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Various Ways to Increase
Film Product Discussed
By SYD CASSYD
HOLLYWOOD—While the film business
was looking at its future, as all factors
of the industry gathered for Adolph Zukor's
birthday celebration in Hollywood this
month, it was possible to examine some of
the causes of a shortage of product.
It started about 34 years ago. Today it's
critical.
Maurice Silverman, U.S. government
antitrust attorney, told the National Ass'n
of Theatre Owners a year ago that it had
been 33 years since the Paramount case
was filed. 1973 marks the first quarter of
a century since the entry of the first six
judgments that terminated the litigation.
What Brought It About
Silverman said the case was brought about
because a few firms kept tight "the opportunity
to be motion picture exhibitors or
distributors of motion pictures, to the exclusion
of others seeking the same opportunity."
"No one," said the government man,
"consciously" started to bring this about.
But the fact remained those who did so
were the "manufacturers, the wholesalers,
and the retailers." Whatever the historical
reasons, the fact is that today those judgments
make big-budget filmmaking risky
for several reasons.
1973 is a key year when exhibitors and
sub-distributors can use their own local
filmmaking facilities to provide some of
their own product outside of Hollywood and
help to finance growing independent pro
ducers
Discussing the situation with Jack Valenti,
president of the Motion Picture Ass'n of
America, we asked him if the foreign market
income for the major firms he represents
had decreased to any degree. Valenti
said that in 1971 about 50 per cent of the
total
income of such firms came from their
foreign sales and he was of the opinion
that they had done about the same in
1972, although figures aren't available yet
for last year. Valenti noted that in the
past ten years the foreign market income
of MPAA members has never dropped below
47 per cent of the total earnings on
their
films.
Sees Increased Anti-Americanism
"What bothers me," said Valenti. "is the
increasing nationalism and anti-Americanism.
We have to use increasing vigilance
to make sure we keep our markets." Causes
of the resistance to American films are
Vietnam, growing reliance on production of
film within national borders and hatred of
the rich Uncle Sam figure as the world's
most powerful nation, he added.
One of the methods major firms have of
combating these situations is with their
foreign producing units. Valenti admitted
that not much of this product in the form
of feature films enters the U.S. theatre
market but it does add to the profit picture
of the majors, with which he is concerned.
Films are produced overseas for foreign
markets, not for domestic U.S. theatres.
To reduce the risks and achieve a faster
cash flow, only one major film company
has taken advantage of the DISC system
of getting funds back swiftly. Independent
film companies have not been as alert to
this plum offered by the administration in
Washington, which would enable them to
compete more adequately in foreign film
markets.
Valenti said he thinks the association's
members are going to make more films
this year but a survey by Boxoffice of
these films indicated that with their own
facilities and staff, and from their own
financial structure, these MPAA members
will produce only about 135 features. Their
distribution arms will pick up almost a like
amount from independently produced features
and some from the foreign market.
Valenti continues to maintain that it's not
the number of films made that's so important—
it's the number of pictures made
by MPAA members. He didn't argue that
this number of pictures will satisfy the
needs of all the theatres.
More U. S. Filmmaking Overseas
What most theatres hesitating at entering
the feature production market do not
realize is that the major antitrust signatories
adjusted to the consent decree. What they
lost in one market—the theatres—^was
made up by producing films for a competitive
delivery system— television. The same
amount of film passes in front of Hollywood
cameras but not for the same market.
What they lost in foreign markets, they
made up by producing overseas with foreign
partners.
With the mobility of equipment in huge
buses and trucks and personnel transport
systems, with the localized studios—either
commercial picture sound stages or local
television studios— and with the knowledge
of filmmaking no longer confined to one
or two sections of the United States, a few
major exhibitors could supplement the films
made by the major studios, according to
Harold Goldman, head of Technicolor's
Vidtronic division. This is the technical
facility that handles transfer of electronic
videotape pictures onto motion picture film
release stock for exhibition in theatres.
One major exhibitor noted that while
major film companies have moved their
offices to the West Coast, theatre owners
still maintain their headquarters in the East.
It might be to their advantage to move
the National Ass'n of Theatre Owners headquarters
to the West Coast, in the opinion
of this showman, as it would be closer to
the film production center and closer to
what is happening at the decision level.
Plan lo Acquire NGC
Revised by AFC
CINCINNATI — American Financial
Corp. has tendered an offer to purchase up
to 4,000,000 of National General Corp.'s
$40 common stock warrants, expiring in
1978, making the offer through NGC common
stockholders, instead of through a merger
proposal.
The tender was announced through an
advertisement in the January 23 issue of
the Wall Street Journal.
Carl H. Lindner, president and chairman
of the Cincinnati-based firm, said the offer
would be at a price of $6.75 for each of
the warrants and each warrant would entitle
the holder to buy a share of NGC stock
at $40. American Financial, he added,
would reserve the right to accept warrants
tendered in excess of four million or to
accept only four million on a prorata basis.
This would be the second move into NGC
acquisitions by the company. Last year
American Financial acquired a 22 per cent
interest in NGC and planned to increase
its holdings to about 43 per cent by acquiring
about one million common shares for
Eugene V. Klein, chairman of NGC and
other management members.
Under the planned offer to all shareholders,
including management, NGC holders
would be given their choice of two packages:
one of $7.50 in cash, plus a 4 per cent
secured, nontransferable note (secured initially
by the NGC common stock purchased)
in the principal amount of $42.50,
payable in installments over ten years, plus
a seven-year nontransferable warrant to
purchase one share of American Financial
common at $22.50 per share, not exercisable
for two and one-half years.
The second package consists of $5 cash,
an 8'/2 per cent ten-year nonsecured note
of American Financial in the principal
amount of $15 and shares of American Financial
common having $23 quoted market
value.
Lawyers Workshop Feb. 7-9
To Explore Film Problems
NEW YORK—A three-day workshop on
"Legal and Business Problems of the Motion
Picture Industry" will be held at the
New York Hilton Hotel February 7-9 under
the sponsorship of the Practicing Law Institute.
Paul M. Baumgarten. an attorney with
the New York firm of Krause. Hirsch and
Gross and co-author of "Producing. Financing
and Distributing Film," will serve as
chairman.
The other panel members include D. J.
Edele, vice-president and general sales manager
of Avco Embassy: Joseph S. lannucci,
of the Washington law firm of Wenchel,
Schulman and Manning: Sidney Kiwitt. vicepresident
of Warner Bros., Inc.; Paul A.
Rosen, head of the East Coast motion picture
department of the International Famous
agency, and Bernard R. Sorkin. chief counsel
of Warner Bros. Distributing Corp.
BOXOFFICE :: January 29, 1973

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'Cinerama' Returning
In One-Film Process
NEW YORK—Joseph M. Sugar, president
of Cinerama Releasing Corp., announced
that "This Is Cinerama" will begin
an exclusive engagement February 15 at Pacific's
Dome Theatre in Los Angeles. The
Lowell Thomas-Merian C. Cooper presentation
then will be set for national and international
release.
After extensive research, a single projection
system now has been developed to encompass
the effects of the original threeprojector
system of "This Is Cinerama" and
the productions which followed. The impact
of the process has been retained, while
blending the three original negatives into
one image, according to CRC.
The new system will allow "This Is Cinerama"
to be shown in theatres all across the
country, whereas the original engagements
were limited to approximately 50 situations
when the production opened 20 years ago,
receiving unprecedented front-page coverage
in the New York Times. It then went on to
set long-run records, including 122 weeks in
New York and 133 weeks in Los Angeles.
Produced by Merian C. Cooper and
Robert L. Bendick in seven-track stereophonic
sound. "This Is Cinerama" is the
only film ever to win two Academy Awards
in two successive years. Michael Todd and
Michael Todd jr. supervised the European
sequences.
Harold Marenstein to Head
Producfion for Cinemation
NEW YORK—Jerry Gross, president of
Cinemation Industries, has announced that
Harold Marenstein, vice-president of sales,
will move to Los Angeles February 1 to become
the company's executive in charge of
production. Marenstein will continue to
head Cinemation's world sales operation.
All domestic sales activities will not be
the responsibility of Murray M. Kaplan, the
present general sales manager headquartered
in New York. Cinemation's eight division
managers will report directly to Kaplan,
who is now readying three new pictures
"The Cheerleaders," "Camper John" and
"The Night God Screamed"— for release.
Producers Distributing
Into Expanded Quarters
HOLLYWOOD—Producers
Distributing
Corp. has moved from General Services
Studios to its newly expanded headquarters
at 6350 De Longpre Ave. The new building,
according to president Robert Patrick, enables
the firm to house production, accounting,
advertising and domestic and international
sales departments under one roof.
"In line with plans for 1973 expansion,"
Patrick says, "the company has scheduled
eight films for release this year. TTie first of
these, "Ginger in the Morning," is set for
February. An adjoining building will be
used for screening and editing."'
CMA Plans to Increase Stock Value;
Fields Says Not Leaving Company
HOLLYWOOD— Freddie Fields, president
of Creative Management Associates,
Monday (22) announced the board of directors'
authorization to purchase on the
open market up to 100,000 shares of the
company's common stock for the account
of its treasury.
Spikes Rumors About Mergers
"We believe our stock to be undervalued
in the marketplace because of merger
rumors and speculation regarding continuance
of my present association with the
company," Fields stated. "Rumors that I
intend to leave CMA to become president
of the First Artists Production Co. are
absolutely without foundation. Inasmuch as
I assisted in the organization of First Artists,
I am very familiar with its operations and
enthusiastic about its future. .Additionally,
CMA is a substantial shareholder in First
Artists and, naturally, I spend considerable
time with First Artists partners Steve Mc-
Queen, Paul Newman, Barbra Streisand,
Sidney Poitier and Dustin Hoffman as well
as with its president Pat Kelly, helping and
counseling the company in its exciting
ventures. However. I never have contemplated
or been offered— nor have I ever
considered—any position with First Artists."
Asserting that other reports that he was
leaving CMA to go into the production
area of the
industry were unfounded. Fields
further declared that rumors suggesting a
link-up between him and certain major
studios or his possible purchase of a distribution
company were completely without
substance.
"".As founder and largest individual shareholder
of CM.A," Fields continued, "my
involvement is such that I could not entertain
any thought but to continue my efforts
of over 25 years in the interest of CMA,
its clients, employees and shareholders. In
fact, I have informed the board of directors
of my intention to enter into a new
employment contract upon expiration of
my present agreement."'
No Josephson Deal Made
Acknowledging that "exploratory" discussions,
tentative in nature, had been held
some time ago between Marvin Josephson
Associates and CMA regarding possible
merging of various operations of the two
agencies. Fields said he wanted to clarify
any confusion which might exist. CM.'\ has
not initiated any further discussions, he
said, and none are contemplated. However,
discussions would be renewed if they were
believed to be of material benefit to CM.\
and its shareholders, according to Fields.
In closing Fields stated: "It appears that
results for 1972 will show an appreciable
increase over the previous year. Our business
continues to be healthy and strong.
Our prediction of positive results from innovative
deals are meeting all previously
announced goals. Specifics will be forthcoming
in detail within the next few days.
.Meanwhile, we make this effort to scotch
all rumors and eliminate conjecture regarding
the status of our company, myself and
other key personnel.
"It will continue to be the policy of
CMA's management to evaluate thoroughly
all situations which could have meaningful
benefits for the shareholders. When and
if such bona fide opportunities present
themselves and are acted upon, we will, as
required, make prompt and complete disclosure.
Until such time, any rumors to
the contrary of the substance of this statement
should be treated for what they are
rumors without anv foundation in fact."
Disney's First Quarter
Net Income in Drop
BURBANK, CALIF.—Walt Disney Productions
reported unaudited net income of
$5,024,000 for the first quarter of its fiscal
year ending Dec. 31, 1972, a drop from the
55,353,000 reported for the first quarter a
year earlier. Earnings per share, fully diluted,
dropped from 19 cents a year ago to
18 cents for the period.
Estimated revenues for the quarter were
$68,916,000, compared with 558,433,000
a year earlier, while costs and expenses
totaled $60,442,000 against $48,880,000.
Donn B. Tatum, chairman of the board,
said all activities of the company are operating
profitably and each showed improved
results as compared to the first quarter of
last year, except for domestic film revenues,
which were down, principally because there
was one less motion picture generating
domestic film rentals during the quarter.
However, he pointed out, for the current
second quarter, there is one additional motion
picture in release. All current releases,
according to Tatum, are performing equal
to or ahead of expectations.
Samuel Goldwyn to Receive
HFPA De Mille Award
HOLLYWOOD — Samuel
Goldwyn will
receive the Cecil B. De Mille .Award of the
Hollywood Foreign Press Ass'n for outstanding
contribution to the entertainment
field at the 30th annual Golden Globes
dinner on Sunday (28). Award is given by
the HFPA board of directors.
Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda were
tabbed by the international Reuters News
Service in a 54-country survey and chosen
as the World Film Favorites. Reuters makes
the selection for the HFPA on a fee basis.
The program will be syndicated by
Metromedia and produced by FunCo. The
telecast will be live from Holl\-wood at the
Century Plaza Hotel. Thus far 22 cities have
been signed for the program.
BOXOFHCE :: January 29, 1973

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21 OF 47 RELEASES RANKED
AS TOP HITS' FOR AUTUMN
'Deliverance' Leads at 396;
'Valachi Papers/ 'Sounder'
Runnersup at 300 Plus
KANSAS CITY—Major film distributors
and independent companies released a total
of 114 pictures during the first quarter of
the new film year (September through November
1972). However, as has been the
situation in recent years, first-run playoffs
were slow, with much of the lesser product
failing to acquire the five or more playdates
necessary to indicate strength on the Boxoffice
Barometer. Consequently, only 47
(exactly the same as this period last year) of
the total 114 pictures qualified for listing.
Of the 47, just 21 rated in the "top hits"
classification, scoring an average of 150 or
better in the tabulation of the 20 key cities
across the nation from which figures are
compiled.
Top Hits for the Fall Quarter
(September Through November 1972)
Chloe in the Afternoon (Co\)
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Warner Bros. Has Winner
The "big five" were led by "Deliverance"
(Warner Bros.), with 396 per cent: "The
Valachi Papers" (Columbia), with 372;
"Sounder" (20th Century-Fox), with 341;
"Lady Sings the Blues" (Paramount), with
333. and "Young Winston" (Columbia), with
265. For the same quarter in 1971, the five
leaders were: "Fiddler on the Roof" (United
Artists), with 540 per cent; "The French
Connection" (20th Century-Fox), 427; "The
Last Picture Show" (Columbia). 420; "Bedknobs
and Broomsticks" (Buena Vista), 334,
and "Soul to Soul" (Cinerama Releasing
Corp.). 295.
Product falling into the highly respectable
200-or-better category included: "The Ruling
Class" (Avco Embassy), 257 per cent;
"Chloe in the Afternoon" (Columbia), 241:
"A Separate Peace" (Paramount), 240;
"Trouble Man" (20th Century-Fox), 228;
"Play It As It Lays" (Universal), 224;
"Heat" (Levitt-Pickman), 223. and "Last
House on the Left" (Hallmark Releasing)
202.
Total output for this
ago—from both majors and independents
same quarter a year
was 93 films, compared to this quarter's 114
(an increase of nwrc than 12 per cent).
Columbia Leads in Releases
In the company-by-company listing, Columbia
led with ten releases, only six of
which achieved the required number of
playdates. It was followed by 20th Century-
Fox, with nine films, and United Artists
with seven.
Of the 21 films on the "top hits" list,
Columbia again led, with six winners; followed
by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with three;
while Paramount, 20th Century-Fox and
Warner Bros, had two apiece.
Releases, with the percentages available
Tor the three-month period (September

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FCC Clears the Way
For Hotel Room TV
NEW YORK—Sterling Manhattan Cable
Television's request that the New York
Telephone Co. be enjoined from furnishing
the Trans-World Communications division
of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.,
with closed-circuit video transmission of
motion pictures to hotel rooms in this city
has been denied by the Federal Communications
Commission.
The FCC also granted four applications
by Columbia Industries to use private microwave
frequencies in the 12200-12700 MH2
band of the Business Radio Service to transmit
films to hotels in Boston, Las Vegas.
Dallas and New Orleans. Columbia had
asked the FCC for use of this transmission
method in cities where hotels are widely
separated, where transmission by telephone
lines is less desirable and where existing
cable systems are not available.
With respect to Sterling's request, the
FCC found that Sterling had not established
that the Commission should assert jurisdiction
over the operation, stating that Sterling's
argument that Trans-World operations
David H. Horowitz, vice-president,
would adversely affect the TV viewing
audience in the New York area was "speculative."
secretary
and chief counsel for Columbia Pictures
Industries, Inc., said the rulings have
cleared the way for the further expansion
of Trans-World services, stating: "We now
have the capacity and the right to transmit
motion pictures to hotels in at least three
ways—via telephone lines, as we are doing
in New York, Toronto and Miami, in association
with CATV operators, as we are doing
with Cox Cable Communications, Inc., in
Atlanta, and via microwave."
The FCC also ordered an inquiry into
the entire subject of wire and radio transmission
of motion pictures to hotels and
said it would consider requests by cable
operators wanting to compete with transmission
concerns for motion picture distribution
rights to hotels. Horowitz said that
inquiry was fully anticipated by Columbia
and that "it was only natural for the Commission
to want to explore the various
implications of the new and important communications
medium."
St. Louis Hotel Offering
Free In-Room Films on TV
ST. LOUIS— Guests at the Downtowner
Motor Inn began enjoying new motion pictures
in the comfort of their hotel rooms
January 18 at no additional charge. The
hotel, located at 12th Street and Washington
Avenue in downtown St. Louis, pipes
free movies into rooms over a closed-circuit
TV network. Guests have the option
of watching two different feature films 19
hours a day, from 7 a.m. until 2 a.m. the
following morning, according to Stanley
Sirotin, vice-president of Los Angeles-based
Creative Cine-Tel, which markets the system.
The setup utilizes a combination of four
Martin Newman Calls Pay TV Moves
Big Menace to Theatre Existence
ATLANTA, GA. — Unless the rules
adopted by the Federal Communications
Commission for the regulation of pay television
are altered, they will ultimately lead
to the erasure of motion picture theatres
from the American scene. So said Martin
H. Newman, chairman of the pay TV committee
of the National Ass'n of Theatre
Owners, in a speech delivered here recently.
He spoke to theatre owners and managers
attending a convention of the association's
Georgia unit at the American Hotel.
"These regulations," Newman said, "will
permit CATV pay television operations to
take away our best product and leave us
with only the dregs. Motion pictures which
are not desirable to pay television systems
are certainly not going to bring the public
into our theatres."
He called for a halt of the federal government's
"headlong, short-sighted policy
of encouraging CATV expansion at any
cost," since "motion picture theatre exhibitors
provide a vital and necessary socioeconomic
service to the public and constitute
a major national industry whose loss
will be severely felt throughout the country."
Pointing out that theatres play a key role
in revitalizing downtown areas by drawing
after-dark patrons who also spend money
for shopping and restaurant dining, Newman
added:
"In the past two years the motion picture
theatre industry has spent some $350,-
000,000 for the construction of new theatres.
It does not take too great an imagination
to see what the infusion of this type
of investment into the economy can do
and in fact, has done—to create work
and jobs for the American people. These
color videocassette players and sophisticated,
automated switching equipment. The movies
come through two channels— 6 and 8 in
St. Louis—on color TV sets located in
guest rooms. The videocassette player, about
the size of a small refrigerator, turns itself
on and off automatically, leaving the hotel
the ten-second job of rotating the bill of
fare by changing the cassette.
Competitive companies now are offering
films in some 13,000 hotel rooms across
the country at a cost to guests of between
$2.50 and $4 per showing.
Creative Cine-Tel plans installations in
50 U.S. cities by mid-1973. Its systems now
are operating in Downtowner Motor Inns
in Denver, Memphis, Milwaukee and the
Sheraton Hotel in Anaheim, Calif., Sirotin
said.
The opening feature films January 18
were "Pocket Money," starring Paul Newman
and Lee Marvin, and "Red Sun,"
featuring Ursula Andress and Charles Bronson.
jobs are over and above the motion picture
exhibition industry's direct employment
of 140,000 people. Added to all of this are
the millions of dollars in federal, state and
local taxes paid by the motion picture theatre
exhibitors."
He assailed the use of the "power and
authority of the federal government" to
"promote, encourage and in fact subsidize
a private, profit oriented commercial
industry," noting that government agencies
"have not hesitated to issue rulings and
determinations which are inconsistent and
contradictory" as part of a policy of encouraging
cable television expansion.
"For example," Newman said, "in order
to provide a basis for future cable television
price increases to the public, the wageprice
commission ruled that for its purposes,
cable systems were not and should not be
considered public utilities. Almost at the
same time, the Internal Revenue Service
issued a ruling that for purposes of conferring
certain tax benefits and advantages on
CATV systems, the IRS would treat them
as public utilities."
NATO is not attempting to halt the
spread of cable television, he asserted, but
rather ensure that "other significant and
still necessary communication services" are
not destroyed as cable expands.
In pursuit of this goal the theatre group
has "challenged in the courts the FCC's
adoption of its CATV pay television rules."
It has also asked the Commission for a
change in its rules "which would make the
operation of CATV pay television compatible
with the continued viability of the
motion picture theatre industry." Appropriate
Congressional action will also be sought,
said Newman.
Paramount's 'Plaza Suite'
Shown Over ABC-TV Net
NEW YORK—Another recent major
motion picture made its TV debut, on Sunday
(14) when The ABC Sunday Night
Movie presented "Plaza Suite." Starring
Walter Matthau in three different roles,
the Paramount release was originally distributed
to theatres July 1971.
"Plaza Suite" was produced by Howard
W. Koch and directed by Arthur ("Love
Story") Hiller, from the screenplay by Neil
Simon as based on the latter's Broadway
hit. In the film, Matthau plays husband to
Maureen Stapleton and Lee Grant and
would-be lover to Barbara Harris. Each
story takes place in Suite 719 of New York's
Plaza Hotel as Matthau is, in turn, a weary
executive having an affair with his secretary,
a Hollywood producer trying to rekindle
a romance with a high school sweetheart
and an outraged father of a reluctant
bride-to-be.
BOXOFFICE :: January 29, 1973

NATO Committee Ready to Publish
Ad, Publicity, Promotion Handbook
NEW YORK—During a meeting of
NATO's advertising committee at the recent
Miami convention, it was decided that the
committee would undertake the preparation
of an advertising, publicity and promotion
handbook. The handbook will be published
over a period of time through NATO News
and will cover the various facts of these
three subjects.
Issues to Contain Tearout Pages
Each issue of NATO News will contain
tearout pages which can be placed in a
three-ring binder, and discuss such subjects
as ad preparation, buying radio and television
spots and writing press releases. When
the program is completed, the pages will
form the entire handbook.
Don Baker, Loews' advertising topper
and chairman of NATO's advertising Committee,
announced that he has formed an
editorial sub-committee whose responsibility
it will be to determine formal, content and
to edit the articles appearing in the new
handbook. The committee also includes
Charles Call of Century Theatres; Henry
Burger, National General; Al Beyers, Trans-
Lux; Ted Arnow, Loews and Norman
Pader, NATO's director of public relations.
The first pages for the handbook will be
published in the March issue of NATO
News.
"Except for a few circuits who may have
their own manuals, there isn't an up-todate
handbook covering advertising, publicity
and promotion that is available to
theatres. It is the aim of this committee,"
said Baker, "to eventually make a comprehensive
training handbook available to
young men and women entering this facinating
business of ours and who presently
have nowhere to look for guidance."
Showmen Participation Invited
The editorial committee has extended an
invitation to outstanding showmen throughout
the country to participate in the creation
of the handbook and to prepare the
articles. Acceptances have already been received
from: Edgar Knudsen, Redstone
Theatres: Ed Marks, Stewart & Everett;
Jack Mitchell, Wometco; Joe Vleck, National
General; Dick Empey, Trans-Texas;
Jack Keiler, Columbia Amusement; Norman
Levinson, Cobb Theatres; Ed Seguin, Great
States; Francis Barr, Interstate; Tom
Rodgers, Radio City Music Hall; Bill
Trambukis, Loews; Ted Arnow, Loews;
Henry Goldenberg, Loews; and David Gizer,
Trans-Lux.
The purpose of having a large working
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Phone (212) 495-0740
committee is to be able to draw on a
wide and varied talent pool, and, thereby,
insure that the handbook represents a consensus
of thought and not merely that of
an individual.
"The publication of this new handbook
by the advertising committee is another
part of NATO president Roy White's ongoing
'Operation Positive' and the committee
will soon announce a number of
other exciting projects to be undertaken in
1973."
Joseph E. Porter III Joins
AIP Legal Department
HOLLYWOOD — Joseph E. Porter, III.
has joined the American International Pictures
legal department,
it is announced
by Richard Zimbert,
vice-president and assistant
to the chairman
of the Board.
Porter had been associate
general counsel
for Motown Productions,
Inc., and
preceding that was a
law clerk for Kaplan,
Jos. E. Porter DI
Livingston, Goodwin,
Berkowitz and Selvin. He is a graduate of
the University of Southern California law
school, where he was a Beverly Hills Bar
Ass'n scholar. He was winner at USC of
the Moot Court Honors Program, and he
is a former Marine Corps officer.
Cinecom Heavily in Debt;
Plans to Reorganize
NEW YORK — Cinecom Corp. filed a
petition Monday (15) under Chapter 11
in the U.S. District Court, Southern District
of New York. While the company has assets
estimated to be in the neighborhood of $9
million and liabilities of $8 million, it is
unable at this time to meet obligations as
they arise.
The present management has been granted
authority by the court to operate the business
as debtor in possession and is holding
discussions in an attempt to formulate a
plan of arrangement.
Cinecom's new office is located at 4 West
58th St.. New York City, phone number
(212) 688-8350.
Joseph Friedman Heads
Cannon Advertising
NEW YORK — Joseph Friedman has
taken over duties as the new vice-president
in charge of advertising and publicity for
Cannon Releasing Corp., it has been announced.
Friedman recently held a similar
post with Avco Embassy. He succeeds
Charles Cohen, who has left the company.
Sol Halprin Handling Sales
For Fuji M.P. Products
NEW YORK—Sol Halprin. pioneer cinematographer,
a co-inventor of CinemaScope
and the two-time president of the American
Society of Cinematographers, has been
named technical sales representative for Fuji
Motion Picture Film, it has been announced
by Elias J. Drexler, national sales manager.
As technical sales representative for Fuji
Photo Film U.S.A., Inc., Halprin will advise
motion picture professionals on the use of
Fuji motion picture films, available in all
sizes in both color and black and white. He
will be based at Hollywood Film Co., West
Coast sales and storage agent for Fuji motion
picture products.
Halprin served as head of the camera department
at 20th Century-Fox, where he
started in the business 55 years ago. In
1956, he was awarded an Academy Award
for his work in developing the CinemaScope
process.
Fred Nakamura, executive vice-president
of Fuji, said that Halprin's association with
the company will be a tribute to the quality
of its products. Fuji films and photographic
equipment are products of Fuji Photo Film,
Japan's largest photographic manufacturer.
They are distributed in the United States
by Fuji Photo Film U.S.A., Inc., 350 Fifth
Ave., New York City. Drexler is East Coast
representative and Harry Teitelbaum at
Hollywood Film Co. is West Coast contact.
Joint Venture Announced
By SBC and Teletronics
NEW YORK—Sonderling Broadcasting
Corp. and Teletronics International have
announced plans for a joint venture combining
two companies in the TV commercial
film and tape procurement, traffic and distribution
fields. Businesses involved are
Garden State, film and tape consolidation
and distribution division of Novo Corp.,
which Teletronics has agreed in principle
to acquire for $1.5 million, and Modern
Teleservice, wholly owned subsidiary of
Sonderling, which also offers film and tape
services to the advertising community.
Sonderling owns and operates a
51-screen
theatre circuit in New England and New
York State as well as radio and TV stations
and companies involved in TV commercial
film and tapve procurement, traffic and distribution
and radio station representation.
Teletronics provides complete videotape services.
Henry Scully Is Appointed
Warners' Boston Manager
NEW YORK—Henry Scully has been
appointed branch manager in Boston for
Warner Bros., effective Monday (29), it was
announced by Leo Greenfield, vice-president
and general sales manager. A graduate
of Boston University. Scully has held sales
posts in the New England territory with
Paramount, MGM and Cinerama.
He succeeds Gasper Urban, who resigned.
BOXOFFICE :: January 29, 1973

Reader's Digest Tells About
Universal Studios Tour
NEW YORK—The Reader's Digest this
month "tells all" about the "special effects"
cooked up by Hollywood's Universal Studios
on its famous tourist tour. Calling the
tour a "major show business production,"
the article (by Digest roving editor Virginia
Kelly) notes that it cost Universal $8 million
to set up in 1960. With more than a
million and a quarter people taking the
tour each year, the investment has paid off
handsomely, the article notes.
In six full-color photographs, the article
depicts such scenes—^and reveals how the
tricks are done—at a burning building
(it's really just a burning facade), a stunt
man, having been "shot," falling from the
top of a saloon, and other movie wonders.
The article notes that by the tour's end,
most people expect everything they see and
touch to be fake. Tour guides' favorite
story in this regard is of a woman who
took the tour, visited every side show, and,
at the end of five hours, had a question.
She pointed to the San Gabriel mountains
30 miles away, editor Kelly writes.
"Tell me." she said to the tour guide, "how
often do you have to repaint those hills?"
Cortellessa, Hayashi Join
Modern Talking Picture
NEW YORK— Modern Talking Picture
Service, distributor of sponsored films, has
announced the appointment of Richard
Cortellessa and Dennis Hayashi as account
executives.
Cortellessa joins the New York sales
staff, bringing 1 1 years of experience in
marketing, advertising and research. He is
a graduate of New York University and
lives in Eastchester, N.Y.
Hayashi joins the Chicago sales staff and
previously was with N. W. Ayer, where he
was involved with both film production and
creative work. He is a graduate of the University
of Missouri and lives in Chicago.
Seventeen Magazine Picks
'Black Girl' for January
NEW YORK—"Black Girl." directed by
Ossie Davis from J. E. Franklin's screenplay
based on her own off-Broadway hit.
has been named the Picture of the Month
for January by Seventeen Magazine.
In announcing "Black Girl" as the outstanding
film of the month, the Seventeen
magazine editors called the picture "a memorable
and moving experience" and cited
the outstanding performances.
"Black Girl" stars Brock Peters, Leslie
Uggams. Louise Stubbs and Claudia McNeil
and introduces Peggy Pettitt in the title role.
Film Man From Brazil Joins
Motion Picture Pioneers
NEW YORK—Paulo Fucs of Cinema
International Corp.. in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, has joined the Foundation of Motion
Picture Pioneers, Inc., it was announced
by Foundation president Salah M. Hassa-
MOTION PICTURES RATED
BY THE CODE & RATING
ADMINISTRATION
The following feature-length
motion pictures
have been reviewed and rated by the
Code and Rating Administration pursuant
to the Motion Picture Code and Rating Program.
Title Diitributor Rating
Bad Man's River (Scotia Int'l) PG
The Deathmaster (AIP)
PG
The Delta Factory (*) (Mago) PG
Fear Is the Key (Paramount) PG
The Long Goodbye (UA)
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Loving and Laughing (**)
(Cinepix-U.S.A.)
Marco (Tomorrow Entertainment)
McKlusky (UA)
Scream Baby Scream (Westbury)
Sisters (AIP)
[r]
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PG
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Wedding in White (Avco Embassy) [r]
Wonder Women (General Film) PG
Code and Rating Appeals Board
Title
Disposition
SCHLOCK Rating upheld
Explanation: This film was rated PG by the Code
and Rating Administration (Bulletin No. 218). After
hearing an appeal by the film's distributor. Jack H.
Harris Enterprises, Inc., the Code and Rating Appeals
Board voted to sustain the Code and Rating Administration's
decision placing the film in the PG category.
Supersedes R rating listed in Bulletin No. 102.
Supersedes X rating listed in Bulletin No. 160.
Putnam Book to Be Based
On MP's 'Heavy Traffic'
HOLLYWOOD—Contracts are now being
drawn up for the publishing in a hardcover
edition of a book based on American
International's "Heavy Traffic." The agreement
is between Putnam & Sons and Steve
Krantz Productions, which is making the
animated feature for AIP. The book will
include illustrations from the film.
Steve Krantz is producing "Heavy Traffic"
and Ralph Bakshi is writer-director.
They served in the same capacities on "Fritz
the Cat." a recent animated feature which
was a critical and bo.xoffice hit.
"Heavy Traffic" is a love story about a
young man and woman in New York City.
'Their Gentle Sex' Debuts
At Northpoint in 'Frisco
NEW YORK— "Their Gentle Sex." Allied
Artists release dealing with the relationship
between a mature woman and an ine.xperienced
young girl, had its U.S. premiere
at the Northpoint Theatre in San Francisco
on Friday (26). it was reported by Jerry
Gruenberg. vice-president-general sales of
Allied Artists.
"Their Gentle Sex" was produced by
Robert and Raymond Hakim, from whom
Allied previously secured the highly successful
"Belle de Jour." starring Catherine
Deneuve. The film is based on the bestselling
European novel. "Le Rempart Des
Beguines." written by Francoise Mallet-
Joris, who also wrote the screenplay.
'Jeremiah Johnson' Given
Widespread Publicity
NEW YORK—"Jeremiah Johnson." the
Warner Bros, adventure drama starring
Robert Redford. enjoyed publicity breaks
recently in San Francisco, Cincinnati and
Lexington. Mo. In the latter city, Redford
continued a long tradition by selecting a
military ball queen.
Popular radio station KFRC, San Francisco,
and the Thom McAn Shoe Store
chain combined to sponsor a promotional
screening of the film.
Large in-store displays
announcing the tie-in were set up in all 14
Bay area McAn stores and more than 50
radio spots were broadcast by KFRC.
The Cincinnati Enquirer's Youth Section
participated in a campaign to attract young
moviegoers. A student reporter in each of
56 schools in the tri-state area of Kentucky,
Indiana and Ohio were invited to an early
evening screening and asked to write a review
for their respective school papers. The
best of the reviews was published in the
Youth Section December 23. one day after
the film's opening at Studio Cinemas I and
II. Reaction to the screening and reviews
was enthusiastic.
For more than 30 years. Warner Bros.
stars have had the privilege of naming the
queen of Wentworth Military Academy's
ball in Lexington. Mo. Redford selected
his choice from photos of finalists submitted
by Ira McCarty. columnist of the
Kansas City Star. McCarty announced Redford's
selection in his column, just prior to
the ball January 27.
Also "Jeremiah Johnson" received nationwide
promotional tie-ups with Pocket Books.
The film is based partly on Vardis Fisher's
novel, "Mountain Man," published by
Pocket Books.
Both companies co-sponsored a "Read
the Book, See the Movie" advertisement,
which ran for two days in major newspapers
of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington,
Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago,
St. Louis. San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
'God Screamed' Charted
March by Cinemation
NEW YORK—Jerry Gross, president of
Cinemation Industries, has announced a
March release for "The Night God
Screamed," a psychological horror story
with an unusual Hitchcockian twist ending.
Jeanne Crain and Alex Nicol star in the
thriller, which was directed by Lee Madden
and produced by Ed Lasky and Gil Carlin.
Jean Sorel Signed by MGM
For Role in 'Trader Horn'
NEW YORK — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
has signed Jean Sorel for a starring role in
"Trader Horn." it was announced by producer
Lewis J. Rachmil. Rod Taylor plays
the title role in the adventure film to be
directed by Reza S. Badiyi. Filming is
scheduled to start early this year.
Sorel has appeared in 23 films, including
a highly praised performance in "View
From the Bridge."
BOXOFFICE :; January 29, 1973

^oUfffwxxC ^efoont
Production starts listed for February numbered
19 before tiie month began. The
majors scheduled eight features while the
independents charted 11. Universal recorded
the most with three. The previous month
listed 23 fihns as starters. The tabulation for
February showed 15.
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER
The Outfit. Carter De Haven rolls this
film about the mid-'40s in a story scripted
by John Flynn from the action novel by
Richard Stark. A couple of small-time independent
operators inadvertently come up
against the powerful crime organization and
a vendetta arises from the clash. To be filmed
in both Seattle and Los Angeles. Daniel
Melnick, vice-president of production, made
the announcement from the
PARAMOUNT
studio.
Ash Wednesday. Elizabeth Taylor has
been signed to star in this Sagittarius production,
which Larry Peerce will direct. It is
based on an original screenplay by Jean-
Claude Tramont and will be shot on location
in Switzerland. Dominick Dunne, who
produced "The Boys in the Band" produces,
with Tramont as associate producer.
20TH CENTURY-FOX
The Laughing Policeman. Walter Matthau
and Bruce Dern are being starred in the
melodrama about two cops who solve a
crime; producer-director Stuart Rosenberg.
Principal production on the film, which was
scripted by Tom Richman and Rosenberg,
begins in San Francisco. Based on a novel
by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, the film
gives an inside view of the life of a homicide
detective and handling of a mass murder.
The Seven Ups. Bill Hickman, veteran
stunt coordinator whose credits include the
famous chase sequence from last season's
Academy Award-winning 20th-Fo.\ film.
"The French Connection," a Phil D'Antoni
production, again has been signed by the
producer to perform the same chore for this
film, it was announced by Barry Weitz,
executive vice-president of D'Antoni Productions.
The film, which will mark D'Antoni's
directorial debut, was scheduled to
start in November, but actually, begins filming
this month with Roy Scheider and Tony
Lo Bianco heading the cast.
UNITED ARTISTS
Five on the Black Hand Side.
This allblack
film is based by Charlie L. Russell
(famed basketball player, Bill Russell's
brother) on his own stage play. Brock Peters
and Michael Tolan co-produce with Oscar
Williams directing. The story is about a
black family with a militant son and father.
who is pro-establishment and conflicts in
home and society. D'Urville Martin stars.
By SYD CASSYD
UNIVERSAL
The Don Is Dead. Producer Hal B. Wallis
set Anthony Quinn to star in his Hal
Wallis production for Universal about organized
crime, to be directed by Richard
Fleischer. Co-starred is Frederic Forrest,
who received high acclaim for his work in
"When the Legends Die." Paul Nathan will
serve as associate producer of the picture,
which has been adapted for the screen by
Chris Trumbo and Michael Butler, from the
novel by Nick Quarry.
The Midnight Man. Susan Clark has
been set by co-producers Roland Kibbec and
Burt Lancaster for the lead feminine role in
this film, which stars Lancaster. Assignment
is the second opposite Lancaster for the
actress, who appeared with him in "Valdez
Is Coming." Also starring with Lancaster is
Cameron Mitchell. Kibbee and Lancaster
will co-direct, and they also wrote the
screenplay from a novel by David Anthony.
This is a mystery drama in which Lancaster
portrays a college security officer.
To Kill a Dragon. This is a takeoff on
"Our Man Flint," using its gimmicks and
gadgets. A debonair-unhostile human original
person, Fred Williamson is the chief
character in this Bernard Schwartz film being
lensed in Hong Kong with Robert
Clouse directing. Fred Weintraub is executive
producer.
INDEPENDENTS
Barrister
Productions
People Toys. Sean MacGregor, who
penned a novel with the same name to be
published by Simon and Shuster this month,
will direct from a script by John Durren.
A psychological horror story about six
psychotic children who murder a family
of adults at a ski lodge, considering the
episode in the nature of children's games,
will be produced by Jordan M. Wank.
Children have been made sub-normal after
escaping from a plane crash. Dawn Lynn,
from television's "My Three Sons," Gene
Evans and Gayle Hemingway are in the
cast.
Frisco,
Ltd.
Fall of the House of Blankenstein.
Though no cast or director have been set
for this sequel to the original "Blankenstein"
picture, producer Frank R. Saletri and coproducer,
Ted Tetrick; who also wrote the
screenplay, plan to put this picture into
production this month. The story is about
the resurrection of the monster, by Dr.
Stein, who was the original scientist named
Dr. R. N. Stein, who brought forth the
monster in the first place.
Gamma Productions
Ebony Woman. Producer Cynthia Macusing
Henry Sanders' script about
Pherson is
a young black woman from the Midwest,
interested in a singing career, who becomes
involved in many problems when she moves
to the big city. Sanders was inspired in writing
this story, by listening to Billy Paul's
"Ebony Woman." Cast and director are yet
to
be set.
Intro-Media Productions
The Photographer. In this held over
production from November, Ron Masak
and Spencer Milligan have been selected by
producer-director William Hillman for the
top roles in his own original screenplay
about a stylized killer—a psychopath who
does things in a very unique, clean way.
Hillman tells the story through the eye of
the camera, not making it a violent picture.
McGowan
Miss Ripper and Miss Dillinger. The
story of two young women in a prisonescape
adventure. Tom McGowan, who directs,
also wrote the story and screenplay.
Producer is Frederick Sauls.
Mercury Films
Lincoln. Producer Robert L.
Blythe used
a new technique in filmmaking for the
screenplay of this black western and black
cowboys. Ken Vulsulm will direct with
Scott Rogers as associate producer. The cast
is being selected.
Sophisticated Films
Full Moon. Sherman Distributing Co.,
formed this company for their initial entrance
into the production field, according
to reports from president Art Jacobs, who
was co-producer on AIP's "Dirt Gang."
Based on an original screenplay by Chris
Longo, it is the tale of mass murderers, who
work in wholesale numbers.
Three P Enterprises
Boss Nigger. Fred Williamson will star in
his own original screenplay, a western saga
to be filmed under the aegis of his 3 P
Enterprises. Lee Winkler will be executive
producer with Williamson himself functioning
as
producer. D'Urville Martin co-stars.
Trackman-Duque Productions
Grab at a Straw. Based on an original
screenplay by Tom Maruzzi, this is the story
of a runaway boy and his effect on the life
of a man. Alex Lucas is directing and J.
Colonna coproducing with Igo Kantor as
executive producer. Joe Kaufman is starred
with Lenny Montana and Vanessa Brown.
Lester Traynor Productions
Truck Stop Woman. Producer-director
Mark L. Lester has Claudia Jennings, Playmate
of the Year in 1972 Playboy Magazine,
in the starring role with Lieux Dressier
and Delores Dorn co-starring. Screenplay by
Paul Deason revolves around the truck hijacking
business and the many crimes in that
industry. E.xecutive producer is Peter Traynor.
Video Vegas Productions
Angeleno. Chuck Dawson, Ed Sanders,
Bonnie Shipston head the players in this
original Robert Linder screenplay about the
syndicate moving in on gambling in Las
Vegas. Ted "Duke" Kelly will direct and
Lyn Roberts produce.
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BOXOFFICE :: January 29, 1973

London Critics Vote
'Winston' Best Film
LONDON— "Young Winston," the
widely
acclaimed film by Carl Foreman and
Richard Attenborough, has been named
"Best British Film of 1972" by the 19th
annual London Film Critics Guild ballot.
Robert Shaw was named "Best Actor,"
while writer-producer Carl Foreman won
the "Best Screenplay" award.
The Columbia Pictures' release starring
Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft and Simon
Ward, was produced and written for the
screen by Carl Foreman and directed by
Richard Attenborough. The film's musical
score was written by Alfred Ralston.
"Young Winston" currently is playing in
New York at the Columbia II Theatre on
a reserved-seat basis.
Veteran Showman Recalls
Movies' 'Good Old Days'
PITTSBURGH—Reminiscing with authority
as he watched his old Uniontown,
Pa., landmark theatre being demolished by
fire recently. Ken Woodward had good
memories of the Capitol (originally the
Dixie). Operating a "girlesque" house, he
said: "You'd never think we could get a
chorus line of 30 girls, a comic and singer,
an orchestra of eight or ten pieces and 750
people into a building that small but we did
it."
Ken was including his partner for a decade
or more through the 1930s and into
the '40s, Carl A. Jacobi, who is retired and
residing at St. Petersburg, Fla. From tab
shows and girlesque to modem movies, Ken
was active in the "golden years" of the
business.
"Standing there watching the venerable
old structure burn to the ground meant the
passing of an era that present-day showmen
will never be able to appreciate or enjoy.
Today's showmen never will know the satisfaction
of operating a theatre when it was
a pleasure rather than just a job. I recall
. . .
the almost weekly visits of the film salesmen
and their date drives. Old-timers will
remember Bill (MGM) Rogers' 'turn-down'
letters with the salutation of 'My Dear Sir'
and who thought it beneath the dignity of
Howard Dietz's Leo to roar at our Capitol
Dave Kimelman convinced Harry
Goldstein to send in a contract putting
Paramount second runs into our theatre
but the home office quickly rejected the
contract, as Paramount Publix was operating
the State in Uniontown at that time
(they lasted about six months) and were
afraid of our terrific (?) competition. I will
be forever grateful to Dave and to the
memory of Harry for trying to help us.
Those were the days!"
Ken Woodward added: "I would give
anything to be able to sit down with Walt
Thomas once again and rap about our latest
'assignments.' " He and the late Walter
Thomas were local newsreel cameramen,
along with their other theatre and film distributing
businesses.
2 Obscenity Trials Are
Postponed in Buffalo
BUFFALO—Obscenity trials pending for
months in Buffalo City Court have been
postponed again because the district attorney's
office and defense are not ready
to proceed. Involved are Charles C. Black,
Allendale Theatre, and Earl L. Lynge,
manager of the Backstage Theatre when the
charges were placed. Their trials have been
pending since police arrested Lynge in connection
with the showing of "Mona" at
the Backstage Dec. 7, 1971, and Black
with the presentation of an untitled film
at the Allendale March 3, 1972.
The corporations that own the theatres
also are defendants. An application for the
adjournment filed by the defense stated
that the "people do not have necessary
witnesses and defense counsel is
not available."
Judge Rudolph Johnson set
Lynge's new
trial date as February 13 and Black's for
February 20, with a docket notation that
both the prosecution and defense weren't
ready and the adjournments were "final."
Numerous adjournments have occurred,
mostly because of pretrial motions, including
one in the U.S. District Court in Buffalo,
and others in City Court before Judge
Johnson and Judge William J. Ostrowski.
Mrs. Ida Klein Succumbs;
Long-Time Theatre O-wner
BALTIMORE—Mrs. Ida Klein,
93, wife
of the late Morris Klein, died Wednesday
(17). Mrs. Klein was in the motion picture
business periodically for over 60 years, with
an interest in some of the Rome circuit's
theatres—Broadway, Cluster, Harlem and
Apollo. At one time she owned the Lenox
and Columbia theatres, plus others from
time to time.
She leaves three sons, Nathan, Sol and
Bernard Klein; four daughters, Mrs. Jean
Zimmerman of Baltimore, Mrs. Rose Haransky
of Baltimore, Mrs. Sylvia Shapiro and
Mrs. Dorothy Becker, both of Orlando, Fla.;
one sister, Mrs. Jean Handsman, New York;
three brothers, Philip Flax of New York,
Joseph A. Flax of Baltimore and Harry
Flax of Los Angeles; ten grandchildren, and
ten
great-grandchildren.
'Jazzbo' Collins Greets
WB Sneak Preview Crowd
PITTSBURGH—Popular talk-show host
Al "Jazzbo" Collins greeted guests at the
recent WJAS-sponsored sneak preview of
Warner Bros.' "Jeremiah Johnson," outdoor
adventure starring Robert Redford.
WJAS is one of Pittsburgh's top-rated
radio stations and has an all-talk format.
Collins had promoted the preview for two
weeks on his 9 p.m. to midnight show. He
greeted his listeners at the theatre and taped
guests' comments for airing on his show.
"Jeremiah Johnson" played at Pittsburgh's
Chatham Cinema. It was produced
by Joe Wizan and directed by Sydney Pollack,
from a screenplay by John Milius and
Edward Anhalt.
Leo Jaffe Is Honored
By Dept. of Treasury
NEW YORK—Leo Jaffe, president of
Columbia Pictures Industries, was honored
by the Department of the Treasury for his
outstanding accomplishments as chairman
for the motion picture industry during the
1972 drive of the U.S. Industrial Payroll
Savings Committee.
Secretary of the Treasury George P.
Shultz stated in a letter to Jaffe: "Sales of
the small denomination bonds, which reflected
payroll savings activities, were $4,-
150,000,000—$1,500,000,000 greater than
when the committee began its annual nationwide
campaign in 1963. The enrollment
of payroll savings far exceeded the committee's
goal of $2,300,000."
A Medal of Merit and the congratulatory
letter were presented to Jaffe by Philip Littman.
New York State representative of the
U.S. Savings Bonds division of the Department
of the Treasury.
Under Jaffe's direction last year, the film
industry achieved 166 per cent of its planned
goal in U.S. Savings Bond purchases.
In December Jaffe again was named to
head the motion picture industry's efforts
on behalf of the 1973 drive. As he did in
1972, Jaffe again will promote the sale of
Series E Savings Bonds through the
payroll
savings plan, urging employers to lead allout
efforts to increase enrollment in their
studios, branches and offices.
Renee Valente Named V-P
For Screen Gems Talent
NEW YORK—Renee Valente, executive
producer of talent for Screen Gems since
1968, has been named vice-president of
talent, it was announced by president John
H. Mitchell. She will continue to report
to studio head Art Frankel. Miss Valente,
who has a wide background in production
as well as casting, joined the company, a
division of Columbia Pictures Industries,
Inc., in 1964 as a producer for the international
division.
In 1968, she moved to the West Coast
from New York to head the studio's New
Talent Program. That same year, she was
appointed executive director of talent, or
president in charge of all casting for Screen
Gems. She has been instrumental in developing
the careers of such names as Burt
Reynolds, Cicely Tyson, David Cassidy,
Bobby Sherman, Karen Valentine, Otis
Young, David Birney, Meredith Baxter, Lou
Gossett, Billy Dee Williams, Susan Dey,
John Calvin and Bill Hayes.
This past year, the conference of Personal
Managers, West voted her a special
award, the first of its kind. The inscription
read, "To Renee Valente, for her untiring
efforts to uncover young talent, and for her
continuing support in furthering the careers
of all talented people."
Born in New York, Miss Valente was
head of production for David Susskind's
Talent Associates firm before joining Screen
Gems. She is married to producer Burr
Smidt and they have a son, Michael, 12.
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BROADWAY
gElTE DAVIS wiU be the first of the
"Legendary Ladies of the Movies" to
appear in person at Town Hall. The series
will commence February 4 when the legendary
Bette presents scenes from some of
her best—^and worst—films for the enjoyment
of her fans. Such representative films
as "Cabin in the Cotton' (1932) and "All
About Eve" (1950) are promised, while
the immortal scene from "Beyond the Forest"
(1949) in which she says, "What a
dump." is a hoped-for highlight.
Other stars for the series, which will be
presented Sundays at 7:30 p.m., are Sylvia
Sidney, March 4; Myrna Loy, March 18,
and Joan Crawford, an April date to be
announced. The presentations are being
produced by John Springer, with the able
assistance of Herb Graff and Don Koll.
Series tickets will range from $14 to $28
and single tickets— if available—will be
from $5 to $9.
•
Michael Jeffee. 86, the father of Saul
Jeffee, the president of Movielab, died recently
in New York.
•
Jerry Gross, president of Cinemation Industries,
left for Los Angeles Thursday
(25) to discuss new product acquisition and
future production plans with independent
producers. Harold Marenstein, vice-president
of sales, left here Friday (26) for the
company's Los Angeles office, where he will
be permanently headquartered in his new
position as executive in charge of production.
Henry H. "Hi" Martin, president of Universal
Pictures, will be the special guest of
honor at the installation luncheon of the
Variety Club of New York, to
be held Friday
February 23 at the Hotel Americana,
it was announced by luncheon chairman
Salah M. Hassanein.
Officers to be installed at the luncheon
are Bernard Myenion, chief barker; Martin
Newman, first assistant; James R. Velde,
second assistant; Don Gillin, dough guy;
Phil Isaacs, property master, and, as members
of the crew, Harvey Baren, Melvin
Berman, Martin Levine, Norman Rabbins.
Ted Royal and George Waldman.
•
Patrick M. Mellilo has been named controller
of Columbia Pictures Industries, it
has been announced by Joseph A. Fischer,
vice-president and treasurer. A certified
public accountant, Mellilo had been financial
vice-president with Blyth & Co.,
New York investment banking firm. He
also was a manaaer with Price Waterhouse
& Co.
•
James Lovejoy, a black artist from Minneapolis,
had an invitational exhibit of his
works at the Essex House Monday (22).
His creations are called sculpture paintings
and combine the skills of a sculptor as
well as an artist. Representing Lovejoy here
are Harold Rand, publicist who has handled
innumerable film accoimts, and Robert
Schwartz, former executive with Brut Productions.
•
A special showing of the cartoon short,
"The One-Man Band That Went to Wall
Street." was held Tuesday (23) at the MGM
Theatre. The 15-minute film, produced by
Potterton Productions for the New York
Stock Exchange, will be released to theatrical
and nontheatrical markets in mid-
March. A buffet reception was held in conjunction
with the screenings of the short.
•
Peter Boyle, starring in "Steelyard Blues"
with Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland,
is in town in connection with the world
premiere of the film. The zany Warner Bros,
comedy debuts Wednesday (31) at the Beekman.
•
Two top New York models, Grace Jones
and Jackie Page, have been cast by producer
Robert L. Schaffel for roles in "Gordon's
War." now shooting here. Ossie Davis is
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production for 20th Century-Fox, with
Paul ("Sounder"') Winfield as star.
•
Producer Robert M. Weitman arrived
here from Hollywood to promote his latest
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film, "Shamiis," a Columbia release. Burt
Reynolds and Dyan Cannon star in the
detective epic, combining comedy and hard
action. The film opens Wednesday (31)
at Coluinhia showcase houses.
•
Paramount's "Innocent Bystanders" was
a new arrival Wednesday (24), making its
local debut at showcase houses. "Hit Man"
from MGM also began a showcase run
that
day.
•
Openings include "The World's Greatest
Athlete." February I at Radio City Music
Hall; "Black Caesar." February 7 at the
Cinerama. RKO 59th Street Twin II and
RKO 86th Street Twin II, and "The Harder
They Come," February 8 at the New Embassy
and 86th Street East houses.
•
"Private Parts," a Premiere Films release,
starring Ayn Ruymen, Lucille Benson
and John Ventantonio, will open February 1
at the Screening Room, newest of the AIT
theatres in Manhattan. Produced by Gene
Corman, the film is directed by Paul Bartel
from a screenplay by Les Rendelstein and
Phil Kearney.
'Seagull' Staff and Crew
Assignments Announced
HOLLYWOOD—Staff and crew assignments
now are complete for "Jonathan Livingston
Seagull," a film by Hall Bartlett
now in production. "Jonathan Livingston
Seagull" is based on the best-selling book
by Richard Bach.
The group includes: Gaylin Schultz, production
supervisor; Jack Couffer, cameraman;
John Koester, assistant cameraman;
Bill Thomas and Leslie Parrish, production
assistants; Boris Leven, art director; Catalina
Lawrence, script supervisor; Robert
Werden, unit publicist; Joan Arnold, production
coordinator; Norman Harris, gaffer,
and George Resler, key grip.
Also, Gil Plenty, sound technician; Chris
Cagle, fixed-wing pilot; Frank Keller, film
editor; Jim Galloway, assistant film editor;
Jim Davis, transportation; Gary Gero and
Jim Caliendo, assistants to Ray Berwick,
bird trainer, and Brian Callahan, Matthew
Place, Earl Cohen, Lance Sultzbaugh and
John Miller, bird handlers.
Cinema Circuit Theatres
Back to Original Names
EVANSVILLE, IND.—Cinema Theatres,
Inc., 965 Washington Ave., Evansville, announces
that its units again will be known
by their original names, effective immediately.
The theatre formerly called Cinema
1 will be designated Ross-Cinema 1; the
theatre formerly Cinema 35 will be the
Washington-Cinema 35. and the theatre
formerly Cinema 41 will be the Family-
Cinema 41 Drive-In.
This step is being taken, according to the
management, to eliminate the present confusion
of names between Carrols' twin cinemas
and those houses operated by Cinema
Theatres.
It is emphasized that there has been no
corporate change in the firm.
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BALTIMORE It Happened in
Evacuation was the order of the day at
Schwaber's World-Fare Theatres headquarters,
1542 West North Ave., Monday
(22). By 11:20 a.m. Bill Brizendine. circuit
executive, departed—and he was the last
to leave! A cold wave had hit the building.
There was no heat. However, Tuesday (23)
the temperature was back to normal and
working schedules were resumed.
David Milner, son of Ervin Milner, president
of Milner-Fenwick, producers of documentary
and educational films, many of
which are government-sponsored, married
Sheryl Groh, also of this city, Saturday
(13). The couple honeymooned in London
and New York. Milner is a student at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Advance sales for "Man of La Mancha"
have been very brisk for the February 7
opening, according to Ronald Freedman.
owner of the Randallstown Theatre . . . Otts
Kefaber at Arcade Press says "ail signs
point to
a banner year!"
Twenty-seven persons, 14 of them juveniles,
were arrested Sunday night (21) at a
rock concert in the Civic Center, according
to city police. A group called War was performing
as the star attraction when the
arrests were made at approximately 9:30
p.m.
Yaphet Kotto, who doesn't know the
origin of his name—only that it also was
his father's—visited our town a few weeks
ago to promote "Across 110th Street," a
film in which he stars and one he calls a
"movie movie," a term suggesting commercial
rather than artistic appeal. "Across
110th Street" has been showing at JF's Hippodrome
Theatre.
Lou Cedrone, Evening Sun drama critic,
writes about "The Ruling Class," in part:
"Peter Barnes' 'The Ruling Class' was an
absurd but largely amusing experience on
the stage ... It has been adapted to the
screen with surprising success. It is not the
sort of material that easily lends itself to
screen treatment . . . O'Toole is too intense
in the early portion of the film but he eventually
settles and his musical participation
in the musical-comedy portions of the film
is invaluable." "The Ruling Class" is playing
at the Hillendale (Grant) and Randallstown
(Ronald Freedman) theatres.
Watching history come to life are hundreds
of the city's school children who have
been attending morning performances of
"1776" at the Hicks/Baker Towson Theatre.
They range in age from nine to 17 years,
according to Maurice Hendricks, assistant
manager, who has been helping Mrs. Kathe
Norman, manager here, with this tremendous
task. Some days Mrs. Norman puts in
from 15 to 16 hours of time to handle this
unusually heavy work schedule. However,
she is decidedly equal to the task! The benefits
began Monday (8) and "1776" ends Feb-
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Hollywood New Top
Film in NY; 'Cries, Whispers 2nd
NEW YORK—"It Happened in Hollywood,"
new at the Orleans, took over the
top rung on the city's first-run grossing
ladder. "Cries and Whispers," the leader for
the two preceding reports, ranked No. 2
as it ran up a 505 score in its fifth Cinema
I stanza. No. 3 was "The Heartbreak Kid,"
445, fifth week, Sutton.
"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,"
a long-time No. 1, held the fourth spot on
the basis of its 295 in a 13th week business
at the Little Carnegie. Improving on its
fifth week money total at the Beekman and
National, "The Poseidon Adventure"
climbed to No. 5 from No. 6, while "Man
of La Mancha" tumbled from last week's
fourth rung to this report's sixth frame.
(Average Is 100)
Baronet Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ), 5th wk 195
Beekman The Poseidon Adventure (20th-Fox),
6th wk 300
Cine The Life ond Times of Judge Roy Beon
(NGP), 5th wk 240
Cinema I Cries and Whispers (New World),
5th wk 505
Cinema II The Effect of Gamma Rays on
Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (20th-Fox),
5th wk 175
Cinerama Hit Man (MGM), 5th wk 85
Columbia I— Images (Col), 5th wk 120
Columbia II Young Winston (Col), 14th wk 180
Coronet Up the Sandbox (NGP), 5th wk 240
Criterion The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
(NGP), 5th wk 95
DeMille Black Gunn (Col), 5th wk 120
55th Street Playhouse Bijou (Poolemor);
Boys in the Sand (Poolemar), 14th wk 145
The Last House on the Left
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59th Street Twin
(Hallmark), 5th wk 90
Fine Arts The First Circle (Para), 2nd wk 50
Little Carnegie The Discreet Charm of the
Bourgeoisie (20th-Fox), 13th wk 295
Murray Hill The Life and Times of Judge
Roy Bean (NGP), 5th wk 1 30
National The Poseidon Adventure (20th-Fox),
6th wk
New Yorker The Spider's Strotagem
240
(New Yorker), 3rd wk 120
Orleans It Hoppened in Hollywood (Screw) ....610
Orpheum The Getowoy (NGP), 5th wk 140
Paramount The Effect of Gommo Roys on
Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (20th-Fox),
5th wk 45
Paris Cesar and Rosalie (Cinema 5), 6th wk.
Penthouse The Last House on the Left
..245
(Hallmark), 5th wk
Plaza Travels With My Aunt (MGM), 5th wk.
80
. .205
Radio City Music Hall 1776 (Col), 11th wk. .. 90
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Rialto All About Sex of All Nations
(Mishkin), 51st wk 1)0
Rivoli Man of Lo Mancha (UA), 6th wk 250
RKO 86th Street Twin I The Lost House on the
Left (Hallmark), 5th wk 95
RKO 86th Street Twin II Hit Man (MGM),
5th wk 90
68th Street Playhouse Traffic (Col), '6th' wk. ' ! ^225
State The Getowoy (NGP), 5th wk 230
Stote II Up the Sandbox (NGP), 5th wk 110
Sutton The Heartbreak Kid (20th-Fox), 5th wk. 445
34th Street East The Getaway (NGP), 5th wk. . .240
Tower East Jeremiah Johnson (WB) 5th wk 215
Trans-Lux Eost Avonti! (UA), 5th wk . . . . 85
Trans-Lux 85th Street Avanti! (UA), 5th wk 45
Ziegfeld Sleuth (20th-Fox), 6th wk 200
'Pete 'n' Tillie' Outpoints
'Black Gunn' in Baltimore
BALTIMORE—"Pete 'n' Tillie" and
"Black Gunn" ran a tight grossing race for
the week's high honors, with the former
winning by 310 points to 300. Each of these
topnotchers was playing its fifth week in
Baltimore.
Cinema I, Cinema II, Liberty I Pete 'n' Tillie
(Univ), 5th wk 310
5 West Chloe in the Afternoon (Col), 5th wk. . .225
Glen Burnie Mall Up the Sandbox (NGP), 5th wk. 60
Hillendale The Ruling Closs (UA), 4th wk 50
Met^Black Gunn (Col), 5th wk 300
Northwood Deliverance (WB), 4th wk 70
Playhouse Fellini's Romo (UA), 5th wk 250
Senator The Getaway (NGP), 5th wk 1 20
7 East Two English Girls (SR), 4th wk 200
Towson—1776 (Col), 5th wk 175
The Poseidon Adventure' 500
Fifth Week in Buffalo Run
BUFFALO—"The Poseidon Adventure"
and "Brother of the Wind" again were the
most effective boxoffice films in Buffalo,
the former recording a strong 500 fifth
week at Holiday 2 and "Wind" 300 in its
second week at North Park. Newcomer
"Avanti!" garnered 160 in its dual start at
the Amherst and Holiday 5 theatres.
Amherst, Holiday 5 Avanti! (UA) 160
Backstage, Maple Forest I The Bubble (SR) ...120
Center Dracula A.D. 1972 (WB) 120
Evans Across HOth Street (UA), 5th wk 120
Holidoy 1—1776 (Col), 5th wk 125
Holiday 2 The Poseidon Adventure {20th-Fox),
5th wk 500
North Park Brother of the Wind (SR), 2nd wk. .300
Plazo North Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ), 5th wk 125
Teck The Voluptuary (SR) 140
Judge Grants Trial Delay
For Countrywide Theatres
BUFFALO—A New York City theatre
corporation accused of promoting obscene
films here in the operation of the Granada
Theatre has gained a new trial delay before
City Judge Rudolph U. Johnson. Countrywide
Theatres was named in 23 charges at
the theatre at 3176 Main St. during 1972.
Charges also have been filed against local
manager Richard M. Basford.
Both the corporation and the manager
have pleaded innocent.
The new adjournment of the trial until
February 21 was set after an application
was filed by the defen,se stating that "the
people do not have a necessary witness
available and the defense counsel is out
of city and not available."
New Marquee for Schine
HAMILTON, N.Y.—The Schine State
Theatre marquee, erected 38 years ago on
the downtown movie house when the circuit
took over the operation from Smalley Theatres,
has been dismantled and removed. It
is to be replaced by a sign, built flush to the
building, announcing the Hamilton Cinema.
The theatre now is owned by Robert
Kiper and managed by Peter Groeschel. The
lobby is being redesigned and a relocated
candy counter and boxoffice are among the
planned changes.
Twin Unveiled by Durkee
ANNAPOLIS, MD. — F. H. Durkee
Enterprises Tuesday evening (16) opened the
circuit's latest mini-twin, Eastport I and
II, located in the Eastport Shopping Center.
CINERAMA IS IN
SHOW BUSINESS IN
HAWAII TOO.
When you come to Waikiki
HAWAII
;
HOTELS
don't miss the famous
Don Ho Show. . . at
Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel.
IN WAIKIKI REEF REEF TOWERS EDGEWATER
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BUFFALO
Y'arietj' Week will be celebrated here February
11-17 and Jerry Edelstein, a
member of the current crew, has been
named chairman. Bob Mycheck is assistant
chairman. Tent 7 folk will visit newspaper,
radio, TV and CATV to spread the story
of Variety, which aims to "help handicapped
children help themselves to independence."
Variety Week in the past always
has been a big success in this city and this
year, it is hoped, will be no exception.
The old Babcock Theatre in Bath is back
in business and that's good news in these
days of closings. The village's only motion
picture house, the Babcock was closed December
6 after 48 years because of slumping
business. Mr. and Mrs. Roge M. Haller
of Naples are the new owners. "We were
looking for something to do and, with no
experience at all in the exhibition business,
decided we'd like to try it." said Mrs. Haller.
Haller closed his interior design business
in Warsaw last spring. "The Babcock will
be open Thursdays through Sundays, with
matinees and evening shows, and we'll see
how it goes before deciding on whether to
go on to opening daily," said Haller. Boxoffice
wishes the couple the best of luck.
William A. Brumitt of Pittsford, an Eastman
Kodak employee since 1950, effective
February 1, will become manager of the
company's finished goods accounting department
in the finance and administration
division of the U.S. and Canadian photographic
division, when N. Powell Carter of
Irondequoit retires. Roger K. Morrison of
Brighton has been appointed director of
media in the advertising and promotion department,
U.S. and Canadian photographic
division.
Harry Edelman, Theatre Film Advertising,
Williamsville, will enter Millard Fill-
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Toy," was turning them away at the Cinema
56, Windber . . . Free installation is featured
by Highland Video, Blairsville, which
offers 11 TV channels . . . The next wrestling
show at the arena is dated for February
2. These shows now are taped and later
shown on Mount Lebanon Cable and other
circuits.
Cable Television of Rochester has lost another
round in the court battle to keep its
city license. The appellate division of the
New York Supreme Court, in a unanimous
decision, has upheld a May ruling that the
license granted in 1969 is invalid. People's
Cable Corp., the unsuccessful 1969 bidder
that brought the suit, now will try again to
get the city franchise, vice-president John
Lazor said.
Mike Ellis, father of Mickey Ellis, past
chief barker of the Variety Club, and himself
a member of Tent 7, has written a book
entitled "Once Upon a Rhyme" and, as
usual, everything in it is hilarity. Here is
just one sample:
/'/;; working like a beaver,
I'm saving all my dough,
To pay for that vacation
I took two years ago.
In a letter addressed to Doug Smith,
Courier-Express, the Robert Kruger family.
Grand Island, said: "You have to be kidding
with all your comments on 'Snowball Express.'
Can it really be all that bad, as your
article suggests? You forgot to mention it is
not rated X or R. That must rate some
points. Before your article we attended as a
family. Teenagers and little ones and parents
enjoyed a good afternoon of laughter
thank goodness!"
Roberta Plutzik and Doug Smith of the
Courier-Express selected the following as
the "Best Films of 1972—Critics' Choice"
(in alphabetical order); "Cabaret," "Deliverance,"
"El Topo," "The Emigrants," "Frenzy,"
"The Garden of the Finzi-Continis,"
"The Godfather," "The Godson," "The
Hospital," "J. W. Coop," "King Lear,"
"Minnie and Moskowitz," "Play It as It
Lays," "The Possession of Joel Delancy,"
"Rivals," "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Super
Fly" and "Tout Va Bien."
A disturbed reader said in the Sunday
Courier Express "Readers' Focus": "To
Roberta Pluzik—Yesterday we saw one of
the most wonderful films ever, 'The Great
Waltz.' It was a joy to watch an absolute
filmed treasure. We were shocked to read
your review which panned it. As a critic
you are a horse's leg. The Courier-Express
should assign someone with such a lack of
culture as you have to a fikn like 'Blacula.'
"
Senior Citizens' Matinee
From New England Edition
DANVERS, MASS.—Kathleen McGuire,
manager of Loews' Theatre here, hosted a
special senior citizens' matinee showing of
Columbia's "Funny Girl," with door prizes
and dinners plus "Funny Girl" albums and
refreshments promoted from area businessmen
and restaurants.
NORTH JERSEY
Calah M. Hassanein, president of United
Artists Eastern Theatres, and Edward
L. Fabian, president of Fabian Management
Co., which will become part of UA Wednesday
(31), hosted an introductory meeting
Tuesday (23) at the UA offices in New
York City for all the managers of Fabian's
Hackensack-based circuit. The meeting was
followed by cocktails and dinner at Les
Pyrenees Restaurant in New York City.
Attending from Fabian's New Jersey theatres
were: Gerry Hazell, Bellevue, Upper
Montclair: George Karros, Rialto, Westfield,
and Bill Leff, Hyway, Fair Lawn.
Twenty indoor and drive-in locations of the
Fabian circuit will become part of the UA
operation, effective with the takeover.
Harold Widenhom, a district manager for
RKO-Stanley Warner in the North Jersey
area since the merger over four years ago,
has been named division manager of the
circuit's 20 theatres presently operating in
this area. Widenhorn succeeds Edward Mc-
Glonc, who had served as division manager
for the past two years. McGlone has been
reassigned to the Pittsburgh zone, an area he
had been in charge of prior to his New
Jersey assignment. An industry veteran of
more than 35 years, Widenhorn began his
career in this area as a manager with Warner
Bros. He was appointed a district manager
in Stanley Warner's Newark zone in
the early 1950s, a position which he retained
'Deep Sleep' May Win New
Fame for Paterson, N.J.
PATERSON, N.J.—It
has been 70 years
since the Paterson area has served as the
location for a big movie hit but local officials
may not be happy that it is happening
again. The first movie heyday came when
Thomas Edison shot "The Great Train Robbery"
here, bringing about the rise of nickelodeon
theatres and establishing this city as
the first film capital. Now there's "Deep
Sleep" and the Paterson area may inherit a
new and different reputation.
"Deep Sleep." now in its sixth week of
lively business at Lenas' Little Cinema 2 in
Wayne, is an X-rated film. It was made right
in the Paterson area by a Paterson resident
—Alfred Sole, an interior decorator.
Sole made use of several city landmarks
in the film and many local residents appear
in the movie in various roles. The actors, all
identified by fictitious names, include a wellknown
amateur sports figure, a former city
employee and a part-time actor and former
barber. All the females in the film, however,
are from New York City.
Ironically, "Deep Sleep" is being presented
at the Little just as the Passaic County
prosecutor's office is attempting to force
that theatre as well as two houses in nearby
Passaic to discontinue or "tone down" their
film offerings.
The prosecutor's office, acting on complaints
from the city of Passaic and local
residents, has tried to close "obscene" films
following the merger of RKO and SW in
1968.
Nathan's Park in Caldwell, which often
aims its film attractions at the young—college/high
school students—recently presented
a successful one-week run of the Humphrey
Bogart classic "To Have and Have
Not." This was doubled with Woody Allen's
"Take the Money and Run." Admission was
$1.50 for all seats . . . Bob Bateson, manager
of Fabian's Colonial in Pompton Lakes,
currently is enjoying a week's vacation at
Montego Bay in Jamaica. Filling in during
his absence is his assistant Ken laleggio . . .
The independent Guild in Newark is featuring
ladies'
night every Saturday evening. All
ladies are admitted free every Saturday after
5 p.m.
Comment/ Media Today, a publication of
the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark,
in its recent edition continues to deplore
what it terms "the sad state of movies" in
this area. It also urges that state, county and
local officials take action against theatres
which show X- rated films as a continual
policy. The publication states "the most palatable
movie fare is being presented at the
colleges. In most instances they (the film
showings) are free, from Buster Keaton to
Brando, from 'The Hunchback of Notre
Dame' to 'Peck's Bad Boy.' No worries
about screen ratings here," the article concludes.
but has been thwarted because statutes banning
such X-rated shows have been found to
be unconstitutional and the authorities have
no legal right to ban the films. At present
the prosecutor's office is investigating "other
avenues" whereby they may be able to halt
the presentation of "hard-core pornographic
movies" in the area.
"Deep Sleep" has won the praise of a
New York publication, as well as that of
Ken Gaul, organizer of the recent New
York Erotic Film Festival.
Theatre in Pittsfield
Shopping Center Plan
From New England Edition
PITTSFIELD, MASS. — Mayor Donald
G. Butler said that a meeting with legal
counsel for New York developer George
Nutman and resulted in "mutual agreement"
for joint effort in creating a $20 million
downtown Pittsfield shopping center.
The project would include a motion
picture
theatre.
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PITTSBURGH
. . . After
phe Heartbreak Kid" (20th-Fox) is heading
for the Chatham Cinema
"The Deviates" and "Love Toy" the Garden
showed "The Curious Teenager" and "The
Animals." This theatre removed "Deep
Throat" when the district attorney threatened
to bring action on an obscenity charge
but reports continue that another local theatre
will take on "Deep Throat" . . . Marcel
Marceau returns to Heinz Hall February 14
. . . Radio station WJAS-AM-FM, being
sold by NBC to a Pacific firm, will change
its calf letters to WSHH,
Honored at the Hilton Hotel by the Pittsburgh
Jaycees as "Man of the Year" was
Bob Prince, Pirates sportscaster and former
Variety Tent 1 chief barker. Among others
honored were Joseph Bissonnette. director
of the Zoological Society, for entertainment,
and Franklin C. Snyder, WTAE division of
the Hearst Corp. (and winner fo the Variety
Club's "Showman of the Year" award in
1972), for communications.
Eighty per cent of the amusement tax formerly
paid on tabs at nightclubs, lounges
and restaurants with entertainment no longer
will go to the city but will be kept by
the club or returned to the customer in the
form of reduced prices. For years the tax
was absorbed by the club owner; now the
city has reduced the tax to 1 per cent of
the check, as opposed to the 5 per cent
formerly levied. The city's 68 places of entertainment,
with the tax break, now are
competitive with clubs outside of the city's
limits, Lenny Litman points out in his Press
column . . . Since the state has a uniform
taxing law, 10 per cent had to be charged at
clubs and for years it was on 50 per cent of
the check because half the cost was considered
to be the show and the music. Now it
will be 10 per cent of 10 per cent of the
check or 1 per cent. The 5 per cent charge
will remain at private clubs where a separate
charge is made for entertainment.
Jean Vigo's "L'Atlante," 1934 release,
will be the free feature exhibited February
4 at Carnegie Lecture Hall . . . After "Travels
With My Aunt," the Forum and Encore
will
bring on screen "Limbo," to be followed
by "The Emigrants," then "Fellini's
took in $44,000 in its
Roma" .
WE'VE ONLY JUST
Now wafch us
single week's viewing on the Nixon stage.
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The Bizarre Art showed "The Hunter"
and "The Love Muscle" . The Pittsburgh
Opera was given a $20,000 grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts and this
money will be expended for scenery and
props . The Penthouse offered "Get That
Sailor" and "Love Amazon Style" and on
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the booking schedule is "Suddenly Rawhide."
Ed Blank, Press drama editor,
writes that
in some theatres the film plays second fiddle
to
loud popcorn munching, candy blurping,
youngsters' constant seat changing, outbursts
in the audience provoked by sadism
and reverse racism (which make it all the
clearer to the critic how the film works
antisocially) and, above all, the constant
. . Bell Telephone of
chatterers who comment aloud as if they
were in their homes .
. . .
Pennsylvania wants another rate increase
The new city parking tax, effective
April 1, discontinues the 20 per cent gross
receipts tax and establishes a 20 per cent
tax on the individual parking ticket. This is
believed to be the highest parking tax anywhere.
The Liberty has new projection and sound
equipment . . . Crafton, closed since early
last summer, has been reopened . . . Matinees
Saturday and Sunday (20. 21) at several
neighborhood theatres featured "The
Ten Commandments" . Forum and Encore
are
. .
showing "Travels With My Aunt"
and expected to follow at these theatres is
"Limbo."
The former Basle Theatre, Washington,
an operation of the Associated circuit for
many years, has been remodeled and modernized
and now is known as the Mid-Town
Chuck Fleming, veteran St.
Theatre . . .
Marys exhibitor, was a visitor . . . Doing
well is the Ambridge Theatre, converted
from a storeroom there by Thomas W.
Budjanec . . . Reah Aaronson, 20th-Fox
booker, recently vacationed in California
and visited her son, a Navy junior officer,
and his family. She says she will be a grandmother
for the second time . . . Bill Day,
veteran local projectionist, reports that his
wife has been very ill. Bill says he is retiring
March 3.
Les Gurvey, Carl Brown
Form New Atlanta Firm
From Southeastern Edition
ATLANTA—Leslie D. Gurvey, former
Atlanta branch manager for National
Screen Service, and R. Carl Brown have organized
a new business venture of silk
screen and offset printing of 1-3-6-24 and
30-sheet posters.
Their firm, Atlanta Screen-o-Lith, Inc.,
has headquarters here and is the first big
sheet printers with both silk screen and
offset equipment under one roof. Brown,
a veteran of the outdoor industry, will be
chiefly responsible for all sales activity. Supervision
of the plant op)eration, located at
1456 Chattahoochee Ave., will be under
Gurvey's direction.
Rappoport Plans Triplex
BALTIMORE—Rappaport Theatres, operated
by Isador Rappaport and his son
Robert, is scheduled to open a triplex in the
immediate future near the Glen Bumie
Mall. The entertainment facility will be
located on the site of the former Korvette
furniture
store.
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field representative and "will respond to requests
for advice on planning and regulating
CATV systems."
Drorlucer Gerald Ayres (Acrobat Films] has Sheldon Tromberg, president of Vaudeo,
been here with director Hal Ashby, star said he is "delighted" to be handling "Cesar
Jack Nicholson and a crew from his $2.5
million company shooting exterior scenes
for the film "The Last Detail," a Columbia Yves Montand and Romy Schneider starrer
autumn release. The comedy drama, authored
by Robert Towne and filmed in Panavi-
is having a successful run at the Paris Theasion.
has Nicholson and Otis Young playing
Navy shore patrol officers who stop in this
city and. among other situations, get drunk
in front of the National Archives while accompanying
a young sailor (Randy Quaid) lected them among the past year's "best."
Circle, since critics across the country se-
from the Norfolk Naval Station to a naval
jail in New Hampshire.
Film Shippers of Alexandria, Va., which
Alexander Schiniel, Universal branch
manager, as area distributor chairman for
the support of the Will Rogers Hospital and
Research Center, presided over a meeting at
MPAA Thursday morning (25). Branch
managers and their salesmen in attendance
were urged to increase their efforts for the
Will Rogers fund-raising drive. Campaign
plans also were discussed.
Donna Littnian, National General Pictures
branch manager, tradescreened "At
Plaza, respectively.
the Edge of the Arctic Ice" in the screening
room at MPAA Monday (22) . . . William DOS Films, of which Doris Steffey is
"Bill" Shields. 20th Century-Fox branch president, has been named subdistributor for
chief, invited exhibitors to a screening of the District of Columbia area for UM Film
"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" at
Distributors. Carl Peppercorn, president, is
MPAA Friday (26). The Luis Bunuel film expected to visit here within a few days . . .
won the National Society of Film Critics' Harley Davidson, president of Independent
award as the best 1972 film.
Theatres, is vacationing in Florida. James
W. Bowman Cutter, director of the Cable
Root is back at his duties after a bout with
the flu
TV Information Center, announced and Dollie
that
Cronin is a new staffer,
Susan Greene, formerly of the Urban Communications
Group, has joined the staff as
according to Jane Klotz, receptionist.
Sid Zins, Columbia regional publicist, has
invited the media representatives to view
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2. It opens at Loews' Embassy and
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"The Train Robbers."
and Rosalie," which opens at the Pedas
Brothers' Outer Circle 2 February 14. The
tre in New York. Tromberg, likewise, is
pleased that "Marjoe," "A Sense of Loss"
and "The Sorrow and the Pity" have been
booked for return engagements at the Outer
had been subpoenaed by the assistant U.S.
attorney, was ordered by U.S. District Judge
Charles B. Richey Monday (8) to turn over
a print of "Teenage Fantasies." The film
had been shown at the Janus Theatre.
Unique Film Distributors of New York is
the distributor. The grand jury's investigation
of "interstate transportation of obscene
matter" seemingly has been under way since
"Hot Circuit" and "Distortions of Sexuality"
were seized November 2 while showing
at the Trans-Lux and the Trans-Lux New
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ruary 13. Said Mrs. Norman, "I have sold
to about 3,000 children during the month.
That's all I have collected by myself, excluding
Mrs. M. Schwartz, who works for
Columbia on benefits." Hendricks stated
that the film has been booked solid five
mornings a week and usually three or four
schools are represented, simultaneously,
with an aggregate of between 400-500 teenage
students.
The Schwartz girls, Mrs. Reba and Miss
Muriel, plan to extend their operations to
the Glen Burnie and Severna Park area, it
has been reported. They will construct minitwins
. . . Helen Eitel, 25, oldest child of
George F. Eitel, National Screen Supply
branch manager, returned from a trip to
Albany, Ga., where she visited her ailing
maternal grandmother. While there, she
helped take care of her. Other news from
the Eitel family reveals that Kay, 20, was
married Wednesday (10) to David Orr, also
20, at the home of her parents in Severna
Park. Kay is a secretary for the AAA Ass'n
in Glen Burnie, while her husband is a mechanic
in a speed shop located in Glen
Burnie.
Warren Wade, 76, actor, producer and
former executive of NBC and RKO, died
Sunday (14) in Englewood, N.J.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Elvis On Tour"
started Wednesday (17) at these theatres:
Arcade, Broadway, Paramount, Edmondson
Drive-ln, Super- 170 Drive-In, Grand, Patapsco,
Joppatowne Cinema, Hollywood,
Squire, Timonium Drive-ln, Harford Driveln,
Northpoint Drive-ln, Pulaski Drive-ln,
Shore Drive-ln and Valley Drive-ln.
Approximately 150, mostly community
leaders in Annapolis, along with exhibitors
here, attended the premiere of F. H. Durkee
Enterprises" Eastport I and II in the Eastport
Shopping Center, Annapolis, Tuesday
evening (16) at 8 p.m. Leon B. Back, NATO
of Maryland president and general manager
of Rome Theatres, attended with Mrs. Back,
as did the George F. Eitels. Eitel, NSS
branch manager here, supplied some of the
equipment for the mini-twin, including
lamphouses, screen frames, etc.
Eastport Twin Premieres
BALTIMORE—F. H. Durkee's Eastport
1 and II theatres in the Eastport Shopping
Center, Annapolis, Md., bowed Tuesday
evening (16) at 8 p.m. with an invitational
premiere. The new twin-theatre complex
opened to the general public Wednesday
(17) with "Snowball Express" in Eastport I
and "The Valachi Papers" in Eastport II.
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Pocomoke Ozoner Is Sold
POCOMOKE CITY. MD. — William
Myers, owner of the Pocomoke Drive-In,
recently sold the undcrskyer to Richard Derrickson
of Midway Enterprises, Rehoboth,
Del. Plans are to completely renovate the
theatre and equip it for winter operation.
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'Waltstax' World Bow
At Ahmanson Feb. 4
HOLLYWOOD—Los Angeles' celebrated
Music Center will house its first Hollywood
movie premiere February 4 when the world
premiere of "Wattstax" will be staged at the
Ahmanson Theatre. Congresswoman
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke is honorary
chairman of the event, which officially
opens the national release of a major new
film made by the Stax Organization and
Wolper Pictures for Columbia Pictures.
The film will premiere before an invitational
audience of 2,100 motion picture
and TV stars and executives, as well as
political, social and community leaders.
Emanating from the seven-hour "Wattstax"
concert staged by the Stax Organization
last August at the Los Angeles Coliseum,
the film was produced by Stax's
Larry Shaw and Wolper's Mel Stuart, who
directed the picture, with Stax's Al Bell and
David L. Wolper as executive producers.
Stax's Forest Hamilton was associate producer.
The film opens locally February 21 at the
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theatres, followed by other major openings
through the U.S. and in Europe.
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First Presenters Are Set
For Golden Globe Awards
HOLLYWOOD—Desi Arnaz jr.,
Charles
Bronson, Carol Burnett, James Caan, Michael
Caine, Dyan Cannon, Richard Chamberlain,
Chad Everett, Eva Gabor, Gene
Hackman, Florence Henderson, Jill Ireland,
Carol Lynley, Walter Matthau, Diana Ross,
Mario Thomas, Trish Van Devere and Robert
Young are the first presenters set for
the Hollywood Foreign Press Ass'n's 30th
annual Golden Globe Awards, it is reported
by Stephen W. Jahn, executive producer,
and Judy Solomon, association president.
The stage presentation will be produced
for TV by FunCo Corp. and televised live
nationwide by Metromedia TV.
The HFPA Golden Globe Awards will
be presented Sunday (.28). Richard Crenna
will be master of ceremonies for the gala
affair to be held in the Los Angeles Ballroom
of the Century Plaza Hotel.
Zens, Patrick Suit Is
Settled in LA Court
HOLLYWOOD—A lawsuit for $100,000
against distributor Robert Patrick by Will
Zens was settled in Los Angeles County
Superior Court at a mandatory settlement
conference for an undisclosed amount.
Action was brought against Patrick by
Zens for the balance due on contracts on
two feature films produced a few years back
by Zens' Riviera Productions. Attorney
John K. Ford, representing Zens, recommended
acceptance of the settlement offer
by Patrick.
Both features involved in the litigation,
"The Starfighters" and "To the Shores of
Hell," starred Robert Dornan, now in the
race for Los Angeles mayor.
Zens had produced "The Starfighters,"
subsequently purchased outright by Patrick,
and the following year Patrick contracted
with Zens to produce "To the Shores of
HeU."
Jay O'Malin to Represent
Products of Saxton Films
HOLLYWOOD—Robert Saxton, president
of Saxton Films, announces the appointment
of Jay O'Malin of the O'Malin
Organization to represent his company's
product in the Denver-Salt Lake City territories.
Saxton's first
two releases are "How Did
a Nice Girl Like You . .
.?" and "Island of
Lost Girls."
Writers Guild Voting
On 20 Film Scripts
HOLLYWOOD—Members of the Writers
Guild screen branch all over the world
are receiving ballots to nominate 20 scripts
in four categories for the "best-written
American film of 1972." A hst of 122 motion
pictures over which the guild has credit
jurisdiction was submitted to 630 active
members of the screen branch by Fay
Kanin, president of that section. Over 500
films were submitted to the MPAA Rating
Bureau authorities by producers this past
year.
In the category of comedies written directly
for the screen, members had a choice
of eight. Dramas written directly for the
screen numbered 47. Comedies adapted from
another medium came to 22 and adapted
dramas were 45.
Mrs. Kanin said that the ballots were
returnable by February 5. The nominees will
be announced shortly thereafter and final
ballots will be sent members of the branch.
The winners will be announced at the
25th annual awards dinner and dance
March 16 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
'Horizon' World Premiere
Co-Choirmen Announced
HOLLYWOOD—Rosalind Russell and
Mrs. Deane Johnson will serve as co-chairmen
of world premiere festivities for "Lost
Horizon," Ross Hunter's musical drama for
Columbia Pictures, it was announced by
premiere chairman Mrs. Sybil Brand. Proceeds
from the premiere and Shangri-La
Ball, to follow at the Century Plaza Hotel,
will go to the Motion Picture and Television
Fund.
The benefit opening has been set for
March 6 at the National Theatre, Westwood.
"Lost Horizon" also has been selected as
England's Royal Film Performance March
26.
Harvey Matofsky at WB
For 'Taylor's Bride'
BURBANK, CALIF.—Harvey Matofsky
has set up headquarters at the Warner Bros.
Studios in Burbank to finalize preproduction
work on "Taylor's Bride," which he
will produce for the company. Gene Hackman
and Liv UUmann will star in the new
western love story.
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"THE VANISHING WILDERNESS," produced
and directed by Arthur R. Dubs,
recorded an opening-week gross of $373,341
in the Los Angeles-Southern California market.
The G-rated motion picture has played
only the smaller neighborhood houses in
its premiere engagement. His first feature
film. "The American Wilderness," shot in
16mm and made at a cost of $28,000, was
released two years ago and has grossed
$7,000,000 to date. Dubs" releasing organization.
Pacific International Enterprises,
estimates that it has been presented to only
62 per cent of the American viewing public.
Based on these figures. Dubs estimates an
$11,500,000 potential for "The American
Wilderness."
Grew Up in Oregon
Dubs, who grew up in Medford, Ore.,
makes only G-rated films, strictly family
entertainment and his movie-making began
as a hobby. To achieve the results that have
been realized so far, he says that he has
been "fortunate." He further ascribes the
grosses achieved by his features to the research
that is done. It is necessary to place
the content of the films on target insofar
as audience needs and desires are concerned.
Because his is a monolithic company, typical
of American enterprise at its best, with
personal direction, detailing and local market
merchandising. Dubs handles everything
from production through distribution and
exhibition. With a conservative viewpoint.
he sticks to the basics of showmanship. He
has but six offices, with small overhead,
around the country.
Currently, "The Vanishing Wilderness" is
a 35mm production which reflects contemporary
market trends and civc preoccupations.
It concerns the fight for ecological
balance in America and started with the
premise of his first release—to give people
escape from fog, smog, gasoline and the
frustrations of urban life into the fresh
wilderness. Public acceptance to date is indicative
of this motion picture's degree of
success in fulfilling this objective.
Known as Perfectionist
Dubs is a perfectionist. He not only does
the camera work but also does the acting
in most sequences, which makes them all
the more incredible. In addition, he personally
does the editing, the script writing and
the producing. In an age of saturation TV
coverage. Dubs uses that medium extensively
for advertising and balances this with
print media, but he does not go into any
area with a preconceived notion. He makes
his own TV .spots, his own trailers and creates
and executes his own marketing plans.
Asked why he went directly into the
neighborhood houses. Dubs answered that
he didn't make deals until his film was
finished and then there were no open dates
at the first-run theatres. As a result, he said,
the smaller houses can't keep up with the
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demand at their concession counters, due
to the increased attendance—and it's a
happy time for these theatre owners.
Other producers have heard of Dubs' success
and he is being deluged with offers
of films to distribute. While the pictures
would have to be better than or equal to his
own product, the Pacific Enterprises distributor
says that he is willing to work with
these producers and consider their films.
Dubs' career has been a process of continuing
growth. Twenty-one years ago in
Oregon he went out and asked a builder for
a job, offering to work for practically nothing.
A week later he was receiving a journeyman's
pay. Today he is one of the West
Coast's successful building and construction
firm owners. With his family of three, he
is having a ball, for his hobby of making
home movies became a lucrative avocation.
At 42 Dubs is optimistic about filling the
needs of the audiences who still are there
and waiting for appealing motion pictures
to come along. He optimistically expects
"The Vanishing Wilderness" to outgross his
first film "The American Wilderness."
Artesia Theatreman Finds
Script of Depression Era
ARTESIA, N.M.— Bill
Bartlett of locally
based Artesia Theatres recently discovered
a theatrical collector's item while going
through the files of his late father Ray
Bartlett. who had owned and operated showhouses
in Artesia since 1924. The "find"
was a coupon issued by the Majestic Theatre.
According to the inscription, the script
was "redeemable at face value in theatre
tickets only and if signed by the theatre
cashier." While the coupon had no cash
value, it was labeled "negotiable" and the
value was indicated as ten cents. There was
space for validation by the cashier of the
Majestic.
Bartlett says that his father gave out this
script during the depression of 1933.
"All the purchaser had to do was sign
a note (lOU) for the number of tickets he
wanted," explains Bartlett. "This proved to
work very well, as I have heard my father
tell about it on many occasions."
The Majestic Theatre script which was
forwarded to Boxoffice. although 40 years
old. was in excellent condition.
'Sex Films' Are Protested
By Students in Sunnyvale
SUNNYVALE. CALIF.—A small group
of Sunnyvale High School students recently
complained to the city council about "sex
films" being shown at the Town and Country
Cinema. 146 South Murphy Ave. However,
both the council and Deputy District
Attorney Al Fabris of Santa Clara County
said they couldn't do much about the situation.
A 17-year-old youth led the group
of students who picketed the theatre.
Steven Rhodes, new owner of Town and
Country Cinema, recently began showing
two X films, "The Sensually Liberated Female"
and "The Sensuous Male." He also
raised the admission price from 50 cents
to $3, according to reports.
George K. Hansen, director of public
safety, said two officers viewed the films
at the theatre. "In our opinion." he said,
"the films being shown are hard-core pornography.
The district attorney has under
consideration our application for a warrant."
Dist. Atty. Fabris, however, said his
office had refused to issue an arrest warrant,
adding, "We can't convict these people.
We haven't had a conviction in this
area in three years. This is in the First
Amendment area and every time we are in
this area the judges take about seven steps
backwards."
Blaming "vague obscenity laws" for his
inability to cooperate with the student
group. Fabris said, "I want to compliment
these young ladies and gentlemen. If we
had more of this, we would have less of a
problem."
Council members agreed with Fabris but
said they had no legal means to help. "It
seems a shame that we have a group of
people with such a high degree of morality
and we can't do anything about it." said
Councilman Donald Koreski.
Five Youths Are Barred
From Frontier Theatre
HOBBS, N.M.—The management of the
Frontier Theatre had to call for police assistance
at 10:10 p.m. on a recent Friday
night to quell a disturbance being created
by five teenaged boys who had been ejected
from the auditorium. After leaving the
Frontier, the boys continued their unruly
behavior by kicking on the side doors of
the theatre, according to employees.
The same five youths also had been asked
to leave the theatre on the two preceding
Friday nights.
Police said the boys were not in the area
when they arrived. However, a theatre
spokesman said the boys would not be allowed
to attend showings at the Frontier
for a one-month period because of their
chronic disorderly conduct.
Opening of Target 3-Plex
Delayed by Cold Weather
DENVER—The opening of the new Target
1, 2 and 3, scheduled for early spring,
now has been set back to at least June 1.
After the contractor had excavated for the
basement, the weather turned cold and the
snows came. With record cold stretches, it
was impossible to proceed with construction
as planned.
The triplex has been named the Target
1, and 2 and 3 because it is being built in
front of a Target store.
Designed by Mel Glatz. the three auditoriums,
each containing 350 .seats, will be
serviced by an entirely automatic booth.
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THE NOMINATING PROCESS for 1972
Oscar achievements got under way
Thursday (18) with the mailing of ballots
to members of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences. All nominations
will be announced Monday, February 12.
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Producer Bill Turner, who has obtained
permission from Patricia Ziegfeld and the
Shubert organization to stage "Ziegfeld
Follies '74" in Las Vegas, has opened production
offices at 9200 Sunset, in association
with Robin Cranston, son of U.S. Sen.
Alan Cranston. Turner will be commissioning
writers and composers for the book and
score of "Ziegfeld Follies '74," which will be
cast and rehearsed in Los Angeles.
*
Bantam Books has just published the motion
picture tie-in edition of the James Munro
novel, "Innocent Bystanders." featuring
a full-color front cover utilizing the film's
advertising art, with the back cover highlighted
by a selection of scene stills from the
film.
•
Cesar Romero, Anne Baxter. Babe London
and Councilman Emani Bernard! made
guest appearances in the fourth annual
"The Ding-A-Lings and Friends" show Sunday
(21) at the Motion Picture and Television
Country House and Hospital in Woodland
Hills.
•
Gov. and Mrs. Ronald Reagan will appear
Tuesday (30) at the $100-plate March
of Dimes champagne dinner honoring Frank
Sinatra as "Man of the Year." On the dais
will be Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew. Jack
Benny, Dr. Jonas Salk and March of Dimes
president Joseph Nee.
•
Edward Shaw & Associates has been appointed
advertising agency for MTI Business
Colleges of Southern California, it was announced
by David M. Nome, senior vicepresident
of Shaw.
•
Writer-producer Eleanor Perry and several
of her critically acclaimed films were
the subject of a special production seminar
at
the American Film Institute.
•
The Screen Actors Guild has called attention
to an error in the editorial on the
inside front cover of the January issue of
Screen Actor, the guild's magazine. In the
fifth paragraph, the amount of the increase
in producer contributions to the Producer-
Guild Pension and Welfare Plans is referred
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to as l'/2 per cent. This should have read
1 V4 per cent, as correctly stated in the summary
of the new commercials contract
which accompanied the ballots sent to the
membership for approval of the new contract.
The IVi per cent increase brings the
total producer contribution to 7% per cent.
Karol Smith Is Optimistic
Anent Colo. Filmmaking
DENVER—Karol Smith, director of the
Colorado Motion Picture and TV Advisory
Commission, formed three years ago to lure
filmmakers to locations in the state, is
optimistic anent the outlook for 1973.
Colorado, he says, quickly is catching up
with New Mexico, which has a $100,000
promotional budget and a half-dozen people
engaged in movie-attracting activities.
Colorado has allotted $34,000 for this
fiscal year but Smith hopes the state will
give the commission at least $55,000 next
year to be used in campaigns designed to
bring moviemakers to the area.
The forecast for 1973 by Smith: "I'll
guarantee you a minimum of 12 featurelength
pictures in Colorado this year. Three
or four of these may be entirely locally
made."
He points to Aurora, Colo.-based CVD
Studios, which offers filmmakers a large
indoor sound stage and will facilitate outdoor
shooting in Colorado. However, he
is reluctant to divulge specifics on projected
production figures, because he doesn't want
"to tip off New Mexico."
Citing the desirability of motion picture
production in the state. Smith notes: "If
a movie company comes to Denver and
leaves $400,000, it doesn't make much of
an impact. But go to a small town and
drop a half-million and it's felt. Local folks
get small parts. I've seen little babies making
$90 a week."
Everybody appreciates the moviemakers,
he says, particularly the environmentalists.
"The thing is that the film people don't
ruin anything. They don't dig up the countryside
and they don't chop down trees.
If anything, they leave things nicer than
they found them—buildings and streets
and such."
Smith assists filmmakers in finding the
desired locations and, in this endeavor, he
depends on local aid once he has read a
script and has photographed likely filming
locations for a producer or director.
"Once I've read the script and sent them
photos of likely spots, they usually come
to town and we take them in person to
the locales. Then we line up the local chamber
of commerce manager or city officials
to help them out," Smith explains.
Also, there's aid offered by the state.
Smith illustrates this fact by showing a
letter Gov. John Love has written to all
state agencies, instructing them to help the
movie people as much as possible.
Producers and directors love Colorado
and are telling their associates about the
state. Smith declares. "They're going away
happy, that's for sure," he comments. "1
may be a one-man office for the time being
but I sure have a lot of good salesmen
working for me back in Hollywood and
New York."
Those salesmen are filmmakers who've
brought their cameras and lights to Colorado
and returned home to spread the
word, according to Smith, and that is why
he is optimistic about the prospects for
the coming year.
Tent 46 Telethon Set
For February 10-11
SEATTLE—Many local industry people
are deeply involved with the planning of
Variety Club Tent 46's annual telethon, to
be held for 20 continuous hours starting
Saturday. February 10, at 9 p.m. The event
will end at 5 p.m. Sunday, February 11.
Numerous major movie and TV stars,
well as local talent, will appear on the telethon
and all proceeds go to local children's
charities.
Last year's Tent 46 telethon brought
over $310,000 in pledges and an even higher
amount is expected this year.
Cliff Lorbeck Appointed
Assistant to NAC Prexy
From North Central Edition
MILWAUKEE—Clifford D. Lorbeck,
Supurdisplay/Server Sales. Milwaukee, has
been appointed assistant to the president of
the National Ass'n of Concessionaires, it
was announced by Harold F. Chesler, president.
Lorbeck, who recently was re-elected
to the position of vice-president of NAC,
will assist Chesler in certain areas of association
activity, including special projects
and working in close liaison with the Eastem
region.
Commenting on the appointment. Chesler
stated: "Cliff Lorbeck, who has served the
association in many important capacities, is
eminently qualified for the 'position of assistant
to the president and I look forward
to working closely with him in many vital
areas of association activity."
Albuquerque Theatres Hit
By Wave of Robberies
ALBUQUERQUE — An armed robber
took $280 from the Hut Adult Theatre in
a lobby robbery Friday night (5). Another
armed holdup man had taken $134 in cash
from the same theatre a week before.
Meanwhile, at the Duke City Drive-In,
an Albuquerque man was robbed of $160
Tuesday (2) by two teenagers. Austin J.
Russell, 22, said the youths jumped him
when he walked into the theatre's restroom
and stole his money.
Snow Storm Stops Show
CARLSBAD, N.M.—The Big Sky Drive-
In's attraction board Wednesday (3) carried
this message: "Closed—Due to Snow White
and the Seven Drifts." The theatre applied
its own rating to the situation: "Rated H."
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For Washington NATO
SEATTLE—Jerry Vitus of Sterling Recreation
Organization has been named chairman
of the National Ass'n of Theatre Owners
of Washington convention to be held in
the Washington Plaza Hotel, Seattle, March
4-6. Working closely with him will be
Lloyd Hughes of the Harlan Fairbanks Co..
as the confab will be held in conjunction
with the National Ass'n of Concessionaires
and various theatre equipment companies.
Registration fee will be $30 per person, $25
for a wife. Any company registering five or
more people will be charged $25 per person.
The convention will open Sunday evening,
March 4. with registration and a cocktail
party, to be followed Monday, March
5, with a business meeting at 9 a.m., luncheon
at noon, business meetings from 1 to
4:30 p.m., then dinner and a screening of
a new motion picture.
Tuesday, March 6, has a business meeting
set for 9 a.m., tradeshow at 1 1 a.m.. lunch
at noon and an all-afternoon tradeshow,
with the evening to feature a cocktail party
and dinner with a major personality as guest
speaker.
Information regarding registration can be
obtained by writing to Saffle's Theatre Service,
2421 Second Ave., Seattle, Wash.
98121, or by phoning (206) 623-5177.
Lewis M. Horwitz Joins
General Cinemas as Buyer
BOSTON—Producer-exhibitor Lewis M.
Horwitz has joined General Cinema Corp.
as a film buyer in the circuit's home offices
here.
Horwitz was preparing the John Marley-
Bill Bushnell screenplay "The Prisoners"
for its December start when personal circumstances
required him to relocate near
the Boston Children's Hospital.
Prior to entering production with "A
Man Called Dagger" for Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer, Horwitz operated the Washington
circuit in Cleveland, Ohio, several years.
Thus he returns, in his words, "to the initial
love of my lengthy affair with the motion
picture industry."
"The Prisoners" rolled on schedule last
month, Bushnell directing and Horwitz producing
with newcomer W. John Seig. Accordingly,
next spring Horwitz may find
himself in the unique position of having to
decide whether or not to play his own picture.
Warner Promotes Noel Ford
To New Australian Post
NEW YORK— Noel Ford has been appointed
managing director of Warner Bros.
(Australia) Pty., Ltd., it was announced by
Myron Karlin, vice-president in charge of
foreign operations for Warner Bros. International.
He assumes his new post immediately.
Ford's previous position was that of
Warner Bros, representative in Australia.
He will continue to headquarter in Sydney.
Jeremiah Johnson/ 'Heartbreak Kid
Share LA Lead for 4th Week at 465
LOS ANGELES — "Jeremiah Johnson"
and "The Heartbreak Kid" apparently are
fated to share common fortunes in Los
Angeles: each week the films have played
here they have turned in identical gross
percentages. The first three weeks each of
these boxoffice successes rated 600-six times
average. Now, the fourth week percentage
for each stands at 465, "Jeremiah Johnson"
continuing its Avco Cinema Center 3 engagement
and "The Heartbreak Kid" playing
at UA Westwood. Ranking as runnerup
to these co-leaders, "Man of La Mancha"
turned in a 290 fifth frame at the Fox
Wilshire.
ABC Century
(Average Is 100)
City 1, Pix Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ),
4th wk 85
ABC Century City 2 The Great Wortz (MGM),
lltti wk 60
Avco Cinemo Center \, Pacific The Getawoy
(NGP), 4th wk 1 50
Avco Cinema Center 2 The Effect of Gamma
Roys on Man-in-the-Moon Morigolds (20th-Fox),
4th wk 200
Avco Cinema Center 3 Jeremioh Johnson (WB),
4th wk 465
Beverly Young Winston (Col), )Oth wk 120
Brum Sleuth (20th-Fox), 5th wk 230
Chinese Up the Sandbox (NGP) ,4th wk 120
200
Cinema
Cinerama
The Nurses
Dome
(SR),
You'll
9th
Like
wk
My Mother (Univ),
4th wk 55
,
Crest Cinema, Hollywood Cinema The Life
ond of 4th wk. 140
Egyptian, UA Cinema Center 2 The Poseidon
Times Judge Roy Bean (NGP),
Adventure (20th-Fox), 5th wk 230
Fine Arts Fellini's Roma (UA), 9th wk 60
Fox Hollywood Hit Man (MGM) 280
Fox Wilshire Man of La Mancha (UA), 5th wk. 290
WE'VE ONLY JUST
Music Hall The Emigront (V^B), 13th wk 115
National 1776 (Col), 4th wk 60
Pacific Beverly Hills Travels With My Aunt
(MGM), 4th wk 130
Pontages Last House on the Left (AlP) 130
Picwood Innocent Bystonders (Para) 80
Plaza Images (Col), 4th wk 1 35
UA Cinema Center The King of
1
Marvin Gardens (Col), 4th wk 1 60
UA Cinema Center 3 The Discreet Chorm of
Bourgeoisie (20th-Fox), 8th wk 220
UA Westwood The Heartbreak Kid (20th-Fox),
4th wk 465
Village Avanti! (UA), 4th wk 75
Vogue— Across IlOth Street (UA), 5th wk 80
'Man of La Mancha' 400
Best Denver Percentage
DENVER—Eight features grossed 200
or more, evidence that the Christmas-introduced
films still possesed dynamic boxoffice
punch. "Man of La Mancha" led the way
with a 400 fifth week at the Aladdin, trailed
most closely by "The Poseidon Adventure"
and "Sounder." each with 300.
Aladdin Mon of Lo Mancha (UA), 5th wk 400
Center The Poseidon Adventure (20th-Fox),
4th wk 300
Century 21 Jeremiah Johnson (WB), 4th wk. ..200
Cherry Creek, Villa Italia Travels With My Aunt
(MGM) 150
Continental Play It as It Lays (Univ), 4th wk. . . 80
Cooper Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ), 4th wk 225
Crest Sounder (20th-Fox), 4th wk 300
Denham The Great Waltz (MGM), 4th wk 125
Denver 2 Across 110th Street (UA), 4th wk. ..115
Esquire Young Winston (Col), 4th wk 225
Flick Fellini's Romo (UA), 4th wk. ..Not Available
Four Theatres Run to High Country (SR),
2nd wk.
Not Available
Four Theatres Snowball Express (BY), 4th wk. ..200
Paramount The Getaway (NGP), 4th wk 225
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LOS ANGELES
Qow on 'he new Filmrow on La Cienega
they are talking about the new Pacific
Theatres Building on North Robertson
which Bill Forman's complete organization
soon will occupy. The firm will be moving
out of its Hollywood Boulevard location.
which is the old Warner Bros. Theatre Building
with the twin radio towers, used when
the old KFWB radio station was housed
there. Now that station owned by Westinghouse
Broadcasting is next door and the
Pacific Theatres offices here will be occupied
by lawyers and possibly some film
production firms. We will miss Beatrice,
Bob and Jim, the former having worked
here for 29 years. She and Jim will move
to the Robertson Boulevard location. The
projection room in the basement still will
be used for previews by Pacific Theatres.
Exhibitors Service announces the opening
of three more first-run theatres in Arizona.
They are the Camelback Plaza twins 1 and
2 in Scottsdale. owned by Dwight Harkins
Theatres, and the Valley Drive-In, Paradise
Valley, owned by E&W Theatres . . . Allen
Sandler. Maurice Max and Bud Goode from
Lion Country Park in Orange County were
in town to discuss their film, now being
completed. The nation has come to know
the history of the famed lion Frazier (and
his love exploits) and their "Frazier, the
Stensuous Lion" is almost completed. A large
national promotion is due on this one. Discussions
are being held with Filmrow home
offices on distribution of this independently
financed production from Shuster/ Sandler
Productions.
Joe Solomon is telling the people on the
Row that he will have a good announcement
within the next few weeks. They are pulling
for this former Filmrow distributor who
moved to Sunset Boulevard.
Newton P. "Red" Jacobs went to Dallas.
Tex., for the Texpo '73 convention, where
Crown International will host the opening
cocktail party at 5 p.m. today (29) and the
6:30 reception tomorrow evening.
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Vincent Tubbs, director of community
relations at Warner Bros., left for Washington.
D.C., to address 200 black newspaper
publishers.
Jules Pincus, formerly division manager
of Loews TTieatres and now with General
Cinema Theatres, and Mrs. Pincus are happy
to announce the engagement of their
daugter Karen to Noel Weiss.
Cinema Service opens a new 350-seat de
lu.xe house, the Rancho Circle Theatre, in
August 15 is the
Las Vegas March 21 . . .
date set for the opening of Robert Lippert's
new four-theatre complex in Glendale. It
will be booked by Cinema Service.
Walter Goodman just returned from
Guam where he visited Leo Slotnick's Hafa
Adai. the largest theatre on the island. Mr.
and Mrs. Slotnick and their daughter are
due in Los Angeles to meet with film buyers
at Cinema Service.
Harold Wirthwein and J. E. Poynter have
torn down the old San Bernardino underskyer
across from Valley State College and
are building in its stead a completely automated
$1,000,000 dual drive-in. the Mount
Vernon Twin. Set to open February 15,
weather jjermitting. each theatre holds 750
cars and features an educational and innovative
kiddies playground. Film Booking
Service will be providing first runs at Twin
1, while Twin 2 will operate on a moveover
policy . . . Barbra Streisand's "Up the Sandbox"
moves from the Chinese to the Plaza
in Westwood.
"Cries and Whispers," Ingmar Bergman's
newest and most highly acclaimed work,
starring Liv Ullmann. Harriet Andersson,
Ingrid Thulin and Cari Sylwan, opened
Wednesday (17) at the Regent ... A limited
two-week engagement of Marcel Ophul's
"The Sorrow and the Pity." recipient of the
Special Award of the Society of Film
Critics, began Wednesday (24) at the Royal
in West Los Angeles.
"The Sword in the Stone," one of Disney's
best films, returned to the screen Friday
(19) at the Monica Twin I. Sunday (21)
"The Wonderful World of Disney" kicked
off a yearlong celebration of Walt Disney
Productions' golden anniversary with a onehour
program of highlights from more than
60 films, including vignettes from "Alice in
Wonderland." "Sleeping Beauty" and "Mary
Poppins."
Robert Bresson's "Four Nights of a
Dreamer," based on Dostoevsky's "White
Nights," opened Wednesday (24) as the second
offering in the Los Feliz Theatre's
French Film Festival '73. It is paired with
"The Idiot." another Dostoevsky classic, directed
by Georges Lampin and starring Gerard
Philipe and Edwige Feuillere.
A dinner-business meeting was held by
the Hollywood/ Los Angeles WOMPIs Tuesday
(23) at the Luau, 421 North Rodeo
Dr., Beverly Hills. Besides electing a nominating
committee to prepare a slate of
officers for election in April, several new
members were inducted. Included were:
Rosemary Hay of Filmex; Lili Beaudin,
20th Century-Fox; Suzanne Carpenter, 20th-
Fox; Romayne Hoffman, 20th-Fox; Gloria
Gonzales, 20th-Fox; Shirley Hollingsworth,
Abajian Associates, and Maria Lampe,
Goldwyn. Club president Susan Gottlieb
presides and the membership discussed
forthcoming charitable, industry and civic
projects in which WOMPI is involved.
Miss Elizabeth Cianfarani of MGM has
been appointed treasurer of the club to
fill the unexpired term of Mrs. Gertrude
Timmins. with Miss Betty Silverforb
(OPEIU) taking over as corresponding
secretary, the office formerly held by Miss
Cianfarani.
Harry Goldstone,
president of Goldstone
Films, is in Los Angeles with his wife for
a week's vacation, after which they will
leave
for San Francisco.
"The Stewardesses" in 35mm opens February
28 in multiple runs in the Los Angeles
area.
Wedding bells are ringing at Columbia:
Nancy Shank, a booker at the Columbia
exchange, was honored at a wedding shower
Thursday (18). She will marry Russ Jeppesen
February 17 . . . Meanwhile, receptionist
Basha Gilbert, back from vacationing,
announced her engagement to Glenn Levy.
Hal Brown, vice-president of American
International Television in charge of sales
and distribution, arrived Wednesday (17)
from his New York office for meetings with
AIP executives.
Benjamin B. Kahane, director of industrial
relations and assistant secretary of
MGM. has 'been elected to the board of directors
of the Ass'n of Motion Picture and
Television Producers. He succeeds G. Clark
Ramsay, former MGM vice-president for
administration, who now is with Universal
as vice-president in charge of advertising
and publicity.
Dimension Pictures' "Sea Creatures" stars
Patrick Wayne and John Ashley.
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Third NAC Regional
At Seattle in March
SEATTLE—The National Assn of Concessionaires
will be staging a regional convention
in the Northwest for the third time
in almost a decade. Through an arrangement
completed between Chicago-based
NAC and the National Ass'n of Theatre
Owners of Washington and Oregon, a combined
Northwest regional convention will
be conducted March 4-6 at the Washington
Plaza Hotel in Seattle. A limited trade
exhibit, consisting of local suppliers, will
be held in conjunction with the combined
regional convention.
Business sessions are being planned for
the three-day convention of the theatre
owners' groups and NAC, which will include
nationally known speakers who will
discuss topics of timely interest covering
both theatre and concession operations.
The complete program, which will include
luncheons, cocktail parties, dinner and
a banquet, soon will be announced. Several
planning committees already have been appointed.
They are: NAC—Lloyd Hughes,
Harlan Fairbanks Co., Seattle, and Vernon
B. Ryles jr.. Poppers Supply Co., Portland.
Ore., co-chairmen. NAC committee members
are: Douglas L. Measor, Roll-A-Way
Skating Club, Lynnwood, Wash.; Virgil
Odell, Odell Concessions Specialties Co.,
Caldwell, Ida.; J. F. Senior, Harlan Fairbanks
Co., Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and
Jerry D. Vitus, Sterling Recreation Organization,
Seattle.
Also, NATO of Washington and Oregon
—Jerry D. Vitus, chairman and NAC-
NATO of Washington and Oregon liaison;
James Bonholzer, Bonholzer Theatres,
Yakima, Wash.; Fred Danz, Sterling Recreation
Organization, Seattle; Harry Moore,
United Theatre Corp., Seattle; Larry Moyer.
Moyer Theatres, Portland, Ore., and M. W.
"Bud" Saffle, Saffle Theatre Service,
Seattle, and registration, Huges and Vitus
for NAC and, for NATO of Washington
and Oregon, Moore and Saffle.
Charles Sellier Nominated
By Colorado Junior CofC
DENVER—Charles E. Sellier. president
of CVD Studios, Aurora, Colo., was one
of 12 young men
nominated by the Colorado
Junior Chamber
of Commerce as a
c a n d i d a t e for the
honor of being the
outstanding member
in the state. Sellier is
planning to produce
at least a dozen feature
films in the coming
two years. The
Charles Sellier
company had focused
on TV material for the past three years.
The results of the voting will be announced
at a banquet to be held at the Colorado
School of Mines, Golden, Colo.
BOXOmCE :: January 29, 1973
SEATTLE
jyTembers of the industry in
the metropolitan
area have had two retirement
luncheons within one week's time. The first
was held in honor of Lou Tomlinson of
American International Pictures and the
latter for Butch Leonard of United Artists.
Both events were at the Edgewater Hotel
and Budd Saffle was toastmaster on both
occasions . on vacations in
Hawaii with their respective wives are Jimmy
Beale, AIP branch manager; Homer
Schmitt. Buena Vista, and Walt Thayer,
programmer at United Theatres.
In town on business as division manager
for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was Stewart
Engerbretson, as well as Gene Jones, San
Francisco, now representing Cinerama Releasing.
Gene closed his company's offices
here Friday (12) and transferred to the San
Francisco office.
Bill Mallette, manager of National General's
Coliseum Theatre, along with Bruce
French, manager of the Wallingford branch
of the Royal Fork Buffet Restaurants,
worked together with Stu Goldman, entertainment
editor of the Outlook newspapers,
on a "The Poseidon Adventure" coloring
contest in the Outlook. Open to people of
all ages, the contest appeared in the 20lh
Century-Fox pressbooks for "The Poseidon
Adventure." There were over 800 entries
and top winners, in addition to receiving a
pair of passes, also had dinners "on the
house" at the Royal Fork. A special citation
was presented by Mallette to French and
the photo appeared in the center section of
the Wednesday (17) Outlook on the entertainment
pages . . . Currently, the Outlook
is holding a "The Sword in the Stone"
coloring contest, tying in with the film's
opening at the Bay and Crossroads 1. Bellevue,
and Cinema I, Renton Village. Here.
too. winners will receive a pair of dinners
at the Royal Fork and pairs of passes to
see the film. Two days after the contest
appeared in the Outlook there already were
211 entries, with seven more days left to
enter.
. . .
Recent sneak previews have been "Sounder,"
from 20th Century-Fox. at the UA
Cinema 150 Friday (12) and "Avanti!" from
United Artists, in the same location Friday
Warner Bros, sneaked "Steelyard
(19) . . .
Blues" at Sterling Recreation Organization's
Music Box Theatre, where "Deliverance"
was in its 13th week Buena Vista
sneaked "The World's Greatest Athlete"
Friday (26) at the Coliseum.
"Jeremiah Johnson" opened in the Town
Theatre Thursday (25); "Jory" at Sterling's
Town, and Columbia's "Dirty Little Billy"
in Renton Village Cinema II and National
Cinema Crossroads 2, Bellevue . . .
"Wilderness
Journey" opened at the Roxy in Renton
and in SRO's Lewis and Clark, Lynn, Lake
City and John Danz .
Off" did
only fair business in its four-theatre engagement
the week of Wednesday (10) at the
Crossroads 2, Cinema II and Aurora and
Midway drive-ins.
Recent screenings: "The Effect of Gamma
Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds"
and "The Heartbreak Kid," 20th Century-
Fox; from National General. "Up the Sandbo,\";
from Universal, "Trick Baby." "Two
People" and "High Plains Drifter"; "Black
Girl." from Cinerama Releasing; "Black
Mama. White Mama," from American International,
and from Columbia, "Chloe in
the Afternoon," "And Now for Something
Completely Different." "Limelight" and a
special trailer on "Lost Horizon."
Continuing engagements locally were
They Only Kill Their Masters," at UA
Cinema 70; "Travels With My Aunt," at
UA Cinema 150; "The Poseidon Adventure,"
at National General's Coliseum;
"Young Winston," at National General's
5th Avenue; "The Great Waltz," in Sterling's
Cinerama; "The Getaway," at Sterling's
Seattle 7th; "Play It as It Lays," at
the Harvard Exit; "Pete 'n' Tillie," in
United's Varsity, and "Snowball Express,"
at the Bay, Crossroads 1 and Cinema 1 . . .
In the neighborhoods "Funny Face" was in
a fourth week at the Guild 45th, as was
"Cabaret" at the Ridgemont. Meanwhile,
"Fiddler on the Roof" still was going strong
at the Southcenter, Northgate and Bellevue
theatres.
DENVER
pilm distributors were keeping the airline
reservation desks busy. United Artists
. . .
. . . Metrodistrict
manager John Dobson traveled to
Seattle, Wash., for meetings with branch
personnel Warner Bros, branch manager
Dick Hill and Paramount branch manager
Jack Micheletti went to Salt Lake City
to set dates on their product
Goldwyn-Mayer branch manager Bates Farley
left for Los Angeles for meetings . . .
Sherm Wood of Associated Theatre Service
also traveled to Salt Lake City and Columbia
salesman Bruce Marshall traveled to
Milwaukee. Wis., on Colosseum of Motion
Picture Salesmen business.
Harold McCormick, state senator who
operates theatres in Canon City, found time
between sessions of the legislature to visit
the exchanges and set dates for his situation.
McCormick also is reopening the El Rio
Theatre in Truth Or Consequences, N.M.
The theatre had been closed for approximately
a year.
Bill Agren, United Artists booker, has
been in the hospital undergoing checkups.
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600 in KC Multiple
KANSAS CITY—"Brother of the Wind"
made a whirlwind debut at seven area theatres
and attracted so much juvenile trade
that the result was a composite 600 firstweek
percentage. This was 275 grossing
points better than No. 2 "The Getaway"
built up at Midland 1 and Ranch Mart 1
(a composite fourth-week 325).
Also grossing in the 300 class were "The
Poseidon Adventure," "Up the Sandbox"
and "Jeremiah Johnson," each one completing
a month's playing time in the metropolitan
area.
(Average Is 100)
Blue Ridge IV, Glenwood II 1776 (Col), 4th wk. 125
Brookside—The Greot Waltz (MGM), 4th wk 200
Brywood 5, Embassy II, Indian Springs 2 Trovels
With My Aunt (MGM) 1 25
Embossy The King of Morvin Gardens (Col),
4th wk 65
Festival Claire's Knee (Col) 1 00
Fine Arts Young Winston (Col), 5th wk 275
Five theotres The Blind Dead (SR) NA
Five theatres The Poseidon Adventure
(20th-Fox), 4th wk 300
Five theatres Snowball Express (BV); The Magic
of Wolt Disney World (BV), 4th wk 200
Four theatres Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ), 4th wk 200
Metro 1, 2 Sounder (20th-Fox), 4th wk 240
Midland 1, Ranch Mart 1 The Getaway (NOP),
4th wk 325
Midland 2 The New Centurions (Col), 15th wk. 85
Plaza Up the Sandbox (NGP), 4th wk 300
Ranch Mart 3, 4 Jeremiah Johnson (WB),
4th wk 300
Seven theatres Brother of the Wind (SR) 600
The Emigrants' Starts Chicago
Run With Standout 350
CHICAGO—Two newcomers, "Fellini's
Roma" at the Carnegie and "The Emigrants"
hit the 350 level, "Fellini's Roma"
scored 300 and so did "Trick Baby," top
film among the long-playing features.
Carnegie Fellini's Roma (UA) 300
Chicago The Getaway (NGP), 4th wk 275
Cinema The Emigrants (WB) 350
Esquire Sleuth (20th-Fox), 4th wk 275
Loop Trick Baby (Univ), 5th wk 300
Michael Todd Sounder (20th-Fox), 5th wk
Oriental Hit Man (MGM); Kansas City Bomber
275
(MGM), 4th wk 175
Roosevelt Block Gunn (Col), 4th wk 200
State Lake The Poseidon Adventure (20th-Fox),
4th wk 275
United Artists Jeremiah Johnson (WB), 4th wk. 100
Woods Across 110th Street (MGM), 4th wk 225
Wichita Playhouse to Be
Used for Bank Expansion
WICHITA, KAS.—Effective March 1,
O. F. Sullivan, owner of the Civic Playhouse,
will transfer the property to the
Wichita State Bank, which will use the
site for expansion. Sullivan opened his first
Wichita movie house, the little West Theatre,
in 1925.
With the sale of the Playhouse, all Sullivan
theatre holdings either have been sold,
razed for commercial expansion or converted
to commercial use, except for the
Crest Theatre on East Douglas, which is
leased to Commonwealth Amusement Corp.
Razing Brotman Building
ROCK ISLAND, ILL.—A construction
company is demolishing the Brotman Building,
which housed the Rialto Theatre in the
600 block of 9th Street. The old showhouse,
which dates back to the silent film era, previously
was located across the street before
the present building was erected.
Richard T. Camerons Buy
Theatre in St. Joseph
ST. JOSEPH, MO.—Mr. and Mrs. Richard
T. Cameron of St. Joseph have acquired
the 1.245-seat Missouri Theatre from the
Durwood interests, owners and operators
of the showhouse since its construction and
opening in 1927. Everett Hughes, district
manager for Kansas City-based American
Multi Cinema, acted as liaison for the sale.
Included in the transaction was the theatre
itself (located at 717 Edmond St.) and the
Missouri Building, which houses a number
of businesses on Eighth Street north of
Edmond.
Tentative plans for the Missouri, which
had been closed as a movie house for more
than two years, call for Friday-Saturday-
Sunday evening performances, with matinees
on Saturdays and Sundays. The remainder
of each week the theatre will be
available for private rentals.
Cameron said the theatre is the last large
movie house in St. Joseph and that the
unusual architectural designs on the interior
have been featured in American Heritage
Magazine.
Dick Smith Announces
Arrow Theatre Debut
HIAWATHA. KAS.—Richard Smith of
Marysville, Kas., announces that Hiawatha's
new theatre, the Arrow, opened last month
with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Skyjacked"
as the inaugural attraction. The new showhouse,
located at 727-29 Oregon St., is constructed
of concrete, steel and brick. Approximately
40x100 feet, the auditorium
seats some 300 patrons. The Arrow is airconditioned,
has a concession stand and a
15x30-foot screen.
Lobby and aisles are fully carpeted and
the upholstered seats have cushion bottoms.
The floor slopes about three feet from the
projection booth to the large screen. The
latest in projection equipment was installed,
according to Smith.
Smith also owns the Astro Theatre and
the Hill Top Drive-In at Marysville, where
he has been in
business for two years. Prior
to that, he owned and operated the theatre
at David City, Neb.
Averill E. Jarboe Dies;
Veteran Mo. Exhibitor
CAMERON, MO.—Averill E. Jarboe,
83, veteran exhibitor here, died at his home
Tuesday (16). He had operated the Ritz
Theatre continuously for 57 years, starting
with silent pictures in 1916. Services were
held Thursday (18) at the Polland-Thompson
Chapel here, with burial in Graceland
Cemetery.
Jarboe leaves his wife Frances: a daughter,
Mrs. Russell Lacy, Plattsburg, Mo.;
three grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
He was a member of the Cameron
Church.
Baptist
"Enter the Dragon" begins filming in
Hong Kong this month.
Lee Joehnck
Lee Joehnck Elected
MPA of KC President
KANSAS CITY—The Motion Picture
Ass'n of Greater Kansas City elected officers
for 1973 at the
Colony Steakhouse
Wednesday (17). Lee
Joehnck, who heads
Commonwealth Theatres
concessions department,
was elected
MPA president to succeed
Norman Nielsen.
Joehnck moves up
from second vice-president.
Others elected were
Dan Smart, Commonwealth district manager,
first vice-president; Tom Fleming,
L&L Popcorn, secretary, succeeding Chuc
Barnes, and George Higginbotham, Drive-
In Theatre Mfg. Co., treasurer (re-elected).
Embassy Foundation Moves
To Buy Theatre Property
FORT WAYNE, IND.—The Embassy
Theatre Foundation, which wants to buy
the 43-year-old downtown film house, has
completed its purchase proposal and delivered
it to the Indianapolis firm planning
to convert the adjacent Indiana Hotel into
housing apartments for senior citizens. The
firm also has planned to take over the
adjacent property, specifically the Embassy
Theatre, and use it for parking and openspace
purposes.
The entire complex (both hotel and theatre)
is owned by Cincom Corp., which
reportedly is willing to sell it to Property
Management Consultants, sponsors of the
conversion project. Paul Tipps, president of
Property Management Consultants, appeared
favorable to the proposal for selling
the Embassy to the foundation, according
to Robert Nickerson, spokesman for the
group seeking to acquire the theatre. Nickerson
did not reveal the purchase price being
offered by the foundation but said it
amounted to approximately 50 per cent of
Property Management's purchase price for
the entire property. Nickerson said the
foundation hopes the matter "can be
wrapped up no later than the end of January."
Originally,
Property Management offered
to lease the theatre to local groups for
$36,000 a year over a 20-year period but
the offer was turned down because Nickerson's
group thought it could operate the
theatre more inexpensively on its own.
France Nuyen and Paul Stevens co-star
in "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" for
APJAC and 20th-Fox.
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which was booked into the Oriental Theatre
by AIP, had opened earlier at the Palace
Theatre in Milwaukee, where it was held
over for a fifth week.
Crown International advised Jack Gilbreth,
president of Gilbreth Film Co., that
"Little Laura and Big John" will be available
in this market in late April. This is the
motion picture which was a topic of dis-
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cussion at the national NATO convention as
one of the outstanding independent releases
Don Gottlieb, vice-president in charge
of sales for General Film Corp., met here
with Gilbreth to set plans in motion for
this spring's release, "RooniMates." Since
opening at Christmastime in the Texas territory,
this film has established new holdover
records. According to reports, it outdid
General Film's top attraction of last year.
"Bonnie's Kids." Some drive-ins in the Texas
area are going into the fourth week with
"RoomMates" ... A number of downstate
exhibitors, including Charles Dyas of Earlville.
James Toal of Monmouth and representatives
of major downstate circuits, have
phoned Gilbreth requesting information
about "George!", a Capital release. Gilbreth
is happy to announce that the film
will open around the first of March in
downstate areas. March 9 is the date set
for a
multiple here.
Harry Balaban of H&E Balaban is vacationing
in Palm Springs . . . Bdb Rosterman
of 20th Century-Fox will take a fast flying
junket in Europe . . . Best wishes to Carol
Parker of 20th-Fox for a quick recovery
from recent surgery at Mercy Hospital.
Curtiss Candy Co. here has promoted G.
R. "Dick" Gregg to director of corporate
services. He will be responsible for sales
promotions, sales analysis, market research,
production coordination, customer service,
distribution, warehousing and fleet operation
. . . United Artists' "The Mechanic" is
one of the top neighborhood grossers while
showing in 40 outlying theatres . . . The
WOMPIs spent Saturday (20) visiting the
men in the Great Lakes Naval Hospital.
Myrtle Sipots of AIP was chairman of this
event . . . "Kes," which has not yet played
in a movie house here, was shown in the
new Film Center at the School of the Art
The Wilmette Theatre in suburban
Institute . . .
Wilmette is showing "A Wall in Jeru-
salem." a collection of documentary footage
on the building and defending of Israel. The
film is narrated by Richard Burton.
Sam Conzola, manager of the L&M Starlite,
South Bend. Ind.. has been on a holiday
. . . Paul Seller, manager of the Mode.
Joliet. left on vacation Friday
Peterson, city manager of
(26) Bob
L&M . . . Management
Co.'s Plaza Theatre. Muscatine, is
back from vacation . . . Sarah Gerard, manager
of the Town Cinema, Kankakee, is on
a holiday . . . Joseph Scanlon. city manager
of the L&M Joliet Theatre, and his wife are
on a cruise which has a stopover in Puerto
Rico . . . Louis Nye, L&M public relations
representative, South Bend, Ind., is back
from a vacation in Mexico.
Dudelson Film Distributors, headed by
Moe Dudelson, late this month will move
from 1325 South Wabash Ave. to new quarters
at 1211 North LaSalle St. "The Sorrow
and the Pity," one of the top grossers distributed
by Dudelson in 1972, has returned
for a showing at UA Cinema I . . . Dave
Schatz, president of Chicago Used Chair
Mart, returned from the East where he
checked on some reseating projects.
Gary Wren has resigned as branch manager
for Warner Bros. A successor will be
named shortly.
Romeo LaPoint, who was a member of
Local 110, died.
While "The Graduate" still is a winner
based on boxoffice figures. Milton Levins,
branch manager for Avco Embassy, is having
to divert some of his attention to "Jory,"
which soon will be opening in this area on
a saturation basis . . . Jack Dionne. who has
served as a booker at Cinerama Releasing
Corp., has joined Avco Embassy as salesman.
He will concentrate on the Wisconsin
territory.
David Darr, sales manager, Columbia
. . .
Pictures, was in Minneapolis to handle business
there for hospitalized Paul Webster
The movie critics of this city's four
major newspapers appeared on Channel 11
to talk about their selections for best films
of the year. "Sleuth" and "Sounder" were
selected as two of the "ten best for 1972."
WOMPIs earned special credits for the
extensive work done in garnering $600
worth of clothing and food for two needy
Group sales for "Sounder" are
families . . .
reported to be heavy into February . . . The
Adelphi Theatre is experimenting with a
straight $1 admission for all seats at all performances.
In the past, the per-person
charge was $1.75 for adults and $1 for
children, with this special price applying
to students and senior citizens. A survey
showed that the majority of patrons were
in the latter classification. Clyde Klepper
and Samuel J. Burrows have been named
operating co-managers of the Adelphi.
Twentieth Century-Fox has been
running
screenings of "The Heartbreak Kid." the
film written by Neil Simon and directed by
Elaine May. As of now, opening date in
this area is February 1 6 —at the Carnegie
Theatre, plus a suburban area theatre . . .
Not that "Sleuth" is in need of publicity
it is one of the big grossers—but there is a
possibility that either Joseph Mankiewicz or
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Michael Caine (or both) will make the local
scene . . . Luis Bunuel's "The Discreet
Charm of the Bourgeoisie," voted "best film
of the year" (and "best director of the year")
by New York film critics, is being screened
for exhibitor groups.
National General Pictures will be launching
"The Life and Times of Judge Roy
Bean" at the United Artisst Theatre in the
Loop. Meanwhile, selected city runs are
being set up for "The Getaway" and "Up
the Sandbox," both of which continue their
high-powered action in their initial and
current situations . . . NGP president
Charles Boasberg: Norman Levy, Eastern
sales manager; Raymond McCafferty. Western
sales manager, and Harry Mandell, controller,
spent several days visiting exchanges
here and in Milwaukee.
. . .
Condolences to Bill Durante of the Biograph
Theatre on the death of his mother
The William Durantes have a new address,
5 Circle Dr., Chatsworth, 111. 60921.
Jack Eckhardt of Cinemation Industries
was in Detroit to set up openings of "Teenage
Sex Report." At the same time, a number
of Detroit area theatres negotiated for
combination bookings of "Oh! Calcutta!"
and "Fritz the Cat." Jack also is laying
groundwork for spring features, including
"Camper John," "The Cheerleaders,"
"Maxie" and "The Night God Screamed."
Aside from "The Cheerleaders," all new
product represents family entertainment.
Best wishes to Vi Dane and Herman
Couston on their marriage.
"The Emigrants," which will have its initial
run at the Cinema Theatre, arrived a
day early for a preopening showing to benefit
the American-Scandinavian scholarship
run.
Lorraine Ramacciotti of Warner Bros.
ST .
LOUIS
J^ou Moore, publicity chairman, reports that
the Better Films Council of Greater St.
Louis met Friday (19) at 10:30 a.m. at the
Heritage House, 2809 Olive St. Member
organization representatives were particularly
urged to attend in order to assist in
planning future endeavors of the council.
Edwin Dorsey, past chief barker of Variety
Club Tent 4 was re-elected to a third
consecutive term as president of Our Lady
of Grace Child Center at the recent annual
meeting of the board of directors. Joe Simpkins.
Tent 4 found-raising chairman, was
re-elected to a vice-presidency. The center is
one of the principal beneficiaries of funds
raised annually in Variety's Crusade for
Forgotten Children Telethon.
Virgil Jones, who opened offices for JMG
Film Co. in Room 1014, 32 West Randolph
St.. can be reached at 346-6916 .
Charles V. Lipps has retired as board chairman
and chief executive officer of Curtiss
Candy Co. Allin
W. Proudfoot, who served
as president and chief operating officer, has
taken over as chief executive for the firm
. . . One of the outstanding grossers among
the Christmas season openers has been "Pete
'n' Tillie." It continues to draw good business
as it is held over week after week in
downstate and Chicagoland theatres.
Roy Carpenter, Universal Pictures assistant
genera! sales manager, was in town to
join Al Kolkmeyer, regional manager, and
Haywood Mitchusson, branch manager, for
the United Artists Theatre Circuit trip to
Milwaukee . . . Universal's new Clint Eastwood
movie. "High Plains Drifter." has
been snared by the M&R Oriental Theatre
in the Loop for a mid-April opening . . .
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Good wishes to Richard Wander, who joined
the Universal sales staff here. He formerly
was a booker in Universal's Detroit
office.
John Roberts was welcomed as branch
manager in Buena Vista's Midwest exchange.
He succeeds Bill Williams, who
transferred as BV branch manager in Dallas,
Tex. Roberts was associated with Cinerama
Releasing Corp. in Buffalo. N.Y., prior to
coming to this city . . . BV district manager
Lee Heidingsfeld and Roberts are getting
set for action on "The World's Greatest
Athlete." They will greet Jan-Michael Vincent
of the film here in early February for
an extensive publicity program which includes
a press conference at the Tribune
with high school students. Meanwhile, they
are preparing for the return of "Mary Poppins."
The reissue date is July 6 but, according
to early bids, "demand is greater
than supply."
John Sezoneff, special sales representative
for Entertainment Ventures, visiting Gilbreth
Film Co.. announced his company's
upcoming releases: "Bummer," rated R;
"The Flesh and Blood Show," also R, ard
a new R version of "Trader Hornee," with
a new advertising campaign and new prints
especially geared for drive-in audiences.
The Apollo Theatre, 327 DcBaliviere
Ave., newly reopened Friday (12). was
closed twice during the weekend (13, 14)
by city police who reported the closings
would continue until the theatre stops showing
allegedly obscene films. Three employees
were arrested. John Livingston.
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was welcomed back after an absence due ,^
to surgery . . . L^o Shauer of 20th Century- 1
Fox is recuperating from surgery.
Cathy Janda joined 20th Century-Fox as
secretary to branch manager Dan Marks
. . . Lxwis Motion Picture Enterprises started
shooting titles
for "Three," a new horror
film reported to be really grisly in content.
Spring Series Titles Set
By Fort Wayne Film Club
FORT WAYNE, IND.—The Fort Wayne
Film Club's spring series will offer 15
cinema programs. Motion pictures will be
shown on Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. in the
Georgetown Theatre.
The series starts February 3 with "Seven
Samurai" Other offerings will be: "Room
Service." "On the Waterfront." "Fort
Apache," "Rosso and His Brothers," "Serials
'n' Silents," "Key Largo," "The 39 Steps,"
"Captain Blood," "The Jazz Singer," "Short
Subjects," "Ashes and Diamonds," "Footlight
Parade," "Treasure of Sierra Madre"
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the best Bond ever. Meanwhile, United Arthas
completed two years in the Peace Corps
in Korea, is working towards a master's
degree in film at the University of Texas.
phomas Film has sent its 1973 release list
out which contains over 80 new titles
for exhibitors to book. These range from
G-rated family features, including "Pepper
and His Wacky Taxi" and "Luana," to X-
features such as "When the Cat's Away."
The Thomas staff is looking forward to a
good year: arrangements already have been
made for 15 multiple saturation breaks in
in the Kansas City-St. Joseph-Wichita-Topeka
areas, beginning in March and continuing
through September, with massive
"umbrella" type TV and radio advertising
for each picture. Thomas Film also will be
booking Ingmar Bergman's new film. "Cries
and Whispers," which the New York Film
Critics recently acclaimed as the best picture
of the year. Thomas Film also is handling
both "Reefer Madness" and "Leaping Fish"
in this territory.
William E. LaVelle, Columbia Pictures
field representative, returned from Dallas
where he met with John Skouras, Columbia
national exploitation manager, and Hal
Cheatam, vice-president of Chase, Inc. They
conferred on various campaigns for Columbia
product in the Texas and Oklahoma
regions. LaVelle returned to Kansas City
to set up a tour schedule for the stars of
"Dirty Little Billy"—Michael J. Pollard,
Lee Purcell and Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Evans—along with the picture's director
.Stan Dragoti and his wife. In addition to
radio and TV interviews and press rounds.
Pollard, Purcell, Evans and Dragoti had
dinner with Kansas City Mayor Charles
Wheeler and his family Sunday (28). Mike
Selsman, production representative, also is
accompanying the tour. All of the actors
will make visits to major Kansas and Missouri
cities.
James Bond fans in general and the
Glavas brothers in particular will be delighted
to know that George Lazenby is alive
and will be returning to Kansas City February
7 to battle it out with Sean Connery
in the "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"-
"Diamonds Are Forever" combo. Who will
win? Many may prefer the more vintage
Bond but this writer feels OHMSS remains
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coming this summer as James Bond in "Live
and Let Die."
Screenings at Commonwealth: "First Circle"
(Para), Tuesday (23); "The Asphyx"
(United National), Wednesday (24); "Sleuth"
(20th-Fox), and "Office Girl" (Producers
Distributors Co. of Des Moines), Thursday
(25); "Steelyard Blues" (WB) and "Showdown"
(Univ), Friday (26).
Terry Semel, assistant to Irving Ludwig,
president of Buena Vista, visited with local
BV branch manager Dick Resch Wednesday
(17).
Kathy Korenak, Buena Vista branch secretary,
was involved in an automobile accident
Tuesday (23). She was badly bruised
in the mishap but otherwise uninjured.
Ritz Schmittling is the new general clerk
at Universal. She hails from St. Louis.
Ralph Amacher, branch manager of Midwest
Films, was-back on Filmrow after his
recent operation.
Mary Hayslip, Thomas Film office manager,
underwent surgery at Trinity Lutheran
Hospital Monday (15). She now is at home
recovering and wishes to thank all of her
friends who sent cards and get-well wishes.
John Shipp, Thomas Film, was in
the St.
Louis area discussing his company's product
with the circuits.
Virginia Applegate, Universal Pictures
film inspector, who is retiring after nearly
50 years in the motion picture industry,
was honored with a farewell luncheon Friday
(26) by fellow employees. She began
her career as an inspector with 20th Century-Fox
in 1923 where she worked for
20 years. She served seven years with MGM
and five with Allied Artists before joining
the Universal inspection department for the
past 13 years. Virginia says she is going to
enjoy just taking it easy.
Mr. and Mrs. Abbott J. Sher announce
the marriage of their daughter Nancy Elaine
to Robert Neil Cohen, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Ralph R. Cohen of Longview, Tex., Saturday
(6) at the Oakwood Country Club. Ab
Sher is a partner in the ownership of the
Exhibitor's Film & Delivery Service. The
newlyweds went to Mexico for their honeymoon
and will make their home in Austin.
Tex., where the bride will graduate from
the University of Texas in May with a degree
in political journalism. The groom, a
graduate of Northwestern University, who
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legal adviser to the St. Louis Police Department,
with an assistant prosecuting attorney,
saw a film there Friday night (12)
and called it "the worst pornography I've
ever seen." Booked on suspicion of "exhibiting
obscene motion pictures" were Anthone
Perrone. 38, of 5507 Belridge Court.,
Jennings; projectionist Robert Ottens, 20, of
223 Clearpoint Lane, Affton, and Modisto
Silvano. 74, of 333 DeBaliviere. They were
released on $500 bonds. Police said Perrone
told them he was the theatre manager Friday
night (12) but resigned and left Silvano
in charge Saturday (13). Sgt. William Ellingham
of the police morality squad said the
theatre had been closed nearly two years
and was acquired by a Los Angeles-based
firm. He said it took five months for the
fimi to get a license from the license collector's
office for reopening Friday (12).
The Apollo Theatre was closed many times
in 1971 for allegedly showing obscene films.
It was the lack of a license that forced it
out of business. Efforts to force License
Collector Benjamin Coins to issue a license
were refused by Circuit Judge Lackland H.
Bloom. After viewing the film Friday (12),
detectives confiscated six reels. They said
two movies, "Sex and the Single Man" and
"Hard at It," were shown to about 25 patrons.
Saturday (13) the movies were "City
of Sin" and "Mr. Peepers."
Michael J. Riordan, retired Arthur Enterprises
office staff executive, is at home
(6017 Columbia Ave., 63139) making excellent
progress following hospitalization
and treatment for a heart seizure and would
welcome notes and cards from fellow industryites.
Variety Tent 4 barkers and ladies have set
their next membership meeting, a noon
luncheon, for Friday, February 2. in the
Zodiac Lounge, Chase-Park Plaza Hotel,
with the agenda featuring a final report on
planning for the seventh annual telethon.
Crusade for Forgotten Children, a 20-hour
event on KPLR-TV, Channel II. The telethon
will be preceded by a $I00-a-plate
dinner at the Chase-Park Plaza Hotel Saturday,
February 17. and when it's all over
more than 40 area agencies for needy, crippled,
shut-in, handicapped and deprived
children will share in the proceeds. A total
of $1.6 million has been raised since the
telethon's inception, of which $307,000 was
raised last year. Joining the more than 400
men and women of Variety working the
show will be Broadway and Hollywood
stars,
local entertainers and volunteer workers.
Again headlining the show will be former
St. Louisan Maureen Arthur, daughter
of David Arthur, Arthur Enterprises executive,
along with singer Betty Johnson, "Smiling
Jack" Smith and Blake Evans, countrywestern
singer.
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NATO PASS—^Tennessee
Go>ernor
Dunn is presented a statewide pass to
an theatres belonging to or operated
by members of NATO of Tennessee.
Making the presentation are Fred H.
Massey (center), president of NATO of
Tennessee, and Gene Patterson (right),
vice-president of the NATO group.
Massey also is president of the Massey
Seating Co. and Massey Theatres.
'Poseidon Adventure'
300 in Memphis 4th
MEMPHIS — "The Poseidon Adventure."
"Jeremiah Johnson," "Across 110th Street.
"The Getaway" and "Young Winston" were
the topnotchers here l.s holdovers continued
to bring substantial support. "The Poseidon
Adventure" was the leader with three times
average, trailed most closely by "Jeremiah
Johnson." which earned 250 in a fourth
week. The other three top grossers doubled
average in fourth weeks.
(Average Is 100)
Crosstown—The Poseidon Adventure (20th-Fox),
4th wk 300
Loews'— Block Gunn (Col), 4th wk 100
Mako—Across 110th Street (UA), 4th wk 200
Memphion—Young Winston (Col), 4th wk 200
Paramount—Jeremioh Johnson (WB), 4th wk. ..250
Park—Brother of the Wind (Sun) 100
Plazo—The Getoway (NGP), 4th wk 200
Studio—Office Girls (Jaco) 50
Village—Snowball Express (BV); The Magic
of Walt Disney World (BV), 4th wk 100
'The Poseidon Adventure' Posts
Another 1,000 in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS—"The Poseidon Adventure"
raced through another 1.000 gross
percentage week at the Robert E. Lee Theatre,
still moving at a ten times average
business pace. "Sounder" also continued to
be a favorite with ticket buyers and earned
a rousing 400 in a fourth week at the Cine
Royale Theatre.
Cine Royale—Sounder (20th-Fox), 4th wk 400
Joy—Pete 'n' Tillie (Uniy), 4th wk 200
Robert E. Lee—The Poseidon Adventure
(20th-Fox), 4th wk 1,000
Trons-Lux—Trovels With My Aunt (MGM) 300
Scott Holden, son of William Holden. has
been signed for a role in "Breezy"
(Univ/Malpaso).
JACKSONVILLE
phil Kehoe, Iowa e.xhibitor who formerly
served as advertising manager of ABC
Florida State Theatres, dropped by ABC
FST's Edgewood Theatre for a chat with
manager Art Castner during a recent trip
down Florida's east coast . . . John Harlan,
executive in the local home office of ABC
EST. reports that a statistical unit which
formerly compiled reports on ABC theatre
circuits in the United States in a New York
office has been moved to the seventh floor
of the local Florida Theatre Building, employing
one supervisor and three statistical
clerk-typists.
Newest newlywed on Filmrow is Don
Gatlin, AIP booker, who married Marie
Gamble December 29 . . . Richard Lewis,
AIP manager, returned here Tuesday (2)
from Miami visits with Eddie Stern of Wometco
and Pete Dawson of United Booking
Service to find himself the guest of honor
at a surprise birthday party given by the
AIP staff and friends.
Wendy Hendrickson, WOMPI president,
reported that her group of industry women
received $115 from the Gator Bowl Ass'n
for working concessions stands at the Gator
Bowl during the Auburn-Colorado football
game . . . Ethel Rubin, Universal biller,
received a green light from physicians after
checkups during a four-day stay in a local
hospital . . . Rexene "Rex" Grimm. WOMPI
second vice-president, is still recuperating
from an auto accident last month.
Joe Charles, manager of ABC FST's
downtown Center, gave his action fans a
Saturday night sneak preview of "Across
110th Street" during his final week of
"The Mechanic."
The WOMPI board of directors called a
special membership meeting for Tuesday
night (23) in the downtown Public Library
auditorium to decide by voice vote if the
group is to continue as an active WOMPI
unit or if it is to curtail its activities during
the coming year. WOMPI leaders report
that the majority of members have ceased
participating in the many community and
industry volunteer services, which for many
years marked WOMPI as one of Jacksonville's
most prestigious women's organizations
and winner of three top honors in
1970, 1971 and 1972 in the Eve Golden
Apple awards presented by the Florida
Publishing Co.
Betty Grable flew in from her Las Vegas
home to fill a four-week engagement as the
star of "Born Yesterday" at the Alhambra
Dinner Theatre. In the crowd greeting her
at the airport was a middle-aged ex-Marine
who said he had a cheesecake pinup picture
of the former movie star pasted on his
gun shield during the Battle of Iwo Jima.
"She's got on a pantsuit," he groaned, as
Miss Grable smiled for a television camera,
"and I've waited all these years to see those
'million dollar legs.' "
The city's newest and largest branch public
library has been built across Monument
Road from ABC FST's Regency Theatre.
The location was selected by the city's planning
board as a spot most likely to attract
a large attendance of readers, similar to the
Regency Theatre's experience in attracting
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Philips Highveay Plaza merchants attracted
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Sheldon MandeU's Five Point Theatre
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Brock, Florida Publishing Co. entertainment
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this year . . .
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The biggest dramatic show in the city was
not on theatre screens during this report
period; it was enacted on the roof of
the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge and had
all the pathos, tenseness and excitement of
a Hollywood spectacular. But it wasn't over
in three hours, nor was it forgotten as one
forgets a movie. Theatres in the downtown
area closed during the shooting and for a
while afterwards; consequently, grosses were
down after an uptrend had set in from the
Christmas pre-slump. Filmrow offices in the
ITM Building were open Monday (8), as
the Trade Mart was not in the "sealed
area" but employees were evacuated at
1 1 :30 a.m., due to a bomb threat.
Nor was the weather any help to theatres
in the report period: sleet and snow forced
theatres in several parts of the Louisiana
territory to close and snow fell in New
Orleans for the first time since 1963.
Asa Booksh, manager of the Orpheiun
Theatre, and Irene Mexic of Star Advertis-
. . .
ing Agency met with Tony Alterman of
Melro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures to plan for
the world premiere of "Deadly Honeymoon,"
scheduled for the Orpheum Theatre
The father of Ruth Roll, Gulf States
Theatres, visited her from Indiana during
the Christmas-New Year holidays . . Eddie
.
Delaney returned to his desk at Gulf States
Theatres after a bout in the hospital.
June Ellis was given a farewell luncheon
by fellow employees at Gulf States Theatres.
She resigned her position in the GST booking
department to return to her hometown
of Jackson, Miss.
Irene Mexic, in addition to her work on
"Deadly Honeymoon," as mentioned above,
was busy setting up radio and TV appearances
for Cicely Tyson, star of 20th Century-Fox's
"Sounder," current at the Cine
Roy ale . . . Irene and Bing Bengsston of
Gulf States Theatres' publicity department
met with WKNO and WGNO-Radio to
up a dusk-to-dawn show in the area.
set
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Trans-Lux
Cinerama treated the girls in the booking
department of Gulf States and Irene Mexic
to an evening in Vienna as guests for a
showing of "The Great Waltz."
The Saenger brought iback the organ and
the silent screen, showing "The Eagle,"
starring Rudolph Valentino, Wednesday
(17) and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame,"
starring Lon Chaney, Thursday (18). Stan
Kann was at the Saenger organ for both
showings.
More GST notes: Shirlene Herrin returned
to work after a two-month leave of
absence. She and her husband Wayne now
have a baby daughter named Melissa Michelle
Welcome to new employees Mary
. . . Anderson in the bookkeeping department
and Flo Cuadrado, secretary for Eddie
Richards and Armand Portie. bookers . . .
Roland Hoffman was surprised on his December
31 birthday with a party and all the
trimmings by members of his department
. . . Nancy Schmitz no longer is the GST
switchboard operator; she has become a student
at Louisiana State University in Baton
Rouge . have moved into their
new offices, which enables them to work
more closely together. The booking group
includes Don Woods, Lou Dwyer, James
Hightower. Armand Portie and Eddie Richards.
Bob Boovy, formerly with Gulf States
Theatres but now with Dimension Pictures
in Los Angeles, was a visitor in the office
Another visitor was
for a few days . . .
Don Gottlieb, head of General Films, Los
Angeles ... A GST luncheon was held
at
Kolb's Restaurant and those attending were
Lou Dwyer, Don Woods, Eddie Richards,
Armand Portie, Bill Gehring and B. A.
Bengtsson of the circuit: Eric de Neve, Lou
Oubre and Jimmy Howell, distributors of
General-Dimension products ... A GST
supervisors' meeting, held at the home office
here. Wednesday (17) and Thursday (18).
was attended by Ray Sturdivant, John Taylor,
Doug Spieckerman, Rick Gould, H.
Evans and Ron Woods . Anderson
has been added to the GST staff as an assistant
to Harry E. Thomas in construction
. . . Visiting George Schmitz, GST director
of concessions, was Gordon B. Rogers, with
the Smithfield Co., Baltimore, Md.
Theatres reported closing for the winter
are the Chatom in Chatom, Ala., and the
49 Drive-In at Magee, Miss.
MEMPHIS
The Imperial at Pocahontas, Ark., has
changed hands. Max Oakley ceased
operations some weeks ago and the theatre
is now being operated by John Truitt . . .
Gene Nash, owner, has closed Skyway
Drive-In at Humboldt for the season.
Robert Bostick, dean of Filmrow. was
in Georgia on business, visiting Atlanta and
Douglas . . . Leon Rountree, Holly, Holly
Springs, was in Memphis on business for
Amelia Ellis, Northgate.
his theatre . . .
Frayser, was shopping on the row.
Bill Darby, owner, opened the 300-
seat Chicot Theatre in a Little Rock, Ark.,
shopping center.
Gordon Spradley New
Tent 33 Chief Barker
MIAMI—Gordon Spradley was installed
as chief barker of Variety Tent 33, as the ;
Miami barkers celebrated their silver anni-
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versary as an organization Saturday (20) at
the Sheraton Four Ambassadors Hotel.
Other officers installed: Harry Littman,
first assistant chief barker; W. G. Murray,
second assistant chief barker; Donald
Coester, property master, and Edward Melniker,
dough guy. The installations were
made by Ralph Renick, the master of ceremonies.
Among recipients of special awards at the
ceremonies were architect Morris Lapidus,
for distinguished service; Ed Bishop, for his
part in the Delta Airlines airlift for the
benefit of Variety's Children's Hospital in
Miami; Abraham Mailman, for contributions
to the Jackson Memorial Hospital; Bernice
Melniker, Evelyn Mitchell and Dorothy
Littman, for volunteer efforts in support of
Variety projects.
MIAMI
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Fariane Rd. Admission was $1.50 for adults,
$1 for children. Nostalgia dealers offered
comic books and other items for sale or
trade.
Coconut Grove, incidentally, is becoming
famous as locale of the filming of "Deep
Throat," a pornographic boxoffice success
($3.2 million in 70 cities thus far) that was
made last spring by Jerry Damiano. Lou
Perry, an associate of Damiano, was quoted
in a Miami Herald article as saying that the
movie cost $25,000. The film was made at
the studio of artist Sepe Dobronyi, Hungarian
sculptor in Coconut Grove but Dobronyi
refused to let the moviemakers film
the identifiable interior of his property, only
the ouside. So far the film hasn't played
any of Miami's adult theatres. The female
lead, identified by a fictitious name in local
news stories about the film, was said to
have made $125 a day for five days during
the making of the picture. She is a nurse
and works in a hospital, according to Dobronyi,
while LeRoy Griffith, Miami exhibitor
who is reported to be considering showing
the film, was authority for the statement
that the actress is "broke and needs
a job."
The story of the first black graduate at
West Point is told in "The John Clayton
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PORT ARTHUR. TEX. — With the
chamber of commerce hosting opening festivities,
Gulf States Theatres" Golden Tri, a
new indoor complex, made its debut here
Friday. December 22.
Miss Port Arthur and Miss Calvalcade
Queen held the Golden Tri ribbon for the
cutting ceremonies performed by Mayor
Sadler. Brief remarks were made by the
mayor. GST district supervisor Doug
Spieckerman and GST city manager Alvin
Thibodeaux.
Opening of the triplex raises to eight the
total number of screens being operated by
Gulf States Theatres in Port Arthur. T. G.
Solomon, head of the circuit, which is based
in New Orleans. La., said that more construction
in Port Arthur is being planned
by GST.
Mike Steen Will Screen
Test Film for Investors
HOUSTON—Mike Steen. the movie producer,
is scheduled to visit Houston with a
25-minute test film to show local investors
on what progress he is making toward casting
and filming "One Arm," the Tennessee
Williams play.
The star of the film will be Dave Shade,
who comes from Crosby.
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DALLAS—Robert W. Selig, executive assistant
to the president of the Pacific Theatre
Corp. and Cinerama, will be the principal
speaker at TEXPO 73"s luncheon Tuesday
(30), the first full day of NATO of
Texas convention activities at the Fairmont
Hotel.
The convention, which will continue with
a full slate of program events through
Wednesday (31) and Thursday. February 1.
is expected to attract a record number of
exhibitors. New York and Hollywood film
industry executives and many persons connected
with Southwest, Central and Southeast
regional firms associated with the film
business.
Selig, a National Ass'n of Theatre Owners
vice-president and member of that organization's
executive and drive-in committees,
heads a list of distinguished speakers
that includes Roy White, president of the
National Ass'n of Theatre Owners, Cincinnati,
Ohio, and Sam Arkoff, chairman of the
board. American International Pictures. Also
due at the convention are Leo Jaffe, president.
Columbia Pictures, New York, and
Mike J. Frankovich. the latter to receive
the NATO of Texas Producer of the Year
Award.
Also scheduled to receive awards at the
Roy White
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are Joel Grey, who will be recognized as
Musical Star of the Year for his performance
in Allied Artists' "Cabaret," and
Dayle Haddon, to be presented the NATO
of Texas Newcomer of the Year Award for
her performance in Walt Disney's "The
World's Greatest Athlete."
Programmed around the theme of "Bright
Ideas." the convention again will feature the
popular Show-in-the-Round tradeshow in
the Fairmont's Regency Room.
Mrs. Claude (Peg) Ezell and Mrs. Al
(Isabel) Reynolds, co-chairmen of the
ladies committee, have concentrated their
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Ronny Crouch, regional sales manager,
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"Panel Discussion of Small-Town Theater
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3 p.m.—Spanish-Language Exhibitor Ass'n
Board Meeting—French Room
4:30 p.m.—Show-in-the-Round — Regency
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6:30 p.m.— Reception—Regency Ballroom
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Response: Mike J. Frankovich
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Edinburgh, Tex., Capri
Closes Run of X films
EDINBURGH, TEX.—Randy Richter of
Corpus Christi, manager of the Edinburgh
Capri Theatre, voluntarily agreed to close
the facility after Oscar Mclnnis, Hidalgo
County district attorney, gave him a copy
of state laws on obscenity.
The Capri was one of three theatres in
the Lower Rio Grande Valley specializing
in X-rated films and is said to have drawn
heavily from Mexico, where it had advertised
in Reynosa newspapers.
Still in operation are full-time X theatres
at Harlingen and Brownsville. A drive-in
theatre at San Benito still shows X films
four nights a week.
Ossie Davis is directing "Gordon's War."
a Palomar production for 20th-Fox release.
GST Will Construct
Twins in Greenville
GREENVILLE. TEX.—At its first meeting
this year, the city council issued a specific
use permit to Gulf States Theatres for
operation of a twin screen indoor theatre at
6219 Wesley St. Decision to issue the permit
was made on a 7-0 vote.
Operation of the theatre earlier had won
the approval of the city's planning and zoning
commission. W. L. Dawson, representing
the circuit which operates Greenville's other
two theatres, said that an agreement had
been worked out with owners of the Rolling
Hills Shopping Center to provide adequate
parking spaces for the new theatre, which
will be a 500-seater. City ordinances require
at least one parking space for each three
seats in a motion picture theatre.
First of 20 Circuit
Units in Marshall
MARSHALL, TEX.—MarshaU Theatres,
which has announced plans to build 20
theatre complexes in the Southwest, will
construct the prototype for these
operations
here near the intersection of Travis Street
and East End Boulevard. Announcement of
the construction was made by the local
chamber of commerce.
The Marshall twins will have a total capacity
of around 800 patrons and are to cost
about $350,000. B. J. Duncan Co. of Marshall
has the construction contract and the
project will be financed with local funds.
Marshall Theatres is headed by president
Jimmy Duncan, a composer whose hits include
such gold record numbers as "My
Special Angel," "String Along" and the gospel
tune "I Asked the Lord." Duncan plans
to move to Marshall and establish headquarters
here for the circuit. He said that
Nacogdoches has been tentatively chosen as
the site for the circuit's second complex.
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Port Arthur. John Weldon, former theatre
manager at McKinney, is managing the new
complex as representative of Showcase International,
a theatre management corporatiion
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Ennis under the leadership
of LeRoy Mitchell, president.
Each of the cinemas will seat 254 patrons.
Separate shows with separate admission run
simultaneously each week, the boxoffice
opening daily at 5:30 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday matinees are held each weekend for
young patrons. Regular admission is 75
cents for children and $2 for adults.
The entrance to the complex is approached
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Homer McCallon Retiring
HOUSTON—Homer 'Mac'" McCallon.
veteran Houston manager for Loews' Theatres,
has announced his retirement as of
February 2.
McCallon, who has supervised the operations
of Loew's twins, Delman and Sharpstown
Drive-In theatres and, until October
15, Loews" State on Main Street downtown,
will be completing more than 45 years with
the circuit here and 52 years with film
houses.
He will be succeeded by A. H. Peterson.
city manager for Loews' in Nashville, Tenn.
McCallon, a native of Tennessee, began
his long career as an usher at the Bijou
Theatre in Knoxville. He also became a
scenic and poster artist to help pay his way
through the University of Tennessee there.
He came to Houston in 1927 as the press
agent and advertising manager of Loews'
State, one of the country's most elaborate
movie palaces, on the eve of its formal
opening.
McCallon moved up to the managership
in 1943. He then supervised the building
of the drive-in at Sharpstown and the suburban
hardtop twins at Town and Country
Village and the acquisition and renovation
of the Delman.
The downtown theatre was closed in October
and has been dismantled.
McCallon plans relaxation and perhaps
travel with his wife Virginia, who retired
several years ago as fashion and beauty
editor of the Houston Post.
Representative Patronage
At Josephine's X Films
SAN ANTONIO—Mrs. M. M., writing
to Hot Line in the San Antonio News.
stated, "I am literally appalled at the movies
currently being shown in some of our local
movie houses and wonder how come the
vice squad and the district attorney's office
are sitting on their hands? A friend told
me about two currently being shown at the
Josephine— "Female Factory" and "Baby
Vicki"—and I was shocked to learn that
such films are being permitted in neighborhood
theatres. Just where are our guardians
of public morals?"
The answer to the letter was as follows:
"Vice squad Det. Harold Hoff took a look
at these films Monday and pronounced them
both permissible under new court rulings.
He put them in the category of soft-core
pornography, which means all the sex acts
are done indirectly without the sexual organs
showing.
"Showing two persons naked, locked in
embrace and going through all the apparent
motions of sexual intercourse is permissible
as long as the sexual organs are not shown,
a vice squad spokesman said.
"This type of film has been shown at the
Josephine Theatre for some time, according
to Tom Powers, Cinema Arts Theatre city
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DALLAS
Trie and Maud deNeve arrived here late
Thursday (18) to open their new distribution
office, Dimension-General Releasing
Co.. 4308 North Central Expressway
(Suite 205). Their telephone number is 827-
4444. Dimension Pictures Corp. and General
Film Corp. of Los Angeles will be the
major suppliers of films to the company.
This is only an expansion of the deNeves'
business, as they will continue to be associated
with those distributors they have been
representing in this territory.
Dimension-General Releasing Co. has
announced at least 13 features to be released
this year. Soon to be available are:
"Three Dimensions of Greta." "Single
Girls." "Wonder Women." "Sea Creatures,"
"The Candy Snatch." "Terminal Island" and
"The Devil's Wedding Night." For summer
release, a "Doberman" sequel is in the
works, along with other films. Prints on the
company's 1972 releases are in plentiful
supply and available for booking.
Eric Distributing Co. also will continue
its successful operation at Metairie, La.,
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under Eric deNeve's supervision.
The office in Metairie is staffed by Don
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all
of whom have had extensive distribution
experience.
Bob Milentz and Bob Davis, owners of
the Brazos Twin Drive-In on Highway 288,
South of Angleton in the Brazosport area,
have employed Vernon Watkins of Dallas
to do the buying and booking for their
theatre.
WOMPI members, in their industry service
efforts, have made up a Filmrow Directory
and invite film folks to visit their
booth at the NATO convention and get an
up-to-date list of telephone numbers and
addresses for all branches of the industry.
WOMPIs would appreciate it if those visiting
the convention booth would register for
a color portable TV set, which will be
given away at a drawing Thursday, February
1, following the Snacks With Conces-
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FORT WORTH
Tohuny Nitzinger's
rock group was on the
stage of ABC Interstate's Palace Theatre
New Year's Eve. To be more exact, the
attraction actually started at 12:15 a.m.
Monday (1) and was repeated at 2 a.m.
Tickets were $2.50 each. Nitzinger, a Fort
Worth native, has made it big nationally.
Talk about perfect timing! At the Fort
Worth Ridgelea, the day's programs Sunday,
December 31, were arranged so the last
showing of "The Poseidon Adventure"
started exactly at 11:40 p.m. In this way,
the New Year's Eve patrons in the theatre
were able to note the arrival of the real
New Year at the very moment that Gene
Hackman. Ernest Borgnine and all the other
stars in the adventure film were greeting the
New Year on the screen. How's that for
showmanship? Good thinking on the part
of some mastermind to plan this—if we
knew who should get the credit!
Elston Broolm, Fort Worth-Star Telegram
selected his 15 best films and ten worst
ones for 1972. His choices for the 15 best:
"The Godfather," "The Last Picture Show,"
"J. W. Coop," "Play It Again, Sam," "Butterflies
Are Free," "Deliverance," "Harold
and Maude," "The New Centurions," "Fiddler
on the Roof," "A Clockwork Orange,"
"Lady Sings the Blues," "The Poseidon Adventure,"
"Made for Each Other," "The
Other," "Everything You Wanted to Know
About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask."
Brooks' "Ten Worst Films of 1972": "Hammersmith
Is Out," "Red Sun," "The Burglars,"
"Such Good Friends," "Jory," "Prime
Cut," "Portnoy's Complaint," "Shaft's Big
Score" and "The Salzburg Connection."
Jack Gordon of the Fort Worth Press
commented in a recent column that "the
movies hit a new low in 1972 with 'Portnoy's
Complaint' and an X-rated cartoon,
"Fritz the Cat.' " But he declared there were
some "superior" releases too, during the
year and cited "The Godfather," "Cabaret,"
"Play It Again, Sam," "A Clockwork
Orange," "The Last Picture Show," "Fiddler
on the Roof," "The Garden of the Finzi-
Continis," "The King of Marvin Gardens,"
"Butterflies Are Free" and "Deliverance."
Fort Worth's most famous electric light
bulb—the one which has been burning backstage
at the Palace Theatre continuously
since 1908—is still going strong. It was included
in the 1972 edition of Guinness'
Book of World Records, published in London
for global distribution.
Jerome M. Zeitman Productions will
make "How to Beat the High Cost of Living
by Stealing" for 20th-Fox.
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SAN ANTONIO—Four local
adult theatres,
have switched to family movies, as well
as adult fare, in Spanish.
James Erwin, an executive with Southland
Theatres which owns and operates the
Capri Adult Theatre, King Arts Adult Theatre,
Joy Adult Theatre and the Fiesta Adult
Theatre, said the change became effective
Friday (26).
The new format offers Spanish-language
family films Sunday through TTiursday.
Spanish-language adult films will be shown
at the theatre Fridays and Saturdays.
HOUSTON
Qoldie Hawn, star of "Sugarland Express,"
a film being shot in this area, has recovered
from a bout with the flu, aided by
the care of a registered nurse who is part
of the film company. Steve Speilberg is
directing the picture, which is being produced
by Richard Zanuck for Universal
. . . Pat Patridge is opening a new film
studio lab to be known as Suite 360 Productions.
"Blacuia"' star Bill Marshall flew
in from Hollywood to help Patridge open
the lab.
Bud Yorkin's feature "The Thief" will
have its Houston premiere at the Windsor
Cinerama February 23. This is another locally
filmed feature and stars Ryan O'Neal,
with Henry Mancini scoring the music . . .
Actor Michael Sacks has been riding daily
with local Department of Public Safety officers
to observe them in action. In a film
being made here. Sacks has the role of a
DSP man. The company will move soon to
Richmond for additional filming. After arriving
in Houston, Sacks was notified that
he had been nominated for a Hollywood
Foreign Press Golden Globe Award for his
role in "Slaughterhouse-Five."
British actor Michael Caine came here
on his Texas tour for "Sleuth," his latest
film in which he plays opposite Sir Laurence
Olivier. Caine has been making films since
1963 and considers "Alfie" his best picture,
except for the detective trilogy of "The
Ipcress File," "Funeral in Berlin" and "Billion
Dollar Brain." Caine hopes that his
role in "Sleuth" brings about a change of
attitude in the people suggesting scripts for
his future films.
Michael Hudgens, amusement editor for
the Houston Post visited Durango, Mexico,
where he interviewed John Wayne, who was
making his eighth film, "Wednesday Morning,"
in the Durango area. The interview,
"A Speech From the Mountain," appeared
in Spotlight, the Sunday amusement supplement
to the Houston Post.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.—The recently
shuttered State Theatre in this city has been
acquired by Dorsan, Inc., headed by Jeffrey
M. Gerstin. The 52-year-old showhouse will
be used for movies and for live entertainment,
according to the new owners.
SAN ANTONIO
gan Antonio Women's Breakfast Club
members will be entertained at a breakfast
and movie sponsored by ABC Interstate
Theatres at 9 a.m. Friday at the Wonder
Theatre. A luncheon will follow at Oak
Hills Country Club with Mrs. Arthur
Stewart presiding. Special guests will be
George Sorenson, ABC Interstate Theatres,
city manager; Norman Schwartz, manager
of the Wonder; Lynn Krueger, manager of
the Broadway, operated by ABC Interstate
Theatres. The program will be "This Is Your
Life, Lynn Krueger" narrated by Mrs. E. B.
Jobe.
Arthur Gert Behanna will
speak Friday
at St. George's Episcopal Church to
STAFF, a church-founded organization for
single adults. Miss Behanna wrote the bestseller
"The Late Liz," an autobiography in
fiction form, which later became a film
and had its world premiere showing in San
Antonio . . . "Lonesome" George Gobel,
who appeared in several films, made a personal
appearance Saturday (27) at Larry
Herman's Roaring 20s night club here.
The Central Cinema and the Studio Theatre,
located several doors from each other,
are said to be the finest adult theatres in
the South. The two theatres feature adult
films with "escorted ladies" admitted free.
. . . "Prison Girls"
A Happy Hour has been instituted at both
theatres each night at 9
is on one of the screens at Aztec 3, being
shown in 3-D. The first showing is at 11:30
a.m. and the last show starts at 10 p.m.
Most Christmas-New Year's newcomers
still are on the first-run scene here. Among
them are "The Life and Times of Judge Roy
Bean," the best grossing film in Houston
since its introduction at the Wonder; "The
Poseidon Adventure," No. 2 grosser as the
Aztec 3 and Fox Twin 2 attraction; "Deliverance,"
McCreless Cinema 1 and the
Broadway; "Pete 'n' Tillie," Woodlawn;
"Snowball Express." Laurel and Century
South; "Prison Girls," Century South and
Aztec 3; "The Getaway," Century South
and North Star Cinema 1; "1776" at North
Star Cinema II; "Trouble Man." Majestic
and Century South, and "Fiddler on the
Roof," Colonies North.
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FAMED OC 1937 BASEBALL FILMROVV TEAM—Players and the
Filmrow companies they represented at that time, from left to right: Clyde Marker
(deceased), 20th Century-Fox; Ed Ray. Republic; Willie Maxwell and Jim Hudgens
of Columbia Pictures; Bob Smith. Theatre Poster Service; Hi Martin, Universal;
Sip Ferguson and Audie Adwell. Griffith Amusement Co.; Harry McKenna, Screen
Guild; Claude York and Ed Chumley, Paramount Pictures; Charles Hudgens,
Poster Exchange. Members of the team not in the picture were Paul Kerns of
Columbia and Eddie Greggs of Republic.
OKLAHOMA CITY
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scheduled meeting Monday (8). the
United Theatre Owners of Oklahoma and
the Panhandle of Texas, met Monday (22)
at Maxine's Restaurant. In spite of another
big snow the preceding day. a good turnout
showed up. Those attending included Jim
McKenna, UTOO president, Tulsa; Mrs.
Marjorie Snyder, Tulsa; Horace Clark,
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MINNEAPOLIS — 'Twitch of the Death
Nerve." a blood bath of gore and savagery.
took over the State Theatre screen as the
only fresh arrival and promptly notched a
hefty 225. The success of the murder-cluttered
import was a bitter irony and a sad
commentary on current screen tastes: The
elegantly produced "1776" had just finished
a totally lackluster engagement at the same
theatre. Obviously, those who complain
about current movie menus aren't those who
buy tickets. Elsewhere, grosses held quite
nicely. The biggies continued to be "Jeremiah
Johnson," "Poseidon Adventure" and
"Pete 'n' Tillie."
(Average Is 100)
Acodemy Mon of Lo Moncha (UA), 5th wk. ..200
Cooper Jeremiah Johnson (WB), 4th wk 415
Gopher The Gefowoy (NGP), 4th wk 250
Mann Up the Sandbox (NGP), 4fh wk 1 60
Orpheum Across 110th St. (UA), 4th wk 90
Park Young Winston (Col), 5th wk 120
Skyway The Poseidon Adventure (20th-Fox),
4th wk 400
Skyway II Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ), 4th wk 400
Southdole Cinema II The Great Wolti (MGM),
4th wk 125
State Twitch of the Death Nerve (SR) 225
Valley West Snowball Express (BV), 4th wk. ..140
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Varsity Chloe in the Afternoon (Col), 4th wk.
World Sounder (20th-Fox), 12th wk
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2 Closed Following Raid
Reopened in Lincoln
LINCOLN—This city's two Adult Book
& Cinema stores are being reopened after
being closed since a Wednesday (3) raid
by Lincoln police. The reopening was reported
Wednesday (17) by John Serafine,
manager.
Four high-grade misdemeanor charges
still are pending in Lancaster County Court
against Serafine in relation to the store
operations. Each charge carries a penalty
of up to one year in jail and/or up to a
$1,000 fine.
A preliminary hearing was set for Monday
(22). Serafine is free on $2,500 bond.
Jones Will Handle Saxton
Films in Milwaukee Area
HOLLYWOOD— Robert Saxton, president
of Saxton Films, announced the appointment
of Virgil Jones of JMG Films in
Chicago to handle his company's product in
the Chicago and Milwaukee territory.
Saxton's first two releases are "How
Did a Nice Girl Like You . .
.?" and
"Island of Lost Girls."
Film-Cutting Opens Twin
BETTENDORF, IOWA—Among those
participating in film-cutting ceremonies
which officially opened the Duck Creek
cinemas I and II in the Duck Creek Plaza
Shopping Center were: Donald D. Kucharo,
mayor of Bettendorf; Ken W. Mangels,
Bettendorf, district manager for General
Growth Properties, which manages the
Duck Creek Plaza Shopping Center; Thomas
F. Simon, St. Louis, General Cinema Corp.
division manager, and Kurt J. Noack, manager
of the cinemas. The twin theatre is
operated by General Cinema Corp.
Marcus Circuit Opens Skyways 7, 2
Ribbon-cutting ceremonies mark the opening of Skyway cinemas 1 and 2,
Milwaukee, the Marcus circuit's newest movie house. Left to right are B. J. Sampson,
Sampson Enterprises; Ben Marcus, president of Marcus Theatres Management
Co.; Miss Judy Hieke (Miss Milwaukee), who cut the ribbon; Alderman
Robert A. Anderson, and H. B. Toilette, general manager of all Marcus theatres.
MILWAUKEE—With the official opening
of Skyway cinemas 1 and 2, located
across the road from Mitchell Air Field,
the Marcus Theatres circuit now comprises
50 units. The luxurious dualer bowed
with ribbon-cutting ceremonies, with Miss
Judy Hieke (Miss Milwaukee) wielding the
scissors. Others participating in the unveiling
festivities were B. J. Sampson,
Sampson Enterprises; Ben Marcus, president
of Marcus Theatres Management Co.;
Alderman Robert A. Anderson, and H. B.
Toilette, general manager of all Marcus
theatres.
Before entering Skyway Cinema 1 to
see "Snowball Express" or Cinema 2 for
"Up the Sandbox," the first-nighters were
treated to hors d'oeuvres and libations.
The twin-theatre complex has a spacious
lobby which contains a long, well-equipped
concession center. Restrooms on either end
accommodate patrons of both cinemas and
a single boxoffice services both air-conditioned,
thickly carpeted auditoriums.
MILWAUKEE
Dat Halloran, sales representative for Universal
Film Exchanges, hosted a tradeshowing
of "High Plains Drifter." starring
. . .
Clint Eastwood. Friday evening (12) at the
Centre screening room UA's Mayfair
Theatre in the Mayfair Shopping Center
again was the scene of a special "closed invitational
party" for radio listeners of station
WZUU Friday (12), starting at 8:45
p.m. In addition to getting a preview of the
new film attraction "Jeremiah Johnson," the
station's guests were treated to a number
of door prizes, including 60 pairs of tickets
to see "Holiday on Ice," playing in our town
soon.
Fred Rott, manager of the Villa Theatre,
3610 West Villard. is working together with
a Latvian Youth Ass'n that plans to lease
the theatre on occasional Monday nights for
the screening of foreign films. Monday (15)
a film entitled "Meinieka Leiku" was flown
The seating, 550 in one theatre and 414
in the other, features a three-section setup
with two aisles and plush, semi-reclining
chairs that allow 40 inches of leg room
between each row.
Carl Konrad now oversees the Skyway
cinemas 1 and 2, in addition to managing
the Southtown and 24 Drive-In theatres,
with Terry Pichler serving as his assistant
manager.
Twin theatres have been opened by the
Marcus circuit during the past year at
shopping centers in Appleton, Sheboygan,
La Crosse and Menomonee Falls, Wis. All
are fully automated, whereas the Skyway
duo is semi-automated. Nearing completion
is still another twin in Racine, Wis., approximately
20 miles from downtown Milwaukee,
expected to begin operations in
March.
The Marcus duos are free-standing buildings
designed by architect A. A. Tannenbaum
of Tannenbaum & Associates, Milwaukee.
here directly from Latvia and listed in that
evening's newspaper as a "special showing
open to the interested public." Admission
for adults was $2.50, with students at $1.50.
A good house, approximately 500, was present
for the screening which began at 6:30
p.m. Fred also reports such innovations as
a new curtain, new carpeting and some extensive
remodeling elsewhere in the theatre
building.
Fifty years ago the silent movie "Oliver
Twist," starring child actor Jackie Coogan,
opened at the Strand Theatre at the same
time magician Harry Houdini appeared in
person at the Orpheum (Palace) Theatre,
according to the Sentinel files.
"So Movies Depict America?" is the title
of an editorial that appeared in the Journal
recently. Here it is in its entirety. "Do
American movies tell the truth about life in
the U.S.? Many people believe that the violence
and explicit sex projected on the wide
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Industry, Civic Friends in
Tribute
To Walt Jancke at Retirement Fete
LINCOLN—Retiring Walter Jancke was
guest of honor at a dinner in the University
Club here Wednesday night (17) when industry
members and others paid tribute to
one of their favorite persons. Hosts for
the occasion were Cooper Theatre Enterprises,
Douglas Theatres Co. and Dubinsky
Brothers. Jancke, 65 next July 24, has been
in charge of the fourth other locally based
circuit, Nebraska Theatres, for the past 27
years. That includes the Varsity, State and
the new Cinema 1 and 2. But thost 27
years are only about half the number which
Jancke has spent in the industry. He started
out when he was 12 as an usher at the old
Colorado Theatre in Denver.
Although officially retiring, Jancke isn't
bowing out of the picture completely. His
long-time boss and friend, Larry Starsmore
of Colorado Springs, and his successor Gene
Buhrdorf of Lincoln want him to remain
on as a consultant.
As Jancke says, this rear-row seat "means
I'm retiring from all the worries but keeping
public relations and some other pleasant
jobs that a consultant can handle in a
couple of hours a day." This is a job at
which Walt can excel. His friends in Lincoln
and the state go far beyond those in
the industry and related operations. There
aren't many in downtown Lincoln's daily
life who don't know Walt by sight, if not
by name.
Without the worries now, Walt hopes to
resume more activities in more civic groups.
And friends remember how the cigar-smoking
gentleman was boosting the University
of Nebraska Cornhusker football team for
years before it worked its way into the
national limelight with victories.
Walt Jancke didn't intend to remain in
the movie theatre business when he got
an usher's job after the family returned to
Denver from El Paso, where his father had
been commandant of Ft. Bliss. For a school
boy, the $6.35 a week which he earned
at the Colorado on brightly lighted Curtis
Street in Denver in the pre-1920s was pretty
good. The 35 cents was for Sunday dinner.
Walt recollects he often went back to work
after eating with 15 cents in change.
He worked throughout his school years
in a number of Denver theatres, no longer
standing in that city, then found similar
work in Boulder, Colo., houses, where he
enrolled at the University of Colorado to
study toward a law degree. The permanent
detour from law came when he stopped
school for a year to concentrate on saving
money so he could finish school without
working, too.
"I found myself making as much working
for Paramount Publix's stageshow department
as I would have if I had been
practicing law for 15 years," he explains.
His salary? A $125-per-week check, plus
a total expense account for the mid-20s
traveling job.
Jancke got into the movie theatre business
exclusively only after some bad news
in 1929—the depression—and the first talking
pictures. First came a 50 per cent cut
in salary, then elimination of his job as
the former top-billed stage productions went
out the window, too.
Worked Widely in Colorado
There are few cities in Colorado where
Walt hasn't worked in his time—Brighton,
Monte Vista, Lamar, Colorado Springs,
Pueblo, Grand Junction and Greeley are a
few. It was in Monte Vista that Walt and
Shirley Jancke's son Ed was bom. Walt had
met Shirley, a dental assistant, in Denver.
They were married in 1934. Mrs. Jancke
died about seven years ago. Ed is a professional
photographer in Philadelphia.
Walt was working for Skipper Louis Dent
of Colorado Springs and his
theatre circuit,
managing a house in Greeley, when Starsmore
(subsequent successor to the Skipper)
tipped him off that there would be an offer
to go to Oklahoma City or Lincoln. According
to Walt, he opted for Oklahoma
City but Mrs. Jancke supported Lincoln,
which matched Skipper Dent's final order.
"We thought it would just be for a couple
of years," recalls Jancke, admitting, "I
couldn't stand the town when I first came
here. It reached 108 degrees that summer.
I thought I would die."
Lincoln His Favorite Place
Walt says no one could convince him
to leave Lincoln today. It still has the
quality which Walt says he discovered:
"The finest kind of people. Lincoln will
grow but never, I hope, to the point where
people just don't give a damn about you."
The industry veteran had occasion last
year to find out again just how much Lincoln
people do care when he was hospitalized
for several months with an ailing
heart. The showman who brought in headliners
such as Ted Lewis, Burns and Allen
and Eddie Peabody as a young theatrical
worker and remembers seeing Constance
Bennett in the silent "Dulce" as his first
film, is still vocal today in his opinions
of "the best industry in the world."
Declares Jancke, "I hope that the Hollywood
people will wake up before long and
give the public what it wants. They only
have to look at the grosses to tell what that
is."
Walt believes it is reasonable that public
taste in movie fare is changing, as the entire
world and the people in it seem to
be doing, too. Who, for instance, he asked,
would have dreamed of seeing John Wayne
killed as he was in his last picture? Jancke
believes this and other recent movies express
a trend of violence which the industry's
biggest patron segment, younger people,
seem to like.
He looks for more thrillers, decreasing
sex fare but a continuation of the fourletter
profanity "because it reflects the way
most people talk today. I don't object if
it is related to the message of the picture.
I do, otherwise."
The veteran doesn't deny there is obscenity
in some films today but believes
the increasing violence portrayed may cause
more problems in the times ahead than
obscene sequences. If he's wrong, Walt
Jancke is the kind of man who will admit
he was.
DES MOINES
Ceveral branch managers traveled to Lincoln,
Neb., Wednesday (17) to attend a
retirement dinner honoring veteran theatreman
Walter Jancke. hosted by Cooper Theatre
Enterprises, Douglas Theatres and Dubinsky
Brothers. Walt for 27 years has
managed Nebraska Theatres' facilities in
Lincoln, now comprised of the State, Varsity
and Cinema 1 and 2, for Larry Starsmore
of Colorado Springs, Colo.
Cindy Viers, branch manager's secretary,
and her husband spent the holidays moving
into their new home and by this time should
be all settled.
Dorothy Boudewyns, an inspector at the
Iowa Film Depot, reports that her husband
recently underwent gallbladder surgery . . .
Ella Lass, secretary to Art Trombley at
Iowa Film Depot, says her little girl still is
in the hospital but she hopes to have her
home and well soon.
Beverly Thompson, former secretary at
ABC Midwest, and her husband are the
proud parents of a baby boy who arrived
Monday (15). He quickly was named Brick.
Gary Sandler of the Coed TTieatre, Fairfield,
recently played the motion picture
"Alice's Restaurant" as a midnight program.
He had a tie-up with local high school students
and reports that there was a good turnout.
Actress Cloris Leachman formerly of this
city dismisses as a joke the fact that a Los
Angeles fashion designer named her as one
of the "ten worst-dressed women of the
year." But, in the next breath, she concedes
that the "honor" has bothered her.
She was tabbed No. 8 in the worst-dressed
list issued by a designer named Blackwell.
Cloris said that ever since the worst-dressed
list was announced, "I've had the worst
time deciding what to wear. That list—it
does tend to make one stop a moment and
think." Cloris said she thinks it is interesting
that,
while she was on the worst-dressed list,
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MINNEAPOLIS
BIthough business has been upbeat since
New Year's, every theatre in the area
reported being "hurt" by the Suf>er Bowl
football game on the tiny screen Sunday
(14) . . . Norman Hallberg. general manager
of the Cooper Theatre circuit, was here
from Lincoln, Neb., on routine business
. . . Peter Grafft, film buyer for ABC of
North Central States theatres, winged off to
Chicago Wednesday (17) for an affiliates
meeting.
Mid Continent Theatres was scheduled to
open a new house on or about Wednesday
(24) in Grand Forks. N.D. The twin installation
will be called Plaza I and II and is
located in the K-Mart Shopping Center . . .
Don Dalrymple, assistant resident sales manager
at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer branch,
is on jury duty. Says Dean Lutz, branch
manager. "1 can hardly wait till ol' 'hang
'em shoot 'em Don' returns."
Mrs. Adrian Utz is
the new owner of the
State Theatre, Springfield. The previous
owner was Michael DeVoss. Mrs. Utz is
running a contest seeking a new name for
the showhouse . . . Jim Ellis, Cinerama Releasing
Corp. branch boss, reports a ninetheatre
break across the Twin Cities for the
Peter Cushing starrer, "Asylum."
Ted Mann, General Cinema Corp.-Mann
Theatres circuit, was in town Monday (15)
from his current base in Hollywood . . .
Meanwhile, his brother Marvin Mann,
Highland-Grandview-Boulevard theatres
owner, confides that he's taking dancing lessons!
Could it be the influence of his latest
booking, "The Great Waltz?"
Charlie Zinn, long-time officer of the
ABC of North Central States circuit and
its forerunner, Minnesota Amusement Co.,
has been shifted from manager of St. Paul's
Norstar Theatre to manager of the circuit's
Brookdale Theatre in suburban Brooklyn
Center. The transfer was made at Zinn's request.
Taking over at the Norstar is Mike
Henry from ABC's operations in this city,
with district manager Bob Thill also lending
a hand. The popular Zinn will be muchmissed
by his many St. Paul friends.
Don Palmquist, 20th Century-Fox branch,
reports that "M*A*S*H" in reissue is
"knocking 'em dead," with hefty grosses
posted in such places as Duluth and Austin,
as well as Fargo, N.D.
Carl Olson, United Artists division manager,
arrived from New York Monday (15)
to brief branch members here on the new
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Paramount branch billing clerk Jennifer Kylander
left Friday (19) for Aspen, Colo., for
a round of skiing . . . Meanwhile, Paramount
branch boss Forrie Myers jetted to
Chicago Monday (15) for a division meeting
which introduced new division manager
Howard Ross, who succeeded Virgil Jones.
The siblings of Paramount branch salesman
Joe Rosen scattered in two directions:
son Mark left for Honolulu and a Hawaiian
vacation and daughter Barb headed for Winnipeg,
where she'll visit friends and also
attend classes at the University of Manitoba.
And Joe? "I'm at work, where else?" . . .
Filmrow visitors: Don Quincer, Cozy Theatre,
Wadena, and Sandor Holman, Lake,
Buffalo.
"Travels With My Aunt," the latest from
MGM, bowed Friday (19) at the Southdale
Cinema II , , . The 20th Centur>-Fox
branch is exceptionally high on "The Heartbreak
Kid." A benefit premiere has been
set for February 1 here to aid Northrop
School and the Travelers Aid, with a dayand-date
opening here and in St. Paul the
next day—the Mann Theatre in our town
and the Norstar in St. Paul.
A totally new theatre has opened in
Hutchinson, the Cinema 15. Owners are
John Miller and Tom Dolder.
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she was named at the same time as one of
the best-coiffured women in the world. The
last-year Oscar winner for "The Last Picture
Show" says she is "very pleased" about
an ABC "Movie of the Week" in which she
stars, "A Brand New Life." Cloris discloses
that this next fall she is going to have a TV
series of her own. It will be called "Ernie.
Madge and Artie" and will star her, Frank
Sutton and Dick Van Patton. She also is
about to make a movie with Patricia Neal
and Darren McGavin, titled "Mother's
Day." She didn't say which role she would
play, mother or daughter.
ABC Great States Sells
3 Units to Kerasotes
From Centrol Edition
CHICAGO—Henry Plitt, president of
ABC Great States Theatres, announced that
three of the circuit's movie houses have
been sold to Springfield, 111. -based Kerasotes
Theatres. Terms of the transaction were
not disclosed.
Included in the Kerasotes acquisition
were the Orpheum and West theatres, Galesburg,
111., and the Plumb Theatre, Streator,
lU.
Charles Brown, manager of the Galesburg
showhouses, probably will be transferred
to an ABC Great States theatre in
another city, Plitt said.
Milton Brown, who has served as manager
of the Plumb in Streator for nearly 20
years, will remain at that house until February
1, after which he will transfer to ABC
Great States' theatre in Kankakee, 111,
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screen damage the U.S. in other countries
and reinforce the image of a nation caught
up in killing for its own sake, as projected
by the Vietnam war. Police scandals ('Dirty
Harry'), casual killers ('Bonnie and Clyde'),
drug violence ('The French Connection"),
organized crime ('The Godfather'), intolerance
('Easy Rider"), all successful here and
abroad, lead the balance sheet on the side
of a decaying democracy. Yet, with rare
exceptions, movies never have offered an
accurate portrayal of American life as lived
by ordinary, gentle people. But the fantasy
entertainment of the depression years was
recognized as an avenue of escape. Today's
films, with their graphic violence, are
judged, not only abroad but in the U.S.,
too, to show the collective face of America.
The few exceptions. 'Love Story' and 'The
Last Picture Show,' do not balance the violence-weighted
films that make the money.
Perhaps when Americans have had enough
of self-hatred they will stay away from
such movies in large enough numbers to get
across the message that there is more to the
American experience than bloodletting and
that other themes are worthy of moviemakers'
time and talents."
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700 in Detroit 3rd
DETROIT — "Man of La Mancha" rolled
up a smash third-week gross at the Northland
that translated into a 700 (seven times
average Northland weekly receipts) grossing
percentage, it was announced by James R.
Velde, United Artists senior vice-president
for domestic sales. A roadshow presentation,
"Man of La Mancha" stars Peter
O'Toole and Sophia Loren and was produced
and directed by Arthur Hiller. In second
place on the grossing list and well back of
the leader was "The Poseidon Adventure,"
310 in the second week of a seven-theatre
engagement. Showing at ten theatres for a
second week, "Pete 'n' Tillie" came close
to the 300 mark but fell just ten points
short.
(Average Is 100)
Adams— Hit Man (MGM), 2nd wk 260
Americana 1776 !Col), 2nd wk 200
Eight theatres The Getaway (NGP), 2nd wk. . . . 1 75
Five theatres Jeremioh Johnson (WB), 2nd wk. ,135
Four theotres Trovels With My Aunt (MGM),
2nd wk 125
Grand Circus Black Gunn (Col), 2nd wk 200
Madison Lady Sings the Blues (Para), 9th wk. .180
Northland Man of La Moncho (UA), 3rd wk. . . .700
Seven theatres The Poseidon Adventure
(20th-Fox), 2nd wk 310
Seven theatres Snowball Express fBV), 2nd wk. .150
Six theatres Up the Sandbox (NGP), 2nd wk. ... 175
Studio 8 Fellini's Romo (UA). 2nd wk 125
Ten theatres— Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ), 2nd wk. ...290
Ten theatres Across 110th Street fUA), 2nd wk. 210
Three theatres The King of Marvin Gardens
(Col), 2nd wk 105
Towne I Young Winston 'Col), 3rd wk 275
Two theatres—The Great Waltz (MGM), 3rd wk 175
"The Poseidon Adventure' 700
Third Week in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI—"The Poseidon Adventure"
at the Ambassador registered 700 for
its
third week of playing time, thus keeping
a secure grip on its No. 1 gross ranking in
the metropolitan area. Lofty [percentages
also were recorded in the report week by
"The Getaway" (650), "Up the Sandbox"
(400) and "Jeremiah Johnson" (400), all
third-week features on the Cincinnati firstrun
scene.
Albee— Block Girl fCRC), 3rd wk 75
Ambassador The Poseidon Adventure (20th-Fox),
3rd wk 700
Beacon. Northaate ^Travels With My Aunt
(CRC), 3rd wk 75
Carousel 1—1776 (Col), 3rd wk 350
Carousel 2 Youna Winston 'Col), 4th wk 750
Grand— Hit Man fMGM). 3rd wk 250
International 70 The Ruling Class (Emb),
3rd wk 225
Kenwood The Greot Waltz 'MGM), 3rd wk 225
Snowball Exoress fBV), 3rd wk 200
Multiple— Pete 'n' Tillie 'Univ), 4th wk 300
DIace Do the Sandbox 'NGP), 3rd wk 400
Studio Cinemas Jeremioh Johnson fWB). 3rd wk. 400
Time'^ Towne Cinema The Getaway (NGP),
3rd wk 650
20th Centurv Sounder (20th-Fox), 3rd wk 350
Vallev Man of La Mancha (UA), 4th wk 350
"The Geta'waY' Takes No. 1
Grossing Spot in Cleveland
CLEVELAND—"The Getaway" took
over the grossing leadership by 40 points
over "The Poseidon Adventure" as the two
third-week features vied in multiple bookings.
With a single exception, everything in
town was over average figures. "Man of La
Mancha," fourth-week attraction at the
Colony Theatre, scoring 250 and ranking
No. 3 behind "The Getaway" and "Poseidon."
Cedar-Lee The King of Marvin Gardens (Col),
3rd wk 75
West Liberty, Ky.,
Of Locally Owned
WEST LIBERTY, KY.—This small town
of West Liberty, with a population of 2,200,
is proud of its new indoor theatre, the
Towne Cinema. The movie house is located
in a business block which was completely
wiped out by fire in 1970 and now is being
rebuilt.
Citizens also are proud because the theatre
is owned by local residents and not by a
The Towne Cinema is
large theatre circuit.
a snug, modern theatre, the only new hardtop
in eastern Kentucky. Most theatres in
the region either are old and outdated or
shuttered. So, it is a rarity for a theatre to
be opening in the area, particularly a completely
new one.
The owners of Towne Cinema, Lanny
and Langley Franklin, are two young
brothers who have been movie fans since
childhood. At 13 Lanny ran the projector
for the old Rex Theatre and Langley tagged
along with his brother and sat in the balcony.
Since West Liberty had been without a
showhouse for so many years and especially
in view of the fact that the youth of the
town have no form of entertainment, the
Franklins decided to open the Towne Cinema
for the enjoyment of young and old.
Nothing has been so highly regarded by the
citizens as the return of the modem cinema
to West Liberty.
Towne Cinema is located in the basement
of the Main Street Building. Its boxoffice
is at street level and broad, carpeted steps
to the right lead to the lower lobby level.
The small, compact lobby contains the concessions
and projection room, which is elevated.
Auditorium entrances are on each
side of the booth.
The 220-seat auditorium is decorated in
blues, greens, turquoise and black in carpets.
Colonv Mon of La Mancha (UA), 4th wk 250
Five theatres The Getowoy (NGP), 3rd wk 470
Four theatres Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ), 3rd wk 190
Four theatres Snowboll Express (BV), 3rd wk. . .215
Fox Cedar-Center, Loews' Yorktown Young
Winston (Col), 4th wk 165
Hippodrome Hit Man (MGM), 3rd wk 1 50
Loews' East ond West, Willow 1776 (Col),
3rd wk 125
Six theatres The Poseidon Adventure
(20th-Fox), 3rd wk 430
World East, World West Fellini's Roma (UA),
3rd wk 125
CINCINNATI
Tames Velde, United Artists vice-president,
presided at a division managers' meeting
here in the Terrace Hilton Wednesday
(24)
. . . Jack Lemmon is scheduled to be
in town in early February for TV-radio appearances
and meetings with the press in
behalf of Paramount's "Save the
Tiger."
Mid States will open its Plaza cinemas,
located on the walkway above street level
the downtown area,
in mid-February.
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Citizens Proud
New Film Theatre
Brothers and co-partners Lanny and
Langley Franklin, left to right, stand in
front of the street-level boxoffice of
their new Towne Cinema in West Liberty,
Ky. The 220-seat mini-theatre is
located in the basement of the Main
Street Building. Patrons enter thiongh
the door at the right of the boxoffice.
seats and Soundfold drapes. The 23xll-foot
screen is not curtained but is enhanced by
hidden light bulbs which glow before and
after showings. There is enough stage area
to permit live shows or programs if desired.
Langley Franklin has commented that if
West Liberty ever were bombed, the Towne
Cinema, because of its depth in the ground,
its steel, concrete and fireproof construction,
could well be utilized as a fine, luxurious
fallout shelter.
'Athlete' Star to Be
At Northgate Opening
CINCINNATI — Jan-Michael
Vincent
will make a special appearance here for the
Mideast premiere of Walt Disney Productions'
"The World's Greatest Athlete,"
which features Vincent, Tim Conway and
Howard Cosell, at the formal opening of
Mid States' Northgate cinemas 3 Tuesday,
February 6. Vincent's credits include
"Journey to Shiloh," "Dragnet." "The Undefeated,"
"Going Home" and "The Mechanic."
Located in the Northgate Shopping Center,
Northgate cinemas 3 has a center 600-
seat auditorium flanked by 350-seat theatres
on either side. One lobby serves the three
auditoriums.
GLASTONBURY, CONN.—Real
estate
developer David MacClain, formally designated
as developer for the Glastonbury renewal
area, has announced plans for a $3.5
million project, to include a cinema.
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CLEVELAND
Qharles Leaverton,
former manager of the
National Theatre in North Olmstead,
now is managing the Village Theatre, also a
National General house, in Ann Arbor.
Mich.
Rickie Labowitch, secretary to Joe Rembrandt,
Cleveland Motion Picture Exhibitors"
president, is recuperating at Suburban
Hospital. Lottie Randall, the niece with
whom Rickie lives, was admitted to the
same hospital two days later.
John-Michael Tebelak, former local boy
and author of "Godspell." recently returned
to this city to see the current production of
his musical playing at the Hanna Theatre.
Clad in overalls, his favorite attire, Tebelak
nailed a bronze plate on the armrest of seat
J-1 in the second row from the top in the
Hanna balcony. It was where the young
creator sat for three years as a Hanna subscriber
in
leaner years.
Gordon Bugie, Cinerama division manager,
announced the following changes: Bob
Anderson, CRC branch manager, has departed
to become branch manager for the
firm in Boston. Herb Boswell. who has been
CRC branch manager in Charlotte, N.C.,
succeeded Anderson here. Detroit will be
serviced from this city, while Pittsburgh no
longer will be serviced from here. St. Louis
also has been added to Bugle's territory.
Mickey Plecko succeeds Barbara Norris as
CRC cashier.
Joyce Pollack, Co-Operative Theatres secretary,
returned from a recent vacation with
renewed vigor. Part of the holiday was spent
in Columbus ... Dr. Richard Tuchman,
Dr. Mark Feldman and Edward Dell, all of
the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine,
produced a film which won the American
Podiatry Ass'n's first audio-visual competition.
Grace Dolphin, Columbia cashier, is back
on the scene following a bad fall in which
she injured her head, arm and leg . . . Bette
Midler, actress-singer, described by the
New York Times as "absolutely wonderful,"
made her first Mideast appearance here
Sunday (21) at the Music Hall.
During the past three years we
have moved from No. 5 to No. 2
in the carbon industry. WE ARE
NO. 2 (second only to Union Garbide)
BECAUSE OUR
. . .
Joe McDonough, dancer with the "Disney
on Parade" show at the Arena, was head
teller at the Cleveland Trust Bank at Brookpark
and Pearl. He was reared in Parma.
McDonough danced as a chimney sweep in
the Mary Poppins number. Joe learned his
new role in the Culver City Studios in
California on the same sound stage where
"Gone With the Wind" was filmed. Marc
Breaux and Dee Wood, who choreographed
the dancing in the movie version of "Mary
Poppins." taught him the routine . . .
Charles Gann. former Prudential agency
manager here, has a part in American International
Pictures' forthcoming "Black Caesar."
He got the role by living next door, in
Beverly Hills, to the producer and director
Theodore Bikel, star of screen, stage
and TV, appeared in a concert for Soviet
Jewry Saturday evening (20) in the main
sanctuary at Fairmount Temple in Beachwood.
The concert was sponsored by the
Fairmount Temple's Young People's Congregation
and proceeds were to be used to
assist an "adopted" family in Lithuania
awaiting permission to leave the Soviet
Union to start a new life in Israel.
Joel Weiner, Universal booker, feels like
a kid on a vacation. If he flashes a big
smile, it is because he's happy and he is
hoping you will notice the braces have been
removed from his teeth. No braces? No
crutches? It may not be Joel!
Marcus Advertising made a movie on
recreational vehicle usage for showing at the
Mid-American Rod and Custom Autorama,
to be held at the Convention Center
Sam Zimmerman and Sol Weintraub. owners
of the soon-to-be-opened Front Page
Restaurant in Beachwood, offered the services
of their chef and furnished the shrimp
and crabmeat appetizers for the Pepperwood
chapter of ORT when they learned that the
women of this organization were having a
dinner (prepared by its members) in "the
lobby of the Colony Theatre before attending
its "Man of La Mancha" benefit .Saturday
(6).
Morris Carnovsky, who played Judge Julius
Hoffman in the recent film "The Chicago
Seven," is in the city as a guest artist
at the Jewish Community Center. He is
playing Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice"
and receiving magnificent reviews.
Carnovsky. a teacher of drama at Bridgeport
University, went to Hollywood to play
.'Knatole France in the 19.^7 movie "The
Life of Emile Zola." He later played George
Gershwin's father in the movie "Rhapsody
in Blue." "Tiger at the Gates" and "Come
Blow Your Horn" were among his Broadway
hits. In connection with Carnovsky 's
appearance here the Jewish Community
Center held its first theatrical patrons' night.
More than 200 guests payed $10 a ticket to
attend the play and meet the actor. It also
was somewhat of a first for a Jewish organization
to present this particular work by
the Bard, since it is considered by many
viewers and critics to be anti-Semitic.
Lower Court's Decision Is
Reversed by Appeals Judge
CLEVELAND — A
contempt-of-court
conviction against the manager of the Pussy
Cat Cinex Theatre, 10606 Euclid Ave., for
failure to produce in court five allegedly
pornographic movies was reversed Thursday
(4) in a split decision by the Eighth District
Court of Appeals. The manager. Larry Hardy.
28, was held in contempt by Common
Pleas Judge George W. White Nov. 5, 197L
Hardy had told the judge that he no longer
knew where the films were and that he
would refuse to bring them to court.
The contempt conviction stemmed from
an adversary hearing to determine whether
the movies were, in fact, obscene. Assistant
County Prosecutor George J. Sadd said that
since that time the Ohio Supreme Court had
clarified the law. An adversary hearing no
longer is required before police can seize
theatre films for evidence in an obscenity
case.
Appellate Judges Daniel H. Wasserman
and Jack G. Day ruled that there was insufficient
evidence that Hardy had possession
of the films Nov. 5, 1971, when he claimed
he did not know where they were. Appellate
Judge John M. Manos in a dissenting opinion
said the films were in Hardy's possession
Nov. 4, 1971, the day before the hearing,
and that he had seen a court order November
4 prohibiting anyone from tampering
with the films. Judge Manos said these circumstances
warranted a permissible presumption
that Hardy had control of the
films November 5, the day of the hearing.
No defense that the films were not obscene
was offered at the hearing. Judge
White found probable cause that the films
were obscene and ordered police to seize
them. At this point, defense lawyer James
R. Willis and Hardy both told Judge White
the films would not be available and would
not be produced. White held Hardy in contempt
and sent him to jail until he produced
the movies. Hardy served a weekend in jail,
then was released on bond.
All three appellate judges ruled that
White was correct in issuing his order to
the theatre, a corporation, to preserve the
films for possible seizure and later to order
police to seize the films.
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UA Hartford Triplex Will
Be Completed in Spring
From New England Edition
HARTFORD—UA Theatres is
expecting
an early spring completion of the conversion
of its UA Theatre East to a triple
complex.
Addition of two auditoriums, each seating
250, will bring overall capacity to 1,300.
BOXOFFICE :: January 29, 1973

Manager of Dayton Cinema
Beaten, Shot by 4 Thugs
DAYTON. OHIO—David K. Hall. 24-
year-old manager of the first-run Da-Bell
Theatre. 1920 South Smithville Rd.. was
beaten and shot early Friday morning (12),
apparently by thugs who broke in and found
him asleep in the theatre's office. He was
in satisfactory condition at Miami Valley
Hospital, where he was treated for the
wound.
Hall told police he was sleeping in a
chair and awoke suddenly about 4:50 a.m..
when four suspects started beating him on
the head. He said he did not know if he
was shot there or in the theatre's lobby,
where the scuffle ended. The suspects, estimated
to be under 20 years old. fled after
the shooting, police said.
Russ Jones, supervisor for Mid States
Theatres, owner of Da-Bell, said this is the
first incident of its type at this theatre but
that the showhouse's safe was stolen in the
late 1960s. Nothing was taken from the
theatre, where the front door's plate glass
was broken to gain entry to the building.
Albert Rollins Sr. Dies
WEST BEDFORD, OHIO — Albert W.
Rollins sr., 72, a projectionist for Loews
Theatres for 52 years, died Thursday (11)
at his retirement home here in Coshocton
County. Rollins lived in Akron most of
his life, moving to West Bedford after retiring
in 1966. His wife Laura, three sons
and three daughters survive.
DETROIT
T^istributor A! Dezel and his girl Friday
Vera Shields are enjoying new quarters
at 17520 West 12-Mile Rd.. Southfield. in
the Fountainside Office Centre. Their most
recent release is the film "The Burning
Question."
Jean Griffin of the Cherry Bowl Drivein,
Honor, an independent operation for
years, has employed Clark Theatre Service
as official booker and buyer . . . The Michigan
Palace Nightclub (formerly the Michigan
Theatre) reopened Thursday (11) with
Count Basic. The club had more customers
than it could handle New Year's Eve and as
a result closed for a week "in order to restructure
many procedures" and hire more
help. The Palace has been beset with financial
problems since opening a year ago but
has been kept open by a court ruling that
creditors could be paid on a selective basis.
Belle Vista Cinema I and II, seating 350
and 300. respectively, opened in time for
holiday business, with the buying and booking
being handled by A. W. Smith Enterprises.
Services were held Thursday (4) for Howard
O. Pierce. His home the last few years
has been Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he
died in retirement. Pierce was a theatrical
manager here in the 1920s and was in
charge of programing at WXYZ. Wellknown
around local theatre circuits, Pierce
helped organize the now-defunct Michigan
Radio Network. He also gave Fred Waring
and the Pennsylvanians their first stage job.
He was past president of the Rotary Club
and a member of the Players Club. As a
World War I veteran, Pierce helped organize
USO clubs for servicemen during World
War II—42 USO theatres, in fact.
Cinema Tlieatre, Elk Rapids, owned and
operated by H. D. Coddington for years,
was sold to Joseph Yuchasz and will remain
an independent operation . . . The Palace
Theatre. Charlevoix, the pride and joy of
Les Taylor for years, now is the property of
Cinema II. The agent is Clark Theatre
Service.
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certainly
COLUMBUS
didn't favor it and neither did some women.
The veto means that a variety of laws
unions, allegedly male-dominated,
requiring special protections and restrictions
Y^e Towne
on female
Cinema,
employment still are
formerly the Southern,
on the statute
books, even though the
Mayor Tom Moody and recreation director
Mel Dodge
is within a short distance of a justannounced
Ohio Supreme
presided at the groundbreaking
Court last March declared these laws
$2 million development at South
were
for the amphitheatre to be built on
void, as they apply to
High Street and the inner-belt, to include a the west bank
companies with 25
of the Scioto River in the
or more workers involved in interstate
pedestrian mall, office and commercial downtown area. Dodge
commerce.
Justices held that the statutes
said he hopes to
buildings and a large restaurant. The development
have musical shows
were
and plays presented in
in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
will be called Courthouse Square the 1,000-seat open-air arena.
The
and
Ohio Supreme Court ruling
the
did
project is expected to be
not
completed
by the fall of 1973.
New bookings include
affect
"Black Mama.
smaller businesses not involved in interstate
White Mama," "Shamus." "Innocent Bystanders."
"Sleuth," "Boot Hill" and "Black
commerce and thus not coming
Gaye Monroe, advance publicity agent
under the federal laws. The labor union
for "Disney on Parade," was in town to Girl."
(AFL-CIO) lobby said it wanted a minimum
publicize the 1973 edition of the Disney
$1.60-an-hour wage, plus protection against
show at the Fairgrounds Coliseum. She was Peter Lupus, screen and TV actor, was in excessive hours and heavy lifting for both
the subject of a column by Dick Otte in the town as host at the opening of a health se.xes. Gov. Gilligan said such a bill
Dispatch. Miss Monroe, who was a loyal spa . . . Garry Moore jr.. son of the TV be introduced in the 1973 session.
would
Disney Mousketeer fan as a youngster, formerly
lived in Cortland.
Water Works Restaurant in the downtown work for women and the one that was
star, started showing feature films at his The statutes in question limit overtime
area. First attraction was "On the Waterfront,"
starring Marlon Brando and Lee J. "substantially the same work," another con-
vetoed would have required equal pay for
Ohio State Fair officials hope to sign
Elvis Presley for the 1973 exposition for Cobb. Free popcorn was offered patrons. troversial requirement that did not sit so
the free entertainment lineup. Other acts There is no minimum or cover charge. well with "union male chauvinists."
being sought include Grand Ole Opry stars,
the Osmond Brothers, the Fifth Dimension Bernard Ginley has been doing excellent
and Al Green ... A Lazarus Home Store business with
Wrong Trailer
his first run of "Trouble Man"
at Matinee
will be built on Henderson Road near at Towne Cinema, formerly the Southern. Helped Shape Ohio Bill
Loews' Arlington folloV;/ing approval by the He established the first-run policy December
22, changing from the former subse-
Alan Norris, WesterviJle,
Upper
COLUMBUS—Four years ago
Arlington
State Rep.
City Council. The store
will have 75.000
Ohio, former
square feet of space, with quent-run policy of the downtown house, Franklin County prosecutor, took his
provision for later expansion.
young
oldest theatre still in operation in this city. son to a Saturday matinee to see "Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs." As a result,
he added five new words in the 278-page
New Procedure Employed made last November by U.S. District bill
Judge adopted by the Ohio Legislature in December
1972. which now makes theatre
Don J. Young. Before that ruling,
In
morals
Seizure of 'Throat'
squad detectives used to summarily seize owners liable under state obscenity laws for
TOLEDO, OHIO — Attorneys for the films alleged to be obscene. However, in screening objectionable materials before
Wcstwood Art Theatre and for the city November Judge Young ordered that a film minors and their parents—in cases where
of Toledo have agreed upon a consent order seized from the Westwood Theatre in September
be returned, ruling that the seizure what was coming.
parents had no way of knowing in advance
allowing the seizure of the film "Deep
Throat" to support prosecution of Martin violated constitutional protections because Rep. Norris recalled, "Everybody was sitting
and watching Snow White and the
Gleason, manager of the theatre. The agreement
came during a hearing before presid-
the obscenity issue before it was seized. dwarfs when all of a sudden on the screen
there had not been any determination of
ing Municipal Judge Francis Restivo to determine
whether there is probable cause to told the court that
Harland Britz, counsel
there
for was a
the
preview for
theatre,
'Lady Chatterly's
Lover.'
a jury in Binghamton.
My first impulse was to do what
N.Y., has determined other
that
parents in
"Deep the theatre
Throat"
were doing. All
is not obscene and these
said
parents
that
started
the theatre
clamping their hands
management was prepared
across the kids'
to defend eyes or running
the
them back
film from any attacks
to the
upon it. Before
popcorn machine.
the
You never saw
hearing which allowed the
anything like it in
film to be your life."
seized.
Judge Restivo viewed His
a second
special screening
impulse, he said, was to have
of the 65-minute color film
a new law
at the
passed. However.
theatre.
James Burgess
of the
Jordan
Ohio Ass'n of Theatre
said Owners,
that he
said
plans to initiate prosecution
of
that the sanctity of the Saturday
individuals
kiddies
connected with other
cash. The manager, who was released on his
matinee
Toledo
already was saved
theatres showing
and those five
allegedly
own
obscene
recognizance, pleaded innocent at an
new words in the
films using
Ohio bill
the same
were not
procedure
needed.
which, he
informal arraignment before Judge Restivo.
He pointed out that
said,
the
provided compliance
Motion
with
Picture
all constitutional
This is the first time that a new Ass'n of America
procedure
has been used in alleged
has
protections.
required that
In the
green
past films have
tag
film obscenity been
and red tag
seized
previews of
without
future films
prior hearings at the
cases. Joseph Jordan, an assistant
be identified
city law
for at least
Las Vegas
the last
Cinema,
15
the Avalon
months.
Art Theatre
director, architect of the new
"I
procedure,
haven't
and
heard any
the Gayety.
complaints for a
said that it came from a federal court
long
ruling
time." said Burgess.
Ohio's Revised Labor Law
Leo Goldman Takes Reins
Vetoed by Gov. Gilligan
At Fabian in Paterson
From Eastern EdiHon
COLUMBUS—Ohio's "lame duck" legislature,
which in December enacted a bill Irvington. N.J.. has been named manager
PATERSON, N.J. — Leo Goldman of
eliminating certain job protections (and restrictions)
for women from the state's labor George Birkner, who recently retired after
of the Fabian Theatre here, succeeding
laws, was not too surprised to see Gov. 51 years in North Jersey show business.
John J. Gilligan veto it. The big labor
believe that the film is obscene and therefore
can be seized under a search warrant.
Gleason has been charged with "presenting
an obscene performance" and will be tried
by a jury February 23.
A $5,000 bond allowing the film to be
returned to the theatre for showings, pending
the trial, was set by Judge Restivo. with
the theatre management posting $1,000 in
Goldman has been with Warner Bros.'
New Jersey branch for 23 years.
Mi:..4
BOXOFFICE :: January 29, 1973

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Wright Enterprises Will
Keep WMT Family Policy
BOSTON—^Nelson M. Wright, one of the
principals in the newly formed Western
Massachusetts Theatre Associates Co.,
which has leased the 15 theatres owned by
Col. Samuel Goldstein and operated by
Western Massachusetts Theatres, entered the
film industry as an employee of Colonel
Goldstein.
Commenting on the transaction reported
in BoxoFFiCE in the New England section
Monday (8), Wright said, ""Colonel Goldstein's
theatres were considered family theatres.
He always offered quality programs
and we intend to maintain that policy."
Dick are
Robert Waldman and David E.
principals with Wright in Western Massachusetts
Theatre Associates Co. Management
of the 15 theatres leased by WMTAC
from Goldstein will be the responsibility of
Wright Enterprises of Boston.
Wright Enterprises, which has booked
films for the Goldstein theatres for more
than 17 years, is the largest independent
booking organization in New England.
Waldman and Dick are actively interested
in entertainment business. They are engaged
primarily in the ownership and management
of income-producing recreational and
amusement properties.
Colonel Goldstein began operations in
1906. when he opened a penny arcade on
Springfield's Main Street. Three years later,
his brother Nathan joined the organization
and they opened nickelodeons elsewhere in
western Massachusetts.
In 1932 the Goldsteins formed a partnership
with Paramount Publix Theatres but in
1937 the brothers bought out the circuit's
interest and incorporated as Western Massachusetts
Theatres. Two years later, the
Goldsteins built the Paramount in Brattleboro.
Vt.. and in 1946 Colonel Sam acquired
100 per cent in the theatre division
the brothers formerly had held together.
In 1949 the company built and opened
the Bing Theatre in Springfield, naming it
for Bing Crosby (the Calvin in Northampton
is named for Calvin Coolidge). Colonel
Goldstein in 1958 acquired the Amherst
Theatre in Amherst and the Victoria in
Greenfield. Three years later, he purchased
the Strand in Holyoke and the Capitol in
Pittsfield. Both had been operated by New
England Theatres, the surviving New England
group of the former Paramount circuit.
In the late 1960s. Western Massachusetts
Theatres acquired the State and Victoria
theatres in Pittsfield and Greenfield. After
thorough renovations and refurbishings.
they were reopened as the Showplace in
Pittsfield and the Vic-Showcase, Greenfield.
Two years ago, the company bought
the Warner Theatre in Lawrence.
The Poseidon Adventure Keeps Top
Grossing Spot in Boston With 385
BOSTON — Many
holiday-introduced
holdovers clung tenaciously to upper-range
grossing pvercentages as they played their
way through fourth or fifth weeks before
Boston patrons. "'The Poseidon Adventure"
and '"The Getaway," along with "Sounder"
and ""Jeremiah Johnson," made up a quartet
of bigtimers grossing in the 300-385 range.
A tier below, in the 200—or twice-averagebusiness
class—were '"Prison Girls." '"Man
of La Mancha," "Pete 'n' Tillie" and
""Across UOth Street." Also achieving the
200 level was the week's only new film.
""Black Girl" at the Paramount.
; Average Is 100)
Astor— Prison Girls (AlP), 4fh wk 200
Charles 1776 (Col), 9th wk 145
Cheri One Fellini's Romo (UA), 4th wk 175
Cheri Three Jeremioh Jolinson (WB), 4th wk. . . .300
Circle Cinemo—The Getowoy (NGP), 4th wk. ...385
Cinema 57 (1) Man ot Lo Mancha (UA), 5th wk. 225
Cinema 57 (2) Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ), 4th wk. . . .235
Exeter Morjoe (Cinema 5), 1 6th wk 1 25
Loews' Abbey One Up the Sandbox (NGP),
4th wk 90
Loews' Abbey Two Chloe in the Afternoon (Col),
4th wk 190
Music Hall Hit Man (MGM), 4th wk 150
Paramount Block Girl (CRC) 200
Pans Cmema The Greot Waltz (MGM), 9th wk. .100
Pi Alley Travels With My Aunt (MGM), 4th wk. 175
Plaza Two English Girls (SR), 1 1 th wk
125
Sovoy One The Poseidon Adventure (20th-Fox),
4th wk
.385
Savoy Two Sounder (20th-Fox), 4th wk
.380
Saxon Across 110th Street (UA), 4th wk 220
West End Cinema School Girls Growing Up (SR),
3rd wk 135
"1776' Boxoffice Champion
In New Haven With 275
NEW HAVEN—"1776," which has been
having a rough time at boxoffices in some
cities, was still a winner in New Haven,
where it led all grossers with 275 in a fourth
week at the Milford Cinema II and Whalley.
Also raking in the dollars in New Haven
fourth weeks were ""The Getaway" (250),
"Up the Sandbox" (250) and "The Poseidon
Adventure" (225).
Cinemart The Greot Waltz (MGM), 4th wk 125
College, Bowl Love Under 17 (SR), The Sensuous
Teenager (SR) 1 00
Milford Cmemo II, Whalley 1776 (Col), 4th wk. 275
Roger Sherman Prison Girls (AlP), 2nd wk 115
1
Showcose Cinema The Getaway (NGP), 4th wk. 250
Showcase Cinema II The Poseidon Adventure
(20th-Fox), 4th wk 225
Showcase Cinema III Up the Sandbox (NGP),
4th wk 250
"1776' Tops Hartford Fihns
With Impressive 250 Fourth
HARTFORD—Several hefty grossing
percentages lingered in the wake of the first
month of playing time for most of the
Christmas holiday starters. Clustered in the
200 to 250 range were "1776," "Deliverance,"
""Up the Sandbox" and "The Poseidon
Adventure."
Avon Park South Snowball Express (BV), 4th wk. 50
Central, Paris Cinema I Up the Sandbox (NGP),
4th wk 200
Cinema II, Moll Cinema, Vernon Cine II Pete 'n'
Tillie (Univ), 4th wk 175
Cinerama The Great Waltz (MGM), 4th wk 150
Cine Webb Deliverance (WB), 4th wk 225
East Hartford Cinema 1, Elm The Poseidon
Adventure (20th-Fox), 4th wk 200
Meodows Blacula (AlP); Slaughter (AlP), 2nd wk. 75
Newington, UA Theatre East— 1776 (Col), 4th wk. 250
Pans Cinema II The Ruling Class (Emb) 150
Rivoli Love Under 17 (SR), The Sensuous
Teenager (SR), 2nd wk 75
Webster Hit Man (MGM), 4th wk 80
New RI Fire Code Becomes
Effective February 1
PROVIDENCE—Although Rhode Island
business, including exhibition, has had seven
years to prepare for the development, the
state's new fire code is likely to catch the
bulk unprepared when it becomes effective
February 1, according to a state capital
observer.
In effect, the new code is spelling out
stiffer requirements for safety equipment
and renovations.
The 1973 code covers every conceivable
type of building in Rhode Island, with distinctions
drawn between existing and projected
structures.
Specific provisions are listed for theatres,
schools, hospitals, apartment buildings,
rooming houses, nursing homes, hotels, office
buildings and even tents. The law is
also
applicable to service stations, fuel storage
tanks and buildings used for storage of explosives.
Most of the structures built since the code
was passed in 1966 have confirmed, since
architects and contractors normally research
fire and building regulations before drawing
plans.
The rules, of course, have added to the
cost of buildings (including the latter-day
small Jerry Lewis cinemas and the emergence
of General Cinema. National General
and Esquire Theatres of America Inc. complexes),
but contractors and designers across
the state are in agreement that it is indeed
cheaper to build better fire protective
measures into a structure than to add it
later on.
Parents of 1st Hartford
73 Baby Awarded Passes
HARTFORD—Bemie and Sy Menschell.
Menschell Bros. Theatres, participated with
metropolitan Hartford businessmen in offering
prizes and special considerations to
the family of the first baby born in a Hartford
hospital in 1973.
The Menschells provided guest tickets to
each of their area theatres, the Berlin Cine
I-II, Vernon Cine I-II, Manchester and Pike
drive-ins.
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Phone TL 4-1736
Albany Theotre Service, Albony, New York. Ho 5-S055
in
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BOXOFFICE :: January 29, 1973 NE-1

O S T O N
^he Variety Club's Children's Cancer Research
Foundation's Jimmy Fund came
out $1,000 ahead as a result of a demonstration
by Bunker Ramo Corp. The company
offered to pay the Jimmy Fund $500
for each second its Borg quartz crystal auto
clock lost or gained over a 24-hour period.
When William S. Koster, vice-president of
the foundation, and Michele Mundell, former
Miss Maryland, checked the auto clock
against official time as recorded on the U.S.
Naval Observatory clock, they found there
was no variation—not even of one second.
So Bunker Ramo Corp. presented the Jimmy
Fund with $1,000 anyway.
Leo Ajamian, district manager for the
Walter Reade theatres in Boston, is at home
recuperating from a serious illness which
had kept him hospital-bound on two different
occasions. After several weeks in Massachusetts
General Hospital, Leo had a brief
interim at home before returning for openheart
surgery, which involved taking two
veins from his leg as replacements for bypassing
the aorta vein in his heart. Leo expected
to be back in action in time for the
opening of the circuit's Charles Cinema
Centre Thursday (25).
Charles Cinema Centre is the new name
for the
Reade complex formed by the addition
of two new cinemas to the circuit's
single-auditorium Charles. Designated
Charles Cinema East and Charles Cinema
West, the new units have a seating capacity
of 250 each. State and city officials, along
with leaders from the area exhibition and
distribution circles, were invited to opening
ceremonies.
Movie buffs of the Greater Boston area
were in attendance Sunday (21) at Christ
Church, Andover, for the showing of Cecil
B. DeMille's silent classic "King of Kings."
An added attraction was the organ accompaniment
for the film provided by Gaylord
Carter, famed silent movie organist who
started his career playing at Grauman's
Million-Dollar Theatre in 1926.
Exhibitors Melvin H. and Stanton Davis,
who have the Needham Cinema in Needham,
are proud of the citation they received
this month from the Needham selectmen.
The citation reads: "Representing the Inhabitants
of the Town of Needham and the
official tribunals who serve them, the Board
of Selectmen, in recognition of your personal
efforts in voluntarily achieving a substantial
aesthetic improvement of a portion
of your business property exposed to
public
view within the Town, takes pleasure in presenting
you with this letter as an emblem of
excellence to exemplify your high standard
of citizenship and devotion to the community
improvement program brought to this
Board's attention by the Town of Needham
Business Men's Advisory Committee recently
established by the Planning Board. Witness
our hands and the official seal of the
Town this 9th day of January 1973. Signed
H. Phillip Garrity jr., chairman, John C.
Catch, Richard M. Salamone, Henry D.
Hersey and Benedict Horowitz."
Filmrow friends were saddened by news
from Florida of the death of Harry Smith, a
retired veteran in film distribution. Harry
started with General Film Co. in 1915. continued
through the Pathe Exchange days
and then was associated with RKO Pictures
before retiring in 1956. Your correspondent
(Ernie Warren) especially will miss Harry,
as since his retirement to Florida we kept
1 2-day intervals, mine keeping him posted
about Boston Filmrow happenings and his
letters going back and forth at about ten-to-
bringing news glorifying Florida and its sunshine.
Usually, too, the Warrens managed
to get to Florida for two or three days with
Harry and his wife Dot each winter. Harry
also is survived by his sons Harry F., Connecticut,
and Gerald, Lawrence, his sister
Helen of Concord, six grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren. Services were held
in
Roslindale.
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NORTH ADAMS, MASS.—"The North
Adams Redevelopment Authority won its
battle of the deadlines with its designated
downtown developer," the North Adams
Transcript commented editorially, "but it is
apt to
be an empty victory."
Victory for the NARA, the Transcript
pointed out, meant the death of a $360,000
motion picture theatre project "which would
have provided substantial future taxes to the
city."
"The unwillingness of the NARA to play
along a little longer with efforts by the
Codman Co. to put together a twin-cinema
project on Main Street, or to give Codman
the assurance it sought that the local authority
would back its fight against a competing
theatre project down the street, could
prove to be a costly display of impatience
and inflexibility," the Transcript declared.
Admitting the theatre project might have
had to be abandoned anyway because of
economic considerations, the Transcript
added, "But the NARA could not see waiting
two more months to see if Codman
could put it
across, and so killed it.
"This action also means that the N.'XRA
still has on its hands a vacant lot which,
because of its physical layout, is not an
attractive spot for redevelopment and which
is going to be hard to sell. There are no
other developers in sight for it and the hunt
must be started anew. It will unquestionably
lake a lot longer than the two-month
grace period denied Codman to find a new
use for the lot."
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BOXOFFICE :: January 29, 1973

MAINE
Qov. Kenneth M. Curtis had some good
news for the Maine business commvinity,
including exhibition. He said the possibilities
of tax increases on the state level
seem remote at present. At the same time,
he noted that the major concern to Maine
during 1973 would be the mounting costs
of state and local governments. "Fortunately,"
the governor continued, "there are
more than enough funds to finance the increased
cost of current state government
services and a modest supplemental program
over the next biennium without tax
increases."
Esquire Theatres of America Paris Cinema,
Portland, brought back Warners' "The
Devils," 1971 release, for a "late show,"
screening the Vanessa Redgrave-starring vehicle
at 11:15 p.m. on a recent Friday. Admission
was $1 for all seats.
Day-and-date Maine premieres of MGM's
"The Great Waltz" and Columbia's "1776."
at E.M. Loew's Fine Arts I-II complex,
Portland, registered some of the strongest
Portland first-run trade in many months.
Bay Staters May Get Vote
On Selling of Cigarets
BOSTON—Of particular interest to those
drive-in theatres selling cigarets is a proposed
measure newly submitted to the current
Massachusetts state legislative session.
Bay state voters would decide whether to
ban the sale of cigarets under the proposal.
The bill, filed by Representative Richard
E. Landry, Waltham Democrat, would authorize
the placing on the 1974 ballot of
this question:
"Shall the sale of cigarets be banned in
the Commonwealth?"
Decision in 60 Days About
East Haven Katz Project
EAST HAVEN, CONN.—A spokesman
for the East Haven Planning and Zoning
Commission said a decision would be announced
within 60 days on plans by the
Katz Corp., Norwalk, and Kama, Inc.,
North Branford, to build a $35 million residential-recreational
complex.
The complex will include twin motion
picture theatres, on a 50-acre tract bounded
by Cosey Beach Avenue and Silver Sands
Road in this New Haven suburb.
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SPRINGFIELD, MASS. — Although
many of its contemporaries are being razed,
the Paramount Theatre, which has been a
Springfield landmark since 1929, is just
starting a promising new career under a new
name and with a new management.
Wally Beach and Sam Scheckter make up
the new management, abetted by many
small investors, who has invested $50,000
to bring the theatre back to the splendor of
its
heydays.
"It was built in 1929 by Paramount
Studios as a break-in house for its name
band," wrote Jean Caldwell, Boston Globe
correspondent. "It took four years to finish.
It is lavish and ornate, features high
ceilings, hand-crafted walls, murals, marble
staircase and ponderous chandeliers. No one
would think of building such a theatre
today."
But swarms of workmen, laboring under
supervision of Beach and Scheckter, polished
and renewed the theatre to the nth
degree and Sunday (7) it was reop>ened as
the Julia Sanderson Theatre with two performances
of "Applause," with Patrice
Munsel.
Beach told Miss Caldwell that the theatre
Six Nearby Theatres Now
Serving Simsbury, Conn.
SIMSBURY, CONN.—This
fast-growing
Hartford suburb doesn't seem to need a
motion picture theatre after all.
While the Community Development Action
Plan recommended such a project several
years ago, CDAP coordinator John
Case noted that Simsbury residents now
have a choice of six cinemas within easy
driving distance today.
He commented that the Avon Twin
cinemas (Alexander and Sylvia Stieber) on
Route 10, College Highway, Avon, and
Avon North and South cinemas (Irwin
Cohen's C&F Theatres), Route 10, Watersville
Road, Avon, as well as the Jerry Lewis
Cinema, Route 44, Canton, and Perakos
Mall Cinema, Wintonbury Shopping Mall,
Bloomfield, can be reached within minutes
from Simsbury.
Case added that in a poll conducted
among Simsbury high school students several
years ago the need for a cinema had
been rated as number one priority. No such
survey has been conducted recently.
A spokesman for the Simsbury Recreation
Commission said there is no push at
present by the commission to get a cinema
in Simsbury proper.
Some years ago, the late industry pioneer
Joe Faith ran film programs at the town's
Eno Memorial Hall.
will offer variety stage shows, fihn festivals
featuring such stars as Bogart and Tracy, as
well as country and western shows, ballet,
name bands and one-day performance of
musicals.
Admission has been set at $1.50 for
movies, $4 for movies and a stage show.
There are matinees for elderly folks who
live downtown but don't like to go out at
night and variety entertainment seven days
a week for everyone. Also there's the music
of the $125,000 Wurlitzer, which has been
restored through the cooperation of the
Connecticut Valley Organ Society.
Julia Sanderson, the Springfield actress
for whom the theatre was renamed, has
lived here in retirement since the death of
her husband in 1943. She made her stage
debut at the age of 13 around 1900 and
went on to score 35 consecutive Broadway
successes in musical comedies. In 1927 she
married singer Frank Crumit. They tried
retirement two years; then they went on
radio and scored a national success with
their hit song, "Let's Have Another Cup of
Coffee and Let's Have Another Piece of
Pie."
Providence Palace Shows
Favorites From the Past
PROVIDENCE—The downtown Palace
Theatre, charging 99 cents admission for all
seats at all times, opened a series of what it
called "Some of the Most Spectacular
Films of All Time."
The product scheduled: Columbia's
"Nicholas and Alexandra" and "Lawrence
of Arabia" plus MGM's "Doctor Zhivago."
Plans Stonington Theatre
STONINGTON. CONN.—HNC Mortgage
and Realty Investors. Hartford real
estate and investment trust, has agreed to
provide a $2 million construction loan for
Old Mistic Village Shopping Center, the
complex to include a cinema.
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Industry Must Find Positive Ways
To Boost, Bolster Boxoffice Take
By ALLEN M. WIDEM
HARTFORD—Grosses for the so-called
blockbuster attractions are doing enormously
well. Clinkers, the releases simply unable
to latch onto audience appeal, fail dismally.
Somewhere along the line, according to
John P. Lowe, New England division manager
for Redstone Theatres (some 80 screens
with more under construction and still
others projected, primarily for the northern
half of the U.S.), the industry has not
looked to itself to determine a positive
course-of-action. calculated to boost and
bolster boxoffice receipts.
"I'm not for giving what we have on
the screen away in a lump "99 cents at all
times" gimmickry approach," says Lowe.
an industry veteran of 30 years, "but, at
the same time, I'm cognizant enough of
passing trends to realize that variations on
fixed price-structuring are a necessity for
survival amid the escalation of other leisuretime
activity offered the American public
today."
What is the Redstone combine doing to
boost and bolster boxoffice recipts??
For one thing, in most of the situations
in western New England under Lowe's command,
a senior citizens' policy, with a
markedly reduced tab, is in effect on a
Monday-through-Friday basis (holidays, of
course, excepted).
"We're getting people who are on fixed
income to get out to the movie with this
inducement," he says. "We're incorporating
catchlines, changed to strengthen their impact,
regularly in our daily newspaper advertising.
In truth, it may not amount to
a whole lot of money, per se, but the wordof-mouth
generated is valuable indeed."
For another, group sales, a topic of prime
import to cinema complexes such as Redstone's
quintet in West Springfield, Mass.:
its trio in Orange, Conn., and a twin in
Worcester, Mass., can be credited with
aiding week day attendance.
"In a way," Lowe continued, "we've
borrowed the concepts adopted a long time
ago by the airlines, with reduced prices in
effect at various times for various age
levels.
"If the airlines, for example, can offer
group pricing and draw customers who
would otherwise use private transportation
or stay home, why can't the exhibition field
do the same?
"We're competing heavily with seasonal
entertainment of a scope never envisioned
a generation ago. My 19-year-old son (Richard)
told me the other day that a ski lift
near his college (Windham in Putney, Vt.)
was offering a season pass, good for the
three months or so of skiing weather, for
$150. This, mind you, for weekdays only.
A pass to include weekends, too, is going
for $350.
"Now, $150 may or may not be a lot of
money to the college-level youth in 1973
but the fact remains that my son reported
a great turnout of fellow students for the
$150 tab. In essence, where there is a desire,
there's an expenditure.
Means Price Structuring
"Adapting this thinking to moviegoing in
1973 merely means planning a price-structuring,
for senior citizens, for group sales,
for secondary and elementary school youth
that is at once realistic and appealing.
"We have to make moviegoing an event,
an event to be anticipated. In applying price
structuring to 'special interests,' the elderly,
the industrial and business groups and youth
itself, we are reaching out for an audience
that can help us regain what has been called
"The Lost Audience.' "
Promotion, on the local level, is a must.
"There can never be enough mentions in the
printed media and on broadcasting for the
current product in our theatres. It means,
of course, a dedication and a drive to maintain
week-after-week contact with the opinion-makers.'
"
Advertising, ebullient and enthusiastic,
will never become obsolete in an industry
known for a glamorous flair, Lowe insists.
"We can't ever allow ourselves to dawdle
when we must drive. This means that our
advertising budget should be examined to
determine the best available means of reaching
the potential market for the least amount
of money.
Ads in "TV Guide'
"On occasion, I've bought space, for
example, in the western New England
edition of 'TV Guide,' which, I understand,
is the biggest-selling magazine in America
today.
"Someone in our industry might conceivably
ask me why should we advertise
in a medium geared primarily for a heavily
competitive medium and my answer, just
as primarily and pointedly, is that we have
to get to the people who are movie-conscious.
"Movies comprise a heavy part of primetime
viewing in television. It follows that
if you can reach a television-oriented public
with appealing advertising of some of the
best-made product Hollywood can provide.
then you're that much ahead of the game."
Lowe emphasizes that local-level promotion,
the kind that helped sustain the
90-million viewing audience not-too-long
ago, should be developed and maintained
the year round.
"We can't allow ourselves to 'go' with
mere briefly worded ads and feel that we
have 'reached' our market. People want to
know what they're buying and they want
to know it when they spot our ads."
"There's a market, a great market, untapped,
for motion pictures," he insists.
"The fact that X-dollars are grossed with
X-pictures doesn't necessarily reflect a
growing audience. We have to do business
with numbers, and numbers mean audience-building."
HARTFORD
pranklin E. Ferguson ran a midnight "flick
concert" program at his Rivoli. offering
no less than three rock music groups (Morgan,
Carolyn Reed and Skin & Bones), plus
20th Century-Fox's "Concert for Bangladesh,"
on a recent Friday night in cooperation
with Big Brothers. Admission was $3.
Perakos Theatres is scheduling matinees
every Wednesday at the Elm, West Hartford
(first-run metropolitan Hartford), in
addition to regular afternoon shows on
weekends and holidays.
NEW HAVEN
TJobert Carney, retired manager of the
RKO-Stanley Warner division flagship,
the downtown Roger Sherman Theatre, has
been named a lottery assistant for the State
Gaming Commission.
The Mini-Cine I-II complex is now advertising
the slogan: "Admission Prices You
Can Afford—wliy Pay More?!"
Easter Opening in Works
For UA Manchester Duo
MANCHESTER, CONN.—UA Theatres
has firmed an Easter Week opening for twin
cinemas addition to its UA Theatre East in
the Manchester Shopping Parkade.
Each auditorium will contain 250 seats
and overall seating capacity of the complex
is to be 1,300.
Adorno Testing 'Bargain'
MIDDLETOWN, CONN.—Sal
Adorno
jr.. owner-operator of the Middletown
Drive-In, is continuing to experiment with
occasional "Bargain Nights," offering admission-per-carload
(regardless of number of
passengers) for $2 with presentation at the
boxoffice of the airer's newspaper ad announcing
a "Bargain Night."
INCORPORATION
— Connecticut —
Exhibitors Corp. of Connecticut, 364
Main St., Winsted; Charles J. Burns jr.,
president: Dorothy F. Burns, vice-president:
Charles J. Burns sr., treasurer, and Faith
Balocki, secretary.
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With Landau's AFT
MONTREAL—Well-known
Montreal financial
consultant Irving Kott has joined
forces with Ely Landau, veteran American
film producer, to produce a series of motion
pictures based on some of the
world's leading
dramatic works. Kott and Landau jointly
announced the agreement at a press conference
held in the offices of the former's
Onyx Investments, a company which he says
acts as financial consultants to Cinevision.
which reportedly is putting some $3,000,000
into Landau's project, known as the American
Film Theatre.
The projected eight movies in the series
will be shown on a restricted basis, according
to Kott and Landau. They said the films
initially will be sold to the public on subscription
"in a manner similar to symphony
concerts, ballets or live theatre performances,"
with the subscribers paying for their
season tickets by cash, check or credit card.
Proposed first-season productions include:
John Osborne's "Luther." with Stacy
Keach. Hugh Griffith and Patrick Magee:
Eugene lonesco's "Rhinoceros," with Zero
Mostel, Gene Wilder and Karen Black;
Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming." with
Cyril Cusak; Robert Shaw's "The Man in
the Glass Booth," to be filmed in Canada:
Ferenc Molnar's "Liliom" and "Lost in the
Stars," and a musical based on Alan Paton's
"Cry the Beloved Country." by Kurt Weill
and Maxwell Anderson.
Landau said two other productions. Eugene
O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh," starring
Lee Marvin. Fredric March, Jeff
Bridges and Robert Ryan, and Edward Albee's
"A Delicate Balance," with Katharine
Hepburn. Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Joseph
Gotten, Betsy Blair and Toronto's Kate
Reid, already have been completed.
Directors for the various films include
John Frankenheimer, Guy Green, Academy
Award-winner Tony Richardson and Broadway
musical director Tom O'Horgan.
Landau said approximately 500 theatres
throughout Canada and the U.S. are expected
to participate in the project and
each film will be shown only four times a
month at regularly scheduled Monday and
Tuesday screenings, commencing next
September.
The press conference at Onyx was attended
mainly by financial journalists interested
in
Kott's participation and the movement of
Cinevision stock. The stock jumped from $1
a share in September 1972 to nearly $8 a
share when Cinevision requested in December
that the Canadian Stock Exchange
suspend trading in its shares pending an
agreement with the Ely Landau Organization.
Cinevision currently is completing an
agreement with L. J. Forget & Co., stockbrokers,
which will increase the comoany's
working capital by a purported $250,000.
After approval of the financing by the
Quebec Securities Commission and the Canadian
Stock Exchange, trading will be resumed.
Six Excellent' Grosses on Record
As Toronto Enjoys Outstanding Week
TORONTO—Grosses were even higher
than in the previous weekly boxoffice re-
Good
ports, the tally featuring six "excellent"
films: "The Poseidon Adventure," "Sounder."
"Deliverance," "Pete 'n' Tillie," "Man
of La Mancha" and "The Getaway." Adding
strength to the report were six "very
good" and seven "good" ratings.
Carlton The Poseidon Adventure (BVFD),
2nd wk Excel lent
Coronet, Dufferin The Sensuous Sorceress
(C-P); The Virgin Witch (C-P) Very Good
Fairlawn Young Winston (Col), 13th wk Good
Glendale The Great Waltz (MGM),
9th wk Very Good
Hollywood (North) Sounder (BVFD),
1 3th wk Excellent
Hollywood (South) Deliverance (WB),
13th wk Excellent
Hylond — Pete 1 'n' Tillie (Univ), 2nd wk. . .Excejlent
Hyland 2— Across 110th Street (UA),
2nd wk Very Good
International Cinema The Emigrants (WB),
2nd wk
Towne Cinema Up the Sandbox
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(NGP),
2nd wk
University Man of La Mancha (UA),
Good
3rd wk Excellent
Uptown 1 The Life and Times of Judge
Roy Bean (NGP), 2nd wk Very Good
Uptown 2 Jeremiah Johnson (WB),
2nd wk Very Good
Uptown 3 Travels With My Aunt (MGM),
2nd wk Good
Uptown Backstage 1 Decameron (WB),
2nd wk Good
Uptown Backstage 2 Lady Sings the Blues
(WB), 2nd wk Good
Yonge The Getaway (NGP), 2nd wk Excellent
York 1 The King of Marvin Gardens (Col),
2nd wk Very Poor
York 2 Fellini's Roma (UA), 2nd wk Good
Yorkdale, others Snowball Express (BV),
2nd wk Very Good
The Getaway,' Four Others
"Excellent' in Winnipeg Runs
WINNIPEG — Steady returns were the
order of this report week as grosses continued
strong in their second post-Christmas
stanzas. Five "excellent" grossing
marks went up on the board and films that
weren't "excellent" were "very good,"
"good" or "fair." So there really weren't
any disappointments playing here.
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Capitol The Getaway (NGP), 3rd wk Excellent
Gaiety Up the Sandbox (NGP), 3rd wk. .Very Good
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Garrick Butterflies Are Free (Col), 16th wk. ..Fair
Garrick Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ), 3rd wk. Very Good
Grant
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Park The Great Woltz (MGM),
3rd wk Excellent
Kings Young Winston (Col), 3rd wk Good
Metropolitan The Poseidon Adventure (BVFD),
3rd wk Excellent
Snowball Express (BV),
North Star
3rd wk Very Good
North Star II Travels With My Aunt (MGM),
3rd wk Very Good
Odeon The Mechanic (UA), 3rd wk Excellent
Polo Park Deliverance (WB), 3rd wk Excellent
'The Poseidon Adventure'
'Excellent' in Vancouver
VANCOUVER — While manager Ted
Bielby of the Orpheum rated the third week
of "The Poseidon Adventure" as "superior"
(which translates "excellent" as a grossing
classification), two other Vancouver first
runs were achieving comparable boxoffice
result.s—
"Deliverance" grossing big at the
Downtown and "The Getaway" at the Capitol.
"The Mechanic" and "Fellini's Roma"
ranked right behind the three top notchers
with "very good" boxoffice results.
Capitol The Getaway (NGP), 3rd wk Excellent
Coronet The Mechonic (UA), 3rd wk Very Good
Downtown Deliverance (WB), 3rd wk Excellent
Fine Arts Travels With My Aunt (MGM),
3rd wk Averane
Hyland Young Winson (Col), 1 2th wk Fair
Odeon Sounder (BVFD), 3rd wk Good
Orpheum The Poseidon Adventure (BVFD),
3rd wk Excellent
Park Man of Lo Mancha (UA), 4th wk Good
Park Royal— George! (C-P), 3rd wk Fair
Ridge The Greot Walti (MGM), 9th wk Good
Stonley Up the Sandbox (NGP), 3rd wk Fair
Strand Snowboll Express (BV), 3rd wk Fair
Varsity Fellini's Roma (UA), 3rd wk Very Good
Vogue— Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ), 3rd wk Good
Calgary Theatregoers Finding
Welcome Variety in Films
CALGARY—Diversity of appeal appears
to be important to Calgary theatregoers,
who show that they will support anything
really entertaining in any field of film fare.
For instance, this report week's four leaders
— all with "excellent" grosses—were "The
Mechanic," "The Poseidon Adventure,"
"The Great Waltz," "Bluebeard." That's
about as much variety as one will find anywhere
in a group of four films.
Brentwood, Chinook Snowball Express (BV),
2nd wk Good
Calgary Ploce 2 Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ),
2nd wk Very Good
Grand One Young Winston (Col), 2nd wk. Very Good
Grand Two The Mechanic (UA), 2nd wk. ..Excellent
North Hill Cinerama Deliverance (WB),
2nd wk Very Good
Palliser Square 1 The Poseidon Adventure
(BVFD), 2nd wk Excellent
Palliser Square 2 The Great Waltz (MGM),
2nd wk Excellent
Towne Cinema Bluebeard (IFD) Excellent
Uptown Sounder (BVFD), 2nd wk Good
Outstanding Boxoffice Week
For All Edmonton Theatres
EDMONTON—Although only two "excellent"
ratings were recorded here, the report
week was outstanding in all-around
pleasing results. Among the eight first runs
playing here, there were five "very good"
gross totals and one "good" in addition to
the two "excellent" figures. Leading the way
were "Fiddler on the Roof" in its 46th week
at the Varscona and "Pete 'n' Tillie" in a
second at the Odeon Theatre.
Avenue Young Winston (Col), 2nd wk Good
Capilano Snowball Express (BV), 2nd wk. Very Good
Odeon Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ), 2nd wk Excellent
Rial to Sloughter house-Five (Univ),
2nd wk Very Good
Roxy Sounder (BVFD), 2nd wk Very Good
Varscona Fiddler on the Roof (UA),
46th wk Excellent
Westmount A Deliverance (WB), 2nd wk. Very Good
Westmount B The Great Waltz (MGM),
2nd wk Very Good
Calgarion Trevor Paige
Is Elected IMPLAA V-P
CALGARY—^At a recent meeting of the
International Motion Picture & Lecturers
Ass'n of America, Trevor Paige of Calgary
became the first Canadian to be elected
vice-president of that organization. The
election took place during the IMPLAA's
annual meeting held in Palm Springs, Calif.
Paige is a writer, lecturer and producer.
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ONTREAL
Quebec comedian Yvon Deschamps was
the subject of the second segment of
the National Film Board's "Adieu Alouette"
series, presented Wednesday (10) on the
CBC-TV network. The half-hour color film
directed by Ian McLaren was titled "Une
Job Steady . Bon Boss—Yvon Deschamps."
The 13-part "Adieu Alouette" premiered
Wednesday (3) with a film titled
"Challenge for the Church."
Cinepix-U.S.A. Relocates
In Montreal Headquarters
MONTREAL—John Dunning, president
of Cinepix, Inc.. announces the reorganization
of Cinepi.x-U.S.A., Inc., and the centralizing
of all North American operations
in the company's Montreal head office. A
new general sales manager, Maurice Attias,
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operating out of Montreal, will be responsible
for the company's U.S. distribution program.
In New York Cinepix will continue to
be associated with Ben Seigel. who will act
as
subdistributor for the New York area.
Maurice Attias, new general sales manager,
has extensive background in sales, advertising
and promotion of motion pictures
and TV offerings.
Presently all subdistributors will remain
the same. Cinepix, with its production arm,
DAL Productions, is located at 8275 Mayrand
St., Montreal 308, Que.
Jerry Perenchio to Head
Tandem Productions, Inc.
From Westi?rn Edition
HOLLYWOOD — Jerry Perenchio has
joined Tandem Productions, Inc., as president
and chief executive officer, effective
immediately, it was announced by Bud
Yorkin and Norman Lear, who stressed that
the appointment marks a step in the expansion
of the independent film and TV company
in which they have been partnered
since 1959. The firm produced "The Thief
Who Came to Dinner," which soon will be
released by Warner Bros.
Perenchio will work closely with Yorkin
and Lear on the Tandem production program,
as well as on plans to move the company
into varied diversified areas of the entertainment
and communications media.
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a park. This is the last remaining section
of the city without an important retail
shopping development.
Common shares of the J. Arthur Rank
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the Canadian stock market in anticipation
of favorable results for the fiscal year. An
estimated profit was expected to be 75 cents
(U.S.) compared with 68 cents a year earlier,
the possibility for 1973 being 90 cents, according
to a financial report.
Our town and the city of Hull have lost
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which had been moored in the Ottawa
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damage to the ship and its 400-
seat theatre when it was being prepared
for another season. It now has been decided
that the vessel will not be repaired but will
be towed next spring to a coastal port.
It was ten years ago that localites first
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the adoption of a bylaw by the city
council to permit seven-day operation of
cinemas. However, the new legislation did
not include the two drive-ins here, the
Britannia and Auto-Sky, but the bylaw was
quickly revised.
"The Hanging Tree" topped the Thursday
club program of the National Film Theatre
in the National Library, followed on
Sunday night by a double bill, "The White
Sheik," from Italy, and Britain's "The Long
Day's Dying."
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There were still plenty of holiday holdovers
around town with business good, a
favorable factor being weather improvement.
Held for a fourth unreeling were
"Pete "n' Tillie" and "Gone With the Wind."
In a third week were "The Poseidon Adventure,"
"Up the Sandbox." "The Great
Waltz." "The Mechanic." "The Getaway,"
"Sounder." "Limelight." "Deliverance."
"Snowball Express" and "Young Winston."
while "Funny Girl" was into its second
stanza as a revival.
John Jenney Is Appointed
By Ed. Shaw & Associates
From Western Edition
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.—John Jen-
Edward Shaw & Associates,
ney has joined
Beverly Hills-based public relations-advertising
firm, as an account executive. The
appointment was announced by David M.
Home, senior vice-president of the firm.
Jenney, formerly West Coast account
executive for Ron Guberman Enterprises, a
Washington, D.C. -based advertising agency,
holds a bachelor of arts degree from Heidelberg
University, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Production Block Charged
On 'La Guerre, Yes Sir!'
TORONTO—New York producer Lester
Persky has charged that production was
blocked on Roch Carrier's Quebec black
novel, "La Guerre, Yes Sir!", because of
political considerations. The play was to
have been filmed simultaneously in both
English and French. Now, the Canadian
Film Development Corp. has withdrawn its
$200,000 investment, claiming that Persky
had not produced the necessary financial
guarantee by the set deadline.
"After dealing with us on the project for
more than a year," Persky told the press,
"the corporation suddenly felt it should be
produced in French only, claiming there
would be a limited market for the English
version. We're all bitterly disappointed and
we're making plans to keep this alive."
The film has been canceled despite a
$400,000 investment from Britain's Hemdale
Group.
Stephen Baker Fined $400
For Having Obscene Films
OTTAWA—Stephen Baker, 24, manager
of the Cinematic Cx)., was fined $400 in
provincial court, Ottawa, after he pleaded
guilty to possession of obscene movies for
the purpose of distributing them. He admitted
ownership of 17 films which had
been seized by the Ottawa police morality
squad.
Evidence presented to Judge Patrick
White indicated Baker's income had been
approximately $12,000 a year.
VANCOUVER
The first item of business for the 1973
executives of the local branch of the
Canadian Picture Pioneers was to find a
fund-raising project to bring the Pioneers'
Benevolent Fund up to a self-supporting
basis, as there has been no significant contribution
to the fund in the last three years.
The second item was new members, with an
effort to bring in eligible members of the
distaff side. A survey shows not less than
nine who qualify (the addition of whom
could supply a shot in the arm): Vi Hosford,
Marg Davie, Vi Yates, Dianne Overby,
Barbara Gray, Betty Wynne, Nora Ross,
Mable Grant and Rose Isman.
While the last cold spell had most of us
shivering, Canfilms' latest employee, Jim
Solway (out of Calgary), has been enjoying
the "mild" coast weather . . . Making quick
visits to this city recently were Hector Ross,
president of Canfilms, who spent a day reviewing
local operations with Doug Isman.
and Hank and Mary Heck, who visited the
Stu Youngs . . . Bill Passmore of Parksville
came over to get a good look at our snow,
which was a slushy three inches, only to
return home and find that the banana belt
had six inches and, as a consequence, there
was no golf for a few days.
Friends of Theo Ross will be happy to
know that, although he has an incurable
case of paronomasia, it is neither catching
nor fatal. Paronomasia is the uncontrollable
urge to make puns or to turn a humorous
phrase. The latest, according to Ross, is:
"Bus driver's briefcase—a six-pack of
Pilsener." Your correspondent also is afflicted
and constant exposure to Theo has
not helped to effect a cure.
According to Sun columnist Jack Wasserman,
a high-powered Hollywood team of
filmmakers, including Francis Ford Coppola
of "The Godfather" fame, flew into
town to scout possible locations for a feature
film. It seems the chaps they talked to
made the project sound so tough that the
Americans jumped on the first plane back
to Hollywood. An explanation may be that
there have been several abortive attempts
within the last year where local people have
gone out of their way to cooperate in getting
film projects on the road, and then
were left holding the bag. The latest casein-point
was the Gary Conway epic, which
was on again, off again since last July and
then quietly
folded.
Issues Theatre Licenses
EAST GREENWICH, R.I.—In action at
its
meeting early this month, the town council
granted motion picture exhibition licenses
to the Kent, Greenwich and Hill-Top
Drive-In theatres.
Richard Pryor appears in Paramount's
"Hit."
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WEEK
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Knocks
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CALGARY
Yiie Klondike Cinema in Edmonton is presenting
an international ballet series for
ballet and movie lovers in that city. Two
matinees are presented each Sunday. The
series began with 'The Red Shoes" Sunday
(14). Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake," performed
by the Bolshoi Ballet, was shown
Sunday (21). "Cinderella," also danced by
the Bolshoi Ballet, was presented Sunday
(28) and concluding the series will be "Romeo
and Juliet" February 4.
Studio 82 here ran a special three-day
engagement of a German-language program
Sunday (7) through Tuesday (9). Featured
were two adult pictures, "Der Kapitan,"
starring Heinz Ruhmann. and "Wo der
Wildbach Rauscht." starring Walter Richter
and Ingeborg Cornelius.
Tlie Calgary Film Society Thursday (11)
showed the Swedish film "The Passion of
Anna" as one of its international series
offerings. The film, produced by Ingmar
Bergman in 1969, was screened in the Jubilee
Sunday (7) the Klondike
Auditorium . . . Cinema in Edmonton had two matinees
of a sports special, "Ski Movie No. 1,"
starring Art Furrer. Roger Staub. Tom Le-
Roi, Hermann Goellner. Bill Peterson.
Corky Fowler and Ruedi Wyrsch.
A weekend jaunt to the Santa Anita race
track proved to be extremely lucrative for
Frank Kettner of Theatre Agencies here . . .
Toutimage. Edmonton's French Film Club,
presented "Medea." by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Sunday (7) in College Universitaire St. Jean
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Auditorium. The film, starring Maria Callas,
tells the story of the mythological character
Medea, from the legend of "Jason and
the Golden Fleece."
The Edmonton Bird Club and the
Canadian
Nature Federation cooperated in
screening Robert E. Fultz's "Sky Island" as
part of the Audubon wildlife series Saturday
(6) in the Henry Marshall Tory Building
Theatre TL-11. Tickets were available
to
the general public.
Seen around the exchange were exhibitors
Leo Toone of the Rex Theatre in Clareholm
and Roy Bayrak of the Mayfair and
. .
drive-in theatres in Olds. Visiting old friends
were former film men Cy Brown and Reg
Dodderidge
. The Calgary Film Society
uses an audience reaction index (RI rating)
to report on patron acceptance (or otherwise)
of its programs. This rating is derived
from adding together the per cent "excellent"
times 1.0; the per cent "very good"
times three-fourths; the per cent "good"
times one-half, and the per cent "fair"
times one-fourth. No value is given to the
per cent vote in the "poor" category. The
RI rating varies from zero to 100. On the
recent classic film series offering of "Kurelek"
and "La Strada," the short rated 69.8
and the feature 83.8. The international series
program in December of "Sirene" and
"Hymn to a Tired Man" had a short subject
rating of 70.0 and the feature rated
85.8.
The National Film Theatre in
Edmonton
presented two Busby Berkeley musicals in
the Edmonton Art Gallery Sunday (7). The
features v/ere "Dames." produced in 1934,
and "42nd Street," produced in 1933, both
starring Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. Admission
was by membership, plus $1.
The Odeon Theatre here started its third
annual Shakespeare Festival Sunday (14)
with the Alberta premiere performance of
Roman Polanski's "Macbeth." The picture
is a Playboy production and is distributed
by Columbia Pictures. Presented Sunday
(21) was "Hamlet," starring Nicol Williamson.
"Twelfth Night" was shown Sunday
(28). February 4 Paul Scofield will star in
"King Lear." The presentation February 11
will be Laurence Olivier's starring film,
"Othello." February 18 brings Richard Burton
and Elizabeth Taylor in "Taming of
the Shrew." "Julius Caesar," starring Marlon
Brando, will be offered February 25
and completing the series March 4 will be
"Henry V," featuring Laurence Olivier.
Gordon Guiry, busy branch manager of
Astral Fihns, made a trip to Red Deer to
confer with Don Purchell. theatreman of
that city.
TORONTO
J)oug Wells, chief barker-elect, Variety
Club of Ontario Tent 28, is leading
the effort to update the knowledge of the
valued "Electro Limb" branch of the tent's
charity effort. "The Variety Limb Bank
here and in other countries of the world
will make it possible for every amputated
child to approach normal functions by being
equipped with the finest of prosthesis,"
stated Wells in a newsletter.
Some managerial changes have occurred
at local Twinex Century theatres. Barry
Brown has moved from the Capri to the
Park, Fern Marleau from the now-closed
Downtown to the Capri and Frank O'Connor
from the Park to the Birchcliff.
With an effort continuing to be made to
curb some businesses on Yonge Street here,
the owner of one theatre showing sexploitation
features on videotape has been ordered
to close his establishment.
NFB bookings included "Don't Knock
the Ox" at the Park; "Catuor" at the Bijou
One and the Fox; "Cold Rodders" at the
Capitol and the Humber; "Blake" at the
Odeon Don Mills, and "Angus" at the Uptown
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Armed Robber Takes Cash
From Lobo Arts Theatre
From Western Edition
ALBUQUERQUE — An armed
robber
held up the Lobo Arts Theatre here and
got his money in a unique manner. House
manager Miss Blanche Hatton told officers
the man, who had asked to wait in the
lobby for a friend, saw her taking the money
drawer full of cash from the boxoffice to
her office. Miss Hatton said he pulled a
gun and ordered her to hand over the tray.
She said she then threw the tray of money
at the man—and he picked it up and left.
She didn't say how much money was in the
cash drawer.
Miss Hatton. who recently celebrated her
80th birthday, actively has been managing
theatres in Albuquerque for almost 50
years. She is one of the few women theatre
managers in New Mexico.
BOXOFFICE :: January 29, 1973

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Red Carpet Premiere
On 'Getaway' in Tex.
Free refreshments, a red carpet from
street to door, live organ music, radio broadcasts
from the scene and other trappings
of a Hollywood event, heralded the world
premiere of "The Getaway" at the Showplace
Cinema I and II in San Marcos, Tex.,
city in which much of the picture had been
filmed.
The premiere in San Marcos benefited
"His Place," a non-denominational religious
group of youngsters including singing
groups, a bell choir and a band.
Guy Speck, manager of the San Marcos
theatres, also had a large banner on the
marquee and a 1919 Plymouth in keeping
with the "old-time bank robbery" spirit of
the movie on hand for added interest. A
special eight-page, tabloid-size program was
handed out to patrons, with some 25 local
merchants offering congratulatory ads on
the back page sponsoring the handout.
A week before the opening, the First
National Bank of San Marcos ran a two
column ad on the premiere the full length
of the front page of the weekly San Marcos
Record, urging the purchase of advance
tickets.
The picture opened simultaneously at the
Fox Twin Theatre in Austin where manager
Jack Fleming said that 60 seats at the second
showing were reserved for local persons
who appeared in the picture.
Florida Drive-In Provides
Santa for Kid Patrons
C.E. "Bud" Trimble, manager of the
Gulf to Bay Drive-In Theatre, Clearwater,
Fla., felt that something should be done
at his theatre, which shows PG and R-rated
films, for the children that come with their
parents to see this type of program.
So, Trimble arranged for Santa to
appear
in the concession stand for two-hour periods
on each of three consecutive Fridays. A
retired man volunteered to serve as St.
Nick, and Trimble gathered up the other
essentials, the Santa suit, a recliner chair
and a white mini shag rug.
"We are the only theatre in the area
that is doing this to date," Trimble said.
"I feel that this is typical old-time showmanship.
It also makes the theatre active
for the people in the area and people attending."
Variety of Showmanship Brings
Success to South Dakota House
Patrons matching their ties with those displayed on this hoard at the Homestake
Theatre, Lead. S.D., won free passes to see "Frenzy." The manikin leg protruding
from the "sack-fiil" of potatoes attracted plenty of interest, too.
Gag campaigns, coupled with in-theatre
displays, radio station tieups, contests and
free pass giveaways have been particularly
successful at the Homestake Theatre in
Lead, S.D. for manager Anthony J. Minchin.
For "Frenzy," Minchin ran a contest in
the local paper on Wednesday and Friday
advertising, "Win a pass for two — Match
your tie against the murder weapons displayed
in the lobby." The lobby display
consisted of a 12x5-foot board containing
an assortment of neckties and posters from
"Frenzy." The six closest ties won a pass
for two to the theatre.
Beneath the display, Minchin had a large
potato sack filled with paper with a manikin's
leg (borrowed from a dress shop)
sticking out from the top of the sack and
potatoes surrounding it. This really captured
attention.
On "Where Does It Hurt?" Minchin used
two-column ads on opening night and on
Friday night, plus one-column ads between
those days. He ran ten spots on the local
radio station on Friday and Saturday.
On the street, he had four people wearing
white coats, which were borrowed from a
local grocer, displaying signs saying: "We
are the four honorable, honest doctors and
we do not associate with Peter Sellers in
'Where Does It Hurt?' " They appeared on
the streets from 6:30 until 7:30 each evening
and caused quite a stir, because at first
people thought they were demonstrating
against exhibition of the film. "There were
many laughs on this gag," Minchin said.
"It was easy to do and people talked." He
also ran a one-inch ad on the last night of
the engagement, "Any person who attends
in a doctor or nurse's uniform will be admitted
free." Two local doctors and two
nurses came in uniform, Minchin reported.
For "Play It Again, Sam." he ran a quiz
contest with a picture of Jerry Lasy (who
plays Humphrey Bogart in the flim). Copy
ran, "Can you name this actor. If so, win a
free pass for two." Minchin said, "I received
calls with names from Humphrey
Bogart to George Raft. Out of many calls,
only six people got the correct name."
Skaters Boost 'Bomber'
Welton Reece, manager of the Marbro
Twin Drive-In. Marietta, Ga.. had six girls
dressed in hot pants roller skating through
local shopping centers handing out heralds
to promote "Kansas City Bomber."
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Arctic Cat Giveaway on It Ain't Easy
Joe Kraetsch is shown pointing to the sign giving details about the Kitty Cat
snow mobile giveaway at the Oakview Theatre in Rochester, Minn. The entry
box is located behind hitn, while, at right, two young hopefuls check the size
of the snow mobile.
A 17-day contest complete with radio
plugs—more than 200, 60-second spots
garnered major attention to the Kitty Kat
snow mobile given away during the run
of "It Ain't Easy" at the Oakview Theatre
in Rochester, Minn.
Arranged by Robert H. Thrill, district
manager for ABC North Central Theatres,
and Joseph Kraetsch. at that time student
manager in charge of the Oakview, the
promotion was tied in with KOLM radio
and plugged constantly on the air for ten
days in advance and during the seven-day
run. The giveaway was promoted from
Electronics Firm Tieup
Results in Many Ads
Joseph P. Garvey, general manager of
Holiday Theatres, garnered some beautiful
display ads and a great deal of publicity for
"The Poseidon Adventure" in a tieup with
Jet Electronics in which that company, in
return for a certain number of guest tickets,
invited folks to be their guests at one performance
of the film at the Holiday II.
The company, via almost thousands of
lines of ads spread over five days, carried
scene and star photos and announced that
a limited number of tickets to the showing
were available free to customers visiting the
store.
There was much word-of-mouth publicity
from the guests and the theatre received a
great send-off through the electronics firm's
advertising splash. Garvey declared it was
one of the best tieups he had ever made,
while Jet Electronics said the deal brought
a lot of customers into its store.
Nine-Day Star Tour Aids
'Shantytown Honeymoon'
When "Shantytown Honeymoon" was
booked into a large multiple saturation in
the Carolinas, Bob McClure, director of
Charlotte Booking, and Donn Davison, producer
and director of the film, decided to
"ise some unusual methods of promotion.
V/itb some phone calls and luck with
Arrow Marine, Rochester's Arctic Cat dealer,
and it also included a bonus of 50 gallons
of gasoline donated by Forde's Texaco.
Registration was held for the entire 17
days and the registration box was located
near the snow mobile in the outer lobby so
that no purchase was necessary for registration.
The name of the winner was announced
on the last day of the run and KOLM broadcast
an interview with him. In addition,
all of the theatre's newspaper ads had included
copy about the contest, and exactly
5,392 entries were received.
work schedules, Davison arranged for the
picture's star. Pepper Thurston, to make
an eight-day tour on behalf of the film.
McClure and Davison built the rest of the
campaign around this tour.
Davison devised a special tabloid herald,
headlined: "Moonshiner Weds 14-Year-
Old." These were passed out by the thousands
in each city by young models clad in
"Daisy Mae" fashion and carrying jugs of
"moonshine." This promotion started two
days before playdate and created much interest,
including photo coverage of the
models in four local newspapers.
Davison set out on tour with Miss Thurston
to announce the coming film. In each
city, they visited the newspapers, radio stations
and television stations, and in the eveings,
Miss Thurston appeared at the theatres
to sign autographs for fans.
The tour last nine days and covered 11
cities, with stops at six TV stations, 14
newspaper offices and 31 radio stations.
Miss Thurston autographed and gave away
5,300 photographs.
Banana Handout for 'Apes'
Head concessionist Debbi Marsili of the
Alabama Theatre, Huntsville, Ala., wearing
an ape mask, toured the local area handing
out bananas, each bound with a gummed
label advertising "Conquest of the Planet
of the Apes," as a novel promotion of that
film. She also handed out a few passes to
the theatre in the stunt, devised by manager
Elsie Adkins.
Front Page Contest
Designed for '1776'
Journalism classrooms throughout the
United States will stop the presses to bring
out a "1776" extra edition of their local
newspapers as part of a unique "Front
Page" contest sponsored by Columbia Pictures
in conjunction with the national release
of the film "1776."
The contest, in which students will create
a front page of their local newspaper as it
might have appeared on July 5, 1776, reporting
the actions of the Continental Congress
in declaring independence from Great
Britain, has, as of December 12, received
entry requests from schools in 27 states.
Grand prize in the contest will be a special
preview performance of the Jack L.
Warner production for Columbia Pictures
at a local theatre. The prize will be awarded
in three categories: Primary School, Intermediate
School and High School.
In an unusual move, student journalists
will not be required to recreate an old-time
version of their local papers; rather, the
rules make allowances for modern journalistic
techniques. In making their newspaper
dummy, students are being advised that
they can assume photos, wire service stories
and large reporting staffs existed in 1776.
Entries are to be postmarked no later
than February 22 and Columbia is accepting
only one entry per school. The student
editorial staffs will have more to contend
with than just the news of the independence.
The articles the students include on the
front-page spread with the declaration story
will be judged according to appropriateness,
accuracy and presentation.
Columbia will supply all schools with a
special "Front Page" kit, including a study
guide, contest hints and stills from the film
which can be used as illustrations in the
event students are unable to either pose
their own period pictures, or utilize historical
lithographs depicting America during
the summer of 1776.
Newspaper Ad Tells Story
Of 'Jesse James' Promotion
One month in advance of opening, manager
Jack Stinson of the Polk Theatre, Columbia,
Tenn., began his promotion of "43
—The Petty Story," by having vests made
for all employees, which they were asked to
wear everywhere they went. Copy on the
back of the vests read " '43 —The Petty
Story' Is Coming," and was imprinted in
royal blue on the white vest background.
Stinson also ran a successful radio campaign.
Immediately after one of the theatre
spots was run, the announcer asked listeners
to call in and give the names of the stars of
the picture. "This was very successful,"
Stinson said, "and it resulted in several dollars
worth of radio time free."
To top off his campaign. Stinson went to
the Goodyear store and promoted an eyecatching
display for the theatre lobby.
Result of the entire promotion: a holdover
for the picture.
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the 20 key cities checked. Pictures with fewer than five engagements are not listed. As new runs
are 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,"
the figures show the gross ratings above or below that mark. (Asterisk * denotes combinotion bills.)
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signs indicate degree of merit. Listings cover current reviews regularly. © is for CinemoScope; (g) Panavision;
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films are in color except those indicated by (b&w) for black & white. Motion Picture Ass'n (MPAA) ratings:
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SHAMUS
Columbia ( )
PG
99 Minutes
Action
Comedy-Drama
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Rel. Jan. '73
If Burt Reynolds doesn't become a superstar in 1973,
it certaiiHy won't be his fault. With his Cosmopolitan
Magazine layout reaching classic proportions and performances
m "Deliverance" and several other top films
of the past year adding to his popularity, there isn't any
doubt that he's a potent draw at the boxoffice. Despite
a confusing script which occasionally intrudes upon the
action and comedy, "Shamus" has all the signs of a very
big hit for Columbia. Initial preview reaction has been
so strong that a sequel has been rumored, although the
film is just beginning its general release. Dyan Cannon
matches Reynolds in the sex appeal department and provides
added marquee strength. Reynolds, once a football
player, shows his athletic prowess by doing all but one
of the stmits ^ Charles Picerni, who doubled for the tree
swing, sustained some injuries). What the film does for
pool tables could turn into a nationwide fad 'Reynolds
uses one as a bed). Produced by Robert M. Weitman in
Panavision and color, "Shamus" was directed by Buzz
Kulik on locations thi-oughout Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Weitman is correct in calling his film "rainy day" entertainment,
made for pure pleasure.
Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon, Georgio Tozzi, John Ryan,
Joe Santos, Ron Weyand, Alex Wilson.
THE HARDER THEY COME
Black Drama
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New World Pictures ( ) 98 Minutes Rel. Feb. '73
The first feature ever made by Jamaicans on the island
republic of Jamaica, this comedy-drama-gangster filmmusical
featm-es the native rock music called reggae.
Screenplay by Perry Henzell and Ti-evor D. Rhone is
roughly based on the career of Rhygin, a criminal hero
who terrorized Kingston in the early '50s. Apart from
the poor photography and the inclusion of amatem'S in
the cast, the film—which never quite makes up its mind
what to be—has the elements which usually spell success
for black fUms. There is comedy, drama, some explicit
violence, music, religion and sex—the ingredients which
once worked so well for Cecil B. De Mille. Local singersongwriter
Jimmy Cliff stars as the youth who graduates
from a budding musical career to that of public enemy
No. 1. He displays enough personality to attract Stateside
black audiences, while the film's artistic merits could well
be played down in favor of the action content. As director,
Henzell seems intent upon displaying the local flavor
he uses closeups of Cliff m-inating as he's flogged, for the
sake of realism. The Jamaican dialect is so thick at times
that English subtitles are used, to good advantage. As an
oddity, the fUm has possibilities within the art house circuit.
Henzell also produced. Color.
Jimmy Cliff, Janet Barkley, Carl Bradshaw,
Ras Daniel Hartman, Bobby Charlton.
UNHOLY ROLLERS [1 "trln^'f
AIP (7226) 89 Minutes Rel. Nov. '72
This Roger Corman production, toplining Claudia Jennings,
enjoying national prominence as Playboy Magazine's
"Playmate of the Year," is an actionful effort,
geared for the young adult audience and certain to make
its mark just about anywhere. John Prizer and Jack
Bohier co-produced, Vernon Zimmerman directed from
a Howard R. Cohen shooting script, as based on an original
Zimmerman-Cohen story, and all hands are to be
commended for vividly captm'ing the essence, and ingredients
of the rough-and-tumble action of roller-skating
games that are di"awing capacity audiences across the
country. Miss Jennings delineates the key role with a
spiritedness that should point the way to screen recognition
on a major level; she's cast as a gal of driving
ambition, bent on gaining superstar status in the sport,
despite the over-attention of lesbian co-player Betty
Ann Rees and the bringing in of young black Charlene
Jones by team boss Alan Vint to eventually replace the
determined yomig lady. There's a player-audience freefor-all
at the climactic point that's been filmed with
striking touches, building the on-going excitement to
fever pitch. An aggregation billed as Louie and the
Rockets does its
thing with more than 10 tunes.
Claudia Jennings, Louis Quinn, Betty Ann Rees,
Roberta Collins, Alan Vint, Candice Roman.
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PAYDAY M """" ©" ""''
Cinerama ( ) 103 Minutes Rel. Jan. '73
Rip Torn's performance as a complete heel in the guise
aTdi of a popular country and Western singer is the main
for the success of a film such as "Payday." The
characters are either so weak or self-centered that no
audience sympathy is possible. The theme and Torn's
outstanding work will have to be the main selling points,
although there are quite a few good songs included in
the score. Screenplay by Don Carpenter, who also coproduced
with Martin Fink, suggests that Maury Dann
(Torn) is at best a second-rate star who treats everyone
with a total lack of humanity. He defers only to those
who might be useful, as the disk jockey whom he pays
off. Director Daryl Duke strives for realism in every
scene, with most of the supporting cast rising to the occasion.
Blonde co-star Ahna Capri displays her abundant
charms along with her talent as Torn's nymphomaniac
mistress, while Michael C. Gwynne and Cliff Emmich as
the respective manager and driver register strongly. Shot
entirely in Alabama in color by CFI, the film is hardhitting
in its depiction of a way of life which many rm-al
patrons will recognize. There are a few semi-nude scenes,
which combine with the strong language giving it an R
rating. Torn is credited with singing his own numbers.
Rip Torn, Ahna Capri, Elayne Heilveil, Cliff Emmich,
Michael C. Gwynne, Jeff Morris, Henry O. Arnold.
CESAR AND ROSALIE
Comedy in French.
with EoQlish titles
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Cinema 5 110 Minutes Rel. Dec. '72
The eternal triangle, French style, makes for highly
diverting entertainment in this Gallic charmer. Yves
Montand, Romy Sclmeider and Sami Frey are Cesar and
Rosalie and David, all three being equally important to
AMO'
the Jean-Loup Dabadie-Claude Sautet screenplay, the
title notwithstanding. Sautet has directed the film with a
firm understanding of the complexities of love. Each of
the three main characters, it appears, lives mainly for
I'amom- and is willing to sacrifice quite a bit for it. Successful
and self-made Montand finds that his business
has little meaning for him when Miss Schneider deserts
JOh him for Prey. The latter risks bodily injm-y at the hands
store! of the explosive Montand because of his long-standing
" affection for the lady in question. Miss Schneider divides
her attention between the two before giving up both to
save her freedom, ultimately deciding that life with
Montand is more rewarding. In its U.S. release, the film
has set a fast pace thus far and may yet rival its overwhelmingly
excellent reception in Paris. The French dialog
is expertly translated into English, while the settings
are exceedingly handsome in Eastman Color by Du Art.
Phillipe Sarde's music is diverting. Michel Piccoli nari-ates.
The length is ideal for single-feature situations.
Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey,
Umberto Orsini, Eva Marie Meineke.
DIRT GANG
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AIP (7221) 89 Minutes Rel. Nov. '72
Going past motorcycle dramas one better, in terms of
viciousness and vigorous "riding," this new action drama
smacks of boxoffice strength. Ron Jacobs was executive
producer, Joseph E. Bishop and Ai't Jacobs producers,
with Jerry Jameson directing. Leading man Paul Carr
is the brutal 'cycle chieftain of a gang of 'cycle bandits
who terrorize a motion picture crew in an isolated valley
somewhere in the American southwest, in aftermath of
robbing and killing a gasoline service man and a sheriff.
Carr, constantly seeking the man responsible for knocking
out an eye in a past encounter, suddenly finds him
he's Michael Forest, ex-'cyclist-tm'ned-movie stunt man,
and in the inevitable showdown, Carr is grimly dispatched,
impaled on a prop Indian spear. There's an
orgy, rape and general tussling, much in the tempo-andtone
of past 'cycle dramas, but done with a dramatic
flair that's traditionally regarded so fondly by the audience
for which this has been carefully calculated.
Howard A. Anderson's photographic effects are among
the best in quite a spell, and the stunt work is first-rate.
One of the most powerful sequences has the 'cycle bandits
pm-suing Forest through the desert night with road flares
for illumination.
Paul Carr, Michael Pataki, Lee De Broux, Nancy Harris,
Michael Forest, Jo Ann Meredith.
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THE STORY:
"Payday" (CRC)
A veteran of one-night stands, country and Western
singing star Rip Torn cares for no one but himself. Manager
Michael C. Gwynne tries his best to run his affairs
smoothly, while contending with Torn's ego and idiosyncrasies.
Although Torn keeps voluptuous Ahna Capri as a
steady mistress and drafts young Elayne Heilveil for a
similar pui-pose, he takes time out to indulge in an affair
with fan Linda Spatz. On the road to Bii-mingham, Torn
engages in a quail-hunting party with associate Jeff Morris,
whom he beats and then fires over a dispute about a
dog. He visits mother Clara Dunn, senile although only
51; disk jockey Earle Trigg, who wants him to appear at
his local talent contest; and ex-wife Eleanor Fell, insisting
he has no time to wait for their childi'en to retui'n
home. Along the way, he dumps nymphomaniac Capri.
When Torn causes the death of Walter Bamberg, Spatz's
attentive boss, he has driver Cliff Emmich take the
blame. Latter is replaced by aspiring singer Henry O.
Arnold, a witness to the killing. Upset over a police investigation.
Torn dies, a victim of pills and liquor.
EXPLOITIPS:
Play up the country and Western music, by such talents
as Shel Silverstein, Ian and Sylvia Tyson, Bobby Smith
and Tommy McKinney.
CATCHLINES:
You Only Pass This Way Once, So Grab Everything
You Can.
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THE STORY:
"Shamus" (Col)
Brooklyn detective BiU't Reynolds lives so shabbily he
uses a pool table for a bed, which makes his love life interesting.
He's offered $10,000 by rich eccentric Ron
Weyand to recover some stolen diamonds. Larry Block,
'"^'^
a character with a computer-like mind for sports facts,
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tui-ns up clues. Health club bomicer Beeson Carroll leads
Reynolds to Alex Wilson, president of an export company.
Goui'met-syndicate head Georgio Tozzi provides
further information. Wilson's sister Dyan Cannon hii'es
Reynolds to find out what he's up to and the detective
discovers an arsenal. Although beaten up and pui-sued
by thugs, Reynolds takes comfort in an affau- with Cannon.
After Block's mm'der, Reynolds learns that Lt. Col.
John Ryan is involved in a scheme to sell aiTny sm-plus.
Ryan also is killed and Wilson dies before Reynolds gets
the goods on Weyand, who was after a code book.
EXPLOITIPS:
There is still a lot of mileage to be gotten from Reynolds'
pin-up pose. Mention that Met Opera basso
Georgio Tozzi has a featured role. Tie in with pool table
dealers for provocative promotionals.
CATCHLINES:
Burt Reynolds Is HOT! Ask Dyan Cannon! . . . Shamus
Is a Pro. He Never Misses ... At the Poker Table—In a
Pool Hall—With a Beautiful Woman—Against a Mob of
Killers, Shamus Always Takes Dead Aim . . . Shamus
—You Cross Him and He'll Blow Your Head Off.
THE STORY: "Cesar and RosaUe" (Cinema 5)
Cartoonist Sami Frey retui'ns to Paris and sees old
friend Umberto Orsini, an artist who married Romy
Schneider, the girl Frey had loved and left. Orsini and
Schneider had a daughter and parted amicably. Now
she's in love with Yves Montand, a self-made man who
has a thriving scrap metal business with his three
brothers. Fi-ey tui'ns up at the thu-d wedding of Schneider's
mother, Eva Maria Meineke, and Montand becomes
jealous. When Montand tells Fi-ey a fantastic story about
Schneider, she becomes angry and leaves. He rips up
Prey's studio apartment. Later he finds Schneider and
Prey living together with her child and says that he's
bought her old home for the family. Her imhappiness
causes Montand to ask Prey to come. As the two men
become friends, Schneider decides to leave them both. ''^*
Montand finds little pleasui-e in anything after that, 'wsod
except friendship with Fi-ey. When Schneider retui-ns.
Prey knows she has come back to Montand.
EXPLOITIPS:
Play up the fact that "Cesar and Rosalie" has outgrossed
"The Godfather" in Paris on a fii'st-run basis.
Exploit the lovely backgrounds of Paris and the provincial
towns of Sete and Vendee. Compare the film with
the French trilogy of "Cesar," "Fanny" and "Marius."
CATCHLINES:
'Cesar and Rosalie'—A Love Story . . . See It With
Someone You Love . . . How Rival Lovers Became Friends.
THE STORY:
"Dirt Gang" (AIP)
Coursing the desert of the American southwest, a
slovenly band of outlaw cycle riders and their flamboyant
"mommas" rob a gas station, killing the owner and a
sheriff and then head across the desert to escape. Leader
Monk cPaul Can), an iron-fisted brute, wears a metal
eye-shield over his gaping eye socket, his chief aim to
"get" the man responsible. They find a movie company
filming a western in a remote valley. Director Charles
MacCauley serves them food, hoping a meal will send
them away. Stunt man Zeno (Michael Forest) recognizes
Monk; it was in a duel long ago that Monk lost
his eye. Zeno admits the deed; Monk says he will leave
only if Zeno agrees to another duel. The bikers, now in
complete control of the location site, begin an orgy
After a fierce battle,
Zeno and Monk take each other on
in a cycle-joust, climaxed by Monk impaling himself on a
prop Indian spear. Leaderless, the dispirited band roars
off across the desert.
EXPLOITIPS:
Recruit your town's motorcyclists, via printed and
broadcast media to participate in a downtown parade.
CATCHLINES;
God Help the Fuzz That Plashes a Badge on THE , „
DIRT GANG! . . . The Death Game! Nobody Keeps 1„!L'
Score . . . The Winner Goes to the Head of the Pack—
and ".-•
the Loser Goes to Pieces!
THE STORY: "The Harder Tliey Come" (New World)
When Jimmy Cliff arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, from
his country village, he visits mother Lucia White. She
secures a position for him with preacher Basil Keane.
Cliff is attracted to his orphaned ward, Janet Barkley,
and also aspires to be a singer. He records "The Harder
They Come," which he wrote, for music producer Bobby
Charlton. At the same time, he becomes involved in the
drug trade, controlled by kingpin Carl Bradshaw and
condoned by police Det. Winston Stona. About to be arrested.
Cliff remembers the flogging he suffered for cutting
up the preacher's assistant. He kills several policemen
and hides out with the help of Barkley and his
friend Ras Daniel Hartman. The record becomes a hit
and Cliff achieves folk hero status when he eludes the
, M, police and drives Bradshaw miderground. Wounded, Cliff
'ero is persuaded to flee to Cuba. He's unable to reach the ship
and police cut him down.
EXPLOITIPS:
Play up the colorful Jamaican backgrounds by arranging
tieins with travel agencies. Stage reggae concerts and
dance contests. Mention the film's critical acclaim at the
international film festivals at Cork, Venice and Los
Angeles.
CATCHLINES:
The Harder They Come, the Harder They Fall—One
and All . . . The Incredible Story of Jamaica's First
Great Folk Hero, a Singer and Killer. You'll Love Him.
THE STORY: "Unholy Rollers" (AIP)
Sharing the frenzied, screaming excitement of the
mobs at roller skating games, roommates Claudia Jennings
and Candice Roman find themselves di'awn to the
sport as participants. Karen quits her job in a tuna
factory and, helped by Candice and Candice's boy friend
(Alan Vint) tries out for a roller derby, gets a chance
to appear with The Avengers, the object of lust by lesbian
team-mate Betty Ann Rees. Concerned over Karen's constant
grand standing, boss Stern cLouis Quimi) brings
in a young black, Beverly (Charlene Jones), to eventually
replace her. In a huff, Betty Ann goes over to lead the
opposing Demons, and in a subsequent fight, her cohorts
beat Karen unmercifully. Almost demoralized.
Karen takes on a wild ride in her car, wi'eaking havoc
on city streets. Back on the roller derby track, members
of both skating teams vow vengeance against Karen. A
now-for-real roughhousing breaks out, the fans beginning
to attack her. She vaults the rail, plunges out to
the street where she begins a deadly game of tag with
speeding cars. One finally strikes her.
EXPLOITIPS:
Where feasible, doormen, ushers and other staff people
should perform their duties in skater uniforms.
CATCHLINES:
Don't Muck Aromid with "The Jammer"! ... A Locker
Room Look at the Toughest Broads in the World! . . .
She's Queen of the Jammers!
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POPCORN MACHINES
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EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
BERNZ-O-MATIC IN-CAR HEATERS. Exclusive
factory authorized sales, service
and parts. STANFORD INDUSTRIES, 311
Waukegan Ave., Highv^rood, 111. 60040.
(312) 432-0444.
35MM PROJECTION BOOTHS FOR THE
ECONOMY MINDED EXHIBITOR. COM-
PLETE. $1,500.00, Boxoffice, 2840.
HURRY ON THK ONEl 1100 pushback
seats, all equipment and miscellaneous
items. Contact immediately for real buy
on lot. All in good condition. Theatre just
closed. Slipper Theatre Supply, Inc., 1502
Davenport, Omaha, Nebraska 68102. Phone
(402) 431-5715
GOVERNMENT SURPLUS: Super Ponatar
Anamorphic lenses, like new, only $195.00
pair. Independent Theatre Supply, 2750
East Houston, San Antonio, Texas 78202.
Phone (512) 226-3508.
ALUMINUM LETTERS, all sizes, low
prices; Automaticket M. G. 2 unit machines,
beautiful, $325.00. Complete booth,
Simplex projectors, $2425.00. No junk here.
Thousand bargains. Need anything? STAR
CINEMA SUPPLY, 217 West 21st Street,
New York, lOOlI.
FOR SALE: Nine hole Lomma championship
indoor or outdoor golf court. Used
very little. Bought new. Phone I (217)
748-6995.
AUTOMATICKET MACHINE, good Brenkert
booth, RCA sound, rectifiers. 800
good cushioned seats. All or separately.
(606) 293-2942. 808 Wheatcrolt, Lexington,
Kentucky.
35mm FILM LEADERS. $2.25 each. Motion
Picture Service Co. 125 Hyde St.,
San Francisco, 94102.
CLOSED: Four small theatres. ALL
equipment must go! What do you need?
Phone (206) 963-2587. Write P. O Box 77,
Qallam Bay, Washington 98326.
Two York Compressors, three 71/2 HP
motors. Clinton Anderson, Stevensville,
Montana 59870.
BRAND NEW NORELCO DP-75 35/70MM
projector complete but less Icrmphouse
$6,000.00. Contact Don Iwerks, Walt Disney
Prod., Burbonk, Calif. 91505 (213)
845-3141.
BRENKERT BX40 with changeovers
$250.00 pair. Simplex International heads
$150.00. Pair Simplex movements $35.00.
Rewind sets $15.00. Curtain motor $35.00.
Lots more will trade. Boxoffice 2863.
EQUIPMENT WANTED
USED EQUIPMENT bought and sold
Best prices, Texas Theatre Supply. 915
So. Alamo, San Antonio, Texas 78205,
LENSES. Four Panavision 152 lenses.
Alan Rubin, (202) 338-0707. 2812 Pa. Ave.,
N, W,, Washington, D. C. 20007.
TOP PRICES PAID for soundheads,
lamphouses, rectifiers, projectors, lenses
and portable projectors. What hove you?
STAR CINEMA SUPPLY, 217 West 21st
Street, New York, 10011. Phone (212) 675-
3515.
MISCELLANEOUS
COMPLETE THEATRE UST of the entire
United States including Alaska and Hawaii.
Comes complete in hard cover with
theatre name, address, city and state,
zip code, owner or affiliate, and number
of seats. Also have same information for
Canada. List for United States, $200,00.
List for Canada, $175.00. Send check or
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506, Leadville. Colorado 80461.
FILMS WANTED
BUYING PERSONAL COLLECTIONS of
I6mm features. Joe Onorato, Northfield,
Vermont 05663.
HOOSE
THEATRES WANTED
DRIVE-IN THEATRES WANTED! Boston
based theatre circuit seeks to acquire
drive-in theatres anyitfhere in U. S. TOP
DOLLAR PAID I Boxofhce, 2750.
WANTED TO BUY OR LEASE: Indoor or
outdoor. Contact Mike Kutler, 2108 Payne
Avenue, Room 212, Cleveland, Ohio 44114.
(216) 696-4110.
WANTED TO BUY: Outdoor and Indoor
theatres in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri,
Kentucky, Arkansas. Write Boxoffice, 2852.
THEATRES WANTED: Drive-ins and indoor.
North Carolina and Virginia. Buy
or lease. Write Boxoffice 2865.
THEATRES FOR SALE
WE SELL THEATRES. loe Joseph, Theatre
Broker, P.O. Box 31406, Dallas 75231.
Phone (214) 363-2724.
FOR SALEI Excellent adult theatre building
in Moline, 111. Terrific value at $75,-
000.00. Write Midwest Theatres, 8816 Sunset
Blvd., Los Angeles, Ca. 90069 for information.
HARLO THEATRE. Harlowtown, Montana.
320 seat indoor with small apt.
$12,000.00.
400 CAR DRIVE-IN. Falls City, Nebraska.
Good condition. 71/2 acres on busy Nebraska
Highway 73. Concrete block tower.
Priced to sell. Write Jay Gorton, Tecumseh,
Nebraska 68450,
40O SEAT INDOOR. Good equipment. Now
operating and making money. Florida's
west coast. Terms. Boxoffice, 2850.
FOR SALE—Greeley Drive-in Theatre,
Hillside Theatre, Greeley, Colorado. Excellent
condition. Terms. E. W. Savard,
2522 Sunset Lane, Greeley, Colo.
NEW MILFOHD, CONN. 550 seats with
two retail stores, brick building in center
of small town. Price $55,000. Contact Connecticut
National Bank Trust Dept., 888
Main St., Bridgeport, Conn.
TWO TWIN theatres, locations in New
Mexico. Both have lease and construction
commitments. P,0, Box 14704, Albuquerque,
New Mexico 87111. Phone (505) 296-
3249,
UP TO 25% of Jerry Lewis Area Franchise
for New Mexico, Selling due to
family illness. Hank Copsey, 9241 Evangeline
NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(505) 296-3249.
THEATRES FOR LEASE
FOR LEASE, FULLY EQUIPPED, dovratov/n
San Francisco location, 180 seats.
Recently renovated. Call (415) 775-0919.
WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK (Westchester).
Pix Theatre, 400 seats. Call or write
The Kempner Corporation, 60 East 42nd
Street, New York, N. Y. 10017. (212) OX
7-6616.
DRIVE-IN
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SCREEN TOWERS INTERNATIONAL—
Drive-in construction, repairs. 10 day
screen installation. (817) 642-3591. Drawer
P, Rogers, Texas 76569.
FILMS
FOR SALE
IBnun FILMS. Postcard brings bargain
list. Ingo Films, P.O. Box 143, Scranton,
Pa. 18504.
16inm FAMOUS CLASSICS. State theatrical
or private use. Illustrated catalog
25c. Manbeck Pictures, 3621-B Wckonda
Drive, Des Moines, Iowa 50321.
THEATRE SEATING
THEATRE CHAIR UPHOLSTERING! Any
where, finest materials, LOW prices. Custom
seat covers made to fit. CHICAGO
USED CHAIR MART, 1320 So. Wabash,
Chicago, 60605. Phone: 939-4518,
SPECIALISTS IN REBUILDING CHAIRS.
New and rebuilt theatre chairs for sale.
We buy and sell old chairs. Travel anywhere.
Seating Corporation of New York,
247 Water Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1I20I.
Tel. (212) 875-5433. (Reverse charges).
FIRST CLASS REBUILDING since 1934.
Arthur Judge, 2100 E. Newton Ave., Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
BUSINESS STIMULATORS
BINGO CARDS. S5.7SM, 1-75. Other
games arvailoble. Oft-On screen. Novelty
Games, 1263 Prospect Avenue. Brooklyn,
New York. (212) 871-1460.
Build attendance 'with real Hawaiian
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Hawaii, 670 S. Laiayette Place, Los Angeles,
Calif. 90005.
BINGO CARDS DIE CUT. 1-75, 1500
Combination. Different color, 500 in each
package. $5.75 per thousand. Premium
Products, 339 West 44lh St., New York,
N. Y., 10036. Phone: (212) CI 6 4972.
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