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Vol. 105 No. 23
SEPTEMBER 16, 197 4
THERE
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
has been a bit of straining of
late to give a taboo label to films
that provide the public with food for
thought, while they also entertain. Of
course, there have been some releases
that leaned a bit heavy on the "message"
side. But exhibitors and the public should
be careful lest they be misled by the outright
condemnation of any film that was
not 100 per cent "pure" entertainment.
Probably this development is the result
of an overdoing of subject matter and of
releasing it in a cycle, just as has been
done with virtually every type of story.
Currently the attraction and entertainment
values of so-called "sophisticated"
pictures are being "played out" by their
bunched-up releasing. It's this same injudicious
timing for other types of films,
which has made it appear there was an
overdoing of one or another at various
times. Actually there is plenty of variety
To Boxoffice:
in the year's output of films but, whe;
the public gets each type in large dose;
it balks and then there's a switch to ar
other cycle, which merely repeats th
error first committed.
One producer referred to pictures c
substance as "think" films. There hav
been hundreds of them made through
the years and they achieve the good puij
pose of entertainment without carryinj
the stigma that seems to have been iir'
parted to the so-called "message" filn,
A good play, a good book or a good pic
ture that will leave the viewer or reade
with something to think about can b
more absorbing and, consequently, of faj
greater entertainment value than some
thing that skims by and soon, if not iir
mediately, is forgotten. Pictures of sut
stance are needed as part of the variet
diet of entertainment that will have wic
er and longer appeal to the varied taste
of audiences.
FROM THE EDITOR'S MAILBOX
I have subscribed and read your fine
fine magazine for over 25 of the 33 years
I have spent in this rewarding and exciting
industry. I have always admired
the many interesting and informative
features your publication includes. Foremost
among these are your courageous
editorials. While I admire your hard hitting
comments ... I feel that over the
past 2 years (perhaps even longer), you
have been very one-sided on two subjects.
1. OVERBUILDING: Not only yom'-
self , but many astute and sincere theatre
circuit executives have warned about the
problems that overbuilding of theatre
auditoriums can and are bringing about.
These problems are very real and I agree
that they are serious. However, you fail
to mention the very real problems the
small exhibitor has in acquiring good
theatre locations without building new
auditoriums. Franchising has not proven
to work for the small operator. Large
circuits are not willing to lease good locations
to independents. I see no alternative
to overbuilding, if you want
a piece of the action . I am certainly
open to suggestion.
2. EXHIBITOR-FINANCED FILMS
The two continuing examples you refe
to are "The Poseidon Adventm-e" an
"Walking Tall." That both films did e>
ceptionally well at the boxoffice an
made a handsome profit for their ir
vestors is no news to your readers. How
ever, part of your continuing editorio
support of these and other exhibitoi!
backed films was always based on thi
exhibitor having some control over hi
financed product. Now we read that botl
of these boxoffice hits are going to T\
Every informed theatreman knows thai
these films could bring in another 10 tj
50 million dollars at the nation's boxol!
fices if kept off TV for another 10 yeari
(and TV would be just as happy to piuj
chase them at that time, perhaps eveii
paying more). This means that both ex!
hibitors and film backers are losing thesi
millions of dollars. This does not sounil
like control to me.
Thanks again for your excellent publi
cation.
TOM S. GRAFl
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Columbia Nei Profit
$1,245,000 in 74
NEW YORK— Columbia Pictures Industries.
Inc. reports a profit from continuing
operations, before provision for foreien and
deferred federal taxes, of $5.542.00()^for its
fiscal year which ended June 29, 1974 com-
National NATO Confab
Completely Sold Out
New York—No tiirflier resisJraJioiis
are being accepted for the 1974 convention
of the National Ass'n of I heatrc
Owners. The event has been com-
Magicam Is Unveiled
In NY by Paramount
NEW YORK-^l'aranuuinl IVluies held
a world premiere at the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel here Tuesday (10). It wasn't for a new
tiim but rather for Magicam, a new elec-
pared with a loss of $65,287,000 for the
prior year. After taxes, there was a profit
from continuing operations of $1,245,000
or 15c per share in the current year compared
to a loss of $42,766,000 or $5.51 per
share in the prior year. In addition, losses
on discontinued operations of $3,546 000
{44c per share) in 1974 and $7,263,000 (94c
per share) in 1973 caused a net loss of $-> -
301,000 or 29c per share in the 1974 fiscal
year compared with a loss of $50,029,000
or $6.45 per share in the prior year
Revenues of $256,629,000 in the current
year were the highest in the company's history
and compare to $211,507,000 in the
prior year.
YSM Is Named Consultant
For 'Indian Summer' Film
HOLLYWOOD - Youngstein/Smith/
Mirell IS a new entity with an initial project
to act as consultant for the production
and distribution of the theatrical feature
Indian Summer."
Max Youngstein was associated with Taylor-Laughlin
Productions before becoming
an independent consultant. Art Smith is an
pletely sold out, according to a statement
i.ssued here at the NATO headquarters
office.
The largest annual exhibitor conclave
in the nation will be held at the Marriott
and Regency Hyatt hotels in Atlanta
October 7-10.
It will run concurrently with a trade
e.xposition sponsored jointly by NATO,
the Theatre Equipment Ass'n and the
National Ass'n of Concessionaires.
Leon P. Blender Appoints
3 AIP District Managers
HOLLYWOOD-Leon P. Blender, American
International's executive vice-president
in charge of sales and distribution, announces
three additions to his .staff, effective
immediately, as a result of AlP's continuous
program.
Tom Philibin has been named district
manager of the Salt Lake City, Denver and
Kansas City territories. He most recently
was with Cinerama Releasing Corp and
preceding that, was with Universal Inter-
tronic matting process. A press preview
was held in mid-afternoon, followed by another
demonstration in early evening for a
large throng of professionals. Paramount
president Frank Yablans was at both functions
to introduce the demonstrations the
second time being preceded on the dais by
Charles Glenn. Paramount vice-president in
charge of advertising, publicity and promotion.
The process, created by four young men
with the assistance of special effects expertwriter-producer-director
Douglas Trumbull
was developed independent of Paramount
control. Now the Magicam Co. is a subsidiary
of Paramount, with offices located in
-Santa Monica, Calif.
Bob Peters, vice-president of Paramount
Communications, described the working of
Magicam. while its four inventors, Robert
King, Joseph Matza, John Gale and Daniel
Slater, were present to answer any technical
questions. "War of the Worlds." new Paramount
science-fiction show for TV; another
series titled "We Hold These Truths," and
a practical demonstration were used as ex-
national and Republic Pictures.
amples of the Magicam process in action
James Ellis is the district manager
While
of
the
the
master camera focuses on actors
attorney and has been a producers'
Minneapolis,
representative
in the industry for
Omaha and Des Moines against
areas
a blue stage, a second camera
Previously
over 15 he also
years
was with Cinerama aimed at
Releasing
a miniature set allows for freedom
Leon Mirell has been an independent
and earlier
producer
since 1968, when eral
was with ot
National Gen-
movement, since both cameras move at
he left'ABC Pictures
where
and Sterling Theatres.
exactly the same time and in the same
he was vice-president Patrick Mooney has tion. Within
of bookings, plus
quisition of Cinerama
first sings film.
BOXOFFICE September 16, 1974
and head of Sulmer
are co-producing "Indian
Summer," which is based on a screenplay
by Ronald Satloff
manager
of the Pittsburgh and Cleveland ess IS
the ac-
product
direc-
18 months, the Magicam proc-
become district
Productions.
exchanges.
with
expected to he perfected for widescreen
theatrical films. Yablans pointed
The three will be working He, Fred
too, formerly was with Cinerama
out
Barton, inventor of the original Teleprompter
device, and Barry Century-Fox
Releasing and, before that, with 20th
one of the advantages of the process bv
Elliott, president and
of
Cooperative Theatres in
'^^^ '''^'^^ presently cost
theElhott Co., an industrial and
Cleveland.
^'^noLl!"' from
commercial
$300,000 to $500,000 can now be
rilm
erected
production organization.
American International's sharply tor
increased
from $12,000 to $15,000.
Releasing's
lor
and distribution,
Ray Gideon
are likely to result in further
filming IS scheduled for
statf
the summer of '75
additions, Jacques
said Blender.
Brel' Is Acquired
in eastern New Brunswick, Canada.
For AFT Second Season
Avco Embassy Marketing NEW YORK-The film version of the
Crown's Successful Sales Post
internationally
to Bernard
acclaimed stage
Korban
revue "Jacques
Drive
Brel Is
Ends
Alive
September 27 NEW YORK
and Well
-
and
William
Living in
E. Chaikin Hans," currently in
HOLLYWOOD-Friday president ol (27) marks
Avco
production in
the
Embassy France
Pictures, announced
has been acquired
dosing
by the Ely
date of the "Red Jacobs Sales
Landau
Tuesday
Organization
for presentation
(10)
Drive, in the
which Crown International ^^j^^^s. the second
kicked
appointment of season of the American
off Film
in April in honor of Newton P "Red"
^V^ \ Bernard
Theatre it
Korban as was announced by Landau
Jacobs, and
founder and chairman of director
attorney
the board IB *—^ ^
of marketing Paul Marshall, co-producer
01 Crown.
with Eric Blau
^°'^ "^^ compnay.
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and Claude and Denis Heroux of
According
the
to George M. Josephs,
jH|^^f^ Korban Cinevideo/
Libellule production.
the
previously
company's general sales manager, all Crown ^^^KSSKjr ^^^ director of world- Directed by young
exchanges participated with wide French-Canadian
sales
distribution records ^^^P^ for filmmaker Heroux and written by
playing time and collections that
^^^^%|i^^^ Brut
Blau
Productions who
turned and
in
conceived and executed the stage
the work and
best summer in the company's 15-vear
guided It to its firm place in the
history.
H^^l^^^l '>^^ marketing
record
and book of long-run musicals, the film
Heavy booking demands from exhibitors Bernard P^motion adaptation
IS a totally new concept in
Korban
posts for
tor The Teacher" and "Policewomen" over
,
_. Universal
motion picture
entertainment.
International
the
Pictures
six-month
and
Blau's
National
scenario
period General
contains
brought Pictures.
top grosses
26 songs
Korban,
and not one word
that a
have veteran
of spoken
resulted
of
dialo»
World in 12 exchanges War II
vying
The film stars
entered
Elly
tor
the
Stone.
film
cash industry Mort Shuman
prize in money.
1962
Joe
as an exploitation
fieldman
Masiell and Jacques Brel himself
for Universal
who for
the time on
Barton and Elliott volume

Borack £ Rehme Set 2nd Rock Film
To Follow Their
Bv FRANCES HANFORD
CINCINNATI— April Fools Films, a new
and growing company, recently entered the
field of national distribution. The firm's
current release is "Pink Floyd," a cinema
rock concert starring the group Pink Floyd
and filmed in the ruins of Pompeii.
April Fools Films was formed April 1.
1974, by Phil Borack and Bob Rehme of
Cincinnati. Although this is a new venture,
both partners have an extensive background
in the motion picture business. They operate
Tri-State Theatre Service, a booking and
buying service representing some 200 theatres
in the Midwest, servicing independent
theatre owners primarily but also booking
for such large" international circuits as
United Artists Theatres and Redstone Theatres.
The booking and buying operations
are concentrated in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
West Virginia, Tennessee and Illinois.
The partners also operate and own a theatre
company, B&R Theatres, in Ohio and
Kentucky.
A related company is Leisure-Time America,
which operates a large indoor tennis
facility, the f ri-County Racquet Club, and
the Film Arts Building, a new 17,000-
square-foot Filmrow office building in Forrest
Park, a northern suburb of Cincinnati.
CHARLIE MOON AND
THE FANTASY GIRLS
A Comedy with GIRIS from Xanadu
Productions. Charley Moon Begins
Where Waiter Mitty Ended
Now Ready for Outright Sale or
Distribution
Contact Kirk Wooster, Xanadu Productions
ltd., 445 Bishop Street, Atlanta,
Ga. 30318 Telephone: (404) 874-2252
Pink Floyd' Hit
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Phil
Phil Borack
Bob Rehme
Borack has owned and operated Tri-
State Theatre Service for the last 17 years
and Bob Rehme has held several positions
with Paramount Pictures in New York, including
assistant to the vice-president in
charge of sales. Midwest sales division
manager, and worldwide publicity director.
He also has been national exploitation director
for United Artists in New York.
April Fools Films' current release, "Pink
Floyd," has played to record-breaking
grosses in key cities such as Cincinnati,
Milwaukee, Knoxville, Detroit, Pittsburgh,
Chicago and Minneapolis.
Several theatres throughout the country
have been equipped to play the film in
full quadraphonic sound. Since "Pink Floyd"
was the first film to be released with this
type soundtrack, a very important factor in
its exhibition is trying to capture the soundconscious
youth market, an important segment
today. April Fools Films brought
Adrian Maben, the director, from Paris to
Los Angeles to mix the 16 original soundtracks
into four quadraphonic tracks at the
Todd-A-O laboratory in Hollywood. This
work was supervised personally by Academy
Award-winner Fred Hynes.
April Fools Films recently announced the
acquisition of its second release, "Pictures
at an Exhibition," showcasing the enormously
popular rock group of Emerson, Lake &
Palmer. Based on the success of their current
release—"Pink Floyd"— and the tremendous
demand for similar pictures from
exhibitors across the country, the company
undertook an intensive search for the right
film to follow "Pink Floyd."
"Pictures at an Exhibition" features some
of the heaviest and most brilliant visual
effects ever put on film, according to April
Fools Films. Emerson. Lake & Palmer currently
are on a cross-country tour, with
every concert a smash sellout. The April
Fools—Phil Borack and Bob Rehme— are
planning a national fall release for "Pictures
at an Exhibition."
Lofty 'Teacher' Grosses
CHICAGO — Crown International
Pic
v«th Advance pa Tours
NEW YORK— Universal has set
a threepronged
personal appearance barrage in advance
of key-city openings of "Airport
1975" around the country. The William
Frye production will bow October 18 in 80
cities in the U.S. and Canada.
The initial personal appearance tour will
be conducted by director Jack Smight, who
left Wednesday (4) to cover Salt Lake
City, Denver, Detroit and Washington. He
will be followed on the road by costume
designer Edith Head, who will visit Chicago
and Toronto.
Last of the three tours will be undertaken
by Efrem Zimbalist jr., of the all-stellar
cast, who will hit Atlanta, Miami, Houston,
Dallas and Fort Worth.
"Airport 1975," starring Charlton Heston,
Karen Black, George Kennedy, Gloria
Swanson, Susan Clark, Efrem Zimbalist jr.
and Helen Reddy, was produced by William
Frye and directed in Technicolor and Panavision
by Jack Smight, with Jennings Lang
as executive producer.
George Weiss Joins Staff
Of Century Projector
NEW YORK— Century Projector Corp.
here has announced the addition to its staff
of George M. Weiss, technician,
projectionist
and former construction and maintenance
supervisor for Mann Theatre Corp.
in Union, N.J. Larry Davee, president of
Century, points out that Weiss brings to the
company a wealth of experience in projection,
sound and installation of motion
picture projectors.
Weiss joined the Mann Theatre Corp.,
formerly National General Theatres, in June
1968 and was responsible for theatre construction—
projection, sound, seating, air
conditioning, etc.— and the overall maintenance
of Mann's Eastern division. Before
that, he served as a technician in the sound
and projection department in Stanley Warner
Theatres' Newark. area.
Weiss lives in Clifton, N.J., with his wife
Mary Jane and family.
Biggest Holiday Weekend
Ever Reported by AIP
BEVERLY HILLS,
CALIF.—American
International posted the highest holiday
weekend grosses, by far, in the 20-year
history of the company, according to executive
vice-president in charge of sales and
distribution Leon P. Blender and Richard
B. Graff, vice-president and general sales
manager.
The rerelease of "Born Losers" grossed
$1,546,252 in 269 situations and "Macon
County Line" brought in $1,590,837 in 271
theatres, with many houses not yet reported.
The $3,137,089 total in the 540 combined
situations does not represent the full
AIP boxoffice for the weekend, as several
tures' "The Teacher" opened 27-theatre
mu uiltiple
.ring
here and grossed a record
the three days of
$150,000
the engageother
attractions also were playing, such as
first "Truck Turner," "The Nme Lives of Fri'^
ci
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ment,
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it was announced by general sales the Cat" and "Savage Sisters." Even without
manager George M. Josephs.
these others, the new record was set.
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RoUins-Joffe to Produce
Two Films for Columbia
NEW YORK— Jack Rollins-Charles Joflc
Productions will produce two films lor Columbia
Pictures, it was announced by Peter
Guber, executive vice-president of worldwide
production.
"Fair Game," a Jerry Di Pego screenplay
based on the novel by George Bartrum and
published by Macmillan, will launch the
new association. Charles Joffe personally
will produce the film, marking his first
motion picture independent of Woody Allen.
A suspense drama, "Fair Game" details
a bizarre plot, international in scope, which
reveals how peoples' lives of dignity can be
usurped when computers are misused by
any government or when they are in the
hands of evil forces.
"Fair Game" will begin filming early in
1975 at the Burbank Studios with subsequent
location filming scheduled in London,
Zurich and Paris.
3 European Films Added
To SF Festival Program
.SAN FRANCISCO — Three European
films have been added to the program of
the 1 8th annual San Francisco International
Film Festival, scheduled to be held October
16-27 at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre.
The official French entry will be Louis
Malle's "Lacombe Lucien," a World War
Il-themed picture which has been one of the
major successes in France this year. It will
be screened October 18.
Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes From a Marriage"
is set for October 19. Liv Ullmann
stars in the film.
The closing-night film is Luis Bunuel's
"The Phantom of Liberty," hailed as one of
the French filmmaker's masterpieces. It stars
Monica Vitti, Jean-Claude Brialy and Michel
Piccoli.
Warner Communications
Votes 10-Cent Dividend
NEW YORK—The regular quarterly
dividend of ten cents a share was voted by
the board of directors of Warner Communication.
Shareholders of record at the
close of business October 15 will be entitled
to the dividend payout November
15.
The board in its Tuesday (10) session
N
1
4 per share on the series B convertible
alvo declared regular quarterly dividends of
preferred stock and 31 V4 cents on the WC
series D convertible preferred stock.
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Alex Podhorzer Is Named
Billy Jack Media Chief
HOLLYWOOD — Alexander Podhorzer
has been named director of media at Billy
Jack Enterprises and will oversee the placement
of radio and TV spots in 50 markets
across the U.S. for the release of "The Trial
of Billy Jack," opening November 13 in
over 1,000 theatres.
"The Trial of Billy Jack," of course, is
the sequel to the hit film "Billy Jack."
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Omni Is Awarded Control
Of 'Black Starlet' Film
HOLLYWOOD—Omni Pictures Corp.,
Allanta-based film distributor and production
investor, via legal action has recovered
the film "Black Starlet" from independent
producer Daniel B. Cady and Entertainment
Pyramid Corp. Omni now is in sole
possession and control of "Black Starlet,"
which it is editing for early release, according
to Ken Rogers, officer and director
of the company.
A writ of possession and a contempt of
court order against Cady were awarded
Omni in a general suit filed May 21 in
Santa Monica Superior Court. Judge Laurence
J. Rittenband signed the order for
recovery of "Black Starlet" on Omni's
contention that it had to complete editing
to meet theatre commitments on which
advance rentals had been obtained. Also
delivered to Omni by court order were all
Black Starlet" campaign materials and
the film's wardrobe and props.
Recovery of "Black Starlet" was one of
seven causes of action in a general suit
seeking damages of $1,359,252.88. Also
sought is an accounting of production costs
on "Black Samson," produced by Cady in
a joint venture with Omni for Warner
Bros,
distribution.
Defendants in the pending general suit,
in addition to Cady and Entertainment
Pyramid, are Elaine Clara Cady; film editor
Warren Hamilton; Larry Dumas, certified
public accountant; United California Bank,
and 25 John Does.
Cady, prior to delivering the "Black
Starlet" print and other materials, filed a
countersuit against Omni and Jaco Productions
coincidental with the issuance of the
contempt order. Sought are accountings,
writer-producer salaries which he claims
are due from "Black Samson" and "Black
Starlet" and funds totaling $200,000 which
Cady alleges have been withheld from him.
In addition to the foregoing, Cady and
Entertainment Pyramid, among others, have
been sued by William Garvin III, independent
producer, and by Clover Films and
John Hayes. These two lawsuits make allegations
of breach of contract, fraud and a
request for accounting on movies due from
Cady and Entertainment Pyramid.
Paul Frees to Do Opening
For WB's 'Doc Savage'
NEW YORK— Paul Frees, known as a
man of a thousand voices, will record the
"March of Time" like introduction to Warner
Bros.' adventure film "Doc Savage .
The Man of Bronze." The George Pal production
stars Ron Ely as Doc Savage and
was directed by Michael Anderson, from a
screenplay by Pal and Joseph Morhaim.
Frees, seldom .seen as an actor in films,
has been heard in dozens of features, hundreds
of radio dramas and countless commercial.s.
He's dubbed for cartoon features
and foreign-language imports and was heard
in such films as "In Cold Blood," "The Manchurian
Candidate" and "The St. 'Valentine's
Day Massacre."
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 Diitributof Rotlng
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
(Film Gems)

Clifford Lorbeck
Clifford Lorbeck, 59, Dies
Aug. 22 of Heart Attack
MILWAUKHH— Clilloid Lorbeck, 33-
year veteran of the concession industry
and head of Supurdispiay/
Server
Sales,
died of a heart attack
August 22 in a
Minneapolis hotel
while on a business
iiip. He was 59.
A resident of subu
r b a n Brookfield,
Lorbeck was born in
Wausau, Wis., and
received a B.A. degree
from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. After working as a
p.iper chemist and as a sales representative
lor the B. F. Goodrich Co., Lorbeck was
employed 18 years in various capacities
with Fox-Wisconsin Amusement Corp. (a
division of National Theatres).
Lorbeck was assistant to the president
of Fox-Wisconsin Amusement and Supurdisplay
in 1960, when he formed Server
Sales, merging the firm with Supurdisplay
in 1963. Besides heading the companies
which sell concession equipment and supplies
as well as food service equipment,
Lorbeck, with H. J. Fitzgerald of Fox-
Wisconsin, was responsible for introducing
Buttercup popcorn and the automatic butter
dispensers. Buttercups.
Active in the National Ass'n of Concessionaires,
Lorbeck was re-elected to a fourth
term as vice-president and also had served
as treasurer of NAC. His organizational
affiliations were many, including the chamber
of commerce. Fire Associates and Sales
Lxecutive Club.
He leaves his wife Pat; a son, James,
who is a dentist in New Orleans, and two
daughters, Lisa and Linda.
Robert Cox, 79, Is Dead;
Original Keystone Kop
PHOENIX, ARIZ.— Robert Cox, last
surviving member of the original Keystone
'
Kops, died Sunday (8). He was 79.
(ox, who started working as an extra
in 1917, appeared in nearly 300 one-reelers
111 the four years he was employed at
Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios in Los
Angeles. He later worked as an assistant
to such directors as John Ford and Cecil
B. DeMille. A resident of Phoenix since
1951, Cox worked in the Far East for the
achieved .success on the stage in the 1920s,
then became a leading man and character
actor in films with the advent of .sound.
.Among the many motion pictures in which
he appeared were "Duel in the Sun," "Payment
on Demand," "Magnificent Obsession,"
"Treasure Island," "High Noon,"
"The Wonderful World of the Brothers
Grimm" and "Sex and the Single Girl."
During the '30s Kruger made frequent
trips across the .Atlantic to appear in English
movies and take part in early TV. In later
years, he also made many appearances on
American TV in top-rated series.
He leaves his wife Sue; a daughter, Mrs.
Ottalie Laybourne, and three granddaughters.
Camelot Finishes Summer
SE Tests of 'Impulse'
TAMP.A, FL.A.— "Impulse," a suspensethriller
from Camelot Entertainment, grossed
over $800,000 in summer test engagements
in four Southeastern states but no major
markets, according to Robert Duke, Camelot
president.
"We spent the summer in extensive testing
of both the picture and our advertising
campaign," Duke said. "Now that our
TV, radio and print promotions have proven
so successful, we plan to move into all the
major markets this fall and winter."
"Impulse" stars William Shatner of Star
Trek fame, Ruth Roman and Harold "Odd
Job" Sakata, famous for his role in the
James Bond picture "Goldfinger.
Duke said Camelot also has completed
its advertising campaign for the company's
new feature. "Catch the Black Sunshine,"
the story of two runaway slaves being
tracked through the Florida Everglades in
1859. The advertising campaign utilizes
saturation TV, radio and newspaper material,
personal appearance tours by stars
Chris Robinson and Ted Cassidy,
a 45 rpm disc of the title song.
as well as
Crown Films Retitled
LOS ANGELES—The release title for
Diehl Proposes Expansion
To East Coast Council
NEW YOKK.— Waller F. Dichl, lATSE
international president, in a move to expand
further into film production centers along
the East Coast, proposed such action at
the Thursday (5) meeting of the East Coast
Council of Motion Picture Production.
Diehl emphasized that the group should
take all the necessary steps to expand its
territory by organizing the larger cities,
among them Atlanta, Philadelphia and
Boston, which have become vital film production
centers.
This move, Diehl said, would create a
better opportunity to police nonunion film
and commercial production.
Diehl also told the meeting that "if the
East Coast Council would not take the
necessary steps to organize, the lATSE
would find other ways and means to accomplish
the job."
Implementation of the expansion program
has been left to Robert M. Hyle,
secretary-treasurer of the
East Coast Council.
Woodbay Awarded Pact
For Goldman Twinning
CEDARHUR.ST, N.Y— Woodbay Construction
Corp. has been awarded a contract
by Budco Quality Theatres, Doylestown, Pa.,
for the twinning of the Goldman Theatre in
downtown Philadelphia. This marks Cedarhurst-based
Woodbay's premier twinning
project in the Philadelphia area.
The Goldman Theatre remodeling is
expected to be completed in approximately
four weeks, according to a Woodbay spokesman.
Specializing in theatre building, Woodbay
designs, engineers and develops the complete
package for all alterations as well as
new construction. At the present time the
firm has a number of theatres under way
through the country for several major exhibitors.
'Abdication' Dual Bow
HOLLYWOOD — "The
Abdication,"
Warner Bros." romantic film drama starring
Peter Finch and Liv Ullmann, will have
dual world premieres October 3 at the Avco
Cinema in Westwood. Calif., and the Sutton
Theatre in New York.
U.S. government after World War II service.
Veteran Film-Stage Actor
Otto Kruger, 89, Is Dead
WOODLAND HILLS, CALIF.— Otto
Kruger, veteran film actor, died Friday (6)
at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital,
where he had been a patient since
August after suffering a relapse from a
stroke. Kruger, who was a longtime board
member of the industry-supported hospital,
died on his 89th birthday.
Born in Toledo, Ohio, and educated at
Michigan and Columbia universities, Kruger
"The Hummer" will be "Trip With the
Teacher," according to Crown International
president Mark Tenser. "Trip With the
Teacher," starring Zalman King, is now in
post-production and will be released in the
spring of 1975.
"Best Friends" has been retitled "Couples,"
Tenser said. The youth-oriented suspense-action
drama was produced and directed
by Noel Nosscck and stars Richard
Hatch, Susanne Benton, Doug Benton, Doug
Chapin and .Ann Noland.
'Persecution' Now 'Sheba'
LOS ANGELES— Lana TurnerVs latest
film, which was shot in London under the
title of "Persecution," has been retitled
"Sheba." The feature will be released in
early October by the Fanfare Corp. in a
pattern of mini-multiples backed by heav\
saturation TV campaigns, it was announced
by Joe Solomon, Fanfare's president.
Theatres for Sale or Lease
PUERTO RICO
Will consider long term lease.
Partnership
venture or sale. Profitable established
nine theatre circuit. Excellent
locations. Metropolitan Son Juan. All
Properties Owned. Total 5,600 seats.
First- and Second-run operations. Well
equipped. For details write:
THEATRES
Box 254
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00902
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ADLINES & EXPLOITIPS
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
EXHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY
FEATURE RELEASE CHART
FEATURE REVIEW DIGEST
SHORTS RELEASE CHART
SHORT SUBJECT REVIEWS
REVIEWS OF FEATURES
SHOWMANDISING IDEAS
THE GUIDE TO BETTER BOOKING AND B U S I N E S S - B U I L D I N G
Ethnic Screenings Draw Crowds
Spectacular ' Rabbi Jacob Opening in L A.
^
will lead to wide exposure through radio,
television, newspapers and even word-ofmouth.
Reaffirming this method's past successes
are the crowds the spectacular premiere
of "The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi'
Jacob," drew in Los Angeles.
Movie patrons retraced the hero's comical
adventures as they participated in a weeklong
Carnival of Fun charted by the film's
distributor, 20th Century-Fox. Pegging their
promotion plan on the ethnic background of
V the film, the studio held special preview
Ci' screenings of its G-rated French comedy as
part of a tribute to four outstanding Southern
California ethnic organizations: the
Synagogue for the Performing Arts, the
Chinese Social Society, the Hellenic Society
and the Viennese Society. In addition, the
studio closed out its week-long series of
events with a bubblegum-blowing contest
for young boys and girls. The contest stemmed
from an especially funny sequence in
the film involving a chase through a bubblegum
factory.
Overflowing with an abundance of excitement,
merriment, dancing and music, the
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LOS ANGELES CELEBRATES
THE PREMIERE OF ''THE MAD
ADVENTURES OF'RABBrJACOB!
Come join the free ti 'stivities niGhtly outsidi
Pint Century Plaza.
Costumed dancers will perlorm from 7 to 8 PM DANCINGI REFBESHMENTS1 MUSIC!
The lylad Adventures of RatDbi Jacob" will l>e stwwn at 8 30 Pf^
TOMORROW
Check this colorful calendar of events

Spectacular ' "Rabbi" Jacob' Opening in L A.
cymbal-smashing brouhaha was held at the
Plitt Century Plaza Theatre 2. Becoming
swept up in the spirit ol the celebration,
Plitt Theatres president Henry Plitt added
his own personal! salute to the event by arranging
for an International Food Fair in
the theatre lobby. Patrons were extended the
opportunity to buy any of the exotic delicacies
they chose.
The week got off to a rousing start when
a charity preview was held by the Syna-
(ContiniiCi! from preceding page)
gogue for the Performing Arts for the Oral
Education Center in Los Angeles.
In the true Hollywood tradition, Hollywood
luminaries such as Monty Hall, Stanley
Myron Handleman, Jackie Vernon, Milton
Berle. Marty Allen, Jan Murray, Norman
Lear, Ed Asner, Norm Crosby, Joan
Rivers, Walter Matthau, Jerry Lewis, Anne
Francis, Lois Nettleton, Red Buttons, Dennis
Day, Rory Calhoun, Art Metrano, Deanna
Lund, Don Matheson and Gale Gor-
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Other organizations participating
in the preview screenings
of "The Mad Adventures
of 'Rabbi' Jacob" during
20th Century-Fox's ethnicoriented
celebration inchided
the Chinese Social Society,
top left.
Delicate Irene Chan
entertained guests in the front
of Plitt's
Entertainment Center
where the screenings were
held. Members from the
Greek cultural .Kene.
middle
left, and the Viennese Society,
bottom left, perform
representative ethnic dances
for guests at their societies'
respective screenings. Comedians,
left to right, Morey
.Amsterdam, Stanley Myron
Handleman and Jack Carter
lent their talents, bottom
don attended the screening in which nightclub
and television star Jack Carter served
as master of ceremonies. After the screening,
guests were treated to a Continental
repast titled "The First Annual Quiche and
Egg Cream Fun Festival." The evening's
fun prompted a Los Angeles paper. Entertainment
Today, to exclaim, "Premiere of
20th Century-Fox's 'Mad Adventures of
"Rabbi" Jacob' at Plitt's Century Plaza Theatre
. . . turned out to be the fun evening
of the month."'
The second evening found the Chinese
Social Society attired in their colorful Far
East Costumes as they hosted the next preview.
The Society entertained guests with
authentic Oriental music and dances.
Preluding the third night's screening was
the community's Hellenic Society. Costumed
singers,
dancers and musicians performed in
the forecourt of the theatre. On the last
night of the special screenings, the Viennese
Society of Southern California staged a
beautiful cultural dance for the guests.
The Carnival of Fun concluded with a
preview expressly for young people, who
were given free "The Mad Adventures of
'Rabbi' Jacob" T-shirts. A bubblegum-blowing
contest for six-to- 14-year-old boys and
girls followed the screening. Sole judge for
the event, ballyhooed by Fox as an opportunity
where "Inflation, the bugaboo of
breadwinners, housewives and consumers in
general .
. . gets the chance to prove it
isn't all bad," was Kathrine Baumann, star
of Fox's "99 and 44/100% Dead." The
winning boy and girl received bicycles.
The idea for the contest stemmed froin a
slapstick sequence in the film in which the
hero, trying to elude a gang of international
hoodlums, finds himself in a bubblegum factory—a
slipping, sliding, groping, grasping
scene in the grand style of comedy's heyday.
"The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob,"
a wild, frenetic diversion of comedic misadventures
in the finest tradition of filmdom
slapstick and pratfall, has been heralded by
some critics as "the comedy of the decade."
Bertrand Javal produced the film and
Gerard Oury directed if and wrote the
screenplay in association with Danielle
Thompson and Josy Eisenberg. It stars Louis
De Funes, known as France's Charles Chaplin.
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right, to the star-studded,
first-evening screening which
also included such notables
us Milton Berle. Joan Rivers
and Jerrv Lewis.
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'Xaviera Hollander'
1,100 in NY Debut
NEW YORK—The Life and Times of
Xaviera Hollander" opened at the World
Theatre with a huge 1.100 gross percentage
— II times normal weekly business at that
theatre and nearly three times more than
Its closest rival. Ranking No. 2 on the firstrun
Barometer (just as it was in the preceding
report), was "The Filthiest Show in
rown," 385 for its second week at Rialto
On showcase, the big winners were
"That's Entertainment!" (still playing exclusively
in Manhattan at the Ziesleld),
"Chinatown," "The Black Godfather,'"' "The
Paralla.x View" and "Buster and Billie."
(Average Is 100)
Astor Plaza— Death Wish (Paro), 7th wk 210
barunet The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Cine—D^ath Wish (Para),'7th wk.' '.'.'.'..'.'. 420
Cine Maljbu Store (Audubon), wk 250
5tti
^incma I—California 5th wk Split (Col), 380
cinema II— Escape to Nowhere
^ :Peppercorn-Wormser), 5th wk 280
^inemo Village Score (Audubon), 5th wk 270
,
Garcia
Linerama--Brin9 Me the Head of Alfredo
:UA), 4th wk
East 59th Street
Ij5
2— Bring Me the Head of
Alfredo Garcia (UA), 4th wk 65
55th Street Playhouse—Adam and Yves
Hand-in-Hand Fjims), 2nd wk 295
Orpheum^-The Longest Yard (Para), 3rd wk 'l40
Pans— Harry and Tonto (20th-Fox), 4th wk 300
Penthouse—Savage Sisters (AlP), 2nd wk 135
Plaza— Flesh Gordon (Mammoth Films), 7th wk'. 85
i-aclio City Music Hall The Girl From Petrovka
Univ), 3rd wk
90
Filthiest Show in Town (Mishkin),
2nd 'T'"'*'^
RKO 86th Street Twin i— Savage Sisters (AlP)
^nd wk ,,n
RKO 86,h Street Twin 1 Bring Me the Head of'
Alfredo Garcia (UA), 4th wk. .,,
68th
95
Street Playhouse—The Seduction of Mimi
(New Line Cinemo), 12th wk. .
,90
State I— The Longest Yard (Para) 3rd wk '220
^°^d—The Life and Times of Xoviera Hollander
Ziegfeld—That's
Entertoi'n'ment!
(UA),' I'sth wk. '225
Baltimore Movie Patrons Spend
Evenings With Fighting Orioles
BALTl.VIORE— It was a real blah week
here for exhibitors, the Baltimore Orioles,
now putting up a stirring battle for the top
spot in
the American League's Eastern Division,
drawing away most of the movie patrons.
"Love and Anarchy" and "Death
Wish" were the only above-average grossers,
and they were only ten and five points above
100, respectively.
Playhouse—Love and Anarchy (SR), 4th wk.
Senator—The
110
Tamarind Seed (Emb), 4th wk 90
^'""^"*'""'^''l' "* Duddy Kroviti
Porar 2nd k
"' '^'"'="'^°''^'>"'th"wi's'h"(Para)', " " ^^
^"rd"^t
Westview in-H'or'rai Summer (AlP)',' 2nd' w'k. !So
Northwood-The ' ! !
fpr^hT
Tamorind
ly^
Seed
(Emb), 4th wk
90
Warner Bros.' "Uptown Saturday Night"
got a two-page spread in Tuesday magazine.
New Freedom Theatre Is
Reopened by Bagnalls
NEW IREI DOM. I'A. -Allan and Hex
crl> Bagnall were the new owners ol the
New Theatre here (near York, Pa.) when
the house reopened for the 1974-75 season
Friday (6). They said they will continue the that originally was the flagship for the William
Goldman circuit, is being converted
policy of presenting motion pictures for the
whole family and Sunday matinees will be into a twin. Opened in 1946. it carried the
an added attraction beginning Sunday (29). Goldman name and housed the circuit's
The Bagnalls said prices will remain the executive offices until a few years ago.
same, except that patrons 15 and under will when Goldman retired and sold his theatres
be
I. "California
admitted at
Split,"
the
which
regular
had the
children's
distinction
admission
fee.
of rating The as new
the owners also
Barometer's stated
No. they
I
are
grosser
planning
here three
to
weeks
present special
in a row, dropped
Sunday evening
to No. 3 with
movies
a 380
beginning in
fifth week at Cinema
November.
1.
"Death Wish" slipped a notch Concerning
to fourth
changes in the theatre building,
315 for
place, averaging they
its seventh
plan to
week's
redecorate the lobby, reupholster
the seats
screen time at the Astor Plaza (210) and
and remove numerous
the Cine (420). Again seats
fifth was
from the
"Harry and
486-capacity auditorium in
Tonto," 300, fourth week.
order to allow
Paris
for
Theatre.
additional leg space for
Tumbling from adults.
last week's No.
The
4
lobby concession
to stand
this
will be
week's No. 6, "Adam continued in
and Yves"
operation.
earned
295 for its second 55th Street Playhouse Bagnall, who was a projectionist in Turkey
for nine months while serving with the
armed forces, will serve as boothman and
will engage another person as an assistant.
A native of New Freedom, Bagnall has
managed several area theatres during his
employment as a research analyst with the
government.
Don Smolen Resigns at UA
To Set Up Own Company
NEW YORK—Don Smolen. creative ad-
"Smolen had made vital and stimulating
contributions to United Artists during his
tenure with the company." Goldberg st'ated.
"We hope to benefit from his talents by
continuing our association with him in his
new business venture."
Prior to his association with UA, Smolen
had his own studio servicing such clients
as TW.A.. Ford, 20th Century-Fox, Warner
Bros, and United Artists.
Exhibition of Tiddler'
Is Forbidden in Chile
SANTIAGO. CHILE— Chile has forbidden
showing of United Artists' "Fiddler on
the Roof" and labeled the motion picture
"Marxist propaganda." The film was scheduled
to be shown in Santiago with approval
of the board of censors. 'Vice-Admiral Hugo
Castro, minister of education, however,
vetoed the movie, saying the film contained
"elements not compatible to the harmony
of Chileans."
General Raul Benavides, minister of the
interior, added that the motion picture was
"negative and not convenient to our social
recuperation. It is a film of clearly Marxist
tendencies."
Budco Goldman Duo Is
Planning Oct. 2 Bow
PHILADELPHIA — Budco's Goldman
Theatre, first-run center-city movie house
to Budco, headed by Claude J. .Schlanger.
The l.lOO-seat Goldman, on conversion
to a twin wtih 500 seats in each auditorium,
will retain the Goldman name and will be
known as Budco Goldman I and IL The
same price and booking policy will prevail.
Scheduled to reopen as a twin October 2.
the first bookings are "The Longest Yard"
and "Cabaret."
This will be the first twin in center-city
Philadelphia for Budco Theatres, which has
a number of duos in local neighborhoods
and nearby communities.
Harry Waxmonn Is Dead;
Veteran Circuit Owner
VENTNOR. N.J, — Harry Waxmann.
motion picture exhibitor, philanthropist,
amusement pier and hotel operator, died
Saturday, August 31, at his home in this
resort community bordering Atlantic City.
He u.is 77 and was the founder of the
Hollywood circuit in Atlantic City, which
he founded in December 1931. He ultimate-
vertising director for United Artists, has resigned,
ly acquired the Hollywood. Astor. Shore and
it was announced by Fred Goldberg, Cinema theatres, which he later sold to
UA senior vice-president. Smolen, who has George .A. Hamid sr. and George A. Hamid
been with the company nine years, is forming
jr.
his own organization, Don Smolen As-
sociates, creative
Waxmann purchased four Philadelphia
a consultant service for theatres in 1955. two of which he still owned
motion picture advertising.
at the time of his death. He also was the
former owner of the Million Dollar Pier
on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City and the
La Concha Motel/Hotel.
Waxmann was cited by the late President
Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957 for his many
years of voluntary service to the public and
especially to the Jewish people, who dedicated
a 10,000-tree forest to him in Israel
that year. He gave economic advice for
many years to the Israeli Consulate in New
York City and worked with many religious,
civic and fraternal organizations on behalf
of the State of Israel.
Born in Russia. Waxmann and his family
migrated to America in 1907. He attended
school here and then moved to Philadelphia,
where he worked in various banks. He was
a member of some 160 organizations, including
the "Variety Clubs International and
the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of
America. He also was a board member of
the Hebrew Academy here, past president
of the 24 Carat Club and former chairman
of the Atlantic County Welfare Board.
He leaves his wife Rose: one daughter,
a sister, two grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.
The family requested, in iFeu of
expressions of sympathy, contributions to
the Ruth Newman Shapiro Cardiac Fund.
Margate, N.J.
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B R O A D W AY
XAVIERA HOLLANDER, author of "The tures a message by Liza Minnelli and Gene
Happ\ Hooker." held a press conference
in absentia Thursday (12) at the Plaza musical compilation. The MGM presenta-
Kelly, two of the star-narrators in the hit
HoteL Since L'.S. Immigration authorities tion, a United Artists release, is currently
have barred her from the country. Ms. Hollander
at the Ziegfeld Theatre in Manhattan and
spoke via a phone hook-up from To-
40 selected houses in the greater New York
ronto, while her lawyer Paul Sherman and
Brian Fikn Distributors president ^^"iIliam
Lang were present to discuss her legal action.
Jim Parish, that proUfic author, is now
WTiile the lawsuit was not spelled out writing film re\'iews for Swank Magazine,
in advance, it obviously was against Mature
"The and Times
having formerly been associated with Gallery
Magazine, both Playboy-t}pe Pictures" current hit, Life
publica-
of Xaviera Hollander," over which Caimon tions. .-Vmong
Films also is suing.
•The
his mam
RKO 'Cals."
current
-Good
books
Dames,"
are
"The
The press conference made it clear that
Ms. Hollander is actively pursuing an acting
Slapstick Queens""
FUe."
and "The Georae Raft
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career, having just completed the comedy
"My Pleasure Is My Business" in Toronto.
Brian Distributing, based in Chicago, will
release the film in the U. S. and Canada
in October. The film was produced by Jesse
Vogel and directed by M Waxman.
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Cine Unit of B'nai B'rith will sponsor
the American premiere of the new Israeli
film "Traces' Monday (23) at Loews" Astor
Plaza Theatre at 5:45 p.m. Supper at Cafe
Yaffo. an Israeli night club, will follow.
Producer-director Dan Cohen donated his
film, originally made for TV, for fund-raising
purposes.
"Traces" stars Claudia Amm arul Michael
Degen in an e.xamination of preserU-day
Israel, its mood of uncertainty- and the supreme
optimism of its people. For details.
contact: Cinema Unit 6000, B'nai B'rith,
229 West 42 St.. Sew York 10036. or call
221-5828.
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"The .Abdication"' will have an invitational
preview Thursday (19) at the Trans-Lux
East Theatre in Manhattan, followed by an
informal after-diimer party at the Excelsior
Club. In town for promotional activities are
Liv Ullmann, starring as the 17th-centur\"
Queen Christina of Sweden who abandons
the throne to convert to Catholicism: Peter
Finch, portraying the cardinal who must
test her sincerity-, Anthony Har\ey, the director;
Robert Fryer, co-producer of the film
with James Cresson. and Ruth Wolff, who
based her screenplay on her own stage play.
Warner Bros, is releasing the romantic dra-
" That's Entertainment!" is being advertised
50 times each night, through October
5. via the giant Bulova Accutron sign at
Broadway and 46th Street. The display fea-
Showcases Wednesday (11) were led by
the new arrivals "UFO Target Earth" and
'The Devil's Triangle," a rare G-rated bill;
"The Working Girls" and "The Single
Girls"; "Prison Girls" and "E.xchange Club";
"Our Time'': "Policewomen" and the Woody
Allen bill of "Sleeper." "Bananas" and
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Se.x But Were Afraid to Ask." Continuing:
"Deep Throat" and "The Devil in
Miss Jones." "For Pete's Sake" and "The
Owl and the Pussycat," "That's Entertainment'."
"Chinatown," "The Mad Adventures
of 'Rabbi' Jacob" and "Uptown Saturday
Sight."
Annenberg Cinematheque
Expanding Film Program
PHILADELPHIA — The Annenberg
Cinematheque at the University of Pennsylvania
is expanding its film program to include
SL\ different series for the coming season.
The films are presented Wednesdays
throi^h Sundays in the Studio Theatre at
the .\nnenberg Center on the Peim campus.
Returning as the Cinematheque's film director
is Amos Vogel. former director of
the New York Film Festival, and Phebe
Shimm continues as film coordinator. ."Ml
the film programs, e.xcept for one of the
series,
will be shown twice, with two different
programs presented nightly. These are
the sL\ series:
"Styles of Radical Cinema," Wednesdays
and Thursdays, for a series of five programs
starting with "Attica," October 9-10: rilms
from Cuba and Chile, October 16-17;
"'Dreams and Nightmares,"' October 23-24;
"Red Squad." October 30-31. and "Alliance
for Progress," from .\r2entine, November
6-7.
"Profiles," Thursdays and Fridays, including,
among others. "Anais Observed,"
October 10-1 k "The Henn. Miller Odyssey,"
October 17-18; "Ingmar Bergman,"
October 24-25: ".Andy Warhol," October
31-November 1, and "Wholly Communion,"
November 7-8.
"The Holh-wood Cartoon,'" Fridays and
Saturdays. October 11 through November
9.. featuring 50 stylistically diverse cartoons
originally programed by Greg Ford for the
New York Cultural Center.
"The New Morality." Saturdays and
Sundays, including among others, "Hugs
and Kjsses" (Sweden), October 12-13; "The
Golden Positions."' (U.S.). October 19-20:
"I Am Curious" (Sweden), October 26-27;
"To Love" (Sweden). November 2-3. and
"Dear John" (Sweden). November 9-10.
"Early Rene Clair," masterpieces of the
great French director. Sunday evenings,
October 13 through November 10.
"Documentary Films." programed by
Prof. Sol Worth of the .Annenberg School
of Communications, presented at 4 and at
7 p.m.. on ten consecutive Sundays startina
Wednesdav (25).
Griffith Series Offered
By Camegie Institute
PITTSBURGH—A David Wark Griffith
Centennial series is being featured this
season (1974-75) at Carnegie Institute.
Next year marks the silent screen directorproducer-iimovator's
centeimial.
Most of the Griffith films have been on
view here through many years and are appreciated
by the old-timers still around and
by the students from nearby Carnegie-
Mellon University. Pitt University, Chatham
College, Carlow College. Duquesne University
and other institutions of higher learning.
The salute to the father of the feature
film started Friday (13) and runs for 11
Friday nights. Included are ""The Birth of a
Nation." "Intolerance," "Hearts of the
World." "Broken Blossoms," "Way Down
East." "Orphans of the Storm" and "Isn't
Life Wonderful!"'
Seymour Stern, author of "Griffith" and
The Griffith Index," will be present several
times during the series to introduce the
D. W. Griffith features. Later he will publish
"Pittsburgh Griffith Centennial."
Adult Theatre Receipts
Are Reported in Philly
PHILADELPHLA—The first public disclosure
of the kind of business grossed bv
the movie houses offering hard-core "porno"
films a few years ago was made by
.Adrian Lee. editorial columnist for the
Philadelphia Bulletin. In his Wednesday (4)
column dealing with desegregation of Catholic
parachial schools, the columnist said he
had obtained access to the 1972 city tax
returns of some of the movie houses specializing
in X film showings.
He revealed that one company which
operated a center-city cinema, as well as
three neighborhood houses, reported gross
receipts to the city for calendar year 1972
of $441,385. A storefront movie house in
center city had gross receipts in 1972 of
$133,017. according to cit\' records.
Museum Theatre to Debut
PITTSBURGH—A beautiful 188-seat
Museum of .Art Theatre is being prepared
for opening in the new Sarah Scaife Gallery
wing of Camegie Institute. Sally Di.\on, director
of the film section of the institutemuseum-librar\
, says that the inaugural is
booked for October 26. To be featured is
the world premiere of Stan Brakhage's "The
Text of Light."
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BUFFALO
Three local theatres— the Granada. Palace
and Village Cinema—have renounced
their policy of showing only X-rated films,
said Doug Smith in the Courier-Express the
other day. Dewey Michaels, owner and operator
of the Palace, believes that the market
for X films seems to be on the decline.
The Village Cinema and the Granada are
under new management.
The tenth annua! Stratford International
Film Festival opened in the Ontario town
of that name Friday (13) with the North
American premiere of Louis Malle's "Lacombe
Lucien." The festival will close Sunday
(22) with the Canadian premiere of
•Harry & Tonto." starring Art Carney. The
schedule includes film presentations each
evening as well as a daily matinee retrospective
of Hollywood films of the 1930s . . .
Pledges from western New York, Ontario
and Pennsylvania residents totaled $388,307
at the end of a 20-hour telethon conducted
over WGR-TV as part of the national Jerry
Lewis muscular dystrophy drive that netted
more than $16 million. Sheriff Mike Amico
was the local telethon chairman.
Approximately 35 persons appeared at a
public hearing on a proposed 42 per cent
rate increase by TelePrompTer of Jamestown.
The company proposes to boost its
monthly charge for 14.500 cable TV
subscribers to $6.95 from $4.90. Dunkirk
Attorney Robert Woodbury, the hearing examiner,
will issue a recommendation to the
city council on what kind of increase, if
should be approved.
any.
The second annual Ad Club Klocke Invitational
Golf Tournament was held Tuesday
(10) at the Lancaster Country Club.
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Frontier Amusement has taken on the
distribution of the Crown International
productions, "The Naked Countess" and
"Blue Money." Mannie A. Brown is president
of Frontier and Ike Ehrlichman is
treasurer . . . Lou Leiser, manager of the
Avco Embassy branch, announced that his
company will distribute the first three productions
of the new firm, Joseph E. Levine
Presents. They are "The Night Porter,"
"Toute Une Vie" and "This Time Til Make
You Rich."
Walter Leffler has been showing "The
Groove Tube" with good boxoffice success
at the Four Seasons II in the Grant Plaza
on Military Road in Niagara Falls—and to
think that Walter used to be an employee
at the old Shea Buffalo downtown! ! . . .
The Twin cinemas at 2500 Military Rd. in
Niagara Falls now are charging $1 anytime
at both theatres. The attractions at this writing
are "Serpico" and "The Poseidon Adventure."
Dewey Michaels, owner and operator of
the new Palace. Main and Tupper, held over
"Return of the Dragon" and offered a free
Bruce Lee record to the first 1,000 adult
patrons. The film did SRO business, Dewey
said ... TV listeners had a real treat the
other evening when Henry Fonda appeared
on Channel 2 as Clarence Darrow, who
struggled with the conscience of an age
and actually changed it a little.
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The highly publicized Evel Knievel
jump" at Snake River Canyon was shown
on closed-circuit TV in the main arena of
the Niagara Falls International Convention
Center Sunday (8). It was heavily advertised
throughout western New York and attracted
a large crowd to the beautiful new
center in the Cataract City . . . Jim Hayes,
Tent 25, Los Angeles, writes Ad Vents of
the Ad Club to say "hello" to all his friends
and extends an invitation to anyone who
visits Los Angeles to call him. The phone
number is: 553-5300 . . . Joey Galante was
inquiring about his old friend Jim. who used
to work for him in his off hours.
A notice was sent around June 27 by the
Courier-Express that the retail advertising
rate would be increased two cents a line
daily and five cents a line Sunday and holidays.
Now another letter has arrived saying
that effective October 6 Sunday and holiday
rates will be increased five cents a line and
October 7 the daily rate for retail advertising
will be increased three cents a line. The
new rates will be 64 cents daily, $1.07 Sundays
and 87 cents holidays.
Bill Hebert, Frontier Amusement, has
returned from a vacation in the Adirondacks
with his family. Among the stopovers
were Lake Placid, the Baseball Hall of
Fame, Albany and Syracuse . . Frontier
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Amusement has taken over the booking
and buying for the Village Cinema in the
Central Park Plaza.
Wedding bells will ring Saturday (21) for
John Lundin and Terry Alabisi. John is district
manager for Buena Vista, with headquarters
in Cincinnati, where the couple will
reside. Terry is a former secretary in the
BV office here (when John was manager).
Prior to that she was secretary in the local
United Artists and Columbia offices.
Nineteen members of Filmrow—exhibition
and distribution—were wined and dined
as guests of Jim Vickery and WGR-TV
at the Buffalo Bills-New York Giants NFL
football game in the new 80,000-seat Rich
Stadium in Orchard Park Friday (6).
Brisk Schedule Prevails
For Variety Club Tent 7
BUFFALO—Things are coming alive at
Variety Club Ten.t 7! Monday night (9)
there was a special showing of "It's a New
Brave World," with cocktails at 6 p.m. and
dinner at 7 p.m. The film was shown twice.
first at 6:30 and then at 9:30 p.m.
Saturday (21) the club is uniting with the
Mercer Club to enjoy an evening at the new
dome Vljlcdy Fair, when Danny Thomas is
joining Vic Damone to present a show
which' will benefit the Buffalo Eye Bank &
Research Society. There will be a repast at
the club following the show. William Shields
and Joey Galante are the co-chairmen of the
.vent.
Tent 7 will hold its annual check presenl.ition
dinner in the clubroom at 193 Delaware
Ave., when the money raised by the
annual telethon will be distributed to local
charities. October 10 variety will enjoy its
annual Monte Carlo Night.
New Line Cinema has acquired "Loveni.iles."
a romantic comedy which will open
in key cities this fall.
BOXOFFICE :: September 16, 1974

. . Former
Sid Cohen Announces
Results of Conclave
BUFFALO—Sidney J. Cohen, president
of NATO of New Yori^ State, back on the
job at his office. 496 Pearl St.. announced
the winners of the golf tournament at the
exhibitor organization convention at the
Concord, Lake Kiamesha. N.Y.. were Bert
Nathan, low gross, and C. Fogel. Silver
Spring, Md., low net.
The winner of the 1975 TV set. donated
by Projected Sound, was Mitch Schwam,
son-in-law of Sol Shurpin of Technicolor
and a salesman for the New York branch
of National Theatre Supply.
Cohen also has announced the following
new NATO of New York State vice-presidents:
Sol Sorkin, Syracuse area; Dewey
Michaels, Buffalo; John Martina, Rochester,
and Dan Fellman, Syracuse, who also was
the convention's honorary chairman. Secretar\
is Nino Bordomaro and Al Burns is
the
treasurer.
1 he new executive members will be announced
soon.
Edward O'Shea Jr. Dies
BL'FFALO—Edward K. O'Shea jr.,
wellkii.'wn
attorney, is dead at the age of 50.
He was the son of the late Ted O'Shea, the-
,itre magnate in New York City and Buffalo
and former vice-president of Paramount
Pictures. O'Shea's specialty was criminal
tiKil work. A resident of Amherst, N.Y.,
he died in the Veterans Administration Hosptal
after a short illness.
Fire at Underskyer
CiREENVILLE, PA.—A $25,000 blaze
Laurel Theatre May Close
BRIDGETON, N.J.—The Laurel Theatre,
inh movie house in Bridgeton, may be
hiiltered in the near future if the comnuiiity
doesn't increase its patronage. The
hj.iire is owned by the Barrist family of
'hiladelphia and the management has rehsclI
to show X-rated or violent films. A
pokesman for the family commented that
.pp.irently members of the community "go
Isewhere" to see film fare not offered at
he laurel.
PHILADELPHIA
Linda Goldenberg, director of publicity and
promotion for Budco Theatres, hosted
a screening of "The Longest Yard" at the
Top of the Fox private screening room
Tuesday evening (10).
Jack Haley sr., in a letter to the Inquirer,
advised that the story about his death was
highly exaggerated. Writing from his home
in' Beverly Hills, Calif., Haley sr. referred
to an interview with his son during the
opening here of "That's Entertainment!" It
described Jack Haley jr. as "the 40-year-old
son of the late actor." Haley said: "I died in
Camden at the old Tower (vaudeville theatre)
but I never died in Philadelphia , . .
The old Earle Theatre on Market Street
was torn down just to get me out of there.
But I never died in Philadelphia."
Diminishing membership at the local
branch of the Screen Actors Guild has
the rolls dropping to only 78 members . . .
The old Sears Tire Center across the river
in Camden, N.J., has been converted to a
mini-twin adult theatre, offering full-length
adult features from 9 a.m. until I a.m.
Ground breaking is expected to start in
spring 1975 for a $15 million hotel-motel
comple.x in the exclusive Society Hill section
of the city, near the waterfront at Second
and Walnut. In addition to shops, convention
halls, etc., the four-story structure built
around a landscaped court also will include
a motion picture theatre. Leonard Reisman
is board chairman and Joseph Monaco is
president of the A-4 Development Corp.,
which is planning the project.
The 1974-75 schedule of children's film
classics to be shown at the admission-free
earl\ Sunday (1) heavily damaged the onestor\
brick-and-frame structure occupied Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center
started Saturday with "Johnny Tremain."
by the Reynolds Drive-ln on Route 18 near
(14)
Youngstown, Ohio. The fire was confined
and to the concession stand storage area
The showing of "Hell in the Pacific" at
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the cause.
Freedom and a rock dance
with the group in the city playground
Noah-Zark
were among the festivities at
the
third annual Labor Day Stay-at-Home program
sponsored by the New Freedom Area
Javcecs.
IVIeyer Adleman, motion picture
industry
pioneer and founder of the locally based
New Jersey Messenger film delivery service,
and Mrs. Adleman celebrated their 56th
wedding anniversary August 25 with a
champagne brunch in Bal Harbour, Fla.
Their children are Robert M. Adleman,
Hollywood author who has sold a number
of his books to the movies; Edward and
Stanley Adleman, who are in the film delivery
business, and Mrs. David Landsburg.
The Adiemans, who make their home in
Camden. N.J.. also have ten grandchildren.
The Plaza, RKO-Stanley Warner theatre
in the Moorestown, N.J., Shopping Mall,
will be the only site in southern New
Jersey for the live telecast of the George
Forman-Muhammad AH title fight Tuesday
(24). Marie Anlage, manager of the
Plaza, said that all 1,424 theatre seats will
be reserved and all
sale in advance at $25 each.
tickets have been put on
A college course in erotic films is t>eing
offered at the center-city branch of Temple
University as part of the communications
curriculum . Playboy Bunny
Samantha McLearn came to town to plug
"The Happy Hooker," scheduled to open
here soon.
TehPrompTer Corp., which was awarded
the CATV franchise rights for Trenton,
N.J., six years ago but never got to operate
it because of legal entanglements, announced
it is pulling out of the city. Moreover,
the city's Mayor Arthur J. Holland and the
city council indicated they were not in any
hurry to entertain new applications for the
CATV franchise. The death blow to Tele-
PrompTer came a few weeks ago when the
New Jersey Office of Cable Television refused
to "grandfather" (exempt) the Trenton
franchise from standard requirements
recently instituted for all new franchises in
the
state.
The Thursday night movies shown at the
Farmer's Market on Public Square by the
Oiterhout Free Library in Wilkes-Barre
have proven so popular that the film showings
will be continued through October 31.
The screenings had been scheduled to end
.August 31
but will continue throughout the
Thur-day night Farmer's Market season.
Each week, the Osterhout moviemobile presents
a different film from the library's "History
of the Motion Picture Series."
Compliments Management
NEW YORK.—Bob Solomon. Locws Theatres
division manager, reports receipt of a
Ltter from a lady patron complimenting
the management of Loews' State I. The lady,
Solomon said, cited "the neatness and cleanliness"
of the ladies restroom and singled
out an attendant named Lillie "for her
courtesy and devotion to service." Irving
Gross supervises the Broadway showcase.
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Qeorge Westinghouse's old home in Wilmerding.
nearly a century old, will become
the site
for the new Pittsburgh Repertory
Theatre. The former movie theatre
within this building, long identified as the
YMCA, is being renovated, cleaned, painted
and rerigged by Boyce campus students. All
electrical wiring will be replaced. There is
a stage and backstage and when patrons
enter they will be treated to a 1920s style
building complete with molded plaster work
and columns and an ornate, charming balcony
with the original seats.
James J. Bojalad, veteran DuBois projec-
tionist, checked in here for a checkup following
open-heart surgery several months
Rand M. Paich writes cinema
ago . .
comment tor the four-month-old daily at
Monroeville. the Times Express
choprophylaxis in Obstetrics Society has a
dozen playdates in the city area from
Wednesday (18) through May 28 for the
showing of childbirth films featuring the
Lamaze Method of prepared childbirth.
Frank Jay "Bud" Thomas, manager of
Cinema 356 at Sarver. was in Grove City
Hospital Thursday (5) following injuries
sustained when his car ran off the road
and turned over en route to his home in
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More Mountain State notes: At Clarksburg,
the A. L. Roberts Hardware is in its
71st year. It was Roberts who. a half-century
ago. brought West Virginia its first
"wireless" station. WHAK. from a room
over Bland's Drug Store, which is still there.
Roberts was announcer and Bill Warne was
West Virginia coal towns
engineer . . .
were among the first to get CATV many
years ago. The big channels now are WBOY.
Clarksburg; WWVU. Morgantown; WCHA.
Charleston, and WDTV, Weston ... Mel
Burka, Charleston radio executive, was the
Restrictions on obscene materials for adults
were appealed.
Gray Barker, who handles bookings for
Lovetfs Weston Drive-ln. promoted a halfhour
TV news special on WDTV on "The
Exorcist." with a Clarksburg priest commenting
on film clips and taking telephone
questions during the prime-time program
arranged by Rick Terry, who hosted. The
film opened at the Weston situation and in
other area theatres . . . Mason-Dixonland
marked the Labor Day weekend with many
outdoor attractions and, with reopening of
schools and the end of the carnivals and
county fair season, winter opening hours
took over.
The top feature at the Bizarre is "Good
Morning Little School Girl" and among
future bookings are "Pleasure Cruise." "Ape
Over Love" and "Double Header" . .
L'Amoure recently showed "Happy You
Could Come" and "Easy Women" .
Summer theatres have closed or are in their
final weeks of operation and raceways also
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have called it a season. Summer theatres
in the area increased grosses over 1973.
Magic Lantern Cinema at Smithton is
doing well with adult films . . . "The Man
With the Golden Arm" will be the Christmas
show at the Stanley . former
James Bond films unreeled at the Gateway
eight-year-old Chatham Center
complex reportedly will be sold. Included in
the parcel is the underground Cinema .
The Foreman-Ali bout will be offered via
closed-circuit TV in
the arena Tuesday evening
(24).
Chris Wilson, a son of George C. Wilson
III, Huntingdon outdoor exhibitor, a former
two-time PIAA state schoolboy tournament
qualifier at Tyrone High and last year
a member of the Junior College National
golf champions. Miami. Fla.. Dade Junior
recipient of the first distinguished award
team, the SVCC's youngest
College's is
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Men's Club champion in the tourney's 1- 1
the in White Sulphur Springs
Greenbrier
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reopened by John Rutski of WBOY, is 36-hole Labor Day weekend event. Chris,
showing adult features.
19, now a junior at the University of
The Drive-In, Burlington, was cited in Georgia, and brother Dink, a senior at
an obscenity charge because a movie allegedly
Babson College. Boston, enjoyed a busy
was seen by youngsters from a near-
summer of golf and operating the Hunting-
The 1974 legislature revised
don Drive-ln.
by roadway . . .
state
the obscenity laws to provide
Art Cinema held onto "Rings of Passion"
that so-called obscene material could not be
and "Kiss This Miss" and the next-door
sold to or given to minors or displayed in
Liberty continued "Marriage and Other
Four-Letter Words" . M Talent
a place where it could be viewed by them.
Hunt finals will be staged at the Stanley
Chuck Reichblum
Tuesday evening (24) . . .
resigned as president and general manager
of the pro tennis team Pittsburgh Triangles.
His father was the late area exhibitor Leon
Reichblum.
"Bordello" was on view at the Fulton
Mini . Garden showed "Female
Chauvinists" and "Lady Zazu's Daughter."
The free History of Film series at Carnegie
Lecture Hall Sundays at 7:30 p.m. opened
its fall season Sunday (8) with the showing
of early French films . . . The Warner
has new seats and other modernization there
continues . Fulton showed "Retur
of the Dragon" .
reissued "Doctoi;
Zhivago" goes onscreen at the Fiesta
"The Godfather. Part 11" will be the Christ-j
mas season attraction at the Gateway.
The Shadyside was in its third week with
"Behind the Green Door" and "Resurrection
of Eve" and Dennis Encor^
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likely will show "The Mad Adventures o^
Rabbi' Jacob" starting some time ii
October . . . Howard Koch, 72, Hollywoo
screen and radio writer, was hospital:
Thursday (5) at Say re after being injured
near Oswego, N.Y., in a highway accidentj
The Rowland Theatre, Wilkinsburg, clo!
ed for a decade and deteriorating, will
acquired by the Redevelopment Authority of
Allegheny County, as no cultural groups are
interested in its rehabilitation. The planning
commission has been asked for an okay to
have this beautiful building razed and redeveloped
as a commercial property. Opened
in
December 1912 by the late Richard
.A. Rowland, your corresp^indent appeared
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I
in
. . "Lenny"
. . The
. .
the inaugural program. Vaudeville in
those years had the Keith-Albee circuit acts
there was an "after-show" of local talent
,iiul
lor those who remained (and everybody
st.iycd to the bitter end). This writer, as a
second grade youngster, performed—or tried
to—on a revolving wheel which eventually
was. if not sooner, impossible for a twologger,
let alone a four-legged pony or dog
(I' S. We stole the show!).
I'erilman Films, managed by Ma.\ Shabasoii.
is representing "Josefine M" hereabouts;
also available now from this office
IS the combination of Crown's "Santee" and
"I ittle Laura and Big John" . . . Carl Reardon.
GGP sales manager and in years past
a film salesman here, was hospitalized in
Boston following a heart attack . . . Pittsburgh
Filmmakers Ass'n is moving from
Kast Liberty to new quarters in Oakland,
with Saturday (21) set as the season opening.
Shel Silverstein's cartoon "The Giving
Iree" is in revival and was seen recently at
the Fulton . is licensed for
showing at the Kings Court as its Christmas
sc.ison offering . . . John Carbonaro. 41.
pleaded guilty in Philadelphia to obtaining
S500.000 through a fraudulent scheme,
claiming he was planning a movie, TV special
and recording about the late local ba.seball
player Roberto Clemente.
.Squirrel Hill played "Going Places" .
Paramount Family Matinee Series will get
under way here at two-dozen theatres October
16-17. The initial feature is to be
"My Side of the Mountain" . classic
"2001: A Space Odyssey" returns to the
Warner, where it was very successful several
years ago.
Philadelphia's X Cinemas
Hope to Boost Attendance
PHILADELPHIA—With the
diminishing
play of X-rated films in the midtown movie
sector spelling an early demise for such
features, a desparate stand is being taken at
the boxoffice by several of the adult-oriented
the.itres. Apollo Theatre, in the shadow of
cit\ hall, has large banners flying from the
marquee heralding a new price policy. Apart
from offering three X-rated features, new
pricing calls for a reduced admission of $2
for all shows.
Studio Theatre, just a few blocks away
on the other side of city hall, with a triplefcitiire
offering, calls for a half-price adniisMon
for escorted ladies. In addition.
Lrotic .Art Cinema I, one of the many storefront
movie houses in center city, has added
a stage policy for the triple features, with
burlesque queens cavorting on the tiny
stage for four shows a day, plus midnight
offerings on weekends.
i'lmfM^Mtf
BALTIMORE
^illiani C. I'ac.v. F. H. Durkee Enterprises
executive, returned after a week's vacation
at Bethany Beach. Del. With him during
this respite were his wife and three of his
four sons—^John. 19; David. 5, and Jeffrey
1'2. It might be added that Pacy is one of
the chairmen for the Today's World luncheon,
sponsored annually by Adventures in
Learning, which will be held at noon Friday
(20) at the popular Suburban Club. Dr.
Malcolm S. Knowles, who has spent his entire
career in the study and advancement of
adult education, will speak on "The Adult
Ixarner: A Neglected Species." This, incidentally,
is the title of his most recent book.
The event is open to the public and Pacy
says that anyone wishing to attend (the
price is $7) may call Mrs. Hugh Dolby at
252-4245 for reservations.
The Schwaber Theatres home office has
announced that the 5 West Theatre closed
Tuesday (10) until further notice . . . Largo
is featuring a special fall rate. Monday
through Saturday, of only $10 a carload at
its wildlife preserve. The fee includes everything,
such as the drive through the preserve,
reptile show, exotic bird show, birds
of prey show, wildlife movie and Kuddle
Korner . . . "Sunseed Saga of Journey to
Self-Awareness." a film featuring 1 1 spiritual
teachers from Israel, Nepal (India)
and the U.S., with a soundtrack by the
Sufi Choir, was screened at 7:30 and 10
p.m. Friday and Saturday (13. 14) at
Goucher College.
"Doctor Zhivago," the film classic based
on the Boris Pasternak novel, returned Friday
(13) to area theatres. Omar Sharif (Yuri)
and Geraldine Chaplin( (Tonya) play leading
roles in the picture.
Women of Variety Tent 19 will have a
conclave in Atlantic City October 6-9 at
the Lafayette Motor Inn. The men's group
also will convene in Ocean City in early
October—October 4-6—at the Spinaker
Motel. Cost of the four-day jaunt is $90 per
person, double occupancy (four days, three
nights), with two meals daily, transportation
and all tips included in the package. Arranging
the event are Mrs. Charlotte Snyder,
president, chairman for the affair, and Mrs.
Rosa Schevker, treasurer of Women of Variety
Tent 19. Money netted will go to the
Sunshine Coach fund. For reservations call
Charlotte Snyder at 486-6901.
Roland Bniscup, president of lATSE Lo
cal 181, and Mrs. Bruscup; Donald Miller,
business agent of the same local, and Mrs.
Vlillcr. and Mrs. Audrey Hawkins, sister of
Roland and widow of Jack Hawkins, former
operator at Schwaber's Playhouse Theatre,
recently returned from a wonderful trip to
Los Angeles. The purpose of the August
ll-l(i trip, primarily, was to attend the
lATSE convention. Bruscup reported: "We
stayed at the Hyatt-Regency Hotel, which
was opened in 1972. It is located in a mail
with two restaurants, one for breakfast and
one for dinner, among other innovations.
As you know. Donald Miller ran for secretary-treasurer
of lATSE from the Fourth
District, which is composed of West Virginia.
Virginia, Maryland. Delaware, Pennsylvania
and Washington, D.C. He lost by
11 votes. During the men's visit to the convention
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., their wives
loured Universal Studios, Disneyland and
viewed a few TV shows, as well as Forest
Lawn Cemetery. At night we went to dinner
clubs and also visited the hospitality room
at the Hyatt-Regency, the Biltmore and
Holiday Inn. where other projectionists
stayed. Jeannie Miller was picked at Universal
Studios to have her face made up in
the tradition of movies stars—and she was
selected by a makeup artist and hair stylist
of lATSE Local 706. After the convention
we hired a car and visited San Diego.
"We also toured the Queen Mary, docked
at Long Beach, had a boat ride and visited
Catalina Island. Then we drove to Tiajuana,
Mexico, and from that point to Las Vegas.
We went all over the desert and mountains
and visited a ghost town—Calico, Calif. In
Las Vegas we stayed at the Sands Hotel on
the Strip and saw the Wayne Newton show,
Jan Murray and Juliet Prowse. We also
visited the casinos and the MGM Grand
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. . Mrs.
. . Sam
WASHINGTON
^Jorton (ierber. president of District Theatres,
introduced the flavor of the 1940s
at the circuit's suburban Potomac theatres
from the Bryanston home office were Mike
Scagluso. assistant general sales manager,
and division manager Jerry Garfinkle.
Saturday morning (7) by rolling back the
William Michalson, formerly salesman for
film fare and boxoffice fee. At two shows,
10 a.m. and 12 noon, the "back-to-school Jerry Sandy at American International Pictures,
jamboree" presented Laurel and Hardy and
has joined Herbert Schwartz's staff at
International Amusement Corp. Francis
Little Rascal shorts for 25 cents per seat.
The piece tie resistance was the 1 5-cent bag Gormley. until
. . .
recently booker with Cinerama,
of popcorn. The old-fashioned festivities
is with 20th Century-Fox's booking
at
the Capri. Silver Spring. Md.; Laurel Cinema
department, which is headed by LaVem
and Towne Centre twins. Laurel, Md.; Bos well.
Riverdale Plaza. Riverdale. Md.; Hampton
Mali twins. Largo. Md.. and Loehmann's Joe Bernheimer, head of Mid-Way Buying
Plaza twins. Falls Church, Va.. included & Booking Service, Columbia, Md., has
drawings for door prizes and other surprises
of pure fantasy!
among his contingency of theatre-owner clients
Mid-Way
Richard Derrickson, whose
Douglas Fairbanks jr. was here Sunday
(15) to present "The Black Pirate" in the
Eisenhower Theatre. Kennedy Center, which
was to launch the American Film Institute's
major retrospective of Douglas Fairbanks
sr. films, which will be shown Sundays
through November Pcckinpah's
"Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,"
which is in its third week at RKO Keith's,
Annandale and Pike theatres, as written in
the Star-News, "is more than an orgy of
blood-and-guts. It's Peckinpah at his sometimes
mystical, sometimes moving, always
interesting best, a film that will grow on
you."
Arthur Marx, son of Groucho and author
of a book on Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis,
titled "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometimes
(Especially Himself)." was here with'
his wife Lois promoting his book. He had
Enterprises on the Eastern Shore consists barbs for nearly everyone. Regarding the
Donna Littman, former branch manager of nine situations—five hardtops and four subjects of his book, he said: "I was never
for National General Pictures when the drive-ins; Frank Ford, owner of the Lee much of a fan of theirs but I'm fascinated
company merged with Warner Bros, and Plaza twins in Hopewell, Va.; Rene Stalbach.
whose Resfon Twin Cinema. Reston, them. Besides, three other persons were
by partnerships and what makes and breaks
more recently branch manager for International
Amusement Corp.. has been named Va.. is a 688-seat complex; Howard Lindsey.
whose Henrico Theatre is in Highland first idea."
doing Fonda family books, which was my
Washington-Philadelphia branch manager
for the newly established local office of Spring, a suburb of Richmond. Va.; R.
Bryanston Distributors. Bryanston is headquartered
at 7515 Annapolis Rd., Suite 311, Theatre in Springfield. Va.. and Walter BALTIMORE
Gehweiler. who constructed his West Spring
Landover Hills, Md. 20784. telephone (301) Gettinger. who has the Shore Drive-In at
459-6306. Mrs. Littman took with her. as Ocean City. Md. Bernheimer is optimistic
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office manager. Cindy Henderson, who had about the theatre bo.xoffice outlook and
served in that capacity at NGP and lAC. apparently is alert distribution-wise in predicting
what's eye and ear-pleasing to movie tel. The group returned home by United
Hotel, Caesar's Palace and the Circus Ho-
and has added Charmaine Prusak. formerly
with DB5. to her staff . . . Recent visitors audiences.
Air Lines August 23."
"Gone With the Wind" opened Friday
(13) at Schwaber's Playhouse . . . There
have been some changes
ITS
at Schwaber's Playhouse
and the Mini-Flick. Ronald Kurz,
who has been the former's manager, now
will be its relief operator for two days as
well as relief boothman at the Mini-Flick
GROSS!
for two days. In the meantime. Joe Liberto.
who had been manager at the 5 West for
th; past eight years, comes to the Playhouse
as the regular manager, on a five-daya-week
basis . . . Cinema North at 7 East
North Ave. reportedly has closed tenifxirar-
Don*t Pay High Terms For Unproven Product
Doug Selin, local assistant accountant for
Coll Phil Glazer
the R/C circuit, returned from a ten-day
vacation in Ocean City where, with a friend,
C30t) 385-0600
he visited his parents, who rented a cottage
in Maryland's famous summer resort . . .
Get Associated With ASSOCIATED.
Mrs. Marge Gorsuch. R/C bookkeeper,
took off all her Fridays in August to insure
Get The Proven BIG ONES At Liveable Terms!
long weekends, thus using this varied time
as her vacation . Frances Simpson,
R/C office manager in Fredericksburg, Va.,
nRST CLASS
with her husband Bill spent August 23
through Tuesday (3) on vacation sailing
$15,881
their boat at Nags Head. Their two granddaughters
visited them part of the time on
Elkridge D-l
the 'boat . . . Miss Phyllis Sullivan. R/C
clerk-typist in Fredericksburg, returned from
Bengies D-l
a ten-day vacation (in her new car). She
THcMUGHTV
srew^RDesses ^
Northway
took the scenic route south to Florida and
Baltimore, Md.
back . . . Ocean City lured two part-time
employees of R/C here August 9-19. They
were Mrs. Eula .'Krmiger. all-year part-time
ASSOCIATED PICTURES CO. • 19 W. Mt. Royal Ave. • Balto.. Md. 21201 worker, and her daughter Janice, a summer
parl-lime employee.
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Exemption Bill Gels
Nod in Caliiornia
HOIIYWOOD—Word reached l.os Angeles
Iiiesday (3) that the California Asscmhly
and the Senate passed Assemblyman
ll.iward Herman's (D-Shcrman Oaks) bill to
c\iend the exemption of all theatre empknees
from arrest and prosecution for
exhibiting or distributing obscene material.
Previously, only theatre projectionists
were exempted from obscenity arrest and
prosecution but local officials in several
communities began to arrest ticket-takers,
L-andy-sellers and managers. Herman and
Frank McBride, business agent for Projectionists
Union Local 150. decided the exemption
should be extended. If it is shown
that these employees have no financial interest
and no control over what is being
exhibited, they cannot be subject to arrest
for misdemeanor obscenity.
Herman's bill, AB2686, passed the Senate
Saturday. August 31, and the joint committee
of the Assembly and Senate the same
day. closing out business for this session.
Ihe bill now is on Gov. Ronald Reagan's
desk for his signature.
'The thrust of the bill is to exempt these
employees from arrest and prosecution,"
Slid Herman's aide, Barbara Moore.
l^ersons with a corporate interest in the
film, theatre or bookstore will be subject
to
arrest.
LA Fire Officials Honor
Allen, McQueen, Newmcm
LOS ANGELES—Producer Irwin Allen
and co-stars Steve McQueen and Paul Newman
have been accorded honorary Los
Angeles City Fire Department credentials
for their efforts to exemplify the heroic
exploits of firemen in "The Towering Inferno,"
currently shooting here. Los Angeles
Fire Chief Raymond Hill and Fire Commission
President Bruce Corwin made the presentations
in ceremonies on the film set at
20th Century-Fox Studio, where the coproduction
by Warner Bros, and 20th-Fox
is under way.
The $12 million suspense drama centers
around a violent fire that breaks out in
the world's tallest skyscraper on the eve
dedication and Newman and McQueen
of its
head an alLstar cast caught up in the
holocaust. John Guillermin is directing from
a screenplay by Stirling Silliphant.
Two fire department battalion chiefs,
Peter Lucarelli of Los Angeles and John
Cavallero of San Francisco, have been
serving as the film's technical advisers to
insure authenticity. Some scenes were photographed
in San Francisco.
Producer Allen has assumed directorial
chores on the action sequences now being
filmed at the Century Ranch in Malibu
Canyon. In what is believed to be the
largest single call for motion picture stuntwomen
yet, nine femmes have been hired
by Allen to work in scenes depicting the
perils of escaping from the fire iii the structure.
Gary Grant Awarded $10
In $1 Million Lawsuit
HOLLYWOOD— Actor Cary Grant was
awarded the sum of $10 August 30 in his
$1 million lawsuit against 20th Century-
Fox Studio. Grant had charged in superior
court that the studio, acting in violation
of his contract, had spliced scenes of him
and the late Marilyn Monroe from the
1952 movie, "Monkey Business," into 20th-
Fox's 1968 film biography of the actress,
"Marilyn."
titled
Superior Court Judge Alfred L. Margolis
presided. Michael Conlon of the law firm
Musick, Peeler & Garrett represented Fox.
lAC Unveils De Luxe
Twin Falls Cinema
TWIN FALLS, IDA.—An invitational
grand opening was held Tuesday (3) at the
Tri Arc Cinema 3 in Twin Falls, it was announced
by Roy Roper, president of Interstate
Amusement Co. The Tri .'\rc 3 is
an addition to the existing Cinema 1 and 2.
Attending the unveiling of the theatre
were various dignitaries from the radio, TV
and newspaper media, as well as public
officials.
Tri Arc Cinema 3 is equipped with
Massey Polaris seats, Ballantyne Pro 35
projectors, mounted on the Christie console,
and the Christie Autowind system.
Acclaimed as "one of the most attractive
theatres in the state," the drapes, seats and
projection equipment for Tri Arc Cinema
3 were furnished by Universal Theatre Supply
of Salt Lake City.
Lighthouse Books Surfing
Film in 2 Hawaiian Spots
HOLLYWOOD— Marking what he terms
"a breakthrough in Hawaiian booking patterns,"
Donald Reynolds, president of Lighthouse
Productions, booked the productiondistribution
firm's "Liquid Space," a Surfing
film, into two top Honolulu theatres, the
Waikiki 2 and Kam Drive-In. According
to Reynolds, this is the first time a surfing
feature has played there "outside the high
school auditorium."
Lighthouse, which primarily uses TV
ad-supported four-walling techniques in
distributing its product, has backed the
Hawaii experiment with $15,000.
The company also is mapping plans for
"off-season" release in other markets.
CNC Acquires U.S. Rights
To 'Child Under a Leaf
HOLLYWOOD—Cinema National Corp.
has acquired U.S. distribution rights to
"Child Under a Leaf" from Creative Equity
Corp. of Los Angeles, according to CNC
president Fred Briskin. The dramatic love
story starring Dyan Cannon recently completed
principal photography in Canada.
Briskin reports the film is the second
of several acquisitions the company will
make this year and is scheduled for simultaneous
major city releases late this fall.
Los Feliz to Present
Janus Film Feslival
HOLLYWOOD—Laemmles' Ixis Feliz
Theatre will open the Janus Film Classics
Festival beginning Wednesday (25). According
to Max and Robert Laemmlc, this will
be the largest festival of world-renowned
classics ever assembled in the Los Angeles
area. Composed of 27 programs, the festival
will last nine weeks, with program changes
thrice weekly—Wednesday, Friday and
Monday.
The opening week features Akira Kurosawa's
magnificent Japanese film, "Dodes-
"ka-dcn" (The Sound of the Trolley), cofeatured
with Alexander Mackendrick's
"Lady Killers," starring Alec Guinness and
Peter Sellers. Friday (27) begins Francois
Truffaut's immortal "Jules and Jim," with
Jeanne Moreau, plus Marcel Camus' beautiful
"Black Orpheus." Monday (30) will
be Michelangelo Antonioni's day with
"L'Avventura" and "Eclipse."
Among the 58 films to be included in
the Janus Festival will be the works of
such outstanding directors as Ingmar Bergman,
Jean Renoir. Sergei Eisenstein, Roman
Polanski. Orson Welles, Murnau. Jean Cocteau,
Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Louis
Malle, Ozu. Marcel Came, Olmi and Josef
von Sternberg.
The final two weeks will be a tribute to
Ingmar Bergman, showing 16 features he
directed. All films will be shown in their
original languages with English titles.
Bonwit Teller Tie-In Is
Promoting 'Abdication'
LOS ANGELES—Bonwit Teller will hold
a cocktail party and fashion .show in its Beverly
Hills store to help publicize the upcoming
Warner Bros, release. "The Abdication,"
starring Peter Finch and Liv Ullmann.
At the fashion show, to be followed by
a screening of the film at the Directors
Guild, Bonwits will introduce a very exclusive
line of women's evening wear by
designer George Stavropoulos. Included
among the styles, modeled by Hollywood
will be a number of costumes
personalities,
worn in the film, a romantic drama of the
abdication of Sweden's 17th Century Queen
Christina.
For the store's Wilshire Boulevard window,
a week-long display of costumes from
the film is planned.
"The Abdication" is scheduled for release
in early October.
'Born Losers' Sets AIP
Mark in Southland Run
LOS .ANGELES-American
International's
rerelease of "Born Losers " in Southern
CaUfornia has smashed all AIP records with
a first-week gross of $826,849 in 102 theatres.
The film is being held over indefinitely
in 92 local situations, according to Leon
P. Blender, AIP's executive vice-president
in charge of sales and distribution.
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W-1

Hollywood
gERYL VERTUE, vice-president of the
Robert Stigwood Organization, is in
Hollywood for two weeks of production
meetings.
•
Warren Gates, currently onscreen in
"Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,"
making personal appearances in behalf of
the film in Alabama, appeared in the Hank
Williams Country Music Fest in Huntsville
Sundav (15).
*
Paula Trueman, star of Avco Embassy's
"Homebodies." produced by Marshal Backlar
and James Levitt, has been set for a
ten-city Midwest tour to promote the film.
•
Producer Robert B. Radnitz has set Ura
Furrer as director of cinematography for
"Birch Interval." next feature on the Rad-
Producer Hal B. Wallis began principal
photography Wednesday (4) in Grants Pass,
Ore., for Universal's "Rooster Cogburn,"
starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn,
nitz/ Mattel slate.
•
"A Night With Clifton Moore." executive
director of the Commission on Radio-TV-
Films for Southern California, has been set
for Monday. October 7. at the Immanuel
Presbyterian Church to honor the retiring
doctor.
•
Five professional mountain climbers who
also are filmmakers have been signed by
producer Robert Daley for "The Eiger
Sanction."
•
Three representatives of the Navajo Indians
from Window Rock, Ariz., were in
Hollywood to meet with studio representatives
to discuss tribal cooperation with production
companies wishing to
film on tribal
land.
•
The Screen Smart Set will hold its annual
fashion show luncheon Wednesday (18) at
the
Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
•
Jon Voight, star of "The Odessa File"
(Col), left Monday (2) for Toronto, Canada,
to launch a week of personal appearances in
conjunction with the film's opening in
October.
•
Debbie Reynolds resumed her starring
role in "Irene" in New York Tuesday (3)
and will open the show here October 24 in
a benefit preview for the Hollywood Motion
Picture & Television Museum at the Shubert
Theatre.
•
Joel Hockdorf has been set as director
of creative affairs by Michael Leighton.
president of Devi Productions.
•
David Gorton has joined Warner Bros,
as a business affairs executive, it was announced
by Jack Freedman, vice-president
of the company.
•
Martin Roberts, author of "Videocassettes,
the Systems, the Market, the Future"
Happenings
•
with Stuart Millar directing.
•
"The Other Side of Midnight," Sidney
Sheldon best-seller slated for filming by
Paramount next year, will have a record
100,000-copy hardcover first printing in
West Germany in a deal concluded between
Sheldon and the Ullstein Publishing House.
•
Allen Ludden, TV personality, will be
master of ceremonies for the annual fashion
show luncheon of the Screen Smart Set
Wednesday (18) at the Beverly Wilshire
Hotel. "That's Entertainment!" will be the
theme of the show, sponsored by the women's
auxiliary of the Motion Picture &
Television Fund and coordinated and narrated
by eight-time Oscar winner Edith
Head.
•
Variety Club Tent 25's 25th anniversary
salute to Billy Graham is set for Wednesday
(18) in the Beverly Hilton Hotel's
International Ballroom. Art Linkletter is
master of ceremonies.
I*
Academy Award-winning composer Ernest
Gold will record, in Vienna, his own
compositions, "Songs of Love and Parting,"
and Mario Castelnuvo-Tedesco's
"Coplas" for the Crystal label Saturday
and Sunday (28, 29). Gold will conduct
the famed Vienna Volkopera Orchestra.
•
Eugene Arnstein, who retires from the
Ass'n of Motion Picture & Television Producers
at month's end, will operate as a
consultant in
labor relations and administrative
services related to motion picture production
and distributing beginning October
1. His first major client is American International
Pictures.
•
John W. Findlater, MCA vice-president
and president of MCA Disco-Vision, will
discuss the advantages of adapting Disco-
Vision audio-visual discs for "audio-only"
use during the upcoming VIDCA meeting
in Cannes, France. According to Findlater,
the optical (laser beam) playback system
will offer audio fidelity performance equal
to the best quality sound deliverable to today's
hi-fidelity components.
•
Director Robert Aldrich has returned to
Atlanta following special screenings of "The
Longest Yard" for the Football Writers
Ass'n of America. The picture also was
screened for the Notre Dame and Georgia
Tech football teams just prior to their game
Monday (9).
*
and president of Martin Roberts & Associates,
has been invited for the fourth consecutive
year to participate in seminars being
held at the VIDCOM conference in
Cannes, France.
•
Chuck Panama has joined the public re-
Milt Forman, production executive in
lations firm of Guttman & Pam as a vicepresident.
Gregory Peck's St. George Productions,
•
meets with Peck soon in St. Jean Cap Ferrat,
Mario Machado has been named master France, on an expanded promotion campaign
of ceremonies for the American Cancer
for "The Dove," which Paramount
Society's annual awards presentation dinner
will release in the U.S. late this month.
to be held at Universal Studios Saturday
*
John Guillermin, currently editing "The
(21).
Towering Inferno," which he directed for
20th-Fox, Warner Bros, and producer Irwin
Allen, has formed Rockingham Productions
and currently is discussing several projects
with studios for his own banner. His other
credits are Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Skyjacked"
and "Shaft in Africa."
•
David Wolper's 25th anniversary in the
entertainment industry was feted by a weeklong
American Film Institute retrospective
of his more than 450 motion pictures and
TV series and specials.
Walter Strenge Services;
Veteran Cinematographer
LOS ANGELES—Services for Walter
Strenge, veteran cinematographer who died
Monday (2), were held Saturday (6) in
Studio City. He was 76.
Strenge, whose career as a cinematographer
encompassed half a century, was
regarded as one of the most honored members
of his profession. He was one of the
original charter members of New York's
International Photographers Local 644 and
served two terms as president of the American
Society of Cinematographers. He was
active on the board of governors of the
ASC at the time of his death.
Strenge's numerous film credits include
"God Is My Partner" and "Stagecoach to
Fury" for 20th Century-Fox: "The Littlest
Hobo" for Allied Artists, and "Cry Terror"
for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He also was involved
with several TV series.
He leaves his wife Jean and, in lieu of
flowers, his family suggested donations to
the Motion Picture Relief Fund or the First
Christian Church, Studio City.
Terry Boyle Is Promoted,
Barry Berlin to New Post
SAN DIEGO, CALIF.— Barry Berlin has
been named manager of American Multi
Cinema's Fashion Valley 4 theatres, succeeding
Terry Boyle, who was appointed
advertising coordinator for the Western
division.
Berlin had been a manager trained with
George Eldridge, manager at AMC's Central
City 4, San Bernardino, Calif.
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'Harry and Tonto 2nd LA Week 665;
'Mad Adventures' Runner-Up at 280
LOS ANUELES—Another big gross at
Avco Cinema Center 2 resulted from a second
week of "Harry and Tonto" shows, the
percentage of 665 reflecting nearly seventimes-normal
average-business. "The Mad
Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob," second on
the last Barometer report, again was runnerup
to "Harry and Tonto" but this time with
a simmered down-280 instead of 560. "Pink
Floyd." No. 3 in the preceding week's report
with 525. fell to 135 in a second week at
the Wcstwood and Egyptian theatres. No. 3
this week, on basis of a 260 llth week at
the Hollywood Pussycat, was "Memories
Within Miss Agie."
{Average Is 100)
Avco Cinema Center 2 Harry ond Tonto
(20th-Fox), 2nd
3, Pontages Death Wish
(Pa 6th
85
Beverly Hills That's Entertainment! (UA),
5th wk 60
Brum The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kraviti
(Para), 5th wk 175
Chinese, Notional—Coiitornia Split (Col), 4th wk, 135
Crest, Hollywood Paramount Uptown Saturday
Night (WB), 8th wk 125
Four Star Resurrection of Eve (SR), 32nd wk. ..250
Holly, UA Cinema Center 2 The Groove Tube
(SR), llth wk 145
Hollywood—Chinotown (Pora), 3rd wk 110
Hollywood Pacific—S*P*Y*S (20th-Fox), 2nd wk. 95
Hollywood Pussycat Memories Within Miss Aggi<
(SR), .260
-The Education of Sonny Carson (WB),
4th wk 2
itt I —^fhe Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob
{20th-Fox), 2nd wk 2
Itt 2—The Rolling Stones (SR), 6th wk 1
oval The Tall Blond Mon With One Block Shoe
Vogue Return of the Dragon (SR), 2nd wk.
Westwood, Egyptian Pink Floyd (SR), 2nd wk
Wilshire—The Tamarind Seed (Emb), 2nd wk.
"That's Entertainment!' 210
In Sixth Denver Week
DENVER — "California Split" and
"That's Entertainment!" were the most successful
bo.xoffice attractions here during the
report period, these being the only Denver
first runs to gross in the twice-average
range. "California Split" scored 200 in a
second week at the Century; "That's Entertainment!"
rated 210 in its sixth at the
Cooper. All other films, with a single exception
of newcomer "My Name Is Nobody."
grossed in the 100-140 range, average
or slightly better-than-average.
Aurora, Woodlown The Mutations
(Col) Not Avoiloble
Is Center ^My Name Nobody (Univ) 80
Century 21 California Split (Col), 2nd wk 200
Cherr' Villi -Chinatown
Contincntol Frankenste
5th wk.
Cooper That's Entertaii
UA), 6th wk .
Esquire Blazing Saddles (WB), 25
Four theatres Big Bad Mama (SR)
Paramount Truck Turner (AlP)
Six theatres Return of
Three theatres—The To
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SAG Nominating Group
Names Board Candidates
LOS ANGELES—The Screen Actors
Guild 1974 nominating committee has submitted
20 nominations for positions on the
Hollywood section of the national board of
directors. The nominees are as follows:
For 14 three-year terms: Frank Aletter.
Whit Bissell, Charles Briggs, Bernie Casey.
Robert DoQui. Lynn Hamilton, Sumi Haru,
Arthur Hill, Jamie Smith Jackson. Frank
Maxwell, Inez Pedroza, Joseph Ruskin,
Michael Vandever and Jessica Walter.
For two two-year terms: Mariette Hartley
and William Reynolds.
For four one-year terms: Joseph Campanula,
Peggy McCay, Ed Nelson and Ron
Soble.
Other nominations for positions on the
Hollywood section of the national board of
directors may be made by independent petition.
Each nominating petition must be
signed by 35 SAG members in good standing
and not in arrears of dues and each must
be accompanied by a written statement signed
by the person nominated, stating that he
or she accepts the nomination and consents
to run for the board seat. Petition forms are
available at SAG headquarters. .'Ml petitions
must be filed with the recording secretary
not later than Friday (20).
In order to run for any elective office in
the guild, a member must be in good standing
and not in arrears of dues for two consecutive
years immediately preceding the
date of nomination.
Ballots will be mailed on or before October
15 and must be returned to
the guild's
certified public accountants not later than
5 p.m. November 6. In order to vote in the
election, members must have been paid up
to November 1 as of Sunday (15).
Fashion Valley Promotes
'Pete's Sake' Via Tie-Jns
SAN DIEGO. CALIF.—American Multi
Cinema's Fashion Valley 4 theatres, with
ad-coordinator Terry Boyle and manager
Ron Moreno working together, turned important
attention to Columbia Pictures' "For
Pete's Sake" with a fun promotion. It tied
in with "Shotgun" Tom Kelly of KCBQ
Radio, Yellow Cabs and Mission Valley
Restaurant.
Kelly publicized the picture for several
days in advance of showing, then picked
five winners from phone-ins. Each winner
had a Yellow Cab at his disposal for a day.
.Ml five then met with Shotgun and Ron
Moreno in the evening for dinner at Mission
Valley before going to the theatre to see
the Barbra Streisand-Michael Sarrazin starrer.
"For Pete's Sake."
Kelly did a zany spot promoting the event
and the picture, special posters were given
to over 500 of his fans. Yellow Cab furnished
a 1924-,model cab for ballyhoo and
display and furnished YC caps for the theatre
staff.
Rialto Dualer in Berkeley
Is Planning Expansion
BERKELEY. CALIF.—The Rialto Theatre.
841 Gilman St., twin co-owned and
operated by Allen Michaan and Lisa Hutz,
is slated for remodeling to create more
auditoriums. The expansion is prompted by
the great patron acceptance of the films
offered in the innovative showhouse, according
to Michaan.
Constructed in a former warehouse, the
Rialto features seats from the Paramount in
Oakland, lights and stained-glass exit signs
from the Uptown in San Francisco, a
painted curtain from the Broadway in Oakland,
etched-glass boxoffice windows from
the Sutter in San Francisco and etched-glass
lobby doors from the Edgewood in Oakland.
The twin to date, in keeping with the
decor, has offered films and shorts of yesteryear—and
true to the current "nostalgia
craze," audiences have responded with great
enthusiasm!
Michaan and Ms. Hutz currently are engaged
in tracking down more movie house
memorabilia to maintain a consistent decor
for the new facilities. Specifically, they are
seeking vintage lighting
fixtures, ornamental
plaster work, etched-glass objects, curtains,
painted velvet, old projectors for display and
other diverse art-deco items.
The existing theatres, according to
Michaan, "are fulfilling expectations after
two years of hard work." The need for
expansion perhaps is best underscored b\'
the fact that the controversial Tod Browning
1930s film, "Freaks," recently had a
successful nine-week run at
the Rialto.
Fall Schedule Announced
For Cloverdale Theatre
CLOVERDALE. CALIF.—Under new
ownership and management since July, the
Clover Theatre here has announced its new
fall schedule. The movie house has been
open six days a week, with two new shows
weekly, since Sunday (1). Adult entertainment
is offered at Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday performances. Movies for the entire
family are shown other nights.
"Budget Night" is Sunday, when adults
are admitted for $1 and children for 50
cents. An added Sunday-night attraction is
a cash drawing.
"Public support in the past two months."
said manager Mike Thompson, "has helped
make the Clover a coninuinily theatre for
Cloverdale."
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ANGELES—Six inmates Irom the
Federal Correctional Institution at Lampoc.
Calif., and their prison staff escorts were
guests of movie star Burt Reynolds
"The Longest Yard" Sunday night
at the Academy Award Theatre. Also
the preview was a group ol
prisoners who now are productive
of society.
Albert S. Ruddy production for Para-
"The Longest Yard" stars Reynolds
and Eddie Albert and is directed by Robert
j Aldrich. The screenplay was by Tracy
Keenan Wynn. with the story by Ruddy.
Music was scored by Frank DeVol. with
Joseph Biroc, ASC. as director of photography.
The entire production was filmed in
Georgia State Prison.
Jo Ann Stewart to Helm
Two in Lovington, N.M.
LOVINGTON. N.M.—Jo Ann Stewart
the new manager for the Lea and Wildcat
is
theatres here. She most recently has managed
the Commonwealth circuit's Broadmoor
in Hobbs, N.M.
Mrs. Stewart's appointment was announced
by Bert English. Dallas-based district
manager for Commonwealth.
She succeeds Chuck Cummins, who resigned
in view of plans to undergo surgery
in San Diego, Calif. Cummins hopes to
come back here after his convalescence.
'Macon County Line' Opens
118-Theatre SC Multiple
HOLL"i^OOD—American
International's
"Macon County Line" opened in 118
theatres in the Southern California territory
Wednesday (11). Outstanding business has
been done by this human interest action drama
in openings elsewhere and it is considered
one of the big hits of 1974.
Max Baer co-produced "Macon County
Line," in which he stars along with Alan
and Jesse Vint, Cheryl Waters, Geoffrey
Lewis, Joan Blackman and Sam Oilman.
LOS ANGELES
jg|olunion King" is to open at the Plaza I
Theatre, San Leandro, and Airport
Drive-In in Oakland Wednesday 8). Thj
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action-suspen.se drama was filmed entirely
in the Bay area by Sal/Wa Productions
and Chick Colwcll is directing the national
distribution through that firm. "Solomon
King" premiered at the Paramoiini Theatre
in Oakland vSaturday (14).
Fred Briskin, president of Cinema National,
returned Tuesday (?i) from producer
and distributor meetings in London. Paris
and Rome.
Free cocktails and dinner will lure people
to the general membership meeting of the
Hollywood Press Club Friday (20) at the
Tail O' the Cock Restaurant. Plans are to
discuss reactivating the club and a host of
activities arc scheduled. RSVP via president
Dale Olson, phone 275-4581.
Donald Reynolds, president of Lighthouse
Productions, and Harris Dudehon. newly
assigned vice-president and general sales
manager for the production-distribution
firm, are on a two-week tour of the ten
key four-wall market areas to update plans
for release of four Lighthouse projects.
Hollywood/Los Angeles WOMPIs were
entertained at their first program meeting
of the new year at Smith Bros.' Fish
Shanty, with Glenn Falkenstein. the supreme
mentalist, reigning. Phyllis Thompson,
community service chairman, reported
on the canned-goods drive to assist the
Green Oaks Ranch for underprivileged children,
while Ellie Vassar announced that
20th Century-Fox had designat:d Thursday
(5) as "WOMPI Day" at the cafe. On that
day, everyone bringing canned goods received
free food. The transportation department
of 20th-Fox already had provided 50
cans and miniature props, global prints and
other departments are bringing in more .
Over the Labor Day holiday, president
Evelyn Gordon entertained Mrs. Toni
Dykbterhuis, past president of San Francisco
WOMPI president Lavinia
.
White entertained WOMPI friends at her
cabin in Big Bear, while another past president.
Ellic Vassar. took her guests to Lion
Country Safari and then to her home in
Palm Springs for the weekend . . . Donations
of blood are continuing for past
WOMPI International president Barbara
Dye. for which she thanks everyone.
Tony Cirscone, vice-president of Gilboy
Co., celebrated his 30th birthday recently
shipper Jim Mullaly took a
vacation trip to Spokane to attend Expo
'74, while another Gilboy shipper, Gil
Cuaron, is the proud father of a sevenpound
baby boy, as yet unnamed.
Fred Kunkel, salesman at 20th Century-
Fox, has joined Bryanston Pictures as a
salesman.
Samuel Z. Arkoff, president and chairman
of the board of American International Pictures,
returned Tuesday (10) from a business
trip to northwestern U.S. and western Canada.
Bishop-Martin Nuptials
SAN DIEGO. CALIF.—Pamela Bishop,
secretary to American Multi Cinema advertising
coordinator Terry Boyle, became Mrs.
Kevin Martin August 24. The couple is
living here and Pam is continuing on the
job. They honeymooned at Lake Tahoe,
Calif.
Cashiers Plug Coming Films
COLMA. CALIF.—Cashiers at the Serramonte
6 theatres are doing their part to
advertise coming attractions. David Pearson,
manager at the American Multi Cinema sixplex
has new costumes for the girls— T-
shirts and jeans. The title of each picture
is printed on the front of the T-shirts and
the girls say the new costumes are more
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Robert L. Lippert sr., who for the first
time in years was "on vacation" in Reno.
Nev., entered the cardiac intensive-care unit
of the Washoe Medical Center after a coronary
attack Sunday evening (8). Hopes are
high that he'll be transferred to this city
within a week.
Richard Mann of Theatre Management
reports a marvelous European holiday with
Columbia Pictures sneaked their British
sex comedy. "Confessions of a Window
Cleaner," to an enthusiastic crowd at the
Warfield Thursday (5).
Further exodus to Market Street: Effective
Monday (23), 20th Century-Fox will
inhabit Suite 800 at 605 Market, zip 94105.
Phone number will be (415) 495-0211.
Paramount's rerelease, "The Godfather."
opened Wednesday (11) at the Warfield, El
Rev. Serra and Spruce Drive-In. New pictures
bowing the same date included "The
Black Windmill" at the St. Francis, Empire.
Alhambra. Castro, Plaza 1 and Spruce
Drive-In; "Open Season" at the Royal. Em-
include "Beat the Devil." "In Cold Blood,"
"The Innocents," "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
and the autobiographical "Trilogy."
Everett Smith Managing
Stockdale 6 for AMC
BAKERSFIELD, CALIF. — The new
Stockdale 6 theatres opened here .August
his wife Katheryn and their three children. 21. with Everett Smith as manager. Smith
The family toured Great Britain, the Netherlands,
Germany, Austria, Belgium, Kansas City, where he was an assistant.
previously was at the Brywood 6 theatres,
France, Switzerland and Italy and then voyaged
home to the U.S. aboard the France. American Multi Cinema units operating
The Stockdale 6 theatres are the first
in
this mid-California area.
Benefit Aids 2 Youths
SACRAMENTO, CALIF.—M a n a g e r
Neil Johnson held a benefit evening at
American Multi Cinema's Madison Square
4 theatres August 21, with funds going to
aid two young boys in need of medical help.
Warner Bros, has review heralds for promoting
"Uptown Saturday Night."
2nd Telluride Film
DOWNEY, CALIF.—Construction work
at the Alondra 6 theatres, located on pire. El Rancho Drive-In, Serramonte 6 and
Alondra Boulevard east of the 605 Freeway, Coliseum, and "The Chinese Godfather" at
is almost completed, it was announced by the Golden Gate, Grand and Geneva
Kansas
Drive-
City-based American Multi Cinema. In.
It is anticipated that the sixple.v will open
late this month.
Jack Tillmany's premiere revival of "The
John Powell, who will manage the multitheatre,
said that plans are under way for strip Technicolor has brought record-smash-
Paris," "Thief of Bagdad," "Peau D'Ane,"
Adventures of Robin Hood" in 35mm three-
were "Sadie Thompson," "The Chinese in
a gala grand opening of the de luxe cinema ing crowds to his Gateway Cinema. The "The Conversation," "Solaris," "Rivers of
entertainment center.
1938 Warner Bros, production starring Errol
Flynn, Olivia dc Havilland, Claude Rains "Sweet Movie," "The Meeting Place,"
Sand," "Don't Touch the White Women,"
and Basil Rathbone, directed by Michael "White Hell of Pitz Palu," "You're a Big
SAN
Curtiz and William
FRANCISCO
Keighley, with legendary Boy Now," "Why Change Your Wife,"
musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. "Olympia I," "Olympia II," "The Rain
is in its third great week.
pred People,"
L.
"Stage
Ditter.
Struck," who six years ago was
"Triumph of the
salesman
for Columbia
Will." "Queen Kelly," "Finian's Rainbow"
Pictures in this city,
has rejoined local Filmrow
SF Film and
as Paramount's
Festival
"Sunset Boulevard."
Awards
Tickets were $25.
Backers of the festival
new held in this
branch
small
manager. In the interim, Ditter To Be Announced Oct. 16 western Colorado
has managed
mountain town reportedly
Columbia's Salt Lake City, SAN FRANCISCO—Awards for the film were pleased with the reception the
Milwaukee event
and Cincinnati branches; represented
competition of the 18th annual San Francisco
International Film Festival will be an-
of protesters (less than a dozen)
received, despite the fact that a smattering
Cinema 5 as Eastern district manager
for
picketed
the New England states, and. most recently,
headed national sales for Atlas Films event October 16 at the Palace of Fine
nounced shortly before the opening of the the sold-out theatre. According to press reports,
the pickets were not particularly pro-
in Los
Arts
Angeles.
Theatre. The festival continues through testing the films being shown; rather, they
October 27.
Congratulations
Tickets for all
to Saul
programs
Dirmantas, head
go on said they objected to the honor accorded
sale Monday (30).
72-year-old film
booker
director
at Columbia,
Leni Riefenstahl,
and his new bride
Nancy
Author
Gordon
Truman Capote will
of Seattle, who be
were wed
honored claiming "she had strong ties with the Nazi
at the festival
August
with
25
the first
in a garden setting
tribute
party."
at Gig to a
Harbor.
writer in
Wash. the
The history
delighted
of the
duo just returned
cinematic
from
happening.
Mrs. Dorothy Davidson, Rocky Mountain
a honeymoon
The October 20
sailing in the San
program will
director
Juan feature
a retrospective
for the American Civil Liberties
Islands
area.
series of film Union, clips,
was after
among those carrying a sign
which Capote will discuss the films objecting
in which
to the welcome given the direc-
he has been involved. His screen credits
Festival Is Planned
TELLURIDE, COLO.—With the conclusion
of the successful first Telluride Film
Festival Monday (2), backers of the cinema
event said plans were being made for an
encore in 1975. The festival was held at the
Sheridan Opera House with Gloria Swanson
a guest of honor. Among the films shown
tor. She said she was not representing the
ACLU but was demonstrating as "an individual
offended by the honor to Riefenstahl."
Mrs. Davidson's sign read: "The
greater the artist, the greater the responsibility.
When she serves evil, the greater the
crime."
James Card, director of the department of
film at the George Eastman House, Rochester,
N.Y., for the past 35 years and a worldrenowned
archivist, discussed Ms. Riefenstahl
with Rena Andrews, Denver Post
movie editor, in part—as follows:
"As a former filmmaker of documentaries
(for Eastman Kodak), Card believes even
bad films are somewhat of a miracle. His
admiration for good or great films and filmmakers,
however, is unsurpassed. One of
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the German filmmaker who has been the
subject of controversy. He met Leni after
her first visit to the U.S. some years ago
when she gave Eastman House a complete
copy of her film 'Olympia.'
"He talks compassionately and factually
of Miss Riefenstahl's 'incredible frustrations
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pete Degn resigned as manager of the Paramount
Theatre in Idaho Falls, Ida. He
is succeeded by Fred NichoUs, who was
transferred from the Fox Theatre in Laramie.
Wyo.
R. V. Coalson, president of American
National Enterprises, and A. H. "Buck"
Watts, vice-president of distribution, spent
the week of Monday (9) working in each of
ANE's regional offices in preparation for
the upcoming winter four-wall season.
Long 'American Graffiti'
Stay a Rarity in Denver
DENVER^lt is seldom that a film runs
long enough at any Denver theatre to have
a birthday party at the start of its second
year. "American Graffiti," Universal Pictures
release, did just that, running more
than a year at the Colorado 4 Cinema. Carmen
Bonacci noted the event with considerable
pride, throwing a birthday party in
celebration of the event.
The Colorado 4 cinema was built by
Robert Lippert as his second fourplex in
Denver and the success of the theatre has
been beyond his wildest dreams. Bonacci
says the film has been seen at the Colorado
4 by more than a quarter-million persons.
In a story in the Denver Post written by
movie editor Rena Andrews, some of the
experiences of the past year were related.
Portions of the article follow:
"Whether you were there or not in 1962,
chances are you were there, at least once,
in the past 53 weeks. Yes, folks, time
does fly. 'American Graffiti,' that marvelous
celebration of nostalgia, is a year old. It
seems hard to believe but the film has
entered its second year of continuous running
at the Colorado 4 Cinema. It is the
film's longest continuous run in the U.S.,
Carmen Bonacci notes with justifiable pride.
And, as far as he knows, the movie's
longevity has been surpassed in Denver only
by 'The Sound of Music'
"Doubtless a lot of the theatregoers were
repeaters. Just to mention two random cases,
one man has seen the film five times and is
looking forward to the sixth. An 11-year-oldspent
his summer's allowance to see 'Graffiti,'
which is set in a year before he was
born, more times than he can remember.
"Bonacci first saw the film at a 1973
special screening for theatre owners and
exhibitors. 'I don't think anyone but me
liked the picture,' he recalled. 'I saw it and
had a gut feeling kids would love it.' But
even Bonacci didn't project at the time the
film's stupendous success, for 'Graffiti'
seems to encompass a very wide range of
ages in the moviegoing public. 'Graffiti'
opened at Colorado 4 and, at the same time,
at the General Cinema thaetres. After six
weeks, the General Cinema theatres dropped
it. 'Thank God, I just hung onto it,' Bonacci
said. It didn't take him long to see the film's
effect, for he knew in the summer that
'I was going to be playing the picture for
Christmas and for Easter as well.'
"Bonacci has his own theories to explain
the phenomenal appeal of this honest, entertaining
picture that focuses on 12 hours
in the life of teenagers. 'It is simple entertainment,
something the mood of the '70s
seems to demand,' he said. 'It is not a
fabrication like
a musical where actors burst
into song and dance in the middle of the
street. It is clean, entertaining, real and
simple.'
"He believes that the years right around
World War II up until 1963—specifically
President John F. Kennedy's assassination
formed an era. 'There was a joy in being
alive,' said Bonacci, who is in his mid-40s.
'I think that after the assassination, we
lost our innocence—we became cynical,'
he said. 'The country was proud before that.
Afterwards we had riots, the Vietnam war,
political problems, drugs. The whole mood
changed. He believes
the very young go to
see it to find the innocence there is in the
picture.' And, those over 30 go to see
'Graffiti' to recapture what they once had.
In spite of the fact 'Graffiti' is doing as
much business now as when it opened at
Colorado 4, Bonacci plans to transplant
the film to the Brentwood 4 cinemas in
about three weeks (both are Robert Lippert
theatres).
"This makes him feel sad, in a way.
'Graffiti' has one extra personal meaning
for him. 'It establishes my theatres,' he said.
The cinemas are as old as the film. Before
'Graffiti' moves to yet another theatre
for another group of moviegoers to see,
Bonacci gave the film a birthday party.
Moviegoers at the theatre between 7 and
8 p.m. on the birthday were given a 'Graffiti"
button and a slice of an elaborate fourtiered
birthday cake.
"They bought their own tickets, of course.
But it's all well worth the price. There
aren't that many films around that will
make you laugh, make you cry and make
you feel young again in your memories
no matter how old you were in 1962."
2nd Telluride Film
Festival Is Planned
(Continued from page W-6)
in Germany—things like sending a film to
the lab and having it mysteriously disappear
or be ruined.' Card said Miss Riefenstahl
'never tried to weasel out of the fact that
Hitler admired her.' He points out that at
the
time Miss Riefenstahl probably returned
the admiration of Hitler. Winston Churchill
also was sending admiring and friendly
letters to Hitler.
"While the Nazis used Miss Riefenstahl's
'Triumph of the Will' for propaganda purposes,
the Third Reich banned another of
her films, 'The Steel Beast.' Card doesn't
know why this film was banned but then he
also wonders why 'Triumph of the Will'
was used for propaganda because he considers
it 'the most defective propaganda film
of all time.'
"In 'Olympia,' he points out, Riefenstahl
tends to keep her camera on the American
Jesse Owens—even though 'the Germans
really won the Olympics.' He said
put Riefenstahl 'in
the Allies
the clink for about three
years' before she was 'cleared of any suspicion
of wrongdoing.'
"He also adds that Riefenstahl has won a
number of lawsuits against people who have
tried to pin any Nazi labels on her. And. he
provides information on Riefenstahl we
don't recall having seen before: 'She also
was exonerated by a high Jewish court in
Berlin,' he says. 'You know, she is part
Jewish.'
"Rather than a defense of Riefenstahl,
Card feels this information 'should put it
all in perspective.' "
'Cowboy' Shown for Soviet
Pavilion Staff, Spokane
SPOKANE, WASH.—American National
Enterprises and rodeo superstar Larry
Mahan hosted the staff of the Soviet Pavilion
at the Spokane World's Fair Wednesday
(4) for a screening of the Academy
Award-winning film. "The Great American
Cowboy." The screening was in response to
an overwhelming interest in the rodeo,
which is unkown in the Soviet Union.
Soviet officials have invited Mahan to
produce a rodeo in Russia and American
National Enterprises currently is negotiating
a sale of the film to the Soviet Union.
"The Great American Cowboy" now is in
national release and it has been accepted by
the Stratford International Film Festival of
Canada as an official entry. Previously, the
film has been honored with the Cowboy
Hall of Fame Wrangler Award and the
Silver Phoenix at the Atlanta Film Festival.
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In Kansas Cily Bow
KANSAS CITY—Higgins, canine star of
"Bcnji," came here in advance of the film's
opening at the Ranch Mart and astounded
the industry by dining on sirlion steak at
table with Mulberry Square's guests. After
iho first week "Benji" was on the screen at
the Ranch Mart, the management could
d ne on steak and have pie with ice cream:
the picture, Mulberry Square's initial prodiietion,
grossed five times average business
at that situation and gave evidence that it
might be around a lot longer than people
who have little faith in G pictures might
have thought possible. The best that any
other film, regardless of rating, could do
was to come within 200 points of "Benji":
both "Frankenstein," fifth week. Embassy
1. and "Uptown Saturday Night," fourth
frame, in a two-theatre booking, reached
the three-times-average level. Three other
films, as shown on the Barometer below,
cheeked in with 250 weeks.
2— Johnny Tough! :SR), 2nd wk
d 1— The Rolling Stones (SR) .
"For Pete's Sake iCol), 8th wk. .
:t 4— Last Days of Man on Earth (SR)
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5—Californi. Split (Col), 2nd wk.
. . .250
;— Harrod S mmer (AlP), 2nd wk. ... 1 50
5— The Tarn rind Seed (Emb),
250
Uptown Saturday Night (WB)
'
....300
Strong Chicago Trade Led
By 'That's Entertainment!'
CHICAGO—Grosses reading 250 or
thereabouts were representative of the good
business enjoyed by exhibitors during the
report week. This was true of returns for
the first week of "Together Brothers," which
broke in at the Chicago Theatre: "Sting of
the Dragon Masters" and "Attack of the
Rung Fu Girls." double-billed at the
Miehael Todd: "The Education of Sonny
Caruin," which was joined by a revival of
'I ady Sings the Blues," showing at the
Roosevelt, and "Le Petit Theatre de Jean
Renoir." which rated four stars from local
movie critics in its opening at the near north
Cinema. "Return of the Dragon," si.xth
week. Oriental, also hit the 250 target. Out-
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grossing all
the above-mentioned films, however,
were "That's EntertainmcntP'. 325 in
tenth week at the McClurg Court Theatre,
and "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia,"
275, first week. Woods Theatre.
Carnegie— The Mod Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jocob
(20th Fox), 3rd wk 200
Chicago Together Brothers ;20th-Fox) 250
Cinema— Lc Petit Thcotrc de Jean Renoir (SR) .250
Esquire The White Down 2nd wk 200
Poro),
McClurg Court Thot's Entcrtoinment! (UA)
'0th wk '/ 325
Mrchael Todd- Dragon Sting of the Masters (SR);
Attack of the Kunq Fu Girls ;SR) 250
Oriental—Return of the Dragon 6th wk 250
(SR),
Roosevelt—The Education of Sonny Carson
(Para), 2nd wk 250
State Lake Death 225
Wish (Para), 4th wk
Wood^^Bring Me the Heod of Alfredo Garcia
(UA) 275
CHICAGO
^^hen "Earthquake" opens in mid-November
at the United Artists Theatre in
Loop, it will be presented in the new
the
multi-dimension of Sensurround. This system
enables one to feel as well as hear and
see effects such as might be experienced in
an earthquake. Starring in Universal Pictures'
"Earthquake" are George Kennedy,
Ava Gardner, Lome Greene, Charlton Heston,
Genevieve Bujold and Richard Roundtree
. . . Al Ruddy, who just completed the
Burt Reynolds starrer, "The Longest Yard,"
will be in town to talk about the film in
advance of its October 4 opening at the
Mercury Theatre.
American International is launching "Macon
County Line" on the heels of an allinclusive
campaign. The story deals with a
situation involving what can happen to
young people when they tangle with a sheriff
who has dislike for strangers and socalled
"smart alecks" from the North. "Macon
County Line" opens Friday (20) on a
wide multiple throughout this city and surrounding
towns . also has completed
a campaign for the return of two of its best:
"Foxy Brown" and "Truck Turner." Both
have done record business in prior showings.
And now that Cinerama Releasing
Corp. has ceased operation, AIP will be
handling CRC product.
Jack Eckliardt, division manager, Cinemation
Industries, is on a whirlwind schedule
with openings of "The Night God
Screamed," "Savage Abduction." "The Horrible
House on the Hill," "Attack of the
Kung Fu Girls" and "Black Godfather."
Jack Clark, president of NATO of Illinois,
said area exhibitors renewed their expired
contract with the Operators Union for
another three-year period. The renewal is
based on increases in hourly wages, with
due consideration to the increase in cost of
living.
a
1,000-Seat State Now
Remodeled, Renovated
LOGANSPORT, IND.—The State Theatre
in Logansport opened following remodeling
by new owner Bill Ritchie. Patrons
are now enjoying regular programs at the
beautiful, updated, 1,000-seat house.
The interior and exterior have been remodeled
completely. The decor in plastic
(vinyl) flocked wall covering is in two complementary
color combinations, accented by
walnut paneling. New lighting fixtures offer
pleasing illumination. The refreshment center
has been modernized to give customers
quality merchandise in attractive surroundings.
The auditorium has been further enhanced
by custom draperies—and carpeting
has been installed throughout the theatre.
All seating has been renovated and booth
equipment updated. A free-standing structure,
the State is surrounded by free parking
facilities.
Edith Head Visits Windy City
CHICAGO— E d i t h Head, Academy
Award winner and frequently called filmland's
No. I fashion designer, was here
with a display of sketches of her creations
for "Airport 1975." The new film from
Universal Pictures will have its first run
here at the State Lake Theatre in the Loop.
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and publicity manager for 20th
Century-Fox, hosted a screening of "Harrj'
& Tonto." The film, produced and directed
by Paul Mazursky, is based on the novel
by Josh Greenfeld and Paul Mazursky. It
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meeting here Wednesday (ID
were: James R. Velde, Al Fitter, Al Glaubinger.
Burton Topal, Carl Olson and Richard
Moses, New York; Fred Mound, Dallas:
Byron Shapiro, Los Angeles: Robert Friedman,
Philadelphia; Gene Goodman, New
Orleans; John Dobson, Denver: George
Heiber, Toronto, Canada, and, from the
local office. Bud Truog.
Fran Frame, American Multi Cinema,
president of the WOMPIs, announced the
club's regular meeting and board meeting
would follow dinner at Washington Street
Station Tuesday (17). Dinner is $4.50 and
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the evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Shiyen were vacationing
in the Ozarks last week. They planned
to visit Larry and Doris Barney of Dickinson's
Owen Theatre. Branson, before going
on to Bull Shoals and Eureka Springs, Ark.
The Barneys recently visited friends and
relatives in Kansas City en route home
from a vacation spent in Colorado. Jesse
is managing editor of Boxoffice.
Jerry Jones, well-known Filmrowite, and
Susan McCarthy, former employee of
Boxoffice and Commonwealth Theatres,
were married in a small family ceremony
Saturday (7) and departed for a honeymoon
in Colorado. Jerry formerly was a booker
at
Universal Pictures.
Clyde Knudson was in town Wednesday
evening (11) for a screening of his film
"Black Hooker," to be handled by United
National.
Columbia screened "Gold" at Commonwealth
Wednesday (4). "The Great Lester
Boggs" (Centronics) was shown at Commonwealth
Thursday (5).
Louie Sutter, retired exhibitor after 50
years in the business, was missed at the
annual MPAA golf tournament and stag
dinner as he had left for a vacation in Canada.
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vated Sheridan Opera House. Among the
celebrities attending the festival were Gloria
Swanson, Julie Christie and Francis Coppola.
One of the bigger summer hits was Warner
Bros. "Uptown Saturday Night." After
ten weeks at the Chicago Theatre in the
Loop, it now is set for first outlying runs
Bros, booker Florence Cohen
also has set up a four-wall deal for "Summer
of '42," starting Friday (20) in theatres
in the downstate area and in our town.
Gregory Peck personally will promote
his new film, "The Dove," opening Friday
(27) at the Will Rogers, Nortown, Valencia
and LaGrange.
This city will be the site for the American
premiere of the film version of a classic
story by Henrick Sienkiewicz, called one
of Poland's foremost authors. The film,
translated as "In the Desert and the Jungle,"
is an adventure tale of a young man and
girl and it is rated for family viewing.
Sienkiewicz also wrote "Quo Vadis."
Clarence Keini has joined the staff of
Wm. H. Lange & Associates. The Lange
organization is doing soine fast moving with
local and Milwaukee openings of "The
Teacher," "The Stepmother," "The Young
Graduates," and "Policewomen," all Crown
International films.
The Lange organization
also has set up openings in the area of a
new Group I movie, "The Models."
Film Center Sponsors 74
Women's Film Festival
CHICAGO—One of the outstanding
events in film activity this month has been
"Films by Women/Chicago '74," which
ends Tuesday (17), under the sponsorship
of the Film Center of the Art Institute.
During the two-week program period, the
works of more than 50 female directors
from 14 countries, featuring films from
1913-1974, were to be presented.
Camille Cook and Ruby Rich, directors
of the Film Center, striving to show that
movies are top entertainment, were successful
in obtaining a number of very good but
rarely seen films for the festival.
One of the highlights was to have been
a personal appearance by Leni Riefenstahl,
German film director. This segment of the
program turned out to have an interesting
twist. Based on charges that Ms. Riefenstahl
had been a Nazi collaborator, a number
of persons threatened to disrupt her
appearance. Thus, while it was noted that
she was cleared in Berlin courts of charges
of criminal Nazi activity, with the court
finding her involvement "more artistic than
political," she shunned the possible facing of
protesters. Her works in the program lineup
included such films as "The Blue Light"
(1932); "TriuiTiph of the Will" (1934), and
"Olympia," (1936-38) described as "the infamoLis
Hitler propaganda film."
Among the 25 feature-length films and
30 short subjects, films of Dorothy Arzner,
one of the few women ever to work regularly
in Hollywood, were shown. One of Ms.
Arzner's films was "Wild Party" (1929),
starring Clara Bow.
Special mention festival highlights have
included the Chicago premiere of new features
made by Cinda Firestone, "Attica."
a documentary of the 1971 rebellion at
New York's Attica prison, and Susan Sontag's
"Promised Lands." a documentary of
the conflict over Israel.
In addition, workshops led by women for
the teaching of practical filmmaking, videotape,
animation and political filmmaking
have been held.
Mrs. Cook and Ms. Rich say the goals
of the festival were not only to celebrate
work done in the past but to encourage
those who are just beginning their career in
film.
S. J. Gregory Dead at 83;
One-Time Circuit Owner
CHICAGO—S. J. Gregory, leader in the
Chicago area Greek community and. until
— h i s retirement i n
1959, head of Alliance
Amusement Co..
is dead at the age of
S3.
Through
Alliance
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Gregory operated several
movies theatres in
Illinois. Indiana and
Washington. His company
also owned six
McDonald's restaurants
and CATV systems in several cities.
Upon retirement. Gregory sold .Alliance
Amusement Co. to General Instruments
Corp. of New York.
He leaves his wife Rita: three daughters.
Mrs. Constance Bacaintan. Mrs. Eugenia
Stassinopoulos and Mrs. Alita Bryant; a
brother; a sister, and seven grandchildren.
WAC Opens VIP Room
From Mideastern Edition
WAYNE, MICH.—The Wayne Amusement
Co., in response to requests for a
screening room where private movie parties
could be held, has opened the VIP Room
in the Dearborn Theatre, located on Michigan
at Telegraph Road in Dearborn. Completely
soundproofed and temperature-controlled,
this private viewing room has a bar
and ice-making facilities. The VIP Room
will accommodate eight to 12 guests.
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GCC Twinning Pair
Of Miami Theatres
MIAMI— Both the Riviera and Westchester
cinemas here have been closed for
conversion into twin theatres and will reopen
October 1 1
An official of General Cinema Corp..
the Boston-based firm that owns the theatres,
said that the Riviera on South Dixie
Highway will have its capacity cut from
1,300 seats to 1,200 or 600 in front of each
of the new .screens. The Westchester on
Galloway Road and Coral Way, will be reduced
from 1.100 seats to 1.000—500 in
each theatre.
The circuit spokesman said that General
Cinema Corp. executives are considering
making similar conversions in their other
large, single-screen indoor theatres around
the country, including two presently operating
in Dade County—the 170th Street
Theatre and the Cutler Ridge Theatre. GCC
owns five more theatres in Broward County
and 18 months ago turned its movie theatre
in Pompano into a twin operation.
"Large theatres are not as practical today
as 15 years ago, when they were built," the
GCC official said. "Then there were fewer
theatres in a town and you didn't have to
slice the pie so thinly."
Creating a twin theatre is making better
use of the existing seats, he said, and as
the GCC spokesman noted, "If you have a
blockbuster picture, you can show it in both
theatres. But if you have another picture,
you can generate enough interest to get 350
in the theatre to see it, too."
General Cinema will run a partition down
the middle of the auditorium in both the
Riviera and Westchester cinemas to create
the two-screen facilities at each location. No
estimate of the cost involved was available.
Variety WC Fund-Raising
Luncheon November 26
MIAMI—"Fun Time USA" will be the
theme for the women's committee. Variety
Children's Hospital, fund-raising luncheon
November 26 at Fontainebleau Hotel. Bernice
(Mrs. Edward) Melniker is writing and
directing the musical review, with fashions
by Wilma's and furs by Adrian Thai. Chairman
for the luncheon, which annually attracts
over 100 luncheongoers, are Bernice
Melnicker. Mrs. Harry Simone (who, with
her husband, underwrites the annual lunchcon);
Mrs. Robert Pentland, whose husband
is one of the biggest contributors to the hospital
and head of the hospital's board; Mrs.
Joseph Weintraub and Mrs. Ivah Miller.
Terryce Kaplan and Mrs. William Kruglack
are in charge of tickets.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Miller is giving a tea
October 23 for hospital life trustees at her
home on Miami Beach. Life trustees receive
a gold heart inset with a diamond provided
by Mrs. Edward W. Broidy.
The women's committee of Variety was
saluted for its fund-raising achievements
during a recent dinner given for film producer
Mike Frankovich, president of Variety
Clubs International at Miami's Mia-
marina. Variety's local Tent 33 crowned
I'rankovich "King of the Evening" anti
Ralph Renick. WTVJ newscaster, cited
Frankovich's accomplishments as a producer
and Variety fund-raiser.
Accompanying Frankovich on his recent
trip to Miami were Ed Shaflon, VCI general
counsel, and Ed Emanual. VCI vice-president.
ABC to Build Indoor
Twins on Airer Site
RALEIGH. N.C.—A group ot investors
headed by lawyer Arthur Sandman has purchased
the Tower Drive-In here and plans
to build a shopping center on the site.
The theatre, one of three drive-ins in
Raleigh, showed its last pictures August
27, then was closed.
Its owner, ABC Southeastern Theatres,
was "still making money on the Tower but
there is a better way to turn a dollar" in the
theatre business, district manager Irving
Stone said.
The circuit plans to build a twin theatre
as part of the proposed shopping center.
Sandman said his group hopes to have
definite plans by the end of the year. Construction
will start in 1975, he said.
ABC Southeastern Theatres has retained
a one-acre plot on which to put twin theatres
when the shopping center is built, said
Sandman.
Plan Christmas Debut
From Eastern Edition
ROANOKE, VA.—A second auditorium
is scheduled for construction next to the
existing Towers Theatre in the Towers Mall,
with a Christmas opening anticipated. Like
the present facility, the new cinema will contain
aproximately 600 seats and will be
known as Towers II. The two houses will be
operated by .^BC Southeastern Theatres.
NEW ORLEANS VISITOR—Elliott
Gould, left, one of the stars of
"California Split," is welcomed to New
Orleans by Mike Behlar. advertising
director for the Lakeside Theatre, when
Gould arrived on his promotion tour.
A press luncheon for the visitor was
held at the Versailles Restaurant and
the picture was shown in New Orleans
at the Lakeside, Westside and Kenilworth
theatres.
Miami Shores Prefers
PG,B Films to G,X
MIAMI— The Miami Shores Theatre, a
center of controversy not long ago when
"Last Tango in Paris." an X-rated, adultsonly
movie, was shown in this residential
community, has not booked an X film since,
according to Ed Lang, Miami Journal staff
writer.
Now, Lang continued, ABC Florida State
Theatres, the Jacksonville-based owner of
the .Shores, has discovered that Miami
Shores residents will not turn out in large
number to see either X or G pictures. Prior
to the first of this month, Walt Disney's
new "Castaway Cowboy" and old "Absent-
Minded Professor" had been double billed
on the Shores' screen. While this duo drew
better than "Tango," circuit officials said
the pair didn't draw as well as other Disney
product.
When the Disney films ended because of
the disappointing attendance, the circuit
brought on "Carnal Knowledge," an R film
famous as the center of a recent U.S. Supreme
Court decision. It has been doing
better than the Disneys. In fact, according
to reporter Lang, residents in the Miami
Shores area have been very receptive to
recent PG and R movies shown in the village.
"Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," rated
PG', did well, according to an ABC EST
spokesman; "Mr. Majestik," rated R, drew
excellent attendance. Also doing very well
at the Shores bo.xoffice recently were "Jeremiah
Johnson" (PG) and "Billy Jack" (R).
The circuit spokesman noted that, as a
rule here, most residents apparently would
prefer to see either PG or R-rated movies,
sort of a middle ground situation between
the extremes of G and X.
Mike Khoury, president of the Miami
Shores Chamber of Commerce, told Lang
he is happy to see that no more X-rated
movies have invaded the village.
"I see a lot of young people are lining
up to see better movies," he said. "I believe
our theatre has to cater to audiences of all
ages."
Khoury pointed out that many people
want to go to the Shores Theatre because
the is next nearest one in North Miami,
to the north; the nearest theatres on the
south show adult films.
"The theatre is very important for our
village," Khoury added. "Many parents will
drop their children off at the theatre and
then go shopping at stores around the theatre.
So, it's important to us what kind of
movies are shown there."
Approves Rebuilding Plan
From New Englond Edition
HARTFORD—The Commission on the
City Plan, in a move reflecting city planning
staff disagreement over the proposed $3.32-
million bond ordinance to rebuild a threeblock
area in
the upper Albany Avenue area
(to include a cinema), has voted (3-2) to
approve the proposal, with one abstention.
The authorization is subject to voter approval
in November.
BOXOFFICE :: September 16, 1974

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ATLANTA
yariety Tent 21's annual golf tournament,
held Thursday. August 29, at the historic
East Lake Golf Club, onetime home
course of Robert Tyre Jones, was a resounding
success as 182 registered for the Variety
day program, including 127 golfers who
teed off in a start. shotgun Boxoffice's
representative was out of the city at the time
and subsequent efforts to find out who won
the tournament have been fruitless. As near
as we could learn, "it was a guy from Florida"
whose name no one could recall. Another
clue that led nowhere was the information
that "it was the same guy who won
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Regardless of who won and who lost, it was
a lively occasion. Among those on hand
were Henry "Hi" Martin, Universal Pictures
president; Amos Boyette,
Universal's Southern
division manager, who, prior to his
transfer to the West Coast, was Southern
division manager here for MGM; Leon
Blender, American International Pictures
executive senior vice-president in charge of
sales; Richard B. Graff. AIP vice-president
and general sales manager; Randy Slaughter,
AIP administrative assistant; Bob Steurer,
AIP Southern division manager; James
Whiteside, Cinerama Relcasing's Southern
division manager, and Robert Miller, CR
Eastern division manager.
Every year, when the Variety golf tournament
is played. AIP brings its branch managers
and sales personnel to Atlanta to participate
in that event, then to attend a sales
meeting the following day. Leon Blender
presided at the seminar that follow the August
29 Variety golf tourney, the AIP meeting
being held at Stouffer's Atlanta Inn.
Blender was assisted by Graff, Slaughter,
Steuer and Glenn Simonds, Atlanta branch
manager, as well as by Simonds' assistant
Jim Dixon and Sam Hart, Atlanta-based
Southern division director of advertising and
promotion. Branch managers on hand included
Jerry Sandy, Washington, D.C.;
NORTH EAST EXPRESSWAY
Walter Pinson, Charleston, and Richard
Lewis, Jacksonville. Also participating were
booker Jeff Loper, Charlotte; salesman Dick
Regan, Jacksonville; Charles King, advertising
and promotion, Jacksonville; James
Whiteside, Cinerama Releasing Corp.. Atlanta,
and Bob Miller, CRC, New York. As
of Tuesday (3), AIP took over the distribution
of Cinerama Releasing Corp. films.
Willard Kohom of National Screen Service
and his wife had to pay $13 daily
rental
for a Volkswagen plus $1.35 a gallon
for gasoline to make it go during their visit
to Germany, where they visited Mrs. Kohorn's
parents. Everything else was correspondingly
inflationary since their visit to
the same areas in 1973. Tourism has slacked
off perceptibly in Europe, Kohom reported;
de luxe and better hotels are the hardest
hit, as hundreds of their rooms stand empty.
Some of these places now are taking groups
of tourists, something they never had done.
As for the Kohorns, they did spend three
days and nights in a castle on the Rhine,
with a "fantastic view." quite a "delightful
experience." They also enjoyed a boat trip
down the Rhine through the wine country.
With air fares up (and due to go higher in
November), they chose to rent bicycles while
in Switzerland and pedalled their way
around for three days, another change of
pace experience that they thoroughly enjoyed.
Kohorn said that on every hand they
encountered groups of Japanese travelers,
nearly all equipped with cameras and seemingly
with plenty of spending money. After
observing Europe at close hand for a month,
Kohorn declared. "We're not doing too bad
in this country and we were glad to get back
home."
Trade and press screenings at the 20th
Century-Fox projection room: "The Selected."
distributed by Alliance Theatrical Co.;
"Werewolves of Washington." Jaco Productions;
"The Gambler." Paramount; "Gold,"
Allied Artists; "Alvin Purple," Harnell Independent
Productions; "The Super Blacks,"
General Film Distributors.
Bob Sedlak, National Screen Service
branch manager, was among the Atlantans
attending the opening of the Martin twins
in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Marilyn Beck, whose column about the
film industry is carried by the New York
Times News Service, reported that actor
Glenn Ford was due in south Georgia to
start work on one of NBC-TV's world premiere
productions, "Holvac." A story out
(Continued on page SE-4)
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ATLANTA
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of Statesboro then reported that the star
was confined to his hotel room after he was
placed under care of a physician. Jack Terry,
production manager, said Ford had not been
feeling well "for a couple of days" but that
his illness was not considered serious. Ford
and Julie Harris are making the feature
film, which is scheduled to be shown before
November 1 1 on a TV network. Miss Julie
had not arrived and scenes without Ford
were being shot. The film is based on
Ramey," a novel published five years ago.
Mthough the story line takes place in Arkansas,
Terry said Register in this state was
chosen as shooting site because Universal
couldn't locate a satisfactory place in either
Arkansas or Missouri. The plot concerns the
relationship between a preacher and his son
in a rural town in the 1930s.
Storey Theatre Co.'s unusual iveaway:

Lawrenceville Twins
Hearing Debut Date
ATLANTA—Septum, Inc.. has scheduled
a pre-opening "open house" at its Lawrenceville
Mall twins Thursday (19), according
to Norm Schneider, secretary-treasurer, who
reports that the seats have been installed,
the screen and drapes are up and everything
will be in readiness for the theatres to
open to the public the following day.
Allan Schneider, formerly operator at the
Candler Twin Mini-Cinemas, now incorporated
into the Weis circuit, will be the
manager and operator.
Addition of the Lawrenceville pair will
bring to eight the number of screens owned
and operated by Septum in the Atlanta
metropolitan area and nearby sites. Other
Septum twins are Old Dixie I and II, Roswcll
Village I and II, Buford Highway I
and II. Bruce Stern Agency is the booker
for the circuit.
Limousine Drivers View
Many Curious Happenings
.\TLANT.A— Carey of Atlanta operates
a limousine service, complete with sleek
Cadillacs and knowledgeable chauffeurs.
The charge is $15 an hour and the drivers
are accustomed to fares that include film
stars, gangsters, athletes and TV names.
These drivers catch intimate glimpses of
their passengers, overhear much private talk
and enjoy driving the famous, the wealthy,
the tycoons and, on occasion, an animal
or even a hatbox.
Two movie animals who used the Carey
Cadillacs were Lassie the collie and Ben
the
rat.
Carey drivers can tell unusual stories
about their fares. Driver Carl Carter, for
instance, refused to drive rock singer Alice
Cooper "because of that snake he carries
around. Man, he's a weird dude." On the
contrary, driver James Hill found Alice
Cooper enjoyable: "I like him but he's got
to have that beer for breakfast."
.\ctress Lauren Bacall decided she wanted
to stroll around Atlanta to see what it was
Hke.
"But just in case she got tired," Hill
said, "she wanted me to follow alongside
the
curb."
.Moms Mabley, in her 70s, in Atlanta
promoting her picture "Amazing Grace,"
complained when Carter (in his 40s) picked
her up because she "didn't want an old man
drivin' me around."
Speaking of celebrities he has driven. Hill
commented: "I don't know. For some reason,
they act like we weren't even there.
We see and hear a lot of mighty strange
things I'm sure they wouldn't want repeated."
Hill is accustomed to seeing his clients
recalled. The fare and the driver, upon
reaching the Hyatt Regency Hotel, went
up to the top floor where the contractor
tossed 500 $1 bills out into the lobby 2(1
floors below. "That's for all the people whii
don't want to work for it like I did,"
he told Hill.
Three years ago, driver James Hentoii
was a window washer in the Atlanta Post
Office. Today he rubs elbows with such personalities
as Joanne Woodward, Tom Jones,
assorted politicians such as former U.S.
Attorney-General John Mitchell, the Prince
of Denmark, Bettc Midler, Flip Wilson,
Frank Sinatra and many other famous show
people; "They're just folks like any other
folks," says Henton.
Mike Dangerfield, head of the Carey
agency here, says the drivers are of the
opinion that the English rock stars are the
worst fares they have encountered: "They
expect servitude, they're rude and they don't
believe in tipping."
The chauffeurs classify underworld figures
among the big tippers. One driver recalled
that he got $600 one week from a
racketeer and "all I did was hold an umbrella
over his girl friend."
Another generous tipper was the fare
another driver took on a three-day trip to
Savannah, for which he received an $800
gratuity.
Sometimes a fare gives a driver the
shakes. One related: "I picked up a guy
dressed like a bum. He had a big wad of
money and he went in and bought a whole
new suit of clothes, everything. Then he
says, 'I'll tell you what kind of business
I'm in. I came here to kill a guy but I
couldn't find him.' He tipped pretty good
though."
Not all celebrities are favorites with the
drivers. Hill did not like the treatment he
got from a certain female singer; "I picked
her up one day and waited three hours for
her. Finally I had to go to the men's room
for about three minutes. When I came back,
she yelled at me; 'Where have you been?
From now on, when I tell you to stand
there, you stand there all day!' "
Another of his nonfavorites was the president
of a major oil company who called him
"stupid and ignorant."
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Next Year's Festival
Set for August 8-17
ATLANIA-J. Hunter lodd, surveying
and analyzing the consolidated reports
of the wonderful success of the seventh an^
nual .Atlanta International Film Festival,
announced the eighth annual holding of the
event in 1975 will be booked for August
8-17.
He revealed that attendance was up 300
per cent, meaning that 30,000 moviegoers
attended 99 screening sessions at which 80
features and more than 150 shorts and documentaries
were shown in the ten-day event.
Twelve separate world premieres were held
at the two main festival theatres — the
1,800-seat Symphony Hall and the
800-seat
Alliance Theatre in Atlanta's Memorial Arts
Center.
The festival's film market division was
a great success this year, three theatres
running more than 400 market films. Todd
handed out 200 awards at the gala awards
banquet attended by 500 filmmakers, producers,
film celebrities, stars and special
guests in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton
Biltmore Hotel.
To avoid the confusion caused by sellouts
this year, which irritated patrons who
had tickets but could find no available seats,
Todd said that tickets to next year's performances
will be reserved.
While the unprecedented success and
acceptance of the 1974 festival contributed
to its problems, Todd was philosophical
about the situation: "It was better to have
more than 500 patrons than we could handle
than to stare out in the audience and see
500 vacant seats."
Todd also announced that while the scene
for showing next year's festival films again
will be the Memorial Arts Center, the
new headquarters for the event will be the
27-story Fairmont Hotel, which opened
about two weeks ago in Colony Square at
Peachtree and 14th streets. The Fairmont
is within two blocks of the $21 million Memorial
Arts Center.
YOUR REPORT OF THE PICTURE YOU
HAVE lUST PLAYED FOR THE
GUIDANCE OF FEUOW EXHIBITORS.
Moms Mabley is a septuagenarian.
-Right Now
throw their money around but one man, a
vvealthy government contractor, went further
than most in that respect.
'I met him at the airport with an ice
bucket and a bottle of champagne," Hill
Days of Week Played
Exhibitor
30X0FFICE :: September 16, 1974

CHARLOTTE
Qharlie Jones. 20ih Centun-Fox, will be
very busy this autumn and early winter
on the following saturations: '"Conrack."
return engagement. October 11. 50 prints:
"Butch Cassidy." return engagement, Friday
(27). about 50 prints; "Dirty Mar\- Crazy
Larr>-," return engagement. October 25. 100
prints (note: this picture already has grossed
in excess of one million dollars in the Charlotte
exchange): "W. W. and the Dixie
Dancekings." February 7. 100 prints.
Larrj- Vaughn of Cardinal Theatres. Raleigh,
has used "Concert for Bangladesh"'
on eight different occasions as a late show
and with each showing the boxoffice shows
an increase.
Those \isiting the Golf Hall of Fame in
Pinehurst will see the filmed life stor>' of
Ben Hogan in "Follow the Sun" . . . Congratulations
to George Meyer of the Riviera,
.
Charleston, S.C.. for his record-breaking
grosses on "Claudine" . , Mr. and Mrs.
Harr\' Lee Kerr of Dominant Pictures vacationed
at Long Beach over Labor Day.
Many of film folks journeyed to Greensboro
on a special bus provided by WFMY-
TV with sandwiches and drinks en route.
Upon arrival, the guests were served dinner
then given a special prevue of the station's
new product for 1974-1975. Following the
MIKING SERVICES^
screening, the guests adjourned to the ballroom
for dancing. L. A. Ireland was reported
to be the life of the party.
John R. McClure of Charlotte Booking is
using ten prints on "Lisa, Lisa" day-anddate
and grosses are outstanding. He also set
up these screenings at Eastern Federal Thea-
"House of E.xorcism," "Women in Cell
tres:
Block 7." "Carnal Madness" and "Goodnight.
Jackie."
Dean Phillips, who had been vice-president
in charge of sales for National Screen,
resigned, the resignation effective immediately.
He formerly was sales executive and
vice-president for Standard Theatre Supply
based here in Charlotte.
Robert Saxton, formerly of the Palmetto
Theatre in Hampton, S.C.. and formerly
with Hampton International Films, has
joined Cinema National Corp. and will be
in
charge of national print control and flat
bookings. Saxton is an executive of NATO
of North and South Carolina.
Charlotte's three top film grossers: "For
Pete's Sake." Columbia; "Thunderbolt and
Lightfoot." United Artists; "Bom Losers."
American International Pictures . . . Margaret
Sanders, secretary to Charlie Jones of
Fox. sailed on the MS Southward on Labor
Dav to the British West Indies.
MIAMI
JJdwin Bishop, a veteran airline executive
with Delta and Northeast Airlines, was
named public relations director for the Variety
Children's Hospital, the welfare project
of Variety Tent 33. Bishop is a board member
of the hospital and a vice-president of
the board. Also he has been heavily involved
in civic work.
Actress Eve Arden has been in the Florida
Walt Disney enterprises and involved in
the cast of "The Strongest Man in the
World," the latest Disney comedy in the
series about students of Mayfield College.
Eve never before had appeared in a Disney
film but she told Dave Mclntyre of the
Miami Beach Sun-Reporter that she was
ver>' much pleased with the experience.
Recently, however, she hasn't been available
for movie assignments. She and her husband
Brooks West have been touring the country
in various plays since she completed her last
TV series, "The Mothers-in-Law." Their
most recent vehicle has been "Under Papa's
Picture" and they have more dates to play
that comedy.
Miami Herald critic George Bourke
pointed out that Miami-born Sidney Poitier,
now a Bahamian resident, can have a movie
role he could have been born for—if he
wants it: the Nat King Cole story. It is to
be done in the manner in which "TTie Jolson
Story" was filmed. "The voice of the
star will be heard via his hit recordings,
with the actor chosen to play him lip-syncing
the lyrics, a la Larry Parks," Bourke
commented.
JACKSONVILLE
^^ilUam "Billy" Wall, California film producer
and theatre owner from Burbank,
and his parents, also of California, enjoyed
a Florida vacation in this city and Orlando.
Billy entered the industry as an employee
of ABC Florida State Theatres about 20
years ago and during his recent stay in
Jacksonville
he was a guest at the home of Joe
Charles, manager of the San Marco Theatre,
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WOMPI leaders have accepted an
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join other leading civic and service groups
of the city in attending an October 1 luncheon
at the Robert Meyer Hotel to celebrate
the sixth anniversary date of the consolidation
of the Jacksonville and Duval County
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Motion picture and television star Ann
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status at Jacksonville University September
17-20 while conducting a workshop on the
Stanislavsky method of acting for JU students.
She will be the honor guest at a tea
to be given by Friends of the Fine Arts .
Another Hollywood star, Olivia de Havilland
will speak here at the Civic Auditoriuin
as the first celebrity to speak in a series
sponsored by the Junior League . . . Also
coming here are Myrna Loy and Ricardo
Montalban. who will star on stage in a
touring production of George Bernard
Shaw's classic comedy "Don Juan in Hell,"
sponsored by the Four Foundations-Famous
Artists series.
Lloyd Sachs, Jacksonville Journal reviewer,
gave an in-depth production analysis of
the shortcomings he found in "The Internecine
Project." newly opened here at Kent's
Blanding Drive-In and Plaza Theatre along
with Trans-Lux Inflight's Normandy Blue
Theatre . . . Other openers included "The
Black Godfather" at ABC FST's Florida
Theatre and at TLl's Norwood Blue Theatre.
Radio station WIVY is sponsoring an
ABC FST contest calling for a $50 prize for
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Ernie Pelegrin, Columbia head booker
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for a vacation with his daughter and
her family . . . Julie Williams vacationed
from her desk in the Universal office.
Nick Lewis, ABC FST booker, busied
himself and his secretary after Labor Day
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entry, "England Made Me" from S. E.; a
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Charles Bronson dominated the local
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three leading theatres while his "Death
Wish" was also first running at a pair of
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'Amazing Grace' 500
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MEMPHIS—"Amazing Grace." during a
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bo.xoffice traffic and recorded business five
times normal for that theatre, thereby outgrossing
"That's Entertainment!", third
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'J'he Memphis Board of Review announced
a renewed campaign to bar minors
from R and X-rated movies at drive-ins and
indoor multiscreen movies. Lewis Polk,
chairman of the board, wrote letters to theatre
managers reminding them to be sure
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that no one under 18 is admitted to R or
X films. Complaints from parents, he said,
had revealed that youngsters had been buying
tickets to a PG film in
multiscreen theatres
and using them to see R and X films
once inside. The "carload" rates at driveins.
Polk said, frequently had contributed
opportunities for friends to smuggle those
under age to see R or X films.
Leon Raney announced that he was closing
the Arkansas Traveler Folk Theatre at
Hardy. Ark., for the season by mid-month
The Buffalo Theatre in Jasper. Ark.,
has been closed.
Mariners Church Theatre
Project Is Announced
From Eastern Edition
PHILADELPHIA — The formation of
Mariner Theatre Associates to convert the
old Mariners Church in the exclusive Society
Hill section of the city into a 600-seat
motion picture theatre, has been announced
here. Partners in the project, to be developed
across from the site of the proposed
Penn's Landing on Philadelphia's historic
waterfront, include Louis J. Sepe, an engineer;
Carl Massara, an architect, and Robert
F. Rapp, a mortgage banker and real
estate broker.
Conversion of the historic church building
is expected within three to six months.
Plans also include building a glass-enclosed
second-floor addition over the vacant lot
next door for a better-class restaurant.
The idea to convert the old historic
church, built in 1868. is not a new one.
Franklin S. Roberts, now an independent
producer of bicentennial movies and traveling
shows, wanted to convert the church
into a 600-seat luxury movie house that
would book only first-run films and that
would have a waiting lounge with hi-fi music.
He and his associates formed Mariner
Corp. in 1963. After a two-and-a-half-year
struggle -with city agencies that had control
over the development of Society Hill, the
agencies approved the plan for their Mariner
Cinema. However, a marketing study at
that time convinced Roberts that the plan
was "impractical" and the corporation sold
the property for $45,320.
The new corporation, which paid $77,000
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BOXOFFICE :: September 16. 1974

High McLendon Post
To Leon Hoofnagle
By
MABI R (HUNAN
DALLAS—Leon Hoofnagle has been appointed
director of theatre operations for
the
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Leon Hoofnagle
dling the responsibilities
of his new posi-
Since his move here from Kansas City
last spring. Hoofnagle has been so busy at
film buying for the far-flung McLendon
Texas screens that he hasn't had time to
visit individual units of the big circuit.
However, soon after his appointment as
director of theatre operations was announced,
he set out on his first trip through
McLendon Country.
Although he's a relative newcomer to
Texas exhibition, Hoofnagle is a veteran of
the motion picture industry. For 25 years
he was with Kansas City. Mo., -based Commonwealth
Theatres. He managed Commonwealth
theatres at Lawrence and Baxter
Springs. Kas., at Shenandoah in Iowa and
at Columbia, Mo., before becoming a Commonwealth
booker and later a district manager
for that circuit.
When the Hoofnagles first arrived here,
they experienced difficulties in finding a
home they wanted to buy; however, this
situation was remedied early this month and
they have closed a deal for their new property
that qualifies them to be full-fledged
J. Howard Hodge Honored
By Howard Payne College
BROWNWOOD. TEX.—J. Howard
Hodge, Midland theatre owner, was honored
here August 16 as more than 400
friends gathered at Howard Payne College
to help him celebrate receiving his honorary
doctorate from this town's highly renowned
institution
of learning.
It was a festive evening, as a dozen
speakers praised or poked fun at Hodge.
including another Doctor Hodge (his wife
Veda, who was awarded an honorary doctorate
from Howard Payne 14 years ago).
The dinner party, appropriately enough.
(Continued on page .SW-4)
DALLAS
^^elcome home to luanita Clemmens. assistant
manager of the Medallion Theatre.
She is hack at work after a two-week
vacation at Lake Tahoe. She had a wonderful
time, except that she broke a finger
while in California.
WOMPI members were on duty over the
Labor Day weekend, as usual, to assist in
the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.
WOMPIs participating included Bertha
Brennan, Gloria Stavanough. Charlene
Baggese, Juanita. There were assisted by
three of the WOMPI Club's best friends-
Barbara and Charles Kindsvatter and Pete
Chambless. Paramount booker. They had
signed up to work from 7:30 until 1:.30; as
usual, they became so interested and keyed
up over the constant climb in pledges that
they stayed on until 6.
Regina Martin, formerly with Cinerama
Releasing Corp.. now is film cashier for Mc-
Lendon Theatres. Gloria Stavanough moved
to the advertising department as secretary
to Conley Cox, handling the cooperative
advertising campaigns.
Congratulations to Joe Joseph of Theatre
Brokers, Inc. Joe set himself a goal of $1
million in sales for the year and is getting
m:ghty close to that mark, with several
deals working. His latest completed transaction
was leasing of the Alameda Theatre on
South Ervay for Olivia Lozano to Raymond
Medrano. who also owns the Arcadia Theatre.
Medrano is opening the Spanish-language
Alameda for Mexican-American patrons
who are not able to attend the Arcadia
or other Spanish-language theatres scattered
about the city.
By the way, anyone needing large, luscious
shelled pecans: remember that the
WOMPI members sell Georgia's famous
plump pecans each year as part of their
Texans.
fund-raising campaign to support their various
charity projects. Right now. the only
However, as Hoofnagle told your reporter,
"They already loved it so much in Dallas,
they felt that they were Texans," which
pecans on the market are from 1973's crop,
many of these nuts having been frozen.
they really are, of course. Their son Cary
WOMPI pecans will not be available until
is attending the University of Texas at Arlington.
after Georgia has its first freeze this fall;
then the new pecans will be fully matured
and ready for harvesting. The WOMPIs sold
900 pounds of these delicious nuts last year,
so this year they have placed an order in
Georgia for 1.000 pounds and already are
taking orders from their own regular customers
who know how meaty and tasty
these pecans always are. You may place
your order with any WOMPI, or you may
order by calling Juanita White at 741-1974.
Juanita is chairman of the club's finance
committee.
More and more film, stage and screen
personalities are lined up for Dallas. If, and
we do say "if," all goes well, George Hamilton
will be at Granny's Dinner Theatre in
January. He had to cancel a recent Florida
booking due to illness but fans here are
hoping the star will be able to come in for
the January run of "Six Rms Riv Vw."
Prior to that time, however. Granny's has
Jonathan Harris in October in "My Daughter's
Rated X," Vivian Vance in November
in "Barefoot in the Park." June Allyson and
Dick Powell jr. during the holiday in "My
Daughter, My Son."
Currently, Mercedes McCambridge is at
the Windmill Dinner Theatre in "Desk Sot";
Dorothy Lamour closed an engagement at
the Country Dinner Theatre Sunday (8) and
Mickey Rooney took over that stage Tuesday
(10) in "Three Goats and a Blanket."
During the October 4-20 Texas State Fair.
(Continued on page SW-4)
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gid Shaenfield, manager of the Texas Theatre,
has been named managing director,
while Rudy Axon is the new house manager
and Ricky Ranirez is the new assistant manager
at the downtown Majestic, now operated
by Theatre Corporations, headed by
Sam Chemoff. Axon was transferred here
from El Paso.
Steve Allen, who has appeared in
several
films and played the title role in "The Benny
Goodman Story." came here to help a
bank promote its new check guarantee card.
Allen was accorded the Greater San Antonio
Chamber of Commerce red carpet
welcome Sunday (8).
Tom Powers, city manager for Theatre
Corporations, has moved his office from the
Texas Theatre to the Majestic . . . Alice
Ramirez is the new secretary for Russell
Barron, owner of the Independent Theatre
Supply, the city's oldest theatre supply company
. . . Norman Schwartz, newly appointed
manager of ABC Interstate's Broadway
Theatre, took a week off prior to assuming
his new duties. Previously he had managed
the circuit's Wonder Theatre here.
John Shoaf, formerly of San Antonio but
now a San Francisco resident, has returned
here to handle promotion and publicity for
Elvis Presley's personal appearance October
8 at Convention Center Arena. Presley, a
star of numerous films, is assured of a sellout
house . . . Perennial movie favorite Sam
Levine will appear in Neil Simon's "The
Sunshine Boys" February 24 at the Theatre
for the Performing Arts in the Broadway
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JJere to book and buy was Charles Smith.
Canton, and his brother Bob. Both arc
former theatre owners who have retired and
are now devoting their time and creative
energy to re-doing old film posters. They
went to Memphis, Tenn.. last month to
attend a convention held by the Western
Poster people. At the convention the Smith
brothers had opportunities to chat with
many movie stars of other days: Bob Steele.
Monte Hale, Peggy Stewart and others.
The United Theatre Owners of Oklahoma
and the Texas Panhandle will hold a meeting
here today (16).
OC marquee changes: 'Pink Floyd,"
Quail Twin 2; "Cold Sweat," North Park:
"The Education of Sonny Carson," Cooper
Theatre . . . "Amazing Grace," with Moms
Mabley and Stepin Fechit, was tradescreened
at the Cooper Theatre, where the
film is to start next month.
In to buy and book at Oklahoma City
film exchanges were Phil England, new owner
of the Tower Theatre in Selling, nephew
of Richard Summers who owned the very
same theatre 30 years ago: Mr. and Mrs.
Eddie Kelly, Mini-Car Drive-In, Henryetta,
who also have the Kelly's Monuments business
in the same Oklahoma community . . .
The new owners of the Westside Drive-In
at Tahlequah are M. D. and Doris Gourley.
Jim O'Donnell of Theatre Booking Service
will continue ot do booking and buying for
the Tahlequah airer.
Cecil Callahan, who has the
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held at the offices of Oklahoma City Shipping
and In.spection Tuesday (10). Members
were brought up to date about what
went on at the recent lATSE Los Angeles
convention.
Variety Notes: An Oklahoma City Variety
Club meeting was held Tuesday (10) . . .
When the Oklahoma Music Co. holds a convention
here September 26-28, Charley Pride
and Leon Russell will be part of the entertainment.
Proceeds from their Friday (27)
show will go to the Variety Club to help
finance the tent's many charity projects . . .
Variety's first picnic and bingo of the fall
will be held October 1 at the Macklanburg-
Duncan recreation center. You out-of-town
exhibitors who have been wanting to have a
get-together, here's your chance to have
a big time, eating ribs and playing bingo.
DALLAS
(Continued from page SW-1)
Ruth Warrick will recreate her Broadway
role in "Irene" at the Music Hall. She joins
Debbie Reynolds and Patsy Kelly, both also
creators of their respective characters on
Broadway.
Sorry we didn't get to visit with exhibitor
S. K. Barry of San Antonio when he was
in town last week but hopefully we'll be
able to see him on the next Dallas jaunt.
Torrence Hudgins now buys and books for
SK, who likes to make a trip to this city
now and then to visit his industry friends
and keep in touch with where the exchanges
and supply firms are situated. He says that
it seems each time he comes to Dallas he
finds that another film exchange has moved
—another reason he likes to have Torrence
handle his buying and booking. Torrence met
Barry at the airport and they visited Fox,
AIP, United Artists and possibly one other
exchange before they drove back to the airport,
sk said they drove 80 miles in making
these four calls and that since Torrence
attends screenings, anyway, SK's is quite
content to leave the booking and buying in
his hands and save all that travel to and
inside
of Dallas.
I. Howard Hodge Honored
By Howard Payne College
(Continued from page SW-1)
was held at Veda Hodge Hall on the Howard
Payne campus.
Speakers had been instructed to roast the
new Doctor Hodge. One of them, in an
ungallant moment, referred to the new
Doctor Hodge's wife as "the old Doctor
Hodge."
The new Doctor Hodge responded, after
the speeches, in a similar vein: "I've been
all
known," he said in solemn tones, "as a
philanthropist and as a benefactor—AND as
a tightwad." He said it was no secret that
one of the evening's speakers, his nephew,
wants to be remembered in his will. "He
will
be," Doctor Hodge promised. "On page
3 of my will, in the seventh paragraph, that
particular nephew is remembered. It says
there: 'Hi, nephew." "
Howard Payne business manager Frank
Smith was one of those suggesting an
honorary degree for the Texas exhibitor,
who once sent Smith a $5,000 check made
out to "Howard Hodge College" and signed
•J. Howard Hodge." Smith showed the
check to Dr. Roger Brooks, Howard Payne
College president, and told him: "This man
deserves an honorary doctorate."
Someone asked Smith, if when he returned
the check. Hodge was amused at
how he had made it out. Sniith nearly
choked: "Returned it? Business managers
don't return checks. That option never
occurs to them. I endorsed the check
Howard Hodge College,' wrote 'Howard
Payne College' beneath it and deposited
the check."
Someone at one of the new Doctor
Hodges' theatres in Midland, the Westwood,
changed the marquee to call attention to
the big honor the boss was getting in
Brownwood that evening but neglected to
remove some small letters in the lower
right-hand corner after taking down the
title of the current film.
So the Westwood marquee, the night the
new Doctor Hodges was being honored,
read: "HPC Congratulates J. Howard
Hodt;e.
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'Y NOT?'— The new canopy over the
renovated See-More Theatre in Seymour,
WLs., drew second and third
glances as townspeople studied the title
of the film offering, "Dirte Mary Craze
Larry." Owner and operator Bill (iraf.
who also runs the G&S Cinema 1 in
Chilton, Wis., had a ready explanation
for those who pointed out the error in
spelling to him. "We just ran out of the
letter Y," he smiled. The feature, of
course, was 20th Century-Fox's Peter
Fonda-Susan George starrer, "Dirty
Mary Crazy Larry."
Minneapolis Grosses
Hurl by Slale Fair
MINNEAPOLIS—Only one newcomer
fans across the extended
was offered screen
Labor Day holiday weekend and grosses
ended up in a mixed pattern. "Pippi in the
South Seas" played six theatres here in a
multiple break and came up with a composite
140. Elsewhere. "That's Entertainment!"
profited from the holiday break and
climbed to a nifty 310 in its seventh week
at the Cooper Theatre. Other gainers were
The Tamarind Seed." "For Pete's Sake"
marginally, and "Chinatown."
For 11 days that included this current
report week, all theatres in the Twin Cities
faced the competition of the State Fair
which attracts some 100,000 to 150,000 admissions
daily (with vehicles included in the
totals since parking tickets must be purchased
but with the cars making up a minor
percentage overall). This—over the years—
aditionally has blunted grosses in the great
Men Theatregoers Outnumber Women,
According to a Wisconsin Survey
MILWAUKEi:— According to the "Wisconsin
Poll" conducted during August by
WITl-TV, Channel 6 news men see more
theatrical movies than women, young moviegoers
are least concerned about sex and
violence on the screen, most people think
there's a shortage of family-type motion
pictures in movie houses and advertising is
the most-often-used aid in selecting a film
for viewing at a theatre. The poll was directed
by Barry Judge of Channel 6 and it
involved 500 Wisconsin residents.
The following questions and answers resulted:
J. How many theatrical movies have you
seen in
the past year?
A. Three or less movies. 56 per cent;
four to six movies, 21 per cent: more than
15 movies, 12 per cent, and "other." 21 per
cent (the survey showed that persons in
their 20s frequent movie theatres more
often than any other age group).
Q. How would you rate the overall quality
of today's theatrical motion pictures?
A. Excellent or good. 39 per cent; poor
to very poor, 39 per cent, and no opinion,
19 per cent.
Q. What guide do you use in selecting
your motion picture entertainment in theatres?
A. Advertising. 27 per cent; friends' opinions.
20 per cent: movie ratings. 14 per
cent; no opinion. 17 per cent, and 'other,"
20 per cent.
Q. Does sex. violence or sex and violence
in
films keep you away from theatres?
A. Both do. 52 per cent; neither does.
per cent; violence does. 31 7 per cent, and
sex does. 4 per cent (women and the older
age groups seemed to take the dimmest view
of sex and violence on the screen).
Q. Do you think there are enough family
films being produced?
A. Yes. 15 per cent; no, 76 per cent, and
^^ opinion. 9 per cent (women and the 30
nd 40-year age groups most often felt that
there were not enough family films being
produced).
Judge indicated that "all percentages are
rounded off to the nearest full percentage
point." The poll was based on telephone interviews
in a four-county area, including
kcting department at Marquette University,
and Dr. Frank Bcsag, associate professor of
education at the University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee.
The "Wisconsin Poll" is similar to the
Roper Poll or Gallup Poll in construction,
intent and methodology.
Judge told BoxoFi-iCE that, beginning this
month, the poll will be made statewide and
will include a statistical sampling of all Wisconsin
counties, with emphasis on the southeastern
Wisconsin metropolitan statistics.
University of Iowa Holds
A Bakshi Retrospective
IOWA CITY, IOWA—The University of
Iowa, which sponsors Refocus '75, the largest
student-run and student-supported film,
photography and video festival in the U.S.,
held a Ralph Bakshi retrospective during
the Friday (6) weekend. The retrospective,
held at the university, featured several
screenings of Bakshi's first features. "Fritz
the Cat" and "Heavy Traffic."
The highlight of the retrospective was a
showing of Bakshi's newly completed Paramount
release. "Coonskin." which utilizes
the Bakshi technique of mixing live action
with animation. Writer/ director Bakshi also
conducted a seminar/ workshop.
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World The Apprenticeship of Ouddy Krovitl
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Jon Voight left Monday (2) for Toronto
to launch Columbia's "The Odessa File,"
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MILWAUKEE
ns the R-rated movie The Groove Tube"
went into its 18th week at the Downer
Prestige Theatre (Cinema, Inc.) on the city's
east side, there was a display of discontentment
from folks in the immediate neighborhood.
The theatre is located at 2589 North
Downer Ave. At least a dozen or more residents
were carrying picket signs in front of
the movie house as they protested the film's
extended run. They were joined by Circuit
Judge Harold B. Jackson jr., who explained
that they were not disapproving of the
R-rated picture. "I am not trying to impose
my own opinion on anyone else," the judge
stated. "It's just that we feel 18 weeks of
the same movie at a neighborhood theatre
is too much. Personally. I just want another
movie." "The Groove Tube" has been playing
at the Downer since May 1 but it was
disclosed by theatre officials that it now
has a tentative cut-off date of Tuesday (24).
Mrs. Dorothy Nardelli, assistant manager
at the Capitol Court Theatre (RKO Stanley-
Warner) and hubby Leo have made their
annual flight to Las Vegas during vacationtime
this summer. "It was really hot there,"
recalls Dorothy. "Nonetheless, we enjoyed
the 'Toledo Show' as well as Buddy Hackett
and Red Foxx." By the way, their son Tom
Nardelli, who is a captain and career counselor
in' the Army Reserve, is a familiar
voice on radio here. He serves as WTMJ
traffic safety reporter while patroling the
area in a helicopter. He also is a utility
announcer for WTMJ and, in addition, soon
will be completing his first year in charge
of the Milwaukee Brewers flagship station
during the local ballclub broadcasts at County
Stadium
at 738 North 3rd St.. now has a new^ feature:
'Every Thursday Is Ladies' Day." Admission
is 750 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Vi
Clemens is manager.
The newly remodeled Marc Plaza's Empire
Room will be booking the biggest
names in entertainment as it enters the
show business major leagues. Singer-comedienne
Edie Adams and her trumpeter-husband
Peter Candoli (he's Betty Hutton's
ex-hubby) were backed with a 15-piece orchestra
as they opened the room's fall season
Thursday (12). Ben Marcus, president
and board chairman of the Marcus Corp..
which operates the hotel in addition to more
than 50 movie houses around the state, said:
"This is a major convention hotel and we
want people who attend conventions in this
city to be afforded a variety of top entertainment.
We hope this way to attract convention
people who might otherwise go to
Chicago or Detroit or New York." Ben's
son Steve Marcus is executive vice-president
for both the Marc Plaza and Pfister hotels.
"We're embarking on the most ambitious
and exciting nightclub season ever seen in
Milwaukee." Steve told Boxoffice.
Following the Adams-Candoli show, jazz
pianist Erroi Garner will appear Monday
(23) through October 5. Singer Frankie Avalon
moves in during October followed by
singer Eartha Kitt and then possibly Tony
Martin. All have appeared frequently in
Las 'Vegas and. when Avalon. star of the
"beach party" films, played here a year ago,
he broke attendance records in the Pfister's
Crown Room. Garner also has been in town
before this. Other big-name acts currently
are being considered.
Princess Theatre (UA), longtime resident Ron Howard and Anson Williams, who
were in town recently, appeared at Gimbels'
Capitol Court Store, where they attracted
lots of attention from shoppers. They answered
questions and signed copies of the
paperback book "Happy Days." also the title
of a TV series in which both are starring.
Joe Reynolds, veteran local showman,
now has added a third theatre that requires
his managerial supervision. It's the Walworth
Theatre near Walworth at the junction
of Routes 67 and 14. Joe also oversees
the Towne Theatre in downtown Milwaukee
and the Town Theatre in Watertown.
When former Milwaukeean Tom Laughlin.
who is producer, director and star of
"Billy Jack." personally sold his film by
promoting and booking it himself (after he
had been disappointed with its initial distribution),
he succeeded in grossing nearly $70
million. Pointing to this as a new method
in "how to sell a movie." Paul Gardner,
whose article appeared in the Sunday Journal,
revealed that moviemakers are now examining
alternate ways of "selling or reselling
audience-type films." For example, producers
of wildlife films are now renting a
batch of theatres in one area and then
spending a bundle on saturation advertising
(four-walling). "We can no longer dismiss
a film just because it flops in a few key
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market in the U.S. may open up again for I
European movies "which have been crippled
by the economics of distribution." Gardner
predicts.
Nostalgia: One of the few theatres in this
city devoted to spoken drama, the Garrick.
opened its season for the first time with
motion pictures. D. W. Griffith's silent film
"America," a stirring epic of the nation's
fight for independence, inaugurated the
new season. This old news item in the Sentinel
appeared during the first week in September
1924— just 50 years ago. Note: The
Garrick long since has been razed at its site
on North 2nd Street near West Wisconsin
Avenue and has been replaced by an office
building . . . "Drive-In Theatre Managers.
Managing Directors." read the headline in
a classified ad in a recent Journal which
announced "career opportunities with expanding
company for Showcase cinema
complexes from Iowa to Boston. Must be
free to locate. Immediate opening in beautiful
Quad-Cities Iowa-Illinois district. Top
pay with extraordinary fringe benefits. Yearround
work. We need good people NOW."
the
The news item in this column reporting
special midnight showing of "That's Entertainment!",
at Southgate for the entire
troupe of the musical comedy "Sugar" from
th.- Milwaukee Melody Top tent theatre
(.September 2, NC-2) was somewhat jumbled
in
publication. Your reporter's copy
read; "The group, about 60. had the movie
house to themselves Wednesday night—really
Thursday a.m. (15)." Unfortunately, as
it was instead printed, the message was bewildering.
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MINNEAPOLIS
pred and Llojd Schiiee Sunday (1) clMcbrated
their 50th anniversary in the
exhibition of films in Litchfield, having
opened the Unique Theatre on that date in
1924. The Unique still is functional—but
'lack of product" is blamed for the fact it
has been shuttered for years. The Schnees
still operate daily the Hollywood Theatre,
which they built' in 1936. and the Starlite
Drive-In. which they erected in 1956. Their
projectionist. Dong Grey, recalls that the
Schnees' history of exhibition dates back
farther—to Iowa: St. Peter, and Paynesville.
in association with their father Frank, affectionately
known to all as "Grandpa"
Schnee.
Joe Prill, booker-salesman at the nowdefunct
Cinerama Releasing Corp.. has not
taken a position as salesman at the Columbia
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. Ellis, former branch
manager at Cinerama Releasing Corp. here.
Tuesday (3) assumed his new post as division
manager for American International
Pictures—and his offices are in the AIP
branch here.
Columbia branch manager Bill Wood has
completed the moving of his family from
Detroit into an apartment here in suburban
Edina . . . Janelle Armstrong. General Cinema
Corp. office manager, is back at her
desk after a time-out—to give birth to a
daughter.
Ray Vonderhaar of Tentilino Enterprises
hosted the circuit's annual "Golf Day for
Filmrow" Friday (6). the event again held
the Alexandria Country Club. A luncheon
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preceded the turns on the links and the
golfing was followed by a cocktail party
schools now open once more,
exhibitors are bracing for an attendant drop
in grosses. Said one: "Here we go. into
the autumn "dull-drums." "
Filmrow visitors: Arlo Henricksen, Strand
Theatre. Grafton. N.D.. and William Loftus.
Harbor. Two Harbors . . . William Beck.
Renville Theatre. Renville, shutters his house
Tuesday (17) tor an indefinite period.
Carl Olson, United Artists division manager,
was in town August 28-30 from New
York setting up a full program for forthcoming
releases. "Juggernaut." starring
Richard Harris and Omar Sharif, bows
Friday (27) day-and-date at the local and
St. Paul Orpheum theatres. "Mixed Company."
co-starring Barbara Harris and Joe
Bologna, bows October 11 at the Cooper
here and at the Grandview Fine Arts in
St. Paul. "Kazablan" will open Friday (27)
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Grandview Fine Arts in St. Paul. And "Man
With the Golden Gun" day-and-dates December
18 at the two Orpheums.
Racing to get the boxoffice winners before
they hit TV screens. Olson, along with
UA branch manager Bill Doebel. also set
"the big three." "Doctor Zhivago" was to
open Wednesday (11) at the Mann Theatre
here and the Grandview in St. Paul Friday
(13). "Gone With the Wind" was slotted into
the Mann here and the World in St. Paul,
while "2001: A Space Odyssey" bows
Wednesday (25) at the Skyway I here, with
a St. Paul date still pending.
Gregory Peck, actor-turned-producer, will
be here Thursday and Friday (19. 20) to
tub-thump his "The Dove." Peck is visiting
Chicago. Milwaukee and the Twin Cities,
since these are the places the movie will
be prepremiering. Peck will be involved in
a full round of newspaper, radio and TV
interviews. And he'll also do something out
of the ordinary. Peck will be paying visits
to Duluth; Fargo. N.D.. and Sioux Falls,
S.D. All TV interviewers from surrounding
areas will be invited to the nearest appearance
by Peck and they then will be urged
to make interview tapes with the producer,
tapes they can play when back home—
solid promotional idea.
Bob Davis, American International Pictures
branch chief, reported that "Bom
Losers." saturated in a 65-print territory
rerun, was a "born winner!" The picture
played in 22 houses in the Twin Cities area
alone—with hefty boxoffice results everywhere.
Also clicking loudly has been AIP's
"Macon County Line." a strong drive-in
attraction.
Greg Ehlenbach Purchases
Cinema in West Bend, Wis.
WEST BEND. WIS.—The Hartford Theatre.
15 North Main St., was purchased,
cltcctive Sunday (IV. by Greg Ehlenbach.
Gene Lesmeister. the former owner, said
he disposed of the movie house because he
and his wife are moving to Arizona for
health reasons.
The theatre will remain a family entertainment
center. Ehlenbach said, adding
that he was "hiring a booking agent in order
to
bring films to Hartford sooner after they
leave Milwaukee." He also is considering
Saturday and Sunday matinees at the theatre
if patrons evidence sufficient interest in
such a project.
A 24-hour answering service is to be installed
to disseminate information on movie
titles, showtimes, stars and ratings.
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DETROIT—"The Black Godfather." new
on the Fox Theatre screen, stole high grossing
honors with the greatest of ease in the
report week, scoring a resounding 550. No
other film came anywhere near this type of
percentage, the next three in Hne grossing in
the 220-265 range: "The White Dawn"
(220). "Uptown Saturday Night" (225) and
"That's Entertainment!" (265).
Eight theatres The Lords of Flatbush (Col),
2nd wk ^°°
Fox—The Black Godfather (SR) 550
Nine theatres Digby—^The Biggest Dog in
the World (AlP) ,„,., T^. ,, -9^?
Northlond—That's Entertainment! (UA), 7th wk. .265
Seven theatres-Chinatown (Para), 7th wk. .•••SO
Seven theotres For Pete's Sake (Col), 5th wk. .110
.
Seven theatres— Buster and Billie (Col), 3rd wk. .115
Six theatres Herbie Rides Again (BV), 4th wk. .
90
Six theatres- Dirty Mory Crazy Lorry (20th-Fox)
3rd wk 75
Six theatres— Candy Stripe Nurses iSR);
Student Nurses (SR) 125
Three theatres—Golden Needles (AlP), 2nd wk. .
.105
Three theatres—The White Down (Para) 220
Two theatres—The Sting (Univ), 33rd wk 145
Two theatres— Blozing Saddles (WB), 19th wk. .
.110
.
Two theatres Uptown Saturday Night (WB),
8th wk 225
Two theatres The Educotion of Sonny Carson
(Pora), 3rd wk 105
the Grand Circus, said that when she got
to work at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. August
14. there already was a block-long line for
the 11:30 a.m. show. Manager Glen Mc-
Lean reported the film was shown six times
a day at the Mercury, where it was booked
for a one-week run. Although the movie is
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CLEVELAND—When boxoffioe action
rated R. many parents brought their children
"That's Entertainment!' Soars
ended in the current report period, exhibitors
to see the legendary "King of Kung Fu."
To 800 Pinnacle in Cincy
here discovered that it had been one of the
In Hong Kong, where Lee made his films,
most rewarding weeks of 1974. No less than
CINCINNATI—"That's Entertainment!"
the movie has broken the boxoffice record
24 theatres showed films that grossed in the
at the Valley Theatre jumped to 800 in its
held by "The Sound of Music." according
155-410 range; only one feature, showing at
sixth week during the Labor Day holiday
to Free Press staffer Christine Brown.
period, this coming on the heels of a 675
to attract super-average
five theatres, failed
business. "That's Entertainment!" again was fifth week. Business was great around the
area and grossing percentages soared: "The
attraction with a seventh
the big boxoffice
week 410 at the Colony but newcomers Tamarind Seed." second week, International
"The Tamarind Seed" and "Macon County 70 and Kenwood theatres, 675; "Frankenstein,"
second week. Showcase 4, 600; "Cali-
Line." each on five screens, grossed 380 and
Split," third frame. Times Townc
370. respectively. Also at better-than-threetimes-average
was second-week "Franken-
Cinema, 700; "Buster and Billie." 500.
fornia
stein," showing at the Fox Cedar-Center opening week at Showcase 2; "Death Wish."
fourth. Showcase 3. 450.
Theatre.
the Dragon (SR), 2nd wk 175
Albee
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2— For Pete's Soke (Col), 8th wk 350
(Average Is 100)
Grand— Black Somson (WB) 400
Village—The Sting (Univ) 36th wk. 250
Colonv Thot's Entertoinment! (UA), 7th wk. ^'J^
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International 70 Kenwood The Tomorind Seed
wk 675
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Name Nobody (Un.v) 75
(Col), wk 210
Five theatres—My Is
wk
Summer 250
Place ^The Groove Tube (SR), 6th 3rd
Five theatre^—Colifornio Split
wk 200
3rd wk
and 500
1 Horrod (AlP),
theatres Death Wish (Para), 4th Showcose
Showcase 2—Buster Billie (Col)
Showcase 3—Death Wish (Para), 4th wk
4—
450
Five
theatres The Tomorind Seed (Emb) 380
Five
Five theatres—Macon County Line (AlP)
Frankenstein (SR), 2nd
370
wk. .-330
Homebodies .550
Showcase Frankenstein (SR), 2nd wk 600
Fox CedarJCenter
Two theatres ^Big Bad Mama (SR), 2nd wk 135 Skywalk, Princeton (Emb), 3rd wk.
Times Towne Cinema California Split (Col),
3rd wk 700
Valleys That's 800
Entertoinment! (UA), 6th wk
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prank Sinatra will op.^n Nick Mikti's $20
million Coliseum in Richfield Township
October 26. The Coliseum, located on 1-271
and Route 303. equidistant between Akron
and this city, will be the home of the Cavaliers
(NBA). Crusaders (WHA) and NETS
(WTT). plus family entertainment, cultural
performances and concerts. Sinatra's appearance
here is part of a nine-city national
concert tour and will mark a "first" for the
famous entertainer. The singer-actor never
has been the first attraction at a just-opened
showplace. Forty rooms have been reserved
at the Holiday Inn in Richfield Township
for "old blue eyes" and his entourage during
his grand-opening appearance at Nick Mileti"s
Coliseum.
Author Sidney Sheldon, on a recent visit
here, said that he is trying to negotiate with
Robert Redford. Candicc Bergen and Catherine
Deneuve to star in the film version of
his recent best-selling novel. "The Other Side
of Midnight." After finishing the screenplay
he hopes to begin shooting the film at year's
end. Paramount will produce the movie.
Sheldon has written six Broadway plays. 25
motion pictures and over 200 TV scripts.
The prolific writer received an Academy
Award for his screenplay of "The Bachelor
and the Bobby Soxer" and also won the
Screen Writers Guild trophy for his screenplays
"Easter Parade" and "Annie Get Your
Gun." According to Sheldon. "Aristotle
Onassis is angered by the depiction of the
Greek tycoon in the novel, apparently feeling
the character Constantin Demiris is too
closely modeled after him." The author also
recently completed an original screenplay
entitled "Caper."
Richard Bach, author of "Jonathan Livingston
Seagull." talked about his new book
"A Gift of Wings" at the opening "Meet the
Author" luncheon series Wednesday (11) at
H'gbee's auditorium. Also appearing on the
program were Ralph G. Martin, author of
"Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph
Churchill." whose new unauthorized biography
deals with the Duke and Duchess of
Windsor and is entitled "The Woman He
Loved,"
Donald Bogle, author of "Toms. Coons,
Mulattoes. Mammies and Bucks," was in the
city Tuesday (2) promoting the paperback
version of his book, which costs $2.25,
compared to $12.50 for the hardcover copy.
The book traces the black in movies through
the history of films. According to the young
author, "They Tommed it imtil 1960. In the
1960s they took on an aggressive tone,
which led to the bla.xploitation films, and
presently are in the "Buck' age, which is
characterized by black male sexuality." For
a while Bogle worked for Ebony, then was
story editor for Otto Preminger before he
started writing this book. Bogle also lectures
on movies and reviews them.
John Mattey, Amherst Theatre owner,
Amherst, died Labor Day evening (2). For
many years Mattey and his wife operated
the Amherst Theatre. Mattey had worked
steadily since a heart attack five years ago.
Lou Csanyi, Miles Drive-In projectionist,
is recuperating at Brentwood Hospital,
Warrensville Heights, O-positive blood doners
are needed. All of Lou's friends are
wishing him a speedy recovery! . . . Good
wishes, too. to projectionist Clarence Giles,
who is recuperating following recent surgery
at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Frank Musto, Universal sales
representative,
recently returned from a vacation at his
summer home in Vermillion.
American International Pictures soon will
move from its present quarters in the Film
Building to new quarters at Brainard Place.
With AIP handling the releasing of Cinerama
Releasing Corp. films, local personnel
changes have taken place. Pat Mooney, former
CRC branch manager, now is AIP
branch manager. Bill Andrews is AIP booker
and sales representative. Gordon Bugie
will continue as one of four CRC division
managers in the country and Joyce Pollack
will continue as his secretary. Debby Kinsley,
former CRC Cincinnati booker here.
now is a booker at Cooperative Theatres.
Agie Smith, former CRC cashier, is working
in Universal Pictures' cashier department.
Fran Zryl and Kim Cammuso remain in
their former positions on the AIP staff.
James Flavin, McKinley Theatre manager.
Canton, has been released from Mercy
Sunday (15). She made her film debut in
Alfred Hitchcock's "Trouble With Harry."
made 28 movies and won three Academy
Award nominations for her performances in
"Some Came Running." "Irma LaDouce"
and "The Apartment." Last April, while in
the People's Republic of China, she filmed
a 90-minute documentary. "The Other Half
of the Sky." Miss MacLaine was last in the
city in September 1972 speaking at the City
Club in behalf of a presidential candidate.
She will star as Amelia Earhart in a movie
to be made by her own production company
next spring.
CINCINNATI
JH^nierican International Pictures is busy
setting up distribution for Cinerama
Releasing Corp. pictures . .
Tri-State Theatre
.
Services expects to move into its
new
Film Arts Building. 630 Northland Blvd.,
Forrest Park, Saturday (28).
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Goldberg, JMG Film
Co., have announced the engagement of
their daughter Debbie to Don Belen of JMG
Film Co.. Columbia, Mo. The wedding is
being planned for next June.
Fred Ditter, formerly branch manager for
Columbia here, is now Paramount branch
manager in San Francisco.
The film colony brides chose the same
date to be married—Saturday. August 28.
Sally Wrestman. secretary to Marvin White
of Mid States, was married to John Duffy.
Karen Kelly, office manager for Holiday
Amusement, was married to Douglas Lambert.
Among those returning from early September
vacations are Mike Gosset, Holiday
Amusement Co. booker, who visited Chicago
and Canada, and Gail White, typist
for Warner Bros.
New faces in the film colony: Karen
McCraken, billing clerk for JMG Film Co.,
'.
and Kathy Ricse, typist for Tri-State Theatre
Services.
Exhibitors in town recently included
Ohioans Earl Cox, Middletown: Betty
Schuler, Hamilton, and Harley Bennett,
Chillicothe.
Hospital. Canton, following surgery and is
recuperating at home.
.
Ceoige Fitzpafrick, manager of the
Heights and Westwood theatres, recently
returned from vacationing in Maine. New
Hampshire. Vermont. Nova Scotia and
Quebec Currcnce is the attractive
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BOSTON—Major interest centered in the
metropolitan area on three films: "Death
Wish," which put together a strong 550
sLVond frame at Circle Cinema; "The Apprenticeship
of DudJy Kravitz," 370, third
week. Cinema 57 One; "Pippi in the South
Seas." opening at three theatres with a composite
300 grossing percentage, "The Education
of Sonny Carson" was warmly received
at the Sa,\on (230, first week) and
so was "The House That Vanished" at the
Astor (195. first week). Several of the popular
holdovers grossed in the upper 100s and
lower 200s,
[Average Is 100)
Asfor—The House That Vanished (SR) 195
Charles East—The White Down (Poro), 4th wk. ..130
Charles West—Colifornio Split (Col), 3rd wk 200
Chen One—The Mod Adventures of
'Rabbi' Jacob (20th-Fox), 3rd wk 200
Chen Three— Bring Me the Heod of
Alfredo Garcia (UA), 4th wk 150
Cinema 57 One The Apprenticeship of
Duddy Kroviti (Paro), 3rd wk 370
Cine-na 57 Two Thot's Entertainment! (UA),
1 0th wk ^^^
Circe Cinema— Death Wish (Para), 2nd wk 550
Gary—The Sting (Univ), 36fh wk 145
Loews' Abbey One, Two Pink Floyd (SR),
3rd wk °"
Par.5 Cinema—The Tamarind Seed (Emb) 130
Pi Alley-The Girl From PetrOYko iUniv), 2nd wk, 115
Savoy One Uptown Saturday Night
(WB) Not Available
Sax n—The Education of Sonny Carson (Para) . . .230
Three theatres Pippi in the South Seos (GGC) .
.300
•Death Wish' 300, "Black
Godfather' 200 in New Haven
NEW HAVEN— Paramount's "Death
Wish" (300) and Cinemation's "The Black
God'ather" (200) paced the newcomer bloc,
which also included Hallmark's "The House
That Vanished" (150. double bill), Bryanston's
"Frankenstein" (135) and Avco Embassvs
"The Tamarind Seed" (125, two
theatres),
Cinemart Milford Cinema I Split
(Col), 2nd wk 125
College— Uptown Saturday Night (WB), 4th wk. . . 75
College Street Cinema The House Thot Vonished
(SR); The Fomily (SR) 1 50
Crown-Teenage Nurses (SR); The Postgraduate
(SR), 2nd wk 125
Lincoln—Memories Within Miss Aggie (SR);
It Happened in Hollywood (SR), 9th wk 100
Milford Cinema The Tamarind Seed
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(Emb) 125
Rnqcr bhermon—The Black Godfather (SR) 200
Showcase Cinema I—Death Wish (Para) 300
Shrwro'c Cinema II That's Entertainment!
(UA), 4th wk 135
Showcase Cmema III Frankenstein (SR) 135
Showcase Cinema IV—99 and 44/100% Dead
;20th-Fox), 2nd wk 115
ShDwcose Cinema V ,...100
Buster and Billie (Col)
"Death Wish' Climbs to 350
First Week in Hartford
H A R T F O R D— Paramount's
"Death
Wish" (350) and Columbia's "California
Split" (250) were the big news, with a total
of eight newcomers on Hartford screens.
No less than eight showplaces participated
in a day-and-date Connecticut premiere of
The House That Vanished" and the Hallmark
release came up with a praiseworthy
composite 175. Another states righter. "Not
Just Another Woman," started with 150,
Art Cinema Not Just Another Woman (SR);
Mory Jane (SR) 150
Avon Park North, Cinema II, UA Theatres
East III— Our Time (WB) 115
Central Cine Webb, UA Tamarind Seed
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(Emb), 2nd wk 90
Cinema I—Frankenstein (SR), 5th wk 75
TONE CONVENTIONEERS LIKE THIS SPOT—Wentworth-by-the-Sea,
Portsmouth. N.H.. resort facilities, pictured here in its attractive New England
setting, .served as convention headquarters for Theatre Owners of New England
members, their wives and families the last two summers. So popular is the spot,
with swimming, sailing, tennis and golf, that it may become the permanent convention
center for the New England exhibitors' organization.
Eight theatres—The House Thot Vanished (SR) 175
Eight theatres— Herbie Rides Again (BV),
"5th wk 100
Five theatres—The Sting (Uniy), 28th wk 75
Rivoli—The Sex Thief (SR); Belindo (SR) 1 50
Showcase Cinema I— Death Wish (Para) 350
Showcase Cinema II— That's Entertainment!
(UA), 4th wk 115
Showcase Cinema III— Buster and Billie (Col) ... .100
Showcase Cinema IV Colifornio Split (Col) 250
Webster The Chinese Mechanic (SR);
The Mandarin Mogicion (SR) 75
Oct. 1 Environmental
Rules Include Airers
HARTFORD—New Connecticut regulations,
going into effect October 1. are expected
to have a major impact on future
construction, including proposals for drivein
theatres.
As approved by the legislature, developers
will be required to obtain State Department
of Environmental Protection approval before
breaking ground for any facility that
could cause air pollution— either directly
or indirectly.
The developers must show that their
projects will not air bring quality below
minimum federal limits.
The regulations are applicable to highways,
shopping centers, parking garages,
sports complexes such as racetracks, drivein
theatres, restaurants, amusement parks,
airports and major industrial complexes.
Peter Perakos Jr. Hopes
To Represent New Britain
NEW BRITAIN—Peter Perakos jr., assistant
general manager, Perakos Theatres
Associates, which operates hardtops and
drive-ins throughout Connecticut, is back in
the political limelight.
He is running as a candidate for the
Legislature on the Republican ticket, seeking
to represent the 24th district (New Britain).
Perakos, a lifelong Republican is a former
city treasurer of New Britain.
JLC President Takes
OverFUfhThealre
HARTFORD—Murry J.
Levine, national
president of Jerry Lewis Cinemas, has taken
over his fifth Connecticut exhibition prop-
ty-
Hooker Enterprises, Inc., of which Levine,
a West Hartford resident, is president,
has assumed management of the 350-seat
JLC in the Suffield Village Shopping Plaza,
Suffield. which had been operated by attorney
H. Meade Alcorn and associates for the
past 2-and-a-half years.
Levine will continue to operate, under
various business identities, the JLC, Canton;
Avon Park North and South theatres. Avon:
the Queen Plaza Cinema, Southington.
In other JLC developments in Connecticut.
Walter Buell is expecting to open a 350-
seater. under construction in the Federal-
Seven Shopping Plaza, New Milford. by
January 1.
A twin JLC is to be built this fall in the
K-Mart Shopping Plaza. Cromwell. Overall
seating capacity will be 800.
Levine said that a franchise-operator for
the Cromwell development has not yet been
selected.
He added that "several new projects"
are under consideration for other sites in
Connecticut this year.
BOXOFFICE :: September 16. 1974
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BOSTON
Qur oldtime friend Ken Mayer, Boston
Herald writer, had a recent column
headed 'Some Luck Helps in Show Business."
It dealt mainly with incidents about
the Boston Universal exchange, including
notes about Bill Scully, well remembered
and idolized by many on Filmrow. Bill,
then executive vice-president and general
manager of Universal, screened a picture.
"The Egg and I." starring Claudette Colbert
and Fred MacMurray, and with Percy Kilbride
and Marjorie Main as supporting
actors. Bill eventually made stars of Percy
and Marjorie (the Ma and Pa Kettle series)
and the success of the Kettle series enabled
the company to go big time. It continues so
today with "The Sting." "The Girl From
Petrovka." etc. By the way. Billy Scully, now
retired, lives in Portland in Maine, his home
state.
Tom Duffy, Littleton Twin cinemas head
man. in company with his wife Corrine.
headed toward the Cape for a holiday tour,
finally stopping at Falmouth and living it
up for a few days at the summer home of
George Foster, his assistant manager.
George took his guests on a tour of the interesting
spots of the Cape in the Falmouth
area. Young and lively Dale Morrison, daytime
general assistant at the cinemas, also
went down for a visit and helped George
cut down several old elm trees, chopping
them up for fireplace wood.
Bob Cheren, 20th Century-Fox branch
manager, had a sneak preview of their new
release. "Harry and Tonto." at the Ben Sack
Cheri Cinema Saturday. August 31. and
the next day. According to comment after
the showing. Art Carney was terrific in his
first starring role in films. Tonto, the cat.
also got rave comments as patrons were
leaving.
Jerry Kravitz, genial booker at Columbia,
left his group of accounts to companion
booker Rita and took off for a trip to unrevealed
places as a part of his annual vacation.
CORRECTION: In a recent item in this
column, two lines got switched and the information
came out wrong. The way it
should have been: Bob Abbate was welcomed
to Boston's film district when he
joined the Paramount office's booking department,
as part of his sales trainee course
—not Harvey Appell's American International
Pictures branch. Sorry, Bob!
Judson Freed's Parker Square Movie
House brought back the 1929 version of
Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, "Blackmail."
made in the era when talkies just were
breaking in. Kevin Kelly, Boston Globe
movie critic, ran a half page review and a
picture of Hitchcock in covering the booking.
Michael Turner, manager of Cinemetter
Corp.'s Maine Coast cinemas at Ellsworth,
attracted top attention with one of his promotions
for his showing of "The Exorcist."
His cashier Debby Tracy is a licensed practical
nurse, working parttime at the cinema
and Debby consented to wear her nurse uniform
during the run of the picture. The
stunt created a lot of interested comment;
fortunately, only one patron needed the
practical assistance of nurse Tracy.
Charles Forbes, the young-as-you-feel
house manager of the Davis brothers' Needham
Cinema, had a busy Labor Day weekend,
greeting the army of youngsters and
parents at his special four-day. Friday-
Monday matinee program, consisting of an
on-stage live magic show, including several
TV acts of magic.
Bob Zeitz is well known to everyone in
the film district from the days when he
owned theatres in the New Bedford area.
Now Bob lives in Florida, supposedly in retirement,
but more active than ever as
managing director, film buyer and booker
for Sun Coast Cinemas at Sarasota. He got
a nice write-up in the Sarasota Journal,
showing Bob in his 1927 Bugatti, with the
story telling how Bob became a racing-car
buff. It was a full-page story, including two
photos showing Bob sitting at the wheel and
quotes as to where he has been displaying
his Bugatti. a fair weather car—no top. no
windows, no doors. Bob's friends in this
area were pleased to hear what he is doing
these days. Furthermore, the full-page Sarasota
story is hanging in the AIP office for
all of his old friends to see and read.
'Pippi' Series Scoring
Big for Nick Russo
BO.STON—"Nick Russo is a man who
says he'd like to give the Walt Disney people
a run for their money." wrote Otile Mc-
Manus, Boston Globe staffer, in a recent
issue. "To that end the Boston-based film
distributor paid $2 million for four Swedish
films about a dauntless, redheaded 8-yearold
with pigtails named Pippi Longstocking."
The McManus article about Russo continues
in full:
The first in the series, "Pippi Longstocking,"
had 2,500 play dates last year in theatres
across the country and grossed almost
$4 million. Its sequel, "Pippi in the South
Seas," opens in the Boston area tomorrow
and has already scored at boxoffices in cities
like Houston where it premiered in June.
Russo, who's worked in
the film industry
for more than 20 years starting as a publicity
man for David O. Selznick, found
Pippi in 1970.
His company, G.G. Communications, had
been distributing movies which he puts in
the category of "losers"—movies with names
like "Boy of Two Worlds."
"They were nice movies but I learned you
can forget the movie audience after they
hit 30." Russo said. "The audience goes all
the way down to 4-year-olds and I was in
no position to compete with 'A Clockwork
Orange.' "
When the second Pippi picture finishes
its run, Russo hopes to have paid for his
package. He also has plans in the works for
marketing Pippi Longstocking merchandise.
"Watches, coloring books, records, dolls,
doll clothes, you name it," he said. "The
first batch of watches sold out just like that.
They came from Switzerland, same as the
Spiro Agnews."
While Russo is a shrewd businessman
who knows the value of a good property,
he also believes in his character, Ms. Longstocking—
played on the screen by Inger
Nilssen.
"She is the first good female heroine since
Shirley Temple. In fact she's better than
Shirley Temple. She's precocious. She's not
afraid of anything. She's your first Women's
Lib child. She does what every child fantasizes
they can do."
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SPRINGFIELD
Quena Vista's "Herbie Rides Again." playing
at American Multi Cinema's Mountain
Farms Mall, Hadley quadplex. benefitted
from one of the most extensive exhibiliM-hiisincss
tie-ups in recent western
Mass.i.hiis.lis iiKlustrv history. Northampton
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in the comedy) participated in a drawing
for a "Herbie Junior" car and to two runners-up,
awarded bicycles. Finally, to the
first 25 Volkswagen owners taking a test
drive on either of two designated Saturdays
at the dealership. Northampton Volkswagen
gave two free tickets to see the Buena Vista
release.
The Springfield city council sub-committee
studying traffic problems relative to a
proposed expansion of Eastfield Mall (which
includes the General Cinema Corp. Eastfield
Mall) plans to submit a report soon. The
Rouse Co.. owner of the mall, is seeking a
zone change to authorize expansion for a
J.C. Penney store and 20 specialty shops.
Mall expansion is opposed by area residents,
who contend that a zone change would
cause even heavier traffic in an already
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Says All-Male Conn. Jury
HARTFORD— In another victory for
Connecticut exhibition, an all-male jury, in
Connecticut circuit court, has found the
motion picture, "Deep Throat," not obscene.
The verdict comes eight months after
Vernon police seized a print showing at the
Rockville Theatre I, operated by William
Elliott jr.
Elliot remarked: "We're delighted we
won. It's going to set a big precedent."
The trial was second in 1974 to determine
whether the motion picture had violated
Connecticut state statutes. Last April, a jury
of four men and two women found the film
obscene but a new trial was ordered when
it was learned the court stenographer had
not been properly sworn in.
Alvin Pudlin, attorney for the Elliot interests,
presented two "expert" witnesses
at the most recent trial, their testimonv
likening "Deep Throat" to social comedy,
such as the late Laurel & Hardy films.
Dr. John H. Felber, a West Hartford
psychiatrist, remarked: ".Social comedies
provide entertainment and a chance for
tired businessmen to relax in the evening."
William Collins, the court's assistant
prosecutor, in his jury summation, stressed
that the jury did not need experts to tell
them what was obscene.
"All I have to do," he said, "is show you
the film. It is certainly not Laurel & Hardy
and it's not something I walked away from
with a chuckle."
Mrs. Elsie G. Widem
HARTFORD— Mrs. Elsie G. Widem, 76.
mother of Allen M. Widem, veteran Boxoffice
area correspondent, died August 14
at St. Francis Hopsital following a heart
attack. She also leaves her husband Peter;
another son I. Milton Widem of Hartford;
her daughter Mrs. Ben Schwartz, Chicago;
a brother, three sisters and seven grandchildren.
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Y^e House of Zodiac. Norwalk, which
caters to the young adult eating-anddrinking
trade, is now screening motion
pictures on a "No Cover" policy Monday
nights at 8:30. A recent attraction was Universal's
"Torn Curtain." 1966 release directed
by Alfred Hitchcock and co-starring
Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.
The trade was saddened to hear of the
death of William J. Heineman at 74. A frequent
New Haven Filmrow visitor, back in
the days when this city was an exchange
center. Bill had been in the industry for
more than 50 years, his career dating back
to a job as booker for the old Pathe Co.
in 1918. He was later with First National,
WB Classics of Screen. Universal. Goldwyn,
United World. J. Arthur Rank, Eagle Lion
Classics and UA, in 1967 becoming an
independent producer and exhibitor. Bill's
presence traditionally brightened the annual
golf outing of the Connecticut exhibitors"
association.
'Pippi' Series Scoring
Big for Nick Russo
(Continued from page NE-2)
Based on books by Astrid Lindgren which
m.ide Time Magazine's ten best list for
children's literature, the movies illustrate
thai a little girl can be as fearless, highspirited
and adventuresome as a little boy.
When he discovered that the Pippi films
were yielding the second highest gross in
Europe, he arranged to purchase the rights
for American distribution from Beta Films,
a West-German company.
"It was two years of long negotiation."
Russo recalled. "But it was worth it."
In Pippi's newest screen adventure, she
and two friends rescue her sea captain father
from a pirate prison on a South Sea island.
They fly a balloon, build an airplane, hijack
a boat and deal with the blood-thirsty band
of pirates with aplomb.
New Haven Showcase Five
Robbed of $6,000 Cash
NEW HAVEN—Two men robbed Ronald
Barraco, manager of Showcase cinemas
I-II-III-IV-V of about $6,000 and escaped
in Barraco's car shortly after the complex
closed late one night.
Barraco told police that two men. one
armed with a knife, took the theatres' receipts
from him as he walked to his car at
about 1 a.m. The two robbers then escaped
in Barraco's car. police said.
Barraco had called for police escort shortly
before the robbery but apparently decided
not to wait.
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Canadian Filmmakers
Like Quota Proposal
WINNIPHG— The proposal hy Leonard
Evans, Manitoba's industry minister, that
theatre owners show a 10 to 15 per cent
annual quota of Canadian films has evoked
criticism from the province's exhibitors. He
has the support, however, of some of the
nation's filmmakers.
1 en Klady, chairman of the Winnipeg
Film Group (approximately 25 people working
in motion picture-related areas) has
called Evans' proposal "a very important
step toward a viable Canadian film industry."
Director Peter Pearson ("Paperb.ick'
Hero"), president of the Directors
Ciuild of Canada and chairman of the Canadian
Council of Filmmakers, called Evans'
aciion "an incredibly courageous move."
Goal Now Possible
Ihe suggestion, Klady said, would have
been unreasonable six years ago but since
the formation of the Canadian Film Development
Corp. the goal is possible. Nevertheless,
the theatre owners of Canada are
reluctant to change the present domination
h\ U.S. films, which has prevailed for 50
years, according to Klady. and "have thrown
some misleading figures to support their
contention that a Canadian quota wouldn't
work."
More than 40 Canadian films were made
in 1^>73 and about a dozen were shown in
W innipeg. Some, particularly some Quebec
films, according to Klady, would not have
,1 local audience, while others couldn't be
shown because of the distribution and exhibition
system. He added that U.S. distributors
can show "second-rate films because
the\ have blockbusters such as 'The Exorcist'
or 'Blazing Saddles.' Eliminating appeal
would give audiences a chance at both 'The
Sting' and good Canadian films such as "Between
Friends.' "
'Means More Productions'
Declared Klady, "A quota means more
productions. More productions provide more
jobs and artists working more often. This
can only make the industry healthier. This
would produce more commercial films,
which is what the industry wants."
Initially, he pointed out. it might mean
a loss of several million dollars for distributors
and exhibitors, but he said that in a
few years the effect would make the quota
of Canadian films a money-making proposition
rather than an obligation.
In a telephone interview from Toronto.
Pe.irson said Manitoba's lead in considering
a quota of Canadian films is a good step
toward a national adoption of the idea. He
declared that Manitoba's lead in considering
a quota of Canadian films is a good step
toward a national adoption of the idea, and
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S.I id he recognized that Manitoba couldn't
]n^tltute such a policy on its own, that an
IS to 24-month phase-in period would be
required before a quota could be implemented
realistically.
Eighty per cent of film profits are exported,
with too little plowed back into
Canadian film production. Pearson said. Between
1963 and 197.^ Canada moved to
second place (behind Italy) in the profitability
lists for U.S. films shown outside the
U.S. In 1963 Canada was the sixth most
profitable foreign market for U.S. films, he
said, and Canada has less than half the population
of the other leading markets for
U.S. films.
A U.S. motion picture repays its investors
after its boxoffice earnings reach two and a
half times the film's budget. A Canadian
film must make five times its budget at the
boxoffice before the investment is recovered,
Pearson asserted.
"it is hard to think of a precedent, industrial
or agricultural, where the producer is
paid last. In the film business, because the
multinational octopus controls all phases of
the industry, producers are paid last," he
explained.
Kiemanus Film Services
Owner-Operator of CFS
MONTREAL— Contractors' Film Service
is now wholly owned and operated as a division
of Kiemanus Film Services, a Canadian
corporation. CFS will continue to maintain
business offices at Suite 2005, 6630 Sherbrooke
St. West. Montreal, Que. H4B 1N7.
The telephone number remains (514) 487-
1032 and. for customers' convenience, a
second line has been installed, (514) 487-
1017.
Leonard K. "Len" Jones is now employed
under contract by the company in the capacity
of private adviser to the president. A
past first vice-president of the Quebec
branch of the Canadian Picture Pioneers,
in Len's experience the service field now
approaches the half-century mark.
Jones, who celebrated his 65th birthday
June 20, 1974. has played a great part in
the success of CFS. Considering it important
that the business continue, not withstanding
his retirement as the sole owner,
Len negotiated a contract with Kiemanus
Film Services, represented by his eldest son,
Michael L. K. Jones, chairman and president,
to insure continuity of customer service.
Appointed manager, effective July 18.
was M. Edward Yaworsky, who is wellknown
to the motion picture industry. His
qualifications include more than 30 years
in
the business.
In addition, Allan H. Scope, chartered
accountant, has been appointed as independent
public auditor for 1974 by the
board of directors.
Jones, KLS president, announced to the
industry, "We are particularly proud of our
association with you and extend our sincere
thanks for your continued interest in Contractors'
Film Service. As a growth company
in the business of service, we will continue
to expand and prosper. We are.
therefore,
pledged to cooperate with you to the
best of our ability. We also will continue to
seek new opportunities and should you feel
there is any way we can improve our service,
please drop me a line. I will be personally
grateful to hear from you."
United Artists' "The Man With The
Golden Gun," is the ninth James Bond film.
'Boat' World Premiere
Sept. 26 in Montreal
MONIREAL- "Why Rock the Boat?",
the National Film Board's new feature
comedy about the newspaper business, will
have its world premiere here Thursday (26)
and in the following weeks it will open in
eight other cities from 'Vancouver to Halifax,
an imprccedented launching for a Canadian
movie. Directed by John Howe, "Why
Rock the Boat'.'" is based on William Weintraub's
critically acclaimed novel of the
same name.
After the invitational premiere, the piclure
will begin its Montreal run at the
Avenue Theatre Friday (27). October 10
it will open in Calgary and October 1 1 it
will begin runs in Toronto, Ottawa. Hamilton.
Winnipeg. Edmonton and Vancouver.
November 1 it will open in Halifax.
No other Canadian feature film has ever
been booked into so many key cities across
the country in advance of its release, according
to Harvey Harnick, general manager of
Columbia Pictures of Canada, which is distributing
the film.
"Why Rock the Boat?" stars Stuart Gillard,
Tiiu Leek and Ken James. The story
is set in the Montreal of 1947 and deals
with the adventures of Harry Barnes, a
young man with two major problems—howto
hang onto his job and how to lose his
detested virginity.
Filming was done on location in Montreal
and in the Laurentian Mountains, as well
as on NFB's big sound stage here, where a
full-scale newspaper city room was built.
James de B. Domville was executive producer,
with Maica Gillson as associate producer.
Earl Preston was production designer;
Savas Kalogeras, director of photoggraphy;
Jean Savard, production manager;
Philippa Wingfield, costume designer, and
Ashlev Murray, assistant director.
Eraser Relief Manager Is
Abducted, Robbed by Thugs
VANCOUVE R—George Mah. relief
manager at the Eraser Theatre. 6294 Eraser,
was abducted by two men Sunday, August
25, while on his way to deposit the theatre's
receipts in a bank's night vault. The thieves
took the deposit bag containing $930 and
Mah's wallet with approximately $100.
Mah. who is 26. told investigating officers
he parked his car outside a nearby branch
of the Bank of Montreal at approximately
10:40 p.m. and was about to put his key in
the
deposit vault when he heard a man running
toward him.
With a switchblade knife pressed into his
right side. Mah was forced into his car while
another man climbed behind the wheel. The
two men drove away but abandoned the
automobile and Mah. The bandits fled on
foot down the 700 block of East 26th.
WASHINGTON, PA.—-Two gunmen
drove up to the office of the Route 19
Drive-In, told the manager, "Give us the
money or we'll blow your head off," and
escaped with about $1,000.

That's
'Sting/ Blazing Saddles Maintain
Excellent' Pace in Winnipeg Runs
WINNIPEG— Business
continued steady.
with five holdover bookings retaining an
"excellent" rating. Amazing boxoffice consistency
has been shown by "The Sting" and
"Blazing Saddles" throughout Winnipeg
runs which now have reached their tenth
and fifth months, respectively. "Death
Wish" showed real boxoffice power, giving
the Metropolitan a "very good" first week,
while relative newcomers "Frankenstein"
and "Conrack" maintained their steady
grossing paces.
Capitol Fronkenstein (Astral), 2nd w
Garrick I—My Nome Is Nobody (Unh
.Excellent
7th
.Excellent
-The Three Musketeers (BVFD),
9th wk
Excellent
Grant Pork Pippi in the South Seas (GGC) . .Average
King's—The Sting (Univ), 36th wk Excellent
Metropolitan Deoth Wish [Para) Very Good
I North Star Entertainment! (UA),
3rd wk Excellent
North Stor Conrack (BVFD), 2nd wk. .Very Good
II .
Odeon— Thunderbort and Lightfoot (UA),
9th wk
Good
Park Blozing Saddles (WB), 22nd wk Excellent
Polo Park Chinatown (Para), 9th wk Good
Tourists in Calgary Help
Build First-Run Grosses
CALGARY—Weather and tourism combined
to provide favorable conditions for
motion picture exhibitors in the report
week and another cluster of "excellent"
gross ratings resulted. Among the new pictures
sharing in the good times were "Ride
in a Pink Car," "Huckleberry Finn" and
"Return of the Dragon," although it would
be difficult to find three pictures aimed at
more diverse tastes.
Calgary Place 1— Uptown Saturday Night (WB),
5th wk Excellent
Calgary Place 2—S*P*Y*S (BVFD), 4th wk Good
Chinook Herbie Rides Again (BV), 6th wk. .Excellent
Grand 1 The Three Musketeers (BVFD),
8th wk Excellent
Grand 2— Mr. Majestyk (UA), 3rd wk Excellent
North Hill Return of the Dragon (Astral) . .Excellent
Odeon Huckleberry Finn (UA) Excellent
Palace Death Wish (Para), 2nd wk Excellent
Palliser Square Chinatown (Para),
1
8th wk Excellent
Palliser Square 2 Mame (WB), 7th wk. ...Excellent
Towne Blue Not Now, Darling (AFD),
5th wk Excellent
Towne Red Macon County Line (Astral),
5th wk Excellent
Uptown For Pete's Soke 4th wk. Excellent
(Astral), 1
Uptown 2 The Sting (Univ), 34th wk Excellent
Westbrook 3— Ride in a Pink Cor (AFD) .
Late Summer BC Heat Wave
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Sends Patrons to Beaches
VANCOUVER—Sizzling heat, which
drove everyone with a car to the beaches
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C ALG ARy
Jim McLaughlin, manager of Victoria Shipping
Services here, and his wife spent
a week at Spokane's Expo "74. They said
they "went everywhere and saw everything
and were really impressed with the world's
fair."
Tiie Jasper Cinema, Edmonton, has been
twinned and now is known as Cinema Red
and Cinema Blue. Following the theme of
blue and red, the Towne Cinema theatre
group ran a big ad in the Edmonton Journal
highlighted by the two patriotic colors. The
kickoff picture in Jasper Blue was "Macon
County Line," starring ,\lan Vint and Cheryl
Waters. Jasper Red started with Mel Brook's
"Blazing Saddles," starring, among others,
Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.
Another small-town theatre has been
closed. M. Montemurro of the Hinton Theatre,
Hinton, has announced that he no longer
will carry on in the business but will
devote his time to other interests.
Eileen Dobson of Universal Films received
word from England that her mother
died Thursday. August 22. Sincere sympathy
goes to Eileen and her family at this time
from her friends in the motion picture business.
Studio 82 here presented a special German-language
engagement August 18-20.
The double bill was headed by "Der Blaue
Nachtfalter." starring Zarah Leander. "Ludwig
auf Frciersfuben" was the second half
of the bill. The Alberta Censor Board rated
the program "adult."
Julie Pidhimey is walking slowly and
tenderly for at least a few days. She had
minor surgery on both feet (big toes). As
Julie puts it. "It's not serious but it's sure
sore!"
Four Canadian circuit theatres in
Edmonton
played Bruce Lee's last kung fu picture
on a day-and-date basis—the Mcadowlark.
Capilano, Plaza Two and Twin Drive-In 2.
Opening August 23, "Return of the Dragon"
was rated "adult—not suitable for children"
by the censor board.
An unexpected result of the Arts and You
Festival held in Red Deer in May was the
filming of a group of young local dancers.
The National Film Board, which discovered
the young Ukranian and Highland dancers,
will feature them as stars in a movie titled
"Music in Canada." The filming was done
in downtown Red Deer when the nimblefooted
thespians gave a repeat performance
of their festival presentation. A crowd of
approximately 300 gathered to watch the
lensing. Bryan Pederson, entertainment
chairman of the folk festival, coordinated
the 2S Highland and 16 Ukranian dancers.
The movie will be shown this coming winter
on the CBC.
Shown recently in Edmonton in the Central
Public Library's series on drug addiction
and the nonmedical use of drugs were
"Man Isn't Dying of Thirst," "Darkness,
Darkness," "Beyond Kicks" and "Gale Is
Dead." Presented by the library's audiovisual
department, this entire series has
been open to the public at no admission
charge.
Don Purnell of Red Deer was in the exchange
recently doing some booking for his
various theatres.
If success can be measured by the
letters
behind a name, then Calgarian Walter Petrigo
has arrived! Walter, one-time shipper
for the old Empire Universal distributors,
now has M. Photog., CR.. M.P.A. and
F.R.P.S. behind his name and has become
Petrigo of Canada, Ltd. His works have
received worldwide recognition and he has
had shows in various international art galleries.
At the moment. Petrigo of Canada
(educational division) is offering "one-day
total-immersion courses in photography."
No doubt we will be hearing more about
Walter Petrigo in the future.
The culture of the Canadian prairies will
be emphasized in a graduate program in film
studies starting at the new University of
Regina, Regina, Sask. Terence Marner. assistant
professor, who was a driving force
in creating the course, says, "We want to
devise a program that's going to be of some
use to the Saskatchewan community. I think
we should be responsive to the prairies as
an environment and we are trying to gear
the program as much as possible to the
needs of the province. Films can help to
create a prairie identity." The emphasis on
making films concerning the prairies should
keep film students from moving away from
the West to other areas. Up until now, numbers
of students have had to go to eastern
Canada to obtain such courses. Marner
taught undergraduate film courses last year
when the new university was the Regina
campus of the University of Saskatchewan.
He said, "To my knowledge, no other film
program in either the universities or the
technical colleges will offer this type of program.
The program is going to produce
students with their feet firmly planted on
the ground.
The film course will be a two-year program
culminating in a master's degree in
visual arts with a film major. It will concentrate
on practical work and students will
learn most of the basic techniques during
the first semester. For the next two semesters,
the aspiring film producers will go out
to work with professional film companies
and TV stations across the prairies. The
wind-up semester wiU be spent working on
individual projects at the university campus.
According to Marner. about 80 per cent of
film students gravitate to TV productions.
Another innovation by Marner willbe teamwork
by the students to accustom them to
working as a unit. Most film schools do not
stress this method of work, although most
students to go into professional working
situations where filmmakers do labor as
teams or units. The first graduate program,
involving ten students, includes cinematography,
producing, directing and the history
of film. In the future, depending upon student
demand and the availability of staff,
animation courses may be added to the program.
Manitoba Quota System Is
Deplored by Paul Morton
WINNIPEG—Paul Morton, president of
the locally based Odeon-Morton circuit,
commenting on a suggestion made by Manitoba
Industry Minister Len Ev.ins that provincial
governments force theatres to show
Canadian films 10 to 15 per cent of the time,
declared that the country's film industry
"would be destroyed" by such a policy. "The
idea is ill-conceived." said Morton, adding
that to meet just a 10 per cent Canadian
content requirement, a total of 40 Canadian
motion pictures would have to be shown in
one year in Winnipeg.
Morton asserted that only 12 Canadian
films "of varying quality" were available this
year.
Gunter Henning, local filmmaker, echoed
Morton's reaction, adding that governments
instead should legislate tax incentives to
make investing in Canadian films more attractive.
'Mirrors to the Sun' Shown
For Members of BC Press
VANCOUVER—Last year the British
Columbia Department of Travel Industry
produced a documentary film on the province
titled "Island Eden." The filmmakers
were Norman Keziere, director-cameraman
for the film and photographic branch of
the government; Ernie Perrault, film writer
and novelist, and Gordon Grant, film editor.
By year's end the trio had ten national and
international awards for "Island Eden."
The trio this year hopes to repeat its success
with "Mirrors to the Sun," a new documentary
on the southern interior of British
Columbia that was given a special press
showing recently.
"Mirrors to the Sun" has received official
approval by Provincial Secretary Ernie Hall.
It doesn't really matter. With or without his
sanction, it would stand as an interesting
and different sort of travel film, according
to press critics.
Columbia's "California Split." produced
by Robert Altman and Joseph Walsh, was
directed by Altman from Joseph Walsh's
screenplay.
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Patronage; A2—Unobjectionable for Adults or Adolescents A3— Unoblectionoble for Adults;
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++ Very Good; + Good; - Fair; - Poor; = Very Poor. the IS rated 2 pluscj, - as 2 minuses
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4711 Act of Vetijeance
(90) Sex-Ac AlP 8-12-74 B) C
4710 Amazing Grace (99) C..UA 7-29-74 El Al
Angel, The (129) ® D .. . .Prommitr
4699 Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravltz, The
5-20-74
(121) ® D Para 6-24-74 PG A4
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2+1-
1+1-
4707 Education of Sonny
(105) PI D
4704 11 Harrowhouse
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son. The
Para 7-22-74 (H
7- 8-74 PG
irious producers 7- 8-74
4701 Bank Shot (8S) Cr-C UA 7- 1-74 PG A3
4686 Beast Must Die. The
(93) ® Ho CRC 5- 6-74 PG A3
4720 Benji (100) C-D Mulberry Sq. 9-9-74 H
4680 Biblel (84) Sex C Poolemar 4-15-74 (»
4713 Big Bad Mama
(87) Cr-Melo. New World 8-19-74 [fl
4690 Blacli Connection— Run, Nigger, Rua
(87) Cr Boxoffice Int'l 5-20-74 B
Black Eye (98) My WB 4-29-74 PG 4684 A4
Black
Holiday
(110) b&w Hi New Yorker 4-29-74
4713 Black Samson (90) Ac.WB 8-19-74 E
3+5-
5+2-
2+
1+
2+
Face of Another (124)
Melo Rising Sun Enterprises 6-24-74
Films by ArtisU (81)
Shorts ...Films by Artists Pgm. 5-20-74
C 4704 For Petes Sake (90) Col 7- 8-74 PG A3
4677 Foxy Brown (94) Sex D AlP 4- 8-74 [Q C
4688 Frankenstein
(95) Ho-C 3-D Bryanston 5-13-74 (g) C
Frankenstein and Monster
4705 the
Hell Bl from (93) Ho Para 4-15-74 B
4716 Free Woman. A (100) D, New Yorker, 8-26-74
Black
Socks
(83) b&w & CS Six C Cine Probe 4-22-74 (^
4686 Black Windmill, The
(106) ® Ac Univ 5- 6-74 PG A3
4701 Bootleggers. The (110) Ac .
7- 1-74 PG
4711 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
(112) Ac UA 8-12-74 ia
4707 Bunny Caper, The (90) Sex C ..GFC 7-22-74
4699 Buster and Billie (100) D ....Col 6-24-74 H B
4668 Bustint (92) (B Ac-D UA 3- 4-74 H B
4678 Butley (127) C-D AFT 4- 8-74 Q
4715 California Split (111) C-D Col 8-26-74 H +
4691 Captain Kronos: Vampire Huntir
(91) Ho-Ad ® Para 5-27-74 H A3 +
4710 Castaway Cowboy, The
(91) Ad-C BV 7-29-74 83 +
4676 Catch My Soul (95) M-D ....CRC 4- 1-74 PG A3 -f
4695 Centerfold Girls, The
(92) Sus Melo General Film 6-10-74 El +
. . Ceremony, The (122) D New Yorker 3- 4-74 A3 +
UCharioU of the Gods!
(98) Dm Sun Infl 3-IS-74 gS Al -|-
Charulata
(112) D R.D. Bansal Prods. 8-26-74 +
4703 Chinatown (130)

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AMERICAN FILMS tTO.
©A Time For Love (87) r Feb 74
Mck Jaaon, Jtne Meirow
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©Hollywood 90028 (90) Mir 74 ©Father Jackleo (97) .C..AU0 74
Oirlstopher Aufcustlne
Jack Palance
©Moonchlld (90) ...M>y74 ©When Women Lost 1
May 74
Victor Buono. John Carradlne
(95)
©Shriek of the Mutilated
©ro''F.,''l'rlkM93)..CW..Sep.74
(92) "»»'^
Mark Damon, John Ireland
Alan Brock
©How Come Nohody's on
Our SIdet (88) *"» 74 GENERAL FILM CORP.
Adam Rnarke
©The Centerfold Girls
©No Place to Hide (86) ..Sept 74 (92)
Sus..Au5 74
Sylvester Stallone. Antony Paee Andrew Prtne. Tiffany Boiling
©The Bunny Caper (90) C. Aug 74
AMERICAN ntM THtATRE
(^rlstlna Hart. .lane Anthony
©Mother Courage
©The Zebra Killer (90) 0.. Aug 74
©Galileo
©The Man In the Glass Booth
©In Celebration
©F Lollipop
ATLAS FILMS
©Crypt of the Llvlno Dead
(Bl) Ho. .
©Slamplno Ground (83) D
AUDUBON FILMS
©Score (89) Sex C. Apr. 74
©Blood Queen (95) Ac.
©Nloht of the Executioners Ac.
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©Let Me Love You Sex p._
©LMmaue Sept 74
JOSEPH BRENNER
©Torso (90) D--
Siisip Krndall
©The Winners (95) .
.Top Steward^on
fv>Crv Rape (94) Melo..July74
Tiplcn Anders. Klaus Ixiwitsoh.
Wthur Kraiis
JviSex Life of a Private Eye
(89)
nilliHrl
GHly
CAMBIST FILMS
©Wide Open Marrlaoe
flrant
(87) C. Oct 74
Elisabeth Vnlkman
©1001 Danish DellBhts
(85) C, Sep 73
CAPITAL PRODUCTIONS
©SuperManChu (90) ..Ac. Dec 73
©The Sexordsts (90) Sex D. July 74
Leich Heine. SIna Taylor
©The Gift of the Forest
(100) Sept 74
©Blood Waters of Dr. Z
(92) Ho June 74
(Reviewed as "Zaat")
©Mistress Pamela (91) . J
.lullan Barnes, Ann Michelle
©Persecution (90)
. 74
Lana Turner. Trevor TTnward
©Gosh (83) Sex C June 74
Sharon Kelly
©Execution Squad
(90) Ac Sus Jul 74
©Violated (90) Sus. Sep 74
FILM-MAKERS INrL
©Love Comes Quietly June 74
Barbara Seagull, Ralph Meeker
©You and Me (96) June 74
David Carradlne.
Richard (Thadboume Tl
©A Country Mile Nov 74
David and Bobby Carradlne
Austin Stoker
©A Woman For All Men
^(93) Sus..Au5 74
Keenan Wvnn * . ^.
©Showgirl
S'S^'Z^
©Friday Foster D 74
.
©Cactus in the Snow
„ , . ,.
(90)
D.. Sept 74
©Linda Lovelace . - -,,
for President C. Dec 74
Linda
I^velace
GIANT 4 ENTERPRISES
©Seven Wonders of the West
^(97) Doe.. Jin 74
©Ground Zero (90) ..Ac-O.Feb 74
Melvln Belli, Ron Casteel
GOLDSTONE ENTERPRISES
©The Godmothers (80) Jan 74
Mlekey Rooney. Frank Fontaln*
Rel.
Dite
Sex Ttiief
®%='". '.".'!' SB. C. Apr 74
David Wartieck. Diane Keen
. . .
©Christina (98) Melo. .June74
Barbara Parkinj
,„„. ij
©The Thirsty Dead (90) June 74
©Don't Turn tl-
Other Cheek Aim 74
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
©Th^^Hanging Woman ^^ ^^^ 74
Stanley Cooper, Vlckl Nestiitt
©Fifty Foot
(90) Sm. June 74
. .
L-T FILMS
.
g1^!;!ir?odr7Ii7) ...June 74 ©God Damn Dr. Shageti ,...Ho.
Alain Noury, Doris Kunstmann
.lames Keach, MIchele Marsh
©Blonde Connection
(84) *"" MONARCH RELEASING
,Ii,dy Winter. Werner Petere
©Mrs. Barrington (86) Sex C May 74
©Now 1$ Forever (.) .0.. Oct 74
©Pot! Parents! Police!
NEV^ YORKER FILMS
June 74
(89)
Black Holiday (110) "I'-
„
Phil Pine. Madelyn Keen
©Partner (105) D Apr 74
©In Love Again (80) Sept 74
Chuck Roy. Judy C^irtla
OMNI PICTURES
©Specialty House
HARNELL INDEPENDENT
(78)
.Sex-Ac. Mar 74
PRODUCTIONS
©Saddle Tramp Women
f^Bed Bunnlef
(75) Sex-Ac .June 74
(92) Sex C. Jan 74 ©Black Starlet (85) ...D. Sep 74
':1Swinging Coeds
©Thunder McCoy '
*f
(89)
Sex C.Feb 74
S" ^^
©The Young Erotics Sex D.. Dec 74
QRunaviray Girls
©Savage Riders (90) ..Ac. Aug 74
(94)
Sex C. Mar 74
Pink Car
PARAGON PICTURES
©The House on Chelouche Street
nienn Corbett. Morgan Woodward (115) D..Apr74
(94) C. May 74
©The Girls Who Do C. Aug 74
.. ©Blood on the Sun ... Ac Apr 74
HEMISPHERE PICTURES
©Teach Me Sex C 74
©The Devil's Nightmare
©The Sinful Bed ..Sex C 74
Ho
(..) ©Naughty Nymphs Sex C Sept 74
©In the Devil's Garden
ELLMAN FILM ENT.
^^^ ^^
©Captive Female (93) D.
©Bad Companions Sept 74
©Campus Pussycats ..C. Mar 74
©Panorama Blue (83) Auj 74
©Throw Out the Anchor
r^Z.
....July 74
©Campus Swingers
(85) C. Sep 74
©Hay Country Swingers
C .Aun74
©Young Seducers Apr 74
ENTERTAINMENT PYRAMID
©Pornography and Prostitution in HOWCO INrL PICTURES
©Bootleggers, The (110) Ac. Apr 74
the Orient (80) Sex Doc Feb 74
Mil Anthnnv Haroivka
Pa\il Koslo
Slim Pickens,
Lee.
©Plaything the Devil
«„»©Where the Red Fern Grows
of
Ad Mar 74
(97) (90) Sex-Ho July74
©The
Beverly Garland
.I.imes Whltraore.
Black Alley Cats
Anna Gael
9 Rebel (84)
Mark Damon
©Legend nf
(85)
Bwa Aulln
Bio
INDEPENDENT INTT.
©Women For Sale
(86) Sex D. Dec 73
Robert Woods, Veronlque Vendell
©The Naughty Stewardesses
(102) Sex D,.Anr 74
Bob Livingston, Connie Hoffman
©Girls For Rent . . . ,.
(85) Sex-Ac. Aug 74
Oeorgina Spelidn.
Kent Taylor
INISH KAE, LTD.
©Memories Within Miss Aggie (74) _^^
Sex D "'y 74
.NTERNATIONAL AMUSEMENT
©House of Seven Corpses
(88) Ho.. Jan 74
.lohn Ireland, John Carradlne
©Neither the Sea nor the Sand
(91) D. Jan 74
Susan Hampehlre, Frank Flnlay
©Le Grand Dadais (84) D..Feb 74
E\a Kenll, Jacques Perrln
©Dracula's Great Love
Paul Naachy. Haydee PoUto
©Vampire's Night Orgy
(80) Ho
IilaJilk Znrakoireka
©Redneck (88)
Sus
Telly Savalas. Mark Lester
INT'L PRODUCERS _ . ,^
©Sweet Sixteen! (90) Sex C Apr 74
©The Hard Sell (90) Sex C May 74
©Naughty Nymph^^
^ . . . .j„„. 74
©The Love Keys (90) Sex C Jul 74
©I, A Demon .... Ho
. Aug 74
©Sinsuous Wives Sex C 74
. . .
LEVITT-PICKMAN
©Henry VIII and His Six WivK
(125) HI.. Apr 74
Keith Mlchell. Donald Pleasence
©Big Zapper (93) Apr 74
l.lnda Marlowe
.Jul
©The Groove Tube (75)
74
Ken Shapiro
©Super Spook (103) Sep 74
LIMA PRODUCTIONS
©Little Miss Innocence
(80) I" ° i"'l^,
©Wet Lips (80) Sex D. Mar 74
POOLEMAR PRODUCTIONS
©Bible! (84) C. Apr 74
Genrglna SpelTin
PREMIERE RELEASING
©Mama's Dirty Girls (85) ..Apr 74
Gloria Orahame. Sondra Oiirrle
©Hiding Tall (86) June 74
Andrew Prtne
RE-MART INTT.
©Road of Death (80) Ac Feb 74
Carol (Connors, Joe )ianana
©Ride To Ecstasy
(70) Sex D.
©Young, Rich & Ripe
(72) Sex 0.
Carol (3onnor«
SCOTIA INTT.
©Death Wheelers (89) Ad
George Sanders
SEBASTIAN INTT.
©Gator Bait (92) Ac Feb 74
Claudia Jennings, Sam Gtlman
©Voyage of the Sandy
(105)
Rarry (Allien
SUN INT'L
©Tommy «us D.
©That Championship Season ... .0.
©The Black Bird C.
George Segal
©The Stepford Wives
Katharine Roai
©The Fortune
Jack Nicholson. Warren Beatty
©Breakout
©Birds Do It, Bees Do It
©Black Mass
©Cassandra Crossing
©Close Encounter of the
Third Kind
©Forfeit
©The Front
SF.
©It's Our World Too
©Jane
©Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit .
©Law and Disorder
©Mimi
©Snowbound
©Taxi Driver
©The 10-Second Jail Break
©White Hunter. Black Heart
©Agent No, 1
©Confessions of a Window
©Forti. Anzi Dcbolissimi
©Le Protecteur
©The Sex Symbol
©The Virnin Goddess
©Watch Out. We're Mad
DIMENSION
©KInfoIk (..) Ac
©Do You Kill Him or Do I?
(..) *e
©Carhops (. .) 0.
NEW WORLD
©Dynamite Jones Ac-D .
©Tender Loving Care C-D.
©Journey Into Fear
PARAMOUNT
©Sheila Lavlne ( . . )
©The Little Prince M ( . ) . .
©The Godfather. Part 11 (..) .D
Al Paclno. Diane Keaton
©Once Is Not Enough (..) ..Ad.
©The KUmsman 0.
( . ) .
Richard Burton, L« Marrtn
©The Day of the Locust ( . . ) D .
©Coon Skin (..) 0.
©The Filth Estate (..) D.
©The Last Tycoon (..) D.
©Le.db.ny (..) B
©Mandlngo (..) «
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©Murder on the Orient Express . .
Albert Finney
©North Delias Forty ( ) ....Ac
©The Other Side of Midnight . .
©Posse (. .) •*
©Ruby Red (..) 0.
ONashville ".
©Framed
©The Marathon Man D
©Life Ends At Forty
'iThe Hephaestus Plague
"Rradfnnl Dtllman. Joanna Miles
20TH-FOX
©Young Frankenstein
- - '
©The !nch Connection
74
©The Towering Inferno
Dec 74
I'aui'Nevvitran.' Steve McQueen
©Fat Chance (..) ""'
Mirhael Caine
qW. W. and the Dixie Dance
•
Kings (. )
Burt Reynolds
©At Long Last Love
©Lacombe, Luclen
©Ransom
:;•
©Lucky Lady **« •
Liia Mlnnelll
©Magna One :
©The French Connection II
^ rkm-an, Fernando Key
UNITED ARTISTS
©The Man With the Golden
Gun
©Lenny ( . . ) . •
linstin Hoffman
©The Voyage (
©Wheels (..)
©The Wilhy Conspiracy
©Report to the "
©Rancho Deluxe ( . .
©Rollerball ^-
James Caan. J(
©The Treasure ...(..)
• •
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©Rosebud
Peter O'TooIe
©Ssofthe West (MGM)
©The Wind and the Lion
(MGM—Columbia
co-production)
©Brannigan
.lohn Wayne
©Love and Death
Woody Allen. Diane Keaton
.©The Return of the
Pink Panther
I'l.ter Sellers
©The Manchu Eagle
©Visit to a Chief's Son
©The Offense
UNIVERSAL
©Earthquake ( •) , •
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Charlton Hcston, George Kennedy-
©The Sidecar Boys (. ) "'
©The Great Waldo Pepper
^^
Robert Redford. Susan Sarandon
©The Front Page (••)••••=•"
lack Lemmon, Walter Matthan
©The Hindenburg (•)•••*''
George C. Scott. Anne Bancroft
©The Eiger Sanction (.) ••«;•
nmt Eastwood
©Radioland Murders (- ) .-C-u.
©Maybcrly's Kill (.) «
Robert Redford
©One More Song (..) C-D.
©Airport 1975 (..) "
©Clearwater (..) • sj
©Rooster Coghum (.) **
John Wayne
©MacArthur (.) Jl-D
©Ja^ (•)
*'•§
©Bugsy (..)
©Great Scout and Cat-House
Thursday (.), :
V V ' tr
©Paradise Mountain (..) «
©The Other Side of the
Mountain (. )
©Appointment in Samarra
©Empress of the Blues
©Teenage Man
WARNER BROS.
©Barry Lyndon "
Ryan O'Neal
©The Dark Tower
cr.
Gene Ilackman
tbie and the Bean C.
©Prisoner of Second Avenue . C-D
©From Beyond
The Grave "»
!Rafferty and the
Gold Dust Twins (. .) C-D.
©The Yakuza ()•.••.•"
©Doc Savage ... The Man oi
Bronze (..) ., . *>•
©Alice Doesn't Live Here
Anymore (. "'''
)
©The Towering Inferno
Paul Newman. Stevi I McQueen
©The Verdict
©Hey Good Lookin' (. ) '
©The Bailbondsman
©Whiffs
©The Barony
©Dog Day Afternoon
©Sparkle -
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©Seven Men At Daybreak
©Lepkc
V- u
©The Master Touch
©The Satanic Rites of Dracula
.
©Welcome to Arrow Beach
©The Wicker Man
BOXOFTICE BookinGuide :: Sept, 16, 1974

Opinions on Current Productions
^EATURE REVIEWS
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PHASE IV
Paramount ( )
86 Minutes Rel. Sept. '74
Once in a while, a science-fiction film comes along,
exploring new worlds and ideas. Some, like "2001: A
Space Odyssey" and "The War of the Worlds, become
classics immediately. Others, like "The Porbin Project,
are almost totally ignored by all except the perceptive
filmgoer and sci-fi buff. Whether the latter will befall
Paramount's Alced Production "Phase IV" will depend
on the company's publicists and viewer word of mouth.
"Phase IV's" basic theme parallels that of "2001"; mankind's
evolution toward something different—m this
instance, a closer harmony with nature and a mutated
ant-world. No real explanation is given in Mayo Simon s
taut screenplay and none is really needed. Nigel Davenport
and Michael Mm-phy are excellent as the two
scientists standing on the rim of the unknown. The film's
real stars are the various ant species, caught in the most
remarkable sequences ever lensed by Ken Middleham
("The Hellstrom Chronicle"). So amazing are the images
on the screen and the picture's total effect that one is
shocked afterward to realize how few special effects there
are. With proper handling "Phase IV" should prove one
of fall's top pictures.
Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick,
Alan Gifford, Helen Horton, Robert Henderson
The Cry of the Black ffolves
Albert E. Rook
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William
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FEATURE REVIEWS Story Synopsis; Exploitips; Adiines for Newspapers and Programfe
THE STORY: "The Abdication" (WB)
Christina iLiv Ullmanm arrives in Rome expecting to
be embraced by the Pope. Instead, she faces Azzolino
iPeter Finch), a Cardinal assigned to test the veracity
of her Catholicism. Having abdicated her throne in order
to convert, Chi'istina refuses to answer questions concerning
the notorious debaucheries attributed to her. Gradually,
however, a trusting relationship develops between
them and Christina tells the priest of her childhood on
the thi-one from the age of six which left her virginal,
sexually confused and haunted by the responsibilities of
her power and gender. She professes love for her confessor
who returns her love with difficulty, he being raciced
by his own guilt over an affair some years earlier. When
the Pope's death becomes imminent, Cardinal Azzolino
must choose between the papacy or a pastoral exile with
Chi'istma as his lover. He chooses the Chui'ch.
EXPLOITIPS:
Invite a history professor to give a brief talk on Queen
Christina's abdication before the screening. Post screening
notices on history department bulletin boards at local
colleges. Radio and TV plugs also will be helpful.
CATCHLINES:
A Woman With a Profane Love . . . for a Man of God.
THE STORY: "Escape to Nowhere" (Peppercorn-
Wormser)
When a Russian scientific delegation visits London,
British Intelligence kimiaps scientist Lino 'Venturo and
reports him aead. M.I. 5 chief Leo Genn and interrogator
Robert Hardy know that Ventm-a is in reality a Frenchman
who was abQucted 16 years before by the Russians.
Offered freedom iir exchange for the names of British
defectors, Ventui-a realizes he'll be tracked by the Russian
KGB if he complies and insists on being sent back to
Russia. Helping the British, 'Ventura is then marked for
death. He's aided by Suzanne Flon. wife of an old friend,
then is briefly reunited with ex-wife Lea Massari, now
remarried and living in Grenoble. Hoping to exchange
Russian conductor Pierre-Michel Le Conte as a spy for
aid from the French, Ventura hides in the Swiss Alps as
Le Conte is captm'ed during a concert in Geneva.
Wounded, Ventura is returned to Russia.
EXPLOITIPS:
Point up the many European locations. Ventm-a was
seen here recently in "Money, Money, Money," "The
Valachi Papers" and "Three Tough Guys."
CATCHLINES
From Out Of Nowhere Comes The Surprise Suspense
Pictme Of The Year.
THE STORY: "Flesh Gordon" (Mammoth Fibns)
In the 1930s, the earth is hit by beams of a sex ray.
Prof. Gordon (John Hoyt», a top physicist, awaits the
arrival of his son Flesh (Jason Williams). En route.
Flesh's plane is hit by the sex rays and he and blonde
Dale Ardor (Suzanne Fields) become better acquainted.
Parachuting to safety, they meet Prof. Plexi Jerkoff
(Joseph Hudgins) and accompany him in his spaceship to
Porno, the planet sending out the rays. There, Emperor
Wang
< Hunt) presides over a constant palace
orgy and deals with the earthlings. Amora (Nora Wieternik).
Queen of Darkness, spirits Flesh away for a romantic
interlude. When she's killed. Flesh and the Professor
use her power pasties to rescue Dale from an
Amazon tribe. Prince Precious (Mycle Brandy), real ruler
of Porno, and his gay followers come to the aid of the
earth people and help defeat wicked Wang, who had designs
on Dale. A title promises a sequel, "The Perils of
Flesh."
EXPLOITIPS:
Arrange for a display of photos and posters from the
Buster Crabbe-"Flash Gordon" serials (there were three
made between 1936 and 1940). Play up the monsters and
the erotic spoofing of the original.
CATCHLINES:
An Outrageous Parody of Yesteryear's Super Heroes
to Be Confused With the Original Flash Gordon.
THE STORY: "Phase TV" (Para)
In the black void of space there is a strange blue flaring;
a solitary ant emerges from its hole on earth, contemplating
the stars. Biologist Nigel Davenport, aware of
changes in the ant world, and mathematician Michael
Murphy come to a valley in Arizona to study insect activity.
They erect a domed experimental station to monitor
the underground ant complex. One night the ants overrun
farmer Alan Gifford; the family seeks shelter at the
dome, but the scientists spray the insects with sticky
yellow foam—unwittingly kiUing Gifford and his wife.
They find daughter Lynne Frederick alive. The ants
adapt to the yellow poison. Davenport is bitten and becomes
delirious. The insects besiege the dome with heat
so that the computers can only run a few houi-s at night.
Murphy communicates with the ant-queen. When Frederick
apparently sacrifices herself and Davenport is consumed.
Murphy invades the underworld of the ants,
discovering that man has one final option for survival.
EXPLOITIPS:
Utilize Paramount's excellent press kit and selling devices
to reach students and sci-fi fans. Tie in with the
Pocket Books movie edition.
CATCHLINES:
Beneath the Earth, Something Stirred . . . What?
Phase IV—The Ultimate Step in Evolution. After Phase
IV Would There Only Be a Phase-Out for Man?
THE STORY: "The Cry of the Black Wolves" (Rook)
Ron Ely, a trapper in the beautiful but bitterly cold
North, has a fist fight with gold hunter Mike Williams,
who tries to take Ely's team of prize sled dogs. WiUiams
later is found shot to death in Ely's sled. WilUams' sister,
Prona, arrives in Alaska just in time for her brother's
burial, and sets Raimund Harmstorf to track down Ely
and bring him back dead or alive. Harmstorf is caught
in an avalanche, and is saved by Ely. Harmstorf gives
Ely the word that his young pal, Jean-Claude Hoffman,
is to be hanged by the Tornado Kid's gang for stealing
one of their horses on which he hoped to find Ely. This
sets Ely on the trail back to Happy Camp, as Harmstorf
wanted. On the way they are attacked by the wolves,
which they finally gun down, but not before the black
wolves have killed Ely's sled dogs. The Tornado Kid is
torturing Akaena (Katharina Conti) an Indian girl, to
find the gold and threatening Frona, who he thinks has
the secret from her dead brother.
EXPLOITIPS:
Run a contest with a prize to the person (s) making
the nearest correct guess of the weight of a "gold" brick
in a display case in the lobby.
CATCHLINES:
Jack London's Roaring Adventure of Gold Fever in the
Far North . . . Man Against Man Against the Elements
and Hmited Are Prey for the Hungry Wolves.
THE STORY: "Women in Cell Block 7" (Aquarius)
Interpol is on the trail of drug peddlers when a shipment
of 20 kilos is intercepted by an agent of Don Paola
Senatore. The agent is killed in an auto accident, his
innocent girl friend Eva Czemeys sent to prison. Senatore,
actually working for Interpol, is tortui-ed by his gang associates
who want the shipment returned. Anita Strindberg,
Senatore's daughter, has herself sent to prison to
be close to Czemeys. Chief matron Olga Bisera rules
sternly, but prefers the company of one of the girls.
Jane Avril controls the prisoners and is able to make
special arrangements in retui-n for favors. Bisera keeps
a watch on the prisoners as they shower, a duty she
really doesn't mind. Tortured, Czemeys is told to confess
what she knows about the shipment, finally being sent
to solitary confinement. After a demonstration in the
yard, Strindberg has Warden Massimo Serato send
Czemeys to the hospital. There, the girl dies. Strindberg,
knowing where the shipment is and miaware of her
father's death, is released. Serate orders the deaths of
Strindberg and Insp. Roger Browne.
EXPLOITIPS:
Play up the setting and the title song, written by Robert
Lee and performed by (Miss) Cat McCord.
CATCHLINES:
They Gave Their All for Their Men . . . Not Your
Typical Prison.
BOXOFTICE BookinGuide ;: Scp(. 16. 1974

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ver cost of handling replies. Display Classified, S30.00 per Column Inch. No commission
lowed. CLOSING DATE: Monday noon preceding publication date. Send coov and answers
Box Numbers to BOXOFFICE, 825 Van Brunt Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. 64124.
cufiiiine
HELP WANTED
J:ADING THEATRE CIRCUIT has manrjsition
open for experienced per-
.?:
available in western New
r-'ir Replies confidential. Apply
tunity
.plo
vlIDWEST CIRCUIT WILL PAY $14,000
NU.ALLY to experienced drive-in monwith
thorough concession knowlgc
No booking, buying or advertising.
1st relocate. State age, experience, adtelephone
number. Replies confinti-il
':.s?,
Boxoffice.
3291.
VIANAGER TRAINEES, fast growing mul-
1:V chain. Fringe benefits, excellent
college preferred. Must be
relocate in northeast. Send rei
photo to Boxoffice, 3297.
POSITION WANTED
GENERAL MANAGER or top level execve
Today you con make an investment
youi company's lulure. Write Boxoffice,
'HOFESSIONAI^General Manager or
Man, 31, the first of many good
cisions. Write Boxoffice, 3280.
VIANAGER, available now. Older mc
Light showman, ad artist, explc
Prefer drive-in for smo
:,i) circuit. Would consider oth.
J.. r..:.vofllce, 3295.
FILMS WANTED
COLLECTOR wishes to purchase feature
.ns, classics, serials, TV outtakes or
3opers, cartoons, newsreels, etc. 16 or
nm. Paul Nelson, 44 Glendale, Apt. 8,
jhland Pgrk, Mich. 48203.
FILMS FOR SALE
EQUIPMENT FOR SALE
HOUSE
THEATRES FOR SALE
WANTED: MAN AND WIFE projection- 35mm PROIECTION BOOTHS FOR THE
ECONOMY MINDED EXHIBITOR. COM-
JOE JOSEPH: The Worlds largest thea
tre Brokers. Box 31406, Dallas 75231
Phones 363-2724 leave message
Jail automated theatre in Paciiic North- PLETE. $1,500 00, Boxolfice, 2840
(214) or
at (214) 239-2934
,st area. Send complete resume, includtr
recent photograph and salary requireint
OWNER LEAVING COUNTRY. MUST
to: Suite 600, 919 S. W. Taylor St.,
Oregon 97205.
•rtland, SELLli Reduced $75,000.00 to $65,000.00
(Now reduced to $55,0001 Less than value
EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITIES in Arkann,
Tennessee, Kentucky and
NEW Automatic Devices curtain controls, of building). Adult theatre building in
No. 941,
Texas
and track hardware. Good price.
for
IMoline, 111. Perfect condition. Rebuilt air
Boxoffice,
.perienced theatre managers with knowlge
in projection. Send resume, photo
18816 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.
3249.
700 seats. Midwest Theatres,
drive-in
90069 for information.
sflectors,
$750.00 FOB Vancouver, B.C., crated. Pair SELL OR LEASE Brand new 350 seat
:01,0RAD0 CIRCUIT needs mono Motiograph Hi-Power 85 amp. generators, theatre, fully equipped in shopping center
in indoor and dri 220 volts, 3 phase, 60 cycles, $250.00 each with 100% occupancy. Reply to P.O. Box
:i Apply Evergreen Theatres, complete. Factory rebuilt Automaticket 57, Marlton, N. J. 08053.
;.. ', ; Loveland, Colorado 80537.
Genera! Register ticket machines, 3 unit,
$595.00; 4 unit, $695.00. Write or phone
Dominion Theatre Equipment Co., Ltd.,
EXCELLENT SIMPLEX BOOTH with 6000'
BABY ARCS with rectifiers, $100.00. Balintyne
soundheads, $75.00. Other barains,
Boxoffice, 3294.
COMPLETE EQUIPMENT for two theatres.
700 seats plus fully automated booths
with Xenon lamps, less than 3 years old.
Terms arranged. For information, (617)
723-5599 or (401) 725-6694.
EQUIPMENT WANTED
TOP PRICES PAID for soundheads,
ind portable projectors. What have you?
;tar Cinema Supply, 217 West 21st Street,
lew York 10011. Phone (212) 675-3515.
1125 AMPLIFIER, 400 watts, type Bogen
Power Tube 807. 19 Drive-In Theatre,
Cuba. Mo 65453
BUSINESS STIMULATORS
BINGO CARDS. S5.75M, 1-75. Other
-ames available. Olf-On screen. Novelty
James, Guymard Turnpike, Box 87, Midlletown,
N. Y. 10940. (914) 38B-4067.
Build attendance with real Hawaiian
orchids. Few cents each. Write Flowers of
Hawaii, 670 S. Lafayette Place, Los Angeles,
Calif. 90005.
age $5.75 per
Products, 339 West
SEND FOR OUR LATEST "THEATRES
FOR SALE" BULLETIN. JOE JOSEPH, BOX
31406, Dallas, 75231.
sloliation and staggering. Sewn seat covers,
makes
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. Modem inoor,
ail Complete line fabrics end
1,300 seats, heavily populated area,
vinyls Entire theatre equipment availablf
'ewly renovated, parking lot, great conession
Owner
business. Call collect (617) 442-
Host.
ancing. Henry Saag, Younger Realty
:ompany, 438 South Street, Louisille,
Fifth
Ky. 40202. Telephone: (502) 583-5591. 300 NEW HEYWOOD WAKEFIELD TC
2103 Mini Rockers still in original shipping
UNDERPHICED Hollywood, California
boxe=i. Gold and orange upholstery, desert
house, for sale or lease by east coast concessionaire.
Profitable adult operation.
Flexible. Reply: 795 Monroe Avenue, Rochester,
New York 14607, or telephone
(716) 271-0858.
AWARD WINNER, modern, clean, convenient
in progressive north Iowa county
seat town. Designed for easy family operation.
Large drawing area. Lease or sale.
Unusual opportunity. Owners retiring. Boxoffice,
3293.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA—325
seats, in shopping center, all new fully
equipped (no equipment payments)
$1500.00 month rent includes everything,
per
excellent potential, small security
required, 17 year lease. Holiday Theatres,
Inc 20 SE 3rd Ave., Miami, Fla. 33I3I.
(305) 371-3442.
402 SEAT WALK-IN, heart of village.
Big Bear Lake, Calif., 8134 sq. ft. building
on 16,000 sq. ft. land plus 18,000 sq. ft
paved parking. A PRIME COMMERCIAL
PROPERTY. Year around resort area, 2
hours east of Los Angeles. $350,000 OWC
$155,000 1st T.D. 9 3/4%. (714) 866-7640 or
see Todd Butterworth eves.
THEATRE SEATING
THEATRE CHAIR UPHOLSTERINGl ANY-
WHERE. Finest materials, LOW prices.
Custom seat covers made to fit. CHICAGO
USED CHAIR MART, 1320 S. Wabash, Chicago,
60605. Phone: 939-4518.
S.OOO CHAIRS IN STOCK. New, used, rebuilt.
Hayes Sealing, Co., Inc., 19 Eastern
Ave., Syracuse, N. Y. I32II. Phone (315)
137-1347.
SPECIALISTS IN REBUILDING CHAIRS.
New and rebuilt theatre chairs for sale.
We buy and sell old chairs. Travel anywhere.
Seating Corporation ol New York,
247 Water Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., 11201.
lei. (212) 875-5433. (Reverse charges).
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