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IN THE MUTUAL INTEREST
THE
pentiing assemblage of exhibitors
and (distributors scheduled to take
place in Atlanta within the next week
or ten days, reminds of a recent such
event wherein the general sales manager,
in charge of domestic distribution for a
major company, advocated that steps be
taken for greater cooperation between
exhibitors and distributors in the mutual
interest. These recommendations included
the launching of a joint drive by exhibition
and distribution to increase
moviegoing among the large volume of
potential patrons being "overlooked," and
to seek a review of the Consent Decree,
which had been termed "a stone in the
The latter stemmed from meetings
with exhibitors that had been held in all
the exchange centers in which discussions
of their problems centered upon the
Decree, declared to govern our distribution
pattern and the ability of exhibitors
to buy films. And, as the American exhibitors
well know, it has adversely affected
them—and the industry generally.
Despite the many changes that have occurred
in this industry over the past
quarter centmy, the Consent Decree has
not been adjusted to the times, or the
conditions that it has brought about.
National NATO—as well as its regional
affiliates and predecessor exhibitor organizations—has
made strenuous efforts
to obtain modifications in the Decree
that would be in keeping with the times
and conditions, but to little, if any, avail.
Doubtless, the vast majority of exhibitors
would answer "Yes" to the question: "Is
it not reasonable to suggest that our buying
and selling methods may be antiquated
and are deserving of evaluation
to determine whether change is in order
in the mutuality of interests of distributor
and exhibitor?"
On another phase of this business—
again pointing up the mutuality of interests
on the part of exhibitor and distributor—the
distribution executive, above referred
to, touched upon the responsibility
of each in the merchandising of motion
pictures. The distributor, he said, should
be responsible for the publicity during
the picture's production and prior to its
opening, as well as national advertising,
and in the launching of advertising in a
number of the largest cities across the
country. With the picture thus launched,
it would be up to the exhibitors to build
patron interest in seeing it. In his view.
it was preferable to develop new methods
of merchandising pictures than sharing
the profits, which he said would "fall into
line as boxoffice results picked up."
Pictm-e merchandising is, indeed, a cooperative
endeavor. But, as we have noted
from time to time, each side has allowed
its share of the task to bog down. This
involves releasing practices which are
much to blame. For example, there are
too many instances of a picture being
suddenly put into release with insufficient
time even to get up a good newspaper
ad, let alone a campaign by the theatre.
Too often, pressbooks are not available
until after the picture has gone into release
and, even then, what is supplied
often is inadequate to measure up to what
the exhibitor is expected to do. Thus, the
distributor's efforts in advance of a picture's
opening may fall short of the desired
objective. So, he must see to it that
the "tools," needed by the exhibitor to
carry out his part of the dual task, are
made available in time to be put to good
use to attain the ultimate of boxoffice returns.
Discerning that orderly release of major
attractions is a great need of this
business, the collective industry should
take all necessary steps to provide it. In
line therewith, the good examples recently
experienced with limited engagements
for roadshows should be cultivated and
extended over wide areas of exhibition
for mass audience performances.
Another way of improving our business
was brought out by the suggestion that
the industry show greater consideration
for all types of audiences, rather than
concentrating on the so-called "young"
patrons. The older patrons still are seen
as comprising the greatest untapped
source of revenue and well worth cultivating
and upbuilding.
As so often has been observed, all
branches of this business are interdependent,
especially exhibition and distribution.
So it behooves these factors to
increasingly work together in every possible
way, thereby upbuilding the volume
of attendance, picture by picture and
theatre by theatre.
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SEPTEMBER 30. 1974

Robert Solo Exec. V-P
For WB Produclion
miRRANK TAl IF— K.iberl H. Solo
HURBANK, CALIF.— Robert H. Solo
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h.is hccii appointed to a new high-level post
with Warner Bros, as
I^^a^^^ |J|Pim|^ executive vice-president,
production, it
was announced Tuesday
(24) by Frank G.
Wells, president and
chief operating officer.
Starting immediately,
Solo will estab-
''^^ headquarters at
the Burbank Studios
to work closely with
Robert H. Solo
John Calley, executive
vice-president in charge of worldwide
production.
Wells described Warner Bros.' high regard
for Solo's performance in executive
and production capacities, and welcomed
him to his new assignment. For the past
three years Solo has been supervising Warners"
European production activities as a
vice-president, foreign production. He will
continue those responsibilities. Wells said,
while undertaking his new duties as a Burbank-based
company executive.
Solo has been personally involved in
more than 15 productions during his European
period with Warners. Among them are
such films as Francois Truffaut's "Day for
Night," Fellini's "Amarcord" which Warners
is distributing worldwide except in the
U. S. and Canada; "I Bestioni," a Carlo
Ponti picture recently released in Italy starring
Giancarlo Giannini, directed by Sergio
Carbucci; "Verdict," starring Sophia Loren
and Jean Gabin, directed by Andre Cayatte.
and Warner Bros.' foreign pickup of "The
Marseilles Contract," starring Michael
Caine, Anthony Quinn and James Mason.
Prior to taking over the European post for
Warners in 1971, Solo had been associated
with that company as executive assistant to
Jack L. Warner and Walter MacEwen. and
participated in the development of a number
of the company's major productions, including
"Camelot," "Cool Hand Luke" and
"Bonnie and Clyde." In London in 1968 he
formed his own motion picture company.
Waterbury Films, Ltd. His first picture as
an independent producer was "Scrooge,"
starring Albert Finney. He co-produced with
director Ken Russell the WB picture "The
Devils." starring Vanessa Redgrave and
Oliver Reed.
Solo was graduated from the University
of Connecticut with a BA in history. He
was a theatrical agent in New York at the
age of 22 and later joined the Kurt Frings
.Agency in Hollywood, followed by an association
with Ashley Famous Agency.
Dividend Declared by MCA
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIF.—Lew R.
Wasserman, chairman of the board of MCA.
Inc.. announced that the board of directors
has declared the regular quarterly common
stock dividend of 20 cents per share, payable
October 10.
Public Favor for Film Rating Program
Confmues "W wi to Climb, Survey Discloses
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To Elect Barry Diller
Para. Board Head
NEW YORK—Paramount Pictures has
announced that Barry Diller will be elected
chairman of the board and chief executive
officer of the company, effective October 1.
Frank Yablans will continue as president
and chief operating officer. Diller will resign
his position as vice-president, prime time
television, for the ABC Television Network.
Yablans has been president and chief
operating officer of Paramount Pictures
since May 10, 1971. He joined the company
in June 1969 as assistant general sales manager.
Al Glaubinger to Leave UA
As Central Division Mgr.
NEW YORK—Al Glaubinger has resigned
as Central division sales manager of
United Artists, effective November 1, it
was announced by James R. Velde, senior
vice-president. Velde stated that he accepted
Glaubinger's resignation with deep regret
and praised his long years of dedication
and service to United Artists.
"Al Glaubinger has rung up an impressive
reputation as an outstanding sales executive,
and we at United Artists will miss him
both as a friend and a colleague. We all
wish him well in his new venture, which
he will announce shortly."
Glaubinger has headed the UA Central
division sales operation since 1964. When
he came to the company from the old Eagle-
Lion firm in 1954, Glaubinger was appointed
sales manager in the Boston exchange.
He held that post for two years and
was then promoted to Buffalo branch manager.
In 1958 he was transferred to the
Philadelphia exchange as branch manager
and remained there until 1964, when he was
promoted to the home office division manager
post.
Edward Dmytryk to Direct
Bryanston 'Human Factor'
NEW YORK—Edward Dmytryk has
been signed to direct Bryanston Pictures'
"The Human Factor," it was announced by
Bryanston president Louis Peraino. .Scheduled
for filming next March, the Frank
Avianca production concerns the senseless
slaughter of the family of an American
living overseas and his decision to seek
revenge.
The veteran Dmytryk's credits include
"The Caine Mutiny," "The Young Lions,"
"The Carpetbaggers" and, most recently,
Richard Burton's version of "Bluebeard."
NEW YORK—Public favor for the film
industry's voluntary rating system continues
to climb, according to a nation-wide survey
just concluded by Opinion Research Corp.
of Princeton, N.J., for the Motion Picture
Ass'n of America.
When asked the question: "How useful
do you think the motion picture industry's
rating system—with the symbols G, PG, R,
and X—is as a guide for deciding what
movies children should see—very useful,
fairly useful, not very useful, or have you
not heard of the rating system?" ... responses
were as follows:
Adults with children under 18: 66 per
cent, very useful to fairly useful (up from
62 per cent in 1973). 26 per cent, not very
useful (up from 25 per cent last year) and
8 per cent with no opinion (down from 13
per cent last
year).
All adults and teenagers: 58 per cent, very
useful to fairly useful (up from 57 per cent
last year). 26 per cent, not very useful (up
from 24 per cent last year).
The age group 25 years to 29 years: 71
per cent, very useful to fairly useful (up
from 62 per cent last year). 23 per cent, not
very useful (down from 28 per cent last
year).
Moreover, "awareness" of the rating program
grew to 91 per cent by the total public,
age 12 and over.
Jack Valenti, president of the MPAA
commented: "This continued high approval
by the public, and particularly adults with
children, is hard evidence the rating program
is working. It is an endorsement of
what the film industry is doing by the groups
who count most, families, and that age
group 25-29 where moviegoing is very
high."
"This year, the rating program has been
hit by critical comments, mostly from within
the industry. Yet, this latest expression
of national feeling confirms what I have
been saying all year, that the public uses
the rating program and finds it valuable
for their children. One fact is certain: the
percentage approval of the rating program
would be a landslide margin of victory in
any political contest."
The survey conducted nationwide in July
and August of this year included interviews
with 2,074 adults and 497 teenagers, for
a total sample of 2,571.
Terry Morse Jr.
By Sandy Howard Firm
HOLL"i^OOD—Sandy Howard Productions
has named Terry Morse jr. to the post
Is Named
of vice-president, worldwide production.
Morse, most recently vice-president of Cine
Guarantors (Cinemobile). has an extensive
background as producer/ production manager
for 20th Century-Fox. Columbia Pictures,
Universal Pictures and Paramount
Pictures.
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JackLemmon, Faye Dunaway, Friedkin,
Zanuck, Brown to Get NATO Honors
NEW YORK—The National Ass'n of
Theatre Owners disclosed the names of the
HoO)-wood film people it will honor for
professional excellence at its annual convention
October 7-10 at the Marriott and Regency
Hyatt hotels in Atlanta. Those slated
for the organization's acclaim will receive
their awards the evening of October 10 at
the President's Banquet, the formal event
traditionally
convention.
terminating the film exhibitor's
Jack Lemmon, who won an Academy
Award "Oscar" for his performance in "Save
the Tiger" and will be seen this winter in
Universal Pictures' "The Front Page," was
named male Star of the Year.
The female Star of the Year is Faye Dunaway,
who recently starred in "Chinatown"
with Jack Nicholson and will be seen next
in "The Towering Inferno," being filmed
under the joint auspices of 20th Century-
Fox and Warner Bros.
William Friedkin, director of "The Exorcist,"
and before that "The French Connection"
and other hits, was designated Director
of the Year. He is now working on a film
for release by Universal.
Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown,
who produced "The Sting" and are now
working on "Jaws," from the best-selling
novel of the same title, were cited as Producers
of the Year. They also have in preparation
"MacArthur," based on the famed
World War II general's exploits.
Stirling Silliphant, chosen Writer of the
Year, co-authored the screenplay for "The
Poseidon Adventure." He recently scripted
"The Towering Inferno," set for release in
December.
"We are happy to have the opportunity
of paying tribute to these outstanding creative
talents," declared Paul Roth, NATO
president. "They have provided a vast
amount of pleasure to the moviegoers of
America and the world."
The selection of award designees was
handled by the NATO Awards Committee,
headed by Sherrill C. Corwin of Metropolitan
Theatres, Los Angeles.
'Birch Interval' Shooting
In Gettysburg, Pa., Area
GEITYSBURG, PA. — Production was
slated to start Wednesday (25) on a fulllength
feature, titled "Birch Interval," on
location at a fruit farm near here in Adams
County. To be made by the same team
that did the Oscar-nominated "Sounder,"
the G-rated film is based on a novel by
Joanna Crawford of nearby Shippensburg,
Pa., who also wrote the screenplay.
Terry Nelson is the production manager
for Radnitz-Mattel, which is producing the
film. Directed by Delbcrt Mann and produced
by Robert Radnitz, "Birch Interval"
will star Edward Albert, Rip Torn and 12-
year-old Susan Clug.
Offer Three Scholarships
In Management Course
COLUMBUS, OHIO—The Ohio Stale
University's department of photography &
cinema and the National Ass'n of Theatre
Owners of Ohio, co-sponsors of a new
course in motion picture theatre management,
are pleased to announce that three
scholarships will be awarded for the course.
Charles Sugarman, president of NATO
of Ohio, and co-ordinator of the management
course, announced that the NATO
board decided to present three applicants
fee-waivers. To apply, all that is needed is
a letter of intent, stating why the course
would benefit you, and what your interest
in this industry is. Winners will be selected
on originality.
This is the second time a course dealing
with this subject matter has been offered in
the country. Sugarman said that "the program
will be followed up with internships
at NATO Theatres for those qualified by the
course, and seeking employment in the exhibition
industry."
Richard B. Long, the other co-ordinator,
and staff director-producer for the OSU
department of photography & cinema,
pointed out that "This follow-up aspect is
unique to Ohio State, as is the fee-waiver.
NATO is serious about its community
responsibility."
The general public is invited to attend as
well as those professionally interested in
theatre management. The course is being
offered through the Division of Continuing
Education and will start October 3 at 7 p.m.
at the Center for Tomorrow on Olentangy
River Road. For registration or scholarship
information, contact Continuing Education
at 422-2947, Mr. Long at 422-0276, or Mr.
Sugarman at 237-3531.
Philadelphia Daily News
Segregates X Movie Ads
PHILADELPHIA— Without any fuss or
fanfare, the Philadelphia Daily News separated
all X-rated film display advertising
(deemed to be of a "pornographic" nature)
from other motion picture ads. Grouped on
a page removed from the other theatre ads,
the section includes the ads of theatres
such as the Studio, Forum, Theatre 1812
and Apollo, along with the Troc Budesk
Theatre, which adds movies to the stage
offering. The Route 245 Cinema in Woodcrest,
N.J.. Shopping Center also is included.
The other five adult theatres are centercity
storefront operations. To make the
"porno" appeal complete, the ad grouping
includes advertisements of two local stores
selling adult films for home use and the
ad of the Nautilus Motel in nearby Atlantic
City, which offers "XXX Adult
Movies in Your Room."
Heads
Charles Sellier Jr.
Sun Int'l Production
HOLLYWOOD — Charles E.
has accepted a three-year contract to be
I
Sellier jr.,
vice-president of production
for Sun International
Productions,
it was reported by
Sun's executive vicepresident.
Ray Jensen.
Sellier has experi-
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ground in the film in-

Earl Owensby Completing
2nd Film in Shelby. N.C.
SHELBY, N.C—Earl Owensby, president
of EO Productions here, is adding the finishing
touches to his second production for this
year. The film, entitled "The Brass Ring."
is a carryover from EO"s first picture, "Challenge,"
recently released hy Jerry Gross of
Cinemation Industries.
"The Brass Ring" is an action drama
characterization
of Frank Challenge who is
out to seek justice on his own. Under the
direction of Martin Beck, the players are
Johnny Popwell, Elizabeth Upton, Laurens
Moore, Sandra Beck and Doug Hale. As in
"Challenge," Owensby is Frank Challenge.
EO Productions will release "The Brass
Ring" in mid-October in the two Carolinas
with saturation bookings supported by a
blitzkrieg TV, radio, newspaper and outdoor
advertising campaign. The premiere is set
for October 24 at the Forest City Cinema,
and will open with all the fanfare of a Hollywood
premiere.
EO Motion Picture Productions is the
seventh of eight companies owned by
Owensby, all coming under the heading of
an EO Corp. Movie making in a small town
is different, but it is also rewarding and
exciting. When asked if he will do a third,
Owensby's answer was, "yes." He said good
talent, good people and beautiful country
are here. Family-type pictures are planned.
'Swinging Cheerleaders'
Continues High Grosses
NEW YORK — "The Swinging Cheerleaders,
Centaur's R-rated release directed
by Jack Hill, is keeping the boxoffice busy.
The film opened a 30-theatre break in the
San Francisco exchange territory September
4 and grossed $10L855 the first week.
Several theatres held for a second and a
third week. A 55-theatre break in Los
Angeles commenced Wednesday (25).
Experiencing great success in
the far west,
the film has recorded some of the highest
grosses of the year in the Salt Lake City
and Denver territories. A hefty $10,569 was
earned at the Redwood Drive-In, Salt Lake
City, followed by $5,746 at the Northwest
Drive-In, Denver and $6,508 at the Acres
Drive-In, Phoenix.
generally lags considerably. Based on these
reports. Centaur is calling "The Swinging
Cheerleaders" one of the most successful
independently-produced films of the year.
Variety Clubs Get $250^0 in Honor
Of Billy Graham's 25th Anniversary
LOS ANGELES—At its "Salute to Billy
Graham" Wednesday night (18), Variety
Clubs International raised approximately
$250,000 to honor the evangelist's 25th anniversary
in the ministry. More than 1,000
attended the testimonial dinner where Graham
was presented with VCI's Heart Award
and honored as a man of "love and brotherhood."
The money, to be used for the purchase
of 27 Sunshine Buses as transportation vehicles
for orphanages, hospitals and other
children's organizations, was a joint effort
of the International and Tent 25 of Southern
California, which cosponsored the event.
Corwin Makes Presentation
Sherrill C. Corwin, past International
president who made the presentation in the
International Ballroom ceremonies which
Art Linkletter toastmastered, commented
that Graham had preached to more people
than anybody in history and was dedicated
to the same principles of humanitarian endeavors
in behalf of needy children that had
inspired the formation of Variety Clubs 47
years ago.
The evangelist, who also owns his own
film and TV production company and has
preached all over the world, amused the
audience with his opening, "This is one of
the few times in my life that I'm speechless."
He drew more laughs when he said,
"Someone asked me earlier what I've
learned in 25 years. I've learned not to make
a speech at 1 1 o'clock at night."
Mike Frankovich, international president,
announced that originally 25 buses to carry
Billy Graham's name in commemoration of
his silver anniversary had been planned, but
two more were added. Graham told the
audience that he was donating another.
The total of buses worldwide is now
1.808, according to Frankovich. He said
that last year in London Variety Clubs International
had reported its charities to date
totaled $250,000. "Next year, this amount
is expected to pass $280,000,000." he said.
Also Is Given Gold Card
Graham was presented with a Variety
Clubs Int'l gold card by Frankovich, who
In the Seattle territory, the Valley Drive- said such cards have been given only five
Auburn, Wash., reported $9,783 and the
In,
times previously, and these went to heads
Tenth Street Drive-In, Portland, Ore., of state. Graham also received an album
racked up $8,575 and held for a second containing pictures and greetings of Hollywood
week. Eight of the best drive-ins in the
friends who could not attend the
Chicago exchange territory earned a huge event. Presentation was made by Joseph
$40,210 in just three days. The week's gross
here was estimated at $.55,000.
Sinay, chief barker of Tent 25.
Announcement was made by Graham in
With a 61-theatre opening in the New his brief speech that his World Wide Pictures,
England area, 40 of the theatres reported
now a subsidiary of tne non-profit
an estimated $130,000 in grosses for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Ass'n, had completed
second week of September, when business
a feature, "The Hiding Place," a true
BOXOFHCE :: September 30, 1974
story of Corrie ten Boom, now aged 82.
Dutch Christian who hid Jewish fugitives
during World War II. Starring are Jeannette
Clift, Julie Harris and Arthur O'Connell.
He introduced the Dutch heroine upon
whom the State of Israel had conferred its
highest award to a
general.
The film, which cost approximately
$1,500,000 and is two hours long, will be
released theatrically after the first of the
year. It is the latest of 23 dramas or
musicals produced by Graham's company.
The Young Americans and Ethel Waters
provided musical entertainment. Frankovich
and Howard W. Koch were co-chairmen of
the dinner.
Special guests were Sammy Davis jr., Allen Ludden,
Betty White, Gloria de Haven, Bob Crone, Rose
Marie, Margaret Whiting, Monty Hall, Jimmie Baker
and Dole Robertson. Julie Harris, Arthur O'Connell
and Jeannette Clift, stars of the World Wide Pictures
production "The Hiding Place," were present for the
tribute.
On the dais for the tribute to Graham were Rabbi
and Mrs. Hershall Bernat; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Nelson;
Jane Withers; Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill Cowin, Metropolitan
Theatres; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sinay, President
R&B Industries; Mr. and Mrs. Art Linkletter, Ethel
Waters; Coach and Mrs. John Wooden, UCLA Bruins;
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Boone, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Frankovich,
head of Frankovich Productions; Julie Harris;
Mr. and Mrs. William Brown; Mr. and Mrs. George
Beverly Shea; the Rev. Lloyd Ogilvie and Mr. and
Mrs. Charlton Heston.
Roger Corman to Produce
Biofilm on Al Capone
HOLLYWOOD— Roger Corman will produce
"Capone," biographical film about Al
Capone, for 20th Century-Fox, starting in
November. Howard Browne, former Chicago
newsman, will write the script. He also
wrote Corman's 1967 20th-Fox gangster
film, "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre,"
which starred Jason Robards as Capone. No
casting is set yet for the new Capone film,
which will not be directed by Corman.
Other film productions about Al Capone
have included the 1959 Allied .Artists biopic.
"Al Capone," with Rod Steiger in the title
role, and "Scarface" in 1932, produced by
Howard Hughes and starring Paul Muni.
Two episodes of "The Untouchables," TV
series with Neville Brand as Capone had
some theatrical showings.
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Gregory Peck First Actor
Honored by USA Festival
DALLAS— Gregory Peck will visit Dallas
this fall as the first artist to be honored by
the USA Film Festival in its new star retrospective
series.
The festival, with new plans to take on a
continuing year-long life, will have Peck
here from November 29 through December
I for three nights of Peck films at the Bob
Hope Theatre. Peck will .select the films to
be shown here and also will appear onstage
each night between the 7 and 9 p.m. showings
to discuss them with the audience.
The star retrospective series was conceived
by festival co-producers Nancy Willen
and Mary MacFarland as one of a number
of events to keep the festival active throughout
the year as fund-raising events for the
festival itself. Bill Jones, of the SMU Film
Department faculty, is director of the festival.
The USA Film Festival is scheduled for
March 17-23, with director William Wyler
to be honored this year with a retrospective
of his work.
The new star retrospective series follows
in the wake of an earlier announced activity
sponsored by the festival in which Columbia
Pictures plans to sponsor a 50th Anniversary
Retrospective as a benefit for the USA
Film Festival in October.
Columbia Pictures will show a number of
films from its past 50 years, as selected by
Dallas writers and critics, October 11-17 at
the Lakewood Theatre, with proceeds going
to the festival. The Columbia event will conclude
with the world premiere of "The
Odessa File" with Jon Voight.
The announcement of the Peck retrospective
is the first move of the USA Film
Festival's new broadening format. It is the
first time that a program will be held by
the festival to honor a star rather than a
director.
The decision to salute Peck was based on
his body of films, which covers a wide span
of themes encompassing westerns, sociology
("Gentlemen's Agreement"), comedy
("Roman Holiday") and realistic drama
("To Kill a Mockingbird").
Wyler's selection as director to be honored
at the festival in March follows a series of
directors over the years that includes George
Stevens, Frank Capra, Raoul Walsh and
Joseph Mankiewicz.
Traveling Film Festival
To Tour Major Cities
HOLLYWOOD—"The Great Ail-American
Traveling Film Festival," an eight-day
retrospective film presentation, which will
tour major American cities in 1975, is being
planned by the Filmex Society of Los Angeles.
Filmex, the supportive organization of the
Los Angeles International Film Exposition,
is planning the festival as a major bicentennial
project along with "The American Film
Center," a proposed facility to house several
L.A. film-related non-profit cultural organizations.
Fred C. Lentz Is President
Oi Armstrong Theatres
BOWLING GREEN, OHIO—Fred C.
Lentz. general manager of Armstrong Theatres
for the past 15
years has been named
president of the Bowling
Green, Ohio-based
firm. As president he
succeeds Jack Armstrong,
the owner who
died recently. Mrs.
Armstrong, the new
owner, continues as
vice-president of the
corporation. Robert
Fred C. Lentz
Breisacher has been
named controller and Harold James, Toledo,
Ohio attorney, secretary and treasurer.
Lentz said he anticipated no change in
operation of the 20 screens in nine cities
Bowling Green, Defiance, Fostoria, Fremont,
Mansfield. Maumee. Napoleon, Toledo
and 'Van Wert. The screens in the city
of Bowling Green are Stadium Cinema I
and II. the Cla-Zel Theatre and the Skylite
Drive-In Theatre.
Lentz began his theatre career in 1936
as an usher at the Schine Athena Theatre,
Athens, Ohio. He has managed theatres
throughout the Ohio area; Mt. "Vernon. Kent
Ravenna, Medina, Athens, Toledo and also
in Lexington, Ky., and Ft. Wayne, Ind.,
prior to joining Armstrong Theatres in 1953.
Lentz is active in theatre affairs, member
of NATO board of directors of Ohio, member
of Motion Picture Pioneers and a member
of "Variety Club, Cleveland tent.
Also Lentz is very active in boating circles,
a member of Great Lakes Cruising Club.
U.S. Power Squadron, Catawba West Harbor
Yacht Club and Crew's Nest, Put-In-
Bay. Ohio.
'Cabaret' Back to U.S.
Theatres Next Month
NEW YORK— "Cabaret," starring Liza
Minnelli and Joel Grey and winner of
eight Academy awards, will open at 369
U.S. theatres Wednesday (2), it was announced
by Jerry Gruenberg, vice-president,
general sales. Allied Artists Pictures.
The cities where "Cabaret" will be playing
are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago,
Philadelphia, San Francisco, Kansas clty
and Portland, Ore. The openings are being
backed by a massive multi-media saturation
advertising campaign.
Liza Minnelli plays cabaret singer Sally
Bowles and Joel Grey portrays the sardonic
master of ceremonies in the Allied Artists-
ABC Pictures presentation. "Cabaret" was
produced by Cy Feuer and directed by Bob
Fosse on location throughout West Germany.
The film's eight Academy Awards
include Liza Minnelli (Best Actress), Joel
Grey (Best Supporting Actor) and Bob
Fosse (Best Director).
Teenage Man' Now 'Cheers'
HOLLYWOOD — Final title of Universal's
new release starring Gregory Harrison.
Robbie Wolcott and Rory Guy is
"Cheers," previously "Teenage Man."
Jack Haley Jr. Will Head
20th-Fox TV Division
HOLLYWOOD—Jack Haley jr., and 20th
Century-Fox have reached agreement for
Haley to become associated with the company
as president of the 20th Century-Fox
television division and vice-president, television
of 20th-Fox Film Corp., it has been
announced by Dennis C. Stanfill, chairman
of the board and Gordon Stulberg, president
of 20th-Fox.
The appointment will become effective
November 4 and is subject to the approval
of the 20th-Fox board of directors.
Haley will succeed William Self. It was
previously announced that Self will leave
20th-Fox upon expiration of his contract at
the end of this year.
Haley comes to 20th-Fox from Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer where most recently he was
producer-writer-director of "That's Entertainment!",
the compilation of MGM musical
hits over the years and a current worldwide
boxoffice success. Previously he was
director of creative affairs at MGM.
Prior to his association with MGM,
Haley was senior vice-president at Wolper
Productions for a number of years.
As producer, writer and director. Haley
has been recipient of numerous international
honors, including two Peabody Awards,
Best Production at the International Television
Festival at Monte Carlo and three
Silver Lion Awards at the "Venice Film
He won an Emmy Award for Best
Festival.
Direction in Music or Variety Shows for
"Movin' on with Nancy." In 1970, he directed
and in 1974 he produced the Academy
.Awards Show.
European Film Exchange
Lists 12 for Release
HOLLYWOOD—The European Film Exchange
Co. of Hollywood has acquired three
films that were shown at the Atlanta International
Film Festival for distribution in
U.S. and Canada.
the
Titles of the films are "Louisa: A Word
of Love," a Franco-Belgian corporation by
Alain Guillaume and directed by Paul Collet
for Maya Film, Chowking Films and Cinevogue;
"The Dirty War, the Real Battle
of Algiers," documentary produced by
Jacques Perrin and directed by Yves Courriere
and Phillippe Moureier for Reggane
Films; "Summer Dreams," produced by
Mag Bodard and directed by Nina Companeez
for Marianne Productions and Universal
Productions of France.
Also five other films will be distributed
by the company, including "I Shall Fly As
a Stoned Horse," directed and written by
playwright Fernando Arrabal. Bernard
Legargeant produced the film for Societe
General de Production.
Also charted for .'American release are
two French films, "Deliver Us Not From
Evil" and "Love Thy Neighbor . . . But Not
Too Much." and two Italo productions,
"Girl With the Golden Skin" and "Tale of
the Scorpion."
BOXOFFICE :: September 30, 1974

Rastar to Make Two Films
For Columbia Release
NEW YORK— Rastar Pictures and Colunibia
Pictures have procured the motion
picture rights to "Colette; The Difficulty ol
Loving," a biography of the noted French
authoress written by Margaret Crosland, it
was announced by Ray Stark, head of Rastur
Pictures, and David Begelman, president of
Columbia Pictures.
The motion picture will be produced in
England by Ray Stark and directed by Herbert
Ross from a screenplay by Jay Presson
Allen, marking a reunion of the three and
follows their association in similar capacities
on the recently completed Barbra Streisand
starrer, "Funny Lady," an Easter 1975 Columbia
release.
Colette, the pen-name of Sidonie Gabrielle
Claudine Colette, was the popular writer of
short stories, essays, plays and semi-autobiography
stories, with the main character
known as Claudine, until her death in 1954.
Screenplays adapted from her work include
"Claudine a L'Escole." "Julie de Carnelihan,"
"LTngenue Libertine," "Ripening
Seed," and two screen versions of her bestknown,
"Gigi."
Rastar Pictures and Columbia Pictures
Correction
LOS ANGELES— Robert Saxton, who
recently joined Hollywood-based Cinema
National Corp. as office manager, and is in
charge of national print control and flat
bookings, has retained ownership of Hampton
International Pictures. In addition, he
still owns and operates the Palmetto Theatre
in Hampton, S.C. Items in Boxoffice August
26 and September 16 inadvertently indicated
that Saxton had relinquished the latter
two interests.
Saxton also continues as an executive of
NATO of North and South Carolina.
Ten Feet Tall' a Paramount Release
NEW YORK—Three features to be presented
in the Paramount Family Matinee
Series originally were released by Xerox
Films. They are: "The Wishing Machine,"
"The Magic of the Kite" and "Kingdom in
the Clouds." In the announcement of the
launching of the series, it was indicated
that "A Boy Ten Feet Tall" originally was
a Xerox Films release; however, this film
was a 1965 Paramount Pictures release.
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.
Tina Dlttflbutor Rotlna
Amarcord (New World)
[r]
God Bless Dr. Shagetz (L-T Films) [r]
No Mercy Man (Cannon)
Solomon King (Sal/wa and StageStruck)
The Ultimate Thrill (L-T Films) PG
[RJ
Walter Brennen Dies at 80;
Veteran Character Actor
OXNARD. CALIF.— Walter Brennan,

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MFI Schedules Three Fihns
For Fall and Winter
Manuel S. Conde, president of MFI
Productions, reports the Hollywood-based
company will put three films before the
cameras this fall and winter. "The Dicktator,"
a satirical political comedy by Walt
Davis, will roll October 4 in Los .Ajigeles
with Conde directing and M. D. Maury as
executive producer. Filming will begin the
end of November on Jimmy August's original
script. "Seven Sins on Sixth Street," a
suspense spy drama set in Los Angeles.
Conde and Maury will again serve as director
and producer, with David Zhands as
production manager. Mid-December filming
will begin on "The Visual Realization
of the Sexual Fantasies and Erotic Dreams
state, the picture also will shoot interiors
m the Confederate White House and several
other historic buildings.
Three Features for Warners
Face Cameras This Month
Three new productions for Warner Bros,
are scheduled for filming this month. "The
Spiral Staircase," a dramatic thriller for
Warner Bros, release starring Jacqueline
Bisset and Christopher Plummer, started
shooting at Bray Studios near London September
9 under direction of Peter Collinson.
Based on the acclaimed novel by Ethel Lina
White, the film is a Raven Films production.
Alan Scott and Chris Bryant wrote the
screenplay for producer Robert Shaw .
Principal photography has begun on
"The Barony," a Weintraub-Heller production
for Warners, starring Yul Brynner,
Max von Sydow and Joanna Miles. Robert
Clou.se is directing the future-fiction drama
from his own screenplay on location in Los
Angeles. Gerald Hirschfeld is cinematographer
and Marty Hornstein is production
manager . . . WB's "Dog Day Afternoon,"
which begins filming in New York Monday
(30), has added three members to its production
crew: Dede Allen has been signed
as film editor; Charles Bailey will be production
designer, and Victor J. Kemper is
set as director of photography. ITie film,
produced by Martin Bregman and Martin
Elfand, will be directed by Sidney Lumet
from a screenplay by Frank Pierson. Al
By SYD CASSYD
Pacino stars . . . Director John Milius has
production of MGM-Columbia's "The
Wind and the Lion" four days ahead of
schedule on location in Seville, Spain. Milius
is directing Sean Connery, Candice Bergen,
Brian Keith and John Huston in his own
original
script.
Peppercorn Entertainment Sets
"August Heat' First Project
Peppercorn Entertainment Productions
will film as its first project "August Heat,"
based on Charles Whitman's 90-minute
sniper attack atop the University of Texas
Tower in 1968. Julius D. Feigleson wrote
the story, which will roll in Texas with
Feigleson directing ... "A Likely Story"
will be filmed by P.O. Films, Ltd., accord-
Hill, Lorenzo Semple jr. "and Tracy Keenan
Wynn. Stuart Rosenberg will direct . . . "The
Killer Inside Me" will be the first film to be
produced by Devi Productions, according
to Michael Leighton. president of the MGMbased
firm. Robert Weinbach will produce
and John Stefanelli is associate producer.
Susan Tyrell Again to Star
Opposite Stacy Keach
Susan Tyrell, Oscar-nominated as Best
Supporting Actress for her role opposite
Stacy Keach in Columbia's "Fat City," has
been signed by Michael Leighton, president
of Devi Productions, to star opposite Keach
again, this time in Devi's "The Killer Inside
Me." Leighton also set Tisha Sterling to
appear in the picture currently shooting in
Butte. Mont. Robert Weinbach is producerdirector,
John Stefanelli associate producer,
and Tom Shaw production manager and
assistant director . . . Stacy Keach will star
in "The Killer Inside Me," first film from
Devi Productions, according to president
Michael Leighton. Robert Weinbach is producer-director
of the film which has begun
shooting in Butte, Mont. Interiors will be
filmed at MGM .
. . Jill Ireland will co-star
with Charles Bronson in "Hard Times," a
Lawrence Gordon production for Columbia
set in New Orleans in the mid-1930s. The
film is scheduled to begin production on
location in the Louisiana capital October 14
Wells has been signed by producer-director
Charles B. Pierce to star in
"Winterhawk," now filming in Montana by
Charles B. Pierce Productions.
Ray Atherton Announces Plans
For Cine Repertory Film
Producer Ray Atherton has announced
that his Hollywood-based company, the Cine
Repertory Group, soon will begin production
on the thriller "Kiss the Dead Goodbye"
in Los Angeles in Todd-AO and De-
Luxe Color. Ray Wagner is set as director
of photography and Gordon Trueblood will
direct . . . Los Angeles' Theatre of Arts, under
newly appointed managing director
Christopher Keogh, has arranged co-productions
for two major feature films: "The
Fifth Moon of Collux," a science-fiction feature
set in Ghana, West Africa, produced
by Richard Dewbin and Glory Films associate
producer Jimmy Samyani, and "Survival
Day," story of a rock minstrel scripted
by author Gordon Lundberg . . . Producer
Euan Lloyd has moved his "Paper Tiger"
company from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to
the interior of the Malaysian jungle for two
weeks of location filming. David Niven,
Toshiro Mifune and Hardy Kruger star in
the contemporary action drama directed by
Ken Annakin from Jack Davies' script. Post
production will be in London . Sandy
Howard/ Richard Harris production "The
Last Castle," starring Harris and Barbara
Harris, has begun filming on location in
Nova Scotia with Don Taylor directing. The
producer is Robert L. Joseph, who also
wrote the screenplay. Bryanston Pictures will
distribute in the U.S. and Astral-Bellevue
Pathe in Canada.
Music, Scripting. Photography,
Miscellaneous Assignments
Henry Mancini will score for Paramount
Jacqueline Susann's "Once Is Not Enough,"
starring Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David
Janssen, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri,
Gary Conway, Brenda Vaccaro and
Deborah Raffin. The contemporary comedy
was adapted from Miss Susann's best-seller
by Julius J. Epstein. Guy Green directed,
Howard W. Koch produced and Irving
Mansfield served as executive producer . . .
Alex North will compose and conduct mu-
for Columbia's "Bite the Bullet." written
sic
and directed by Richard Brooks, North has
been nominated 11 times for Oscars, but
has yet to win one . . Mario Tosi will photograph
.
MGM's "Hearts of the West," the
Tony Bill-Howard Zieff production starring
Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith and Alan Arkin.
Josi most recently lensed UA's upcoming
'Report to the Commissioner." "Hearts of
the West" is from an original screenplay
by Rob Thompson focusing on screen cowboys
in 1930 Hollywood. Zieff will direct
time Emmy Award-winning writer
Tracy Keenan Wynn has signed an exclusive
multi-picture contract with Columbia
Pictures Television to write and direct theatrical
motion pictures and long-form TV
projects. He most recently scripted Paramount's
"The Longest Yard," starring Burt
Reynolds and is currently working "in Warners'
"Ryan's the Name."
BOXOFFICE :: Septembe: 30, 1974

BOXOFFICE BAROMETER
This chart records the performance of current attroctions in the opening week of their first runs in
cities five listed. the 20 key checked. Pictures with fewer than engagements arc not As new runs
is are reported, ratings are added end averages revised. Computation in terms of percentage in
normal grosses as determined by the theatre managers. With 100 per cent as "normal,"
relation to
the figures show the gross ratings above or below thot mark. (Asterisk * denotes combinotion bills.)
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'Benji/ (Mulberry Square)
Selected
August's Blue Ribbon Award Winner
By MARY JO GORMAN
gENJI,'" a family film in which a very intelligent canine plays the title role, was voted
winner of the Blue Ribbon Award for August by members of the National Screen
Council. The comedy-drama—rated G by the MPAA and Al by the NCO—has grossed
an impressive 325 per cent of average business in its first-run bookings in key cities.
(Higgins. the mongrel who portrays Benji, came out of the Burbank Animal Shelter
14 years ago to play a TV role.)
Mulberry Square president Joe Camp stated that his company's goals were: "To
become, in effect, another Walt Disney. To be one of the very few entities in the
entertainment world that philosophically stands for something. To exert all efforts to
bring clean and wholesome e.Kcitement, inspiration, laughter and joy to young people
of all ages. To combine the proper elements in the proper mixture to create that level
of fantasy that almost all children and adults like to experience. And, like Disney, to
do it as well as it can be done."
Boxoffice reviewed "Benji" in its issue tre, Sioux City (1,200 seats) by entering
of September 9, stating in part: "It is
difficult to imagine anyone not enjoying
'Benji.' Whether adults or children will
love this film more is open to debate, but
that 'Benji" is a remarkable production is
unquestionable. A product of producerdirector-writer
Joe Camp and animal
trainers Frank and Juanita Inn. this first
Mulberry Square production should firmly
establish the Texas-based company. Higgins,
the canine star of the show, shows
incredible acting talent in the title role and
it's a joy to see Edgar Buchanan, Patsy
Garrett and Frances Bavier together in
one film, not to mention the familiar faces
of the other cast members. 'Benji' relies
on honest humor and character development,
containing none of the saccharine
sentimentality and condescending silliness
that make most 'family entertainment' unbearable
for adults. Shot from the dog's
viewpoint in Denton and McKinney, Tex.,
'Benji's' assets include careful production,
a fine score by Euel Box, a title song 'I
Feel Love,' performed by Charlie Rich,
and a 'we try harder' attitude toward promotion
. . . the execution of the story is
expertly accomplished."
NSC members made the following observations
about "Benji":
"Benji" Is a Miracle
A delightful family film about two
charming dogs with character and personality.—
Dr. James K. Loutzenhiser, Missouri
Council on Arts, Kansas City . . .
"Benji" is a miracle. All I can say is
"thanks" to Joe Camp and everyone involved
with this extra-special picture.
"Benji" now holds the all-time record for
playing time in the huge Orpheum Thea-
its fifth week and still "woofing" out loud.
Congratulations and we love you!—Justin
Jacobsmeier, Orpheum Theatre, Sioux City.
"Benji" had the unique ability to provide
great boxoffice activity and yet still
carry the oftentimes deadly "family picture"
label. This picture successfully ran
the gauntlet of emotions and left you with
a good feeling inside. My vote this month
for a real champion, "Benji."—Bruce W.
Harmon, Cooper Theatres, Inc., Lincoln
... Is there an Academy Award for best
dog actor?—Frank R. Weirich, News-
Sentinel, Knoxville.
No contest.—Charles Smith, Clarion-
Ledger, Jackson, Miss. . . . Excellent to
show the intelligence and dignity of animals,
so worthy of our respect and concern.—Cecile
Burton, drama teacher, Kansas
City ... No argument about this one!
— Ranee Mason, Copper Theatre Co.,
Houghton, Mich. . . . "Benji" has great
charm, and although its plot is hackneyed,
the treatment is clever enough to give the
film an appeal for the entire family.
Carole Kass, Richmond Times-Dispatch.
"Benji" is a delightful motion picture
with charm and entertainment for all the
family.— Mrs. Wayne F. Shaw, NSUSD of
1812, Lawrence, Kas. . . . Simply great!
Jim Schrader, Amherst Bee, Williamsville.
N.Y. . unusual story with a dog as
the hero, leading people to a hideout to
rescue two children. Well-done, and maybe
an Oscar winner. A family picture for all
to see.— Mrs. Claude Franklin, Indianapolis
NSC group ... A real cute dog!
Dorothy R. Shank, WJJL Radio, Niagara
Falls . . . This picture really got to me. It
was delightful for all ages.—Mrs. Stanley
Becker, Indianapolis NSC group.
BENJI-S FRIENDS. ALLEN FIUZAT AND CYNTHIA
SMITH, ARE ABDUCTED BY A QUARTET OF KIDNAPERS
The Cast
Mary Patsy Garrett Lhida
Paul Allen Fiuzat Milch
Cindy Cynthia Smith Lt. Samuels
Dr. Chapman Peter Breck Liuly With the Cat
Riley Tom Lester Officer Tuttle . . .
Henry Christopher Connelly Bill
Deborah Walley
Mark Slade
.... Herb Vigran
. .Frances Bavier
Carter
.Edgar Buchanan
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Produced. Dircc
Written by .
Production Staff
Director of PhotOf,'rap/iY .... DoN Reddy
Color hy
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exhibitor oroanizations.
BOXOFFICE :: September 30. 1974

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Hassanein Is Elected
PresideniofMMPTA
NEW YORK — Salah M. Hussancin.
c\ecutive vice-president of United Artists
Theatre Circuit, was
elected president of
the Metropolitan Motion
Picture Theatres
Ass'n Tuesday (24)
at the annual meeting
of the association held
at the St. Moritz
Hotel here. Bernard
Myerson, president of
^^H Loews Theatres, was
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elected chairman of
Salah Hassane.n
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Also elected were: Walter Brecher, Brecher
Theatres, first vice-president; Larry Morris,
B. S. Moss Enterprises, second vicepresident;
Charles R. Hacker, Radio City
Music Hall Corp., treasurer, and Meyer
Ackerman, Ackerman Enterprises, assistant
treasurer.
Elected members of the board of directors
were: Meyer Ackerman, Leo Brecher,
Walter Brecher, Milton Daly, Bernard D.
Diamond, Percy Douglas. Sanford Greenberg,
Charles R. Hacker, Salah M. Hassanein,
Bradford Manning, Thomas McMahon,
Larry Morris, Charles B. Moss, James J.
Murray. Bernard Myerson, James V. Pisapia,
Mathew Polon, Sumner Redstone.
Donald S. Rugoff, Leslie R. Schwartz. Solomon
M. Strausberg and Joseph G. Wickham.
Matthew Polon was elected chairman of
the executive committee by the newly
elected members of the executive committee
consisting of, in addition to its chairman,
Meyer Ackerman, Walter Brecher, Charles
B. Moss, Donald S. Rugoff, Leslie R.
Schwartz and Solomon M. Strausberg.
Present at the meeting were: Meyer
Ackerman, Walter Brecher, Bernard D. Diamond.
Percy Douglas, Salah M. Hassanein,
Bradford Manning, Thomas McMahon.
Larry Morris, James J. Murray, D. John
Phillips, James V. Pisapia and Solomon M.
Strausberg.
DA of York County Urging
Obscenity Bill Passage
YORK, PA.—Donald L. Reihart, district
bill, which would give district attorneys the
power to seek injunctions against films as
pornographic movies which cm be seen
rom a nearby highway."
While Reihart conceded he did not have
an opportunity to review the legislation in
detail, he said that if it helps protect citizens
from hard-core pornography, he is in favor
ol its passage. Noting that Pennsylvania's
Gov. Milton J. Shapp previously had vetoed
an anlipornography bill which Reihart had
favored, the district attorney said he would
hope that the governor would sign the latest
measure if it is approved by the House of
Representatives.
Reihart currently is appealing a decision
by President Judge Robert 1. Shadle here
dismissing both a criminal and civil action
brought by the district attorney against the
local Southern Theatre. The court had ruled
that the state's pornography law is too vague
to fall within the U.S. Supreme Court's
auidelines.
48th Annual Dinner
For Variety Tenl 1
PITTSBURGH—The 48th annual banquet
of Variety Club Tent 1 will be held
Sunday evening, October 20, at the Holiday
House in Monroeville. James M. Ecker,
chief barker, states that it is difficult to
top last year's dinner but indications are
that those in attendance will be in for
another fantastic evening.
Tickets are $15 per person and Nancy
Sinatra will headline the show. In addition,
many surprises are in store for barkers and
guests.
A cash bar with hors d'oeuvres will open
at 6 p.m. in
the Rose Room and dinner will
be served at 7 p.m.
Reservations are being accepted at the
club headquarters in the William Penn
Hotel.
Bicentennial Contract Awarded
PHILADELPHIA — Acting under the
cloud of urgency so that the project will be
ready to receive the first of 15,000,000 visitors
expected here by April 1, 1976, Philadelphia
'76, Inc., the city's official planning
agency for the bicentennial celebration,
awarded a no-bid contract for a $I3-million
popular history motion picture theatre and
museum. The project is planned for a center
city location near the city's historic area and
attorney of York County, called for passage will be the major feature of the celebration.
by the state's House of Representatives of a
Included in the contract will be a $2 million
measure giving district attorneys clearer motion picture depicting the "Making of
power to move against motion pictures they the Republic," to be shown by the Imax
deem obscene. Reihart said he was "extremely
process, a sophisticated apparatus using a
encouraged" by the fact that the 100x70-foot movie screen.
Senate voted unanimously to approve the
Plan Twin Theatres
In Fairmont Center
FAIRMONI, W. VA.—The new $2.5
million Kroger Square Shopping Center on
Country Club Road will contain a twin
movie house owned by two Oak Hill theatre
operators. This center is expected to be
completed early next year.
The lease for the 6,000-square-foot house,
10 be owned and operated by Grant and
Lawrence Thomas of Oak Hill, has been
to signed, according owner-developer William
A. .\bruzzino. The twin will be located
in the main building of the center. The
Fairmont area thus soon will have seven
theatres, the five others being three downtown
auditoriums and the two outdoor units,
Twilite and Starlite.
Grading of the huge site has been under
way for several months and the project is
behind schedule because of difficulties encountered
when the excavating equipment
met unexpected layers of rock formation,
Abruzzino said.
Located on a 17 '/a -acre site, across from
Jayenne School, the Kroger store will be the
nucleus of Marion County's newest shopping
center. A discount store also will
occupy a major share of the 740-foot-long
main strip and leases have been signed for
a Super X Drug Store and a Pizza Inn.
'Death Wish' Given Boost
By Philadelphia Press
PHILADELPHIA—With black audiences
predominating at the center-city motion picture
houses, it was significant among industry
members to note that the fears expressed
over the showing of "Death Wish" failed to
materialize. The Charles Bronson starrer
opened August 14 at Budco's Regency Theatre
without incident— and to excellent busi-
Ihc Philadelphia Inquirer sent feature
reporter Kathy Begley, apart from the
daily's film critic, to cover the opening.
And in a front-page story, which in itself
turned into a news scoop for the film, Ms.
Begley reported: "The 1,000 persons who
attended the opening of the film 'Death
Wish' ... at the Regency— about equal
numbers of white and blacks—cheered
loudly."
Ihe newspaper reporter pointed out that
the film has been criticized as appealing to
the fears of the white middle class and she
added that "the first-day reaction here would
indicate that many black Philadelphians
share those fears."' She added that "whatever
the morality of the vigilantism the
movie attractively displays, the film seems
Two Charged in Airer Holdup
well as books, magazines and photographs. MILTON. PA.—Two men apprehended destined to be a runaway success." She said
The state, Reihart observed, is virtually by the state police have been charged in the
helpless in fighting pornography, despite the armed robbery of the Silver Moon Drive-In.
that "judging by the cheers of the audience
here, word-of-mouth endorsements probably
Wielding a sawed-off shotgun, the robbers soon draw standing-room-only crowds."
will
U.S. Supreme Court rulings that hard-core
pornography is not protected by the First threatened Kent Lewis, owner of the airer, After quoting reactions of black patrons
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The and his wife Mary, then took the evening's to the movie, Ms. Begley concluded that
receipts— $1.130— and fled on foot. They the management of the Regency, for one,
district attorney also stressed the need for
apparently made their getaway later in a does not want to be bothered with the philosophical
protection of citizens from pornography,
implications of "Death Wish."
noting that one outdoor theatre here exhibits stolen car.
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B R O A D W Ay
rjABARET," winner of eight Academy
Awards, opens at 45 Flagship theatres
in the metropolitan area October 2. Originally
released in 1972. the Allied Artists-ABC
Pictures presentation won the Best Actress
Award for Liza Minnelli. Best Supporting
Actor Award for Joel Grey and Best Director
Award for Bob Fosse. The musicalcomedy-drama
was produced by C"y Feuer
on location in West Germany.
•
The French Film Office announced the
airiviil of several French celebrities in connection
with the 12th New York Film
Festival, which began Friday night (27) with
Pascal Thomas "Don't Cry With Your
Mouth Full."
The personalities who arrived here were
Alain Resnais. director of "Stavisky"; Louis
Malle and Aurore Clement, director and
female star of "Lacombe, Lucien"; director
Thomas; Jacques Rivette, director of two
films, accompanied by his stars. Dominique
Labourier ("Celine and Julie Go Boating")
and Jidiet Berto ("Out One/ Spectre" and
"Celine and Julie Go Boating"), and Luis
Bunuel, director of "Phantom of Liberty"
and subject of a retrospective.
Reissues in town include "Fo.\y Brown"
and "Truck Turner," AIP combo which
opened at the Penthouse and RKO 86th
Street Twin I Wednesday (25), and "2001:
A Space Odyssey," which began Friday (27)
at the Ziegfeld as originally presented in
1968 with full stereophonic sound and in
70mm.
•
Rosalind Russell was honored Sunday
night (22) at Town Hall with an in-person
appearance and a presentation of scenes
from some of her outstanding films. Publicist
John Springer produced the show and
hosted the evening's tribute, the film clips
having been assembled by the team of Herb
Graff and Don Koll. Celebrities present
included Henry Fonda, Tammy Grimes,
directors Joshua Logan and Morton Da
Costa, song writers Jule Styne, Betty Cuniden
and Adolph Green and producer Frederick
Brisson (Miss Russell's husband).
Beginning and ending with scenes from
"Auntie Maine" (1958), the excerpts showed
Miss Russell as a skilled dramatic actress
in such films as "Sister Kenny" (1946).
"Craig's Wife" (1936) and particularly "Picnic"
(1955) and as a superb comedienne in
"The Women" (1939), "His Girl Friday"
(1940) and "Take a Letter, Darling" (1942).
Her way with a song was demonstrated via
"Gypsy" (1962) and a kinescope of "Wonderful
Town," which she did on the stage,
on TV and in the first film version ("My
Sister Eileen," 1942. which also was excerpted).
Speaking for herself. Miss Russell said
that she most loved making comedies and
had nothing but praise for her leading men
— Ronald Colman, Clark Gable. Carx
Grant— with "delicious" being her favorite
description of them. She said that it was
possible that she might do a Broadway
nuisical.
•
Joan Crawford gave a party for Rosalind
Russell at the Rainbow Room Monday evening
(23). The occasion was in recognition
of her evening at Town Hall, as well as
for the presentation by Frances Fuller, president
of the American Academy of Dramatic
Arts, of an award to graduate Russell.
.'Additionally, the bash also was in honor of
the John Springer-Jack Hamilton book,
"They Had Faces Then," about screen
actresses of the past.
.\mong the many guests were some of
the ladies represented in the book. Present
were Joan Bennett, Henry Fonda, Eileen
Heckart, Mel Torme. Peggy Lee, Julie Wilson,
Erik Rhodes, Wini Shaw, Lois Wilson.
Butterfly McQueen, Dorothy Tree, Penny
Singleton, Lynn Redgrave, Betty Furness.
Jacqueline Logan. Comden and Green and
Aileen Pringle.
•
Ihe Columbia II Theatre will present
female impersonator Craig Rus.sell on stage
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GOLF TOURNEY WINNERS—In
the photo are winners of the three sets
of matching golf clubs at the Variety
Chib Tent 35 annual golf tournament
at the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck.
Left to right are Jerry Smith
of Chemical Bank; Ralph lanuzzi, Warner
Bros., and Ben Resnick, independent
exhibitor.
at midnight October 4-5. Considered to be
among the very best of impressionists, he'll
do his repertoire of Tallulah Bankhead.
Carol Channing, Bette Davis. Marlene Dietrich.
Peggy Lee, Marilyn Monroe. Barhra
Streisand and Mae West. On screen will
he "The Love Goddesses." the 1965 compilation
of scenes from the films of the
greatest movie actresses of all time.
•
Liliana Cavani, director and co-scripter
of "The Night Porter," arrived from Rome
Monday (23) for publicity activities on behalf
of the film. A Joseph E. Levine presentation,
the Avco Embassy Pictures release
stars Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte
Rampling as lovers in post-war Vienna
whose affair started in a concentration
camp. The filrh has its American premiere
October 1 at the Baronet. Miss Rampling
arrived from London Saturday (28) for the
film.
•
Openings: "Juggernaut" opened Friday
(27) at the Cinerama. RKO 86lh Street
Twin H and RKO 59th Street 1 and 2.
rather than Wednesday (25) as previously
announced. Vilgot Sjoman's " 'Till Se.x Do
Us Part" is due to start its American premiere
October 2 at the Cine Malibu and
Cinema Village in Manhattan and the Au.stin
Theatre in Kew Gardens. Queens. Its
opening in September was delayed by the
succe.vs of "Score!" at the two New York
hou.ses.
•
Les Schwartz has ended his position as
tradepress contact at Columbia Pictures,
intending to leave the industry.
UA Triplex Under Way
RE.ADING, PA.—A United Artists circuit
triplex is under way in the Berkshire
Mall West, across from the Berkshire Mall.
The auditoriums will seat 200 to 300 moviegoers
each.
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WEST PATERSON, N.J.—The future
would appear to be less than rosy for driveins
in North Jersey. Of the nine ozoners in
Bergen, Passaic and Morris counties, two
closed during the past two months, one is
slated to shutter in the near future and two
are being seriously considered for other uses.
The scoreboard at present shows the following:
General Cinema recently closed its
1,200-car Totowa Drive-In in Totowa and
Hoffman LaRoche is expected to break
ground within a few days for a $9 million
warehouse facility on the site of the former
Totowa outdoorer. GCC's Route 46 Drive-
In. Saddle Brook, built in 1950, closed last
May to make way for a $3.5 million minishopping
mall. DeVisser's Anthony Wayne
Drive-In, Wayne, is expected to close soon
as real estate developers have plans to construct
high-rise apartments in its place.
GCC's Route 4 Drive-In in Paramus is
being considered for use as a parking lot
for the proposed expansion of the Garden
State Plaza (shopping center), which is adjacent
to the theatre. The New Jersey Department
of Transportation and the Rutherford
Borough Council are investigating the
possibility of converting GCC's Route 3
Drive-In. Rutherford, into a parking lot for
those commuting to New York City.
According to local industry executives,
as well as real estate developers, the skyrocketing
cost of land, particularly in North
Jersey where most of the state's drive-ins
are located, has attracted a real estate market
geared to developing shopping centers,
corporate headquarters and high-rise apartments.
It should be noted that most ozoner
properties in this area are leased by the
theatre firms involved.
Recently, the actual land owners are finding
it financially more attractive to sell to
the above-mentioned developers, rather than
continue leasing arrangements with drive-in
theatre businesses.
The Totowa location provides an example
of what land prices and current taxes are
doing to many drive-in owners. Originally
opened in 1953, the 36-acre underskyer
tract currently is assessed at $1.68 million.
And with the $67,200 cost of the theatre,
the total value of the ozoner is $1,747,900.
The current Totowa tax rate of $2.60 per
$100 evaluation results in the landowner
paying $45,445 in taxes this year. Faced
with the seasonal income of an airer, the
owner of the land may look for a more
financially sound tenant. And if the land is
owned by the theatre, the high taxes soon
may convince the owner to close and sell
the operation, as happened in Saddle Brook.
'Xaviero Hollander Story Hits 625
Mark Third Week of New York Run
NEW YORK—It was three in a row for
"The Life and Times of Xaviera Hollander,"
a healthy 625 for the third World week.
Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes From a Marriage,"
condensed from a mini-scries on
Scandinavian TV, won unanimous critical
acclaim and solid patron approval with a
485 opening round at Cinema I. Fellini's
"Amarcord" was nearly as big a winner,
480 in the first week at the Plaza.
"The Filthiest Show in Town" went down
one notch to fourth place, scoring 315 for
the fourth week at Rialto I. "Adam and
Yves" also slipped down one place to fifth,
earning 250 for its fourth week at the 55th
Street Playhouse. "Death Wish" remained
in sixth place, averaging 220 for the ninth
week at the Astor Plaza (140) and the Cine
(300).
(Average Is 100)
Asfor Plaza— Deoth Wish (Para), 9th wk 140
Baronet The Apprenticeship of Duddy Krovitz
(Para), 10th wk 175
Cine—Deoth Wish (Para), 9th wk 300
Cinema I From o Marriage (CInemo 5) . .485
Cinema II Escape to Nowhere
(Peppercorn-Wormser), 7th wk 180
Cinerama Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
(UA), 6+h wk 50
East 59th Street 2 Bring Me the Heod of
Alfredo Gorcia (UA), 6th wk 40
Several area drive-in managers pointed
to R-rated films as being detrimental to the
outdoor theatre business, noting that families
cannot attend as often as they once did,
and many pointed to the seasonal aspect
of the operation as being the biggest problem
in this area. Still others contended that
their particular locations still were good
moneymakers. But, as one manager put it,
"In this area, it just isn't economically
feasible to run a drive-in and that's too bad,
because there's still an audience for this
kind of thing."
Vice Squad-Seized Films
Are Ordered Returned
From North Central Edition
FORT WAYNE, IND.—Three X-rated
films seized last June by police vice squad
officers at two local taverns must be returned,
under a ruling by Special Circuit
Judge H. Hugh Kennerk. He held the affidavits
for search warrants executed by police
were "defective" and did not meet statutory
requirements.
The Stables of Fort Wayne, Inc., and
Spring, Inc., filed civil suits seeking the
return of the films and the Stables sought
$10,000, claiming the seizure was illegal,
while Spring sought $5,000. No action was
taken on the request for damages.
55th Street Playhouse Adam and Yyes
(Hand-in-Hand FilmsJ, 4th wk 250
Orpheum The Longest Yard (Poro), 5th wk 70
Paris— Horry and Tonto ;20th-Fox), 6th wk 200
Sisters Penthouse Savage 'AlP), 4th wk 75
Ploza—Amarcord (New World) ^ 480
Rodio City Music
Girl From Pctrovko
(Univ), 5th wk.
I—The Filthiest Show in Town (Mishkin),
RKO 86th' Street Twin i—lavage SJsters (AlP),
RKO 86th Street Twin' 11 Bring Me the Head of
Alfredo Gorcia (UA), 6th wk 50
68th Street Playhouse The Seduction of Mimi
(New Line Cinema), 14»h wk 150
State I
Longest Yard (Paro), 5th wk 150
Tower East The Longest Yord 'Poro), 5th wk. ,.115
World The Life and Times of Xaviera Hollander
(Mature), 3rd wk 625
New Baltimore Flicks Falter
In Competition Against Reissues
BALTIMORE—^New flicks in town hovered
below 100 during their first weeks with
one exception, "The Internecine Project,"
which hit 105 at four theatres. Also drawing
crowds against reissues such as "The Godfather"
and "Gone With the Wind" were
"The Black Windmill" and "The Lords of
Flatbush."
Jo Ann Stewart to Helm
Two in Lovington, N.M.
From Western Edition
LOVINGTON, N.M.—Jo Ann Stewart
is the new manager for the Lea and Wildcat
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.
Denver Mini-Art Cashier
Knocked Out in Robbery
From V/cstern Edition
DENVER—More than $800 was taken
in a robbery at the Mini-Art Cinema when
cashier Hildegard M. Turks was knocked
unconscious.
Miss Turks had left
the cashier booth fo
get a soft drink from a machine in the
lobby and when she returned, the robber hit
her on her head. When she regained consciousness,
she found the thief had taken
the money from the cash box in the ticket
booth and from a hiding place in a towel
dispenser in a private restroom.
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Lodge. Ellis, who also is a member of Variety
Club Tent 7. is chairman of the board
of Ellis Advertising Co.
There was action aplenty the other afternoon
in the Teck Theatre as a dozen police
combed the house for two theft suspects
while patrons watched them and two karate
films. The hour-long search failed to turn
up two men, who were surprised by a secretary
at 4 p.m. while they were taking $184
from a nearby auto service office. The secretary
said she saw the two run into the
theatre, which is nearby .
Buffalo
Statler-Hilton has joined the growing list
of eating places that also offer live entertainment.
Recently the hotel offered the
Downtowners and "An Evening With AI
Jolson," with Frank Scinta and Joe Mombre.
Ann Fadale was at the piano and there was
free parking in the Statler garage . . . The
Artpark Theatre, Lewistown, has closed for
the season with what officials estimate as
a $250,000 loss. But there is a glimmer of
optimism for the place and its 45-member
staff. The theatre's last two nights were
sold out.
According to Tony Martin's memory, it
was 1941 when he played at the old Shea's
Buffalo and the band was led by a fellow
named Artie Shaw. The latter had a Cole
Porter song he was trying out and he had
Martin sing along. Now, some 33 years
later, back in western New York at the new
domed Melody Fair, Tony is calling it "My
Song." It is "Begin the Beguine" and it
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Ave., and Loren Bowers, manager of the
Allendale, 203 Allen St.
Don Thompson gave a concert on the
Mighty Wurlitzer in the Riviera Theatre,
North Tonawanda. Wednesday evening (18),
attracting an SRO crowd . Nestle,
retired Jamestown exhibitor and now active
in Shrine affairs in that Chautauqua County
town, draws attention to the beautiful new
Adelsman's Klub grounds and urged Shrincrs
in the town to make up a family cookout
there soon . will be
coming through in stereo at 50,000 watts
beginning January 1, according to general
manager Bob Mycek, a member of Variety
Club Tent 7.
Warren Hull, a native of Gasport, who
played the Green Hornet in motion pictures
and was emcee for the "Strike it Rich" TV
show, is dead in Waterbury, Conn., at the
age of 71.
Mrs. Henrietta W. Schlager of
Kenmore,
vice-president and program chairman of the
Buffalo Cinema Club, has received the annual
Fellow Award of the Society of Amateur
Cinematographers. The award, in recognition
of her service in film clubs and
the national NAC. was presented the other
evening in the Flagship Motel in Rochester
Hope and Alan Shepherd, astronaut,
will headline a fund-raising show for
Rep. Jack F. Kemp October 6 at Meloday
Fair in North Tonawanda. Billed as the
Jack Kemp Appreciation Night, the $25-
per-ticket event is sponsored by a committee
of labor, business, civic and sports leaders.
Sameric Unit Delays Show
In Respect for 'Duchess'
PHILADELPHIA— Sam Shapiro, head of
the Sameric circuit, placed special ads in
the local newspapers Monday (9) announcing
that his center-city Duchess Theatre
would be closed several hours, delaying the
regular 11:30 a.m. opening until 1 p.m. The
unusual procedure was in respect for his
dog, a constant companion named Duchess,
and probably the only dog ever to have a
"She was loved by everyone, especially
Sam Shapiro," said a spokesman for the
Sameric Theatre. "She worked in the office
and Shapiro took her everywhere. She was
very well liked."
Everett Smith Managing
Stockdale 6 for AMC
From Western Edition
BAKERSFIELD. CALIF. — The new
Stockdale 6 theatres opened here .August
21, with Everett Smith as manager. Smith
previously was at the Brywood 6 theatres.
Kansas City, where he was an assistant.
The Stockdale 6 theatres are the first
American Multi Cinema units operating in
this mid-California area.
PHILADELPHIA
Jj^l
Haas, entertainment editor of the Inquirer,
wanted to find out if the area
movie houses featuring X-ratcd films actually
restrict admissions to those 18 and over.
He wrote that he sent his 14-year-old .son to
the boxoffice and. in each instance, the
youngster was turned down at the Apollo,
Forum, Center and Studio theatres in center
city and at the Venus Art Theatre in nearby
Collingswood. N.J. .
"Undersea
World of Jacques Cousteau" film series has
been scheduled for three locations throughout
the state of Delaware for six weeks. Free
and open to the public, the series set for
Wilmington, Lewes and Neward was arranged
for by the University of Delaware's Division
of Continuing Education.
Barney Sackett,
who operates the centercity
Screening Room, an adult mini-house,
aims to renew interest in his film programs.
He is negotiating for a series of Japanese
"porno" features. For the engagement, Sackett
says, he is trying to have authentic
Geisha girls on the premises .
the
end of the resort season in Atlantic City, Al
Baker jr. has darkened the stage of his
Apollo Burlesk Theatre on the Boardwalk
but still keeps the house open for screen
shows, operating nightly from 5:45 p.m. to
midnight with an adult film policy . . . The
historic State Theatre in Harrisburg, purchased
last October by the Pennsylvania
Rural Electric Ass'n, now has been razed.
The 50-year-old house was demolished to
make way for a new office center.
Variety Club Tent 13 presented a Distinguished
Service Award to Larry Fields,
entertainment columnist for the Daily News,
in recognition of his support in furthering
the tent's program to aid handicapped children
. . . Channel 100, Harrisburg CATV
station, plagued by firms selling devices designed
to pirate the station's programing,
announced that within the next few months
it will begin transmitting its signal in a
scrambled mode which can only be decoded
by its regular subscribers. The bootleg
terminal units have been selling for $85 to
$100. Regular subscribers will be provided
with a patented decoder . . . Dr. Ruth
theatre named in her honor.
While the theatre was dark. Duchess was
being buried in Pet Lawn Cemetery at
nearby Berlin, N.J. She was a Chinese pug. Perlmutter, director of the Philadelphia
Institute of Cinema, will conduct a class on
1 1 years old.
"An Introduction to Cinema: Analysis and
Criticism" at the Philadelphia Musical
Academy.
I. Shane Olshansky, president of the
Shane Communications Group, local industrial
film producers, was honored with the
U.S. Industrial Film Festival Award from
David Hunt, director of telecommunications
for the Insurance Co. of North America,
for the film 'The Spy Who Came in From
the Code." which he produced for the insurance
company . University of Pennsylvania's
School of Veterinary Medicine
sold at auction most of the vintage carriages
which were donated a decade ago by William
Goldman, retired circuit owner. However,
20 of the vehicles in the collection are
being retained by the university. They will
be housed in the William Goldman Carriage
House, an existing building on the New
Bolton Center campus which recently was
named in honor of Goldman.
Linda Goldenberg, director of publicity
and promotion for the Budco circuit, arranged
a tradescreening for "Gold," Allied
Artists' release produced by Michael Klinger,
at the Top of the Fox private screening
room Communications, maintaining
Channel 100 CATV in
,
Harrisburg,
is offering subscribers 123 motion pictures
every week in addition to the news and
variety programs . nature films will
be shown Saturday afternoons until April
26 at the midtown-based Academy of Natural
Sciences, with "The Living North"
and "The Roof of Japan" kicking off the
series.
N.J. . . .
A travel film.s and lecture series. "World
Around Us." has been scheduled, starting
October 25 and ending April 1 1
by the
,
Ewing Adult Evening School in Trenton,
While its a free admission generally
for the films shown by the Temple
University Student Union Board, a $1 tag
was put on the screening of "The Godfather"
and for "Theatre of Blood." All
screenings are in Beury Hall on the local
campus.
Joe Baltake, motion picture editor and
film reviewer for the Daily News, penned
a biography on Jack Lemmon which will
be published by Citadel Press . . . Last
chance, perhaps, to see "Gone With the
Wind" one more time on a theatre screen,
now that it has been sold to TV, is being
offered at Sameric's Trans-Lux Theatre in
center city . . . The Band Box Theatre in
the Germantown section is bringing back
John Schlesinger's "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
October 6 and Francis Ford Coppola's
"The Conversation" the following
week. Plans are to show Lina Wertmuller's
"The Seduction of Mimi" later in the fall
. . . Children are requested to bring a pillow
to sit on for the Sunday series of kiddies
films, starting with "Dick Whittingdon and
His Cat," plus "Clowns," at the suburban
Huntingdon Valley Library.
RICHMOND, VA.—Ron Steriing. Loews
Theatres, arranged a feature layout, highlighting
a telephone interview with Renny
Roker, star of Dimension Pictures' "Johnny
Tough!", in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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. . . The
. . Ron
. . The
, . Without
. . Bob
PITTSBURGH
Qolumbia Pictures' 50th anniversary will
The Shadvside is presenting 'The New
Comers" and "The Blue Balloon." the latter
having been seen at the L'Amoure in a
16mm version several weeks ago ... A
CATV public hearing will be held in city
hall October 1 at 10 a.m. Important in the
open meeting will be questions of a single
franchise or nonexclusive contracts and
whether or not pay TV will be permitted.
Backers predict that this city will have
CATV by the end of 1975 but the city
council first will have to approve ordinances,
etc.
Eddie Steinfeld of old Filmrow in many
years past, a well-known area actor, appears
in Mellon Bank TV commercials and also
doing commercials is Hall-of-Famer Ernie
Stautner, the Steelers' great veteran defensive
lineman (1950-63) who was a longtime
successful drive-in owner at Saranac Lake
Sabbath Ass'n of Western Pennsylvania,
which in the past fought blue laws,
Sunday movies, adult theatres, X-rated films,
etc., is winding up its affairs and is dissolving.
"Fantasia" returns to the Guild October
9 . . . Jackie Stein of Wheeler Films phoned
to say that the Richard Petty film which we
couldn't identify several weeks ago is a
Wheeler release and now is titled "Smash-
Up Alley" . . . Wrigley chewing gum announced
its second price increase in less
than two months. The ten-cent pack is dead,
with other gum manufacturers to follow
the lead of the largest maker. The onetime
five-cent candy bar now costs 20 cents via
vending machine—and it's not as big as formerly.
Andy Warhol's "Frankenstein" in 3-D
is one of the big-money pictures in release
and now the native of this city is ready to
introduce his new entry, "Andy Warhol's
Dracula," also starring Joe Dallesandro.
Andy turns out films entirely different from
those of any other producer, "unbelievable"
even after you've seen them.
Dave Silverman, Screen Guild manager,
remained in Montefiore Hospital with a
rare virus infection. A number of weeks
have passed since he entered the hospital
and he's bored and hoping to be well and
back on the job at an early date.
Bert Stearn, veteran in the industry here,
following an illness which hospitalized him
several months, plus weeks of recuperation
at home, is back at his office at 1725 Boulevard
of the Allies (entrance in rear at P&Ci
Shipping), where he and Lou Hanna operate
the original Co-Op booking service. "The
Little Corporal" actively is participating and
be celebrated here at the Squirrel Hill
Theatre from midnight October 8 to midnight
October 9 with the showing, at a single
admission price, of ten of this company's there pitching!
trade members are happy that he's still in
most famous films. The gigantic screening
session will end with the new movie "The Some months age we asked Norman Rabold,
local projectionist, to prepare for pub-
Odessa File" . . . The Christmas-season
show at the Fiesta will be "Freebie and the lication an article on the worldwide manufacture
of "standard" 35mm projectors, be-
Bean."
cause of his 'background in this field, with
the assistance of his mother in West Germany.
Manufacturing in North and South
.'Kmerica had stopped some years ago. He
wrote the necessary letters after scanning
foreign motion picture tradepapers but the
response was disappointing. He learned that,
except for the various automated projection
complexes, there is no manufacture of
"straight" 35mm projectors anywhere. Norman
has been a projectionist since age 13,
being employed in Bad Mergentheim, West
Germany, and he was projectionist at a theatre
in Nuremberg. He has resided in the
U.S. (here, except when in Army service)
for more than six years. Norman is skilled
at his trade, has various hobbies and many
friends.
"Flesh Gordon" will be exhibited at the
Kings Court following the showing of "Harry
& Tonto"
. Sopyla, Pitt senior,
is presenting two-dozen puppet shows at ten
locations exploiting "The Mad Adventures
of 'Rabbi' Jacob," opening October 16 at
the Forum and Dennis Encore . . . James
Bojalad. DuBois projectionist for upward
of a half-century, resumed duties at the
Avenue Theatre there following open-heart
surgery ... "11 Harrowhouse," once scheduled
for the Manor and then pulled out of
release for re-editing, is next upcoming at
the Fiesta.
Patrick Mooney, new American International
Pictures district manager for Cleveland
and this city, is offering "Super Stooges
vs. the Wonder Women" . Casino
prepared to stage amateur nights for gal
stripteasers, just as did the original Casino
many years ago. Recently, this north-side
house has been offering four to six girls
on the runway, plus two adult films . . .
l.'Amoure, updated under new management,
recently showed "The Magical Ring" and
"Anne's Ordeal."
Saturday and Sunday matinees licensed
for two-dozen theatres hereabouts by Paramount
include "My Side of the Mountain,"
October 19-20; "Santa Clans," November
16-17: "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,"
December 7-8; "Tarazn and the Jungle
Boy." February 1-2; "Charlotte's Web,"
8-9. and "Black Beauty," March 29-30 . . .
Following a
successful season. Youth Inspiration
Center, Braddock, Monday (30) resumes
its winter free-movie program each
Monday at 6:30 p.m. through December 9.
Penthouse 1 showed "Last Daughter" and
"Exotic Boutique" and Penthouse 2 offered
"The Boy and Other Strangers" along with
the world premiere of "Los Banditos" . . .
The Garden's features were "Dirty Joke"
and "Ice Box" . Haller says that the
70-seat screening room, plus the classrooms,
are now open at the new Oakland home of
the Pittsburgh Filmmakers . . . Area theatres
are showing "W," "Terror in the Wax
Museum," "Campus Pussycats," "Campus
Swingers," "Swinging Models," "The Exorcist,"
"Daughters of Satan," "Madhouse,"
"Death Wish," "The Parallax View,"
"What"s Up, Doc?" and others . . . Pete
DeFazio of D&L Film Distributing Co. has
an interest in "Beats-Blanket-Bango," now
filming.
More D. W. Griffith films are upcoming
on the free Friday, 8 p.m., Directors Series
at Carnegie Lecture Hall . . . The Warner
on a recent weekend sneak-previewed "Open
Season" . first-runs, "Lucky Luciano"
and "The Internecine Project" went
into the neighborhood theatres.
Embassy Foundation Plans
Major Fund-Raising Drive
From Mideastern Edition
FORT WAYNE, IND.—The Embassy
Theatre Foundation plans to start a fundraising
campaign at once to acquire $500,-
000 to purchase the historic 3,000-seat
theatre building and to do initial
restoration
work. Robert Goldstine, president of the
foundation, which until recently was known
as the "Save the Embassy Foundation," said
the goal will include the $250,000 purchase
price.
The building will be acquired from Sport-
Services, Buffalo, N.Y.. which gave the
foundation 60 days to raise the $250,000.
Wayne Witmer, a local attorney representing
Montgomery Ward, as it tried to recover
$1.1 million it had loaned to the building's
former owners, said he had seen a $1.1
million certificate of deposit which had
matured. The money was deposited by the
theatre's present owners, SportServices, for
Montgomery Ward.
SportServices told Goldstine that it
planned to use the difference between its
$1.1 million payment to Montgomery Ward
and the $250, ()00 purchase price as a tax
write-off. The foreclosure suit against the
building and the receivership set up to manage
it must be terminated before the sale
to the foundation can proceed. Witmer said
this would be done promptly.
Plans to raze the theatre were announced
about a year ago, with the site to provide
housing for elderly persons, but these fell
through when federal grants were not received.
The building needs a new heating
system, air-conditioning system, roof, general
work on furnishings and fixtures and
upgrading to meet fire safety standards.
Mrs. Blanche Hixson Smith
MERIDEN. CONN.—Mrs. Blanche Hix-
!on Smith. 80, chairman of the board and
editorial chairman, Meriden Record Co..
publishers of the Meriden Record-Journal
Newspapers, died August 31. She .served
lor many years as theatre review critic for
the newspapers.
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. . The
Lifting of 'Throat' Ban
Sought by North Cinema
ANNAPOLIS, MD.—William E. Scck-
Und. attorney for the North Cinema, Baltimore,
which currently is barred from showing
the film "Deep Throat," Monday (9)
a^ked the Maryland Court of Appeals to
lift the ban. The attorney also asked that
Maryland's obscenity laws be stricken from
the books.
Seekford told the seven-member, all-male
court that the movie starring Linda Lovelace
"has serious literary, artistic and scientific
value" and that the court should remove
a ban that was placed on the North
Cinema May 24 by the Maryland State
Board of Censors.
Before hearing arguments Monday (9)
between Seekford and lawyers from the attorney
general's office, the seven judges
traveled a mile into town here to the Playhouse
Cinema to get a first-hand look at
what the controversy is all about. They
viewed the film, then returned to court immediately
to hear arguments.
Norman Polovoy, deputy attorney general,
told the court that witnesses defending
the merits of the film at a Baltimore Circuit
Court hearing last summer were biased
against the state's censorship laws. At that
hearing. Judge James W. Murphy upheld
that.
Polovoy said Seekford was "simply a guy
unhappy with the law" and he suggested
that Seekford take his "gripe" to the general
assembly to get them to change the state's
censorship laws. In a brief appeal before the
court, Polovoy said, "If this movie isn't
obscene, I don't know what is."
The motion picture, which was released
over a year and a half ago and which
recently has been playing in Washington,
D.C., after touring the country, was refused
a license by the Maryland State Board of
Censors May 24 after the manager of the
North Cinema submitted it for review.
The 64-minute color film depicts Linda
Lovelace in "strictly sex for 50 minutes,"
it was stated by George J. Andreadakis,
one of the three censor board members.
Another member. Mrs. Mary Avara, who
has been on the board 14 years viewing an
average of 400 films a year, said, "I have
never seen anything as bad as 'Deep
Throat.' "
After the censor board banned the film,
it still was shown several more times at the
North Cinema and Baltimore police conducted
several raids at the theatre.
A decision from the appeals court is not
expected for at least a month.
BALTIMORE
phil Glazer, head of Associated Pictures
Co., is patiently awaiting his first opening
on "Hot Times" at the Village Theatre,
Newport News, Va., and the Williamsburg
Cinema, Williamsburg, Va., Wednesday,
October 2. This R-rated fun-loving show is
an "American Graffiti"—but with sex, according
to Glazer . M. Durant has
just joined Associated Pictures as executive
secretary to Glazer. She formerly was with
the Koppers Co. here, where she had held
a similar position during the past five years
. . . Associated Pictures is looking for a
big fall with its four latest big releases.
Heading the list is "Hot Times," along with
"Black Starlet," "Girls for Rent," starring
Georgina Spelvin, who appeared in "The
Devil in Miss Jones," and an optically cool
version of "The Life and Times of Xaviera
Hollander." The latter film has been
breaking boxoffice records at the World
Theatre in New York and is opening October
9 at the Penn Theatre in Washington,
D.C.
William Mitchell is manager of JFs Rotunda
cinema.s 1 and 2, moving over from
the circuit's Pikes Theatre in Pikesville,
where he had been for several months.
Prior to his stint at the Pikes, Mitchell had
the censor board's ban.
Most of the 45 minutes of testimony
worked as manager for a short while at
Monday (9) centered on whether courts or
JF's Northpoint.
Bob Nethen, president of Claude Neon
the legislature should handle the obscenity
problem. Seekford argued that Maryland's Signs, returned home Saturday (21) from
anti-obscenity law does not comply with the Anne Arundel General Hospital, where
U.S. Supreme Court requirements for banning
he underwent successful surgery for a slip-
pornography. Seekford relied on the jjed disc. Bob will recuperate at home for
recent Miller vs. California decision, which several weeks ... A report from Don Maybom,
stated a state law banning pornography must
contain specifically defined sexual conduct. still working
president of Cornco,
on the expansion
states,
of the
"We're
build-
He argued that Maryland law does not do
ing, which will be 40 per cent larger when
completed—and adds up to 4,800 square
feet. We will add automated popping equipment,
plus all the ancillary equipment necessary
for operation. We're awaiting approval
for the county permit." Mayborn will attend
the NATO-NAC convention in Atlanta,
Ga., October 6-9.
The Baltimore Film Festival, which had
a fetching booth at the Baltimore City Fair
whose interior had displays donated by the
MPAA; a blown-up photograph of R. H.
Gardner, the popular film critic for the
Sunpapers, and a film on a small screen
throughout the length of the event, enticed,
all told, about 15,000 visitors as of the late
afternoon Sunday (22). The grounds closed
at 10 p.m. This was the attendance figure
volunteered by Harvey Alexander, director
of the Baltimore Film Festival . . . Leon B.
Back, general manager of Rome Theatres
and president of Maryland NATO, commenting
on the heavily attended three-day
fair, stated: "I think that business in the
city was dreadful on account of the Baltimore
City Fair."
A staunch supporter of her husband's
interests, Mrs. C. William Pacy (he's one of
F. H. Durkee Enterprises' executives) attended
the Today's World Luncheon Friday
(20) at the Surburban Country Club to
hear Dr. Malcolm S. Knowles' speech. "The
Adult Learner: A Neglected Species." Dr.
Knowles is America's foremost authority
on adult education. Bill Pacy was one of
the chairmen of the event.
Bea Woodland, cashier at Rome's Apollo
Theatre, returned to work Friday (20) after
doing jury duty tor four weeks.
The Colony Theatre, one of the Durkee
circuit's houses, was sold to
the Veterans of
Foreign Wars for use as a meeting place.
It closed as a film theatre Tuesday (3), according
to Fred Schmuff, Durkee executive
... Bob Hope was honored by WBAL-TV
for his 25 years of service to NBC-TV.
Channel 11 vice-president and general manager
Jack F. Beauchamp presented the
plaque to Hope . fourth edition of
"Disney on Parade" will be presented October
8-13 at the Baltimore Civic Center.
Mrs. Al Zlatin, wife of the owner of
Maryland Display Service, has just returned
from a ten-day canoe trip with a group of
20 students of the Catonsville Community
College, where she is a full-time student . . .
Miss Terry Lang has just joined the City
Dweller, a new paper which has a large
theatre section, as news editor . . . Al Zlatin,
owner of Maryland Display Service, and
his wife belong to the International Travel
Club which, incidentally, has a roster of
25,000 members. The organization has a
membership plan that reduces the cost of
European travel considerably, as compared
with the usual tariff under normal channels.
The two plan to depart October 1 to
visit Israel for 17 days, with Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem, etc., on the agenda, through the
aegis of this organization. This is their third
tour with International Travel. Last year
they went to the Scandinavian countries.
SA Broadway Owner Wants
Order Against Bexar DA
SAN ANTONIO—A hearing will be held
in 150th District Court on a suit asking that
the Bexar County district attorney be prohibited
for interfering with the showing of
the X-rated controversial film "Deep
Throat" at two local theatres.
The suit, filed by Juan C. Garcia, owner
of the Broadway Cinema One and Two,
names district attorney Ted Butler and San
Antonio police chief Emil Peters as defendants.
In his petition, Garcia claims that
Wednesday (4). representatives of the district
attorney and the San .Antonio police
department vice squad arrested a Broadway
Cinema employee and confiscated the film
and projection equipment. Garcia asks that
the court restore his equipment to his possession,
citing a recent federal court ruling
from Houston in which the judge entered a
restraining order against local law enforcement
authorities preventing their interference
in the showing of the film at the Fiesta
Theatre.
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however, "While you're filming a movie,
you figure you're reaching for immortality
—you can put up with anything" . . . Another
visitor was Jack Smith, director of
J. Proferes, owner-operator of the Playhouse
and Plaza, theatres which he ac-
telephone number is (301) 261-5144 .
Street, Churchton, Md. 20733. The new
"Airport 1975." one of the first fihns of
J
the Hollywood new wave—the "disaster
quired from TransLux Corp.. and owneroperator
of several other area movie houses. screened "Airport 1975" at MPAA Monday
Alex Schimel. Universal branch manager,
epic." Smight claims "it isn't really a disaster
picture, everything turns out all right."
expanded his Galaxy Enterprises by bringing
the New York production of "The Kelly and Jack Howe, assistant, sneaked
(23) Paramount branch manager George
The disaster theme . . . is in such forthcoming
area attractions as Universal's "Earthquake,"
United Artists' "Juggernaut" and
World of Lenny Bruce" to the Waay Off "The Longest Yard" at the Springfield, Md.,
Theatre in the southeast section of the city. Mall Cinema Friday (20). Kelly had returned
the day before from a division meet-
"The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3." Allied Artists"
"Gold" and "The Towering Inferno,"
The company stars Frank Speicer. It appears
— frorri the play's audience acceptance ing in Boston at which Marty Kutner, division
manager, presided.
by 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros.
the $13 million extravaganza co-produced
to be the young people's "in" entertainment
and n.ay portend success for producer David
Picker's film, "The Life of Lenny Bruce,"
Kenneth Munden, 62, archivist and executive
editor of the American Film Institute's set opening playdates for "Ladies & Gentle-
Robert Folliard, Bob FoUiard Films, has
a Co.umbia Pictures release.
"Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in men, the Rolling Stones." It will premiere
the U.S.," died of cancer Tuesday (17) at at the Key Theatre and Roth's Silver Spring
Harley Davidson, president of Independent
Theatres, was among the exhibitors
Walter Reed Hospital.
East November 20. As local distributor, he
set "Cold Sweat," the Charles Bronson star-
attending Paramount's special screening of
"The Dove" at the Motion Picture Ass'n
of America, hosted by branch manager
Two modem variations of the "woman's
film." according to the Star-News, "provide
a variety of contrasts of being female .
For a comic view, watch "Amazing Grace'
at RKO-Keith's and District's Republic. On
er. in 13 in-town theatres.
Geoi-ge Kelly. Accompanying Davidson
Alan M. Brunner Promoted
were his guests the Hon. Michael Gravel
By Western Mass. Theatres
and Mrs. Gravel and the Hon. and Mrs.
a more sober and realistic note, see the HAVERHILL, MASS.—Alan M. Brunner
has been promoted by Nelson Wright
Pat Jennings. The former is the senator absorbing German movie, 'A Free Woman,'
from Alaska and Jennings is the clerk of
at Pedas Dupont Circle."
from district manager, Western Massachusetts
Theatres Associates, to division man-
the House of Representatives.
Albert Ruddy, producer of "The Godfather"
and "The Longest Yard," was here
ager for Fairbanks Industries (Theatre Division),
to oversee the entire Fairbanks cinema
Ira Sichelman and Louis Heon, co-owners
of S&H Theatres, expect to open the circuit's
1,300-seat three-theatre complex, area theatres. Ruddy spoke of hardships cast
promoting the latter, which opened at seven
operations.
The properties include the Cinema 495
Whtaton Plaza 1, 2 and 3, October 29 .
and crew endured on location near the
Twin Cinemas, Haverhill; Academy Twin,
Mid-Way Buying & Booking Services, which Georgia State Penitentiary at Reidville in
Newton; Tri City Twin, Dover, N.H.; State-
Joe Bernheimer heads, has moved to Exeter the small village of Glenville. He added,
Line Cinema, Plaistow, N.H.: Strand.
Dover, N.H.; Kittery Drive-In, Kittery, Me.;
Brunswick and Bowdoin Drive-Ins, Brunswick,
Me., and the Western Massachusetts
P!^
Theatres Associates Warner, Lawrence.
Ronald Cloutier, resident manager, Cinema
495 Twin Cinemas, was promoted to
district manager, reporting directly to Brun-
Sneak Previewers Applaud
Don*t Pay High Terms
'Cry of Black Wolves'
NEPTUNE BEACH, FLA.—You don't
For Unproven Product,
see it happen often but when the curtain
closed on a sneak preview of "Cry of the
Black Wolves" at the Kent Neptune Theatre
Call Phil Glazer C30I} 3SS'0600
the other night, the audience gave the film
a standing ovation. And that audience included
many women and children, as well
Get Associated With ASSOCIATED.
as trade people there as guests of Albert E.
Get The Proven BIG ONES At liveable Terms!
and Betty Rook, a husband-and-wife film
distribution team working out of their local
office-home. The Rooks have national distribution
rights to the 1903 outdoor Alaskan
tale from the pen of Jack London.
The "Cry of the Black Wolves," a West
$6,840
German production, is in color with a PG
rating and stars Ron Ely, a former TV Tarzan.
The Rooks had the cooperation of the
Valley D-l
Kent circuit officials in presenting the combination
trade screening and sneak preview.
Pulaski D-l
[IMMOi;»AL1l WILD GALS
Baltimore, Md.
LuUAii;j;^ll
Rates Cut lor School Groups
BURLINGTON, VT.—The Flynn Theatre
offered reduced- rate showings for school
ASSOCIATED PICTURES CO. • 19 W. Mt. Royal Ave. • Balto., Md. 21201 groups, in conjunction with its booking of
That's Entertainment!"
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Dec. 18 Benefit Bow
For 'Little Prince'
HOLLYWOOD — An all-taniil>' premiere
of Paramount's "The Little Prince. "
a musical play for the screen starring Richard
Kiley, will be held for the benefit ol
Mount St. Mary College December IS at
the Cinerama Dome Theatre here. The
unique opening kicks off the exclusive Los
Angeles engagement of the musical directed
and produced by Stanley Donen.
"The Little Prince," based on the book
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, was adapted
for the screen by Alan Jay Lerner, who also
wrote the lyrics to the music by Frederick
Loewe.
Ditter. Tolin Appointed
Para. Branch Managers
HOLLYWOOD—Fred Ditter has been
named Paramount Pictures' San Francisco
branch manager, it was announced by Norman
Weitman, vice-president, sales. The
appointment is effective immediately.
Ditter entered the film industry as a
branch manager trainee for Columbia Pictures
in San Francisco, later holding branch
manager posts over the next ten years in
Salt Lake City, Milwaukee, Cleveland.
Cincinnati and Buffalo for Columbia. He
later joined Cinema 5 in Boston. Before
coming to Paramount, Ditter was affiliated
with Atlas Films Distributing Co. in Los
Angeles.
In another Paramount appointment, Peter
Tolin has been named branch manager for
the Seattle-Portland exchange area. The appointment,
announced by Weitman. became
Vice Officers Again Hit
Pussycat Ritz Theatre
HOLLYWOOD— Pussycat Theatres' contmuing
difficulties
with San Bernardino vice
officers erupted again Tuesday (17) with
another "bust" at the Pussycat Ritz Theatre.
A 35mm print of "The Flasher" was
taken and also a 21-year-old cashier. Miss
Deborah Bock, was arrested. This marks the
second time in less than a month Miss Bock
has been handcuffed for "allegedly showing
an obscene motion picture." Miss Bock
with a corporate interest in the theatre.
74 Candidates Are Named
For Hollywood SAG Board
HOLLYWOOD—Nearly 40 candidates
are running for positions on the Hollywood
section of the Screen Actors Guild national
hoard of directors in the guild's 1974 elec-
Niiminated by the nominating committee
lor three-year terms are Frank Aletter, Whit
Bisscll, Charlie 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.
Nominated by nominating petitions for
three-year terms are Ernest Borgnine, Harry
Carey jr., Ellen Corby, Lome Green, Jack
Kruschen, Kay E. Kuter, Carroll O'Connor,
Monica Peterson, William Sehallert, Liam
Sullivan and Robert Vaughn.
Nominated by the nominating committee
for two-year terms are Mariette Hartley and
William Reynolds. Nominated by nominating
petitions for two-year terms are Robert
Easton, Rhodes Reason and Robert Douglas
Stuart.
Nominated by the nominating committee
for one-year terms are Joseph Campanella,
Peggy McCay, Ed Nelson and Ron Soble.
Nominated by nominating petitions for oneyear
terms are Armand Alzamora, L.€on
Askin, Robert Cleaves and Paul LeClair.
Ballots will be mailed on or about 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, SAG
members must be paid up to Nov. 1, 1974,
as of Sunday (15).
Variety Tourney's 'Theme
Girl' Is Sherry Taranto
LOS ANGELES- Sherry Taranto, ac-
effective Monday (23).
Tolin, who will be headquartered in Paramount's
San Francisco branch office, most tress-model, will be the 1974 "theme girl"
recently was with Favorite Films as branch for the third annual William H. Thedford
manager for the Portland-Seattle exchange. Golf Tournament and Scholarship Dinner,
He previously was with United Artists in
it was announced by Neal S. Salisian, general
chairman of the event. Sherry currently
San Francisco and, before that, was with
Paramount in Seattle.
is Miss Air National Guard, Miss Golden
Both Ditter and Tolin will report to Frank Gloves, Miss Hollywood Comedy Club and
Carbone, Paramount Pictures' division
manager, San Francisco.
is an honorary commodore in the Navy.
She presently is appearing in the NBC-TV
daytime .series "Days of Our Lives."
This year's tournament and dinner will
be held Thursday, October 3, at the Los
Robles Country Club & Inn in Thousand
Oaks, Calif. Reservations for golf and dinner
can be obtained through Jim Hayes,
executive director of Variety, by calling
553-5300 or 553-3655.
Irwin Allen Is Honored
At Fire Chiefs' Confab
SALT LAKE CITY—Irwin Allen, producer
of the joint 20th Century-Fox/ Warner
Bros, production "The Towering In-
previously was arrested Wednesday (4), at
the same theatre.
ferno," was the honored guest Wednesday
Meanwhile, gathering dust on Gov. Reagan's
desk is a bill authored by Assemblynational
Ass'n of Fire Chiefs here.
(18) at the annual convention of the Interman
Howard Berman that would prevent Allen was given honorary fire chief credentials
for his efforts in drawing public
vice officers from arresting theatre employees,
yet would permit them to arrest persons attention to fire hazards and promoting fire
safetv in
the film.
Calif. MPDC Bill Is
Signed by Governor
.S.\C K.\.\ILNIO, C,\L1I. -Gov Ronald
Reagan quietly signed SB 1823 into l.iw late
Monday (23),
thus establishing a unit within
the state Department of Commerce to promote
film production in California and
creating a Motion Picture Development
Council of 12 persons to serve as an advisory
body to the Department of Commerce.
Under the state constitution, the bill
goes into effect Jan. 1, 1975.
The bill, introduced by state .Sen. Alan
Robbins in March, has had the active support
of both labor and management throughout
the film industry during its six months
in
the legislative process.
Kent Redwine, Sacramento representative
of the Ass'n of Motion Picture & Television
Producers, said the next step is to
work with the Department of Commerce
"to get them going on it." This, he said,
could be the beginning of another long
process, since the bill makes no provision
for a budgetary appropriation or staffing,
although provisions were made to allow the
Motion Picture Development Council to
accept federal funds or gifts or other funds
from any private or public agency.
SB 1823 calls for the governor to appoint
ten of the 12 members of the council to
serve at the pleasure of the governor. It is
po.ssible that Gov. Reagan will make these
appointments when the bill goes into effect
but many observers feel it is more likely
that he will leave the choices to his suc-
Hollywood Offices Opened
For Cartagena Festival
HOLLYWOOD—Vortex Enterprises has
opened Hollywood offices for the Festival
Internacional de Cine Cartagena, the 15th
Cartagena Film Festival, to be held in Colombia
March 7-13.
The Cartagena Film Festival is recognized
by the FIAPF and is the only international
film festival held in South America. There
are nine categories for entries, including
foreign films, Latin-American features, the
1 1th National Commercial Film Festival for
Television and Films and documentaries.
Offices are in West Hollywood at 1228
North La Cienega and the film festival committee
here is composed of Victor Nieto
jr.. director: Edwin Goehring jr., co-director,
and Linda Turley, coordinator. For more
call information, 657-7584 or 874-2161.
Cheryl Waters Is Queen
Of Variety 25 Tourney
LOS ANGELES—Cheryl Waters, currently
appearing in .^mierican International
Pictures' "Macon County Line," has been
named queen of the Variety Club of Southern
California Tent 25 third annual William
H. Thedford Golf Tournament and Dinner.
The event will be held October 3 at Los
Robles Greens & Inn, according to chairman
Neal S. Salisian.
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IJOUBEN MAMOULIAN and his wife
left Los Angeles Monday (23) for
Washington, D.C., where he is being honored
as special guest and speaker in the
American National Film Theatre's "History
of American Musicals" presentation.
*
Dennis Weaver has been named first
national chairman of the Marene Corps
Reserve's annual "Toys for Tots" drive.
•
Arthur Newman will be unit production
manager for "Ryan's the Name," the First
Artists presentation for Warner Bros. Paul
Sylbert has been appointed production designer,
while Gordon Willis, who photographed
"The Godfather," has been named
director of cinematography.
Ik-
Producer Howard W. Koch has returned
to his Beverly Hills home from the Mayo
Clinic in Minnesota to recuperate from
major surgery. Koch checked into Mayo's
two weeks ago after finishing post-production
on his latest Paramount release, Jacqueline
Susann's "Once Is Not Enough."
•
November 29, the date selected by the
Music Center Opera Ass'n for the first performance
of Giacomo Puccini's last opera,
"Turandot," was chosen because it is the
50th anniversary of the great maestro's
death. MCOA has dedicated its eighth annual
opera season to Puccini with the presentation
of five of his works.
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The Southern California Motion Picture
Council honored eight films at its annual
awards luncheon. Included were Columbia's
"For Pete's Sake," United Artists' "Mr.
Majestyk," 20th Century-Fox's "The Mad
Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob," American National
Enterprises' "The Great American
Cowboy," Cine VIP's documentary "Mommy,
Daddy and Us Kids," the Filmation production
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"Hearts of the West," a Tony Bill-Howard
Zieff production for Metro-Goldwyn-
Mayer, starring Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith
and Alan Arkin, went before the cameras
Monday (23) with principal photograph)
to be done at the MGM Studios in Culver
City and on locations in and around Los
Angeles.
•
Harold Robbins took over Warner Bros.'
Stage 1 at Burbank Studios Saturday evening
(28) to host an early celebration of
his annual New Year's Eve party.
Syd Cassyd Elected Prexy
Of Hollywood Press Club
HOLLYWOOD — Syd Cassyd. Western
editor of Boxoffice, has been elected
president
of the Hollywood Press Club for the
coming year. Cassyd, veteran film and TV
reporter and critic, also was the organizer
and founding member of the Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences.
The Hollywood Press Club is a social
and professional organization of entertainment
industry reporters, writers and publicists.
Other officers elected for 1974-75 are:
Julian Myers, first vice-president; Jay Stanley,
second vice-president: Hal Bates, third
vice-president; Leo Kovner. secretary; Lester
Schult, treasurer, and Yani Begakis.
sergeant-at-arms and president of the Hollywood
Foreign Press Club.
Elected to two-year terms on the board
of directors are Sam Jacoby, Milton Kagen
and Howard Lucraft. Elected to one-year
terms are Lindy Avakian, Milton Krims
and Chief Samuelson.
Club reorganization and a program of
activities for the coming year were discussed
at a recent special meeting.
Peter Finch to Hollywood
For 'Abdication' Premiere
NEW YORK—Actor Peter Finch left
New York for Los Angeles in connection
with the West Coast premiere of Warner
Bros.' "The Abdication," in which he stars
with Liv Ullmann. The co-stars recently
attended an invitational preview of the fibn
at the Trans^Lux East Theatre here, followed
by a party afterwards at the Excelsior
Club.
Present at the preview and party were the
film's director, Anthony Harvey, its co-producer,
Robert Fryer, and authoress-scenarist
Ruth Wolff. Other celebrities included
Henry Fonda, Tammy Grimes, Michael
Moriarty, George Abbott, Joan Hackett,
Estelle Parsons, Neil Simon, Jule Styne and
Stephen Sondheim. The film world premieres
on Thursday (3) in Los Angeles and
at the Sutton Theatre in New York.
"The Abdication" was produced by Fryer
and James Cresson, from the screeenplay by
Miss Wolff as based on her play.
AIP's TV and Export Move
To Beverly Hills, Calif.
HOLLYWOOD—American
International
Pictures television distribution and motion
picture export divisions have completed the
move from New York City to the American
International Pictures Bldg. in Beverly Hills.
Five executives, with some members of
their staffs, are involved. They are:
Hal Brown, vice-president in charge of
sales and distribution of American International
Television, Inc.
Jules Stein, vice-president in charge of
international sales and distribution of American
International Pictures Export Corp.
Murray D. Cohen, international operations
manager; M. Morton Siegel. attorney:
Rocco Viglietta. director of non-theatrical.
TV and Foreign Theatrical Services.
Greatly increased production and worldwide
distribution operations motivated the
change, to provide maximum efficiency and
ease of consultation.
Executives heading all departments of
.'\merican International now occupy the
same building.
The Los Angeles AIP film exchange is
also in the AIP Bldg., and there are 28
other AIP exchanges in
the United States.
MGM Tenders Debentures
In Response to Its Offer
CULVER CITY, CALIF.— Frank E.
Rosenfelt, president and chief operating officer
of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, announced
that approximately $580,000, principal
amount of MGM's 5 per cent convertible
subordinated debentures, due 1993, were
tendered in response to MGM's debenture
exchange offer which expired September 16.
Pursuant to such offer, MGM offered
$650 principal amount of 10 per cent subordinated
debentures, due 1993, in exchange
for each $1,000 principal amount of its outstanding
5 per cent convertible debentures.
On August 12, MGM announced the successful
completion of a common stock exchange
offer pursuant to which 1,049,057
shares were accepted. Both the debenture
and common stock exchange offers were
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dated July 12.
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'Harry and Tonto' Up to 435 Level
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LOS ANGELES— Harry and Tonto"
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435 in its fourth week at Avco Cinema
Center 2. Following close behind with 365
was "Seduction of Mimi" at the Plaza and
"Behind the Green Door" in its 13th month
at the Four Star. Two first-week showings
of "The Internecine Project" and "Cold
Sweat" fared below 100 while "A Very
Natural Thing" at two theatres opened with
205.
;Average Is 100)
Avco Cincmo Center 1 The Lords of Flotbush
(Col), 3rd wk. ...
Avco Cinema Center 2—Harry and Tonto
(20th-Fox), 4th wk
Avco Cinema Center 3. Pontages Death ^
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Beverly Hills Thot's Entertainment! (ijA),
lip of Duddy Krovitz
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Four Star Behind the Green Door SRI, 54th wk. 225
Hollywood Fox The Internecine Project lAA) 80 ...
Hojiywood Pacific Macon County Line (AlP),
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New Pix—Cold Sweat (SR) 65
New View, Picwood A Very Natural Thing jSRl 205
Plaza Seduction of Mimi (SR) ... 365
Plitt I ^The Mad Adventures of "Robbi" Jacob
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Plitt 2> The Rolling 100
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Royal—The Toll Blond Man With One Black Shoe
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UA Cinema Center 2 Chinatown (Paro), 5th wk.
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Westwood, Egyptian—Pink Floyd (SR), 4th .155
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Wilshire The Tomorind Seed (Emb), 4th wk 90
Denver Barometer Records 200
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DENVER—Opening at 16 theatres in the
Denver metropolitan area, S*P*Y*S took
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Next in line was "Chinese Godfather" with
135 in its opening week at the Paramount
and "California Split" with 130 in its fourth
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16 theatres—S'P'Y'S (20th-Fox) 200
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Plans November Bow
YUMA, ARIZ.—Steven Lane, president
of Tarzana. Calif.-based Great Western
Theatres, has signed a lease for a building
at 16th Street and Fourth Avenue, it was
reported by the Yuma News-Enterprise. He
now is seeking bids on remodeling of the
structure to create a twin theatre with a 600-
seat capacity. Cost of the project is estimated
at approximately $250,000.
To be named Plaza 1 and 2. the cinemas
will be managed by Winston Evans jr. A
Thanksgiving opening is planned. Each of
the auditoriums will seat approximately 300
viewers and the booth will feature fully
automated equipment.
Lane told the press that family-type
movies will be presented on a first-availability
basis. Some foreign motion pictures will
be shown as well as first-run IJ.S. films.
Great Western operates three movie
houses at El Centre. Calif.
Persistent Cashier Turns
Off Would-Be Holdup Man
RIVERSIDE. CALIF.—When a cashier
at the DeAnza Theatre on Market Street
refused to turn over the bo.xoffice receipts
to
a man who would not produce a gun, the
holdup was thwarted. Cathy Thomas told
Riverside police a man in his early 20s
walked up to the ticket window about 9:25
p.m., placed a white plastic bag on the
counter and demanded money.
Cathy yelled at the holdup man: "What?"
He repeated, "I want all your money in the
bag."
"Do you have a gun?" she asked the
would-be robber. He paused for a moment
and again told her to ptit the money in the
bag. "I'm not going to give you any money
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the movie ended and she told him that the
program would be over at 12:30 a.m. He
then inquired if a second show would be
presented and what time it started.
The showtime information was given by
Cathy and the man replied, "Okay, I'll be
back in 15 minutes." With that. Ms. Thomas
told officers, the bandit-turned-patron
walked away.
Three Features Announced
For SF Festival Program
SAN FRANCISCO— Three more feature
entries have been announced for the program
of the 18th annual San Francisco
^International Film Festival, to be held
October 16-27 at the Palace of Fine Arts
Theatre. "Nothing in Order," the new film
by Lina Wertmuller, will have its American
premiere here. The Italian director's first
film. "Mimi the Metalworker," was screened
in the 1972 festival and her "Love and
Anarchy" is currently in release.
The festival will be having its first
Japanese entry since 1970 with "Kaseki,"
the new film by Masaki Kobayashi. Of
his previous films, American audiences are
most familiar with "Kwaidan" and "Harakiri."
The new film by Robert Bresson is a
French entry in the program. "Lancelot
of the Lake," an austere stylization of the
Camelot legends, is being hailed in Europe
as a landmark in the work of this highly
respected director.
Tickets for these and all festival programs
go on sale Monday (30) at the Downtown
Center Boxoffice.
Boardwalk's Roxy Theatre
Now 'Movieworld' Museum
ATLANTIC CFTY, N.J.—While there
are no first-run movie houses on the Boardwalk
at this South Jersey seashore resort,
the nostalgic flavor of movieland in all its
greatness has come to the wooden way with
the opening of "Movieworld." The Boardwalk's
darkened Roxy Theatre has been
converted into a "Movieworld" museum,
allowing visitors of all ages to get "lost
in the excitement and glamor of sights,
sounds and scenery of moviedom's most
famous productions."
The unique exhibit includes the authentic
English taxi that Prof. Higgins and Liza
Doolittle used in "My Fair Lady"; the
carriages once occupied by Clark Gable
and Vivian Leigh when they went riding
from Tara in "Gone With the Wind" and
the actual chariot used by Claudetle Col-
Hen in the original version of "Cleopatra."
rhe museum also shows Steve McQueen's
racing bike. Laurel and Hardy's Model T,
Doctor Zhivago's sleigh and even Batman
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Variety Club Tent 32
Drive Raises $20,700
SAN FRANCISCO— Ihrough the cooperation
of some 192 theatre owners via
the Theatre Audience Participation Program.
LOS ANGELES
J^ichard B. (Jraff, vice-president and general
sales manager at American International
Al Szabo, veteran Beverly Theatre manager,
won a special citation from General
Pictures, returned from Pittsburgh. New Cinema Corp. for "showmanship and pa-
York and Toronto, where he set the releases trons' service and safety" for the West Coast
of "The Wild Party" and rereleascs of "Dillinger"
premiere
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
and long-run engagement
"That's Entertainment!"
of
and the combo of "Foxy Brown"
General Cinema's Western states
and "Truck Turner" . . . AIP's executive
vice-president in charge of sales and distribu-
supervisor Sol Karp made the presentation.
tion Leon P. Blender and Robert B. Steuer,
.Southern division sales manager, went to
Dallas to set releases of "The Wild Party,"
".Abby" and Edgar Rice Burroughs' "The
Land That Time Forgot." Blender also
named Morrie Sherman branch manager of
AIP's Seattle exchange.
Raymond Manheimer, Metro-Goldwyn-
Maycr national publicity manager, and his
wife Liz announced the birth of a daughter,
Dcni Ruth, Thursday (19) at Cedars of
Lebanon Hospital. The couple has a son.
Steven. 2.
Richard R. Naify, left, chief barker
of Variety Club of Northern California
Tent 32, and Irving M. Levin, right,
president of the Blind Babies Foundation,
discuss with Lucille Ball the progress
of the Theatre Audience Participation
Program for which she produced
theatrical and TV trailers and public
service radio announcements. These
were used to publicize the drive and to
inform the public further of the work
of the Blind Babies Foundation.
the fund-raising drive of Variety Club of
Northern California Tent 32 has resulted
in collections of $20,700. The program,
promoted in theatres the past 25 years, supports
the tent's Blind Babies Foundation,
which is responsible for the training, growth
and development of over 1,500 blind children.
During the last 25 years the foundation
has expended approximately $1.5 million,
much of it collected through the cooperation
of theatre owners. The funds not only have
made it possible for the children under its
care to live a happy, normal childhood but
also has prepared more than 80 per cent
to attend public school and to become selfreliant.
Lucille Ball aided the fund-raising drive
this year, producing at her own expense
theatre and TV trailers as well as public
service spots announcing the drive and informing
the public of the foundation's work.
First 'Janis' Screening
Oct. 18 at SF Festival
SAN FRANCISCO—"Janis," a fulllength
film about late rock star Janis Joplin,
produced by Crawley Films and distributed
by Universal Pictures, will have its first
public screening Friday, October 18, at the
Palace of Fine Arts as a special midnight
event of the San Francisco International
Film Festival. The world-premiere engagement
of the Technicolor movie will begin
the following week in San Francisco at the
Vogue Theatre, opening October 25.
"Janis" was directed and edited by Howard
Alk and Seaton Findlay, with F. R
Crawley as executive producer.
MCA and Philips Sign Pact
For Video Disc Player
UNIVERSITY CITY, C A L I F.—Sid
Sheinberg. president and chief operating
officer of MCA. Inc., and Rudy Bom, a
general manager of N. V. Philips, have
announced the two firms have reached a
long-term agreement for the sale in the consumer
market of a Philips/MCA optical
video disc player and compatible discs. Each
company has had an optical system in active
development for a number of years.
A licensing organization will be e.stablished
to negotiate with others for patents relating
to the Philips/MCA videoplayer
under a policy enabling the entire industry
to participate in the videoplayer technologies
of both companies.
The Philips/ MCA video disc player will
be manufactured and marketed by Philips
through its worldwide marketing and distribution
network and concurrently MCA
will manufacture and market video disc
programs.
YP&C-MCA Recreation
Merger Subject to Vote
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIF.—Yosemite
Park & Curry Co. and MCA Recreation Co.
have announced a proposed merger of
YP&C into MCA Recreation, the move to
be completed before the end of this year.
A shareholders meeting of YP&C to vote
on the merger has been set tentatively for
October 25. Notice of such a shareholders
meeting and information with respect to the
merger will be provided to shareholders in
early October. MCA Recreation Co., a wholly
owned subsidiary of MCA, Inc., holds
about 96 per cent of the issued and outstanding
shares of 'YP&C.
In the merger, shareholders of YP&C
other than MCA Recreation are to receive
in cash the fair market value of their shares.
The fair market value of such shares has
been determined by MCA Recreation to be
$14 per share.
A talent search is being conducted by
Warner Bros, to find three beautiful, musically
inclined black girls for leading roles
"Sparkle."
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For $250,000 Dualer
ESPANOI.A, N.M.— Leo Gallegos of
Gallegos & Associates announced that
ground-breaking ceremonies would be held
in the near future for a $250,000 twin theatre
on a four-acre parcel directly south of
the Merhege playing field in Ranchitos. The
dual movie house is tentatively slated to
open in November 1974, with a shopping
mall to follow soon in the surrounding
area.
Gallegos said that both the theatre and
mall are to be "modern pueblo" in style,
complete with vigas and portables. Facade
material to be used is "slump rock."
Plans call for the dualer to seat 250 viewers
in one auditorium and 410 in the other.
First-run films will be the policy in
the large
theatre, with Spanish movies and diversified
English-language offerings in the mini-auditorium.
Matinee performances for children will
be presented during weekends and vacations,
according to Gallegos. Price of admission
tentativeFy will be $1.75 for adults and 75
cents to $1 for children, he added.
"There was an obvious need for good
family entertainment in the Valley," Gallegos
stated, explaining that after analyzing
the area it was apparent to him there
existed a potential for the twin theatre. He
said the facility would have approximately
five employees.
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DENVER
f^he regular monthly luncheon of the Rocky
Mountain Motion Picture Ass'n was
held at the Denver Press Club, with approximately
75 members in
attendance.
Jack Box, branch manager for Universal
Pictures, became a grandfather for the
second time when his son Mike and daughter-in-law
Margaret announced the birth of
a daughter, Allison Renee. Louise Box, the
proud grandmother, reports from Oklahoma
City, where the happy event took place, that
the mother and new daughter are doing fine.
In town to set datings were Paul Cory,
Fox Theatre, Sterling, and Howard Campbell
and Neal Lloyd, Westland Theatres,
Colorado Springs.
Joe Lander Brite Rites
Held in Alamosa, Colo.
ALAMOSA, COLO. — Funeral
services
were held here for Joe Lander Brite, manager
of the Rialto Theatre, Grove and Sky
Hi Drive-In for the past 35 years. Brite,
71, was severely beaten by a trio of teenage
hoodlums in the balcony of the Rialto Theatre
and was flown to a Pueblo hospital
for emergency treatment, where he died.
.Active in civic affairs, Brite was a past
president of the Kiwanis Club and for
the past ten years had served as secretary
for the organization. He also was an accomplished
musician, having presented concerts
frequently as part of his theatre programing,
and was an active member of the
theatre Organists Society.
He leaves his wife Cordielia; a daughter;
three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
New Policies Announced
By Myrtle Creek House
MYRTLE CREEK, ORE.—The Rio
Theatre, owned by Al and Dclores Hanson,
opened the season with two Walt Disney
films, 'The World's Greatest Athlete" and
"Snowball Express," as the first program
for local moviegoers. January Adams of
Myrtle Creek is the new manager of the
showhouse.
New policies were announced by Adams.
Family movies will be shown Friday and
Saturday evenings at 7 and 9 p.m. R-rated
films booked will be screened other nights
at the same hours. A kiddies matinee will be
presented every Sunday at
2 p.m. Prices for
the showings were set at $2 for juniors and
adults and $1.50 for children under 12. The
Sunday matinee will be $1 for all ages.
Parents who wish to give permission to
their children to see R-rated movies must
sign a card at the theatre and no child under
12 will be permitted to see an R film unless
accompanied by a parent.
Passes for the Rio can be purchased
entitling the holder to one free movie for
each of three that are paid for. Passes may
be bought at the first movie each month.
Remodeled in 1973. the Rio now seats
approximately 400. Adams, formerly a
resident of the Los Angeles area, has been
active in the entertainment field about 12
years.
Films booked for future showings include
"Thunderbolt and Lightfoot." "The Don Is
Dead," "Papillon," "Journey Back to Oz"
and "Free As the Wind."
Airer Robbed of $100
SPOKANE, WASH. — The Associated
Press reported that a thief, at knifepoint,
stole $100 from the cashier of an unidentified
area drive-in recently. On the screen was
CRC's "Take the Money and Run."
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DENVER—"The Ultimate Thrill," a
skiing-themed suspense thriller shot on location
in Vail, Colo., will have its world premiere
here at the Cherry Creek Cinema
October 10. Ticket sales will benefit the
Rocky Mountain division of the U.S. Ski
Ass'n.
The Centaur Films picture was produced
by Peter S. Traynor and directed by Robert
Butler. Brltt Ekland, Barry Brown and Eric
Braeden star.
To Honor Howe, Moreau
At SF Film Festival
SAN FRANCISCO—Academy Awardwinning
cinematographer James Wong Howe
will be honored with a tribute at the 1974
San Francisco International Film Festival
October 16-27. This is the first tribute to a
cinematographer in the Festival's 18-year
history.
The legendary Mr. Howe has been working
in Hollywood films since 1917. He has
received nine Oscar nominations and won
the coveted award for "The Rose Tattoo"
and "Hud." Following a program of film
clips, Howe will discuss his work with the
audience.
French actress Jeanne Moreau will be
honored in person at the festival with a special
program dedicated to her career in
motion pictures.
Miss Moreau has worked with some of
the most prominent directors in the film
world, including Francois Truffaut ("Jules
and Jim" and "The Bride Wore Black"),
Antonioni ("La Notte"), and Orson Welles
("The Immortal Story" and "The Trial").
Four Films Are Scheduled
In CSU Lecture Series
FORT COLLINS. COLO.—A combination
speaker and film program, the Special
Events Board Film-Lecture Series, has been
scheduled by the Colorado State University
Student Theatre. Each of the four film-lectures
will cost students $1 and nonstudents
$2. However, series tickets are available
through October 10 at $3 for students, $6
for nonstudents.
Season offerings are: "Chambers of the
Sea," Stanton Waterman film, October 10;
Dick Reddy's "Mark Twain in Italy," Jan.
27, 1975; "Great Sailing .'\dventures," by
Capt. Irving Johnson, Feb. 13, 1975, and
Theodore J. Walker's "The Sea and Shore
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SEATTLE
^his city continued to bask in unbelievable
midsummer sunshine for the second
consecutive week as of Friday (20). with
daily temperatures fluctuating between 58
at night and 85 degrees during the day.
However, the weather certainly did not appear
to be affecting business, even in the
hardtops where "Jeremiah Johnson" opened
to record-breaking grosses. For the 11th
week of "That's Entertainment!" at Sterling
Recreation Organization's Cinerama Theatre,
a healthy crowd was noted on a Thursday
night and films such as "Return of the
Dragon" (at Mann's Coliseum), "2001: A
Space Odyssey" (UA Cinema 150) and
others were all doing their thing. A major
opening was "The Black Windmill" at the
5th Avenue. Another was "Bring Me the
Head of Alfredo Garcia," which bowed at
the Town.
Morrie Sherman has been named the new
branch manager of American International
Pictures, while Pete Tolin will handle the
Pacific Northwest for Paramount Pictures
out of San Francisco.
In town on business were Sammy Siegel,
American International Pictures' Northwest
advertising representative: Bob Painter,
Northwest division manager for General
Cinema Corp.; Bill Wasserman. district
manager for Cinerama, and Les Kaufman,
director of public relations for Don Fedderson
Productions, working on the forthcoming
West Coast premiere of "Love Is Forever"
at the King Theatre October 4 as a
benefit for the local chapter of International
Orphans, Inc. In addition to the premiere,
there also will be a golf tournament in
nearby Bremerton October 5. Gov. Evans
and Mayor Wes Uhlman of this city have
declared those days as a "Weekend of Stars
for Children." Among the stars scheduled
to participate so far are Lawrence Welk and
guitarist Clay Hart, Fred MacMurray, William
Demarest, Forrest Tucker and Christopher
George. Accompanying their husbands
will be June Haver (Mrs. MacMurray) and
Linda Day (Mrs. George).
Following the premiere of the new film,
there will be a dinner-dance at the Olympic
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emphasis will shift to golf, with some 20 of
the Hollywood golfers and visiting members
of the chapter of International Orphans
from Los Angeles participating in the Celebrity
Tournament at Bremerton.
World Cavalcade will open its 28th season
of travel documentaries October 10-12,
with "Alaska" presented at the Opera
House. Narrator Nicol Smith will be making
his
circuit.
farewell appearance on the travel lecture
Openings on the local scene: "The Longest
Yard," Thursday (26), Seattle 7th; "Juggernaut,"
Wednesday (25), Town, and
"Born Losers," Wednesday (25), in many
hardtops and drive-ins . . . United Artists
sneaked "Juggernaut" at the Town Friday
(20) with "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo
Garcia" (UA) and Universal sneaked "The
Front Page" Saturday (28) with "The Black
Windmill" (Univ) in the Fifth Avenue.
Screenings at the Jewel Box: "Airport
1975" (Univ), Wednesday (18); "Abby"
(AIP). Friday (20), and "Shanks" (Para),
Wednesday (25).
SALT LAKE CITY
^nierican International Pictures offices are
now located at 220 West 2855 South
here. The telephone number is 486-8127 . . .
Plitt Intermountain Theatres announced
two new managers. Denise Praszynski has
transferred from the Regency Theatre,
where she was assistant manager, to take
the reins at the Centre Theatre. Phil Gwinnup
has been named manager of the Regency
Theatre.
Ed Brinn of Ed Brinn Distributing just
returned from Denver, where he set bookings
for "The Magic Christmas Tree" and
"Puss 'n' Boots."
"The Great American Cowboy," released
by American National Enterprises, continues
to add laurels to its already impressive
list of awards. The Southern California
Motion Picture Council announced that
"The Great American Cowboy" would be
recognized by its highest award—the certificate
of merit—for a documentary feature.
Presentation was to be made at the Tuesday
(24) awards luncheon in Los Angeles.
Moviemaking in Utah, already ahead of
previous years, will guin again in the near
future, according to announcements.
"Whiffs." the Brut production which has
been shooting in the state for a month, has
a week to go before heading for Hollywood
for completion. A BBC crew has arrived
here and plans shooting in the St. George
area, beginning October 10, on a documentary
about Jed Smith, explorer and trapper
in the West in the 1820s. John Dollar,
researcher, and John Irwin, producer, are
in town and will cast ten persons from the
state for roles in the show. At least three
segments of the TV series "Movin' On."
about truck drivers, will be produced in
Utah. Indications from the producer were
that perhaps five segments in the series
would be made here. The crew is in the
Hjber Citv area.
Imax Theatre Proposal Is
Being Weighed in Spokane
SPOKANE, WASH.—After a recent tour
of the Imax Theatre in the Expo '74 Federal
Pavilion. John Ireland of the Spitz
Space Laboratories, San Francisco, indicated
that the facility could be converted to
"total
involvement" theatre for films on space and
other educational subjects at a cost of approximately
$500,000, according to Kenneth
W. McCord, spokesman for the Spokane
Planetarium & Observatory Society.
McCord said an architect specializing in
such theatres would come from Spitz Space
Laboratories to make a more detailed study.
The Spokane Planetarium & Observatory
Society plans to ask the city to retain the
theatre for a planetarium, while the Riverfront
Park architect is expected to recommend
that it be torn down.
UA Promotes Bob Shields,
Stan Phillips in Canada
From Eastern
Edition
NEW YORK—Bob Shields has been appointed
United Artists assistant Canadian
general manager, effective October 1, and
Stan Phillips has been named branch manager
of the Vancouver' exchange. Both report
to George Heiber, UA Canadian general
manager.
Shields joined UA in December 1968 as
office manager of the Vancouver exchange
and was promoted to branch manager in
May 1969. He started in the industry with
20th Century-Fox and subsequently was
employed by Paramount, becoming branch
manager, a post he held for several years.
Phillips started with UA in 1965 as
booker and later became booker salesman,
a position he has held until this current
promotion to branch manager.
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KANSAS CITY—Percentages slumped as
high school .ind college football games in
the area siphoned off some Friday and Saturday
entertainment dollars from first-run
film boxoffices. Of the handful of features
scoring better-than-average percentages during
the report week. "The Tamarind Seed"
led the way with a fourth-week 180 at Glenwood
2. "Benji" still was going strong in its
third week at JRanch Mart 1, posting 175,
while 150s were credited to "Frankenstein"
and "California Split." both on holdover
time. "That's Entertainment!" was the only
other first-run film grossing above 100 and
it rated 120 in a seventh week at Glenwood
1.
(Averoge Is 100)
Cameo The Devil's Kightmare (AlP); In the
Devil's Garden (AlP) Not Available
Embassy Frankenstein 150
(SR), 7th wk
1 Fairyland From China with Death
(SR) Not Available
Fine Arts The Apprenticeship of Duddy Krovitz
(Paro), 5th wk 50
Four theatres The 65
Young Swingers (SR)
Glenwood 1 That's Entertainment! (UA), 120
7th wk.
Glenwood 2 The Tamorind Seed (Emb), 4th wk. 180
Hiway 40—The Swinging Models (SR) Available
Midland 1 The Rolling Stones (SR), 3rd wk. ... 35
Plaza—For Pete's Sake (Col), 0th wk 50
1
Ranch Mart 1—Benji (Mulberry Square), 175
3rd wk.
Two theatres California Split (Col), 3rd wk 150
Two theatres The Greet Lester Boggs
(SR) Not Avoiloble
'Entertainment!' Keeps Lead
For 12th Week in Chicago
CHICAGO — People may have succumbed
to the frantic pep talks about new
fall TV series, say some exhibitors who deplored
the drop in grosses during the past
week. They are anticipating a return to
movie houses once the new fall lineup is activated.
That's Entertainment!" at McClurg
C-ourt held up well in the 12th week and
"Le Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir" grossed
200 in the third week at the near north Cinema.
Carnegie The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jocob
1 (20th-Fox), 3rd wk 50
Chicago Together Brothers (20th-Fox), 3rd wk. 150
Cinema Le Petit Theatre de Jean Renoir (SR),
3rd wk 200
Esquire—The White Down (Para), 4th wk 175
1 Loop Exorcism's Daughter (SR) 40
McClurg Court—That's Entertainment! (UA),
12th wk 275
Michael Todd Sting of the Dragon Master (SR);
Attack of the Kung Fu Girls (SR), 4th wk 165
Oriental Return of the Dragon (SR), 8th wk. ..165
Roosevelt The Education of Sonny Carson (Para),
4th wk 150
State Lake— Deoth Wish (Para), 6th wk 125
Woods The Black Godfather (SR), 2nd wk 185
Shuttered Paramount Set
For October 2 Reopening
ANDERSON. IND.— Closed since July
1973, the Paramount Theatre will reopen
October 2. it was announced by Jack Harris,
theatre's organ will be played for a halfhour
before each evening performance and
at
intermissions.
Besides the Paramount. SportService also
owns the State Theatre and the North
Drive-In here.
ST.
LOUIS
Qcath Wish," Charles Bronson starrer. has appeared in many movies and TV shows,
opened to good business at Dcs Peres Edmiston most often is summoned to work
off-camera. He is known as a 'ghost voice"
4 Cine, Jamestown Mall. Mark Twain and
Paramount's thriller. and mimics with startling accuracy Peter
Northwest Plaza . , .
"Phase IV," coupled with "The Conversa-
1-alk. Orson Welles, Lyndon Johnson and
tion," is currently at the Granada, Hi Pointe,
Lewis & Clark, St. Ann Cinema and Stadium
Cinema 2 . . . "Buster and Billie" is
playing at 12 area theatres and "Jeremiah
John,son," with Robert Redford, opened Friday
(20) to outstanding business in a oneweek
saturation involving 1.3 hardtops and
five
underskyers.
Following "The Tamarind Seed," Mid-
America's Brentwood will open Wednesday,
October 2, with an exclusive engagement of
"Ladies & Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones,"
featuring the popular rock stars. Four additional
speakers have been installed to enhance
the sound effects and to place the audience
in the middle of the action.
Henry Fonda, while appearing in person
at the American in and as "Clarence Darrow,"
told reporters his next endeavor will
be a motion picture in which he will star
with his children Jane and Peter for the
first time. Still in the writing stage, the production
will be a reflection of the era of the
American Revolution. Planned for release
in 197.'i, the film should add to the bicentennial
events of that year and 1976.
The fall season of the University City
Film Society opened with the 1932 version
of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring
Fredric March, and "He Who Gets
Slapped," a 1924 silent with Lon Chaney.
The films are shown in the University Library
auditorium. Scheduled October 10 is
"The Merry Widow," a 1934 release with
Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier.
The St. Louis Art Museum will open its
fall season of movie classics Friday, October
4. with "The Informer." Other presentations
will be "Young Mr. Lincoln," "Battle of
Midway" and "Stagecoach." Films will be
shown in the lobby auditorium at 7 and
9 p.m.
'Webster College is presenting an ,\nthropological
Cinema Series on alternate Monday
evenings in the Winifred Moore Auditorium
at 7:30 p.m. The series depicts man
from the stone age to the post-industrial
period. Included are: "The Feast," "Bitter
Melons," "The Living Stone" and "The
Season." Admission price is $1 ... A former
Webster College professor, Dr. William S.
manager of the State Theatre here. Harris
also will be manager of the Paramount and
the house is being renovated by SportService Irving, is now lending his expertise in business
management to the Maryland Plaza
Corp. of Buffalo, N.Y.
The Paramount will have regular evening Screening Room. He also is in charge of
film showings, plus bargain matinees on group sales at the motion picture theatre-
weekends, Harris said. He added that the
restaurant. The theatre is closing its "Bogie
Revival" with "The Maltese Falcon" and
"The Treasure of Sierra Madre."
A recent visitor while on a business trip
from Hollywood was former hometowner
Walker Edmiston. While he is an actor and
even Woody Woodpecker. When a script
needs revision, for example, and the original
actor is not available to return to work,
Edmiston is the dubbcr. This happened recently
when Jack Palance was in New York
and the studio needed an entire paragraph
rerecorded. He also is called on to do radio
voices from the past when a script requires
a scene in which people are gathered before
their radio to listen to a speech. He has
appeared on TV in episodes of "Adam 12,"
"Mannix" and "Barnaby Jones" but enjoys
his off-screen work where he has done a
Basil Rathbonc voice for a cominercial and
Columho for an educational film.
Linda Lovelace Is in KC
For Film Location Shots
KANSAS CITY— Linda Lovelace, the
23-year-old star of "Deep Throat," was here
Monday and Tuesday (23, 24) doing location
shots for her new film, "Linda Lovelace
for President," which will be released
in December.
Miss Lovelace and an assorted crew of
disorganized assistant directors, comedians
and extras from the Golden Age Club and
Swope Park Zoo staff, romped before
camera in a striped circus tent set up in
Swope Park.
The sex comedy will be released with
three ratings: PG. R and X, with language
and physical revelation appropriate to each.
The plot revolves around Miss Lovelace's
nomination for president and the attendant
cross-country campaigning, which brings her
in contact with hippies, hillbillies and a
fire-and-brimstone revivalist.
The revivalist is being portrayed by
Vaughn Meader, the comedian whose impersonation
of President John F. Kennedy
sent him to stardom a dozen years ago.
Also in the film are comic Chuck McCann,
who has appeared in numerous commercials,
TV shows and films ("The Heart
Is a Lonely Hunter," "The Projectionist,"
and Morgan Upton, of the Committee in
San Francisco, who plays Miss Lovelace's
running mate. David Winters is producing.
The cast and crew were scheduled to be
on the University of Kansas campus Wednesday
(25) for a political parade scene.
Two other sequences also are planned for
filming in Lawrence.
Theatre Under Consideration
From Eastern Edition
HOBOK.EN, N.J.—Mayor Cappiello has
announced that the city has received a
$92,000 federal grant to study revitalization
of the Erie-Lackawanna train terminal. A
film theatre is one of the facilities considered
in
the urban redevelopment project.
Warner Bros, has acquired "Beautiful
People." a documentary.
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gev Miller, president of Mercury Film,
announces that his firm will be handling
sales and distribution of the
much-
heralded Taylor-Laughlin production "The
Trial of Billy Jack." Bookings will be taken
for the Kansas City-St. Louis-Des Moines-
Omaha territory. Miller and Paul Rice attended
a Taylor-Laughlin meeting in Los
Angeles over the weekend and met with
Roger Reese, vice-president, and Lew
Marks, sales manager. "The Trial of Billy
Jack" opens nationwide November 15 in
LOOO theatres.
Arthur Marx, author, playwright and son
of Groucho. was in Kansas City to promote
his new book. •'Everybody Loves Somebody
Sometime." The book is a 278-page dissertation
on the rise and fall of Dean Martin
and Jerry Lewis as a comedy team. It also
is about the rise of Martin and the fall of
Lewis as solo performers.
Screenings at Commonwealth: "Sunday
in the Country" (AIP). Tuesday (24). 1:30
p.m.: "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
(Bryanston). Wednesday (25). 1:30 p.m., and
"Seizure" (AIP), Thursday (26). 1:30 p.m.
Sneak previews: "Juggernaut" (UA) Saturday
evening (21) at Commonwealth's
Ranchmart 3. Mid-America Cinema's Chouteau
and Blue Ridge and American Multi
Cinema's Indian Springs; "The Longest
Yard (Para). Friday evening (20) at Chouteau
cinemas and Saturday (21) at AMC's
Brywood; "The Girl From Petrovka" (Univ)
Friday evening (20) at Mann's Plaza, and
"The Dove" (Para) Friday evening (20) at
Mann's Fine Arts.
A Woody Allen Festival of films opened
at Mid-America Cinema's Chouteau, Watts
Mills and Blue Ridge indoor theatres and
the South. 63rd and Lake Park drive-ins.
The films were "Sleeper." "Bananas" and
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask."
Forty years ago, according to the column
by that name in the Kansas City Times for
Monday (23), Mae West starred in "Belle of
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and Fredric March, Norma Shearer
and Charles Laughton were in "The Barretts
of Wimpole Street" at the Loew's Midland.
Miriam Hopkins starred in "The Richest
Girl in the World" with Joe McCrea at the
Mainstreet. and Robert Montgomery had
the lead in "Hide-Out" with Maureen
O'Suliivan and Edward Arnold at the Plaza.
SA Film Council Seeking
Ideas for Family Movies
From Southwestern
Edition
SAN ANTONIO—The San Antonio Motion
Picture Council is seeking suggestions
on the kind of movies families would like
to see.
"Without censoring or condemning current
film fare, our members believe the
motion picture industry is losing considerable
patronage by not finding out and producing
the type of pictures families will
attend together," said Mrs. James A. Mc-
Kay jr.. president of the group, following
the council's fall luncheon.
The council is asking for suggestions in
connection with the visit October 1 of
motion picture producer Jerry Fairbanks,
president of the Hollywood Chamber of
Commerce. Fairbanks will be in Texas for
the premiere of his film, "The Legend of
Amaluk." narrated by TV star Lome
Greene. Fairbanks, a former San Antonian,
started his career as a projectionist at the
old Palace Theatre here.
Mrs. McKay said the author of the best
movie suggestion will win a $100 savings
bond and will be guest at a luncheon honoring
Fairbanks.
Midas Film Corp. Wants
To Reopen Racine House
From North Central Edition
RACINE, WIS.—A request for a permit
to reopen the Rialto Theatre, 523 Main St.,
filed by Midas Film Corp. of Chicago, has
been sent to the city council. A corporation
organized specifically to operate the Rialto.
Midas has leased the theatre contingent on
obtaining a license and passing a building
inspection.
Harry Goodman, well-known film distributor
and exhibitor in the Midwest, heads
Midas Film Corp. Goodman said programs
at the Rialto will be geared toward the
youth market and acknowledged that exhibition
of X-rated films eventually is a possibility,
depending on market response.
John Plonsky reportedly will be the manager
of the Rialto Theatre when it begins
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Charts Fund Drive
FORT WAYNE, IND.—The Embassy
Theatre Foundation, which is planning a
60-day $500,000 fund drive to purchase and
renovate the shuttered Embassy Theatre in
downtown Fort Wayne at Harrison and
Jefferson streets, plans to employ a professional
fund-raising firm, according to
Robert Goldstein, foundation head.
The purchase price for the building is
$250,000 and members decided another
$250,000 would be needed to restore the
building and operate it. Two fund-raising
firms are being considered and a spokesman
for one suggested a short-term loan from
local financial institutions to be paid back
later, after a drive, because time is a big
problem.
The heating system of the structure is
reported in dire straits and must be reconditioned
before cold weather.
Dallas El Centre Course
On Famous Old Features
DALLAS—A course. "Nostalgic Film
Festival," is being offered for eight weeks
by the community service department of
El Centro College. The students focus on
critically acclaimed but rarely shown U.S.
movies in classes held at 7 p.m. Thursdays.
Film historian Boo Allen is conducting the
course at the El Centro Screening Room.
Among the films being shown and discussed
by Allen will be "Room Service,"
Bette Davis and Leslie Howard; "Sons of
the Desert" and "Double Whoopee," with
Laurel and Hardy.
Proposed Concord Mall
To Include Cinema
CONCORD, N.H.—A proposed $16 million
shopping mall, to include a cinema,
has won conditional approval from the
Concord Planning Board.
The project, said to be the largest such
development in Maine, New Hampshire or
Vermont, would be called Concord East
by the builder, Nedia Development Co.
of Scarborough, Me.
Consultant Robert B. Shaine of Anderson-Nichols
Co. said that the Nedia interests
hope to have final planning board approval
by September, with construction start projected
for November.
Conditional approval was given by the
planning board because, according to a
spokesman, the members want more information
on the builder's financial stability.
The development is to contain two department
stores, shops and an office building
in addition to the cinema.
CHICAGO
J^ichaelJ. Kutza has added Rosary College
site
in suburban River Forest as thj third
for his tenth Chicago International Film
Festival. As announced earlier, he also will
use the Granada and Biograph theatres. It is
reported that Kutza hopes to "pull off a
Vincentc Minnelli retrospective that will b.
attended by Minnelli's daughter Liza, now
Mrs. Jack Haley jr." All of the planned
retrospectives will be held at a fourth location,
Mundelein College on North Sheridan
Road.
Interest among exhibitors in George C.
Scott's independent production of "The
Savage Is Loose" appears to be growing.
Now it is anticipated that Scott may be here
for promotion. Henry Plitt, president of
publicist Ed Russell have managed to inundate
the city with AlP product this month.
"Savage Sisters," starring Gloria Hendry is
being shown at the downtown State Lake;
"Macon County Line" started a first run at
outlying theatres in Chicagoland; the Chicago
Theatre in the Loop brings back "Foxy
Brown" and "Truck Turner." and "Super
Stooges vs. the Wonder Women" is in its
first run at another Loop theatre, the United
starring the Marx brothers; "Topper," starring
Cary Grant, Constance Bennett and Roland
Young; Alfred Hitchcock's "Foreign
Correspondent." Joel McCrea and Laraine
Day; "Svengali," John Barrymore; George
Artists. The latter film is described as "super
campy," with its characters using fabulous
Cukor's "A Bill of Divorcement," Katharine
magic weapons, prehistoric parachutes,
Hepburn and John Barrymore; Howard
Hawks' "His Girl Friday," Cary Grant and
flaming
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Rosalind Russell; "Of Human Bondage," of Hong Kong" in its run at the United
Artists.
Warner Bros, is planning a good-sized
buildup for Rockne Tarkington, who plays
the title role in "Black Samson," for the
film's first showing at the Roosevelt Theatre.
It's a story of a man who fights off
the mob to keep the street clean of drug
pushers.
Bob Rostemian, 20th-Fox booker, returned
from a vacation on the West Coast.
Florence Cohen, Warner Bros, booker,
was saluted with a champagne party. The
occasion marked her 40th year with the
company.
The WOMPIs" efforts have no bounds!
In addition to the many other projects recorded
in the past months, they now are
sponsoring a canned food drive to assist the
pantry for the needy operated by St. Thomas
of Canterbury Parish. Circuits and exchanges
have been invited to participate in
this
project which will continue until Christmas.
WOMPI members take care of the
collecting and delivering. Additional infornnuoii
can be obtained by calling Marcia
Bailey, project chairman, at 372-0584.
Art Carney is expected to join 20th Century-Fox
publicist Larry Dicckhaus here
for "Harry & Tonto ' promotion. The film
opens in a few select outlying theatres
October 18. Segments of the movie were
filmed downtown here and in suburban
Forest Park. Mike Nussbaum, a Chicagoan,
has a role in the movie— he's the old-age
home clerk.
Joe Feulner of H&E Balaban was up
north for a last week of fishing.
"W Pustyni 1 W Puszczy" (In the Desert
and the Jungle), a new Polish movie, is
having its U.S. premiere at the Luna Theatre,
a Plitt Theatres property. Even the
Plitt Theatres, for one is hopeful that Scott
will be in town in mid-October. Eight Plitt
theatres—the River Oaks 2, Woodfield 2,
advertising copy on the film is in Polish
but the Luna management will provide patrons
Varsity, Will Rogers. Nortown, Berwyn.
with an English synopsis.
LaGrange and the Paramount in Hammond,
Ind.—will be opening with Scott's film starting
Recent showings of kung fu movies have
given proof that they have not lost their
November 1.
popularity. Theatres which have continued
to program this type of film have been
Vic Bernstein, American International
gratified with the results at the boxoffice
Pictures Midwest division manager, and
and veteran distributor Charles Teitel has
found this product pays off. He has been
setting up openings of two of the latest
kung fu films, "The Dragon's Vengeance"
and "The Bamboo Brotherhood." Both are
being shown locally at the Michael Todd
Theatre in the Loop . Michael Todd
opens with a first run of "Flesh Gordon,"
an X-rated parody, starting October 4.
Clyde Klepper of K-B Adelphi Co.. reports
a very good summer in all three of
their theatres—the Devon, 400 and .'\delphi.
"That's Entertainment!" is set for the Devon
starting October 18. The repertory programing
at the 400 has been very lucrative, said
Klepper, and effective immediately changes
will occur twice weekly.
Former local actors Ron Masak and
Spencer Milligan are going to begin filming
Masak's original script. "Sons of Erin," with
financial backing from Los Angeles and
Atlanta real estate tycoon Stanley Friedman.
The movie will be world-premiered in our
town.
Howard Alk, another Chicagoan, has
made a documentary in Canada based on
the life of singer Janis Joplin. The film,
"Janis," will be distributed by Universal,
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September 30, 1974 C-3

. . More
CHICAGO
(Continued from preceding page)
according to reports. A!k was one of the
original group to start Second Citv
here.
Nat Nathanson, Central division manager
for Allied Artists Pictures Corp., reports
that "Cabaret" is coming back strong. It
goes into 100 theatres throughout the state
of Illinois, which includes local outlets . . .
Allied Artists also has been making preparations
for openings of "Gold." Roger Moore,
star of the film, was interviewed on "Kup"s
Show," seen on NBC, while in town . . .
Milwaukee area theatres have sent in heartening
reports on "Panorama Blue."
Wm. Lange & Associates are handling
Seymour Horde's "Journey Back to Oz."
This animated film, which is set for early
November openings, was made with the
voices of Liza Minnelli, Milton Berle, Danny
Thomas, Mickey Rooney, Paul Ford and
Ethel Merman . . . Susan DiNardi has joined
the Wm. Lange & Associates staff.
"The Groove Tube," one of this summer's
big hits, is set for another break starting
October 4. The State theatre in Rockford is
one example of the impact which "The
Groove Tube" carries. With an opening
gross of $7,300, The State's opening gross
ranked No. 1 among some 50 theatres in
the Kerasotes circuit. Dan Stone, buyer here
for Kerasotes. promptly booked the movie
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the Coed in Champaign . . . "Girls Are for
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adults-only attraction by Select Film Co., is
now available in an R version and is being
so booked in drive-ins throughout the state.
The Bloomington Drive-In starts off with
the first booking this month . on
"The Groove Tube." It not only has proved
itself in conventional theatres but is doing
equally good business in drive-ins, as is indicated
in grosses reported by Detroit area
properties. October 18 marks the fibn's
opening in Chicagoland ozoners.
TV's Fare Cited As Cause
Of Kiddies Film Shortage
CHICAGO—Gene Siskel, writing in the
Chicago Tribune, remarked, "The lack of
good movies for kids—it's a persistent whipping
boy and by now its welts have welts.
Parents have been complaining about the
lack of quality films for children for the
past ten years, ever since TV spread-eagled
the movie industry and began regularly
pumping young eyelids full of moronic
cartoons.
"The standard complaint is that, save for
regular releases from Walt Disney Productions,
the feature-film industry ignores
youngsters. Harking back to their own childhood,
complaining parents fondly recall the
Saturday movie matinee and wonder whatever
happened to adventure serials, all-cartoon
shows and double-feature westerns."
Siskel continued: "Those movie staples
are long gone and you don't have to look
any farther than your living room for the
cause. Today's tyke is able to suck in as
many as five full hours of TV cartoons before
noon each Saturday. Who'd want to
go to the movies after that?
"And yet the lure of the movie theatre
as a siiurce of adventure remains. Like their
parents, kids will go to the movies, industry
executives agree, if they are offered something
they can't get on the tube. 'The toughest
problem is to avoid talking down to
kids,' says Robert King, director of marketing
services for Walt Disney Productions.
'Today's nine and ten-year-olds are going
on 18. At age nine, they've logged more
than 5,000 hours of TV. They've seen
everything.' ''
Texas Hospital Shows
Films to Patients
From Southwestern Edition
SAN ANTONIO—Metropolitan General
Hospital is the first hospital in the city to
begin offering exclusive showings of full
length feature films.
A hospital spokesman said many of the
patients were not happy with the daily programs
offered by the three television stations
in San Antonio.
The hospital as a result installed its own
closed circuit channel. Patients tuning in on
channel 7 on the regular color television
sets in each room can view the feature films.
The feature films are aired at 10 a.m. and
3, 5 and 7 p.m. to insure that every patient
has an opportunity to view the films.
The films are provided in video cassettes
by the Wells National Service Corp. of New
York.
Typical of the films scheduled to be
shown this month are "Jeremiah Johnson,"
"Battle for the Planet of the Apes," "Without
Apparent Motive," "The Neptune Factor,"
'"The Candidate" and "The Salzburg
Connection."
Owensboro Man Suggests
Matinees at Half Price
From Mideostern Edition
OWENSBORO, KY.—Charles P. Goodwell,
who resides near Owensboro, recently
wrote the editor of the Messenger &
Inquirer suggesting that theatres offer "halfprice"
matinees. Said Goodwell: "I fully
agree with the young lad^' who protested the
high prices of movies. I think I have a solution
to this situation, however.
"Why don't the theatres offer a Saturday
and Sunday matinee at half price. Other
cities of our size do it and have found it
to be quite successful. I know I would
frequent the theatres more if we had such
an arrangement here.
".\{ least try it on an experimental basis.
I think the Saturday and Sunday matinee
ai half price would be a most welcome
opportunity for the Owensboro Theatregoing
public. Let's give it a try."
United Artists' "Mr. Majestyk" stars
Charles Bronson as a melon rancher.
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JACKSONVILLE
I^OMPI members leaving here for the
group's annual convention in Charlotte,
N.C, September 26-29, were Mrs. Anne
Dillon, past international president and current
Jacksonville president; Mrs. Walter
(Kitty) Dowell, delegate; Mrs. Donald (Marsha)
Weaver, alternate; Mrs. John (Mary)
Hart, past international president and delegate;
John Hart, president of Co-WOMPI,
the international's male auxiliary; Mrs.
Maude Dupont; Ava I-oudermilk and Mrs.
Jennings (Sandy) Easley.
Lloyd Sachs, Jacksonville Journal staff
writer, has in a short time emerged as a
ship of Duddy Kravitz," new attraction at
Sheldon Mandell's Five Points Theatre and
ABC FST's San Marco Theatre. Sachs concluded
his long critical piece with an estimate
that "Duddy Kravitz" is "well on its
way to becoming Canada's first smash movie
in light-years. And deservedly so."
The Thursday newspaper full-page ads of
Winn-Dixie, Florida's largest grocery chain,
ing Jerry Lewis in "Don't Raise the Bridge.
Lower the River" to family groups at the
bargain donation price of $5 per carload.
A saturatioD, one-week showing of
"What's Up, Doc?" was presented by Warner
Bros, at five local theatres and seven
other theatres in the immediate northeast
Florida area.
sha Weaver, one of WOMPI's prime organizers
for the event, said donated goods will
be displayed in two large sales booths with
a wide range of articles from bicycles to
canned goods and baby bottles . . Vacationing
from Columbia was Philomena
"Phil" Eckcrt, seccrlary to branch manager
Terry Tharpe.
A fine critical study of "The Apprenticeship
of Duddy Kravitz," playing at the Five
Points and San Marco, was contributed by
Charles Brock, entertainment editor of the
Florida Publishing Co. Brock also gave his
readers insights directed at "Buster and
Billie," playing Trans-Lux/ Inf light's Normandy
Gold Theatre, Kent's Plaza Theatre
and EFT's Blanding Drive-In; "The Mysterious
Island of Captain Nemo" at the Arlington
local critic of motion pictures rather than
in the role of a reviewer. His latest knowledgeable
diagnosis of the production prop-
Theatre of Gene Hernandez, EFT's
Royal Palm II and Kent's Main Street and
Southside drive-ins; "Phase
erties of a film concerned "The
IV" at General
Apprentice-
Cinema's Expressway II, EFT's Cedar Hills
and Northside II theatres; "Breezy" at
EFT's University Drive In; and "Cold
Sweat," a European film starring Charles
Bronson brought to town by the local Clark
Film Releasing Co. and showing at TLF's
Normandy Blue Theatre and GCC's Expressway
I.
Filmrow Golfers Head
For Fla. Feslivities
currently contain coupons providing discount
rates for family groups who are Florida
residents and who use the coupons to
attend underwater performances at Weeki
Wachee, Spring of the Live Mermaids, a JACKSONVILLE—This city's annual
unit of national .ABC attractions and one Filmrow Golf Tournament and Fun Day
of Florida's main tourist meccas.
will tee off Friday morning, October 4, at
the Baymeadows Country Club with more
Eastern Federal Theatres gave a generous
than 150 competing golfers from Florida,
financial lift to the Muscular Dystrophy
Ass'n's drive conducted by Sandalwood
other Southeastern states, New York and
local
the
Anchor Club by presenting three eve-
ning showings of a "Fab-U-Lewis" featur-
Hollywood.
Charley King, staff advisor to the AIP
local office and chairman for the Filmrow
event, said participants who pay the $20
entrance fee are being provided with a "400-
yard drive straight down the fairway against
inflation
as everyone will be presented with
a free golf cap, golf balls and a pack of
tees. In addition they will receive greens
fees without cost, free beer all day, a cocktail
hour and a sirloin steak banquet."
CHARLOTTE
J^oving to new corporate headquarters
soon on the tenth floor of North Western
Bank. 230 South Tryon St., are several
theatre companies. Piedmont Booking and
Promotions will be known as Piedmont Theatres.
Harry Kerr is moving Dominant Pictures
there. Also planning to transfer headquarters
to North Western arc ABC Southeastern
Theatres, Cinemation. Charlotte
Booking, International Amusement Co., Premier
Pictures, Pyramid Pictures and Queen
City Booking Agency.
Ronnie Witherspoon, former Cinema Distributing
Co. employee, is now associated
with Jerry Helms of Premier Pictures.
Stewart & Everett Theatres threw a cocktail
party and dinner for branch managers
and bookers at Charles Trexler's river cabin
at Lake Wylie earlier this month .
. . ABC
Southeastern Theatres' annual party Tuesday
(10) at the Sheraton drew managers
from North and South Carolina. Virginia
and Tennessee.
Top grossers here: "Return of the Dragon,"
Carolina; Andy Warhol's "Frankenstein."
Cinema II Charlottetown Mall;
"That's Entertainment!", IVlanor. and "For
Pete's Sake," Park Terrace.
Marvin Schubert of International Amusement
Corp. stopped in Spartanburg, Greenville
and Charleston, S.C., on business.
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King added that 40 companies and individuals
have donated prizes or money for
prizes to be awarded all golfers regardless
of their high or low scores on the links. The
value of the prizes ranges from $300 down
to $11.
Assisting King in arranging the tournament
are Richard Lewis, AIP branch manager,
and Oscar Cannington, ABC Florida
State Theatres purchasing agent and concessions
chief. WOMPI members will assist at
the annual field day by serving as hostesses
in the Baymeadows clubhouse and by conducting
a raffle at the 13th hole.
WOMPI will also begin the sale of
chances on their annual Basket of Cheer
contest to raise funds for charitable purposes.
The raffle's final drawing is planned
for December 17 when WOMPI members
will give their annual party and banquet for
Filmrow executives.
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his "finest moment" when he accepted the
prestigious Silver Phoenix Award given to
his company's release, "The Great American
Cowboy," by judges at the seventh annual
Atlanta International Film Festival in
August. The presentation was made at the
festival's gala awards banquet in the Regency
Hyatt House before a black-tie audience
made up of 600 film celebrities, producers,
exhibitors, dignitaries and special guests.
The category in which "Cowboy" was honored
was "best documentary feature" and
added recognition has been heaped upon the
production from within the film industry
itself. King said that "Cowboy" is being
tested in
the Orlando and Jacksonville areas
in Florida and in Richmond, Va., and will
be available for February release. ANE's
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Trade and press screenings at 20th Century-Fox's
projection room: "Airport 1975,"
Universal; "Seizure" and "Sunday in the
Country," American International Pictures;
"Nothing but the Night," Woody Sherrill.
distributor for Sebastian International Pictures;
"Juggernaut," United Artists, and
"Green Hornet," Lawrence Lint.
Trailers are being shown in theatres here
for "Airport 1975," the film in which
Charlton Heston (obviously recovered from
the shaking up he got in "Earthquake") is
the rescue pilot trying to get aboard a
crippled jetliner being piloted by stewardess
Karen Black. The trailers led one reporter
to write that "the picture looks fabulous and
the special effects are certainly stunning."
That same reporter had this paragraph in
his Sunday column: "The excitement of being
in a packed, 750-seat theatre is always a
pleasurable experience, especially if you
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ut couldn't. That's what happened at the
Earthquake' preview at the Capri Theatre.
Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, Genevieve
lUijold and the rest of the crowd were upstaged
by the quake (effects) and the Sensurround
process." (Editor's note: the Capri
management announced to the overflew
crowd that patrons could get their money
back or attend a second (previously unscheduled)
performance if they cared to do so.
About 95 per cent chose to stick around
nearly three hours for the second show.)
Weis' Capri Cinema on the same bill with
"For Pete's Sake"; "The Apprenticeship of
Duddy Kravitz," Sunday (29), Weis' Fine
Art Cinema.
Spence Steinhurst, formerly stationed in
Atlanta as a field representative for AIP
and later transferred to the home office's
promotion set-up but more recently employed
as Crown International's director of
advertising and publicity, has advised Atlanta's
BoxoFFicE representatives that he
will be on hand for the National Ass'n of
Theatre Owners convention here next
month. Crown International will sponsor the
kickoff cocktail party. Spence adds: "We are
alerting exhibitors at the convention 'To
Get Ready for Crownmanship '75' and, of
course, we will show them footage from our
release schedule for 1975." Spence's Atlanta
friends will be pleased to see him.
MIAMI
^he University of Miami Film Society has
list: October 5. Norman Mailer's strange
home movie. "Maidstone"; October 12,
Truffaut's "Bed and Board"; October 19,
Fcrnado Arrabai's "Viva la Muerte"; October
26, double horror feature, "The Mummy"
and Hound of the Baskervilles"; Novt;mber
2, Max Schell's "First Love"; November
9, Dennis Hopf>er in the underrated
Willie Smith, manager of Martin's Georgia
Cinerama, issued invitations to a sneak
preview of Universal's "Front Page" on the
same bill with "The Destructors" Saturday
(28). "Front Page" due open October
"Kid Blue"; November 16. Haskell We.xler's
fascinating media age message. "Medium
is to
18 and will be followed by another Univer-
Cool"; and November 23, Bunuel's "The
Two sneaks Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie."
were hosted by 20th-Fox: "The Mad Adventures
In addition, film society president Mike
Bittner has promised a week-long Ken Rus-
of 'Rabbi' Jacob" Saturday (28)
at
sell festival and a week-long Alfred Hitchcock
festival, beginning in late October.
Among the Russell films to be shown will
be his early work "Billion Dollar Brain."
"Savage Messiah" and "The Boyfriend."
Hitchcock films, scheduled from the Thirties
or Forties, include the Oscar-winning "Rebecca,"
with Joan Fontaine and Lawrence
an interesting lineup of a dozen classic
and sometimes ancient films to be shown Olivier. "Spellbound" and "Under Capricorn."
between now and December. Here is the
Each film will be shown twice on
the day listed in a 60()-seal theatre on the
University of Miami campus at 7:30 and
8:30 p.m. in different halLs. Single admission
is $1 for all shows.
Lou Clerico has purchased an oil painting
of Rudolph Valentino from a California
estate for hanging in the main room of the
Miami Stork Club, opening late this fall.
The picture is said to be insured for $75,-
000.
Yachtsman Peter Rittmaster and his wife
were spotted at the Unicom Club the other
day. She is Israeli actress Daliah Lavi, who
has appeared in more than 40 films overseas.
American International's
is about an island revolution.
"Savage Sisters"
Marquee changes: Baronet, "Thunderbolt
and Lightfoot"; Cherokee, "The Godfather":
Miracle, "Dirty Mary Crazy Larry"; Perimeter
Mall I, "The Three Musketeers";
Loews' Grand, "The Sting of the Dragon
Masters" and "Attack of the Kung Fu
Girls"; Weis' Atlanta, "Flesh Gordon";
Lenox Square I, "Harrad Summer"; Lenox
Square II, "Doctor Zhivago": five Georgia
Theatre Co. theatres and drive-ins, "The
Devil's Triangle"; ABC's Fox, "The Black
Godfather" and "The Black Six"; Phipps
Plaza, "The Longest Yard"; Cobb Center,
"Juggernaut"; Belvedere, National Triple,
Toco Hill, "Memory of Us."
The new Glen Art Theatre reaped a bonanza
(at $5 per head) with the "optically
censored" version of "Deep Throat" and
they're repeating that success with the
"original complete censored version" of
"The Devil in Miss Jones," again with the
established price of $5.
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NEW ORLEANS
Cummer of
'42" returned at drive-ins and
hardtops in New Orleans and surrounding
area. "Our Time" from the makers of
"Summer of '42" opened at the Saenger
Orleans. "Doctor Zhivago," a winner of six
Academy awards, opened at the Lakeside
I, the original uncut roadshow version presented
in full stereophonic sound.
Armand Portie, formerly with Gulf States
Theatres in the booking department, has
joined the
staff of Universal Pictures.
Guif States Theatres is closing the Do
Drive-In, Biloxi, Miss., and the Showtown
Drive-In,
Pensacola, Fla.
Waitress Cries Over Tip
At Variety Club Table
MEMPHIS—It was the biggest "tip"
Kini Marie Kedigh ever received as a
waitress—$500.
It became the tipoff that she had won
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was having dinner.
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it was a check for $500. She gasped, then
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Springs Theatre Plans
Second Ocala Unit
OCALA, FLA.—ABC Florida State Theatres
plans to add a second unit to the present
Springs Theatre on Silver Springs Boulevard.
Tom Sawyer, vice-president of the ABC
subsidiary, said the new conventional indoor
theatre will be one of the most beautiful and
advanced showplaces in the country. ABC
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'Return of the Dragon'
600 Leads Memphis
MEMPHIS — -Return of the Dragon"
came to Memphis and hit the top of the
first-run houses with 600 per cent the first
week at Malco. "That's Entertainment!",
during a fifth week at Crosstown. won second
honors with a score of 300. "Death
Wish." with 250 during a fourth week, was
third.
(Average Is 100)
Crosstown That's Entertoinment! (UA) 5th wk, ..300
Loews' Block ;5R), The Godtother 2nd wk 100
Malco— Return of the Drogon AlP) 600
Paramount Deoth Wish iPoro), 4th 250
wk
Park The Apprenticeship ot Duddy Kroviti
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Plaza 1 Californio Split ;Col), 3rd wk 25
Plaza 2— For Pete's Soke (Col), 9th wk 100
"The Education of Sonny Carson'
Scores Seven Times Average
NEW ORLEAN.S—The second week of
"The Education of Sonny Carson" at the
Orpheum Theatre outgrossed all other theatres
reporting with a strong 700. "The
Sting," after a record-breaking nine-month
run ^at the Joy Theatre, closed the engagement
with a lively 200 week and "For Pete's
Sake." a winner at the Robert E. Lee, wound
up its ten weeks at that theatre on a 150
note.
Joy—The Sting ;Univ), 39th wk 200
Orpheum The Education of Sonny Corson (Para),
MEMPHIS
park Theatre manager Margaret Irby. her
husband Bob and their children Karen
and Robert are vacationing in Hot Springs,
Ark. Birthday" was sung by
.
WOMPIs this week to Deltine Craig and
Mai Carper at a party.
Ten members of Memphis WOMPIs
drove through the Great Smoky Mountains,
watching the autumn splendor, on their way
to the national convention in Charlotte,
N.C., this week. The WOMPIs had planned
their trip at a meeting at the home of Mary
K. Baker.
Tish Fortner, formerly with United Artists,
is recovering at Methodist Hospital
from knee surgery . . . Billy Long, Film
Transit, reports her mother Mrs. Nell Long
is resting in St. Joseph's Hospital after surgery
on the hip.
"fili
Sunset Drive-In at Calvert City, Ky., has
closed for the .season.
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BOXOFFICE :: .September 30. 1974

Film Companies Ask
About Okla. Locations
OKLAHOMA CITY—"A very good possibility
exists that Oklahoma will sec more
movie action within the next few months,"
declared Lt. Gov. George Nigh, chairman
of the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation
Commission, at a recent press conference.
During August, for instance, several major
production companies expressed interest in
this state as the location for their upcoming
films and contacted the commission lor specific
information about potential filming
sites.
Available to such interested production
companies, the lieutenant governor pointed
out, is a new handbook of potential movie
locations in the state, the information about
waterfalls, lakes, mountains and plains
(among many other Oklahoma aspects)
having been compiled by the Tourism Promotion
Division of the Oklahoma Tourism
and Recreation Department. The handbook
relies heavily on photographs to stress the
variety of scenery to be found in this
state. Included in the binders are color shots
from all areas of Oklahoma, plus black and
white detail photos of specialty attractions
such as rodeos, oil wells, powows and
unique architecture. Also included is a policy
statement, explaining the facilities, responsibilities
and services available through
the Tourism Promotion Division.
Nigh suggested that companies interested
in making motion pictures in this state contact
Tom Gray. Special Projects Manager,
Tourism Promotion Division, Oklahoma
Tourism and Recreation Department, Oklahoma
City, Okla. The telephone number
is (405) 521-3981.
Temple Texas Theatre Is
Leased by Bill Palmer
TEMPLE. TEX.—The Texas Theatre, 4
South 1st St., has been reopened by Bill
Palmer, who has leased the building from
Dr. S. P. Todero of Austin. Palmer, who
is the active manager of the new operation,
says he plans to remodel the theatre as soon
as possible.
Palmer, who resides in Belton, is former
manager of the Beltonian. His brother Gene
operates the Showtown III Drive-In in
Temple.
ABC Interstate Theatres opened the Texas
Theatre in 1938 and operated it until Sunday
( 1 ) of this month, when it let the
lease expire and closed the theatre. Tillman
Bond, city manager for the circuit, which
still owns the Temple Arcadia Theatre, told
the Temple Telegram that he would not
speculate on the circuit's future in this
city.
Palmer told the Telegram that he plans
to operate a family-type theatre with 90 per
cent of the bookings holding G and PG
ratings. He said he even plans to show
some old-time films such as Bob Steele
westerns "for the golden age group."
Palmer, a native of Gatesville, and his
wife Sandra have a daughter. 4.
BOXOFFICE :: September 30. 1974
DALLAS
gcoking agent Torrence Hudgins is most
enthusiastic over the business "Return
of the Dragon" is doing on the screens in
San Antonio and he says, in talking with
other exhibitors and bookers, he has found
this to be the trend in most of the theatres
showing the picture.
Joe Joseph of National Theatre Brokers
is climbing on up there toward his $1 million
dollar goal. He has closed a deal leasing
the Rebel Twin Drivc-ln, Carrollton, from
Rowley United to Robert Rice, who plans
to make it a family operation. Joe recently
sold the theatre in Cameron to Rice. The
Rebel Twin Drive-In is located on the Beltline
Road to be opened soon as a boulevard.
Joe tells us Johnnie Hardin, who is 86 and
retired from the Hardin Theatre Supply Co.,
is doing fairly well for a man of his age. He
keeps up with his industry friends through
the media of Boxoffice.
Verlin Osbourne, longtime Paramounter
now retired, was in St. Paul Hospital for
surgery on Thursday (19). Not only is Verlin
well known by members of the industry
through her work with Paramount, she also
has been active in WOMPI and Soroptimist
Club work. Due to the ill health of her
mother, however, she has curtailed many
of her activities lately.
While stopping in at JACO Film Booking,
we found Bill Hill so busy on the long
distance calls he hardly had time to wave
hello. Hill says, however, he has 64 prints
on "The Wrestler" scheduled to open in the
Dallas, Fort Worth and North Texas area
October 11.
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Lee Wise, president of WOMPI of Dallas,
represented the city as delegate to the
WOMPI International Convention in Charlotte,
N.C. September 22-29. Other members
from Dallas were: Glynna Farquhar.
second delegate, accompanied by her mother:
Thelma Jo Bailey and Judy Wise, alternates:
Rosa Browning and her niece Maurine:
Blanche Boyle, who has not missed a
WOMPI convention since the club was organized:
Elsie Parish; Cleo Cook and Edna
Shulman from Bryan. Dorothy Johns, formerly
of Dallas and now living in North
Carolina, was expected there, too. Dorothy
had planned to take in the entire convention
but due to visitors last week, she had only
one day to sec her many WOMPI friends.
Funeral services were conducted in Memphis.
Tex., for Mollis Lee Boren, 86, retired
theatre owner. The Rev. Lcroy Gaston of
Spokane, Wash., officiated, assisted by the
Rev. C. H. Murphy, local pastor of the
First Baptist Church. Burial was in Fairview
Cemetery. Boren was born Aug. 6,
1888, in Guntown, Miss., and came to Hall
County in 1908 from the Indian territory
of Oklahoma. He was married Oct. 8. 1911,
to Eula Golden in Memphis: they had a
son Ralph and a daughter Tommie Mae
Baker. Boren was in the grocery business
in Lakevicw, before moving to Memphis
where he became interested in the motion
picture industry in 1928. He ran theatres
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there until he retired in 1961. He was a
member of the First Baptist Church in
Memphis. Tex. A widower, he married
Dorothy Hodges Feb. 14, 1969. Survivors
include his wife, a son Bill of Lubbock, a
daughter Jackie Lee Hall of Dallas, eight
grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Luke English, who retired from Tex-Pack
in July after more than 40 years in the industry,
died after a heart attack Saturday
night (14). Funeral services were in Dallas
Monday (16). English worked with Clifford
Wood in the shipping department at RKO
until it closed and then moved to Central
Twentieth Century-Fox gave a trade
screening Thursday (26) of 'House on Skull
Mountain" in their screening room at 1400
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EFFECTIVE MONDAY, JULY 29, 1974
Vintage Sign Is Removed
From Martinez Theatre
MARTINEZ. CALIF.—James Maguire,
city councilman at Pleasant Hill, Calif., has
purchased a vintage theatre sign which was
removed from the shuttered State movie
Shipping and later Tex-Pack. He was wellknown
house. Ward and Ferry streets. The State
by all exhibitors who picked up and
Theatre Building and its marquee remain
returned their own film as well as those who intact.
worked with him through various film exchanges.
Survivors include his wife, two sons
Maguire,
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and one
and a daughter.
of the best examples of its kind and era,
said that "Martinez is crazy to let it go."
The sign is estimated to be 40 to 50 years
old and Maguire described it as "pure deco
art."
The State, owned by the United Artists
circuit, has been closed approximately ten
years, due to the high cost of bringing it up
to modern fire and building codes. History
buff Al Perry reported that the theatre construction
was started in 1922 by J. J. Mc-
Namara and was completed in 1926. At that
time the house was considered one of the
finest movie theatres in
the Bay area.
Perry stated that the huge sign had been
in place as long as he could remember and
that it once had light bulbs to spell out
"State."
Removal of the sign was necessary becau,se
it
was in violation of the city's new
ordinance which requires the removal of
such emblems from buildings no longer
being used or being used for a purpose to
which the accessory has no relation.
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'Deep Throat' Trial Delayed
Until October in Texas
SAN ANTONIO—An obscenity trial involving
the controversial X-rated t'ilni
"Deep Throat" has been postponed until
October 21.
Three employees ot the Fiesta Theatre
which is no longer showing the movie were
scheduled to appear in court Monday (23)
did not serve him with a summons to appear.
Two other defendants, projectionist
Wayne Walker and ticket booth attendant
Betty Carranza, told Judge S. Benton Davis
of County Court-at-Law No. 3 they were
no longer affiliated with the theatre.
Both Walker and Miss Carranza said
they worked for Dexter, who leased the
theatre in mid-June.
Attorney for the defendants, including
Dexter, was Mack Ausburn until last week
when he suddenly withdrew from the case.
He reportedly also has withdrawn as
Dexter's attorney in a case now pending
before a three-judge federal court in Houston
which will rule next month if Texas'
obscenity laws as applied to "Deep Throat"
order preventing authorities from interfering
with the showing of "Deep Throat" at the
Fiesta Theatre.
Garcia is seeking a court order to make
police return to him a copy of "Deep
Throat" confiscated at the Broadway Cinema
Wednesday (4).
SAN ANTONIO
^lifford Land, manager of the Wonder
Theatre, operated by ABC Interstate
Theatres, is
presently convalescing at a hospital
here after surgery. Best wishes are extended
to Land for a full and speedy recovery
. . . Mrs. W. M. Ives, a past president,
and Mrs. James A. McKay, current president
of the San Antonio Motion Picture
Council, presented Mike Sexton, city library
director, with gift volumes of books which
include "History of the British Film," "Who
Was on the Screen" and "International Index
of Film."
HOUSTON
JJollywood film great Greer Garson was
invited to the Edna Gladney fundraising
ball Sunday (29) in Houston. Miss
Garson played the role of Edna Gladney
in the Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr 1941 film,
"Blossoms in the Dust," the pictorial story
of her Fort Worth home. Miss Garson now
to answer obscenity charges stemming from
vice squad raids on the theatre in June makes her home in Dallas and is the wife
and July.
of Buddy Fogelson . . . Screen star Will
One defendant, theatre operator Richard Geer was a visitor in Houston . . . Esther
C. Dexter was not in court because police Williams and Fernando Lamas, scheduled
to visit the city for the Bilingual Children's
television banquet, were unable to attend
and were replaced by Cesar Romero.
restaurant here. Big John is a restaurant
operator in his hometown San Antonio. His
latest film "Ride in a Pink Car" has
opened in a number of key Texas cities . .
.
"Modern Times," Charlie Chaplin's comedy
about man meeting machine, was presented
for three special showings Tuesday at Agnes
Auditorium at the University of Houston.
New Houston titles: "The Pedestrian,"
River Oaks; "Truck Stop Women," multiple
opening; "What's Up, Doc?". Town &
Country VI, Alameda IV, Northshore,
Northwest IV, Greenway Plaza. Shamrock
Four, Garden Oaks, Clear Lake, Shepherd
Drive-In, Parkview, Town & Country Drive-
In, McLendon Triple, Houston; Texas. Bay
City; Showboat, Texas City; Martini, Galveston;
Park, Liberty: Northhills No. 1.
Conroe; Bayou Drive-In No. 1, Texas City;
Lake Twin No. 1, Lake Jackson; Brazos
Twin Drive-In, Angleton, and Twin Ranch
Drive-In, Cleveland; "Amazing Grace,"
Majestic . . . Nostalgic films back at the
During his recent visit in Houston to promote
his latest film. Big John Hamilton of
Bijou Twin include "Caine Mutiny" and
"True Grit" to be followed by "I>ove Story"
San Antonio said he and former actor Ken
and "How The West Was Won." A double
Hudgins are joining forces to purchase a
bill of "Snow White and Rose Red" and
stars appearing in the presentation are Ricardo
Montalban, Myrna Loy and Edward
Mulhare ... In another cast change, Robert
Alda who first gained national recognition
playing George Gershwin in "Rhapsody in
Blue" will come as a replacement for Sam
Kevene in Neil Simon's "The Sunshine
Boys" February 24 . . . Julia Mead is to
appear here in "Move Over Mrs. Markham"
November 28.
"The Big Bad Wolf" was shown at matinees
over the weekend at the Northline, Meyerland
and Gulfgate Cinemas, Oak Village,
Parkview, North Shore and Clear Lake . . .
The Rice Media series presented "Battle of
the 10 Million," Flaherty'.s "Louisiana,"
"Mona" and "Emitai."
are constitutional.
through its various name changes, Publix,
The case was taken over by Gerald
Tucson Theatre to Focus
Interstate and now ABC Interstate Theatres.
Goldstein. He asked for and obtained the
Mrs. Word began at the old State Theatre
On Family Screen Fare
30-day continuance, claiming he is unfamiliar
with the case.
in 1950 when O. B. Thomas was manager TUCSON, ARIZ.—The Thriftown Hitching
Post Theatre, located at 5451 East 22nd
and ended her career at the Majestic Theatre
ticket booth ... A children's show was St., has opened with Chuck Kieslich as
In a related case, a hearing on a suit
asking that law enforcement officials be
scheduled at the Callaghan Twin on Saturday
and Sunday with two showings each cializing in G-rated films and will feature
general manager. The 348-seat house is spe-
prohibited from interfering with the showing
of "Deep Throat" in San Antonio was
day of "The Tender Warrior." Admission serials such as Captain Marvel and Zorro,
reset for Friday (27) in 150th District
was $1.
as well as westerns and other family motion
Court.
picture fare.
Juan Garcia, operator of the Broadway
Veteran actor Kurt Kasznar will replace Kieslich describes the theatre's purpose
Cinema One and Two, claims in the suit
Werner Klemperer in the stage presentation as "meeting the needs of this community so
that lawmen confiscated the film and projection
equipment in spite of a federal court
of "Don Juan in Hell" October 31 at the that the entire family can attend a movie
Theatre for the Performing Arts. Other film without embarrassment. No movie will ever
be shown that I wouldn't want my own child
New 'Herbie' Big in NE
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Buena Vista's
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of the strongest G-rated attractions to play
New Hampshire in several years, with holdovers
reported the norm in most initial playdates
across the state.
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OKLAHOMA CITY
phil England, Tower Theatre, Selling, is
going to get things started off by subscribing
to BoxoFFiCE. This is his first venture
into the movie business . . . Ella Hawes.
Forgan Theatre, Forgan, is off on another
of her car tours and will not be back until
the first of the month. She left Sunday (1)
. . . J. B. Rubin, Academy and Majestic
theatres, resting up at home after a heart
attack, would like to hear from some of his
friends while he is
recuperating.
Recent screenings: •W." Cinerama; "Airport
1975," Universal and "Front Page,"
Fox ... Ed Ray. former WB office manager,
and wife Mabel, came to Oklahoma
City to see his mother and visit
with friends
. . . Jake Guiles was up from Dallas to call
on buyers and sell his Continental film . . .
Ray Hughes, former owner of the Liberty
Theatre, Heavener, and Tower Drive-In,
Poteau, went to New Orleans for medical
treatments. We hope that by now he is back
home in Poteau, resting and running his
liquor store there.
Cecil Callahan, Elberta Theatre and
Howard Auto Drive-In, Nashville, Ark.,
called us to put an ad in Boxoffice, e.xplaining
that his doctor told him to sell the
theatres after a recent heart attack. Cecil
is a veteran showman and will be missed by
all. We wish him a speedy recovery.
Fred Phillips jr., New Palace Theatre,
Boise City, called to say he would reopen
the completely re-built theatre about October
16. We saw the partially re-built theatre
some time ago and, when completed, it will
be one of the nicest theatres in the area . . .
G.E. and Carrie Ortman, are closing the
Ortman Theatre, Hennessey, for the month
of October and going out to visit their son
and sightsee in California.
Jimmy Hull, Oklahoma Journal, whose
wide experience in the entertainment field
has included ownership of a theatre, is that
paper's fun guide and entertainment sales
manager. He is also active in the Variety
Club ... In to book and buy was Lyndon
Craven, Star and Elco drive-ins. Shattuck.
Lyndon told us he had a blaze in the Star
Theatre which caused minor damage. He
was on the phone when some papers and
records were discovered on fire in the office
. . . Also in to book and buy was Dan Wolfenbarger,
Waldron and Hillcrest Drive-In,
Lindsay.
G. P. Porter, Oklahoma City Shipping,
celebrated a birthday Thursday (12). Someone
unknown to G.P. made a birthday cake
for him in the shape of a voluptuous fc-
The Continental Theatre had two "Special
Sneaks" last week, one on "Mixed Company"
and the other on "Juggernaut." which
started here Friday (27).
Funeral services were conducted Saturday
(14) for Gertrude Chandler, wife of Vic
Chandler, former Universal shipper here.
Survivors include her husband, a son Dal.
her mother and four sisters.
Anna Applewhite, Liberty Theatre. Carnegie,
came in to visit her sister here and go
over future product with her booker Athcl
Boyter.
Because of the UTOO meeting, there were
many independent out-of-town exhibitors in
this week: Woodie Sylvester. Vesta, Tech
and 40 West drive-ins, Weatherford; Everett
Mahaney and Dick Jackson, with their
wives, for the Suburban Theatre and Corral
Drive-ins, Guymon, and Ellis Theatre and
Ranger Drive-ln. Perryton, Tex.; Larry Collier,
Collier Theatre, Holdenville, and Key
Theatre, Wewoka; "Andy" Anderson. Riverside
Drive-In, Norman, and Skyvuc Drive-
In, Ardmore; Johnny and Donna Jones.
Rialto Theatre and Stadium Drive-Ins, Alva.
There were several others but we were unable
to get their names.
We had coffee with Howard Nelson, former
National Theatre manager here. He is
now in the hotel and motel furnishing business
and sends greetings to all his former
theatre customers.
We received a phone call from Memphis,
Tex., Thursday (12) advising us that Hollis
Boren, former owner of theatres there, had
died. Hollis was truly a veteran of this business
and, on our many calls there to sell him
pictures, we were made so welcome by Hollis
and his wife that we hated to fold up
and go to the next town.
The Variety Club's Rib and Bingo Party
October 1 will start about 7 p.m. Put this
on your calendar as it promises to be a bigger
and better one than the last one at the
Macklanburg-Duncan recreation center.
Matinee Experiment Launched
From Eastern Edition
PRINCETON, N.J.—The Rustic Mall
Cinema launched an experiment in early
September, presenting two free back-toback
kiddies matinees. The free shows actually
are open to anyone who wants to attend,
according to theatre owner Jeffrey
Gerstin. Chastised by some residents and
borough officials for showing so-called "triple
X" movies, the cinema wants to determine
if area residents want to support family
entertainment at the theatre, Gerstin
loid
the press.
'Battle of Bunker Hill' Will
Be Filmed for Museum
From New England Edition
LEXINGTON, MASS.—Raytheon Historical
Foundation Corp. has named White
Oak Design, of Brookline to design and produce
the dramatic re-enactment of the battle
of Bunker Hill. The presentation will be
incorporated in a theatre-museum to be constructed
adjacent to the berth of the USS
Constitution in Charlestown.
The not-for-profit foundation was formed
by Raytheon Co. to foster educational and
historical activities relating to the foundation
of the Republic.
A 15-minute synopsis of the 24 hours
leading up to and including the battle of
Bunker Hill will be the feature attraction of
the theatre-museum. The audience will be
surrounded by sights and sounds as it sees
and hears the battle on a screen with threedimensional
tableaux, lighting and a multidirectional
sound system.
Several viewpoints will be woven into the
presentation with the principal theme carried
by an American volunteer and a British
soldier at the scene of the battle. Also expressing
their thoughts and feelings during
the engagement are soldiers and officers on
both sides of the line as well as civilian
observers.
John Jacobsen and Steven Rich of White
Oak Design produced the theatrical work
and sound track for the Witch .Museum at
Salem. For the battle of Bunker Hill assignment,
Jacobsen is responsible for the scenery
and lighting and Steven Rich the sound
effects. With Tim Curnen, the visual director,
they are collaborating in the research
and writing of the scenario.
They have extensively researched the
events of the battle and have located many
contemporary descriptions to add authenticity
to the presentation. Narrative accounts
have been extracted from documents, soldiers'
letters, military reports and local
newspapers of the time.
The Raytheon Historical Foundation will
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from the Massachusetts Port Authority
for 20 years and will underwrite the
funding necessary to create the theatremuseum.
Any income to Raytheon in excess
of costs will be donated to charitable activities.
More than a million persons are expected
to visit the theatre-museum in each of 1975
and 1976. It will be one of the stops on
Boston Harbor tours to be conducted by
Ma,ssport.
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WESTPORT, CONN. — Mrs. Shirley
Wolfson Land, former script writer, has
been named to the State Commission on the
Arts, filling the unexpired term of a member
who resigned.
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MINNEAPOLIS— 'Phuse IV" with a
line 145 at the World Theatre topped a trio
of fresh first-run offerings in a weeic that
saw exhibitors facing a barrage of downbeat
Inisiness factors. While downtown grosses
rode out the storm fairly
well, outlying situ-
.itions took it on the chin. The massive
Lompetition stemmed from the Minnesota
Twins baseball team in town (and riding a
winning streak) and the Minnesota Vikings
pro football team on the tube (in a classic
battle with the Green Bay Packers). Bucking
that lineup wasn't easy. "The Education
of Sonny Carson" opened at the Orpheum
with a 75 (and even pairing with the reissued
"Lady Sings the Blues" failed to save
the situation to any great degree). In an 11-
theatre multiple, "Big Foot" was a victim
of those outlying grosses and tallied a mere
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Academy Death Wish (Para), 4th wk 120
Cooper
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That's Entertainment! (UA), 9th wk
Tamorind Seed (Emb), 5th wk
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100
(1 Multiple theatres) Big Foot (SR) 65
Orpheum
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The Education of Sonny Carson [Pora) 75
;SR), Skyway Rolling Stones 2nd wk 185
California Split (Col), Skyway II— 4th wk 100
State ^Chinotcwn (Para), 10th wk 150
World Phose IV (Pora) 145
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Parbara Provo, secretary to Universal
branch manager Frank Zanotti, had a
lucky Friday the 13th: Mrs. Provo gave
birth to Josette Marie, a six-pound, eightounce
daughter. Everyone (even the stork)
was reported doing well. The new mommy
will return to work shortly . . . Dick Malek,
Warner Bros, branch manager, broke the
reissued "Jeremiah Johnson" Friday (20)
with 46 prints working the territory.
Jerry Brekke, Hebron, N.D., native and
former theatre operator, has taken over operation
of the Mandan Theatre, Mandan,
N.D., formerly owned and operated by
Frank Wetzstein, longtime theatre owner.
Brekke reports the theatre presently is undergoing
extensive remodeling inside and
out, with a November 1 reopening set. Plans
call for a new front, boxoffice, concessions
area, restrooms, screen and seating. The
booth will be updated and automation will
be installed. Vern Barrett of National Theatre
Supply is in charge of seating and equipment
for the theatre. The new operation
will be renamed the Showboat Cinema.
Gail Sogaard of the Theatre Associates
office crew moved to Arizona permanently
. . . Jim Ellis. American International pictures
division manager, has been in a swirl
lining up three saturation campaigns in a
row. "W" was launched Friday (20). followed
by "The Destructors" Friday (27),
with "Deadly Weapons" starring Chesty
Morgan—whose bust measures 73 (!) inches
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MILWAUKEE
gill (;raf, Chilton, reported that he is closing
his G&S Cinema 1 Theatre in that
city. He recently had purchased the See-
More Theatre in Seymour and is now sounding
out possibilities of taking on another
movie house elsewhere. A few weeks ago
he was interviewed on TV by a local station
on the subject of small-town movie houses.
Gerry Franzen of Cinema, Inc., which
owns and operates several local theatres,
again was accompanied by his wife and
two sons, ages ten and 12, as they took an
annual summer motoring tour to see our
good old U.S. This time they covered 6,800
miles in a four-week trip that included sightseeing
in Yellowstone National Park, Grand
Teton National Park, Grand Canyon, the
Air Force Academy in Colorado and the
fabulous Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Disneyland,
Universal Studios, San Francisco
and San Diego, all in California. Gerry
managed to spend a few days in Salt Lake
City with an old Army buddy and a couple
more days in Cheyenne, Wyo. Whatever
the place and whatever its historic value, if
it was for sightseers you can bet the Franzens
were there. "A wonderful, wonderful
time," declared Gerry as he summed it all
up.
Now it can be told: When the closed-circuit
telecast of Evel Knievel's "leap" at
Snake River Canyon had to be moved on
very short notice to the UA Riverside Theatre
from the Milwaukee Auditorium Sunday
afternoon (8). just moving nearly 2,000
patrons a distance of five blocks was only
part of the headache. There were a lot of
technical aspects stemming from the "projecture
failure" which called for the assistance
of experienced hands. The video
tension
line had to be switched from the original
location to the other. Help had to be
hired from RCA to handle the technical
matters involved with the switch and to
move the necessary equipment. All told,
some 30 workers were involved and, reports
Jerry Siegel, UATC's division manager who
was in charge of the telecast special, the entire
changeover was accomplished within 30
minutes. Theatre patrons at the Riverside
to see a double bill of kung fu films were,
of course, permitted to remain and following
the Knievel telecast, the regular movie
showings were resumed.
Mrs. Jill Bergen, receptionist-secretary for
United Artists Theatres of Wisconsin, is
leaving her post Monday (30) to await the
arrival of an addition to her family. Meanwhile,
Ruth Seidcnkranz is
taking over Jill's
duties at the UATW office, located at 27th
& Wells Sts.
"African Trek," a film on the .African
adventures of Dr. Richard C. Thometz of
Bailey's Harbor (he also lives in Oak Park,
111.) was featured Saturday. .August 31, at
the Lake Cinema in Bailey's Harbor. The
product of several years of work involving
over 50,000 miles of travel and several photographic
expeditions, the film was shot in
East Africa. It primarily is devoted to a
wide variety of African wild life, the animals
being seen in their natural surroundings.
Also shown are scenes of a native
Masai village ... A Journal ad notes
"Thursday Is Ladies' Day at the Movies!
Shoppers Special, noon to 5 p.m. daily: 75
cents.
All downtown theatres."
A photo of the New Lake Theatre covered
four columns at the top of the front
page of the Lake Mills Leader, weekly published
in Lake Mills. The headline over the
front-page story stated: "Theatre Opening
Here Good News." A statement from Tony
Torantino, one of the theatre owners, was
hailed by the newspaper as "doubly good
news (that) the New Lake Theatre will be
family theatre with no X-rated movies
shown. Also no "rough stuff or abuse of
any kind will be tolerated by the management.
Such activities often discourage adults
from attending movies." The theme for the
new movie house is to be "Support Your
Local Theatre" and the newspaper article
adds: "Youngsters and youth of the city
will have a place to spend evenings without
having to go out of town for entertainment."
Lake Mills has a population of less than
4.000 and is located about 55 miles west
of this city.
A sixth grade student at Roosevelt School
in Wauwatosa, local suburb, won first place
in a national movie script writing contest.
She is Elizabeth Van Buskirk, 11, whose
is script a story about being a twin. It now
will be made into an educational film. Her
prize was $500.
Twenty-five years ago: This city was excited
to find movie star William Boyd, the
screen's Hopalong Cassidy. making a personal
appearance at Schuster's Department
Store at 12th and West Vliet streets. The
silver-haired Boyd shook hands, signed his
autograph and posed for photos.
63rd Wedding Anniversary
Marked by Louis Lamms
MILWAUKEE—Louis Lamm, 89, who
for many years managed movie theatres for
Great States in Chicago, and his 85-year-old
wife Sadie celebrated their 63rd wedding
anniversary this summer. They moved to
Milwaukee in 1970 and now share an apartment
with their daughter Mrs. Jack N.
Abraham, 3939 North Murray Ave., Shorewood.
Lamm, who says he "likes to get away
from the women now and then." frequently
visits the Shorewood Senior Center, where
he gives readings from his own poetry.
"California Split," Robert Altman's motion
pic'.ure for Columbia, was the Atlanta
Film Festival's closing entry among American
films.
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MINNEA POLIS
prints for each picture will be working the
metropolitan area.
(Continued from preceding page)
Audrey Hagen, Warner Bros. groups in the local area that wish to arrange
. .
branch biller. departed on a vacation—but
tion .
their own movie entertainment can do so
—busting out October 3. Some 12 to 14 wasn't telling where
20th Century-Fox office manager, told was disclosed in an article in the Journal
everyone he was off to Canada—but insists
entitled "Free Film Banks Are a Reel Deal."
Palmquist. with the aid of a number of firms here, it
"I made a wrong turn just outside of Minneapohs
Most of the firms that handle films will
Roy Smith, William H. Lunge Distribut-
and we ended up in Milwaukee only lend them to organizations for group
and had a wonderful time!"
showings, rather than to individuals. Sports
ing Co. branch boss, reported "very, very
good" openings of a tandem R-rated program
made up of "Campus Swingers" and
"Young Seducers." Five Twin Cities area
drive-ins played the program with solid results.
Forrie Myers, Paramount branch manager,
winged to New York City for a one-day
sales meeting Monday (16) . . . Lorna Harnit
of the same branch returned from a week's
vacation spent at Howard Lake, where she
visited her parents.
Kermit Schafer of "Blooper" fame was in
town Monday (16) through Friday (20) to
beat the media drums for "Pardon My
Blooper." which bowed at the IDS Theatre
here and the Grandview Fine Arts in St.
Paul. Schafer had a busy schedule of TV,
radio and press interviews tub-thumping
the K-Tel Productions picture—and also
made personal appearances opening nights
at the two theatres.
John Ayotte, East Coast sales manager
lor Optical Radiation, was here briefly to
visit his father Paul Ayotte, National Screen
Service branch manager. John, who's based
in Newark, N.J., says he diligently reads
BoxoFFiCE weekly to keep in touch with
Filmrow here—and, he adds: "To keep tab
on my Dad! I find out more in Boxoffice
than he tells me during a phone call!"
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Friday (13), held at the Minnesota Valley
Country Club, was another total success,
with nearly 100 golfers in attendance. Kudos
for the smooth-running event went to cochairmen
Forrie Myers, Paramount branch
manager, and Dean Lutz, K-Tel Productions
general sales manager. Jim Ellis, American
International Pictures division manager,
again won club-champion honors. Acting
on behalf of Variety of the Northwest Tent
12, Don Palmquist of the 20th Century-Fox
branch presented a plaque, in appreciation
of his long and devoted service to Variety,
to George W. Turner, former MGM salesman.
It was Turner's 91st birthday ... At
the same event, the Joe Duffy-Irv Radin
Memorial Trophy was won by former exhibitor
Don McGlynn. All who attended
"won" door prizes. And there were other
winnings, too. Ray Vonderhaar, Tentilino
Enterprises, and UA's Bill Doebel were
paired against Jim Payne and Chet LeVoir.
Stan McCulloch put his money where his
mouth was and backed both Payne and
LeVoir against Doebel. he took a double
drubbing.
Scott comedy, "Bank Shot" and set four
sneak previews Saturday (21) for "Juggernaut,"
hoping for another "The Poseidon
Adventure."
Milwaukee's Film-Lending
Libraries Offer Variety
MILWAUKEE — Organizations and
films constitute the larger part of such film
fare.
The films are 16mm with sound and may
be in black and white or in color. They are
supplied, for example, by two of the city's
breweries: the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. and
Miller Brewing Co. Pabst went out of the
film business some years
ago.
Schlitz offers more than 100 sports and
adventure films and. except for a postage
charge, the service is free through the company's
headquarters. Miller has appro.ximately
225 titles, which include the Milwaukee
Bucks (basketball), the old Milwaukee
Braves (baseball) and others on fishing,
auto racing, snowmobiling, bowling and
travel.
Still other film suppliers are: Milwaukee
Brewers (baseball), with approximately two
dozen: the Green Bay Packers, with highlights
of past Packer seasons, and the Milwaukee
Bucks, with several of its own productions
which are distributed via the breweries.
The Wisconsin Telephone Co. has 60
films on the communications industry. The
Milwaukee Public Museum has a
large film
library of 9.000 films, for which the city's
public schools account for nearly 75 per
Franli Zanotti, Universal branch chief,
cent of the total business.
a general citywide break Friday (27) for Another of the larger film libraries is
set
"American Graffiti" with some 10 prints
head
Roa's Films, 1696 North Astor St., with
3.000 motion pictures ranging from educa-
working . . . United Artists branch
Henry Plitt, owner of Plitt Theatres, was Bill Doebel reported remarkable grosses
tional subjects to those on travel. This service
is so heavily used that some films are
in this city and St. Paul, along with Harold posted by "Doctor Zhivago" at the Mann
J. Klein, Plitt circuit senior vice-president. Theatre here (where it grabbed an unexpected
holdover) and at the Grandview Screen-
booked almost a year in advance. Films are
Their activity here included a tour of the
loaned for no more than two consecutive
metro area Plitt theatres . . . Filmrow visitors:
Sid Heath, Flame Theatre, Wells, and where hundreds actually were turned away to mail the film back (around 50 cents).
ing Room in St. Paul (also a holdover and days and the only cost to the user is postage
Earl Willems. Fox, Warroad, who also visited
his daughter here.
set a ten-theatre break for the George C. 16mm projector and screen. The
its first Saturday night) . . . Doebel also
All the equipment needed by a user is a
selection
Screens Main Feature First
From New Englond Edition
MILFORD. N. H.—The Milford Drivein
is screening its main feature first Sundays
through Thursdays.
of films is quite extensive—and free to all.
Milwaukee BFC Will Begin
74-75 Season October 7
MILWAUKEE—The 1974-75 program
of the Better Films & TV Council of Milwaukee
Area gets under way Monday,
October 7, with a registration meeting starting
at 9:30 a.m. at the Wauwatosa Civic
Center. 7725 West North Ave. Guests are
welcome and there will be refreshments.
Mrs. Eugene Einem. who is in charge of
the council's publicity, told Boxoffice there
would be a chartered bus to take those
the Arlington Race Grounds in
interested to
Illinois Wednesday. October 26. The $14
fare includes round-trip transportation, a
lunch and a ticket to the racetrack.
It seems a bunch of the girls were lucky
when a similar council group made its first
trip to the track earlier this year.
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NATO convention, opening October 7,
as representatives of NATO of Nebraska,
will be president Russell Brehm and board
member Sarge Dubinsky. both of this city,
and their wives. .-Mso participating from
Nebraska as a NATO executive board committee
member will be E. N. "Jack" Thompson
of this city ... Mr. and Mrs. Irwin
Dubinsky spent the Saturday (14) weekend
in Las Vegas. The Dubinsky Theatres president
and his wife said it was a belated trip
to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary.
The couple was married Aug. 20, 1934, in
Kansas City.
K all went according to schedule, former
actor and California Gov. Ronald Reagan
was in Norfolk Saturday (28) to speak at a
fund-raising luncheon for Nebraska Congressman
Charles Thone. The $20-a-couple
event took place at the Norfolk Airport
under a huge circus tent to create an oldfashioned
Chautauqua atmosphere for the
country-style fried chicken dinner. Retired
industry member Walt Jancke. who is
treasurer
for Thone"s campaign committee, has
been accelerating his volunteer work for the
longtime former Nebraska NATO attorney.
Walt says that includes keeping his telephone
busy much of the time.
A $5,000 donation from the Cooper
Foundation (supported by Cooper Theatres
profits) started a drive to obtain $15,000 to
buy new equipment for the University of
Nebraska rowing crew. President E. N.
"Jack" Thompson of the Cooper Foundation
and Cooper Theatres, made the presentation
Thursday (19) in Gov. J. J. Exon's
office.
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Sunday (22) by Russell Brehm, president
of Douglas Theatres. Circuit headquarters
offices are on the second floor of
the 13th and P streets structure. .Another
comparatively new garden-level tenant is the
Jewel .'^rt Shop. Others along the row are
the Nordic Nook, Logos Bookstore and El
Toro Barber Shop.
"Airport 1975," which is scheduled for a
Cinema 1 and Cinema 2 engagement within
the next month or so, is unusual, reports
Walt Jancke. It's as good if not better than
the original "Airport," in his opinion.
Jancke attended the screening of the new
feature Wednesday (18) in the Cooper Plaza
theatres screening room. He understands
"Airport 1975" will be shown at Cooper's
Indian Hills Theatre in Omaha.
Industry members, as enthusiastic Cornhusker
football fans as can be found, and
their families kept a date with the TV media
Saturday (21) as Nebraska met Wisconsin in
Madison for that 21-20 defeat. David and
Mary Jo Livingstone traveled to Madison
for the game but Mary Jo's parents, the
Russell Brehms, joined the TV viewers. Walt
Jancke went over to Ike Hoig's, his at-home
game partner, to watch the game. The Irwin
bubinskys joined the Sarge Dubinskys,
while Arthur and Bonnie Lapin of the Dubinsky
circuit family hosted some other
couples at a game TV party. Joy. the Dubinsky's
other daughter, and her husband
Jim, ardent tennis fans, elected to spend the
afternoon on the courts.
A Nebraska-filmed featurette, A Time to
See," is an added attraction for the Plaza
theatres" showing of "Harold and Maude."
The film was shot by Reinhold Marxhausen,
artist-in-residence for Bankers Life Nebraska
and professor of art at Concordia College
in Wahoo.
PES MOINES
])on Thompson, Georgia Ames and Wes
Phillippi of Heartland Productions are
on location in Sedona, Ariz., for shooting
on their third film, "Survival," which got
under way Monday (16). It is expected that
four or five weeks will be needed to complete
filming.
Jim Gray announced that Iowa United
Theatres will take over the buying and booking
for the Cozy Theatre in Bellevue, which
reopens October 1. Gray also reported that
the Falls Drive-In, Iowa Falls, has clo.sed
for the season and that the Waco Drivc-In.
Washington, open weekends only, will close
for the season Monday (30).
Dick Davis, president of Davis Theatres,
remains hospitalized in Mercy Hospital,
where he has been for approximately two
weeks following a perforation of the colon.
Further surgery is planned to correct the
situation,
stay.
necessitating an extended hospital
Elwood Robbins and Fred Bohemann of
Des Moines Theatre Supply installed Christie
platters, Optical Radiation lamphouses
and custom automation in the Southeast
14th Street Drive-In here recently.
Nola Wright of Iowa Parcel traveled to
San Francisco for a week's vacation . . .
Bob Boots of the Film Depot took a week's
vacation at home to finish a home-remodeling
project . . . Ella Lass' daughter Linnea
entered the hospital Tuesday (24) to undergo
tests.
Rod Davis, Darryl Davis, Rick Davis.
Peter Frederick and Harold Guyette, all of
Davis Theatres, visited the Kansas City
offices of Petite Amusement Corp. Monday
and Tuesday (9, 10). While there, the five
also attended the Motion Picture Ass'n of
Greater Kansas City golf stag, held Monday
afternoon (9).
Mary Anderson of Central States Theatre
Corp.'s booking department left her position
for other employment . Stein
III, son of Arthur Stein of CSTC, finished
his tour with the Peace Corps. He'll be residing
for a year in Perth, Australia.
The WOMPI Club held its monthly meeting
Wednesday (18) at Gino's Restaurant
Pauline Mosier and her husband
Roland, along with Joyce and Charles
Taylor, attended the WOMPI International
convention in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday
(25) through Saturday (28) . . . WOMPI service
chairman Florence Work distributed
the Salvation Army dolls to be dressed for
Christmas gifts . . .Betty Hemstock is vacationing
at home for one week and is being
visited by a friend from Oklahoma . . .
Florence Bundy vacationed in the home of
her daughter Virginia Redfern, Dover. N.J.
Funeral services were held in Ames
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Bros, salesman Norman C. Holt, who
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Lois Loar, branch manager's secretary
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'Entertainment!' 500
In Cincinnati Eighth
CINCINNATI—"That's Entertainment!"
drew 500 for its eighth week at the Valley
to top all first runs for the recording week.
Next in line was "California Split" which
grossed 500 for its fifth frame at Times
Towne Cinema. "Frankenstein," playing its
fourth stanza at Showcase 4, grossed 450.
"Our Time," new at Showcase I, shared the
400 mark with "Buster and Billie" in its
third week at Showcase 2 and "Death Wish"
in its third week at Showcase 3. "Groove
Tube" pulled 350 for its eighth week at the
Place.
i(Average Is 100)
Carousel 2 ^For Pete's Soke (Col), lOth wk 175
International 70, Kenwood The Tamarind Seed
(Emb), 4th wk 175
Place The Groove 350
Tube (SR), 8th wk
Showcase
1 Our Time (WB) 400
Billie Showcase 2 Buster ond 400
(Col), 3rd wk
Showcase 3— Deofh Wish (Para), 5th wk 400
(SR), Showcase 4 Frankenstein 4th wk 450
Skywolk, Princeton— Homebodies (Emb), 5th .275
wk.
Times Towne Cinema Colifornio Split (Col),
5th wk 475
Valley—Thot's ...500
Entertainment! (UA), 8th wk.
'Return of Dragon' Grosses
560 in First Week in Detroit
DETROIT—Racing off to a top spot in
Detroit in its first week was "Return of the
Dragon," with a score of 560. "The Black
Godfather" in its second week at Fox reported
375. "That's Entertainment!" showing
at the Northland for its eighth week
posted 225.
Eight theatres Castaway Cowboy (BV) 115
Fox—The Black Godfother (SR), 2nd wk 375
Madison The Education of Sonny Carson (Para),
4th wk 90
Northland Thot's Entertoinment! (UA), 8th wk. .225
Seven theafri
Seven theatres^ Buster ond Billie 4th
(Col),
Seven theatres For Pete's Sake
Studio North King of Heorts ;SR
Three theatres Dirty Mory Croz Larry
(20th-Fox), 4th wk
Three theatres The White Down (Para), 2nd
Two theatres—The Sting (Un.v), 34th wk
Two theatres Blazing Saddles (WB), 20th wk
Two theotres Uptown Soturdoy Night (WB),
9th wk
Two theatres Return of the Dragon (SR)
'Pink Floyd' in First Week
Outdraws Cleveland Competition
CLEVELAND—Opening week's barometer
hit 340 at four Cleveland theatres for the
new flick. "Pink Floyd," outdrawing any
of the other shows in town. Following in
second place were "That's Entertainment!"
with 170 at the Colony in its ninth week;
tied for third place were "The Dynamite
Brothers" with 160 at three theatres and
"Macon County Line" with 160 at two
theatres.
Berea, Village The Sting (Univ), 38th wk 120
Colony That's Entertainment! (UA), 9th wk 170
Five theatres Chosen Survivors (Col) 90
Five theatres Lucky Luciano (Emb) 120
Five theatres—The Tomarind Seed (Emb), 130
3rd wk.
Four theatres Pink Floyd (SR) 340
Four theatres The White Down (Paro) 50
Fox Cedar-Center Fronkenstein (SR), 4th wk. ..125
Heights-Westwood Love and Anarchy (SR) 70
Three theatres—The Dynomite Brothers (SR) 160
Two theatres—Macon County Line (AlP), 3rd wk. 160
Bryan Theatre Renovated
BRYAN, OHIO — The Bryan Theatre
here has been renovated and updated. The
project included repainting of walls and installation
of new seats.
Robbi Lee, who plays the role of
Angle Dickinson's daughter in NWP's
"Big Bad Mama," autographs photos
for patrons in the lobby of the Fairview
Theatre, Cleveland, where the film
opened with a gala premiere.
U. S. Suit Challenges
Ohio Obscenity Law
TOLEDO. OHIO—Two Toledo spots
which have presented nude dancing and a
third which wants to offer such performances
are seeking a federal court ruling
against Ohio's anti-obscenity law, charging
it is unconstitutional. Operators of the Gayety
Theatre, downtown adult film house,
and of the Shambles, a tavern, filed a federal
suit which also seeks an injunction against
criminal prosecution of dancers and a tickettaker
and the partners of the Shambles on
charges of "presenting obscene performances."
Joining in the action is Christine
Enterprises of Cleveland, which operates the
Esquire Theatre in downtown Toledo, also
an adult film house. The latter said it has
made "specific plans" to present live nude
entertainment at the downtown theatre.
Defendants are Toledo Chief of Police
Corrin McGrath: Frank Pizza, city law director,
and two morals squad detectives,
Richard Gruppi and Clint McBee. The suit
contends that Ohio's obscenity statute goes
beyond certain "basic guidelines" set down
by state laws on obscenity by the U.S.
Supreme Court in 1973. The suit says an
Ohio Supreme Court ruling in 1971 upholding
the constitutionality of the state obscenity
law, which was replaced in 1974 (after
the U.S. Court decision) by what the lawsuit
says is an "identical" statute, was vacated
in the U.S. Supreme Court in light of
its 1973 decision. The state court was ordered
to reconsider, the lawsuit pointed out.
reconsideration, the Supreme Court
In its
"merely concluded that the Ohio statutes .
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Robbi Lee Is Present
For 'Bad Mama' Debut
By
LOIS BAUMOEL
CLEVELAND—Robbi Lee, who plays
one of the daughters of Angie Dickinson in
New World Pictures' "Big Bad Mama,"
came to Cleveland to attend the gala Hollywood-style
premiere of the film held at the
Fairview Theatre here late last month. For
the occasion, the 20-year-old star wore a
glamorous full-length white crepe dress with
a white tulle boa. Robbi autographed many
glossy photos for star-struck fans.
At an earlier interview. Miss Lee wore a
burgundy-colored velvet pantsuit with wide
hcige satin
lapels and a matching beige satin
vest. For those old enough to remember, it
was an outfit right out of the 1930s and,
according to the actress, deliberately so. Six
inches of light-brown ringlettes circled her
animated face and smiling green eyes reflected
her very optimistic outlook on life.
This was the first city in which Robbi had
made a promotional appearance. She is the
only child of actress Georgia Lee (who plays
a cameo part in the film) and actor Ralph
Hopper. It took a bit of convincing before
her parents agreed to her brief in-the-buff
back-view scene. And it took a few drinks
before she could lose some of her inhibitions
for the filming of that scene.
The young actress appears much taller
than five-foot, two inches, and grinningly
pointed to a pair of extremely high platform
shoes that accounted for the misleading
illusion.
Miss Lee enjoyed making "Big Mama,"
which was filmed in California. "Angie
Dickinson is an ideal fellow actor, always
fun to be around." Robbi said. "It was very
hot during the filming and Miss Dickinson
became the brunt of constant teasing, as
each time a scene was completed, she would
dash off to put her hair up in electric
rollers before the next shooting. In one
scene that called for Miss Dickinson to
swing at a fellow actor, she accidentally
connected. The fellow went flying. What the
actress did not know was that the actor was
a stuntman and took advantage of the accident
with exaggerated motions."
Robbi is pleased director Steve Carver
believes in improvising and allowed each
member of the cast "to add his own thing"
to his role.
The film "Big Bad Mama" cost $400,000
to make and, according to Miss Lee, it was
not until she saw the July 22 cover page of
Boxon^icE that she realized the recoupment
of the entire amount was made in the film's
opening week at multiple theatres in Texas.
If the picture enjoys equal success throughout
the U.S.. the actress expects to appear
in its sequel.
Robbi had to gain several pounds for the
role. 13 of which she shed in two weeks
following the film's completion. She credits
the loss to an exercising apparatus called
Weider Body-Shaper. She travels nowhere
without it. She also travels nowhere without
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September 30, 1974
ME-1

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CLEVELAND
Cixteen hours of movies will be shown at
Loews" East Tuesday, October 8, in
celebration of Columbia Pictures' 50th anniversary
as a distributor and producer of
films. It also will help launch that company's
recent release, "The Odessa File." Columbia
has selected ten movies capturing past cinematic
achievements. The retrospective will
start at midnight Monday, October 7. and
admission will be free. Films include: "It
Happened One Night" (1935), at midnight;
"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936). 1:46
a.m.; "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
(1939). 3:45 a.m.; "From Here to Eternity"
(1953), 5:56 a.m.; "On the Waterfront"
(1954), 7:55 a.m.; "His Girl Friday" (1940),
9:44 a.m.; "Bridge on the River Kwai"
(1957), 11:17 a.m.; "Dr. Strangelove"
(1964), 1:59 p.m.; "The Professionals"
(1966), 3:33 p.m., and "Funny Girl" (1968),
5:31 p.m. A special invitation screening of
"The Odessa File" will be held at Loews'
East at 9:15 p.m. the same day. Chicago
Main Library, Lee Road, by John Carroll
University. Sessions, which began Monday
(23), are from 7:30 to 10 p.m. Monday evenings.
Jonathan Sonneborn. film collector
and historian, is conducting the class.
Dick Shawn, film and TV comedian, appeared
at the annual Fraternal Order of
Police show Sunday (29) in Public Hall.
Comic Jack Durante, co-star of the original
Broadway show "Pal Joey." emceed the
program, which began at 8 p.m. . . . The
Westshore Celebrity Series, held Thursdays
at the Loews' West Theatre at 10 a.m.. will
open its season October 10 with the appearance
of film star Betsy Palmer.
Bill Twig, 20th Century-Fox branch manager,
recently returned from a trip to Connecticut,
where he visited his daughter .
Frank Hunt, 20th-Fox head booker, had a
good rest during his recent two-week vacation
... Pat Akram, 20th-Fox general clerk,
left Monday (23) for the Black Firemen's
Convention in Atlanta . . . Helen Miller,
20th-Fox cashier, will leave for a holiday
Leonard Mishkind, General Theatres
president, returned to his office after a week
of "lying flat." Following an ear infection,
Leonard reached for a dropped bath towel,
after which he had difficulty in returning
to an upright position.
"Eli, Eli" opened a Yiddish film festival
in the 1. L. Peretz Workmen's Circle Sunday
(29) at 8:30 p.m. on South Green Road.
The film will be shown twice Monday (30).
"Green Fields" is scheduled for November
2-3; "Where Is My Child?", November 30-
December 1: "Overture to Glory." December
21-22; "I Want to Be a Mother!". January
25-26. and "Catskill Honeymoon," February
22-23.
Francis K. Draz, 79, architect who designed
the Play House and the Cleveland
pfay House Club, died Thursday (19) at
St. Luke's Hospital. Other designs by Draz
included Karamu House, John Carroll University
master plan and dormitories, the
Freiberger Library at Case Western Reserve
University and offices for Republic Steel
Corp. and Sherwin Williams Co. Besides his
wife Dorothy, he is survived by three sons,
will screen the Columbia retrospective Saturday,
October 5; Detroit Sunday (6). and
Peter. David and Richard.
following this city's celebration, the 50-year
in Phoenix. Ariz., October 14.
Mrs. Fred Lentz was in the city visiting
festivities will be held in Pittsburgh, Boston,
her husband who was working out of the
Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York, Variety Club Tent 6 has set Variety Week local office. Also in town the week of Monday
(16) were Gary Grieve, Wadsworth;
Miami, Dallas and Los Angeles.
for February 8-16 . new members
Attending tlie NATO convention in Atlanta
October 6-10 from this area will be
have been added to the Academy Advertising
staff. Harley Berger is the new media Lodi.
Lou Raetner, Montrose, and Jon Horning.
Blair Mooney, Cooperative Theatres president;
Mike Mooney, Academy Advertising
buyer and Linda Ferralli, formerly with
Thomas Flynn, 67, manager of the Roxy
Cooperative Theatres, is a secretary.
Theatre, 1882 East 9th St., was fined $300
president; Leonard Mishkind, General Theatres
president; Peter Rosian, head of Film
P.
Bill Andrews, former American International
Pictures branch manager, no longer
Thursday (19). Municipal Court Judge Hugh
Brennan placed Flynn on a one-year probation
for showing "It Happened in Holly-
Research Co.; Morrie Zryl. Selective Films
is with that company . Cammuso,
branch manager, and Kenny Walter. Selective
Films booker.
AlP secretary, is leaving the company wood," "Teenage Cheerleaders" and "Memories
Within Miss Aggie." Brennan warned
to
work for General Tire and Connie Ross,
A noncredit course in films of John Ford temporarily, will act as secretary to AIP Flynn he would send him to jail if he is
is being offered at the Cleveland Heights branch manager Pat Mooney.
found guilty again on identical charges.
Also found guilty of "pandering obscenity"
and fined $100 Thursday (19) was Patricia
Ann Thomas. 23. who works at the Lyceum
Theatre. 3545 Fulton Rd.
Ron Penfound, 47,
who appeared here as
the beloved and familiar character Capt.
Penny for 16 years at WEWS and was host
to a generation of young TV viewers, died
Monday (16) in Naples. Fla., following a
lingering illness. As Capt. Penny, dressed
in a trainman's garb, he showed vintage
comedy films. Penfound was born in Elyria.
A nostalgic party called "Happy Times
at the Mounds Club" (a
club that flourished
here from 1931 to 1949) will be held Friday,
October 11, as a benefit for the Play
House. The black-tie event, with patron
tickets selling for $100 each and regular
tickets at $50. has Peter Lind Hayes and
Hildegarde as its nostalgic performers for
the upcoming social gathering.
Critic Becomes Editor
'wORcStER.' MASS.—Donald Cragin,
formerly film critic for the Boston Herald-
Traveler, has been named editor of the News
Recorder, which publishes 11 weekly newspapers
in central Massachusetts.
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j
RKO-SW Albee Uni! C / N C I N N AT I
In Cincy Shuttered
CINCINNATI—The Albce Theatre, onetime
opulent theatre and a movie "'palace"
in the grandest sense of that word, quietly
closed its doors Tuesday (17) after exhibiting
"Big Bad Mama" for a small audience.
There was no ceremony. The 25 employees
just knew they wouldn't be coming back.
The ornate, historic theatre is owned by
RKO-Stanley Warner Theatres and was declared
a National Historic Landmark in
1972. Now it is scheduled to be razed along
with other buildings within the block as
part of the city's urban renewal program.
Built in 1927 at a cost of $4,000,000 and
with a seating capacity of 3.300, the Albee
has an impressive lobby, one of the most
outstanding in the country. It contains a
magnificent, graceful double stairway, marble
walls with beautiful mirrors and crystal
lighting fi.xtures. The house faces Fountain
Square Plaza on the south side.
The original plan in the renewal program
called for a 50-story office tower to replace
the theatre and other businesses within the
block. This was met with stiff opposition
too much shade on the plaza. The present
plan calls for a tall office building at the
end of the block and lower structures to replace
the Albee and other business enterprises.
Preventing the destruction of the Albee is
the objective of an aggressive "Save the Albee
Committee." At one point it was suggested
that the Albee be preserved and incorporated
into the construction of a skyscraper.
This later was termed impractical.
Presently Edward McGlone, division manager
for iRKO-SW, and his assistant manager
Pat Simon have their offices in the
building, where they have jurisdiction over
12 area theatres, including the downtown
International 70 and the Kenwood.
Federal Suit Challenges
Obscenity Law in Ohio
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comport with the standards enunciated in
Miller (the U.S. Supreme Court case)," according
to the lawsuit.
The Shambles, which operates as a club
with patrons paying a $1 membership fee
and which does not serve alcoholic beverages,
and the Gayety Theatre have been
forced to modify performances to avoid
further prosecutions as a result of police
action against them, the suit declared. It said
that the defendants, unless enjoined by the
court, will
continue an alleged conspiracy to
R&K riieatrcs is the new operator of the
lalawand Slick, O.xford . . . Tri-State
is booking and buying for the Mount Adams
Cinema for owner Ray Williams . . . Tri-
Slate has two new typists—Katherine Albaugh
and Kathy Ricse.
Ed Handler, Tri-State booker and buyer,
is the proud father of Rachel, born Sunday
(15).
Correction: In the Monday (16) issue of
Bo.xoHiCE, the announcement of the engagement
of Debbie Goldberg, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Goldberg, JMG Film Co.,
and Don Belen, should have read: Mr. and
Mrs. Jay Goldberg. JMG Film Co., have
announced the engagement of their daughter
Debbie to Don Belen of Columbia, Mo.
Both young people are employed at the
"violate plaintiffs" rights to free expression
and due process.""
August 16 Gruppi and McBee filed
charges against John Shaughnessy and
Debra Kay Holman, partners in the
Shambles operation, and Diane Hugging
Stewart, a dancer, for presenting obscene
performances. On the same date. Elise
Krego. a cashier at the Gayety Theatre,
and Virginia Gardner, a dancer there, also
Wire charged with "presenting an obscene
performance." Those cases now are pending
in Toledo Municipal Court.
Church Group Finds Few
Interested in G Movies
DETROIT—The Rev. Major E. Smith
of thi; Union Grace Missionary Church,
which had rented the old Pandora Theatre
here for the purpose of presenting G-rated
films for members of the community, has
announced that the experiment has been
concluded with unhappy results. The 500-
member Baptist congregation reportedly lost
approximately $4,000 on an $11,000 investment.
While the Rev. Smith had hoped that the
motion picture offerings would draw Detroiters
downtown for family entertainment,
he explained: "The moviegoers just didn't
turn out the way we expected. We offered
500 free tickets to teenagers to see "Hello,
Dolly!" and less than 100 showed up."
Robbi Lee in Cleveland
For 'Bad Mama' Debut
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her pet raccoon Scubado. She dearly loves
animals and owns, besides Scubado, four
dogs, five horses and a cat. They are back
home on the Blue Ribbon Appaloosa Ranch,
where Robbi lives with her parents. She
loves sports and, besides being a horsewoman,
she participates in golf, tennis and
water skiing.
Producer Roger Corman chose Robbi
over 400 eager applicants for the role—and
with her joic de vivre it is easy lo comprehend
his choice!
University of Missouri Medical Center. The
wedding is being planned tor next June.
John Lundin, Buena Vista branch manager,
and Terry Alabiai were married Saturday
(21) in Buffalo, N.Y.
Mary Ferring, United Artists secretary,
is on a cruise to Jamaica . . . Janet Freeman,
20th Century-Fox contract clerk, and Bunny
Wiegand. Warner Bros, office staff, have
returned from vacations.
Billie Harrison is the new secretary for
Myco Films, succeeding Jill Ernspiger, who
is
the new secretary for Buena Vista.
Exhibitors in town recently included Ken
Neal, Maysville, Ky.; Hank Davidson,
Lynchburg; Harry Wheeler, Galipolis, and
Ted Christ, Wapakoneta.
COLUMBUS
Ronald R. Streibig,
former director of the
Ohio Arts Council, has been named
managing director of the Ohio Theatre. He
succeeds Alan W. McCracken, who is now
manager of the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee,
Wis. Streibig's appointment was announced
by Rowland C. W. Brown, president of the
Columbus Ass'n for the Performing Arts,
operator of the theatre.
Russell A. Bovini, manager of Loews'
Ohio in the '30s and '40s, was a local visitor
from his retirement home in Sun City
Center, near Tampa, Fla. He inspected the
installation of new seats in the Ohio and
declared that they are virtually duplicates
of the original seating. Bovim visited his
in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. William Solos, while
here.
Jerry Knight held a sneak preview at
the
Drexel of "The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi"
Jacob."
"The Sting" went into a 40th week at
University City. It's the longest-running feature
in
the history of General Cinema theatres
here.
Charles Sugarman is planning to open his
new Cinema North I and II Friday, October
18. The twin is located on Morse Road, in
the vicinity of Northland Mall and Loew's
Morse Road theatres.
September 30. 1974

. . . Labor
. . . Henry
DETROIT
QIark Theatre Service announces that the
Strand Theatre. Roscommon, is now
a client for licensing and booking of films
Day weekend, the Spartan Twin,
Lansing, was robbed of approximately $400.
The bandit approached the cashier and ordered
her to "fill the bag with money" (he
handed her a paper bag that had been secured
at a hamburger restaurant). When
the cashier hesitated, the bandit pulled a
.38-caliber revolver from his pocket, aimed
at a plate glass window and fired, apparently
to prove the gun was loaded.
The Carmen Theatre, the only movie
house in East Dearborn, closed its door
after 40 years. Although the Carmen practically
was an "institution" in the community,
it was doomed because of the lack of
the concession stand, brandished a revolver
and then ordered five persons in the lobby
to move to the end of the snack bar. He
then demanded money from the cashier. No
patrons were robbed. It was suggested that
the suspect escaped in a car driven by an
accomplice.
Wayne Amusement Co. has opened a VIP
Room in the Dearborn Theatre. The room
is completely soundproofed and is temperature-controlled.
In addition, it has a bar and
ice-making machine. The VIP Room will
accommodate eight to 12 guests in livingroom
comfort, according to a spokesman
for the theatre. It may prove to be just right
for a different kind of party,
for entertaining
friends or for entertaining clients or customers.
Individuals can rent the facility for
movie parties. Additional information may
be obtained by phoning 928-8900 during
business hours or the Dearborn Theatre
after 6 p.m.
The Monroe Theatre, Monroe, part of
Ihe Dennison-Butterfield circuit, announced
it will start weekends-only operation. Showings
will be Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Well-knovfn film stars in town included
Bob Cummings, who starred in "Never Too
Late" at the Elmwood Dinner Theatre;
Merchant CJirislmus Trnilerx
FAST SERVICE—HIGH QUALITY'
Color—Tint—B&W.
PARROT FILMS, INC.
Henry Fonda, appeared in "Clarence Darrow"
at the Music Hall, and Ann Miller in
"Anything Goes," also at the Music Hall
Mancini and Ella Fitzgerald
made a five-day appearance at the Pine
Knob Music Theatre, while Joe Cocker presented
a concert at Masonic Auditorium
. . . "Disney on Parade" was on view
Saturday (14) and Sunday (15) at Olympia
Stadium.
Milton H. London reminds industry members
that men or women with a minimum
of 25 years' active affiliation with the production,
distribution or exhibition branches
of the motion picture industry (and sponsored
by two Pioneers) are eligible for
membership in the Foundation of the Motion
Picture Pioneers. Said London, "If you
A board of directors meeting was held at
11:30 a.m. Tuesday (10) preceding the Variety
Club Tent 5 luncheon at Mario's when
Douglas Fairbanks jr. was guest. Tent 5
chief barker Milton H. London pointed out
that Fairbanks is the only American actor
ever to be knighted (he was accorded that
honor by King George VI). The film and
stage star has appeared in leading roles in
more than 75 films and has written, produced
and acted in motion pictures, stage
productions and TV. Fairbanks has been
appearing at the Fisher Theatre here in
"The Secretary Bird." Sir Douglas is an
active member of Variety and is affiliated
with numerous prestigious international
artistic and philanthropic endeavors. As a
captain in the Navy during World War II,
he was decorated several times for gallantry
in action.
A reader of the Lansing State Journal,
P. Johnson, recently wrote a letter to the
editor which stated: "I would like to comment
on the subject of drive-ins, concession
stands and management. While it is true
that the prices have risen in the concession
stand, by no means is 'management' making
a 'quick buck.' It costs more to buy these
foods from the suppliers. It also is understandable
that some cannot afford to buy
their food and drinks in the concession
stands and I, for one, begrudge no one the
privilege of bringing their own from home.
What is upsetting, however, is when I am
asked for free cups to drink from or ice to
keep drinks cold ... If the theatre is to
show the newer films, the film company
says they just charge $1 per child. It is
neither the theatre nor the managers that
'bag' this $l-per-child fee."
The News' "Contact 10" column recently
contained the following complaint: "Before
a movie is entirely finished at the Southgate
Theatre, the lights come on, the sound goes
off and the curtains are drawn. I'm one of
those people who actually reads the credits
and since I pay to see an entire film, I
don't feel they should be omitted. I once
discussed this with someone at the theatre
who said the policy is set by the owner, who
wishes to reduce viewing time to hurry the
crowd out. This isn't fair!"
The editor answered: "There's no such
policy, according to Richard Kline, general
manager of Nicholas George Theatres, owners
of the Southgate. If you'll call him, he
said, he'll gladly correct the person who
misinformed you. When we receive the
running time of a feature, we plan our
showing times to accommodate the whole
general business. The building housing the can qualify for membership and are not film.' he explained. "We always run the
theatre, owned by the Nederlander brothers, already a Pioneer, I will be pleased to send credits even if it's on the curtain, because
you a membership application and sponsor we know some patrons wish to see them.
will be converted into a store.
While "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
you for membership." New members are But since most customers get up and leave
inducted at the annual Pioneers dinner, to at the conclusion of the story, we feel it's
Kid," were shooting it out onscreen, a robber
be held Monday, November 25, at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel in New York, when Hi ing of curtains and turning on of lights
safer to have some lights on for them. Clos-
armed with a chrome revolver was holding
up a cashier at the West Columbia Theatre,
man
Martin, president of Universal Pictures, will often work simultaneously.' If you have
Battle Creek. was reported that the It
be honored as 1974 "Pioneer of the Year." future trouble, Kline said to give him a
walked into the lobby, told the cashier he
Attendance at the dinner is not compulsory
was "just looking for someone," walked to
but London observed: "Its just too wonderful
call."
and rewarding to miss."
Ringold Cinema Executives
Analyze Marketing Plans
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.—Harry Hoff
and John Mattler, president and vice-president,
respectively, of Ringold Cinema
Equipment Co., St. Louis, Mo., were in
Grand Rapids recently for the company's
annual board of directors meeting. Among
subjects discussed were marketing plans
for
the coming year.
Company executives noted that rapidly
changing technology is a prime concern if
the firm is to serve its many theatre customers
with quality and dependable equipment.
Also attending the three-day meeting were
John Kenny, vice-president of Ringold Theatre
Equipment Co., serving Detroit and
this city, and Jack Walsh, vice-president
from the Grand Rapids office.
Officials said many ideas were exchanged
on how to serve customers better.
The meeting was climaxed by the first
annual Ringold Golf Tournament, which
was won by Jack Walsh and Paul Voudou-
Burglars Hit Drive-In
HAMILTON, OHIO — The Holiday
Drive-In, 1816 Old Oxford Rd., reported
burglars took cigarets, chewing gum and
candy valued at $373 in a recent break-in.
Entry apparently was gained by removing
an air-conditioner, which incurred damage
estimated at $300.
Moms Mahley has recorded a two and
one-half minute "sermon" about her first
motion picture, "Amazing Grace," produced
by United Artists.
BOXOFFICE :: .September 30, 1974

CCR Foundation Now
Sidney Farber CC
BOSTON — The Children's Cancer Research
Foundation, supported by the nationally
famous Jimmy Fund, has announced
that as a result of its continuing expansion
into adult cancer treatment and research the
foundation is changing its name to the Sidney
Farber Cancer Center. The name change
thus honors the institution's late, beloved
founder Dr. Sidney Farber.
At a news conference in the Jimmy Fund
Building, Dr. Emil Frci, director of the internationally
renowned center, also announced
the appointments of four key physicians.
Among those attending the news
conference were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
whose 12-year-old son had his right leg removed
due to bone cancer; William Koster,
executive secretary of Variety of New England
and executive director of the Jimmy
Fund since its inception 26 years ago, and
Darwin C. Farber, brother of the late Doctor
Farber.
Doctor Frei also disclosed that a considerable
portion of the 17-story Charles A.
Dana Building, now under construction, will
of>en in January—this portion including an
out-patient clinic for adults and children.
The new structure, next to the Jimmy Fund
Building, will be capable of handling 50.000
patient visits per year. The new $20 million
tower will be connected by a bridge to the
Jimmy Fund Building and will quadruple
the space now occupied by the cancer center,
it was noted by Richard A. Smith, president
of the board of trustees and president of
General Cinema Corp.
RI Theatres Try Various
Reduced-Price Policies
PROVIDENCE—Rhode Island cinemas,
increasingly aware of inflation's crunch on
moviegoing habits of the average family,
are developing reduced prices in hopes of
staving off potential decrease in family attendance.
The "Bargain Matinee," a long-time staple
of Rhode Island exhibition, continues in
effect. General Cinema Corp., for example,
charges $1.25 to 2 p.m., on a daily basis, at
the Warwick Mall cinemas I-II; cinemas
Garden City Shopping Center.
I-II,
Another major regional circuit. Esquire
Theatres of America, is continuing its
"Ladies" Night" ($1 admission) Mondays
and Tuesdays, at the 4 Seasons, East Providence;
Elmwood, Providence; Darlton,
Pawtucket; Paris, Providence; Campus,
Wakefield, and Apple Valley Mall cinemas
I-II-III-IV, Smithfield. applicable for lady
patrons. In addition, the 4 Seasons is charging
$1 to 2 p.m., for matinees, Mondays
through Saturdays, for both male and female
patrons.
On an independent level, the Gilbert
Stuart Cinema, Riverside, has a "buck" policy
in effect to 1:15 p.m., Saturdays and
Sundays.
Moreover, the Park Cinema, Fairlawn
and Meadowbrook cinemas I-II, suburban
Vl^esf Farms Mall Complex for UAT
ili« movies
Shown in an artist's rendering, the de luxe complex to be known as The Movies
will become part of the West Hartford and Farmington, Conn., entertainment scene
as of October 14. Site of the new l,200-.seat United Artists Theatres addition is the
West Farms Mall.
HARTFORD—United Artists Theatres
has scheduled an October 14 opening for its
newest Connecticut complex. The Movies,
seating capacity of 1,200, in the West Farms
Mall, $60-million commercial complex on
the West Hartford-Farmington town line.
Salah M. Hassanein, executive vice-presdent
of the national circuit, has assigned
Andrew Rossetti, for the past two years
managing director of UA Theatres East I-
II-III, Manchester Shopping Parkade, to a
similar post at The Movies, with Harry
Corley, manager, UA Groton Cinema, Groton,
for the past three years, replacing Rossetti
in Manchester.
At the same time, Raymond Kelly moves
from the Darien Playhouse, Darien, to the
Providence, have reduced prices in effect.
There is a charge of $1 Monday through
Thursdays, $1.50 remainder of the week at
the Park, Fairlawn and auditorium two,
Meadowbrook. Auditorium one. Meadowbrook,
has a $1 tab Monday and Tuesday.
Councilman Wants Boycott
To Stop 'Deep Throat'
TORRINGTON, CONN.—City
councilman
Francis Buzinski has suggested a boycott
of the Torrington Shopping Parkade as
a way to end showings of X-rated "Deep
Throat" in the Toney Reynaud-operated
Parkade Cinema.
"Since the law has been changed," Buzinski
remarked, "there's notnihg I can do
about it."
He alluded to a recent Connecticut circuit
court jury decision declaring that the
film was not without redeeming value.
At the same time, Buzinski said that he
had informed two callers seeking action on
a legal level by the city council that "if
enough people howl about the showings
and get signatures saying they won't shop
iherc. perhaps it will go."
Groton theatre, and George Wallace shifts
from cinemas I-II, Carmel, N.Y., to Darien.
J. Craig Riker, who had been an assistant
manager in Manchester, has moved to The
Movies in a similar niche.
Bob Jordan is United Artists Theatres
Connecticut division manager.
A public open house, daily from 10 a.m.
to 9 p.m., is scheduled for several days prior
to the official opening of The Movies.
Rossetti said that Universal's "Airport
1975" will have its Connecticut premiere at
The Movies, day-and-date with the Manchester
complex, during the December holiday
season.
Another holiday booking locally for the
circuit is Buena Vista's "The Island at the
Top of the World.""
Enfield Complex Will
Have Four AMC Units
ENFIELD, CONN.—Timothy Dills, president
of the Neecon Corp., is now expected
to submit final plans for his $7-million commercial
complex, to be known as the Gallery
(containing four cinemas), in the Enfield
Industrial Park, to the Enfield Development
Agency and Planning and Zoning Commission
by December 1.
.A.t one point. Dills had talked of a sixauditorium
cinema. Revised planning, however,
has dropped the number to four. He
has already announced that .\merican Multi
Cinema of Kansas City will operate the cinemas,
with overall seating of 1,400. Each
auditorium is to contain 350 seats.
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topics were $1 admission to the movies and
the condition of the stock market (with
opinions coming from Tom O'Brien. Harold
Levin. Walter Dyer. Sol Sherman, Carl
Goldman, Max Berlone and Dave Fox
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Harold Levin, Cinemation Industries
branch manager, said that Boston's Paramount
Theatre opened "The Black Godfather"
with an outstanding first-week
gross. Booking time, therefore, was extended
to four weeks Bill Scully, former MGM
. . .
and, at the last minute, Marty Zides got in
and Universal executive,
a few words) . . . Mike
came down from
Fleisher of Ellis
Gordon Films told a tall tale about trying
his summer home at Cape Elizabeth. Me.,
to catch the New England Patriots-Miami
to make a settlement with an exhibitor who
owed an $800 film rental. Mike offered to
settle for a fast $600 check; eight months
Dolphins National Football League opening
game and stopped along Filmrow to chat
with old industry friends. Bill, now retired,
later the exhibitor sent him a check for
$600, saying that he was taking up Mike's
lives in Miami during the winter but comes
north every spring. Being an ardent golfer,
offer.
he spends most of his time on the links at
Walter Dyer. Universal sales manager,
the Portland Country Club.
has something personal to brag about these
Henry "Bud" Scully, Bill Scully's son.
days: his son Dr. Calvin R. Dyer has been
announced that his Professional Service
Norcia to do the booking and buying of
selected as one of the Outstanding Educators
of America. Now living in Terre Haute.
Booking office has been authorized by Tony
Ind.. Calvin was a 1954 graduate of Westbrook
High School in Maine. He was a four-
at
Hampton, N.H. Owners Frost and Hennessey
year scholarship student at Dartmouth College,
pictures for Sea Coast Drive-In North
his
also have authorized Bud's office to do
1954-1958, received a master's degree
the buying and booking for their Bayside
1966 from the University of Indiana and
Cinema. Hull.
in
a doctor of philosophy degree in 1970.
Calvin is a member of the board of managers
Mike Sirota, publicity director and house
at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College and manager at Ed Lider's Allston cinemas, an-
was with the National .Aeronautics Space nounced the Wednesday (25) opening of the
Center for a year and wrote an essay on new Telman production, "The Seduction of
NASA which has been circulated widely Mimi," following a nine-week run of "Love
and read in government circles. Calvin and and Anarchy" in Cinema Two. The picture
his wife Margaret have four children: .Anne. also is on the screen at the 68th Street
Calvin jr.. Malcolm and Winthrop. Walter's Playhouse—^but is in an 18th week at this
daughter Jane is married to Capt. Paul writing. Sirota said that "Harold and
Christiansen, U.S. Army, who is stationed Maude" will continue indefinitely in Cinema
One. where it was in a 19th week.
Joe Wolfe, Avco Embassy Northwest district
manager, is sending out word that the
company's advertising campaign for the
saturation booking of the October 10 break
of "The Day of the Dolphins." is designed
to reach a maximum number of motion
picture patrons. Set for the Boston, Providence,
R. L, and Manchester. N.H.. TV
areas exclusively, the campaign has a minimum
of $75,000 allocated for TV. radio
and newspaper advertising, with 1 1 5 screens
already scheduled for the opening and prospects
being for a total of 130 being booked
before opening day.
Guy Spencer''s Community Playhouse in
Wellesley scored high publicity-wise when
he opened Wednesday (11) with Paramount's
"The Great Gatsby." The 1924 Packard
driven by actress Mia Farrow in the picture
is owned by Richard S. Alles of Weston,
a town near Wellesley. When the film was
being made, the car was shipped to the
Pinewood Studios in London, England.
Knowing about the car and its ownership,
Guy called Alles and arranged to have the
Packard parked in front of the Community
Playhouse while the picture was playing
there. Guy was immensely pleased with the
results, as word-of-mouth publicity stimulated
by the stunt resulted in capacity business
during the film's opening week at his
Community Playhouse.
WORCESTER
fhe White City Theatre on the Worcester-
Shrewsbury town line tied up with
Nabisco, Inc., for the distribution of free
boxes of animal crackers to the first 500
patrons attending the midweek opening of
Universal's reissued ".Animal Crackers" with
the four Marx brothers.
Underskyer notes: The Motor-In. Sutton.
has dropped Monday and Tuesday showings
for the remainder of 1974 . Loew's
West Boylston had Lobo the clown giving
away free lollipops to youngsters in conjunction
with showings of Buena Vista's
"The Castaway Cowboy." The companion
feature was the same distributor's re-run
"The Absent-Minded Professor."
Paris cinemas I-II, Worcester, operated
by Esquire Theatres of America. Inc., have
been getting a good response to an innovative
policy of 74-cent admission, in effect
for all seats for all performances. The twin
complex is advertising the tab as "A Dramatic
New Policy!" .'Another ETA situation,
the Lincoln Plaza, also in Worcester, is
charging $1 admission all day Mondays and
Tuesdays for all seats. The latter policy has
been applied to Monday-Tuesday nights
only by many area cinemas.
SPRINGFIELD
^artin Malinowski, resident managing director,
Redstone Theatres' Showcase
cinemas MMII-IV-V-VI, put a $1.50 admission
into effect, to 5 p.m., daily, for
senior citizens attending showings of "That's
Entertainment!" in Auditorium One.
The Mountain Farms Four, multi-unit
operated by American Multi Cinema of
Kansas City in the Mountain Farms Shopping
Mall, Hadley, distributed free Gillette
Trac II demonstrator razors while the supply
lasted. A contest was arranged for Bucria
Vista's "Herbie Rides Again." showing in
.Auditorium One. with patrons asked to sign
up in the lobby.
NE-2 BOXOFFICE :: Septcjiiber .^0. 1974

. . Franklin
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Frankenstein
The
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NEW HAVEN
The Community Services .A.rts Workshop.
North Haven, is sponsoring free showings
of vintage comedies, with the Marx brothers,
W.C. Fields and others Wednesdays at
7 p.m. in the Community .Services Building.
14 Church St.
Some 300 persons attended the national
convention recently at the Sheraton-Park
Plaza Hotel of Cinecon 10. a gathering of
the Society for Cinephiles. Ltd. Emphasis
was on attractions filmed before 1940 and
considered landmark attractions in their
time. There were silents and talkies, blackand-white
and color, super-eight. 8mm and
16mm films, to sell, trade and collect.
WPLR-Radio and Renada, Ltd.. sponsored
two rock music concerts at the Palace
Theatre. Waterbury. on a recent Saturday
and Sunday. One show featured Eagles
and special guests, the other Lynyrd Skynyrd.
with guest star Elvin Bishop. Admission
top was $6.50.
Delmonico's Restaurant has come up with
something new. at least for a New Haven
eating establishment, screening classic motion
picture shorts on a free nightly basis
in its cocktail lounge. Vintage product features
Mae West. W.C. Fields, Buster
Crabbe. Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino
and others. Response is
reported strong.
Area exiiibitors had good turnouts for
their annual "Back-to-School" kiddies
shows, screening children's films, plus cartoons,
and distributing free pencil boxes.
The admission scale was in the 99-cent
range . E. Ferguson, general
manager of the Bailey Theatres, was a New
York business visitor.
Sid Kleper, manager of Loews" College,
entered Yale College Hospital for treatment
of an undisclosed illness. Cards or notes
may be addressed to him at the hospital,
789 Howard Ave.. New Haven 06510.
Lower Prices in Hartford
HARTFORD—Two Perakos situations,
the Mall Cinema. Bloomfield. and Cinema
L East Hartford, and the Paris cinemas I-II
(Esquire Theatres of America) Wethersfield,
joined the roster of area theatres charging
99 cents for adult admission for all seats at
all
times.
All Seats $1 All Week
WEST PEABODY, .MASS.— Ihe West
Peabody Twin has dropped admission price
to $1 for all seats all week.
Baseball Adverse Weather and Legit
Theatre Shows Hurt Boston Grosses
Two more area underskyers—the North
Haven and Summit— joined the increasing
roster of theatres applying the 99- B0.S10N— Unseasonably hot weather,
cent adults admission plan to Mondays and the new TV series openings, legitimate theatre
Tuesdays . . . Cinemall I-II. Ansonia, under
debuts and the Red Sox pennant fever
all were blamed for the dropoff here of
the Ferguson Theatres banner, charge 99-
cent adult admission to 6 p.m. on Sundays.
first-run theatre business in the report week.
Another Ferguson situation, the Strand, Probably each of these factors made a contribution,
Seymour, charges 99 cents to 7:30 p.m.
as the top five films grossed in
on a daily basis.
the narrow 200-220 range. "Death Wish"
was the strongest member of this quintet,
scoring 220 in its fourth frame at the Circle
Cinema. "The Apprenticeship of Duddy
Kravitz." fifth week. Cinema 57 One,
claimed the 210 percentage and 200s were
posted by "The Tamarind Seed," "The Education
of Sonny Carson" and "That's Entertainment!"—all
holdovers.
(Average Is 100)
Chorles West—California Split (Col), 5th wk 140
Cheri One The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi"
Jacob (20th-Fox), 5th wk 120
Chen Three Bring Me the Head of Alfredo
Garcia (UA), 6th wk 110
Cinema 57 One The Apprenticeship of Duddy
Kraviti (Para), 5th wk 210
Cinema 57 Two Thot's Entertainment! (UA),
12th wk 200
Circle Cinema— Death Wish (Para), 4th wk 220
Gary The Sting (Univ), 39th wk 120
Loews' Abbey One— Pink Floyd_ (5R), 5th wk.
Seed (En
3rd
'Death Wish,' 'Blackenstein'
Top Grossers in New Haven
.200
NEW HAVEN—It was a fairly good
week for first-run products, six of the New
Haven bookings in that category grossing
better than average. "Death Wish" was the
topper, rating 165 in a third week at Showcase
Cinema II. trailed most closely by a
double bill of "Blackenstein" and "Werewolf
vs. the Vampire Woman." which scored 135.
Return showings of "The Godfather" and
"Animal Crackers" grossed far more than
these regular first-run leaders, however
(BoxoFFiCE doesn't list reissues, subruns or
moveover business on its regular weekly
barometer charts— just films playing in a
city for the first time ever).
-lema Cinemart, Milford Cinema I—
California Split (Col), 4th wk 1
Co e—Black Exorcist (SR); Blood of the Dragon
(SR) .
Teenager (SR);
The Teaser (SR)
Lincoln Memories Within Miss Aggie (SR);
It Happened in Hollywood (SR), 1 3th wk
Whalley The Tamarind Seed
3rd
Roaer Sherman Blackenstein (SR);
Werewolf vs. the Vompire Woman (SR)
"
Showcase Cinema -Buster and Billie (Col)
Showcose Cinema II Death Wish (Para), 3rd wk. 165
Showcase Cinema IV Frankenstein (SR), 4th wk. . 85
Showcose Cinema V That's Entertainment! (UA),
The Runaway (SR)
"Death Wish,' 'California Split'
Rate One-Two in Hartford Runs
HARTFORD—Only -Death Wish" (175).
"California Split" (150) and a twin billing
of "Teenage Sorority Girls" and "Lady
Zazu's Daughter" climbed above the
grossing percentage line of 100 that
separates above and below-average returns.
Both "Death Wish" and "California Split"
were in their third weeks here and gave
promi'L- ol jxlL-ndmg their runs by several
I
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weeks.
Centrol, Cine Webb, UA Theatres East I—
The Tomarind Seed 'Emb). 4th wk 65
Cinema SR), 7fh wk 60
Cincmo wk. Cit, Groove Tube (SR), 12th 50
=our thcQl.. sting The Univ). 30th wk 45
Rivoli— Tcenogc Sorority Girls (SR);
Lady Zozu's SR) Doughtcr .......150
Showcase Cineno I- That's Entertainment! (UA),
Showcase Cinema II Buster ond Billie (Col),
Showcase Cinema III— Death WishVPorai,' 3rd wk. 175
Showcase Cinema IV California Split (Col),
3rd wk '50
HARTFORD
The 99-cent admission policy, now very
much part of the exhibition scene in
metropolitan Hartford, is being used for
bolstering Sunday afternoon trade at the
Keppner-Tarantul Burnside, East Hartford,
and the Central, West Hartford, the latter
operated by Esquire Theatres. The tab is
applied to 3:30 p.m. at the East Hartford
showplace. at 5 p.m. in West Hartford. An
increasing number of theatres use the 99-
cent admission for Monday and Tuesday.
some all day. still more evenings only.
The Ferguson Plaza, Windsor, ran suburban
newspaper ads, offering free popcorn
with the presentation at the boxoffice of
the ads.
Hartford Visitors: John P. Lowe. Redstone
Theatres; Sperie P. Perakos. Perakos
Theatres .
area's sexploitation situations
are continuing to explore businessbuilding
trends and the latest move found
William Elliot jr.. operating the Roekville
I-II. theatres scheduling no less than four
attractions on the same program. In the
main, these adult film outlets have been
running double-features.
Bemie Menschell of Menschell Bros.
Theatres and president of the Connecticut
Ass'n of Theatre Owners, was in Boston for
business meetings.
Free Test Engagement
BURLINGTON. VT.—In a new development
for Vermont exhibition, the State Theatre
hosted an admission-free, test engagement
of "Hard-Core Blues." which carries
an R rating, the single (7 p.m.) performance
open only to persons 18 years and older.
BOXOFFICE September 30, 1974 NE-3

ROUNDABOUT NEW ENGLAND
public relations has been defined as putting
one's best foot forward, projecting the
best possible image, identifying with the
buying public. Therefore, it behooves exhibition,
like every element in the American
economy, to project its best thoughts, its
By ALLEN M. WIDEM
best tempo, to improve boxoffice returns.
Outlook is the key to profitability.
Take for e.xample, this straight-from-theshoulder
ad copy, on the part of William
M. Savitt, long-time major Connecticut jeweler,
expounding on the merits of his Hartford
store:
"The Customer! What Is a Customer?
"A Savitt Customer is the most important
person ever in the store—either in person
or by mail.
"A Savitt Customer is not an interruption
of our work; he is the purpose of it.
"A Savitt Customer is not dependent on
us. We are dependent on him. We are not
doing him a favor by serving him; he is
doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity
to do so.
'"A Savitt Customer is not an outsider to
our business; he is part of it.
'A Savitt Customer is not a cold statistic
—a name on a filing card or a ledger sheet;
he is a flesh-and-blood human being, with
biases, prejudices, feelings and emotions like
our own.
"A Savitt Customer is not someone to
argue with. Nobody ever won an argument
with a customer.
"A Savitt Customer is a person who
brings us his wants. It's our job to fill them
pleasantly, cheerfully and profitably to him
and to ourselves.
"Bill Savitt loves his customers. They
have helped his business grow from a
holein-the-wall
to
the envy of jewelers throughout
the nation."
Savitt uses "P.O.M.G.." as an ad phrase.
It stands for "Peace of Mind Guaranteed."
Vogue Shoes, New Britain, which pridefully
advertises itself as "One of Connecticut's
Great Family Shoe Stores," ran some
significantly striking copy, marking its 55th
anniversary.
In essence a "Thank You" kind of ad,
the copy expressed appreciation for New
Britain
response over the past half century
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Heritage Park Ideal
For Some Filmmaking
CALGARY—Heritage Park in this citv
was conceived and placed into operation as
a historical park and museum for tlie enjoyment
of local people and visitors. It took
some time before the potential of the park
as a film locale was realized. Now it has
become a very popular setting in which to
shoot movies as well as TV commercials.
The old-time buildings, which include a
blacksmith shop, bakery, hotel, school,
church, general store, bank, railroad station,
grain elevator, law offices, opera house, doctor
and dentist offices, barbershop, farm
homes, barns, urban homes and Royal Canadian
Mounted Police barracks, are laid
oiii as a pioneer village and offer a perfect
readymade set for filming. There also is a
complete, operating train and a steamboat
that makes regular passenger runs during
the summer months when Glenmore Lake
is
ice-free.
There have been a number of travelogs,
several movies and numerous TV productions
about the park itself and regular TV
programs, as well as commercials, are filmed
in the park. But before any of the filming
gets under way, the project must meet the
stndards set by the Heritage Park board
of directors.
There are two rigid rules which must be
met: The spirit of the movie must be in
keeping with the era depicted by the park
and it must be in good taste. The second
rule is that no film crew can disrupt the
normal activities of the park. During the
time grounds are open to the public, no
modern vehicles are allowed within the area.
Film crews are not allowed to interfere
with visitors viewing the sights they have
come to see. As a result, most of the shooting
is done during the off-season or early
in the morning before the park is open. Any
filming done during the regular hours is
with the understanding that crowds will be
around and not restricted in any way. Handheld
cameras often are used during these
times to shoot small scenes.
So many filming ventures have added
more than glamor to the park; they also
have added a considerable amount of reveue
to the coffers. Rates for using the facilities
vary from production to production,
with many factors being considered before
a price is set. The basic rate is only for the
use of Heritage Park as a background with
use of staff and equipment bringing extra
fees.
William Campbell, acting director of the
park, says all filmmaking revenue is put
back into the operation of Heritage Park.
Some of the film stars who have worked
at this site include Lome Green, Dale Evans.
Roy Rogers and Burl Ives. With the park
constantly adding to its content, it would be
difficult to forecast what stars or what films
may next come to Calgary to make use of
this outstanding facility.
Princess Anne and Captain Phillips will
be guests at the London premiere of United
Artists' "Juggernaut."
BOXOFFICE ;: September 30. 1974
Vigby,' lords of Flatbush' Excel
During Opening Weeks in Vancouver
VANCdliVFR— It was hack to school
tor the moppets and teenagers and back to
the movies for the family, as pictures such
as "Digby—The Biggest Dog in the World"
played a suburban multiple and packed 'em
in. "The Lords of Flatbush." playing mostly
to the student trade, was headed for an attendance
record at the Coronet in its first
week and "California Split" jumped up to
the "excellent" grossing level in a third week
at the Vogue Theatre.
Bay Uptow'n Soturdoy Night (WB), 6th wk. ..Good
Capitol Fronkenstein {Astral), 3rd wk. ..Very Good
Coronet The Lords ot Flatbush (Col) Excellent
Denmon Place—The Sting (Univ),
44th wk
-
Average
Downtown—Chinotown (Para), 8th wk Good
une Arts— Blozing Saddles (WB), 22nd wk Good
Orpheum—Death Wish (Para), 4th wk. ...Very Good
Park The Girl From Petrovko (Univ) ....Very Good
Park Royal—Digby—The Biggest Dog in the
World (AFD) Excellent
Stanley That's Entcrtoinment! (UA), 7th wk. ..Good
Vogue—Colifornia Split (Col), 3rd wk Excellent
Calgary Exhibitors Enjoy
Another All-'Excellent'
Week
CALGARY—All first runs listed on the
Calgary barometer (and this included two
first-week pictures and a dozen holdovers)
were reported to have grossed "excellent"
as the trend of big returns continued here.
Breaking into the Calgary lineup were "The
Terminal Man" at Calgary Place 2 and "My
Name Is Nobody" at Grand 1 Theatre.
Brentwood Pippi in the South Seos (Prima),
2nd wk Excellent
Calgary Place 1 Uptown Saturday Night (WB),
7th wk Excellent
Calgary Place 2 the Terminal Man (WB) .Excellent
.
Chinook Herbie Rides Again (BV), 8th wk. Excellent
Grand 1—My Nome Is Nobody (Univ) Excellent
Grand 2 Mr. Mojestyk (UA), 5th wk Excellent
North Hill Return of the Dragon (Astral),
3rd wk Excellent
Palace Death Excellent
Wish (Para), 4th wk
Palliser Square 1 That's Entertainment!
(UA), 2nd wk Excellent
Palliser Squore 2 Chinatown (Para),
10th wk .• • • .Excellent
Towne Cinema Red Macon County Line (Astral)
7th
Excellent
Cinema Blue Not Now, Darling
Excellent
Uptown°l—For Pete'sSoke'(Astra'l)V6th wk. Excellent
Uptown 2—The Sting (Univ), 36th wk Excellent
"Death Wish,' "Mr. Majestyk'
'Excellent' in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG — Business dropped more
than 10 per cent, after several strong report
weeks for Winnipeg first-run motion picture
exhibitors, and was slightly below the corresponding
week of 1973. Only "Death
Wish" and "Mr. Majestyk" managed to
maintain their grossing totals at an "excellent"
level. "The Terminal Man" opened
strong, as did "Claudine"; long-running
"The Sting" and "Blazing Saddles," although
down a bit. still were rated "very good."
Capitol—The Terminol Mon (WB) Very Good
Garrick Nome Is Nobody (Univ),
I
9th wk Average
Garrick II—The Three Musketeers (BVFD),
nth wk , Very Good
Metropolitan Death Wish (Para), 3rd wk. Excellent
North Stor
1
Entertoinment! (UA),
Odeon—Mr. Majestyk ,UA), 2nd wk Excellent
Park Blazing Saddles WB), 24th wk. ...Very Good
1 Polo Pork Chinotown Paro), th wk Good
"Dirty Mary-' "My Name Is
Nobody' "Excellent' Newcomers
EDMONTON—"Dirty Mary Crazy Larry"'
and "My Name Is Nobody" showed the
most hoxoffice power of the three new pictures,
each of those named grossing "excellent"
as they made their debuts before
Fdmonlon theatregoers. "Ride in a Pink
Car," the other newcomer, came up with a
•good" first week at the Plaza Theatre. All
of the holdovers, with the exception of
"Return of the Dragon," rated "excellent"
at the boxoffice; "Return of the Dragon"
finished its second week in a three-theatre
booking at "very good."
Capilaro Meadowlark, Plaza 2 Return of the
Dragon (Astral), 2nd wk Very Good
Gorneau-Uptown Saturday Night (WB),
2nd wk Excellent
Jasoer Cinema Blue ivlocon County Line (Astral),
2nd wk Excellent
Londonderry A—Death Wish (Paro), 3rd wk. Excellent
Londonderry B—Herbie Rides Again (BV),
6th wk txceitern
Odeon 1-For •Excellent
Pete's Sake (Col) 6th wk.
Excellent
Odeon 2—The Sting (Univ), 36th wk
Paromount-S'P-Y-S 'BVFD) 4th wk Very Good
Plaza— Ride in a Pink Car (AFD) -Good
•
Riolto 1—My Nome Is Nobody (Univ) Excellent
Rialto 2 The
- Thr^P Three Musketeers (BVFD),
Excellent
13th
Strand—Dirty Mory Crazy Lorry (BVFD) Excellent
-American Groffiti (Univ),
.Excellent
\—That's Entertainment! (UA),
J—Chinatown '(Paro), 10th wk. .Excellent
MPTAA Conclave Is
Under Way in Jasper
C.XLGARY—The annual meeting of the
Motion Picture Theatre Ass'n of Alberta
convened yesterday (29) at Jasper Park
Lodge, Jasper, Alta., and will contmue
through October 1, according to MPTAA
president Don Menzies.
Frank Mancuso. Canadian general manager
of Paramount Film Services and president
of the Canadian Distributors Ass'n, was
named as the keynote speaker for the conclave.
. .
Emphasis this year at the convention will
be on the contribution of distributors to the
industry.
Morrie Sherman Appointed
AIP Seattle Branch Chief
Beverly' hills, calif. — Morrie
Sherman has been named branch manager
of American International Pictures' Seattle
exchange, it was announced by Leon P.
Blender, AIP executive vice-president in
charge of sales and distribution. The appointment
is effective immediately.
Sherman was a branch manager for Columbia
Pictures, Cinerama Releasing Corp.
and, most recently. Paramount Pictures m
Seattle.
Gertrude Stein Film Shown
CALGARY—The lite of Gertrude Stem
was the theme of a film presented in the
Glenbow-Alberta Art Gallery's lecture room.
In color, the film included some excerpts
from a number of Stein's plays and was
titled "When You See This, Remember Me."
The movie was shown twice Tuesday (10)
and admission was free.
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CALGARY
gtaii Phillips of United Artists, just prior
to his departure for the West Coast,
was guest of honor at a stag party Friday
(6) which continued to Saturday (7). A number
of individuals from all
parts of the film
industry gathered to wish Stan well in his
new position as branch manager of UA in
Vancouver. A lavish smorgasbord, with
proper liquid accompaniments, was served.
Card games of various kinds were enjoyed
throughout the party. Stan was presented
with an attractive black attache case and a
gift of money. Many out-of-towners in the
motion picture business sent in tokens of
their regard and best wishes. The event was
enjoyed thoroughly by all those attending.
Stan, who was bom and reared in Saskatchewan,
has had a number of years of experience
in distribution, all with UA. He married
a Saskatchewan girl. Gloria Read, and
they have one daughter, Shelly, who is in
grade three. Stan's many friends in this territory
join in wishing him well in his new
position and wishing him and his family a
very happy future on the West Coast.
The concluding program at Edmonton
Central Public Library in the film series on
the nonmedical use of drugs and addiction
was screened Thursday (12). The library's
audio-visual department presented the
shows and the films were supplied by the
National Film Board. The series was entitled
"To Take or Not to Take: No Easy
Answer." The last two films were "Brian
at 17" and "The Factory." Admission for
the entire series was free of charge.
The Alberta Censor Board has condemned
as unfit for public viewing the
Andy Warhol feature "Frankenstein." This
gives Alberta the dubious distinction of
being the only province in Canada to ban
the picture. This decision can be appealed
by submitting the film to an appeals board
for reviewing and hoping that it will be
passed for exhibition. The board, while
much more liberal in its classifications than
it was even a year ago, still can come up
with some "different" decisions. Barbra
Streisand's picture "For Pete's Sake," distributed
by Astral, was passed as summer
holiday fare with a family classification.
However, after some very loud parental
complaints were received by the board as
to
the unsuitability of the film for children's
exTWv
viewing, the board did some peculiar gymnastics—
it changed horses in midstream.
Halfway through the opening run of "For
Pete's Sake" in this city, the board changed
the rating on the picture to "adult." If you
are not involved in any of the board's decisions,
it can be amusing to be an onlooker.
A series of comedy fihiis will be shown
on the University of Calgary campus in the
University Theatre. The initial offering, with
an 8 p.m. showtime, was "Between Time
and Timbuctu," a science-fiction satire . . .
It seems some groups are using demonic
possession as a means of conveying the
"message of salvation." The Salvation Army
in Medicine Hat screened a film titled "The
Enemy," billed as "the true story of two
demon-possessed teenagers and their deliverance
through the power of God." The ad
carried a warning; "Not recommended for
children under 13 years."
OTTAWA
^oug Pinder, manager of the Place de Villc
Theatre, was given his membership in
the 25-year club at the Famous Players
convention held in Toronto at the Park
Plaza Hotel Tuesday (3) through Thursday
(5). Along with the shiny silver pin he now
wears in his lapel, Doug received a bond
and a coveted extra week of vacation. "It's
when you're faced with full houses, premieres
and press conferences that you really
appreciate that extra week. I'm going to
Taking late holidays are Joan Lowery of v/ait for awhile and try to guess if anything
big is in the works before I use up the vacation
Astral Films, away to visit family and
friends on the West Coast, and Art Baynes
I have left this year. You never know
of Universal Films, on an undisclosed when you'll really need it," says Doug.
pleasure-seeking safari.
Pinder was not alone in receiving recognition
for his years of service. Bud Parker,
head of advertising for Famous Players,
was presented with a pin for 40 years of
service. He is the only member of the
advertising branch to receive that award.
The Toronto convention was especially enjoyed
by the wives, as it was the first time
they were included in the activities organized
over the three-day period. While many
wives do attend the conventions, it's a
special treat for them to be considered an
integral
part of the festivities.
A Famous Players managers' meeting was
held in our town Wednesday (11) at the
Steak & Burger Restaurant at the St.
Laurent shopping center. The powwow was
held to discuss several items of business,
as well as to honor two men. The managers
gave their tribute to O. J. Silverthorn, head
of the censor board, who is retiring this fall.
At the end of the luncheon, the waitress
arrived with a cake. It was a surprise party,
planned in secret, to celebrate Elgin Theatre
manager Ernie Warren's 61st birthday.
Tributes and celebrations aside, the managers
settled down to discuss the problem of
theatre passes being requested by radio and
TV stations. While Famous Players is happy
to welcome any radio and TV interest in its
theatres, the local area abounds with CATV
stations and small radio stations whose
members change departments with alarming
rapidity, placing newcomers with vast inexperience
into positions as interviewers, critics
and public relations staffers.
Increasing numbers of individuals unknown
either to the managers or the theatres
are requesting passes to review shows
on Friday and weekend nights with no
thought to the inconvenience to the manager
or others connected with the theatre.
This problem naturally does not arise with
reviewers from major newspapers, major
TV shows or major radio stations, because
they are known. Most important, they are
considerate of the necessity for the manager
to fill his house on peak nights. As a result
of this increase of demands for passes, it
was decided that letters would be sent out
officially acknowledging individual reviewers'
rights to passes to Famous Players theatres
in the city.
Al Genaske Elected Prexy
Of Calgary Film Board
CALGARY — The Calgary Film
Board
held its first meeting of the current season
in the local Warner Bros, office in Film Exchange
Building Friday (6). The main topic
of business was the election of officers.
The new executives are: Albert Genaske,
Universal Films, president; Saul Isenstein,
Astral Films, vice-president; Blain Covert,
Warner Bros., treasurer, and Cy Davies,
International Film Distributors, secretary.
The annual Christmas celebration came
up for discussion and it was decided that the
gala affair would move to a new venue this
year. The scene of the dinner-dance will be
the Wainwright Hotel in Calgary's renowned
and much-photographed Heritage Park. In
an attempt to broaden the scope of this
affair, which will be held Tuesday, December
17, and to please as many people as
possible, it was decided that the entertainment
committee of the Calgary Film Board
would meet very shortly with representatives
of the exhibitors in this city to make further
arrangements.
Tony Reynoud Leaves UAT
To Take Over 2 Theatres
From New England Edition
H.'^RTFORD—Tony Reynaud, Connecticut
division manager. United Artists Theatres
for the past year, has resigned to
take over the Jacobson Warner and Parkade
cinemas in Torrington.
UAT has designated Robert Jordan, circuit
Long Island division manager, as
supervisor for the ten-plus screens in Connecticut
and adjoining New York Westchester
County, headquartered at the Darien
Theatre.
His replacement for Long Inland was
to be announced.
UAT is to open its latest area development,
a triple-auditorium complex, to be
known as the Movies, with seating capacity
of about 1,200, in the West Farms Mall,
West Hartford/Farmington, in mid-October.
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VANCOUVER
Qlenn "Buddy" Flockhart of CP Motor
Transport returned from an extended
holiday in the interior and Helmer Matson,
who does the freighting chores for Famous
Players, also was back on the job . . . Paul
Harsmachuk of the Film Exchange Transfer
contented himself with a weekend quickie to
northern Washington state but claims he will
take off for the sunny South as soon as the
drive-in rush is over.
Man-about-Vlctoiia Shipping Ross Dower,
with time hanging heavy on his hands
now that the baseball season is over, has
rented his seeing-eye dog out for the winter
(he's an umpire); started his winter chores
as front-end man in the very successful
Peter Pan Ballroom dances for the "A-Wunna,
A Two-A" set, and his projection duties
at the Queenie Theatre for the All World
Tours films which are still filling the place.
Jack Wasserman, veteran columnist of the
Sun, came up with a couple of nifties. Hollywood
definition of a phony: one who cuts
his wrists with an electric razor. Wasserman
also commented on the current attraction at
the Eve. "As a public service I must report
that there's a special $1 golden age price at
the boxoffice of the Eve on Granville
Street. This week's feature is "Sex on
Skis(?)."
This was tlie week they bought tickets in
Vancouver, for all types and classes of entertainment.
The biggest surprise movie-wise
was "Breezy," which had fared not too well
in its first run in West Vancouver a few
weeks ago. A five-house multiple, aided by
TV spillover from a Washington saturation
hooking, held over in three situations
Totem,
North Vancouver; Surrey Drive-ln,
and Haida, Vancouver, where it broke the
house record.
Raymond Chow, head of Golden Harvest
Minis, was in town looking over his 750-seat
Main Street movie house, scheduled to open
soon. Golden Harvest is the second biggest
moviemaker in Hong Kong.
"Siddhartha," Dunbar, and "Day for
Night," Varsity, headed into their fourth
week, with no end in sight, while "Under
the Milkwood Tree" was held over in the
Odeon-2, West Vancouver . . . "Duddy
Kravitz" had a good lineup for the second
show in the Ridge on Friday (13) as it
headed into its seventh week . . . "Dirty
Mary Crazy Larry." which had set a recordbreaking
four weeks at the Delta Drive-In.
moved into the Lougheed Drive-In. where
it was duplicating the feat.
The live jive-and-vibe set was really sending
it at Gary Switlow's Concert West boxoffice
locations. It took merely five hours
to deal out 17.500 tickets for Elton John's
October 14 concert at the Coliseum, for a
gross of $127,000 cash on the barrelhead.
The 2,000 tickets that went on sale in Park
Royal were gone in an hour. One ad in the
Sun, plus some radio plugs over rock 'n'
roll CKLG, did the job, although several
thousand lined up in advance after a mention
in Wasserman's column. This led Jack
to remark "that if they want to go, nothing
will keep them away!" . attractions
which did not click, however, were Ike and
Tina Turner who, literally brought into
Kamloops at terrific expense for the big
Labor Day smash, bombed to the tune of
$25,000 and the Evel Knievel closed-circuit
promotion at the Agradome which, in Wasserman's
words, "sold tickets like pork
chops at a Hadassah bazaar!"
Star in Stage Role Relaxes
During Vancouver Filming
VANCOUVER— It is not unusual for an
actor, after creating a stage role successfully
in London and New York, to be replaced
by somebody when the play is made into
a motion picture. "That," said Donald Pleasence,
who was here for several weeks of
shooting on Traver Wallace's "Journey of
Fear," "is show business."
Pleasence's replacement in "The Man in
the Glass Booth" did permit him to have his
family here for a month, possibly the most
enjoyable time he ever has spent on a movie,
partly because of the weather and his luck
in renting a seaside home to accommodate
him, his wife Meira and a brood of children.
On the next-to-last day, with the kids
packed off to an amusement park, Mr. and
Mrs. Pleasence took time out from packing
to whip up a fabulous lunch for an interviewer
who lost his way in the cul-de-sac
roads of West Vancouver, wound up in Britannia
Beach and got back an hour late to
choose between Pleasence's barbecued salmon
and Mrs. Pleasence's spaghetti Bologneses.
Since he's in show business, Pleasence accepts
the fact that he will not star in the
film version of "The Man in the Glass
Booth." which was shot in Hollywood with
Arthur Hiller directing and Maximihan
Schell in the Pleasence role.
From Vancouver, he and his family fly
to Rome, where he will do another sinister
characterization in the remake of "The
Count of Monte Cristo," with Richard
Chamberlain in the title role. The film is
being directed by Canadian David Greene,
a longtime friend of Pleasence. Then it will
be back to London for "Tennis Court," a
film in which Pleasence puts on a "backward
collar" to portray a kindly vicar in a
modern ghost story.
In the late fall Pleasence will be in Los
Angeles for a movie and then, he hopes, he
will produce and star in a new stage play in
London, a play which he would like to take
to Broadway.
"Certainly there's no monetary motive in
going back to the stage. But it's what I do
best and it's a challenge, so I don't see why
I shouldn't do it," Pleasence explained.
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AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX
Very Good; + Good; Poor; = Very Poor. In the summery oted 2 pluses, = os 2 minuses
4721 Abdication. The (103) His WB 9-16-74 PG ± -
4711 Act of Venjeance
(90) Sex-Ac AlP g-12-74 |a C + +
Bl 4710 Amazing Grace (99) C..UA 7-29-74 Al + -
Angel, Tht (129) ® D Prommitr 5-20-74 ±
4699 Apprenticeship of Ouddy Kravitz, The
(121) (P) D Para 6-24-74 PG A4 + ±
Around the World With Fanny Hill
(92) Sex C Seabcrg 9-23-74 (127) C-D AFT 4- 8-74 Q ^^
4715 California Split (111) C-D ,
4691 Captain Kronos: Vampiri Hunter
. Col 8-26-74 [fl A4 ^
(91) Ho-Ad ® Para 5-27-74 H A3 -|-
4710 Castaway Cowboy, The
(91) Ad-C BV 7-29-74 Bl Al +
4676 Catch My Soul (95) M-D ...CRC 4- 1-74 PG A3 -(-
4695 Centerfold Girls, Tht
(92) Sui Mclo .... General Film 6-10-74 IB +
Charulata
(112) D R.D. Bansal Prods. S-26-74 A2 +
Chinatown (130) ® My Para 7- 8-74 A4 +
4703 B)
4720 Chinese Godfather
(90) ® Melo Clark 9- 9-74 H ±
4696 Chosen Suryivors (99) Ho Col 6-10-74 PG A3 +
4698 Christina
(96) ® Melo . . . Infl Amusement 6-17-74 PG -f
4682 UCIaudine (92) D-C ....20th-Fox 4-22-74 PG A3 H
. . Confessor (73) D« Bergman-Soffin 4-29-74 d:
4678 Convtrsation. Tha (113) D .... Para 4- 8-74 PG A3 -|-
4687 Country Hacker
(75) Male Boxoffiea Infl 5-13-74 -|-
4709 Craze (%) Ho-.WB 7-29-74 El ±
4722 Cry of the Black Wolves, The
(90) Ad. Rook 9-16-74 PG -f
4692 Cynthia's Sister
li&i
+ ++ ++
++ H
(96) Mela Boxoffice Infl 5-27-74 -j-
3+1-
2-1-1-
1+1-
- 3+5-
± 5+2-
2+
1+
2+1-
1+
- ^2-
1+
2+3-
1+1-
- J+2-
1+5-
5+4-
1+
± 4+3-
5+1-
3+1-
5-1-
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1+1-
* frfS-
1+1-
H 11+
1+1-
H 7+
4704 U
Erotic
(98) :p, Ac C-D 20th. Fox
Cinema
(78) Shorts ...various producers
4721 Escape to Nowhere
(118) Ad .
Face ol Another (124)
Peppercorn-Wormser
Melo Rising Sun Enterprises
Films by Artists (81)
Shorts Films by Artists Pgm.
4721 Flesh Gordon (79) Sex F Mammoth
4704 For Pete's Sake (90) C Col
4677 Foxy Brown (94) Sex D AlP
46SS Frankenstein
i; 2 8
7- 8-74 PG
7- 8-74
9-16-74 PG A2
i-24-74
5-20-74
9-16-74 X
7- S-74 PG A3
4- 8-74 IS C
(95) HoC 3-D Bryanston 5-13-74 (X) C 3:
4705 Frankenstein and the Monster
from Hell (93) Ho Para 4-15-74 116 +
4716 Free Woman, A (100) D , Yorker. .8-26-74 +
4724 Gambler. The (111) D .
4719 'Gator Bait (91) Ac ,
4713 Girl From Petrovka, The
(104)
4717 Girls For Rent (88) Ac
4724 Girls in the Street
4718 Going Places (117) ., C-D .. Cinema 5
4708 Golden Needles (92) p Ac D..AIP
4685 Grand Dadais. 1^
(S4) D Infl Amusement
4701 Gravy Train, The
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kM ALPHABETICAL INDEX H very Good, + Good; =t Foir; - Poor; = Very Poor.
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4718 Longest Yard, The
(la) At C-D. .Para
Looking Forward, Looking Back
(115) His various producers
4fiSS Lords of Flatbush, The (88) C ..Col
4690 Lost in the Stars (114) Mus-D AFT
4681 Uve and Anarchy
(108) Hi Steinmann-Baxter
—M—
4694 Macon County Line (S9) Ac. AlP
4697 Mad Adventures of -Rabbi" Jacob, The
(96) ® C 20th-Fox
4703 Mad Mad Movie Makers
(90) C Bryanston
4718 Man of the East (117) s W-C. UA
4687 Mark of the Devil. Part II
(90) Ho Hallmark/A IP
Memories Within Miss Aggie (74)
Sex D Inish Kae, Ltd.
4675 Midnight Man, Tlia
(117) ® My Unlv
4714 Mixed Company (109) C..UA
4693 Mr. Majestyk (103) Ac ,P! UA
Mrs. Barrington (86)
Sex C (£) Monarch Releasing
4697 Mutations. The (91) SF Col
4700 My Name is Nobody
(115) IP) W-C Univ
4700 Myderious Island of Captain Nemo
(96) Ad CRC
u
6-10-74
5-13-74 PG A3
5-20-74 a
A3 ++ H +
Narrative Cinema, Pt II
(100) .
Nayak—The Hero
. .various producers 5- 6-74 :±
(120) Melo Trans-World 8-12-74 -f
4679 Newman's Uw (98) Cr Univ 4-15-74 PG A3 +
4708 Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, The
(77) An C AlP 7-22-74 B C ±
4700 99 and 44/100% Dead
® -
(98) Ac-C 20th-Fox 6-24-74 PG A3
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4717 Open Season (103) Ac. Col 9-2-74 [SB +
4717 Ophelia (100) D New Line 8-12-74 A2 +
4677 Our Time (88) (£) D WB 4- (-74 PG A4 -f
4680 Outfit. The (102) Cr .. MGM-UA 4-15-74 PG A3 +
Over
Night
(85) Meh) .... Karin Thome Films 6-24-74 -|-
4696 Parallax View. The
(102) Sus Para 6-10-74 [1 A3 -f
Partner (105) D New Yorker 5- 6-74 A3 +
4683 Paul and Michelle
(103) ®D Para 4-29-74 B ±
4722 Phase IV (86) SF Para 9-16-74 PG A2 H
Pink
Floyd
(S5) M US-Doc. April Fools 8-26-74 A2 +
4704 Pippi in the South Seas
(85) Ad-F ..G.G. Communications 7- 8-74 IS +
Plastic Dome of Norma Jean, The
(90) DocCompton-Murphy S-26-74 A2 +
4681 Policewomen (99) Ac ..Crown Int'l 4-22-74 IB -I-
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®A Tim For Lo»e (57) D Feb 74
Barbara
ThrLstupher Mlii
Mrt Juon, Jane Merrow
©Hollywooil 90028 (90) ..M»r74 ©Father Jackleg (97) ..C. Aug 74
AuEurtlne
(Tirlslopher
©Moonchlld (90) May 74 ©When Women Lost Their Tails
(95) C May 74
Victor Buono. Jotin Ctrradlne
©Shriek of tht Mutilate*
Sent.i Berger
©Go For Broke (93) Sept 74
(92) May74
Alan Brock
Mark Damon, John Ireland
©How Come Nolwily's on
GENERAL FILM CORP.
Our Side? (88) Auj 74
Adam Roarke
©The Centerfold Girls
©No Place to Hide (86) Sent 74 (92) Sus. Aug 74
Bnlllng
8ylw«ter Stallone. Antony Page Andrew Prlne. Tiffany
AMERICAN FILM THEATRE
©Mother Couraje
©Galileo
©Tlie Man In the Glass Booth .
©In Celebration
©E' Lollioop
. Oct 74
APRIL FOOLS FILMS
©Pink Floyd (85) . - 74 ©Friday Foster D 74
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©Pictures at an Exhibition
©Cactus in the Snow
(95) Mus.. Oct 74 (90) D.. Sept 74
Emerwn, Lake & P.ilmer
©Linda Lovelace
for President C 74
ATLAS . FILMS
IJnda Lovelace
©Cryot of the Llvino Dead
(81) Ho GIANT 4 ENTERPRISES
©Stamping Ground (83) D ©Seven Wonders of the West
AUDUBON FILMS
(97) Dot. Jan 74
f?iGrounil Zero
©Score (89) Sex C Apr. 74
(90) . Feb 74
Melvin Relll, Hon Pasteel
©Blood Queen (95) Ac. .
©Nl(ht of the Executioners Ac GOLDSTONE ENTERPRISES
©Let Me Love You Sex D ©The Godmothers (80) Jan 74
©L'Imaoe Sept 74 Mickey Rooney, Frank Fontaine
JOSEPH BRENNER
HAMPTON INTL
©Torso (90) D .
©Kipling Code (107) . 74
Susie Kendall
Alain Noury, Doris Kunstmann
©TTie Winners (95) D .
©Blonde Connection
.Tne Ste\nirdsnn
(84) Apr 74
©Cry Rape (94) . . . Mclo. .July 74 Judy Winter. Werner Petere
Hflc.i Anders. KlaiK Lovvitsch. ©Now Is Forever ( . ) D . . . . . Oct 74
©Pot! Parents! Police!
©Sex Life of a Private Eye
(89) June 74
(89) At.. Phil Pine, Madelyn Keen
Cllbert Wj-nne, Gllly (3rant
©In Love Again (80) Sept 74
CAMBIST FILMS
rhuek Roy. Judy Curtis
©Wide Open Marriage
(87) C Oct 74
Elisabeth Vnlfcman
(^1001 Danish Delights
(85) C. Sen 73
CAPITAL PRODUCTIONS
©SuperManChu (90) Ac ..Dec 73
©Tlie Sexorclsts (90) Sex D July 74
Ulfh Heine. SIna Taylor
©The Gift of the Forest
(100) Sept 74
f^iBlood Waters of Dr. Z
(92) Ho. -June 74
(Rerien-ed as "Zaat")
CENTAUR RELEASING
©Swinjinj Cheerleaders. The
(94) C. May 74
©The Girls Who Do .
C .. Aub 74
©Blood on the Sun ... .Ac. .Apr 74
©Teach Me Sex C . .Jan 74
©The Sinful Bed . C . 74
©Naughty Nymphs Sex .
C 74
ELLMAN FILM ENT.
©Captive Female (93) D. .
©Panorama Blue (83) ..C- Mar 74
©Throw Out the Anchor
©The Bunny Caper (90) C. Aug 74
Christina Hart. Jane Anthnnv
©The Zebra Killer (90) D. Aug 74
Austin Stoker
©A Woman For All Men
(93) Sus Aug 74
Keenan Wn
©Showgirl D .
HEMISPHERE PICTURES
©The Devil's Nightmare
( .) Ho Mar 74
^In the Garden
Devil's
(..) Ho. Mar 74
©Bad Companions Sept 74
©Campus Pussycats AuQ 74
©Campus Swingers Apr 74
(§Hay Country Swingers ...July 74
©Young Seducers Apr 74
(85) C. Sep 74 HOWCO INT'L PICTURES
©Bizarre Devices (80) C. Aug 74 ©Bootleggers, The (110) Ac. Apr 74
ENTERTAINMENT PYRAMID SUm Pickens, Paul Koslo
©Pornography and Prostitution ©Where the Red Fern Grows
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(97) Ad Mar 74
the Orient (80) Sex Doc Feb 74
lames Whltmnre, Beverly (Tarland
Mai Lee. Anthnnv Harowka
©Plaything of the Devil
INDEPENDENT INTa
(90) Sex-Ho. July 74
©Women For Sale
©The Black Alley Cats
(86) Sex D. .Dec 73
(80) Sex-Ac. Jan 74
ENTERTAINMENT VENTURES
Woods. Veronliiue Vendell
Itnbcrt
©The Naughty Stewardesses
©Johnny FIrecloud D
Sex D. .Apr
(102) ©The Wrestler (98) D June 74
Bob l.lvlncston, Connie Hoffman
Rd Asner, Verne Oagne
FANFARE
©Girls For Rent
(85) Sex-Ac. Aug 74
Genrglna
©Mistress Pamela (91) C Jan 74
SpeMn, Kent Taylor
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United Artists (7433) 109 Minutes Rel. Sept. '74
This United Artists release, straight from the "Poseidon
Adventui-e" mold, is good edge-of-the-seat entertainment
and the pulling power of stars Richard Harris and
Omar Sharif should help it along to healthy returns this
fall. Moviegoers, who made "Poseidon" a boxoffice phenomenon
and haven't as yet been inundated with disaster
epics to come, might be a little disappointed if they come
wanting to see real terror on the high seas. This story
by producer Richard DeKoker simply doesn't recognize
its true potential and, no doubt, budget was a factor.
Sharif is captain of a luxury liner threatened by seven
deadly bombs planted by an extortionist, and Harris is
the explosives expert who has until dawn to dismantle
them. Director Richard Lester i"The Tlu-ee Musketeers"'
makes a valiant attempt to get the excitement going,
but his hands are tied and the whole effort leaves one
longing for a hole to be blown in the side of that 26,000-
ton luxury liner and the real excitement to begin. Lester
took his crew and cast aboard the Britannic and filmed
during an actual voyage and in that respect it outdoes
"Poseidon" for realism. Fine support comes from David
Hemmings, Shirley Knight and Roy Kinnear. David
Picker was executive producer. Color by DeLuxe.
Omar Sharif, Richard Harris, David Hemmings, Anthony
Hopkins, Ian Holm, CUfton James, Roy Kinnear.
LACOMBE, LUCIEN
Enjlish titles Q
20th-Fox ( ) 141 Minutes
Rel. Oct. '74
War collaborators, as apart from draft resisters, are
not a group which has suflered from over-exposure on
the screen. Since this is such a delicate subject, it takes
a director of the statme of Louis Malle to make an engrossing
di-ama of fictional material based on historical
tact. In France, this NEF-UPJ:'' presentation is a sizeauie
hit, while in the U.S., acceptance may be based solely on
Malle's name. The film does have scenes oi emotional
power, but the lengthy running time and lack of action
coimt against its full effectiveness. The French are, unfortunately
or not, much closer to the collaboration issue
than Americans and tne character portrayed by nonprofessional
Pierre Blaise is ailiicuit to sympathise with
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on any level. His love lor a Jewish gu'l, played charmingly ._ I
by model Aurore Clement, does nave some redeeming
value, although there is a feeling of self-preservation in
the relationship. Producer-director Malle is preoccupied
with dead animals, having Blaise kill a bird and behead
a chicken. Screenplay by Malle and Patrick Modiano
evolved from the director s interest m a right wing Mexican
group which recruits young misfits. In support, Holger
Lowenaoier takes top acting honors. English titles.
Some nudity.
Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clement, Holger Lowenadler,
Therese Gieshe, Stephane Bouy, Loumi lacobesco.
AMARCORD L^ '°?^2h;KTlL'"p"a"
New World Pictures (141) 127 Minutes Rel. Sept. '74
Life is still a cuxus to Federico Fellini, even while reminiscing
about Italy under Mussolini's Fascist rule. The
master filmmaker uses the circus-like atmosphere to
great effect as the inhabitants of a small village lustily
live out their lives, sometimes addi-essing the camera and
always being completely human. Fellini has a special
knack for creating a feeling of life which makes the spectator
seem as if he's a part of the proceedings. There are
a multitude of characters in "Amarcord" islang for "I
remember") and a lot of unnecessary off-color humor,
yet the film is one of Fellini 's funniest and most poignant.
The actors can't be faulted, the obvious professionals
blending in with many colorful characters who appeaato
be real people. Magali Noel is the sexy female lead
and Brmio Zanin the rather mischievous teenage hero.
Ciccio Ingrassia, half of the low-comedy team of Franco
and Ciccio, is sm-prisingly good as the boy's amiably mad
uncle. Giuseppe Rotunno's Panavision-Technicolor photography
and Nino Rota's amusing and sentimental score
("Stormy Weather" is the theme) are among their best.
Fellini and Tonino Guerra wrote the story and screenplay
for the Italian-French coproduction produced by
Franco Cristaldi. Chalk up another hit for Fellini.
Magali Noel. Bruno Zanin, Armando Brancia, Pupella
Maggio, Giuseppe Lanigro, Nando Orfei, Luigi Rossi.
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Bucna Vista (158) 89 Minutes Rel. Oct. '74
British Columbia's rugged and beautiful wilderness pro-
/ja- vides the background for Walt Disney's newest, a combination
of fiction and semi-documentary. Based on Rob-
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ert Franklin Leslie's book "The Bears and I," the film
features Patrick Wayne as star and narrator and touches
upon ecology, brotherhood, the preservation of man's dignity
along with our natural resources and the raising of
wild animals. 'Veteran producer Winston Hibler and director
Bernard McEveety have used a "True Life Adventiucs"
approach, although the narration spoken by Wayne
is more dramatic than infomiative. The three bears of
the title provide a large amount of amusement and the
film offers something for all ages. Only element lacking
is romance, the women in the cast being limited to a few
Indian extras. Young Wayne is boyishly handsome and
rugged or gentle as John Whedon's screenplay allows.
Chief Dan George and Michael Ansara have strong roles
as the Indians opposed to the white man's efforts in tm-ning
their homes into a national park. John Denver composed
the song "Sweet Surrender" and performs it for the
film: the tune is appealing enough to be a hit on its own.
Such sports as fishing and hunting are incidental to the
film, but lovers of the outdoors should be attracted.
Patrick Wayne, Chief Dan George, Michael Ansara,
Andrew Duggan, Val De Vargas, Robert Pine.
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THE STORY: "The Bears and I" (BV)
Vietnam veteran Patrick Wayne arrives in the White
Bird Wilderness to see Chief Dan George, head of the
Taklute Indian tribe to which his dead Army buddy belonged.
The friend was George's son, the old man too -"j;*'
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proud to show grief. Wayne rents a cabin from store-
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keeper Michael Ansara, pans for gold and decides to stay
awhile. When a mother bear is killed. Wayne takes it
upon himself to raise cubs he names Patch, Scratch and
Rusty. The Indians, members of the Bear Clan, oppose
Wayne's caring for their "brothers." Parks Commissioner
Andrew Duggan and assistant Robert Pine ask Wayne
to help convince the Indians to move and make way for
a national park. Guide Valentin DeVargas, who fights
with Wayne, wounds Patch and sets the cabin afire. After
Indians and construction workers stop a forest fii-e,
George nm-ses the bear back to health. Wayne has to
give up his bears, while the Indians are made deputy park
rangers. Wayne decides to become a ranger, also.
EXPLOITIPS:
Play up the British Columbia scenery. Contact ecology
groups, social studies classes, zoos, etc. Promote the John
Denver song "Sweet Surrender."
CATCHLINES:
A Young Vietnam War Veteran, His Search for Identity,
The Indian Tribe That Made It Difficult and the
Bears That Made It Fun. It's All There in Walt Disney's
"The Bears And I."

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