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pauI Kessler, Theatre Management, and<br />
his "Babe," vacationing out West, have<br />
sent some of the boys on Filmrow place<br />
mats from some of the famous Arizona<br />
steak houses and notes about all the fun<br />
they are having, such as "cowboy" steaks<br />
(the best Paul has ever tasted), swimming<br />
every day and 80-degree sunshine daily . . .<br />
National Screen's Joe Rossi, back from his<br />
Mexican vacation, says that his top surprise<br />
and thrill were bumping into General<br />
Cinema's Irving Savor by the swimming<br />
pool at the hotel in Acapulco.<br />
Mel Safner, general manager of Ruff Associates,<br />
welcomed Hank Feinstein. vicepresident<br />
of Paragon Pictures<br />
International,<br />
to Boston for a series of conferences with<br />
circuit heads and independent exhibitors.<br />
Mel is pretty high on Paragon's new thriller,<br />
"The Asphyx," due to be released nationally<br />
in the spring in key situations across the<br />
country.<br />
Florio Sinii, Buena Vista exchange manager,<br />
set up a double sneak preview for "The<br />
World's Greatest Athlete" Friday evening<br />
(9) at General Cinema's Framingham and<br />
Braintree cinemas. Adele Magudda, booking<br />
manager, and assistant John Shippe say<br />
they are about winded trying to keep up<br />
with the February school vacation demand<br />
for the company's releases, including "The<br />
World's Greatest Athlete," in for a run<br />
at the Boston Paramount, "The Sword and<br />
the Stone," "Snowball Express" and several<br />
earlier releases. They say they expect to<br />
have a minimum of 150 theatres showing<br />
Disney films during the vacation period.<br />
Vemon Barrett, National Theatre Supply<br />
manager here, and his wife Verna flew to<br />
Lisbon, Portugal, Monday (19) to start a<br />
two-week vacation. In Portugal they planned<br />
to rent a car for a trip down the coast<br />
through towns and fishing villages . . .<br />
Friends of Avco Embassy's Joe Wolfe are<br />
hoping to see him turn up at his desk one<br />
day soon. Joe now is at home, recuperating<br />
after four weeks in the Brockton IJospital.<br />
where he had treatment for a ruptured disc.<br />
Paul Peterson<br />
of NFB Film Distributors<br />
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