script by Jo Heims . . . Richard D. Zanuck,
senior executive vice-president of Warner
Bros., announced that Dominick Dunne will
produce "Pocock and Pitt," based on the
highly acclaimed new novel by Elliott Baker.
Ihe author will write the screenplay . . .
The film rights to Arthur Hailcy's new bestseller,
"Wheels," has been acquired by
Mirisch Productions, it was announced by
David V. Picker, president of United Artists,
and Walter and Marvin Mirisch, president
and chairman, respectively, of the
Mirisch Co. Filming is set for later this
year, with producer, director and cast to be
announced soon. UA will release . . . Robert
Fryer was signed by Warner Bros, to produce
"The Abdicition. .i play by Riiih
Wolff, who also will write the screenplay.
The story is a historical account of Queen
Christina of Sweden and her conversion to
Christianity in 1654. Fryer recently was
signed to produce "Mame." the film version
of the smash Broadway hit. for WB . . .
Also at WB, an agreement was concluded
with John Wayne and .Michael Wayne,
president of Batjac Productions, for the
filming of "The Train Robbers," which
Burt Kenned), who wrote the screenplaj'.
will direct. The western will roll early this
year, with Michael Wavne producing and
John starring. William Friedkin has been
signed b> WB to direct its filmization of
"The Exorcist." best-selling novel by William
Peter Blatty. Friedkin also will direct
Sidney Sheldon's "The Naked Face" for
WB. "The Exorcist" is the story of an 11-
year-old girl p)».issessed of the devil. It will
be produced b> Blatty who also wrote Ihe
screenplay.
Charles Jarrett
Lost
Will Direct
Horizon' Musical
Charles Jarrett has been signed to direct
"Lost Horizon." Ross Hunter's modern
adaptation with music of the 1937 screen
classic, which he will produce for Columbia.
The Ross Hunter production, based on
the celebrated James Hilton novel, is expected
to begin filming in March. Jacque
Mapes is associate producer, with Larry
Kramer writing the screenplay and Burt
Bacharach and Hal David providing the
lyrics and musical score. "Horizon" is the
first film for Hunter since moving his production
company to Columbia. He also is
planning a second musical, "Hollywood!
Hollywood!" . . . Cinema Caprices. Inc.. a
California corporation,
has been formed by
actor Peter Graves, effective January I.
for the production of motion picture and
television properties. First business transacted
by the company will be to loan Graves
to Paramount TV. where he has been signed
to star in CBS-TVs "Mission: Impossible"
series for a seventh sea.son . . . Thirtecnyear-oH
Nicolas Beauvy was signed h\ producer
Fred Weintraub for a co-starring part
in the Getty-Fromkess production of
"Rage," directed by and starring George C.
Scott. Simultaneously set for a starring role
was Barnard Hughes, who will portray the
part of a chemical scientist. The original
screenplay hy Philip Friedman and Dan
Kleinm;in is a contemporarv drama, to be
shot entirelv on location in .Arizona. The
Getty-Fromkess produciion is for WB release
. . . Yvette Mimieux has been signed
to co-star with Charlton Heston in MGM's
".Airborne." which producer Walter Seltzer
and director John Guillermin will roll immedialely.
Miss Mimieux is cast in the role
of a stewardess assigned to a dramatic air
flight i.i the Stanley R. Greenberg screenphi\.
Leslie Uggams will play her first
straight dramatic role in the picture as an
apprentice stewardess. The picture also costars
James Brolin. Roosevelt "Rosey" drier
and Walter Pidgeon . . . Producer-director
Robert Wise signed the renowned French
cameraman Henri DeCae as cinematographer
on "Two People." contemporary love
story starring Peter Fonda, which goes before
the cameras in February in Marrakesh.
Wise will make the film under the banner
of The Filmakers Group for Columbia Pictures.
Richard De Roy wrote the original
story. This is Wise's first film for Filmakers
Ciroup. in which he is partnered with Mark
Robson. James Bridges and Bernard Donnenfeld.
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Eastview Is Opened
Xmas Day by Jo-Mor
VICTOR. N.Y.— William l.aiiLV, ,lo-Moi
I licatrcs general manager. Rochester, reports
that his compan\'s newest theatre, the
Eastview, located in the big plaza near this
city, opened to record crowds Christmas
Day 1971, with "Diamonds Are Forever"
as the inaugural attraction.
The special feature at the Eastview, declares
Laney, is American Seating's Luv
Seat and he says the new house is the first
in the country to have this installation.
There is regular seating, plus a row of Luv
Seats every fifth row throughout the auditorium.
Paul Levine is the manager at the
Eastviev/.
The big news from Jo-Mor is that the
Eastview and the Stoneridge II. now under
construction, will be the final Jo-Mor theatre
projects in Kodak Town. Both John
Martina and Morrie Slotnick, Jo-Mor partners,
in reply to direct questioning, said
that this "definitely is the end" and, that
while they will be able to operate their
existing theatres in the area, they also are
aware that Rochester has gone beyond the
saturation point in the number of theatres
and seats.
From this point, the Jo-Mor executives
will be going for sites outside the Rochester
area and are researching sites in the southeast
part of the country. Because this is the
end of Jo-Mor construction in Rochester,
the Eastview and Stoneridge II are being
given unusual attention and equipped with
the last word in comfort for patrons and
technical features.
Grove Press, Barney Rosset
To Be Honored by AFI
WASHINGTON — The American Film
Institute will present a two-week tribute to
Grove Press and Barney Rosset, president
of the diversified communications company,
from J.inuary 19 to January 30 in recognition
of Grove's accomplishments as the distributor
of many of the best and most important
independent films available in this
country. The tribute, encompassing 20 feature
length and 16 short films, will be
screened in 14 separate programs.
The films have been selected from
Grove"3 extensive hbrary of independent cinema
by Michael Webb, film programing
manager of the AFI, in conjunction with
Kent E. Carroll, director of the Grove Press
film division.
The opening program will be a screening
of "I .^m Curious (Yellow)," followed by
an open discussion on the problems of independent
distribution in this country, especially
as related to the question of censorship.
Rosset will be host for the evening's
program.
According to Webb. Grove Press is the
first independent distributor to be so honored
by the film institute.
Producer-director Robert Wise has signed
Peter Fonda to star in "Two People."
Jaeger Elected to Board
Of Allied Artists Pictures
\i W >OKK Andrew P. Jaeger, viceprcsiilcnt-television
of Allied Artists Piclures,
has been elected
to the board of directors,
it was annoimced
by Emanuel
* man of the board and
president. Jaeger also
j^ serves as president of
t^W^ '^"ied Artists Tele-
^^
^^M vision Corp.. a wholly
^1^ ^^^t owned subsidiary.
Jaeger joined Allied
Andrew P. Jaeger Artists in February
1968 as general sales manager of AA"s
TV subsidiary. Previously he was an account
executive with Telcom, Inc., an adviser
and distributor of film programs to
independent television stations.
'Diamonds' Grossing
Leader in Baltimore
BALTIMORE — "Diamonds Are Forever"
was in a grossing class by itself, recording
435 in a second week at three theatres,
while the bulk of the first-run product
here ranged from 90 to 190.
(Average Is 100)
Boulevard, Colony, Grand The Gong That
Couldn't Shoot Straight (MGM), 2nd wk 90
Cinema I, II, Paramount Diamonds Are Forever
(UA), 2nd wk 435
5 West Joe Hill (Para), 2nd wk 100
Glen Burnie Mall, Liberty I— $ (Col), 2nd wk 90
Liberty II, Patterson Dirty Horry (WB), 2nd wk. 185
Senator Strow Dogs (CRC), 2nd wk 125
Towson Westview I Bedknobs and Broomsticks
(BV), 7tti wk 160
Westview II— Harold ond Maude (Pora), 2nd wk 190
Princess Margaret at Bow
Of Para/s 'Willy Wonka'
NEW YORK—HRH Princess
Margaret,
the Countess of Snowdon. recently attended
the European premiere of Paramount Pictures'
"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"
at the Plaza Theatre in London. The
event was a benefit for the National Society
for Prevention of Cruelty to ChHdren, of
which Princess Margaret is the president.
Ten-year-old Lord Linley and seven-yearold
Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, children
of the princess, also were in attendance,
along with author Roald Dahl. his wife actress
Patricia Neal and members of the cast
including Roy Kinnear and Julie Dawn
Cole.
Mrs.
Barney Balaban
NEW YORK— Mrs. Tillie
Balaban, widow
of the late Barney Balaban. formerly
president of Paramount Pictures, died
Saturday (I). .Mter a long illness. Mrs.
Balaban succumbed at New York University
Hospital in New York. Memorial
.services were held Tuesday (4) with burial
in Chicago. Mrs. Balaban. born in Philadelphia,
made her home in New York and
Greenwich. Conn. She leaves a son Leon-
.ird; a daughter, Mrs. Donald (Judy)
Quine; a sister, Edith Handelsman; a
brother, Maley Meyers, and six grandchildren.
Greenbrier Duo Joins
R/C Theatres Circuit
FREDI.RIC KSBURG. VA.—R/C Theatres"
Greenbrier Twins, located in the
Cireenbrier Shopping Center on Route 3 two
blocks from the Fredericksburg Sheraton
Motel, debuted with ribbon-cutting ceremonies
Wednesday evening. December 22.
The invited guests found 200 plush seats in
each auditorium, the latest and finest in
sound and projection equipment, a spacious
front entrance and illuminated parking facilities.
The identical cinemas have been designed
with an intimate living-room informality
concept that allows patrons to enjoy the ultimate
in seating and viewing comfort.
The Greenbier Twins opened to the general
public on Christmas Day 1971.
R/C Theatres also operates the Victoria,
Colonial and Fredericksburg Drive-In theatres
in this area.
WB Appoints Judy Feiffer
Production Executive
NEW YORK—Judy Feiffer has been appointed
a production executive of Warner
Bros. Inc.. with headquarters in New York,
it was announced by David Brown, the
company's executive vice-president for creative
operations.
Mrs. Feiffer, who has been Warner
Bros.' New York story editor for the past
year, will continue to supervise the New
York story department and will work in
conjunction with Geoffrey Sanford, production
executive at the Warner Studios in
Burbank. Calif., and Salli Head, the company's
London-based European story editor.
In her new post, which she assumes
immediately, Mrs. Feiffer succeeds Bennett
Sims, who has moved to NPP Communications
Group. Inc. as director of creative
services. Both Warner Bros, and NPP are
subsidiaries of Kinnev Services, Inc.
UA Appoints Rolf Pilger
Manager for Argentina
NEW YORK — Rolf Pilger has been
named United Artists' manager for Argentina,
it was announced by Eric Pleskow,
vice-president in charge of international distribution.
Pilger has been with UA since
February 1970 in South Africa and most
recently as manager for Chile. In his new
position, he will report to territorial supervisor
Pedro Tcitelbaum.
The new manager for Chile, Thomas
Knox Gray, joined UA in September 1970
and was a management trainee in Spain.
Twin Project Is Started
JOHNSTOWN.
PA. — Ground-breaking
ceremonies have been held to mark the start
of construction of a $300,000 twin theatre
and restaurant complex in the Washington
Street urban renewal area. Plans for the
dualer call for seating for 700 patrons. Three
Acts, Inc., is developing the complex.
BOXOFFICE :: January 10, 1972 El

BROADWAY
"pHE FOX GIRLS." a cumprehciiMvc siiid)
1)1 16 of 2()th C eniiiry-Fox's most
popular stars, is now available through
Arlington House. With 722 pages and 850
photographs, the book by James R. Parish
is one of the few worth its price. SI 5. The
subtitle reads. "Starring 15 beautiful vixens
and one adorable cub."' referring to the
ladies jncluded: Iheda Bara. Anne Baxter.
Jeanne Crain, l.mda Darnell. Alice Faye.
Janet Gaynor, Betty Grable. June Haver.
.Sonja Henie, Carmen .Miranda, Marilyn
Monroe, Sheree North. Gene Tierney.
Raquel Welch. Loretia Young and "adorable
cub"' Shirley Temple.
Each star's career is individually examined,
with inside data and film checklists
on every one. Brief sketches of important
2()ih-Fox executives are spotted
throughout the girls' biographies. The stills
mclude many off-.screen snapshots, plus a
large selection of scenes from many of each
star's films—covering their first and last
movies and the bulk of their work in between.
One could quibble with the mistakes
and the errors which no book oi this type
can really avoid (identifying Dale Robertson
for Rory Calhoun was one of the more
serious mistakes) but the wealth of material
will make any fan happy. The first edition
eliminated the credit for research associates,
which the .luthor asked to be listed. The
researchers were John Cocchi. Charles Hoyt
and I . Allan Taylor.
•
For (hose wauling a complete history oj
20th-Fox star Alice Faye, the book "The
Films of Alice Faye" by Frank Moshier is
the definitive source. This volume is full
of the charm and the bounce that made
Alice one of the top musical stars in films.
Each one of the 33 Faye films is accompanied
by a well-chosen selection of stills,
plus ads and reprinlactions of song sheets.
A personal frieiul of the subject, the author
has revealed much of the prwiuction data
on the films. He includes references to
song numbers and .scenes which were cut
and reproduces stills from the edited footage.
Despite the hook's appeal, it is being
printed privately with a limited 1,000
copies. "The Films of Alice Faye" is available,
at $7.50, from Frank Moshier, 312
Teresita Blvd., .San Francisco, Calif. 94127.
•
In town: Mark Rydell. producer-director
of "The Cowboys," was in from Hollywood
.Sunday (9) for this week's world premiere
of the John Wayne film at Radio Cit\
Music Hall. Malcolm McDowell arrived the
s.ime day from I ondon for .i three-week
visit, which includes I.os Angeles and San
Francisco. His film for Stanley Kubrick.
"A Clockwork Orange." is at Cinema I.
Elia Kazan is back in .Manhattan following
a ten-day trip to Kenya and Tanzania.
.Africa. He is meeting with Stein & Day
publishers in connection with the promotion
for his new novel. " The .Assassins," which
is to be published February 28. Marisa
Berenson is in from Paris for promotional
work on "Cabaret,"" world premiering at
the Ziegfeld in February. Stephane Audran.
star of husband Claude Chabrors "Le
Boucher," also was here from Paris to promote
the highly acclaimed attraction, now
in its American premiere at the (SSth Street
Playhouse.
•
A five-story loft building, occupied by
Dairy Products, at 145 Reude St.. went up
in flames during Christmas week and destroyed
prints of the Flash Gordon and
Ruck Rogers .serials. Seven burning cans of
film made from nitro-cellulose combined
with an undetermined element to produce
laughing gas. which contributed to the firemen's
difficulty in overcoming the blaze.
The films were the property of the firm's
owner. Eugene Vogel, who has sole distribution
rights for the .serials in this area.
•
Robert S. Ferguson, vice-president of
Columbia Pictures; Norman Jackter, vicepresident
in charge of domestic distribution,
and Milt Goodman, vice-president and
general sales manager, were in Holhwood
to meet with the company's West Coast
executives and to screen several films now
in various stages of completion.
Charlotte Friel.
•
manager of research and
administration for the CBS corporate affairs
staff, died December 31 in New York
Hospital after a long illness. She was a
past president of the New York City chapter
of Theta Sigma Phi. Burial was in
Pullman. Wash., home of her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. John Friel.
•
Doubleday and Marboro book stores.
Liggctt"s drug stores and other specially
chains throughout the metropolitan area are
featuring window and storewide displ.iss for
Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange."
W.irner Bros, is releasing the Cinema I
attraction.
Charles B. Moss jr. has set up motion
picture preniuction headquarters at 1501
Broadway. He currently has "Let's Scare
Jessica to Death" in release through Paramount,
is editing "Stigma" and is preparing
"KiUing Time" for filming.
•
I he Baronet Theatre is opening its dinars
at 1 1 a.m. to allow one extra performance
daily of Otto Preminger's "Such Good
Friends." The Paramount release has been
cued by New York Times critics Vincent
Canby and Roger Greenspun as one of the
best films of the year.
•
Showcases: For Wednesday (5). the first
showcase attractions of the new year were
"The Butterfly." first-run Audubon film,
and "Her and She and Him": "Tower of
Screaming l'irgin.s" (first run) and "Daughters
of Darkne.s.s": "200 Motel.s" and "Yellow
Subnuirine." and "Professional Realism
U.S.A." and "Fandango." Friday (7):
"Gla.ss Houses," first run, with "The Owl
and the Pu.ssycat." Columbia showcase
presentation theatres. Wednesday (12):
"The Go-Between" and "Claire's Knee," to
be paired from Columbia. Wednesday (26),
two AlP thrillers. ".Murders in the Rue
.Morgue" and "The Return of Count
Yorga," both first run.
•
The world premiere performance of "The
Hot Rock." 2()ih Century -Fox's comedy
thriller starring Robert Redford. George
Segal and Zero Mostel, will be held Tuesday
(25) at Radio City Music Hall as a
benefit "testimonial theatre party" honoring
Richard R. .Aurelio, former deputv
mayor. The film will begin its regular run
the following day (26) at the Trans-Lux
East and the Trans-Lux West theatres in
Manhattan. This special showing of "The
Hot Rock" marks the first time in the history
of Radio City Music Hall that the
famed theatre will be the site of a world
premiere benefit performance of a film.
Reserved-section seats for the benefit will
cost $100. General admission will be $50.
The proceeds will go to the Lindsay '72
campaign fund. Filmed entireK in New
York City this past summer. "The Hoi
Rock" reunites Robert Redford and screenwriter
William Goldman following their
boxoffice smash, "Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid," also from 20th-Fox.
•
Ken Gaul, a producer of the recently
held first annual New York Erotic Film
Festival, journeyed to Colombia, South
Anwrica. for product acquisition nwetings.
•
One of the lew new arrivals. "Eagle in
a Cage."" will have its New York premiere
Sunday (9) at the Fine Arts Theatre. Kenneth
Haigh stars as Napioleon in exile on St.
Helena after his Waterloo, in the National
General Pictures release. Fielder Cook
directed.
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a projector if film breaks or runs out. Frees
projectionist for other responsibilities
Nothing like it ever before for simplicity and foolproof
operation. An improved version of the original magazine
safety control introduced by Century in 1969, this
nev\/ly designed control (MSC-2) mounts on the drive
shaft assembly of the lower take-up magazine of a projector.
A rotating magnet, that becomes part of the
spindle assembly, passes a sensor that "reads" the
speed of the lower take-up reel. When the sensor detects
an increase in reel speed, as when film breaks
anywhere in the projector or when film runs out, projector
power and arc lamps are cut off!
The MSC-2 is unique — in that no component of the
device touches the film, nor does it require photoelectric
cells, exciter lamps, etc. — no special sprockets
nor rollers. This is a solid state device — without bearings,
belts or other moving parts.
Completely adaptable- the MSC-2 is applicable to all
types of Century lower take-up magazines (and magazines
of that type) now installed in theatres, with little
or no modification. Designed to operate independently
of any automation equipment, the MSC-2 can be installed
in theatres that are not automated.
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E-3

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BUFFALO
The (enth annual combined installation-banquet
of the 1972 officers and directors
of Variety Club Tent 7 and Women's League
of Variety was held Sunday evening (9) in
the headquarters, 193 Delaware Ave. The
following officers were installed: Richard A.
Atlas, chief barker; Jerome Edelstein, first
assistant chief barker, who acted as chairman;
Sammuel Geffen. second asssistant
chief barker; Charles W. Lee, property master,
and Francis Maxwell, dough guy. Canvasmen
are William Campbell, James J.
Hayes, George Hochreiter, Marc Lippman,
Robert D. Mason jr. and William H.
Schields, The 1972 officers sworn in by the
Women's League were: Mrs. George F.
Schaefer, president; Rita D. Inda, first vicepresident;
Mrs. Charles Bogges. second vicepresident;
Mrs. Irving Sanders, treasurer:
Mrs. Hrleen M. Anton, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Richard Atlas, financial secretary;
Mrs. Willard Hemedinger. recording
secretary, and directors for three years are
Mrs. Jerome Edelstein, Mrs. Robert Mason.
Mrs. Angeline Meade and Ethel Tyler. Directors
for two years are Mrs. Nicholas
Fisher. Marie Przcpiora. Joan Ross and
Ann Marie Tabcrski. One-year directors are
Mrs. .Samuel Dine, Mrs. Gervose Emewein,
Mrs. Walter Meyer and Lucille White . . .
Robert Hall of Toronto, Canada, Variety
Clubs International vice-president, was installing
officer. An SRO crowd was in attendance
and maitre d'hotel Clint LaFlamme
provided one of his out-of-this-worUl
dinners.
If cable T\ is pcmiilled to operate under
present federal rules. Rochester TV stations
will be forced out of business, Ervin F.
Lyke, general manager of WROC-TV said
in New York Supreme Court ... A Bath
landmark continues in new form. The famous
Babcock Theatre has a new sign on Ihc
Mannie Brown.
front of the marquee . . .
Ike Ehrlichman. Bill Hebert and Gcrt Gigro
hosted Frontier Amusement's annual Christmas
party in the shipping room at 505 Pearl
St.
KImer F. Lux, former council president
and past chief barker of Tent 7. was prominently
featured in the dedication of Ihe Salvation
.Army's Booth Memorial Hospital Day
Care Center for Infants. Lux, who years
ago managed the RKO-Radio Pictures exchange,
is chairman of the hospital's advisory
board . Evening News published
an excellent photo showing some
aiOHai
EXHIBITORS!
IN HONOLULU . .
BEST ON WAIKIKI
BEACH!
(Call your Traval Agent)
THE
INDUSTRY'S
"OWN"
SiQeW
children al the annual party staged by
Women of Variety for the kiddies at the
Crippled Children's Guild, 936 Delaware.
Jerr>- Westergren, director of the Colvin,
reports record-breaking crowds for "Diamonds
Arc Forever" . Mortellaro,
Cinema 1 and 2 managing director, has been
. . . Joseph P. Garvey,
a busy fellow watching the progress of the
General Cinema twin under construction in
the Eastern Hills Plaza
Holiday Theatres general manager,
offered
a noontime showing for a week
through Sunday (2) of "Willy Wonka & the
ChiKolale Factory" at 50 cents admission.
. . Jerry
.\nlhc>n> J. .Mercuric, Paramount branch
manager, plans to attend the 1972 Paramount
sales convention February 20-23 at
the Beverly Wilshire. Los Angeles .
Edelstein. Variety first assistant chief barker
and WEBR account executive, flew to New
York on a business trip with the station's
new sales manager.
Thomas A. McDevItt, former manager of
the Lyric Theatre in Rochester, was fined
S250 by Monroe County Judge John J. Conway
after pleading guilty to a charge of
disorderly conduct in
the showing of an obscene
motion picture. McDevitt paid the
fine and told the court he was leaving the
city to accept a position in another state.
Alfred E. Ansconibe. .Amherst Cable-
Vision president and Tent 7 past chief
barker, used an attractive ad in the Amherst
Bee during the Yuletide season, with
photos of all executives and employees of
the corporation . . . The one motion picture
theatre in Avon, the Park Theatre, is operated
in the interesis of the younger people
in the community. Spearheading the unique
project is the VFW post headed by commander
Sam A. Callora. The VFW bought
the theatre approximately five years ago.
Edward A. Figler also is prominent in the
operation of the house.
.\lbcrt J. Petrella, iiencral chairman of the
1972 Variety Club Telethon, says things are
starting much earlier than in other years
and declares it will be his policy to encourage
maximum participation of the Tent 7
membership. All those desiring to assist can
get in touch with the chairman at 882-1660.
Petrella is president of Cross-Town Ads.
Inc., 283 I.inwood Ave.
'Ihe M(iM release of Jimmy Breslin's
"The Gang ITiat Couldn't Shoot Straight"
became a late entry in Ihe area motion picture
theatre holiday schedule. It opened December
25 at the Dipson Kensington.
Svlvunia EntertaininenI Products has
promised TV production in Batavia through
Sept. 30, 1974. following a union vote
iccepting a cutback in pay raises proposed
l/y the company. Members of Local 352.
IL'I-W. voted to accept the package which
extends their contract one year. In return,
the company will keep black-and-white and
color T\' assembly lines in Batavia until
1974. Officials, citing high wages in Batavia,
planned to move color TV lines to Smithfield,
N.C.
In a letter to "Everybody's Column" in
the Evening News, Mrs. Pamela Canadv
said: "I am a housewife with children 4 and
8 years old. Ever> year around Ihe holidays
they have shows for children. Fine and
good. But these shows are not presented in
downtown theatres. I live downtown and if
my children want to see these films I have
to take them away out on a bus. Why can't
they take some of Ihe adult films off and
have some for children, not only on holidays
but any other time'.'"
"Kingduni in the Clouds," a film produced
esf»cciall\ lor children by Rochester's
.Xerox Corp., was shown in theatres in Kodak
Town December 18 and 19. Xerox
Films, part of the Xerox Education Group,
produced the picture, which is being shown
nationally. The company, which provides
visual aids for use in schools, has moved
into the production of full-length motion
pictures because of the "scarcity of wholesome
and worthwhile film entertainment for
children in our nation's theatres." according
to Thomas D. Anglim, marketing manager.
The feature was shown in Ihe Monroe.
Coronet and Riviera in Rochester: the Auburn
in Auburn: Ihe Playhouse in Canandaigua;
the Geneva in Geneva, and the Elm-
Penn Yan.
wood in
Ihe la\ishl\ ri'Motatod hastman Theatre
in Rochester reopened Friday (7).
There was a terrific storm in the Lockport
area the other nighi .md the screen was
toppled at the Transit Drive-In, where
Macey Cohen holds forth. Luckily the outdoorer
was not open during the storm. Trees
,ind power lines were blown down by the
wind.
I hi' nilire broadcast operation at WEBR
Radio fell into the hands of area high school
students for 30 hours starting at 6 p.m.
Christmas Eve. Bill McKibben. station president,
turned over the station to a group of
Junior Achievers, a move that also gained a
work-free holiday for the WEBR air staff.
CATV Service Starts Soon
For Rochester Residents
RtX HESTER. NY. -The city of Rochester
and Cable TV of Rochester, Inc..
have agreed to give the public up to half of
all TV channels put into operation, says
City Manager Kermit E. Hill. The agreement
should enable CATV to be operating
in some Rochester homes within a short
time, said Donald L. Guthrie, vice-president
of Cable TV of Rochester.
Immediately upon the signing of the
agreement. Hill approved the issuance of
construction permits and workers began to
install poles and wires near Scth Green
Drive and Norton Street.
Cost for an individual household will be
SI 5.95 for each installation and S5.95 per
month for one TV set. Each additional set
will be S2 per month. Guthrie said.
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—
$5.2 Million Damages
Sought by Martina
ROCHESTER — Owners of Monroe
County's seven Martina theatres, charging
they have been denied access to feature
motion pictures, have filed suit for more
than $5,000,000 against owners of nine
other motion picture theatres and six film
distributors. The suit filed in U.S. District
Court here also asks for a decree halting
what the Martina interests term an "illegal
conspiracy" and "monopoly."
They charge that the six film distributors
and the owners of the Loews and Jo-Mor
theatres entered into agreements that "discriminated
against the Martina theatres and
deprived a substantial portion of Rochester
area residents of opportunities to see feature
motion pictures on a first-run basis." Because
of "their isolated geographic locations,"
the Loews and Jo-Mor theatres "did
serve more than a
not and could not . . .
fraction of the population" of the Rochester
area,
the Martina complaint stated.
It said that in each of the years of 1969,
1970 and 1971, the gross receipts of the
Loews and Jo-Mor theatres have averaged
approximately $425 per seat, while the Martina
theatres have grossed about $275 per
seat in each year.
The complaint also includes a "popcorn
clause." It states that, with ticket receipts
down, the Martina interests believe they
also have lost at least $75,000 in profits
from concessions.
The Martina interests ask treble damages
estimated at $5,287,500. The lawsuit,
brought under federal antitrust laws, is not
likely to be tried for at least several months.
Pretrial proceedings could be lengthy.
The plaintiffs are the Martina Theatre
Corp.. operator of the Waring Theatre, and
Lyell Theatre Corp.. operator of the Paramount,
Regent. Studio II. Holiday Cine and
Lyell theatres and the Stariite Drive-In.
Both corporations are controlled and managed
by Charles V. Martina and his son
Vincent C. Martina. The defendants include
the Loews Corp., operator of Loews Theatre
in Pittsford, and Jo-Mor Enterprises, Inc..
operator of the Cinema. Fine Arts, Little,
Stoneridge, Panorama. Stutson and Towne I
and II theatres.
Other defendants include distributing
companies known commonly as Columbia
Pictures, United Artists, National General
Pictures, Paramount, Cinerama and Metro-
Goldwvn-Maver.
Joe Lefkowitz Is Leaving
Industry for New Venture
WEST PATERSON. N.J. — After 40
years in the industry. Joe Lefkowitz. former
district manager for Fabian Theatres in
North Jersey, has announced his retirement.
As a stockholder and vice-president of the
Fabian corporation. Lefkowitz established
Fair Lawn's only film theatre, the Hyway.
in 1942. He has been in charge there ever
since, except for one year in the 1950s.
NORTH JERSEY
gill Leff, manager of RKO-SWs Hollywood
in East Orange for the past two
and a half years, has resigned from that
post and left the industry, at least temporarily.
Prior to the Hollywood. Leff had
been public relations director for Cinerama's
Clairidge in Montclair for a number of
years. Succeeding him at the Hollywood is
veteran manager Adolph Finkelstein, who
previously had managed RKO-SWs Wellmont
in Montclair for the past two years.
Construction has begun on a 350-seat Jerry
Lewis Cinema on Chestnut Street in
Union. Alex Fleischer of Springfield is the
owner-operator of the new house, which
is expected to be open early next spring.
Union presently has two other theatres
RKO-SWs Union and National General's
Fox.
Bill Pavlick. a former assistant manager
at RKO-SWs Stanley in Jersey City, has
been named as manager of the circuit's Twin
in Wayne, filling a vacancy created by the
retirement of district manager Vincent Ligouri,
who had been stationed there. Prior
to joining RKO-SW theatres, Pavlick had
been an area supervisor for several years
with Confection Cabinet Corp.. which operates
a majority of theatre concession stands
in North Jersey.
when he served as district manager for Stanley
Warner Theatres in New Jersey.
A native Patersonian, Lefkowitz operated
the Regent in Paterson in the 1930s, where
he once had worked as an usher.
He was responsible for bringing to Paterson
such famous names as Milton Berle.
Mollie Goldberg. Duke Ellington and Count
Basic. At one time he was the business manager
for famous comedian Henny Youngman.
Lefkowitz now has decided to embark
upon a new business called "Swap Flea
Market," which amounts to a gigantic garage
sale to be held weekend afternoons in
drive-in?, thus utilizing these theatres at
times when they are normally closed. More
than 60 drive-ins from coast to coast already
have been lined up, according to Lefkowitz,
and he is "very enthusiastic" about the new
business venture.
Norman Weitman Discusses
Film Industry Problems
NEW YORK—Norman Weitman,
Paramount
Pictures' general sales manager,
U.S. and Canada, was a guest lecturer to
Michael Mayer's class and spoke on "Specialized
Business Problems in the Entertainment
Industry" at the New School for
Social Research last month.
Weitman detailed the problems and considerations
involved in the acquisition and
distribution of motion pictures. Following
the !ecture, there was an open fomm and a
question-and-answer session.
In a move obviously aimed at two local
theatres with policies of showing X-rated
films, the Passaic City Council, by a 6-1
vote, approved the introduction of an ordinance
setting a fine of $200 per day for
any theatre showing "immoral" films. Councilman
Joseph Russo. the lone dissenter,
stated that he felt the ordinance would be
"unenforceable and unconstitutional." Both
Nathan's Montauk and the independent
New C ipitol feature a consistent policy of
X-rated films in Passaic.
Gabe Gargirello's New Capitol in
Passaic
interrupted its normal policy of presenting
X-rated films and featured a one-night stage
showing New Year's Eve of the show "Jesus
Christ Superstar," starring the original English
opera company.
Holiday attractions in the North Jersey
area included "The French Connection,"
which v/as held for an eighth week in exclusive
situations, and Disney's "Lady and
the Tramp," "Diamonds Are Forever,"
"Carnal Knowledge" and "Star Spangled
Girl," all of which opened at numerous
neighborhood locations. In addition. "Sacco
& Vanzetti" was featured in exclusive area
showings at General Cinema's Totowa in
Totowa and the independent Ormont in East
Orange.
Vincent Ligouri Retires
As RKO-SW District Mgr.
WEST PATERSON. N.J.—Vincent Ligouri,
a theatre veteran of more than 35
years with RKO and subsequently RKO-
Stanley Warner Theatres, has retired from
his post as district manager in the North
Jersey area.
Ligouri was assigned to the Jersey area
in 1968 as manager of RKO Proctor's in
Newark. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed
district manager, with headquarters at
the Hollywood in East Orange. He later
transferred to the RKO Twin in Wayne,
where he remained in charge until his recent
retirement.
Theatres which had been under Ligouri's
jurisdiction have been reassigned to RKO-
SW district managers Sam Conti and Harold
Widenhom.
Airer Owner Told School
Plans No Stadium Lights
HANOVER, PA.—The county
commissioners
here have denied that the board
of education is planning to install stadium
lights at the new Westminster High School.
The comment was filed in Circuit Court in
answer to a recent bill of complaint by
William C. Cockey, owner of Cockey's
Ridge Drive-In, which is located next to
the school, who sought to block the using
of lights at the athletic facility.
Cockey contended the illumination would
hamper operation of the ozoner.
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PITTSBURGH
Wariet> Tent 1 has been commended u
number of times in the Congressional
Record and this is repealed in Vol. 1 17, No.
195. Dec. 13. 1971. being entered by Hon.
Joseph M. Gaydos. 20th Congressional District
of Pennsylvania. A fine tribute is paid
to George Tice. who recently retired as
chief barker after serving several ternis in
office and who continues as NATO of
Western Pennsylvania president.
Joseph W. Blacks d, 55. former Phiiippi.
W. Va.. indoor and outdoor projectionist,
who was a leading photographer in
the Mountain State, died December 22 in
Broaddus Hospital there following a fourmonth
illness. An officer prominent in v;irious
national professional photographic
organizations, he was the winner of 90
achievement merits in this field, for a decade
instructor, speaker and judge on many
state and regional convention platforms.
Cireenfield Community' Center exhibits
movies from time to time, with 50 cents ad-
Valley
mission for adults and 25 cents lor children.
The .Squirrel Hill News notes that "it's like
having the old Park Theatre back in Greenfield"
Suffolk Cable operates in North
. . . Braddock . . .
Cable TV cut CATV
installation charges to 72 cents for new subscribers
or second-set connections . . .
"World—Not Films—Rates X." according
to the Federation of Motion Picture Council's
Newsreel. Vol. XVII. No. 3. This national
group is particularly concerned with
rating systems, reduced admission costs, obscenity
and censorship and deceptive advertising,
according to Mrs. Curtis W. (Regina)
Murff. 123 Gardenia Dr.. Turtle Creek. Pa.
15145.
Parents of the first baby born in 1972 in
the Squirrel Hill district received many gifts,
including guest passes for the Regent .Square.
Shadyside. .Squirrel Hill. Forum and Guild
theatres.
Charles Appel, veteran here in projection
and sound, who operates Appci Media.
3620 Willow Ave., states that industry as
well as education is going more and more
for audio-visual presentations ... In area
release are Crown-International's "The
Young Graduates" and "Cindy \. Milton Shapp urges the legisl.iture
to make ta.x-free the 2.3 state income lax
on lottery winnings. The Keystone Stale's
legal lottery, to start February 22, presently
is subject to the stale and federal income
Mayor Pete Flaherty closed the
taxes . . .
year with a S9.2 million budget surplus . . .
The Allegheny County Port Authority asks
SI 22 million financing with more public
funds. The buses-trolleys have been taxsubsidized
for many years via taxpayers'
money. PAT seeks a 3 mill tax increase by
1976 to cover costs
"Fiddler on the Roof" is showing on a reserved-seat
basis at the Manor at S3. S3. 50
and $4. For the New "Vear's Eve shows, admission
was S5. Ticket reservations may be
made at any Associated theatre.
The Press won approval of a 9.09 per
cent increase for ad\ertising and circulation
rates in a price board ruling, this effective
after Monday (3). Advertising rates were
greatly increased just a year ago "and here
we go again." Theatre ad rates always are
at the very top or next to the highest,
v/hich is pure and simple discrimination.
. . .
The Nixon replaced "Honky" New Year's
Fve witn "The Bus Is Coming." which will
be in exhibition there through Saturday (15)
I^UP Cable at Franklin Township.
Westmoreland County, has been sold to
William Penn Cable, because TUP. a subsidiary
of Telephone Utilities of Pennsylvania,
was ordered by the FCC to do so.
as
the agency prohibits telephone companies
from simultaneously operating a C.'\TV and
telephone system in the same community.
Honor Dr. G. L. Bromley
At Annual Tent 13 Dinner
PH11.AULL1'1I1,\ Ui. C.citrudc L.
Bramley. who has devoted her medical career
to helping crippled and handicapped
children, was the recipient of the Varietv
Club's 1^72 Heart .Award at the organization's
37th anniversary dinner at the Bellevue-Stratford
Hotel here Saturday evening
(8). The presentation was made by Sylvan
M. Coiien. awards chairman.
Dr. Bramley currently serves as regional
medical director, maternal and child health
service. U.S. Department of Health. Education
& VVelfare. in
Boston.
Also honored at the annual ilinner was
newly elected chief barker Paul Mezzy.
executive vice-president of Berlo Vending
Co. and vice-president of Ogden Foods Co..
.IS well .IS retiring chief barker Meyer Adleman,
Other officers installed were Allan M.
S.ilkind. first assistant chief barker: Henr>'
Milgram, second assistant: Richard W.
Havens, dough guy, and Don R. Hicks,
property master. Crew members for 1972
are George T. Beatlic. Russell E. Fitzgerald,
Steven B. Fox. Ben B. Greber. Ramon PoscI
.iiid
Jud^je Leo Weinrott.
Harold H. Salkind.
past chief barker, was
general chairman of the installation dinner.
Manager's Arrest Follows
Ruling of NY High Court
ULl h.\LO -^^ ,:> Court Judge Iheodore
S. Kasler declares the district attorney's office
and the police have been given new
authority to proceed against allegedly obscene
motion pictures as a result of a decision
of the stale's highest court.
The decision by the State Court of Appeals
was given concerning a film entitled
"Blue Movie." Shortly thereafter, police arrested
Earl L. l.yngc. manager of the Backstage
Theatre. 580 Main St.. on an obscenity
charge in the showing of a motion picture
entitled "Mona." Police also seized the
film.
The arrest and film seizure were made
under the new ruling of the state court.
Lynge pleaded innocent when arraigned in
city court and Judge Kasler set the matter
down for trial Monday (17). This was the
first such arrest under the new appeals court
ruling, which permits a judge to view a film
and decide if it is obscene without court
procedure.
The warrant was issued b\ Judge Kasler
who viewed the film. "Such arrests and seizures
can be expected." said Detective Sgt.
Frank V. Spano of the salacious literature
squad, who took part in the arrest with
Detective .Albert E. Vingoe.
.According to Judge Kasler. the new ruling
by the high court vindicated action that
he has taken in prior obscenity cases when
he joined with police to make an on-thcscenc
determination of obscenity prior to
arrests and seizure of materials.
The judge said he has been subjected to
some personal criticism as well as legal arguments
that he acted without full authority
and that the court should grant a pre-arrest
hearing, known as an adversary hearing, on
the
question of obscenity.
In the appeals court case, which is binding
on all courts in the state of New York, the
four-page decision by Justice Francis Bergen
stated the film "Blue Movie" is "simple pornography
unrelieved by any merit" and that
"acts of sexual intercourse are portrayed,
actual or simulated, accompanied by a series
of sexual manifestations and movements,"
Judge Bergen cited previous rulings by
the state's highest court and the U.S. Supreme
Court and said the prosecution in the
"Blue Movie" case satisfied elements which
must be established under freedom-of-exprcssion
provisions of the Constitution.
The high court decision aI.so disposed of
a defense argument that the movie operator
was entitled to an adversary hearing by calling
this "an extreme departure from standard
.American practice on warrants" that
hasn't been required in obsccnitv cases bv
the U.S. Supreme Court.
Judge Kasler has been acting under provisions
of law that
the question of obscenity
is a judicial decision .md Ihat police affidavits
alleging obscenity are not a sufficient
basis for a warrant. Kasler. before whom
Lynge appeared for arraignment, deemed the
X-ratcd "Mona" obscene.
The film was moved to the Backstage
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after playing for five weeks at the Penthouse,
both houses being part of the Entertainment
Center at Main and Chippewa
streets, in which the Center Theatre is incliKicd.
Lynge is managing director of the complex
which once housed Shea's Hippodrome,
one of Buffalo's pioneer entertainment spots,
owned and operated by a company headed
by the famous and late Michael Shea and
also once managed by the late noted exhibitor
Harold B. Franklin.
Judge Dismisses Charges
Against Two Theatremen
ROCHESTER, N. Y.— For the
lack of a
comma, Brighton, N.Y., Justice John J.
Darcy has dismissed charges against two
employees of the Starlite Drive-In. Henrietta,
N.Y., for allegedly showing "sexy
scenes that can be seen from the road."
Darcy has ruled that the new state law, as
written, does not cover drive-ins but added
that he does not condone showing such
motion pictures where they can be seen
from a public highway.
He noted that a strategic comma would
have included a drive-in under the law:
One of the methods listed in the law is a
"display board viewing screen"—with no
comma.
The charge against Lawrence A. Metz,
manager, and Leonicias Vamakitis. projectionist,
arose when a November 5 showing
of "The Minx" brought complaints
from members of Citizens for a Decent
Community.
The law "expresses in plain English
exactly what it declares to be illegal," Darcy
ruled. "Had the legislature intended to include
a drive-in theatre screen, it could
have either said so in so many words or
it could have placed a comma between the
word 'board' and the word 'viewing.' "
W. J. Hutchins Is Retired
After 41 Years With NTS
PHILADELPHIA — 'W. J. Hutchins,
Philadelphia branch manager for National
Theatre Supply, division of National Screen
Service, retired Friday (7). Hutchins
had served NTS for more than 41 years,
having started in 1930 as a shipping clerk.
He had been in charge of the Philadelphia
branch office since the end of World War
II.
Hutchins will be succeeded in the NTS
Philadelphia managerial post by Irving
Goldberg, who joined the NTS organization
last year and who was head of the nowdefunct
Blumberg Bros. Theatre Supply Co.
of Philadelphia.
During the war, Hutchins attained the
rank of lieutenant in the Navy. In recent
years he has become a noted judge at dog
shows throughout the East., He resides in
Philadelphia with his wife Natalie. They
have one daughter and one son. both
married.
"Made for Each Other" was scripted by
and stars Renee Taylor and her husband,
Joseph Bologna.
BALTIMORE
Qcorge F. Eitel, National I hcalrc Supph
Co. manager here, was in Virginia
Tuesday (4) through Thursday (6) on a
business trip . . . George Schrader marks
. . . Phil Glazer. owner
his fifth month as relief manager for
Schwaber's Playhouse. 5 West and 7 East
theatres Tuesday (25)
of Associated Pictures Co., Mrs. Glazer
and their son Charles returned Tuesday (4)
from a holiday in Los Angeles and the Hawaiian
Islands.
The new year was launched by Mike Hcssion,
R/C Theatres vice-president and general
ma.nager. and Dave Knight, area district
manager, with bad cases of viruses.
Hopefully, they will be able to return to
work Monday (10).
Mrs. Linda Wanner has joined the main
office staff at R/C Theatres, where she is
a typist and, in addition, she does bookkeeping
and takes dictation. Linda is the
daughter of Mrs. Barbara Grannan. secretary
to Irwin Cohen.
The Super-170 Drive-In, Rome circuit,
reopened Christmas Day after being closed
for two weeks. Walter Teed, who recently
marked his ninth year here, is manager . . .
Mrs. Mary Avara. member of the Maryland
State Board of Motion Picture Censors, has
just returned from Montreal. Canada, where
she taped a talk show. Mrs. Avara's popuuarity
has been growing on TV and in the
near future she plans to visit Arizona. In
addition, she has been asked to appear in
England.
A benefit performance of "Fiddler on the
Roof" Saturday night (8) was sponsored by
the Swnicher Woliner Benevolent Ass'n.
The Bith Tfiloh Sisterhood also is sponsoring
a benefit performance of "Fiddler on
the Roof" Saturday (15) at 8:30 p.m. in the
Randallstown Plaza Theatre. Proceeds from
the sale of tickets will be used to furnish
draperies for the Tuvin Memorial Library,
a facility used by the students of the Beth
Tfiloh Day School and Hebrew School, as
well
as the congregation.
Mary Lee Whitley is the newest "door
girl" to grace the lobby at Schwaber's Playhouse
Theatre . . . Some 2,000 News American
carrier boys are working to win a trip
to New York for a day with John Wayne,
star of "The Cowboys." The winner will
go to Radio City Music Hall for a screening
of the lusty western, have lunch with
"Duke" Wayne and spend the rest of the
day seeing Manhattan. Newspaper boys
from other cities will join the local winner
to share in this special award. John Wayne
will host the group and relate his adventures
in working with the young men in "The
Cowboys."
Hildegarde Coley, promotion manager for
Gem Membership Stores, currently is trying
to work out a cooperative advertising campaign
with local theatres, according to Leon
B. Back. Rome Theatres general manager
and NATO of Maryland president. Gem
has a mailing list of 90.000 persons. The
plan is to publicize theatres in customer
brochures and. in return, the customers
would get a lower admisison price to cooperating
movie houses, according to Back.
The Patapsco Theatre, owned by the heirs
of the Louis Tunick circuit, was robbed of
,$58 Wednesday night. December 29, by
two men who approached Mrs. Edna Glass,
cashier, with drawn guns, forcing her to turn
over the cash. Mrs. Glass told police the
two men, in their mid-20s, entered the
movie house at approximately 8 p.m. Witnesses
reported that two suspects fled in a
car parked nearby. The theatre manager
is Mrs. Lena Rouzee. while Irwin Cohen,
head of R/C Theatre, is general manager
and booker for Tunick.
Miss Ora Donohue, veteran employee in
the main office of JF Theatres, has just
taken a leave of absence .
Back,
wife of Maryland NATO's president and
Rome Theatres general manager, has just
won a prize for her collage in the Maryland
State Art Exhibit for the National League
of American Pen Women. She now will
eligible to compete for national prizes at
the NLAPW national biennial art show in
Washington, D.C., early this year.
A festival of Charlie Chaplin films opened
December 27 at Schwaber's Playhouse
Theatre. Each offering will be shown a
minimum of two weeks. Included in the
series are: "Modern Times," "City Lights,"
"A King in New York" (never before shown
in the U.S.), "The Great Dictator," "Monsieur
Verdoux," "Limelight" and "The
Chaplin Revue." The "Revue" is comprised
of three Chaplin shorts; "Shoulder Arms,"
"A Dog's Life" and "The Pilgrim."
R/C Theatres has purchased the State
Theatre in Lexington. Va.. and will assume
operation of the house immediately. This
700-seater is the R/C circuit's second house
in Lexington, according to J. Michael Hession,
vice-president and general manager.
The J. F. Dusnian Co. has equipped the
Capri Theatre in Silver Spring (District Theatres
circuit) with Century projectors and
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WASHINGTON
^^li:i( «e hud in 1971 was a variety of
inoMc riches with noticeable trends,
a cincmatographers year, according to Star
movie critic Harry MacArthur. whose selection
>i the ten best films of 1971 follow
in alphabetical order: "Bananas," "Carnal
Knowledge." "Claire's Knee." "The
Clowns," "The French Connection." "Coin"
Down the Road." "I Never .Sang lor My
Father." "King Lear." "The Last Picture
.Show" and "McCabe & Mrs. Miller." He
said "The Last Picture Show" might possibly
be the "year's authentic motion picture
classic."
Seymour Berman. United Artists branch
manager, tradescreened "The Hospital" at
MPAA December 22 .
"Doc" Summers,
Cinerama branch chief, had an exhibitors"
screening of "I Want What 1 Want"
at the K B screening room December 28.
Geonje Kelly, Paramount branch manager,
issued invitations to an evening screening
of "Such Good Friends" at MPAA
Monday (10). Jack Howe, office manager
and hejd booker, will assist in receiving the
viewers.
Rolh Theatres has scheduled a series of
ten Ci-r.iicd films suitable for children in
six of lis suburban theatres, to run from
.Saturday (15) through March IS, Youthsadmission
fees will be reduced 25 cents for
each performance. Films selected for the
ten-week period arc: "Flight ol the Doves."
Davy irockett," "The Kingdom in the
Clouds." "Indian Paint." "War Between the
Planets," "Run Wild. Run Free," "The Way
V\'est, • "The World ot Laurel &. Hardy,"
" The First Spaceship on Venus" and
"Yours, Mine and Ours." The circuit has
received the cooperation of the PTA, parochial
iind public schools and such organizations
as the Boy Scouts.
Film distributurs' "^ ule office parties highlighted
the holiday season, as well as
MPAA's Christmas party, which was held
December 20 for the branch managers of
member companies . . . Paramount
sneaked
"Harold and Maude" December 17 at the
RKO-Stanley Warner .Avalon. where it
opened Christmas Day.
Douglas Irunibull, producer of "Silent
'
Running. was here to attend an invitational
screening of his film at .MPAA. which was
followed by a buffet supper hosted by Universal's
studio representative. John Florton.
Horton is the son-in-law of the Hon. John
Snyder, former secretary of the treasury.
Larry McMurty, author of the Columbia
release, "The Last Picture Show." which
opened at the KB Fine Arts Christmas
Day, is a native of Texas but has made the
Washington area his home for the past two
\ears and says he expects to remain here
and continue to operate his Georgetown
book store and write. His native west Texas
town of Archer Cit\ inspired his book. The
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AND VIE^VS OF THE PRODUCTION CENTER
(Hollywood Office— 6425 Hollywood Blvd.. 465-1186)
SMPTE. use Are Offering
Course in Lab Techniques
HOLLYWOOD—The technology and
techniques of the modern picture laboratory
will
be the content of the next course to be
presented by the Society of Motion Picture
& Television Engineers and the USC Division
of Cinema.
Frank P. Clark, chairman of SMPTE's
education committee and manager of development
engineering for the Research Center
of the Ass'n of Motion Picture & Television
Producers, said the course is being presented
because of "the changing services given by
modern labs, which have greatly increased
the knowledge needed by all persons involved
in the making of motion pictures.
"The course is planned specifically to
help lab and production personnel and anyone
else who needs advanced information
about l-ib procedures."
The noncredit course runs February 16
through June 7 at USC. Tuition is $72,
which includes a textbook. Information may
be obtained from USC's Division of Cine-
DIRTY HARRY' WORLD PRE.MIERE—Despite a downpour of rain, the
huge crowd of onlookers and newsman shown here gathered outside San Francisco's
Loews Theatre to view the stars and dignitaries who attended the December
"Dirty Harry." The event was a benefit for the
world premiere of Warner Bros.'
Police Activities League and star Clint Eastwood, in town for the debut of the
film, found time to visit the PAL Chinatown Center to play table tennis and a
game of pool with some of the boys aided by the San Francisco Police Department-sponsored
organization.
NGT Announces Theatre
District Realignment
LOS ANGELES—William Hertz, vicepresident
of the Southern Pacific division
of National General Theatres, has announced
a realignment of districts.
Alan Bamossy has been named district
manager of the firm's theatres in San Diego,
Imperial Valley, Arizona and Las Vegas,
Nev. Cal Gerlach assumes district op>eration
of theatres in the San Fernando Valley.
Glendale, Pasadena, Inglewood, Oxnard,
Ventura, Bakersfield and San Luis
Obispo.
Bill Sorenson will supervise theatres in
Long Beach, South Bay, Orange County,
Riverside and Pomona Valley. Harold
Wyatt will continue to supervise the Los
Angeles first-run district, which includes
theatres in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Westwood
and Santa Monica.
Stephanie Rothman Is Set
To Direct Dimension Film
HOLLYWOOD—Dimension Pictures has
set Sephanie Rothman to direct its second
feature titled "Group Marriage." Scripted
by Richard F. Walter, producer Charles S.
Swartz has the production scheduled for a
late February starting date.
"Group Marriage" marks Miss Roth-
man's fifth feature directorial assignment,
with her two most recent ones being
"Student Nurses" and "Velvet Vampire."
Dimension's first production. "Sweet
Sugar." !s scheduled to roll in Costa Rica in
mid-January, with Michel Levesque directing.
El Sol Productions Buys
Rights to 'Gingham Dog'
HOLLYWOOD — Executive
producers
Richard Benware and Donald West have
secured the motion picture rights to Lanford
Wilson's play, "The Gingham Dog,"
for their El Sol Productions Co. The play
opened on Broadway in 1969.
Benware and West, who currently are
winding up post-production on their initial
feature, "Catch a Pebble" (formerly called
"Whisper My Name"), are aiming for a
mid-1972 start on the new production.
"Catch a Pebble" was directed by James
F. Collier and stars Joanna Pettet, Tuvia
Tavi and William Jordan.
'Swinging Campus' Seized
OXNARD, CALIF.—The film "Swinging
Campus" was seized recently by Oxnard
detectives, who charged it was "pornographic."
The feature picture was being
exhibited by the Mini Cinema Theatre, 631
West Hueneme Rd.
Dan Cady's 'Faith Healer'
Set for April Release
HOLLYWOOD—Daniel Cady, president
of Clover Films and secretary of the Adult
Film Ass'n of America, will release his
Edmond O'Brien starrer, "The Faith Healer,"
in /Vpril. Cady and John Hayes produced
the film in the Southern California
area.
On the way to the AFAA convention in
Miami Sunday (9), Cady announced three
other productions, all starting in the next
six months, with the first one rolling Saturday
(22) and titled "Grave of the Vampire."
Following this, "Garden of the Dead" will
begin March 1 and "A Well-Run Mortuary"
June 5.
A. L. Stone Will Produce
'Great \A[altz' in Vienna
HOLLYWOOD—It's
a long time between
drinks, according to the old phrase, but if
the drink is good, it doesn't matter. Andrew
L. Stone, who will produce and direct from
his original script for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
has had "The Great Waltz" on his mind
for some time. Now, in February, the musical
will be filmed in and around Vienna.
Stone shot "Song of Norway" following
the making of a documentary on the subject
as a guide.
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BoxoFFict in Israel is Menachi Golan,
producer and director of 15 feature-length
films, including Salah." In Hollywood to
make arrangements for a production of his
"Sun Beyond the Border." his own story
written with Joe Gross, Golan is seeking
co-production deals for his nation.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has given him
three scripts to read, after buying his Highway
Patrol" feature after he had sold 20
other national rights throughout the world.
He makes a profit from laying off these
rights o.'fore the picture goes into distribution,
though his deal is an advance and a
high percentage of the gross.
Israel already has lost 30 per cent of its
audiences to television, especially in the remote
villages. Perhaps it"s safer there to
watch at home, because of the tensions in
the Near East.
With two film laboratories running and
ariout 20 pictures per year, the typical
ot
Israel
producer can get as much as $50,000 from
an lsra.;li release. Additionally, through a
government subsidy, he collects .''2.5 per
cent of every ticket sold, giving him a
chance to break even.
Israel is closely watching the results of
the Oscar derby and hopes that Topol will
come out on lop, said Golan, who gave the
famed Tevye character his first film role.
Golan now has productions being distributed
in the U.S. by AlP and others and is going
to Nonvay or Sweden to do his "Sun" picture,
because it's a story of the Leningrad
trials on a plane hijacking.
•
pAUI. ROTHA called the turn in 1931
when, in his book "Celluloid: The Film
Today." he wrote about the "contrived artificiality
of the studios." The solution he
advanced is coming to pass in actuality
now, 40 years later.
"It would be the sanest thing in the sordid
history of the cinema if every studio were to
close for a one-year period, if all the stars
were given a vacation and if production
units (complete with cameras and recording
equipment) were to be sent to every part of
the wor'd. The resulting films would be the
most thrilling entertainment that has ever
been produced." he wrote.
In commenting on his own thoughts in
updated 1967 notes. Rotha said. "To some
extent this wishful thinking has come
about.
There is no doubt that it now is a filmmakerN
world, rather than a studio-controlled
art in an industry. Of course, there
arc exceptions, where those in charge of
studios arc still too prone to exercise rigid
controls.
Rotha cited some of the films which are
of a m.irc aduli character than would have
been possible a decade ago, mentioning
John Huston's "Freud" and Orson Welles
"Kafka" as examples. He did not list the
1964 "Mondo Cane." from G. Jacopetti
and F. Prospcri. which changed the com-
WITH SYD CASSVDl
ple.xion of the level ot tilm to that of the
most realistic of all documentaries in its
brutahty.
Even in 1967, he could not have foreseen
the entry of Jacopetti's "Goodbye.
Uncle Tom." made with Prosperi. which
comes on the American screens this year.
Here is a remarkable documentary in a
form which may bring it double X ratings.
If people broke records in attending the
theatre to see "Mondo Cane," with its
blood-letting, the hatred of Americans for
the slavery of black people before the civil
war will get its strongest thrust when lhe>
view this film.
It's one of the best "seeing-through-theeye-of-the-beholder"
films of its kind. Its
re-enactment is in the tradition of the "See
It Now" video documentary level.
In our view, it could only be made by a
man who hated slavery. But the odd thing
is that the film was made in a country
where slavery is still the mode—Haiti.
Otherwise it would not have been possible
for Jacopetti and Prosperi to have herded
black pjople into the situations which appear
in this film.
There is the possibility that they sold
"Papa Doc." the late president of Haiti, on
the "hate America" aspects of the film and
did it with the motive that they actually
could show the slavery and conditions that
e.xist in Haiti today.
We are told by the people considering
distribution of the film that some of the
ultra-bl.iody
scenes might be cut and edited
but that nothing will be done to the thrust
of the picture, which is "man's inhumanity
to man." It could be sold as "America finally
has a chance to look at the seamy and
hidden aspects of its past" and "it ain't
pretty."
Bandits Again Take Cash
From Cactus Drive-In
ALBUQUERQUE—For the second time
in five weeks, the Cactus Drive-In in .-Mbuquerque
has been robbed by armed men.
The latest incident, in which thieves took
more than S 1 50 from the boxoffice. occurred
New Year's evening (1), when two
men in their 20s held up the cashier. The
cashier said one of the men was armed
with a hunting knife.
An earlier armed robbery of the Cactus
occurred Thanksgiving night (November
25). when two men—both with guns
robbed the theatre of SI 00 and pistolwhipped
employee Sam Romero.
Police are still searching for the robbers
in both incidents.
Long Beach May Annex Airers
lONCi »LA( H, C Al.ll — Ihe city of
Long Beach has proposed two annexations,
both to include drive-in theatres. The
Lakewood Drivc-In is located in one parcel,
while the Los Altos Drive-In is situated in
the other.
Favorite Acquires Rights
To 'Honky' in the West
HOLLYWOOD—Favorite
Films of California
h.is acquired distribution rights in the
I .^ Western states to "Honky." Negotiations
Jack HarrLs. left, president of Jack
H. Harris Knterpriscs, is shown with
Mark I ciimt, center, t\eciiti\c \ icepresident
i»f la\(>ritc Films, and l>on
Foster, district inanancr for Favorite
Kiliiis, at the loiulusldn of negotiations
h\ which Favorite acquired distribution
T\f\\\s in the 13 Western states
to "Honky."
were completed by Mark Tenser for Favorite
and Jack H. Harris, president of Jack H.
Harris Enterprises.
"Honky" has been set for a San Francisco
20-thealre run starting Wednesday
(19). according to Tenser. The film stars
Brenda Sykes and John Nielson. Music is by
Quincy Jones.
Tent 25 Giving 520,000
In Equipment to Clinic
1 OS ANCil 1 L.S- Ihc \ .irjeiy Club of
.Southern California Lent 25 crew has approved
an expenditure of nearly 520,000
for vital respiratory equipment to be donated
to the Variety Children's Heart Clinic
at UCLA. Announcement of the donation
was made Wednesday (5) at the Variety
luncheon at the Beverly Hills Hotel honoring
Johnny Grant on the return from his
41st junket entertaining servicemen overseas.
Three units—known as the Godarl-Statham
Capnograph. suited for studies indicating
abnormal ventilation and the distribution
of ventilaiion-perfusicin ratios
will be delivered to Dr. Forrest Adams at
the clmic early this year for the surgical
and post-operative care of children.
Sidney Niekerk Will Film
'Revenge on the Rocks'
HOI.l >\SXK)D — Revenge on the
Rocks" IS the new title of the Sidney Niekerk
production of the John Kimbro script
abciut a western action story to be directed
by George Watters. The other picture distributed
by the firm was "Dark Side of
Tomorrow." Niekerk is a move-over from
the 1 6mm field, now specializing in R to
CiP films.
W-2 BOXOFFICE :; Januarv 10. 1972

Long Beach Council Okays
$5 Million 'Sea Theatre'
LONG BEACH, CALIF.—City
councilmen
have approved a $5,000,000 Theatre of
the .Sea proposed by Capt. Jacques Cousteau.
The unique facihty will be located
alongside the Queen Mary at Pier J in Long
Beach harbor.
"The latest animation techniques, together
with film projections on giant 340-
degree multiple screens, would be employed
to give visitors the illusion that they are
sharing the exciting experience of actually
diving in the Living Sea," said John R.
Mansell, city manager. The Living Sea is
Cousteaii's recently opened exhibit on the
Queen Mary.
Cousteau told the city that SI. .5 million
of the anticipated investment would be
spent for special four-track 70mm film and
projectors.
Visitors would be transported to the top
of the Theatre of the Sea building, where
they would confront a sea,scape. including
kelp forests, schools of fish and giant marine
creatures and a manned undersea station.
Later, they would enter a simulated
underwater cavern, "where the barely perceptible
motion of a turntable would carry
them in semi-darkness to the bottom of the
sea," according to Mansell.
The Theatre of the Sea would have a
gross floor area of approximately 30,000
square feet, including the theatre portion,
the "Under the Sea" presentation, lobby,
ticketing area, restrooms and other facilities.
Cousteau estimated it would take about
26 months to complete the project.
Black Cinema Exposition
Feb. 7-13 in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES—The first Los Angeles
Black Cinema Exposition will be held February
7-13 at the Baldwin Theatre, Los
Angeles. The event will coincide with Black
History Week.
The six-day exposition is planned to
commemorate the contributions of blacks to
the motion picture industry.
Spon'^ored by the Black Cinema Library-
Research Center, the event will concentrate
on the phychological. cultural and educational
ramifications of black roles and
films. Symposiums of actors, directors and
producers will be held following film
screenings.
NFB's G. G. Graham Seeks
Increased Cooperation
HOLLYWOOD—Gerald G. Graham, director
of planning and research for the National
Film Board of Canada, was in Hollyv^food
to "explore avenues of technological
cooperation between the Canadian and
American industries."
Graham spent Wednesday (5) in talks
with Wilton R. Holm, executive director of
the Research Center of the Ass'n of Motion
Picture & Television Producers.
Hollywood
QEORGE GADE, president of Gamalex
Associates, announced that negotiations
arc under way between Gamalex, diversified
Southern California film production and
distribution company, and representatives of
Les Films Copernic-Comacico (Paris), Mars
Films Produzions Sari et Ultra-Film Spa
(Rome) and Roxy Films (Munich) for the
U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to
"La Peau de Torpedo," which stars Lilli
Palmer and Michel Constantin.
•
John Davidson has joined Metromedia
Producers Corp. as Eastern division sales
manager, special projects, it was announced
by Pierre Weis. vice-president, special projects.
•
The board of trustees of the Screen
Actors Guild-Producers Health & Welfare
Plan and Pension Plan announces the election
of the following officers for 1972:
Chairman. Ann Doran; vice-chairman, Don
Randolph: secretary, William Immerman,
American International Pictures, and assistant
secretary, H. Arthur Schaefer. Warner
Bros. Byron J. Ellerbrock is administrator
of the plans.
•
Marshall Green, head of production for
Universal Studios, succeeds director Lesley
Selander in the one-year post as chairman
of the Directors Guild of America-Producers
Training Plan board of trustees. Other
officers named were Richard Schonland.
Paramount, vice-chairman; Earl Bellamy
sr., DGA, secretary, and Rex Bailey, DGA.
assistant secretary'.
*
The Charles Chaplin Film Festival
opened £.t Salt Lake City's Tower Theatre
December 24. it was announced by Oliver
A. Unger. president of Leisure Media, who
is presenting the festival in the U.S. in
association with the Classic Festival Corp.
The first film shown was Chaplin's "Modern
Times," which also is playing in Los
Angeles at the Music Hall Theatre in Beverly
Hills.
*
Arthur N. Ryan, vice-president for administration
and business affairs for Paramount
Pictures, has returned from home
office meetings in New York.
•
Frank O'Connor, vice-president in charge
of specials and daytime programing for
Universal-TV, has been named chairman of
a Los Angeles creative screening panel for
the 12th annual International Broadcasting
Awards sponsored by the Hollywood Radio
& Television Society.
•
Richard D. Zanuck. senior executive
vice-president of Warner Bros., planed to
New York on company business.
*
The results of the Hollywood Foreign
Press Ass'n's Golden Globes Awards balloting
will be announced shortly. The Gold-
Happenings
en Globes, which have five nominations in
each category, will be presented at the
awards dinner Sunday evening, February
6. at the International Ballroom of the
Beverly Hilton Hotel.
•
Bill Madden. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer general
sales manager, with Stewart Engebretson,
San Francisco division manager, returned
from Seattle, where they met with
area exhibitors regarding future plans on
"The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight"
and "The Boy Friend."
*
"Mary, Queen of Scots," Hal Wallis' production
for Universal, has been selected by
the Southern California Motion Picture
Council as "a picture of outstanding merit"
and presented with the organization's Certificate
of Award. The presentation was
made by Elayne BIyhe, president.
*
The awards policy committee on rules of
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences has been named by Academy president
Daniel Taradash. John Green is
chairm;m of the committee. Other members
are Ted Ashley, Michael Blankfort, Henry
Bumstead, Charles G. Clarke, George
Cukor. William W. Hombeck. William T.
Hurtz, Ricardo Montalban, Arthur R. Piantadosi.
Maurice Segal and Hal B. Wallis.
•
Mervyn LeRoy was in New York for ten
days of business to scout stage productions
and meet with various literary agents.
Variety Event at Beverly
Wilshire Is February 2
LOS ANGELES—The Wednesday (5)
Variety Club of Southern California Tent
25 luncheon honoring TV-radio personality
Johnny Grant is the last event of its kind
to be held at the Beverly Hills Hotel, due
to a need for facilities to accommodate the
greater number of p»ersons who attend.
When Tent 25 meets to fete Sammy
Davis jr. February 2, the affair will be
staged in the new ballroom of the Beverly
Wilshire Hotel, according to Spero L.
Kontos, chief barker of the showmen's
organization devoted to aiding children.
The monthly get-togethers started last
October have grown so popular with film
industry people that the Variety Club crew
decided to seek larger dining facilities,
Kontos said.
Leon Ames on 2-Week Tour
For Promotion of 'Toklat'
HOLLYWOOD—Leon Ames has been
set to make a two-week cross-country promotional
tour beginning Monday (10) for
"Toklat." Sun International outdoor epic release,
in which he stars. Cities he will visit
include Milwaukee. Detroit, Dallas-Fort
Worth. Buffalo, Houston and Chicago.
The G-rated family feature already has
opened in five markets.
BOXOmCE :: January 10, 1972 W-3

2nd
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'Fiddler
on Roof Gains 240 Points
8tb Week in LA; Reaches 800 Level
LOS ANGELES— "Fiddler on the Root
picked up 240 grossing points in its eighth
week at the Wilshire to tie second-week
"Diamonds Are Forever," playing at the
Chinese Theatre, for the boxoflice leadership
in this metropolitan area. Each of the
leaders scored exactly
800, eight-times-average,
which was also the first-week percentage
recorded by "Diamonds." Trailing these
top-notchers most closely was "Nicholas
and Alexandra." a 530 opener at the Beverly
Th'.-atre, and "A Clockwork Orange,"
450 in a second week at Hollywood Pacific.
The latter figure represented a gain of 50
grossing points for "A Clockwork Orange"
over its initial frame 400. Opening at the
400 level this report week were "S" at the
Crest and "Dirty Harry" at Loews.
:Averoge Is 100)
Beverly- Nicholas and Alcxondra (Col) 530
Bruin—The Hoipitol UA , wk 325
Chinese- Diamonds Arc Forever (UA). 2nd wk. . .800
Cinerama—Sometimes a Grcot Notion (Univ),
2nd wk. .
220
Crest— $ (Col 400
Dohenv Ploza— 200 Motels UA). 9th wk 95
Egvption—The French Connection (20th-Fox),
8th wk 130
Fine An-,- Eaqlc in a Cage NGP) 105
Four Star The Lost Picture Show (Col). 6th wk. .300
Fox— Star Spangled Girl Para) 1 50
Hollywood Pacific— A Clockwork Oronge (W8).
2nd wk 450
Loews— Dirty Horry (WB) 40n
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returns were spread all up and down the
barometer of boxoffice business, however,
only three films grossing as low as 100-1 10.
"Sometimes a Great Notion" broke from
the barrier with a 300 first week at the
Cooper and "Dirty Harry" initiated its
Paraniount engagement at 270.
Aloddin— Fiddler on the Roof UA), 7th wk 500
Centre—Stor Spangled Girl Para) 100
Century 21— Bedknobs ond Broomsticks (BV),
6th wk 100
Cherry Creek, Villo Italia—S (Col) 225
Cooper—Sometimes o Great Notion (Univ) 300
Crest, Towne—The Gong Thot Couldn't Shoot
Straight ;MGM 200
Dcnhom—The Go-Bctwccn iColi 175
Denver, Lakeside, Village Square— Diamonds Are
Forever (UA) 400
Esquire— Harold and Maude iPara) 125
Ogden—The School Girls SR) 110
Paramount— Dirty Harry WB) 270
Webber, Federal—Straw Dogs (CRC) . . .Not Avoiloble
'Notion,' 'Diamonds,' "Fiddler"
Each 1,000 in Portland
PORTLAND—Holiday moviegoing real-
Is got its momentum in gear, resulting in
three gross percentages of the 1.000 variety
and a whole flock of figures ranging from
400 up to 750. The big three at the top of
the list were newcomers ".Sometimes a
Great Notion" and "Diamonds .Are Forever"
plus third-week "Fiddler on the
Roof," Also outstanding were 750 for the
first week of "S" at Cinema 21 and 700
first-week business at the Paramount with
"Dirty Harry."
Bogdad—Sometimes o Grcot Notion (Univ) ....1,000
Broadwoy 1 ~ The French Connection (20th-Fox) 500
Broodway 3 The Co-Bctwecn iCol) 500
Cinema 21 —$ (Col) 750
Eostgote—Billy Jock (WB), 25th wk 400
Fifth Avenue Cinema—Mon in the Wilderness
(WB), 5th wk 400
Fox, Foster Boulcvord—DIomonds Arc Forever
(UA) 1,000
Guild—Strow Dogs CRC) 2nd wk 500
Hollywood- Fiddler on the Roof (UA), 3rd wk. .1.000
Irvington— Harold ond Maude Pora) 400
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Mount Tabor— something big NGPT 500
Music Box - The Gong Thot Couldn't Shoot
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lorge Rivero will play a Mexican-American
police officer in "'The New Centurions."
SRO Charts El Cajon
3-Theatre Complex
EL CAJON. CALIF.—La Mirada Drivein
Theatres, a subsidiary of Seattle. Wash.-
based Sterling Recreation Organization, has
announced plans to transform the former
Roaring '20s nightclub here into a motion
picture theatre, while two companion cinemas
with a total seating capacity of more
than 1.000 will be constructed adjacent to
the club building.
The existing complex on a 24-acrc site
includes a 60-lane bowling alley, a 1.350-
square-:'oot kitchen and coffee shop and a
10.000-square-foot cocktail lounge, billiard
room, beauty shop, nursery and offices for
management. La Mirada assumed ownership
last August.
William Stevens. California operations
manager for SRO. said that the company
hopes 'CI have the triple-theatre complex
open by June. One boxoffice, lobby and
snack bar will serve all auditoriums. Estimated
cost of the project is approximately
$.350,000.
"This is going to be a facility for family
recreation." said Stevens. "There will be activities
for every age level."
Chuck Price, current manager of the
bowling alley, will take over the operation
of the I ntire complex. Stevens said.
'Adult' Movies Outlawed
By Nevada License Board
LAS VEGAS—In a blanket declaration
of policy, the Clark County Liquor and
Gaming Licensing Board has outlawed
"adult" movies in its area of jurisdiction.
Unanimous approval was given the resolution
proposed for adoption by Dist. Atty.
Roy Woofter.
"No license to do business shall be issued
to any theatre seeking to do business as an
exhibitor of so-called "adult films." "sexploitation
films.' "hard-core pornographic films'
or "simulated pornographic films." "" the
policy states.
The board then denied for the second
lime renewal of licenses for the Cinema
Arts and Mini-Adult theatres. Both movie
houses have filed lawsuits which will keep
them open until a hearing to be held this
month.
Mount Angel House Closes
MOLM ,\NG1 I . ORE.— After several
months of operation, the Mount Angel
Theatre has been shuttered. Manager Jim
.-Vndcrson announced that he was relocating
in Ekalata, Mont., where he hopes to return
to law practice.
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Christmas Party for 900 Youngsters
Scene at Brlvl>ii Ilu-.iiu lluiisil;i\. DuLinber 23, when \ arieC> of Suutliem
(ulit'oniia. lent 25, husted members of the \ :iriet\ li screen fare.
LOS ANGELES
^hc new year began for Variety Clubs International
president Sherrill C. Corwin
with 6.000 miles of travel and addresses
at inaugural dinners for three tents in the
.South. Accompanied by Mrs. Corwin. he
departed Los Angeles for New Orleans
Tuesday (4), where he spoke Wednesday
15) at the annual banquet of Tent 45 which,
in 1972, is establishing a "bum center" at
Charity Hospital as a new Variety project.
Friday (7) he was the guest of honor of
Tent 21 in Atlanta at its inaugural banquet
and Saturday night (8) Corwin addressed
the inaugural banquet of Tent 33 in Miami
following a tour of Variety Children's Hospital
there.
Harry Guldstunc, president of Goldstone
Films-New York, was in town to confer
with his branch manager Jack Sherriff regarding
new product and playdates . . .
Budd Rogers, general sales manager of
Continental Distributing, also was in town
to confer with Sherriff regarding business.
C'oncnitiilation.s to Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Moss of t luiiik-E-Nuts. who just became
the proud grandparents of a baby boy.
Boh Dunagan of Blythc is in Indio Hospital,
V. here he is being treated following a
heart attack.
Cro\>n Inlcnialional Pictures held a
tradescreening ol two newly acquired films
never x-fore shown here. "Westerner" and
"Ride in the Whirlwind." at Los Vcli/
Theatre Tuesday (4). The pictures, directed
by Monte Hellnian, open in Wcslwood
Wedne-.dav (12).
Paul llciireid hosted an unusual celebrity
ptemiere to kick off United .Artists' national
rerelease of lour film classics: "Casablanca."
"
'Lilile Caesar." 'Public Enemy No. 1 and
"The Maltese Falcon." The Dohenv Plaza
Iheatre was the site of the premiere held
Wednesday (5). opening the first double bill
with "Casablanca" and "Little Caesar."
Creators and artists involved in the films
were honored.
Screenwriter Mac Benoff joined Groucho
Marx at the Groucho Mar.x Seminar sponsored
by the Writers Workshop at Paramount
Studios. Clips of Marx's films were
seen and discussed. Benoff wrote many
screenplays for Marx Brothers'
films.
.•Vnicricaii International's new mystery
thriller. "Who Slew .Auntie Roo?", starring
Shelley Winters, has been set for an extensive
multiple-theatre opening in the
Greater I.os Angeles area March 15.
Robert Lipton, brother of Peggy l^ipton
and son of Harold Lipton, vice-presideni
and chief general counsel of National General
Corp., was assigned a starring role
opposite Burt Lancaster in Universal's "Ulzana's
Raid."
Wchard B. Graff has moved into the
America-.i Iniemational Pictures home offices
building in Beverly Hills and has assumed
his duties as an AlP vice-president
and general sales manager. Previously Graff
was a vice-president of National General
Corp.
Back in town from ten days in Acapuico
are Newton P. Jacobs, president of Crown
International, and Mark Tenser, executive
vice-pre.>idenl, with Mrs, Tcn.ser.
Ed Cooperstein Elected
Prexy of Canyon Films
PHolMX I
he .ippv'ininient ot Ed
Coopersicin .is president .ukI general manager
of Canyon Films was announced December
21 bv Larr>' E. Barren, lx->ard
chairman. Cooperstein joined Canyon as
director of sales development in November
1970 and was made executive vicepresident
in June 1971.
Maryvale Twin Opens
Xmas Day in Phoenix
PHULM.\— Ihe Mar.wale Twin theatres,
located at 51st Avenue and Indian
.School Road, opened to the public Christmas
Day. Inaugural attractions were
'K.otch" and "Man in the Wilderness."
The .Maryvale Twin seals 525 persons in
each auditorium.
Seized Film Is Returned
To Theatre by U.S. Court
ILtSU.N —Due to J procedur.il error in
prosecution, charges of "importation and
possession of obscene materials" filed
against James E. Meredith, operator of the
Miracle .Mile .\dult Theatre, were dismissed
December 29 by Federal Judge William C,
Frey. Nineteen reels of an allegedly obscene
film seized June 14, 1971, bv Arizona-Mexico
Ixiundary authorities were
ordered returned to the theatre on grounds
that the complaint had not been filed within
the required statutory time limits.
Arizona law requires filing of charge.s
within 14 days and not later than 60 days
following seizure. The film was confiscated
during a border check of Meredith's car.
No reason for the procedural delay was
advanced.
Meredith's defense was that the film was
bought in the U.S. but inadvertently taken
to Mexico, which fact he discovered upon
re-entry into Arizona.
Since the case was dismissed. Judge Frey
did not rule on the question of obscenity.
Teenage Girl Wins Trip
In 'The Cowboys' Contest
ALBiyLLRgLL A l.^-\ car-old Albuquerque
girl has been awarded a trip to
Chicago to attend a special premiere of
John Wayne's "The Cowboys" and lunch
with the star Saturday (15). Kerry .Arquette.
a ninlii-gradcr at Monroe Junior High
School here, was judged the winner in a
recent .-ssay
contest sponsored by the afternoon
daily Scripps-Howard paper, the
Tribune, in conjunction with Warner Bros.
The contest was held for all youngsters
between the ages of 10 and 16 and they
were required to write a 75-word statement
on "Why I think New Mexico is a great
place to make cowboy movies."
Kerry will be accompanied to Chicago by
a Tribune staff member.
Non-Involved City Asked
To Help Ban X Pictures
NLW.NRK.. C.VLir. Representatives of
the Casa Verde Homeowners Ass'n in
Union City were slated to appear before
the city council here to seek support in
their drive to ban X-raled motion pictures
at drive-in theatres.
RichArd Tumlund. city manager, said he
didn't know what Newark could do regarding
the issue, "as wc don't have any driveins
in Newark,"
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'Harry' Has Benefit
World Debut in SF
SAN FRANCISCO—Mayor Joseph
Alioto
ari'l film star Clint Eastwood led the
celebrity-packed world premiere of "Dirty
Harry," Eastwood's new starring film for
Warner Bros., at Loews Theatre here Tuesday
night, December 21, for the benefit of
the Police Activities League.
All proceeds from the sellout premiere
event, which included a buffet dinner in the
Imperial Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel, went
to PAL, a youth-oriented organization
sponsored by the San Francisco Police Department
which organizes sports and civic
activities for over 7,000 boys in
the city.
"Dirty Harry" was filmed here on location,
with Eastwood playing the title role
of a police inspector in the homicide division
of the San Francisco Police Department.
Joining the mayor and Eastwood at the
premiere were Don Siegel, who produced
and directed "Dirty Harry"; Harry Guardino,
who co-stars in the film drama; Robert
Daley, the film's executive producer;
Warner Bros, executives, who came from
the company's studios in Burbank, and
numerous civic dignitaries. The affair was
emceed by KPlX's Rolfe Peterson. Loews
Theatre .s managed by Harry Morgan.
$130,000 Twin Remodeling
Started at Vine Theatre
LlVtRMORE, CALIF.—Vine Theatre
manager Glenn Coffey announced that the
house closed Sunday (9) to permit a $130,-
000 remodeling project that will create a
twin-theatre operation. Construction time is
estimated at 60 days, including the installation
of automated projection and sound
equipment.
One of the two auditoriums will have a
600-seat capacity, while the other will accommodate
appro.Kimately 350 patrons.
Each will have its own individual decor,
Coffey said. The main lobby will not be
altered, since it was modernized only two
years ago.
"We've been planning this change for a
long time," commented Coffey. "It will allow
us to offer more selections in movie entertainment,
especially when we have one
popular film playing an extended engagement."
Showcase Theatre Opens
PALMDALE, CALIF.—Antelope Valley's
newest motion picture house, the
Showcase Theatre, opened to the public
December 17 with "Airport" as the feature
" The City Art Museum has set a lecture
film presentation, "History of the Film." by
Standish D. Lawder for a free public program
Tuesday (25) at 8 p.m.
.\ film showing and talk on "Born Free"
by the author, Joe Abramson, is scheduled
Friday (21) at Clayton High School Auditorium.
No. 1 Mark Twain Circle, at 7:30
Featured in the Latin American
p.m. . . .
Theatre Business Up 900 Per Cent
During Year of SO-Cent Admission
C ORON.A, C ALIF.—The success story at
the Corona Theatre—a startling increase in
attendance during a one-year period after
admission was dropped to 50 cents—was
highlighted in a recent feature article by
Daily Independent staffer Fred L. Eldridge.
Under the headline "Corona Theatre Now
.Selling 2.000-3,000 Tickets Weekly," Eldridge
wrote: "The Corona Theatre was constructed
in 1929 by the Glen Harper family
and has had its ups and downs ever since.
It had been mostly the downs in recent years
until Gene Harvey, 32, bought it about a
year ago. With the aid of a 20-year-old manager
named Joe O'Halloran, it has been
slowly inching its way up ever since.
Pays Operating Expenses
"While it isn't exactly profitable yet, Harvey
says it is drawing enough clientele to
more than pay the actual operating expenses.
To the casual observer, this signifies heavy
traffic at the popcorn stand, because tickets
cost only 50 cents. 'We went to the 50-cent
ticket immediately,' Harvey said. 'To attract
attention, we replaced the worn-out
sound system. We fixed up the seats. We
painted. There weren't even any paper towel
dispensers in the restrooms. It was deplorable
and we spent $20,000 to get things
ti\ed up.'
"A lot of people in this town have in the
past been habitual Friday night moviegoers
but a few Fridays of joining the teenagers
in the Corona Theatre got them out of the
habit.
Staff Gets Tough
"As O'Halloran says: 'Friday night is a
problem for any theatre but we have overcome
most of our trouble by being just real
mean. So many of these kids think the film
is purely incidental. They have come to the
theatre for their social life. They seat-hop,
visiting their friends. They carry on conversations
that can be heard a block away.
There has been a constant moving about
while the film is being shown. But we boot
them out if they don't behave and things
are a lot better. Primarily they are better
because we know who is who and we don't
let in bad ones in the first place any more.
And an interesting thing is this—some of
the bad ones show up on Saturday night and
behave perfectly. They come as singles or
pairs and the gang atmosphere isn't there.'
"O'Halloran, a business administration
student at Chaffey, looks like a lean six feet,
two inches of mostly bone and muscle. Asked
if any of the rowdies had ever punched
him in the nose, he said: 'You always get a
lot of bad-mouthing if they are in groups.
When alone, however, they are meek and
jften have a tendency to burst into tears.'
"Back in 1963 the then Corona Theatre
Manager asked for help from th^ PTA
("ouncil, which made some suggestions in
Conjunction with the Corona Police Department
and the manager. Friday nights, however,
didn't change much.
"Harvey said that one of his basic aims is
to re-establish 'confidence' in the theatre.
Previous owners,' he said, 'might show X-
rated films one week and family pictures the
next. We are sticking with almost 100 per
cent G-rated or GP-rated films for families.
We are careful to be selective on GPs, howover,'
he continued. 'But when we do get a
good movie we think a 17-year-old shouldn't
see, we make sure that the people know it.
And if we have a G-rated film that is just
for children, we try to see to it that only
kids come. Why waste the parents'
time?'
"Harvey says the bulk of the clientele
comes from two age groups—25 and under
and 25 to 35, with the former the larger.
When he purchased the theatre, Harvey
said, it was serving some 200-300 j>ersons
per week, mostly on Friday night. 'Now we
are selling tickets to 2,000 to 3,000 customers
a week and it isn't all on Friday by
any means.'
"Harvey and O'Halloran are a study in
contrasts. Harvey, the older one and the
boss, has the beard, the mod haircut, glasses
and clothing. O'Halloran, who is 20, is
clean-shaven and wears an old-fashioned
haircut. He looks almost like a square on a
revivalist
circuit.
"Though only 20, O'Halloran has been
in the movie business for three years. He
started with Harvey when the latter bought
the Grove Theatre in Upland. That theatre
was having somewhat the same problems as
Corona but is now a successful operation.
"Harvey came out of San Jose State College
and took a crack at the newspaper business.
Later he developed his interest in motion
picture theatres. He started there as a
Fox Theatre manager before becoming an
owner."
Filming of 'Cantinas' Set;
Sid Niekerk Will Produce
HOLLYWOOD — Production will
start
here this month on "Cantinas," an original
idea of Sidney Niekerk, who will produce
the film. The script was written from the
original story by George Walters. John
Kimbrough will direct the western on various
locations in the Southwest.
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Remodeled Visla Is
Unveiled in Boise
BOISli. IDA—The Vista Theatre reopened
Christmas Day following a complete
remodeling and installation of new
equipment, it was announced by Jim Matthews,
Vista manager. The interior was
redecorated by L&S Theatre Supply, Salt
Lake City, with walls fully covered and
colors blending from beige in the rear of the
auditorium to a bright salmon at the stage.
A new screen has been added for a more
image and the auditorium floor has
brilliant
a reverse level which allows the front seats
the same angle of vision as those in the
rear. A new stage curtain was installed
which coordinates the color scheme of the
aitditorium. .Ml materials used in
the updating
are I i reproofed.
Newly designed chairs were installed
featuring
u one-piece, high, molded back with
two-inch foam padding and spring seats.
Rows are spaced 40 inches apart for more
leg
roopi and walking space.
Tie Vote Kills Proposed
Salt Lake City Film Law
SALT LAKE CITY—The widely
publicized
"dirty film" ordinance which has
been under consideration here has been
killed by a 2-2 tie vote. The action on the
controversial measure came when Mayor
J. Bracken Lee called on the commissioners
to vote on the proposed ordinance.
The subject of hot debate for several
weeks, the law had been designed to control
"dirty films" in Salt Lake City. Even
if it had gained the approval of a majority
of the commissioners, oppwnenis were
doubtful that its stipulations would be
legal.
Commissioner Barker, who had supported
the profHisal from its inception, declared
that he would bring the bill up again next
year for consideration by the new commission.
Nude Performers Are Now
Targets of Denver Police
Ul N\LK .\lici i-uuris issued .111 order
that the police were to stop arresting patrons
of the Mini-Art, a theatre showing X-rated
films, officers continued arresting topless
and boitomlcss performers at the showhouse.
At first the procedure was to arrest
the performers, allow them to clothe themselves,
take them to the police station, have
them undress and photograph them in the
nude. The city attorney ruled against this
practice.
The performers were then photographed
at the inealre until this was ruled unlawful.
After that, police arrested each girl in the
nude, ottered her a coat and took her to the
station where a photo was made. This also
was ruled out, with the police then resorting
to flash cameras to photograph the girls
as they performed in the nude.
The attorney for the theatre claims the
law concerning nude performers is unconstitutional.
Claims were made that the photography
sessions at the police station were viewed by
an audience of patrolmen but this was
denied by a police spokesman.
No date has been set for a hearing on
the case at this time.
PORTLAND
^(irniaii Jewison's "liddler on the Roof."
in .1 third week .it the Hollywood Theatre,
was the No. 1 movie on the scene here,
moneywise. and the only roadshow.
Following a benefit staged by the Multnomah
County Medical Ass'n's auxiliary
December 26, Universals Oregon-filmed
"Sometimes a Great Notion" racked up
what must be an all-time record for the
1.015-seat neighborhood Bagdad Theatre,
operated by veteran exhibitor Paul Forsythe.
Bob Harvey, Bagdad Theatre manager, advised
that, for opening week, a 3.000-seat
theatre might have managed a capacity audience.
The drama, filmed on the Oregon
coast with Paul Newman and Henry Fonda
heading the cast, had an excellent Christmas
Day opening with several hundred moviegoers
turned away at the boxoffice . . . Here
lor the benefit was actor Richard Jaeckcl.
bearded for his forthcoming co-starring
role opposite Burt Lancaster in Universal's
"Ulzana's Raid," scheduled to start shooting
Tuesday (18) in Nogaies, Ariz. Jaeckcl. following
newspaper interviews at the theatre
prior to the benefit, was taken on a round
of radio and TV stations by new resident
movie exploiteer Bob Kingsley. former radio
man. A personable, outgoing individual,
. . . For
Jaeckel won a lot of friends, not only for
himself but for movies in general
the most part, the flood of Christmas headliners
did well.
Here prior to the holidays were Metro-
GoldwN'i-Mayer production men, who
brought Raquel Welch, with plans to film
scenes for the forthcoming "Kansas City
Bombers" here soon.
Obscenity Ruling Upheld
I n\(, Hi;\( II, ( M II — loriiKT theatre
owner William Wall, convicted for exhibiting
an obscene film at the Roxy Theatre,
has started a six-month sentence in the
county jail. Execution of the sentence was
stayed while Wall unsuccessfully appealed
to the U.S. Supreme Court. The action
slenmicd from a July 16. 1970, ruling on,
"Man and Wife" bv Municipal Court Judge.
J. Merrill Lillcy,
DENVER
John V. Flores is reopening the Campus
Theatre in I-as Vegas, N.M. The house
has been closed for approximately a year.
Bales Farley ol .Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
had a winter vacation . , . Tim. son of
United .Artists salesman Bus Amato, won
the championship of the Arapahoe County
Junior Varsity Wrestling Championships in
the 95-pound class.
Carl Garitson is reopening the Zia Thea-
Springer, N.NL
tre,
Lew Kolocheski, Warner Bros, branch
manager. tra\cled to San Diego for the
wedding of his daughter Roblyn, who is
now Mrs. Daniel Vesco. The newlyweds
will
reside on the West Coas*.
In town to set dates were U. A. Kane,
Silver Sky Vue Drive-in, Silver City. N.M.:
Fred Chapman. Cinema Petite, Albuquerque,
N.M.; Don Swales. Wheeler Opera
House, Aspen, and Howard Campbell and
Neal Lloyd, Wcslland Theatres, Colorado
Springs.
Glenn Bianchi Will Helm
Paramount's Cinema I. II
l'\K WIULM. LALII
Olcnn Hunchi
has ben appointed manager of Paramount
Drive-In Theatres' Cinema I and Cinema
II. The facility is a property of Modern
Development Co., owned and operated by
Glenn's father, Joseph Bianchi.
Gianchi said that Cinema I will be strictly
a family theatre, showing only G-rated
films, while Cinema H will screen a variety
of movie fare, "everything from "Easy
Rider' to 'Ryan's Daughter.' "
Tony Sinclair is general manager of the
parent company.
Ecology Move by Theatres
Suggested by Denverite
DENVER — Most downtown theatres
give a refund for parking. In a letter to the
Denver Post, a lady suggested another type
of refund.
Her letter, shortened to the essentials,
said: "Many downtown businesses and theatres
offer reimbursement to their customers
for parking costs. Rather than paying parking
costs, we suggest that they offer to reimburse
customers for the cost of bus transportation.
Such an arrangement certainly
would not result in our Denver air becoming
crystal clear again but it would help."
NEWARK, CALIF.—Representatives
the Casa Verde Homeowners Ass'n in
Union City were slated to appear before
the city council here to seek support in
their drive to ban X-rated motion pictures
at drive-in theatres.
Richard Turnhind. city manager, said he
didn't know what Newark could do regarding
the issue, "as we don't have any driveins
in Newark."
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Seven KG First Runs
Gross From 300-1
KANSAS CITY—The New Year's weekend
proved exceptionally good for exhibitors;
in some cases grosses even exceeded
Christmas returns. Things were less encouraging
by mid-week, however, as near-zero
tempe'-atures and snowstorms kept people
at home. "Diamonds Are Forever" maintained
its leadership among the "top five,"
soaring to 880 per cent in a second frame
at the Plaza. Its nearest competition came
from "Fiddler on the Roof." climbing to a
third-week 700 at Midland 1. Taking third
spot was "The French Connection." holding
at 600 for a second stanza at five AMC
houses. "Star Spangled Girl" made the greatest
gain of all, pulling 450 for a second inning
at Glenwood II and Towne 1, after
debuting at 325. Rounding out the quintet
of hits was "Dirty Harry," holding at 425
in its second go-round at Empire 1 and
Ranch Mart 1. Also making impressive advances
were "Straw Dogs" (360. Fine Arts)
and "Harold and Maude" (300, Glenwood
I). The week's only newcomer, "Maid in
Sweden," scored a just-average 100 at four
drive-ins.
(Averoge Is 100)
Blue Ridge II, Ranch Mart 2, Towne 4 Sometimes
o Great Notion (Univ), 2nd wk 275
Embassy 1, 2 The Go-Between (Col), 2nd wk. ..250
Empire 1, Ronch Mart 1 Dirty Horry (WB),
2nd wk 425
Empire 3— Mon in the Wilderness (WB), 6th wk. 150
Empire 4 Shoft (MGM), 24th wk 150
Fine Arts Straw Dogs (CRC), 2nd wk 360
Five theatres— S (Col), 2nd wk 250
Five theatres The French Connection (20th-Fox),
2nd wk 600
Four theatres Moid in Sweden (5R) 100
Glenwood
1 Harold and Maude (Para), 2nd wk. 300
Glenwood II, Towne 1 Stor Spangled Girl (Para),
2nd wk 450
Kimo Love-ln '72 (SR), 2nd wk 100
Metro 1, Roxy, Ruskin 1 The Gang Thot Couldn't
Shoot Straight (MGM), 2nd wk 250
Midland 1 Fiddler on the Roof (UA), 3rd wk. ..700
Plaza Diomonds Are Forever (UA), 2nd wk 880
Uptown Bedknobs and Broomsticks (BV),
7th wk 210
ST. LOUIS
^arl Beekman, manager of Mid-America
Theatres" Four Seasons cinemas I and
II in suburban Chesterfield, reports phenomenal
business with turnaway crowds on
Diam;)nds Are Forever." The same reception
is being accorded the movie in its current
and continuing booking at Mid-America's
Village and Crestwood theatres.
Dick Fitzniaurice, Mid-America e.xecutive
who has been ill for the past few months,
although still confined to his bed, is reported
to be in great good spirits and has
returned to part-time duties via the use of
his bedside telephone.
film
The City Art Museum has set a lecture
presentation, "Histor>' of the Film," by
Standish D. Lawder for a free public program
Tuesday (25) at 8 p.m.
A film showing and talk on "Born Free"
by the author, Joe Abramson, is scheduled
Friday (21) at Clayton High School Auditorium,
No. 1 Mark Twain Circle, at 7:30
p.m. . in the Latin American
Film Festival, current at Kelley Auditorium,
will be a Tuesday evening (18) showing ol
"Don Qui.xote de la Mancha," with admission
at 75 cents.
Henry H. Steinigger, veteran member of
the local Theatrical Brotherhood, died Sunday
(2). His son Henry J., daughter-in-law
and grandchildren survive.
Actress Dina Merrill was a recent visitor
introducing her cosmetics collection at Stix,
Baer & Fuller's downtown and Crestwood
department stores.
Frank Hunter, Globe Democrat motion
picture editor, announced his 1971 ten best
films as "The Go-Between," "Summer of
'42," "Rvan's Daughter," "Fiddler on the
Roof." "The Wild Child," "Kotch,"
"Friends," "Investigation of a Citizen Above
Suspicion," "I Never Sang for My Father"
and "Red Sky at Morning." The choices
represent only films released in this city
after Jan. 1, 1971.
National General Theatres
Reports Midwest Changes
SPRINGFIELD, MO. — Four theatre
managerial assignments have been announced
here by Jack
McGee, vice-president
I
George Nichols
of the Midwest division
for National
General Theatres.
George Nichols,
manager of the National
Twin theatres
in Corpus Christi,
Tex., has been upped
to city manager in
Springfield and will
manage t h e firm's
new Century 21 Theatre here. Nichols succeeds
George Hunter who has retired.
Now in Corpus Christi is Frank Bonat,
formerly of the Emporia Theatre in Emporia,
Kas. W. T. Friddell was transferred
from the Fox Theatre in Hays, Kas.. to
Emporia. John Minor has been appointed
temporary manager of the Fox Theatre in
Hays.
McGee. who headquarters in Denver, was
here to announce the changes effective Sunday
(9).
Jack Clark to Supervise
28 Theatres for Cinecom
FORT WAYNE. IND.—Following a
management reorganization by Cinecom
Theatres, division manager Jack Clark, Columbus,
Ohio, has been named to supervise
28 circuit units in Fort Wayne, Marion and
Anderson, Ind., as well as houses in Columbus,
Dayton and Marion, Ohio. Clark indicated
that he would relocate in Fort Wayne
within a few months.
He said he had not been informed on the
status of Cinema South at the Wiggs Shopping
Center, Fort Wayne. Originally announced
for an opening last June by Cinecom,
the theatre still lacks carpeting, seats
and other equipment.
Midwest Films Opens
On Kaycee's Filmrow
KANSAS CITY—A new film distributing
office. Midwest Films, opened its doors to
area exhibitors on
Filmrow Monday (3).
The company is a
wholly owned subsidiary
of Petite Amusement
Corp. and is located
at 1 14 West
18th St. Dick Conley.
president of Petite,
announced that distribution
rights have
been secured with
Dick Conley
three companies, with
several more currently in negotiation. The
individual production companies concerned
will make their own announcements of association
with their new distributor.
Elaine Palmer, former booker for the
Kansas City 20th Century-Fox branch, has
joined Midwest Films as office managerbooker.
Conley stated that an announcement
will be made shortly regarding a top distributor
executive, who will join the Petite
Amusement Corp. as vice-president in
charge of Midwest Films.
Wichita Airer Purchases
More Land for Expansion
WICHITA. KAS.—Additional land has
been acquired by the Rainbow Drive-In
Theatre. Hydraulic at McArthur Road, for
the purpose of building a new twin drive-in.
it was announced by A. C. McClure and
W. L. Barritt. owner-operators of the Rainbow.
The theatre, which now occupies ten
acres of land, has acquired an additional
16.5 acres to the north and east of its present
location for e.\pansion purposes. Barritt
and McClure also recently purchased the
land on which their Westport Drive-In is
located. It had formerly been leased.
Preliminary plans for the new theatre are
being prepared by the engineering division
of Drive-In Theatre Mfg. Co.. Kansas City,
under the supervision of Orville C. Wells.
v/ell-known drive-in theatre design consultant.
The Rainbow has enjoyed a steady increase
in patronage since purchased in
1960. according to the owners. Their confidence
in the area as a prime drive-in location
is enhanced not only by their own experience,
but also by recent and proposed
highway developments, providing quick and
easy access from most areas of the city.
Updated Theatre Opens
NEODESHA. KAS.—The remodeled
Cherryvale Theatre, renamed the Fine Arts,
was opened recently by Mr. and Mrs. Garry
Duggan. The Duggans also own and operate
the Airport Drive-ln.
Charles J. Wesoky has been appointed
Philadelphia branch manager for Warner
Bros.
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KANSAS CITY
Paul Kice, veteran film distributor, joineJ
Bev Miller and Russ Borg in the Mercury
Film office Monday (3). Rice got his
start in the industry in 1940 when he joined
Paramount's Oklahoma City branch as an
assistant shipper. He was promoted to office
manager of the Milwaukee Paramount exchange
in 1946 and helmed the Dallas
branch for a time before returning to Oklahoma
City as salesman. He went back to
Dallas in 196.^, first as sales manager and
later as assistant branch manager. Rice
worked in other cities, notably Indianapolis.
Oklahoma City, and St. Louis as branch
manager before coming to Filmrow to take
over the combined Kansas City-St. Louis
Paramount branch December 1970. He is
married; he and his wife Barbara have four
children, including a son. Bill, who is currently
a booker in Paramount's Dallas
branch. His two daughters, Nancy and
Becky, attend Oklahoma State University
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Nothing like it ever before for simplicity and foolproof
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Completely adaptable — the MSC-2 is applicable to all
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BOXOmCE :: January 10, 1972 C-3

CHICAGO
KJetro-Goldwjn-Mayer staffers are more
than happy with the way bids arc coming
in for "The Boy Friend." starring Twiggy
in her first movie role.
Mrs. Adele Wolk ol Edward Wolk Co.
will spend this month m Mexico . . . Jack
K.elvie, formerly of this city and now with
Theatre Associates, was a visitor here . . .
Another visitor was Sol Horwitz. formerly
with Bi&K and Allied Theatres and now
vice-president of Rugoff Theatres in New
York.
The Rockne I heatre, ."iSIS Division,
which had reported sizable business losses
while showing lamily film fare, is now presenting
16mm West Coast films. "Diary of
a Secret Love" and "Devil's Acre" opened
the
new programing.
A ducunientary film on the story of
young revolutionary Angela Davis will be
opening in Chicagoland theatres around the
end of this month. New Yorker Films has
selected Tcitcl Film Co. as distributor in
this area.
Sieve Prcntoulis, who brought "I Am
Curious (Yellow)" to this country, expressed
the opinion here that this particular typn; of
product is not the sort of entertainment the
public will want in 1972. Ihus. he is introducing
a new tempo.
American International staffers find diversilJc.tiion
in read) mg two new movies
for early outlying openings — "Kidnapped,"
with Michael Cainc and Trevor Howard,
has a G rating, while "Some of My Best
Friends .Are . .
." is rated R.
Charles Teitel, in commenting on the past
year's success of product released by his
company, gives credit to artist Bill Smith
for some remarkable work in setting up
campaigns.
Vic Remstein, .American International
Pictures district manager, is being saluted
for having a birthday Monday (10). Thus
far he h.is
not disclosed how many years.
Four nicniber> of Local 110 died in December:
John P. Kirwin. Arthur Tuchman,
William J. Cramer and Ward F. Hanagin.
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and second assistant chief barker of Tent
26 is chairman of the ad book for the
Variety Club Celebrity Ball to be held
March 24 at the Ambassador Hotel. There
is a correction in a prior announcement
naming co-chairmen of the ball. Robert
Dachman (not Bachman) is co-chairman
with Robert Fiannery.
. . .
National Screen Ser>'ice branch manager
Jack Greenberg and Mrs. Greenberg are
back after ending the old year in New
York Kermit Russell, head of U-M
Film Distributors, will return from a holiday
in Scottsdale. Ariz., for the citywide
break February 4-10 of "One Swedish
Summer" and "Eve." During his absence.
Loretta Wiorski will be glad to assist all
callers.
John .Ayotte. National Theatre Supply
Co. branch manager, and Candice Dankers
were married December 30 in Minneapolis,
which is home base for both.
Teitel Film Corp. has taken on subdivision
in four territories of films imported
from Germany and France by United International
Pictures. The movies are earmarked
for "mature audiences." The first
release 's "Libido."
.\ccordinK to .some managers in both
downtown and neighborhood theatres, patrol
service is the answer to helping keep
order and decorum in
these times of especially
difficult problems.
When Charleii Good, district manager for
Buena Vista, returned from a brief holida>
in Iowa, he was greeted with good news in
connection with "I-ady and the Tramp" and
"Bedknobs and Broomsticks" . . . Other
HV staffers who slipped away for short
vacations during the holidays were branch
manager Lee Heidingsfcld's secretary
Pearia Roberts, who spent ten days with
her family in England; Mary Hamann of
the accounting department visited her parents
in Wisconsin, and Rose Ward, secretary
to office manager Dick Pilarski visited her
brother in Texas.
Martin Lewis said the Cinema Corp. and
.irea director Walter Power purchased the
Jerry Lewis Cinema. Justice, from the franchise
holders. Martin and Burton Lewis.
Reportedly. Cinema Corp. will use it as a
showcase theatre for the Midwest area. Currently
there is one other Jerry Lewis Cinema
in this area—in Elk Grove Village—and it
is owned by Walter Pankos. .According to
current reports, there arc moves afoot to
open several theatres under the Jerry Lewis
Cinema banner.
IJan C. Kann ol the McVickers Theatre
in.inagcmcni staff and Joe DuciBella. formerly
of B&K and now with Creative Studios
at 747 North Wabash, arc hoping to
establish a Theatre Historical .Society chapter
here. With headquarters in Washington.
n.C. the society is active in all facets of
theatre entertainment. Those interested in
membership are invited to contact Dan
Kann at 782-S230.
"The French Connection" started a renewed
run at the Roosevelt Theatre. It had
opened 'n early November at the State Lake
where it was a top grosser despite all routines
wiiich are prone to keep people away
from the movies during the holiday season.
A special workmen's compensation policy
is now being studied h> the NATO of Illinois
office, it is advised by Jack Clark,
president. The policy for NATO of Illinois
membiirs would be issued to the individual
theatre by a leading nationally known insurance
company. It could mean a savings of
30 per cent or more on the premium of
each th-Mtre. More information on this matter
will be available at a later date.
Frank Casey, Warner Bros, publicist, was
in San Francisco for the world premiere of
"Dirty Harrv."
Rev. George E. Econouiou, pastor of the
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral.
has been appointed a chaplain of Tent 26.
Chester Sobczak, who was a
Local 1 10. died.
member of
Harry Novak, president of Boxoffice International.
Hollywood, was in town for a
meeting with Sam Kaplan, president of Kaplan
Continental Pictures. Discussion about
1972 product included "Sweet Georgia" and
"The Toy Box and the Takers."
The combination of "Common Law Cab
in" and 'Good Morning. Goodbve." which
turned out to be a successful venture at the
M&R Oriental Theatre in the Loop, has
been booked into the Kerasotcs Varsity in
Peoria for Thursday (20). Additional Illinois
playdates currently arc being firmed
up by Jack Gilbreth and Sid Kaplan . . .
Word about forthcoming pictures is keeping
Gilbreth Film Co. on the alert. Screenings
are being lined up for "The Secretary,"
which is being handled by Mike Ripps, who
is identified as handling the successful
launching of "Poor White Trash." "The
.Secretary" is a new feature that will be
given bo.xoffice - oriented showmanship
which is so much a part of Mike Ripps'
campaign efforts. .Also. Gilbreth was advised
that Crown International has a "potential
blockbuster" in production. Mark
Tenser, executive vice-president of Crown,
personally phoned Jack Gilbreth to tell him
to reserve top summer playtime for a
"mvsterv" release with the title of "Stanley."
ed in
Principal photography has been complet
Italv on "The Sin."
C-4 BOXOFHCE :: Januar^ 10. 1972

Two Major Films Set
For Miami Shooting
MIAMI—Two major, contemporary feature
films are slated to be made within the
next few months here, it has been announced.
Zev Bufman, long-time operator
of the Coconut Grove Playhouse, will produce
a film treatment of the anthropological
work, "The Naked Ape," in cooperation
with Playboy International. Bufman is expected
to announce both a format and part
of the cast soon.
It also is reported that Elaine May will
direct locally most of a feature film about
a honeymooning couple on Miami Beach.
Representatives of Miss May have contracted
at least three hotels, the Diplomat, Doral
and Eden Roc. seeking locations for the
film.
Bufman's project originated in 1968 when
he and his co-worker and director. Donald
Driver, developed a treatment of the book.
He said the book could be filmed in California,
but that he also would need to film
in the Everglades for the jungle sequences.
Bufman said the picture would be cofinanced
by Playboy Productions and Universal,
with Bufman serving as producer.
He said he is working on a second picture
deal with the Playboy organization involving
an original Bufman-Driver play, "Status
Quo Vadis," which is now appearing in Chicago.
His version of "The Naked Ape" will use
both animated footage and conventional sequences.
Shooting will begin the first week in February,
with scenes in the greater Miami
area, in the Everglades and one segment at
the
University of Florida.
Jekyll & Hyde Sponsoring
Saturday Midnight Shows
MIAMI—Jekyll & Hyde, a leather and
suede boutique in North Miami Beach, is
promoting "Midnight Movies" at the Sunny
Isles Theatre every Saturday night and doing
very well. The show, starting at midnight,
includes
two features and two cartoons and
usually runs until 4 a.m.
Steve Ryan, owner of the boutique, said
that turnouts have been great except one
Saturday night when a rock concert was in
town. Ryan, 35, a "long-hair" family man
with a house and maid, was asked by Al
Capitano of the Miami Journal what was
the value of sponsoring the late movies and
replied: "Call me a hippie capitalist, or
whatever, but I'm doing it as a commercial
venture. Also, I hope to make a profit and,
since Jekyll & Hyde is the only store to get
advance tickets, it keeps people coming in."
The shows, contracted for by Ryan for
three months, are supervised by Jekyll &
Hyde's own security people and three North
Miami Beach uniformed policemen. There
hasn't been any trouble at the showings,
according to Capitano's story in the Journal,
and the kids have been really great.
Shown December 25 were "Blowup" and
"Zabriski Point"; "Let It Be," and "The
Sterile Cuckoo," Saturday (1); "A Hard
Day's Night" and "The Endless Summer,"
Saturday (8). On the 15th, "One Million
Years B.C." and "Alex in Wonderland" are
to be the features; "Alice's Restaurant" and
"Barbarella," Saturday (22). Most of the
cartoons feature Bugs Bunny and Ryan
plans to show several horror films. Tickets,
available both at Jekyll & Hyde and at the
theatre, are $2.
Stewart D. Harnell
Heads Variety 21
ATLANTA—Sherrill C. Corwin, chairman
of Metropolitan Theatres Corp. and its
subsidiaries in California, respected motion
picture industry spokesman and president of
Variety Clubs International, was the guest
of honor and principal speaker at the 32nd
annual installation dinner of the 1972 officers
and board of directors of Tent 21, Variety
Club of Atlanta, Friday (7) at the club's
headquarters in the Fox Theatre Building.
Robert Hosse, the installing officer, gave
the oath of office to Stewart D. Harnell, the
1972 chief barker, and his new crew, including
C. F. "Kip" Smiley and Gordon Craddock,
assistant chief barkers; Henry Harrell,
property master; Dennis Merton, dough guy,
and these directors: Tom Carr, Frank Mason,
Charles P. Lester, E. D. Martin, Glenn
Simonds and J. L. "Jack" Rigg. Also installed
were officers of the Variety Club
women: Mrs. Rose Pries, president; Mrs.
Louise Bramblett, vice-president and recording
secretary, and Mrs. Doris Bello. treasurer.
Chief barker Harnell is president of Harnell
Independent Productions and succeeds
V. James Bello sr., southern division manager
of American International Pictures.
The remainder of the officers represent various
facets of the film industry.
Smiley is vice-president of Georgia Theatre
Co., in charge of the circuit's buying
and booking department; Craddock is president
of Craddock Films. Harrel is southern
division manager of National General Pictures
and Merton is with Georgia Theatre
Co.'s accounting department.
Shreveport Rezones Area
For Joy Construction
SHREVEPORT, LA.—An ordinance
rezoning
a residential tract on Monkhouse
Drive to allow construction of a four-auditonum
Joy theatre has been passed by the
city council.
Joy Newton Houck of Joy Theatres had
requested the zoning change. The proposed
theatre, seating 878, will be constructed on
property behind Holiday Inn West, and
work on the project is to get under way at
PAULINA, ICWA — The Wonderland
Theatre here has curtailed weekend showings
to Saturday and Sunday nights only.
Friday evening operations were dis ontinued
due to poor patronage resulting from
local sports activities.
Davison Tours South
About New Product
ATLANTA—Donn Davison, president of
Lion Dog Films, continues to flit here and
there to take care of details involved in his
Shown on (he laboratory set of the
motion picture "Anitra" are, left to
right, starlet Trudy Moore, president
Donn Davison of Lion Dog Films,
president J. G. "Pat" Patterson of Metrolina
Picture Corp. of Charlotte and
Jenny Driggers, who has the title role
in "Anitra," a science-fiction film. Miss
Moore is the star of Davison's new picture,
"Honeymoon."
motion picture business interests. He recently
spent some time in Charlotte, N.C.,
conferring with J.G. "Pat" Patterson, president
of Metrolina Pictures Corp., who is
supervising the
production of a feature picture
titled "Anitra," being produced by his
company in a Charlotte studio.
Davison and Patterson have been friends
for many years and have worked on a
number of features together. They reminisced
about their experiences together as
they met on the set of "Anitra" and recalled
incidents that occurred during their
last collaboration, "Obscenity Obscenity,"
now in release.
Among other things discussed by the
movie-minded pair were plans for a new
"all black" feature to be produced in North
Carolina and Atlanta.
On this trip, Davison moved on to Asheville,
N.C., and presented a Florida vacation
certificate to Wayne Lewis of Asheville's
Fine Arts Theatre for "unusually high
grosses" racked up by "Obscenity" due to
Lewis' showmanship touches, which resulted
in a holdover run. Lewis' certificate was an
all-expense four-day visit to Florida for two.
Meanwhile, back in Atlanta. Davison and
George Echols, president of Regal International
Film Distributors, launched a massive
campaign to promote Lion Dog's "Asylum
of the Insane," a 3-D production, made in
"Horrorscope," a process that will permit
the film to be shown by a single projector,
thereby making it available to drive-in theatres.
Regal is distributing "Asylum" nationally.
Davison, in addition to being president of
Lion Dog, also serves Regal as director of
publicity and exploitation.
BOXOFHCE :: January 10, 1972 SE-1

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Leslie Gur>ey, National Screen Service's
Atlanta branch manager, and Mike Potchad,
salesman, attended the three-day regional
sales conference at the Ambassador
Hotel in Chicago, kicking off the 17-weck
Presidential Sales Campaign honoring NSS
president Burton E. Robbins. On hand for
the seminar were Norman Robbins. vicepresident
and general manager of NSS; Irving
.Marcus, assistant general sales manager,
and all branch managers and salesmen from
other mid-.America cities. Emphasized during
the drive will be new product and the
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Film E.xpress, spent his holidays in his usual
haunts in southern Florida waters, seeking
the more elusive fish . . . Gladys Wiskur.
booker in R. C. Cobb booking offices here,
devoted her holidays to visits with relatives
in
-Minneapolis, Minn., before moving on to
.Aspen, Colo., where she enjoyed skiing.
Jennifer Ellen, born December 3 in Dallas.
Te.x.. to Mr. and .Mrs. Joe Harper, took
her first plane ride at the age of five days
when she flew in a B-747 on her way to her
new home in nearby Douglasville. Her dad
is booking in the R. C. Cobb Atlanta booking
office.
Bernard E. Youngstein, well known in the
Souihcrn territory lor many special assignments
he carried out during 16 years as
United Artists advertising and exploitation
representative, is going into business for
himself. He plans to establish himself in
Hallandale. Fla.. under the firm name of
Bernard E. Youngstein Enterprises, specializing
in public relations. "Bernie,'" as his
many .Atlanta friends know him. says he
hopes to become involved in the "special
problems that require special attention, such
as roadshow openings, personal appearance
tours and all the prcopening essentials." He
promises to visit here soon to renew contacts
with his numerous friends in the Atlanta
film industry.
.Sometimes a film company's field repre-
M-iiKiiiNc gets an interesting surprise assignment.
Such was the luck of Sam Hart,
American International's public relations
and advertising director in the Atlanta territory,
while he was vacationing in Florida.
His West Coast home office instructed him
to move on to Orlando. Fia.. and check out
the site of AlP's cocktail party to be given
Monday (17) in connection with the opening
ol the annual convention of the Florida
Iheatre Owners Ass'n (N.ATO of Florida).
At the party, AIP will screen its new seasons
product reel for exhibitors. Hart
checked the site, filed his report, then
moved on to New Orleans to work with
advertising director Billy Gay of Gulf
Stales Theatres in .setting up cooperative advertising
campaigns for "Kidnapped" in 15
of the circuit's key situations. Hart also
huddled with Herman Gentry, New Orleans
city manager for Cobb Theatres, working
out details for the December 22 opening of
"Kidnapped" in Cobb's Lakeside II. Westgaic
I and Beacon. Moving to .Mobile. Ala.,
Hart called on Arch McKay. Sunday editor
of the Mobile Press-Register, then caught
up with Burcn A. "Tiny" Eidson, manager
of .Martin Theatres' Huntsville division. Returning
to the Atlanta scene, busy Hart
worked with Georgia Theatre Co. officials
on "Kidnapped," which opened Christmas
week at that circuit's Greenbriar. Suburban
Plaza. South DeKalb and Belmont Hills
theatres.
Not many industry visitors showed up
during the holidays. Charles Crute of the
Lyric Amusement Co., Hunuville, Ala.,
made the Atlanta exchange scene; Jerry
and Dottie Collins of San Pedro, Calif.,
arrived to spend Christmas with her mother
in .Atlanta. Jerry is film buyer and booker
for Sero .Amusement i^o.. Los .Angeles, and
Dottie is well known to the Atlanta film industry
people from the years she was receptionist-secretary
for United Artists and became
"the girl with a smile in her voice."
Stewart D. Harnell. president of Hamell
Independent Productions, has been on the
move since returning from his honeymoon
in Acapulco. Mexico, with his bride, the
former Sharron Agee of Nashville, who has
been leaching art in Ailania schools. (They
are now at home in the White House on
Peachlree Street.) Harnell. upon his return
trom Mexico, embarked on a film-selling
swing that included a stop in New Orleans
lor the annual Gulf Stales Theatres Christmas
party, while the rest of the company's
sales team (Wayne Chappell and Ed Svehla)
headed lor the Charlotte territory, where
Chappell introduced Ed to exhibitors in that
area. The Hamells spent a weekend with
Sharrons parents in Nashville, where their
wedding itx>k place and they returned with
a carload of wedding presents. The\ were
ajcompanicd by Stewart's iwo little girls.
Missy and Allison. Newest additions to
Harnell's list of features are "The Italian
Connection." "God Said to Cain" and "Man
of Violence " His company's release schedule
for 1972 will be distributed to exhibitors
this month.
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. . Mrs.
ATLANTA
Fla., for more than 55,000,000. Career Enterprises,
an adult education operation, was
sold to a corporation headed by William L.
(Continued from page SE-2)
sonville,
Phillips,
mother of Mrs. Majorie
current
Roberson,
secretary
president of the subsidiary.
Phillips
to
and open
W.
house
C. Gehring,
was the
Wednesday,
spent the
principal stockholder in
December 29,
Christmas holidays
Career when it
in .Atlanta
in the Conference Room of
with
was
the Film
her
acquired by Fuqua in
Building.
161 Spring Street, Northwest, which
daughter. Mrs. Teague 1969, Before
is employed the sale
by
was completed Fuqua
.ABC-Florida had
now
State
houses
Theatres announced that
in
many exchanges and
Jacksonville
a high rate of unemployment
had
agencies
. . . Judy
that formerly had
Monroe, booking department,
visited
caused a decline in school
offices and quarters on
nearby
home revenues
folks in
Filmrow. Gordon and
Savannah
and the
Marilyn
and
company had decided to
Craddock
of
Pat Gardella, withdraw
central accounting,
Craddock Films
went
from the
to
education field.
greeted the guests
Detroit to be with her parents
made up
during the
largely of representatives of the
C. L, Auto, president of General Film
holidays.
film industry, including exhibitors and circuit
officials and personnel from the ex-
.Marietta Street, N.W.,
Distributors, a new agency located at 136
Atlanta
has
WOMPIs announced that
hosted 25 little girls at
changes and agencies now making their
Jimmy Tribble has
a Christmas
joined the
party in the Preview
company's
Theatre
headquarters in the Film Building.
staff in the sales and
in the Atlanta
booking
Film Building.
department.
Highlights of
Tribble formerly was a
Doiin Davison, the
president of Lion
event
Dog
were
booker with
the screening
National
of Iransvue's
General Pictures.
Films and producer-director
"Who
of the now-inrelease
horror film, "".Asylum
Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow?", individual
gifts
of the
for each
Insane,"
definitely has set this month
child from Santa Claus
and refreshments.
for the
The screening was arranged
Atlanta Filmrow Now Can
start of production of "Honeymoon,"'
by WO.MPI .Ann
starring
veteran Atlanta film
Resmondo and her
boss
and TV
Gordon
Boast of a Beauty
actor
Bradley, Transvue Queen
division
George Ellis and brunette
manager.
beauty Ashley
Projectionist Paul Baca donated \IL\NI.\ -- 1 ihnrow lias a beauty
Brooke, his
also an Atlantan, who
services
has a
and brought
featured
role in "Asylum."' Delay
along son Paul queen!
John,
on 5, who added
the merriment start
to the occasion.
She is Nancy Roberson and she is employed
by the R.C. Cobb Theatres booking
of ""Honeymoon" came aboui when
Helping
D.ivison
greatly to defray expenses of
had to devote
the
his time to
delightful
editing
affair
"Asylum"
was a $50 check from department, which handles the film buying
and to working out
V. J. Bello sr..
distribution details with
Southern division manager and booking for the Birmingham (,Ala.)-
George Echols,
of
president
.American
of Regal International,
which donation
International Pictures, as a
based circuit. She is a stenographer.
is distributing
to
".Asylum"
the
and
WOMPI Club.
Miss Roberson can truly boast that she
also will handle "Honeymoon."
is a distaff scion of a film industry -oriented
Joining the Craddock family for the holidays
were sons Cliff, now stationed in Ft. for the ABC-Florida State Theatres in the
family. Her father P.it handles the bookings
Kryzys/tof /.anussi, Polish film director
and writer, visited here after a sojourn with Gordon with a bomb disposal unit, and Ben, Atlanta MGM exchange and her mother
friends in Palm Beach, Fla. He returned to
a student at Middle Georgia College in Marjorie is tlie secretary to W.C. Gehring,
New York from Atlanta to spend another Cochran. Both of these young men are familiar
figures on Filmrow as they have ager. (Oddly enough, when the Robersons
20th Century-Fox's southern division man-
month of the time he has to remain in this
country. He came to the U.S. in October spent numerous vacations working with their moved to Atlanta several years ago from
to attend the New "Vork Film Festival and parents in the film distribution agency.
Jacksonville, he worked for 20th-Fox and
then moved on to San Francisco to participate
in the festival being
she was
It «as
employed by MCiM.)
previously
held there. Each
announced that e.x-columnist
Jimmy
of these festivals screened
Breslin would
his be
latest
coming
Nancy,
picture,
here
18, is enrolled as a night student
to
""Family promote
at
Life." Since the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
festivals, he
"The
Clayton Junior College in nearby Morrow,
has lectured
Gang That
at several Couldn't
universities and has
Shoot
and won
Straight,"
her crown as Miss Clayton
more lectures adapted
scheduled at campuses
from his novel, but,
in the
who Junior
should
College Queen for 1972. She will
New York show
area. Zanussi
up but Irving
now
is author
Selbst, go on to
of an
president of
compete in the Miss Georgia
original screenplay
Pierre
which
Cardin's
the William
men's
Morris
Agency and
wear
U.S.A.
in New York
pageant to be held in Atlanta cither
is handling
a restaurant this
in the U.S. He owner,
plans
who moonlights
month or in
as
Februan.. .An education
to return
a
to Warsaw movie actor.
late this month.
Selbst
major,
is cast as Big
she hopes to
Jelly
become
in
a teacher.
"Gang" and made it plain that he has no A track star in high school, Nancy holds
Notes from 20th-Fox: Sara Lee Dorton, intention of giving up commercial pursuits all records for girls in 50, 70 and 80-yard
cashier, .ind .Margaret Hilley, booker, completed
their vacations during the holidays was the first actor cast in "Gang," because slate in the .A.AU National Junior Olympics
in search of movie fame or fortune. Selbst low hurdles in Florida. She represented that
and chose to spend them at home . . . Breslin, his personal friend ol long standing, for three years held in Washington, D.C.,
Frances Andrews, central accounting deparinient,
and her husband Dr. James F. because of his size.
of Tennessee campus).
had him in mind for the Big Jelly character, and twice in Knoxville (on the University
spent a holiday weekend with relatives in
She was captain of her high school basketball
team and she also was chosen as
Nashville
. Jean Teague of Jack- Ray .Milland heads the cast in "Frogs," a
nature-slrikes-back motion picture drama "Mi.ss Trojan," in high school, an honor
now being shot on location in the remote bestowed on the basis of personality, beauty,
Eiden Park area near Panama City, Fla. scholastic and leadership abilitv.
Milland is cast as Giles
Uf«
Crocket, a
Booth
grandlalher
who stands fast against invading na-
had a double beauty contest
Equipmont"
Conceivably, the Roberson.; could have
F«n«cconico
winner in the
Projectors
ture. Judy Pace is cast as a high-fashion family since her sister Jan, 17. a senior in
Hertson Xtnon 16ffliii Projectors photograph model and .Adam Roarke has Forest Park High School, was second
Xenon
ihe key
runnerup
in the Miss Forest Park .Senior High
role
Bulbs—&und of Clint Crockett.
Systems
Antomotion—Lenses— Reels
.School
Fuqua Pageant. Nancy
Industries. and
Atlanta-based
Jan have leisuretime
company Cheryl. 14.
two
Rewind Equipment— Screens
sisters.
whose
and Robin. 10.
subsidiary, Martin
Theatres Co., As noted, the
based
four
in Columbus,
Roberson girls
Ga., owns
have
Copitol City Supply Co., Inc. and close
operates
connections
200 with the
film motion
theatres
picture
in eight
177 Harris Street, N. W.
Southeastern
industry.
slates and television stations in
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Columbus and
Mrs.
Chattanooga.
Jean Teague of Jacksonville,
Tenn., has
Marjorie
Roberson's mother, subsidiary.
is secretary to
announced
that it has sold another H!^) 521-1244 Career Enterprises, based in St. Petersburg,
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BOXOFnCE :: Januan' 10, 1972 SE-S

JACKSONVILLE
Kf iiiiuture Hen j Nillch-u/i;. who portrav b
Beppo the Dwarf in "The Gang That
Couldn't Shoot Straight." pleased local
newspaper, television and radio publicists
with his talent for off-screen comedy when
he m id;; the promotional rounds here with
Jim Beach of Kent Theatres prior to the
picture's opening at Kent's St. Johns Rocking
Chair.
I'hree teenage boys, one with an authoritative
22 revolver in his hand, robbed two
employees of Eastern Federal's Ribault
Drive-In, doorman Frank Prather and cashier
Tinia Pegel, of S140 on a recent evening.
The robbers escaped by running away
from the dri\c-in.
llie .Murra> Hill Public Library muscled
into the screen entertainment field in January
(the Murray Hill and Edgewood theatres
are nearby on the same street) with free
Tuesday evening films. The programs are
"Fun Factory," excerpts from many of
Mack Sennett's best comedy films; "Son
of the Sheik." Rudolph Valentino's last
film; "Phoebe" and "The Game." two films
dealing with sex. pregnancy, boy and girl
relationships at the school level and some
of the emotional problems involved: "The
Great Chase." a feature-length documentary
on the use of pursuit scenes in early movies,
and "Tlie Anderson Platoon," a foreignmade
documentary of an American combat
team in Vietnam.
Local theatre patrons were shelling out
. .
the top price of S7 for orchestra seats in
the Civ^c Auditorium to sec George Chakiris
and Julie Wilson in the roadshowing of the
prize-winning musical "Company" .
Lomhardo was assured of solid
Guy
support
from his fans in the older-citizen groups as
he offered a half-price fare for persons over
62 at the Civic Auditorium.
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pickup service out of Memphis . . . Closings:
the New Roxy at Clarlcsdale, Miss., and
Elias Drive-In, Osceola. Ark.
Mrs. Ola Holland, 85, mother of Elton
Holland, city manager of Malco Theatres.
Inc., in Memphis, died recently. Burial was
in
Millington.
NEW ORLEANS
T ou Oiibre resigned December 3 1
from National
General Pictures to form an indef)endtnt
distribution company in partnership
with Jim Howell, formerly with ABC
Mid-South.
The Variety Club held its installation banquet
Wednesday (5) at the Jung Hotel.
Sworn in for a second term as chief barker
was Harry Batt sr.. along with other officers
for the tent's new year. Variety 45"s project
in 1972 is to equip a bum center at Charity
Hospital for Dr. Charles Mary. As pointed
out by Batt, a burn center is badly needed
in this area because of the many accidents
which occur at the oil rigs in the Gulf of
Mexico.
Roy Sturdivant of Gulf States Theatres
and his wife Ann received an early Christmas
gift when their daughter Ann and her
husband Byron presented them with grandson
Roy Byron Wilkinson December 17.
Roy Byron checked in at 7 pounds, 8':
ounces, and Roy Sturdivant's co-workers
commented that the little darling doesn't
look a thing like his grandfather.
All features \v'hich opened just before
Christmas were held over: the new James
Bond "Diamonds Are Forever," Loews'
State; "Sometimes a Great Notion," Joy;
"Dirty Harry." Saenger; "Straw Dogs," Cine
Royale. and "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot
Straight," Orpheum Theatre.
"The French Connection" has set house
records at the Westwood in Los Angeles
and the Alexandria in San Francisco.
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Pobert Pentiand jr., one of the largest contributors
and benefactors of Variety
Children's Hospital, has been re-elected
chairman of the board of the hospital. Elected
president of the board was George C.
Hoover, executive director of Variety Clubs
International. The hospital is a project of
Miami's Variety Tent 33.
Wonietco Enterprises made the local news
twice the last week in December— by opening
a new theatre in Ocala with five tons of
snow to give it a northern-type debut and
by announcing that the company will take
over the Conch Tour Trains in Key West.
Cecil McGlohon, Florida State Theatres
district manager, announced that the new
Suniland Theatre in South Dade County will
feature only the finest first-run movies and
will bring a new dimension of luxury, patron
comfort and convenience. There are
widely spaced rocking-chair seats and a new
central lobby and concession area to service
both of the Suniland auditoriums, with additional
parking provided to take care of the
increased attendance for the two theatres.
Seven years ago, when Florida State Theatres
built its first theatre in the Suniland
area, the circuit promised to add a second
unit there as business developed. This promise
became a reality Christmas Day with the
formal opening of Suniland II.
Bryan Foy, whose last made-in-Florida
film was the $6 million "PT-109" for Warner
Bros., was back in town for further huddles
with the Serpentarium's Bill Haast on
plans for a movie about snakes . . . American
International Pictures recently shot location
scenes in the Florida Panhandle for
"Frogs" . kingdom bad guys are
featured in a film Bill Grefe is making at
Ivan Tors Studios . Walsh, a
long-time pal of producer Foy, who still
collects acting residuals every time "PT-
109" is aired, has a theory as to the trend
to nonhuman heavies: "Frogs and snakes
don't have to be paid residuals," he quipped.
Thomas Peter is the name of the new son
of Loews Florida division manager Tom
Elefante and his wife Carol. The youngster
is a husky lad, weighing 9 pounds and 8
ounces when he was bom Monday, December
27.
George Bourke of the Miami Herald
pointed out that what MGM and Jimmy
Breslin really wanted for Christmas was a
GP rating from the code people on "The
Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight." And
they got it, just in time for the multiple release
in the Miami area Christmas week of
the spoof of the internal troubles of a neighborhood
gang faction. Director James Goldstone
snipped a few four-letter words here,
a si.\-or-seven-letter word there, made the
film mob promise to straighten up and
changed the sound track on certain particulars
to get the desired rating. Irving Selbst,
who plays the part of Big Jelly in the film
and who is head of the Pierre Cardin fashions
empire, stopped off in Miami during
December to visit with executives of high
fashion
houses.
Controversial Charlie Chaplin, now 82, is
being honored with a Chaplin Film Festival
at the Mini Classic Cinema at 41st Street
and Sheridan Avenue in Miami Beach. The
festival, which began in late December, will
run at least 21 weeks, during which seven
of Chaplin's films are to be shown; "Modem
Times," made in 1936; "City Lights," 1931;
"A King in New York," 1957; "The Great
Dictator," 1940; "Monsieur Verdoux,"
1947; "Limelight," 1952, and the "Chaplin
Revue" ("A Don's Life," "Shoulder Arms,"
1918). There is no set schedule for any of
the films, each running as long as audiences
hold. The price is $1.50 for showings until
5 p.m.; $2, thereafter. The theatre seats
only 100.
Announcement has been made that Wometco
Enterprises has agreed to acquire the
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Northern Arizona
in exchange for Wometco Class A
common stock. The more than $2.5 million
transaction is subject to a final contract . . .
Alfred E. Bruch, 52, motion picture and
television laboratory pioneer and president
of Capitol Film Laboratories of Washington.
D.C., and Miami, died of a heart attack
December 13 in North Miami General
Hospital.
Trockhelmans Sell
Bel-Air
From Mideastern Edition
DETROIT—The 450-seat Bel-Air Theatre,
Bellaire, located in northern Michigan's
resort area, has been sold by Trock and
Ann Trockhelman. They had operated the
showhouse for several seasons. The Bel-Air
is being taken over by Charles Christ, who
has served as full-time projectionist for the
theatre in the past. He is single and a property
owner in
Bellaire.
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BOXOFHCE :: January 10, 1972 SE-7

Remember when just saving a buck was a big problem?
There was a time when you were struccimp to make ends
meet, to make a name for yourself, to achieve your personal
version of the American dream.
A time long before you knew the difference between a
common stock and a convertible debenture.
Now you've made the grade. But a lot of the people working
for you are in the same boat now that you were in then:
struggling to save a buck.
Why not help them? By installing and promoting
the Payroll Savings Plan for the purchase of U.S. Savings
Bonds.
Sure, there arc more rewarding investments for big-time
investors. But for the small sa\er. the Pa\ro]l Savings Plan
provides a
U. S. Savings Bonds
pro\en method for sa\inc something instead of
nothing on a regular basis. Think of it this way:
With the Payroll Savings Plan, you're providing a valuable
fringe benefit for your employees. You're helping fight
inflation by steering excess dollars into savings. And you're
doing a good turn for \our country which continues to look
to Sa\ incs Bonds as a cornerstone of its debt financing.
If you already have the Payroll Savings Plan, promote it.
If you don't, install it. For information or assistance, write
Director of Marketing, The Department of the Treasury,
Savings Bonds Div ision, Washington, D.C. 20226.
O V. ^*^' ^' ^ Go\tmmrnl dots not pay for ihlt adxtrltifmrni. It u fretfnif.i ji o fut':^ if ^i ..>vprrt)iion t^lih The Deputiment of ihe Treasury and The Ad\ert(ttHf Council.
SE-8 BOXOFHCE :; January 10, 1972

George Sorenson Is
Watson's Successor
SAN ANTONIO—George Sorensen has
been iiiimed city manager for ABC Interstate
Theatres, succeeding George M. Watson,
San Antonio City manager of the
circuit since 1946 and who retired Saturday
( 1 ) Sorensen also has been named
.
district manager for the area that includes
San Antonio, Waco, Temple, Austin and
the Rio Grande Valley.
ABC Interstate Theatres merged Saturday
( 1 ) with ABC Mid-South Theatres of
New Orleans into one circuit with headquarters
in Dallas.
The merger will consolidate operations,
adding more than 20 theatres to ABC
Interstate which is headed by William E.
Mitchell, president. The circuit presently
operates over 80 theatres in Texas.
The additional theatres are principally
located in four states—Louisiana, Mississippi,
Tennes.see and Arkansas. One theatre
is located in Texarkana, Tex.
SA Cinematex Booking G
Films Instead of R, X
SAN ANTONIO—John Walk, manager
of the Cinematex Theatre in Colonies
North, has replaced bookings of X and R-
rated pictures with a series of family films,
starting off with classics from the MGM
library.
Walk said that in booking films for the
new policy, it was management's hope
that "we can make the movies the enjoyable,
family experience they once were.
We're going out in a big way to provide
a product on our screen that can be viewed
by the entire family. But we're taking a
gamble, admittedly. We need support if
this plan is to work."
Prices for the classic films are $1.75 for
adults, $1 for students 13 years old and
older and 75 cents at all times for children
12 and under. There also are bargain matinees,
with all seats at 75 cents. Group rates
also are available.
The opening bill of the new policy con-
of "David Copperfield" and "A Tale
sisted
of Two Cities," followed by "Singin' in
the Rain" and "San Francisco." The Marx
brothers in "A Night at the Opera" and
"A Day at the Races" opened Thursday
(6) and two more of their pictures, "The
Big Store" and "A Day at the Circus," is
booked to start Thursday (13). The following
week will bring "Grand Hotel" and
"Band Wagon," to be followed by "Gigi"
and "Annie. Get Your Gun." then by two
Greta Garbo films— "Anna Karenina" and
"Camille."
SA Broadway Provides
Youthful Holiday Fare
SAN ANTONIO—The
Broadway Theatre
had its time schedule changed to provide
family entertainment for the holiday week
more conveniently.
The G-rated fairytale fantasy, "Willy
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," previously
announced for forenoon showings,
was shown at the Broadway at 12 noon and
at 2 and 4 p.m.
"Sometimes a Great Notion," the GPratcd
drama starring Paul Newman, Henry
Fonda and I.cc Remick, was .shown at 6.
8 and 10 p.m.
Lynn Kruegcr, manager of the Broadway,
said the change was made at the suggestion
of a number of parents who reported that
"Sometimes a Great Notion," though a
worthwhile picture for more mature patrons,
was not suitable for small children
because of the type of language.
VVT, UATC Building
Theatre at Del Rio
DEL RIO, TEX.—Construction is under
way near the Flamingo Drive-In on Highway
90 West on a new indoor theatre to be
known as the UA Cinema. It is being built
by Mrs. John Prude's Val Verde Theatres
and United Artists Theatre Circuit and will
have a seating capacity of 250.
Mrs. Prude said the new structure will
face Cantu Road and will not be attached to
the drive-in, which will be updated and remodeled
later. Its name will be changed,
however, with opening of the new indoor
theatre sometime around June 1.
The addition of another theatre for firstrun
films will make bookings at local theatres
more flexible. Mrs. Prude said. She also
owns the Rita and Texas and the Gay 90
Drive-In.
Architect for the theatre is William
HideU, Dallas, and construction work will
be done by T.J.
Moore Lumber Co.
Samuel M. Chernoff Being
Extradited From Texas
OKLAHOMA CITY—Extradition papers
were signed Monday (3) by Gov.
David Hall for the return from Texas of
Samuel Morris Chernoff, general manager
of Tulsa's Majestic Theatre, who had been
free on bond in Dallas after being arrested
there on a fugitive warrant.
Chernoff is charged in Tulsa with trafficking
in motion pictures depicting sexual
intercourse. The charge came about following
the arrest in March 1971 of Fran Patton,
Majestic operator, on a similar charge,
according to the Tulsa World. The Patton
case was dismissed after defense motions
were upheld and charges were filed against
Chernoff and the Majestic Corp.
Chernoff's preliminary hearing will be
scheduled following his return from Texas.
Frank Bonat New Manager
At Corpus Christi Twin
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX.—Frank Bonat
is the new manager of the National Twin
Theatres, according to an announcement by
Jack McGee. vice-president of the Midwest
division for National General Theatres.
Bonat, who was formerly at the Emporia
Thertre in Emporia. Kas.. succeeds George
Nichols, who has been promoted to city
manager from NGT in Springfield. Mo.
Kallus Again Winner
Of Top TCC Award
NACOGDOCHES, TEX.—Ray Kallus,
manager of the Main and Lumberjack theatres
here, is the Texas Cinema Corp.'s Manager
of the Year.
LeRoy Mitchell of Ennis, president of the
circuit, presented Kallus a trophy and cash
award during a corporation convention in
Ennis shortly before Christmas. Kallus has
received the honor for three consecutive
years—each year the award has been given.
This year 30 other managers in Texas
competed for the honor, with criteria for
selection including relation of community
and theatre, administrative capabilities of
the manager, promotional ideas enforced,
condition of theatre and amount of boxoffice
gross increase over the previous year.
Managers are judged by Texas Cinema
Corp. staff members who make unannounced
visits to the theatres throughout the year
and check advertisements in all news media,
according to the Nacogdoches Sentinel.
Final selection is based upon the store
earned by managers on a written examination
administered during the corporation
convention.
Manager of the Year is the outstanding
recognition made at such conventions.
Others winning recognitions were the Decatur
management, Administrative Award;
Kingsville management. Good Housekeeping
Award; Kingsville and San Marcus managements
tied Promotional Ideas Award.
Ennis, came here
Kallus, who grew up in
four years ago to manage the Lumberjack
Theatre. He assum.ed management of the
Main in August 1970.
Zoning Change Clears Way
For Drive-In at
Tulsa
TULSA—An exception to allow development
of a portion of a light industrial
zoned tract in southeast Tulsa as a drive-in
has been approved by the board of adjustment.
The action clears the way for construction
in the area of an outdoor theatre by Mrs.
E. L. Snyder jr. and John Ashley, principals
in Family Theatres.
The zoning exception sought by Mrs.
Snyder and Ashley was for use of part of
a piece of land west of 129th East Avenue
and between 51st and 61st streets for their
drive-in. The board's approval came after a
group of property owners in the area had
withdrawn, through their attorney, a previous
objection to the rezoning.
Future of Odessa Lyric
Still to Be Decided
ODESSA, TEX.—The Lyric Theatre,
this town's first real movie house, has been
closed until
owner T. A. Hodges and manager
T. A. Collins decide its future.
The Lyric, until it was closed early last
month, had shown movies continuously for
44 years.
BOXOFTICE :: January 10, 1972 SW-1

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DALLAS
^hark'f. K. Dardcn. chief barker ol ihe Variety
Club, presented keys of ;i new
Variety Sunshine Coach to Mrs. Bonnie
Myers, program director for the downtown
YWCA, as Mrs. Mildred Wilson, downtown
branch executive, looked on. The 12-passenger
bus will be used by the YWCA
agencies to transport inner-city children to
the downtown YWCA building for swimming,
gym. summer and Saturday programs.
Its the 23rd Sunshine Coach presented
by the Dallas Variety Club to service
organizations since the program was
started in 1964. Presentation of this Sunshine
Coach was one of the final duties
Darden had the pleasure of handling as
chief barker. His successor in the Variety
post is Don Grierson of American International
Pictures.
Fortunately the Christmas week was a
dry one lor the Dallas area and proved a
very profitable one for theatre owners .
Hazel Lovelace. Paramount staffer, spent
Christmas in Houston with her son and
grandchildren.
Your correspondent received the annual
Christmas IcIIcr which Howard Hiegel and
his wife June and children send to Filmrow
friends. Howard formerly owned and operated
the Dal-Scc Theatre in Dallas but now
owns and operates the Bolero Drive-In at
Kerrville. Howard has started a monthly
flea m irket at the airer and reports that the
children, Walter and Lorna. always are
among the "merchants" with something to
sell. Howard and the children also have
become rock hounds. One of the most
remarkable developments of 71. their first
full year in Kerrville. was torrential breaking
of the drought which had gone on from
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Kerrville and its environs in a two-day
period. June had a fractured foot early in
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share of work at the drive-in. The Hiegels
still have a standing invitation to their Dallas
Filmrow friends to come visit them in
Kerrville.
The DalUu Fine .-Vrts
League sponsored a
special holiday show free to all children at
I p.m. Friday, December 31 at the Te.tas
Theatre in Oak Cliff. Highlighting the entertainment
was an appearance by Officer
Friendly, former TV personality, followed
by the film "All Mine to Give," starring
Cameron Mitchell.
Adeline Franklin Retires
As BV Dallas Cashier
By MABLE GUINAN
DALLAS—December 30 marked the end
of a long, wonderful career in the motion
picture business for
Adeline Franklin as
she placed her last
COD on a shipment
from Buena Vista
Films, where she had
served as cashier since
November 1957.
Mrs. Franklin enjoyed
the reputation
of being one of the
most dependable, ac-
Adelinc Franklin curate and tactful
cashiers in the film business. She is loved
by exhibitors, distributors and co-workers
alike. As Adeline Koch, she started work in
the motion picture industry in November
1924, her first job being with the Pathe
Film Exchange managed by Dave Caughlin.
At that time, the exchange office was on
Commerce Street, next to the old Post Office.
The firm later moved to 402 .South
Harwood, where it was when it merged
with RKO Radio Pictures. In .August 1956,
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when General Tire Co. purchased RKO.
Through all these changes, covering 33
years, Adeline had remained with the compan>.
However, immediately after RKO was
closed, she went to Tower Pictures Co.,
where she remained unt.l November 1957.
In that .nonth she joined Buena Vista at its
2017 Young St. location. The firm later
moved its offices to the present location in
the Tower Petroleum Budding.
In .Adeline's early days with Pathe Films,
the cashier kept books by hand on large,
heavy ledgers. Then came the advance to
machine bookkeeping, wh.ch she says took
her considerable time to become accustomed
to handling. Now bookkeeping is done
b\ computers and "Ad" decided she was
born 40 years too soon for this new way
of handling accounts. So at 69, she decided
that with good health and a young mind
she wanted to enjoy life instead of learning
still a third st\le of bookkeeping. Hence her
retirement December 30 with a mental ledger
filled with wonderful memories.
She was honored on the day of her retirement
with a luncheon for her and her
co-workers of the past, along with her hosts
—the bosses and her co-workers in 1971 at
Duena Vista. She was given a number of
lovely gifts but she found reading the cards
accompanying each gift more than she
could take and keep her composure, so she
decided to read only the names at the
liincheon and leave the sentimental notes
for the privacy of her home.
In 1966 she was honored at the WOMPl
Founder's Day "Bosses" Luncheon as Cashier
of the Year and she recalls this event
and honor with a deep sense of pride and
great joy.
.Among those employees and friends
with
whom she worked at RKO in former years
these were present to help the Buena Vista
group give her a memorable farewell: Lora
and Cliff Wood. Olga Damron. Rosa
Browning. Genevieve Koch. .Arch Boardman.
Don Morris. Mary Crump. Patricia
Kennel. Lora Dooley, Mable Guinan and
Charlie Burgess.
Probably the best wishes for Adeline were
most adequately expressed by Ihe message
she received from Irving H. Ludwig. president
of Buena Vista Distribution Corp.: "It
is alwa\s a mixture of sadness and gladness
when I see an employee who has become
such a loyal member of the Buena Vista-
Walt Disney family leave for a well earned
retirement. Thank you for the years you
spent with us. Ma\ the years ahead be
filled with all the joy and happiness we can
wish yow."
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Thomas Lents, manager of the three-screen
San Pedro Outdoor Theatre, was married
December 27 in Seguin to Laura Adair
and a reception was held here Saturday ( 1
for the happy young couple.
A .souvenir umbrella was given away December
30 and December 31 to the first
50 patrons purchasing tickets to "Singin' in
. . . Kris
the Rain" and "San Francisco" at the Cinematex
Colonies North Theatre
Kristofferson, star of "Cisco Pike." will appear
in concert in Municipal Auditorium
Saturday (29).
Employees of the Cinema Arts theatres
held Cliristmas parties at their individual
theatres, beginning at 11:30 p.m. Visits by
Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus were made to the
Laurel. Woodlawn, Texas and Josephine
theatres. Refreshments were served at each
party and there was a gift exchange between
employees and between managers of
the theatres.
Jack Skaggs was declared winner in the
San Anionio News-.ABC Interstate Theatres'
James Bond Villain Contest held in conjunction
with the showing of "Diamonds
Are Forever" at the Majestic and Century
South theatres. Skaggs has seen all of the
Bond films and has read every Bond book.
As first-place winner, he received a pass
good for three months at any San Antonio
Interstate theatre. Lillian Menchaca, secondplace
winner, won a S25 savings bond, and
third-place winner Juan Marroquin was
awarded a one-month pass to all SA Interstate
theatres. Winners matched the names
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of seven actors, who played villains, with
the titl.'s of James Bond movie>. in which
they appeared. More than half of the several
hundred entries correctly matched the
actors with the movies so the winners were
decided by a drawing.
DA'arKa. a pianist who is a graduate of
the Julliard School of Music and who has
been featured in numerous motion pictures,
appeared at the University Club New
Year's Eve party. His films include "Cafe
Havana," "Squad Car" and "Copa Cabana/'
George Watson, who retired Saturday ( 1
as city manager for ABC Interstate, was
honored by the San Antonio Motion Picture
Council at the Wednesday (5) meeting.
Watson was city manager for the circuit for
25 years. Guest speaker at the council
meeting was Tom Nickell, amusement editor
of the SA News. He spoke on "Reviewing
Films—A Census on the Sens,;s."
Tom Troupe, another film actor, is appearing
on stage of the Ruth Taylor Theatre
at Trinity University January 12-22. He has
appeared in such films as "Making It."
"Chel". "Kelly's Heroes," "The Devils Brigade"
M\d "The Big Fisherman."
.Vmong the newcomers at the Laurel
Theatre are Gerry Frost, cashier, who is
attending San Antonio College; Paul Morey,
an usher, attending Thomas Jefferson High
School; Susan Winkler, concessions, attending
Edison High School, and Paity Frost,
also concessions, attending San Antonio
College . local drive-ins that
closed Christmas Eve to permit their employees
to be at home with their families
were the Bandera Road. Capitan :ind Val
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"Diamonds .\re
Forever" has been doing
block-buster business since it opened during
the Christmas season at the downtown
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KQXT-FM. Polunsky previously was presented
on KEXL-FM in the same lime
period. He writes a weekly column bearing
the same title as his radio show for South
Texas Today, the Sunday amusement supplement
to the San .Antonio Light.
A special series of forenoon matinees was
held during the holidays for youngsters at
the Broadway. Century and Olmos. Shown
was the recent family hit. "Willy Wonka
and the Chocolate Factory."
Updating Kozy Has Grand
Opening in Falls City
From North Central Editicn
FALLS CITY, NEB.—ITie Kozy Theatre,
viperated by O. C. Johnson and Sid Gibbs.
had its formal op>ening on December
1. after an invitational preopening party
the preceding evening. The showhouse, located
at 1517 Stone St,, formerly was the
Oil City Theatre,
The building has undergone a major refurbishing,
both inside and outside. A new
aluminum marquee has been installed and
the auditorium, newly carpeted, features a
wall-to-wall screen, TTie seats have been reupholstered
and painted and the interior
decor has been redone in bright colors.
The Last Picture Show'
Revitalized Archer City
ARCHER CITY, TEX.—"The Last
Picture
Show" director Peter Bogdanovich
brought his film crew here, about 1.^0 miles
northwest of Dallas toward Wichita Falls,
and revitalized the town for a brief span.
It is interesting to note that the film is
adapted from a novel by Larr\ McMurtrv,
who grew up in Archer City, McMurtry also
was the author of "Horseman, Pass By."
turned into a film, "Hud,"' which also was
shot in Texas.
The story of the latest film is .set in the
1950s and concerns the growing up pangs
of a
pair of teenagers.
Sam Peckinpah Returning
To Texas for Next Film
ALSllN. 1L.\ Sam Peckinpah. who
directed "Straw Dogs." will come to Texas
in February to shoot "TTie Getaway." with
Steve McQueen. Main locations will be in
Austin, with some shooting to be done in
Dallas.
Production starts February 7. In the
film McQueen plays a bank robber in the
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ENNIS. TEX.—Texas Cinema Corp.'s
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following an extensive remodeling under the
supervision of Bob Stewart.
During the renovation, new seating and
new projection equipment were installed.
The theatre was completely redrapcd for
acoustics efficiency and restaffed.
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BOXOFFICE :: January 10, 1972 SW-5

OKLAHOMA CITY
Rales Farley, with MGM in Denver, came
here to spend the Christmas holidays
. . . Mr. and Mrs. Roy Avcy of Theatre
Calendar Service went to Denver to be with
their daughter and her husband. Mr. and
Mrs. Jerry Smith, and the Smith's children
during the holidays. Jerry Smith is with
National General in Denver, Roy Avey, by
the way, has moved his TTieaire Calendar
Service to 1601 1. in wood . . . Your correspondent
(Eddie Greggs) spent the holidays
in Houston with his son and his family.
rhint:s Here \cr\ quiet on Filmrow dur-
. . Gary
ing the yearcnd period but one exhibitor
making the rounds was Charles Smith of
the Coral Drive-In, Wynnewood .
Ho.xsic and Mike Emerson of Tulsa, who
recently purchased the Palace Theatre in
Coweta from Mr. and Mrs. Carthel Long,
have completed a very thorough remodeling
job on the property. The Palace now has an
Early American style front among its many
improvements.
.M. (>. Rimmer, United Artists, visited his
parents and other relatives in Dallas during
the holidays. He completed the tag end of
his vacation in Oklahoma City , , . R. L.
Robison, K. Lee Williams Theatres, has sold
the Scott Theatre in Waldron. Ark., to
C. M. Whitfield.
George C^aughn, Continental Theatre,
reported
that "Diamonds Are Forever" has
broken all records for this Oklahoma Citv
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. . . Three
HOUSTON
Diehard I hoiiius and Houston's Mary
l..i\nc. along with writer-producer
Martin /wciback will be here for the U.S.
premiere of Zwieback's "Cactus in the
Snow" at the Gaylynn Terrace Theatre
Wednesday (19). Zweiback won an Oscar
last year lor writing "Me, Natalie." Rudy
Durand. producer of the film also announced
that Chuck and Mike Connors
will be here for the premiere, proceeds
from which will go to the University of
Houston Cougar Cage club. Durand is a
gradii.ilc ol the lJnivcrsit\ iif Houston.
K«er\ Mdiiday is family discount night
at the lidwell Drivc-ln, when admission
drops to S 1 per person . . . Jeff Millar,
columnist in the Houston Chronicle Sunday
supplement Zest, where his Looping the
Films appears, rcfxiris that there were only
eight Christmas pictures opening during the
recent holida\ period. This was down from
1 1 in 1970 and from 13 in 1969.
Kepler and his work were shown December
27 through Sunday (2) at the Museum of
Natural Science in Hermann Park. The public
was invited to view the films shown in
commemoration with Kepler's 400ih birthda\
December 27.
Wonka
During the holiday season, "Willv
and the Chocolate Factory" was being
shown at matinees only at the Gaylynn
Terrace, Garden Oaks. Santa Rosa, Southgate
and Village.
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For His Charity Work
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theatres, the Town and Country Six, Almeda
Four and Northwest Four, to patrons
who make a blood donation to Blood
Services. Inc. . . . Jim
Siedio. who played
the role of a father in "The Windsplitter."
lilmed in the local area and premiered in
Houston, is being considered for a role in a
film being made in the Big Bend country
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spending many years raising money for the
Will Rogers Hospital and other charities.
Jones, a member of the lATSE Local 316,
received the special plaque from Wometco's
senior vice-president Harvey Fleischman.
Jones does his charity work entirely on his
own as an individual and this year, from
the raffle of a color television set, he will
send more than SLOOO to the Will Rogers
Hospital.
The plaque reads: "Thanks, Jack Jones,
from all of us at Wometco. If there were a
'Big Heart Award,' you would win it."
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'Diamonds' Tall 400
In Mill City Second
MlNNIAPOl IS— Despite the tniiiition
that the Christmas holiday is a sure-tire
moviegoing period, a cluster of nine fresh
films failed to whip up more than a modicum
of interest. "Dirty Harry" led the pack,
bowing at the Gopher with a solid 300; expectations
are that business there will improve.
Next in line was one of the few
happy surprises among the newcomers: "The
Gang 1 hat Couldn't Shoot Straight" hit the
bull's-eye at Cinema 1 with a nifty 200.
much better than anticipated. On the other
hand. "Sometimes a Great Notion" was a bit
on the spongy side at the Cooper, making
its debu' with 195. Three of the newcomers
hit 150: "The Brazen Women of Balzac" at
the Suburban World, "Sunday, Bloody Sunday"
at the St. Louis Park and "The Go-
Between " at the Uptown and Cinema II.
".$" and "Harold and Maude" started no
boxoffice rushes, the two coming in with
1.30s at the State and World, respectively.
Weakest, gross percentagewise, of the fresh
arrivals was "Star Spangled Girl." a light
100 at the Mann Southtown.
Amorig the holdovers, "Diamonds Are
Forever" remained gigantic, a hefty 400 in
a second frame at the Orpheum. Meanwhile.
"The French Connection" grew (as had
been expected), clocking 250 in a second
week at the Mann, up from its initial 200.
"Fiddler on the Roof" was holding satisfactorily,
posting 350 in a second week at the
Academy.
, .350
(Average Is 100)
Academy Fiddler on the Roof (UA), 2nd wk
Cinema I
-
The Gong That Couldn't Shoot Straight
(MGM) 200
Cinema II, Uptown The Go-Between (Col) 150
Cooper ^^ometimes a Greot Notion (Univ) 195
Gopher Dirty Horry (WB)
Mann The French Connection (20th-Fox),
300
2nd wk 250
Mann Soulhtown Star Spangled Girl (Para) 100
Orpheum Diamonds Are Forever (UA), 2nd wk- .400
Park Sunday Bloody Sunday (UA) 150
State—S (Col) 1 30
Suburban World The Brazen Women of Balzac
(SR) 150
World— Harold and Maude (Para) 130
Films at Embassy Theatre
Are Observed by Police
LINCOLN — City Attorney Richard
Woods has acknowledge that the police department
has been observing all films in the
Embassy Theatre and has been making reports
to his office. He said no other local
theatres are under such police observation.
According to Woods, the police action
was "based on complaints from citizens to
police and the city attorney's office dealing
with public obscenity and nuisance laws."
He declined to discuss any possible action
against the Embassy, which opened to the
public in March 1971. At that time, owner
Peter Fredericks, 29, formerly of Des
Moines, said the new theatre would "show
films not normally shown in Lincoln." He
explained that 16mm rather than the more
expensive 35mm films would be shown in
the 130-seat theatre at 1730 O St. Most
films shown in recent months have been in
the X-rated category.
In a Sunday (2) newspaper story, Fredericks
said. "I feel they (Lincoln police) are
only doing their
duty." He commented that
a majority of the 35 films shown since the
opening have been viewed by police department
vice squad members, that they are
admitted free and that there have been no
complaints directly from police to the theatre
management or owner.
Fredericks' attorney, Herbert Friedman of
Lincoln, noted "there are other movies in
Lincoln depicting murder, violence and terror
that are rated GP that do far more
harm than movies depicting people making
love." He said a current film "shows the
death of a person in a vat of boiling oil and
a scene making fools of the police and
society considers that good clean fun."
"Murder is a capital offense, yet it is depicted
in eloquence in many films. Making
love is no crime but it is criticized." the
attorney said.
According to Fredericks, the majority of
those attending the Embassy are over 30
years of age. Those under 18 cannot attend.
"We haven't done anything wrong and
will cooperate with the police now as in the
past." said Fredericks, who commended
beat policemen as "tremendous in that they
stop bv regularly and ask if everything is all
right." He considers this and vice squad
surveilhince of the films as "standard procedure."
Fredericks said he has another theatre in
Jefferson, Iowa, where films from GP to R
(and some X-rated) films are shown.
Cooper Charts Change
For Nebraska Theatre
LINCOLN—E. N. "Jack" Thompson,
president of Cooper Theatre Enterprises,
made a last-of-the-year announcement indicating
that the existing Nebraska Theatre
location at 12th and P streets undoubtedly
will be the site of a new multitheatre operation
by the Cooper circuit. He said all
tenants in the Nebraska Building (twostory)
as well as those in a small adjoining
structure have been sent letters asking that
the space be vacated on or before April 30.
Thompson further said that the Nebraska
probably will be closed about the same time
and that the buildings will be razed.
Not announced yet is the type of theatre
structure which will go up on the long-time
entertainment corner in downtown Lincoln.
Thompson disclosed it probably will be a
leased theatre complex. He said a number
of construction profjosals are being considered
currently, submitted by individuals and
firms both in and out of Lincoln.
Cooper's newest theatre in the city, the
Cooper/ Lincoln, is a leased building arrangement
with the Hilgert family, which
also owns the adjoining Villager Motel.
April 30 is the same date on which the
Cooper circuit winds up its long-time lease
of the downtown Stuart Theatre at 13th and
P streets. The new lease is with Stuart
Theatre Corp., of which Irwin Dubinsky is
president. As general manager of Dubinsky
Brothers, Irwin Dubinsky also will ri anage
and operate the Stuart following a six-week
renovation shutdown.
Marcus Wisconsin Duo
Construction Started
SHHBOYCiAN. WIS.—Con.struction is
now under way on Milwaukee-based Marcus
Theatres Management Co.'s twin cinema,
located on Sheboygan's west side at a
site previously selected for a movie house
by Carrols Development Corp. of Syracuse,
N.'y. To be named Marc I and II, the
cinemas will be identical in design to other
Marcus units slated for Menomonee Falls,
Appleton, Green Bay, La Crosse and Oshkosh.
Ben Marcus, president of Marcus Theatres
Management Co.. stated that one auditorium
of the Sheboygan twin will seat 450.
The other will have a capacity of 350.
Of side-by-side design, one lobby, snack
bar and boxoffice will serve both theatres
but each will have its own lounge area. The
projection booth will be fully automated.
Ralph Schallow, a veteran of 37 years in
show business in Sheboygan, will manage
Marc I and II, as well as continuing as
manager of the downtown Sheboygan Theatre,
a post he has held for ten years.
lowans Losing Interest
In Sexploitation Films
DES MOINE.S—Attendance at so-called
"triple-X" movie theatres in Iowa is reported
down from a
peak of two years ago
but is said to be stabilizing. "The thrill is
gone" for some patrons, according to those
close to the situation.
One reason cited for declining audiences
is that curbs on explicit sex material now
are virtually nil In other words, with relaxed
restrictions, such film fare isn't as
exciting as it used to be.
Richard L. Davis, who owns 1 1 "triple-
X" theatres in Iowa, including three in Des
Moines, concurs in this reasoning. "When
we first started to show these films, people
were anxious to view them but after they
saw tv/3 or three that was enough," said
Davis, who expects the lower attendance at
his theatres to stabilize at current levels. He
noted tiiat the theatres apparently are not
causing the police any concern.
Davi;-. said most of those attending sex
movies are over 30 years of age. "If we
had to depend on the 18-25-year-olds, we'd
go out of business," he said.
UA's lohn Dugan Retires
DES MOINES—John Dugan. United
Artists branch manager in Des Moines, retired
at the end of the year, it was announced
by James R. Velde. vice-president.
Dugan joined the company in 1960.
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Nothing like it ever before for simplicity and foolproof
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new/ly designed control (MSC-2) mounts on the drive
shaft assembly of the lower take-up magazine of a projector.
A rotating magnet, that becomes part of the
spindle assembly, passes a sensor that "reads" the
speed of the lower take-up reel. When the sensor detects
an increase in reel speed, as when film breaks
anywhere in the projector or when film runs out, projector
power and arc lamps are cut off!
The MSC-2 is unique — in that no component of the
device touches the film, nor does it require photoelectric
cells, exciter lamps, etc. — no special sprockets
nor rollers. This is a solid state device — without bearings,
belts or other moving parts.
Completely adaptable — the MSC-2 is
applicable to all
types of Century lower take-up magazines (and magazines
of that type) now installed in theatres, with little
or no modification. Designed to operate independently
of any automation equipment, the MSC-2 can be installed
in theatres that are not automated.
Patented
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CENTURY PROJECTOR CORPORATION
165 West 46th Street, New York, New York 10036
Quality Theatre Supply Co.
1515 Davenport St.
Omaha, Nebraska 68102
Harry Melcher Enterprises
3238 West Fond Du Lac Are.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53210
Des Moines Theatre Supply Co.
1121 High St.
Des Moinei, Iowa 50309
Minneapolis Theatre Supply Co.
51 GItnwood Ave.
Minncopelii, MinnMota 55403
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LINCOLN
^he Kussell Bn-hiiLs were in Miumi lo see
the Orange Bowl game New Year's
Day. the Irwin Dubinskys saw it on TV in
Kansas City and those watching it at home
in this city via the tube included Wall
Jancke ... As it turned out Christmas Day
when Walt opened a last-minute gift, the
industry veteran probably was best equipped
lo have observed every detail of every play
in the Nebraska-Alabama clasiiic, had he
been down in Miami. His gift from assistant
manager Ev Greathouse and the staffs of
the Varsity and Cinema I and Cinema 2
ended up being something that Walt has
wanted for a long time—a 7.\50 wide-angle
pair of binoculars. "I was almost tempted to
get dov/n there in Florida but I'll wait and
be all ready for the '72 season here at
home." Walt said, adding that he may practice
using the binoculars by watching birds
spring .".nd summer months that must go by
before fall football comes . . . Mr. and Mrs.
Irwin Dubinsky had gone to Kansas City
December 30 in lime to help their daughter
Bonnie celebrate the birthday of her husband
Arthur Lapin that evening and the first
birthday of Jeffrey Lapin December ."^1.
They re'urned here Sunday (2). since Dubinsky
had an appointment the next day with
interior decorator Hollis
renovation plans
lacks on the .Stuart
Jay Maness, Cooper/ Lincoln manager,
greeted 1972 with a new assistant manager.
Randy Hartman. whom the former hired in
early 1 970 as an usher, then promoted to
doorman. He was transferred last fall to the
downtown Nebraska as assistant manager.
Randy returned to the suburban movie
house as assistant to fill the vacancy left
when Russell Boytc resigned to fulfill a
military obligation. Randy is a freshman
at the University of Nebraska . Also new
. .
on the Cooper' Lincoln concession staff is
Nancy Johnson, a Lincoln .Southeast High
senior.
The holiday sca.son also brought a few
unpleasant episodes to industry families via
the virus making the general rounds in the
community. Hard hit was the .Sarge Dubinsky
family, beginning with Sarge. who
stayed home through most of the long
Christmas weekend, then continued an office
absence as his wife Gail had her turn, as
well as the two younger children. Greg and
Jenniler. Also on the list was Gene Buhrdorf.
State manager, who was home for a
week Even Walt Jancke reports he thinks
the hug whisked by him for a light attack.
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Before the illness. Buhrdorf and assistant
State manager Bill Goldfein shopped to
give Walt another of his favorite Christmas
gifts—a carving set.
It probably was a toe>s-up between
Christni.is L\e. New Year's Eve or New
Year's Day evening when it came to poor
patronage of the local movie houses. Boosting
patrons' choice of a night before TV
sets Saturday (I) was the Nebraska-Alabama
football game but Ev Greathouse. assistant
manager, reports late New Year's Eve
showings of "Dirty Harry" and "Carnal
Knowledge"" at the Cinema twins and ""Diamonds
.Are Forever"' at the Varsity drew
disappointing numbers. Even the capacity
crowds gained during the week by Cooper/
Lincoln's first use of its 70mm, si.\-track
stereo sound on "Doctor Zhivago"' dropped
abruptly December 31 and Saturday (\).
according to reports. Other managers locally
listening to the Orange Bowl game on transistor
radios recalled Christmas Eve operations
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John Kenny Is Ordained
Roman Catholic Deacon
DETROIT—John Kenny, manager of the
Detroit branch of Ringold Theatre Equipment
Co.. was ordained
a deacon of the
Roman Catholic
Church recently at a
ceremony in the Cathedral
of the Most
Blessed Sacrament by
His Eminence John
Cardinal D e a r d o n.
D.D.
Kenny was
among 30 ordained in
various dioceses in the
John Kenny
y^ 13 ^f ^^om are
from the Detroit area.
These new corps of married clergymen
are authorized to baptize, preach, distribute
communion, officiate at weddings and funerals,
conduct religious devotions and educational
programs, as well as perform other
pastoral duties. However, unlike full priests,
the new deacons are unable to consecrate
the bread and wine of the Eucharist or hear
confessions.
The deacons will remain self-supporting
in regular secular jobs but may be placed
in
charge of small parishes lacking a priest.
Mrs. Mildred Hammond. 86.
Dies of Heart Attack
DETROIT—Mrs. Mildred Hammond.
86, died Christmas morning. December 25,
at the home, apparently of a heart attack.
She was the wife of Lloyd Hammond, for
many years probably Detroit's foremost
independent film producer, who survives.
The couple worked in dramatic stock
prior to the days of motion pictures. Both
were natives of Michigan and returned to
Detroit in 1914 to join the Atlas Comedy
Co.. film producers. In 1921 Hammond
formed the D-M Co. (for "Detroit-Made"').
launching a long career in motion picture
production.
The Hammonds maintained their apartment
on Henry Street, overlooking their
old studio, for many decades. The studio
facility also was the site of Boxoffice
headquarters in Detroit for several years.
Mrs. Hammond was buried in Glen Eden
Cemetery.
Loeks' Cinema Twin Bows
GRAND HAVEN, MICH.—Film-cutting
ceremonies and a private preview attended
by approximately 500 persons marked the
bow last month of Jack Loeks' Cinema
Twin Theatre. The de luxe dualer. managed
by John Karell, is fully automated and is
located next to Loeks' Auto Drive-In on
Old Grand Haven Road at the Airport
Shopping Plaza.
Ohio Theatre Reopens
LORAIN. OHIO~The Ohio Theatre
reopened
last month offering "adults-only" exploitation
films. The house is now owned
by Cinex Corp. of Cleveland, Ohio.
Campuses Offering Current Products
At Giveaway Prices:
Milton London
DF.TROIT— — DETROIT "Current 'Current motion pictures oictures are
ness that we do—but under the same rules
being advertised to the public at giveaway imposed upon us. They should pay property
admission prices in college halls and auditoriums
in direct competition to theatres,"
president Milton H. London, NATO of
Michigan, charged in a public statement on
"campus movies."
Summing up the situation in Michigan,
which appears to be getting far out of hand.
London cited the recent address by George
G. Kerasotes. chairman of NATO's nontheatrical
competition committee, before the
NATO of Indiana convention in Indianapolis.
Some reports of what is happening in
publicly owned colleges in
the state are frustrating
and alarming. London noted.
Case of Michigan Staite
The Detroit Free Press recently ran a
front-page story with an eight-column
streamer headline: "X Films Are Very Big
Business on Campus Now." The story was
based on events at Michigan State University
(approximately 40.000 students) at East
Lansing and was written by staffer Paul M.
Branzburg. The subheads told some of
them: "Commercial theatres protest." Even
more irksome, the students show the films
for as little as 75 cents a ticket and rarely
for more than $1.50. Thus, the issues of
higher admission prices and the exhibition
of controversial X films all enter into the
picture in this state.
At MSU. according to the report, a classroom
is used to show films to several hundred
students an evening on "incest, wifeswapping
and lesbianism." Mike Sunshine,
manager of the so-called Beal Film Group
(exhibitor agency at MSU). is quoted: "We
show films about six nights a week, about
75 films a year." Typical fare cited was
"Russ Meyer's Vixen."
Campus Profits Tax Free
An unnamed manager of a commercial
theatre adjacent to the campus is quoted as
saying that "product is scarce" for his house
but the college "film moguls" seem to have
little difficulty filling their screens—and
their seats profitably—at cut-rate prices.
Sunshine's group reported profits—tax-free,
since it somehow rates as a nonprofit organization—of
$1,200 for the season.
This provoked the response from London
that "I'd love to be in a business where
somebody else builds your theatre, pays
your taxes and you keep all the profits."
Digging into the caliber of product shown
on the campuses at the expense of the taxpayers.
London, noting the wide public opposition
to X films, said. "If the majority
of taxpayers are against these films being
shown, how do they feel when they find
that their tax dollar is being used to subsidize
the showing of these films?
"iVe believe in free expression, free
speech and free enterprise. And the students
have the same right to engage in this busi-
ta.xes and hire union projectionists," declared
London. "When the commercial motion
picture marquee darkens, the town is
dead. And nothing will bring the town to
life. The consequences are very serious."
Sunshine, however, accused exhibitors of
"tremendous mismanagement." He cited an
alleged instance of the showing of "Joe" for
16 weeks at one theatre in a town having
only two theatres, which would be peculiar
booking in view of the product situation
anywhere. Sunshine contends that "skin
movies" are "where it's (antecedent unspecified)
in the industry."
He followed up with the charge that "the
really dangerous (pictures) are Walt Disney
films." He cited, especially, "Pinnochio," because
it shows that "if you lie, your nose
grows."
At the University of Michigan, with approximately
40.000 students, the Ann Arbor
Film Co-Op shows some 50 movies a year
under similar conditions. The two colleges
have at least six other film groups between
them, which similarly exhibit regularly in
sundry school buildings, indicating the
widespread existence of this type of competition.
In some instances, the university enters
directly into the picture as the exhibitor, as
MSU did with "Medea." Ken Beachler, director
of MSU's lecture-concert series, says
"any student organization may show film."
MSU. mstead of presenting "Medea" as an
academic representation of this 2,400-yearold
G.''scian classic drama, resorted to advertising
it as "a movie about a woman who
beheads her brother, stabs her children and
sends her lover's wife up in flames."
Even at Central Michigan University (12.-
000 students, up north in the little country
town of Mount Pleasant), the local press
reports it "a film paradise" with two similar
exhibition groups functioning "for little or
no charge to students." Among the subjects
offered are "Juvenile Delinquency in Sweden."
"The Russian Revolution" and. for the
opener. "I Am Curious (Yellow)." Tentative
admission is 75 cents or season tickets for
$5.
Strangely enough, the center of this type
of academic cut-throat competition seems to
be in the small upstate college towns, while
Detroit, with its numerous colleges, appears
to be relatively free from offenders—largely
as a result of a vigorous campaign a few
seasons ago on nontheatrical competition
spearheaded by London, with continual vigilance
since.
'Swap Market' Is Approved
OAK PARK. MICH.—The city
council
has approved "swap market" operations at
the West Side Drive-In. 14350 West Eight-
Mile Rd.
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DETROIT
JJar>ey Farber, who is entering show business
as the first major new entrepreneur
in the business around this city in
some 15 years, decided the key to success
in his new field lies in an independent
rather than a franchised operation, with
automation at the theatre end. His four
Tel-Ex units in Southfield opened Christmas
and Farber already has come up with a
novel idea in muiiiplc-lheatre operation
starting times of the four units are carefully
staggered to be 20 minutes apart. This is
designed to reduce the jam-up of bo.xoffice
lines near starting lime. Further, he is
building an enclosed mall to protect any
customers who may be waiting in case of
inclement weather. Farber gave some ol
his philosophy of operation in an interview
with Bill Gray of the News. "The trend,"
he said, "is toward the small theatre. Customers
want comfort, cleanliness and a good
product. We've got all three here. The business
runs in cycles like anything else and it
will pick up as soon as Hollywood gets the
message on what people want in movies."
The first
1972 session of the Youth Film
Forum sponsored by the Greater Detroit
Motion Picture Council was moderated by
Dr. Henry Maloney, director of the division
of teacher education at the University of
Detroit. The session was held Saturday (8)
at the .Studio New Center Theatre. Efforts
are being strengthened to secure publication
of reviews of new product screened in the
many school papers in the area by the designated
student forum delegates, as well as to
secure an overall evaluation of the forum
project by the young people. The program,
now some four years old, has earned tbc
wholehearted cooperation of administrators
of both the public and the private school
systems of the
area.
Arden Rvnew, locally bom author of
"Filmm.iking for Children." already a specialized
textbook for producers and directors,
was home for the Christmas holidays,
spent with his family in Wyandotte and this
city . Herb Eschbach. retired from the
News theatre ads and his theatre management
chores, is earnestly plugging the forthcoming
Michigan NATO convention.
Thomas P. Allen, who
March 22-2.T . . .
was representative for United Film Service
of Kansas City and was one of the most
popular figures on Filmrow. died in 1956.
Mail .iddressed to his wife, who lived in
.Southficid, is now being returned. We have
a request: Docs anyone know her current
address?
Bill Klatt and his pride and joy. the new
Regent Theatre, was featured in a News
story
the other day.
Kathy .\brahm and Sue Lybeer of the
Sloan brothers' Alger Theatre had the
pleasure of a free ride, chauffeured by this
city's investigative newspaper columnist
Charlie Manos. who was playing Santa
Claus, driving a taxi and giving his "customers"
tree rides to gel column material
. . . Nick George was host for a big
Christmas party for his entire circuit staff.
The event was held in the .Allen Park
Theatre lobby.
COLUMBUS
Ja>
(Goldberg, president of J.MG Film Co.,
first local showing of "Fiddler on the
Roof." due in mid-February.
C. Kenneth Smith, chairman of the board
of the Columbus Ass'n for the Performing
Arts anJ operator of the Ohio Theatre, was
n..nicd by the Citizen-Journal as one of the
ten "Men of the Year." The newspaper paid
tribute to his efforts in preserving the 3.00t)-
seat downtown former Loews Ohio as a
center for cultural events, including motion
picture presentations.
Warren Creniean, former city sers'ice director,
was named to oversee construction
of the multimillion-dollar convention center
on the Union Station site. It is expected that
the complex will include a new Veterans
.Memorial auditorium for summer stock,
touring stage attractions, concerts and meetings
. . . The downtown theatre and business
district was given another big boost with
the announcement of the construction of a
S16 million, 20-stor> addition to the Christopher
Inn, making the hostelry the largest
in the downtown area. A revolving rooftop
restaurant and sidewalk cafe are included
in plans. Construction is expected to begin
h\ earlv 197.1.
CINCINN A Tl
Jaj (^oidben;. picsulcnl ol JMG I ilms Co.,
and his family spent the holiday season
in Nassau.
Interstate Theatre Services is booking and
buying for five theatres in West Virginia:
Plaza Theatre. Weirton: Cinema I and II.
Morganiown: Grove Drive-In. Wheeling,
.ind the .Airport Drive-In. Short Creek, as
well as the Riverside Drive-In. Rayland,
Ohio, lohn Gardner is the owner and Dick
Herstine is general manager. Bennett Goldstein,
president, reported Interstate is now
servicing theatres located in the Cleveland.
Cincinnati. Chicago and Pittsburg are.is.
I'ri-.State I'healre .Services is booking and
buying for the New Manchester Theatre.
Manchester. Ky.. for owner John White.
In addition, Tri-State is booking and buying
for the new Carrols Cinema, Warsaw,
Wis., and the new Carrols Twm Cinema.
-Midland, Mich., scheduled to open Friday,
February 4. The theatres are owned and
operated b> Carrols Development Corp.
C. J. Ruff, film distributor, opened a new
office in Detroit .Monday (3). with Dennis
Glenn as branch manager. The office will
service the Detroit and Cleveland areas.
Bob Scarborough, formerh with Universal,
succeeds Glenn as booker in the local office
... Ed Kershaw, Paramount sales
manager: Don Benning, booker, and Elaine
Roaden, secretary, were in Cleveland Wednesda\,
December 22, for the Christmas
party gi\en by Coof)eraiive Theatres.
Jessie Smith, retired biller for 20th Cenlury-lox.
died December 29 following a
long
illness.
Norman Smith, Paramount booker in the
Nevs ^ ork exchange, has been transferred
to the local branch in a like capacity . . .
C laudia Glenn is the new office secretan,-
for Interstate Theatre Services.
Ben and Joanne Cohen of Holiday
.Amusement to. .ire on vacation at La
Costa. Calif., until mid-January . . . Out
of town during the holiday season were
Phil Fortune. Buena Vista branch manager;
Sharon .McCruder. 20th Century-Fox biller.
and Margie Zahner, Columbia office staffer.
Susan Snjder, secretary for Tri-State
Theatre Service, is wearing a new sparkler.
Joe Dullev is the luck\ man.
Glen Lyons, 85, Succumbs
Ul I KOI 1 Glen L\ons. ,S5. ai .'iic lime
probably Detroit's best-known motion picture
director and writer, died here December
9. it has just been learned. Among
other films, in 1922 he wrote and directed
"Is Monev Everv thing?" for the Detroit-
Made Co.. headed by his brother Lloyd
H.mimond. with studios here. Lyons also
worked as a freelance writer, director, artist
and in other industry capacities. He joined
the D-M Co. in 1926 and maintained this
affiliation until 1944
UGT Mini Under Way
CLAKKS.10N. .\1KH. - .A 250-seat
movie house, being constructed under a
United General Theatres franchise on the
Dixie Highwav north ol M-15. is slated to
open in April. Other cinemas are being built
in Grand Blanc. Milford. Romeo. .South
Lyon and Sterling Heights, according to
Ted Damerow. UGT franchise regional director
fi>r Michigan.
National Theatre Bows
1 \K1 UOOl). (lino Ihe National
I healre. located at 4600 Great Northern
Blvd.. North Olmstead. National General
Theatres' newest house in this area, opened
to the public Christmas Day with the film
"The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight."
.Manager of the 750-sealer is Charles Leave
rton.
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An entirely new device by Century that stops
a projector if film breaks or runs out Frees
projectionist for other responsibilities
Nothing like it ever before for simplicity and foolproof
operation. An improved version of the original magazine
safety control introduced by Century in 1969, this
newly designed control (MSC-2) mounts on the drive
shaft assembly of the lower take-up magazine of a projector.
A rotating magnet, that becomes part of the
spindle assembly, passes a sensor that "reads" the
speed of the lower take-up reel. When the sensor detects
an increase in reel speed, as when film breaks
anywhere in the projector or when film runs out, projector
power and arc lamps are cut off!
The MSC-2 is unique — in that no component of the
device touches the film, nor does it require photoelectric
cells, exciter lamps, etc. — no special sprockets
nor rollers. This is a solid state device — without bearings,
belts or other moving parts.
Completely adaptable— the tVlSC-2 is applicable to all
types of Century lower take-up magazines (and magazines
of that type) now installed in theatres, with little
or no modification. Designed to operate independently
of any automation equipment, the MSC-2 can be installed
in theatres that are not automated.
Patented
IS THE CENTURY MSC-2 MAGAZINE SAFETY CONTROL.
Nothing like it ever before, investigate it.
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CENTURY PROJECTOR CORPORATION
165 West 46th Street, New York, New York 10036
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Jones Projector Co.
2727 Sixth St.
Cuyahoga Foils, Ohio 44221
Hadden Theatre Supply Co.
1909 Emerson Avenue
Louisville, Kentucky 40205
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Ringold Theatre Equipment Co.
952 Ottowa, N.W.
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503
Phone: (616) 454-8852
32647 Ford Rood
Garden City, Michigan 48135
Phone: (313) 522-4650
Ohio Theatre Supply Co.
2108 Payne Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Moore Theatre Equipment Co.
506 Lee Street (P.O. Box 782)
Charleston, West Virginia 25323
Phone (304) 344-4413
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^OMPI Club members attended a Yule
party sponsored by the Women's Advertising
Club. It was a benefit for the Hattie
Larlham Foundation for Handicapped
Infants. A white elephant sale, table contest
and voluntary contributions netted over
S3()0 for the foundation.
George Filzpiitrick, 29-year-old bachelor
and manager of the Heights-Art. Wcstwood
and Continental theatres, plans to marry
-Suzanne Medcr. 2.5-year-old blonde firstgrade
teacher of Dayton. The wedding will
be held in Columbus June 24 and the couple
will honeymoon on the Greek Islands.
"Nickie" Arn.stein. General Theatres, is
vacationing in Israul
.
Hallriegle
is back at work. He made a marvelous recovery
following his surgery at Cleveland
Clinic last month.
Laura l>e.Mcnt, secretary to Universal
branch manager Robert Rise, cannot believe
that her car was stolen again on the first
day after it had been returned—and from
the same parking lot. Laura was ill for a
week following the car's second disappearance
but claims the episode had no bearing
on her illness.
Bruce Steinhoff, Universal booker, spent
(he Christmas holidays in New York City.
Jules LivinKston. Columbia division man
ager. and his wife Marie left for a vacation
in Florida following the recent wedding of
their daughter in this citv.
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Elizabeth Chandler. \ oguc Theatre man
ager. couldn't believe the figures on the
meter of the ticket machine. They read 007
on the opening day of United Artists' "Diamonds
Are Forever."
Vii in>itatiunal screeniii); ol Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
"The Gang That Couldn't
-Shoot Straight" was held at the new 792-
seat National Theatre, located in the Olmsted
Plaza Center. It was a gala occasion,
with ma;n dignitaries on hand ... To stimulate
Noung people's interest in creative communications
through filmmaking, the Plain
Dealer and \V\'IZ-TV will co-sponsor the
Young F'ilmmakers' Festival. The festival
has received the endorsement of the Cleveland
Society of Communicating Arts and
the Society of Motion Picture & TV Engineering.
ComfH-'tition is open to northeast
Ohio students in high school or lower
grades. Entries will be divided into two age
categories: Junior, 6 to 12. and senior. I.''
to 18. Films entered may be color or black
and white. 8mm. Super 8mm or 16mm
Sound may be on film, tape recording or
record. Subject matter is not restricted and
may be of any nature such as documentary,
comedy, drama and song interpretation.
Only one film per filmmaker may be submitted.
Entries must have have been made
during the past two years. Trophies and certificates
will be awarded to first, second and
third-place winners in each age division.
I>ean Raymond, 25. actor, whose real
name is Jim Tait. is a local boy whose
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Tait. live
on Middlefield Road, in Cleveland Heights.
Raymond attended the University of Miami
He spent a year at the Cleveland Pla\
IKuise in the workshop, although he appeared
in no plays there and in 1966 he
had small parts in the Great Lakes Shakespeare
Festival. Dean plays the role of the
nephew of the private eye in the movie
"Cry Uncle," which ran here for .several
weeks in November.
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Tiddler on the Roof
500 in Cleveland 1st
CLLVEL.AND— Under impetus of holiday
merry-making and entertainment seeking.
Cleveland first-run gross percentages
shot up. led by a 500 for the debut of "Fiddler
on the Roof" at the Colony Theatre
"Diamonds Are Forever" followed up its
rousing opening week at five theatres with
a composite second week .^75 and "The Go-
Between." playing at the Cedar-Lee and Detroit
theatres, posted an initial 325.
lAvcroge Is 100'
Cedor-tce, Detroit—The Go-Bctwcen Z 325
Ccoter-Moyfrcld. Shore— Dirt» Motry ,•. E 200
Colony Fiddler on the Roo» UA: 500
Five theatres- Diamonds Arc Forever (UA) 375
Five theatres— S C )85
Four theatres Sfrow Dogs CRCi
i n.
Fox Ccdar-Centcr Nolinol— The Gang Thof
Couldn't Shoot Straight MGM t
World Eost, World West- Harold ond Maude
(Poro)
Johnny Got His Gun' 210
In Final Preholiday Report
Ot I
ROl I "Johnny Got His Gun," seventh
woek at Studio-North, reported 210 for
the best mark in a final preholiday business
week. The only other bctter-than-avcrage
score was 120 for a third-week of ""Man and
Boy" at the .\dams Theatre.
Adams Mon ond Boy i
SR »k 120
Americana— Bcdknobs and Broomsticlu (BV)
^th wk '
igj.
Four theatres CoHow ;MG.V AS
Fox—Blood Suckers SR); Blood Thirst SRI
Macomb 90
Mall Cincmo, Terrace Kotch (CJRC)
9th wk '
jQ
Quo Vodis—Ploy Misty for Me
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(Univ), 8th wkV
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itudio-4
75
The Go-Bctwccn C^n 5th wk 90
Studio-8-—Sunday, Bloody Sundoy (UA), 7th wk 100
Studio-Ncw Conlc-Occp End Pora), 2nd wk. . . 40
Studio-North—Johnny Got His Gun (SR) 7th wk 210
Jack Sogg. 76, Succumbs;
Former MGM Branch Mgr.
elJ.Vhl.ASU— Jack .Sogg. 7(,. former
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer branch
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y e a r s. d i c d
Wednesday. December
22. in M i a m i
Beach. Fla. He had
retired three years
ago.
.Sogg was a member
of the Variety Club.
Motion Picture Pioneers
and was a .^2nd
degree Mason.
manager for
.Services were held
in this city Friday.
.lark .Souu
December 24.
He leaves his wife Lisa: two daughters.
.Mrs. Gloria Albert and Mrs. Shirley Bergcr,
and a son Dr. ,\lan .Sogg.
These rolet for US, Conodo, Pon-Americo only Ofh«r counrriti: $10 o reot
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Mrs. Mabelle Kendis Fine
CLEVELAND — Mrs. Mabelle Kendis
Fine. 67. died Wednesday. December 22.
Her husband Mycr S.. who was board chairman
of Associated Theatres of Cincinnati
and this cil\. died last year. Mrs. Fine is
survived by two sons. Marshall H. and E.
Bruce.
"Dirty Harry" stars Clint Eastwood as a
tough San Francisco police detective.
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Boston Astor Theatre
Files Antitrust Suit
BOSTON—Proven Pictures of Boston,
operator of the downtown Astor Theatre
here, has filed a $13.2 million antitrust
action in federal court here against local
exhibitor Benjamin Sack and a number of
other companies alleging a conspiracy to
force the Astor out of business by denying
it the opportunity to negotiate for the
exhibition of certain pictures.
Ihe suit charges that because of these
alleged difficulties the Astor has had difficulty
in operating "in the manner in which
it has been operated and to continue to
enjoy the goodwill and patronage of the
theatregoing population of Boston."
It charges the defendants for many years
have been violating the antitrust laws by
combining and conspiring with each other
and with other distributors to restrain interstate
trade and commerce in the distribution
and exhibition of motion pictures.
In addition to Sack, other defendants are
Saxon Theatres Corp. of Boston, Gary Theatres,
Sack Cheri 111, Beacon Hill Theatre,
Boston Music Hall Theatre. Savoy Theatre,
PcVA Industries, Cadence Industries, Cinerama
Releasing Corp.. Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer, 2()th Century-Fox, United Artists
and Warner Bros.
Proven Pictures also alleges that the
distributor defendants entered into sham
negotiations with Proven Pictures for firstrun
films, then licensed the pictures to
other exhibitors; that the distributors agreed
to provide pictures with high boxoffice
potential as opening attractions for new
theatres built by exhibitors named in the
suit, and that the accused distributors pay
advertising allowances and other fringe
benefits to exhibitor defendants which are
not paid other exhibitors.
In addition. Proven Pictures asks the
court to enjoin Sack and the other defendants
from acquiring ownership of any
motion picture theatre in Boston or within
20 miles of the corner of Tremont and
Boylston streets, and to limit Sack and
other defendants to three theatres in the
Tremont and Boylston area.
Theatre at Norwalk. Conn.,
Begins Live Attractions
NORWALK, CONN.—For the first time
in many years, the stage at the Norwalk
Theatre was opened for a live presentation,
with five performances of "The Nutcracker
Suite" presented by the Ballet Etudes
Repertory Co. The Norwalk, formerly the
Regsnt, was reopened some years ago by
the Nutmeg Theatre Circuit after being
dark for many years. The theatre, which
has a first-run film policy, was given a
complete face-lift early last year and. after
extensive backstage reconstruction carried
out by Atlas Scenic Studios, went live for
the Christmas presentation.
The Norwalk has the only operating
stage in the area. Nutmeg hopes to continue
a policy of presenting quality live
entertainment at resular intervals.
BOXCFFICE :: January 10, 1972
'Diamonds Are Forever'
Sefs Record
For NE Theatres; 'Dirfy Harry 700
BOSTON—In one of the biggest upsurges
ever, Boston exhibition set records over the
Christmas weekend. With weather bright
and the big product, crowds lined up around
theatres. Biggest hit of all, and setting a new
record for any theatre in New England in
film history was "Diamonds Are Forever,"
which grossed over $100,000 for its first
week, setting a new house record and breaking
the single day's gross records for Saturday
and Sunday, December 25 and 26, with
over $40,000, at the 4,400-seat Sack Music
Hall, where crowds lined up all through the
day and night.
"Dirty Harry" hit a record 700 per cent
at the Savoy Two in its holiday opening.
"Straw Dogs" is loftily above average (500)
at the Pi Alley. "WR: Mystery of the Organism"
is 230 at the Paris. "Harold and
Maude" opened with 375 at the Cheri
Three. "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot
Straight" hit 300 at Ben Sack's new Cinema
57. '$" rang up 150 at the Abbey Two,
tying with "Star Spangled Girl" at the
Circle. "Beast of Yellow Night" grossed 175
at the Center.
The long runs held up solidly above average
with 'The French Connection" at 450
in its eighth week at the Savoy One. "Fiddler
on the Roof," the only roadshow in
town, pulled 460 in its eighth week at Cheri
One and Two.
(Average Is 100)
Center Bcosf of the Yellow Night (SR), Creature
With the Blue Hond (SR)
175
Charles El Topo (SR), 5th wk
300
Cheri One, Two Fiddler on the Roof (UA),
8th wk 460
Cheri Three Harold ond Maude (Para) 375
FILM CLUB MEETS—Shown at
a recent luncheon meeting of the Motion
Picture Club of New England are
standing, left to right: past chairman
Dave Titleman, MGM; secretary-treasurer
Bob Rancatore, National General
Pictures, and past chairman Johnny
Peckos, 20th Century-Fox. Seated: pa.st
chairman Harvey Appell, American International
Pictures; present chairman
Florio Simi, Buena Vista Films, and
past chairman Jack Keegan, Avco Embassy
Pictures. The goal of the club
is to establish a welfare fund. The
n:eeting was held at Nick's Restauiant,
Boston, with most of the local film
community present.
its
Cinemo 57 The Gong Thot Couldn't Shoot
Straight (MGM)
300
Circle Cinema Star Spangled Girl (Pora)
150
Gary Bedknobs and Broomsticks (BV), 6th wk 700
Kenmore King Leor (SR), 4th wk
175
Loews Abbey One The Lost Picture Show (Col),
7th wk
400
Loews Abbey Two—$ (Col)
150
Music Holl Diomonds Arc Forever (UA) 1 ,000
Paris Cinema WR; Mystery of the Organism
(SR)
230
Pi Alley Straw Dogs (CRC)
500
Savoy One The French Connection (20th-Fox),
8th wk
450
Savoy Two Dirty Harry (WB)
700
Saxon Sometimes o Great Notion (Univ),
2nd wk
500
West End Cinemo Dagmor's Hot Ponts (AlP),
5th wk
125
"Diamonds,' 'Star Spangled Girl'
Lead New Haven First Runs
NEW HAVEN—"Diamonds Are Forever."
in a rare four-theatre bow (two indoors,
two drive-ins) paced the town with
an encouraging 300 per cent. Second position
went to "Star Spangled Girl," drawing
225 in its debut at the Westville and Whitney,
"$" drew a double-average 200 per
cent in its opening frame at the Showcase
Cinema I.
.
Cinemart The Gong That Couldn't Shoot Straight
175
Friends
(MGM)
College Street Cinema Some of My Best
Are . . (AlP) .
115
Crown Fever, Fever, Fever (SR) 135
Four theatres Diamonds Are Forever (UA) 300
Roger Sherman The Dirty Outlaws (SR); The
Peace Killers (SR), 2nd wk 70
Showcase Cinema I— $ (Col) 200
Showcose Cinema III Harold and Maude (Para) 90
Westville, Whitney Star Spangled Girl (Para) .225
Whalley
(Col)
York Square Cinema Murmur of the Heart (SR) ,150
The Go-Between 150
'Star Spangled Girl,' 'Diamonds'
Holiday Pace-Setters in Hartford
HARTFORD—A dozen new attractions
gave the city its greatest first-run choice in
many months. The pace-setters included
"Star Spangled Girl" (300. Avon Park I,
Berlin Cine I), "Diamonds Are Forever"
(275, Burnside, Cinema I) and "Dagmar's
Hot Pants" (250, Strand). In an unusual
,
twist, the Rivoli ran a free-to-the-public
preview of "Murmur of the Heart."
Art Cinema Adultery for Fun and Profit (SR) .150
Stor Spangled Girl
Avon Park I, Berlin Cine I
(Para) 300
100
Berlin Cine II Bless the Beasts & Children (Col)
Burnside, Cinema I Diamonds Are Forever (UA) .275
Bushnell Memorial Peter Rabbit and Tales of
Beatrix Potter (MGM)
Central Harold and Moude (Para)
75
80
Clineromo The Gang That Couldn't Shoot
Straight (MGM) 150
Cine Webb East Hartford Cinema I Dirty Harry
(WB) 125
Elm—The Go-Between (Col) 1 35
Mall Cinema, UA Theatre East The French
Connection (20th-Fox), 6th wk 130
Newington Bedknobs and Broomsticks (BV),
6th wk 100
Paris Cinema I Straw Dogs (CRC) 125
Rivoh Murmur of the Heart (SR) 150
Strand Dagmar's Hot Pants (AlP) 250
Twins at Stoneham. Mass..
Opened by General Cinema
.STONEHAM, MA.SS.— Ribbon cutting
ceremonies were held for this city's Cinema
I and II with civic officials and officers
of General Cinema Corp. participating.
The original Stoneham Cinema opened
in May 1968 and now has been expanded
to two theatres. Cinema I seating 407 patrons
and Cinema 11 with a capacity of
431.
NE-1

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First Sack Cinema 57
To Open on Jan. 25
HOSHJN I he iicvv S.ick ( incin.t 57,
I iV 2. lociicd .11 2(M) SliKirt St.. will be
Boston's niosl modern and luxurious theatres,
Ben Sack, president of Sack Theatres,
said at a preview of the twin cinemas under
construction in the Carver 57 complex'
which now is being erected.
The $1,250,000 twins will have a
garage on the premises with reduced rale
parking available for 1,500 cars. The two
theatres are part of the SI 5.000.000 Boston
Redevelopment Authority project. The complex,
which is almost completed on the site
of the former 57 Carver Street Restaurant,
also includes a multi-storied modem Howard
Johnson motel and a new 57 Carver
Street Restaurant incorporating a unique
combination of entertainment facilities
under one roof.
For the entertainment of patrons waiting
for showtime, the theatres will have
background music pif)ed into all lounge
areas. A huge art gallery will be incorporated
into the theatre design and will feature
exhibits from prominent contemporary
artists, many of them from the New England
area. Theatre patrons thus will be afforded
music and art in addition to cinema.
S.ick announced plans for a premiere
performance and dinner party January 25.
with 1,000 people invited from Hollywood
.md New York filmdom for the opening
attraction, "The Hospital." Cinema 2 will
open with "A CliK-kwork Orange" February
9.
Sack said that he is continuing to build
theatres in downtown Boston because he
has "faith" in the city and its downtown
business. He said that while downtown film
theatres in other cities are closing, he is
bucking the trend and getting ready to
open more film houses. "Downtown Boston
is the only city in the United Stales that
actually has downtown first-run theatres.
They're all gone in Cleveland, in Detroit,
in California. He added " that without public
support, the theatres would close, darken
the area at night and cut down on stores,
resl.iurants and taxis. "It happened in
Cleveland." he said.
As to motion picture policy. Sack indicated
that he has two basic qualifications:
(I) quality and (2) diversity. First and
foremost is the consideration of quality
films. It is Sack's avowed intention to continue
to provide Boston filmgoers with the
same high qu.ility first-run films.
Sack feels that one of the salient advantages,
in his mind, to a twin cinema is
the attribute of flexibility. Some filmgoers
like music. lis, others prefer drama, some
like art films, others prefer "commercial"
films. The two-in-one makes it possible to
offer a choice of films. Show times will
he staggered so that patrons who find it
inconvenient to attend at one lime, can
attend .It another. Also, if one theatre is
sold out. they have another to choose from.
The number of theatres operated by the
Boston-based circuit total 19. Already in
operation in Bi.>ston are Sack's .Music Hall,
Savoy, Saxon, Gary, Pi .\lley, Cheri 1, 2.
and 3 complex and the 4 theatre complex
in Searsiown. Set to open next year in
Boston is the new Beacon Hill Theatre, a
single 1,000-seat auditorium rising on the
site of the old Beacon Hill in the 52 million
dollar, 40-story Employers-Commercial
Union office building complex, and in Danvers,
a 4 theatre complex to open in February.
For the new Sack Cinema 57. now in
final stages of construction, the architect
is Victor Vitols of Samuel Glaser & Partners:
seating is 1,000 in Cinema 1, 800.
in Cinema 2. Pushback seats are Griggs
40-inch plus. Carpeting color is spectrum
of reds by Philadelphia Carpets.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
The King Cinema, Manchester, came up
with something different, schedulewise,
in a pitch for greater family midweek
attendance: the showcase ran a 5:.'er. About 80 employees and
friends were present. One of the high points
of the evening came when one of the employees,
Walter Campbell, revealed that he
and his wife had 12 children and 57 grandchildren.
The Scott employees gave a rousing
three cheers for Campbell and named
him "top producer of the year."
Warner Bros,
welcomed newcomer Chip
Settinbrini to Boston and the booking department.
He will talie charge of the New
Haven accounts. A graduate of .Manhattan
College, he majored in education and this
last summer made contact with a friend in
New York, joined the New York WB office
and. after a training course with the company,
was transferred to Boston.
Paramount manager Herb Baker's booking
department lined up 24 theatres for a
seven-day matinee showing during Christmas
Week for "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
Factory" . Motion Picture Club
of New England, newest local group, held
its first regularly scheduled monthh luncheon
meeting at Nick's Restaurant on December
16. with Buena Vista's Florio Simi
officiating as chairman lor the month. There
were 135 members present, including representatives
from distribution, circuits and independent
theatremen. Film district toastmaster
George Roberts played Santa Claus
and many gifts were handed out. The next
luncheon is scheduled for Thursday (27).
RHODE ISLAND
£j\hlhition was happ\
to hear that statewide
employment figures are holding their
own this winter. The State Departments of
Labor and Employ ment .Security jointly disclosed
that the estimate of unemployment in
Rhode Island was about 23.400—equal to
5.9 per cent of the work force.
Ihe Park Cinema, Cranston, brought
back Columbia's "Flight of the Doves" for
children's matinees on a recent Saturday
and Sunday, charging 75 cents for all seats.
There were 1 and 3 p.m. performances on
both afternoons.
The stales-rights release, "A History of
the Blue Movie." went into a record-shatlering
second month's stay at Columbus Twin
I
heatres. Providence.
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EOXOFFICE :: January 10, 1972 NE-3

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Academy Film Fete
Slated in Hartiord
HAKIhORD — Iwo-iime Academy
Award winner Fredric March and his wife,
actress Florence Eldridge, will attend the
Saturday (29) opening of an Academy
Award Film Festival sponsored by the
United Cerebral Palsy Ass'n of Hartford.
All attractions will be screened at the
Avery Memorial Theatre of the Wadsworth
Aiheneum.
The Marches will attend the showing of
I946's The Best Years of Our Lives."
Also invited is Harold Russell, who appeared
with March in the .Samuel Goldwyn
production.
Sub^e^ue^^ films; "You Can"t Take It
With You," March 11. "The Life of Emilc
Zola." March 25; "Adam's Rib. " April 27:
•.Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." Ma\ 11:
and "Broadway Melody," May 15.
Sinijle ticket admission is S2.
MAINE
Tn an iiiiiisual booking schedule, the Fine
Arts IT I complex. Portland, booked
UA's "Diamonds Are Forever" into both
theatres day-and-date in anticipation ot
heavy bo.xoffice response for the newest
(X)7 adventure. Prcopening ads said the
move was to "guarantee your seeing this
new James Bond adventure!"
The touring company of Neil Simon's
stage comedy. 'I he 1 ,ist of the Red Hot
Lovers." is scheduled for the City Hall Auditorium.
Portland, Tuesday (II) at %(> top
admission.
Bus operations are to end by next July,
according lo the Greater Portland Transportation
Co. The firm has so informed the
Portland Cilv Council.
Kelleher 90th Birthday;
Retired Theatremon
IIAKIIORU kciiicJ H,.riford exhibitor
Martin H. Kelleher recently marked
his 9()th birthday.
He started in the industry with operation
of the 7orringti>n I'he.itre. Torrington.
Conn., in l^OS.
Six years later, he joined the Lite Louis
B. \l.iyer in distribution of United World
Films, based in Boston, then went on to
work for First National Pictures and UA.
He took over the downtown, subsequentrun
r - 're in 19.^2.
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THE
INDUSTRY'S
"OWN"
Rhode Island Tries to Lure
State
NY-Based Firms to
PK()\ ll)LN(_L— (he Rhode M.ind business
community, including motion picture
exhibition, is expected lo benefit from a
newlv launched campaign by the Rhode
Island Development Council to lure New
York City-based corporation headquarters
to this stale.
Adolph T. Schmidt, council executive
director, said that he believes the lime is
"ripe" to approach officials of such corporations
with all of the arguments Rhode
Island can compile about assets of this state
for corporate headquarters location.
The Development Council notes that big
city problems of New York—crime in the
streets, overcrowded transportation, the high
cost of doing business, taxes, lack ol new
space and uneasiness of living conditions
are driving headquarters of giant companies
out of Manhattan.
The Schmidt staff is making its pitfh
through advertising, personal visitations and
a mail campaign. Bo.xoifice was told.
txhibition-wise. Rhode Island in recent
years has seen an influx of "new" theatre
firms—such as National General Corp.
into prime locations.
NEW HAVEN
T eonard .Sanip.son and Robert Spodick of
Sampson & Spodick Theatres are using
the ad catchline. 'Best Films in Town at
Lincoln and Crown." on all outgoing circuit
mail. Spodick is current president of National
Ass'n of Theatre Owners of Connecticut.
The Strand, Hanidcn. lor a change-ofpacc.
played two new Italian films on a recent
Monday and Tuesday . . . The subsequent-run
Fairmount distributed free candy
and ice cream at a holiday season children's
matinee. Main screen feature was PRO Pictures'
"I he Christmas Kid." Admission was
75 cents for all seats.
I'hc trade extended condolences to Jerome
and Claire Conboy on the sudden
death of their youngest son. Charles, in
Stratford. The elder Conboy. long a Bridgeport
projectionist, now lives in Fort Lauderdale.
Fla.
I lu- New Haven Chamber of Commerce
IS pridcfully taking full-page newspaper ads
to stress availability of .1.150 more parking
spaces in the downtown area, with of>ening
of the 2,4(K)-car capacity Coliseum Garage
and 750-car capacity Crown .St. Garage.
Conn. Univ. Branch Shows
Old Fernandel Import
lORRINGION. CONN.— I
he vintage
Lernandel import. "The M.m in the Raincoat."
was screened at the Torrington
Branch. University of Connecticut, under
sponsorship of the branch's Film Society.
.Admission was SI for adults and 75 cents
for
students.
HARTFORD
Teddie Kdihimt. son of Harold Konover,
president of H.K. Theatres and H.K.
Film Distributors, and Mrs. Konover. is to
be married to Rachel Rosenbaum. a native
of Tel Aviv. Israel. The two \oung people
met while Teddie. a University of Hartford
undergraduate, was in Israel on summer
holiday.
Louis B. Singer. HI, father-in-law of
. . .
Bernie Mcnsehell ol Menschell Theatres,
died at Hartford Hospital Mrs. Joe
Giobbi, wife of the retired Crown Theatre
manager, is recuperating trom surgery.
.Murrj
Levine, northern Connecticut franchise
holder for Jerry Lewis Cinemas, will
be flying to Las Vegas Wednesday (12) for
the first national convention of Jerry Lewis
Cinemas area directors and exhibitors. Murry
tells us at least .10 people Irom metropolitan
Hartford will attend.
Republican Theodore dil^irenzo made a
$46,000 loan to his own campaign committee
for his unsuccessful race against incumbent
Mayor George Athanson in the November
2 Hartford election, it has been disclosed.
DiLorenzo, a Hartford attorney, is
son of the late Connecticut Industrs pioneer
A.}, dil.orenzo and nephew of M.J. "Micke\"
Daly, also an industry pioneer and still
active in the trade as head of Hartford-based
Daly Theatre Corp.
Selectmen to Try Again
To Block Drive-In View
HI Kl IN. ( ONN —
I
he question has
come up again in this midstate town of
whether the board of selectmen can make
ihe Berlin Drive-In block its attractions
from the view of residents in nearby homes
and motorists on the adjacent Berlin turnpike.
"Not onh IS it .i traffic hazard, but
youngsters are exposed to X-rated films."
said first selectman .Arthur B. Powers.
He added that he realizes that because of
supreme court decisions, the town cannot
dici.iie the kind of entert.iinnieni shown
at Ihe theatre, but he \\,inis ihe screen
blocked from public view.
.Selectman Powers indicated he would
write to proper slate authorities for assist-
.mce in wordinu of a town ordin.inee
John S. Cont(3ras sr.. Dies;
Connecticut Film Pioneer
H \R1I ORl) John S. Contaras sr.. 79.
( onneclicul lilni induslr\ pioneer, died
recent K
Born in Greece, he owned the former
Capitol Theatre. New Britain, with Peter
G. Perakos sr., another industry pioneer,
later joining with Peter Perakos and the
Hoffman family in building the Strand
New Britain.
He operated theatres in Connecticut for
Ihe.itre,
60 years.
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Stan Sobol Is Named
Tent 28 Chief Barker
TORONTO—Stan Sobol has been elected
chief barker of Variety Club of Ontario
Tent 28. Other crew members for 1972 will
include Doug Wells, first assistant chief
barker; Alex Stewart, second assistant chief
barker; Sam Handler, property master, and
dough guy, Andrew Rouse.
Harvey Dobbs, Bob Lawrence. Bill Meredith,
Jack Sturman, Myer Axler and Bill
Murray will serve as canvasmen.
'Fantasia' Has Fantastic
New Lure for Canadians
TORONTO — The outstanding success
achieved by Disney Productions' "Fantasia"
in the Dominion Cinema here was one of
I he pleasant surprises of the usually slow
preholiday weeks. Termed an "old flop" by
Clyde Gilmour in the Star, manager Bert
Brown reports that the film did comparatively
light business through the week but
"boomed" on weekends.
Certainly this was a pleasant revelation to
Herb Mathers, president of Bellevue Film
Distributors, which distributes all Disney
product across Canada. "Back in 1941," he
recalled for the press, " 'Fantasia' ran about
six weeks as a roadshow attraction at the
Royal Alexandra. Many years later it had
a short run at the old Tivoli on Victoria
Street, just before that theatre was torn
down."
"But 'Fantasia' has become a real hit
during the past two years, including ten
weeks at the Capitol in 1970," Mathers
continued. "It had shorter runs later at the
Park and Cinecity. The same holds true
right across Canada, with big business in
Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg
and Montreal. We expect similar returns in
Halifax this month."
Award to
Is Accepted by Daughter
Charlie Chaplin
TORONTO—Charlie Chaplin's daughter
Gcraldine was a visitor in Toronto recently
to accept, on behalf of her father, a citation
from Convergence, the international journal
of adult education, and also to attend the
North American premiere of "Modern
Times." Both events took place at the Uptown
Three.
Miss Chaplin flew in from Madrid,
Spain, to accept the citation from Secretary
of State Gerard Pelletier in a quiet ceremony
which preceded the screening. The
Convergence medal went to Chaplin for "the
gift of laughter, self-understanding and
communication." Miss Chaplin gave a press
conference during her stay, as well as making
radio and TV appearances.
"Modern Times," made 35 years ago, had
its regular opening at the Uptown. It is the
first of nine classic Chaplin films to be rereleased
in a $6,000,000 distribution deal.
Leslie Allen, broadcasting executive and film
distributor, has paid $2,500,000 for the Canadian
distribution rights to the films.
Tiddler/ Trench Connecfion' Both
'Excellenf in Toronto; 3 Very Good'
TORONTO—Both "Fiddler on the
Roof," in its fourth week at the University,
and "The French Connection," in its fifth
at the Imperial did top business. Other big
grossers included "On the Buses," in its
debut at the Capitol Fine Art, and "Summer
of '42," nearing the end of its run in a
thirty-second frame at the Towne Cinema.
Capitol Fine Art On the Buses (Asfrol) Good
.
Corlton Face-0*f (Phoenix), 4th wk Foir
Downtown Who Killed Mary Whots'ernome
(IFO)
Good
Hollywood (North) Carnol Knowledge (20th-Fox),
20th v/k Good
Hollywood (South) Bedknobs and Broomsticks
(BV), 3rd wk Good
Hyland Sunday, Bloody Sunday (UA), 8th wk. Good
Imperial The French Connection (20th-Fox),
5th wk Excellent
Towne Cinema Summer ot '42 (WB),
32nd wk Very Good
University Fiddler on the Roof (UA),
4th wk
Excellent
Uptown Man )
in the Wilderness (WB),
2nd wk
Good
Uptown 2—The Steagle (20th-Fox) Good
Uptown 3— Billy Jack (V/B), 2 1 st wk Very Good
Uptown Backstage 200 Motels (UA),
4f h wk Good
York 1 Welcome to the Club (Col) Poor
York 2 The Go-Between (Col), 17th wk Good
"Chrome and Hot Leather' Only
Winnipeg
'Good' Newcomer in
WINNIPEG — Business was generally
slow, but grosses were average for this
time
of year. Only holdovers "Skin Game," "Billy
Jack" and "Summer of '42" managed aboveaverage
returns, as did newcomers "Chrome
and Hot Leather" and "Simon, King of the
Witches," a double bill at the Odeon.
"Kotch" slipped after several strong weeks;
Jack Nicholson's "Drive, He Said" was dis-
'Antoine' Bows in 11
Across Canada
Cities
TORONTO—"Mon Oncle Antoine," the
Film Board feature which won eight Etrogs
at the Canadian Film Awards presentation
last fall, opened in 11 Canadian cities
Christmas Eve. The original French version
was booked at Quebec. Trois-Rivieres, Sherbrooke,
Hull. St. Hyacinthe, Victoriaville
and Rouyn, while it opened with English
subtitles in Vancouver, Calgary. Edmonton
and Ottawa.
At the same time. Claude Jutra's "Mon
Oncle Antoine" continues its upgrade struggle
to be recognized as perhaps the best
Canadian feature film ever made. It drew
Star took serious exception to the total
editorial comment in the Star, as did the
Canadian film industry in its entirety. The
handling
of this
film product, pointing out that
the marketing and distribution process—in
the Star's own terms — "almost botched the
selling job!"
Wrote the Star: "Filmmaking has progressed
from an impoverished art form to
light industry to national culture. Men such
as Jutra and Don CGoin' Down the Road')
Shebib have amply proven that the talent is
here. Ottawa must ensure that it is not
appointing, as was "Born to Win."
Capitol Skin Gome (WB), 7th wk
Good
Downtown Bury Me on Angel (IFD); Angels Hord
as They Come (IFD)
Fair
Gaiety Billy Jock (WB), 8th wk Good
Garrick Drive, He Said (Col) Fair
Garrick II— Born to Win (UA) F'oor
King's Out of Touch (Astral)
Average
Metropolitan Believe in Me (MGM) Average
North Star Unman, Wittering and Zigo (Para);
Been Down So Long (Para)
Average
North Star II— Kotch (IFD), 9th wk Average
Odeon Chrome and ffot Leather (Astrol); Simon,
King of the Witches (Astral) Good
Polo Park—Summer of '42 (WB), 26th wk Good
Towne—Zochoriah (IFD) Average
"Fiddler on the Roof Continues
As Montreal's Top Attraction
MONTREAL—Theatres enjoyed moderate
boxoffice results in the week under review.
As the new year approached, most ot
the larger theatres reported themselves generally
satisfied with operations. The attendance
was not up to par with a year ago, but
gross revenues showed some improvement
over the past few months.
Alouette Le Ciel Est Bleu (Ind), 2nd wk Fa.r
Atwater Cinema I The French Connection
(20th.Fox), 7th wk Fair
Atwater Cinema II The Go-Between (Col) .Excellent
Capitol Diomonds Are Forever (UA) Excellent
Cinema Place du Canada Fiddler on the Roof
(UA), 2nd wk ExcellenI
Cinema Place Ville Mane One Day in the Life of
Ivan Denisovich (IFD), 4th wk. . .
Fair
Cinema Westmount Square Believe in Me
(MGM), 2nd wk
Foir
Imperial La Moison Sous les Arbres (Ind),
nth wk
Fair
Loews Chandler (MGM)
Good
Palace The Stewordesses (Astral), 5th wk Fair
Porisien L'Homme Orchestre (Ind), 5th wk Fair
Seville Lolo (Astral) Good
Snowdon How Is Your Love Life? (Ind), 2nd wk. Fair
Vendome Troffic (Ind), 6th wk Fair
Westmount Desperate Characters (Para),
4th wk Fair
York The Hired Hand (Univ) Good
wasted. It is Ottawa that doles out the
funds to the film board and the Canadian
Film Development Corp. Let us ensure that
the good things they make don't get
lost ..."
"Mon Oncle Antoine" continues to do
proportionately better with English subtitles
at the 285-seat Cinecity here than at the
2.380-seat St. Denis in Montreal, where it is
showing in its original French version. Both
theatres, however, are reporting hefly
grosses.
2 Asphyxiated at Ozoner
LONDON, ONT.—Two young people attending
the 401 Drive-In here died of asphyxiation
at a recent weekend showing.
The couple apparently failed to keep their
car properly ventilated while the motor was
running.
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phc Idial press reports that Ottawa is working
out a new national film f>olicy. It is
suggested that under this policy the National
Film Board will be "cased out" of some of
its current film production, allowing federal
departments to have movies made wherever
they choose. It would centralize the Canada
Council's current film grants and establish
a commission to oversee all production. It
also would set up a theatre in Ottawa to
show motion pictures under National Art
Centre auspices and would form formal
national film archives. .Sitting on the commission
would be Sydney Newman of the
National Film Board, Michael Spencer of
the Canadian Film Development Corp..
George Davidson of the Canadian Broadcasting
Corp. and representatives of private
film production. Incidentally, the CFDC
will soon receive its entire S 10.000.000 federal
grant, as requested, or a single-year
S.^. 500.000 allotment.
"Fiddler on the Roof at the University
and ".Man in the Wilderness" at the Uptown
are still packing 'em in . . . This city's
newest magazine. Impact, was distributed
for the first time to patrons attending local
Odeon and Famous Players theatres. It is a
handsome publication edited by Stephen
Chesley and Kathy Cole.
On firm orders from Stanley Kubrick, his
new tilni ".A ( lockwork Orange" was the
first to have a Sunday opening in this city.
By so doing, the local Warner Bros, office
followed the pattern for similar openings in
New York. Los Angeles and San Francisco
—the only cities to have a simultaneous
opening. Our town obviously was included
in this premiere because of the world record
established by Kubrick's "2001: A Space
Odyssey" during its two-year engagement
at the Glendale.
Details on two recent Famous Players
Bonus .Award promotion campaigns have
been released. Manager Jack Heaps at the
Capitol in Regina won with his "I.e Mans"
effort, which featured a tie-in with the local
CM dealer as well as a display of stills at
all Gulf service stations in the area. A radio
contest promoted "Play Misty for Me" at
the Capitol in Regina, where Neil Klebaum
is manager.
The Odeon head office advertising and
public relations department here welcomes
Sam Jackson, who joins the company as a
trainee. Sam is a graduate of the Centennial
College of Applied Arts and Technology
and graduated with honors (Silver Medal)
from the post-secondary course of Communications
Creative Advertising last April.
This academic distinction resulted in employment
by the college and he was public
relations officer at Centennial until he left
to join Odeon. Sam is 23. a bachelor and is
a fine photographer and scuba diving instructor.
.At Odeon he will receive on-thejob
training directly from Charles Mason,
director of advertising and public relations,
and from his assistant Glenn Lettau. Best of
luck. .Sam'
Recent iie\> bookings included "The Boy
Friend" at the Uptown One: "Star Spangled
Girl" at the Yorkdale Cinema: "Harold and
Maude" at the Hollywood; "something big"
at the Glendale: "S" at the Hyland: ".Straw
Dogs" at the Uptown Two. and others.
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comedy films. Buster Keaton's best.
The movies are from the collection of Raymond
Rohauer. the American film archivist
who is responsible for the survival of many
early screen classics that otherwise might
have been lost through neglect or disintegration
of the old silver nitrate prints.
Rohauer came here to present the Buster
Keaton Film Festival to the press . . .
Charlie Chaplin films also are being presented
locally at the Snowdon and Alouelte
theatres.
The Morld premiere of "Tiens-toi Bien
.Apres les Orcilles a Papa." starring a number
of Quebec artists including the outstandingly
well-known Dominique Michel,
was held recent at Cinema V. The film was
presented simultaneously at the Jean Talon
Movie, the Maisiinneuve. Fleur dc Lys and
Cinema de Paris.
(iniiieii (>i'linas, now head of the Canadian
Film Development Corp.. said he is
all in favor of young people getting into
movies. The former actor and director said,
"If I were a young man again, I would get
as much experience as possible in theatre
as an actor and as a director—but I would
say to myself that my career is going to be
in the motion picture business." Gelinas
continued. "In movies there is the possibility
of expanding one's audience and. if the film
is good, then there is no comparison to the
stage . .
."
Paul .\lmond is editing his latest film.
"Underskv." a tale about a girl who wanders
into pioneer community and stays. It was
shot last summer, with Genevieve Bujold and
John Vernon starring, at a location near
Tadoussac. Quebec.
''Le Chagrin el la Pitie," the 260-minute
documentary on France under German occupation,
was shown at the Cinematheque
Quebecoise here. The film made by Marcel
Ophuls has provoked bitter debate and controversy
wherever it has been shown.
Famous Players to Keep
1971 Levels This Year
MONIRLAL — George P. Dcstounis.
president of Famous Players. Ltd.. said
that due to the limited nature of the company's
business, it is expected that its job
situation will maintain a status quo and
prices will remain fixed. He added. "We
have no actual projected figures on capital
spending, but this will involve the general
upkeep of our properties, excluding, of
course, our realty development program.
"Our general expectation for 1972 is that
it has been and will continue to be a fact
that we have very little contix)! over what
the producers, worldwide, will offer our
screens.
"Based on the first quarter's releases. I
can assume that by nature of the product we
have seen, and keeping our expenses in line,
we should maintain our present level.
"It also is fair to state that if we arc
fortunate in having in any one period an
attraction as successful as I97rs i.ovc
Story.' any two of which are literally sufficient
to carry the circuit, we would be most
optimistic for the year.
"Generally in 1971 our conventional
theatres have maintained attendance, but
our drive-in theatres have suffered due to
climatic conditions of the early spring openings."
"Two People" is a contemporary
story starring Peter Fonda.
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DiiriiiK the course ol each year. Variety
Club lent 47 canvasman Doug Isinan
promotes many cultural and sporting events
in his role of local representative for Northwest
Releasing and partner in Famous Artists
but none gives him as much pleasure as
the annual Christmas party for the lower
mainland retarded kiddies held in the Cave
supper club. The 1971 occasion was no exception,
as 700 kiddies, along with 150
supervising adults, were the club's guests.
Helping Doug were Benny Kopelow. who
booked and emceed the show; George Easton.
who looked after the catering; Jimmy
Davie, who set up the transportation and
seating; Lionel and Lucille Courchine. who
were helping out everywhere, and Vi Hosford.
Bill Giglio. Jack Senior, Nat Levant,
many Barnetts. Bob Shields. Abe and Mrs.
Feinstein. Bryan-Rudsion Brown and Dawson
Lxley. plus the Isman and Davie moppets
and. of course, chief barker Keith Matthews
and Irving Lcvinson.
Earl H. Dalj^leish, Warner Bros, branch
manager, and his wife Daisy have just returned
from a holiday on the island of
Maui (Hawaii), where they basked in ocean
breezes and warm sunshine. However, the
trip home was an anticlimax, as they arrived
here in the middle of a snow storm that was
so severe the taxi could not make it up the
steep grade to their home. The Dalgleishs
had to lug their overnight bags up the hill,
then wait a day to get the balance of their
luggage.
A heavy snowfall made it difficult for a
near capacity house to get to the opening
of "Fiddler on the Roof" at the Park. The
weather had moderated by week's end when
"Diamonds Are Forever" opened day-anddate
in the Vogue, Odeon New Westminster
and Odeon West Vancouver. Horror programs
were presented at Famous Players'
Orpheum ("Murders in the Rue Morgue"
and "The Hard Ride") and at Odeon's Coronet
("The \ aiiipirc Lovers").
Vi'cordinK lo Sun coiumni.st Jack Wasserman,
ex-star quarterback Joe Kapp (B.C.
Lions. Minnesota Vikings and Boston Patriots)
is following in Joe Namalh's footsteps
by acting in motion pictures. He reportedly
is currently playing in a western shooting on
location on the slopes of California's Mount
Shasta. His uncle Juan Valencia, ininding
Joe's motel and bar on West Broadway, with
tongue in cheek, quipped: "Can you imagine
someone casting Joe (Mexican-German) as a
wild Indian?"
Danny Ireland, manager of the Odeon
West \ancou\cr and Totem North Vancouver
and man of many hats and talents,
ran his fourth annual Christmas show and
lea parly for the north and west shore senior
citizens in the Totem December 15. The
picture was "Hawaii" and. while Danny
was unable to come up with any survivors
of the epic voyage around Cape Horn made
by the founding fathers, he says several of
his patrons had survived the "economy
passage." seven decks down.
A fire in mid-December in a large grocery
store next door to the Fox Theatre in Victoria,
which started just after patrons had
left the last show, caused water and smoke
damage in the theatre. The house was closed
for a few days for renovation.
"Crj' of the Banshee" was on screen at
the Old Colonial and Granville Street looked
more like Halloween than the holiday season
(if one overlooked the snow, of course).
3 Co-Chairmen Are Name(d
For B'nai B'rith Dinner
From Western Edition
HOLLYWOOD—W i 1 1 i a m Foreman,
president of Pacific Theatres, and film stars
Jack Lemmon and Burt Lancaster have
been named co-chairmen of the Beverly
Hills B'nai B'rith "Man of the Year" dinner
honoring Gordon T. Stulberg. president
and chief operating officer of 20th Century-Fox
Film Corp.
The 25th annual award will
be presented
to Stulberg at the formal dinner in the International
Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton
Hotel March 12. More than 1.500 dignitaries,
entertainment and sports celebrities
and civic and social leaders will attend, according
to Leonard E. Wasserstein, general
chairman, and lodge president Duke Molner.
Mac Benoff. writer of the screenplay
"Bless the Beasts & Children." will produce
the annual show at the award dinner featuring
some of the most illustrious stars of the
entertainment world.
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Saskaloon Radio Contest
Aids 'Play Misty for Me'
A relativels simple radio contest brought
above-average results for the playdate of
"Play Misty for Me" at the Capitol Theatre
in Saskatoon, Sask. Manager Neil
Klebaum approved a contest created by
radio station CKOM, which placed the
names of six staff announcers on a rotating
cartridge. Listeners were invited to
phone in and guess which name would
come up next on the cartridge. This was
played each hour, day and night, for three
days, with winners receiving guest double
passes. The contest received excellent response,
and had its influence in extending
the engaaement for three strong weeks.
Jim Ankruiu,
manager of ABC Southeastern
Theatres' downtown Roxy in
Atlanta, got permission from Atlanta's
Women of the Motion Picture Industry
to use their Junior Members, the
WomPets. in a promotion in the outer
lobby of their theatre plugging "Women
in Cages." A bamboo cage was set
up and during their lunch hours for
three days before the picture opened
the girls put on stencilled prison numbers
and stood forlornly in the cages.
They returned between 4:30 and 5:30
p.m.. peak hours for foot traffic on
busy Peachtree Street, location of the
Roxy. They passed out heralds advertising
the picture and the gross for the
first three days surpassed all expectations.
Shown above, left to right, are
WomPets Ann Clifton and Carol Reagan,
with professional model Ginger
Cotton.
Circuit-Wide Promotional Activities
Help Raise Last-Quarter Revenues
A circuit-wide plan for promotional activities
was successfully carried out during
the last quarter of 1971 by Kent Theatres
to bring in boxoffice cash during a highly
competitive period.
The Kent motion picture theatre chain
with approximately 30 units stretching from
Tallahassee and Jacksonville in
the north to
the Gold Coast area of southeast Florida
in the Cape Kennedy region—has coordinated
its promotional work with Jim Beach
working out of the home office in Jacksonville's
.Southside Drive-In Theatre and
Bill Duggan working out of Vero Beach.
In October and early November free
"vampire teeth" were given away to female
patrons attending performances of "Lust
for a Vampire." This was promoted through
radio, TV and newspaper ads, and included
•Sundav night "vampire cocktail hours" for
patrons.
The first week in November saw the distribution
of 30,000 advance heralds at all
Kent theatres for showings of "The Animals"
in selected houses over the circuit.
Showings of "Mrs. Pollifax-Spy" at the
Kent drive-in theatres were billed as "ladies
night" programs and radio and newspaper
ads pointed out that all ladies were admitted
free when accompanied by a paying
patron.
The return showing of Disney's "Fantasia"
afforded Beach and Duggan a fullscale
promotion plan. Letters went to public
and private schools and colleges, announcing
group prices and special morning showings
for students. This brought several
morning shows to the local St. Johns, with
^00 to 700 students at each showing.
Tie-ups with Florida skin-diving schools
and the Florida Shark Club, coupled with
extensive lobby displays of skin-diving
equipment and shark hunting gear, made
Kent's Plaza Theatre the mecca for sportsminded
youngsters during the run of "Blue
Water, White Death."
The pre-Christmas period became a high
point in the Kent promotions, beginning
with children's matinees in three indoor
houses and a free box of popcorn for each
child paying the 50-cent admission price.
The biggest Kent promotion of the quarter
was a unified circuit-wide price of $1.00
for patrons attending Kent theatres from
December I to December 21. Newspaper,
TV and radio ads carried the message widely
and the public took advantage of the
unusual offer.
Beginning New Year's Eve and continuing
throughout 1972, Kent Theatres
and radio station WAPE have jointly fashioned
a promotional program for a midnight
show on the fourth Friday of each
month, with the programs alternating on a
rotating basis at the Plaza, St. Johns and
Neptune theatres. The shows will all be
billed as midnight parties for youth groups,
and favors will be given to all patrons. The
theatres are using screen trailers in advance
of the shows and radio station WAPE
will promote each show beginning nine days
in advance with around-the-clock spot announcements
and ad lib promotion by disc
jockeys. Also, standees will be in the lobbies
of the three theatres involved for the entire
year.
Aid Concession
Tie-Ins
Sales at Disney Matinee
For his matinee promotion of "Scandalous
John" and "Son of Flubber," manager
Howard Levis had three tie-ins, two of
which definitely boosted sales at the candy
bar of the Palace Theatre in Windsor, Ont.
One tie-in was with a hobby shop which
donated Disney puppets, and these were
given to the children who found "lucky
stars" underneath their Buttercom containers.
The second tie-in resulted in a draw for
a group of "Walt Disney" books, also donated.
Children wrote their names on the
back of their candy wrappers to be eligible
for this prize. In the third tie-in, the Windsor
fire department supplied fire prevention
pamphlets to be distributed during the successful
matinee.
Educational Guide for
'Nicholas and Alexandra'
Columbia Pictures is making available a
special educational guide to "Nicholas and
Alexandra" for use by teachers throughout
the country in conjunction with student
screenings of the Sam Spiegel-Franklin J.
Schaffner production.
The guide offers helpful introductory
material, suggestions for class discussions
both prior to and after seeing the roadshow
attraction, special follow-up projects
for students, and a bibliography.
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Oscar-Winning 1929 Motion Picture
Gets Business-Producing Campaign
Miss Maggie Dent, manager of the Colony
Theatre. Raleigh, N. C, had excellent
business as a result of the campaign she
put on for the 1929 Academy Award-winning
movie, "Wings."
With very little advertising and information
to work with. Miss Dent did quite a
bit of research on the movie and sent press
releases to entertainment editors of surrounding
newsp.ipcrs and college newspapers
telling how "Oscar" got his name,
and another release on the cast, director
and scenarist.
Flyers were sent to a mailing list, as
well as a second attention piece to entertainment
editors of the newspapers. These
were also given out in the lobby of the
theatre, and some were handed out in postered
automobile tours of downtown Raleigh
and shopping centers.
Richard Arlen was inter\'icwed via telephone
on a local radio station before the
movie opened, and enough material in this
interview was received to be u.sed for five
other segments later in the week.
Local movie editor also interviewed .^rlen
by telephone, and the interview material
was used for several articles. Station W'KIX
mentioned the "Wings" opening in late
afternoon news broadcasts on Thanksgiving
Day
.Miss Dent was interviewed on the Belle
Klliott TV show on Wednesday before the
Thursday opening. Five or six stills from
the film were shown and the talk was about
"Wings," its cast and North Carolina members
of the Lafayette Esquadrille.
A photographic exhibit on "Wings" with
the story about the picture and Rich.ird
Schickel's Life review was put up in the
lobby a week or so ahead of of>ening.
Stills were obtained from the curator of
the State Art .Museum on the Lafayette
Esquadrille and three North Carolinians
who had joined it before the U.S. entr\ into
World War L
Leilh Lincoln provided .i car for students
to tour the main areas and hand out
"Wings" flyers. The students were dressed
in costumes of the period provided by the
. . . Opening at Colony
Raleigh Little Theatre.
A plane was leased to fly over the Duke
Stadium during the Duke-Carolina game,
and over the Durham. Chapel Hill. Raleigh
area for one hour, trailing a banner which
read: "See "Wings'
Theatre, Raleigh,
Thursday."
Troy's Stereo Center provided commercial
tape machines for ihc tape Paraniinmt
sent as an accompaniment for the
film.
\ special trailer was made up by Filmack
Steve Foster, niarwger of Commonwealth's Grand Theatre, Rocky Ford, Colo.,
went all-out to get the public aware of the .tact that "Scandalous John" was playing
in Rocky Foid. He dressed his all-state .football player doorman. Randy Wright,
as "Scandalous John" and put him on a horse, and then dressed Joe Tcrrazas as
"Paco," one of the characters in the feature, and put him on a donkey. The two
were sent th'-ou^hout the town where lhe\ stopped traffic and gained considerable
attention. In the meantime, the local radio station was broadcasting where the
pair would appear every few minutes. This created extra traffic for the stores
where the boys appeared. Cimil,,,^ u-iUns; about the show were passed out to
onlookers.
and played prior to opening. One of Paramount's
stills was stolen from the exhibit,
and a classified ad was inserted in
Lost
and Found prior to optening as a form
of teaser ad.
Charles Craven, who does a daily article
in the News & Observer, Raleigh, used an
article sent to him on "Wings" to provide ^icfurther
publicity for the playdate. hat*
Miss Dent reports more out-of-town calls
about "Wings" than any other picture, and
certainly more applause from the audience.
Villain
Contest for
New Connery Film
.•\BC Interstate ihcaircs. Inc.. in cooperation
with the San Antonio News, conducted
a "James Bond Villain Contest" in
conjunction with the opening of the latest
Bond movie. "Diamonds Are Forever,"
which opened at the downtown .Majestic
Theatre in San Antonio, Tex., flagship of
the circuit, and at the Santikos Theatres'
Century South Theatres.
Movie villains not only die. they also
fade away.
Almost everyone knows that Sean Connery
has played the famous James Bond in
half a dozen of the action-packed superspy
movies, so the contest was based on remembering
the actors who portrayed the
bad guys he defeated. The new movie stars
Sean Connery with Jill St. John.
To enter the contest, theatre patrons lolwere
asked to fill out the coupon in the
San Antonio News matching the names of
seven actors with the movies in which each
played James Bond's adversary.
The actors are Joseph Wiseman. Lotte
Lenya, Gert Frobe, Adolph Cell, Orson
Welles, Telly Savalas and Donald Pleasence.
First prize was a three-month pass enabling
the winner to attend any ,ABC Interstate
Theatre free of charge. Second prize
was a $25 U.S. Savings Bond and third prize
was a one-month pass to any ABC Interstate
Theatre. A drawing would have been held
to determine the winners in the contest in
the event of a tie.
Local Tie-Ins Arranged
To Boost 'Le Mans' Run
.Mjii.igci J.ick Hcjp.s o: ihc C .ipilol Ihcatre
in Regina. Sask.. found tie-ins with
the local GM dealer and Gulf service stations
to be a tremendous aid for his "Le
M.ins" campaign. The GM dealer, promotmg
Le .Mans models at the time, gladly
provided two showroom windows for the
display of three-sheets with appropriate
copy. Although a national tie-in with Gulf
could not be arranged. Heaps approached
all 25 of the local stations with large stills
showing Steve McQueen wearing coveralls
with the Gulf crest. These were gladly displayed
in return for double passes. This
promotion represented a great deal of leg
work for Heaps and his assistant, Brvan
Klyberg, but paid off handsomely at the
boxoffice.
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BOXOFFICE Showmandiser :: Jan. 10, 1972

. . The
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Tiddler on the Roof (UA) Wins
December's Blue Ribbon Award
By MARY JO GORMAN
piDDl.ER ON THE ROOF," produced and directed by Norman Jewison, was chosen
the Blue Ribbon Award winner for December bv members of the National Screen
Council. The roadshow musical, based on stories by Sholom Aleichem, has a G rating
from the MPAA and an Al from the NCO. In its initial playdates in key cities, "Fiddler"
has amassed an outstanding 555 per cent of average business. The United Artists
release stars Israel's Topol as Tevye the milkman, the embodiment of hope in the face
of great despair.
BoxoFFiCE reviewed "Fiddler on the
Roof" in its issue on Dec. 6, 1971 (in addition
to a feature review November 8),
stating in part: "The longest-running
musical in history has come to the screen
. . . and appears destined to make history
on its own. Some 35 million people have
seen the show in 32 countries around the
world; many of these will hail the film as
a masterpiece. Producer-director Norman
Jewison, making his filmusical debut, has
relied upon his TV musical special
training
to transfer 'Fiddler' from the stage into a
film of vast appeal . . Israeli star Topol
.
should become a familiar name here as
the result of his singing and acting. Norma
Crane and Leonard Frey are greatly impressive
. . . Paul Mann and Molly Picon
. . .
are excellent in support ... As the eldest
daughters, Rosalind Harris, Michele Marsh
and Neva Small are equally outstanding
The Yugoslavian locales, in Panavision
and Technicolor, capture the realistic
flavor inherent in the Sholom Aleichem
stories. Individual praise is due everyone
connected with the production."
On their ballots, NSC members made
the following comments:
The Best in Years
"Fiddler on the Roof" is more than a
musical, it's a majestic motion picture
that will assuredly be among the front
runners when Oscar nominations come
out—especially for best picture of the
year! It's the most entertaining film of the
season and Topol is tops. The cinematography
is crystal beauty and the musical
arrangements a delight. "Fiddler on the
Roof" is a "matchmaker" for all ages of
moviegoers and proves a "tradition" that
movie musicals are not dead.— Bill Kitchen,
Ottumwa Courier . . . The best in
years! !
!—Leo L e r m a n. Mademoiselle
Magazine, N.Y. . . . Everything clicks for
Tevye
Topol
Golde Norma Crane
Motel
Leonard Frey
Yenie
Molly Picon
Lazar Wolfe Paul Mann
Tzeitel
Rosalind Harris
Hodel Michele Marsh
"Fiddler," a rare time when transfer to
. . . Broadway's
the screen has been even better.—Mrs.
Eugene Fried, Greater Cleveland MPC.
"Fiddler" will be a movie for all time
and should be remembered as a Blue
Ribbon winner.—Ronald Jones, Jones"
Theatres, Shawnee. Okla.
longest-running musical will become one
of filmdom's highest-grossing movies.
Alvin Easter, Cinema Magazine, Minneapolis
Nothing could even try to sur-
. . .
pass it. it has just everything for a spendid
film: good story, good scenery and just
all-around good entertainment. Let's have
some more of this kind again, instead of
some of the very bad ones that have been
coming out lately.— Mrs. Paul Gebhart,
Cleveland WOMPI.
It was great on Broadway and it's great
on film, not only for its music but its
story, too.—Tom Hodge, Johnson City
(Tenn.) Press-Chronicle . we
keep on humming the tunes.—Frank R.
Weirich, News-Sentinel, Knoxville . . .
After seeing the play two times— this
"third time" was really the charm.— Mrs.
J. J. Cowan, Knoxville BFC . . . Inspiring!—Ken
Clark, MPAA, Washington,
D.C. . magic of the stage is magni-
. .
ficent through the touch of the screen.
Art Preston, teacher, Portland, Me.
A musical classic that gained in quality
with its transfer from the stage to the
screen.— Brainard Piatt, Journal Herald,
Dayton . Any new movie which is like an
old, good movie has got to be entertaining.
"Fiddler" is. Its tastefully done, but technically
quite slick. A bit slow the second
half, but there's enough charm in storage
so you don't notice it too much.—Al Shea,
. . "Fiddler"
WDSU-TV, New Orleans .
loses its stage intimacy on a big screen,
but it still is a great story with a fine
score.—George Stump, KFMU, Kansas
City.
The Cast
Production
Produced and Directed
by
Norman Jewison
Screenplay by Joseph Stein
Based on Stories Sholom Aleichem
by . .
Chava Neva Smai i,
Perchik Michael Glaser
Fyedka
Raymond Lovelock
Shprintze Elaine Edwards
Bielke
Candy Bonstein
Mordcha Shimen Ruskin
Rabbi
ZvEE Scooler
Staff
Lyrics by
Harold Harnick
Music by Jerry Bock
Filmed in Panavision
Color bv
De Luxe
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TEVYE'S DAUGHTERS; ELAINE EDWARDS. NEVA SMALL,
ROSALIND HARRIS, MICHELE MARSH, CANDY BONSTEIN
MOTEL (LEONARD FREY) AND TZEITEL (ROSALIND HAR-
RIS) CELEBRATE THEIR ENGAGEMENT WITH A SONG
WHEN COSSACKS ATTACK JEWISH DEMONSTRATORS,
PERCHIK (MICHAEL GLASER) TRIES TO BATTLE THEM
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This award Is givtii each month by the National
Screen Council on the basis of outstanding
merit and suitability for family entertainment.
Council membership comonses motion
picture editors, radio and TV film comments,
tors, representatives of better films councils,
civic, educational and exhibitor oroanizations.

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Opinions on Current Productions Feature reviews
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MARY, QVEEfS OF SCOTS
GP Histoncal^Orama
Universal ( ) 128 Minutes Rel. Spring '72
The best of the current crop of historical dramas is
Wallis' production of "Mary, Queen of Scots." The
stars, Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson, an intelli- _^
gent script by John Hale and direction by Charles Jar- s";dg
rott Uhe latter two also collaborated on Wallis' "Anne mii
of the Thousand Days"; all contribute to the general
excellence. Of late, the term spectacle as applied to films
of this nature has fallen out of use; quite simply, epics
times. As a mini-spectacle, the Universal release crams
a great deal of history into its not overly long running
time. Christopher Challis' photography in Panavision
and Technicolor contains some beautiful locales in
Prance, Scotland and England. The Misses Redgrave and
Jackson both give thouglitful performances, especially
the former in a role running the gamut of emotions.
Trevor Howard, Nigel Davenport and Daniel Massey are
particularly outstanding as some of the men in the lives
of the two queens, Mary of Scotland and Elizabeth of
England. The time in which they lived is an incredible
period in history. For those who prefer history done in a
lively and entertaining manner, this will be the film to
see.
Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson. Patrick McGoohan,
Timothy Dalton, Nigel Davenport, Trevor Howard.

—
'
Terence
FEATURE REVIEWS Story Synopsis,- Exploitips; Adiines for Newspapers and Programs
TH2 STOEV: "The Boy Friend" (MGM)
The Theatre Royal is a second-rate playhouse in
which Max Adrian's prO'luction of "The Boy Friend" is
being performed. When star Glenda Jackson breaks a
leg, Twiggy^the inexperienced assistant stage manager
goes on in her place. The entire company plays directly
to Vladek Sheybal, each hoping to be noticed. Sheybal. „ -n
about to make an all-talking movie, is one of the few -^ifcustomers
that day. Twiggy is in love with Christopher
Gable, the leading man, who seems to prefer Caryl Little.
Complicating matters is Jackson's arrival with less than
encouraging remarks for her replacement. Chorus girl
Antonla Ellis' efforts to sabotage Twiggy are halted by
the men in the show. On stage. Twiggy is a rich girl in
love with messenger boy Gable who also proves to be
wealthy. Twiggy wins him offstage and on and Sheybal
overlooks everyone In favor of chorus boy Tommy Tune,
his long lost son.
EXPLOITIPS:
Use MGM's special souvenii' book as a selling aide. Contact
leading magazines for reproductions of fashion layouts
by Twiggy. Use stills from old musicals for camp
value. Arrange tie-ins vith dance studios.
CATCHLINES:
Fall in Love With Twiggy in Ken Russell's 'The Boy
Friend' . . . The Retuin of Entcrtaimnent ... A Glittering
Super Colossal Heart-Warming Toe-Tapping Delightful
Musical Extravaganza.
THE srOKY: "Diamonds Arc Forever" (LA)
Disposing of an old enemy, Charles Gray, Agent 007
(Sean Connery> is assigned to uncover a plot to corner
the world diamond market. Assassins Bruce Glover and
Putter Smith are eliminating all the middlemen involved.
Impersonating Joe Robinson, a contact man. Connery
meets JiU St. John, acting as go-between. Connery kills
Robinson and accompanies his body to Las Vegas, with
a cache of diamonds. Nearly cremated, Connery contends
with funnyman Leonard Barr and casino girl Lana
Wood—both of whom are murdered. Millionaii-e recluse
Jimmy Dean holds the key to the plot and Connery discovers
Gray is impersonating him. Connery had actually
killed Gray's double and a^ain makes the same mistake.
Dean's missile lab is being used by Gray and Dr. Joseph
Purst to develop a laser with the diamonds. From an
offshore oil rig. Gray demands a world ransom by un- »"'>
leashing the lasers destructive powers. Connery foils ".P"
Gray, kills Glover and Smith, then seeks St. John.
EXPLOITIPS:
Tie-ups with diamond merchants are urged for maximum
results. Obtain ads from other Bond films for a
lobby display. Arrange tie-ups with Las Vegas ti-avel
agencies and bookstores. Erect a miniature oil rig.
CATCHLINES:
Bond Is Back and Diamonds are Forever and Ever and
Ever ... 007 Lets Loose in Las Vegas. The World Is at
Stake.
THE STOKV: 'The Other .Side of Madness' (.Auric)
This film is almost a silent documentary with music.
Very little dialog is used. It depicts the "family" at the
ranch listening to Manson's sermons about the time of
helter-skelter. Drugs are passed around and used. A rock
concert Is held outside. Then the actual killings are depleted
one by one. Kllnknett and three girls go to the
estate and brutally kill their victims. Debbie Duff, as
Sharon Tate who is pregnant, is shown in an earlier color
sequence making a film. Much of the story Is told
through witnesses during the trial. Flashbacks are frequently
used.
EXPLOITIPS:
Exploit the subject matter of the film with reproductions
of newspaper clippings on the murder. It should
appeal to the curious public, particularly the segment
that follows films Uke "In Cold Blood," "The Boston
Strangler." "The Honeymoon Killers" and "10 Rlllington
Place."
CATCHLINES:
The Most Sensational Murder Orgy In History Is . .
Spelled Out! . . . Manson's Actual Songs From His
Album "Lies" Are Used.
THE STORV: "Mary, Queen of Scots" (Lniv)
In 1560, Mary, Queen of Scotland (Vanessa Redgrave)
widowed by the Dauphin o: France (Richard Denning,
is
a British actor and not the Denning of B films and TV).
Her half-brother, Lord James Stuart (Patrick McGoohan>,
welcomes her back tc Scotland although coveting
the crown himself. Cousin Elizabeth I of England
ii(,io
'^ (Glenda Jacksoni, fears that Mary will one day depose
her. With her lover Dudley < Daniel Massey) as bait.
Elizabeth arranges for Mary to accept decadent Lord
Darnley (Timothy Daltjn) as a husband. Mary gives
birth to a son. James, as Darnley plots to usurp her
power. A victim of his own ambition, Darnley is murdered
by the conspirators he betrayed. Mary weds Lord
Bothwell (Nigel Davenport), who dies In exile after
Stuart assumes the throne. When Elizabeth offers no
help. Mary abdicates in favor of her son whom Stuart
is rearing. Mary spends 18 years in prison. Elizabeth's
advisor Cecil (Ti-evor Howard) brings evidence against
Mary and the English queen beheads her cousin.
EXPLOITIPS:
Stress the high quality of Hal Wallis" long list of successful
productions. Arrange for costume displays from
the 16th Century by contacting museums.
CATCHLINES:
Selected for the Royal Film Performance. 1972. London,
to be Attended By Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II . . .
She Would Be Queen. But She Was a Woman First.
THE STORY: "Minnie and Moskowitz" iVniv)
Seymour Cassel, a car lot attendant, discovers that
he isn't getting anywhere in New 'ifork. The philosophy
of Tim Carey, a disoriented widower, points up his aimless
existence. Cassel's mother Katherine Cassavetes
gives him the money to fly to Los Angeles. Gena Rowlands
works at Los Angeles County Museum and goes
out with co-worker Elsie Ames, an older woman. Gena's
lover, John Cassavetes, is brutal at times and finally
has to say goodbye when his wife Judith Roberts nearly
commits suicide. Ames arranges for Gena to meet Val
Avery, a misfit who needs companionship but causes a
scene. Cassel, again parking cars, comes to Gena's
rescue by beating up Avery. Thereafter, Cassel tries to
convince Gena that she's the only woman who matters
to him. Older—and wiser—Gena resists his Impulsive
Boe advances until he proposes. Her mother. Lady Rowlands,
lotwv is bewildered and ins mother sees no hope for the couple
since she considers her son a bum. With the od(ls
against them. Cassel and Gena marry.
EXPLOITIPS:
Contact computer dating services for tie-ins. Have a
Minnie and Moskowitz Day, offering prizes to patrons
bearing those names.
CATCHLINES:
It's an Upper, Agrees Everyon? Who's Seen It . . .
Which Only Goes to Prove Tliat Love and Marriage Are
Still Possible.
THE STORY:
"Macbeth" (Coli
Following a victorious battle with Norwegian Invaders.
Macbeth (Jon Finch) is made Thane of Cawdor by Duncan
(Nicholas Sclbyi, King of Scotland. Macbeth's ambition,
as well as that of his wife Lady Macbeth (Francesca
Annis), leads him to murder Duncan In bed.
Crowned as ruler. Macbeth imagines Duncan's ghost has
come to haunt him. Banquo (Nicholas Selby). once a
loyal friend, has to be eliminated. A coven of naked
witches predicts Macbeth's
i
fate. Macduff Bayleri
also stands In the way of Macbeth's power and his
family is slain. Vowing vengrance. Macduff leads an army
against the King. Lady Macbeth commits suicide as the
witches' curse comes true. Macduff, not born of woman
'he was torn from hus mother's womb before birth),
battles Macbeth. Cutting off the head of his enemy, Macduff
is made King.
EXPLOITIPS:
Arrange tie-ins with any bookstore handling Shakespearean
works and contact local Shakespearean repertory
groups for special presentations. Decorate the theat.-e
In Scottish trappings.
CATCHLINES:
The Ambition That Stained the Bloodiest Crown In
. . Shakespeare's Immortal Work In the Hands
of Master of the Cinema Roman Polanskl.
jj History .
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Michigan 48503.
COMPLETE BOOTH Simplex machines,
dual sound- system, price $300,00. Elston
Hold, Princeton, Maine. Phone: 796-2222.
FOR SALE: Hertner Motor generator sets
3—50 HP 220V, 3 PH— 150-300 Amp 100 DC
volts, complete with control panels, Rheostats
and switching panel for full emergency
service. 12 years old. Located at
the Information Center, Colonial Williamsburg,
Williamsburg, Virginia. Pick-up
price, $1800 00 for all 3 units. Contact
Phil Wicker, Box 20560, Greensboro, North
Carolina 27420. Phone (919) 272-6165
DEVRY NDC Booth, complete, ready for
operation. Sound, lamps, rectifiers, stands,
magazines, lenses. Semi-Portcfble. $1995 00.
S. K. FILM EQUIPMENT CO., 254 Giralda
Ave
,
Gables, Fla. 33133
16mm Mini Theatre Special—Dual Jan
outfit, rebuilt, new sound, changeovers.
mint condition. Total Price for both machines,
$995.00. Single case unit less
changeover, $450.00. BRAND NEW DUAL
JAN OUTHT with STANDS, $1995.00. S. K
FILM EQUIPMENT CO , Giralda Ave.,
Coral Gables. Fla 33133.
SOUND PROJECTOR BARGAINS, excellent
condition, largest selection from
$59.95. Hecht. Box 443, EUenville, N Y-
12428.
CENTURY BOOTH, lens, used Equipment,
all makes 135 amp lamps, rectifiers,
TECO, (704) 347-4455, Box 706,
Matthews, N. C.
PAIR DEVRY 12000 series 35mm projectors.
Pair DeVry XD portable 35mm
with Strong 110 Baby arcs. Complete
Super Simplex booth. Complete Simplex
XL booth. Various closed bases. Pair 4
inch B & L Scope lens. Stereo speakers.
Mighty 90 lamps and 1 KW lamps. Phone
(815) 246-7441 or write Box 310, Earlville,
Illinois 60518.
BRENKERT PROJECTION MECHANISMS,
excellent condition, $300 00 a piair: Super
Simplex mechanisms, $35000 a pair. Simplex
E-7 mechanisms, $400 00 a pair; Simplex
Standard mechanisms, $100.00
Boxoffice, 2574.
a pair.
INTERMITTENT MOVEMENTS — Simplex
Supers, $125.00; Brenkert BX 80-100, $150 00;
Simplex Standards, $75.00. Boxoffice, 2575.
ARC LAMPS—Magnarc Lamps, $300.00 a
pair; Simplex 1 kw lamps, $150 00 a pair;
RCA Enarcs, $175.00 a pair. All in good
complete condition. Boxoffice, 2576.
SOUNDHEADS—Simplex 4 Star, $500.00
a pair; RCA PS24's, $300.00 a pair; Motiograph
Mirrorphonics, $300.00 a pair. Boxoffice,
2577.
ENCLOSED PROJECnON BASES—Simplex
of RCA, $300 00 a pair. Boxoffice,
2578.
CINEMASCOPE LENSES — Ponotars,
$150.00 a pair; Bausch & Lomb, $300.00 a
pair; VitaScopes, $200.00 a pair; Hi-Lux
4" reverse anamorphics, $400.00 a pair.
Boxoffice, 2579.
GOLDE enclosed rewind, $75.00; 35mm
splicer, $25,00; hand rewinds, $25.00. Boxoffice,
25S0.
COMPLETE BOOTH: Simplex
Projection,
RCA soundheads, 18" magazines, pedestals,
bases, Motiograph amplifier. Simplex
high lamps, utility rectifiers, splicer, rewinds,
CinemaScope lenses. AH equipment
in good shape. Pictures available,
$1,000.00- Boxoffice, 2571,
EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
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