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CTOBER 23,
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1972
No. 2
THE
SERVING HUMANITY
HUMANITARIAN endeavors of
the motion picture industry come to
light from many directions. Not only does
this evidence In the rendering of outstanding
service to its own people suffering
physical ailments and adverse conditions,
it also extends extraordinary aid to
people in all walks of life, both in the
U.S. and around the world. Anyone familiar
with the work of the Will Rogers
Hospital and Research Center knows how
much this humanitarian endeavor has
accomplished in the field dealing with
respiratory diseases.
The Variety Clubs International and
its multitude of tents, not only on this
continent but around the world, have
been responsible for the distribution of
about $200,000,000 in benefiting and improving
the lives of crippled and otherwise
handicapped children. A salutory
reminder thereof was significantly
brought out at the Variety Club of Texas
meeting in Dallas this past week at which
Lord Mountbatten, a member of Variety
Tent 36 in London, was honored for his
extraordinary contributions in this cause.
The VCI has provided aid to many famous
institutions in service through children's
hospitals, providing medical aid,
surgery, education and other needs, to
give thousands of children a second
chance to grow into normal adulthood.
Sherrill C. Corwin, president of Variety
Clubs International, said, in the address
he delivered on the aforesaid occasion,
"Our history is a proud one. From the
original group of 11 members, we have
grown to 10,000; from one chapter, we
have grown to 40; from the support of
one child (the foimdling that was left in
a theatre in Pittsburgh) has come a network
of charitable projects. And, from
the general public has come the support
which has enabled us to raise more than
$200,000,000 over the past years to fund
these charities."
The entertainment industry, predominantly
represented by people from the
motion picture field, has developed and
supported a multitude of aids, as Mr.
Corwin said, " . . .to help children as a
labor of love is our creed, our reason for
being, the source of our inspiration, the
life blood of our growth."
The Will Rogers Hospital and Research
Center, which was dedicated 36 years ago
"to help the hard-of-breathing," primarily
among its own people in the
entertainment field, has contributed
greatly through its research and through
its discoveries of medication and treatment
benefiting all mankind.
Over the years, the Will Rogers Fund
has made contributions exceeding $50,-
000,000 and has rendered great service
to its own people and the research in
which it has engaged. Theatre patrons
have been a substantial source of these
contributions; nevertheless, those working
in theatres, in exchanges and other
related elements of this business have
contributed their time and effort in obtaining
these funds.
The Will Rogers Hospital has extended
its services to include treatment of all
types of heart disease, with the possible
exception of surgery. And through the
establishment of such facilities as the
O'Donnell Research Laboratories; the
Montague Memorial Library and Study
Center; the Rosen Pulmonary Function
Laboratory; the Louis B. Mayer-AFTRA
Diagnostic and X-Ray Center, this great
institution has provided the means for
still greater contributions to serve humanity.
As Ned E. Depinet, dedicated
long-time president of the Will Rogers
Memorial Fund, recently said: "We look
to the future ever more confident in the
Will Rogers' ability to give very important
help to the hard-of-breathing ... to
the benefit of every member of our industry
and to the entire world commimity of
man."
The Variety Clubs and the Will Rogers
Hospital are but two of many fine causes
to which industry members have given
devoted and dedicated service. The Will
Rogers drive still is on and, with the
increasing costs that have come about,
all members of this industry are urged
to double their efforts to achieve the goal
that has been set for this year.
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Re-Evaluation of X
Needed: Slurdivanl
ALBUQUERQUE — Branding it as a
"crutch" used by newspapers in their censorship
of theatre ads and as an "umbrella"
under which "nudie films and porno shops"
take umbrage, B. V. "Sturdy" Sturdivant
has urged prompt re-evaluation of the X
rating by NATO president Roy B. White,
Julian Rifkin and Jack Valenti. The recom
mendation was made in Sturdivanfs keynote
address before the annual convention of the
New Mexico Theatre Ass'n in session here.
"The time has come to re-evaluate the X
rating," Sturdivant declared. "It is a crutch
for important newspapers in justifying their
censorship of theatre ads. It also affords
an umbrella under which nudie films and
porno shops take umbrage. I urge that
NATO president Roy B. White and Julian
Rifkin call upon Jack Valenti for prompt
reconsideration of the X classification."
While praising the revitalization of showmanship
by some distributors, Sturdivant
vigorously criticized others for a "blackout"
of trade publication advertising.
"This keeps the theatre operator uninformed
as to the value of forthcoming product,"
he said, "and understandably a lack
of enthusiasm is the result. This, in turn, is
telegraphed to the potential patron, adversely
affecting the boxoffice."
Sturdivant suggested that New Mexico
exhibitors follow Arizona in campaigning
for standard time. Elimination of the daylight
hours in Arizona, he said, resulted in
a 30 per cent business increase for drive-ins
and 15 per cent for conventional theatres.
Officials Are Announced
For NATO Convention
NEW YORK—The names of the officials
for the forthcoming annual convention of
the National Ass'n of Theatre Owners have
been announced.
The Americana Hotel at Bal Harbour,
Fla., will be the site of the event, which
takes place November 18-21 in conjunction
with the Motion Picture and Concession
Industries Trade Show.
Announced as convention co-chairmen
were Tom Elefante, general manager, Florida
Theatres, Wometco Enterprises; Cecil
McGlohon, district manager, ABC-Florida
State Theatres; Edward Meyerson, district
manager, E.M. Loew's Theatres, and Stanley
Stern, senior vice-president, Wometco
Enterprises. Jack Mitchell, director of advertising
and promotion, and assistant general
manager, Florida Theatres, Wometco
Enterprises, is the convention coordinator.
NATO of So, Calif. Selects
'Butterflies' for November
LOS ANGELES—Selected as the "Movie
of the Month" for November by the National
Ass'n of Theatre Owners of Southern
California,
"Butterflies Are Free" will open
a multiple engagement November 8 in the
Southland, it was announced by Bruce C.
Corwin, president.
B. V. "Sturdy' Sturdivant, left, who
urged prompt re-evaluation of the X
rating in his keynote address at the
New Mexico Theatre Ass'n convention
in Albuquerque, is shown here with
Arizona Gov. Jack Williams. Sturdivant,
who heads Silver Crest Theatres
of Yuma, recently was appointed by
the governor as head of the Arizona
Motion Picture Commission.
Lawrence Gordon to Head
AIP World Production
HOLLYWOOD — Lawrence A.
Gordon
has been elevated to vice-president in charge
of worldwide production for American International
Pictures, it was announced by
Samuel Z. Arkoff, president and chairman
of the board.
In his new capacity Gordon will be in
charge of AIP's expanding production schedule
in the U.S. and abroad. Peter Katz, recently
appointed vice-president of European
creative affairs, will report to Gordon.
The first two features produced by American
International under Gordon's aegis are
"Blacula" and "Slaughter." "Dillinger,"
written and to be directed by John Milius,
started shooting October 9.
Gordon also will be in charge of AIP's
newly formed television production wing.
Before coming to American International he
was a vice-president of Screen Gems.
MCA Inc. Negotiates New
Loan-Credit Agreement
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIF.—Lew R.
Wasserman, president of MCA Inc., announced
that the company has negotiated a
new two-bank term loan and revolving
credit agreement, replacing its present
secured revolving credit.
The new agreement provides for a $50
million unsecured term loan, with annual
repayments of $8 million to begin on Mar.
1, 1974. An additional provision calls for
a secured revolving credit of $90 million,
which reduces $2 million annually and matures
on Mar. 1, 1979.
The interest rates on all loans is half of
one per cent above the prime commercial
rate in effect from time to
time.
Walter Reade Org. Re-Elects
All Officers/ Directors
NEW YORK—All ten directors of the
Walter Reade Organization, Inc., were reelected
at the annual meeting of shareholders
of the corporation held Wednesday
morning (11) at the company's 34th Street
East Theatre here.
Re-elected to serve until the next annual
meeting were: Walter Reade jr., Frank A.
Augsbury jr., Stephen P. Duggan, Allan D.
Emil, Sheldon Gunsberg, Samuel Hoffman,
Edward L. Schuman, William C. MacMillen
jr., Dore Schary and Charles F. Simonelli.
On the three other matters presented to
the company's shareholders: Approval was
given for a merger of Mayfair Atlantic
Corp., a private corporation owned by
Reade into the Walter Reade Organization
and approval to retain Peat, Marwick,
Mitchell & Co., as auditors. The proposal to
require the company to issue a post annual
meeting report was rejected.
Immediately after the meeting, the merger
of Mayfair Atlantic Corp. into the Walter
Reade Organization was commuted in accordance
with the plan and agreement of
merger.
At the annual meeting of the board of
directors of the Walter Reade Organization,
Inc., which followed the shareholders meeting,
all officers of the corporation were reelected,
headed by Reade, president, chairman
of the board and chief executive officer.
Sherman to
Rejoin Reade
In New V-P Position
NEW YORK — Edward L. Schuman, a
member of the board of directors of the
Walter Reade Organization, Inc., who has
been on an extended leave of absence, has
rejoined the company in the newly created
position of vice-president for planning and
development, it was announced by Walter
Reade jr., president and chairman of the
board.
Schuman, formerly vice-president in
charge of Reade's entertainment group, has
been serving in Washington, D.C., as national
coordinator of fund raising for the
Democratic presidential nominee's election
campaign.
In his new post, Schuman will be responsible
for the overall planning and development
of the Walter Reade Organization on
a corporate level, seeking out areas of expansion
for the company through acquisitions
and mergers.
Several Flights Arranged
To Eire by Variety Clubs
MIAMI—A record number of charter
flights from Canada and the United States
has been set by Variety Clubs International's
executive director George C. Hoover for
Variety's 1973 convention in Dublin, Ireland,
May 6-13.
Present arrangements include three projected
flights from New York and one each
from Chicago, Toronto, Miami and Los
Angeles, with flights from two other major
cities also still possible.
BOXOFFICE :: October 23, 1972

MGM Conducts Meetings
For MGM Division Heads
NEW YORK—Bill Madden, MGM vicepresident
of domestic distribution, chaired a
series of sales and advertising seminars for
division sales managers on the upcoming
array of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's fall and
winter releases. Meetings were held Tuesday
(17) in New Orleans and Thursday (19) in
Los Angeles, focusing on the broad spectrum
of entertainment covered by such
forthcoming MGM films as "The Great
Waltz," "Savage Messiah," "Travels With
My Aunt," "They Only Kill Their Masters,"
"The Lolly Madonna War," "Soylent
Green," "Slither," "Elvis on Tour," "Deadly
Honeymoon," "Ludwig" and the Children's
Matinee Series.
In addition to Madden and Charles M.
Powell, director of advertising, publicity
and exploitation, home office sales and advertising-promotion
executives attending the
sessions included Lou Marks, assistant general
sales manager, and his assistant, Dan
Rothenberg; Sam Speranza, roadshow sales
manager; Sid Stockton, executive manager,
division operations; Ted Hatfield, national
advertising coordinator, and his assistant
Mike Gerety.
Division personnel from New York City,
Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas and
Detroit were present for the sessions in New
Orleans at the Marriott Motor Hotel.
The Los Angeles sessions were in the
Beverly Hillcrest Hotel, with division sales
managers and assistants and advertising-promotion
managers attending from Chicago,
St. Louis, Toronto, San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
Two 'Obscene' Films Ncaned
Defendants in U.S. Suit
DALLAS—The U.S. attorney's office, in
what is believed to be the first action of its
kind in Dallas, has filed suit against two
allegedly obscene 8mm films.
Only the films—entitled "Das Dreirek"
and "Climax"—were named as defendants.
The government is the plaintiff and seeks a
court order to destroy the movies.
Assistant U.S. district attorney Roger J.
Allen charged that the "defendant reels of
film are obscene, which make (them) subject
to seizure and forfeiture" under federal
statutes.
If successful, the government action
would complement efforts by Dallas city
fwlice to curtail the showing of pornographic
movies. Local officials have secured
a number of convictions against "porno"
film houses in the past year or so.
The civil action, filed in federal court,
states that the films were "offered for entry
into the commerce of the United States" via
airmail at Dallas Love Field September 20.
They were addressed to Manuel Aguas of
Van Nuys, Calif., according to the lawsuit.
No city or country of origin was mentioned.
U.S. customs agents seized the films and
have retained custody of them.
U.S. district Judge Eldon Mahon said all
persons claiming any interest in the films
may appear before the court on or before
BOXOFHCE :: October 23, 1972
10 a.m. November 3 to make cases for legal
possession.
The U.S. attorney's office asked Mahon
to order that the films be "confiscated and
destroyed." If "Das Dreirek" was produced
in the notorious smut mills of Hamburg,
Germany, somebody may need a lesson in
spelling. The German word for "triangle"
is
"dreieck."
Robert V. Newman Named
Motown Productions V-P
HOLLYWOOD — Berry Gordy has announced
the appointment of Robert V.
charge of Mo-
Newman as vice-president in
town Productions, Inc., which is the motion
picture division of Motown Records Corp
Newman was formerly an executive of
Paramount Pictures, prior to which he was
vice-president
of Samuel Goldwyn Productions
and studio, and president of Batjac,
John Wayne's production company.
Gordy and Newman were in New York
on Tuesday (17) for the premiere of Motown
Productions' first picture, "Lady Sings
the Blues." a Paramount release starring
Diana Ross as Billie Holiday.
While in New York, Gordy and Newman
joined Mike Roshkind, vice-president of
Motown Records Corp.. in meetings with
Frank Yablans. president of Paramount
Pictures; Norman Weitman. vice-president
in charge of national sales, and Charles O.
Glenn, vice-president in charge of advertising,
publicity and promotion.
Horizon Films Opens Nat'l
Office in Jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. — Horizon
Films, a newly formed company, will distribute
films nationally from its headquarters
located here at 417 Guaranty Life Bldg.,
137 East Forsyth St.
Headed by Marvin Skinner, former film
buyer, distributor and booking agent for the
past 20 years, and Harry Clark of Clark
Film Co., well-known film man throughout
the South and other areas, the Horizon management
team also includes Belton Clark.
At the present time Horizon will distribute
the following pictures: "Bill Wallace of
China," "Campus Confidential," "Indian
Raid. Indian Made," "Low Blow," "Love
Commune," "Miss Leslie's Dolls," "Sensuous
Suzanne," "Sensation Generation,"
"They Call Me Hallelujah" and "Three on
a Waterbed."
Skinner will be traveling throughout the
U.S. contacting new subdistributors as well
as production companies in order to lend
the personal touch which, he says, sometimes
is overlooked in the film industry.
Gamalex Is Now Distributor
For 'Keep Off My Gross'
HOLLYWOOD — Gamalex Associates,
Ltd.. which recently acquired "Keep Off
My Grass" from Capital Productions for
worldwide distribution, has opened new
offices at 9399 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills.
Don C. Hallstrom is head of the distribution
company.
Walter and Marvin Mirisch
Named for NATO Awards
HOLLYWOOD—Walter and Marvin
Mirisch, heads of Mirisch Productions, Inc.,
independent film production company, have
been named "Producers of the Year" by the
National Ass'n of Theatre Owners, it was
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Walter Mirisch
announced Tuesday, (17)
Marvin Mirisch
by Roy B. White,
president of the nation-wide exhibitors organization.
The two distinguished picture makers,
who began their company in 1946 with their
late brother Harold Mirisch, will be guests
of honor at the NATO convention, November
18-21 in Miami. They will receive the
NATO award at the president's banquet the
closing evening of November 21
With their latest worldwide motion picture
success, "Fiddler on the Roof," the
Mirisches strike a new high in their distinguished
picture-making careers. Universally
acclaimed in its first-run engagements.
United Artists will put the film into general
release this coming Christmas Season.
With many of the 62 Mirisch Productions
virtual landmarks in the Hollywood history
of the past 16 years, the films produced by
the Mirisch brothers have garnered 26
Academy Awards, among them three "Best
Picture" awards for "The Apartment,"
(1960), "West Side Story" (1961) and "In
the Heat of the Night," (1967).
Set for Christmas release is "Avanti,"
produced and directed by Billy Wilder, starring
Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills. To be
given a special Easter release will
be "Scorpio,"
produced by Walter Mirisch and directed
by Michael Winner.
The three upcoming Mirisch films, now in
various stages of pre-production, and to be
produced by Walter Mirisch, are "Wheels,"
the best selling Arthur Hailey novel, with
the screenplay by James R. Webb; "Harry
Spike," screenplay by Irving Ravetch and
Harriet Frank jr., to star Lee Marvin; and
"Mr. Majestic," based on a screenplay by
Elmore Leonard.
Leo G. Carroll Dies
HOLLYWOOD — Leo G. Carroll. 80.
veteran film and TV actor, died Monday
(16) in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.
The British-bom actor was most famous
for his Topper roles, "The Man from
UNCLE" and as Father O'Malley in the
"Going My Way" TV series. Survivors include
his wife Edith and a son.

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Eastman Reports New Highs
In 3rd Quarter, 9 Months
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Eastman Kodak
Co. reports new highs in sales and net earnings,
both for the 1972 third quarter and for
the first three quarters of the year.
Gerald B. Zomow, chairman, and Walter
A. Fallon, president, announced that consolidated
sales worldwide for the quarter
(12 weeks ended September 3) rose 16 per
cent to $885,981,000, compared to $765.-
068,000 for the 1971 third quarter. Net
earnings for the quarter were $152,597,000,
or 21 per cent more than the $125,744,000
earned in last year's third quarter. The earnings
were 95 cents per share against 78
cents for the comparable quarter a year ago.
For the three quarters (36 weeks ended
September 3), sales worldwide advanced to
$2,343,965,000, or 15 per cent higher than
the $2,031,777,000 recorded a year ago.
Net earnings increased to $359,702,000, or
28 per cent more than the $282,052,000
for the three quarters of 1971. The earnings
were $2.23 per share against $1.75 for the
comparable three quarters a year ago.
Earnings from operations for the thre;
quarters were $662,697,000, while a year
ago they were $535,892,000.
Pre-tax earnings
were $687,702,000, against $555,052,-
000. The provision for income taxes was
$328,000,000 for 1972.
Transamerica Corp. Profit
Is Up 24.8% in Quarter
SAN FRANCISCO—Transamerica Corp.
reported its third quarter operating earnings
climbed 24.8 per cent to $20.6 million, or
31 cents a share, from $16.5 million, or 25
cents a share, in the 1971 period. Revenue
rose 13 per cent to $480.2 million from
$424.2 million.
Capital gains for the latest quarter totaled
$820,000. or one cent a share, bringing net
income to $21.5 million, or 32 cents a share.
This compares with 1971 third quarter net
of $16.8 million, or 25 cents a share, after
capital gains of $239,000.
North American Films, Inc. Presents
The nine-month operating earnings were
reported by the diversified service organization
as the highest for any like period in
Transamerica's history, totaling $60.1 million,
or 89 cents a share. This represents :i
$31.7 per cent gain from the first three
quarters of last year, when the company
or
had operating earnings of $45.6 million,
68 cents a share. Revenue was $1.43 billion
for the nine months, up 20 per cent
from 1971's $1.19 billion.
After capital gains of $6.8 million, or 10
cents a share, Transamerica's nine-month
net income amounted to $66.9 million, or
99 cents a share. TTiis was an increase from
year-ago net income of $49.1 million, or 73
cents a share, following capital gains of $3.4
million, or five cents a share.
John R. Beckett, chairman, said the company's
upward earnings momentum was led
by strong performances from insurance, title
insurance, entertainment services and manufacturing
operations. He also said he anticipates
a fourth quarter substantially ahead
of the like 1971 quarter, in which Transamerica
posted net of $12.9 million, or 19
cents a share, after a $15,000 capital loss.
In addition,
per-share earnings for the year
are expected to be at least "40 per cent
above 1971 results," the Transamerica
chairman said. For all 1971, the company
reported net income of $61.9 million, or
95 cents a share, after capital gains of $3.4
million.
Charlton Heston Is Elected
API Board Chairman
WASHINGTON—Charlton Heston has
been elected new chairman of the American
Film Institute's board of trustees. Heston
succeeds Roger L. Stevens and will serve a
one-year term. Stevens served in that capacity
for three years, following the API's first
board chairman, Gregory Peck.
After a successful Broadway career. Heston
entered motion pictures at the age of
16 in an amateur film. "Peer Gynt" and
won an Academy Award for Best Actor in
"Ben Hur." In 1971. he directed a film for
the first time, "Antony and Cleopatra."
Heston has taken an active part in community
and industry affairs. He served six
terms as president of the 23,000-member
Screen Actors Guild, was a member of the
National Council on the Arts, and has contributed
his services to several governmental
agencies, including the President's Council
on Youth Opportunities.
BOXOFHCE :: October 23, 1972

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for a really big night!
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will be a night to remember
as the industry salutes
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Round trip transportation for (2)
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3rd Prize
7 day, 6 night stay at the
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Eastnnan Kodak Instamatic X 90
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5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th Prizes
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1972
at the Americana Hotel, New York City
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surprises, and more gifts than ever. Enjoy yourself
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BOXomCE :: October 23, 1972

20th-Fox Names Lieberiarb
V-P, Telecommunications
HOLLYWOOD—Warren N. Lieberfarb
has been named vice-president, Telecommunications,
it is announced by Gordon T.
Stulberg, president and chief operating officer,
20th Century-Fox Fihns.
In his new position, to become effective
immediately, Lieberfarb will be based in Los
Angeles and will be responsible for the continuing
exploration and development of markets
for 20th-Fox in the fields of cable television,
pay television, video cassettes and
other media. Lieberfarb joined 20th-Fox TV
in March 1972, as executive assistant—market
development. In this post, he was involved
in the creation of Primary Entertainment
Corp., a joint venture between 20th-
Fox, Bell and Howell and Primary Medical
Communications. Lieberfarb will report directly
to Stulberg.
Prior to joining Fox, Lieberfarb served as
executive vice-president of Genesis Films,
Ltd., a nontheatrical distributor of motion
pictures. Before that, he was executive assistant
to the president of Cinema 5, Ltd.
Gala Variety Clubs Event
Oct. 26 in Leeds, England
LONDON — Cary Grant, Prince Rainier
and Princess Grace of Monaco, and Variety
Club's international president Sherrill C.
Corwin will be among guests at the October
26 charity gala sponsored by the Leeds
Committee of Variety Club of Great Britain.
The affair, to be held at the Queen's
Hotel in Leeds, is already a sellout and is
expected to be one of England's most impressive
with children's charities reaping
several thousand pounds in proceeds.
The Rainiers, who will be guests of honor
at the event, have made a contribution of
£1,000 to Variety's Patron Life Membership
Fund wiiich provides the means for
aiding needy children in countries where no
Variety Club exists.
Grant, a director of Faberge, Inc., will
present three Sunshine Coaches to charities
of Princess Grace's choice in behalf of
Faberge and that company's president,
George Barrie.
Ben Acker, Henry Powell
Named to UA Tax Posts
NEW YORK—L. Joseph Bos,
vice-president
of finance of United Artists Corp., has
announced the promotion of Ben Acker to
the newly created post of director of taxes.
He also announced that Henry Powell has
been appointed tax manager, succeeding
Acker. The new appointments are effective
immediately.
Acker joined United Artists' tax department
in 1954. He then held a number of
key accounting and tax posts with the company.
A certified public accountant, he had
previously been a partner in the accounting
firm of Acker & McGirl.
Powell, who will report to Acker, comes
to
OPERATIONS
UA from the Gulf & Western Corp. and
Paramount Pictures. During the past four
years, he has functioned as tax manager of
Paramount, a G&W subsidiary, and as assistant
tax director of Gulf & Western.
'Great Waltz' Soundtrack
Albimi Released by MGM
NEW YORK—A soundtrack album from
"The Great Waltz," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
presentation of an Andrew L. Stone production,
is being released by MGM Records,
two weeks in advance of the motion picture's
Tuesday (31) world premiere at ABC
City Theatre II in Century City, Calif.
Mary Costa, Kenneth McKellar, Joan
Baxter, Ken Berry and the Mike Sammes
Singers are among voices singing the Johann
Strauss music. Music was supervised and
conducted by Roland Shaw.
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circuit? Would you like to be in charge of
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George P. Kroh Is Elected
To Commonwealth Board
KANSAS CITY—George P. Kroh, president
of Kroh Bros. Realty Co., was elected
to the board of directors of Commonwealth
Theatres Tuesday (10). In making the announcement,
president Richard H. Orear
said that Kroh brings with him a vast knowledge
of real estate and his experience will
contribute greatly to the company's real
estate activities. He is a native of this city
and attended schools here and in Hartford,
Conn. He and his wife and two children live
in Kansas City.
Prior to becoming president of Kroh Bros.
Realty Co., he served in various capacities
within the company and, with his brother
John A. Kroh, jr., co-manages interests of
the family. He is in charge of commercial
sales and the developmnet of all commercial
properties in the Midwest and Florida and
the Ward Parkway Shopping Center in Kansas
City.
Kroh is also a director of the Commerce
Bank and the Real Estate Board of Kansas
City. He is a director of the Boys Club of
Kansas City and has served on the board
of the Area Council of the Boy Scouts of
America.
At the same meeting held Tuesday (10),
the board of directors of Commonwealth
Theatres amended the previous authorization
for the purchase of 10,000 shares of
its common stock to provide for the purchase
of an additional 40,000 shares, making
a total of 50,000 shares, which may be
purchased at a price not to exceed $7.50
j>er share.
Since the company has been purchasing
its common stock it has acquired 21,000
shares.
Tom Miller Named Publicist
For 'Last American Hero'
NEW YORK—Tom Miller has been appointed
unit publicist for 20th Century-
Fox's "The Last American Hero," a Rojo
production based upon two short stories by
Tom Wolfe, the title story having first appeared
in Esquire Magazine. Concerned
with the career of a legendary, contemporary
racing whiz, the film began production
Monday (16) in Charlotte, N.C., with
Lamont Johnson directing and Jeff Bridges
starring.
Miller has worked primarily with MGM
on such New York-based films as "Shaft"
and "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot
Straight" and, more recently, on 20th-Fox's
"The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-inthe-Moon
Marigolds," starring Joanne
Woodward, directed by Paul Newman and
filmed in Bridgeport, Conn.
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10 BOXOmCE :: October 23, 1972

SMPTE to
Present Special
Achievement Awards to 8
SCARSDALE. N.Y.—Wilton R. Holm,
president of the Society of Motion Picture
and Television Engineers, has announced a
number of distinguished achievement
awards which will be presented during the
society's 112th conference "Monday (23) at
the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
Those receiving certificates will be:
Prof. Dr. Ing. Jaroslav Boucek. director
FANU.
of the Technical Training Institute.
Prague. Czechoslovakia, for outstanding
contributions to motion picture technology.
Carroll H. Dunning. Anson Research
Corp., Santa Monica, Calif., for outstanding
contributions to motion picture technology.
Dr. Miroslav Jahoda. director. VUZORT
Research Laboratories. Prague, Czechoslovakia,
for outstanding contributions to motion
picture technology.
Dr. Leslie Knopp, technical director, Motion
Picture Exhibitors Ass'n, London, England,
for outstanding contributions to
motion picture technology.
Prof. Dr. Victor Komar, director, NIKFI,
Moscow, USSR, for outstanding contributions
to motion picture technology.
Dr. Boris N. Knoplev, technical director,
Mosfilm. Studios, Moscow. USSR, for outstanding
contributions to motion picture
technology.
Frank Capra, Hollywood, for outstanding
contributions to the motion picture industry.
Dr. Harold A. Rosen, Hughes Aircraft
Co., for outstanding contributions to satellite
telecommunications.
The awards will be presented at the annual
awards session of SMPTE, which will
take place following the Get-Together
Luncheon Monday (23) at the Century Plaza
Hotel.
Bob Hope Teaser Trailers
Aid Los Angeles Benefit
HOLLYWOOD — Twenty-second teaser
trailers for the Beverly Hills Theatre benefit
on Tuesday (10) of Bob Hope's comedy
"Cancel My Reservation" played in nine Los
Angeles area theatres. The benefit was for
the Retarded Children's Western Special
Olympics Fund.
The trailers, featuring a caricature of
Hope, were shown at Cinerama Dome, Pacific
and Pantages, Hollywood; Beverly Hills
Theatre. Beverly Hills; Fairfax. Los Angeles;
Village, Westwood; Criterion, Santa Monica;
Topanga. Topanga, and Encino, Sherman
Oaks.
Lobby displays with mail-in envelopes for
purchasing tickets were available in all nine
houses as well as at NBC Studios and Warner
Bros., the film's distributor.
In connection with multiple openings of
"Cancel .My Reservation" in Charlotte, N.
C, Warner Bros, exploiteers and radio station
WBT arranged for a special car to circulate
in densely populated areas. Each person
who approached the automobile and said
"Cancel My Reservation" received two free
theatre tickets.
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 Pro-
Title Distributor toting
Alabama's Ghost (Ellman)
PG
The Chaplin Review (Columbia)
[g]
Death of a Jew (Cine Globe) PG
The Embalmer (Geneni)
PG
The Games Schoolgirls Play (Sunset Int'l) [r]
George (Capital)
[G]
The High Plains Drifter (Universal) [r]
Innocent Bystanders (Paramount) PG
It Ain't Easy (Dandelion) PG
The Legend of Amaluk (Jerry Fairbanks) [g]
The Man With the Glass Eye
(Sunset Int'l)
PG
Pepper and His Wacky Taxi (Group I)
[g]
Psyched by a 4D Witch! (Emerson) [r]
Shangri-La (Kevin Duffy) [r]
Simon Bolivar (G.G.P.)
PG
The Thief Who Came to Dinner (WB) PG
Travels With My Aunt (MGM) PG
The Undertaker and His Pals (Geneni) [r]
The Valachi Papers (Columbia)
[r]
The Virgins and the Vampires
(Boxoffice Int'l)
[r]
'Black Girl' to Premiere
Nov. 8 at NY Penthouse
NEW YORK—"Black Girl," directed by
Ossie Davis and based on J.E. Franklin's
highly acclaimed Off-Broadway play, will
have its world premiere Wednesday, November
8, at the Penthouse Theatre, it is announced
by Harry S. Buxbaum, vice-president
and general sales manager for Cinerama
Releasing. Beginning the next day,
Thursday (9), the film also will begin its
regular performances at the RKO 59th St.
Twin I and RKO 86th St. Twin I theatres.
The premiere performance will be a benefit
for the Sickle Cell Disease Foimdation of
Greater New York.
Black Girl, an explosive and entertaining
story of a young girl attempting to break out
of the circle entrapping her in a web of violence,
conformity and frustration, stars
Brock Peters, Leslie Uggams, Louise Stubbs
and Claudia McNeil with Gloria Edwards
and Loretta Greene and in the title role,
Peggy Pettitt.
Boxoffice Mag. Ad Sparks
'Naked Countess' Interest
HOLLYWOOD—Due to exhibitors' response
to "The Naked Countess" advertisement
which ran Monday (9) in Boxoffice
magazine. Crown Int'l Pictures president
Newton P. Jacobs reports that his company
has upped the print order on the color film
from 100 to 150 prints to cover the November
engagements.
H&H Color Lab Expands
Sound Recording Division
TAMPA, FLA.—H&H Color Lab, based
here, announced the creation of an expanded
sound recording optical transfer division,
which is headed by Bruce Micek. Age 29,
Micek has a broad background in the recording
and radio industry and is well-versed in
all phases of production work, mixing, sound
recording and technical maintenance.
New services provided by H&H under
Micek's direction include 35mm and 16mm
optical transfer, recording from any source
to 16mm or 35mm magnetic or optical and
complete narration, mixing and scoring for
16mm and 35mm material.
In addition to a
sound recording control room, elaborate installation
of equipment is being undertaken
for grouping, post recording and narration
service.
H&H Color Lab presently utilizes several
different music libraries in addition to its
own produced master tapes and background
effects.
Inquiries for sound transfer work should
be directed to Bruce Micek. He is available
at 813-248-4935, Ext. 15, Sound Dept. Or,
write to him at H&H Color Lab, P.O. Box
7495, Tampa, Fla. 33603.
'The Vault of Horror' Set
For Cinerama Release
ENGLAND — "The
TWICKENHAM,
Vault of Horror (Further Tales From the
Crypt)" will be distributed by Cinerama, it
was announced by Charles W. Fries, executive
vice-president in charge of production
for Metromedia. The Metromedia/ Amicus
film is now in production at Twickenham
Studios here.
Cinerama also has released previous Amicus
productions, "The House That Dripped
Blood," the current "Asylum" and "Tales
From the Crypt." The latter has just opened
in London after record-breaking business in
America. Like its predecessors, the new film
is a multi-episode production tied together
with a framing story.
"The Vault of Horror (Further Tales
From the Crypt)" is being directed by Roy
Ward Baker and produced by Max J. Rosenberg
and Milton Subotsky, from a script by
Subotsky. The cast includes Tom Baker,
Michael Craig, Glynis Johns, Edward Judd,
Curt Jurgens, Terry-Thomas, Robin Nedwell,
Geoffrey Davies and Anna and Daniel
Massey.
British Salute to Martin Ritt
Charted in Mid-November
LONDON—The British Film Institute
salutes Martin Ritt in mid-November with
a complete retrospective of his films, 17 in
all, over a two-week period. Pictures to be
shown include "The Long, Hot Summer."
"Hud," "Hombre." "The Spy Who Came in
From the Cold," "The Great White Hope
and Ritt's currently-acclaimed "Sounder,"
Radnitz/ Mattel release distributed by 20th
C;entury-Fox.
BOXOFHCE :: October 23, 1972 11

Jarrott to Direct 'Dove';
World Talent Search
NEW YORK—In a major production development,
Charles Jarrott has signed with
producer Gregory Peck to direct "Dove,"
the current Robert Lee Graham best seller,
and negotiations have been completed with
EMI Films Productions, Ltd., on co-production
arrangement. EMI will finance the production
of the motion picture and retain
distribution rights in Great Britain.
Charles Jarrott, who has just completed
directing the musical version of "Lost Horizon"
for Columbia Pictures, begins pre-production
work on "Dove" with Peck immediately,
aiming for start of filming next
April for Peck's Melville Production Co.
Peck and Jarrott will launch a worldwide
search for new talent.
"Dove," which details the incredible true
story of Graham's solo round-the-world
cruise begun at age 16 aboard a small 24-
foot sloop, was published by Harper and
Row and had been selected as a Book-ofthe-Month
Club alternate.
Prior to directing "Lost Horizon,"
Charles Jarrott directed the critically acclaimed
films, "Anne of the Thousand
Days" and "Mary, Queen of Scots." He received
a total of 15 Academy Award nominations
on the two productions and a Golden
Globe Award as Best Director for "Anne
of the Thousand Days."
'Cactus Flower' Rates No. 1
For Season's NBC-TV Films
NEW YORK—"Cactus Flower," Columbia
Pictures' 1969 comedy hit, has received
the highest rating of any movie shown on
the NBC-TV network so far this
season. In
the most recent National Neilsen report, the
film earned a 28.1 rating and a 46 share
of the audience. The film had its TV premiere
on "NBC Saturday Night at tne
FILM
Movies" on September 30, while the report
period was for the week of September 25
to October 1.
An M. J. Frankovich production, "Cactus
Flower" stars Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman
and Goldie Hawn under the
direction
of Gene Saks. Miss Hawn, in her first leading
role in films, won an Academy Award
as best supporting actress for her performance
as a Greenwich Village type who
unites philandering dentist Matthau and his
love-smitten nurse Bergman.
Title Song From 'Ben' Hits
Billboard's No. 1 Spot
NEW YORK—"Ben," the title song from
Cinerama's suspenseful hit of the same
name, has reached No. 1 spot on Billboard
magazine's best-selling record chart. The
song, sung by Michael Jackson, is being
released as a single by Motown Records.
Music is by Walter Scharf, who also scored
the film, with lyrics by Don Black.
A sequel to last year's hit "Willard," the
BCP Productions presentation of "Ben" was
directed by Phil Karlson and produced by
Mort Briskin. Ben and his army of 4,000
rats star along with human actors Joseph
Campanella, Lee Harcourt Montgomery,
Rosemary Murphy and Meredith Baxter.
Test Use of TV Cameras
For Theatrical Features
HOLLYWOOD—The first real test of
using television cameras to make a feature
picture and then transfer it to release prints
for theatres will take place in Canada, where
JPL Productions of Montreal is lensing "Le
P'tit Vient Vite," a $250,000 production,
which was felt would cost another $100,000
if film were used. Image Transform, the
North Hollywood technical firm, has sent
three engineers to Canada, where they will
oversee use of three videotape cameras recording
on an Ampex 2000 A machine.
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'Pete 'N' Tillie' Charted
For Christmas Premieres
NEW YORK—'Pete 'N' Tillie," the bittersweet
comedy starring Walter Matthau
and Carol Burnett, has been set by Universal
Pictures for a unique 50-city, coast-tocoast
world premiere as Universal's 1972
"Christmas Gift to Moviegoers," it was announced
by Henry H. "Hi" Martin, Universal
vice-president and general sales manager.
Special ads, radio spots and other merchandising
aids are currently being developed
to back Universal's extensive effort
for the film, which was directed by Martin
Ritt from a screenplay by producer Julius
Epstein.
"Pete 'N' Tillie" marks the first time Matthau
and Miss Burnett have co-starred
together. The film is also Miss Burnett's
first theatrical role since she co-starred with
Dean Martin in "Who's Been Sleeping in
My Bed?"
Miss Burnett is the star of the Carol Burnett
Show on television and has won numerous
awards for her consistently outstanding
performances on the highly rated variety
hour. Also starring in the poignant comedy
based on the Peter De Vries novella
"Witches Milk" are Geraldine Page and
Barry Nelson.
29,000 Group Tickets Sold
For 'Sounder' in 3 Cities
NEW YORK—More than
29,000 group
sales tickets for performances of "Soimder"
have been sold, to date, in New York, Philadelphia
and Washington, D.C., as a result
of the intense campaign being mounted by
20th Century-Fox.
In New York, where the Radnitz/ Mattel
production is playing at the New Embassy
and Plaza theatres, almost 13,000 seats have
been sold in this manner. In Philadelphia,
where the film opened at the Duke Theatre
Wednesday (18), over 9,000 seats have been
sold. And in Washington, D.C., where the
film opened at the Fine Arts Friday (20),
more than 8,000 seats have already been
contracted for.
Similar campaigns are now b>eing
mounted for four other key city openings in
Los Angeles, Toronto, Atlanta and Minneapolis.
The group sales personnel working for
20th-Fox on "Sounder" have been provided
with a large amount of sf)ecial material to
work with, including school study guides,
special posters, reprints of major media articles
on the film, as well as a dossier of endorsements
from major national and local
educational, religious and civic organizations.
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'i^oUcfWood ^cfoont
Academy Pictures Making
Two More for 20th-Fox
"The Street People" and "Prison" are the
latest properties obtained by James H. Nicholson's
Academy Pictures. Both films are
slated for 1973 release by 20th Century-Fox.
The screenplay of "The Street People" will
be written by Leigh Chapman, and Norman
T. Herman will produce that film. Kurt
Wurderman is doing the screenplay for
"Prison" . . . Richard D. Zanuck and David
Brown, in association with Universal Pictures,
have acquired Ron Cutler's original
screenplay, "Willie Dynamite." This is a
story of a black New York hustler and his
activities in managing a group of call girls.
The focal point of the film involves the
tragic consequences of sexual exploitation
. . . Robert Radnitz, reaping awards for his
first Radnitz/ Mattel Productions' "Sounder,"
including the October Southern California
Motion Picture Council Award of
Excellence, has acquired Elizabeth Speare's
Newbery Award novel, "The Witch of
Blackbird Pond." Set in the 17th century,
"Witch" is the story of a 16-year-old girl
whose rebellion against bigotry leads her to
witch hunt and trial . . . Everybody's taking
to the seas or going overseas . . . Hal Wallis,
ahead of schedule on his "A Bequest to the
Nation," a historical romance dealing with
Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, will wind
up shooting in London before the end of
October. James Cellan Jones directs and
Glenda Jackson, Margaret Leighton and
Peter Finch star in the feature marked as
Universal's major release for 1973 . . .
Herbert Ross, the first director to literally
helm a picture, is pulling into port after a
month aboard Sam Spiegel's yacht for Warner
Bros.' "The Last of Sheila." Open seas
scenes concluded, the Stephen Sondheim-
Tony Perkins HoUywood-on-the-Riviera
murder tale moved into the port of Villefranche
Sur Mer, Hunt Downs reports as
bathers head for the warm sunny beaches.
Gene Hackman-Irwin Allen
To Film "Walter Syndrome'
will
Gene Hackman-Irwin Allen Productions
make "The Walter Syndrome" as their
first film. Hackman will star, and Allen will
produce from a screenplay currently being
written by Richard Neely. Both Hackman
and Allen were associated with the December
release of "The Poseidon Adventure"
for 20th-Fox ... In line with its expanding
foreign production activities, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
has entered into an agreement
with London-based Peter Rawley to develop
and produce three pictures over the next
two years, according to an announcement by
Andre Pieterse, executive vice-president in
charge of MGM's international operation.
Rawley, a former talent agent, has served
as a vice-president of CMA, during which
time he was in charge of the overseas divi-
°ir
SYD CASSYD
sion of the agency . . . Julie Corman, who
made her debut as producer with "Night
Call Nurses" for New World Pictures, has
set a deal to
produce her second feature for
NWP. Mrs. Corman, wife of NWP head
Roger Corman, will produce "The Learning
Factor" from a screenplay by Jonathan Kaplan,
who also will direct the contemporary
drama to begin filming in Los Angeles next
month . . . "Mother's Day," for Taureah
Films S.A., is set to roll this month on location
in Lunenberg, Nova Scotia with actor
Darren McGavin debuting as director. Oscar
winners Cloris Leachman and Patricia Neal
are cast as two sisters who haven't spoken
for years, but are drawn together by a web
of murders that beset a tiny Canadian fishing
village. Original screenplay by Robert
Clouse . . . Filming has begun in London
on "The Mackintosh Man," the Newman-
Foreman production for Warner Bros., directed
by John Huston, produced by John
Foreman and starring Paul Newman. The
screenplay by Walter Hill is based on Desmond
Bagley's successful novel, "The Freedom
Trap." A contemporary action suspense
drama set against a background of international
intrigue, "The Mackintosh Man," will
be filmed on locations in England, Ireland
and Malta . . . Principal photography on
"Forty Carats," starring Liv Ullman, Edward
Albert, Gene Kelly and Binnie Barnes,
began last week in Loutraki, Greece. The
Frankovich production for Columbia Pictures
introduces covergirl model Deborah
Raffin and co-stars Billy Green Bush, Don
Porter, Nancy Walker, Rosemary Murphy
and Natalie Schafer. This is the second picture
for Columbia on which Frankovich,
director Milton Katselas and screenwriter
Leonard Gershe have teamed. The first was
the smash hit, "Butterflies Are Free."
John Boorman to
Direct
'Hoover Blues' for 20th-Fox
"Hoover Blues," a forthcoming release
for Triangle Productions and 20th Century-
Fox, is to be directed by John Boorman who
is currently receiving acclaim for his directorial
achievements on "Deliverance" for
Warner Bros. "Hoover Blues" is a triangle
love story set against the background of the
Depression era. Ken Trevey provided the
original screenplay. Stanley Canter will produce
the film which is scheduled to roll
December 1 on locations throughout the
U.S.
Alan Arkin, James Caan
To Co-Star in Treebie'
Alan Arkin will co-star with James Caan
in "Freebie and the Bean" for Warner Bros.,
according to an announcement by John Galley,
executive vice-president in charge of
production. Floyd Mutrux, who wrote the
original screenplay, will co-produce with
Richard Rush. The latter will direct. Filming
of the comedy about two big-city cops will
begin in January . . . Tamara Elliott has
been signed to play a welfare worker, and
Shelley Morrison has been cast as a welfare
applicant for "Blume in Love," a Paul Mazursky
production for Warner Bros. Stars
include George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris
Kristofferson and Marsha Mason . . . Producers
Walter Seltzer and Russell Thacher
have announced that Jane Dulo has been
signed for a key role in Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer's "Soylent Green" starring Charlton
Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young and Edward G.
Robinson . . . Martin Balsam, Academy
Award winner for best supporting actor in
•A Thousand Clowns" (UA, 1965), has been
signed by producer Jack Brodsky to play
Joanne Woodward's husband in "Death of
a Snow Queen" for Rastar and Columbia
Pictures.
Philip Yordan, David Milton
Among Week's Scripters
Producer Philip Yordan is writing the
screenplay for "Stake-Out," a sequel to "The
Mad Bomber," both Yordan productions.
"Stake-Out" is scheduled for Hollywood
shooting in December with Vince Edwards
starring . . . David Milton will write the
screenplay for "Get the Police," a product
of director Dick Richards' Richards Productions
. . . Producer Rodney Carr-Smith and
director Richard Sarafian have signed Fred
Myrow, an authority on Appalachian music,
to compose, arrange and conduct the score
for MGM's "The Lolly Madonna War."
Myrow is currently under commission to
write an evening of music for the New York
Philharmonic . . . Producer Michael A.
Wayne has announced that he has signed
William C. Davidson as production manager
on "Wednesday Morning," a Batjac production
for Warner Bros. The film which stars
John Wayne will begin rolling on location
in Durango, Mexico November 13 . . .
Marvin Hamlisch has been signed by producer
Ray Stark to score "The Way We
Were" . . . Paul Winchell has been signed
by producers William B. Hillman and William
E. Hines to star in Intro-Media Productions'
first feature film, "The Man From
Clover Grove."
To Make 'Stone Carnation'
As Playboy-Ritchie Film
NEW YORK—In the first of several major
forthcoming motion picture development
deals, Edward Rissien, executive vicepresident
of Playboy Productions, has concluded
an arrangement with Michael Ritchie
to produce and direct "The Stone Carnation,"
a contemporary classic Gothic ghost
story,
Productions.
as a joint venture of Playboy-Ritchie
Rissien, who recently assiuned the chief
executive post at Playboy Productions and is
responsible for the development of motion
picture and television projects for the company,
reported that "The Stone Carnation"
will begin principal photography shortly
after January 1 entirely on Northern California
locations.
BOXOFnCE :: October 23, 1972 13

Young Winston'
Columbia
By JOHN COCCHI
THE YOUTHFUL EXPLOITS of Britain's
great statesman Winston Churchill were
recounted in his autobiography, "My Early
Life: A Roving Commission." American
producer Carl Foreman based his screen
treatment for Columbia's roadshow release
of a Highroad/Hugh French presentation
on his book. As it reaches the screen,
"Young Winston" is a handsome and stirring
tribute to a man of courage and wisdom.
Comparisons to David Lean's "Lawrence of
Arabia" will enhance "Winston's" potential,
for there are similarities between the two
films in their depictions of remarkable men.
Director Richard Attenborough has called
his film "the first truly intimate epic," while
Foreman agrees that Churchill's early life
makes for "a very human story indeed."
Shot at a cost of some $6 million, the film
combines spectacle, pageantry and tradition
within a framework of the story of an ambitious
youth on the threshhold of greatness.
At the age of 22 (in 1897), Churchill was
a
second lieutenant in the British Army, acting
as war correspondent during clashes with
the Dervishes in India. Thought of as a
dandy and a glory hunter by his senior officers,
Churchill hoped for an opportunity
to prove himself under fire. While seeing a
successful Army career as a springboard into
politics, the youth was, nevertheless, plagued
by doubts as to his courage and ability.
During a surprise attack, Churchill does
prove his courage and any self-doubts vanish.
"Young Winston" begins with the preceding
episode and continues, with the aid
of flashbacks, to the point at which he embarks
upon a political career in the House
of Commons. Simon Ward portrays Churchill
throughout the film and narrates in the
familiar bulldog-like tones of the elderly
statesman. Russell Lewis is a chubby young
Winston at 7, while Michael Audreson is
the teenaged Churchill. Both Audreson and
full-scale
"YOUNG WINSTON"
A Columbia Pictures
A Highroad/Hugh French
release of
Presentation
In Panavision and Color
Running time: 145 minutes
(plus intermission)
Rated PG
CREDITS
Produced and written by Carl Foreman. Directed
by Richard Attenborough. Associate producer,
Harold Buck. Production supervisors, Michael
Stanley-Evans, Sidney G. Barnsby. Director
of photography, Gerry Turpin. Musical director,
Alfred Ralston. Production designers, Geoffrey
Drake, Don Ashton. Costumes, Anthony Mendleson.
Production managers, Albert Becket, Cecil F.
Ford. Editor, Kevin Connor. Camera operator,
Ronnie Taylor. Assistant director, William P.
Cartlidge. Sound mixer, Simon Kaye. Continuity,
Ann Skinner.
THE CAST
Winston Simon Ward
Captain (35th Sikhs) Peter Cellier
Adjutant (35th Sikhs) Ronald Mines
Sikh Soldier Dino Shafeek
General Kitchener John Mills
Elderly Officer Raymond Huntley
Lady Randolph Churchill Anne Bancroft
Winston (aged 7) Russell Lewis
Mrs. Everest Pat Heywood
Lord Randolph Churchill
Robert Shaw
Lord Salisbury Laurence Naismith
Arthur Balfour William Dexter
Joseph Chamberlain Basil Dignam
Gladstone Willoughby Gray
Prep School Headmaster Robert Hardy
Labouchere Edward Burnham
Peel John Stuart
Winston (aged 13) Michael Audreson
Mr. Welldon Jack Hawkins
Prince of Wales Reginald Marsh
General Bindon Blood Potrick Magee
Austen Chamberlo.n Jeremy Child
Lloyd George Anthony Hopkins
Mounted Boer Andrew Faulds
Sir Winston Churchill Sanders Watney
And His Voice by Simon Ward
Ward, who resemble each other greatly,
bear a remarkable physical likeness to the
young Churchill.
As a lad, Churchill is seen as an intelligent
child craving the affection of a renowned
father and a beloved but distant
mother. His scholastic achievements are directly
influenced by the fatherly interest of
Lord Randolph Churchill (Robert Shaw).
Perhaps the lack of parental love, given
openly, inspired Winston to prove himsrtf
in the eyes of his father and mother.
Due to ill health. Lord Randolph is forced
Winston Churchill (Simon Ward) as a young officer participating in the last
British Cavah^ charge.
to resign as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Lady Jennie (Anne Bancroft), Churchill's
American-born mother, thereafter uses her
influence to help her son's career.
After the Indian campaign, Churchill
wrote a book which met with disfavor
among the military, particularly General
Kitchener (John Mills). Later, during the
Boer War, the youth participated in a daring
encounter which resulted in his capture.
How he escaped made for world headlines
and the successful launching of a political
career.
Director Attenborough, who is also one
of Britain's most accomplished actors, previously
showed his abilities as a filmmaker
with the brilliant musical comedy-fantasy
"Oh! What a Lovely War" (1969). In
"Young Winston." he proves to be as accomplished
an artist with biographical material.
While war plays an important part
in the Churchill film, it is dealt with in
realistic, if adventurous, terms. The handling
of a cavalry charge (the last full-scale attack
on horseback in British history) and a fight
involving a troop train are actionful highlights
in this engrossing film.
Actor Simon Ward, although already 30,
quite convincingly portrays the young
Churchill from teenage years to early maturity.
While the young actor has had extensive
stage experience, his films to date
have been few. Aside from "Frankenstein
Must Be Destroyed!" and "I Start Counting,"
the latter unreleased in this country,
"Young Winston" marks Ward's major appearance
on the screen. The role is such that
it could very well boost Ward to the prominence
which Peter O'Toole has enjoyed since
his starring debut as "Lawrence of Arabia."
In an all loo infrequent screen appearance,
Anne Bancroft projects the essential qualities
as the American heiress and wife of a
Lord. In contrast to her usually earthy roles.
Miss Bancroft is quite aristocratic as the
Lady Jennie.
Robert Shaw has the more difficult role
regal
of Lord Randolph, whose physical deterioration
becomes more pronounced as the film
progresses. A tower of strength, Shaw retains
a great deal of sympathy in his last
scene. A once-great man, he is unable to
finish a simple sentence because of his condition.
The supporting cast is made up of many
fine British actors, while guest appearances
are made by several "name" performers.
Most have little more than walk-ons: as a
headmaster. Jack Hawkins has only one
word of dialog (which is dubbed because of
the actor's affliction, while Patrick Magee
has just one brief scene as General Bindon
Blood. John Mills as Kitchener and Anthony
Hopkins as the youthful Lloyd George have
more of an opportunity to make their characters
come alive.
The production is most handsome indeed,
the Panavision and color— by Colorflex
System—being well used. The initial Indian
sequences are done with a brownish tint
predominating, with the balance of the film
being processed in full colors. Although the
film is the story of a British subject, the
theme is one of courage and ambition
qualities which have universal appeal.
BOXOFFICE :: October 23. 1972

VIP Washington Debut
For 'Young Winston'
WASHINGTON—One of the most prestigious
Washington audiences ever assembled
for a motion picture premiere gathered
at the MacArthur Theatre here Monday
night (16) for the opening of "Young
Winston." the film by Carl Foreman and
Richard Attenborough for Columbia Pictures.
Producer-writer Foreman, director
Attenborough, star Simon Ward and Stanley
Schneider, president of Columbia Pictures,
were among those in attendance at the invitational
premiere, which was under the patronage
of His Excellency, the British Ambassador
and Lady Cromer.
Those slated to be in the first-night audience
included ambassadors from 35 nations;
U.S. Senators Harry Flood Byrd, Roman
Hruska, Jennings Randolph, Richard
Schweiker, Hugh Scott and Lowell Weicker;
Congressmen Thomas S. Foley, F. Edward
Hebert, John M. Murphy and Thomas P.
O'Neill; Supreme Court Justice and Mrs.
Blackman and Justice and Mrs. Potter
Stewart, and under-secretaries John Irwin
(state), Kenneth Belieu (Army), James T.
Lynn (commerce), John McLucas (Air
Force) and Lawrence Silberman (labor).
Also, some of Washington's top civic,
social and business leaders, including Mrs.
Everett Dirksen, Hon. and Mrs. Paul Rand,
Hon. and Mrs. Arthur Goldberg, Hon. and
Mrs. W. Averill Harriman, Hon. Thomas
Corcoran, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Carpenter,
Mr. and Mrs. David Brinkley, Mr. and Mrs.
J. Carter Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Klein.
"Young Winston" stars Robert Shaw as
Lord Randolph, Anne Bancroft as Lady
Jennie and Simon Ward in the title role and
is based on "My Early Life" by Winston
Churchill. Produced and written for the
screen by Carl Foreman and directed by
Richard Attenborough, the film features
special appearances by Jack Hawkins, Ian
Holm, Anthony Hopkins, Patrick Magee,
Edward Woodward and John Mills. The
film's musical score was written by Alfred
Ralston.
"Young Winston" began its regular reserved-seat
engagement Tuesday (17) at the
MacArthur Theatre.
Broadway Theatre Named
In Honor of Joe Levine
NEW YORK—Broadway's first new legitimate
theatre in 42 years will be named
the Circle in the Square-Joseph E. Levine
Theatre in honor of the motion picture producer,
a long-time supporter who has lent
his
counsel and encouragement to Circle in
the Square for many years. Located in the
new Uris Building, a skyscraper at 50th
Street and Broadway, the new theatre has
650 seats arranged on three sides of the
playing area.
With Paul Libin as managing director, the
theatre will feature a one-price policy of
$7.95 for individual attractions and $20.85
for a subscription to all three of the first
season's plays. Levine had been associated
with the theatre's artistic director, Theodore
Mann, on five previous productions, most
recently the James Earl Jones-Ruby Dee
play. "Boesman and Lena."
The premiere presentation will open
Thursday. November 9, with Eugene
O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," directed
by Mann and running until December
31. Colleen Dewhurst, Janice Rule and
Stephen McHattie are in the cast. A preview
week will be held November 2-8.
"Medea," starring Irene Papas and
adapted and directed by Minos Volanakis,
will be presented from Tuesday, January 9,
until March 31. Previews are scheduled
January 4-7.
The final production of the season will be
Mike Nichols' version of Chekhov's "Uncle
Vanya," starring George C. Scott, Julie
Christie, Nicol Williamson and Elizabeth
Wilson. This will be presented from Tuesday,
May 22, until July 22, with a week of
previews beginning May 14.
QCC Unveils De Luxe
4-Plex in Manhattan
NEW YORK—Quad Cinema Corp.'s
fourplex, located at 34 West 13th St., the
first motion picture facility of its type in
Manhattan, began operation Wednesday
(18) with "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Butterflies
Are Free," "Play It Again, Sam" and "The
Gang's All Here" as the inaugural screen
attractions. Quad Cinema's policy will be to
offer its patrons a choice of new films from
leading American European filmmakers,
first-run showcase pictures and popular revivals.
Bernard E. Goldberg, president of Quad
"We believe this new
Cinema Corp., stated:
complex of theatres will have a strong appeal,
not only for the New Yorker in quest
of commercial film fare, but for that specialized
audience seeking different films
which all too often are available for only a
limited time in
the metropolitan area."
The complex has a total of 584 seats,
with 162 in Quad One, 149 in Quad Two,
145 in Quad Three and 128 in Quad Four.
One booth houses the eight MEOPTA
35mm projectors and, so that there will be
no distortion of sound, each theatre has
acoustically suspended speaker systems at
each end of the screen. Air-conditioning for
the theatres is provided by five separate systems.
The design for Quad Cinema is the work
of architect Shael Shapiro and Richard
Moore Associates, who have given each of
the theatres its own individual decor and
color scheme to provide a comfortable viewing
environment.
JLC Duo Ground Breaking
TROY, N.Y.—Present at recent groundbreaking
ceremonies for a twin Jerry Lewis
Cinema in Mid-City Shopping Center were:
James Amendolo, Celestino P. Caruso and
Francis R. Koenig, the owners, and Mayor
John F. Fomer of Menands, N.Y.
Pornography Measure
Before Pa. Assembly
PITTSBURGH—A bill designed to give
law enforcement officials greater power to
"crack down" on so-called hard-core pornography
exhibited in book stores and movie
theatres was released for a floor vote by the
House Judiciary Committee. Rep. Patricia
Crawford is sponsor and co-sponsors are 35
members of both parties. The measure was
endorsed by the District Attorneys Ass'n of
Pennsylvania at its convention several
months ago.
The bill in the Harrisburg hopper amends
a 1936 law which provided severe penalties
for the sale and distribution of obscene materials
to minors 17 years of age and under
and to adults as well. Courts found a 1968
law defective because it failed to establish
remedies to defendants to insure their rights
under the First Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution.
Now active in the general assembly of the
Keystone State, the bill would provide: preliminary
injunctions would become permanent
after 30 days unless the defendant
asked for a trial; a defendant may ask for a
jury trial, then the final hearing must take
place within 30 days and the court of common
pleas must render a decision within five
days, and if the court grants a permanent
injunction, law enforcement officials shall
seize and destroy the "obscene materials."
Legislators read the bill and state that obscenity
is defined and they find the measure
declares those in violation of the law to be
a public nuisance. A jail term of up to five
years and a fine of $5,000 is provided for
sale or distribution of obscene materials to
minors. The penalty for the same offenses
involving adults is less severe—two years in
jail and a $2,000 fine.
Star of 'Super Fly' Meets
Press in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON—Ron O'Neal, star of
Warner Bros.' smash hit "Super Fly," made
a clean sweep of the national and local
media at a capitol press conference here.
All four local TV stations, as well as
ABC, CBS and NBC (TV and radio) covered
the conference, together with representatives
of the Washington Post, Washington
Star, Associated Press and United Press
International.
Black newspapers represented were the
Afro-American, the Observer, the Informer
and Metropolitan Herald. Three area black
stations and WAVA News were represented,
as were the Washington bureaus of Time,
Newsweek and Ebony.
Postpone Action on Application
CAMDEN, N. J.—The Haddon Township
Planning Board has postponed action
on a proposed 150-seat movie theatre, to be
built at Lake Drive on the southwest corner
of Black Horse Pike. The application
was made by Crestmont, Inc., of Haddon
Township.
BOXOFnCE :: October 23, 1972 E-1

The
The
Last
'Young Winston Produces High 450
Percentage First Week in New York
NEW YORK—"Young Winston," Columbia's
roadshow based on the early career
of Winston Churchill, bowed at Columbia
II with 450, a percentage figure high enough
to qualify the film as the week's No. 1
grosser in the metropolitan area. "Chloe
in the Afternoon," leader the last two report
weeks, dropped to 440, good enough
for the second spot this time, at the 68th
Street Playhouse. No. 3 this week and
No. 2 last week, "A Separate Peace,"
earned 410 at the Cinema II in its third
week; thus all of the current report's top
three films rated in the over-400 class.
"Deliverance" climbed from No. 6 to
No. 4, with a stronger 325 in its 11th
Tower East stanza, and this week's No. 5
spot went to "Super Fly," a composite 270
in
a tenth week at the Cine (230) and State
II (310). Perennial "All About Sex of All
Nations" placed sixth with 260 in a 35th
week at Rialto II.
(Average Is 100)
Baronet Bad Company (Para) 120
Beekman A Sense of Loss (Cinema 5),
2nd wk 85
Cine Super Fly (WB), 10th wk 230
Cinema I Ruling Class (Emb), 5th wk. ..210
Cinema II A Separate Peace (Para), 3rd wk. ..410
Cinerama Where Does It Hurt? (CRC), 3rd wk. ..75
Columbia I King of Marvin Gardens (Col) 220
Columbia II Young Winston (Col)
450
Coronet Everything You Alwoys Wanted to
Know About Sex (UA), 10th wk 170
Criterion Blocula (AlP), 7th wk 65
DeMille Hammer (UA), 4th wk 70
Festival Heat (Levitt-Pickman), 2nd wk 225
59th Street Twin II Where Does It Hurt?
(CRC), 3rd wk 110
Little Carnegie Everything You Always Wanted
to Know About Sex (UA), 10th wk 110
New Embassy Sounder (20th-Fox), 3rd wk. ..250
Paris Wednesday's Child (Cinema 5) 125
Plaza Sounder (20th-Fox), 3rd wk 240
Radio City Music Hall Cancel My Reservation
(WB), 4th wk 80
Rialto II All About Sex of All Nations
(Mishkin), 35th wk 260
Rivoli— Fiddler on the Roof (UA), 49th wk 65
RKO 86th Street Twin II Where Does It Hurt?
(CRC), 3rd wk 135
68th Street Playhouse—Chloe in the Afternoon
Col), 3rd wk 440
State II Super Fly (WB), 10th wk 310
Sutton The Emigrants (WB), 3rd wk 250
Tower East Deliverance (WB), 11th wk 325
Trans^Lux East Dulcima (Cinevision), 4th wk. ..50
Trans-Lux West—Melinda (MGM), 9th wk 1 00
Tritz the Cat' Strongest
Of Buffalo's Six New Films
BUFFALO—There were six newcomers
to the first-run scene and four performed
well. "Fritz the Cat," the X-rated cartoon,
scored 200 at Dipson's Kensington to lead
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Velvet" produced a composite 130 at the
downtown Center, suburban Holiday 4 and
West Twin Drive-In; "Housewives Report"
had an above average 120 at the Teck.
Bockstoge Night of the Bloody Apes (SR) ....100
Buffalo Super Fly (WB), 3rd wk 130
Center, Holiday 4, West Four Flies on
Grey Velvet (Para) 1 30
Cinema, Amherst Everything You Always
Wanted to Know About Sex (UA), 8th wk. .140
Kensington Fritz the Cot (SR) 200
Penthouse Kitty's Pleasure Palace (SR) 100
Plaza North Fat City (Col) 1 40
Teck Housewives' Report (SR) 1 20
'Everything About Sex' Enjoys
300 in Baltimore Cinema II
BALTIMORE -— A triple-average week
for "Everything You Always Wanted to
Know About Sex" represented top film
business here as the Woody Allen comedy
raced through a seventh week at Cinema
II. Also above-average business rewarded
a second week of "Slaughterhouse-Five" at
the Towson and Westview II.
Cinema II Everything You Always Wanted
to Know About Sex (UA), 7th wk 300
Liberty I, Senator Where Does It Hurt?
(CRC), 2nd wk 95
1
Towson, Westview 1 Slaughterhouse-Five
(Univ), 2nd wk 190
Westview I of the Red Hot Lovers
(Para), 4th wk 70
'1776' Benefit Bow
At Kennedy Center
WASHINGTON—Columbia Pictures' release
of the Jack L. Warner-produced
"1776" will be the first motion picture to
premiere at the Kennedy Center and it
thereby will initiate film programing into
the national cultural center. The gala wiil
be a $25-per-i>erson benefit for the American
Film Institute Theatre November 12
in the center's Eisenhower Theatre.
Hosting the evening's glittering personalities
will be, among others, Charlton Heston,
chairman of the AFI board of trustees, and
William Daniels (John Adams) and Howard
Da Silva (Benjamin Franklin) of the film's
cast, wearing period costiimes.
The press will be briefed on details at a
committee-press cocktail gathering on the
top floor of the center Wednesday (25).
The fund-raising premiere will include an
"old-fashioned colonial picnic." Heading the
AFI benefit committee of volunteers are
Mrs. David Ginsburg and Mrs. William
Safire.
Lesser Enterprises Adds
12th Theatre to Circuit
HICKSVILLE, N.Y.—Lesser Enterprises
has acquired an additional upstate New
York theatre, the Rivoli in South Fallsburg,
formerly under the Sam Yellen banner, it is
announced by Ed Linder, managing director
and vice-president of Lesser. A total of 12
first-run showcase theatres now are under
the Lesser Enterprises banner.
Officers and directors of the upstate theatre
division are: Ronald Lesser, president
(and also an officer in ITOA); Edmund E.
Linder, vice-president, and Buddy Arvin
Cadiff, secretary-treasurer, supervisor of the
six upstate theatres.
The Lesser circuit now includes: Mount
Kisco Theatre, Mount Kisco, N.Y.; Triangle
Theatre, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.; Beach
Cinema One and Two, Peeksville, N.Y.;
Orangeburg Theatre, Orangetown, N.Y.;
Valley Theatre, Spring Valley, N.Y., and
upstate theatres including the Broadway
Theatre, Monticello, N.Y.; Rialto Theatre,
Monticello, N.Y.; White Lake Theatre,
White Lake, N.Y.; Liberty and Academy
theatres. Liberty, N.Y., and the RivoU Theatre,
South Fallsburg, N.Y.
Sicilian Moviegoers See
'Godfather' in Palermo
I
PALERMO, SICILY—Paramount Pic-'
tures' "The Godfather," with a soundtrack
dubbed in Sicilian dialect, premiered here
recently to mixed reaction. Newspaperman
Roberto Ciuno, editor of Giornale di Sicilia,
declared after the opening-night screening:
"Our mafiosi now are greaseballs, small time
and have no sense of tradition left. The
godfathers here wish they were as good
looking and suave as (Marlon) Brando."
Aldo Vignari, former Palermo district attorney,
however, insisted the three-hour
motion picture "glorifies the wrong side of
the Sicilian way of life and the wrong people."
The manager of the movie house where
"The Godfather" was shown before an audience
that paid the equivalent of $2.50 per
person for admittance, when asked if the
film was a '"disaster," grinned and declared,
"It is great business!"
Loews Plans Twin Cinemas
|
In Brookhaven, L.L
NEW YORK—Bernard Myerson, president
of Loews Theatres, has announced that
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twin cinemas will be built in the Brooktown
Shopping Center in Brookhaven, L.L, sub-
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ject to approval by the United States Dis-
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trict Court for the Southern District of New
York.
It is expected that the twins will be in
operation by next summer. Loews currently
operates a theatre in Bayshore, L.L, the
addition of the twins giving the company !
three screens in Suffolk County. Myerson
j
the twins will be the first step in
an expansion program, with other locations
\
now under consideration in various parts
of the country.
Russ Meyer's
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E-3

BROADWAY
^lANA ROSS as Billie Holiday in Paramount's
"Lady Sings the Blues" took
the town over Tuesday night (17) when its
gala world premiere was held at Loews'
State L A benefit for the NAACP mid-Manhattan
branch's Project Rebound, the premiere
was attended by a host of celebrities.
Miss Ross and her husband are expecting a
baby and she was unable to attend.
Co-star Billy Dee Williams led the glamor
contingent, which included Motown president
Berry Gordy, Paramount Pictures president
Frank Yablans, Shirley MacLaine,
James Earl Jones, Hermione Gingold, Dick
Cavett, Bobby Rosengarten, Ron O'Neal,
Brock Peters, Celeste Holm, Lisa Kirk,
Andy Warhol, Elliott Gould, Kitty Hawks,
Jolie Gabor, Dena Kaye, Aliza Kashi, Marjoe
Gortner, Diana Sands, Herbie Mann
and Stevie Wonder. Miss Sands was set to
do another version of the Holiday story before
the Motown-Weston-Furie production
had been made.
Public figures in attendance were Vernon
Jordan, head of the National Urban League;
Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the
NAACP; Percy Sutton, president of the
borough of Manhattan; Robert Wagner, former
mayor of New York City, and Basil
Patterson, co-chairman of the state democratic
committee.
A party at the Terrace Room of the Plaza
Hotel followed the premiere. Entertainment
was provided by some of the musicians who
had worked with the late Miss Holiday, including
Buddy Tate, Hank Jones, Eddie
Heywood, Jo Jones, Milt Hinton and Ernie
Royal.
"Lady Sings the Blues" now is in its regular
run at Loews' State I and Loews' Orpheum.
•
Boris Kogan, courtesy of the United Jewish
Appeal, will discuss "The Destiny of
Soviet Jewry" at the Thursday (26) meeting
of Cinema Lodge, B'nai B'rith at the Hotel
Warwick. Lodge president Carl Levine arranged
with the UJA for Kogan to speak.
An attorney, Kogan recently emigrated
from Russia to Israel, where he has been
active in Soviet Jewish affairs.
•
Director Don Schain was in St. Thomas,
Virgin Islands, for a week of preproduction
activities on Derio Productions' "Girls Are
for Loving." Filming begins on the island
November 6.
•
Edward L. Schuman, a member of the
board of directors of the Walter Reade Or-
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an extended leave of absence in the newly
created position of vice-president for planning
and development. Announcement was
made by Walter Reade jr., president and
chairman of the board.
Schuman, formerly vice-president in
charge of the company's entertainment
group, had been serving in Washington,
D. C, as national coordinator of fund raising
for the Democratic presidential campaign.
In his new job, Schuman will be responsible
for the overall planning and development
of the Reade Organization on a corporate
level, seeking out areas of expansion
through acquisitions and mergers.
•
"The Exorcist" cast and crew moved from
the city to Georgetown in the District of
Columbia Wednesday (18) for three weeks
of location shooting. Producer-writer William
Peter Blatty already had selected location
sites prior to the company's departure.
Interior filming in New York will resume
after completion of shooting in the Washington
area.
William Friedkin is directing a cast headed
by Max von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn, Lee
J. Cobb, Jason Miller, Kitty Winn and Linda
Blair as the possessed child.
•
Jeff Satkin has been appointed as promotion
manager for Viacom International, Inc.,
announced Mort Slakoff, director of creative
services. Satkin has been assistant advertising
manager and director of agency
operations for Screen Gems and director of
advertising for the
Walter Reade Organization's
TV division.
•
The Radio City Music Hall opened
"When the Legends Die" Thursday (19).
Richard Widmark and Frederic Forrest star
in the contemporary western drama concerning
an Indian boy who becomes a champion
rodeo rider. Stuart Millar produced and directed.
Being held over was the stage attraction,
"In One Era-Out the Other," canceling out
the previously scheduled salute to the late
Nat King Cole. Negotiations still were
under way with the Musicians' Union, Local
802, to keep the theatre open past the Friday
night (20) deadline. The Hall was forced
to close for two days during the run of Bob
Hope's "Cancel My Reservation" because of
a dispute between management and the musicians
over wages.
•
Sam Horwitz of Sea Gate is being honored
at the Sea Gate breakfast of the Federation
of Jewish Philanthropies Sunday (29)
in Kneses Israel Community Center, Coney
Island. He has run frequent shows for
handicapped children and the Scouts in his
three movie houses.
•
Openings: "You'll Like My Mother," Friday
(20) at the Forum, UA East and Kips
Bay theatres; "The Discreet Charm of the
Bourgeoisie," by Luis Bunuel, American
premiere Sunday (22) at the Little Carnegie;
"Play It As It Lays," American premiere
Sunday (29) at the Beekman; "Black Girl,"
world premiere November 8 at the Penthouse
as a benefit for the Sickle Cell Disease
Foundation of Greater New York, and
"Under Milk Wood," American premiere
December 24 at the new Eastside Cinema.
•
Showcases for Wednesday (18): "Hickey
and Boggs" and "Return of Sabata";
"Slaughter" and "Three in the Cellar" (formerly
"Up in the Cellar"); "Oh! Calcutta!";
"Skyjacked" and "Kansas City Bomber";
"Marjoe"; Radley Metzger's Erotic Film
Festival: "Therese and Isabelle," "Carmen,
Baby" and "The Libertine," and the first-run
"Son of Blob" (or "Beware! The Blob") and
"The House of Missing Girls" (originally
"Erotique").
•
In the magazines: October's Films In Review
features articles on Lana Turner, Dave
O'Brien and Presidents on the screen.
O'Brien is the western B picture-serial actor
and stuntman who starred in the Pete Smith
shorts.
Lawrence A. Murray Joins
Modern Picture Service
NEW HYDE PARK,
N.Y.—Lawrence
A. Murray has joined Modern Talking Picture
Service as sales
promotion coordinator
in the company's
New Hyde Park national
service center.
Modern is the nation's
leading distributor of
sponsored films, booking
over 2.000.000
movies a year.
Murray brings extensive
experience in
Lawrence Murray
publicity, advertising
and promotion to the company and actively
will be responsible within Modern for these
functions. Modern also is a pioneer in videocassette
and CATV programing through its
Modern Video Center division. The company
has just announced the availability of
free-loan videocassettes on the %-inch U-
Matic format and Murray will be involved
in promoting this program.
Murray has relocated to Freeport, N.Y.,
from the Boston area, where he was active
in many communications organizations. He
recently was named "Citizen of the Year"
by the Woburn, Mass., Kiwanis-Key Club
for his services to the young people of that
community.
Twin Airer Plans Blocked
CLARENCE, N.Y.—Plans for a twin
drive-in at 8075 Transit Rd. near the Millersport
Highway have been blocked by the
Clarence Town Board. The board has denied
a petition by Thomas Barillari to rezone 17
acres of land at the site from agriculture to
commercial. The planning boards of both
Erie County and Clarence objected to the
twin-theatre proposal.
E-4 BOXOmCE :: October 23. 1972

Passaic Theatres Change
Policy on X Pictures
PASSAIC, N.J.—Both Passaic theatres
which were involved in a recent "pornography
crackdown" by the city and the county
prosecutor's office have agreed voluntarily
to begin showing, immediately, films which
meet the state pornography statute. Operators
of the Montauk and Capitol theatres,
which feature a consistent policy of X-rated
films, through their attorneys, stated that
they will withdraw their usual "hard-core"
pornographic films but will continue to
show X-rated films that meet the state laws.
The prosecutor's office said it intends to
view future film showings at the two houses
to make sure they do comply with the law.
Several weeks ago the Passaic City Council,
prompted by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese
of Newark, called for "a crackdown
on smut and pornography" in the city. It
was joined by county officials shortly thereafter.
The theatre owners' decision was received
by the prosecutor immediately following
the arrest of a local store owner by
city and county police on charges of selling
obscene books.
The Montauk is operated by Richard
Nathan, while the Capitol ownership recently
was transferred to Al Hayward and John
Scher.
3 NJ Theatres Reported
Scheduled for Closing
TRENTON, N.J. — Edward Sniderman,
RKO division manager, announced the
scheduled closing of Trenton's RKO Lincoln
and RKO Trent theatres, both first-run
houses, Tuesday (10) and the planned Tuesday
(17) shuttering of the RKO Brunswick.
He indicated that employees of the three
theatres had been notified.
Sniderman additionally disclosed that the
RKO International 70 and the RKO State in
New Brunswick also would be darkened.
There was no official word on when or if the
theatres would be reopened or why they
were closed. Sniderman said the buildings
would be locked but that utilities would be
maintained. Some reports suggested that
the closings were of a temporary nature.
With the shuttering of the Trenton the
atres, only one first-run movie house would
remain operational in the city—the Mayfair
on State Street. RKO at one time operated
five theatres in Trenton. The RKO Broad
was sold to the Catholic Youth Organization
in 1962 and the RKO Capitol, which
was renamed International 70, was darkened
in 1966.
Rock Show Producers Buy
Capitol in Passaic, N.J.
PASSAIC, N.J.—Local rock stageshow
producers Al Hayward and John Scher
have purchased the Capitol Theatre from
Dr. Samuel E. Harris, a retired Passaic
physician. The two recently entered their
second season of presenting rock concerts
at the Capitol.
The series of stageshows, originally begun
in November 1971, has been extremely
NORTH JERSEY
Hndrew Sullivan, owner and operator of
the Westfield Cinema in Westfield. will
open a second cinema, this in nearby Chatham
Township. Opening of the 250 seat
Chatham Cinema is slated for some time
near the end of December.
Tony Vakarcel, assistant manager at Fabian's
Rialto in Westfield for the past four
and a half years, is recuperating at home
following recent surgery. Substituting for
him during his absence is Jack McCormack.
George Karros is manager of the Rialto.
"Fiddler on the Roof" continues in its
18th week of hard tickets at Fabian's Bellevue
in Upper Montclair, Century's Paramus
2 in Paramus and Reade's Lyric in
Asbury Park . . . Fabian's Hyway in Fair
Lawn recently held a one-night benefit
showing of "The King and I," sponsored by
the Bergen County Republican Committee.
The Hyway is managed by Bill Leff.
More than 3,000 members of Dyers Local
1733 of the Textile Workers of America,
successful, to the point where many local
newspapers as well as New York City writers
have referred to the Capitol as the "Fillmore
of New Jersey."
Originally opened in the 1920s, the Capitol
was operated for many years by Stanley
Warner Theatres, until its closing in 1967.
It was reopened in the fall of '70 by the
Passaic Cinema Corp., headed by Gabe Gargirello,
who leased the building from Dr.
Harris. The theatre was reopened as an exploitation
film house, featuring a steady diet
of X-rated fare, a policy which has continued—in
between rock shows—^to the present
day.
'Escape to the Sun' Bows
October 31 at Criterion
NEW YORK—Cinevision International
Films' "Escape to the Sun," starring Laurence
Harvey. Jack Hawkins, Josephine
Chaplin, John Ireland and Academy Award
winner Lila Kedrova, will premiere Tuesday
(31) at the Criterion Theatre.
Produced and directed by Menahem Goland,
"Escape to the Sun" was filmed in
color in Norway, Germany and Russia. The
action thriller concerns the daring escape
attempts of disenchanted people from the
Soviet Union.
Organizations and groups interested in
seeing "Escape to the Sun" can call a special
group sales number, 586-4887, for information
and reservations.
Mrs. Ida M. Cohen Dies
NEW YORK—Mrs. Ida M. Cohen, former
film buyer of RKO-Stanley Warner
Theatres in New York, died Friday (13)
following a lengthy illness. She had been
with the theatre company 32 years. Mrs.
Cohen leaves a daughter, two brothers, two
sisters and two grandchildren.
AFL-CIO, held a morning meeting recently
at RKO-SW's Fabian in Paterson, managed
by George Birkner. The meeting concerned
a vote on new contract proposals and the
Fabian was the only local facility large
enough to seat the entire membership . . .
Having prompted an official investigation
of the Montauk and Capitol theatres in
Passaic for their X-rated film policies, the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, in
its publication Comment/ Media Today, has
rapped the Strand in Keyport, Sayrewoods
Theatre in Middlesex County and RKO-
SW's Branford in Newark for the same
reasons.
Reade's Community in Toms River, after
years of daily operation, now is open weekends
only, Friday through Sunday. Simultaneous
with this announcement, the adult
admission was reduced to $1.25 at all times.
Earlier this year the theatre had been closed
for about a month, while the Reade organization
negotiated a new lease with the
building's
owners.
Spyros Lenas Charts
4-Plex in Fairfield
FAIRFIELD, N.J.—Spyros Lenas, owner
and operator of a theatre circuit, restaurants
and shopping centers throughout North
Jersey and New York, has announced plans
for the opening of a quadplex in Essex
County in the town of Fairfield. Plans also
include a motel, restaurant and cocktail
lounge and a shopping center on this 30-
acre site.
The location is on Route 46, adjacent to
the Willowbrook Shopping Center, which is
located in Wayne. Lenas already operates
three hardtops and one drive-in in the Willowbrook
Shopping Center under the name
of DeVisser Theatres. The theatres are the
Willowbrook Cinema. Little Cinema 1, Little
Cinema 2 and the Anthony Wayne
Drive-In.
Using a common lobby, the latest in
equipment and finest in decor, along with
dining facilities and amusements, the new
quadplex will "enable the entire family to
make a day or evening of it," according to
Lenas.
The local exhibitor also has further plans
for 1973 which include the construction of
1 1 additional theatres in the New York-New
Jersey area, plus several combination restaurant-theatre
operations which presently
are under consideration.
January Start Planned for Mall
FAIRMONT. W. VA.—Construction of
a multimillion-dollar mall on Route 250,
which will have a motion picture theatre,
is slated to begin in early January. Grading
of the 65-acre site has been under way
since early summer. The complex is being
built by Donald A. Mosites of Mosites Construction
Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
developers.
BOXOFHCE :: October 23, 1972 E-5

BUFFALO
Cidney J. Cohen, president of NATO of
New York, was in New York City attending
a meeting of
the board of directors
of national NATO
and the trade practices
committee of the
same organization.
Before leaving for
Gotham, Cohen announced
that Countrywide
Theatres now
is taking up collections
for the Will
Sidney J. Cohen
Rogers Hospital and
Research Center. He also announced that
Lou Levitch of Martina Theatres reports
excellent results on his Rogers collections in
the Center, Backstage, Penthouse and the
new Maple-Forest 1 and 2. The Showplace
Theatre, formerly the Unity, on the city's
west side, also reports excellent results on its
part in the drive.
The Twin Cities Camera Club of North
Tonawanda has joined the Niagara Frontier
Regional Camera Club. The Frontier Club
now has five clubs in Ontario and four in
New York with a membership of 800. Herbert
Force, a spokesman, said the group's
annual fall outing was held at Niagara-onthe-Lake,
Ont., to photograph foliage. William
H. Cropper of St. Catharines was
chairman.
There was another good crowd at the
Thursday (12) noon film talk on Africa in
the Variety Club when past chief barker
Dewey Michaels was featured several times
with lions, elephants, rhinos, jungle natives,
etc., on an interesting trip he made to the
Dark Continent. Congratulations to chairman
Bill Shields on an excellent program.
Charles R. Turner, who accompanied Dewey
on the African safari, described the various
scenes . . . The next gin rummy night
in the Variety headquarters will be Monday
(23), with dinner at 6 and gin at 8:15 p.m.
Lou Levitch was "King of the Night" at the
last affair and Joe Syracuse was the "sloe
ginner." Among those attending were Joe
Galante, Dewey Michaels, Dave Colson,
James J. Hayes, Albert Petrella, Charlie
Poepernick, Herman Glaser and Bill Shields.
Looking on were Ben Bush, Jack Marine,
Charlie Aaron, Sam Jay, Clint LeFlamme
and Ed Fontano . . . The Buffalo Camera
Club presented its annual Fall Film Festival
Friday and Saturday (20, 21), screening
seven international award-winning films
from the Photographic Society of America
competitions and four films by club members.
The meetings were held in Rosary Hill
College.
Alfred E. Anscombe, president of Amherst
CableVision and a past chief barker of
the Variety Club, is working in conjunction
with the Amherst Central High School
students on Channel 12, time and weather
station. The students are providing the background
music for the daily program.
Joseph P. Garvey, general manager. Holiday
Theatres, started two new features at
two of the complex houses Wednesday (18).
Paramount's "Bad Company" opened at
Holiday I, with Jeff Bridges and Barry
Brown, and "Murmur of the Heart" started
at Holiday 3. The latter is the third in the
series of art films planned this fall by
Garvey . . . The women's committee of
Buffalo's Studio Arena Theatre has a new
name—the Curtain Raisers. Mrs. Joel N.
Lippman is the 1972-73 president. The organization
has started a door-to-door membership
drive . . . Clint LaFlamme, the
matire d'hotel at the Variety Club, has been
doing an outstanding job at Tent 7 for years.
He should be awarded a plaque or something!
Whenever there is an event at the
club headquarters, Clint is the guy who sees
that the menus are 100 per cent. He also
supervises things at the bar and everywhere
else in the club. Hats off to you, young
man!
A police officer was knocked unconscious
and two persons were arrested the other
night in a disturbance in the Capitol Theatre,
Rochester. A capacity crowd of about
800 was forced into the streets. As the theatre
was being evacuated on police order,
someone threw a rock that hit an officer on
the nose and knocked him unconscious. Albert
O. Fenyvessy, manager of the theatre
building which also houses Fenyvessy Enterprises,
was charged with criminal nuisance.
A youth, 22, was charged with disorderly
conduct and resisting arrest and a juvenile,
accused of first-degree riot, was referred to
family court. The injury and arrests occurred
outside the theatre.
In an editorial in the Rochester Democrat
& Chronicle, that newspaper says: "Any
countrywide CATV franchise must, of
course, guarantee a fair share of the public
proceeds to the fiscally pressed city government.
All developments considered, we feel
that this is a time for study and not action
on CATV. Cable TV, offering wonders
(some listed), can make a big impact on our
lives. But it is to be hoped that the current
city council will not add to the record of
confused and undue haste inscribed by its
predecessors."
A group of area industryites held their
annual golf get-together at the Tan Tara
Country Club in Pendleton. The golfers arrived
early, starting the first nine in a slight
drizzle. Among the players were Frank
Arena, Jake Stefanon, Ike Ehrlichman,
Tony Alessi, Tony Mercuric, Jack Chinell,
Bobby Kowal, James J. Hayes, Joe Griffith
and Bill Abrams. After the games a steak
dinner was served and a drawing held for
the various prizes.
Congratulation.s are being showered upon
John J. Serfustini, manager of the 20th-Fox
branch, on his selection as general chairman
of the 1973 Variety telethon. John never has
accepted a big job unless he could give it his
all. Full support has been assured him by
fellow barkers of Tent 7. John is a past chief
barker of the tent.
Robert Sugarman of the Erie Downs Golf
Club is one of the new members of the
Variety Club and the name of Franklin
Lorenz has been posted for application to ii
barkership. Walter Cunningham has been
named chairman of the annual Monte Carlo
Nite in the clubrooms Saturday (28). The
cost is $2.50 per person for $25,000 in play
money ... A tip of the hat to past chief
chief barker Al Petrella for arranging a
large painted sign in the War Memorial
Stadium flashing a vote of thanks from Tent
7 to the community for its aid in putting
over the 1972 telethon. It is read by thousands
every week when the football game
crowds gather there . . . The Variety Club
telethon presentation dinner was held in the
Delaware Avenue headquarters Friday evening
(20), when representatives of Tent 7's
favorite charities appeared to accept checks
from the show business club that helps
needy children. Chief barker Richard A.
Atlas presided and introduced the various
representatives from the organizations that
are doing such good work with the aid of
Variety. Prominent among these charities is
the Children's Rehabilitation Center of the
Children's Hospital.
Industryites are glad to see Harry Adelman
of Theatre Film Advertising back in
harness following a sojourn in the hospital.
Harry resides at 125 Cindy Dr., Williamsville,
and is beginning to look like his old
self again.
Albert O. Fenyvessy, owner of the Capitol
Theatre in Rochester, may lease the 67-yearold
house to clients who want to show X-
rated films there. "I'm not going to run the
theatre any more," said Fenyvessy. "I've had
it. I've been here eight years but I won't
operate the theatre any more." Fenyvessy's
family has owned the Capitol since 1924.
Mannie A. Brown and his Frontier
Amusement Corp., 505 Pearl St., is distributing
the Crown International feature, "The
Naked Countess." Frontier now is distributing
a large number of independent films in
the local and Albany areas. Ike Ehrlichman
is vice-president and Bill Hebert is secretary
and treasurer . . . Paul Wall, MGM area
representative, booked his company's "Courage
of Lassie" in one of the children's matinee
events Saturday and Sunday (14, 15) in
the Boulevard Cinema I, the Seneca Mall
Cinema I, Holiday 2 and the Eastern Hills
Cinema I. These special matinees with outstanding
MGM features of other days are
proving very pxapular with the kiddies.
4-Plex in
Shopping Center
SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — A fourauditorium
theatre will be included in the
Villa Marina Shopping Center, to be constructed
on 10.5 acres at the intersection
of Mindanao Way and Marina Freeway.
Construction may begin at year's end. The
entire commercial development in the area
will cover 25 acres, with condominiums
occupying an adjoining 65-acre parcel.
E-6 BOXOFHCE :: October 23, 1972

[,
NEW
Don Siegel Retrospective
Is Under Way in New York
YORK—A film retrospective honoring
Don Siegel, currently producing and
directing Universal's "Charley Varrick," currently
is under way at the New York Cultural
Center. Titled "The Films of Donald
Siegel," the retrospective will run through
December 16.
Among the 27 pictures to be show are
"The Verdict," "Night Unto Night," "Riot
in Cell Block 11," "Invasion of the Body
Snatchers," "The Lineup," "The Killers,"
"Madigan," "Coogan's Bluff," "Two Mules
for Sister Sara," "The Beguiled," "Crime in
the Streets." "Dirty Harry" and "Baby Face
Nelson."
BALTIMORE
Tndustrjites who plan to attend the national
NATO convention in Bal Harbour,
Fla., are: Jack Whittle, executive director
of NATO of Maryland; Fred Schmuff, executive.
F. H. Durkee Enterprises; George
A. Brehm, Westview I and II theatres, and
Moe Cohen, owner of the Monocacy Drivein,
Taneytown (he"s the father of Irwin
Cohen, head of R/C Theatres).
Misty, the white pony with brown markings,
has died in Chincoteague, Va. Misty
was made famous in Marguerite Henry's
1947 book, "Misty of Chincoteague," on
which the 20th Century-Fox film "Misty"
(1961) was based. . . . Some 265 members
and friends attended the Vagabonds (America's
oldest little theatre) dinner-dance,
which featured nostalgia entertainment of
the 1930s. The affair was called "Oh, Do
It Again!"
A suit is pending in circuit court here between
JF Theatres, Ronald Freedman and
William Hewitt. The JF circuit is headed
by Jack Fruchtman. According to Donald
Rothman, lawyer for JF, "the suit involves
the question of stock ownership in the Baltimore
Film Society—a question between the
two exhibitors as to who owns the stock.
This is a specific performance action
brought by JF Theatres to require the stockholders
of Baltimore Film Society, who are
William Hewitt and Ronald Freedman, to
deliver the stock of that company to JF
Theatres" . . . Ronald Freedman no longer
is active as booker in the main office of JF
Theatres.
Ronald Tankersley, projectionist at
Schwaber's 7-East Theatre, entered St.
Joseph's Hospital Sunday (15) after suffering
a mild heart attack . . . George F. Eitel,
National Theatre Supply branch manager,
left Anne Arundel County Hospital, Annapolis,
Wednesday (11) after a successful operation
. . . Kay and Helen Eitel, daughters
of George F. Eitel, returned Monday evening
(16) from a three-week tour of Spain.
County commissioners of Washington
County have reduced the admission tax to
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PITTSBURGH
J^an of La Mancha" will open December
14 at the Manor Theatre . . . Another
musical. "1776," opens December 20 at the
Squirrel Hill . . . Other musicals, "Jesus
Christ Superstar," will be here around
Easter and in the spring the film version of
"Godspell" will be opening. The live production
of "Godspell" now is on stage at the
Nixon Theatre, where it will be featured for
a month.
Gabe Rubin has licenses for stageshows
at the Nixon as follows: January 15-20,
Sandy Dennis in "Let Me Hear You Smile";
January 22-27, Wilfrid Hyde-White and
Robert Coote in "Jockey Club Stakes"; the
December 11-16 show will be Maureen
O'Sullivan, Tony Tanner and Stephen Collins
in "No Sex Please, We're British," and
other Nixon stage shows have been announced
for the new season.
The Liberty Theatre co-featured "Maiden
Voyage" and "The First Time and the Last
Time," with John Williams and Ryan Redfield
. . . L'Amoure recently showed "Eros
Tales of Erotics, Parts 1 and 2," "Wet
Glaze," 'Drop-In," "200 Years of Body
Shame—Champagne Party—Getting Ready
for Roxanne" and "Love Life of the Movie
Stars" . . . Bizarre Art had all-male casts in
"Boys' Ranch," "He Changed His Mind,"
"Art Gallery" and the vignettes "Satyre,"
"Dying Gallion," etc.
Ned Bosnick and his "To Be Free" at the
Shadyside were exploited on the Dennis Benson
KQV Radio show . . . Many of the
musical programs at Heinz Hall, other than
the symphony, permit a 20 per cent discount
to students and senior citizens. Also, group
discounts are available. Call Phyllis Cohen
. . . "Jory" will be released soon.
. . .
. . .
. .
"Whoever thought that a cocaine pusher
would one day become glorified on the
screen?" This sentence was lifted from the
Squirrel Hill News regarding "Super Fly"
The alert Gateway, which held sneak
previews with no titles furnished, got
"Blacuia" "Asylum" comes into the
Gateway or Fulton Wednesday (25) and upcoming
in November will be "The Valachi
Papers" . Gov. Milton Shapp's son Richard
will make his singing debut in Pittsburgh
Opera's production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" as
Marullo at Heinz Hall Thursday (26)
through Saturday (28).
History of Film's highlight of the season,
D. W. Griffith's "Broken Blossoms," a 1919
production, was exhibited without admission
in Carnegie Lecture Hall Sunday (22). Lillian
Gish and the late Richard Barthelmess
IN
starred. The Sunday (29) feature will be the
Scandinavian "Treasure of Arne" . . . Playhouse
now is staging "How the Other Half
Loves."
John O. Glaus Agency here is handling
"The Castle of Fu-Man-Chu" . . . After
some years, we have received a film mailing
piece. It is from Warner Bros, and introduces
"Jeremiah Johnson" . . . William
Shakespeare's "Macbeth," the Roman Polanski
version, is at the Forum and Encore.
Condolences to Alvern A. Lostetter, veteran
retired Universal and Associated cashier,
on the death of his mother Cecelia M.
Hayes. Survivors include Al's brother Paul
and sister Mrs. Dolores (Dolly Deane) Nelson
and others.
"Pornography In New York" and "Take
My Head" have been on view at the Art
Cinema and among features licensed for
showing here are "A Woman's Liberation"
and "Distortions of Sexuality" . . . Walt
Disney's "Dumbo," again reissued and playing
at area theatres, got opening exploitation
via Dumbo's Traveling Circus, which was
seen in this area at shopping centers . . .
AIP has been having a lot of first-run playing
time with "Last House on the Left,"
"Twitch of the Death Nerve," etc., and upcoming
releases include "Bom Black,"
"Ayslum Erotica" and "Blind Dead."
Saul Perilman will release "The Naked
Countess" . . . Pacific Broadcasting applied
to the FCC to change the call letters of
WJAS Radio here to WPIQ and to change
WJAS-FM to WPYQ.
Nixon manager Leo Carlln expects the
stage season to include "The Effect of the
Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds"
. . . "The Erotic Adventures of Zorro"
played at the Fulton Mini, with the
newspapers changing the title word of
"erotic" to "outrageous" . . . East end residents
continue opposition to proposed construction
of an ice skating rink in Schenley
Park. First the rink was planned for Mellon
Park but Point Breeze residents protested.
"Doctor Zhivago" returned to the Warner,
where "Lady Sings the Blues" opens November
8 . . . Pennsylvania legislature tried
to lower the age of purchasers of state
lottery tickets from 21 to 18 but the proposal
was defeated.
Variety Tent 1, without a home for several
years, expects to return to the William
Penn Hotel, with modest quarters. Variety's
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Qolumbia Pictures' "The Valachi Papers,"
bised on Joseph Valachi's revelations
of the crime syndicate when he testified
bj'ore a Senate committee, will be a November
release. Charles Bronson and Lino
Venturi star in the Dino de Laurentiis film.
Paramount's "Lady Sings the Blues" was
previewed for the media at MPAA Tuesday
evening (17) by publicist Ernie Johnston.
Diana Ross makes her film debut portraying
the legendary Billie Holiday. The
Motown-Weston-Furie production opens
November 1 at the RKO-SW Avalon, K-B
Cinema and District Theatres' Republic.
Seymour Berman, United Artists branch
manager, tradescreened "The Mechanic" at
MPAA Wednesday (18) and "Pulp" Friday
(20) . . . Charles Demma, K-B Theatres
group sales director, invited community
leaders to a special preview of "1776" at
MPAA Wednesday (18) and Thursday (19).
Carl Foreman, producer-writer of the
Columbia release "Young Winston"; director
Richard Attenborough, and the film's
star, Simon Ward, were here for the glittering
premiere Monday (16) at the MacArthur
Theatre, hosted by the British ambassador,
the Right Honorable the Earl of Cromer.
The film's reserved-seat engagement began
the following day.
Variety Club Tent ll's next board meeting
will be November 5, when the members
will finalize the details for its annual "Heart
of Gold" award annual banquet, to be held
BALTIMORE
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1 per cent, effective December 1 , according
to Leon B. Back, NATO of Maryland president
and general manager of Rome Theatres.
Back recently attended a NATO legal
affairs committee meeting in New York
City . . . The Baltimore County Council
has moved the deadline for receiving applications
for CATV franchises, which were
to have been due Friday (13), to November
3.
F. H. Durkee Enterprises' Harford Mall
Cinema I and 11 is scheduled to make its
bow around Christmas or earlier, if possible,
according to word from circuit headquarters
at 5436 Harford Rd.
Mrs. Betty Chazen, secretary to Leon B.
Back, has just returned with her husband
Max from a week's vacation in Colorado
Springs, Colo., and Beverly Hills, Calif. . . .
Harry Connelly, East Coast representative
of Wagner Sign Service, returned Friday
(13) from a week's business trip to New
York City. While there he visited Howard
Carnor, United Artists; Harry Kosiner, vicepresident.
National Theatre Supply, and
RKO-Stanley Warner Theatres' Joseph
Goldstein, purchasing agent for the corn-
November 12 in the Regency Ballroom,
Shoreham. Father Gilbert Hartke, the
awardee, is head of Catholic University's
speech and drama department.
Sheldon Tromberg, president
of Vaudeo,
says he now is in "fine shape" after surgery.
Tromberg booked "Sense of Loss," HMS
Films' release of Marcel Ophuls' new documentary,
at the Pedas brothers' Outer Circle
2. The Star-News' Donia Mills describes
the picture as "a brilliantly constructed mosaic
of words and images." Post critic Gary
Arnold said the movie "has one of the most
heart-rending sequences ever recorded on
film."
Jean-Luc Godard, the French director
whose "Tout Va Bien," with Jane Fonda
and Yves Montand, was premiered at the
New York Film Festival, will appear at the
University of Maryland in College Park
Wednesday (25) to introduce and discuss
his latest feature movie. The Post's Alan M.
Kriegsman wrote: "Godard really managed
to shake things up at the New York Film
Festival. The American premiere of his two
most recent pictures and a highly volatile
press conference caused a volley of admiration,
acrimony and debate that is likely to
reverberate in movie circles for months to
come."
Robert Levine, president of Norfolk's
Levine Enterprises, after finishing his business
on Filmrow, went to see the National
Theatre's remarkable musical, "The Rothschilds."
bined organization . . . Wagner Sign Service
will have a booth at the national NATO
convention and tradeshow, where the firm's
"Varicom Photographies" will be shown,
according to Harry Connelly.
Variety Club Women Tent 19 will hold
a luncheon meeting November 8 at Suburban
Oak, 5-7 Slade Ave., at 12 noon. The
purpose of the get-together is to make plans
for the club's donor luncheon, to be held
March 14, 1973.
The Howard County Zoning Board has
denied a petition by the Mariott Corp. to
create a $65 million complex near Columbia
.. . Eight restaurants have announced
their participation in "On the Town," a program
that will offer discounts and added
attractions to Mechanic Theatre subscribers.
PITTSBURGH
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46th annual banquet will be staged at the
William Penn Sunday evening, November
26 . . . South Park Drive-In was the first
here to double-bill "The Godfather," playing
it with "The Cheyenne Social Club" . . .
The Little Patriot Theatre at Robert Morris
College will stage two productions during
the college year, with many Saturdays dated.
Film Forum of Greater Pittsburgh is the
new name of the well-established Better
Films and Television Council of Greater
Pittsburgh. Members toured Fisher Scientific
Friday (13) and witnessed moviemaking
from script to production.
Henry Kaplan, state lottery chairman,
recommended that Pennsylvania join in New
Jersey's legal challenge of a federal regulation
prohibiting radio and TV coverage of
lotteries . . . The Playhouse's staged production
of "Fiddler on the Roof" has lacked
a solid audience and it seems that this show
at this time has reached its saturation pomt,
while the film version continues at the
Manor . . . Walt Disney's "Dumbo" returned
to area screens Wednesday (18) with another
Disney offering, "Legend of Lobo."
Richard DoUinger Is V-P,
Triangle Theatre Service
NEW YORK — Richard
Dollinger has
been named vice-president of Triangle Theatre
Service, it has been announced by president
Irving Dollinger. Triangle books films
for 67 theatres in the tristate exchange
area,
including New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut.
Dollinger represents a third generation in
the industry, his family having been associated
with the business since 1918. He began
his trade career in 1953 as a booker
with Associated Theatres, joining Triangle
the following year.
Dollinger received an undergraduate degree
in business administration and attended
Rutgers Law School before seeing Army
service during the Korean conflict.
'Sounder' Washington Bow
Sponsored by Press Club
WASHINGTON—"Sounder," the Radnitz-Mattel
production for 20th Century-
Fox release, which has received virtually
unanimous critical acclaim, had its premiere
here under the auspices of the Washington
Press Club Thursday (19) at the Fine Arts
Theatre.
Members of the White House staff, cabinet
officers, members of Congress and civic
and educational leaders were invited to attend,
according to Mary Lou Beatty, president
of the Press Club.
Vestal Official Protests
Circuit's Film Programs
VESTAL, N.Y.—Joe B. Munk. Vestal
supervisor, has written a letter to Cinecom
Theatres protesting what he termed "the
showing of films involving increasing
amounts of sex, perversion and perverted
violence." Munk asserted that the town
board "and the people . . . have become increasingly
displeased," not only with X-rated
film, but with the titles and advertisements
of them.
Cinecom operates the Vestal Theatre and
the Vestal Drive-In here.
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(Hollywood Office—6425 Hollywood Blvd.. 465-1186)
Ecology Improvement
By De Luxe General
HOLLYWOOD—De Luxe General, Inc.,
the motion picture film laboratory, reported
that its pollution abatement and water conservation
programs, which were initiated
1969, now are resulting in significant ecological
benefits for the Los Angeles community.
Robert T. Kreiman, president of De Luxe,
announced after reviewing the control programs
that the company now was achieving
"a 95 percent recovery of chlorinated film-
'eaning solvents which otherwise would be
.;scharged into the air." He explained, "Our
iiollution abatement program includes the
areas of noise reduction, air emission controls
and recovery, as well as the control of
chemical effluents."
Other Ecological Steps
Other ecological steps currently being
undertaken by De Luxe include: the reconstituting
and reusing of color developers;
the rejuvenating and recycling of rehalogenating
bleaches; the recovering of silver from
and the reusing of hypo fixing baths; the
extensive use of hypo eliminators to reduce
by 80 per cent the final wash time for
processed motion picture film; closed loop
film dryers to eliminate any discharge into
the air; the use of counter-current tempered
water in film washing, which contributes to
using a minimum amount of water, and the
use of highly efficient devices to remove
absolutely all surface moisture from film
being processed and, therefore, keeping
carryover at a minimum.
Maintains Careful Checks
Kreiman also p)ointed out that "De Luxe
maintains a careful check by chemical analysis
and posts its chemical usage daily so as
to
assure that the above-listed programs are
being maintained and also to check on its
sophisticated chemical control equipment."
De Luxe's in-plant pollution abatement committee
meets periodically to review these
controls and to examine possible new techniques
and procedures.
"At De Luxe we use a system of continuous
replenishment as opposed to batch
chemical replenishment, which means that
we place no unusual or sudden demands on
Los Angeles' primary or secondary waste
treatment plants," said De Luxe's engineering
vice-president, Fred Scobey. "We are
in
taking an active part in municipal, national
and international environmental protection
organizations."
Scobey is chairman of the Ass'n of
Cinema Laboratories' committee on jwUution
abatement and accepted an invitation
to participate in the international seminar
at UCLA on "Business and the Environment"
this fall.
Nuart Theatre Offering
Bunuel, Bergman Films
LOS ANGELES — Twelve films
by famous
directors Luis Bunuel and Ingmar
Bergman will be shown at the Nuart Theatre
in West Los Angeles. A film by each director
will be featured on six double-bill programs,
which began Wednesday (18) and
will continue through November 7. All features
will be presented in their original
language with English subtitles.
Kicking off the career retrospective were
Bunuel's "The Exterminating Angel" and
Bergman's "The Magician."
Scheduled Sunday (22) through Tuesday
(24) are Bunuel's "Viridiana" and Bergman's
"Shame"; Bunuel's "El" and Bergman's
"The Passion of Anna," Wednesday (25)
through Saturday (28); Bunuel's "Belle de
Jour" and Bergman's "Persona," Sunday
(29) through Tuesday (31), and November
1-4, Bunuel's "Los Olividados" and Bergman's
"Hour of the Wolf."
The final three-day offerings are seldomseen
films of both directors: Bunuel's "Nazarin,"
featuring Francisco Rabal, and Bergman's
1955 release, "Dreams," with Eva
Dahlbeck and Harriet Andersson.
Gala 'Sounder' Premiere
Held at Avco Cinema 3
HOLL-yWOOD—"Sounder,"
one of the
most widely acclaimed films of the year,
received a gala West Coast invitational premiere
Wednesday (11) at the Avco Cinema
3 Theatre in Westwood. A blue-ribbon audience,
comprised of stars of the world of
motion pictures, TV, radio, theatre and
records, attended. Also present was a distinguished
array of civic and religious leaders
from all parts of the country.
The Radnitz/ Mattel production for 20th
Century-Fox opened Thursday (12) for an
exclusive engagement at Avco's No. 2.
Johnny Brown, long-time star of NBC's
"Laugh-In," and Ken Jones, top news reporter
for KTTV, served as co-masters of
ceremonies for the premiere festivities in
front of the theatre.
SAG'S EMC Is Hosted
At Universal Studios
HOLLYWOOD—Marking the first fullscale
meeting between top management,
producers and talent executives of a major
film company and the ethnic minorities
committee of the Screen Actors Guild, Universal
Studios hosted a luncheon meeting
Friday (13) for key members of that group
and more than 40 of its top studio executives
and creative personnel.
Welcoming the actors on behalf of the
studio were Lew R. Wasserman, president
and Sid Sheinberg, president
of MCA, Inc.,
of Universal Television. Wasserman stated
that while progress has been made, "we
hope this will be the beginning of many
such meetings."
Robert Do Qui, chairman of the ethnic
minorities committee, addressed those present
with the view that the committee "is
not here to dictate or educate but to inform
and assist."
"Our problem," Do Qui stated, "is to
address ourselves to those problems arising
from actor-industry participating—or lack
of such participation; to change old stereotyped
images and replace them with 'new'
images; to promote a better working relationship
between creative people with all
the various studios and the ethnic minorities
committee."
Also present on behalf of EMC were Inez
Pedroza, speaking for Latin American
minorities; George American Horse, speaking
on behalf of the American Indian
minority; Luis de Cordova, Carmen Zapata,
Ron Pinkard, Nina Diamante, Niva Rochelle,
Robert Ito and Pat Li. Present from
SAG were national executive secretary Jack
Dales; Chet Migden, associate national
executive secretary, and Kathleen Nolan,
SAG board member and EMC board member
representing women.
Jack Ballard Exits Post
To Develop Screenplays
NEW YORK—Robert Evans, Paramount
executive vice-president in charge of worldwide
production, announced that Jack Ballard
is leaving his executive post to develop
two screenplays.
Ballard identified one as a suspensemelodrama
entitled "Witching," to be shot
in Ireland. The other, to be shot on Nob
Hill, is a romantic comedy with lots of
music and tentatively is titled "Wishing."
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HOLLYWOOD—Scholarship grants totaling
$35,000, to encourage artistic and
scientific achievement in the film arts, were
announced by Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences president Daniel Taradash.
Grants recently approved by the Academy
scholarship committee, which is co-chaired
by Martin Manulis and Norman Corwin,
will go to the American Film Institute, the
University of Iowa, the University of North
Carolina and to Tel Aviv University in
Israel. Additional scholarship grants will be
announced later this year.
The AFI grant provides for the continuation
of the Academy film internship program
there. It also will cover funding for at
least one instructional chair.
At the University of Iowa, a student will
be selected to be the recipient of the Academy's
film writing fellowship. The grant for
the University of North Carolina will establish
five scholarships for students, particularly
from minority groups, who require financial
assistance to undertake special projects
within the university's department of
radio, TV and motion pictures.
At Tel Aviv University, the funds will be
used to establish a motion picture library
set up by the fine arts and communications
department. The Academy also will offer
assistance in obtaining gifts of books and
other printed materials for the university.
Hackmon/Allen to Mcrke
1st Film for 20th-Fox
HOLLYWOOD — The newly formed
Gene Hackman/ Irwin Allen Productions
company has set its first film, "The Walter
Syndrome," at 20th Century-Fox, it was
announced by Jere Henshaw, 20th-Fox vicepresident,
creative affairs.
Hackman will star in the film and Allen
will produce from a screenplay currently
being written by Richard Neely, who also
authored the book. Two other top stars will
be cast to fill out the three leading roles,
according to Allen. Shooting is planned for
early spring 1973.
"The Walter Syndrome" reunites the star/
producer team of Hackman and Allen following
their recent association of the multimillion-dollar
production, "The Poseidon
Adventure," also a 20th Century-Fox film
scheduled for release in early December.
Neither Hackman nor Allen is exclusive
to the new company. Each has multiple
commitments elsewhere.
Princess Christina Guest
At 'Emigrants' Premiere
HOLLYWOOD—Her Royal Highness
Princess Christina of Sweden was guest of
honor Friday evening (20) at the West Coast
premiere of Warner Bros.' "The Emigrants"
at the Directors Guild Theatre for the benefit
of the California chapter of the Committee
to Combat Huntington's Disease.
Also on hand for the gala formal, which
began at 6 p.m. with cocktails, were the
stars of "The Emigrants," Liv Ullmann and
Max von Sydow, and the director, Jan
Troell.
Two Armed Men Take $187
From Cinema 21 Employee
COLORADO SPRINGS — Two armed
men held up Kenneth V. Stevie, theatre
employee, and escaped with $187 cash at
Cinema 21. Stevie looked up from a book
he was reading and saw one of the men
holding a .22-caliber revolver.
While reaching to get the bank bag, the
other shouted: "Shoot him! Shoot him!"
Stevie handed over the money from the cash
drawer and the men fled.
The holdup occurred at 11:30 p.m.
ABC Complex Nearing Completion
CENTURY CITY, CALIF. — The $20
million ABC Entertainment Center complex
here is nearing completion and space
being leased rapidly. The center's two movie
theatres seat a total of 2,300, while the Shu
bert legitimate theatre has a capacity o:
1,850.
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DENVER—A new city is bemg planned
in Colorado which is expected to have a
population of 100,000 within 20 years. Located
21 miles northeast of Colorado
Springs, the promoters have 14,500 acres
under their control and that figures out to
23 square miles.
Expected to be a good location for new
theatres, the city will be thoroughly modern
in every respect. All utilities will be underground
in a single-pipe system. Transportation
needs are being planned in advancj.
with electric-powered cars and fast-shuttle
transports to be used extensively.
The promoters, Godwin Bevers Co. and
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Latin Associates, are joint developers and \
they plan to hold the population at 100,000.
The city will be called Latigo, a Spanish
word that means "oil-tanned leather."
Mark Avolio Boosts Snack
Sales With 'Pickle Poll'
ALBUQUERQUE—Mark Avolio, one oi
the most showmanship-minded managers in
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has come up with a new stunt
atres. Avolio is capitalizing on the political I
campaign, without taking sides, but using it
to good advantage to promote the sale of
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for pickle purchasers. With the coupon,
buyers can get a fourth pickle free with the
purchase of three others. He said that as of
mid-October Republicans were out-buying
Democrats.
Interstate Theatres Will
Buy, Book for Academy
CINCINNATI — Eugene Tunick, president
of Interstate Theatres and executive
vice-president of Mid States Theatres, announced
that Interstate has taken over the
booking and buying of Academy Theatres
in Columbus, Ohio. The Academy Theatres
are the new de luxe Forum I, II and III, the
newly renovated Carousel and Camelot, the
Clinton, College Cinema and the 17th Avenue
Drive-In.
These theatres formerly were booked by
Tri-State Theatres.
Duo in Norwalk SC Plans
NORWALK, CALIF. — Brighton
International
Corp. has outlined plans for a $13
million remodeling of the 22-year-old Norwalk
Square Shopping Center. Included in
the updating would be a twin cinema. The
project would take approximately two years
to complete, it is estimated. Members of the
city council are considering the proposal.
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In LA; 'Deliverance 225 in Ninth
LOS ANGELES—Exhibitors could point
to five gross percentages in the 200-300
range as evidence that the public interest
was beginning to swing back to theatregoing
for the first time since school and colleges
opened here in September. "Sounder," new
at the Avco Center 2, led all films with
a 300 opening week and "Deliverance"
added a 225 ninth week to its praiseworthy
chain of good weeks at the Cinerama Theatre.
Tied at 220 were "School Girls Growing
Up," first week at the Vogue, and
"Fiddler on the Roof," 49th week, Wilshire.
"The Ruling Class," second frame, Avco
Center Cinema, rounded out the top quintet.
(Average Is 100)
ABC City 2 Cabaret (AA), 28fh wk 90
Avco Center Cinema The Ruling Class
(Emb), 2nd wk 200
Avco Center 2—Sounder (20th-Fox) 300
Bruin The Candidate (WB), 15th wk 70
Cinema School Girl (SR), 14th wk 150
Cinerama Deliveronce (WB), 9th wk 225
Crest Marjoe (SR), 10th wk 100
Egyptian Coneel My Reservotion (WB) 65
Hollywood Hickey & Boggs (UA) 100
Hollywood Cinema The New Centurions
(Col), nth wk 100
Notional Everything You Always Wanted to
Know About Sex (UA), 9th wk 110
Pontages Asylum (CRC) 1 00
UA Cinema Center A Safe Place
(Col), 3rd wk 65
Vogue School Girls Growing Up (SR) 220
Wilshire Fiddler on the Roof (UA), 49th wk. .220
'Deliverance' Debut Week 500
At Denver Centre Theatre
DENVER—"Deliverance" and "At the
Edge of the Arctic Ice" made timely appearances
in the first-run lineup here and
injected some fresh interest in moviegoing
at a time when many films were turning
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making its debut at the Centre Theatre,
posted a rousing 500 and "At the Edge
of the Arctic Ice" combined first-week time
at the Valley, Arvada Plaza and Northglen
theatres for a 200 reading. The only film
grossing near this pair was "Super Fly,"
which ran up 165 in a second week at the
Paramount.
Aloddin Fiddler on the Roof (UA), 48th wk. ..110
Centre Deliveronce (WB) 500
Century 21 Everything You Alwoys Wanted
to Know About Sex (UA) 7th wk 80
Cherry Creek, Villa Italia The New Centurions
(Col), 2nd wk 125
Cooper The Condidote (WB), 7th wk 120
Denhom Slaughterhouse-Five (Univ), 7th wk. ..125
Denver 1 Housewives' Report (SR), 2nd wk ..100
Denver 2, Lakeside, Village Square Fat City
(Col), 3rd wk 120
Esquire Who Are My Own (SR) 50
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Four theatres Bonnie's Kids (SR); Brute Corps
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Paramount Super Fly (WB), 2nd wk 165
Valley, Arvodo Plaza, Northglen At the Edge
of the Arctic Ice (NGP) 200
Gov. Reagan Is Honorary
Chairman of Sinatra Fete
LOS ANGELES—Gov. Ronald Reagan
will serve as honorary chairman of the State
of Israel commendation dinner honoring
Frank Sinatra, at which the entertainer will
receive Israel's Medallion of Valor for his
unprecedented efforts on behalf of his fellow
man, both Jew and non-Jew.
Alfred Hart, chairman of the board of
City National Bank, and Daniel Schwartz,
executive vice-president and member of the
board of National General Corp., will be
joint chairmen of the event to be held on
behalf of Israel Bonds November 1 at the
Century Plaza Hotel.
Among previous recipients of Israel's
most prestigious award have been Sir Winston
Churchill, W. Averill Harriman, General
of the Army Omar N. Bradley, Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman, Gen. Lucius D. Clay,
Carl Sandburg and Gov. Reagan, who was
last year's honoree.
"The concerned involvement of Frank
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in Nazareth, Israel, and annually endows
scholarships for its children—has embraced
virtually every ethnic, religious and racial
endeavor," Schwartz said. "For these herculean
efforts on behalf of his fellow man,
the State of Israel will invest Frank Sinatra
with the highest recognition within its power
to bestow."
ALBUQUERQUE
^he Eastdale Theatre here was leased recently
by a political group for a special
fund-raising screening of "Millhouse: A
White Comedy."
Ginger Rogers, actress, has been set to
headline the first weekly session of the
Daily Tribune's "Charming Miss" program
for teenage girls, to be held Saturday (28).
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NEW YORK—Morton Dyksterhuis has
succeeded Ralph Clark as branch manager
of United Artists' San Francisco exchange,
it was announced by vice-president James R.
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Dyksterhuis joined the San Francisco of-
fice in 1968 as a salesman, his first assignment
with UA. Moving up to sales manager,
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ager for the territory before his current promotion.
Clark, who has been with UA since 1947,
has served as Los Angeles branch manager,
West Coast district manager and San Francisco
branch manager.
St. Bernards Turn Out
To Parade for 'George'
PHOENIX — Harry Karp,
manager of
ABC Theatres, which owns the El Camino
Theatre, announced that the St. Bernard
Parade in Scottsdale would be held Saturday
(14). The event, originally scheduled for
Saturday (7), was canceled because of rain.
The parade was being staged to promote
the motion picture "George," playing at the
El Camino. Dogs participating in the stunt
were to wear blankets emblazoned: "We're
on our way to see 'George.' " The parade
was to begin at Tonalea School, 68th Street
and Oak, travel east on Oak to Scottsdale
Road, then south on Scottsdale to the theatre.
'Catch My Soul' Shooting
Under Way in New Mexico
ESPANOLA, N.M.—Metromedia has
started production here on "Catch My
Soul," a contemporary musical feature.
Hugh Davis is associate producer and Jack
Goode is director.
The feature, budgeted at approximately
$1,000,000, stars Richie Havens.
Location work in this community some
100 miles north of Albuquerque is expected
to take about six weeks.
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LOS ANGELES
Lawrence A. Gordon has been named vicepresident
in charge of worldwide pro-
399, and Villardo is business representative
Diskin is vice-president of Drivers Local
duction for American International Pictures, of Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists Local
it was announced by Samuel Z. Arkoff, 706. Named alternate trustees were Gary
president and chairman of the board. Gordon
also will be in charge of AIP's newly and Arthur Feichtmayer.
Hughes, Mac St. Johns, Frank Dickenson
formed TV production wing and Peter Katz,
The sum of $91,126, over twice the
recently appointed vice-president of European
creative affairs, will report directly to
amount collected last year in the first three
weeks of the Entertainment Industries Permanent
Charities Campaign, got this year's
Gordon.
By unanimous vote, the Hollywood section
of the national board of directors of the Thursday (12) by chairman G. Clark Ram-
drive off to a fast start, it was reported
Screen Actors Guild agreed to urge all say. Grand total to date stands at $1,091,-
actors to vote against Proposition 18, the 126.
censorship amendment on the November 7
Gaile R. Brown, 20th Century-Fox prop
ballot in California. Proposition 18 would
shop foreman and propmaker apprentice
empower hundreds of cities and countries to
class instructor in the Los Angeles public
create hundreds of broader and wildly varying
local censorship laws, making it virtual-
schools, has been presented a certificate of
appreciation signed by Billy H. Hunt for
ly impossible to produce a movie that could
services rendered to the Propmakers Joint
be shown throughout the state of California.
Apprenticeship Committee.
According to the SAG board, actors could
be subject to criminal prosecution if the Lindsley Parsons jr., MGM vice-president,
proposition carries.
operations, opened the 1972 series of assistant
directors' training seminars Thursday
Cinerama's "Black Girl," directed by Ossie
Davis and based on the off-Broadway hit
(12) with a discussion of human relations in
signals?
the motion picture industry. Eleven trainees
play by Miss J. E. Franklin, premieres on
are in the program which is operated jointly
the West Coast November 14 at Pacific's
by the Directors Guild of America and the
Hollywood Theatre. Produced by Lee Savin
Ass'n of Motion Picture and Television
with Robert Greenberg as executive producer,
"Black Girl" stars Peggy Pettitt as a
Producers.
young woman seeking escape from the web Following a seven-day promotional tour
of violence, conformity and frustration of in behalf of his autobiographical novel
her life.
"Original Sin," Anthony Quinn returned to
Rome to resume his starring role in "The
"Richard," the Futurama International release
that's "not one of these satires that
Great Prairie." Published by Little, Brown
& Co., "Original Sin" is creating a stir in
only anti-Nixonites will revel in," says Judith
Crist, opened Wednesday (18) at the
literary circles and is being eyed as a movie
property by several film companies.
Plaza Theatre in Westwood.
Awards of merit were presented by Kenneth
Hahn, chairman of military and vet-
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Savage Messiah,"
the story of French sculptor Henri erans affairs for the county, to members of
Gaudier-Brzeska and his love for Sophie United Artists Corp. for assistance in providing
films and entertainment to veterans
Brzeska, a Polish woman twice his age,
1. Unusual bleeding or
opened an exclusive Los Angeles engagement
Wednesday (18) at the Bruin Theatre tions were Jim Spitz, Bill Scholl and Bob
confined to hospitals. Accepting commenda-
discharge.
2. A lump or thickening in
in
the
Westwood . . . Also opening Friday (20) Coley on behalf of Buddy Young, Richard
breast or elsewhere.
in Westwood was Paramount's "Bad Company,"
starring Jeff
Carnegie and Gerald Logue. Hahn expressed
3. A
Bridges and Barry
sore that does not heal.
his thanks to "these top executives for giving
generously of their time for a worthy
Brown, at the Crest Theatre.
4. Change in bowel or bladder
habits.
William K. Howard, chairman
cause."
of the Motion
Picture Industry Pension Plan board,
5. Hoarseness or cough.
announced that Billy
6. Indigestion or H. Hunt, William
difficulty
Diskin and in swallowing.
Henry Villardo have been WB Makes Record Casting
named trustees of the pension plan. Hunt is
7. Change in size or color of
Call for 'Mame' Dancers
a
executive vice-president of the Ass'n of Motion
Picture and Television Producers;
wart or mole.
HOLLYWOOD—One of the biggest casting
calls ever made for boy and girl dancers
If a signal persists for2 weeks,
went out from Warner Bros, for the upcoming
filmization of the musical "Mame,"
see your doctor without delay.
Because many cancers are curable
starring Lucille Ball. According to choreographer
Onna White, "Mame" will utilize
ifdetected and treated early.
hundreds of male and female dancers for
It's up to you, too.
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the smash Broadway production. Applicants,
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Yes, they do. But not in the same proportion.
Business contributes about 1 5% of the total voluntary
support received by colleges.
But today, business gets half the college-trained
men and women who are employed. Tomorrow, it
will
need even more.
As a result, businessmen should think seriously
about increasing the level of corporate giving to education.
Can you think of a better investment?
For the latest national figures on corporate giving
to higher education, write on your letterhead for "CFAE
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University Hills Duo
To Be Unveiled Soon
DENVER — Marvin E>avis and Tom
Goldfarb of newly formed University Hills
Theatre Corp. announced that the firm's
twin theatre in the University Hills Shopping
Center, South Colorado Boulevard and
East Amherst Avenue, is scheduled to open
Friday (27) or November 3. The cinemas,
which will exhibit first and second-run features
with R, PG or G ratings only, will seat
573 patrons (286 in each) in the two auditoriums.
The University Hills dualer also will employ
a full-time hostess, who will be available
to plan parties for birthdays and other
occasions and for fund-raising operations.
The twin in the University Hills Shopping
Center is the first movie house for Davis,
who is a local oil man. He said that he intends
to open eight or ten more in the Denver
area soon.
Membership Plan Offers
Free Theatre Admission
DENVER—A new twist to the plans that
are around every year in which you pay a
membership fee that entitles you to a free
meal in many restaurants (with one that is
paid) has blossomed here. This scheme covers
a varied number of services, including
ski-tow tickets, theatre tickets, sporting
events, recreational activities and lodging.
From the theatre angle, the new system
requires a membership fee of $15 which,
among other services, entitles one to admissions
to 34 theatres. The patron pays one
admission and gets one free admission for a
friend. Several drive-ins are included. Each
participant has a card which is punched to
prevent repeated use.
The theatres involved are in Boulder,
Denver, Fort Collins and Pueblo.
Other services are scattered all over Colorado,
with the net result that many of them
would not be used at all.
Movie Cameras Are Busy
On Colorado Locations
DENVER—With CVD Studios engaged
in the filming of "The Brothers O'Toole" at
Buckskin Joe, Colo., west of Canon City
and near the Royal Gorge, the studio still is
adding to the cast. Among those joining the
actors already announced is veteran Hans
Conreid, who is appearing in "How the
Other Half Lives" at the Colorado Music
Hall Dinner Theatre in Denver. It will be
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Filming of "Scarecrow" in Denver and in
Canon City at the prison farm has been
completed, with Gene Hackman and Al
Pacino starring. Joanne Ditmer, Denver Post
columnist, was on a weekend drive in the
Rockies when she came upon two men that
apparently were thumbing a ride. It turned
out they didn't really want a ride at all.
They were doing their thumb routine for a
hidden camera—they were Hackman and
Pacino in a sequence for "Scarecrow!"
Robert M. Sherman, producer and a third
of a triumvirate called Sandford Bros., was
extremely happy with the cooperation he received
from city and state officials, with the
local police keeping the curious back from
the film shooting.
Tom Moyer Quadplex
Under Way in Oregon
MILWAUKEE, ORE.—Construction has
begun in this Portland suburb on a $400,000
four-auditorium theatre for Tom Moyer,
owner of the Eastgate, Westgate, Broadway,
Irvington, Village and Valley theatres.
The quadplex will seat approximately
1,684 when completed in February 1973.
Moyer announced that he will not show
X-rated films at the new facility but will
program the units with the same type of
films that he now is showing in his other
theatres.
Circle Productions Files
$750,000 Damage Suit
PORTLAND—Immediately following the
premiere of Tom Moyer jr.'s "The Circle"
at the Paramount Theatre here Thursday
(5), Moyer's Circle Productions filed a complaint
of damages in U.S. District Court
against two union locals. They were the Motion
Picture Projectionists Local 159, seeking
$500,000 in damages, and Local 99 of
the American Federation of Musicians and
American Federation of Musicians International,
seeking $250,000 in damages.
It was charged that the plaintiff held a
Hollywood-style premiere of "The Circle"
and that members of the defendant unions
picketed the film company's activities.
Circle Productions claims it has sustained
damages because of the defendants' "unlawful
secondary boycott activities."
Plan Early 1973 Opening
CASPER, WYO.—Commonwealth Theatres'
twin theatre in the Sunrise Shopping
Center should be open to moviegoers by
February or March, it was announced by
a circuit spokesman.
Fox Lease Mqy Not Be Renewed
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.—Local manager
Max Brodie has indicated that National
General Theatre Corp. does not intend to
renew the lease on the downtown 2,000-
seat Fox Theatre when it expires May 31,
1973. Brodie, a native of Sacramento, has
managed the Fox since 1949.
DENVER
^fter 22 years as an operator and an additional
29 years as an exhibitor. Carman
Romano and his wife Ann have decided to
retire. The Romano's operated the L&L
Drive-In and the Rex Theatre in Louisville.
Daryl Decker, who purchased the drive-in
two years ago, now also has taken over the
Rex. The Romano's invite any of their old
friends in the industry to drop by and visit
with them.
In town to buy product and set dates were
Lloyd Greve, Cine-Moly Theatre, Leadville;
Michael Barry, Village Theatre, Steamboat
Springs; Bob Heyl, Wyoming Theatre, Torrington,
Wyo.; Milton Boehm, Cover Theatre,
Fort Morgan, and Mitchell Kelloff,
Movie City Theatre, Pueblo.
Tie-Ins Promote 2 Warner
Bros. Films in Denver
DENVER—Two promotions for Warner
Bros, films were under way here as Dell
Books plugged "Dehverance" and a special
giveaway of "Super Fly" standees was initiated.
Dell Books, publishers of the paperback
edition of James Dickey's novel "Deliverance,"
played host to its principal area dealers
at a special screening of the film version
starring Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds.
Quantities of display materials were distributed
at the screening. Part of the publisher's
tie-in campaign have been major
window displays in key shopping center
book stores.
Moviegoers registering at the Paramount
Theatre, where "Super Fly" has been playing,
and at a local Buddah Records outlet
were eligible for one of the bulky five-foot
standees displayed in the theatre lobby. A
drawing was held to determine the winners.
Ron O'Neal stars in the film, a Sig Shore
production.
$3,500 Adult House Fee
Levied in Tigard, Ore.
PORTLAND—A Portland area suburb
passed a $3,500 business license fee for socalled
pornographic movie houses and book
stores Tuesday (10). The regular business
license fee in Tigard, Ore., a community just
outside of Portland, is $37.50.
Justification of the fee was made in part
on the cost of monitoring the town's single
"adult" movie house, the Joy.
Mayor Dan Larsen also said the Tigard
Planning Commission would consider a zoning
ordinance change Tuesday (17) that
would make "pornographic" movie houses
and "adult" book stores conditional uses in
the city. Larsen said such an ordinance
would give the council power to keep such
businesses out of Tigard.
Taos Mini-Theatre Debuts
TAOS. N.M.—The 202-seat Taos Plaza
Theatre, the town's third movie house, has
opened. The Taos Plaza was designed by a
local firm, the Architects.
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'Deliverance' 700 Sels
House Record in KC
KANSAS CITY
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KANSAS CITY—There was good news guard Cinema theatres' first annual
and bad news for area exhibitors as more Science-Fiction Film Festival came to an
than 50 per cent of the marquees changed, gnd Wednesday (18) as an impressive lineup
ushering in six new features. Exceptionally ^f fjifng old and new, began their runs,
aood news came from the grosses on "De- s^ott Burkhead, owner and operator of the
liverance" as it pulled 700 per cent in its
Vanguard, feels that the sci-fi buffs in town
debut at Commonwealth's Ranch Mart 1.
will be quite pleased with his bookings. The-
( Second week returns are expected to be ^tre No. 2 played the Warner Bros, classic
even better!) Considerably behind the "jhX 1138," a grim view of an underleader,
tied at a respectable 225 each, were ground soulless futuristic society, Wednes-
•Everything You Always Wanted to Know
^j^y (jg) through Saturday (21). The sched-
About Sex" (sixth frame, Blue Ridge I
ule includes 20th-Fox's "Five Million Years
and Fine Arts) and "The New Centurions" (g Earth," a disturbing blend of occult and
(bowing at Glenwood I and Midland 1). science-fiction from the Hammer Studios,
In its first go-round at the Brookside, "The Sunday (22) through Monday (23), and
Trojan Women" garnered 200 per cent paramount's delightful erotic romp, "Barba-
.ind an extended week's engagement. Anrella,"
Tuesday (24) through Friday (27).
other newcomci in the ranks of "the top Nostalgia buffs and those who still can
live" was "Melinda," with a composite 185 remember sunny afternoons, home from
in three situations. Bad news came in the
school, with Commander Nine and his endform
of two new entries in the below- i^gj serials, will glow, because Scott has
average category: "Cancel My Reservation" booked four Flash Gordon feature films
(90, fifteen units) and "Top of the Heap" (based on the original Buster Crabbe serials)
(75, five houses). for Theatre No. 1. The lineup: "Spaceship
(Average Is 100) to the Unknown" (based on the original ser-
""{^o^nilrti' ^:.%^;;=^'^Tru"l).^Mhrk*"".225 ial and foUowmg the famous Alex Raymond
Blue Ridge IV—Butterflies Are Free
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^^ Sunday Strip quite closely), Wednesday (18)
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BoSlvard"Mell'o 2, 63rd sueet-MeUnio' through Tuesday (24); "Death Ray From
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BrSl-Th. Trcion- w.men (CRC ! ; ! ! : 1 ! ! 200 Mars," based on "Flash Gordon's Trip to
Embassy I, II—sioughterhouse-five
^^^ Mars," Wednesday (25) through Tuesday
Em^^^'i Metro*'4-Morioe(SR), 2ndwk:;:::ioo (31); "Perils From the Planet Mongo."
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Fitr?hem"l-T;5°rf'^h1'H^"^rsRr.' November 1-7, and "Purple Death From
Glenwood I, Midland 1—The New Centurions
^^^ Outer Space," based on "Flash Gordon ConpiazS^where'
Does' It Hurt? (CRC), ' 7th ' wj^! ' ! ! 1 50 quets the Universe," November 8-14. Ming
Ranch Mart 1— Deliveronce (V/B) 700
the MercileSS lives!
Holiday Inn at Richmond,
Ind., Offers Films on TV
RICHMOND, IND.—After a "dry run"
of approximately two weeks, the Holiday
Inn, 4700 National Rd. East. Richmond,
began offering full-length closed-circuit TV
films to its patrons Friday (13), becoming
the first franchised unit in that chain to
provide this service. Motel owner Boris F.
Sokol said the early response, even without
advertising, has been "very good."
"So far, about 15 per cent have used the
movies," Sokol noted. "That's enough to pay
for the service."
He said guests would have a selection of
two films at all times and will be given a
preview of whatever is playing. If they decide
to buy a movie, they press a button
on the TV set and the charge automatically
is added to their room bill. The price to
view the film is about the same as for one
person attending a movie in a first-run
house.
The system was installed in Holiday Inns
by Gulf & Western Industries, parent firm
of Paramount Pictures.
Moore Theatre Updated
PLAINVILLE, KAS. — The downtown
Moore Theatre, owned by Paul Ricketts,
was slated to open Friday (13) after the
completion of an updating program.
BOXOFHCE :: October 23. 1972
Don Walker, Warner Bros, publicity man,
attended a meeting of WB field men at the
studio in Burbank, Calif., Friday (13). The
group was presented with the special campaign
to be used in connection with the release
of the forthcoming horror combination.
"Dracula A.D. 1972" and "Crescendo."
"Dracula A.D. 1972" reunites the two
stars of the first Hammer vampire classic,
"Horror of Dracula," Peter Cushing as Van
Helsing and Christopher Lee as Dracula.
Don held his own seminar for area exhibitors
and media personnel at the Commonwealth
screening room Tuesday (17), where
he previewed the special "HorroRitual"
trailer and detailed the tie-in with the Count
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Dracula Society. Each person who goes to
see the film will be given an honorary membership
card to this society, as well as
stickers proclaiming they have been to a
"HorroRitual" with Dracula. There will be
two midnight showings of the feature Tuesday
(31)—Halloween—sponsored by a local
radio station. The combination will open
November 1 in the Kansas City area, perhaps
ushered in by the famous count himself?
The world premiere showing of "Poor
Albert and Little Annie," a Europix release
distributed by Thomas Film, opened
Wednesday (18) in the Kansas City area.
The chiller was backed by a massive saturation
campaign utilizing TV spots, radio
spots and newspaper ads. Thirty-five thousand
tabloids were handed out at theatres
playing the feature and by the Kansas City
Call. John Shipp, Thomas Film, believes,
however, that the piece de resistance of the
campaign came Sunday (15) when a plane
towing a sign promoting the film flew over
Arrowhead Stadium during the Chiefs' football
game, viewed by 80,000 people. In
addition, free records have been given away
and a winner in a special "screaming contest"
chosen.
Joe Redmond, long-time Kansas City
theatreman, attained instant fame Monday
morning (16) when he phoned in the correct
answer to one of WDAF disc jockey John
Chamber's trivia questions. The question
that morning at 610 on the dial was: what
was the first motion picture ever to win an
Academy Award? WTien no one came up
with a reply, Joe called in with the informa-
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tion: the war epic "Wings." Chambers informed
Joe that he was the lucky recipient
of two free passes to the Plaza Theatre to
see "Bluebeard," whereupon Joe laughed
and told his fireside audience that he was
the manager of Plaza's sister theatre, the
Brookside. We hope you enjoy those two
free dinners at
the Red Bam, Joe.
Frank Moreno, New World Pictures general
manager, met with John Shipp, Thomas
Film, last week in Des Moines, Iowa . . .
Thomas Film announces that it will be expanding
its staff shortly to handle the increased
volume of business it has been doing
. . . Shipp was in the Des Moines area last
week to meet with Mort Goodman of
Group 1 Films. The two discussed possible
bookings for "The Runaway."
The WOMPIs will hold a Halloween
party Monday (30) at the Kansas State
School for the Blind. Anyone who would
like to volunteer to help is urged to contact
Kay George at Warner Bros. The WOMPIs
also are collecting rummage for their November
3 sale. If you have rummage and
would like it to go to a worthy cause, please
contact Myrtle Caine at 931-8322.
A reminder that the Motion Picture Ass'n
Bosses' Luncheon for the WOMPIs will be
held Thursday (26) at the Plaza III
Restaurant.
Cocktails will be at 11:45 a.m., followed
by lunch at 12:15 p.m. Tickets, at
$3.75, are available from: Ralph Weber,
Dickinson; Lee Joehnck, Commonwealth;
Jack Winningham, National Screen Service,
or Chuc Barnes, UMPA.
William E. LaVelle, Columbia Pictures
field representative, was in St. Louis
Wednesday and Thursday (18, 19) setting
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will open at the Esquire Theatre.
Out-of town exhibitors seen on Filmrow:
From Missouri—Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Jarboe.
Cameron, and R. L. Adkins, Higginsville.
From Kansas—R. D. Smith. MarysvilJe,
and S. Bagby, Stockton.
Circuit offices, film exchanges and supply
houses will be closed Monday (23), Veterans'
Day.
. . .
Commonwealth changes: Danny Cope
from 50, Sedalia, to Starlet, Warrensbarg
Ted Hinton from Starlet, Warrensburg
to Uptown, Sedalia . . . Mike Strawn, in
the Kansas City advertising department, left
the company as of September 1 . . . Sandra
. . .
McAllister, in the Kansas City advertising
department as of September 29. Originally
from Kansas City, Sandi comes from American
Multi Cinema in Dallas, where she was
in charge of the AMC ad department . . .
Jess Spain from the Ruskin to city manager.
Dave Clingman from the Riverside to
the Ruskin . . . Jim Beauchamp from the
Crest to the Riverside . . . Jimmy Long
from the Waldo to the Cameo . . . David
Walsh, new to the circuit, to the Waldo.
Webster L. Knight, 71, retired shipper at
Universal, died Monday (16) at Bethany
Medical Center. Services were held Wednesday
(18) at the Shell Chapel and burial
in Mount Washington Cemetery. He leaves
a daughter Delia of the home, 6220 Perry.
Wehrenberg to Build
1,000-Seat Twin Unit
ST. LOUIS—Ronald P. Krueger, thirdgeneration
president of Wehrenberg Theatres,
leading St. Louis circuit now in its
seventh decade of continuous operation, announced
plans for the erection of a 1,000-
seat theatre in the plaza at West Port, a $30
million business and recreational community
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being built at Page Boulevard and Interstate
244 in suburban Maryland Heights,
Mo. The announcement was made jointly
by Krueger and Thomas J. White, chairman
of White Development Co., developers of
the project.
The new theatre, to be named West Port
Plaza Cinema, scheduled for opening in
June 1973, will be a two-screen facility that
will exhibit different feature films simultaneously.
It will be the 15th unit in the Wehrenberg
circuit, which has 13 theatres in St.
Louis and eastern Missouri and another in
Alton, lU.
The cinema is the second major tenant
to announce plans to locate in West Port's
plaza. The first to announce was the Sheraton
group which is building a 200-imit
Sheraton West Port Inn, to be located along
the eastern edge of the four-and-a-half-acre
lake which is
part of the project.
The plaza section of West Port will
provide
parking spaces for 1,552 cars, including
420 covered spaces in
a parking garage
located beneath the commercial mall.
ST.
LOUIS
^he annual Cinema Tea sponsored by the
Better Films Council of Greater St.
Louis, "Around the World in Films and
Fashions," is scheduled for noon Thursday
(26) at Arthur Enterprises' Stadium Cinema,
525 Chestnut St., with tea served in the
lobby preceding a travelog film program.
Council members and friends will serve as
models in a fashion showing to follow the
screening. Mrs. William B. Stephenson jr.
will chair the event with co-chairman Mrs.
Leslie T. Barco. Mrs. Donald Burrus is
president of the group, with Mrs. Vance D.
Omohundo serving as general program
chairman for regular meetings. Mrs. Wm.
(Lou) Moore, publicist, will be among the
models.
John E. Baur, who was one of seven
grand prize winners in the Hometown Hospitality
Courtesy Program conducted by the
Greater St. Louis Convention and Tourist
Board, serves drinks at the downtown La-
Sala Restaurant. Baur has been tending bar
for only a year and credits the 15 years he
spent as an employee and assistant manager
at Arthur Enterprises' Granada Theatre
with teaching him how to know and get
along with people. Baur says, "Courtesy
can involve talking when somebody wants
to talk and shutting up when they don't."
Approximately 1,000 local workers competed
in the program. Award winners will
receive a variety of gifts and were honored
at a press conference in the office of St.
Louis Mayor A. J. Cervantes Monday (9).
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CHICAGO
0ino de Laurentiis, after one initial trip in
behalf of Columbia's "The Valachi
Papers," returned for the official opening of
the film at the State Lake Theatre. On his
second visit, he was accompanied by Terence
Young, his director; Walter Chiari.
actor, and Peter Maas, author of the book
of the same title on which the film expose
of organized crime is based. Reportedly, de
Laurentiis backed the opening here with the
largest film ad budget on record in this city.
Billy Dee Williams, who portrayed his
friend Gayle Sayres in "Brian's Song," made
the press rounds here in connection with
"Lady Sings the Blues." The movie opens
at the Chicago Theatre Wednesday (25) . . .
Thirty-three years after its world premiere
in Atlanta (Dec. 15. 1939), "Gone With the
Wind" returned for a week's run at the
Michael Todd Theatre in the Loop. It encored
as the second of Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer's "Fabulous Four" rereleases, which
also includes "2001: A Space Odyssey,"
"Ryan's Daughter" and "Doctor Zhivago."
When Don Buhrmester of Cinerama Releasing
Corp. passed out movie tickets
around towii, there was a catch. He sought
young men sporting beards but the tickets
admitted only their dates or mates at the
outlying theatres showing Richard Burton's
"Bluebeard." Participating theatres
included
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Chicago, Illinois 60601
Phone: 726-1558
River Oaks I, Woodfield I. Oakwood, Mercury,
Gateway, Varsity and Riviera.
Selected outlying theatres will be showing
first-run films in the coming holiday season
such as: "1776" at the Woodfield 2 and at
the Valencia in suburban Evanston; Barbra
Streisand's "Up the Sandbox" at the River
Oaks 2 and Nortown; Disney's "Snowball
Express" at the LaGrange and Will Rogers,
and other top theatres, including the River
Oaks I, will be offering "Fiddler on the
Roof." The latter-named film has been an
outstanding grosser in downstate theatres
during the past few weeks.
Robert Rountree, who was a member of
Local 110, died.
Tom Brenner of Abbott Theatre Equipment
Co. and his wife Ann returned from
a holiday in California . . . Connie Kerose
of Abbott also was in California, with a stop
in
Las Vegas.
United Artists' "A Fistful of Dynamite"
was one of the top grossers in its first run
in neighborhood theatres . . . Nat Nathanson,
Central division manager for Allied
Artists, was in the St. Louis area to set up
the first multiple opening of "Night Legs,"
formerly titled "Fright."
Actor Fred Williamson arrived at the
Woods Theatre in the Loop for the world
premiere of his newest film, "Hammer," on
horseback. A former football player with
the San Francisco 49ers, Williamson said he
preferred the rigors of horsemanship to the
tranquility of a celebrity limousine for his
arrival to help publicize the movie in which
he plays the title role. "Hammer" is the first
in a series of motion pictures to be made by
Essaness Pictures Corp., an affiliate of
Essaness Theatres Corp.
Another Adult Theatre Is
Bombed in the Windy City
CHICAGO—An early morning bomb
blast ripped the front of the Festival Theatre,
3912 North Sheridan. Police said the
explosion was caused by one or two sticks
of dynamite placed at the entrance of the
adults-only movie house.
TTie bombing was the most recent of
such incidents directed against theatres and
book stores presenting sexually oriented material.
Recently an explosion damaged the
rear of the Town Theatre and a fire damaged
the interior of the Bijou.
All theatres involved in the wave of
violence have specialized in X-rated motion
pictures.
John V. Roy, 61, Is Dead
NAPERVILLE, ILL.—John V. Ray, a
projectionist for over 30 years, died September
28 in Naperville. He was 61. Bom in
Minoqua, Wis., Ray operated at the Naper
Theatre and Cascade Outdoor Theatre,
Wheaton, 111. He was a member of lATSE
Local 221. Brothers and sisters survive.
Record Number of Entries
At 8th Chicago Festival
CHICAGO—Michael J. Kutza jr., who
originated the Chicago International Film
Festival, said the largest number of films
ever shown in a U.S. film festival will be
offered at the eighth IFF November 3-23.
A total of 23 different countries will be
represented.
Because of the wide spectrum of feature
films to be shown, as well as separate competitions
for short subjects, student films,
educational films, industrial films and TV
productions, it has become necessary to reserve
the two theatres at the Museum of
Science and Industry.
The 1972 showing of the festival will take
place at the 1,300-seat Esquire. In the theatre
lobby there will be displays of the stills
of George E. Hurrell, the Hollywood imagemaker.
Three feature films which were introduced
here last year and which just now
are making their 1972 debut at the New
York Film Festival will be seen again
"Love" (Hungary), "The Adversary" (India)
and "Behind the Wall" (Poland).
'Deliverance' Promotion
Aimed at Youth Groups
CHICAGO—A special effort to attract
j
young moviegoers is being made in Warner
Bros.' Windy City promotion campaign for
"Deliverance," starring Jon Voight and Burt
Reynolds, at the United Artists Theatre
here.
Tickets for advance screenings were given
to student affairs offices of various Chicago
area colleges, to editors of college newspapers
and deejays of all rock/pop radio
stations and to companies and groups that
have high percentages of young employees,
such as airline reservations offices, banks
and advertising agencies.
An offer of "Deliverance" T-shirts to the
first 1,000 patrons at the theatre was added
to inspire any youthful moviegoer who
missed out on the free tickets.
Zipp Film Distributing
'Sex & the Office Girl'
INDIANAPOLIS — John Holokan of
Zipp Film Distributors, Indianapolis, and
Michael Goldman, vice-president of Manson
Distributing Corp., have signed an exclusive
franchise agreement covering the
distribution of the film hit, "Sex and the
Office Girl," in the Indianapolis territory.
The picture recently opened to a high
gross for the first week at the Tyngsboro
Drive-In, Tyngsboro, Mass.
C-4 BOXOFnCE :: October 23, 1972

I
R. L. Bostick Jr. New
Tri-Slate President
MEMPHIS — Tri-State theatre owners,
meeting here for their 63rd annual convention,
elected R. L. "Bob" Bostick jr. of
Memphis as president, succeeding K. K.
King of Searcy, Ark., who became chairman
of the board. Bostick heads Bostick
Theatres, a circuit of 22 area theatres. He
is the son of the veteran concessions executive.
.4Iso elected at the convention, held Sunday
(15) through Tuesday (17) at the Albert
Pick Motel, were David Chaffin, Arkdelphia,
Arkansas vice-president; Frank Heard.
Tupelo, Mississippi vice-president, and Milton
Flexer, Waverly, Tennessee vice-president.
Hal Riccoff, Starkville, Miss., was
elected secretarj'-treasurer to replace Bostick,
the new president.
Speakers at the final luncheon were Jim
Buckiy, Coca-Cola executive who is trans-
.rring from New York to Memphis, whose
bject was "Concessions," and the Rev.
i ither Jack O'Bell, pastor of St. Joseph's
Catholic Church, Holly Springs, Miss., who
compared motion pictures as a business with
the dry goods business.
The closing luncheon was sponsored by
T. A. M., Rowley United Theatres, Victor
Cornelius and Blevins Popcorn Co.
K. K. King Retires in Searcy;
With Commonwealth 34 Years
SEARCY, ARK.—K. K. "Deacon" King,
veteran showman, announced his retirement
effective Sunday (1).
In his 34 years with Commonwealth
Theatres, King has twice won the "King
of the Sun" award. He retired as president
of Tri-State Theatres Ass'n Monday ( 1 6).
Fred Resigno Is Winner
Of Atlanta Variety Golf
ATLANTA—Fred Resigno of REA Air
Express nosed out Jimmy Stem of Hallmark
Films, Washington, D.C., for low score at
the second annual Variety Club of Atlanta
golf tournament at East Lake Golf and
Country' Club.
More than 124 golfers competed for
prizes and 170 persons were present for the
banquet which climaxed the one-day event.
Other prize winners included R. B. "Pete"
Howell. Jaco Productions, for shot closest
to the pin; Bob Pruetkin. St. Louis, and
brother-in-law of National General exchange
manager Webber Howell, longest
(Continued on page SE-8)
Ten Motion Picture
Theatres to Be
Built in Atlanta s 'Megastructure
ATLANTA—Ten new downtown motion
picture theatres in one complex!
That's the astonishing news the Atlanta
film industry' heard when long-awaited plans
for a $65,000,000 downtown office-hotelretail-entertainment
complex were announced
by Cousins Properties, Inc.
To be known as Omni International, the
14-story enclosed building—characterized
by its developers as a megastructure—will
be situated at Marietta Street and Techwood
Drive, adjacent to the $17,000,000 Omni
Sports and Entertainment coliseum, which
opened Saturday (14) to a capacity crowd
of 1 5,000 for the Flames' first home hockey
game.
In addition to the ten motion picture theatres,
Omni International will include a
Simultaneous Home,
Theatre Film Shows
ATLANTA — Pay television, bringing
first-run fUms and sport events into metropolitan
Atlanta homes, will be a reality
soon, according to D. W. Blakeman, president
of newly formed Capital Theatre
Corp., which has headquarters in nearby
Decatur.
Moreover. Blakeman said, the first-run
films shown in the homes may be playing
at a local theatre at the time they are shown
on pay TV. Each such film would be shown
twice a day.
In addition to the film fare. Capital Theatre
Corp. would offer its subscribers the
home games of the Atlanta National Basketball
Ass'n Hawks and the city's National
Hockey League Flames. If arrangements
can be made. Blakeman's company also
would provide its subscribers with live
broadcasts of Broadway plays.
As the name of the new company indicates,
the pay-TV service will be available
only to patrons of one or another of the
CATV systems in Greater Atlanta and
wherever else Cable Theatre operates.
Blakeman disclosed that he has agreements
with one of the three CATV systems now
operating the Atlanta area.
A CATV subscriber who chooses to add
the Cable Theatre Corp. service will pay
$12.50 per month for a special channel connecting
him with CTC. An attachment is
placed on his home receiver so it can receive
the CTC channel, the installation fee
running less than $30. Blakeman said his
regulation ice-skating rink; two tennis courts
and an outdoor swimming pool; a hotel of
more than 500 rooms; office space totaling
around 600.000 square feet; a five-level
trade pavilion; international banking offices;
an international bazaar, retaihng for foreign
goods and a Latin-American supper club.
Announcement of the addition of ten
downtown indoor theatres came shortly after
Atlanta's downtown theatres had been reduced
to only two by the razing of ABC
Southeastem's 1,200-seat Roxy on Peachtree
Street. Except for a flock of skinflick
locations, the only film theatres still in operation
downtown are Martin's 1,200-seat
Rialto and Loews' l,(X)0-seat Grand, survivors
of a period when that area could boast
of 20 film houses.
company has signed a contract with the
Omni Group to telecast home games of the
Hawks and the Flames (out-of-town games
will be telecast by another open-circuit commercial
channel). Home games traditionally
are not telecast for fear of cutting down on
attendance.
Closed circuit TV events are not exactly
new to Atlanta, since a Columbia Pictures
subsidiary operates such a system at major
local hotels. In fact, this hotel concept of
entertainment was pioneered here at Atlanta's
Regency Hyatt, the hotel guest paying
a $2.50 charge to watch a first-run film on
the TV set in his room.
Under the Cable Theatre system, a
monthly fee covers all broadcasts, which,
under present plans, would consist of programing
12 hours daily. Blakeman estimates
there are some 20,000 subscribers hooked
on to CATV systems in the five-county
metropolitan Atlanta area and these subscribers
would be the market for his company's
new service. He added that his firm
estimates that 20 per cent of the CATV
households would be a "realistic" estimate
of the potential segment of the cable TV
marketplace.
Blakeman noted that the pay TV fee
would come on top of the monthly fee paid
for CATV services. The programing via
Cable Theatre Corp. lines is scheduled to
begin November 13.
Drops Early Week Shows
MIDDLETOWN, CONN.—Owner-operator
Sal Adorao jr. has dropped Monday-
Tuesday shows for the fall months at his
Middletown Drive-In.
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ATLANTA
^onn Davison, head of Lion Dog Films,
and Ed Montoro, president of Film
Ventures International, are in the Carolinas
masterminding the opening of "Love Slaves"
in a saturation releasing campaign covering
both states. Montoro and Davison recently
returned from Las Vegas, where they combined
business with a spot of pleasure (golf).
In Las Vegas' Dunes Hotel, they huddled
with their western distributors for "Love
Slaves." Accompanying them on the Las
Vegas junket was John R. McClure, president
of the Charlotte Booking Service . . .
Davison recently announced that Pepper
Thurston, Atlanta actress, will have the starring
role in Lion Dog's "Ride Again," due
before the cameras soon. All Lion Dog films
are being released through Atlanta-based
Jet Set Productions.
Warner Bros, is preparing to move its
Atlanta exchange from its present quarters
in the 101 Building on Marietta Street to
the Transportation Building, 151 Ellis St.,
N.E. Seven years ago, the Warner exchange
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left Filmrow to move into the downtown
office building. The new move, set for
December 2, will take the Warner staffers
farther away from their fellow film industry
workers.
Alvera Black, Sara Lee Dorton and Marjorie
Roberson, all members of the 20th
Century-Fox exchange, were in the crowd
of 500,000 persons jamming downtown Atlanta
streets to see Pres. Richard Nixon and
his motorcade wend through the city. It just
so happened that these three 20th-Foxers
were standing at the spot where President
Nixon chose to stop his car, get out and
shake hands. Each of the 20th-Fox women
got to shake hands with the Chief Executive
and they returned to work in a state of excitement.
Republicans in the exchange envied
them and wanted to hear all about it
but the Democrats indicated that they
"couldn't care less." So it goes in politics.
Trade and press screenings at Columbia's
Filmrow Playhouse: "The Erotic Adventures
of Zorro," Jaco Productions; "The
Lady Sings the Blues," Paramount; "Carry
On, Doctor" and the "Unholy Rollers,"
American International Pictures; "Pulp,"
United Artists, and "Stigman," Cinerama
Releasing.
Jack Vaughan, president of Jack Vaughan
Productions, hosted a cocktail party Thurs-
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Room preceding a screening of
"Tristana," Louis Bunuel's Oscar winner.
Lee Hessell, president of Cambist Films,
and Vaughan, whose agency has been distributing
Cambist product for several years,
have been warm personal friends and both
are enthusiastic over the reception given
"Tristana" by the critics. Now dubbed in
English, the film is rated PG and is scheduled
for release in the Atlanta territory
November 1.
Mis. Robert Moscow returned from Honolulu,
where she had arrived in time to be
on hand for the arrival of her first grandchild,
Chad Adam, bom to Dr. and Mrs.
Jay Levitt September 11 at Schofield Barracks,
Hawaii. Bob Moscow, the baby's
grandfather and well-known in film circles,
remained in Atlanta and received the good
news via long distance phone. The paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Levitt,
also reside here and two of Chad Adam's
great-grandmothers, Mrs. Rose Cole Levitt
and Mrs. Florence Moscow, are Atlantans.
The latter is the widow of Sam Moscow, a
film pioneer closely associated with the
Cohen brothers, who organized Columbia
Pictures and built it into a major film company.
Sam Moscow was Columbia's Southem
division manager many years; his son
Bob rose to prominence in exhibition with
theatres in Atlanta and at other Southeast
locations.
Metropolitan youngsters are going to be
well entertained on weekends this winter
since two separate children's matinee series
are under way. Seven Eastem Federal Corp.
theatres kicked off their series of Childhood
productions with "tom thumb" in mid-
October, the Belvedere, Cherokee, Ben Hill
I, North Springs, Town & Country, Toco
Hill and Miracle theatres participating. Several
theatres are participating in the third
consecutive year of MGM's Children series,
which opened Saturday (14) and Sunday
with "Z^bra in the Kitchen." Showing the
MOM series are Westgate I, Lenox II,
South DeKalb I, Village, Suburban Plaza,
Cinema 285, Cobb Center, Marietta Strand,
National III, North DeKalb and Doraville
MiniCinema. The MOM series runs through
the weekend of March 10, 11.
Sara Lowery, UA cashier who underwent
surgery in the Spalding County General
Hospital at Griffin, is reported to be on the
mend and recuperating at her home in Jackson
. . . Mrs. Linda Drummond, formerly
of Jacksonville, where she worked on Filmrow
with ABC Florida State Theatres before
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moving to Atlanta, has joined the staff of
Allied Artists. She is the sister of Marjorie
Roberson, now a member of the accounting
department of the 20th-Fox exchange.
Joel Poss, Columbia's Southeastern field
representative, reports with glee that his
company's Christmas "biggies" are all safely
pencilled in for the holidays, including
"Young Winston," due for a roadshow engagement
at Weis' Broadview. "1776" is
scheduled for Loews' Tara, "King of Marvin
Gardens" for Weis' Fine Art Cinema
and "Black Gunn" for Loews' Tara. Before
those dates roll around, however, Poss
passes the word that big things are expected
from "The Valachi Papers," due to open
day-and-date Wednesday (25) at the Fine
Art and Broadview I cinemas.
Terry Walker, Mary Osteen (Moonlight
Drive-In, Conyers) and Ethel Burgess of
Benton Bros. Express were installed as new
WOMPI members when the club met
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JACKSONVILLE
Ceveral Filmrowers were out-of-town recently:
Dick Volberg of American
Multi Cinema went to Tampa to visit the
circuit's theatres and George Byrd, Universal
branch manager, trekked to Miami on
business. Thelma Claxton, 20th Century-Fox
booker, made two trips to Miami—once to
visit her mother in the hospital and once
to bring her mother home, where she's doing
much better. Judy Cason, another Fox
staffer and a WOMPI, took a week's vacation.
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WOMPI?) . . . Rex Grimm, Warner
Bros, booker, has resigned as second vicepresident,
membership chairman, of the
WOMPI Club due to ill health. WOMPI's
newest member, Karen Lukaszewski, Universal
assistant cashier, will replace Rex.
We had a couple of surprises recently on
Filmrow: the Floyd Enterprises crew surprised
Claude Browning with a birthday
cake Wednesday (11) . . . Friday (20) the
Universal girls surprised Marcia Ransom
with a birthday celebration.
Good news in the Volberg household!
Remember that Dick Volberg's son Richie
was hit by a car while riding his bicycle in
his yard in August? Well, Richie finally has
been discharged from the hospital and is
recuperating at home.
Charles Brock reports on several movies
playing at local theatres: "The New Centurions,"
showing at the Regency, rated R,
is a story of policemen being depicted as
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dangerous profession. George C. Scott does
a very good job in this Los Angeles background
"The Public Eye," showing at
. . . Five Points, has a cast of Mia Farrow,
Topal and Michael Jayston, and is rated G.
The story tells of a middle-aged businessman's
suspicions about his young hippie
wife. Fearing a lover, the husband hires a
detective to follow her and the story goes
from there. "Bluebeard," showing at the
Town & Country Theatre, has a cast of Joey
Heatherton, Raquel Welch, Verna Lisi and
that Bluebeard
Richard Burton. The story is
is impotent and kills out of frustration. The
women in his life prove to be monsters
simply because they want sex. The acting
is
uniformly flamboyant.
Wendy Hendrickson, president of the
WOMPI Club, is publicly thanking all the
people in the film industry who have given
the WOMPIs such faithful financial support.
"We collected $560 from these wonderful
people," she said. "Without their
help, it would be difficult for the WOMPIs
to
do the great services for others that they
do—and the money helped send me, as club
president, to the international convention
in Washington, D.C." . . . Mrs. Hendrickson,
who is Universal's cashier, also announced
that the WOMPI Club members
are selling fruit cakes and chances for a
"basket of cheer" to be raffled off at the
November 28 meeting. "Please ask a
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gested . . . WOMPI program chairman
Joyce Malmborg of Kent Theatres announced
that the next WOMPI meeting will
be held Wednesday (25) at Hart's Steak
House on University Boulevard. Guests are
invited.
Variety Children s
Hospital Will Be
In Black by 13: George Hoover
Nick Lewis, ABC FST, reported these
screenings: "The Darwin Adventure," 20th
Century-Fox. and '"The Valachi Papers,"
Columbia, Tuesday (17); "Deadly Trap,"
National General Pictures, and "Devil's
Nightmare." Harry Clark Releasing Co.,
Wednesday (18); "Asylum," Cinerama Releasing,
and "This Is My Alaska." General
Film.
'Super Fly' Grossed
1100 in First Week
MEMPHIS— "Super Fly," incorrectly reported
in BoxoFFiCE to have scored only
100 in its first week at Loews' Theatre, led
Memphis grossers again with a 600 third
week. The correct first week percentage for
the Warner Bros, film was 1,100— 11 times
average business for Loews' Theatre—and
the second week percentage stood at 700.
Runner-up in this report week was secondweek
"Slaughter," which had an outstanding
400 at the Maico Theatre.
(Average Is 100)
Crosstown—The New Centurions (Col), 7th wk. ..100
Loews'—Super Fly (WB), 3rd wk 600
MaIco—Sloughter (AlP), 2nd wk 400
Memphion—Bluebeard (CRC) 200
Paramount— Deliverance (WB) 300
Pork—Bunerflies Are Free (Col), 8th wk. ..150
'Swingin' Stewardesses'
400 in New Orleans Bow
NEW ORLEANS—"The Swingin' Stewardesses,"
new at Cine Royale, led the three
theatres playing genuine first-run products
by 100 points over "The Other" at the Robert
E. Lee. "The New Centurions," completing
a sixth week at the Trans-Lux Theatre,
doubled average business at that house.
Cine Royale—The Swingin' Stewardesses (SR) . .400
Robert E. Lee—The Other (20th-Fox), 2nd wk. ..300
Trans-Lux—The New Centurions (Col), 6th wk. ..200
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MIAMI—J.
D. Richards has been named
divisional manager, off-shore motion picture
theatres for Wometco Enterprises. Richards
has served with Wometco since 1967 as
vice-president. Grand Bahama Theatres.
Freeport, Bahamas.
He will continue to supervise Wometco's
Bahamas theatres from his new office in
Miami and also will coordinate the operation
of theatres in Alaska. Puerto Rico,
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and the
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man who has called the shots since the hospital
opened 22 years ago, says he looks to
financial balance at the hospital by the end
of this calendar year.
"We'll be completely out of debt,"
Hoover told Miami reporters. "We don't
owe a dime."
This isn't bad, either, for an institution
which still carries $1.5 million worth of
charity patients annually by passing the hat.
And many of these are acutely ill children
who can't pay a cent.
The "hat" fills with big gifts, such as the
million dollars given over the years by board
chairman Robert Pentland, and small gifts.
The mail appeal brings in around $500,000
annually, even though the average gift is
only $1.28.
This year, according to the hospital ma.riagement's
projection, more than 7.000 children
will be admitted, more and more of
them paying their way. Another 30,000 will
Santo Domingo and the Virgin Islands.
Prior to joining Wometco. Richards was
chairman of the board and managing director
for Picturedrome (Eastbourne) in
England.
He served as president and trustee of the
General Cinematographers and Exhibitors
Ass'n of Great Britain and Ireland, and
was the exhibitor representative for the
British government's films council.
He is a graduate of Roborough College,
Eastbourne, and served with distinction during
World War II in both Europe and Asia,
rising from lieutenant to commandant of
the Rhine Army Division College.
Martin Circuit Shutters
Martin, Cleveland, Tenn.
CLEVELAND, TENN. — The Martin
Theatre, which started its exhibition career
in 1927 as the Princess, was closed permanently
Saturday (14) by Martin Theatres of
Columbus, Ga.
City manager Calvin Harvey, who also
manages the Cleveland Village Theatre for
the circuit, was the man in charge at the
end. He first had become associated
with the house in 1942, when he went to
work there as a doorman at the age of 17.
Although Harvey worked at several other
jobs in the intervening years, he always returned
to exhibition. In 1953 he was appointed
manager of the Cleveland Bohemia
and Princess theatres and remained in
charge of the latter from that year on. The
Princess, built in 1927 at a cost of $115,000,
first was part of the Crescent Amusement
Co. of Nashville. It remained the Princess
until March 1963. when the name was
contact the hospital's outpatient departments
— 20,000 of these for emergencyroom
treatment.
A long, relentless war against leukemia
has been waged, with success, at the hospital.
A 30-bed psychiatric program also has
been added. Post-graduate seminars in pediatrics
draw 1,500 doctors.
Dr. Robert B. Lawson is rounding out his
first year as chief of staff at the Variety
hospital and he admits that it has had many
problems in the past but says all that is
history. Another new administrator is Jules
Hinkes.
Five years ago, the hospital was $2.6 million
in the red. It took big gifts and much
budgeting to bail the institution out of difficulty
at that time. Then, two years ago,
auditors discovered that thieves had infiltrated
the hospital staff and annually were
pilfering at least $39,000 or far more from
the funds provided by Tent 33 projects.
Scandal rocked the place. There were multiple
firings and shake ups.
Now, the hospital, after all these crises,
is in good shape.
changed to Martin following a windstorm
which blew down the Princess marquee.
Harvey's greatest achievement at the
Princess, according to Libby Golden, Cleveland
Banner staff writer, was a paid attendance
of 8,907 over a 13-day period with
total gross receipts at nearly $12,000. On the
screen during those 13 days was Walt Disney's
"The Love Bug."
Other successful Harvey promotions included
a jail-like setting outside the theatre
during the run of Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse
Rock" and a battlefront scene complete with
bunkers, weaf)ons and soldiers for the showing
of "Darby's Rangers." Harvey got a feature
write-up in the Boxoffice Showmandiser
section for the latter stunt.
But the most publicity Harvey ever gathered
for a film was when he showed "And
God Created Woman." After the Brigitte
Bardot film had been on the Martin screen
five days, Harvey was arrested when two
Cleveland citizens swore out complaints that
he had violated a Cleveland law ruling
against "indecent motion pictures." Bond
was forfeited and the matter never came to
trial.
"It would be a mild film compared to
those shown everywhere today," Harvey remarked
to Miss Golden.
However, wire stories on the incident
showed up in papers throughout this country
and even in Paris, France, where the
film had been made.
Harvey told Miss Golden he will continue
to manage the Village Theatre and that he
had not been notified (at .the time of her
interview with him) as to the disposition the
Martin circuit would make of the local
Martin Theatre.
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^laire Pabst, president of Blue Ribbon Pictures,
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Bank of Commerce. George jr. joined the
bank in 1960 and has served in bookkeeping,
consumer loans and automated services,
in
addition to corresponding banking.
Dolores Benoit has advised Filmrow
firms that the Melody Drive-In at Oakdale
will be closed Wednesday (25) for the winter.
Reopening is scheduled for next March
. Several new pictures on New Orleans
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marquees: "Hickey & Boggs," at Loews'
State; "Last House on the Left," Orpheum;
"The Swingin' Stewardesses," Cine Royale,
and "Made for Each Other," Gentilly-Orleans.
squirrel measuring 26'/2 inches from tip to
top, a record for the largest squirrel shot
around there. A local news photographer
took a picture of Ron and the squirrel and
it will be quite a while before Ron stops
talking about it.
The Airline Drive-In at New Orleans and
the Tiger Drive-In, Slidell, held Friday the
13th shows, each one starting a triple bill at
midnight and giving all ladies attending a
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DALLAS—Possible establishment of a
regional film center here by the American
Film Institute was announced by Michael
Webb, film programing manager, who spent
several days in Dallas early this month
studying the situation.
Webb told the Dallas Times Herald that
the film center would be a cooperative development
between local community film
interests and AFI, with AFI supplying programs
and films and helping to coordmate
efforts to establish eventually a permanent
center in Dallas.
Webb said he had met with representatives
of the recently organized Moving
Image Ass'n, which was formed along guidelines
suggested by the proposed AFI program
expanding from its national base in
Washington, D.C., to include various regional
film centers. Webb also was to visit
Houston on his trip.
In this area, he conferred also with representatives
of the Fort Worth Art Center,
Southern Methodist University, the film department
at the Dallas Public Library and
other interested parties.
Funding of the center's facilities would
have to come on the local level, Webb
pointed out, but the program could be
started by using existing facilities at local
universities and museums. This would enable
the program to get under way by the
middle of 1973.
Assistant DA Is Unhappy
Over 'Mistrial' Verdict
OKLAHOMA CITY—Bob Lake Grove,
assistant district attorney, said that special
Judge William C. Kessler had made a mistake
after the judge declared a mistrial in
the trial of theatre operator Vernal C.
Melton.
The judge made his ruling when it was
learned that the print submitted as evidence
in Melton's trial was not the same one as
originally viewed by arresting officer Ray
that someone had
Clark. The latter testified
cut out certain scenes depicting sexual intercourse
and oral sodomy between the time
Clark saw the film on May 24 and the time
of the trial.
Grove protested that the film, "Sex Freedom
in Denmark," still showed scenes depicting
what he termed sexual perversion
and said removal of portions of the film did
not constitute grounds for a mistrial.
The assistant district attorney told the
Daily Oklahoman Wednesday (11) that
"even with the scenes removed" it was the
same film seized by police officers at the
Midwest Theatre on May 24 and that Judge
Kessler already had ruled that the search
and seizure were valid. Grove claimed that
the trial should have been continued on that
basis. In fact, he expressed belief that he
would attempt to go to trial again in the
case.
SAN ANTONIO
Tt looked like old times at the Woodlawn
as long lines formed in response to the
showing of Barbra Streisand and Omar
Sharif in "Funny Giri." There are four daily
showings of the feature: 12:30, 3:10, 5:50
and 8:30 p.m. ... The Ruenes Drive-In
and Circle
Circuit, operator of the Loop 13
81 drive-ins, offers patrons admission at
$2.50 for a full carload. Each theatre shows
three features and Spanish-language films
are featured at Loop 13.
Bob Polunsky, whose Flicker Footnotes
column is heard daily on KQXT-FM and
appears in the San Antonio Light, devoted
his Sunday (15) column to films which have
portrayed the history of the Alamo, the
shrine of Texas liberty in the heart of San
Antonio. The first such film was of Worid
War I vintage, D. W. Griffith's "Martyrs of
the Alamo." During the depression of^ the
'30s, along came "Man of Conquest." In
World War II, "San Antonio" appeared,
starring Errol Flynn. In the 1950s, during
the Korean War, Glenn Ford starred in
"The Man From the Alamo." Also in the
1950s appeared "The First Texan," "Davy
Crockett" and "The Last Command." Then
most recently John Wayne made "The
Alamo."
Patrice Munsel appeared at the Theatre
for the Performing Arts Friday (13) in
"Applause." The play is based on a 1950
film, "All About Eve," starring Bette Davis
and Ann Baxter . . . Anthony Burgess,
author of the book "A Clockwork Orange"
upon which the Stanley Kubrick fihn was
based will be here November 2 for a lecture,
"The Meaning of 'A Clockwork Orange.' "
Comedy, horror and danger highlight
films coming to local movie screens: "Every
Little Crook and Nanny," Woodlawn; "Invasion
of the Blood Farmers" and "Blood
Stealers," Texas and McCreless Cinema;
"Dulcima," Broadway; "The Contract," Olmos
and Century South; "Cancel My Reservation,"
North Star Cinema; "Psychic
Lovers" and "Glass Houses," Josephine;
"School Girls Report," Century South; "Hot
Box," Majestic and Century South; "Daughters
of Satan" and "Superbeast," Texas.
Family Vacation Film
Basis for Real Movie
GREENVILLE, TEX.—"Scuba,"
which
started out as the vacation movies of the R.
Brooks Fleig famUy, has baUooned from an
8mm project into a 35mm film being edited
in Chicago now for release to commercial
motion picture theatres around January 1.
With Lloyd Bridges as narrator, too!
The original 8mm family color film was
shot as a souvenir of a scuba diving voyage
that Fleig, a Greenville owner of a land title
firm, his wife Kit and their son and daughter,
9 and 6, took with Lee Turcotte, charter-tour
conductor based at Miami Shores,
Fla.
"We had about 200 feet of underwater
scenes in the Aegean, off Greece," Fleig
told Francis Raffetto, Dallas Morning News
entertainment writer, "and Turcotte liked
the film so much he asked if he could show
it in his booth at Chicago's International
Sports Show."
The avid public response to the film,
when it was shown in Turcotte's booth,
caused Fleig to decide to picture scuba diving
in 35mm fihn, "showing the strange
world of beauty and interest available to
three average couples spending not much
more than they would on an average twoweek
vacation," as Raffetto put it.
It took a $600,000 investment but Fleig
was able to raise the funds and secured
Lamar Boren, who had filmed TV's "Sea
Hunt," United Artists' "Around the World
Under the Sea" and two James Bond movies
("Thunderball" and "You Only Live Twice")
as his
cameraman. Lloyd Bridges, who had
starred in "Around the World Under the
Sea," took on the assignment as narrator.
Most of the underwater action was provided
by Turcotte himself and by Kit Fleig, who is
now a better scuba diver than her husband.
Their son Russell has a small compressed
air tank of his own and he and his young
sister accompanied their parents for the 35-
day filming of "Scuba" in Jamaica, Haiti
and the Cayman chain.
"It was a thrill to be diving about 100
yards from where Columbus lost
one of his
ships," Fleig told Raffetto, adding that if
"Scuba" merits a sequel he would like to
return to Greece for the next movie.
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DALLAS
priday (1) marked several changes in
ownership of theatres booked through
the Ind-Ex Booking Service of Dallas. T. L.
Richey took over the Pinto Drive-In,
Mineral Wells, and R. W. Reaves, a longtime
theatreman, is managing the Pinto for
Richey . . . Afred Bahn is the new owner
of the Leon Theatre in Pleasanton . . .
S. W. Pavick of Chicago sold the theatres
in Coleman (The Coleanna Theatre and the
Oak Drive-In) to Gordon Davidson. Ind-Ex
will continue to handle buying and booking
for all
of these situations.
Muggins White, 20th Century-Fox booker,
is vacationing at home this year and she
said that was a "vacation within itself" to
her . . . WOMPI Margie Seely has 150 dolls
to distribute to WOMPI Club members to
dress for the Salvation Army to give away
at Christmas to children of needy families
. . . Judy Wise and Cleo Cook were hostesses
Sunday to WOMPI members and their
families for a good, old-fashioned picnic at
their home.
Monte Caraahan is remodeling the old
Latimer Theatre in Wilburton, Okla. He has
had bulldozers tearing up the floors and
clearing out the interior. When the reno-
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the theatre reopens, around the end of this
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new name: The Picture Show.
Royce Blankenship, former booker for
Commonwealth Theatres, has moved to
Noret Theatres as buyer and booker. The
Noret offices are in Suite 1406, Tower
Petroleum Bldg., 1907 Elm St., Dallas. The
telephone number is 651-1426.
Tuesday and Wednesday (11) were enjoyable
days for patrons at the Dallas Village
Theatre, where Fred C. Bellinger appeared
in person as narrator of a two-hour
"21 Days in Europe" travelog produced by
Andrew de la Varre. This was the second
of a series of three of the producer's latest
beautiful, enjoyable and educational films
about Europe. Many of the patrons had
visited Europe, so the film was like a return
visit for these people. One could tell from
the excited chatter in the lobby each evening
that the film had stimulated a desire
on the part of these people to return to
Europe for more sightseeing. Bellinger left
Thursday (12) for Fort Worth, where the
picture was booked at the Wedgewood
Theatre. After that he was to head for Memphis,
Tenn.
Effective today (23), Tony Alterman, formerly
Dallas publicity manager for ABC
Interstate Theatres, takes over as MGM's
advertising and promotion manager in Dallas.
Alterman succeeds Mike Gerety, who
was promoted by MGM to the post of assistant
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national advertising coordinator with
offices in Culver City, Calif. Gerety joined
MGM eight years ago in Chicago and
worked with the company in Atlanta before
joining the Dallas division five years ago.
Author James Mills came here to promote
his story "Report to the Commissioner,"
both as a new book and as a new film. Mills,
who earlier turned out "Panic in Needle
Park" and "The Prosecutor," both made
into successful movies, told William A.
Payne, amusement editor of the Dallas
Morning News, that Columbia Pictures and
producer Mike Frankovich "snapped up
Report' in the manuscript just ten days
after I had completed the writing." Mills
says he can live with any film version of his
books because he concentrates his attention
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great confidence in Frankovich, who has
signed as director Milton Katsalas (who
made his directorial debut with "Butterflies
Are Free") and scriptwriter Ernest Tidyman,
winner of an Oscar for his screenplay
for "The French Connection." Author Mills,
a former sailor who was born in Milwaukee
in 1932, has in preparation a novel dealing
with criminal justice in the U.S.
Candy Clark, daughter of Mrs. Ella Clark
of Fort Worth, makes her film debut in
"Fat City," in which Jeff Bridges ("The Last
Picture Show") stars with Stacy Keach.
Candy, who graduated from Trimble Tech
in 1965, went to New York soon after
graduation and obtained work as a model.
Through this work she met actor Jack Nicholson,
who in turn introduced her to Bridges.
The Fort Worth actress has completed a
major role in another film, "American Graffiti,"
which stars Ronny Howard, former
child star of Andy Griffith's TV show. "Fat
City" opened in Fort Worth (at the Opera
House and Six Flags cinemas) Wednesday
(11).
'Remember the Alamo' Is
Only Film at New Twin
SAN ANTONIO—"Remember the Alamo,"
a multiple-channel color animated slide
and sound recreation of the 1836 seige,
opened Saturday (14) in a new theatre located
across Alamo Plaza from the famous
mission.
There are over 1,000 slides that project
singly or in sets up to five on a 30-foot
screen. Numerous slide projectors are synchronized
with a master tape that also controls
the multiple-channeled soundtrack. The
identical show will be given at 30 minute
intervals in two theatres, each seating 70
persons and each containing a 30-foot
screen. Admission is $1 for adults and 50
cents for children less than 12 years old.
Most of the narrative tells the story from
the viewpoint of the defenders of the Alamo.
But an attempt is made at some historical
accuracy by illustrating the motivation of
Santa Anna, as well as giving as semi-realistic
description of the reasons Bowie,
Crockett and Travis chose to defend the site
against 10-to-l odds.
Bowie was, of course, something of a
brigand, and this comes across. Also the
motives of Travis and Crockett were not
saintly. This is pointed out, although there
is
a great deal of the "die-for-freedom" gloss
that has characterized peoples' ideas of the
siege of the Alamo.
The producer of the show, R. Jay Casell,
indicated Richard Santos, a local historian,
helped in the Santa Anna portion.
Casell was the producer of Latema Magika
during HemisFair '68, the San Antonio
World's Fair.
The show was directed by James Westberry,
written by Karen Lansky, edited by
Gordon Marsh, and with art by George
Hughey.
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garbara Barner is the new owner of the
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Carousel Theatre in Fordyce, Ark. . . .
R. L. Robison was the previous owner .
George Moore, formerly of the Ramona
Theatre, Frederick, called us while he was
here in Oklahoma City to report that he had
come up for a check-up on his eyes, on
which he recently had had an operation. He
said the check-up showed that his eyes are
fine. Now that he isn't in the show business,
George is playing golf nearly every day.
Exhibitors here on film business included
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith. They had
returned from Denver, where they visited
son Steve and son-in-law George RoUo, who
are stationed at Lowry Air Force Base.
The Smiths also got to see their first and
only grandson, a recent newcomer.
Also here on film
industry business were
Dwight Terry, Woodward theatres; Woodie
Sylvester and his son-in-law Doug Hale,
Weatherford theatres; R. R. Rook, Rook
Theatre, Cheyenne, the latter expecting to
reopen his theatre soon after having to redo
it following a 1971 fire; Gene Oliver and
his wife from the Pryor theatres; Homer
and Johnny Jones, Alva theatres.
"Play It As It Lays" was screened at the
MacArthur Park and "Pulp" at the Continental
Theatre.
Ben Johnson, who estimates he has played
in more than 250 movies since he took a
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in 1940 and remained to become an actor,
says his favorite assignment is just to play
"Ben Johnson." His three favorite roles
have been those he played in "Shane,"
"One-Eyed Jacks" and "The Wild Bunch"
because "it was something Ben Johnson
could play and not have to put on too
much." Now Johnson, winner of an Oscar
for his role in "The Last Picture Show," is
back in Oklahoma to play a big part—that
of FBI agent Melvin Purvis in
"Dillinger!"
Elaine Ford, who interviewed Johnson for a
Sunday Oklahoman Showcase feature article
(15), credits him with being responsible for
bringing the "Dillinger!" company to Oklahoma
to film this picture. "If people will
really go along with this company and try
to help them and not rob them, we might
get some others," Johnson told Miss Ford.
Significantly, Johnson believes the public
is growing tired of nudity and obscenity. "I
think someone that comes along now and
makes a good family picture, if it's good
entertainment and not a lot of trash, can
make a lot of money with it." The actor
also revealed to Miss Ford that he has
turned down one picture since he won his
Oscar. It would have been filmed in Israel,
with Gregory Peck and Desi Arnaz jr., and
would have required that the cast fly to
Israel to meet the filming deadline. Johnson
wanted to take his wife along; she
doesn't like to fly, and they couldn't have
made it to Israel by boat in time for the
filming.
HOUSTON
Loews' State closed Sunday (15), 45 years
to the day from when it opened with
Lillian Gish in a silent film, "Annie Laurie."
The closing bill consisted of "A Man for
Hanging" and "Disciples of Death," the latter
bankrolled by local investors and filmed
in the Texas Big Bend Country . . . The
Metropolitan Theatre, operated next door to
Loews' State by ABC Interstate Theatres, is
expected to be shuttered before the end of
the year.
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rected "Disciples of Death," made a guest
appearance Wednesday at Studio 7 . . . Each
woman patron attending the triple midnight
horror show Friday (13) at the King Center
Drive-In received a free bottle of Voodoo
Passion perfume. On the screen were
"Queen of Blood." "Goliath vs. Vampire"
and "Dr. Phibes."
Recording stars Las Hermanitas Nunez,
the Nunez Sisters, headlined a stage show
which came directly from Mexico City to
the Granada Theatre, Friday through Sunday
(15). Also on the show were singer
Matilde Sanchez, El Chicote, Jorge Santoyo
and El Tilico.
McLendon Theatres, which has headquarters
in
Dallas, has instituted McLendon
Family Night at its local drive-ins each
Monday and Tuesday nights. McLendon
units in Houston include the McLendon
Triple, Market Street. Tidwell, Gulf Way,
Post Oak, Thunderbird. Parkway, Irvington
and Town & Country.
Joseph Maher, Alley actor who plays the
title role in "Pantagleize," the opening production
of the local group, is to take off for
Ireland as soon as the show closes here.
In Ireland, Maher will play a role in the
movie, "A Saucer of Larks," starring Peter
O'Toole and being filmed on location in the
Shamrock country . . . Impressionist Ron
Freeman, appearing one week at La Bastille,
appeared with Joanne Woodward and Paul
Newman in Paramount's "WUSA" and in
two European films, "Dark Side of Tomorrow"
and "Pirates of the Black Moon."
New Houston marquee titles: "Claire's
Knee," Park III; "Every Little Crook and
Nanny," Bellaire; "Cancel My Reservation,"
neighborhood theatres and drive-ins.
For Friday the 13th. the Thunderbird
Drive-In started its dusk-to-dawn program
with "Black Belly of the Tarantula" and
continued through the night with "Weekend
Murders," "Dinosaurus" and "Master of
Terror" . . . "Black Belly of the Tarantula"
and "Weekend Murders" made up the Friday
the 13th bill at King Center, South
Main and Shepherd drive-ins and Loews'
State.
Aztec, Alameda/ Nacional
Cut Prices to SA Seniors
SAN ANTONIO—The Aztec-3
Theatre,
along with the Alameda and Nacional theatres,
announced that each theatre will give
a $1 reduced admission to all members of
the Senior Citizens Council of Bexar County.
The rate is for all feature films, except
roadshows. Free parking is not available at
this rate, according to Herman Solak, the
Aztec-3 manager.
Other theatres giving council members
reduced rates are the Texas, Woodlawn,
Laurel and Josephine, all Cinema Arts circuit
units; Century South, Olmos, Colonies
North indoor theatres and the San Pedro,
Trail, Fredericksburg Road and Town Twin
drive-ins operated by Santikos Theatres.
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'Deliverance' Scores PES M O I N E S
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North Central States opened its Skyway I
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brochures on epilepsy.
Centurions and Deliverance, respective-
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ly. "Deliverance" came crashing through Linda Knight, booker's stenographer at
with a thundering 600, strongest bow in Paramount, resigned Friday (13). She is
weeks hereabouts. The film was aided by awaiting the birth of her first baby ... La
its opening in a new house, the presence Verta Foust, former secretary to Central
in town of cast members and a solid ad- States' Steve Blank, and her husband are the
vertising campaign. "The New Centurions" proud parents of a baby girl bom Tuesday
also was hefty, checking in with a lusty 275. (lO). Named Lisa Lynee, she weighed in at
But five other fresh films were more seven pounds, nine and a half ounces . . .
typical of new product that just can't seem Morris Nystrom, shipper at Iowa Film Deto
find a firm gross footing. Posting 100 pot. vacationed the week of Monday (16)
each were "Marjoe" at the Uptown and ... Carl Hoffman, ABC Midwest Theatres,
"When the Legends Die" at the Mann, has returned from recent meetings in Omaha
"Bonnie's Kids" at the State and "Private and Minneapolis. Carl reports his wife is
Parts" at Southdale Cinema II each strag- recuperating at home after a short stay in
gled in with 90. Part of the grosses posted xhe hospital.
by the just completed theatres can be
written off to that very factor, the curiosi- Staffers at Iowa Parcel and Iowa Film
ty of the public about a new showcase. But Depot were saddened by the recent death of
the whopping triumph of "Deliverance" Linda Jackson, who was killed in an autoshows
that, even during this time of year, mobile accident. She has worked there the
the moviegoer is a ready customer if the past few summers while attending college.
screen holds what he wants. _ , j n ^ n
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Minneaiwlis . . . Word has been received
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visitors: Art Downard. Webster and
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Value m Current Themes
DENMARK, WIS.—Badger State clergyman
Rev. Ted Selgo was given the top of a
page in the Denmark Press to answer a letter
from a moviegoer which read: "There currently
are two motion pictures out which
make clergymen look pretty bad. The two
movies I am referring to are 'Preacherman'
and 'Marjoe.' What do you think of movies
like this which portray a man of God as a
fraud?"
The Rev. Selgo replied, in part: "I say
they are good if the purpose of Hollywood
is to combat charlatanism ... I hope
people have enough sense to tell fiction
from realism. 'Elmer Gantry' and a present
motion picture, 'Preacherman,' are purely
fictional fabrications. Both are out of the
same mold—sex and exploiting ignorant
people out of their money.
"However, 'Marjoe' is a different motion
picture in the sense that it is based on a
true biography of one who was a con artist
and passed himself off as a minister of the
gospel. At least he had the courage to come
forth and admit he was a phony. However,
whether it be the motion picture industry or
the scandal magazines, it seems someone
always is trying to create the sensational and
risque."
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Central States news: Phyllis Patterson of
the purchasing and concessions denartment
is vacationing in New York, visiting with
her son and his family . . . Eight circuit
drive-ins are reported so far . . . The drivein
at Clinton had a big wiener roast as part
of soecial festivities for Labor Day weekend,
as did the underskyer at Fairfield . . . The
Starlite Drive-In. Waterloo, recently celebrated
its 25th anniversary
. . . The cashier
at the Westvue Drive-In here had a close
call and a good scare recently. A customer
crashed right into the boxoffice, smashing it
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completely, causing broken glass to fall all
over the place. The boxoffice has to be
replaced . . . Gary Sandler will be right with
it if he plays "George." Gary has a large
St. Bernard called Dutchess who would
make good advertising for the movie!
ABC Midwest news: Heavy rains recently
flooded the Strand Theatre in Waterloo and
manager Tim Meyers and his staff put in a
hard day's work to get the theatre cleaned
up. The Strand opened on time, with no
shutdown period . . . Bill Haver, new head
of advertising and promotions for ABC
Midwest, ABC North Center and ABC
Michigan, was here recently to conduct a
seminar on new advertising
and promotion
projects for ABC managers. Attending were
Gene Kelly, Davenport; Steve Marzolph,
Moline, 111.; Sheryl Simmons, Rock Island,
111.; Marv Graybeal and Roy Oldfield,
Cedar Rapids; Tim Meyers, Waterloo, and
Roy Disney and city manager Jim Mc-
Laughlin, Des Moines.
Omaha's Orpheum Theatre
May Be Acquired by City
OMAHA—The downtown 2,877-seat Orpheum,
once operated by ABC Paramount,
apparently will become Omaha's performing
arts center, if plans announced recently go
through. The movie house was shuttered 18
months ago. The board of governors of Ak-
Sar-Ben, headed by Ben Cowdery, has offered
to buy the 45-year-old theatre at the
offered price of approximately $135,000,
then give it to the city.
Refurbishing, costing about $1.5 million,
is one of several conditions of the gift, according
to Mayor Eugene Leahy. This is
expected to take about a year to complete,
according to Charles Mancuso, city auditorium
manager. The property reportedly is being
handled by Peterson Realty of Omaha.
Airer Relocation Planned
NEW ULM, MINN.—Mid-Continent
Theatre Co. of Minnesota has requested
approval of rezoning of a tract of land
across Highway 15 from the present site of
the Starlite Drive-In to allow relocation of
the underskyer. All the equipment would be
removed from the current location and
either salvaged or destroyed. The proposed
new airer would be slightly smaller than the
Starlite but would have all new equipment,
a new building design and landscaped
grounds.
Lyric Theatre Reopened
SUTTON, NEB.—Shuttered for more
than a year, the Lyric Theatre has been piu"-
chased by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Gesch, who
announced that it would reopen Saturday
(14). Their son Steve, a freshman at the
University of Nebraska, will operate the
movie house on weekends, with Hollis
Barnell as projectionist for the time being.
The theatre formerly was owned by Mrs.
Charles Gibson and most recently had been
operated by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brown.
BOXOFHCE :: October 23, 1972 NC-1

MINNEAPOLIS
cel My Reservation" also was booked at the
41 Twin, 59 Drive-In and Victory Drive-
In.
^eBverance" delivered the goods for the
opening of ABC of North Central
States' just-completed Skyway II Theatre, a
600 Barometer reading making it a "grand"
opening indeed! Throngs were turned away,
as the impressive house was at capacity
again and again . . . Meanwhile, "The New
Centurions" was No. 2 on the "hottest
show" list, as it was the premiere attraction
at Skyway I. With plentiful publicity and
with two such solid attractions, the new
showcases made the right kind of bows,
showing all the rest their heels.
"Where Does It Hurt?" had its Twin
Cities neighborhood break with 16 prints
working the two towns. Cinerama Releasing
Corp. branch manager Jim Ellis noted that
"Hurt" played a lively eight weeks here and
an equally sprightly seven weeks in St. Paul.
"Fiddler on the Roof" seems to find fresh
legs every time it begins to slow up a bit.
Dipping to a respectable 150 in its 42nd
week at the Academy Theatre, "Fiddler"
struck up a lively tune at the boxoffice
and came in with a 200 in its 43rd frame!
Screen star Dana Andrews opened in person
here Friday (13) in "The Marriage Go-
Round," co-starring in the Friars Dinner
Theatre offering with his wife Mary Todd.
Andrews stars in Paramount's "Innocent
Bystanders," not pegged for release until
next spring. But Andrews wanted to see the
just-completed first print—and so the first
U.S. screening of the movie was held here
Thursday (12).
Filmrow victors: Bim Lakie, Bijou Theatre,
Bamesville, and Don Quincer, Cozy,
Wadena . . . Virgil Jones, Paramount Midwest
division manager, was in town Tuesday
(3) for the grand openings of the Skyway I
and II theatres . . . Roger Wood is the new
Army booker, working out of the St. Louis
division and booking films for assorted military
camps. Wood visited Fihnrow and will
become a regular monthly visitor. He succeeds
John Babbitt.
Filmrow offices were closed Monday (9)
in observance of Columbus Day . . . TTie
holiday found Forrie Myers, Paramount
branch boss, and Jack Kelvie of Theatre
Associates out on the local golf links where
they topped the Lutz brothers. Dean, who's
MGM branch chief, and Kenny, who's 20th
Century branch salesman . . . Earlier, Myers
had streaked up to northern Minnesota for
the opening of the duck season and bagged
his limit.
Don Daliymple, MGM branch assistant
resident sales manager, renewed previous
MGM accounts in a swing through North
Dakota and South Dakota . . . Don Palmquist,
20th-Fox branch, reports "Sounder"
set after at least 18 opinion-maker screenings
of the already highly praised film in this
area. The latest screening was for educational
leaders—representatives from universities,
colleges and high schools.
The Falls Theatre, Little Falls, had a lavish
grand reopening after being entirely remodeled
and refurbished. Filmrowites were
invited to the ceremonies, replete with cocktails
and hors d'oeuvres. The theatre is part
of the Tentilino Enterprises circuit.
"Lady Sings the Blues," the Paramount
film starring Diana Ross, former lead singer
of the Supremes, and dealing with the life
and career of blues singer Billie Holiday,
was screened Saturday (14) to solid response.
It'll play the Cooper Theatre here,
the World in St. Paul.
Dean Lutz, MGM branch boss, says
"They Only Kill Their Masters" has been
set for Thanksgiving release, with "The
Great Waltz" to pop at Christmastime.
"Elvis On Tour," an Elvis Presley close-up,
goes in November. Meanwhile, Lutz is hoping
for big things from "Savage Messiah," a
film about sculptor Henri Gaudier Brzeska
and set in pre-World War I Paris.
Pat Woollcott, Warner Bros, branch
booker-office manager, departed on a
"working vacation" Friday (6)—working
around the house, that is. Yard work,
putting on storm windows and similar chores
will highlight Woollcott's "vacation."
Northwest Theatre Corp. now is bookthe
Lyceum Theatre, Deer River. The
Lyceum is owned by William Tolrud.
MILWAUKEE
Y>ncent Price, film actor who is an art expert
and interior decorator consultant
as well as a gourmet, will be in town Tuesday
(24) to speak at the opening session of
the eight-week Sears-sponsored interior
decorating schools to be conducted in two
widely separated north side and south side
shopping centers and suburban Brookfield.
"Fiddler on the Roor' at the south side
Southgate Theatre, the only G-rated firstrun
film in the city, was joined Wednesday
(18) by the G-rated "Cancel My Reservation,"
playing at three neighborhood situations—Mill
Road, Sherman and Tosa. "Can-
Screen actor Joe Higgins, well known as
the sheriff in the Dodge TV commercials,
was back in town last month greeting folks
at a grand opening and preview of *73 cars
and trucks ... To mark Halloween, the
Palace Theatre in Spooner is offering a
"triple-chiller" program: "The Haunted Palace,"
"The Black Museum" and "The Terror."
Admission prices remain normal to
encourage school children to enjoy a night
of celebration at the showhouse. The boxoffice
will remain open until the last feature
starts at 9:45 p.m. . . . WZUU Radio (formerly
WMIL) has taken over the Riverside
Theatre Tuesday night (31) for a Halloween
show that also is aimed at the family trade.
Richard Schickel, film critic and former
resident of suburban Wauwatosa, has a collection
of his reviews in a book entitled
"Second Sight: Notes on Some Movies," on
sale at book stores. It recently was published
by Doubleday and is priced at $8.95 . . .
Screen actress Ann BIyth, who appeared in
"The Sound of Music" at Melody Top Theatre
this summer, has been engaged to return
in '73 in "South Pacific," according to
Martin Wiviott, Melody Top producer.
A photograph in the Marshfield community
newspaper showing a theatre sign being
torn down was headlined "End of an Era."
The caption read: "The curtain closed this
week on a name which was a synonym for
motion picture entertainment in Marshfield
for more than 60 years. Workmen are
shown removing the 'Adler' sign from the
marquee of what now is Rogers Cinema I.
The late John P. Adler began his career as
a theatre operator here in 1909 and erected
this sign on the theatre which opened on his
50th birthday, Sept. 28, 1937." In midsummer
of this year the theatre was sold by the
Adler Theatre Co. to Paul J. Rogers of
Marshfield. In a personal note he sent to
Henry Kratz, NATO executive director,
Paul Rogers reveals he intends "to twin it
this coming spring . . . started on the lobby
and we're putting in extra restrooms, etc.
Quite a job with the drive-in still open but
when it closes we hope to get down to more
concrete work."
A film festival included the free showing
at the Mayfair Theatre of two movies,
"Soldier of Fortune" at 9 a.m. and "Three
Coins in the Fountain," at 1 p.m. Thursday
(5) and Friday (6). It was part of Mayfair
Shopping Center's 14th anniversary celebration,
which included several other attractions
. . . When the hippie-type comedians
Cheech and Chong appeared in a one-night
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concert Wednesday (4) at the Riverside, this
correspondent was interested to learn that
the show's young producer, Richard Shapiro
with Greathall Productions, is the son of
Myron Shapiro, Western division manager
for Columbia. The Shapiro family lives in
Minneapolis.
Ralph Norton jr., owner of the Starlite
Drive-In, located north of Sturgeon Bay,
was placed on probation for two years by
Judge Edwin Stephan after pleading guilty
to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct.
Norton's two-year probation to the Wisconsin
Department of Health and Social Services
carries the following conditions: the
defendant will show no hard-core X-rated
films containing scenes that are lewd, obscene
and indecent; defendant will not obstruct
or resist officers acting in their lawful
authority, and for the first nine-month period
the defendant will show no X-rated
films whatsoever, the period to end June 1,
1973. As a further condition of the settlement,
according to District Attorney C. V.
Heden, Norton agreed he will not institute
any lawsuits against Door County arising
out of or relating to the seizure of the film
"The Godson." Heden said that pursuant to
Norton's plea to the reduced charge, the
original charges were dismissed and the
movie "The Godson" was returned to him.
A showing of the movie was held for a
restricted audience at the Donna Theatre.
Keta Steebs, newly appointed movie critic
for the Door County Advocate, was present
during the showing. It was her opinion that
the "lewd, obscene and indecent" charges
against the film were open to question under
modern court interpretations of obscenity.
Morris Rochelle has been named general
manager for the Midwest division of United
Artists. His office will be in either Milwaukee
or Chicago and the area he will be directly
concerned with includes Wisconsin,
Illinois, Indiana and Upper Michigan. He
had been UA's division manager for the past
five years in Brooklyn and western Suffolk.
Rochelle at one time owned several theatres
in Rockway, N.Y.
Bob Taylor manages the Capitol and
Mikadow theatres in Manitowoc for the
Marcus circuit. Each year Bob gets a great
assist from the Modern Woodmen of America,
who donate prizes that are awarded boys
and girls who dress up for the kiddies Halloween
show. It's so big that both theatres are
filled on each of two days, Saturday and
Sunday. The Capitol has 1,160 seats and
jit's
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drive-in, which will remain open until about
November 1 . . . For Virgil Bachman, manager
of Marcus' Tomah Theatre in Tomah,
a "good neighbor" is the Army's Camp Mc-
Coy, for much of his summer business
comes from there. Virgil's annual "biggie"
is the Christmas show, which is held on
three successive Saturday afternoons and is
given 100 per cent cooperation by the
town's merchants. The film shows are free to
anybody, with no tickets being required.
Victor Mussallem, assistant
Dane County
district attorney who had been fired recently
for allowing unauthorized use of seized
pornographic films, has been reinstated by
the county personnel committee. Mussallem
had permitted state justice department officials
and county deputy sheriffs to borrow
the films, which consequently were shown
at private parties. Committee members said
that while Mussallem used "poor judgment"
in releasing the films, it did not warrant
his discharge.
manager of the UA Cinema
Jerry Siegel,
One and Two, was a guest on the Sunday
Italian Hour on station WQFM recently as
he chatted with the program's moderator,
Phil Balistreri. Assistant manager Elmer
Nimmer, himself a veteran of some 40 years
in show business, spent a week's vacation
this summer with his wife Evelyn as they
motored through the Kettle Moraine area
in central Wisconsin.
LINCOLN
^ost of the top staff at Cooper Theatre
headquarters here were in Greeley,
Colo., for the Thursday (19) opening of the
Cooper Wilshire 1 and 2. Several Cooper
Foundation and Theatre Enterprises board
members also accompanied president E. N.
"Jack" Thompson, vice-president Herman
Hallberg, assistant vice-president Charles
Kroll and accounting executive Leora Mc-
Grew to Greeley. The Wilshire 1 and 2 gives
Cooper six conventional screens in Greeley.
The circuit's next opening apparently will be
the late-December debut of Plaza Four here,
scheduled to go into operation around the
holiday season. The remaining three floors
above the first two devoted to the downtown
theatre probably won't be ready for occupancy
until early '73 . . Al Schulter, manager
.
of Dubinsky's Stuart, sneaked "Slaught-
erhouse-Five" Friday night (13). Review
card comments backed up the spontaneous
applause at the end of the bonus picture,
which opens at the Stuart Wednesday (25).
The Stuart also had a special Saturday
morning (14) showing of "The Darwin Adventure"
for elementary, junior and secondary
teachers. It opened Wednesday (18) for
a one-week engagement at the Stuart.
Picture producers were the target of a
resolution adopted by the Nebraska Nurses
Ass'n Thursday (5) at their final biennial
convention session here. Also sharing the
criticism were TV shows and authors. The
nurses' resolution expressed opposition to
products that are "disparaging to the images
of student and professional nurses." Student
nurses attending the three-day convention
were responsible for initiating the action.
They cited the portrayal of their future profession
in movies such as "The Student
Nurses," "Night Call Nurses" and "Private
Duty Nurses." Some older nurses' inclination
to encourage ignoring the whole matter
was defeated. This was aided by a state
nursing leader's recollection that an American
Nurses Ass'n protest some years ago
during "Ben Casey" and "Dr. Kildare" days
resulted in an "improved image" by nurse
characters appearing in
those TV series.
Nebraska's Supreme Court chambers were
the setting for another film deliberation
Thursday (5) as Atlanta attorney D. Freeman
Hutton asked the state court to overturn
a Douglas County District Court ruling
that the Pussy Cat Theatre of Omaha
had shown eight films that were obscene
under Nebraska law. Hutton represented
manager Richard Berry and the American
Theatre Corp., doing business as the Pussy
Cat Theatre. He reminded the high court
that it actually has no physical evidence before
it to consider. He said, "There are no
films in this record for this court to review."
It also was Hutton's claim before the state
court that District Court Judge Samuel
Caniglia of Omaha had no films on which
his earlier ruling was based. Omaha police
had seized 29 films in a raid after their
showing in February 1971. Another district
'
court judge, James O'Brien, later ruled the
Pussy Cat seizures invalid and ordered the
films returned. Manager Berry later was
cited for contempt when he failed to produce
some of the films for his trial as
ordered in a subpoena. Reportedly a threejudge
federal panel has retained jurisdiction
in the case until state court proceedings are
completed. The defendants filed the original
action suit in U.S. District Court seeking injunctions
against further action by the city
of Omaha.
The early evening performance of "Cabaret"
at the Stuart Thursday (5) was seen by
four governors from distant Ethiopia—Alfred
Shafi, Habte-Mariam Wolde-Kidan,
Kebede Despa and Makonnen Dore. Also in
the moviegoing party were Manuel Valverde,
coordinator for the visiting delegation
in the U.S., and John Large, state department
escort for the Ethiopians. According
to Al Schulter, manager of the Stuart,
the Ethiopians had expressed a desire to see
an American movie during their five-day
stay here, hosted by the Mayor's Committee
for International Friendship. "They chose
the Stuart," Al reports, "and enjoyed the
picture, from their comments after the
show." Al and his assistant manager Louis
Jicka welcomed and escorted the party to
their seats. They suspect the Ethiopian tourists
were glad to have a couple hours of
rest and relaxation from what was a busy
schedule of talking and visiting the University
of Nebraska, the State Capitol and
city and county government operations.
NC-4 BOXOFFICE :: October 23, 1972

I'Deliverance' High
800 in Cincy Debut
came close
CINCINNATI—Nothing else
to the p>erformance of "Deliverance," which
started its Times Towne Cinema run with
a mighty 800—eight times average business
at TTC. "Super Fly" turned in a commendable
third week at the Grand, more
than tripling normal returns for that theatre,
and "Everything You Always Wanted
to Know About Sex" rang up an even 300
score in a seventh week at the Studio
Cinemas.
(Averoge Is 100)
Albee Lost House on the Left (SR) 100
Ambassador Morjoe (SR), 2nd wk 100
Carousel 2 Where Does It Hurt?
(CRC), 6th wk 175
Grand Super Fly (WB), 3rd wk 350
Hollywood Cinema North, Mariemont Cinemo
East, Western Woods—Cancel My
Reservation (WB)
International 70 The New Centurions
100
(Col), 8th wk 135
Ploce Butterflies Are Free (Col), 10th wk. .
Studio Cinemas Everything You Always Wanted
to Know About Sex (UA), 7th wk
Times Towne Cinema Deliverance (WB) . . .
.275
300
.800
20th Century Sloughterhouse-Five
(Univ), 3rd wk 200
Valley Nicholas and Alexandra
(Col), 9th wk 275
'Deliverance' Impressive 400
At Severance in Cleveland
CLEVELAND — "Deliverance"
roared
off from the starting mark with a 400 debut
week at the Severance, shooting ahead of
third-week "Super Fly" by 100 points for
the city's grossing lead. "The New Centurions"
showed boxoffice power as it combined
business at four theatres for a second-week
240.
Colony— Fiddler on the Roof (UA), 43rd wk. ..110
Embassy, Shoker Super Fly (WB), 3rd wk 300
Four theatres Friti the Cat (SR), 2nd wk 210
Four theatres Necromoncy (CRC) 95
Four theatres The New Centurions
(Col), 2nd wk 240
Hippodrome The Final Countdown (SR) 150
Severance Deliverance (WB) 400
Village Fat City (Col) 90
World East, World West Everything You Always
Wanted to Know About Sex (UA), 7th wk. ..165
Theatre Pickets Sued
For $500,000 Damages
DETROIT — Since the Frisco Theatre
opened at 20500 Woodward approximately
two months ago, it has been picketed by a
group of citizens headed by Dennis Newhouse,
a Detroit teacher, protesting the socalled
"adult" movies shown at the house.
The only known mass demonstration
mounted against a theatre of this type, the
citizens, Newhouse says, "are dismayed by
the spread of sex-oriented businesses in the
city." While they were successful in discouraging
attendance during early evening
hours, patronage apparently increased later
after the pickets had retired.
Since adult theatres are protected by the
free-speech provisions of the Constitution,
the group's action was challenged because
of alleged interference with customers and
damage to the building and the pickets were
served with a court summons. Wayne Circuit
Judge Roland L. Olzark, conferring
with the homeowners and the theatre's attorney,
established guidelines for subsequent
picketing that met the stipulations of city
ordinances. Also, a damage suit for $500,-
000 was filed against the pickets.
City officials had attempted to prevent
'Asylum of Satan World Premiere
First-nighters in front of the Vogue Cinema in Louisville, where the invitational
world premiere of Studio I's "Asylum of Satan" was held Tuesday night,
September 26. The feature motion picture, first ever filmed in Louisville by a
Louisville company, was the city's No. 1 screen attraction in its opening week at
the Preston Drive-In.
LOUISVILLE—"Asylum of Satan," the
first feature-length motion picture ever
filmed here by a Louisville company,
opened to overflow crowds at the local Preston
Drive-In after premiering to a capacity
audience (approximately 1,000) at the
Vogue Cinema Tuesday, September 26. Receipts
for the first five days at the Preston
made "Asylum of Satan" the top-grossing
film for the week in Louisville.
Following the invitational premiere at the
Vogue, a reception was held at the Schmutz
estate near Louisville, the site of most of
the film's location shooting. Hosts for the
party were Studio 1 Pictures and Bil-Ko
Films of Cleveland, the distributors for
"Asylum of Satan," and Studio Productions
and Studio 1 Associates of Louisville, the
producers.
the opening of the Frisco Theatre, which is
the latest of some 50 such facilities (including
book stores and "model clubs") to open
in various sections of Detroit during the
past three years. Now officials allege that
they are being "bombarded by angry letters,
calls and petitions" and are reacting with
various schemes to thwart the opening of
further "adult" facilities. Several ordinances
aimed at overcoming the guidelines established
by federal courts have proven to be
unconstitutional. However, one now is being
considered which would require such businesses
to secure the approval of 51
per cent
of property owners within 500 feet of the
establishment and is believed by city officials
"to be the answer." Exploration of this
proposed measure was slated to be on the
agenda of a city planning commission meeting
Tuesday (17) and a city council huddle
Friday (20).
The Frisco Theatre does not advertise its
film attractions in either of the two leading
Detroit daily newspapers.
The motion picture was produced by J.
Patrick Kelly III, a Louisville businessman,
and directed by William Girdler. president
of Studio 1 Productions. In addition to
directing, Girdler wrote the script and
screenplay, as well as composing and arranging
all the film's music.
"Asylum of Satan" was edited by Academy
Award winner Gene Ruggiero
("Around the World in 80 Days"), assisted
by his wife Eva and Henry Asman jr. of
Studio 1. Director of photography was Studio
I's William Asman and sound recorder
was Warren Maxey of Avco Embassy in
Cincinnati.
Studio 1 has another feature film, "3 on
a Meathook," set for early November release
and plans are being made for four
more pictures to be completed by spring.
Federal Court Halts
Toledo Film Seizures
TOLEDO, OHIO—A federal court judge
has issued an order to prevent city officials
from seizing films from any Toledo theatres,
ending a long series of such seizures directed
against this city's sexplicit houses and
the largest art theatre in the city, the Westwood,
in the west Toledo area.
The order by U.S. District Judge Don J.
Young was issued when he ruled that the
September 23 seizure of an allegedly "obscene"
film from the Westwood Art Theatre
was unconstitutional. He ordered the film,
"The Coming Thing," returned to the. theatre.
The judge was acting on a motion filed
by attorneys for three theatre employees
who were arrested by the Toledo morals
squad detectives when the movie was seized.
The decision did not involve the charges
of "presenting an obscene performance" that
(Continued on next page)
BOXOFHCE :: October 23, 1972 NDS-l

DETROIT
jDorothy Duncan of the Motion Picture
Council of Detroit informs: "Perhaps
the largest and best student film this year
has been completed at NYU's graduate film
and TV department. The 35mm Cinema-
Scope color production is titled 'There Is No
Suu:,t'tute.' It basically is a satire on the
Ameri.'an educational system." The film began
last fall as a project on which three students—Arden
Rynew, Robert Phillips and
Jack Wilson:—worked together on all aspects
of the picture, individually taking
charge of coordinating camera, direction
and editing. Faced with normal university
filmmaking environment, lack of equipment,
time and money, they decided on the 35mm
Cinemascope film rather than a lengthy
16mm effort. The three jointly wrote the
screenplay, built four breakaway sets in an
old building owned and donated by NYU.
each trimmed piece by piece with old office
furniture and plenty of American flags.
Casting began and 30 roles were filled. The
local Screen Actors Guild required all characters
to hold union cards. Shooting required
ten days and nights to complete. Tailormade
optical effects have been created to
enforce this satire, which runs 18 minutes.
Local filmites congratulate the boys, especially
Arden Rynew, son of Dorothy Duncan.
Many here are well acquainted with Arden's
movie enthusiasm.
Kay Zacharias reports that her daughter
Joanne, recently graduated from Michigan
State University as an honor student has
been assigned to teach at the American
Hellenic College in Athens, Greece. She will
be teaching English. Kay is Mrs. George
Zacharias, president of the Motion Picture
Council of Greater Detroit.
A grant was issued four Michigan high
schools (Southwestern High was selected
locally) to participate in a new Michigan
Council for the Arts project titled "Film in
the Schools." The project will start next
semester with a grant from the National Endowment
for the Arts. The program will test
student interest in the film industry and
filmmaking. The grant provides for residency
of an internationally famous filmmaker
During the past three years we
have moved from No. 5 to No. 2
in the carbon industry. WE ARK
NO. 2 (second only to Union Carbide)
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for two weeks at •ach school. Funds will be
available for the purchase of equipment and
supplies. Southwestern High School has an
ambitious film club which won awards last
year from the Michigan Council of Arts.
MPCGD's Youth Film Forum opened the
new season Saturday (14) at Studio 8 Theatre
with a screening of "A Separate Peace."
The purpose of the forum is youth involvement
in developing an appreciation of better
films as they relate to story, acting, directing
and producing. It also affords youth the
opportunity to articulate and develop skill
in discussion. Ten students and five alternates
are selected to represent each school
and must be available for the entire series,
meeting once a month for seven months.
One should be a journalism student so the
entire student body may be informed by
reading the student's review in the school
newspaper. Teachers may attend and are
welcome. There is no charge at the screenings
sponsored by the Motion Picture Council
of Greater Detroit, which also selects the
films.
Margaret Murray, who retired last year
from National Film Service, where she had
served as head inspector for 25 years, died
September 21. Her career began with RKO,
thence to 20th Century-Fox and United
Artists, all in old Filmrow inspection rooms.
When that era came to a close, Margaret
was the first hired by the late James Clark,
first president of National Film Service. Her
total employment years in the industry totaled
51. She leaves her husband Eli; children
Donald, Joan and Davis, and ten
grandchildren.
Bob Talbert, columnist for the Free Press,
recently stated in his daily column: "The
film business is polarized today into black
and white audiences, with only a flick like
'The Godfather' appealing to both groups.
The black exploitation films have been high
with the black community because 'Whitey'
gets knocked around throughout.'' This may
account for the record attendance for
"Super Fly."
No Immediate Labor Law
Change Seen by London
DETROIT—Movie theatres presently are
exempt from the Federal Fair Labor Standards
Act which sets federal minimum wages
and requires the payment of time and a half
for overtime. However, the Senate some
months ago passed a bill which includes a
minimum of $2 an hour with time and a
half over 40 hours per week. Earlier, the
House of Representatives passed a bill increasing
the minimum wage to $1.80 an
hour, providing for a lower minimum wage
of $1.60 an hour for teenagers and continuing
the exemption of motion picture theatres
from the act.
NATO of Michigan president Milton H.
London reports that the national NATO legislation
committee has been working intensively
to have the exemption of theatres continued
in the final bill, which must be resolved
by the Congress. London has been
working with Michigan Congressmen James
G. O'Hara, William B. Ford and Marvin L.
Esch, important members of the House Education
and Labor Committee, and says that
they have been "most cooperative" in
trying
to have the House version prevail.
The House in August blocked an attempt
to send the two bills to conference committee
and again recently voted down a motion
for conference. Unless the Senate and House
can agree on resolving the differences, there
is no way for either bill to become law.
London believes that since Congress soon
will adjourn for this session, there is little
threat of changes in the Fair Labor Standards
Act at this time. He f>oints out, however,
that the matter again could become a
"hot issue" when Congress reconvenes next
January.
Federal Court Halls
Toledo Film Seizures
(Continued from preceding page)
were placed against Martin Gleason, 23,
theatre manager; Gerald Blakowski, 27,
assistant manager, and Francis H. Shrader,
51, projectionist, when the film was seized.
These three were released on their own
recognizance and the charges still are pending
in Toledo Municipal Court. The trio had
just filed a $30,000 damage suit in this
case.
Judge Young's order preventing film seizures
also offered suggestions on methods
other than outright seizure by which authorities
could obtain the films to use as evidence
for prosecutions. Either a hearing can be
held to determine the obscenity of the material
in question or the film can be subpoenaed
into court to be used as evidence in
the trial of persons accused in connection
with its exhibition, the judge said.
In their damage suit filed in U.S. District
Court seeking $30,000, the trio of Westwood
Theatre employees also had asked for
an order halting any interference with future
showings at the theatre and the return of
the film "The Coming Thing." Their lawsuit
named Frank Pizza, city law director, and
morals squad detectives Gerald Gerding
and Roger Brownings as defendants. They
claimed that their arrests and the seizure
of the film violated constitutional protections
of free speech and expression and provisions
against unlawful search and seizures.
"Street People," a big-city melodrama,
has been added to the production slate of
Academy Pictures..
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CLEVELAND
^Tie Warner Bros, exchange has added two
to its staff. George Knauff succeeded
Joel Weiner as booker and Evelyn Benedict
is tie new booker's stenographer . . . Architect
Jack Vogel, Weilsville-based drive-in
specialist, reports the start of a second
ozoner which he designed as part of a new
tw'n on the site of the old CCC Drive-In in
Columbus. Owner Skip Yassenoff plans an
early spring opening.
Those planning to attend the November
national NATO convention in Florida are
Olen Martin, Fred Lentz, Bill Kohagen and
Sam, Don and Ray Schultz . . . Fran
Schwartz, Universal cashier-bookkeeper,
spent several days in New York and attended
the Grand Prix . . . Terry Betto, Universal
clerk-typist, will return next week
following a two-week holiday in California
• . . Arnold Weiss, member of Local 160,
left Wednesday (11) for a two-week vaca
tion in Israel . . . Don Bock, apprentice
operator, recently returned to the city following
a splendid four-week vacation on a
ranch in New Mexico.
It must be some sort of record! Starting
Wednesday (25) the Falls Theatre in Chagrin
will play Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
"Gone With the Wind" for the 15th time
. . . Variety Club Tent 6 will hold a meeting
Monday (30) at the Sheraton to formulate
plans for the 1973 telethon. Bill Kohagen
and co-chairman Fred Weisman attribute any
new gray hairs to their efforts for this project
.. . Edward Bartolo, Youngstown developer,
has long-range plans which include
converting the Randall Race Track property
north of Southgate into a 115-store shopping
center by 1975. The center also will
mclude a 450-seat theatre . . . "No Sex
Please, We're British," currently playing at
the Hanna, features gorgeously gowned
Maureen O'Sullivan, star of more than 80
films. The play is to be made into a movie,
with shooting to begin in March.
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Bill Tennant, Hollywood producer, announced
a six-city search for a black actress
to star in Warner Bros.' "Cleopatra Jones."
This thriller is scheduled to go into production
soon. The talent search for a lady
James Bond type will be conducted through
universities, model agencies, little theatre
groups, theatre workshops, etc. The six
Cities in which the initial auditions will take
place are Atlanta, Chicago, New York, San
Francisco, Washington and this
city.
Paul Levine, United Artists branch manager,
returned home one evening to be met
by tearful wife Barbara explaining away her
well-bashed-in '68 Ford. All of the action
apparently took place (by a hit-skip) while
Barbara was shopping. Ixvine simply stated
that in all of his years as a driver no one
had totaled his car while he was out of
sight. The following day Paul was leaving a
doctor's office just at the very moment when
a young lemale driver nudged his '72 Chevy
iNomad. i.evine sadly studied the two estimates
which showed 5>70 for the damage on
his car, covered by the young lady's insurance,
and $700 worth of damage done by
the unknown assailant. Paul felt it definitely
was not his lucky week! The doctor he'd
visited suggested that a cyst on Paul's shoulder
be removed and, it he was able to go
into the hospital on Friday, the surgeon
could perform the necessary surgery. It not,
due to the medic's busy schedule, there
would be several weeks' delay. "iHave you
a cancellation on Friday?" innocently asked
Levine. "No!" replied the doctor, "It's Friday
the 13 th." Paul is not superstitious and
the cyst was removed Friday (13) at Mount
^inai.
Richard Bach, author of the current bestseller,
"Jonathan Livingston Seagull," appeared
at Higbee's Tuesday (10) as a guest
of the Women's City Club for a "meet-the
authors" luncheon . . . John S. Pyke jr.,
member of the Cleveland Landmarks Commission
and author of the booklet "Landmark
Preservation" (distributed by the National
Trust for Historic Preservation),
would like to do something to save the interiors
of the darkened Playhouse Square
movie theatres, which he feels is the only
part worth saving . . . Irv Field, Pearl Road
Drive-In manager, recently was released
from Southwest General Hospital following
a checkup.
CINCINNATI
£|d Howe, retired salesman for National
Theatre Supply, leads a gypsy life going
here and there in his trailer to suit his
fancy. This past summer Howe was here
visiting his buddies and working for Holiday
Amusement Co. Now he and his wife
are in Florida for the winter months and,
come spring, will return to California,
which is home base.
Margaret Woodruff, Columbia booker,
had a good time on her birthday Friday (20)
basking in the warm sunshine of Florida
while on vacation . . . Lucille Arnold, Universal
office staff, has returned from a short
vacation . . . JoAnn Shelton, United Artists
secretary, and Larry Thomas, Tri-State Theatre
Service booker, have been saving their
pennies like mad for a tour by car of Ireland,
Scotland and England during the next
two weeks. If their luck and money hold
out, they plan to catch some plays in New
York before returning home.
Dick Pataki, cast member of "Grave of
the Vampire," was very well received when
in town Thursday (12) and Friday (13) to
promote the film, which opened Wednesday
(18) at the State Theatre and Jolly Rogers,
Oakley and Dixie Gardens drive-ins. While
here Pataki was a busy man appearing on
WLW-T Bob Braun's noon show and Friday
(20) at a special midnight show for spook
addicts at 20th Century, sponsored by WLW
Radio deejay Jim La Barber's contest for
the film. The previous night Pataki and
John Hayes, director, were guests at a cocktail
party at Stouffer's Cincinnati Inn hosted
by Ben Hathaway, manager of Zipp Film
Distributors.
In addition to those triple cinemas Mid
States now is building at Northgate Shopping
Center, a quartet of cinemas currently
is under construction at the 1-275 and Route
4 interchange north of this city. The quadplex,
owned by Redstone Theatres, is scheduled
to open some time in February. The
Mid States and Redstone construction program
will give the northern area of the city
a cinema boom of seven theatres, which has
to be a record for any one section of our
town!
Century Cinema to Reopen
GALION, OHIO—Donald Foote of Van
Wert, who recently purchased the Century
Cinema, 127 Harding Way West, said the
theatre would be reopened after an updating
program has been completed. Harold Nusbaum,
former owner of the Century Cinema,
still operates the Sunset Drive-In near Ontario
and the Ashland Downtown Theatre.
Around-the-Clock Policy
TOLEDO, OHIO—Two storefront film
establishments. Las Vegas cinemas in the
Westgate Shopping area and the Cinema
Arts in the east Toledo area, have gone on
a 24-hour daily policy, seven days a week.
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ME-4 BOXOFHCE :: October 23, 1972

Deliverance
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'Deliverance' Sirong
Bernie Menscbell Elected President
300 in Opening Week Conn. NATO; Spodick Served 5 Years
NEW HAVEN — Students and townspeople
alike flocked to Showcase Cinema I HARTFORD—Bernie Menschell of the
for eagerly awaited "Deliverance" and the Menschell Bros. Theatres is the new presi-
Warner Bros, thriller tripled average busi- dent of NATO of Connecticut,
ness in its opening week. In Cinema III Assuming the chief office of the statewide
under the Showcase roof, another high per- exhibitor body, Menschell, who operates a
centage (200) was posted by second-week number of metropolitan Hartford first-run
"The New Centurions." "The Doberman showcases plus two drive-in theatres, suc-
Gang." teamed with "Twilight People" at ceeds Robert C. Spodick, a partner in Sampthree
theatres, nosed out "Junior Bonner," son & Spodick Theatres. Spodick steps down
second week at Showcase Cinema II, for after five years.
No. 3 ranking on the grossing ladder. Menschell's fellow officers: Livio Dottor,
(Average Is 100) Pcrakos Theatres Associates, New Britain,
College Slaughter (AlP), 3rd wk 90 _ -j * j • -fc^-'i* tn i tta
College Street Cinemo— Housewives' Report Vlce-president, drive-ms; MlltOn Daly, UA
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(CRC), 2nd wk 110 chairman
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(Col), 2nd wk 200 Sperie P. Perakos, vice-president and gen-
Three theatres The Doberman Gang (SR); •
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Accepting his new niche, Bernard Men-
"The New Centurions' Composite schell conceded that exhibition is facing a
200 in Hartford Second
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City ranked second on basis of a secondcomplaint
against Snedeker, referring to
week 150 at Berlin Cine II and UA Theatre
spotlights erected on the adjoining property.
East and Tonight I Love You. fifth week
Sngjeker, present at the hearing, said the
at the Art Cinema, also exceeded 100 aver-
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age with a 125.
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BOSTON
Mathan Buchman and Robert Waldman
were inducted as members of the Brandeis
University president's council at a testimonial
luncheon Tuesday (10) at Longwood
Towers in Brookline. Many members of the
Boston film industry attended the affair.
Buchman, a former vice-president of the
National Ass'n of Concessionaires, is director
of Cinecom Corp. of New York City
and a member of B'nai B'rith, among his
many business and social affiliations. Waldman
is active in B'nai B'rith as a former
president of Cinema Lodge and is a general
partner in Bay Colony Realty Investment
Co., Colonial Realty Investment Co. and
Hancock Management, Brookline. Brandeis
president's councilors are men and women
throughout the country whose skills, experience
and commitment to higher education
are placed at the disposal of the Brandeis
president in areas of their competence.
The Boston story, "The Friends of Eddie
Coyle," is in production here. When casting
director Vic Ramos sent out requests for
several hundred extras, long lines were
formed by students from area colleges . . .
Anthony Quinn, one of Hollywood's most
popular and most talked about personalities,
was the main attraction at the Boston
Globe's Book Festival at Hines Auditorium.
More than 5,000 persons crowded the hall
to hear Quinn's talk and to ask him questions.
Around 400 of them purchased his
new book and asked him to autograph it.
David Beaupain, Buena Vista sales representative,
returned to his desk after he and
Silvia enjoyed a honeymoon in Nassau, the
Bahamas. They were married September 30
in New Orleans. Silvia is a native of the
Crescent City but is employed at the Veteran's
Administration, Jamaica Plains. The
Beaupains are living in Milton.
Eddie Comi, well-known around the film
district here for the last 50 years, has retired.
Former owner of the Massachusetts
Theatre Equipment Co., Eddie was guest of
honor at a dinner at Jimmie's Harborside
Restaurant. The dinner was hosted by Phil
Freeman, eastern district manager of Union
Carbide-National Carbon. Eddie was hailed
as one of the best men in the supply business,
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September has come and gone with
nary a boom-boom-boom salute to the fall
"moom pitcha" season as was vigorously
manifested in the not-so-long-ago.
By
Television, for its part, mounted an aggressive
campaign in the early weeks of
September, local-level promotion taking
the form of bus cards, on-the-air spot announcements
and half-sized and full page
advertising, all hailing the incoming 1972-
73 programing.
But "moom pitchas" — that once-lusty
shouter in the promotional pitches — was
something else again. With few exceptions
(and we manage to read quite a few newspapers
in the course of a day), we discerned
little attention to the so-called fall production
patterns.
Twenty years ago for the film industry
to start the fall without some kind or form
or style of promotional drum-beating was
something to defy tradition. We can remember
floats, street ballyhoo, large-scale cooperative
advertising and, yes, even personal
appearance by "names" simply interested
enough in this business of motion pictures
to want to get into the boondocks and help
exhibition introduce the colder weather
screen attractions.
We can hear the scoffers, the scorners
"Who needs to push film when distribution
won't walk across the street to send out any
'superstars' for opening?" and we must, out
of industry loyalty, retort that in the notso-long-ago,
men in the field of the calibre
of the late Harry F. Shaw, for many years
division manager of Loew's Poli-New England
Theatres, made it his business to see
that every Loew manager in Connecticut
and Massachusetts was pushing the fall season
with some kind of campaign.
To the novice exhibitor, the idea of fall
season promotion, of a depth and drive more
skilfully refined than the best brains in the
promotional ranks of television could ever
devise, is something foreign, perhaps. To
the oldtimers in exhibition, the thought that
September has come and gone with not
even a concerted campaign locally should
irk the conscience.
A man such as Harry F. Shaw made it
his business to be on first-name acquaintance
with every key-city amusements editor
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ALLEN M. WIDEM
on his circuit. Harry Browning, who labored
long and effectively for the Paramount
theatre interests in these New England
states, never left a city without at least picking
up the phone to say "Hello" to an editor.
This is not to fault the present-day managerial
ranks; the harsh, realistic fact of the
matter is that not enough men calling the
shots on the executive rung-of-command
remember just how important promotion in
every city in a circuit could be.
The late James F. McCarthy, long-time
Hartford division manager for the then-
Warner Bros. Theatres, was not above sitting
down with an editor in one of his towns
and merely chatting about personalities and
pictures. Sure, it took time. Sure, it took
knowledge of the business. But it paid off
handsomely in the form of newspaper
breaks accorded Warner circuit situations.
Eddie Harrison, who managed the nowdemolished
E. M. Loew's Court Square
Theatre, Springfield, Mass., had a favorite
"new season" practice of distributing pinkcolored
cards, come fall. They were captioned,
"Don't Let the SEASON PASS
Without Going to the E.M. Loew's Court
Square Theatre!"
They were a conversation piece in Springfield
for quite a spell and how much time
was involved in Eddie's preparation? Very
little is the right answer.
We can remember in late summer and
early fall when the Connecticut shoreline
season was just about folding for the year,
a number of imaginative exhibitors made
it
their business to dispatch sound trucks to
beach areas, extolling the qualities of upcoming
motion pictures. How much time
was involved? Very little is the right answer.
A new theatre opens nowadays, more
often than not, with perhaps a half-page of
cooperative advertising culled from the
participating sub-contractors and service
agencies.
Years ago, a new theatre opening was
heralded with a full-dress premiere night,
replete with "names" on a political and entertainment
level.
Years ago, a drive-in theatre springtime
opening was accompanied by a lot of hoopla
fireworks, free fire engine rides, horse
rides, perhaps a merry-go-round or carousel
hired for the evening. Nowadays, an under-
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a perfunctory ad.
Somewhere along the line, in this business
of motion pictures, a lot more people will
have to start realizing that marketing screen
product—and we sell like any other industry—is
a matter of pitching glamor, of a
brand emulated but never fully duplicated.
There's got to be a resumption of the very
industry spiritedness that gave an excitement
to an opening night, let alone a theatre
premiere, in the not-so-long-ago.
Local Reckoning Due
There's got to be a reckoning on a local
level of minds, minds that have accumulated
experience and know-how, if you will, that
television and everything else in the amusements
field can never really comprehend.
But for the exhibition ranks to pussy-foot
in pitching pictures? It's unthinkable to a
real showman.
We hear of astonishing boxoffice grosses.
We read of huge sums expended on this picture
and that picture. Yet, when a film
opens in too many, many cities, it's given
the conventional opening-day ad,
period. Is
this what showmanship has been all about?
What's the rest of the American economy
doing about bettering cognizance, comprehension
of advertising and promotion?
The Int'l Newspaper Advertising Execuutives
have let it be known that local advertising
for all media has increased at
double the rate of national advertising in
the past five years; the move is directly
attributable to the marked acceleration of
manufacturers' co-op advertising dollars (a
la film distribution's efforts). One big retail
chain, for example, is drawing one-third of
its $18 million advertising budget from coop
advertising.
The retail field is as beset by crime, inflation
and other factors as motion picture exhibition
but it is not lamenting. It is moving,
moving aggressively, knowing instinctively
that to lag is to lose ground.
And when consumer advocate spokesmen
lash out at allegedly shoddy merchandise or
misleading advertising, the big retail chains
shout, in turn, to their source-of-supply.
Searclied for Definition
The National Ass'n of Theatre Owners
has tried for years to arrive at a definition
of what's good for the betterment of the
exhibition community. And, for its part, the
Motion Picture Ass'n of America, particularly
through its latter-day rating guide, has
attempted to provide a good image for the
exhibition community.
But those "loners," the non-NATO thinkers,
are the ones providing irreparable harm
the exhibition community. They must be
to
made to realize that advertising a product
of a certain industry reflects inevitably and
incisively on the industry as a whole. Sure,
everybody wants to make a buck. But to
earn money with questionable advertising
techniques and tempos is not worthy of a
showman.
NE-4 BOXOmCE :: October 23, 1972

Sightseeing Flight Prize
In Winnipeg Promotion
WINNIPEG — D. H. Byers.
manager of
Odeon-Morton's Garrick Theatre here, devised
an effective promotional campaign for
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'Where Does It
WINNIPEG—Grosses improved for the
second week in a row, following several
downbeat weeks, and this report actually
shows two "excellent" ratings for a pair of
new pictures. "The Legend of Frenchie
King" opened with top marks at the Metropolitan
Theatre and "Where Does It Hurt?"
broke from the barrier with an "excellent"
first week at the Capitol.
Capitol Where Does It Hurt? (IFD) Excellent
Downtown The Lustful Vicar (Ind); The
Amorous Heodmoster (Ind) Good
Gaiety Chariots of the Gods (Astral),
3rd wk
Garden City, North Star
Average
.Very Good
(Ind) .
Garrick
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Are Free (Col),
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2ncl wk Very Good
Gerrick II Everything You Always Wanted to
Know About Sex (UA) 5th wk Very Good
Grant Pork The Godfather (Pare),
28th wk Average
King's Fiddler on the Roof (UA), 29th wk. .Average
Metropolitan The Legend of Frenchie King
(K-Tel)
Excellent
North Star II The Man (Para), 2nd wk Fair
Odeon.—^orry On Loving (Astral), 6th wk. .Average
Park The Crook (IFD) Poor
Polo Park Slaughterhouse-Five (Univ),
3rd wk Average
'Slaughter'
Opens Edmonton
Booking With 'Very Good'
EDMONTON—Four first runs grossed
"excellent," four grossed "very good," one
rated "good" and one was "poor"—so overall
this report had to be one of good cheer
for Edmonton exhibitors. "Slaughter," the
week's only newcomer, won a "very good"
rating at the Capitol Theatre. "Excellent"
marks went to "Without a Stitch," "Butterflies
Are Free," "The New Centurions" and
"What's Up, Doc?" All of the films in this
quartet were playing on holdover time.
Avenue—Without a Stitch (C-P), 2nd wk, . .Excellent
Capitol Slaughter (Astral) Very Good
Jasper Cinema Guess What We Learned in
school T'dav? (IFD), 3rd wk Very Good
Klondike Portnoy's Complaint
(WB), 3rd wk
Very Good
Odeon— Butterflies Are Free
(Col), 5th wk Excellent
Paramount Junior Bonner (IFD), 3rd wk Good
Rtalto The New Centurions
(Col), 4th wk Excellent
Towne Cinema FTA (Astral), 2nd wk Poor
Varscono Fiddler on the Roof
(UA), 33rd wk Very Good
Westmount (B)—Whot's Up, Doc?
(V^B), 14th wk Excellent
Hurt?' 'Excellent'
Newcomer 'Where Does It Hurt?'
One of Calgary's 'Excellent' Films
CALGARY—Four "excellent" grossing
holdovers were joined by newcomer "Where
Does It Hurt?" at the Towne Cinema to
form Calgary's top quintet in the report
week. "Butterflies Are Free," "Trinity Is
Still My Name," "The New Centurions"
and "What's Up, Doc?" maintained strong
boxoffice paces established in early weeks
at Calgary theatres. "Napoleon and Samantha,"
"Fiddler on the Roof" and "Last of
the Red Hot Lovers" also attracted significant
public support and each rated "very
good."
Calgary Place I The Godfather (Para),
2Bth wk
.Poor
Chinook Napoleon and Samantha (BV),
3rd wk Very Good
Grand 1 The Salzburg Connection (BVFD)
3rd wk Poor
Grand 2 The New Centurions (Col),
3rd wek Excellent
North Hill Cinerama What's Up, Doe? (WB),
14th wk Excellent
Palli.er Square 1 The Man (Para) Poor
Polliser Square 2 Fiddler on the Roof (UA),
29th wk Very Good
Towne Cinema Where Does It Hurt? (IFD) .Excellent
Uptown Butterflies Are Free (Col), 5th wk. , Excellent
Westbrook 1 Trinity Is Still My Nome (BVFD)
6th wk Excellent
Westbrook 2 ^Lost of the Red Hot Lovers (Para)
3rd wk Very Good
'Everything About Sex' Keeps
Strong Momentum in Toronto
TORONTO—Although grosses were definitely
down from recent high levels, many
bookings continued to do well. Among these
were "Everything You Always Wanted to
Know About Sex," fifth week at the Uptown,
and "Slaughterhouse-Five," fifth
week, Towne Cinema.
Corlton The New Centurions (Col), 6th wk. ...Fair
Coronet Deviation (Intra), The Cop (Intra) ..Poor
Downtown Return of Sobata (UA),
2nd wk Very Good
Glendale Cabaret (C-P), 32 wk Very Good
Hollywood (North) Dulcima (Ken) Good
Hollywood (South) The Salzburg Connection
(BVFD), 3rd wk Good
Hyland 1 Carry On Loving (Astral) Fair
Hyland 2, Dutterin Frenzy (Univ.), 13th wk. ..Good
Towne Cinema Slaughterhouse-Five (Univ),
5th wk Very Good
University Fiddler on the Roof (UA),
45th wk Good
Uptown 1 Everything You Always Wonted to
Know About Sex (UA), 5th wk Excellent
Uptown 2 Fritz the Cat (Prima),
1 th wk Very Good
1
Uptown 3 The Man (Para), 2nd wk
Uptown Backstage 1 The Candidate (WB),
Good
1 0th wk Very Good
Uptown Bockstage 2 Ploy It Again, Sam (Para),
1 9th wk Good
Yonge The Revengers (NGP) Good
York 1 Hickey & Boggs (UA), 4th wk Fair
York 2 Butterflies Are Free (Col), 10th wk. ..Good
"The Salzburg Coimection' Rates
'Excellent' in Vancouver Start
VANCOUVER—An end of the month
payday and ideal weather proved to be a
combination that powered the current report
week to solid business throughout the
city. "The Salzburg Connection," new at
the Odeon, was a winner from the start and
pulled down one of the week's three "excellent"
gross ratings. Others went to holdovers
"What's Up, Doc?", Capitol, and
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Sex." Another topnotcher: "The Revengers,"
"very good" at the Strand.
Capitol What's Up, Doc? (WB), 11th wk ..Excellent
Coronet Everything You Always Wanted to
Know About Sex (UA), 5th wk Excellent
Eve—Cry Uncle! (C-P), Sex Obsessed (C-P),
3rd wk Average
Fine Arts FTA (Astral.) 2nd wk. . . .Above Average
Odeon The Salzburg Connection (BVFD) ..Excellent
Orpheum Slaughter (Astral), 2nd wk Fair
Park Fiddler on the Roof JUA), 42nd wk. .Average
Strand The Revengers (NGP) Very Good
Varsity Slaughterhouse-Five (Univ), 4th wk. . .Good
Vogue Mutiny on Buses (Rank) Average
"The Way We Were" is
a story about the
unlikely love and marriage of two people
with totally different life styles.
Young Winston" had its
North American
premiere at the Fairlawn Thursday (5)
as a charity benefit. That same evening
director Paul Almond and his actress wife
Genevieve Bujold attended the premiere of
his new film "Journey" at Cinecity.
Actress Cicely Tyson was a visitor here
to publicize "Sounder," which had its of)ening
locally at the Hollywood.
Sliooting for Agincourt's feature film
"Last of the Big Guns" will be done at the
$150,000 village constructed on government-owned
land two miles southwest of
Duck Lake in Saskatchewan. The same location
will be used for a historical adventure,
"Alien Thunder," being filmed by
Onyx Productions of Montreal. An elaborate
frontier settlement has been built at
this location for the two films. "We believed
we had to have the western authenticity
and flavor and that's why we came to
Saskatchewan," Agincourt president John
Bassett said in a Globe & Mail article by
Ned Powers. "There are some disadvantages
in being away from a major production
center like Toronto. You don't have the
processing equipment, the laboratories, the
technicians or even the actors at your fingertips."
Claude Fournier's Canadian-produced
film, "Deux Femmes en Or," opened at the
Downtown TTieatre. Released two years ago.
the motion picture grossed $2.5 million in
Quebec.
NFB Is Shooting Feature
Film on Montreal Stage
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according to Ransen, is that the theatre audience
continually will be aware that it is
viewing a film in the making. Sets, music-
ians, technicians and others frequently will
appear on camera so that the film is, in fact,
a play on the screen.
Also starring in the film will be Denis
Kalman and Gerard Parks. The director of
photography is Denis Gillson and the producers
are George Pearson and Tom Daley.
NFB to Produce 13-Film
Series on French Canada
MONTREAL — Two of the most wellknown
and articulate figures in Quebec pu'olic
affairs have combined their talents and
knowledge to produce a National Film
Board series of 13 films on French Canada.
The series, "Adieu Alouette," which will
be aired on the CBC beginning in January,
is under the guidance of executive producer
Ian McLaren with Jean-V. Dufresne.
"The main intent of this series is to let
one culture group communicate and express
itself to another culture group,'' says Dufresne.
"TTie image of contemporary Quebec
which we present on the TV can fill in
the cultural gap between the two groups,
providing the other group is not prejudiced,
if
they drop their preconceived notions an.l
are of)en, not hostile."
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CALGARY
Qany Caraon, publicity director for Universal
Films, was in Jasper on business
and stopped over here on his return to
Toronto. He spent some time in the local
branch and with local business personalities.
The weather was beautiful—warm and
sunny—for the Motion Picture Pioneers of
Alberta golf tournament in Jasper, held Sunday
afternoon (8). It was an outstanding success,
with Blain Covert, Warner Bros, branch
manager, in charge and Vern Haraldson,
United Artists branch manager, checking
scores. Winner of the "best golfer" award
was Don Patton of the North Hill Cinerama
Theatre in our town. The "closest-to-the-pinon-the-first-hole"
award went to Murray
Liske of Westbrook Theatres here. Blain
Covert carried off the award for "chipping
in off the fairway." The prize for "most
honest golfer" was won by Irene King of
May Theatres, Edmonton, with 17 strokes
on one hole. It was a real fun way of kicking
off the festivities for the Motion Picture
Theatre Ass'n of Alberta's convention.
Duck Lake, Sask., has become a "boom
town," even though the boom may not be
heard too far away, as a direct result of the
movie "Alien Thunder" being made there.
The townspeople are being hired as extras
and added income for the town also comes
from purchases of the film crew and production
unit. About 100 local inhabitants
are involved in the venture in one capacity
or another. The cast and crew are commuting
from Saskatoon each day (a roundtrip
of approximately 120 miles) and also are
traveling between the battlefield and the new
townsite, which are about 16 miles apart.
The picture tells the story of a young Indian
named Almighty Voice, who is hunted for
two years by the NWMP and finally is
killed
near Duck Lake. Western Canadian
author W. O. Mitchell has written the screenplay
based on RCMP records. Thirty-nine
members of the RCMP musical ride are
participating in the production as members
of the NWMP. Technical assistance also is
being provided by the RCMP as well as an
adviser for the duration of the shooting.
Props and uniforms are, in some cases, actual
artifacts of the time that have been loaned
by museums. Others are exact duplicates
copied from the originals. The department
of natural resources of the province of Saskatchewan
have assisted in recreating the
pioneer town of Duck Lake by constructing
25 buildings. These include NWMP barracks,
jail, blacksmith shop, stable and genllt's
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the feature is being produced by Onyx Films
of Montreal, Que. The production will have
its premiere in Canada next May to mark
the centennial of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police and then will go into worldwide
release.
Recent exchange visitors were Reg Dodderidge,
formerly of Warner Bros.; Jack
Gow of Gow's Theatre Express, and Roy
Bayrak of the Mayfair Theatre, Olds.
The Thanksgiving holiday (9) was a family
get-together-type weekend, with most
people in the exchange having friends and
family in for dinner. The weather smiled on
us Saturday (7) and Sunday (8) but, oh
boy! Winter came on Monday(9)! With
good weather Sunday night (8), the driveins
did well with their special offerings.
Locally the Cinema Park went with a giant
marathon of "Dirty Harry," "Klute," "Mc-
Cabe & Mrs. Miller" and "The Arrangement."
The Corral showed a giant dusk-todawn
horrorama of "Taste the Blood of
Dracula," "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed,"
"Dracula Has Risen From the Grave,"
"Chamber of Horrors" and "Phantom of the
Rue Morgue." The 17 Avenue screened
another marathon with "Ned Kelly," "Alice's
Restaurant," "Here We Go Round the Mulberry
Bush," "Where It's At" and "Pussycat,
Pussycat, I Love You." The Stampede presented
a spectacular of "Pretty Maids All in
a Row," "No Blade of Grass," "Percy,"
"The Best House in London" and "The
Body." The Sunset went with a marathon
featuring "The Student Nurses," "Maid in
Sweden," "Private Duty Nurses," "Candy"
and "Lady of Monza." Edmonton drive-ins
also offered moviegoers a wide choice of
dusk-to-dawners, with the Belmont showing
"'Taste the Blood of Dracula," "Frankenstein
Must Be Destroyed," "Horror of Dracula,"
"Curse of Frankenstein" and "Dracula Has
Risen From the Grave." The Golden West
presented "I Love My Wife," "Diary of a
Mad Housewife," "Play Misty for Me,"
"Red Sky at Morning" and "Two-Lane
Blacktop." The Sherwood offered "The Arrangement,"
"Klute," "Dirty Harry" and
"McCabe and Mrs. Miller." The Skyvue
went with a "nightmare of shock and terror"
consisting of "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde,"
"Dr. Phibes Rises Again," "The House That
Screamed," "War of the Gargantuas" and
"Kiss and Kill." A "film bonanza" was
screened at the St. Albert with "Tales From
the Crypt," "Puppet on a Chain," "Marlowe,"
"The Andromeda Strain" and "Pretty
Maids All in a Row." Twin I gave the viewers
"Easy Rider," "Pink Angels," "The
Young Graduates," "Weekend With the
Babysitter" and "Chain Gang Women,"
while Twin 2 showed a "nervo-rama," an
Edmonton first run of "Vampire Circus,"
"Countess Dracula," "The Devil's Bride,
"The Reptile" and "The Devil's Own."
Edmonton theatregoers are in for two
special series playing on Sundays. At the
Roxy there is a series of films by Ingmar
Bergman, which started off with three Max
von Sydow features, "Hour of the Wolf,"
"Shame" and "Passions of Anna." Still to
come in this festival of films is "Persona,"
"The Virgin Spring" and "Wild Strawberries."
The Klondike Cinema is showing a
William Shakespeare Film Festival that started
with "Othello," starring Laurence Olivier,
Sunday (8).
VANCOUVER
Yheo Ross of Victoria Shipping confides
that his lifelong ambition has been to
visit Europe, particularly Sweden and Norway.
But, after two wonderful weeks in the
hinterlands of our province, Theo says he
now has become British Columbia's biggest
booster. "You could spend a lifetime and
never see all the wonders of British Columbia,"
Theo declares enthusiastically.
"Bedknobs and Broomsticks" played two
weeks in the Park Royal, Richmond Square
and Guildford Towne Cinema and was held
for a third in the first two situations . . .
"Frenzy," which now is in its third week at
the Park Royal Twin, did well in the Richmond
Twin and the Columbia, New Westminster
. . . "Summer of '42" was a strong
three-weeker in the Famous Players' Bay,
while just across the street in the Denman
Place, "A Clockwork Orange," which had
been threatening to close for the last three
weeks, went into its fourth month. . . . The
combination of "Love Story" and "Paint
Your Wagon" gave a rousing three weeks
to
the Stanley.
Pete and Mary Abrosimoff of the Gem,
Grand Fords, visited the Row briefly to line
up bookings through the end of the year . . .
TTie best comedy sequence ever filmed in
Canada lasts just 60 seconds. It features
Arte Johnson, doing his Scandinavian routine,
and all-time hockey great Bobby Hull
in a Hudson's Bay commercial used during
Team Canada's games in Moscov/. It broke
Hull up, it broke the studio crew up (their
laughter can be heard in the background)
and it broke millions of Canadians up, as
they telecast it just the way it was shot. It's
a masterpiece, made in this city while Hull
and Johnson were in town for the Vancouver
game with Russia.
Sightseeing Flight Prize
In Winnipeg Promotion
(Continued from page K-1)
Airport it was learned that over half never
had flown before, so the thrill and excitement
they felt communicated itself to all
participating. A half-hour jet flight over and
around Winnipeg proved to be a perfect
prize!
PEKIN, ILL.—Bids currently are being
sought on the construction of Boston-based
General Cinema Corp.'s twin theatres in the
Pekin Mall, located on Route 9 east of
Pekin. The dual-auditorium showhouse will
be accessible from the main shopping mall
through a connecting mall area.
K-4 BOXOFnCE :: October 23, 1972

• ADLINES & EXPLOITIPS
• ALPHABETICAL INDEX
EXHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY
FEATURE RELEASE CHART
FEATURE REVIEW DIGEST
SHORTS RELEASE CHART
SHORT SUBJECT REVIEWS
REVIEWS OF FEATURES
SHOWMANDISING
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THE GUIDE TO i BETTER BOOKING AND B U S I N E S S - B U I L D I N G
San Francisco Gets
little Billy' Bally
Columbia Pictures is mounting one of
the most unique and innovative promotions
ever for "Dirty Little Billy," the Jack L.
Wamer-WRG/Dragoti production which
world premiered at the San Francisco Film
Festival October 20 and then begins its
regular engagement October 25 at the
Vogue Theatre.
In order to stimulate interest on the many
college campuses in the San Francisco area,
Columbia is hiring special collegiate press
agents to promote the film on their respective
campuses. Student agents will be working
at the University of California at Berkeley,
San Francisco State College, Stanford
University, and the University of San Francisco.
College press agents will screen the
film for campus opinion makers, run publicity
activities at their schools and distribute
materials pertinent to the film.
To further highlight the opening activities,
producer Jack L. Warner, director Stan
Dragoti. screenwriter Charles Moss, and
Mary Wells Lawrence of Wells, Rich and
Greene Inc., as well as Michael J. Pollard
Lee Purcell and Richard Evans, stars of
'Dirty Little Billy," arrived in San Francisco
on October 22 for an extensive publicity
campaign.
The San Francisco area will be blanketed
with special promotional tie-ins such as
T-shirts, buttons, posters and "Billy the Kid"
derbies which will feature key art and the
film's campaign slogan— "Dirty Little Billy
was a Punk."
Local radio stations and department
stores will also be participating in the promotional
campaign via specially designed
radio contests and creative window and instore
displays.
On the day of the Vogue Theatre opening
the entire group representing the film
will be on hand to greet first-day patrons.
'Soul Spot' Auto Is Prize
In New Orleans Promo
A black "Soul Spot" automobile decorated
with red spots was the core of station
WBOK's "Super Fly" promotion in New
. \ Orleans which wound up with the presentation
of the car to the person who correctly
guessed the number of its "spots." Picture
opened the day the contest ended.
In cooperation with Warner Bros.' promotion
men, WBOK also handed out "Super
Fly" T-shirts.
ABC Midwest Theatres Encourages
Managers to Promote Family Films
In order to assure continuing good response
to Disney product in its situations,
ABC Midwest Theatres has been encouraging
its managers to promote and sell this
type of film and not take a good Disney
gross for granted. This resulted in three
excellent efforts on the part of managers
in the Iowa cities of Davenport, Waterloo
and Des Moines.
In Davenport, the area zoo had a lion
cub without a name and city manager Gene
Kelley had "Napoleon and Samantha" playing
at two area theatres. Not one to pass up
a "natural" like that, Kelley engaged the
cooperation of a local television station for
a "name the cub" contest, and the baby lion
appeared on the TV station and in the
theatre. Needless to say, this excited kids
and parents alike.
Prizes for the contest included a huge
stuffed toy lion as first prize and smaller
identical toy lions as second and third
prizes. In addition, the local Shasta softdrink
people donated a large quantity of
canned soft drinks to be given away as
prizes.
Jim McLaughlin, ABC Midwest city manager
in Des Moines, worked up a "Napoleon
and Samantha" campaign in which he en-
Two employees of the Plaza Theatre
in Des Moines are shown with the
giant toy lion given away during a
promotion for "Napoleon and Samantha."
listed the help of WHO-TV, a food store
chain and the Shasta soft drink company.
McLaughlin stated: "I kept encouraging
managers in the rest of our chain to get out
and promote these family pictures and, in
order to set an example, I had to pull out
all the stops in Des Moines."
The promotion was centered around
Duane Ellett's "Floppy Show" on WHO-
TV, a very popular afternoon kids' program.
A drawing was set up a full month in advance
of the playdate, with first prize being
a five-foot-high toy stuffed lion and a
case of Shasta pop. Second prize was a 17-
inch lion, theatre passes and a six-pack of
pop. Third and fourth prizes were pop and
passes. There were also ten runner-up prizes
of pop. The prizes were displayed along
with ad material on the film for the entire
month on the television show.
In addition, a display was set up in the
window of the TV station in downtown Des
Moines, as well as the usual theatre lobby
display announcing the contest. The Shasta
people also arranged for McLaughlin to set
up displays in the stores of the area's largest
food store chain announcing the contest and
playdate.
Tim Meyer, manager of the Strand
Theatre in Waterloo, and assistant Patty
Fox, put in a lot of work on their promotion
of Disney's "The Biscuit Eater."
First, they set up a coloring contest with
free passes as prizes. The entries were displayed
on the lobby walls, and proved to be
quite an attention-getter. Secondly. Miss
Fox donned a colorful and original clown
costume and went out to the streets and
shopping centers to give away passes and
balloons while a local radio station broadcast
a promotion about "Bojo the Clown"
and gave hints as to the clown's whereabouts.
Meyer reports that the response to
the clown was fantastic, even to the point
that parents brought their children down to
the theatre to see "Bojo" even before the
film opened.
While all of this excitement over the
coloring contest and the clown was taking
place, Meyer arranged a drawing for a free
puppy complete with pet supplies which he
had promoted from a local pet store.
This three-pronged approach to promoting
"The Biscuit Eater" generated a lot of
interest not only in the film, but in the
downtown theatre as well.
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CITATIONS
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FOR AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER
Eddie Leigh, manager of the Odeon Theatre, London, Ont., for an elaborate "Mary,
Queen of Scots" campaign which featured a parade, department store displays,
Scottish dancers and a special screening.
John Chambliss, director of advertising and public relations for Dickinson Theatres,
for a complex publicity campaign on behalf of "The War Between Men
and Women" at the Glenwood I Theatre in Overland Park, Kas.
CoNNi.EY Davidson, manager of the Rosemead 4 Theatres in Los Angeles, Calif.,
for his "What's Up, Doc?" contest which offered a free trip to San Francisco
as the top prize.
Anthony J. Minchin, manager of the Homestake Theatre, Lead, S.D., for contests
and displays responsible for a successful engagement of "Bedknobs and Broomsticks."
Gregory C. Thompson, advertising manager for Sterling Recreation Organization,
Seattle. Wash., for a highly entertaining two-week promotion on behalf of the
engagement of "Money Talks" at the Music Box Theatre in Seattle.
Don Patton, manager of the North Hill Cinerama, Calgary, Aha., for a model
campaign waged on behalf of "Mary, Queen of Scots," including a lobby
display valued at $12,500 which consisted of armor, coats of arms and other
15th and 16th century items.
Darrell Thomas, manager of the Marumsco Theatre, Woodhridge, Va., for an
extensive and successful campaign on behalf of "On Any Sunday," including
a parade of some 150 motorcycles.
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Ambulance Display for
'Hospital' Engagement
A very effective promotional stunt was
used by Mario Votolato, manager of the
Jamestown Summer Theatre in Jamestown,
R.I., for his engagement of "The Hospital."
The promotion tied in with the Jamestown
Ambulance Ass'n, and an ambulance
was displayed in front of the theatre with
its doors open for viewing and inspection
by the public. In charge of the ambulance
was Robert Matoes, training officer, who
was dressed in his white coat. Matoes
appeared with permission of commander
Leroy Richardson. Miss Joan Williams
acted as nurse.
Donations for the association from the
theatre manager and patrons were gratefully
received and turned over to Matoes.
Robert Matoes, Joan Williams and
manager Mario Votolato by ambulance
display used to promote engagement
of "The Hospital."
Spooky Ceremonies
Launch HorroRitual
Warner Bros, has developed a spooky
ceremony called the "HorroRitual" to
launch all local engagements of "Dracula
A.D. 1972," the new horror film starring
those redoubtable masters of the macabre,
Christopher Lee and Peter Gushing. The
unholy activities will begin at midnight in
each situation, unnaturally.
The group ritual will be led by the diabolical
vampire himself, who will initiate
all audience members into the Count Dracula
Society.
A specially made four-minute introductory
film to be run immediately before the
feature will guide each patron through the
complete ritual. The Society's final initiation
rites will require patrons to raise their left
hands and take the oath of allegiance. Unrecantable
proof of this diabolical association
will be given substance in the form
of membership cards distributed after the
swearing-in.
Patrons waiting in the lobby to take part
in the "HorroRitual" will be appropriately
frightened by special terror lobby records.
In fact, every aspect of the Warner Bros,
campaign for the new horror film will be
developed around the "HorroRitual."
"Dracula A.D. 1972" is a Hammer Film
Production, directed by Alan Gibson and
produced by Josephine Douglas. Stephanie
Beacham, Christopher Neame and Michael
Coles also have starring roles in the film.
Usher Apes Groucho
To Boost Old Films
In discussing his recent promotional
stunt, Jere Westergren, managing director of
the Colvin Theatre, a Dipson circuit community
house in Buffalo, N.Y., said: "Just
a little stunt, but the laughter it drew made
it worthwhile. That's just what theatres need
these days—laughter, and more of it."
Usher simulates Groucho's slouch walk
in front of Colvin Theatre in Buffalo.
One of the ushers at the Colvin dressed
Groucho Marx when the theatre played
like
two Marx Brothers films, "The Cocoanuts"
and "Monkey Business." On Saturday and
Sunday nights, the usher paraded in front
of the theatre simulating Groucho's slouch
walk, and during the intermission the youth
walked up and down the aisles and across
the stage.
Westergren declares the stunt drew considerable
attention, laughs and applause, and
helped the boxoffice through word-ofmouth.
Tie-Ins Are Promoting
'Deliverance' Dates
WIBG, Philadelphia's top-40 radio station,
and the Daily Planet, a college-distributed
newspaper, combined efforts to draw
college-age patrons to a special midnight
screening of Warner Bros.' "Deliverance" at
Cinema 19. More than 1,200 souvenir
posters of stars Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds
were distributed at the screening.
As a further tie-in, the Cincinnati Archery
Club, the Mount Washington Bowmen
and the Miami River Canoe Ass'n are sending
letters to members, advising them of
forthcoming openings of the outdoor drama.
John Boorman produced and directed
"Deliverance" from James Dickey's screen
adaptation of his own best selling novel.
ing
— 150 — BOXOFTICE ShowmandUer :: Oct. 23, 1972

"S.
XHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY
AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL
N Blacula (AIP)—William Marshall, Von-
^ etta McGee, Thalmus Rasulala. I would
personally like to thank the man who came
up with this idea. It is the best black film
to come out this year. It is also one of the
best horror shows to come out in a long
time. William Marshall was good in the
title role, but Thalmus Rasulala was the
best in the role of the good doctor set on
destroying Blacula. This is not only a good
picture, but it is pure gold at the boxoffice.
Try it; you'll like it. Played one week.
Ronnie Smith, Wink Theatre, Dalton, Ga.
COLUMBIA
Easy Rider (Col) — Peter Fonda, Dennis
Hopper. We did fairly well despite cold
weather, a rock concert at a nearby university
and another theatre playing the same
bill. The magic still seems to be in this one
for the younger crowd.—Felix J. Malinowski,
Lansing Drive-In, Lansing, Mich. Pop.
590.000.
Anderson Tapes, The (Col)—Sean Connery,
Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam. This is
a good suspense picture, with more than
enough to please an audience. We had two
fair days and one that could have been better.
It's worth a date, though, if it hasn't
been milked in your area. Played Thurs.,
) Fri., Sat. Weather: Rainy.—Lewis Ward,
projectionist, Dome Theatre, Gulfport, Miss.
lJ
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER
Body, The (MGM)—Narrated by Vanessa
Redgrave and Frank Finlay. This is absolute
garbage. Don't touch it. You have to live
with your patrons, and they'll hate you for
charging good money for this junk. Half my
patrons walked out. It was so embarrassing!
— -B. J. Towriss, Capitol Theatre, Princeton,
B. C, Canada. Pop. 3,000.
Boy Friend, The (MGM)—Twiggy, Christopher
Gable, Max Adrian. This is a fine,
wonderful picture. Add a G rating and you
have a guaranteed flop at the boxoffice.
Played Wed., Thurs., Fri. Weather: Good.
—Lewis Ward, projectionist. Dome Theatre,
Gulfport, Miss.
'Knievel/ 'Losers/ and
'Angels' Great Combo
"Evel Knievel" (Fanfare Corp.), starring
George Hamilton, Sue Lyon, and
Rod Cameron along with "Hell's Angels
on Wheels" (AIP) and "Bom Losers"
(AIP) played on Saturday only. They
really came out on this combination.
The best Saturday we've ever had.
Everyone who came was pleased.
Starlite Drive-In
Potosi, Mo.
TERRY G. MERCILLE
lABOai PICTURESI
'Cowboys' Is a Very
Special Film
"The Cowboys" (WB), starring John
Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Bruce
Dem is a very special film. John
Wayne is special enough, but then he
surrounds himself with those wonderful
boys, Bruce Dem who is exceptional
and Roscoe Lee Browne, a standout.
Colleen Dewhurst shines in her cameo
role. What a voice and what lovely
movements! It's a tmly beautiful westem
with a perfect ending. Big John has
to die, I think, and it doesn't hurt too
much after the boys avenge his death.
Capitol Theatre
Princeton, B.C., Canada
B. J. TOWRISS
NATIONAL GENERAL
Revengers, The (NGP)—^William Holden,
Ernest Borgnine, Woody Strode. This is an
excellent western, but the trailer did little
to sell it. The rousing conclusion is spectacular
and the second-unit work is fantastic.
By all means, book this picture and promote
it yourself. Played Wed., Thurs., Fri.
Weather: Cool.—Ed Price, Red Run Theatre,
Oakland, Md.
PARAMOUNT
Legend of Nigger Charley, The (Para) —
Fred Williamson, D'Urville Martin, Don
Pedro Colley. Bad direction. Bad screenplay.
The characters are either riding their horses,
talking about dying, or killing someone.
Fred Williamson showed good acting ability
had the part been stronger. This is a good
grosser on weekends but not on week days.
—Curtis Ladner, Assistant Manager, Starway
Drive-In, Wilmington, North Carolina.
Pop. 50,000.
Play It Again, Sam (Para)—Woody Allen,
Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts. This is a
really funny movie. You could hear patrons
laughing at every line all over the lot, but
we had poor attendance because of cold
and rain. — Felix J. Malinowski. Lansing
Drive-In, Lansing, Mich.
20TH CENTURY-FOX
Hot Rock, The (20th-Fox)—Robert Redford.
George Segal, Ron Leibman. Worst
turnout we ever had. The weather was very
hot, and the film's title may have suggested
•'rock and roll." — Jeffrey Schmidt. Showboat
Theatre, Hermann, Mo. Pop. 2,600.
UNITED ARTISTS
Chato's Land (UA)—Charles Bronson,
Jack Palance, Richard Basehart. This is a
terrific, top-notch western. Charles Bronson
is so well liked here. He is really something
to see. The picture is full of blood and gore,
but the patrons loved it.—B. J. Towriss,
Capitol Theatre, Princeton, B.C., Canada.
Pop. 3,000.
BOXOrnCE Showmondiser :: Oct. 23, 1972 151 —
WARNER BROS.
Candidate, The (WB)—Robert Redford,
Peter Boyle, Don Porter. This is a very
interesting and entertaining film; however,
we played it after it had run first-run and
our grosses were not big. It's worth a playdate
if you can get it first-run in a small
town. Played two weeks.—Donald B. Wilt,
West Towns Cinema, Madison, Wis.
What's Up, Doc? (WB) — Barbra Streisand,
Ryan O'Neal. This one is a very good
family picture. Business was fair until last
night when the boob tube came along with
"Love Story" on prime time which killed
business altogether. Let's all install a giant
tube and forget the high film rentals. Played
Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat., Sun. Weather:
Good.—Chuck Fleming. St. Mary's Theatre,
St. Mary's, Penn. Pop. 8,000.
MISCELLANEOUS
Cross and the Switchblade, The (Dick
Ross & Associates)—Pat Boone, Erik Estrada,
Jackie Giroux. This Pat Boone vehicle
is a long way from "April Love" (20th-Fox).
He's no great shakes as an actor, but he has
presence, which is important too. Religious
in content, it has the greatest message in the
world to put across—love for one another.
Played Sun., Mon., Tues. Weather: Clear
and warm.—Lewis Ward, projectionist,
Dome Theatre, Gulfport, Miss.
HitchHikers, The (Entertainment Ventures)—Misty
Rowe, Norman Klar, Linda
Avery. Compared with most exploitation
pictures, this is remarkably well done. The
actors won't get any awards, but their easygoing
manner keeps them interesting. Good
music and production values also help to
make this a winner. Played one week. Weather:
Cloudy, some rain.—Lewis Ward, projectionist.
Dome Theatre, Gulfport, Miss.
Mark of the Devil (Hallmark Releasing)
—Herbert Lom, Olivera Vuco, Udo Kier.
This is bloody and gory without much of
a story. It brought a very good gross, and
those who came enjoyed the torture from
end. Played Sun., Mon., Tues.
beginning to
Weather: Nice.—Terry G. Mercille, Starlite
Drive-In, Potosi, Mo. Pop. 2,800.
Legend of Frenchie King, The (K-Tel
Int'l)—This western spoof was well received
by all. Saturation television coverage by
K-Tel brought out big crowds.—W. F. Robertson,
Oasis Centre Ltd., Radville, Sask.,
Can.
Exhibitor Lauds 'Morris'
As Funniest Cartoon
"Morris, the Midget Moose" (BV), a
cartoon short, is perhaps the funniest
film that Walt Disney ever produced.
Take my word for it Book it for 100
per cent audience appeal. They'll never
make another one like this again.
Red Run Theatre
Oakland, Md.
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BOXOFFICE
BAROMETER
This chart records the performance of current attractions in the opening week of their first runs in
the 20 key cities checked. Pictures with fewer than five engagements are not listed. As new runs
ore reported, ratings are added and averages revised. Computation is in terms of percentage in
relation to normal grosses as determined by the theatre managers. With 100 per cent as "normal,"
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signs Indieote degree af merit. Liitingi cover current review, "gu'orly. © is for CmemoScope; ® Panov.sion;
® Technirama; ® Other Anamorphic processes. Symbol y denotes BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award; All
films ore in color except those indicated by (b&w) for block & white. Motion Picture Ass n (MPAA) ratings:
K] Generol Audiences; PG—All oges odmitted (parental guidance suggested); H— Restricted, with
persons under 17 not admitted unless occompanied by parent or odult guardian; (X —Persons under 17 not
admitted. Notional Catholic Office for Motion Pictures (NCOMP) rotings: Al— Unobjectionable for General
Patronage; A2—Unobjectionable for Adults or Adolescents; A3— Unobiectionable for Adults; A4—Morolly
Unobjectionable for Adults, with Reservations; B—Objectionable in Port for All; C—Condemned. Broadcasting
ond Film Commission, Notionol Council of Churches (BFC). For listings by company, see FEATURE
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4479 Action Man (95) Cr H.K. Films 4-17-72
4531 Alt 'n' Family (100) C Sherpix 10-16-72 PG A3
4518 And Now for Something Completely
Different (58) F Col 8-28-72 PG A4
Asphyx, The (9S) (D Paragon 10- 2-72
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Lady Zazu's Daughter
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4529 Ust House on the Left, The
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449S Last of the Red H«t
Lovers (98) C Para
Late Spring (Banshun)
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Legend of Horror
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4489 Legend of Nigger Charley, Ttt
(100) W Pan
4500 Little Ark, The (101) (g D NGP
4515 Little Mather (90) D Audubon
4493 W Living Free (88) Ad Csl
Lizards, The (100) Melo Galetu
4432 Loot (90) Black C Cinevision
4522 Love Me Deadly
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(100) W UA
Malcolm X (92) Doc WB
4506 Man, The (93) D Para
4491 Man With 2 Heads, The
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Marjoe (88) Doc Cinema 5
4518 Melinda (109) My MGM
Money Talks (87) Doc-C UA
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(78) Sex My Mature
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4511 New Centurions, The
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©Stock Car Racing With Joy
(90) Ac. Sep 72
Joy Wflkerson, Tony Cardon
Beast of Yucca Flats Ho.
Tor JotuHon
Night Train to Monde-Fim ..Ac.
MISCELLANEOUS
John Carradlne
©Outlaw Riders (86) Cycli.
Bryan "Sonny" We»t, LlDdmy
Oosby
AQUARIUS RELEASING
©Belinda (83) . . .Sex Melo. .Sep 72
Mellnda Forrest, Paul Tobors
GAMALEX ASSOC.
©Lady Zazu's Daughter
©Keep Off My Grass
(73) C. Sep 72
Dolly Sharp, Fred Zotts
AUDUBON FILMS
©Little Mother (90) ..D.. Aug 72
Christine Krujer, SlesTrled Ranch
JOSEPH BRENNER & ASSOC.
©The Virgin Witch
(91) D..Jun72
Ann Michelle, PatrWa Raines
CAPITAL
©George (89) C
Marshall Thompson. Jack Mnllaney
CINEMA 5
©The Trial of the
Catonsville Nine (85) D. May 72
Owen Arner. Ed Flanders
©Marjoe (92) Doc. Aug 72
©The Policeman (87) C .
Shay K. Onhlr, Zabaria Harlfal
CINEMA NATIONAL
©Love Me Deadly (92) Ho.
Mary Wlleox, Lyle Waggoner
CINEVISION
©Indelicate Balance
(90) Siis..lllay 72
Ittla FrodI, Ktm Andetaon
©Vengeance (100) ® ..W. .Kay 72
Richard Harrison
©A Young Couple
(90) Melo. .May 72
Anna Oael. Alain LIbolt
©Loot (90) C.Jun 72
Lee Remick, Richard Attenborotigh
©Dulcima (90) Melo. .Jul 72
Carol White, John Mllla
©One Brief Summer
(90) Melo.. Jul 72
CTIfford Bvans. Jennifer Hilary
©Steptoe and Son (99) .C. Sep . 72
Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett
DONALD DAVIS
PRODUCTIONS
©The Nashville Story
(70) Doc May 72
Rnv Aciiff. Rsmfy Room
©Here Comes That Nashville
Sound (84) CM.. Oct 72
Randy Boone, Sheb Wooley
DIMENSION PICTURES
Sweet Sugar (..) . . . Sus. May 72
Phyllis nails. Ella Edwards
©Doberman Gang (87) ..Ac.Jun72
Byron ^I.ihp. Jnllf Parrlsh
Group Marriage (..) D.. Jul 72
Almee Eccles, Victoria Vetrl
DISTRIBPIX
©Space Lo»e (73) Jun 72
©Dynamite (75) ...Sex C. Aug 72
Monica Hirers, Stere Oould
ELLMAN ENTERPRISES
©The Werewolf >s.
the Vampire Woman
(82) Ho.. May 72
Paul Naachy, Oaby Fuctas
©illusions
(104) Compilation. .Jun 72
©Tarzam, the Wild Girl
(..) A... Jun 72
Ken (Hark. Franea Folesello
ODIabollc Wedding (84) Ho.. Jul 72
Margaret O'Brien
(Tn combination with)
Legend of Horror
(80) (biw) Ho. .Jul 72
Karln Field
©The Mad Butcher (..) Ha.. Jul 72
Victor Buono. Karln Field
©Annabelle Lee (90) ..Ho.. Aug 72
Margaret O'Brien
ENTERTAINMENT VENTURES
©The HitchHIkers (93) D.. Apr 72
Misty Rowe, Noman Klar
©Red. White & Blue!
(90) Sex Doc. Apr 72
©Dirty Lorers (80) ...D. May 72
©The Big Snatch (77) ..D.. Jon 72
Rita Book. Trflfv Handfuas
©The Suckers (83) D.. Jun 72
Barbara Mills. Rlrhard Smedley
dThe Adult Version of Jckvll
& Hyde (85) Jul 77
©The Erotic Adventures of
Zorro (104) Sex C, Aug 72
DouflaK Frey. Rohvn WMttlng
FILM VENTURES INT*L
©Boot Hill (92) (S> ....W.. Jul 72
Terence Hill. Woody Strode
©Tlie Warriors Ac. Nay 72
Mark Damon, Barbara O'NeD
FUTURAMA INTn.
IM. Date
©The Dolls Head (89) .... May 72
Roy Jensen, Eve Joselo
©House of Pleasure (92) . . . May 72
Margaret Lee, Terry Torday
©The Cat That Ate the Parakeet
(82) Jun 72
Madelyn Keen, Phillip Pine
©Didn't You Hear? (82) ...Jun 72
Dennis CTtrlstopher, John Kauffman
©Like a Crow on a June Bug
(94) Jun 72
BImone Orirfeth, Beverly Powers
(90) CD.. May 72
Mickey Dolenz, Gary Wood
GENENI FILMS
©Children Shouldn't Play With
Dead Things (101) ..Ho.. May 72
Alan Orauby, Valerie Mauches
GENERAL FILM CORP.
©Bonnie's Kids (105) ..Cr..Sep 72
Tiffany Boiling. Steve Sandor
©Sugar Cookies D .
Monlque Van Vooren, George
Shannon
) . . D . . Dec 72
GROUP 1 FILMS, LTD.
©The Depraved ( .
Gerard Moulet,
.
Cassandra French
©The Runaway (95) ..Sex.. May 72
Ollda Teiter, William Smith
©Room of Chains ( . . ) . . D . . Dec 72
Allison Taylor, Frank Martto, Karen
TTiomas
©Up Your Alley (..) ..C.Dec 72
Frank Corsentlno, Hajl
©Pepper & His Wacky Taxi
(•) C. Jan 73
John Astin, Frank Sinatra, Jr.,
Jackie toyle, Alan Sherman
HALLMARK RELEASING
1!)Mark of the Devil (90) Ho. .Apr 72
Herbert Lnm. Oltvera Voeo
©The Last House on the Left
(91) Melo.. Nov 72
David Hess, Lucy Grantham
HEMISPHERE PICTURES
HOLLYWOOD CINEMA ASSOC.
©Country Girl
(65) Sex Melo.. Apr 72
Marie Campbell, Jean Wilson
©The Mothers
(74) Sex Melo.. Apr 72
Marsha Jordan. Kathy Williams
HOWCO INTT.
Dirty Dan's Women
(90) My. .June 72
Micky Dolenz, CJiuek Patterson
lACK H. HARMS
©Son of Blob (revliwcd as
"Bewarcl The Blob")
(»7) Ht.June 72
Robert Walker, Godfrey Cambridge
©House of Missing Girls
(85) Sex.
Anna Gael
©Ride In the Whirlwind (83) . .W.
Jack Nlcbolaon
©The Shooting (82) W.
Jack Nicholson
©Bone (95) 0..
Taphet Kotto, Andrew Daggan
INDEPENDENT-INTL
©Angels' Wild Women
(85) Sex-Ac. Jul 72
Ross Hagen, Reglna Carrol
©Dracula vs. Frankenstein
(90) Ho.. Jul 72
J. (^iToI NaMi, Busa Tamblyn
©Gang Girls (84) Ac. Aug 72
Cool Oilrk Morgan
©Women for Sale
(82) Scx..Aug72
INrL PRODUCERS CORP.
©The Contract
(85) Sex Melo.. Sep 72
Bnino Pradal, (Carles Soutbwood
©Exchange Student
(90) . . May 72
Mike Raven, Mary Maude
©The Fifth Day of Peace
® 0.. May 72
Richard Johnmn, rtaiMO Nan
©Pancho Villa ® . .Hl-Ad. .May 72
Telly Savalaa, Clint Walker
©Psychomania (g) . . Ho-Ad . . May 72
George Sanders, Beryl Reld
©Suburban Wives (87) Sex. .May 72
Bva Whislaw, Barry LlnchaD
©Horror Express
(..) ® Ho..Jun72
Peter Cnshlng. Christopher lee
SOUTHERN STAR PRODUCTIONS
©Dear, Dead Delilah
(95) Sus.. Jun 72
Agnea Moorehead, Will Geer
©A Day at the White House
(92) Sex C. Aug 72
Lorl Saimders. Robert RIdgelv
©Black Trap (90) ....Ac. Oct 72
Terry Carter, (Jwen Mitchell
SUN INrL
©Trap on Cougar Mountain
(94) OD-Ad..
Keith Larsen, IHe Uuien
TRANSVUE
©Johnny Hamlet
(91) ® W JmTZ
(Tilp Corman, Gilbert Roland
©The Incradlbia Challnit
(95) D..SCP
MMiad Craig. Era Kenil
72
©Premonition (90) Sus. .Sep 72
Cu\ Oow, Tim Ray
©Rainbow Bridge (108) .M..Sep 72
Jtml Hendrls. Pat Hartley
TWI NA'nONAL
©Voodoo Htirtbeat (85) H«..Jul72
Ray Molina, Philip Abn
©Women of Stalag U
(92) A*. .Brt72
Sally Mar. Perry Pact
UNITED FILM ORO.
©The Secretary (85) ..Sex.. Apr 72
Josh Gamble. Annia (kit
UPI-UNITID PICTURB
©Long Way Frtn Htait
laa Scott, BartMn Graee
(..) O..AorT2
WESTERN INrL
©The Galling Gun
(93) ® D Jun 72
WooSj Strode. Robert T^lIler
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
FEATURE
Summer Soldiers
REVIEWS
Contemporary Japanese Drama
Japanese and English
dialog
Teshigahara Prods. 107 Minutes Ke\. Oct. '72
One of the few Japanese imports dealing with a
modern-day theme — in this instance the topical
shielding of U.S. deserters in Japan—to reach stateside
release, it might well be that play-offs will go
well beyond the conventional art theatre routings,
and, for that matter, into situations normally not
linked with foreign film fare at all. Hiroshi Teshigahara,
responsible for both direction and photography
(a rare coupling that, anywhere in the
global filmmaking community) has turned out a
significant social document, not so much a condemnation
of American military/ foreign policy as
a strikingly human study of people in the main
stream of life in an emotionally troubled world.
Perhaps the historians of the next generation
will look at American involvement in Southeast
Asia with greater objectivity; what Teshigahara
has done—and done skillfully— is examine the plight
of one American (Keith Sykes), who's "had it" as
far as fighting is concerned and takes himself
into the Japanese civilian economy, there to undergo
the inevitable self-torment, the self-doubt, the
self -vacillation. Yukio Tomizawa produced and the
shooting script is credited to John Nathan.
Keith Sykes, Lee Reisen, Kazuo Kitamura, Tohlko
Kobayashi, Shoichi Ozawa, Tetsuko Kuryanagi.
POLITICAL SATIRE
Another Nice Mess PG p„iiticai satire
Fine Films 66 Minutes Rel. Sept. '72
In the tradition of such political satires as "Millhouse:
A Black Comedy" and "The President's
Analyst," this Tom Smothers-produced film, written
and directed by Bob Einstein, has been released
just in time to add another log to the current
political blaze. The title "Another Nice Mess
(You've Got Me Into)" derives from the classic
Oliver Hardy line. Unhappily, both Rich Little (who
plays Richie the President, complete with V-finger
signs and toothy grins) and Herb Voland (as the
lumbering dimwitted Spiro, whose own idea of a
peace sign is something altogether different) have
ignored the fine art of slapstick developed by the
Laurel and Hardy team. "Another Nice Mess" tells
of the trials and tribulations of the Pi-esident of the
United States, beset by hostile demonstrators, secret
service bodyguards disguised as plants, a vice-president
who has a fixation for a certain portion of a
secretary's anatomy, and a rather silly sub-plot
having to do with Hitler (who is alive and well in
Washington). The result is that, as one theatre
patron was heard to remark, if you see the first
ten minutes of the picture you have seen it all.
"Another Nice Mess" does boast a very good television
ad campaign which, because of the quick
flashes of two men who startlingly resemble their
highly placed counterparts bonking each other,
should attract the distaff.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE REVIEW
Asylum ^^"^^ "' Psychiatric Care
in Modem-Day London
Robinson-Frelinghuysen-Rosenthal
Prods. 95 Minutes Rel. Oct. '72
Psychiatry has served as theme for many a topgrossing
commercial release, and, to a lesser extent,
there has been some viewer response to television
handling of the admittedly complex subject in the
far-ranging atmosphere of the so-called "specials."
This time out, director Peter Robinson, also coproducer
(with Peter Prelinghuysen and Arthur J.
Rosenthal), has taken the probing cameras into a
therapeutic community in London, the objective of
British psychiatrist R. D. Lalng to define, to express
the inner yearnings, searchings, if you will, of
the individual to reach back to reality, to grasp on
to something of stability. It may be fascinating
entertainment to specialized audiences, certainly,
but general market play-off is something else again.
Directed by Peter Robinson.
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Opinions on Current Productions ^EATURE REVIEWS
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King of Marvin Gardens
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[R] °"^'
Columbia (016) 103 Minutes
Rel. Oct. '72
The game of Monopoly is the key to the plot of the
new BBS production, proauced and duectea by Bob
Rafelson from a screenplay by Jacob Brackman as based
on Rafelson and Brackman's story. BBS has haa an enviable
record: in its six previous efforts, the company's
output has included "Five Easy Pieces," "Easy Rider"
and "The Last Picture Show." The new film, aided by
top performances from the starring team of Jack Nicholson,
Bruce E)ern and Ellen Burstyn, could very easily be
another moneymaker for BBS. Plotting is a neat blending
of comedy and drama and, for those who find the situations
confusing, the characters really come across. It may
be safe to say that Nicholson, Dern and Miss Burstyn
have never been better, while newcomer Julia Anne
Robinson shows promise along with her looks. Dern's
ambitions and fantasies can be compared to a Monopoly
player who wants to own all the lucrative locations on the
board. The humor is on the sly side, the first gag coming
from a beautifully set-up dramatic monolog by Nicholson.
The four leads participate in an apt takeoff on
beauty contests. Filmed in color by Lazio Kovacs in
Philadelphia and wintry Atlantic City, "King" is an
intellectual offering with a mass audience potential.
Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dem, Ellen Burstyn, Julia Anne
Robinson, Benjamin "Scatman" Crothers, Charles La Vine.
COUNTESS DRACULA
20th-Fox (802) 93 Minutes
PQ
Horror-Drama
©
ReL Oct. '72
The other half of 20th-Fox's new horror bill from
Hammer Productions bears a misleading title but a good
story and production. Paired with "Vampii-e Circus" for
three houis of chills, "Countess Dracula" is easily the
better of the two films. Its appeal will be to the horror
buffs who prefer plot over gore. Pi'oducer Alexander Paal
and director Peter Sasdy worked on the story, as based
on an idea by Gabriel Ronay, with Jeremy Paul providing
the screenplay. Countess Ingrid Pitt is not actually a
vampire, although she does owe her youth to virgins'
blood. Miss Pitt and Sasdy both know their way with
vampires, however, from previous films in that vein. The
Dracula tag is applied as an afterthought at the very
end of the script. The vampire theme will be a good
selling peg for both pictures, at any rate. One unfortunate
laugh is provided by the inclusion of a traveling
circus, similar to that in the companion film, which
luckily is used briefly here. Miss Pitt, Sandor Eles, Maurice
Denham, lovely Lesley-Anne Down and the late
Nigel Green are all well cast. Again, the PG rating seems
a bit lenient even though the cuts (from the R version)
are evident. Film bears a 1970 copyi-ight. Eastman Color
has been used, U. S. prints processed by DeLuxe Color.
Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Green, Sandor Eles, Maurice Denham,
Lesley-Anne Down, Patience Collier, Peter Jeffry.
VAMPIRE CIRCUS
20th-Fox (801) 88 Minutes
p(J
Horror Drama
©
ReL Oct. '72
From Hammer Productions comes a horror combo for
the Hallowe'en trade and for late fall bookings. 20th
Century-Fox is releasing the British-made package, both
films getting equal prominence in the billing. Because of
its setting and bizarre situations, "Vampire Circus" has
the eage over its companion piece, "Countess Dracula."
Screenplay by Judson Kinberg concerns a multitude of
characters in an isolated Serbian village of the early 19th
Century. A vampire's curse on the villagers is carried
out years later when a traveling circus arrives during
a plague. Aside from sorting out the various citizens, the
audience must contend with the magical performers and
discover which ones aren't vampires. Cut from its original
R rating, the film is still bloody and sexy enough to
qualify for an R. Two of the featured players from "A
Clockwork Orange," Adrienne Corri and Dave Prowse,
are reunited here. Other interesting performers are Lynne
Fiederick (from "Nicholas and Alexandra") and Elizabeth
Seal, an ingenue in British films not too many years
ago. Skip Martin plays a particularly sinister midget.
Although not as dramatically effective as its rurming
mate, "Circus" can top the bill for good returns. Robert
Young directed and Wilbur Stark produced. DeLuxe Color.
Adrienne Corri, John Moulder-Brown, Laurence Payne,
Anthony Corlan, Thorley Walters, Lynne Frederick.
Hind
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SAVAGE MESSIAH 1] """"% """''
MOM (7225) 100 Minutes Rel. Oct. '72
.joiitc With promotional salvos aimed at local art colonies,
ontac museums and galleries, plus patrons of the art and other
'''
'
such organizations devoted to the study of sculpture and
various art forms, this British-made entry can coin some
extra boxoffice shekels. Handicapped by a misleading
and really meaningless title insofar as the casual filmgoer
is concerned, this picture has a number of marketable
featm-es, however. It was beautifully produced and
directed by Ken Russell; its Metrocolor photography,
while somewhat darker than usual, carries the tonal
quality of old master portraits, and its portrayal of
French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska in the days before
World War I is deUghtful. Cast members carry out
their assignments capably, despite Christopher Logue's
sometimes erratic screenplay. Scott Antony shines as the
violently dramatic sculptor and his emotional range is
equaled by Dorothy Tutin as the winsome middle-aged
Polish would-be author. The joie de vivre and the beauty
of their May-December relationship is the thread around
which the story is woven, providing moments of sheer
delight for the viewer also. Total femme nudity in some
scenes and a modicum of foul language, all used in context,
are not offensive.
Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Helen Mirren, Lindsay
Kemp, Michael Gough, John Justin, Aubrey Richards.
WEDNESDAY'S CHILD
Cinema 5
108 Minutes
Drama
©
ReL Oct. '72
The story of a schizophrenic young girl is given nesirdocumentary
treatment by British director Kenneth
Loach who previously caused a stir with his film "Kes."
Middle-class British famihes are taken to task for creating
an environment in which such a condition is allowed
to grow. The psychiatric treatment of these cases also
shares the blame for the lack of persormel who properly
understand the problem from the patient's point of view.
Sandy Ratcliff is a gii'l whose overly proper and misunderstanding
parents have unknowingly pushed her to
—r the brink of insanity. Their inability to accept this fact,
3k-'even from an older and more aggressive daughter, leads
to the inevitable conclusion that the girl wUl never be
fully normal under their influence. David Mercer's
screenplay, based on his 1967 BBC-TV play,
offers little
hope for the maladjusted girl. The clinical approach,
also reflected in the light Technicolor photography, will
serve to both fascinate and depress potential viewers. Excellent
acting by the cast and Loach's incisive direction
count heavily on behalf of the film's realistic flavor.
Known in England as "Family Life," the Cinema 5 release
of an Anglo/EMI Film-Nat Cohen presentation was produced
by Tony Garnett. Actual ex-patients apE)ear.
Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave, Malcolm Tierney,
Hilary Martyn, Michael Riddall,
NECROMANCY
Johnny Gee.
PG
Horror
Drama
©
Cinerama (172)
82 Minutes ReL Aug. '72
The offering of a life in exchange for reviving the dead
is known as necromancy, as practiced in this Zenith International
Pictm-es Production. The title can be exploited
into fair returns, with stars Orson Welles and Pamela
Franklin providing some marquee strength. Unfortunately,
patrons are as apt to be confused as disappointed by
the onscreen happenings, which have been severely edited.
What was originally intended as an R or X feature has
been reduced to a PG (although some topless shots remain).
In cutting out most of the nude rites, editor John
Woelz was forced to eliminate any semblance of a coherent
plot. Much potential excitement is lost by the abruptness
of many scenes. Welles is an imposing figure as the
patriarch of a small town who hopes to raise his son
from the dead. Miss Franklin struggles with a British
accent while co-star Michael Ontkean lets a Canadian
inflection slip by occasionally. In her first American
film. Miss Franklin conjures up memories of herself in
"The Night of the Following Day" (1969), which has the
same plot twist at the end. Color-filming was accomplished
in and around Los Gatos, with interiors shot at
bn^amuel Goldwyn Studios. Producer-director-writer Bert
«vl. Gordon is a veteran of films dealing with the macabre.
Orson Welles, Pamela Franklin, Michael Ontkean, Lee
Purcell, Harvey Jason, Lisa James, Terry Quinn.
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FEATURE REVIEWS Story Synopsis; Exploitips; Adilnes for Newspapers and Program
THE STORY: "Savage Messiah" (MGM)
Dorothy Tutin, a middle-aged Polish woman aspiring
to be a writer, meets youthful sculptor Scott Antony In
a Paris library. They are entranced with each other and
share their lives and work. Antony takes Tutin to his
family home in the country, where a cool reception culminates
in a request for her to leave. The pair, having found
mutual love and respect, go to London. They eke out a
bare, but happy, existence, and Antony works on his
drawings and sculptures with demoniac passion. He finds
a sponsor and begins to build a following for his work,
utilizing models from every facet of life and finding
beauty and art in everything. As World War I erupts,
plans are under way for a showing of his works, with
Tutin writing the catalog. Completing sculptures for the
show, Anthony goes off to war and is killed, leaving
Tutin to oversee the showing.
EXPLOITIPS:
Tie in with museums and art galleries. Invite selected
student artists to view the picture. Discuss its photographic
technique. Contact art clubs and supporters of
local art projects.
CATCHLINES:
The Volatile French Sculptor Was the 'Savage Messiah'
of a New Art Era ... He Gave Her Everything—^Youth,
Love Beauty and Joy . . . She Became His Sister, His
Inspiration, His Life . . . Every Man Has a Dream That
Must Be Realized.
uiinjti
THE STORY: "The King of Marvin Gardens" (Col)
Radio monologist Jack Nicholson mixes fact and fiction
in his talks, including a story about his "dead" grandfather
Charles LaVine. When older brother Bruce Dern
X
summons Nicholson from Philadelphia to Atlantic City,
i,
Lort" Dern is found in jail on a robbery charge. Nicholson is
told to see Dern's boss, black racket chief Scatman
Crothers, who ignores him. Released, Dern introduces his
companions—aging Ellen Burstyn and stepdaughter Julia
Anne Robinson—and then talks of building a gambling
casino on Waikiki Beach. Nicholson is sure that this is
just another of his brother's fantastic schemes, but he
stays on to see what develops. The four have fun but
bicker with each other. Nicholson has a few brushes with
Crothers and men. When Robinson replaces her in Dern's
affections, Burstyn forsakes all oi' her beauty aides. Believing
she's to be left behind, Burstyn shoots Dern.
Nicholson accompanies Dern's body home and goes back
to his former routine,
EXPLOITIPS:
A giant Monopoly board can provide a stimulating
display for patrons. Mention the film's inclusion at the
New York Film Festival. Play up the stars.
CATCHLINES:
Monopoly. That's All There Is to Life—or Death . . .
Prom the Makers of 'Five Easy Pieces,' This Is a Story
of the Love Between Two Brothers As Told in a Way
to Reach the Heart.
THE STORY: "Wednesday's Child" (Cinema 5)
Sandy Ratcliff, a shopgirl, suffers a breakdown in the
subway and has to be taken home by police. Mother
Grace Cave and father Bill Dean can't understand why
she is unable to cope with anything. When Sandy becomes
pregnant, the very proper Cave Insists on an abortion.
This weighs heavily on the girl's mind and she's
admitted to a hospital for treatment. Young Dr. Michael
Riddall offers sympathy and understanding via his group
therapy sessions with disturbed young people. Although
released, Sandy retrogresses. Older sister Hilary Martyn
wants Sandy to live with her and rightly blames her
condition on the parents. Readmitted to the hospital,
Sandy is put under the care of older, less sympathetic
doctors—the same people who dismissed Riddall. After _
being attracted to patient Johnny Gee, Sandy agrees to ., RiJi
leave with boyfriend Malcolm Tierney. Returned to the
clinic, Sandy becomes an object of study.
EXPLOITIPS:
Play up the film's presentation at the New York and
Locarno Film Festivals. At the latter, presented in Switzerland,
Sandy Ratcliff won Special Mention by a youth
jury for her acting. Contact psychiatrists for seminars
and special screenings.
CATCHLINES:
From the Directors Of 'Kes,' A Deeply Human Story
of a Girl Who Can't Cope With Society . . . The Shocking
Inadequacies of Treatment for Mental Patients.
THE STORY: "Necromancy" (CRC)
Pamela Franklin loses her baby and husband Michael
Ontkean accepts a lucrative job in a small town called
Lilith. The community is run by Orson Welles, a manufacturer
of toys—actually occult instrimients. No one
else over 30 is permitted to stay and no children are
allowed. A strange boy (Terry Quinn) haunts Franklin's
existence and she eventually realizes that he is the dead
son whom Welles is attempting to revive. Lee Purcell
becomes Franklin's only real friend and tries to help
when Franklin insists on leaving. Ontkean is in Welles'
clutches and is also having an affair with Sue Bernard,
wife of Dr. Harvey Jason. Purcell dies and Franklin experiences
a ritual in which she stabs the high priest
Ontkean. Then, as Quinn returns to life, Franklin is
placed screaming in his coffin. Awaking, Franklin realizes
It was all a nightmare. But Ontkean has a job offer in
a town called Lilith.
EXPLOITIPS:
Decorate the lobby with occult trappings. Refer to Time
Magazine's cover story on the occult (June 19, 1972), or
obtain reprints from Cinerama. Contact mediums for onstage
seances. Bill Michael Ontkean as the star of the
new TV series "The Rookies."
CATCHLINES: -t ,
Life to the Dead and Death to the Living . . . Necromancy.
In the Black Arts, It Is the Reviving of the Dead
In Exchange for a Life.
"• *"
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THE STORY: "Countess Dracula" (20th-Fox)
In Hungary, when the aristocracy ruled, cruel Countess
Ingrid Pitt inherits her husband's estate. Sharing in the
will are Capt. Nigel Green, castle protector and Pitt's
lover; faithful nurse Patience Collier and young Lt. Sandor
Eles. When the aging Pitt finds that the blood of
servant girl Susan Brodrick has a rejuvenating effect,
she kills the girl and becomes youthful. Attracted to Eles,
the countess has daughter Lesley-Anne Down kidnapped
and then poses as her own daughter. Arousing Gxeen's
jealousy, Pitt wins Eles' love. She discovers that she must
use the blood of other virgins in order to retain her
youthfulness. Historian Maurice Denham learns the truth
and is hung by Green. Exposed by Green, the countess
j^i forces Eles to go through with the wedding. Down, who
has escaped, is used to insure fresh blood. Eles is killed
" ' preventing Down's death and Pitt—facing execution—is
named Countess Dracula by the villagers.
EXPLOITIPS:
Carry through the promotionals conjured up for "Vampire
Circus," the film's companion piece. Have pretty
young usherettes dress as vampires during the film's run.
Provide patrons with stakes for use againt vampires.
CATCHLINES:
Blood. The More She Drinks, The Prettier She Gets.
The Prettier She Gets, The Thirstier She Gets . . . Eternal
Youth Is Yours, the Price Is Blood.
THE STORY: "Vampire Circus" (20th-Fox)
The Serbian village of Schtettel in 1810 is menaced by
a vampire. Count Robert Tayman. Teacher Laurence
Payne, whose wife Domini Blythe is the count's mistress,
leads the villagers in a siege of the castle. Tayman is
killed with a stake through his heart, while Blythe escapes.
15 years later, the vampire's curse comes true. A
plague grips the village just as a traveling circus arrives.
Gypsy Adrienne Corri heads the troupe, which includes
Tayman's cousin Anthony Corlan, midget Skip Martin,
strong man Dave Prowse, dancers Milovan and Serena
and twin aerialists Robin Sachs and Lalla Ward. Corlan,
who is able to change himself into a panther, romances
burgermeister Thorley Walters' daughter Christina Paul.
Young John Moulder-Brown, son of Dr. Richard Owens,
loves Payne's daughter Lynne Frederick. The youth kills
the twins, who can change into bats. Most of the leading
citizens die before a bloody climax in which Corri, revealed
as Blythe, saves Frederick from the revived Count
—who again expires.
EXPLOITIPS:
Create a circus atmosphere with the usual trappings,
but add some horror touches with skulls, skeletons, toy
bats, etc. Hire some circus performers to parade.
CATCHLINES:
The Greatest Horror-Show on Earth . Human Fangs
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Ripping Throats—No Sawdust Can Soak Up the Torrent
of Blood.
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