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A, B, C-AND SOMETIMES D
GRADING pictures before they are
made is a trade practice now on the
wane. However, pictures probably will
continue to be sold and referred to as
"A" and "B" pictures, though those falling
into lower classifications will not be
mentioned as "Cs" and "Ds." Of course,
there always will be the surprise picture
in the "B" classification on advance appraisal,
which, after it is completed, will
rate among the topnotchers, even in the
"A" groups.
It was really something of a surprise
when producers some seasons ago began
to classify their pictures into two socalled
quality groups. The surprise being
mainly that any producer would admit
to any picture's being a secondary or
"B" picture. And there were the further
surprises, pleasant to be sure, when some
of these admitted little pictures proved
the advance-grading to be incorrect and
made hits that even smart previewers
failed to predict after the pictures were
finished and screened.
While it is true that stars, stoiy and
director can serve as bases for quality
assurance, the final result on the screen
is the determining factor. We have often
said that producers do not deliberately
set out to make poor pictures. And it
would be wrong to intei-pret advancegrading
of "B" product as placing a label
of low quality on pictures in that classification.
Of course, if the "A" is supposed
to mean pictures in the higher-cost
brackets, that's something else again.
But quality, boxoffice drawing power,
entertainment value cannot be judged
by what a picture costs in its making.
Thei-e have been many million-dollar
flops and, likewise, many less-thanhundred-thousand-dollar
hits.
In the lower-cost brackets there also
are the "bread-and-butter" pictures—the
programmers that fill the requirements
of thousands of theatres. These pictures
get very little play in key city first runs,
yet they attract and satisfy millions of
moviegoers in the hinterland. Of varying
type, featuring names that have followings,
these pictures aren't oversold either
by distributor or by exhibitor. They play
in upwards of 9,000 theatres — profitably.
They are the backbone to the backbone
theatres of the industry. Class is as class
does in their instance, alphabetical denotation
notwithstanding.
A Stabilizing
Effect
The survey report made each month
by the National Federation of Independent
Business, Inc., covers a wide area
on general business conditions from
which can be gleaned statistical datai
applying to the motion picture industry.
In an NFIB newsletter, there were some
references to the record of employment
throughout the nation pointed up. "Two
facts now appear fairly evident: The
skilled worker looking for work will do
much better in the country areas than
in the big cities. For the unskilled worker,
location makes little difference, as
there is practically no demand any place
for the untrained."
That may be stressing an extreme
point of view, but it is coming sharply
into evidence for a number of causes.
One, for instance, is the observation that
"Not yet ascertained by the NFIB studies
is the impact, if any, that the recently
enacted increases in the minimum wage
is exercising on the employability of the
unskilled."
Also pointed up were the following
Surveys conducted by the business organization
following the last minimum
wage increase showed that there was a
substantial reduction in such jobs. But,
regardless of this factor, there are jobs
going begging because there are not
enough people with the skills to handle
them; and that, while many big cities
report unemployment rates much higher
than the national average, the available
jobs today are outside of the big cities.
That would seem to indicate an improvement
in the manpower availability
in the smaller towns that the potential
of theatre patronage is not being drawn
away to the bigger centers.
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NOVEMBER 4, 1974

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WCI Revenues, Net
And Earnings Gain
NEW YORK.—Revenues, net income
and earnings per share for Warner Communications,
Inc., all showed impressive
gains in this fiscal year's third quarter and
film revenues were credited with a major
contribution to the improved company business.
"Our theatrical motion picture division
made an important contribution to the attainment
of the record third quarter results,"
said Steven J. Ross, WCI chairman.
"We are pleased by the fact that numerous
Warner Bros, releases participated in
this excellent showing. Our nine-month
worldwide motion picture revenues exceeded
the previous record total ever reported
by any film company for an entire year.
Although revenues of our television operations
in the quarter exceeded last year,
operating results remained imsatisfactory."
Revenues of $192,273,000 were a record
for any quarter in the company's history,
while net income of $12,789,000 compares
to the $12,682,000 earned in the third
quarter of 1973, the previous record, while
fully diluted earnings per share rose 1
per cent to 63 cents against 57 cents a
year ago. The average number of fully
diluted shares outstanding during the third
quarter this year was 20,544,000—down
from 22.5 million shares last year.
For the first nine months of 1974, WCI
revenues moved up to $545,137,000 from
$401,321,000, net income was up to $42.-
299,000 from $39,867,000 and fully diluted
earnings per share increased 20 per cent
to $2.08 from $1.73.
Ross noted that during the first nine
months this year interest expense "continued
to rise as a result of prevailing higher
rates and the cost of the company's stock
repurchase program." During those nine
months, ending September 30, WCI repurchased
728,256 shares of its common
stock.
In addition to its worldwide operations
in commercial films and TV, WCI engages
in the recorded music publishing business,
magazine and paperback book publishing
and distribution and cable communications.
Lin Parsons Jr. New Para.
Exec. Production Manager
NEW YORK— Robert Evans, executive
vice-president in charge of I'aramount Pictures'
worldwide production, has announced
the appointment of Lindsley Parsons jr. as
executive production manager for the company.
Parsons moved into Paramount's
executive offices in Beverly Hills October
28 and set up his headquarters.
In 1965, Persons was assistant general
manager of the Samuel Goldwyn Studio,
becoming executive production manager of
MGM in 1968. He was appointed vicepresident
of Group V Productions in 1969
and became vice-president of operations
at MGM in 1972. There he remained until
his current Paramount appointment.
BOXOFFICE :: November 4. 1974
Hirschfield Predicts Financial Rise
For Columbia Pictures Next Year
NEW YORK — "Funny Lady," starring
Barbra Streisand, will head 1975's quality
lineup in which Columbia Pictures Industries
is placing its hopes for a financial
turnaround next year. Alan J. Hirschfield.
president and chief operating officer, told
stockholders meeting here October 29.
Hirschfield declared that "Funny Lady,"
sequel to the company's "Funny Girl," potentially
could be Columbia's greatest
grosser of all time. Going into 1975 release
along with this Barbra Steisand starrer will
be "Shampoo," "Tommy." "The Fortune,"
"Bite the Bullet," Charles Bronson's two top
films, "Breakout" and "The Streetfighter,"
and "The Fan Club." Also on Columbia
releasing charts for '75 are "The Black
Bird," "The Stepford Wives," "Confessions
of a Window Cleaner." "Watch Out, We're
Mad," "Hearts and Minds." "The Odessa
File, "Open Season," "Law and Disorder"
plus reissues acquired from Cinema Center
and ABC Pictures Corp.
Cites Top Grossere This Year
Sharpening Hirschfield's expectations for
great things from Columbia's motion picture
division in "75 is the great business performance
of "The Way We Were" in fiscal '74,
this Streisand-Robert Redford comedy
drama having earned around $24 million in
rentals and being largely credited with
bringing about Columbia's operating profit
this year. Good business also was brought
in by "The Last Detail," "The Golden 'Voyage
of Sinbad," "For Pete's Sake," "California
Split." "The Lords of Flatbush" and
"Buster and Billie."
Hirschfield pointed out to shareholders,
however, that despite an operating profit
of $1,245,000 largely generated by these
successful films, substantial losses on discontinued
operations in 1973 and 1974 resulted
in CPI showing an actual net loss of
$2,301,000 in fiscal 1974. compared with
a loss of $50,029,000 in the preceding
year. The company still is burdened by a
total
debt of $166,678,000: Hirschfield said
this amount is being cut down at the rate of
$1 million per month, although interest
rates of close to 12 per cent annually are
creating an additional financial load.
Big Loss by Music Division
Hirschfield said that much of the company's
net loss in fiscal 1974 could be attributed
to the music division, which he
called "a complete disaster." except for that
division's publishing and sheet music subsidiary.
The CPI president indicated that
Clive Davis will be given strong corporate
support toward making that CPI division
return a profit in the next annual fiscal
report.
To facilitate acquisitions and give the
company greater flexibility in issuing stock
in the future, shareholders approved management's
proposal to reduce the par value
of CPI common stock to ten cents a share
from $2.50 and the preferred stock to ten
cents a share from $1. The company's
shares have been trading in
recent weeks at
prices below par value. Under the laws of
Delaware, where Columbia is incorporated,
management could not issue stock at a price
below par value. Columbia now will be
able to transfer about $16,235,000 (the
amount of difference in par value of shares
issued) from the company's capital account
to its paid-in capital account.
Hirschfield expressed optimism, too, that
CPI will have no significant write-downs
during the coming fiscal year and that the
company will be able to dispose of its leasehold
on 711 Fifth Ave. If the leasehold
could be sold, that transaction would reduce
the company's debt by around 1 1 $
million.
With 69.3 per cent of the company's
outstanding stock represented at the meeting,
stockholders re-elected all of the officers
and directors and approved Price
Waterhouse & Co. as auditor.
Sees 'Godfather' Sequel
Increasing G&W Earnings
NEW YORK—"Godfather. Part 11" is
expected to boost earnings of Gulf &
Western Industries' leisure-time group in
fiscal 1975. Charles G. Bluhdom. the conglomerate's
president, told the Wall Street
Journal in an interview October 30.
Bluhdorn pointed out that in fiscal 1973
"The Godfather" made a "high contribution
to the profit" of G&WI's leisure-time
division, which consists mainly of Paramount
Pictures. However, fiscal 1974's report,
which was released last week, showed
that the leisure-time division's operating
profit had declined 52 per cent from the
previous year.
Despite the fall-off of its leisure-time division.
G&WI reported record fiscal 1974
net income of $100.6 million, or $5.92 per
share, up 12 per cent from the $89.2 million,
or $4.60 per share in fiscal 1973. Sales
and revenue were up 19 per cent to $2.5
billion from $1.9 billion.
In his Wall Street Journal interview.
Bluhdom estimated that the conglomerate's
per-share net income in 1975's first
fiscal quarter, which ended the day of the
interview, was "50 per cent higher than the
$1.28 of a vear earlier." He added a prediction
that 'g&WI's per share earning for
fiscal 1975 will be "well in excess" of
$7 per share.
$100,00 Grant to USC
LOS ANGELES — A SIOO.OOO grant
from the CBS Foundation has been received
by the University of Southern California's
School of Performing Arts. The
grant will provide fellowships for 22 USC
cinema students.

Israeli Medal Awarded
Morton Thalhimer Jr.
RICHMOND. VA.— Morton J. Thalhimer
jr.. president of Neighborhood Theatres,
president and director of NATO of
Virginia and a director of the National
Ass'n of Theatre Owners was saluted October
27 at the Israel Dinner of State held
at the Jewish Community Center, Richmond,
at which Max T. Dimont was a
distinguished guest. Thalhimer was honored
by the presentation of the Prime Minister's
Silver Medal, especially struck at the
request of Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin.
The State of Israel bestowed the medal
on Thalhimer. "who has unstintingly given
and continues to give of himself for the
survival and development of the State of
Israel. With dignity and dedication, he
serves the people of Israel."
Thalhimer, a member of Variety Clubs
International, is active in the Tent at Washington,
D.C., and is a life member of
Jerusalem at the invitation of Golda Meir.
He is a past vice-president and executive
committee member of the Richmond Jewish
Council, past vice-chairman of the Virginia
Anti-Defamation League and a former
board member of the Richmond Jewish
Community Center.
Sal Billitteri Is Promoted
To AIP Vice-President
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.—Salvatore
Billitteri, who has been in film production
for 35 years, has been appointed vice-president
in charge of post production for
American International Pictures, it was announced
by Samuel Z. Arkoff, AIP chairman
of the board and president.
Billitteri has been with AIP since 1960,
when he joined the company as head of its
New York production. Since 1970 he has
been here in the AIP home offices, super-
Pittsburgh and two assistant city solicitors
vising worldwide post production. He is a
member of the Motion Picture Pioneers, a
national organization whose members have
been in the film business at least a quarter
of a century.
Arkoff said that his appointment of
Billitteri as vice-president is part of a
"continuous program of strengthening and
enlarging our production and distribution
capacities."
Among features Billitteri now is completing
are "The Wild Party," "To Kill the
Queen," "Abby" and "Sheba, Baby."
•RED' JACOBS HONORED—Newton
P. "Red" Jacobs, chairman of the
board. Crown International Pictures,
was presented the NATO Award of
Merit by president Paul Roth, at the
recent meeting of the board of directors
at the Marriott Hotel, Atlanta.
"Red" and Crown International were
saluted by the national exhibitor
organization for "15 years service to
exhibition."
Israel's Tel Aviv Tent. He also is involved
Cinemette Has Five Years
in numerous business, civic, philanthropic
and academic organizations, including service
as a director of the National Conference
On 16-Screen Divestiture
PITTSBURGH — Locally based Cinemette
of Christians and Jews.
Corp. of America has accepted a
A member of Temple Beth Ahaba and
past co-chairman of its Brotherhood, Thalhimer
Consent Decree from common pleas court
has served two terms as Richmond for divestiture of 16 screens during the
Israel Bond chairman and from 1969
next five years. Four Pittsburgh first-runs
to
this date serves as president of the Richmond
Israel Bond Coimcil.
Encore—and any 12 of the following sub-
are involved—Stanley, Fiesta, Forum and
In 1972 Thalhimer attended the Prime urban screens: Bellvue I and II, Hampton
Plaza I and II, Northside Drive-In, Roxian,
Minister's International Conference in
Maple Drive-In, Regent, Sheridan Square,
Strand, Hollywood, Crest, South Park
Drive-In, Echo Drive-In, Colonial Drive-
In, McKee I and II, Quad cinemas. Miracle
Mile Drive-In, Penn Hills and Denis.
Judge Francis A. Barry, who expressed
high regard for the ability and responsiveness
to the public displayed by all parties
who took part in the negotiations, granted
two years for the divestiture, with three oneyear
extensions, on the assumption of "good
faith" efforts. In disposing of the theatres,
Cinemette can insist on receiving the original
acquisition prices.
Paul Grossman, president of Cinemette,
commented that the court's decision was a
favorable one for the circuit, adding thai
there are no prospective buyers for any
of the 16 screens at the present time.
Following Cinemette's acquisition of the
Associated circuit March 13, 1974, suit
had been filed March 20 by the city of
alleging "a monopoly of the movie industry
in the metropolitan Pittsburgh area."
Julian Binstock Is V-P
For WM Administration
BURBANK. CALIF.—Julian G. Binstock
has been appointed vice-president in
charge of administration of Warner Bros.
International, it was announced by Myron
D. Karlin, Warner Bros, vice-president,
foreign operations. Binstock succeeds Mac
Greenberg, who retired November 1.
1974 Rogers Hospital
Drawing Nets $60,000
NEW YORK—Tal Richardson,
Midland
Theatre. Coffeyville, Kas., won the grand
prize of a 1975 Ford Mustang II in the
annual Will Rogers Hospital and Research
Center drawing held at the October National
Ass'n of Theatre Owners convention in
Atlanta.
This year's drawing raised more than
560,000 for the hospital's operations and
special programs, an increase of more than
20 per cent over the amount raised by ticket
sales last year. The annual drawing is supported
by all branches of the film industry,
as well as by the entire entertainment sector.
Jim Carr, Birmingham, Ala., won a 1975
Ford Pinto as the second prize in the benefit
drawing; Carl Schmidt, Lakewood,
Calif., third, a motorized lawn cutter; Jerry
Woodall, Lawrenceville, Ga., fourth, a color
TV set. These winners were determined
during a luncheon hosted by United Artists
Pictures with the winning numbers drawn
by Roy White, NATO board chairman, and
Paul Roth. NATO president.
The other 61 prize winners were determined
in drawings held the same afternoon
at the National Ass'n of Concessionaires-
Theatre Equipment Ass'n Trade Show.
Those winners included Oster kitchen center,
Lilho Lite Reproductions, New York. N.Y.; Fujica
single-8 zoom instant load movie camera. Eastern
Federal Corp., Charlotte, N.C.; Super-8 zoom lens
movie cameras, John R. Laughlin Manchester,
jr.,
N.H., and Gayle Creyer, Bath, Pa.; Singer Powermaster
vacuum cleaner, Ronald Fogel, Allentown,
Pa.; $50 Saks Filth Avenue gift certificate, Burma
Stone, Aiiljura, Ala.; Silver-plated water pitcher,
Joseph E. Levine Presents, Inc., New York, N.Y.;
Manning-Bowman automatic table broiler, Capitol
Service, Milwaukee, Wis.; Samsonite attache cose.
Bob Leishear, Baltimore, Md.; clock radio, W.
Coogan, Copiague, N.Y.; tape recorder-radio, Jeannette
Brown, Ihiells, N.Y.; barometer, Debbie Firstenberg,
Princeton, N,J.; Polaroid camera, Barbara
VVbite, Cmcinnati, Ohio; Kodak Instamatic X-15 color
outfit, Dorothy Pitts, North Hollywood, Calif.; travel
bar, L. Weymouth; blenders, R. L. Steers, Ramsey,
N.J., I. Gortz, Universal City, Calif., and Robert J.
Vveber, Webster Groves, Mo,
Also garment bags, Tom Waller, Audubon Park,
N.J., G. Shutter, New York, N.Y., Bill Wagner, Independence,
Kas., and Mary Schaefer, Scarsdale, N.Y.;
pen and pencil set, Bernard Lust, Washington, D.C.;
Fragonard three-piece gift set, Doris Withelow,
lieliysDurg. Pa.; Barometers, J. Lawson, De Funiak
Springs, Fla.; Ann Mislretta, N.Y„ and B. J. LeavitI,
Los Angeles, Colli.; porcelain bowl, Lydia DeCesare,
Touch Lite Lamp, Paula Montel, New York. N.Y.;
toaster, Raymond Rivera, Bronx, N.Y.; Chanel No. 5
perfume, Harry Goldman, Chicago, 111.; pocket radio,
Morton Gerber, Washington, D.C; table fighter, M.
Swentusky, Saranac Lake, N.Y.; electric coffeemaker,
Tom Morris, Cincinnati, Ohio; electric scissors,
Dan Silverman, Universal City, Calif.; shine
kit, Les Laramie. Denver. Colo.
Two books by Earl Wilson were won by James
Edmundson, St. Francis, Kas.; Campus Drive-In, San
Diego, Cofii.; J. Meyers. Palmerton, Pa.; Kitty
Poinelli, Pelham, N.Y.; J. Kogut. New York, N.Y.;
Irving Braverman, Minneapolis, Minn.; R. Nicholson,
Dallas. Tex.; Ed J. HeiUy, Hawthorne, Calif.; J.
Rotondi. Hoboken. N.J.; Moyer Theatre, Portland,
Ore.; Pat McNamee, Camarillo, CaUf.; Steve Rodnok
jr.; ). D. Carrigan, Cranston, R, I,; Jack Worley,
Florence, Ala.; leannine M. PattiUo, Columbus, Ga.
LP albums were won by S. Cervone, Deer Park,
N. Y.; Ken Schreeler, Watchung, N.J.; Cinemette
Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Sargent Hill, Fort Worth,
Tex.; Michael O'Connor, Rockaway Park, N.Y.; Nikki
Rocco. Flushing, N.Y.; D. Fishter, Dayton, Ohio; E.
Norwood, New York, N.Y.; Barbara Brandon, New
Orleans, La., and George F. Brackon. Burleson, Tex.
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BOXOFFICE :: November 4, 1974

New Fuqua 10-Year Credit
Line Totals $92 Million
ATLANTA—Fuqua Industries, Inc., parent
company of Martin Theatres and Gulf
States Theatres, has entered into a new
credit agreement providing $92 million in
revolving ten-year term loan and short
term credit, according to president Carl
Patrick sr.
Patrick said the new agreement gives
Fuqua Industries more favorable borrowing
terms than prior agreements, which had
provided for $70 million of bank borrowings
with a maximum term of six years.
Now Fuqua will pay the prime rate on
some bank borrowings and a maximum of
one-half per cent above prime on the balance.
Several Fuqua subsidiaries provide an
additional $47 million of bank borrowings,
bringing the total to $139 million.
Patrick added that Fuqua immediately
will adopt the last-in, first-out method of
accounting for inventories—a change expected
to decrease 1974 net by $3 million
to $5 million, or 35 to 50 cents a share.
The change will enable Fuqua to receive
an income tax refund of $3 million to $4
million and will increase cash flow in 1975
by $6 million to $9 millon.
The widely diversified company reported
earnings of $1.44 per share on revenues
totalling $414,123,000 in the nine months
ending September 30. While the revenue
for the period was up from 1973's $346,
540,000, the earnings per share represented
a drop from $1.97 per share -in the first nine
months of 1973. For the quarter ending
September 30, Fuqua had a net income of
$3,494,000, down from 1973"s corresponding
quarter's $12,548,000 (40 cents per
share in 1974's third quarter compared with
$1.25 in 1973's third period).
Fuqua's two big circuits, operating in ten
Southern states, have a combined total of
300 screens.
Columbia Pictures Pacts
To Release 32 ABC Films
BURBANK, CALIF. — Columbia Pictures
will distribute in the U.S. 32 films
produced under the ABC Pictures Corp.
banner, according to a joint announcement
by David Begelman, president of Columbia
Pictures, and Albert J. Sicignano, vicepresident
of ABC Pictures Corp., a
division
of American Broadcasting Companies.
starring Woody Allen; "The Last Valley,"
Michael Caine and Omar Sharif, and "They
Shoot Horses, Don't They?" starring Jane
Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Gig Young and
Susannah York.
BOXOFFICE :: November 4, 1974
Wometco Business Better Than Ever
Says Its Head Mitchell Wolfson
The ABC group for Columbia distribution
includes "Candy," starring Marlon
Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn and
Eva Aulin: "Charly," starring Oscar-winner
Cliff Robertson; Steve McQueen's
"Junior Bonner"; "Kotch," starring Walter
Matthau; "Lovers and Other Strangers,"
starring Gig Young, Richard Castellano and
Bonnie Bedelia; "Straw Dogs," starring Dustin
Hoffman"; "Take the Money and Run,"
MIAMI— Despite an energy crisis and
economic slowdown, the movie circuit and
recreational conglomerate
known as Wometco
Enterprises
increased
overall reve-
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5 Showmen Presented
Crownmanship Award
BEVERLY HILLS—The 1975 -Crownnianship
Citation Awards"' were presented
to five outstanding showmen by actress
Anne Saxon at the Icickoff cocktail reception
sponsored by Crown International
Pictures at the national NATO convention
held recently in Atlanta, Ga. Showmen
receiving the awards from Ms. Saxon, who
stars in Crown's "The Sister-ln-Law,"
were: Joe Jackson. ABC Interstate Theatres,
Dallas, Tex.; George Kerasotes, Kerasotes
Theatres, Springfield, III.; Larry
Moyer, Moyer Theatres, Portland, Ore.;
Jim Gilland, Stewart & Everett Theatres,
Charlotte, N.C., and Weldon Limmroth,
Giddens & Rester Theatres, Mobile, Ala.
The citations read in part: "In recognition
for their many important and significant
contributions to the motion picture
industry, to conscientious and capable showmen
who direct their talents and enthusiasm
to provide a steadfast source of entertainment
values to motivate public acceptance
."
. .
The plaques saluting and honoring the
showmen were signed by Crown International
Pictures executives Newton P. "Red"
Jacobs, chairman of the board; Mark
Tenser, president and George M. Josephs,
general sales manager.
Foreign Problems Behind
K-Tel's Fiscal 74 Loss
MINNETONKA, MINN.—The financial
condition of K-Tel International, Inc., remains
strong in spite of a net loss of $593.-
884 in the year ended Jime 30, according
to company spokesmen. Shareholders' investment
at that time stood at $9,251,330
and working capital was $7,100,400.
Fourth quarter loss was $4,825,884, equal
to SL2I per share, and included certain
yearend inventory write-downs and other
adjustments. K-Tel president Philip Kieves
explained that the main reasons for the
loss "were a more conservative approach
to inventory valuation, which resulted in a
pre-tax write-off of $4.4 million, and reconciliation
problems in West Germany and
the United Kingdom, which together totaled
$2.8 million pre-tax. The size of the inventory
write-down was increased by higher-than-anticipated
merchandise returns in
the fourth quarter."
"Reconciliation problems in our European
operations resulted from difficulties in accounting,
credit and distribution which accompanied
dramatic sales growth," Kieves
continued. "Reserves were established at
yearend to cover all identifiable problem
accounts. The company also experienced
a currency translation loss of $280,000 in
1974, compared with a gain in the previous
year of $118,000."
Sales for 1974 increased to $70,757,807.
a gain of 63 per cent from 1973's sales
of $43,308,186, when K-Tel earned $3,-
301,654, or 82 cents per share.
The company merchandises personal,
household and leisure-time products, primarily
record albums, through intensive TV
advertising in
nine countries.
'Whiffs' Filming Completed
For Warner Bros. Release
NEW YORK — George Barrie has announced
that filming on his latest Brut production,
"Whiffs," has ended at the Burbank
Studios in California. Starring Elliott Gould
and Jennifer O'Neill, the comedy recently
completed location shooting in Salt Lake
City.
Set for Warner Bros, release, the film revolves
around a guinea pig for the Army's
chemical warfare program and co-stars Eddie
Albert, Godfrey Cambridge and Harry
Guardino.
'The Towering Inferno'
World Premiere Dec. 16
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.—Irwin Allen's
production of "The Towering Inferno,"'
a 14-million dollar suspense drama, will
make its global debut December 16 at
the Avco Theatre, Westwood, as a benefit
for the American Diabetes Ass'n. The premiere
evening's activities will be broadcast
nationally by Metromedia Broadcasting Co.
The film's stars will join Southern California
civic officials, society notables and
business leaders in ceremonies paying
homage to the film which depicts a holocaust
in the world's tallest skyscraper. The
film's stars—Steve McQueen. Paul Newman.
William Holden. Faye Dunaway, Fred
Astaire. Susan Blakely. Richard Chamberlain.
Jennifer Jones. O. J. Simpson, Robert
Vaughn and Robert Wagner— will also appear
at the after-premiere supper party in
the International Ballroom of the Beverly
Hilton Hotel, with Manny Harmon's orchestra.
Co-chairmen for the premiere are Jack
Benny and Mary Tyler Moore; Mrs. Sybil
Brand is the executive premiere-and-supper
chairman. Also taking leading roles as members
of the fund-raising committee for the
American Diabetes Ass'n are Gordon Stulberg
and Frank Wells, the respective president
and co-chairman of the board of 20th
Century-Fox and Warner Bros., the studios
which produced "The Towering Inferno" as
a screen co-venture.
Displays and demonstrations by the Los
Angeles fire department at the Avco Theatre,
plus a flaming leap by a movie stuntman
who will crash out of an eighth floor
window of a nearby office building and
hurtle down into a safety air bag, graphically
demonstrating how a person may be
saved from a burning building.
Rated PG, "The Towering Inferno" will
open its regular performances December
1
7 at the Avco Theatre in Westwood and
the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
MATURE PICTURES Corporation
630 Ninth Ave - New York, N.Y. 10036 212/541-7860
THE LIFE
& TIMES OF
XAVIERA
HOLLANDER
INTRODUCING
SAMANTHA McLAREN
AS XAVIERA
Directed by
Larry G.Spangler
IN CDLOR/ADULTS ONLY
We believe fhat a group of film hijackers have
duped and pirated prints of "THE LIFE AND
TIMES OF XAVIERA HOLLANDER." The music
and sound track of this film are copyrighted.
All exhibitors are warned that in dealing with
such pirate groups, they invite charges against
them of CONSPIRACY, FRAUD, PIRACY, VIO-
LATION OF COPYRIGHT and they as well as
the people they deal with will be prosecuted
to the fullest extent of the law.
FOR INFORAftATION CONTACT ROBERT SUMNER
630 9fh AVENUE, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10036
(212)541-7860
Rand, Bermack and Segal
Get UA Exchange Posts
NEW YORK — Three United Artists
Corp. branch managers have been appointed
from within the company ranks, according
to James R. Velde. senior vice-president.
Stewart C. Rand, sales manager in the
Boston exchange, got the nod as Cleveland's
new exchange manager. Rand joined
the Boston office as a booker in 1967, was
promoted to student salesman in March
1969, became a full-fledged salesman in
May of that year and advanced to sales
manager two years ago.
Sydney Bermack, Winnipeg branch manager,
has moved to Vancouver as United
Artists' exchange manager in the British
Columbia center of population. Bermack
has been with UA since 1962, when he
became a booker in the Winnipeg exchange.
Two years later he advanced to office
manager, in 1966 he turned to sales and
was promoted to branch manager in 1968.
Samuel T. Segal, a booker in the Winnipeg
branch since April, succeeded Bermack
as Winnipeg exchange manager.
November 4. 1974

)
Boston Local 182 Salute
To Diehl to Attract 500
BOS ION— Walter F. DichI, president ot
the International Allianee of Fheatrieal
Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine
Operators of the U.S. and Canada,
will be honored with a testimonial dinner
Monday (18) at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.
Hosting the affair will be lATSE Local 182
of Boston, Diehl's home local.
Net proceeds of the dinner will be contributed
to the Richard F. Walsh Foundation
for the purpose of furnishing scholarships
to children of lATSE members. More
than 500 guests from every branch of the
entertainment industry are expected to attend
the festivities.
General chairman for the dinner is Joseph
Caplan, president of Local 182, while the
local's business agent Ralph Frazier is acting
as chairman for the event. Other local
182 members charged with specific responsibilities
are Thomas Buckley, treasurer,
and these committee chairmen: Morris
Goldman, ticket; Roland Webb, Journal;
Stuart Nolan, program; Fred Robbins, reception;
Ted Uzzle, reservation.
Forman Is Advised Against
Further Cinerama Buys
LOS ANGELES—In response to inquiries,
an officer of Cinerama, Inc., stated
that to his knowledge there were no corporate
developments which would account for
the recent drop in the price of Cinerama
stock.
A representative for William R. Forman,
the president of Cinerama, Inc., and the
beneficial owner of approximately 35 per
cent of the stock of Cinerama, Inc., added
that Forman and companies controlled by
him, which have in the past been purchasing
Cinerama stock, have been advised by
counsel to make no further purchases at
this time in order to avoid any possibility
of liability to Cinerama under the securities
laws.
This advice was occasioned by a recent
private sale by such companies of a portion
of their holdings representing high
tax cost basis Cinerama stock, a sale which
Forman had mentioned as being in prospect
at the annual meeting of Cinerama October
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.
TlUe Mitributot Rotlng
The Brass Rmg (E. O.
PG
The Great Waldo Pepper (Universal) PG
Loves of Liszt (Ellman)
The Man From Button Willow (AFC) [Gj
\c\
Messiah of Evil (Int'l Cine Film) [r]
Not Now Darling (Dimension) \r\
The Silent Stranger (MGM) PG
Sunday in the Coimtry (*) (Quadrant) \r]
Touch Me Not (Atlas) PG
The Towering Inferno (20th-Fox) PG
The Trial of Billy Jack
(Taylor-Laughlin)
PG
Butler Fixture Maintains
Brisk Delivery Schedule
DENVER— Butler Fixture & Mfg. Co.
has been busy the past few months and
has delivered concession counters to the following
new theatres recently: Puente Hills
6, City of Industry, Calif.; Varsity 6, Tampa,
Fla.; Interstate 6 theatres. Altamonte
Springs, Fla.; J-Town 4, Jeffersontown, Ky.;
Captain Kidd Drive-In. Kettering, Ohio;
Orange 6, Orange, Calif., and Pioneer 4,
Arlington, Tex.
Orem, Also, University Mall, Utah;
Northtown 6, Dallas, Tex.; Stapleton Plaza
Theatre (Howard Johnson), Denver; Highland
Cherry Knolls, Denver; Gage 5 theatres,
Topeka, Kas., and Highland Foothills
Twin, Fort Collins, Colo.
is Butler presently fabricating concession
stands for five other new theatres,
with all of them having been sold via
Proctor Distributing Co., Denver.
'Airport 1975' Magazine
Now Available in U.S.
HOLLYWOOD- "Airpoit 1975- is doing
big business around the coimtry and,
along with it now, is available a 40-page,
glossy-cover magazine bearing the same
title.
Universal printed 150,000 copies of the
magazine and these are being distributed
in the usual magazine and bookstore outlets.
Copies are also offered for sale at
$1.50 as souvenir books at theatres showing
the picture. Teenage Book Clubs, a
division of Xerox, has purchased the magazine
for distribution through school channels
during the Christmas season.
Included in the magazine are more than
100 action shots, a story synopsis and details
of the difficulties in shooting the blockbuster
seqtiel to "Airport."
New Georgina Spelvin Film
Is Premiered in New York
NEW YORK—"Wet
Rambow," starring
Georgina Spelvin, Harry Reams and Valerie
Marron, began its world premiere engagement
Wednesday, October 30, at the Cine
Malibu and Cinema Village in Manhattan.
A Variety Films release in Eastman Color,
it was directed by Duddy Kane for producer
Roger Wald and executive producer
Rob Trenton, from a screenplay by Wald
and Kane.
A hardcore item, the film tells of a happily
married couple whose relationship begins
to break up when a young girl enters
Their
lives.
'Great American Cowboy'
Honored by Scholastic
NEW YORK Cn Y — Scholastic
Magazines
has presented its Bell Ringer Award,
the organization's highest honor, to American
National Enterprises" "The Great American
Cowboy," Oscar-winning documentary
film. Margaret Ronan, film editor of Scho
lastic Magazines, made the award presentation
to Nick Perrott, ANE's New England
states regional manager, in New York.
Head Films to Distribute
Hampton Int'l Product
HOLLYWOOD— Robert Saxton, president
of Hampton International Pictures, has
closed a deal with William Garvin, president
of Head Films, for the latter firm to distribute
Hampton International product
worldwide. Saxton will function as head of
distribution with the parent firm and Garvin,
with Guy Thomas and Tom Richards,
will serve as head of production.
Head Films has announced four films for
production during 1975 and have three completed
and awaiting release. Hampton International
will release "In Love Again"
and "Now Is Forever" in late 1974 and
earlv 1975.
Pipher Opens NY Office.
Relocates in Hollywood
HOI LYWOOD—Joseph Pipher .V Co..
film producing firm, is expanding with a
new Eastern office in New York City and
a relocation of the Hollywood office, it is
announced by Jonathan Zimmerman, vicepresident
of production.
Patrick Montgomery will head the new
Eastern office, 6 East' 39th St.. New York,
and also will be responsible for program development
and special projects.
The Hollywood office has been relocated
to 8444 Melrose Place, West Hollywood.
Zimmerman also announced that Maureen
Melvin, formerly with Filmart in Hollywood,
has joined the company as production
coordinator.
AT lAC SCR1;LMN(,— Staiilfj
Schneider (1) and Len Merl (r) of the
Schneider-Merl exhibition chain and
International .Amusement Corp. distributors
toast their star, Lynn Redgrave
at I.\C press screening of Lynn's
film. "Don't Turn the Other Cheek" in
which she co-stars with Eli Wallach
and Franco Nero. lAC is dLstributing.
BOXOFFICE :: November 4. 1974

. . . Luke
^MfcwMcC defiant
Only six productions were on the starting
line for November—two from majors and
four from independents. The previous
month of October had 11 productions
scheduled for filming. November last year
looked more promising with 13 films charted
to roll.
PARAMOUNT
Home Fri-.h. An action love story, based
on an original screenplay by recent Academy
Award nominee Steve Shagan, is the
initial production of Robert Aldrich and
Burt Reynolds' newly formed Roburt Productions.
Aldrich will produce and direct
with Reynolds starring and making his debut
as executive producer. Originally titled
"City of Angels." "Home Free" will be
filmed entirely in and around Los Angeles.
WARNER BROS.
Seven Men at Daybreak. England and
Czechoslovakia will be the locations for
filming this wartime action drama with no
cast set yet. The book, "Seven Men at Daybreak,"
by Alan Burgess was the basis for
Ronald Harwood"s screenplay. It details the
factual story of the assassination of Reinhard
Heyrich, the Nazi Reichprotector of
German-occupied Czechoslovakia by two
young Czech soldiers who sacrifice themselves
to save their country. Carter De-
Haven will produce while Lewis Gilbert
directs.
INDEPENDENTS
GT Productions,
Inc.
BiXBY. A detective, murder mystery set
in contemporary Atlanta, this production
stems from an original screenplay by producer
Robert Touchstone. Only person cast
so far is the second lead, Jaime Parr, a
regular on the "M*A*S*H" television series.
The second unit director is Hal Necdham.
ITC-EK Productions
KosYGiN Is Coming. Elliott Kastner is
the executive producer teamed with star
George Segal. The producer is Jerry Bick
while Louis Lombardo is directing from a
screenplay by Arnold Margolin.
Pat Rooney Productions
HoNciio. The name of the American who
rides around in a jeep and gets involved in
the struggles of the Mexican-American
farmworkers is "Honcho." The stars are
not set now, but the producer will be Pat
Rooney and Jack Arnold is director. Steven
Lodge and David Cass wrote the screenplay.
Cameras will roll on location in Palm
Springs, Mammoth and Los Angeles.
Sun Productions
Killer. The book of the same name,
subtitled "the autobiography of a mafia hit
man" by Joey with Dave Fisher, sold seven
million copies. Now executive producer
John Leuthold and Paul Nobert have acquired
the rights to the book and plan a
By SYD CASSYD
November start for the movie version. Don
Carpenter wrote the screenplay. No director
or cast is set.
Telefon/ 'Pennant for the
Kremlin' Top Story Buys
"Telefon," by Walter Wager, the Literary
Guild alternate selection for January 1975.
has been acquired by MGM for motion
picture production, it was announced by
Daniel Melnick. senior vice-president and
worldwide head of production. The highly
unconventional spy story is told with wry
wit, generating tremendous suspense and
building to an intensely visual and dramatic
climax. Wager, who is currently director
of public relations for ASCAP, has written
17 other books . . . Producer Rudy Durand
has purchased Paul Malloy's whimsical
novel, "A Pennant for the Kremlin," from
Jake Ross of Doubleday for feature production
under his Rudy Durand Productions
banner. The project concerning Russia's inheritance
of a baseball team, which winds
up going to the World Series, is scheduled
to start production in early August 1975
. . . Director Harvey Hart and Canadian
novelist Ann Charney have formed a partnership
to produce via Hart's Rohar Productions
Ms. Charney's original story,
"Elizabeth's Exile." The story is set against
the background of political unrest in
Canada during the past decade. Ms. Charney,
author of the recently published novel,
"Dobrid," will write the screenplay . . .
Producer George Barrie has signed James
Toback to write the screenplay for "Vicky,"
a biography of Victoria C. Woodhull—the
first woman to run for the U.S. presidency
—for Barrie's Brut Productions. Toback
wrote the screenplay for the James Caan
starrer, "The Gambler." "Vicky," written
by MM. Marbcrry and published by Funk
and Wagnall's describes the life of the
"free-love" advocate and four-time Presidential
candidate. Barrie recently completed
"Whiffs," starring Elliott Gould, for Warner's
release.
Lee Marvin, Roger Moore Star
In 'Shout at the Devil'
Lee Marvin and Roger Moore will
costar
in "Shout at the Devil," adventure picture
set in 1913-14 Africa, with a February
start planned by producer Michael Klinger
and director Peter Hunt. Klinger and Hunt,
who teamed on the current Allied Artists
release "Gold," are basing the new film
on a novel by South African author Wilbur
Smith, who also provided the source for
"Gold." Marvin will play an Irish-American
adventurer and Moore is his colleague in a
story dealing with the blowing up of a German
battleship by World War I saboteurs.
After "Shout at the Devil," scripted by
Smith with two other writers, Klinger and
Hunt are planning to film another book by
Smith, "Eagle in the Sky," a contemporary
love story set in Israel and South Africa
Askew and Bo Hopkins have
joined the top cast of Kirk Douglas' Bryna
production "Posse," railroading western for
Paramount Pictures, in which Douglas
stars, produces and directs. Bruce Dern also
stars. Phil Feldman is executive producer.
"Posse" is being filmed on Arizona locations
from a screenplay by Christopher Knopf
and William Roberts.
Two Texan actors, Peter Harrell III
and John Austin MacDonald have been
signed for key roles in Paramount's "Leadbelly,"
currently filming in Austin. Vivian
Bonnell has been signed to play a featured
cameo role of an 80-year-old woman in
the picture which stars Roger E. Mosley in
the title role. David Frost serves as executive
producer for the Brownstone-David
Paradine production. Marc Merson is producing
and Gordon Parks sr. is directing.
Ernest Kinoy wrote the original screenplay
. . . Shirley Bright Boody and Laura Gray
are set to star in "The Complete Woman,"
based on the Las Vegas beauty business . . .
Producer Robert B. Radnitz has signed William
Lucking to a starring role as the "other
man" involved in a love triangle with Rip
Torn and Ann Wedgeworth in the Radnitz/
Mattel drama, "Birch Interval." He joins a
cast headed by Eddie Albert in the Delbert
Mann-directed feature . . . Warren Oates,
whose screen villainy ranges from sniveling
thieves to grave-robbing beheaders, will take
his first sympathetic starring role in producer
Elliot Kastner's "92° in the Shade,"
soon to be filming on location in Key West,
Fla. Oates will be the only ally that costar
Peter Fonda has in his fight against the
establishment when he tries to modernize
the hunting and fishing industries in his
home town . . . Charles Durning, one of
the original stars of the Pulitzer Prize-winning
Broadway hit, "That Championship
Season," has been signed for a leading
role with Al Pacino and Carol Kane in
the Warner Bros, drama, "Dog Day Afternoon,"
which just began filming in New
York.
Cinema National Retitles
Film Following Contest
HOLLYWOOD—"Three for the Money"
is the new title for a Cinema National film
due for release in November. The former
title, "Just Another Day at the Races," was
replaced at a recent preview where theatregoers
competed for a merchandise award.
From several hundred entries Cinema
National president Fred Briskin selected the
entry by T. K. Moch of Rolling Hills, Calif.
The winner chooses merchandise from Gifts
Galore, a swank Beverly Hills gift shop.
"Three for the Money" stars Dean Stockwell,
Russ Tamblyn, former football great
Alex Karras and features McLean Stevenson,
M*A*S*H's Colonel Henry Blake.
The comedy feature is set to open premiere
engagements in Detroit and Atlanta
November 20 under the new title.
BOXOFFICE :: November 4, 1974

. . . My
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7
. . . Looked
. . Very
!—James
—
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--Com ME A/
^*wo G-rated films took top spots on September's
ballot, as "The Mad Adventures
of 'Rabbi' Jacob" (20th-Fox) garnered
the Blue Ribbon Award, outdistancing runnerup
"Pippi in the South Seas" (G.G. Communications)
by better than two to one.
Honorable mention went to "The Girl From
Petrovka" (Univ), although it received considerably
more votes than comment.
The major problem this month was
nothing new, but somehow more noticeable:
During the summer, distribution of
films throughout the U.S. is widely scattered,
allowing fewer members to view a
cross-section of the entries.
Following is what some NSC members
had to say about September's ballot:
"Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob"
"Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob" suffers
from bad titling. It really is an engaging
picture, with no ethnic limits of appeal.
Carole Kass, Richmond Times-Dispatch
... So many of these films have not hit
Cleveland yet and I have not seen many,
but my vote will go to "The Mad Adventures
of 'Rabbi' Jacob." It is just good entertainment
and so very funny; an oldfashioned,
slapstick-type of comedy, rare
these days.—Mrs. Paul Gebhart, Cleveland
WOMPI.
Far-out slapstick fun for the whole family.—John
P. Recher, NATO of Md., Baltimore
. . . Only six of these have opened
in Pittsburgh so far and not one is better
than average. I wouldn't be surprised if
"Wedding in Blood" or "Phase IV" were the
best on the list, but I haven't seen them.
By default, my vote goes to "Rabbi Jacob."
—Edward L. Blank, Pittsburgh Press.
"Rabbi Jacob" is one of the funniest,
most inventive pieces of cinema in recent
memory. We missed many of the gags because
we were too busy laughing at a previous
bit of nonsense. In many respects, the
film is a European "All in the Family." We
saw a subtitled version, which— if left that
way in general release—might make the picture
rough going for younger audiences.
William J. Knittle jr., Columbia Magazine.
KXLU-FM, syndicated columns, Venice.
Calif.
"Pippi in the South Seas"
Too many on the list I haven't seen.
"Pippi in the .South Seas" is an adventure
film for youngsters to enjoy.—Mrs. Wayne
F. Shaw, NSUSD of 1818, Lawrence, Kas.
kids loved it.—Tim C. Warner.
Theatre Operators, Inc., Bozeman, Mont.
. . . Only three on the list have played here,
but the choice is easy: "Pippi in the South
Seas."—Joan Vadeboncoeur, Syracuse Herald-Journal
& Herald-American . . . For the
family.—Mrs. Nathaniel Rouse, Staten Island
BFC.
"The Girl From Petrovka"
Goldie Hawn and Hal Holbrook make
"The Girl From Petrovka" a very moving
love story. Miss Hawn sheds her comical
status with a fine, dramatic performance.
Bill Kitchen, Ottumwa (Iowa) Courier . . .
A touching, well-done film.—Walt Reno,
KORK Radio, Las Vegas.
* I
J^abbi Jacob": The critic in Time said
that if this movie ha.s 1,000 gags,
he must surmise that 998 of them aren't
funny. Jeez, wotta sourpuss. Doesn't
anybody like to LAUGH anymore? It's
a little slow in spots, but a real ecumenical
uproar overall. Too bad that a
lot of people fearing a "Jewish" movie
will pa.s this up. There's a lesson about
intolerance amid the laughs, too, although
the movie never preaches. Best
comedy since "Tall Blond Man With
One Black Shoe," which also was from
France. From this Protestant, a hearty
"Shalom:"—Doug Smith, Buffalo
Courier-Express.
"The Girl From Petrovka": Excellent,
well-done entertainment. "Pippi":
Fine movie fare, worth seeing. "Phase
IV": Good entertainment; movies don't
have to be great to be fun and interesting.
This one is entertaining.—Ralph
L. Smith, Examiner-Enterprise, Bartlesville.
Ok.
"Rabbi Jacob": Great visual comedy,
however, the subtitles could hinder
its overall family appeal. Although
production values are minimal, "Pippi
in the South Seas" provides good, clean
entertainment for children.—Justin
Jacobsmeire, Orpheum Theatre, Sioux
City, Iowa.
It just keeps right on happening.
Either you people are too quick on the
draw, or the local movie houses are
just Svay behind. I suspect the latter.
Anyway, not one of these films has
been around these parts. All I can do is
repeat la.st month's vote for "The White
Dawn," simply because it's coming
back here next week.
On the other hand, I can also cast an
emphatic negative vote for a film I
labeled as the epitome of a "new pornography"—a
pornography of blood
lust and violence—here last week:
"Death Wish." My review wished for
a boxoffice boycott. The result? It's
being held over for its "second smash
week."
Frank Capra was here last week for
a film festival. I asked him whatever
happened to movies. He .said they're
gonna come back. I hope that's not
wishful thinking.—CJeoffrcy C. Chapman,
Bennington (Vt.) Banner.
Miscellaneous
(Lisicd in order of votes received)
Phase IV: This study of the
highly organized,
sophisticated system of ant life is
captured in outstanding photography.—Lois
Baumoel. Cleveland MPC . . . Marvelous
photography of ants and a provocative, science-fiction
storyline. Engrossing to watch
and discuss.—Dr. James K. Loutzenhiser,
Mo. Council of Arts, Kansas City . . .
"Phase IV" is the best of a mediocre list,
with a high rating based on its ability to
hold sustained interest from viewers. It's
almost a gratuitous victory.—Don Leigh
McCulty, W. Va. Theatre Booking Agency,
Clarksburg.
While the film is a flop, probably because
of its platitude plot. "Phase IV" has some
of the most stunning, thought-provoking,
special photography seen in recent years.
Training ants may be impossible, but it sure
looks like they were performing—a stunt
that should appeal both to teenagers and
adults.—Carole Kass, Richmond Times-
Dispatch.
Man of the East: A fun-for-all movie.
What can I say!—John Leonhart, Mid
.American Theatres, Hays, Kas.
Wedding In Blood: A superb thriller and
one of the top ten films of 1974.—Rene L
Ash, lATSE, N.Y.C.
None Seen, None Missed
For very obvious reasons, I pass! Lumpy
pablum ("Pippi") to mayhem ("Kung-Fu
Girls"). Is this what the G rating has come
to? If so, bring on the Rs! ! R.
Ruth. Sunday News. Lancaster . . Almost
.
none of these is in our area yet. I'm sorry
I can't vote, but I would like to comment
on the sensitive performance given by Art
Carney in "Harry & Tonto/' Superb.—
Nancy Nelson, WTCN-TV, Minneapolis.
None of these has been here. "That's
Entertainment!" is still going strong!
Dorothy R. Shank, WJJL, Niagara Falls,
N.Y.
. poor selection. How could
"Wedding in Blood" get in there?—Bert
Reisfeld, press representative for German v.
Switzerland, England, Austria; Beverly Hills.
Calif. (Because it has a PG rating.—MJG)
... A plague take all your houses!—Jim
Schrader, Amherst Bee, Williamsville, N.Y.
(And a happy Guy Fawkes Day to you.
MJG)
Nothing worth worrying about this
month—at least nothing that has already
graced the Lincoln movie scene.—Holly D.
Spence, Sunday Journal & Star, Lincoln
these up in the reviews and am
not very e.xcited about any of them. Played
"Pippi in the .South Seas."—W.R. Kemp.
Grand Theatre. Grand Island, Neb ... I
pass. Pictures have got to be better. We are
at the bottom of the barrel!—Leon Averitt,
Don Theatre. Alexandria, La.
Lucky us. One. count 'em one, of these
has played Cincinnati: "Petrovka." It was
far. far from choice. No vote.—Tom Mc-
Elfresh, Cincinnati Enquirer . . . Can't
recommend any! .Sorry.-—Cathy Slipper,
Slipper Theatre Supply, Inc., Omaha . . .
Have seen too few, but "Pippi" is too childish
for adults and "Girl From Petrovka" is
loo adult for children.—Nevart Apikian,
Syracuse Post-Standard.
We need more films like "That's Entertainment!"
Come on, MGM. hurry up on
that planned sequel. No choice this month.
It's too bad "That's Entertainment!"
couldn't win again as the best picture released
this year. Will it be nominated for
Best Picture? Can it be? What do the experts
say?—R.J. Spatafore, teacher, San
Francisco. (Not having an expert handy,
this non-authority doesn't believe "That's
Entertainment!" will be eligible in the Best
Picture category.—MJG)
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the 20 key cities checked. Pictures with fewer than five engagements ore not listed. As new runs
ore reported, ratings are added and averages revised. Computation is in terms of percentage in
relation to normal grosses as determined by the theatre managers. With 100 per cent os "normal,"
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High Court Upholds
Md/s Censor Board
WASHINGTON, D.C. Ihc Supicnic
Court October 29 upheld the constitutionality
of Maryland's film censorship law.
with four justices dissenting. The high court
rebuffed a Baltimore bookseller who alleged
that the statue violated the constitutional
guarantee of free expression and dm.'
process
of law.
Maryland's law establishes a state board
of censors and requires that films be
licensed before exhibition. It further forbids
the licensing of films considered obscene.
The court majority issued no opinion accompanying
the order affirming a lower
court decision rejecting the claims of Al
Star, who brought suit after several police
raids on his bookstores which contain coinoperated
machines showing so-called adult
movies.
Justices William O. Douglas. William J.
Brennan, Potter Stewart and Thurgood
Marshall stated they considered the Maryland
statute imconstitutional and would
have reversed the lower court.
"By imposing his sanctions in advance,
the censor circumvents all the protections
of the Bill of Rights," Douglas wrote. 'No
form of censorship, no matter how speedy
or efficient it may be, is constitutionally
permissible."
In a separate opinion. Justices Brennan,
Stewart and Marshall said they believed the
Maryland law "is constitutionally overbroad
and therefore invalid on its face."
Budco's Quakertown
Twin Bows Nov. 13
PHILADELPHIA—The newest Budco
twin cinemas will open in Quakertown, Pa.
Wednesday (13), the Budco Quakertown
cinemas I and II. First feature at Budco
1 will be "The Trial of Billy Jack, " while
BLidco II will have the Quakertown premiere
of "Law and Disorder," starring Carroll
O'Connor and Ernest Borgnine.
The cinemas, located in the Country
Square Shopping Center on Route 309, will
operate imder the supervision of district
manager Charles Poorman. Budco president
Claude J. Schlanger feels that Quakertown,
a rapidly growing community between
Doylcstown and AUcntown, will welcome
such a beautiful new theatre.
The auditoriums will be in black, red,
silver and white, while the lobby decor will
be in red and white, the interiors having
been designed by Daroff. Seating will be
.'i50 seats in Cinema 1 and 450 in Cinema
II. Architect John R. Betts is with the
consulting firm of Abramowitz Associates.
The two new projection booths have
been equipped with the most modern sound
and projection systems by Ballantyne,
while the xenon lamps are by Strong.
Warner Bros.' "Ryan's the Name" has
been retitled "The Drowning Pool."
BUFFALO RECOGNITION—
George M. Josephs, general sales manager.
Crown International Pictures,
presents Ike Eriichnian, Buffalo distributor
for Crown a check representing
fourth place money in the "Red"
Jacobs Sales Drive. The drive was over
a six-month period, ending September
28. Six exchanges shared in a total of
$5,000 prize money.
Bausch 6c Lomb Has Record
Earnings in 3rd Quarter
NEW YORK— Record sales and earnings
for the third quarter of 1974 have been reported
by Bausch & Lomb, developer of the
CinemaScope lens. Daniel G. Schuman,
chairman, said sales for the third quarters
were a record $75,656,000, an increase of
29 per cent over the same period in 1973.
Net earnings were $4,437,000, an increase
of 31 per cent, compared with $3,3SS,0()0
(before extraordinary items) for the same
period last year.
The third-quarter earnings include an expense
of $375,000 net after tax and relocation
and moving expenses. Extraordinary
items in 1973 were a gain of $350,000 resulting
from currency re-evaluations and a
loss of $1,475,000 incurred in the sale of
major facilities in Rochester, N.Y.
Nine-month earnings were $2.05 a share
compared with $L48 in 1973. Extraordinary
items reduced earnings per share in
the 1973 period to $1.42.
Nine-month earnings in 1974 include a
gain of $650,00 from currency re-evaluations
and an expense of $1,125,()00 net after
tax for relocation and moving expenses,
which are expected to total approximately
$1,500,000 for the year. Extraordinary
items in 1973 were a gain from currency
re-evaluations of $1,150,000 and a loss of
$1,475,000 on disposition of the Rochester
facilitv.
Loews Personnel Lauded
BROOKLYN, N.Y.—Orvillc Crouch,
general manager of Loews Theatres, received
a letter from a patron of Loews'
Alpine Theatres, commending manager Jean
Pulice and her staff. "I found it to be one
of the nicest and best-kept theatres I have
been to in Brooklyn." the patron wrote
Crouch.
Variety Tenl 19 Will
Give Awards Nov. 16
BALTIMORE — Variety Club lent 19
\\\\\ hold a banquet November 16 from 6:30
p.m. to 1 a.m. at Martin's West to honor
eight international vice-presidents. They are:
Alvin Akman, Ernest Crofoot, Sol Hoffman,
John Kopp, Gerald Menapace, Sam
Nocella, Clayton Russell and Earl Shephard.
Presenting Humanitarian Awards to the
honorees will be Phil Harris, ex-chief barker
of Tent 19 and president of the Heart
of Variety Foundation.
Joseph Townsley. current chief barker of
Tent 19, also will be honored on this occasion
for "his devoted efforts in aiding handicapped
Baltimore children so they might
be transported to schools and places of recreation."
The bash will feature varied hors
d'oeuvres, a sit-down dinner, open bar, food
and dancing to Bernie Bernard's band.
Chairman for the general event is H. Morton
Rose, assisted by Al Zlatin, first assistant
chief barker of Tent 19 and owner
of Maryland Display Services. Phil Harris
is chairman of the banquet.
Tickets are $35 per person and proceeds
wil go toward the purchase of a Sunshine
Coach, as well as aid in arranging for a
hand vehicle to assist shut-ins with mobile
kidney units.
Reservations can be made by calling
Mrs.
Leslie Cimino at the Variety Club office,
where the telephone number is 484-2947.
'Sting' Sets Attendance
Record in Syracuse Run
Syracuse— More than 140.000 patrons
attended the Shop City engagement
of I'niversal's Paul Newman-
Robert Redford starrer. "The Sting,"
setting a new attendance record at the
theatre.
A total of 141.938 moviegoers saw
the Oscar-winning motion picture during
its 39-week run. which also was a
record engagement in length.
Closest competitor to "The Sting"
was "The Poseidon Adventure" which,
in 21 weeks, played to 76.180 persons.
"Fiddler on the Roof." which also
played 21 weeks at Shop City, attracted
47.605 patrons during its run.
Duo in Fairmont Complex
FAIRMONT, W. VA.—A twin theatre
to be owned and operated by Grant and
Lawrence Thomas of Oak Hill will be a
part of the $2.5 million Kroger Square on
Country Club Road which is expected to be
completed in early 1975. William A. .\bruzzino.
owner and developer of the Kroger
Square site, said the 6.000-square-foot twin
would be located in the shopping center's
main building.
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B R O A D W Ay
JJALLOWEEN WAS OBSERVED with
the opening of several seasonal attractions,
some on local screens. "Phantom of
the Paradise," Brian De Palma's rock horror
spoof, had its world premiere October 31
at the Trans-Lux East. A musical comedy
takeoff on the classic "Phantom of the
Opera." the 20th Century-Fox release stars
Paul Williams as the satanic impresario
Swan and William Finley as the Phantom.
Paramount's horror bill, "Frankenstein
and the Monster From Hell" and "Captain
Kronos: Vampire Hunter," began October
30 at some 60 showcase theatres in the
New York—New Jersey area. Both films
are Hammer productions and feature Shane
Briant. Horst Janson stars as Captain Kronos,
recruited by an early 19th century
village to find and destroy a vampire which
has been terrorizing the countryside. Continuing
in his role of Baron Frankenstein,
noted actor Peter Cushing is found in
prison by one of his disciples who tried
to follow in his footsteps.
•
Michael Greer, actor-singer-comedian, appeared
on stage and screen at the Columbia
I Theatre Friday (1) and Saturday (2)
at midnight. Presented by Robert W. Meyer,
managing director of Cinema I and II.
Greer performed on stage and was followed
by a screening of "Fortune and
Men's Eyes" (1971), in which he stars as
Queenie, a prisoner.
Greer, currently doing an act at Reno
Sweeney's where Joan Hackett is appearing
as a singer, will repeat his Columbia I
show Friday (8) and Saturday (9). The film
then will be "The Gay Deceivers" (1969),
in which he also has a leading role.
Bernard Lewis, publicist who formerly
operated his own company on West 57th
Street, wiill now be located at 1755 Ocean
Parkway in Brooklyn (zip: 11223). His
new phone number is 645-5094. Lewis also
publishes Movie Report, a guide for young
people and parents as to the content of
current films.
•
"Amazing Grace," starring Moms Mabley,
opened Friday (1) at the Cinerama
and RKO 86th Street Twin 2 theatres. The
comedy, directed by Stan Lathan for United
Artists, also stars Slappy White, Moses
Gunn, Rosalind Cash and guest stars
Stepin Fetchil and Butterfly McQueen. It
had a three-theatre preview October 25 at
the Cinerama. RKO 86th Street Twin 2
and RKO 59th Street Twin 2.
Moms' voice will be heard Monday (4)
and Tuesday (5) in a special Election Day
drive throughout Harlem and mid-Manhattan.
She has recorded a nonpartisan
message, which will be heard via the public
address system of a special van, urging New
Yorkers to vote. The van is plastered with
display ads for the politically oriented film,
in
which Moms helps a black candidate run
for mayor of Baltimore.
From October 26 through Wednesday (6),
United Artists and WLIB Radio are holding
a "Man in the Street Contest." The station's
"Man in the Street" will appear in
different neighborhoods each day. A total
of 150 "Amazing Grace" T-shirts and 150
tickets to a special screening of the film
will be given away.
•
Openings: "The Klansman," starring
Richard Burton and Lee Marvin, arrives
Wednesday (20) at the Astor Plaza and
86th Street East theatres. A Willliam Alexander-Bill
Shiffrin production of a Terence
Young film, the Paramount release is based
on the William Bradford Huie novel and
concerns a clash between black militants
and the Ku KJux Klan in a small Alabama
town. Co-starring are Cameron Mitchell,
Klass are industry veterans and both formerly
were associated with DeVisser Theatres,
headed by Spyros Lenas.
Freidemann was general manager of the
football star O. J. Simpson, Lola Falana,
Luciana Paluzzi, David Huddleston and circuit for a number of years, while Klaas
Linda Evans.
managed several theatres throughout the cir-
"Murder on the Orient Express," a John
Brabourne-Richard Goodwin production for
Paramount, has its American premiere
Sunday (24) at the Coronet Theatre. Di-
at the Oakland Twin the night before the
rected by Sidney Lumet, the Agatha Christie
tale stars Albert Finney as the celebrated
detective Hercule Poirot and co-stars
such talents as Lauren Bacall, Martin
Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset,
Sean Connery, Sir John Gielgud, Wendy
Hiller. Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave,
Rachel Roberts and Richard Widmark.
•
Showcases November 30: "The Texas
Cliainsaw Massacre," "Hawaii Sex-O" and
"Gina. the Foxy Chick," Andy Warhol's
"Frankenstein." "Airport 1975." "The Last
Detail" and "The Lords of Flatbush" and
"The Black Windmill" and "Winning,"
among others. Opening Friday (I) was "Big
Bad Mama" and "The Family" and Columbia's
"Open Season." UA's all-black
bill. "Five on the Black Hand Side" and
"The Spook Who Sat By the Door," opened
October 30, as did the company's "Juggernaut."
Columbia's "California Split" has a
showca.'/e break Wednesday (6).
•
The Museum of Modern Art's MOM
series continues through November. A highlight
is the Monday (4) screening at 5:30
p.m. of two musicals, "Small Town Girl"
(1953) starring Jane Powell, and "Flying
High" (1931) with Bert Lahr and Charlotte
Greenwood. The 1935 and 1962 versions
of "Mutiny on the Bounty" also are scheduled.
Summer Festival Appreciated
NEW YORK—Marie Brcch, recording
secretary of St. Rita's Ladies Au,\iliary in
Meiers Corners, recently expressed public
thanks and congratulations to the management
of the Lane Theatre for presenting a
summer festival of Disney films. "It is reassuring
to know that there is a theatre
management that is concerned with the
welfare of the children of Staten Island,
even to the extent of screening the coming
attractions. Please let there be more of
these film festivals," said Ms. Brech.
Oakland Twin Cinema
Holds Grand Opening
OAKLAND, N.J.—The Oakland Twin
cinemas, located in the Long Hill Shopping
Plaza in Oakland, were unveiled recently
with a grand-opening celebration. Inaugural
attractions were "Chinatown" at Cinema 1
and three Woody Allen features at Cinema
The theatres, one with 350 seats and the
other accommodating 450 viewers, are
owned and operated by Howard Freidemann
and Robert Klass as a subsidiary of
the DeVisser circuit. Both Freidemann and
cuit. He most recently had been Bergen
County supervisor for DeVisser.
A benefit showing of "Mame" was held
public opening, with all proceeds going to
Oakland Mavor Leroy Wright's Youth
Fund.
Alan Hirschfield Honored
At B'nai B'rith Luncheon
NEW YORK—Columbia Pictures Industries
president Alan J. Hirschfield was guest
of honor at the first Cinema Unit B'nai
B'rith luncheon of the new season, held October
24 at the Warwick Hotel. He gqve
much the same speech a few days later at
the annual Columbia stockholders' meeting,
saying that prospects for the next year look
very bright after the losses of recent years.
Rabbi Ralph Silverstein delivered the invocation,
later announcing that his study
group would meet Thursday (14) at Columbia's
home office here to discuss the image
currently projected by Henry Kissinger.
Reference was made to a Veterans Day
show October 28 at Veterans Hospital, at
which entertainers would perform and Joe
Franklin of WOR-TV would host.
Before making his address, Hirschfield introduced
his wife Bert and Columbia board
chairman Leo Jaffe in the audience. This
was his first speech before an industry
group, Hirschfield said, and admitted he
preferred to keep quiet. He stated that this
had been an "interesting" year for him at
Columbia and a good one, despite economic
setbacks. In observing the 5 1st anniversary
of the company next year, Columbia
will bring out its first X-rated film, "Emanuelle,"
from France, and such product as
"Funny Lady," "Shampoo" and "Tommy,"
he said.
Hirschfield stated that it took a whole
year to get Columbia back into high production
and that even the banks are pleased
with the results. Outside investment financed
the films to a large extent, he mentioned,
adding that this is "the wave of the present
as well as the future." The year 1975 will
be one of the best in Columbia's history,
he stated.
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. . The
BUFFALO
geveral local theatres which until recently
specialized in X-rated films "are showing
tamer movies these days." said Dave
Stout in the Evening News the other day.
'The reason, according to theatre executives
who are willing to talk about it. is that
there's just too much legal hassle involved
in the adult entertainment field." said Stout,
who also declared that "at least two film
theatres apparently plan to continue showing
porno flicks." He added. "But four
theatres said they're abandoning most, if
not all. X-rated features. What is happening
is clear enough: police and prosecutors are
stepping up their campaigns on what they
believe are 'dirty' movies."
Marcel Marceau is appearing at Como T
in a Paramount feature. "Shanks." co-starring
Philippe Clay. It is a first-run exclusive.
In addition to his great success on the
stage. Marcel is seeking fame on the screen.
Kensington Theatre personnel are taking
an inventory to determine what was taken
by the thieves who ransacked the offices
and battered open a safe in the theatre. Kensington
police said a door behind the stage
in the theatre at 3051 Bailey Ave. was
forced open ... Ike Erhlichman of Frontier
Amusement was among those awarded cash
prizes at the Atlanta meeting of Crown
International Pictures. Mannie A. Brown,
president of Frontier, also attended the
powwow.
Lou Lieser, manager of the local Avco
Embassy branch, hears that his company has
acquired worldwide distribution rights to
"The Photographer." starring Michael
Callan . . . Industryites here are glad to
hear that Tom Fenno. formerly an account
executive for WKBW. has been named executive
vice-president of Ed Yelin Enterprises
on the West Coast after 16 years with
Capital Cities Communications, parent company
of KPOL Radio in Los Angeles. Fenno,
who recently was named an international
ambassador of Variety, was director of the
recent Tent 25 telethon in Los Angeles. He
also was active in that branch of Variety
work here.
Jack Blatt and Jim Jansen of the Blatt
Bros, home office were in town the other
day to confer wih Bob Kowal, district manager
of the company's local drive-in operations.
They made an inspection tour of their
ozoners and found everything in tip-top
shape . . . The Lincoln Theatre on
way soon is to reopen under new owners.
Mr. and Mrs. Bleck. The Blecks have finished
a remodeling project that has taken
a lot of planning and hard work. They have
changed the name of the Lincoln to the
Nickelodeon . Rev. J. Mair. pastor
of Hunts Corners Road First Baptist
Church, arranged for a special free showing
of the film "Isn't It Good to Know." All
families in the area were invited to see the
picture, which wiis edited and directed by
J. Michael Hooser. a 26-ycar-old independent
filmmaker.
Meyer Balsom, 78, prominent theatre
musician and a member of the Buffalo Philharmonic
Orchestra for 33 years, is dead.
For a period in the early '30s. Balsom sang
baritone in Shea's Buffalo and later became
musical director in the Century. With his
brother, the late Moe Balsom. he played
violin with Shea's Buffalo orchestra. Balsom
was serving as personnel manager at
Melody Fair in North Tonawanda at the
time of his death.
Jim Hayes, former Buffalonian and now
director of Tent 25 in Los Angeles, informs
us that he has moved to a new home address
and that he plans to attend the Pioneers
dinner at the Waldorf in New York
City Monday (25). He also plans to visit
old friends and relatives in this city and
Rochester at that time, spending the holidays
with his mother in Kodak Town. At
present Jim is working hard on all the
events at Tent 25. which has offices at 125
south Robertson Blvd.. near Third Street,
in Los Angeles. Pacific Theatres donated
this generous office space, according to
Jim.
The Four Seasons 1 and 2 on Miliary
Road. Niagara Falls, is enjoying excellent
business with "That's Entertainment!" in
Cinema I and "Gone With the Wind" in
Cinema II. Among coming attractions in
these Cataract City theatres are "Airport
1975" and "The Trial of Billy Jack" . . .
Any seat in either Cinema 1 or 2 at 2500
Military Rd.. Niagara Falls, is priced at $1
any time. The attractions are "Thunderbolt
and Lightfoot" in Cinema 1 and "Harrad
Summer" in Cinema 2.
Dave Colson, all dressed up, had his picturj
published in Ad-Vents, the Ad Club
publication. The prominent Variety Club
Tent 7 member was one of the celebrities
at the Columbus Nile celebration in the
Three Coins Restaurant the other evening.
Buffalo Cinema Club, resuming its
monthly meetings, convened at the Amherst
Community Church, 77 Washington Hwy.,
Amherst, at 8 p.m. Friday (I). Open to the
public, the films shown were "That's Cryslal
Clear." by Joan, Winkelman; "Our National
Parks," by Harold Hachten, and
"Dignity," by the late Bill Hamilton. Those
In attendance had an opportunity to discuss
lilmniaking.
Erie County DA Will
Continue Crackdown
BUFFALO — A state appellate courts
decision that obscenity cases must be decided
on statewide standards, not county
standards, will have no effect on prosecutions
in Erie County, it has been announced
by Dist. Atty. Edward C. Cosgrove.
The district attorney's office declared.
"We have the utmost confidence in the
juries of this community to apply common
sense in determining what is obscene."
The district attorney's office had begim
a drive against obscenity and pornography
in
cooperation with Detective Joseph Scinta
of the Buffalo police salacious literature
squad after the state's new obscenity law
took effect September 1. Several theatres
abandoned showing X-rated films in the
face of court injunctions and heavy fines.
"This drive will continue and the decision
of the appellate division will not, in my
opinion, affect any disposition of charges,"
said the district attorney.
The appellate division in Rochester, N.Y.,
ha.s reaffirmed that obscenity cases must
be decided on statewide standards and a
unanimous ruling of a five-man panel there
has reversed the obscenity conviction of
two Kodak Town area men and ordered
new trials.
Citizen Group Interested
In Preserving WRO Hoiise
ASBURY PARK, N.J.— Plans by the
Walter Reade Organization to demolish the
47-year-old palatial Mayfair Theatre here
have been halted, at least temporarily, due
to the protests of a concerned group of
Asbury Park citizens who want the 2,000-
seat Mayfair, a landmark in this area, to
remain intact for conversion into a film
museum. Michael Frankel, an artist and
chairman of the Committee to Save the
Mayfair Theatre, said his group has contacted
the Historical Sites Council of the
New Jersey Environmental Agency to have
the Mayfair placed under its jurisdiction.
The case cannot be heard for several
months.
Meanwhile, following negotiations between
the citizen group, the city and Reade
officials, an agreement was reached wherein
Reade agreed to halt all plans to demolish
the theatre until Friday (15).
The Mayfair has been closed since September
and. according to Sheldon Gunsberg,
spokesman for Reade. a decision to
raze it. as well as the circuit's St. James in
Asbury Park, was reached due to the size
and age of the buildings.
"Today's economy and energy crisis,"
said Gunsberg, "preclude the possibility of
efficiently remodeling or modernizing the
two theatres."
Operated by Reade since its opening in
1927, the Mayfair was built at a cost of
$1.5 million by European artisans and it
features Spanish, carved filigree inside and
out, a giant grille door and a large Spanish
well in the lobby. Carved lighting fixtures
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grace the theatre and a projector plays cloiid
images onto the ceiling.' A three-manual
Mighty Mohler theatre organ accompanied
the silent films when the house first opened
and, until World War II. it chimed the
hours in the bell tower of the theatre for
people of Asbury Park.
the
Frankel wants to convert the Mayfair
into a cinema museum, the first of its kind
on the East Coast, because "this will show
future generations just how movie theatres
used to look." He termed the 1920s "the
golden age of movies" and added, "The
Mayfair is the most beautiful building in
Asbury Park."
All sides now are waiting for— and discussing—suggestions
from the city and other
responsible groups on ways to preserve the
landmark.
'GWTW Still Boxoffice
Magic in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA — Although "Gone
With the Wind" has been sold to national
TV for showing in 1976, the 35-year-old
feature is still boxoffice magic here. It was
shown last month in approximately 20 area
theatres with great success. When it started
its reissue schedule in October at the Trans-
Llix Theatre in center city, the lines at
the boxoffice were long on weekends. According
to Mert Shapiro of the Sameric
circuit that owns the theatre, as many
people were turned away as saw the film.
'Now that's not bad," Shapiro said,
"when you consider it was competing with
the Eagles (pro football team), who were
doing quite well, the baseball playoffs, the
World Series. Olde City Sunday and Super
Simday (city-sponsored giant block parties)
and the new TV season. I can see why
people would be eager to get a last look
at it on a full-size screen. I mean, think
of it: 'Gone With the Wind' on a 1 7 or
19-inch screen. It's ridiculous."
Making its farewell visit to motion picture
theatres before going to TV, the same
reaction is being experienced by other
houses. According to John Sarris, manager
of the Eric Pilgrim Gardens Theatre, a
Sameric house in suburban Drexel Hill,
Pa., "It's not just the older women who
sigh. It's the young ones, too, the teenage
girls who've heard about Clark Gable from
their mothers. They see what the older
women have been talking about. And the
yoimg men react, too. It's not exactly a
sigh, more a kind of grunt, an 'ah-haaaa!'
He's 'cool' in their parlance, the master has
arrived and they
take note of how he operates."
Sarris had expected to be showing "Gone
With the Wind" for a week but business was
good and he's now had it for a fourth
week. Other theatre managers also report
the old movie warhorse is still doing fairto-good
business.
Story Proposals Weighed
By Bicentennial Agency
PHILADELPHIA— Francis Foid Coppola,
director of "The Godfather," is among
the six film directors who have submitted
story proposals for the $2 million motion
picture planned for the city's 1976 Bicentennial
Popular History Theatre & Exhibit.
Selection of the director to produce the
film will be made by Philadelphia '76.
Inc., the official bicentennial planning
agency.
Coppola set up a firm in San Francisco,
American Zoetrope, to handle his productions.
Bob Dalda, spokesman for the production
firm, said he and Coppola and a
writer worked on the story submitted, which
he said has "ISth century and 20th century
things in it, with a broad geographic
base." If selected, Dalda said they would
begin shooting in February or March.
Another bidder for the bicentennial movie
is Paramount Pictures. Robert Peters, Paramount
vice-president, said the company
had spoken with a number of directors
"committed to us who said they would
like to do it." They range from Howard
Hawks to Henry Hathaway to Gordon
Douglas, he added. The other firms in the
running are 20th Century-Fox, the Francis
Thompson Co. and film companies headed
by directors Delbert Mann and Cliff Robertson.
The bicentennial agency currently is
negotiating a contract for the rental of
I max cameras and projectors, since it was
is specified the movie to use the wraparound
Imax process in shooting and
screening. Only three Imax films have been
produced, all using no storyline and only
spectacular effects like roller coaster rides
associated with the 3-D films of the 195()s.
Dalda said using Imax will make it a little
more awkward shooting the film that way
it's "but It's a spectacular process. worth
the difficulty, makes you feel like you've
been there."
'Forgotten Films' Series
PHILADELPHIA—"Forgotten I ilms," a
series of rare, original films, is being offered
by the center-city YMHA and YWHA in
auditorium with a $2 admission ticket t)r
$1.50 for students and senior citizens. Arranged
by David Grossman, film instructor
the Philadelphia College of Art, the series
at
started October 28 with "The Merry
Widow." produced in 1934 with Jeanette
MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier. The
series offers Hitchcock's 1973 "Young and
Innocent" Monday (4); "The Front Page"
Monday (22), and "Showboat" (concluding
the series) Monday (18).
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BINGHAMTON, N.Y.— Michael Sabal
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Strand and Riviera theatres here. Sabal
most recently managed the Center Theatre
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'Night Porfer' Leads NY Runs 420
For 3rd Week; 'Gambler' 380
NEW YORK.— The Night Porter" continued
as number one for the third straight
week, averaging 420 in its fourth set at the
Baronet. "The Gambler" moved up a notch
to second place, earning 380 for its fourth
week at Tower East. Third was "The Filthiest
Show in Town," previously unreported,
a 375 for the tenth time at RiaJto I. Again
fourth was that subway saga. "The Taking
of Pelham One Three." with a 355 average
for the fourth week at the Criterion (300)
and 86th Street East (410). Fifth again,
"Scenes From a Marriage" scored 340 in
the fifth frame at Cinema I. "Amarcord,"
second last week, was sixth with 320 for
the sixth Plaza week. Scoring on showcase
were "The Longest Yard," "The Groove
Tube," "Chinatown" and the combo "Caged
Heat" and "Women In Cages." At three
first-run houses, "Gold" was doing all right.
(Average Is TOO)
Astor Plozo ^Deoth Wish (Poro), 14th wk 100
Boronef—The Night Porter (Emb), 4th wk 420
Cinema Scenes From a Morrioge (Cinema 5),
5th wk 340
Cinerama Juggernaut (UA), 5th wk 55
Columbia I The Great Battle (Col), 2nd wk 35
Coronet—Low and Disorder (Col), 3rd wk 190
Criterion The Talking of Pelham One Two Three
(UA), 4th wk 300
East 59th Street 2 Juggernaut (UA), 5th wk. . . 75
PITTSBURGH
Qineniette Corp. ha.s initiated a Red Carpet
Club program which reduces teenage
admission prices at its theatres by 75
cents, a policy which should be popular
with young moviegoers. The circuit also has
inaugurated $1 admission prices at certain
selected theatres throughout the city and in
Allegheny County.
December bookings likely will include
"The Night Porter." "The Love Bus." "Flesh
Gordon," "Amarcord" and "Secrets of a
Marriage" . 1927 "Underworld" will
be the History of Film exhibited free of
charge Sunday (10) at 7:30 p.m. at Carnegie
Lecture Hall. Tony Conrad, independent
filmmaker, will show some of his product
there Wednesday evening (13). In the D. W,
Griffith centennial exhibitions. "The White
Rose" (1923) is the Friday (8) feature and
his "America" (1924) will be seen there
Friday (15).
The propu.sed $6 million renovation project
at the "downtown mall" includes two
86th Street East The Taking ot Pelham One
Two Three (UA), 4th wk 410
LiMIe Carnegie Law and Disorder (Col), 3rd wk. .115
New Embassy Alvin Purple (Sands Film Co.),
3rd wk '•5
Pons Harry and Tonto (20th-Fox), 1 Ith wk 95
Plaza Amarcord (New World), 6th wk 320
Rialto The Filthiest Show in Town (Mishkin),
10th wk 375
RKO 86th Street Twin II Juggernaut (UA),
5th wk 125
68th Street Playhouse ^Lacombe, Lucien
(20th-Fox), 2nd wk 240
Sutton The Abdication (WB), 4th wk 125
Tower East The Gambler (Para), 4th wk 380
Trans-Lux West The Great Battle (Col), 2nd wk. 55
World The Life and Times (Mature), 8th wk. , . 260
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"Siddharfha' Leads 260 in 2nd;
'Pelham One Two Three' 220
BALTIMORE—"Siddhartha" from Columbia
scored 260 at the Playhouse to lead
all first runs. Second was captured by "The
Taking of Pelham One Two Three" with
220 at two theatres in its opening week.
"Impulse" was third with 190 and fourth
place fell to "Death Wish" in its second
week with 180.
Cinema 11, Liberty II The Taking of Pelham
One Two Three (UA) 220
Liberty I, Towson The Odessa File (Col), 2nd wk. 170
Mini-Flick Death Wish (Paro), 2nd wk 180
Playhouse Siddhartha (Col), 2nd wk 260
Senator, Westiew I Airport 1975 (Univ), 2nd wk. 125
Westview II, Glen Burnie Mall ^The Longest Yard
(Para), 5th wk 105
Westview III' Impulse (SR) 190
Westview IV The Gambler (Para), 2nd wk 70
mini-theatres, with stores, restaurants, bars,
banks and offices—all indoors—the site being
the three banks and the Freehold Building
at the corner of Forbes and Wood. To
be completed in July 1975, renters will furnish
their own decor and make further renovations
estimated at an additional $2 million.
The project is called "The Bank" and
will include luxury apartments. The scale
model is on view at the Pittsburgh Real
Estate Services Corp.
Ann Curran writes in Market Square:
"We've come to expect anything in the
movies, particularly PG films. Frankly, we
haven't been shocked in a movie since Ingmar
Bergman's "Virgin Spring' a thousand
years ago. And that, by today's standards,
was a game of jacks."
Independent distributors in attendance at
the national NATO convention in Atlanta
included Ross Wheeler and Max Shabason,
respectively of Wheeler Films and
Perilnian
Films here; former local film men Bill
Lange, Chicago, and Manny Brown. Buffalo,
and greeting e.xhibitors at Atlanta was
former local film man Kip Smiley, now in
exhibition
there.
Jim Ecker of Variety lent 1 was pictured
in a newspaper with five-month-old "Fred-
Tent 1 has been helping homeless children
for 48 years.
In area release are such features as "Swedish
Fly Girls." "School for Swingers,"
House of 1,000 Dolls," "Vampire Lovers,"
Cannibal Girls," "Raw Meat," "Heat."
"Hollywood Babylon." "Office Girls,"
School Girl Bride," "Hell House Girls,"
"Behind Locked Doors," "Just the Two of
Us." "Death Wish." "E.xotic Film Festival."
"Doctor Zhivago." "The Parallax View,"
"Cops and Robbers" and "Going Places"
Emerging Woman," documentary
film, was presented in the Chatham College
Theatre.
A top adult attraction, "The Life and
Times .." . . is next up at the Liberty. There
have been five books written by or about
"The Happy Hooker." who is residing in
Canada and is not permitted to return to
the U.S. Bill Lange. former local Warner
Bros, manager, is president of Brian Distributing
Co., which will handle Ms. Hollander's
"My Pleasure Is My Business."
Dr. Joan C. Biordi attended the 15th International
Symposium on Combustion in
Tokyo. Japan, chairing a session and delivering
a special paper, being the only
woman to do so. She is the daughter of
H. E. "Frank" Biordi and Ida Biordi, proprietors
of the Majestic Theatre, Ellwood
City. Mrs. Biordi accompanied her daughter
and they spent an enjoyable three weeks
touring Japan.
The kiddies matinee feature October 26-
27 at a number of theatres was "The Wonderful
World of the Brothers Grimm" . . .
"Evil Come. Evil Go" is heading for the
Art Cinema . Gambler" comes into
the Fiesta Wednesday (6).
Orpheum Theatre Updating
Announced by Cinemette
CLARION. PA.—The Orpheum Theatre,
owned by Pittsburgh-based Cinemette Corp.
of America, recently underwent complete
it renovation, was announced by Jim Nardelli,
who also manages the local Garby
Theatre for the circuit. Refurbishing included
new seats, new carpeting and wall
paneling.
In addition, a new concession stand and
automated projection equipment in the
booth are slated to be added within a few
weeks, as well as a new screen later this
year.
Nardelli said that with the new seats, the
Orpheum would accommodate approximately
350 moviegoers.
'Earthquake' Benefit Bow
At Cinemette's Warner
PITTSBURGH—Giant sound speakers
have been installed in the balcony of Cinemette's
Warner Theatre and throughout
the auditorium for the presentation of Universal
Pictures' Charlton Heston-Ava Gardner
starrer, "Earthquake." The picture debuts
at the Warner Wednesday (13) as a
benefit for Children's Hospital.
The Universal release depicts a devastating
earthquake in the city of Los Angeles
and the added sound equipment is needed
for the "Sensurround" process, which gives
the viewer the sensation of viewing, hearing
and feeling the quake.
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State Theatre May Begin
Offbeat Cinema Policy
NEWARK, DEL.— In a calculated effort
to attract the local population of college
students, near-students and faculty members
by satisfying their film interest with
more than the regular motion pictures,
David Bartholomew, manager of the State
Theatre, introduced an experimental film
policy with the showing of "El Topaw" (El
Tope) Friday (1) through Sunday (3).
Batholomew. himself a graduate of the University
of Delaware here, believes there's
a potential audience for off-beat and cult
films that normally could not be shown as
part of a campus series in other commercial
theatres.
If the experiment with the 1970 film
made in Mexico by Alexandro Jodorowsky
proved successful, Bartholomew planned to
follow with some of Brian De Palma's films.
Robert Altman's "Images," John Huston's
"Fat City," "I.F. Stone's Weekly." "Ten
From Your Show of Shows" and a longer
run of "King of Hearts." He hopes to develop
the State Theatre into a counterpart
of New York's Thulia Theatre and Philadelphia's
TLA (Theatre of the Living Arts)
Cinema.
Bailor Sells Cinema 273
To Universal Theatres
WILMINGTON, DEL.—Cinema 273 is
the latest motion picture house to turn to a
sexploitation film policy as a result of Frank
V. Bailor selling the showplace to Universal
Theatres. Bailor and his sons opened the
house, located in the University Plaza Shopping
Center, just a year ago. However,
business had been poor with family-type
films, so they sold the theatre.
nancial loss incurred in the film exhibition
business. They first lost their $17,500 payment
when a franchise operation went into
Chapter 1 1 bankruptcy.
Blaze at Broadway Theatre
PITMAN. N.J.—Firemen were called
to the Broadway Theatre on a recent Sunday
morning to extinguish a blaze which
apparently started in an air-conditioning
unit. Damage was not believed to be extensive.
Mclanie Griffith, 16-year-old daughter of
Tippi Hedren, will play in Warner Bros.'
"The Drowning Pool."
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BALTIMORE
phe world premiere of "Hangup,
"
an
all-day showing, took place at JF's
Hippodrome Theatre October 23. On the
same bill was "Amazing Grace"
classic "2001; A Space Odyssey" opened a
multiple run October 25 . . . "The House
That Vanished" started a saturation engagement
October 25, playing mostly in driveins
.. . "Super Stooges vs. the Wonder
Women" co-billed with "Sweet Sweetback"
had an all-day showing at JF's Mayfair,
with the doors opening at 9:30 a.m. . . .
"They Only Kill Their Masters." produced
by William Belasco. nephew of Leon B.
Back, general manager of Rome Theatres
and president of NATO of Maryland, was
shown Sunday night. October 27. on Channel
2's late show slot. Belasco makes his
home in California. The film had its local
theatrical showing in December 1972.
Mrs. Vera (Austin) Wolfe, secretary for
NATO of Maryland, is entering St. Agnew
Hospital Saturday (9) for various tests . . .
Stanley Baker of the Hicks/ Baker circuit,
who entered Greater Baltimore Medical
Center during the October 26 weekend, underwent
surgery Wednesday. October 30.
Lawrence Forbes, manager of Rome's
Broadway Theatre, was rushed to St. Agnew
Hospital October 26 after an artery burst
NORTH JERSEY
Universal Theatres, which has installed
a "Two Adult Hits" policy for the house J^irport 1975," now in its third week of an
with "Round Robin" and "La Maximum," exclusive North Jersey engagement at
operates a circuit of art theatres, with 17 United Artists' Bellevue in Upper Montclair,
adult cinemas in the nearby Philadelphia broke all house records for both attendance
area alone. The Bailors will not be associated
and gross for an individual day on the first
with the new operation.
Saturday of the engagement. The following
day, Sunday, all records which had been
For the Bailors, this is the second fi-
set on Saturday were broken, making the
first week a record-breaking one in every
category. Gerald Hazcll. manager of the
Upper Montclair showhouse, reports that,
although most film critics have rapped ".'\irport
1975," the vast majority of patrons
attending the Bellevue apparently have been
very satisfied with the film.
"The Odessa File" recently opened exclusive
area engagements at RKO's Stanles
Warner in Paramus and Loews' Route IS
Twin in East Brunswick and is now in its
third week at each location.
Mildred Wolsh Retires
BALTIMORE— Mrs. Mildred Wolsh of
Wolsh Theatre Service retired effective
September 6. The firm's new owner. Don
Kartman. has changed the company name
to Lord Baltimore Concession Serx'ice. The
current address is 6517 Landav Ave.. Baltimore,
Md. 21237.
in his eye. He has to remain in bed for at
least a week. In the meantime. Tom Brown
is filling in at the Broadway . Mayhorn,
president ol C ornco. returned to work
October 28 after a two-week bout with a
virus infection contracted during his stay in
.'Ktlanta, where he attended the recent
NATO-NAC convention.
Helen Back, wife of Leon B. Back, a wellknown
artist and sculptress in her own right
and a member of the local branch of the
Penwomen (an artists' group), left October
27 for a fortnight's stay in Spain—one week
in Madrid and the other in Barcelona. Her
husband left this city via TWA Sunday (3)
to join her there. The trip was arranged by
an art group here. The itinerary calls for
visits to famous museums and one to Toledo,
Spain, where there is a small house containing
some of El Greco's paintings.
The Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing
Arts at the University of Maryland-
Eastern Shore was formally dedicated October
27 . . . Fred L. Wineland. Wineland
Theatres executive and Maryland Secretary
of State, was the subject of an extensive
article in the Morning Sun October 28 . . .
Butterfly McQueen. 63. who appeared in
"Gone With the Wind." was in town playing
the role of Queen of the Field Mice in
"The Wiz." a new musical, at the Mechanic
Theatre . Student Government Ass'n
of Howard Community College sponsored
a special horror film night October 25 at
the colleee.
Henry Exits SBC to Join
Fairchild Industries
GERMANTOWN. MD.—Alan Henry,
formerly executive vice-president and chief
operating officer, Sonderling Broadcasting
Corp.. has joined Fairchild Industries, as
general manager, broadcasting group. He
will be in charge of Fairchild's three radio
stations and have responsibility for acquisition
of new radio and TV properties.
The Sonderling interests include the fastexpanding
SBC Management Corp., with
50-plus screens, primarily in the New England
and upstate New York areas.
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WASHINGTON
Qrson Welles has been selected by the
American Film Institute to receive its
third annual award for life achievement,
honoring his achievement as a motion picture
director. The presentation will be made
ley, retiring president of Warner Bros.,
chaired the selection committee of the AFI
board of trustees, which included, besides
Stevens. Barry Diller. Paramount executive:
William Friedkin. director: David Mallery.
educator, and David Picker, producer.
Ted and Jim Pedas, owners-operators of
five Circle theatres, were referred to as the
"kings of repertory" in the October issue
of the Washingtonian Magazine. "Anyone
who meets the Pedas brothers can tell that
they love the movie business. They seem to
become more enthusiastic with each new
Circle and each new year." wrote Joel E.
Siegel. They negotiated a year to arrange
for the premiere of "Swastika" here, the
film's first showing in an American city.
The opening of "Scenes From a Marriage"
at the Dupont Circle and Outer Circle One
October 30 was the culmination of Ted's
trip to Sweden to visit with the director of
the film. Ingmar Bergman. According to the
Pedases, this city "is a good movie town
and getting better all the time."
Harmon R. Martin jr. was named assistant
general manager of Alexandria Amusement
Corp. when Woodrow "Sonny" Wise
resigned to be managing director of the
Harold Lloyd estate in Beverly Hills. Calif.
When the Lloyd manor house was closed
to the public. Wise opened his Hollywood
Film Exchange, which he continues to operate
. King, president of the Town
THEATRE PROJECTION BOOTHS
Theatre Group, returned Friday (1) from
a month's vacation in Mexico.
Fritz Goldschmidt, Avco Embassy branch
chief, returned after four days spent visiting
at a banquet clients in
in Los Angeles next February
Norfolk. Newport News,
which will be telecast on the CBS network. Hampton and Portsmouth, all in Virginia.
Previous recipients were the late John Ford "The Night Porter" is being set as a Christmas
release here . Littman. branch
and James Cagney. George Stevens jr.. AFI
director and chief executive manager for Bryanston Pictures,
officer, in announcing
the Welles
has had
Pittsburgh, in addition to Philadelphia and
tribute, called his "Citizen
Kane" a "landmark work." Ted Ash-
our town, added to her territory. Her office
is setting playdates for "The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre" and "Dracula."
NEW EQUIPMENT
USED EQUIPMENT
from $7500
from SZOOO
m^imimm^^^ism^
Herbert Schwartz, Eastern sales manager
for International Amusement Corp., issued
invitations to a sneak preview of "Don't
Turn the Other Cheek" at the K-B Silver.
quake'^' at the RKO-SW Uptown Theatre
October 1. The film, produced and directed
by Mark Robson, was made with a "Sensurround"
soundtrack.
Herbert Graff Presenting
Series of Unique Movies
NEW HOPE, PA.— Bucks County Playhouse,
widely known as one of the first
strawhat summer theatres, took on the
character of a motion picture theatre Satmday
night, October 26, when film collectoi
Herbert Graff brought his collection of
outtakes for the first of three showings.
Graff, who teaches film at New York
University, has an outstanding collection
film clips that were shot for a movie bill
not included in the print released to theatres
because the actor may have fluffed
a line or tripped at an inopportune momeni.
as well as scenes considered too risque
when they originally were made.
The three programs here are presented
under the title "The Golden Memories ol
the Silent Screen." Groff also hosts a pub
lie TV movie titled "The Silent Years.
The second program Saturday (9) will
feature Charlie Chaplin two and three-reel
films, some not seen in original release
in the '20s. The third show Saturday (2.^)
will feature excerpts from movie musicals
of the '.30s and will include the first screen
performances by such notables as Fred
Astaire. Ginger Rogers and Betty Boop.
In addition to the evening programs.
Graff will present a children's matinee with
cartoons, serials and feature-length comedies.
The adult series is priced at $5 or
$2 for an individual program. The children's
series is $2.50 or $1 for each show.
of
Festivities Mark Bow
Of Newmarket II, III
NEWPORT NEWS. VA.— R. D. Stallings.
manager of the nine-year-old Newmarket
I, used old-fashioned Hollywood
press agentry for the recent unveiling of
his newest motion picture houses, Newmarket
II and Newmarket III. The event
was replete with klieg lights, civic officials
and radio and TV personalities, along with
Ted Cassidy and Chris Robinson, Hollywood
actors, who made personal appearances.
Guests were welcomed by a high school
band and after film-cutting ceremonies
they viewed the first local showing of
"Mame." Other film offerings at the triplex
were "The Longest Yard" and "Catch a
Black Sunshine."
The Ultra-Vision theatres feature wall-
Silver Spring. Md.. October 25. lAC is to-ceiling
Fred
screens
L. Wineland,
which "wrap around the
48, vice-president of
headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., and has viewer."
Wineland Theatres, secretary of state of
branch offices besides in Los Angeles, New
Maryland and former state legislator, is
York and this city . . . Fred Sapperstein,
Democratic candidate for Congress from
Columbia Pictures branch manager, sneaked Allegedly Bootleg Films
Maryland's fourth congressional district.
"Law and Disorder" at the K-B Bethesda
The sprawling district extends within four
Confiscated by the FBI
Theatre. Bethesda. Md.. Friday evening.
miles of the U.S. Capitol and within four
PHILADELPHIA—The FBI seized more
October 25.
miles of the city hall in Baltimore. His opponent
than 400 allegedly bootleg motion pictures,
Republican Rep. Marjorie Holt. 51. Alexander Schimel, Universal branch some of them full-length boxoffice hits, in
never mentions Republicanism. Nevertheless,
managjr. had a tradescreening of "Earth-
a raid October 21 at Kruger's Kamera Korner,
a photographic supply house located
Wineland never raises the Watergate
in a north Philadelphia shopping area. The
factor.
FBI said the films were seized because they
were "illegally made and were being sold
and rented without copyright payments."
"They were all different types," an FBI
spokesman said. "They were the kind you'd
go to a theatre to see."
He said they were 16mm reproductions
of feature-length Hollywood films but the
FBI spokesman was unable to explain how
the films were duplicated from Hollywood
originals.
The FBI made no arrests but an age.nt
said the charge involved is "unauthorized
sale or possession of illegally reproduced
copyrighted material."
Sheldon Leonard at SU
SYRACUSE — Sheldon
Leonard, actor,
director, writer, producer and Syracuse
University alumnus, spent the week of October
28 at the university for personal instruction
of students. Leonard taught eight
class sessions, in addition to joining budding
dramatists, TV writers, film writers, directors
and producers in a series of informal
meetings. In all, he spent more than 20
hours with students and their professors. A
private luncheon was given in Leonard's
honor Wednesday, October 30, hosted b>
Melvin A. Eggers, chancellor.
Palace Reopening Slated
LOCKPORT, N.Y.—The Palace Theatre.
2 East Ave., will reopen before Thanksgiving
it as a $1 admission cinema, was
announced by Elmer A. Granchelli. owner.
The 1,502-seat movie house will be
managed by Dennis Harrison.
E-8 BOXOFFICE :: November 4, 1974

CROWN DRIVE WINNER—Bales
Farley, district manager Salt Lake/
Denver for Crown International Pictures,
placed second in the "Red" Jacobs
Sales Drive. The drive, which
ended September 28, was over a sixmonth
period. Six winners from the
Crown exchanges across country shared
in $5,000 prize money.
NAC Convention
Scheduled in Feb.
SAN DIEGO, CALIF.—A regional convention
sponsored by the National Ass'n
of Concessionaires has been scheduled for
the Western states, it was announced by
Al Lapidus, newly elected NAC president.
Through an arrangement between NAC and
the National Ass'n of Theatre Owners
(NATO) the combined Western regional
convention will be conducted February 24-
26, 1975, at the Sheraton Harbor Island
Hotel here.
The convention includes NAC Regions
6 and 7, comprising the following states:
Alaska, Arizona. California, Hawaii, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington
and Wyoming. With an anticipated
attendance of 700 convention delegates,
concessionaires as far away as Colorado
and New Mexico will be attending the confab.
In addition to the business sessions, which
'.sill include nationally known speakers who
will discuss informative topics covering concession
and theatre operations and management,
numerous social functions will take
place during the convention. A tradeshow
consisting of suppliers and equipment manufacturers
from the Western states will be
held in conjunction with the combined
regional convention.
The complete program, which will include
luncheons, cocktail parties, dinners,
etc., will be announced soon.
"Black Market' Film Track Ban
HARTFORD—A new Connecticut law,
banning sale of "black market" tapes, records
and motion picture sound tracks, is
now in effect.
NM Ass'n Hears Roscoe
Outline Industry Future
By CHUCK MITTLESTADT
ALBUQUERQUE—-Attendance is up
and things arc looking good for the theatre
industry," a top official of national NATO
told the New Mexico Theatre Ass'n at the
group's 28th annual convention at the Hilton
Inn here. George Roscoe. director of
exhibitor relations for NATO, made the
comments in his keynote address at the
gathering, attended by approximately 100
delegates October 22-23.
Roscoe said that theatre attendance this
>ear is up some 20 per cent in the first nine
months compared to the same period last
year.
Management Schools Work
He also touched on other aspects of
NATO's activities in his 15-minute talk,
noting that management schools in Southem
California have proven to be successful
and that similar ones will be instituted within
the next year at both the University of
Ohio and Pennsylvania University.
Turning to the Code and Rating System,
Roscoe commented that it has incurred
criticism but added that "no other system
could do as well." He then cautioned exhibitors
"not to play unrated films." adding
that the theatre industry is "the only business
that tells people not to come to a
movie house if they are playing an R or
X picture."
Roscoe emphasized that exhibitors should
"get out and tell the people that movies are
the cheapest and best way to be entertained.
Tell them they can gel over the blues of
Watergate and other problems" by going
out to see a movie.
'Benji' Producer Talks
.'Xnother major speaker at the New Mexico
convention was Joe Camp, who produced,
wrote and directed Mulberry
Square's "Benji." Camp outlined for theatremen
the problems of starting an independent
production company. He noted
that most old-timers in the business told
him it was next to impossible but that he
was proud of the fact that he stuck to his
guns and went ahead with his family production.
Ted Miller, district manager of Coca-
Cola in Denver, outlined new promotional
plans devised by his company to fit in with
concession sales.
"Docs It Sell Tickets?" was the title of
a brief speech by Paul Cornwell. Oklahoma
City division manager for Video Theatres,
in which he outlined the importance of
good public relations for theatremen. Phil
Blakey. Albuquerque district manager for
Commonwealth, presented a slide show on
"The Silent Partner." aimed at keeping
down employee thefts from theatres, while
Joel Smith. Santa Fe city manager for Commonwealth,
outlined the circuit's 26-week
manager training program.
Re-elected president of the New Mexico
Theatre Ass'n was Phil Blakey. All other
officers of the NMTA also were re-elected
for another one-year term.
Lou Avolio, Albuquerque Commonwealth
city manager, was named to the ten-member
board of directors, succeeding Bob
Euler. who retired recently. Other board
members are: Larry Allen, Allen Theatres,
Farmington; Les Dollison. Dollison Theatres,
Santa Fe: Loren Eigenberg. independent,
Raton; Loyd Franklin, independent,
Clovis; U. A. Kane, independent. Silver
City; Doug Lightner jr.. Commonwealth,
Carlsbad; Roger Moore, independent, Los
Alamos; Joel Smith. Commonwealth, Santa
Fe, and O. F. Wilhelni, Video, Las Cruces.
Other officers renamed are: Boyd Scott.
Allen Theatres, chairman of the board;
Creighton Gilchrist, independent. Artesia.
vice-president, and Paul West. Video. Albuquerque
secretary-treasurer.
The NMTA did not decide on a site for
next year's gathering, although indications
were that it will be held again at the Hilton
Inn in Albuquerque. The board of directors
will make th; decision at its spring meeting.
Variety Tent 25 to Award
Unique Prize at Dinner
LOS ANGELES—A imique prize will
be awarded Friday (8) at the fifth annual
sweepstakes dinner of the Variety Club of
Southern California Tent 25 at the Beverly
Hilton, reports Joseph Sinay, chief barker.
The prize is a three-day weekend for two
people in Catalina aboard a luxurious sailing
yacht, the Ladyship, as the guests of
Joan and Sumner Ladd, who will provide
all meals, refreshments and entertainment,
both on board the ship and in Avalon.
Ladd is president of Ladd Marine of
Long Beach, Calif., importers for Fairways
Marine Yachts of Southampton. England.
Over $50,000 in prizes will go to lucky
ticket holders, with sweepstakes dinner proceeds
earmarked for Heart of Variety Trust
Fund to aid handicapped and underprivileged
children.
'Airport 1975' First Week
Sets Nonholiday Record
LOS ANGELES— Universal's "Airport
1975" has set a new opening-week house
record (for a nonholiday period) at Pacific's
Cinerama Dome, with a boxoffice
gross just $973 less than the all-time Dome
record established Christmas week 1973 by
"The Sting. " another Universal film. With
its record-breaking first week, "Airport
1975" outdistanced the original "Airport"
in Hollywood in its engagement at the
Pacific Hollywood Theatre in March 1970.
BOXOFHCE :: November 4, 1974 W-1

Hollywood
DIRECTOR JOHN GUILLERMIN has
completed editing on the multimilliondollar
adventure-drama "The Towering Inferno'"
for 20th Century-Fox /Warner Bros.
release.
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Susannah York will embark on a fourcity
personal appearance tour in connection
with her co-starring role with Roger Moore
in Allied Artists" '"Gold." the story of a
gold mine disaster in South Africa.
•
Peter Yates has arrived from New York
for a week of meetings at Columbia Pictures
on "Snowbound."
•
Don Devlin, co-producer with Mike
Nichols on "The Fortune," for Columbia
Pictures, moved from the Culver City
Studios to the Burbank Studios following
completion of principal photography on the
film starring Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing
and Jack Nicholson. Devlin, with partner
Harry Gittes, will begin preparing
"Harry and Walter Go to New York" for
Columbia Pictures.
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Playboy Mansion West was the setting
for the American Women in Radio and
TV, Southern California chapter, membership
reception Saturday (2). Special guests
were Emmy and Golden Mike winners
Mitzie Welsh, Marjorie Fowler, Linda
Guarasich. Ann Elder, Lynn Littman, Sue
Booker, Carol McEvoy, Lila Garrett, Irene
Moorehead Named Centaur
Production Supervisor
HOLLYWOOD—John L. Moorehead has
been named production supervisor with
Centaur Films and will be in this position
when the company begins shooting "Weekend
of Terror" early this month.
Moorehead has been working in production
since 1948. He served two years as
production manager with Sol Hurok and
the Bolshoi Ballet and gave birth to the
original "Disney on Parade." His earlier
associations were with MPP, Wilding Productions,
Jam Handy and Capitol Productions.
He also served a stint with Western
Cine and Theatro Vision.
"We feel fortunate to have a man with
Moorehead's expertise," said Peter S. Traynor,
head of Centaur Films.
AMC Signs 6-Plex Lease
PALO ALTO, CALIF.—Robert Stevens,
project director of the Old Mill Specialty
Center (a 170,000-square-foot enclosed
shopping, dining and entertainment center
now under development), announced that
Kansas City-based American Multi Cinema
has signed a lease to operate a sixplex in
the center. L. B. Nelson Corp., developer,
expects the Old Mill facility in Mountain
View to be completed by February 1975.
Happenings
Pinn. Joanna Miles and Joanna hee.
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SYNI Corp., a corporation of Sammy
Davis jr. and Sy Marsh, has purchased a
three-story office building at 8335 Sunset
and will occupy it by year"s end as corporate
headquarters.
•
Joseph E. Levine was in town to promote
"The Night Porter," which opened Wednesday,
October 30, at the Fine Arts Theatre.
•
Peter K. J. Vadasdy has been elected a
vice-president of Columbia Pictures International.
Julian
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Binstock has been appointed vicepresident
in charge of administration of
Warner Bros. International, it was announced
by Myron D. Karlin, Warner Bros, vicepresident
of foreign operations.
•
Bill Girdler, director of American International
Pictures" "Sheba, Baby" went to
Louisville, having completed filming of the
action-drama starring Pam Grier in the title
role.
•
Filmmaker Jack Hill has been named
"Man of the Year"" by Actresses for Action,
an organization devoted to campaigning for
more female roles. The award, to be presented
December 21 at the Beverly Hilton,
is for "his continued efforts to star women
in such action films as "Foxy Brown," 'Coffy'
and the upcoming "Jezebels.' "
Craig Zeltner Named Head
Film Buyer by Interstate
CINCINNATI — Craig Zeltner, former
booker and buyer for Hallmark Releasing
of Springfield, Mass., joined Interstate Theatres
as head film buyer, effective September
23. While young in years, Zeltner is rich
in experience, having started with Loews
Theatres in New York City in advertising,
later progressing to booking and buying.
Zeltner comes to Interstate from Hallmark
Releasing, where he had wide experience
in booking both hardtops and driveins
in towns of all sizes.
AMC's Northeast Division
Holds Fall-Winter Huddle
CHERRY HILLS, N.J.—American Multi
Cinema's Northeast division held a managers'
meeting here recently to prepare for
fall and winter business, with Earl Voelker,
division manager of operations, conducting
the sessions.
The agenda included a financial review
by company, division and individual theatres,
along with discussions of personnel,
maintenance, concession operations anc'
promotions. Jerry Esbin, division film buyer,
gave a rundown on fall and Christmas pictures
and a synopsis of how the booking
pattern is developing at each theatre.
California PTA Asking
For PG Clarification
HOLLYWOOD — The California
PTA
has asked Jack Valenti, MPAA president,
to "clarify" the association's PG rating category.
The PTA suggested in a letter to Valenti
that additional designations, PG-V, indicating
violence content; PG-S for sex;
PG-L for language, PG-C for crLielty to
animals and PG-D for drugs, be implemented
by the MPAA.
At last May's statewide convention the
PTA unanimously passed a resolution approving
the new PG designations including
the D for drugs symbol which was an additional
innovation. According to Betty Lindsey,
adviser to the California State PTA
Bulletin's "Reviewing Stand" column of film
reviews, a PTA survey of 700 parents
throughout the state showed a 3 to I margin
wanting the PG rating to "contain more
information about the film content."
The PTA has called upon various trade
and consumer magazines to more fully explore
film content in their magazines because
the PTA Magazine, which ran a comprehensive
film guide, is no longer being
published.
Valenti commented that the PTA's recommendations
are "not anything new." He
said the added content designations could
be "misleading" in
that one scene or use of
adult expletive might earn an L for language
or S for sex designation when the
film was otherwise perfectly acceptable.
2 Administrative Changes
Announced at 20th-Fox
HOLLYWOOD — Two major administrative
title changes were announced at
2()th Century-Fox by Bernard Barron, vicepresident
of studio operations.
Michael Perkal, previous manager for
facilities accounting, has been elevated to
director of administration for studio facilities.
Ivan Martin, longtime manager of construction,
electrical and art departments,
now assumes the title of director of studio
operations.
Both report directly to Barron who, in
addition to his studio operations title, now
also serves as president of Marineland,
Inc.
Radio-TV Campaign Boosts
'Odessa' Grosses in LA
HOLLYWOOD—Stimulated by an unusu;illy
high radio ;uid TV advertising campaign
for a second week's engagement, Columbia
Pictures' "The Odessa File" responded
in more than 75 per cent of its current
playdates with an increase of 50 to 100
per cent in its second weekend business.
An example of the national scene can
best be illustrated by the comparative figures
of the two weekends in the immediate
Los Angeles area. At the Avco Center Cinema,
the Friday, Saturday and Sunday business
the second week increased $5,243 over
opening weekend grosses. At the Hollywood
Pacific, the second-weekend gross was
$2,032 higher than the first weekend.
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LOS ANGELES
f^ingo Starr, who stars in "That'll Be the
Day," an English '50s nostalgia picture
being distributed in the U.S. through Mayfair
Film Group, attended the West Coast
premiere at the Beverly Canon Wednesday.
October 30.
"Gold," Allied Artists release starring
Roger Moore and Susannah York, opens
Friday (8) at the Fox, Hollywood; UA Cinema
1, Westwood. and 12 other showcase
theatres for a limited engagement. Moore
plays the two-fisted manager of a gold mine
and Ms. York is the married woman he
in loves the multimillion-dollar adventuredrama
filmed on location in South Africa.
for the Eagle, which is the 30th theatre under
the Walnut banner. Miranda plans to
add 12 more houses by April 1975, just in
time for his 42nd birthday.
A very special Halloween screening of
Andy Warhol's "Dracula." a film by Paul
Morrisscy and a Bryanston Pictures release,
was held Thursday, October 31, at the Music
Hall in Beverly Hills. The film opens
Wednesday (6) at the Picwood in Westwood,
the State in Pasadena, Encino in Encino,
Northridge in Northridge, the Town in
Long Beach, Cinedom III in Orange, Mesa
in Costa Mesa and Fox in Riverside.
"Together Brothers," a suspense thriller
about a teenage gang's search for a cop
killer in the black ghetto of Galveston, Tex.,
opens Wednesday (6) at selected theatres
throughout the Los Angeles area. The Sandy
Howard production for 20th Century-Fox
release was directed by William A. Graham.
Max and Robert Laeinmie announced the
West Coast premiere of Ingmar Bergman's
latest film. "Scenes From a Marriage,"
Wednesday (6) at their newly acquired Music
Hall Theatre. Written and directed by
Bergman, "Scenes From a Marriage" gives
a uniquely microscopic but compassionate
insight into the relationship of a man and
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that he made for Swedish TV about a
year ago. Showing in its original Swedishlanguage
version with English subtitles, the
premiere of "Scenes From a Marriage" will
benefit KVST-TV. Channel 68.
The first X-rated film made in California
in over three years, "Marriage and Other
Four-Letter Words" was screened at a special
invitational preview for all branches of
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences at the Pussycat Theatre in Hollywood
Wednesday, October 30. Friday (1)
opened an extended exclusive engagement
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at the Pussycat . . . "Sexual Ecstacy of the
Vincent Miranda, president of Walnut
Macumba." starring Nina Pause and John
Properties, announced the acquisition of the
Fox, was produced in San Francisco by the
Eagle Theatre in Eagle Rock. The Eagle is
International Institute for the Happiness of
undergoing a $50,000 remodeling, due to
Man. Preview screenings of the picture will
be completed late this month. Miranda said
be held Thursday (7) and Friday (8) at the
theatre policy has not been established yet
Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles.
"A Free Woman," from New Yorker
Films, opens Wednesday (13) at the Laemmle's
Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles.
The West Coast premiere will benefit the
American Civil Liberties Union. At the
Laemmle's Los Feliz, three Sunday mornings
in November (10, 17 and 24) will be
devoted to the documentary "The Story of
Carl Gustav Jung." narrated by Lawrence
Van der Post. Distributed by the Los Angeles
Jung Institute, the film sold out several
Sunday mornings at the Royal last
month.
Amber Acquires Highland;
Circuit's Tenth House
LOS ANGELES—The Highland Theatre,
5604 North Figueroa St., Los Angeles, has
been purchased by Amber Theatres, it was
announced by circuit president Nancy
Lindsey. The acquisition brings to ten the
total number of theatres in the circuit.
Amber began operations Dec. 14, 1973,
when Nancy Lindsey, a former producer
and distributor, bought the Fine Arts fheatre
in San Bernardino, Calif.
Besides Amber's flagship Cine Cienega at
755 North La Cienega Blvd., the circuit
also operates the Cave, 6315 Hollywood
Blvd.; Cinema, 1122 North Western Ave.:
Calif.
Award to Rosalind Cash
LOS ANGELES—Actress Rosalind Cash
accepted a certificate of merit for "Uptown
Saturday Night" from the Southern California
Motion Picture Council October 22
at a Continental Hyatt House luncheon in
Los Angeles. In the comedy, a Warner
Bros, release, she plays the wife of Sid
ncy Poilier, who also directed.
Wm. Katzky Leaves Plitt
To Organize Own Firm
LOS ANGELES—William Katzky announces
that he has left his post as local
advertising and publicity director for Plitt
Theatres, formerly ABC Theatres of California,
to open an office dedicated to
serving the needs of local organizations as
a special events coordinator and will specialize
in premiere arrangements, theatre
parties, group sales and dances.
As a veteran reserved-seat theatre manager,
Katzky plans to combine his knowledge
of premiere arrangements, group sales and
advertising with the experience he gained
as two-term past president of the Children's
Heart Foundation of Southern California
and his affiliation with other charitable
organizations.
After managing several Fox West Coast
de luxe theatres, Katzky opened Avco
Embassy's first and only West Coast theatre.
He later supervised Walter Reade's trio of
theatres in Southern California and then
was offered the advertising-publicity position
with ABC Theatres.
Tent 25 Gives $70,000
For Projects at UCLA
LOS ANGELES—The Variety Club of
Southern California Tent 25 presented two
checks, each for $35,000 to the James H,
Nicholson Children's Heart Clinic and to
the Child Amputee Prosthetics Project, both
located at the UCLA Medical Center in
Los Angeles. The presentation was made
at a luncheon attended by officials of the
Variety Club and UCLA.
Taking part in the ceremonies were Dr.
Sherman M. Mellinkoff, dean of the School
of Medicine, UCLA Center for the Health
Sciences; Mrs. Binnie Barnes Frankovich;
Joseph Sinay, chief barker of Tent 25, and
Mike Frankovich, president of Variety
Clubs International.
Also, Dr. Forrest Adams, who heads the
Heart Clinic; Dr. Yoshio Setoguchi, in
charge of the Child Amputee Prosthetics
Project; Thomas W. Fenno; Monty Hall;
Nat D. Fellman; Ezra Stern, and Milton
I. Moritz.
Asthmatic Children to Be
Guests at Holiday Party
LOS ANGELES—Some 150 asthmatic
Corbin, 19620 Ventura Blvd., Tarzana;
Yale, 2838 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica;
Fine Arts, 480 North D St., San Bernardino;
children from disadvantaged areas again
will be the guests of the Hollywood Press
Ritz. 136 North Euclid Ave., Ontario;
Club and the Los Angeles Christmas Seal
Row, 127 West Ocean Blvd., Long Beach,
Ass'n at a Christmas party to be held
and Cinema 19, 1224 19th St., Bakcrsfield,
December 14.
Site of the party again will be the Burbank
Studios, which will be making its
facilities available to the children for the
third consecutive year, it was announced
jointly by Syd Cassyd, president of the
Hollywood Press Club, and Peter D. Mc-
Dermott, president of the Lung Ass'n of
Los Angeles County.
Honorary co-chairmen of the party will
be Ron Howard and Henry Sinkler of the
.ABC-TV "Happy Days" program.
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opening-night ceremonies of tlie San
Francisco International Film F'tstival.
David Begelman. left, president of Cohmibia
Pictures, was presented a special
festival award b) San Francisco
Mayor Joseph A. Alioto in honor of
Columbia's 50 years of outstanding
achievements. Columbia world-premiered
"The Odessa File" at the festi-
>al and presented its "Proud Lady"
on the premier program.
Palo Alto House
Now Arts Center
PALO ALTO, CALIF.—Tom Corbin
and Glenn Lutge recently acquired the
Stanford Theatre here and what once was
a thriving movie house received a "new
lease on life." The Stanford had fallen on
lean times in recent years. Things deteriorated
so badly that many moviegoers refused
to enter the theatre, no matter what
was showing. Programs fluctuated back and
forth from general family films to R-rated
movies—and the public said it had a hard
time figuring out "just what to expect at
the Stanford."
The transformation of the Stanford was
described by feature writer Paul Emerson
case for the performing arts in the area. It
has been renamed the Stanford Music Hall
and the new format calls for a varied fare
of live concerts, musicals, plays and ballet,
as well as classic and first-run quality motion
pictures.
"The new look was unveiled Saturday
night (October 19) with a classy double bill
— the first Peninsula showing of the feature-
L-ngth film in color, T Am a Dancer," a
pseudo-documentary on Rudolf Nureyev,
and a live performance of the Balanchine-
Christensen "Variations de Ballet' by the
San Francisco Ballet, All proceeds beyond
the minimum expenses will be donated to
the San Francisco Ballet as part of its 'survival'
fund-raising campaign.
'Airport
1975' Forges 540 Lead;
'Odessa File Grabs 295 in 2nd
LOS ANGLLES—The competition
melted
away as "Airport 1975"' forged a second
week's lead here at the Cinema Dome. The
Charlton Heston starrer pulled in 540.
Second place was cornered by "The Odessa
File"' with 295 in its second week at two
theatres. Close behind was "The Taking of
Pelham One Two Three," a crisis film about
a subway train in New York, with 290 at
two cinemas. Tied for fourth were "Flesh
Gordon" and "The Abdication" with both
scoring 205. "The Longest Yard" captured
si.xth with 190 in a fifth week here.
(Average Is 100)
Avco Cinema Center 1, Hollywood Pacific-
Odessa File (Col), 2nd wk 295
Avco Cinema Center 2 The Abdication (WB),
4th wk 205
Avco Cinema Center 3, Pontages The Longest
Yard (Para), 5th wk 190
Beverly That's Enfertoinment! (UA), 24th wk. .110
Brum— Law and Disorder (Col), 2nd wk 110
Cave The Seduction of Lynn Carter (5R),
2nd wk 135
Chinese, Village— The Gombfer (Para), 3rd wk, ... 145
Cinema— Keep It Up Jack (SR), 2nd wk 170
Cinerama Dome—Airport 197S (Univ), 2nd wk. , ,540
Crest, Hollywood Paramount—Juggernaut (UA),
5th wk 65
Egyptian, UA Westwood The Taking of Pelham
One Two Three (UA) 290
Hollvwood Pussycat Memories Within Miss Aggie
(SR), 17th wk 160
Los Feliz Janus Film Festival series, 5th wk 95
SAN FRANCISCO
pygmies," a documentary film by Belgian
explorer, naturalist and author Jean-
Pierre Hallet, opened a limited run at the
Metro II Wednesday, October 23. Hallet
spent an uninterrupted span of 18 months
with the pygmies of the African Ituri Forest
filming this investigation of their ecological
way of life . . . New Line Cinema's "A
Very Natural Thing" bowed at the Alhambra,
with "Flesh Gordon" on the twin
screens at the Golden Gate and Coliseum.
ill the Palo Alto Times in an article written
shortly before the reopening of the house. Spectacular Friday (25) openings included
Kmerson commented: "The theatre is about
the "Gone With the Wind" reissue, ex-
70mm, clusive at the Regency 2 in and
to take on an entirely fresh look that could
make the Stanford an important new show-
"Janis" at the Vogue.
United Artists is planning a lavish remake
of the 1935 adventure classic, '"Captain
Blood."
Ray Telfer Jorgensen, secretary to the
late Herman Wobber at Paramount and
then 20th Century-Fox, died in a Burlingame
hospital. Ms. Jorgensen spent many
years on the local Row and was a charter
member of the Film Colony Girls before
her retirement.
John Bowles of Motion Picture Purchasing
has two accounts: the Turlock Theatre,
Turlock. now operated by Raymond Lakin.
and the Crest Theatre, Los Bancs, which
has been taken over by James W. Toler.
High AMC West Coast Post
Assigned Jules Landfield
KANSAS Cll V. MO.— Jules Landfield.
an exhibitor and ad\ertising executive 45
years, has been appointed director of
operations of American Multi Cinema's
New Pix Cry Rope (SR) 65
Picwood— It's Alive (WB), 2nd wk 110
Plaza ^Shanks (Para), 2nd wk 70
Plitt 1 The Mad Adventures of 'Robbi' Jacob
(20th-Fox), 9th wk 90
Plitt 2—The Rolling Stones (SR), )3th wk 65
Regent Turkish Delight (SR), 5th wk 165
Royal Chaplin Film Festival (SR), 3rd wk 135
Vogue— Flesh Gordon (SR), 3rd wk 205
Vine Pardon My Blooper (K-Tel) 160
'Harry and Tonto' Keeps Lead;
'Odessa File' 400 in Denver
DENVER—"Harry and Tonto' maintained
a second week lead on all first runs
with a big 450. "The Odessa File" stayed
in second place for another week with 400
while "Airport 1975" held on to third with
.^50 at the Cooper.
Center The Longest Yard (Para), 5th wk 200
Century 21 California Split (Col), 9th wk 100
Cherry Creek, Villa Italia The Gambler (Para),
2nd wk 100
Colorado I The Odessa File (Col), 2nd wk 400
Colorado II The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jocob
(20th-Fox), 4th wk 80
Cooper Airport 1975 (Univ), 2nd wk 350
Cre!t Johnny Tough! (SR), 3rd wk 100
Denhom The Rolling Stones (SR), 4th wk 50
Esquire Blazing Saddles (WB), 32nd wk 100
Nine theotres The Bears and I (BV) 1 50
Nine theatres— 99 and 44/100% Dead (20th-Fox) 50
Paramount Kung Fu Moma (SR); Zatoichi:
the Blind Swordsmon (SR) 100
Six theatres The Wrestler (SR) 1 50
University Hills Harry and Tonto (20th-Fox),
2nd wk 450
West Coast division of more than 60 theatres
by Stanley H. Durwood, AMC president.
Landfield will join AMC Monday
(11) and will have his headquarters in the
circuit's Beverly Hills office with Arnold
Shartin, vice-president and western film
buyer.
Durwood and Ron Leslie, AMC vicepresident
of operations, have been meeting
with Landfield and Shartin in Los Angeles,
setting up the new operations schedule and
discussing future plans.
Landfield started in 1929 with Balaban
& Katz (now Plitt Theatres) in Chicago
but moved to the West Coast as division
manager of Robert Lippert Theatres in
Los Angeles. Later he was associated with
Statewide Theatres and Fred and Bob Stein
as advertising head; later still he was with
Loews Theatres as director of advertising
and publicity for that circuit's West Coast
division. For the last two years. Landfield
has been vice-president and TV and radio
media buyer for Magidell Enterprises in
Studio City.
Mike Nichols has completed direction
1 "The Fortune" for Columbia Pictures.
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. . . Paramount
. . Another
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SEATTLE
Candy Livingston, publicist from the New
York offices of Paramount Pictures,
was in town for two days talking to the
media about "The Godfather. Part II." as
well as other upcoming product. Ms. Livingston
was planning to visit the various major
cities for which she is responsible on
the West Coast .
personality on
the local scene was Al Boodman of the
Beverly Hills offices of Columbia Pictures,
who was in this area talking with his various
clients regarding forthcoming Columbia
product.
The Neptune Theatre, co-owned by Bud
Saffle and Jim Kniest. had a special champagne
press
preview October 22 for friends
in the industry, as well as various media.
They also screened •"Top Hat," which was
an opening feature along with "Ladykillers."
October 30 they had the first-run exclusive
engagement of ".Shanks."
Morrie Sherman, branch manager for
American International Pictures and Cinerama,
screened "Sunday in the Country" in
the Jewel Box screening room October 23
sneaked "The Dove" in
Sterling's Uptown and Seattle 7th Avenue
theatres October 26 where "The White
Dawn" is currently in the former and "The
Longest Yard" in the latter.
"Airport 1975" was breaking house records
at Mann's 5th Avenue Theatre, where
it opened October 18.
Local openings: "Mixed Company"
opened first run in Sterling's Lewis and
o4ll yeur tdeatra n
ARTOt CARBON to.
are "That's Entertainment!" at Cinerama:
"The White Dawn" in the Uptown; "Chinatown"
at the Music Box, and "2001: A
Space Odyssey." closing after nine weeks
in the UA Cinema 150 to make room for
"Harry & Tonto."
Holding over at the Coliseum was "The
Chinese Godfather." "Fearless Fighters"
and "The Final Days of Bruce Lee." Starting
a fourth week at the U.\ Cinema 70
was the first-run exclusive engagement of
"Conrack."
.
Bob Cummings was playing to sold-out
crowds every night at the Cirque Dinner
Theatre, where he takes the lead in "Never
Too Late," with Connie Bracken (Eddie's
. . wife) "The Rolling Stones" were having
a first-run engagement with special sound
at
the Town theatre.
Amazingly, the month of October was
closing in the metropolitan area with just
one night of rain during the entire month,
when a half-inch fell in three hours. However,
the normal rainfall for the month of
October in this area is four inches. This
made four months in a row of continuous
drouth! ... At this writing there were over
225 entries in "The Bears and I" coloring
contest featured in the TODAY Newspapers,
for which 50 winners receive a pair
of passes to see the film in one of the designated
theatres on the pass. Ages of entries
ranged from three to 67 and they came from
as far north as Everett to as far south as
Renton.
Clark, Lake City, John Danz and Lynn theatres
- AndAshcrafI SCIOI SCI02 Twin Airer at Corvallis
and Walt Disney Productions' "The
Bears and I" went into United's Midway Is Under Consideration
and Sno-King drive-ins and also General CORVALLIS, ORE.—The Corvallis Airport
Commission is considering a request
Cinema's Overlake. Renton Village, Aurora
and Everett Mall hardtops.
received
Theatres,
from
which
Herniiston,
proposes
Ore. -based
lease ten
Parr
acres
to
Sterling had a special Halloween midnight
of airport land to build an $80,000 twin
show in the Lewis & Clark, Northgate, John
drive-in. The ozoner would have 700-car
Danz, Lynn, Admiral and Magnolia theatres
October 25. showing "The Maniacs are
Loose!" and "The Return of Count Yorga."
total capacity.
A spokesman for Parr Theatres indicated
that the lease request approved, the
if is
"The Girl From Petrovka" went into the company could begin construction of the
Aurora, Renton Village and Overlake cinemas,
underskyer in March 1975, with a June
as well as in the Kenmore and Du-
wamish drive-ins. The Varsity had the firstrun
showing of "Wedding in Blood."
Still running and doing beautiful business
1975 opening anticipated.
One drive-in, the Midway off U.S. Highway
20 between Corvillis and Albany, Ore.,
now serves the area.
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Buffalo's Palace Slated
To Reopen in November
BUFFALO—Elmer A. Granchelli, developer
and building owner, is to open the
Palace Theatre in mid-November. The
ger.
Harrison said the theatre is scheduled to
be open daily, with Saturday matinees for
children.
Twin Cinemas Planned
In Westmont Project
WESTMONT, CALIF. — Developer
Charles Knight has presented plans for a
proposed $1.9 million fine arts center, to
be located on a land parcel with frontage
on Westmont Drive and Ogden Avenue. To
be known as Studio 11, the center would
include two 350-seat motion picture theatres
along with other facilities.
"We are negotiating with a major theatre
circuit which would lease the two cinemas
from us," Knight said. "There would be no
X-rated movies shown at our theatres."
With construction slated to begin this
winter. Knight said the Studio 11 opening
could be expected as early as September
1975.
Douglas Fletcher Joins
DeLuxe General Staff
LOS ANGELES — Douglas S.
Fletcher
has joined DeLuxe General, Inc., as general
assistant to president Robert T. Kreiman
and will be in charge of new venture
diversification studies, expansion plans, special
staff assignments and management ot
subsidiary operations.
Previously, Fletcher had been associated
with both Bell & Howell's laboratory equipment
division and Technicolor, Inc. He
brings to DeLuxe, an international motion
picture laboratory organization, a broad
background of business experience with
photographic products. He received his
bachelor's degree from the University of
California at Los Angeles and a master's in
business administration from the University
of Chicago.
MCA Recreation Acquires
Yosemite Park & Curry
SAN FRANCISCO — Shareholders
of
Yosemite Park & Curry Co. have approved
the merger of YP&C into MCA Recreation
Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of MCA,
Inc. In the merger, the shareholders of
YP&C other than MCA Recreation will
receive the fair market value of $14 per
share in cash for their shares.
'Losers' a Winner in Cinema 70
COLORADO SPRINGS — .American
International Pictures' rerelease of "Born
Losers" has proved to be a winner at the
Cinema 70 here. The film racked up impressive
first-week grosses and is being held
over indefinitely.
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History of Blacks
In Films Examined
DENVER—William Gallo, in his usual
piercing manner, reviews "Toms. Coons.
Mulnttoes, Mammies and Blacks," a book
by Donald Bogle, in a lengthy review in the
Sunday Rocky Mountain News. The book
relates what is happening and what blacks
want to happen to them in the motion picture
production business.
A shortened version of what Uallo wrote
follows: "Long before Jim Brown and Richard
Roundtree started smearing Mafia blood
all over the silver screen and Cicely Tyson
became a conservative wife and mother in
Sounder,' there were other black faces in
the movies—Stepin Fetchit, Bill 'Bojangles"
Robinson, Hattie McDaniel, Paul Robeson,
Lena Home, Ethel Waters, Dorothy Dandridge,
Pearl Bailey, Clarence Muse, Sidney
Poitier and Harry Belafonte, to name only
a few.
Skeletons in Closet
"But the flowering of black awareness
now has turned many of them into skeletons
in the closet—nagging reminders of Hollywood's
shallow racial mythmaking and the
willingness of too many black performers
to play the movie mogul's game. It has, in
fact, taken a young black historian and film
buff named Donald Bogle to bring sorely
needed perspective to the sensitive black
image at the movies. He does it in a book
titled "Toms, Coons, Mulattoes. Mammies
and Bucks." subtitled 'An Interpretative History
of Blacks in American Films.' The title
is a bit misleading, for while Bogle believes
that all black actors until very recently have
played stereotyped roles—reflected images
of the dominant white culture—some have
broken the chains within their assignments
and 'elevated kitsch or trash and brought
to it arty qualities if not pure art itself.'
' 'Toms' is sometimes a bitter book but it
also is well researched, lively and brightened
by Bogle's piercing wit. The 26-year-old
author, who at 20 was an assistant to the
explosive film director Otto Preminger and
at 21 the youngest staff writer at Ebony,
was in Denver to talk about his book and
the significant changes which have come
Black Characterizations
"He sees Rochester as the 'Gentleman's
Gentleman' but Rex Ingram as 'the first of
the freed black men." Hazel Scott became
for him 'Miss Proper Middle-Class Lady,'
Lena Home "the black beauty in residence"
(Continued on page W-8)
Duncan Spencer, Master of Illusion,
Reigned Supreme in
DENVER—According to William Gallo.
movie editor of the Rocky Mountain News.
one of the greats in motion picture production
illusions, Duncan Spencer, is presently
working in Denver at the Denver
Museimi of Natural History. There he
is painting a huge diorama to be used as
a background for an animal exhibit. Spencer
has seven months in which to complete the
project, after which he will fulfill a few
commissions for the Los Angeles Museum.
Then, he will settle in his new studio in
Burbank, Calif., to do water colors and
oils.
Describing the work of Spencer, Gallo
said: "In the grand illusion that was the
Hollywood film there dwelt regiments of
unsung heroes—nameless cinematographers
whose paths of light and shadow set the
stage for the Coopers and Tracys and
Monroes; film editors (an oft-maligned
group) who lived like moles in the cutting
rooms where lingering kisses were
spliced to thundering honeymoon trains,
and anonymous stuntmen who hobbled in
their casts for the glory of the Roman
Empire, the Old West and Tyrone Power.
"Duncan Spencer, who now secrets himself
in the far reaches of the Denver
Museum of Natural History, is one such
hero. For almost 40 years, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
20th Century-Fox and Paramount,
he helped create what might be the
greatest movie illusions of all—the spectacular
peaks of Sonora, the throbbing energy
of naval flight decks and the tranquil steeples
and shade trees of small-town America.
"Duncan Spencer is a scenic art director
and has been since 1937, when he went
to work for MGM. He has painted backdrops
for hundreds of motion pictures, in
an industry which always has put a premium
on the speed and efficiency of its
technicians and craftsmen—and he learned
to be very fast indeed. 'In the movies,' he
said, 'they always wanted the work done
yesterday or the week before.' So with brush
in hand, Spencer fairly flew over the canvas
DENVER
as he created the old city for "Meet Me in
to the black screen since it first was published
in May 1973. While Bogle has included
a chapter on the independent black film
movement, during which filmmakers set up
^mong those who traveled to Albuquerque
shop in such places as Nebraska. Kansas
City and New
for the
York New Mexico Theatre Ass'n
to supply ghetto theatres
with
convention were Jerry Collins
relevant all-black movies,
and Fred
he concentrates
on the Hollywood
Smith of American International Pictures;
film because
that was the important one. the one
Greg Albertini of .Associated; Les Laramie
that
affected masses of
of Universal Pictures; Bates Farley of Favorite
people, the one they were
going
Films of California; John Dobson of
to see.
United Artists; Dave Hudgens of Warner
Bros.; Jay O'Malin of Westamerica Film
Distributors, and Mark Sheridan of 20th
Century-Fox.
In town to set dates were Mike Powers of
Transcontinental Theatres, San Francisco;
Elinor Williamson of the Belvedere Theatre.
Central City; Dick Klein, Trojan Theatre,
Longmont.
Film Studios
St. Louis' and the South American mountain
peaks of 'Yolanda and the Thief.'
"In '30 Seconds Over Tokyo,' there were
only seven actual airplanes on the flight
deck of the aircraft carrier. The others were
the creation of Spencer and four assistants.
Sometimes the scale of the backdrops, in
ordinary painting terms, at least, was heroic.
For '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,'
Spencer painted a backdrop 350 feet long
and 30 feet high. A 20-foot model of Jules
Verne's 'Nautilus," meanwhile, attacked a
fleet of enemy submarines in a tank containing
five feet of water.
"Those were the golden days of Hollywood,
of course, when artifice and illusion
reigned supreme, when film directors
worked on enormous sound stages instead
of in the streets. So Spencer found himself
painting the world on a flat floor, with
orders to make it look globular. For 'Tortilla
Flat," he painted almost 10,000 square
feet of backgrounds, most of which were
installed indoors at MGM.
"Movie times and movie styles have
changed in Duncan Spencer's time, from the
days when MGM made 36 pictures a month
and you might find yourself working on
three or four at once. The quest for film
realism and the penchant for location shooting
has all but displaced the stylized backdrops
of a 'Showboat' or a 'Shangri La' or
a Daddy Long Legs.'
"But present-day movie buffs should not
be too quick to dismiss the spectacular
calculations of the old studio magnates.
'MGM probably had the best art department
in the history of movies,' says Spencer.
'It was not only cheaper to have backdrops
onstage but it often was more convenient.
Everything was contained, no random
sounds interfered. Now I think the industry
is a bit shot. People are all over the world
like buckshot. I agree that some pictures
must be shot on location, for realism, but
there are so many things to be accompUshed
onstage. I think we perfected illusions to
create a true feeling of place.' "
Litvin to Helm Paramount
Branch in Denver-SLC
HOLLYWOOD Ron Litvin has been
appointed Paramount Pictures' branch
manager for Denver and Salt Lake City,
it was announced by Norman Weitman,
vice-president, sales. The appointment is
effective
immediately.
Litvin, who succeeds Jack Micheletti, who
resigned, reports to Gerry Haile, district
manager headquartered in Los Angeles.
Before joining Paramount, Litvin was
with Cinemation in Los Angeles. He previously
was with National General Theatres,
also in Los Angeles.
Harry Swanson, sales representative for
the Denver-Salt Lake City branch office,
continues in that post.
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SALT LAKE CITY
flnierican National Enterprises' Western
division announces the opening of "Cry
of the Wild" in Southern California Wednesday
(13) Roy Hall, head of the con-
. . .
cession department of Mann Theatres for
the Rocky Mountain region, is visiting all
the circuit's theatres throughout this area.
It is reported that "Airport 1975" has
broken the all-time gross record at the Villa
Theatre in this city.
John Dahl, head of JD Theatre Service,
announces the opening of the combo "Ride
in a Pink Car" and "Smash-Up Alley"
Wednesday (13) in this city . . . The installation
of the Sensurround equipment is finished
at the Utah I Theatre for the picture
Gaslight Twin Cinema
Conslruction Started
HELENA. MONT. — Ground-breaking
ceremonies were held in mid-October for
the Gaslight Twin Cinema on the southwest
corner of Broadway and Last Chance
Gulch. Completion of construction is scheduled
for late spring, according to Joe
Campeau of Campeau & Crennen. architects.
The dualer. which will face Broadway,
will accommodate approximately 730
moviegoers.
'Posse' Filming Currently
Under Way at Old Tucson
TUCSON. ARIZ.—The Bryna Co. is
shooting the western feature "Posse" at
Old Tucson near here, with Kirk Douglas
as producer, director and star. Co-starring
is Bruce Dern. Others in the cast of "Posse"
are James Stacy, Kate Woodville, Beth
Brickell, David Canary and Bo Hopkins.
Tucson actors with roles are Jess Riggle,
Eugene Coreill, Martin Brinton, Roy Gunzberg
and Larry Finley.
Cameraman is Tom Laughridge, with
Michael Nakamura as assistant cameraman.
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that adds the sense of feeling to sight and
hearing in motion picture theatres.
All Filmrowites offer sincere sympathy
to Juanita Swonson of United Artists, whose
father died October 18.
Herb Schoenhardt of Universal Theatre
Supply made a trip to the Boston-New York
area to visit Universal offices in those cities.
Bob Loftis of UA announces that a
triple
bill of Woody Allen pictures which opened
at two theatres October 16 racked up excellent
grosses and continued for a second week
with even bigger figures.
C'wealth Arranges Radio
Tie-In to Plug 'Digby'
ALBUQUERQUE—Listeners of KRKE
Radio had a chance to win free tickets to
see "Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World"
when the picture opened here at a Commonwealth
Theatres house. At a prearranged
time, listeners called the station and
were asked to bark three times. Later in the
day, deejays played back the assorted canine
sounds and the listener was given 60 seconds
to identify his own bark!
Winners received two tickets to a special
premiere of "Digby, the Biggest Dog in
the World," as well as an oversize Digby
Doggy Bag.
Arrangements for the KRKE sponsorship
of this promotion were handled by Commonwealth
city manager Lou Avolio.
Michael Zucker Appointed
WB Films Media Director
BURBANK, CALIF.—Michael Zucker
has been appointed media director for
Warner Bros, feature films by Richard
Lederer. WB vice-president in charge of
advertising and publicity. Zucker, 32, will
begin his new duties today (4) and will
be responsible for all Warner Bros, media
planning and execution.
Before joining WB, Zucker was West
Coast manager for Independent Media
Services. His media experience includes
positions as media director for Chiat/Day.
Inc., media supervisor for Carson/Roberts,
Inc., media director for Albert Jay Rosenthal
& Co., Chicago, and media buyer for
Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc., Chicago. Zucker
is a graduate of Chicago's Roosevelt University.
Book Interprets History
Of Blacks in Film Industry
(Continued from page W-7)
and Mr. Bojangles the cool-eyed Tom.' The
Christian resignation of Louise Beavers, the
sassy repartee of Hattie McDaniel and the
integrationist heroism of Poitier all left their
mark. But the few times Bogle brought up
his admiration for certain black performers
with classmates at school, they were scorned
as Uncle Toms.
"Years later he saw the need for perspective.
He explains: 'As I was fitting my material
into some order. I saw emerging something
more than history. Having come of
age at a time when it had become almost
impossible to keep politics and aesthetics
apart, I felt compelled to interpret the past
from my own point of view, that of a black
looking at other blacks in motion pictures,
that of a black under 25 reviewing the work
of his cultural ancestors. I also was aware,
while sitting in a Times Square theatre one
afternoon and listening to black teenagers
howling and deriding Juano Hernandez's
toothless janitor character in "They Call Me
MISTER Tibbs!", that somehow or other
I had to make them fully understand what
this man had been like in the early 1950s.
These teenagers had to see that without an
actor like Hernandez in the 1950s there
might never have been a "They Call Me
MISTER Tibbs!" What I have tried to do is
put black films and black personalities in
their proper historical perspective, while at
the same time trying to say what these films
and actors mean to us today.'
" Tt's essential that we get more black
people behind the camera as well as in front
of it,' says Bogle. 'We need black writers,
producers and directors and even black people
in advertising the films. I'm cynical in
a way, because I know there are black people
working behind the scenes today and
I've seen some of the product. A number of
black people in the industry want to do the
same things as the whites did. They want
to make money— they want the swimming
pool, the house, the car and the woman. All
these things go together. We not only need
more blacks in the industry but more who
are creative and have a certain type of integrity
and feel a certain responsibility to
the black community. I'm not saying a
great burden should be put on people; I'm
saying as long as films don't demean black
people, I'm glad the films are being made.'
"It may be the tip of the iceberg that will
sink Donald Bogle's Toms, Coons, Mulattoes.
Mammies and Bucks once and for all."
Warner Bros.' "The Exorcist" has become
a bo.xoffice hit in Japan.
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'Airport 1975' Has
300 in KC Opening
KANSAS CITY—"Airport 1975" opened
here with a strong 300 to lead all first-runs.
In second spot was "The Longest Yard" at
four theatres with 250 in its fourth week.
Third place was captured by two films scoring
200 each, "Tender Loving Care" and
"Juggernaut."
(Average Is 100)
Five theotres Sovoge Sisters (AlP) ICO
Four theatres The Longest Yard (Pora), 4th wk. 250
four theatres— Mixed Company (UA) 100
Glenwood That's Entertainment! (UA],
12th wk 60
Plaza Airport I97S ,Univ) 300
Six theatres— Tender Loving Core (New World) ..200
Three theatres— 11 Horrowhouse (20th-Fox),
2nd wk 100
Two theatres Coiitornio Split vCol), 9th wk 90
Two theatres The Gambler ,Paro) 150
Two theatres Juggernaut (UAl, 4th wk 200
Watts Mill—Maliiia (Para) 150
'Airport 1975' Bolsters Business
With 300 in Chicago Opening
CHICAGO— -.Airport 1975" proved to
be an example of what new product can
do to bolster movie house business; it
grossed 300 in the first week at the State
Lake in the Loop. In a week of several premieres,
"The Gambler" scored 225 and
"Tales of the Green Hornet" did equally
as well. "Flesh Gordon" in its third week
also maintained 225 at the Michael Todd.
Canregie The Apprenticsehip of Duddy Kravitz
(Para), 5th wk 150
Esquire— The Gambler (Para) 225
Michael Todd Flesh Gordon (SR), 3rd wk 225
Oriental Tales of the Green Hornet (SRI 225
Roosevelt Street Gongs of Hong Kong (SR),
Super Stooges Vs. The Wonder Women (SR) ..125
State Lake— Airport 197S (Univ) 300
United Artists—The Longest Yard (Para), 3rd wk. 100
Woods Amazing Grace (UA), 4th wk 175
Ben Bolt Theatre Reopens
With Gala Festivities
CHILLICOTHE. MO.—Following extensive
redecoration, the Ben Bolt Theatre reopened
with a full evening of activities arranged
by manager Glenn Deeter. The
original showhouse was built 25 years ago
and it was acquired by Commonwealth Theatres
when the circuit took over the operation
of Mid-Central theatres.
The front of the Ben Bolt was roped off
for patrons to enjoy music by a local combo
and a performance by the local high school
Pom Pom Girls. Emcee was KCHI Radio
deejay Jerry Englert. Prizes given included
a portable TV set, an Instamatic camera
and season passes to the theatre.
After officially welcoming patrons to the
movie house. Mayor Ralph Moore was presented
a lifetime pass to the Ben Bolt by
Richard Orear, president of Commonwealth
Theatres, and Doug Lightner, circuit vicepresident.
Opening attraction at the Ben Bolt Theatre
was Paramount's "The Great Gatsby."
Two-for-One Special at Airer
BELLEVILLE. ILL.—Glenn Shu Ida
staged his annual "Hot Dog Special" recently
at Commonwealth's Blair Drive-In
through a tie-in with a supermarket and a
bakery. Patrons buying one hot dog at the
concession stand received another one free
on Friday and Saturday nights.
Scott's Savage Is Loose Offered
With Unique Money-Back Guarantee
CHICAGO—George C. Scotfs motion
picture "The Savage Is Loose," slated to
open simultaneously at nine Plitt theatres
in the Chicago area Friday (1), bowed with
a unique feature: a money-back guarantee.
Premiering the same date in Los Angeles,
"The Savage Is Loose" also is set to open
in New York City Wednesday (13) at 24
United Artists theatres
Tribune feature writer Norma Lee Brown,
in an October 14 article headlined "Chicago
Will Be Scott's First Stand," commented as
follows: "Is Chicago ready for this? In another
unprecedented move against the film
establishment, George C. Scott has chosen
Chicago as the first of nine cities in his
public fight against the MPAA—or the first
major battleground in his war against the
R rating on his first independent and controversial
picture, 'The Savage Is Loose.'
"Despite continued efforts of advisers and
legal experts to talk him out of his moneyback
guarantee plan to moviegoers through
full-page newspaper ads in key cities, Scott
remained adamant about carrying his case
to the public and . . . was working around
the clock with copywriters on the ads, with
coupons guaranteeing a refund to any parent
who takes a child under 17 to the movie
and agrees with the MPAA's R rating.
"Scott is financing the entire Scott vs.
MPAA out of his own personal funds
Topeka Duo Unveiled
At Oct. 15 Preview
TOPEKA, KAS.—The Topeka Boulevard
Cinema I and II, located at 3245 Topeka
Ave., was unveiled Tuesday, October 15,
with a special preview attended by 75 invited
guests, including Gov. Robert Docking,
it was announced by David Broemmelsick,
manager of the new twin. The cinemas
opened to the public the following day.
The facility has one auditorium with
seating for 616 patrons, while the other
viewing area accommodates 446 patrons.
Broemmelsick said the theatres will offer
daily matinees with continuous showings
and a special bargain matinee until 2 p.m.
daily, including weekends.
Abbott Co. Equipping
Several Midwest Units
CHICAGO—Harold Abbott jr.,
president
of Abbott Theatre Equipment Co., Chicago,
who recently attended the national NATO
convention in Atlanta, Ga., announced that
the firm is furnishing and supervising the
booth equipment for Rhyan Theatres' new
Showplace III, Crystal Lake, 111.
including the money-back guarantee (with
its complicated bookkeeping), as well as the
full-page newspaper ads that alone will mean
a real wallop on his pocketbook (an estimated
$50,000). When informed he might
ruffle some feathers by buying ads in only
one paper instead of all of them in each of
his key cities, he retorted, "I'm not Ft. Knox.
I'll take it under advisement.'
"So far, Chicago is the only key city to
be named but Scott's plan is to test the 'Savage'
R rating for public reaction in three
metropolitan cities, three medium-sized
cities and three rural communities. He hopes
to win enough public support to appeal his
case to the MPAA rating commission and
win a PG rating (parental guidance) by public
demand.
"Scott's choice of Chicago and the Midwest
as the first testing ground raised eyebrows
because traditionally such cinematic
ground-breaking is done on the East or West
Coast. It was probably based on loyalty.
Henry Plitt, who owns a huge string of theatres
in Chicago and the Midwest, was the
first exhibitor to buy 'Savage' and Scott's
brother James Scott, a financial consultant
on LaSalle Street, helped obtain funds for
the $1.8 million Savage' production. Actor
Scott has nearly $1 million of his own
money invested in it."
the Alvin Theatre, Chicago; sale of xenon
lamphouses and projection and sound equipment
for Brotman & Sherman's Hyde Park
Theatre, Chicago, and sale and installation
of a new sound system at the DoUarodeon
Theatre, Belvidere, III.
Also, for the Kerasotes circuit, the sale
and installation of new sound systems for
the State Theatre, Mendota, 111.; Broadway
Theatre, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Rodgers
Theatre, Anna, III.; Pines Drive-In, Oregon,
and the furnishing of systems for the new
Kerasotes triplex in Peoria, Dl.
Obscenity Law Rehearing
Sought in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY—Errol Copilevitz. attorney
representing adult theatre owners
and bookstores in challenging the city's obscenity
ordinance has asked the three-way
panel of the Missouri Supreme Court that
upheld the constitutionality of the ordinance
to grant a rehearing or transfer the case
to the full court.
In its ruling October 14, Copilevitz argued
the court misinterpreted the law by
holding that the ordinance met the constitutional
safeguards set by the U.S. Supreme
Court. He said the importance of the case
merits the attention of the full court
and maintained his argument that the
Kansas City ordinance does not specifically
Other Abbott Theatre Equipment Co.
activities include: sale and installation of
new projection and sound equipment for define the standards to be observed.
November 4, 1974 C-1

CHICAGO
flshley Boone, 20th Century-Fox sales
manager supervising the Central and
Western divisions, was here to make con-
has been promoted to the post of secretary
to Ray Russo. division manager. Debra
Uilliland has joined 20th-Fox as secretary
to Marks.
Jack Eckhardt, division manager. Cinemation
Industries, has lined up openings
of "The Horrible House on the Hill" and
"The Night God Screamed" starting Friday
(22) ... It is reported that Oscar Brotman
is bringing the Brothers Zim Revue back
to the Lincoln Village Theatre Saturday
and Sunday (9. 10).
After a number of Loop movie house
marquees displayed titles of rereleases for
several weeks, three downtown theatres
opened with new product: "The Texas
Chainsaw Massacre," based on a factual
occurrence involving grave-robbing and
cannabalism, opened at the Chicago Theatre;
"Cold Sweat." with Charles Bronson.
started a run at the United Artists, and
"From China With Death," which will be
paired with an encore showing of "Duel of
the Iron Fists." opened at the Roosevelt.
Comments following a screening of "The
Klansman" give rise to the thought that it
will have substantial boxoffice value. It
opens at the Chicago Theatre Friday (15).
"The Klansman" marks the film debut of
O. J. Simpson as a young adult provoked
to violent vengeance. Also featured in this
contemporary drama of black militants
versus the Ku Klux Klan is Lola Falana.
Bemie Serlin, national exploitation manager
for Universal was in town to resolve
plans for the opening of "Earthquake." He
also met with the committee for the Chicago
Youth Center Benefit Performance to
be held Thursday (14).
"Hubal," a new Polish film which premiered
at the Milford Theatre, had its run
extended because of a fat boxoffice opening
week.
Those Tent 26 members who have not
tacts with theatre circuit people and film
yet made reservations for the election of
buyers.
officers-membership luncheon Tuesday (12)
The Roberto Cleniente at 3145 North are urged to act without delay. This promises
Sheffield once again is known as the Vic
to be one of the more entertaining and
Theatre, now that it has been taken over important events of the year in Variety
by Jay Patel. Regular films rather than Club programing.
Spanish movies will now be shown.
Nat Nathanson, Central division manager
Beth Geary, who has served as secretary
manager Dan for Allied Artists Pictures Corp., and his
assistant Elliott Slutsky have had a heavy
to 20th-Fo.\ branch Marks,
schedule with openings of three films:
"Gold" goes into eight area theatres starting
Friday (15); a number of Chicago and
Illinois theatres open with "The Internecine
Project," and "Papillon" returns to a number
of theatres December 13.
"Night of the Living Dead," a Continental
release handled by Select Film Co.,
has been brought back again in several
theatres. Based on booking requests during
the past weeks, the interest in this cult-type
attraction is equal to that displayed when
the picture was first released three years
ago.
Saturday (16) marks the date for a screening
of "Island at the Top of the World,"
Buena Vista's Christmas picture. Also set
for the tradescreening is a BV short subject,
"Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Two."
And for more news on the Buena Vista
sessions to be held at the West Coast studio,
the dates are December 12-13. Two complete
films will be screened and major sequences
from three other movies, as well
as some footage from an animated feature
to be released in 1976, will be shown.
Exhibitors who jaunt to the West Coast to
participate in the December events are certain
to find the trip very worthwhile.
The Groove Tube," one of the summer
hits, is now in the fifth week of its multiple
here following nine weeks as a first-run
movie. This means that since August 2,
"The Groove Tube" has been playing continuously
in the metropolitan area in from
two to 16 theatres. The total gross is now
in excess of $750,000. Levitt-Pickman Film
Co., which has "The Groove Tube" in release,
has come up with another attraction
which has hit potential. It is titled "Super
Spook" and, while it should be ready for
full action right after the first of the year,
screening prints should be available by
mid-November.
Michael J. Kutza jr., founder and director
of the Chicago International Film Festival,
hopes to bring rock star David Essex here
Saturday (16). On that date "Stardust," Essex's
new Columbia Pictures release, will be
screened by the festival at the Granada Theatre.
Sandy Berman and Morris Kahn of L&M
Management said after attending the national
NATO convention, "It was very informative
and it offered the best opportunity
for getting together with other exhibitors
all over the country. Exchanging ideas
on overall problems and situations provided
valuable information to serve us during the
forthcoming year."
Reports indicate that Paramount will begin
some filming here around November 20.
The movie is "Mahogany." with Diana Ross
and Billy Dee Williams, and it is said shooting
is
to take place in Marshall Field & Co.'s
State Street store and at various locations
on the south side. Seventy-five per cent of
the film will be shot in Rome.
"Savage Sisters," American International
Picutres' film which turned in a whopping
gross in its first 20 days at the State Lake
Theatre in the Loop, is being held over indefinitclv.
Glynn Turman Is Signed
For 'Cooley High' Role
CHICAGO—Glynn Turman, young
Broadway, Hollywood and network TV
actor, has been signed for the top starring
role of Preach in American International
Pictures' "Cooley High," it was announced
by Steve Krantz. producer of the picture.
Turman's recent features include "Thomasine
& Bushrod" and "Five on the Black
Hand Side." In addition to his Broadway
appearances, he has starred off-Broadway
and at the Lincoln Center. He also is a
writer.
"Cooley High" is being filmed on actual
locations in and around Chicago by Steve
Krantz Productions. It is based on the experiences
of writer-actor Eric Monte in
1964.
AIP producer Elliot Schick is here with
the company and direction is by Michael
Schultz, who also has several Broadway
credits as a director.
Univ. Names Paul Levine
Chicago Branch Manager
NEW YORK—Paul Levine has been
named Chicago branch manager for Universal
Pictures, it was announced by R. L.
Carpenter, general sales manager. The appointment
is effective immediately.
A ten-year industry veteran, Levine was
Cleveland branch manager for United Artists
before joining Universal.
CE Conference Nov. 7-10
KITCHENER, ONT.—The Canadian
Entertainment Conference, annual convention
of Canadian university and college
talent bookers, campus radio stations, booking
agents and recording industry delegates,
is planned for Thursday through Saturday
(7-10).
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KANSAS CITY
Yhe Centre Theatre, North Kansas City,
after being closed for two weeks, reopened
Wednesday. October 30, with a new
policy of two feature films at an admission
price of 50 cents. TTie 500-seat theatre is
owned by the Kansas City Development Co..
which has engaged the Petite Amusement
Co. to handle the buying and booking of
films. Commonwealth Theatres previously
was the lessee of the theatre. The opening
attractions are '"The Way We Were" and
"Butterflies Are Free," both Columbia releases.
The programs will change once a
week. Bill Menke of the Valley View cinemas
is helping out as manager. Dick Conley
is head of Petite.
Chop-Sak!, first annual showing of kung
fu-karate spectaculars, was initiated Wednesday,
October 30. at the Crest. Boulevard,
1-70 and 1-35 drive-ins. The films on the
screens are "The Thunder Kick," "The Godfathers
of Hong Kong," "Fists of the Dou-
Senior Citizens See Film
At C'wealth's Colonial
JUNCTION CITY. KAS.—Over 80 senior
citizens from this area were treated to
ty Senior Services Program and it received
a photo-story layout in the Daily Union.
ble K" and "The Hong Kong Connection."
"The Spookiest Program That Ever Shivered
Your Bones!" was advertised for a
one-night showing only Thursday, October
31, at Dickinson's Shawnee and Leawood.
The films were "Count Yorga Vampire,"
"Dr. Phibes" and "Scream and Scream
.Again."
Screenings at Commonwealth: "Pot! Parents!
Police!" (Hampton Infl), distributed
by United National, Thursday, October 31,
10 a.m., and "The Taking of Pelham One
Two Three" (UA). Friday (1).
Sneak previews: "Alvin Purple" (Sands
B-Jay), Valley View cinemas, and "Law
and Disorder" (Col). Glenwood, both Saturday
night, October 26.
Veterans Day, Monday, October 28, was
a holiday for most of the film distributors
and equipment dealers.
star) received a gift certificate and passes
to an upcoming .showing of "The Bears and
I," Buena Vista's latest.
The second-place winner received passes
to the same movie and a choice of refreshment
center items.
Admission Via Pennies
COLUMBIA, MO.—Sponsored by the
First Bank of Commerce, the Common-
lunch at the United Methodist Church before
viewing the motion picture "Hawaii"
at the Colonial Theatre. In addition, each
guest received a gift from a local merchant.
Prior to beginning the movie. Don Hazelton,
who manages Commonwealth's Colonial,
wealth circuit's Cinema here helped alleviate
and his employees served free Cokes and popcorn.
the penny shortage by offering a special
The event was a project of the Tri-Coun-
kiddies matinee. Manager Don Mohr emphasized
the fact that admission would be
Disney Films Are Plugged
Via Contest at Drive-In
From Western Edition
LA JUNTA, COLO.—Plugging two different
Disney programs at the same time
was the purpose behind an "Old Yeller
Look-Alike" contest during the showing of
"Old Yeller" at Commonwealth's La Junta
Drive-In, where Roger Sargent is manager.
The winner of the contest (one whose dog
was judged as looking most like the canine
25 pennies only—no silver coins accepted.
The feature attraction was "Batman."
Two Promoted at Gage 5
TOPEKA, KAS.—Diane Nace recently
was promoted to the position of head
cashier at the Gage 5 theatres, it was announced
by American Multi Cinema in
Kansas City. Concurrently, Eric Nelson became
the new chief of service at Gage 5.
Columbia's "The Streetfighter" is set in
New Orleans during the early 1930s.
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'Inferno' Producer Sees
No End to Crisis Films
From Southeastern Edition
ATLANTA—Irwin Allen, producer of
the 20th Century-Fox/Warner Bros, blockbuster
"The Towering Inferno" winced
when asked if the public will tire of "disaster"
movies.
"Not disaster," Allen retorted quickly.
"It's a crisis picture. Crisis. Crisis. Disaster
has another meaning."
Shaken a little bit, Allen continued: "I
should think this type of picture could continue
being made as a way of getting people
away from their television sets. But it better
damn well be a good story.
"There would never be an end to Westerns.
There would not be an end to comedies.
Why then would there be an end to
crisis
pictures?"
Allen said crisis pictures are "inevitably
difficult projects, challenging, complicated
and expensive. No camera rolls until every
problem has been investigated and solved.
The key to producing crisis movies is
organization. That's what puts the money
up on the screen where it belongs, instead
of in a hole dug in uncertainty and indecision.
People who work for me get
shocked at first by my graphs and charts,
but eventually they rely on them as much
as I do."
Allen's first profitable crisis film was
"The Poseidon Adventure" which became
the world's most successful film in 1973
by drawing $160 million.
"The Towering Inferno," story of a holocaust
in the world's tallest building, is a
classic crisis film in Allen's opinion.
C'wealth Ozoner Cashiers
In KC Win Night on Town
KANSAS CITY—Two winners were announced
in Commonwealth Theatres' Cashiers'
Contest, conducted during the fourthquarter
period. Boxoffice cashiers working
in the circuit's Kansas City theatres were
eligible in the competition.
Both winners announced were employees
of the 1-35 Claco Drive-In, working under
manager Jim Gardiner. Sally Smith was
July's leading contender, followed in August
by her co-worker Terry Christman.
The object of the contest-within-a-contest
was to locate the friendliest and most efficient
cashier through "blind" telephone calls
and personal contact. Each was rated on a
1-10 scale.
Prizes awarded were "Fun Certificates"
for either Tiffany's Attic or the Waldo
Astoria, popular dinner theatres here.
Andy Warhol's "Dracula," released by
Bryanston, features roles by Vittorio dc
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Disney House Record Set
At AMC's Hillcrest 4
ST. JOSEPH, MO.-^A new Disney house
record was set at Amenean Multi Cinema's
Hillcrest 4 theatres here following an indepth
campaign for the engagement of
"Herbie Rides Again."
Everett Hughes, AMC district manager;
Bing Frakes, Hillcrest 4 manager, and Andrew
Howard, assistant manager, arranged a
tie-in with Dick Richards Volkswagen. The
VW dealer used 400 autographed Herbie
posters, provided a "Mini-Herbie" for a
contest prize, placed a schedule of over
$1,000 in newspaper and broadcast advertising
with tags for the theatre, picture and
playdate and generally was cooperative
throughout the campaign.
Cross-plugging posters and one-sheets
w;re used in the Hillcrest 4 and the dealership.
As well, a full-size Herbie was displayed
in front of the theatre, courtesy of
Richards Volkswagen. The St. Joseph News
Press and Gazette, TV and radio carried
advance news of the event.
The three AMC men who handled the
event feel that careful planning—well in
advance—insured the success of the engagement.
Gov. Jimmy Carter Given
Credit for 'Yard' Assist
From Southeastern
Edition
ATLANTA—Credit for clearing the way
for the filming of "The Longest Yard" at
the Georgia State Prison at Reidsville was
given Gov. Jimmy Carter and to the Georgia
Film Commission in interviews here by
Robert Aldrich, who directed the Paramount
picture, and Albert S. Ruddy, the producer
who came up with the story idea.
First plans of Aldrich and Ruddy called
for the picture to be made at Oklahoma's
state prison but "six weeks before shooting
was scheduled to start, the inmates leveled
the place," Aldrich said.
"We had been turned down by nearly
every prison in the U.S.," he added. "They
all thought the security problems would be
too great. It was Gov. Jimmy Carter's intervention
that got us in here."
Then it was that the Georgia Film Commission
quickly arranged for shooting in
Reidsville, with some of the scenes to be
made at Savannah. Aldrich said that one
Georgia official "showed us a couple of
other prisons that looked like the Holiday
Inn but we had to have a prison-like prison."
He and Ruddy found exactly what they
wanted in this state's only maximum security
prison,
"Our filming there was good for the prisoners,
too," Ruddy said, "We broke the
boredom of the prison regimen."
"I have wanted to do a football movie
for a long time," he added, "but it couldn't
be a traditional football game because
there's so much football on television. It
had to be a symbolic game,"
Ruddy, who received an Academy award
lor "The Godfather," which he produced,
said he likes filming in Georgia and he plans
to shoot his next film in Atlanta.
ST.
LOUIS
Wariety Club Tent 4's first membership
meeting of the fall season was held
Wednesday. October 30, at Glen Echo
Country Club, with a buffet dinner. The
Johnny Polzin orchestra furnished music
for dancing. Chief barker John Londoff is
working for the annual midwinter two-day
meeting of Variety clubs, to be held in New
York City.
"The Destructors," American International
Pictures' relea.se starring Anthony Quinn,
Michael Caine and James Mason, opened
to good business at 12 theatres October 23
and "The Taking of Pelham One Two
Three" began an engagement the same date
at Stadium Cinema 1, Crestwood, Village
and Manchester,
Exclusive engagements include "Mixed
Company." Barbara Harris-Joe Bologna
starrer, at Esquire 1 and "The Apprenticeship
of Duddy Kravitz" at the Fine Arts,
with an additional late show on Saturday
nights ... In time for Halloween, "House
on Skull Mountain" opened Wednesday,
October 30, at the Fox. In a starring role
is Jean Durand, who appears in "All in
the Family."
George M. Josephs, general sales manager
of Crown International Pictures, paid his
first visit to this city with John Shipp of
Thomas-Shipp Films to meet with Jerry
Banta, local Thomas-Shipp representative
Tanner of Pana and Vandalia,
111., was in town to buy and book for his
theatres.
George C. Scott's "The Savage Is Loose"
opens Friday (15) at Arthur's Cinema 1 and
Kirkwood. Scott believes the R rating given
his projection is unjust and that it should
be PG. He is releasing the film in three
large, three medium-size and three rural
areas in test engagements and is offering
to refund admissions (during the first week)
to parents who find the film objectionable.
The picture concerns a father, mother and
son stranded on a deserted island for 17
years, during which the son grows from a
small child to young manhood. There is no
incest in the picture, although the audience
may conclude that it takes place after the
end of the film.
"The Quiet Man," the late director John
Ford's final Academy Award winner, will
be shown at the St. Louis Art Museum
Friday (15) at 7 and 9 p.m. As a tribute
to Ford, Peter Bogdanovich produced a
99-minute film titled "Directed by John
Ford," with Orson Welles providing the
narration. Clips from his four Oscar-winning
films are tied in with interviews with
John Wayne, Henry Fonda and James
Stewart. The film, financed by the California
Arts Commission and American Film
Institute, was intended to include an interview
with Ford but the late director, avoiding
the spotlight, made only brief replies to
questions. Bogdanovich, who produced the
tribute in 1971, hopes to use Wayne, Fonda
and Stewart in his own ultimate western.
He believes that Ford traced American
history in his productions and recalls the
appearance of a man alone in a changing
world shown in the final moments of "The
Last Hurrah."
Painting Inspires Story
For Calgarian's Film
From Canadian Edition
CALGARY—Ideas for movies come
from an infinite variety of sources but one
of the rather unusual inspirations for Calgary
filmmaker Frank Hoeldtke came from
a painting. Done by Frederic Remington in
the late 19th century, the painting shows
several mounted Indians leading an American
cavalry officer with a rope around his
neck.
From this interesting scene Hoeldtke
worked out a theme using the innermost
thoughts of the captive officer as he is
forced to move along with the Indians to
his eventual fate.
Filming already has begun on the movie,
which is titled "Missing," a Canadian western
adventure circa 1800. Freelance Calgary
filmmaker Ralph Willsey is doing the cinematography
and Hoeldtke is directing.
Locale for the filming is an area close to
Calgary and Calgary actors are featured in
"Missing." Greg Coates portrays the captive
officer and Brenda Beck has the role of his
wife. As the officer makes the forced march
and comes close to death, his wife is in his
thoughts constantly.
Five men from the Sarcee Indian Reserve
(just south of Calgary) take the part of the
war party. They are Dick Starlight, Gilbert
Crowchild, Bruce Starlight, Peter Many
Wounds and Tony Starlight. Many of the
props and artifacts, as well as some of the
clothing used in "Missing," are the property
of Frank Hoeldtke. Over the past several
years he has collected authentic Indian
clothing, accessories, saddles and guns.
Hoeldtke, who is not only an avid moviemaker
but an Old West buff, made the
beaded buckskin jacket worn by the leader
of the war party. He also hand-made other
items of clothing used in the picture.
The production should be completed by
December and, if successful, Hoeldtke is
considering an entire series using paintings
of the Old West as his inspiration.
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Carnegie Theatre Hosts
Film-Showing Marathon
CHICAGO—The Columbia retrospective
Marcus Corp. Reports
Rise in Net Earnings
unspooled recently at the Carnegie Theatre,
From North Central Edition
according to Chicago Tribune staffer Anne
MILWAUKEE—Ben Marcus, president
Keegan. was a "'reel marathon!" The program
was kicked off with "'It Happened One
and chairman of the board of the Marcus
Corp., has announced increased sales and
Night" at midnight Sunday morning. October
earnings for the first 12 weeks of fiscal
and ended the same day at 7:45 p.m.
with the Barbra Streisand starrer, "Funny
6.
1975, ending Aug. 20, 1974.
The Milwaukee-based operator of hotels,
Girl."
motels, theatres and restaurants reported
Describing the cinematic event, Ms. Keegan
said: "It was a movie marathon at the
revenues for the 12 weeks of $13,611,776,
compared as to $12,706,592 for last year's
Carnegie Theatre, Oak and Rush streets,
quarter ending Aug. 31. 1973. Marcus also
and ten free movies and gallons of free coffee
brought a full house. It was an explosion
announced that net earnings for the period
rose to $992,601, or 37 cents per share, as
of oldies but goodies that lured the youngies
compared to $925,423, or 34 cents per
to spend the night, the day and the night
share a year ago, both based on an average
again.
of 2,692,100 shares outstanding.
"The line began forming in a drizzling
In making the announcement Marcus said.
rain Saturday evening (October 5). long befor
the doors were scheduled to open before
"We were very pleased with the results of
the first period, especially in view of our
midnight. John Zabelny, 21, of 32111
economy's
West LeMoyne St., was the first to arrive.
volatile state. While food and
He began his wait at 10:30 a.m. to assure
other costs continued to escalate due to inflation,
the controls we established earlier
himself a seat. He was a one-man line for
in the year contributed to our improved
most of the wait. "It was sort of fun to do,'
profit picture. We were particularly pleased
he said. 'You can get into waiting in line.
There's a lot of free things around town
with the continued resurgence of our theatre
you can get into if you wait
group. More and better quality motion pictures
in line.'
greatly assisted this growth. Once
"By dawn Sunday (October 6) the theatre
again, we have refrained from any external
started looking like an indoor campout.
financing at today's high interest rates and
People snoozed on the floor in the aisles.
They catnapped in the lobby and dozed in
their seats. Many brown-bagged it for early
are financing all of our new construction
with internally generated funds."
morning snacks. Others sent out for pizza
or brought in breakfast orders to go. Or.
The Marcus Corp. owns and operates 54
movie theatres in Wisconsin. A twin theatre
North Racine, Wis., the Northtown cinemas
in
row, they
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like the elderly lady in the front
brought a Thermos and a picnic basket for
sustenance during the cinema spree.
We've got people who've spent the
Concurrent Tie-Ins Sell
night and others who stayed for a few films
and then left,' said Barbara Turner from 4 Films for C'wealth
the ticket window. 'Columbia Pictures sponsored
MANHATTAN. KAS.—Several book-
the event . . . It's their golden classics ings which lend themselves to tie-ins were
of the silver screen. The place seats 600 set at the same time in various local theatres.
and we gave out 1,300 tickets by noon Sunday.
Taking advantage of the situation was
the Commonwealth circuit's trainee manager
It's the first time they've done this kind of thing. We've got people in there
Eldon Klein, using trade-outs with
asleep in every kind of position, under newspapers
bookstores and record shops.
and over a cup of coffee, as well In addition to lobby displays. Klein also
up promotional exhibits for "Blazing
as on the floor. They take a rest in the set
lobby and go back to see the movies they
shows
Saddles" at the Campus; "The Exorcist"
like. It people really like the old at the 'Varsity, and "Where the Lilies
movies. It's like a giant slumber party Bloom" and "The Great Gatsby" at West
Loop 1-2.
It's all very comfortable. But with all these
people living here for so long, this place is
Andy Robinson has been signed for a
principal role in Warner Bros.' "The Drowning
Pool."
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LIBERAL. KAS—"Drive-In Poker" is
a gimmick u.sed this season by Great Western
manager Steve Reed to boost grosses at
the Commonwealth airer. Drivers attending
Monday through Thursday were given one
"poker" card.
For the best "poker hand" turned in after
August 29. winners received prizes ranging
a six-month pass for first place to
individual passes good for one show.
The "poker cards" measured 6x8 inches
,uid were printed in two colors.
Black-Financed Film Seen
As First for Industry
From Southeastern Edition
ATLANTA—A first for the film industry
was signified by the opening of a
black film venture "The House on Skufl
Mountain" October 18.
State Sen. Leroy Johnson, at a press
conference before the premiere of the Chocolate
Chip and Pinto Production at Loew's
Grand here, said the event held special
significance because it was the first premiere
entirely by six black Atlanta businessmen.
"We need Atlanta to support this
venture," he added.
Appearing at the premiere were producer
Joe Hartsfield and stars Elsa Woods
and Mike Evans.
"We went into this venture to prove
things we had heard couldn't be done by
•nobodies' could be done," said Lloyd Smith,
president of Film Fund Enterprises, Inc.
which sank $550,000 into the film. Smith
said his company will work with the
Georgia Film Committee on making more
movies here.
Tenn. Drive-In Robbed
By Couple With Shotgun
From Southeastern Edition
KNOXVILLE, TENN.—The manager of
an East Knox County drive-in was robbed
of an undetermined amount of cash October
4 as he closed the ticket office.
David Hall, manager of the River Breeze
Drive-In, Ashville Highway, said a woman
came to the ticket booth and asked him
to help her boost the battery on her car.
Hall told the woman he was too busy.
Seconds later a man appeared along with
the woman, pulled a shotgun, and took the
cash from Hall.
Antipomography Law Costly
From North Central Edition
EAST LANSING, MICH.—An antipornography
ordinance passed Aug. 21,
1973, the first in the Lansing area, is being
scrutinized by the Meridian Township
Board, which reportedly is having "second
thoughts" about the cost and effectiveness
of the measure. The statute forbids the display
but not the sale of sexually explicit
material depicted in a "lewd fashion." Enforcing
the ordinance (without notable success)
has been expensive. Meridian budgeted
$22,000 for 1974 legal expenses but legal
bills will be at least $54,000 this year, a
township spokesman disclosed.
James Bamette Dies
NEW ORLEANS—Services were conducted
Saturday. October 26, for James
Barnette, husband of Joy Theatre manager
Gene Barnette. who died Thursday, October
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FORT WAYNE. IND. — Robert
Gcldstine
& Sons, October 18 told the Qjest
Club that pornographic films hopefully
"have reached their peak (or depth) . .
.
and will remain to be seen only in the most
tawdry theatres in back alley surroundings."
it was reported by the Fort Wayne News-
Sentinel.
The article continued: "Speaking about
the past, present and future of the movie
industry, Goldstine said a good aspect of
movies is their use in education. This use,
he said, should make film creators—Muybridge,
Meissonier and Edison—rest comfortably.
"Goldstine went back to the beginning of
filmmaking, describing its invention and early
improvements, and discussed silent films,
including the "cliff hanger' or weekly serial,
usually in
13 episodes and each ending with
the hero or heroine on the verge of destruction.
'With the advent of the talkies in the
mid-1 920s. the entire industry was to change
vastly,' Goldstine said. The film "The Jazz
Singer" in 1927. featuring Al Jolson. was
the first big musical and what followed
during the rest of the '205. '30s and '40s was
phenomenal.'
"He also talked in detail about theatre
buildings of the 'golden age of the movie
palace,' which began and ended in the decade
between prohibition and depression.
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age by theatre builders across the country,
who generally retained the services of three
great architectural firms—John Eberson.
Rapp & Rapp and Thomas Lamb, according
to Goldstine. He reminded listeners that
Eberson designed the Embassy Theatre in
Fort Wayne.
"About today's theatres. Goldstine said
they are "places with 200 to 400 or 500 seats
and a screen and little else. They generally
are drab, concrete block warehouse-type
buildings but ever so efficient.'
"He noted two or three of the theatres
are placed side by side or back to back today
and "can be operated by one projectionist,
a ticket seller and a popcorn specialist.'
""The past 14 years, Goldstine said, "have
seen vast social change in the world and
advances in medicine, psychiatry and general
science have been truly amazing. The
movies have been there to record in dramatic
form most of these developments and
in turn perhaps brought a certain awareness
of them to the viewing public, who now
not only attend movie theatres but see
in the comfort of home on TV'.
films
""Concerning the movie industry of the
future. Goldstine said, "If we are to consider
precedent, movies of the next three decades
will continue to use plots which feature the
chase, mystery, comedy, the historical episode,
space e.\ploration and the spectacle,
just as we have seen them all employed
during the last seven decades.' "
WATSONVILLE,
CALIF.—A break-in
at the Skyview Drive-In was discovered
October 9. according to a police report.
The snack bar is located in the area entered;
however, it could not be determined if anything
was missing.
Embassy Foundation Seeks
More Time to Raise Funds
FORT WAYNE, IND.—The Embassy
Theatre Foundation, successor to the Savethe-Embassy
Foundation, whose function is
to purchase, restore and operate the historic
palatial theatre, has asked for a six-month
extension on the 60 days the building's
owner gave the group to buy the building.
The 60 days began August 28 and the professional
fund-raising consultants the foundation
retained said there absolutely was no
way to raise the $250,000 purchase price
in time to meet the deadline, according to
foundation president Robert Goldstine.
"I have contacted Sportservice of Buffalo.
N.Y.. and they will think about it," Goldstine
said October 24. He stated the owners
were sympathetic, that they want the group
to have the building, but "'they have problems
of their own, I guess." Goldstine said
the potential donors generally rated the
Fort Wayne economic climate as good or
at least stable but only "'a couple of people
indicated they could go. maybe, $10,000."
The fund-raising consultants, Ketcham.
Inc., of Chicago, interviewed 30 top potential
big donors but apparently didn't find
enough support to carry the drive right now.
Goldstine said. The Embassy Theatre
Foundation voted in September to seek
$500,000. so that the theatre could be
bought and minimally restored at once.
The Ketcham representative said there is
at least a chance the money could be raised
if the foundation had an extra six months
to do it. Goldstine said the foundation might
have to put up a nonrefundable deposit in
order to convince Sportservice it really will
buy the building.
Denver School Conducts
Classes in Filmmaking
From Western Edition
DENVER—Sebastian School, 1620 York,
kicked off its fall semester in filmmaking,
videotape and film history October 21.
Classes include studies in filmmaking, discovering
the movies, introduction to video,
animation and an editing seminar. Costs
for the fall sessions run from $35 for
""Discovering the Movies" to $90 for each
course in filmmaking and animation.
"Introduction to Video" costs $40, while
the charge for the editing seminar is $75.
The faculty is made up of Albert Miller,
film historian and collector; Bonita
Trumbule, active in media-related activities;
Gerald Trumbule, who has spent years
in research, and Millie Paul, who has an
M.A. in cinema from USC.
House membership is available to those
who wish to work in film or video tape
without class participation.
AMC Names Dave Jeschke
CARBONDALE, ILL.—David Jeschke.
formerly assistant manager at American
Multi Cinema's Six West in Omaha, Neb.,
has been appointed manager of the circuit's
soon-to-open University 4 here.
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'Tamarind Seed/
'Massacre' Tied
MEMPHIS— The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
and "The Tamarind Seed" tied for
first-run lead here with 200 each. "Together
Brothers" opened at the Loews" with
100. Re-release "Fantasia" from Biiena
Vista drew 200 at the boxoffice.
(Average Is 100)
Crosstown That's Entertainment! (UA), 10th wk. 100
Loews'—Together Brothers (20th-Fox) 100
Maico Tough! (SR), 2nd wk 150
Memphian The Texas Charnsow Massacre (SR) . .200
Paramount 'W (AlP), 2nd wk 150
Park—The Tamarind Seed (Emb) 200
"Airport 1975' Grosses 500
In New Orleans Opening
NEW OR1.HAN.S— .'\irport 1975" got
off to a good start with 500 in its opening
week at the Joy Theatre in spite of the return
of football. "Savage Sisters" was 400
at the Orpheum and "The Mad Adventures
of 'Rabbi' Jacob" at the Robert E. Lee
opened at 200.
Joy—Airport 1975 (Univ) 500
Orpheum Sovoge Sisters (AlP) 400
Robert E. Lee—The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi'
Ohio Theatre Renovation
Called 'Cultural Bargain'
From Mideastern Edition
COLUMBUS—The cost of acquiring and
maintaining a "movie cathedral" of the '20s
for use as a civic entertainment center runs
into the millions, as the Columbus Ass'n
for the Performing Arts has found out since
it acquired the 3,000-seat former Loews'
Ohio five years ago. Mrs. Kenneth L.
Bishop, chairman of the CAPA building
committee, says that even at the high figure
it still represents a cultural bargain.
It cost $2 million to save the Ohio from
demolition and it will cost an estimated $2
million more over the next ten years to
maintain and restore it.
The theatre has just completed a $269,-
000 project of installing new seats in the
orchestra and loge. CAPA still owes $69,000
on this job. CAPA also has spent about
$55,000 over the past three years for repairing
emergency lighting, repairing steam
traps, patching carpeting and making stage
repairs. In-progress projects include a $5,000
repair of plumbing and the installation of a
drinking fountain in the lobby.
The theatre's west wall is being repaired
at a
cost of $28,674 and vacuum pumps for
the heating system boilers cost $6,999.
Laurel Twin Opens
I.AURLL, MISS.—New manager of the
Northsidc Twin Cinema here, which opened
in .September, is Geraldine Bell. On hand
during opening ceremonies were Mayor
W. L. Patrick; Marvin L. Brewton, vicepresident
of operations. Gulf States; G.A.
Schmitz, director of construction, Gulf
States; Ray Sturdivant, Gulf States supervisor;
and Timothy Beard, city manager for
Gulf States. Special guests were Ralph
Johnson of Southern Theatre Supply and
Mrs. C. H. Crossley. widow of theatre
veteran Preacher Crosslev.
WINNER IN
CHARLOTTE—
Crown International Pictures president
Mark Ten.ser, is pictured with Bob
McClure and George Roystcr, Crown
distributors in Charlotte. N.C. The
Charlotte office placed sixth in the
"Red" Jacobs Sales Drive and shared
in $5,000 in prize money. The drive
period was from April to September
with the six top exchanges acro.ss the
country winning cash prizes.
Plaza Cinemas 4
Premieres in La.
NEW ORLEAN.S—A three-day round of
festivities heralded the opening of the Plaza
Cinemas 4 in the Lake Forest Shopping
Center here.
Irene Me.xic of Gulf States advertising
department, said the event was a "huge
success." The premiere performance of "The
Odessa File" benefited the Odyssey House,
a rehabilitation center here.
Following the film a reception was given
for Congresswoman Lindy Boggs, guest of
honor, courtesy of Maison Blanche Lake
Forest. On hand to greet the U.S. representative
were Jack Dobbs, president of Gulf
States; Larry Gleason, vice-president and
general manager; Marvin Brewton, vicepresident
of operations; Irene Mexic and
Timothy Beard, Plaza Cinemas manager.
McMillin Wins Contest
TAMPA, MA.— Lantz McMillin, AMC's
Clearwater 4, won the concession contest
for the bay area here. He showed a nineweek
per head increase of 6.5 cents and
used suggestive selling to increase sales. Mc-
Millin received 20,000 Success Through
Showmanship points. Bill Burge of the
Clearwater 4, new manager trainee, received
an extra day off for his help in the promo-
Toledo Teenagers Charged
From Mideastern
Edition
TOLEDO, OHIO—Four teenagers have
been charged with disorderly conduct and
one with resisting arrest following a disturbance
on a recent Sunday afternoon (5:30
p.m.) at the Pantheon Theatre, where "Johnny
Tough!" was being shown. The theatre
was closed and youth who were leaving littered
the streets after the arrests.
Defendant Lovelace
Assessed $32,038
MIAMI—Linda Lovelace, defendant in
a court suit brought by adult theatre owner
Leroy Griffith, has been assessed a $32,038
liidgement for damages.
Judge Joe Eaton, ruling on Griffith's
complaint that he sustained $75,000 in
losses when Ms. Lovelace failed to appear
on stage in a revue last November here.
gave Griffith only half the amount sought.
Ms. Lovelace argued that she is "worthless"
as a stage performer and her non-appearance
was the only reason for the judge's
decision. She did not show up at the planned
revue in the Paramount Theatre here and
previously had argued in court over what
she had been hired to do on stage. Ms.
Lovelace, known for her appearance in
"Deep Throat," claimed her only live performance
in Philadelphia was a failure.
Griffith, according to newspaper accounts,
may not be able to collect on the
judgment. He, however, has stated that because
Ms. Lovelace has a book being published
and a new movie "Linda Lovelace for
President" scheduled, the judgement should
be paid.
Tri-State Convention
Sessions Begin Sunday
MEMPHIS—All roads lead to Memphis
Sunday-Tuesday (10-12). Exhibitors from
all parts of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee
are coming to the Tri-State Theatre
Owners Convention.
This year sessions will be at Admiral Benbow
Inn on Lamar.
A big event will be the annual Tri-State
Golf Tournament at Fox Meadows Golf
Course, starting at 9 a.m. Monday (11). The
$10 fee includes an electric riding cart.
Lurlene Carothers of United Artists,
WOMPI president, said the women will be
on hand at the tournament to serve coffee
when golfers tee off.
'Loves of Liszt' Premiere
Raises $100,000 in Miami
Miami— '•The Loves of Liszt," a
movie portraying the musical conipo.ser's
life filmed in Europe, premiered
here October 26 in front of 1.000 patrons.
Proceeds from the $100-per-seat
event went to the Miami Philharmonic.
The film was screened at Gusman Hall,
the former Olynipia Theatre in downtown
Miami.
X joint Hungarian-Soviet production
depicting the life and times of Fran/
Liszt, the film was shot in Venice.
Rome. Weimar, Dresden, Vienna, lA>ningrad,
and Kiev. Most notable are
scenes from the Czar's palace outside
Leningrad, a location never before
available to a film crew. Musicians
from Europe recreated Liszt's haunting
melodies for the film.
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ATLANT A
Qeorgia drive-in
operators were especially
pleased with the return to standard
time Sunday morning. October 27, as were
parents of school-age children. Two Georgia
youngsters were among the nation's children
killed last winter when on their way to
school in the dark hours brought on by
adoption of Daylight Saving Time on a
year-round basis to "conserve energy."
What's left of Atlanta's old Filmrow observed
Monday. October 28. as its Veterans
Day holiday, along with banks, postal workers,
state, county and city workers . . .
Visitors to Filmrow during a holiday week
drop pretty close to zero but Jim Goolsby
of the Parkwood Cinema. Griffin, was one
exhibitor who made it . . . Linda Craddock
has joined the 20th Century-Fox accounting
department.
When 20th-Fox's "The Poseidon Adventure"
played Weis" Capri Cinema two years
ago, long lines were the rule. Many missed
seeing the epic Irwin Allen picture with
comments such as, "Oh. I'll just wait and
see it on TV." These people and millions
of others got their wish Sunday night,
October 27, in Georgia when WXIA-TV,
Atlanta's ABC-TV affiliate, presented the
film in a 150-minute showing.
Marjoe Gortner, in Atlanta to promote
Universal's "Earthquake." in which he's
cast as a "mean, evil, sinister character,"
told a reporter that acting is harder than
preaching but emphasized that he has no
intention of returning to the pulpit. As a
child. Marjoe was a sensation on the tent
meeting circuit, delivering sermons given to
him to memorize by his parents. He says
he got out of evangelism when he was 14
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Marquee changes: Lenox Square, South
DeKalb. Westgate, Parkaire and Village,
"Where the Red Fern Grows"; Loews' Tara,
"The Gambler"; Loews' 12 Oaks, "The
Odessa File"; Belmont, "Airport 1975";
"Foxy Brown" and "Truck Turner";
Rialto,
National Triple, "Blazing Saddles"; Plaza,
"Model Hunters"; Roswell Village I, "The
Sting"; Jonesboro Twin. "The Great Gatsby"
and "McQ"; Greenbriar, "The Bears
and I"; Marietta Strand, "Challenge"; Cobb
Center, "The Longest Yard"; Broadview
Cinema I, "Gold"; Capri, Sandy Springs
and Candler I, "The Savage Is Loose";
Broadview II. "A Clockwork Orange";
Buford Mall, "For Pete's Sake"; Toco Hill,
"Zandy's Bride."
Ike Katz, who with his brother Harry,
owns and operates Kay Film Exchange,
Inc., a long-established film agency at 201
Luckie St., Northwest, recently discovered
a program among his papers from the first
WOMPI Club anniversary dinner, Aug. 26,
1954. The dinner was held at the Variety
Club and a welcome was extended to members
and their guests by the late Christine
Smith, then the city's censor for stage
shows, films and other entertainments (she
subsequently married Atlanta councilman
James Gilliam). The invocation was by
Helen Taylor; Laura Kenny introduced Nat
Williams, Thomasville, owner-operator of
a south Georgia circuit. After Williams'
speech. Mary Anne Hendryx provided musical
entertainment. The Katz brothers, real
Atlanta Filmrow pioneers, have numerous
friends in the film industry throughout the
Southeast.
Trade and press screenings at 20th-Fo,\'s
Filmrow Playhouse were sparse, only these
three being listed: "Violent Professionals,"
General Films; "The Great Battle," Columbia;
"They Call Me Hallelujah," Jack
Vaughan Productions.
Atlanta's motion picture exhibitors are
saying "those blockbusters they have been
promising us can't come too soon. We need
em!" The pressure comes from competition
exhibitors here are getting from the
Atlanta Flames, this city's entry in the National
Hockey League. After one year in
the loop, the Flames have become the
darlings of sports followers in Atlanta,
most of whom never had seen a hockey
game "live" prior to 1973. The Flames
play their games in the 15,000-seat Omni
and last year played to standing-room-only
crowds. This year they have picked up in
the new hockey season where they left off
last year and sellouts continue. And, of
course, their drawing power is bound to be
siphoning off a certain percentage of boxoffice
receipts from other entertainment
spots, including motion picture theatres.
This month the Flames have 15 home dates
and the Atlanta Hawks, the city's National
Basketball Ass'n entry which also uses the
Omni, have six home games and are pushing
their attendance figures up,
too.
Fairfield Community Post
To Charles K. Kleimnan
From New England Edition
FAIRFIELD, CONN. — Fishman Thea-
of New Haven announced the appointment
tres
of Charles K. Kleinman of Stratford
as manager of the Fairfield Community
Theatre, succeeding William Witalis, who
had resigned.
"Charles Kleinman brings with him a
vast experience in the theatrical field," commented
the Fishman circuit spokesman,
"having been at one time manager of the
Candlelight-Pix Twin Drive-In and many
theatres of the former Strand Amusement
Co. of Bridgeport, among them the American,
the Colonial and the Rialto."
Travel Films Start
ATLANTA—November heralds the start
of travel films at the public library's Senior
Citizens Club here. The main library will
show four films on Australia, one on Tuesday
(12) and three Tuesday (26). Greenbriar
branch has five films scheduled on places
throughout the world: "Village on Stilts"
and "Golden Autumn." Monday (4); "Williamsburg
Restored." Monday (11): "Citadel
of Upper Canada." Monday (18) and "Patal
Ganga—River of the Gods," Monday (25).
These films are free and open to the public.
Marley Boosts Film
ST. PETERSBURG. FLA.—Europix latest
release "Dead of Night" premiered in
the area recently and actor John Marley
helped boost interest in the film with a personal
appearance. He signed autographs in
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ATLANTA—A Georgia House judiciary
sub-committee, completing two days of
hearings on obscenity laws, expressed concern
over adult movie houses and bookstores
moving into suburban areas.
Rep. Wayne Snow of Chickamauga.
chairman of the judiciary committee, said
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pornography industry "is going in the wrong
direction" and that the suburban moves represent
a "failure of the industry to police
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the sub-committee is drawing up a bill that
can meet U.S. Supreme Court tests, especially
in the area of due process in serving
notice on establishments dealing in pornography
that legal action is pending. The subcommittee
appeared to be moving away
from strict prohibitions on pornography
toward a more liberal attitude that would
allow it to function under tight controls.
"I don't see any way that we could absolutely
ban it," sub-committee chairman
Jim Bennett of Valdosta said.
Meanwhile local pornography merchants
have been singing the blues and blaming
the nation's sagging economy for a 30 per
'Gone With the Wind'
TV Debut Saddens Star
From Southwestern Edition
OKLAHOMA CITY — The remaining
few months that "Gone With the Wind"
will light up theatre screens is a sad time
for Olivia de Havilland.
Ms. de Havilland, who played the gentle
and demure Melanie in the 1939 film
classic, recently told an Oklahoma City
audience that she was sorry the picture
had been sold to television: "I'm sorry it's
going to be on such a small screen; it's
such a big picture."
Winner of two Academy Awards, Ms.
de Havilland also said she hoped the movie.
to be shown sometime in 1976, wouldn't be
interrupted by commercials. "It is S-'i hours
long. If they are going to have commercials.
I hope they'll come at the beginning, during
intermission and at the end."
A resident of Paris for the last 19 years,
the 58-year-old star is on her fourth year
of lecture tours. Her talk is titled "From
the City of Stars to the City of Lights."
Refusing to name her favorite male lead.
Ms. de Havilland did comment that today's
films have carried explicit sex too
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the last year.
A\. the Classic Art Theatre, in midtown
on Houston Street, manager Rick Whitaker
said that business has fallen off from $800
nightly in June to $450. At the Paris Adult
Theatre, this city's most famous such theatre,
manager Joe Ballew said his business
was down 30 per cent—even allowing for
the
seasonal adjustment.
"It usually slumps this time every year,"
Ballew explained. "People start saving their
money for Christmas. But it's down 30 per
cent compared with last fall."
Ballew attributed the slump to a number
of factors: "The economy has a lot to do
with it. And people don't come downtown
as much at night as they used to; they are
afraid to come down after dark. We're
doing more daytime business than at
night.
Office workers patronize us frequently
when they come out on their lunch hours."
Both Whitaker and Ballew agreed that
conventions make the night-time boom as
the visitors don't have the fear of downtown-after-dark
that native Atlantans seem
to have developed.
far. In the old days, films relied on imagination
and artfulness, as in a love scene from
"Gone With the Wind" she described.
"Scarlett wakes up in broad daylight, looking
like a cat that had swallowed a plate
full of cream. You know everything bv
the expression on her face," she said.
"Pornography. 1 think, debases something
which has such potentiality for beauty."
The lone survivor of the top stars who
appeared in "Gone With the Wind" said
she would like to appear in a film today but
the scripts are lacking. "It is difficult to
find good material for young actors. It is
doubly hard for, shall we say, the 'mature
actors.' "
Perry Appeal Is Denied
HOLLYWOOD—A jury trial to decide
whether black actor Lincoln Theodore
Perry, who appeared in motion pictures for
many years as Stepin Fechit, was defamed
by a CBS documentary televised in 1968
was denied by the U.S. Supreme Court in
Washington, D.C., Tuesday (15). Perry, 72,
had contended that he was entitled to a full
jury trial to air his complaint that the documentary
was "baseless commentary" holding
him "up to hatred, contempt or ridicule"
and thereby destroying his entire career.
The actor sued CBS, the Xerox Corp ,
which sponsored the broadcast on black history,
and WISH-TV of Indianapolis.
NEWBURYPORT, MASS.—New life
for
an old theatre is emerging in this city. Mrs.
Meriba Nadler will transform the closed
Port Cinema building into a furniture store.
She purchased the property from SBC's
Newburyport Theatre Corp.
Jim Mitchum in Atlanta
For His 'Moonrunners'
ATLANTA—Young Jim Mitchum is a
remarkable look-alike for his distinguished
actor-father Robert. Some years ago, Jim
appeared in "Thunder Road" with Robert,
playing his father's teenage brother. Now
Jim Mitchum's latest film in release is
"Moonrunners." filmed in the Griffin area
of Georgia and distributed by United Artists.
It was this picture that brought Jim into
the South for a four-city—Jacksonville, Atlanta,
Charlotte and Memphis — promotional
tour. "Moonrunner," like "Road Runner,"
has to do with actual exploits of moonshine
drivers in the Carolinas. It is planned to
open the picture in 150 locations in a massive
saturation booking in the Southeast
and young Mitchum is doing his part in
trying to
assure the success of the film.
Tall, at 33. he looks more like a horsebreeder
(which he actually is) in his cowboy
garb than he does an actor. He also raises
cattle. He parlayed a $1,100 mare and a
$500 stallion and produced the world's 1974
champion runner stallion. Don Guerro. a
steed now valued at no less than $1.5 million.
After studying in a Hollywood acting
school and stage work with the Barter
Theatre in Virginia. Jim Mitchum appeared
in such films as "The Beat Generation."
"Ride the Wild Surf." "Young Guns of
Texas," "In Harm's Way" and "Ambush
Bay." After making these pictures, he
dropped out of the film industry for about
five years and devoted himself to raising
horses and cattle.
"Moonrunners" brought him back before
the movie cameras. Cy Waldron, a former
producer-director of WSB-TV. Atlanta, directed
the picture and wrote the script;
Robert B. Clark was the producer. Mitchum
co-stars with Kiel Martin.
Currently Jim Mitchum is working on a
western, "King of the Mountain," now being
shot in and around Las Cruces, N.M.
During his stopover here, a press luncheon
was set up for him by UA's Pat Verducci
of New York, sitting in for Bob Oda.
the company's Southeastern field representative,
who was on vacation. Bob Tarwaler.
UA's Atlanta exchange manager, co-hosted
the affair in Stouffer's Inn 590 West Dining
Room.
AMC Shifts Managers
TAMPA, FLA.— Managerial shifts announced
by the AMC circuit include Lantz
McMillin to Clearwater 4 from Seminole
2, Ken Wills to Horizon Park 4 from Clearwater
4, Phil Schmidt from Clearwater 4
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To Promote Two Movies
FORT SMITH, ARK.. — Don .Vloore.
manager of the Phoenix Village Twins, arranged
a Phoeni.x Village Mall pet show
to promote his recent engagement of "Incredible
Journey" and "Old Yeller."
Moore opened the contest to anyone with
any kind of pet. and 44 entrants ranged the
spectrum from dogs and cats to ants, fish,
and even a boa constrictor. The shopping
center furnished ribbons and prizes to winners
in the categories of prettiest, smartest,
ugliest, biggest, and most unusual. Moore
provided free theatre admission to anyone
entering a pet in the show.
The payoff was in media exposure. KFSA
radio and KFSM-TV ran spots three days
before the show. KFSA transmitted live
from the mall on the day of the show, and
the station's DJ's judged the entrants. Both
local TV stations had cameramen on the
scene, resulting in stories on the 10 p.m.
news that night.
The theatre and the mall cooperated to
meet the advertising expense, and the result
was a lot of exposure for both businesses at
a cost of less than $100 to the theatre.
French Film Series Opens
From Eastern
Edition
WILMINGTON, DEL.—A French Film
Theatre project for Delaware students,
sponsored by the Fondation Internationale
de Delaware, opened at the Delaware Art
Museum October 24 with the Comedie
Francaise production of "Le Manage de
Figaro." The French film series was organized
with the cooperation of the museum's
cinema committee and department of languages
at the University of Delaware, with
support from the Delaware State Arts Council.
CHARLOTTE
gill Talbert of Piedmont Theatres was
stricken with a heart attack October
14 at his home and was rushed to Memorial
Hospital. His son Mike flew home from
.Austria where he was vacationing.
Bill McClure of Universal previewed "The
Front Page" at South Park Theatre and was
enthusiastic about its reception . . . Charlie
Hunsack of United Artists screened "The
Taking of Pelham One Two Three" and the
consensus of bookers was that it will be a
smash hit.
Joe Cutrell, Southern district manager at
Paramount, also screened at Eastern Federal
"The Klansman" from the 1967 novel
of William Bradford Huie.
Del Carty, WR.\L-TV sales representative
from Raleigh, was in town setting up
future saturations in the eastern part of
North Carolina . is extended
Plans for Closed Theatre
Recall Strange Legend
From Western Edition
TUCSON, ARIZ.—Mann Theatres, national
circuit which operates movie houses
in this city, may cooperate with the Tucson
Transit System in converting the former
spacious lobby of its recently closed downtown
Fox Theatre, located near Stone and
Congress, into a waiting room for bus
passengers. The riders daily converge at
this key loading zone along the north side
of Congress between Stone and Church
avenues.
Currently, many businessmen along this
side of the block are complaining about
the ever-increasing crowds of arriving and
departing passengers "clogging" their door-
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brother and to Ken Laird on the loss of his.
Nancy Simmons has joined the 20th Century-Fox
staff here. A recent graduate of
University of North Carolina at Charlotte,
she hails from China Grove . Airfreight
hosted a cocktail party for the film
industry. Attending the event were Ed Caruso,
president and chief executive officer
of Novo .Airfreight, and Larry Sigerud,
southern regional vice-president.
Larry Vaughn has joined ABC Southeastern
Theatres here, replacing Steve Smith
who has joined R.T. Belcher's Twin States
Booking Service . screenings by
20th-Fox included "House on Skull Mountain"
and "The Crazy World of Julius
Vrooder" . . . "The Towering Inferno" has
been set to premiere on December 20 in 11
theatres in North Carolina.
ways as more buses are added, new routes
added, old routes extended and service
e.xpanded to a 19-hour daily schedule.
If the Fo.K lobby becomes a bus waiting
room, will the "Ghost of the Fox" still
be among those in the room as legend says?
The Fox, according to a strange tale, once
was a longtime host to at least a "character"
if not a "ghost." Back in the '30s, a tall,
elegantly dressed man with a dapper
mustache and long silver hair, a great cape
billowing behind him, became an inveterate
moviegoer. Flourishing a walking stick, he
would bow gracefully as he gallantly allowed
ladies to go ahead of him.
.After purchasing his popcorn, the man
would take his accustomed seat, a practice
which continued for many years. To Fox
employees he became "The Fan." The ladies
associated him with stars of the period and,
of course, sighed when they met him.
On a sweltering summer day in 194.1,
"The Fan" took his usual seat in the audience.
Suddenly the audience gasped audibly,
for there on the screen, according to
the legend, was the image of "The Fan."
When the picture ended, the audience left
all but one. or so the story goes. It is
said that where the mysterious film fan
sat for years there was but an empty
popcorn sack, a cape and a walking stick:
thus, the lecend of the "Ghost of the Fox."
NC Theatre Progresses
BURLINGTON. N.C.—Construction has
begun on th.- 4.>0-scat Terrace II theatre
adjacent to the present Terrace. The two
theatres will use the same lobby but patrons
will be directed to individual auditoriums.
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Mitchell Wolfson. was present at
unveiling of her classical Chinese painting
"State Bird and Flower of Florida"
October 21 at the Florida House in Washington,
D.C. The state is the first to have
a "state house" in the capital city. Also appearing
at the unveiling were Sen. and Mrs.
Lawton Chiles, the press and members of
the U.S. I. A. who were instrumental in setting
up Mrs. Wolfson's trip to the Orient
last year where she exhibited her art work.
Florida House celebrated its first anniversary
last month and the celebration coincided
with the dedication of the oil
painting
depicting the mockingbird and the orange
blossoms. Ambassador and Mrs. George
Bush took some of Mrs. Wolfson's paintings
with them last month on their move to
China. Excited by the thought of having her
art exhibited in the Orient by the State Department,
Mrs. Wolfson commented, "It
gives me goose pimples." Proceeds from
her art sales have benefited 72 youth with
scholarships.
fashion show by Wilma's and Adrian Thai.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Simone are underwriting
the luncheon for the Women's Committee
so all profit goes to Variety Children's
Hospital. Supervising the project are Mrs.
Melniker, Mrs. Neil Miller, Mrs. Joseph
Weintraub, Mrs. Simone and Mrs. Robert
Pentland jr.
Launching a round of activities
celebrat
ing Womctco's 50 years of movie exhibition,
the .South Florida chain teamed with Columbia
Pictures in presenting a round-the-clock
retrospective of acclaimed Columbia films
Zimmerman has been appointed
systems engineer for Wometco Communications,
Inc.
Florida State Tlieatres will give parents
a help in the budgeting by changing the
age of children's admission. All children
under the age of 14. not 11. will be admitted
at a discount.
Alex Ben Block, entertainment editor of
the Miami News, comments that theatre
patrons often are not aware that old movies
are being reissued and repackaged by the
major studios: "Claiming product shortages,
lack of development money at reasonable
interest rates, high labor costs and having
discovered they can get away with it. the
movie majors have taken to reissuing old
films in new packages at an unprecedented
rate." Block says the trend can be traced
to the master of the art. Disney Productions,
which has been bringing back children's
favorites for decades.
Paramount reportedly wants $145,000
from any theatre here that books "Godfather,
Part II." . . . Marquee changes: "The
Gambler." "The Odessa File," "Airport
1975," "Harry and Tonto," "The Longest
Yard," "The Rolling Stones," and "That's
Entertainment!" Also back is 34-year-old
"Fantasia" from Disney . the summer's
drought of good films,
Miamians are
returning to the theatres, says an exhibitor
quoted in John Huddy's Herald column.
The most costly and exciting films should
be out just ahead of the holiday season.
Producer Stan Colbert, who ran Ivan Tors
Studios at the height of its activity, is now
behind another Miami video breakthrough.
The Fort Lauderdale-based firm Co-Produc-
Bemice Melniker, wife of Edward, has
put the finishing touches on her musical
tions Associates has become the first local
revue for the annual Golden Harvest luncheon
Tuesday (26) at the Fontainebleau Hotel.
company to penetrate the network television
field. Colbert has plans for varying projects
in television and in theatrical films in a deal
Her daughter Jan is coordinating the
signed with Twentieth Century-Fox. He is
eying two new series for children.
Telly Savalas, screen star, will flee the city
and his role as a detective to play in the
Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic here this
winter. Savalas joins five other big-name
entertainers planning to tee off in the procelebrity
event.
JACKSONVILLE
Fd Chumley, branch manager of Twentieth
Century-Fox, is in Memorial Hospital.
There is no report on his condition . . .
Mrs. Francis Conner of Universal Films
took a weekend trip to Tennessee to relax.
She also announced that the WOMPIs will
State Theatres was made second vice-president.
Terry Tharpe, branch manager of Columbia,
is taking a late fall vacation to Hawaii.
He and his wife Kay are excited about the
idea because the trip was a gift from Terry's
brother-in-law.
Celeste Holm Raps Skills
Of Many Film Producers
From Western Edition
MOSCOW, IDA.—Academy Awardwinning
actress Celeste Holm, at a press
interview during the third Governors' Conference
on the Arts here, said most film
producers "are inept and lack the skills
necessary to develop characters." She added
that "what they like in Hollywood is girls,
not women."
Miss Holm told the press, "It is easy to
make a film filled with violence that catches
attention immediately. What is more difficult
is creating the miracle of the individual
character."
Describing film as "the strongest media in
the world," Miss Holm asserted "most
people in Hollywood don't know what
makes a good movie, what makes a script
or what is required of characters."
She said if Americans aren't enjoying the
arts, then something is wrong with modern
creativity.
"There is something terribly wrong with
culture in this society," she declared. "We
think of it as something women drag their
husbands to when they don't enjoy it. If
husbands prefer to go bowling, that is their
culture and that is what they should do.
The arts should be a pleasure."
City of LA Wants Probe
Of Old Theatre Safety
From Western Edition
HOLLYWOOD—The building and safety
committee of the Los Angeles City Council
has called for an investigation by the department
of building and safety into the
current structural, wiring and fire hazards
of old theatres. The city particularly is concerned
with buildings erected before the
1933 earthquake and the subsequent standards
that were adopted, according to Robert
Selig, president of NATO of California.
A few isolated instances of buildings not
conforming to building code may exist, he
said, but the violations generally are confined
to stage equipment and wiring utilitized
during the vaudeville era and long
ago retired.
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Army on December 4 at the Florida Multi
'50s Return to Westwood
Cinema office.
PENSACOLA. FLA.— Recalling the atmosphere
of the 'SOs, Westwood 4 manager
At the monthly meeting of the WOMPIs
at Anne Dillon's home, new projects were Steve Beckland promoted "The Lords of
under discussion. Mrs. Dillon resigned her Flatbush" with a week-long change of costume
post and second vice-president Marsh
for employees. The staff dressed in
Weaver agreed to take the office for the outfits of that era, including motorcycle
remaining year. She is the third Universal
few
jackets, T-shirts, jeans and sweater and skirt
staffer to become president in the last sets. The top 50 radio stations cooperated
WOMPIs also welcomed their by playing '50s tunes and listeners were
new member Sheila Temple of Florida Multi asked to name the artist and the year of the
Cinema who was promptly made Finance tune to win free passes.
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NEW ORLEANS—Norma Hyncs.
Lady
of Variety and a New Orleans civic leader.
was presented the Times-Picayune Loving
Cup Wednesday. October 23, at the Notre
Dame Seminary here.
Ms. Hynes has been involved in charity
activities since 1937 and was cited for her
"continual allegiance to the principle of
helping the less fortunate, particularly the
city's needy children."
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"Through her generosity, thousands of
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grief to thanksgiving," said Phelps.
"Her energies have gone into worthwhile
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of which she founded personally."
Among organizations in which Ms. Hynes
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and the Touro-Shakespeare Guild.
Recently, she was named to the national
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of the United States.
In accepting the honor, Ms. Hynes credited
her parents and a blind aunt with in-
stilling in her the values of Christian charity.
"They taught me that the love of God
and love of your neighbor is the greatest
thing," she said.
Lake Charles Cinema Uses
Football Yardage Contest
LAKE CHARLES, LA.—The Charles
Cinema LH-IIl cleverly used a football
game to promote the movie "The Longest
Yard" here.
Clayton Courville. manager of the
Charles complex, part of the Ogden-Perry
Theatres, sponsored a contest with KACK
radio to predict yardage scored in the Eastern
Michigan—McNeesc State University
game.
KACK announcers asked callers to predict
the most yardage that would be scored
by McNeese during the game. The first
caller automatically won a free pass to "The
Longest Yard" and the person who came
closest with a prediction won a grand prize
of a six months free pass.
The station received predictions for ten
minutes after the first call was answered.
The contest ran five times a day for six
days. KACK mentioned the movie each
time the contest was aired and the grand
prize winner was named during the kick-off
ceremonies at the football game.
James Coburn has been signed by producer
Lawrence Gordon to co-star in Columbia's
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OKLAHOMA CITY
Y'o'ney Haiiini of Mount Scott and Hankins
was in Oklahoma City to book and
buy. He told us about the wonderful trip
he and his wife spent in Canada around
Lake Louise. They hope to go back as soon
as possible.
Many drive-ins in this area closed the
first of November . . . Bill Boren, exhibitor
in Lubbock and Littlefield, Tex., visited here
to see his son and grandchildren. Although
he once thought of getting out of the business,
he is now glad to be in it . . . Galaxy
Theatres opened the new Wiley Post Twin
at 63rd and MacArthur October 20 with
movies at 25 cents admission to attract new
patrons. The twin had "Harry and Tonto"
on one screen and "Breezy" on the other at
regular admission prices after the 25-centers.
Manager of the 700-seat twin is James
Tyner. Don Emmert is publicity agent for
the Galaxy Theatres, which also operate
the Park Terrace, Tower, Cinema Twin in
Moore, and the Northwest Highway, Sooner
Twin and Winchester drive-ins.
Carl Clark, new manager of the Cino
Theatre, Buffalo, sent us a subscription to
BoxoFFiCE to get started on new product
. . . Billie Slocum, partner in the Cinema
and Square Drive-In, El Reno, with her son
Bob, called to tell us about her first grandchild
born recently in Dallas. The boy's
parents are Bob and his wife. Bob is a
science technician with Texas Instruments
in
Dallas.
VCI President Mike Frankovich Is
Honored by Dallas Variety Tent 17
the transportation of handicapped children
DALLAS—Dallas Variety's successful
is
projects— providing specialized vehicles for (Continued on page SW-2)
drive, which saw 84 names added to Tent who are cared for by a great variety of institutions
I7's membership rolls, was praised by Mike
in the world's cities.
The visitor praised the Care-Van Center
J. Frankovich, Variety Clubs International
president, as the type of effort needed to idea, which was originated here in Dallas
keep the international charity organization as means of repairing, servicing and maintaining
viable as "old clubs get old and old members
get tired."
Frankovich was guest of honor at Tent
the many Sunshine Coaches donated
by Tent 17 barkers to area institutions caring
for crippled or handicapped youngsters.
Through the Sunshine Coach-Care-Van center,
17's October 24 luncheon, his visit to Dallas
marking the 27th Variety tent he has visited
31 coaches are serviced and ten sched-
during his tenure as VCI president.
uled for specific runs for the children's
Frankovich, world famous as a motion institutions. The other 21 are assigned to
picture producer, cited the goal of Variety the various agencies but receive maintenance
Clubs International to achieve an $18 million
at the center.
charity fund this year and $20 million
next year to further projects of VCI's 42
At the Frankovich luncheon, chief barker
Dick Empey presented awards to Seymour
tents, which now stretch around the world Kaplan, Robert R. O'Donnell and Terry
Graham for winning first, second and third.
since the formation of Variety Tent 56 in
Sydney, Australia. He called to the attention respectively, in Tent 17's drive which raised
the total membership to 305.
of Dallas barkers and their guests the remarkable
achievements of the New England John Rowley presented Frankovich with
Jimmy Fund, which directs its annual aid to a certificate (signed by Mayor Wes Wise of
the assistance and care of children suffering Dallas) making him an honorary citizen of
from cancer, as examples of successful Dallas and with a Texas Ranger hat that
fund-raising that can be done when people made Frankovich a full-fledged Texan.
Meanwhile, Tent 17 members are preparing
are stirred with sincere desires to help the
needy and suffering. Variety's own worldwide
to honor William A. Payne, who is
donation of Sunshine Coaches, he declared,
retiring late this month as amusement edicharity
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DALLAS
Jl^llied Artists hosted a press screening of
its new release. "Gold." and followed
with a luncheon Friday. October 25, for 35
film critics and entertainment editors from
as far away as St. Louis. Albuquerque.
Kansas City. Denver. Little Rock and El
Paso, as well as contingents from Houston.
San Antonio, Fort Worth. Austin. Waco.
Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Susannah York,
feminine star of the action-packed drama
filmed in Africa, much of it in a real
gold mine, was also the star of the press
screening-luncheon and an afternoon of interviewing
at the Marriott Motor Inn. following
the showing of the picture at the
North Park Cinema. She was accompanied
by Ted Albert. A.\ promotional director.
Miss York, asked how the filming was received
in South Africa, said that it was well
received. The script had been read and approved
before the movie company went to
work on location shooting and she said the
production people heard no expressions of
racial prejudice. Judging from comments
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heard from the press people on the bus ride
from the North Park Cinema to the Marriott
Inn, the critics, reviewers and editors
really enjoyed the excitement of the movie
and it will be interesting to read their reactions
in print. But it's obvious that Doug
Dopkins, A.A. branch manager, and his booker
Carolyn Shultz are going to be very busy
trying to keep up with area booking demands
for Gold." That's the kind of keeping
busy" that they enjoy, of course. The
picture opened Friday (1) in new Cinema
III. North Park.
Condolences of Filmrow friends are being
extended to Duane L. Gates of the
Eagle Theatre at Azie. His mother died the
week of October 20 in Azle and funeral
services were held in Minneapolis. Minn.
Seemingly one of our notations of industry
changes was misleading or misinterpreted:
so here's a correction: The
Texas Stadium Drive-In still is owned by
CEBE Corp., as it always has been. Mc-
Lendon Theatres was only the agent, doing
the buying and booking—but McLendon no
longer is performing these chores for the
Texas Stadium Drive-In. James Gallagher
is the general manager of the drive-in and
James C. Caskey is the drive-in manager.
The address is Irving, Tex. 75206— the telephone
number is 259-7676.
Birthday greetings soon will be in order
for Marvel Lee Sullivan, formerly with
Paramount Pictures. She will celebrate Sunday
(10) at her home 350 East Pleasant Run
Rd.. De Soto. Tex. 75115.
Preparing for the opening of the Northcross
6. Austin, in mid-December is Larry
Hamilton, division manager of operations
for American Multi Cinema. Hamilton
joined AMC in June 1972 and has a background
in industrial engineering. He is a
native of Lexington. Mo., and obtained a
BS in Industrial Management from the University
of Kansas and an MS in Administration
from Wichita State University. Hamilton
and his wife Karen often spend time
sailing— in the middle of inland Texas. He
has just completed the opening of Greenway
3 in Houston and is making plans for the
Northcross 6 unit.
Dallas Tent 17 Honors
For Mike Frankovich
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testimonial luncheon at 12 noon Thursday
(21) in the Embassy Room of the Statler
Hilton Hotel. A member of the News staff
more than a quarter century, Payne is being
honored for his "significant contribution to
the Variety Club and for his dedicated
service during the years he has been a
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T^ovie producer Tob\ Halicki was in the
city
for several social events. His latest
film "Gone in Sixty Seconds" opened an
engagement at a number of theatres Friday
(1). "Monsieur Verdoux." the Charlie Chaplin
film, will have a special screening Tuesday
(5) at the University of Houston's
Arnold Auditorium at 6. 8 and 10 p.m. . . .
George C. Scott's "The Savage Is Loose."
which he personally booked, will open at
Loews' Saks Friday (8).
Maijoe Gorhier, the evangelist who
turned actor, was in the city on behalf of
his latest film "Earthquake." which will
open at the Tower Theatre Friday (15).
During his stay here Gortner was escorted
by Orin Levy, publicity and promotion director
for ABC Interstate Theatres. The
special sound system for the film has been
installed at the Tower . Houston
Underwater Club presented a special underwater
film festival during Seaspave '74 in
Jones Hall. Tickets for the film festival
were $4.50.
. . . George
Flash Gordon movies were among the
weekend features at the Woodlands located
25 miles north of Houston
Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan In Hell" was
presented Saturday (2) at the Music Hall
featuring Hollywood film stars Ricardo
Montalban. Edward Mulhare, Myrna Loy
and Kurt Kasznar . the Hollywood
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were Phil Harris, Jill St. John. Hugh
O'Brien, producer Leonard Ross, actress
Myra Nelson. Peter Brown, Phyllis Davis.
Victoria Principal. Ron Ely and Robert
Duvall.
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Among films opening at theatres here arc
"11 Harrowhouse" in a multiple opening;
"El Topo" at the River Oaks; "Gone In 60
Seconds" in a multiple opening; "Law and
Disorder" at the Cinema Galleria; "The
Longest Yard" in a multiple opening;
"Shanks" at the Tower; and "Up Pompeii"
at the Village . Rice Media Center
will show "Black Girl." "Metropolis" and
"Memories of Underdevelopment."
SAN ANTONIO
^iss Julie Aguillon is the new cashier at
the Josephine Theatre. She attends
. . . Alvin Krueger.
Edison High School
formerly manager of the Woodlawn Theatre,
has been transferred back to the Laurel
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resigned his post as manager with the Theatre
Corporations ... A special preview of
"The Mad Adventure of "Rabbi' Jacob"
took place recently at the Woodlawn Theatre.
Representatives of the three synagogues
in the city were in attendance.
The premiere here of "The House on
Skull Mountain" Thursday. October 31. was
a benefit for Project ABLE Drug Abuse
Center. The first showing at the Century
South 6 Theatre was attended by Ella
Woods, one of the film's stars. Also in attendance
was San Antonio city councilman
Claude Black. Tickets to the premiere were
$3.50 and $5. The film opened Friday at
the Century South 6. Town Twin. San Pedro
and Bandera Road Drive-In. Part of that
day's proceeds also went to Project ABLE.
Mike Evans also was scheduled to come
to San Antonio for the Southern premiere
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HOUSTON—The Houston Fire
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movie about a fire in the world's tallest
building to raise funds to purchase high
rise fire rescue equipment.
"The Towering Inferno." a film about a
group of people trapped on the top floor
of a flaming skyscraper, will open December
19 at the Alabama Theatre. Tickets for
the first showing are available at fire department
headquarters.
Fire department officials hope to raise
$2,700 for nets to rescue trapped persons
by helicopter and a rope gun which can
shoot a line from one building to another.
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Ray L. Jennings Dies;
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HONDO, TEX.—Ray L. Jennings. 81.
died at
Medina Memorial Hospital here October
8.
He had managed theatres in Hondo for
more than 50 years. His first was the Colonial
which opened in 1923. In 1938 he built
the Raye Theatre and the Park opened in
1942. After closing the Park several years
ago. he continued to operate the Raye until
his retirement in 1973.
Born in 1893 at Cleburne. Tex., Jennings
was a member of the First Baptist Church
and the Hal Jones Post, American Legion.
He was a World War I veteran and had
won many citations for meritorious service
with Pershing's First Army. From 1920 to
1940 he also operated a cleaning and pressing
shop and a men's furnishings store.
Survivors include his wife Mrs. Ruth
Crow Jennings: a son Dr. John H. Jennings;
a daughter-in-law Norma and two granddaughters.
Julie and Jennifer, all of Hondo;
a brother Richard of Fort Worth and a sister
Mrs. Marie Felts of Lewisville. Tex.
Services were at the First Baptist Church
October 9 with burial in Oakwood Cemetery.
The Hondo Anvil Herald printed an
eulogy to him written by his daughter-in-law
Norma.
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'Airport 1975' 600
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MINNEAPOLIS—The Twin Cities
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Academy Midnight Man (Univ) 50
Cooper
IDS—The
Mixed Company (UA) 120
Mad Adventures of 'Robbi' Jacob
(20th-Fox) 190
Mann Airport 1975 (Univ) 600
Nine theatres—The Beors ond I (BV) 170
Five theatres—The Dove (Para), 4th wk 100
Orpheum The Longest Yord (Para) 425
Skyway The Odessa File 'Col) 1 65
II— Flesh Gordon (SR) 260
Skywoy
State—The Gombler Para) 160
World— Horry ond Tonto (20th.Fox) 165
Electric Theatre Reopens
Under New Management
SOLDIERS GROVE. WIS.—The Electric
Theatre here has reopened under the
new ownership of Ben and Helen Henderson
of nearby Bell Center. Ben is a retired
Army sergeant (first class) at the age of 44.
He spent 25 years in the service, including
a year as theatre manager for the .Army
while stationed in Korea. His wife's uncle
at one time managed a movie house in Kansas
Ȧ James Bond thriller, "Live and Let
Die." was the inaugural attraction selected
for the October 4 reopening.
The Hendersons said they plan to keep
the theatre open year-round if enough people
attend the shows. They also hope to attract
enough moviegoers so that the house
can be open throughout the week.
At present, the Hendersons plan showings
at 7:.^0 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights,
with matinees for younger audiences Saturday
and Sunday afternoons. Admission will
be 50 cents for children under 12 and $1.25
for adults.
The happy news that "the doors will be
open, the popcorn popping and the projectors
whirring again at the Electric Theatre
in Soldiers Grove" became a front-page
story in the Boscobel Dial, weekly published
in
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Wisconsin Theatre Owner
Melvin Reibold Is Dead
MONl ELLO, WIS.— Melvin L. Reihold,
owner and operator of the Montello I heatre
in Montello for the past 30 years, died
of an apparent heart attack October IS.
He was 60.
Reibold also had owned and opemled Ihj
Princeton Theatre in Princeton. Wis., fur
approximately 15 years.
He leaves his wife Helen and three sons.
David of Whitewater, Wis.; lohn of
Traverse City, Mich., and Warren of Portage,
Wis.
Sheboygan's Better Films Council
Plans Premiere for
gave
"Airport 1975" a tremendous welcome with SHEBOYGAN, WIS—The Better Films
600 scored by the long-awaited sequel to & TV Council of Sheboygan County opened
its 1974-75 season with a tea and silent auction
"Airport." Much of the original film was
photographed here at the Minneapolis-St.
at the John Michael Kohler Art Center
Paul airport. Whipping up plenty of bo.\- in Sheboygan recently. A subsequent meeting
was held at the Wisconsin Theatre,
office goiddust at the Orpheum was "The
Longest Yard" with 425. The X-rated where the members watched a preview of
"Flesh Gordon" chalked up 260 at the Skyway
"1 1 Harrowhouse," starring Candice Bergen.
n. its gross bolstered by the lobby During the business meeting which preceded
appearance of star Suzanne Fields.
the movie, president Mrs. Roman Hoerig
BOXOFFICE November 4. 1974
introduced 23 new members to the council.
Officers of the group, in addition to Mrs.
Hoerig, are; Mrs. Walter Jensen, vice-president;
Mrs. William Blake, secretary: Mrs.
Hoerig, publicity.
The council arranges a number of field
trips during the year and opened the season
as auests of "The Phil Donahue Show" at
Entertainment!'
WGN-TV in Chicago. A trip by chartered
bus also was planned Monday, October 28,
to Green Lake and Ripon, Wis., an activity
which was sold out weeks in advance. A
feature of each business meeting, held the
first Thursday of each month at
the Security
First National Bank in Sheboygan, is a review
of current movies by Mrs. Henry Augustine.
She is scheduled to present a European
travelog at the Feb. 6, 1975, meeting.
The council is sponsoring the opening-day
premiere of "That's Entertainment!" at the
Sheboygan Theatre Wednesday (27), with a
2 p.m. matinee and evening showings at 7
and 9; 15 p.m. This event is a benefit promotion
in support of the council's Perform-
Charles Miesfeld, corresponding secretary,
and Mrs. Alvin Schmidt, treasurer.
Committee heads are; Miss Erna Schulse,
auditing; Mrs. Ivan Oetzel, courtesy; Mrs.
ing
theatre
Arts
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the local area.
Fund involving the
Victor Paeglow, historian; Mrs. Joseph "We get excellent cooperation from our
Repp, hostess; Mrs. Martin Deback. membership;
city theatre manager and this time it's Ralph
Mrs. Jensen, program, and Mrs. Schallow, manager of Marcus' Sheboygan
Theatre." Mrs. Hoerig stated.
Tent 14 Schedules Annual
Kiddies Christmas Party
MILWAUKEE— For the sixth consecutive
year, Boxoffice correspondent Wally
L. Meyer will serve as emcee and conduct
the singing for the Variety Club children's
Christmas party. The December 7 event,
which will start at 9;30 a.m., again will be
held at Cinema's Varsity Theater. The program
will consist of audience-participation
songs and stunts, the appearance of local TV
personalities, color cartoons and a comedy
or two,
Santa Claus again will be assisted personally
by Karl Thiede, office manager for
United Artists in Milwaukee.
Catherine (Caddy) Knasinski, president of
Women of Variety Tent 14. is making arrangements
for the Yuletidc show.
Andrews Presents Film
OCONOMOWOC, WIS.— George Andrews,
manager of the La Belle Theatre
here, presented a gift of approximatelv
2,000 feet of 35mm movie film to the
chamber of commerce last month and the
iiansaction was recorded in a photo that
appeared on the front page of the Oconomowoc
Enterprise. It depicts Andrews
watching while chamber president Harry
Snyder and chamber secretary Mrs. La-
Verne Taylor handle the motion picture
film, which shows some of the special activities
in Oconomowoc during the '20s and
'30.
United Artists' "The Talking of Pelham
One Two Three" is about a subway hijacking.
It is interesting to note that the council
was organized in 1936 and joined the Federation
of Motion Picture Councils in 1954.
Robert Johnson
Reopens Strand
MILWAUKEE — Robert Johnson, who
operates the Wisconsin Theatre at 701 New
York .Ave., Sheboygan, Wis., and who also is
president of S-T Corp., is reopening the
Strand Theatre in Manitowoc. Wis. The
house had been shuttered 15 years.
A photo of Johnson holding an old admission
price sign which he found still hanging
in the boxoffice was published recently
in the Herald-Times Reporter, Manitowoc-
Two Rivers. Wis. On the sign are 1959 admission
prices; adults. 70 cents; students,
50 cents, and children, 25 cents. Another
photo shows a group of children standing
in line for a Saturday or Sunday matinee
(probably in 1942). A message on the theatre
marquee urged people to "Plan Your
Victory Garden Today." The film attraction
was ".Army Surgeon," a World War II story.
Johnson announced that if any of the people
who stood in the theatre line in this old
photo could identify themselves to him, they
would be invited as guests to the theatre's
reopening.

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MILWAUKEE
^he Robert Redford starrer, "Jeremiah
Johnson." returned for a one-week
engagement in 13 area hardtops and one
ozoner . . . "The Godfather, Part U" has
been booked as the Christmas offering at
the Brookfield Square. Capitol Court and
Skyway. The sequel is set for a December
25 opening.
Frankie Avalon, who made nine "beach
party" films, has been singing in the Marc
Plaza Empire Room, Lucille Bali's chief
the father of four boys and four girls (the
oldest is 11), the singer-actor told Keith
Moore in an interview on WISN Radio, as
well as the local press, that he has ambitions
to return to film work. Avalon said
he now travels approximately six months
out of the year.
Warren Reibold of Portage has informed
BoxoFFiCE that the Montello Theatre is
closed as result of his father's death, because
it was a family operation. Said Warren,
"The theatre policy he had was always to
show good family entertainment which, unfortunately,
these past few years became
harder to come by."
Karl Thiede, UA office manager, invited
exhibitors to a tradeshowing of "The Taking
of Pelham One Two Three." starring
Walter Matthau, and "Mr. Ricco," starring
Dean Martin, October 23 in the Centre
screening room ... A capacity crowd of
2,500 at the UA Riverside Theatre listened
to England's Fleetwood Mac play blues
October 24 and the local critic reported
many "were rocking in their seats."
was discussed on the Milwaukee Public
Library's "Critique" TV program October
20 on WITI-TV. Participants in the discussion
included James Arnold, syndicated
film critic and associate professor at Marquette
University. The program was repeated
October 23 on WMVS-TV and
WMVT-TV.
When Zsa Zsa Gabor's physician informed
Centre Stage Dinner Playhouse that the
star was too ill to open a three-week run of
"Blithe Spirit." which had been set to begin
writer Bobby O'Brien is credited with constructing
Avalon's show, which is backed October 23. Miss Gabor informed the playhouse
by a 12-piece local band for the two-week
management she would be happy to
engagement here. Back in 1959, when open the run Tuesday (12). Meanwhile.
Frankie first appeared at the Riverside Mimi Hines was booked hurriedly for a
Theatre here, three-dozen policemen were one-week engagement starting October 23.
needed to struggle with several thousand Next. Patrice Munsel was signed to star in
teenagers who stormed the stage door attempting
to get closer to their idol. Now October 29. Robert Wright was selected
"South Pacific" for two weeks starting
to
be
Miss Munsel's co-star.
Hollywood came to the town of Shawano
during October when several script writers
and a film crew brought a huge movie
camera, bright lights and microphones into
the kitchen of Mrs. Clarence Koeller. As
woodlands, five silos, apple trees and a
farm house that is modern and typical of
present-day dairy farms. At the same time,
the local residents were being afforded a
look at how a motion picture is shot, along
with a chance to appear in it. with 28 bit
players from the Shawano area being used.
Entitled "Things in Their Season," the 90-
minute film is to appear Thanksgiving Eve
on the CBS network. The film crew was in
Shawano at least two weks and its members
got a good view of rural life. A dairy cow
gave birth to a calf in the lot near the
Preservation of Films Is
Urged by Milwaukee Daily
MILWAUKEE—A recent editorial published
by the Milwaukee Journal pointed
out the desirability of preserving motion
picture prints for all time in order to keep
an accurate record of the moods, morals
and mores of the nation as expressed
through the medium of the cinematic art.
The newspaper advocated governmental assistance
in this effort, yet urged the minimization
of bureaucratic interference in
project.
the
Titled "Save Our Best Film Art," the
editorial stated: "One of the fascinating
qualities of old movies, as anyone who has
watched TV into the early morning hours
can tell you, is how innocently and clearly
they can depict forgotten details of life
at the time they were made. This ability
to put flesh on historical events and breathe
life into the attitudes of the times that
lacked the perspective of history is one
strong reason to develop a systematic plan
to insure the preservation of works in this
20th-century art form.
"Surprisingly, a large amount of vintage
film, including works by such important
pioneers as D. W. Griffith, has been lost
forever because of negligence or willful
film actress Patricia Neal remained seated
destruction.
more
American archives are generally
at the kitchen table, director James Goldstone
complete than those of other
checked camera angles and oversaw nations but the insidious process of decomposition
is the same everywhere and must
the action that followed. Goldstone, whose
mother came from this city, described the
be combatted actively.
Koeller farm as a perfect place for shooting
"A bill in Congress that would provide
a movie, with its herd of 65
direct
Holsteins,
federal help for this effort deserves a
careful look. It would permit the American
Film Institute to receive federal funds
directly. Currently, the institute gets federal
funds indirectly through the National Endowment
for the Arts, where other organizations
also compete for limited money.
While direct federal subsidy may seem appealing;
it would make the institute's work
unnecessarily vulnerable to the pressures
of federal budget-making.
"Insulation from direct congressional control
also may be more advisable, so as to
assure that the selection of films for preser-
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in the movies.
Kohlberg Appoints Baier
members of the cast when a kitten many the Tosa Theatre and employed for many
had been fondling took that opportunity to years by the Marcus circuit, has been appointed
district manager for Kohlberg Thea-
catch a mouse—and proceeded to swallow
it whole! Although the unwilling
tres in the Milwaukee area.
watchers cried out in protest, the cat ignored
them. The movie, incidentally, concerns
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MINNEAPOLIS
^he average moviegoer here must have a
feeling that, as Shakespeare put it.
"time is out of joint." A stroll through the
downtown area and a casual scanning of
major theatre marquees would show "Carnal
Knowledge" at the Academy Theatre.
"Gone With the Wind" at the World.
"Alice's Restaurant" at the Mann, "Night
of the Living Dead" at the Skyway I. "2001:
A Space Odyssey" at the Skyway II and a
double bill of "The Parallax View" and
"Serpico" at the State. Frighteningly, many
of the revivals are outgrossing the few firstrun
attractions currently on display.
The situation at key outlying theatres is
hardly any different: On prominent display
at several houses are "Jeremiah Johnson."
"What's Up, Doc?". "Doctor Zhivago" and
the much-revived Walt Disney production.
"Fantasia."
The Plitt North Central Theatres circuit
held managers' meetings, with "The Savage
Is Loose" also screened for the gatherings.
Two such sessions were held, the first involving
manag3rs from Plitt houses in Minnesota
and Wisconsin and the second bringing
together those from Plitt theatres in
North Dakota and South Dakota. The circuit
has purchased the George C. Scott film
—and with the rating controversy that surrounds
the picture, the managers were asked
their opinion of how it should be tagged.
The result was almost an even division between
those favoring an R (its present status)
and a PG.
Don Palmquist, 20th Century-Fo.\ branch
office manager, is dining in style these days.
On two successive afternoons, he lunched
with Pat O'Brien (the actor is in town for a
dinner-theatre engagement) and Rod Carew.
the Minnesota Twins baseball star.
Filmrow visitors: Joe Carriere, Grand
Theatre. Hallock; Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
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CINCINNATI— "Airport 1975" opening
at the Valley grossed 950 to lead all firstrun
films, a record that tops anything here
in the last few months. "The Longest Yard""
drew 500 for its fourth stanza at Showcase
2 and newcomer "The Gambler'" at Showcase
2 pulled 475. Coming up close was
another new film "'The Odessa File'" at two
theatres with 400. "Mixed Company""
opened at four theatres with 275.
(Averoge Is 100)
Carousel Juggernaut (UA), 4th wk 200
Carousel 2, Northgate The Odessa File (Col) ,400
International 70 Shanghai Lil (AlP); Man of Iron
(AlP) 100
Place The Groove Tube (SR), I 3th wk 275
Showcase The Longest Yard (Para), 4th wk , .500
Showcase 2 The Gambler (Para), 4th wk 500
Showcase 3 Harry and Tonto (20th Fox),
2nd wk 250
Showcase 4 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
(Para), 2nd wk 200
Times Towne Cinema California Split (Col),
12th wk 200
Valley—Airport 1975 (Univ) 950
Four theatres— Mixed Company (UA) 275
'Chinese Godfather' Scores
180 at Detroit Boxoffice
DETROIT—Only three films fared better
than 100 during a slow week here. ""The
Chinese Godfather"" playing at the Fox for
a second week reported 180 while That"s
Entertainment!"" managed 175 at the Northland
for the 13th week. "Three the Hard
Way"" came in third with 105 in three theatres.
Americana The Sting (Univ), 39th wk 90
Fox Chinese Godfather (5R), 2nd wk 180
Grand Circus Baby Needs o New Pair of Shoes
(SR), 2nd wk 85
Madison—Together Brothers 20th-Foxj, 5th wk 70
Northland That's Entertainment! (UA), 13th wk 175
Palms Three the Hard Way AA), 5th wk 105
Seven theatres— Truck Stop Women ;AIP) 65
Six theatres Death Wish Para:, 5th wk 80
Studio VIII Uptown Soturdoy Night WB)
14th wk 75
Studio IV The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
(Para), 5th wk. 80
Studio North King of Hearts (SR), 8th wk 70
Ten theatres Colifornio Split (Col), 5th wk 75
Three theatres— For Pete's Sake (Col), 11th wk. . 80
"Airport 1975' Leads Cleveland
In Opening Week with 640
CLEVELAND—There was no keeping
the crowds away from Universars newest
thriller "Airport 1975"' in its opening week
here. The .sequel to "Airport"" racked up
640 at three theatres and led all competition
easily. Second place fell to "The Longest
Yard."" showing nice legs in its fourth week
at five theatres. Third went to "The Black
Godfather"" at three theatres in its opening
week.
Berea, Village Horry and Tonto (20th-Fox) ...120
Colony That's Entertainment! (UA), 14th wk. .. 70
Cedar Lee The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob
(20th-Fox), 2nd wk 105
Embassy Amazing Grace (UA), 2nd wk 80
Five theatres The Longest Yard (Para), 4th wk. 320
Five theatres 1 1 Horrowhouse (20th-Fox),
2nd wk 105
Four theatres— The Odcsso File (Col) 155
Six theatres—The Beors and I BV), 2nd wk 120
Three theatres- Airport 1975 Univ) 640
Three theatres- The Black Godfather (SR) 205
Three theatres— The House That Vanished
(AlP); Mark of the Devil II (AlP) 75
World East, World West— King of Hearts (SR),
2nd wk 170
Al Yahraus Helms Bryan Theatre
BRYAN, OHIO—The recently remodeled
Br\an Theatre here is managed
by Al Yahraus. The movie house opened
in its present location in 1940.
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Actress Fabray Discovers Sound
'Amazing' After Years of Deafness
LOIS BAUMOEL
By
RAVENNA, OHIO — Nanette Fabray,
who has been acting since age three and
who has won a Tony Award, two Donaldson
Awards and three Emmy Awards, is
truly a lovely person—inside and outside.
The gracious actress-comedienne, who has
delighted so many audiences, has dedicated
a tremendous amount of time championing
the cause of the deaf and the hard of
hearing.
Currently appearing in "Here Today" at
the Carousel Theatre, Miss Fabray had just
spoken with her good friend Art Carney
before this interview began. They discussed
the probable success of his current 20th
Century-Fox film, "Harry & Tonto."" It was
through Miss Fabray "s insistence that
Carney consented to use a hearing aid. The
actress, formerly afflicted with serious
deafness, recently recovered from a fifth
operation which has restored her hearing
to a dramatic degree—and she is amazed
at what she had not been hearing!
'That's Entertainment!' Sung
Miss Fabray"s film credits include "Elizabeth
and Essex," in which she co-starred
with Bette Davis and Errol Flynn; "A Child
Is Born"'; "The Happy Ending : "The Cockeyed
Cowboy of Calico County," and
'Bandwagon,' with Fred Astaire and Cyd
Charisse.
It was in "Bandwagon" that she sang the
song "That's Entertainment!" In all of the
advance promotion for Metro-Gold wyn-
Mayer's current musical film, one heard
Miss Fabray singing '"That's Entertainment!"
from "Bandwagon." However, when
she. Marge Champion and Debbie Reynolds
attended the Hollywood opening of the
film, she was amazed to find she had
been left somewhere on the cutting room
MacDougall Recalled
On the serious side. Miss Fahra\'s conversation
constantly returned to her late
husband, screen writer-producer Ronald
MacDougall, whose movie scripts included
the Oscar-winning "Mildred Pierce,"" "The
Hasty Heart."' "The Breaking Point."
"Cleopatra," etc. He also created the popular
TV series "Name of the Game" and
was president of the Writers Guild of
America until his untimely death this year
at age 57. Miss Fabray's attention constantly
returned to an enlarged snapshot of the
handsome, rugged-looking MacDougall. She
spoke with pride and affection when she
said, "He was a brilliant businessman with
a wicked Scottish accent," who said the
business had been so good to him that he
wanted to return some of it while serving
as president of the Writers Guild. NBC had
made Miss Fabray a $1,000,000 offer which
she refused "to be free to travel with
Randy"—and as things worked out she is
happy that was her decision.
Their 16-year-old son Jamie, who, according
to Nanette, is as brilliant as his
father, speaks French and Russian and
was a Senate page. Still, the lucky boy
must have some of the charm and talent
of his mother for, during the interview,
Jamie called to tell his mother that he was
given the lead in the high school play in
Pacific Palisades, Calif., where they make
home.
their
The actress delighted audiences earlier
this year at the Carousel when she appeared
in "Plaza Suite" and played to soldout
houses. A niece, Mrs. David (Jerelyn)
Brenan of nearby Shaker Heights was
pleased with her aunt's return to the area.
Among Miss Fabray's future plans is a
TV special, "Happy Anniversary and Goodbye."
with friends Lucille Ball and Art
Carney, to be aired Tuesday (19).
Judge Rules Edited
'Throat' Is Obscene
TOLEDO. OHIO—The edited version of
"Deep Throat " has been found to be obscene
by Lucas County Common Pleas
Judge George Glasser, who ordered a halt
floor (probably being saved for the sequel
to further showings of the film in the county.
to "That's Entertainment!"). Marge Champion
was equally "floored." Adding insult
A year ago Judge Glasser held the original
of the film to be obscene. His
version to injury, as their limousine reached the
decision said the edited film also meets the
theatre and all cameras were about to catch
U.S. Supreme Court tests for obscenity.
the descent of the three lovely stars, Elizabeth
Taylor, who had just received her
He now must schedule a hearing to determine
if the operators of the Esquire Theatre.
200 North .Superior St., in downtown
divorce from Richard Burton, arrived and.
Toledo, should be held in contempt of court
oops, they were cut again! At this point in
the conversation, the talented five-foot, fiveand-one-half-inch
for showing the film in violation of last
actress rose to demon-
year's obscenity decision and order prohibiting
1973 The
strate in true exaggerated comedienne fashion,
showings in Lucas County.
how she. Miss Reynolds and Miss
exhibitions of the unedited film were at the
Champion were waving and ">(io-huoing"'
Westwood Theatre in West Toledo.
to get just a little deserved attention.
Judge Glasser held that the edited version
appeals to prurient interests, is patently
offensive and lacks redeeming social value.
The suits against both versions of the film
were brought by Robert .Anderson. Meanwhile,
Judge Glasser's first ruling against
the original "Deep Throat" currently is being
appealed in the higher courts.
Lane Bradbury has been signed for a
featured role in Warner Bros.' "The
Baronv."

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Those Were The Days: A Palace
Of Entertainment in Flint, Mich,
FLINT, MICH.—The wonderful era of
"movie palaces" was recalled in a recent
article by Journal film writer Ed Hayman.
His reminiscences concerned the 2,000-seat
Capitol theatre, which opened Jan. 19,
1928. 'Seconds before the movie ends, Mrs.
Velma Burnham climbs down into the orchestra
pit of the Capitol Theatre and takes
her place at the console of the Barton organ,"'
wrote Hayman. "The secondar)' titles
roll up the screen and disappear. The curtains
close slowly. The house lights come
up. Patrons shift in their seats. Some leave.
New ones arrive. The audience is not large.
The spotlight picks up Mrs. Burnham as she
strikes the first chords of her intermission
medley, as she has done almost every Saturday
and Sunday night between the 7 and
9 p.m. shows for more than six years. The
organ rises out of the pit. Mrs. Burnham
sails into a Mexican number. The sound of
castanets tills the old auditorium. The spotlight
changes colors—blue—red—amber
pink. A little crowd gathers at the popcorn
stand."
That's the way it was during what has
been referred to as the "Golden Age" of
movies and the way it remains at the Capitol.
Hayman observes: "Every sizable city
has at least one old theaue left over from
the days when downtown was a special
place. Most of these theatres . . . have fallen
on hard times and have been reduced to
showing crime exploitation and pornography
to stay ahve.
"FUnt has two old theatres, the Palace
and the Capitol, both built and still owned
by W. S. Butterfield Theatres. The Palace,
the smaller of the two, will be torn down in
a few years to make room for the University
of Michigan-Flint's downtown campus. The
Capitol is expected to be around much
longer.
"Both are clean and we 11- maintained, unlike
some old theatres elsewhere,
but rarely
does either show the local premiere of a
first-rate, first-run movie. Once in awhile
the Palace deviates from its customary diet
of black exploitation and kung fu cheapies.
entertainment. T hope not,' he says emphatically.
"Before there was a Capitol Theatre
Building at Harrison and East Second
streets,
there was a covered parking lot for
horses and buggies called the ten-cent sheds,
which also housed livery stables and blacksmith
shops. The site was acquired in 1924
by the Capitol Building Co., composed of
Butterfield, A. M. Davison, J. Bradford
Pengelly, E. W. Atwood and John L. Pierce.
After a couple of years of litigation over
title to the property, construction by Henry
Vanderhorst began in 1927. Cost of the
building, which included 11 stores in the
arcade, 50 offices in the building and bowling
alleys and a pool hall in the basement,
was $425,000.
"The Capitol became the colonel's 74th
theatre in Michigan. The others in Flint
were the Palace, the Garden and the Regent.
The theatre, though not as large as the famous
entertainment palaces of larger cities,
was the biggest in Flint and a fine example
of the splendid bad taste of the period. Like
Butterfield's Spanish-style State Theatre in
Kalamazoo, the Capitol solemnly was introduced
to the world as an 'atmospheric-type
theatre that gives the viewer the impression
of being seated in an outdoor amphitheatre.'
"The motif was Italian renaissance recreated,
patrons were assured, with unflagging
fidelity to the works of the old masters such
as Perruzi, Raphael and Michelangelo.
Passing under the vaulted ceiling of the
outer lobby (the designer said it was borrowed
from the Farnese Palace in Rome),
the patron bought his ticket (50 cents for
adults, 25 cents for children) at a wroughtiron
boxoffice and walked into foyer. Tuscan
architecture ("found in many of the older
palaces in and around Florence'), with its
vaulted ceilings and stenciled ornamentation,
greeted the patron in the main and mezzanine
foyers. A stair hall connecting the outer
lobby and the mezzanine boasted a vaulted
ceiling copied from the vestibule of St.
Peter's Cathedral in Rome.
"Selecting a seat in the auditorium, the
patron found himself beneath a domed ceiling
Respectable fihns shown there recently include
("the perfect illusion of a Mediterranean
The Education of Sonny Carson' and
night sky') in what was supposed to look
'Uptown Saturday Night.'
like an open patio. The proscenium arch,
"The future is uncertain. What will happen
when the Capitol and the Royal II, an
with each detail carefully painted, was built
in the form of a huge gateway covered with
X-ratcd movie house, share the downtown tile and decorated with flowers and busts
movie trade? Earl D. Berry, manager of all calculated to remind the viewer of the Vatican
Gardens.
Butterfield enterprises in the Flint area,
flinches slightly when asked if the Capitol is "On each side of the arch, the designer
placed an old Italian palace facade ('taken
destined to become a center of exploitive
from the Borghese Palace in Rome'), including
various niches, doors, balconies and
grillwork recalling the Villa Pia and the
Cosino del Papa of the Vatican Gardens.
•"By the 1950s, when Americans were
elated with the spirit of the jet age and the
nation's burgeoning technology, the overstated
grandeur of 1920s architecture fell
into disfavor. And, in the case of an old
theatre like the Capitol, it became increasingly
expensive to maintain. So in 1957 the
Capitol was remodeled—some say ruined—
and reopened Christmas Day.
"'The old outer lobby was glassed in, the
vaulted ceilings covered, the facades and
proscenium arch in the auditorium painted
over in flat battleship gray. The flock of
birds disappeared, as did the fleecy white
cloud and most of the statues, pots and
plants along the walls. Some of the stars
still twinkle, though dimly, on the domed
ceiling and manager Berry, who started at
the theatre in 1937 as a red-suited, brassbuttoned
usher, will turn them on for you
if you ask him.
"The vaulted ceiling, with its weird
acoustics, remains in the mezzanine foyer.
Some of the Venetian lantern-top torches
are still on the walls. A few of the mirrors
and terra-cotta vases remain. A lone broken
statue of an unnamed god sits silently on a
pedestal against the left wall.
"A blackboard on a stairway landing between
the basement and backstage area of
the Capitol still lists train arrivals and departures
for the busy entertainer whose next
one-night stand was in Grand Rapids or
perhaps Port Huron. A sign above the board
names numerous downtown shops, most of
them no longer open, offering such services
as shoe repair, suit pressing and hat blocking.
They are behind the theatre's big screen
in a world that is never seen by today's
moviegoers.
"The theatre's stage, wings, lofts and maze
of dressing rooms and hallways are deserted
today and littered with reminders of another
era, when cities like Flint were part of a
regular circuit of live entertainment. The
last live professional show on the Capitol's
stage was a recital by flamenco dancer Jose
Greco in the early 1960s. For three decades
before that, the theatre housed a steady
stream of big and small-time performers-—
vaudevillians, theatre troupes, singers and
ballet
companies.
"Paul Robeson appeared in 'Othello' in
1944 and a "Porgy and Bess' company did a
one-nighter the same year. James Dunn,
Jean Stapleton and Ernest Borgnine were
here in 'Harvey" in 1950. There were jitterbug
contests and movie star look-aUke contests
and screen-test contests in the 1930s
and morale-boosting musical revues free to
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by Underwriters'.
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Foryou, as atheatre owner, this
listing means many things: in meeting
all Underwriters' requirements, your
Century equipment, when installed as a
complete system, complies
incontestably with local fire department
and other municipal inspection
ordinances, and with the increasing
number of state safety codes. It speeds
and facilitates these inspections and
certifications. It means "peace of mind"
in your provision for the safety of your
patrons. With none of the hazards of
"non-standard" equipment,
you protect yourself against
fire loss of theatre and
equipment—and against,
prolonged "show interruption"
a fire loss that insurance can
never repay.
In achieving this Underwriters listmg,
Century fulfills in still another way
its continuing commitment to provide
the very best in projection and
sound equipment.
•This UL listing is
warrants your attention.
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Louisville, Kentucky 40205
Phone: (502) 452-2153
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Vaudeville Pictures
Surround Old Stage
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General Motors employees during World
War II.
"George White's 'Scandals' passed
through town in
1937. one of many musical
revues that were the staple live entertainment
at the Capitol in the early days. The
theatre's four levels of dressing rooms, once
harshly lighted by bare bulbs, crowded with
hustling performers and smelling of sweat
and makeup, are storage rooms now. filled
with old equipment salvaged when other old
theatres were demolished in the late 1950s.
The floor of one is covered with yellowing
attendance records and ledgers of 25 years
ago. The walls are lined with brown, faded
photographs of vaudeville players, all smiling
the same cocky smile. The photographs
are signed but the signatures are illegible.
"The orchestra room, the floor of which
slopes to a drain in the center, once separated
dogs, lions, horses and trained seals from
the human members of the troupe. Today it
is filled to the ceiling with old theatre seats.
The main business at the Capitol, however,
then as now. was motion pictures. Silents
were out within a year after the theatre
opened. The first sound picture shown there
was 'Pagan.' with Ramon Navarro, in 1929.
"The Capitol's long history as a first-run
movie theatre includes Flint's first 3-D film
—^Arch Obler's 'Bwana Devil,' with Robert
Stack, in 1953—and Flint's first Cinemascope
screen, installed the same year. The
theatre's decline began in the 1960s when
the white flight to the suburbs led to construction
of new theatres there. Berry won't
guess at average weekly attendance figures
these days, saying only that it varies from
show to show and usually is 'pretty good' on
the first weekend of a new movie.
"Interest in the Capitol's past has been
kept alive largely through the efforts of the
Capitol Theatre Organ Club, a group of
volunteers formed a few years ago to restore
the Barton organ, which is one of the few
left in the country. Club members, strictly
as a labor of love, meet at the theatre Sunday
mornings to clean, polish and repair
their 'Lady Barton.' Its performances each
weekend remind us that old theatres, like
old cars, old photographs and old. old books,
are part of the record of our culture and
should not be a pandoned too casually."
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paul Levine, former United .Artists branch
manager, regrets leaving his many good
friends in this city but will relocate in Chicago,
where he recently became Universal
branch manager. His family will be unable
to join him at this time, as his wife Barbara
is expecting the birth of their second child
this month and plans to deliver at Mac-
Donald House. University Hospital.
Jack Kaufman, Cinepix president, and
his wife Mickey are thrilled with the birth
of their third grandchild, Micah Seth, born
to daughter Linda Hershherg and her husband
Daniel in Albany. N.Y.. October 7.
Fran Edam, WO.MPI and former Buena
Vista clerk, spent a short time in Lakewood
Hospital following two freak accidents. She
required a tetanus shot after a bee sting.
The next occasion which necessitated a hospital
visit came when Fran accidentally
tripped and broke two toes.
Actress Bette Davis, who was to have
appeared at the Hanna Theatre in "Miss
Moffat" February 3. has canceled the tour
due to recurring problems with her back
and legs, making it difficult for her to
dance or walk. "Miss Moffat" recently
closed in Philadelphia .
at Cleveland
State University showed the X-rated
movie "Fritz the Cat" Thursday. October
24, and donated the profits to the United
Torch. The sexploitation film "The Devil
in Miss Jones" was screened four times
October 25 on the Case Western Reserve
University campus. It was not a charityrelated
event, since the showing was sponsored
by a campus society.
Mo Zisia,
formerly with Concession Vendors,
presently is affiliated with Rehm Distribution
Co.
Herbert R. Whiting, law director, continued
his battle against sex movies, seeking
the closing of the Lyceum Theatre as a public
nuisance. October 21 Whiting filed suit
in common pleas court charging the theatre
at 3545 Fulton Rd. S.W. has continued
to pander obscenity despite several city
citations. The suit said the Lyceum has been
cited by the local vice squad five times during
the past two months. Despite the citations,
the suit said, the theatre continually
and repeatedly has sold, distributed, exhibited
and disseminated obscene materials.
Whiting said the suit asks Judge Harry
Jaffe to issue a temporary order barring the
theatre from continued operation. No hearing
date has been set.
An 18-karat gold-plated medallion commemorating
the opening of Nick Mileti's
S20 million Coliseum was distributed to 21.-
000 people attending the October 26 grand
opening. The custom-made keepsake, measuring
two inches in diameter and secured
on an entwined gold chain, was created by
Tortolani of Los Angeles exclusively for
the Coliseum opening. One side commemorates
the Coliseum with a three-dimensional
picture of the structure and the reverse carries
an etching of the legendary performer
with the insignia "Opening Night, Oct. 26.
1974—^Frank Sinatra." Sinatra had flown
from Kansas City and was unable to attend
the
Mileti party (2,000 guests) following his
performance, as "Old Blue Eyes" had a
concert in Houston the following day. Nevertheless,
nostalgia lingered as guests danced
to Woody Herman's band.
Here's "Whatever Happened To?" some
of our cx-exhibitors: Carroll Harris. Rose
Theatre. Rossford. is now retired and living
at 6230 Lewis Ave.. Toledo. Arthur Ritari.
Lyric. Fairport Harbor, died Feb. 19, 1970.
Jim Rami. Ola Drive-In, Akron, now resides
at 2587 Sanitarium Rd.. Akron, and is retired.
Until five years ago. he owned a
bowling alley. Ed Rabb, Starlight and Ascot
drive-ins, Akron, has returned to the practice
of law and is located at 99 Fourth St,
N.W.. Barberton.
Julia Meade. 44. currently is being seen
at the Hanna Theatre in "Move Over Mrs.
Markham." Miss Meade, familiar to Broadway
audiences for her performances in "The
Tender Trap." "Roman Candle" and "Double
in Hearts." is known to moviegoers for
her co-starring roles in "Pillow Talk."
"Tammy Tell Me True" and "Zotz." Other
players in the English farce, familiar to film
buffs, include Nancy Cushman. seen in "Requiem
for a Heavyweight" and "The Swimmer";
Bill Galarno, who appears in "The
Godfather, Part II," and Margaret Davies.
whose film credits include "The Stepford
Wives," "Report to the Commissioner,"
"Once Is Not Enough," "Serpico" and "The
Exorcist."
Voy Theatre Twinning
Project Is Announced
From Central
Edition
MAQUOKETA, IOWA—The Voy Theatre
here, opened in March 1973, soon will
become a twin. Dennis Voy has announced
the purchase of the next-door building and
construction on the Voy 2 is slated to start
immediately.
Voy 2 will be almost identical in size to
Voy 1. Like the present theatre, the new
auditorium will have 204 Heywood-Wakefield
rocking-chair seats. They will be red
with white backs, complementing the overall
decor which features walls with gold and
red drapes. Red carpeting will be laid in the
center aisle. The lobby of Voy 2 will
feature
an eight-foot water fountain in the center
area, which will be accentuated by programed
lights.
The Voy 2 projection booth, like Voy 1.
will be completely automated with a Christie
platter system and Optical Radiation Corp.
xenon lamphouses.
Seats, drapery material, screen and automation
equipment will be furnished by Des
Moines Theatre Supply.
Voy, who does all his own booking, hopes
to have the new auditorium in operation
sometime around Christmas, with his manager
Jack Jones supervising the theatres.
ME-4 BOXOFFICE November 4, 1974

Bijou Theatre Offers
Vintage Movie Fare
DETROIT— Merrill Rodin ;md his wife
Jill opened the Bijou Theatre recently in
the East Village Mall in the Grand Rapids,
Mich., area. A man with a. love for old-time
movie entertainment, Rodin desires to share
that love with others in the community.
"We hope that we'll have something to
offer the people who like movies but are
turned off by the things that arc offered
today," said Rodin. "We will have programs
that will appeal to the entire family."
The opener was "A Day at the Races,"
an old Mar.\ brothers classic. Upcoming is
a "Felix the Cat" cartoon, a 1920s newsreel
and even a chapter of an old serial, "Hurricane
Express."
The theatre initially will operate Friday-
Saturday-Sunday, with matinees on both
Saturday and Sunday. The auditorium scats
approximately 120 viewers.
The Bijou is identified by murals of oldtime
stars painted in black and white as
filmstrips by Dick Stein, local commercial
artist, who wholeheartedly shares the love
and attraction of old motion pictures. He
also has executed some designs of old theatre
names, such as the Roxy, Avalon and,
more prominently, the Bijou.
Rodin said he picked the name Bijou because
it immediately brings to mind an old
theatre, one that would show films from
the "golden age of Hollywood movies." He
deliberately made the setting intimate, because
the old prints come in rather small
16mm prints. Rodin is using a 9x6-foot
screen.
"We have popcorn, some pop and candy
along with a special treat, French crepes.
Admission prices are $2 for adults. $1.50
for retirees and $1 for children." Rodin explained.
Some of the interesting classics to be
shown are "King Kong." "Gold Diggers of
1933." "To Have and Have Not" and "International
House." All features are accompanied
by short
subjects or newsreels.
Rodin will continue his position as professor
of philosophy and literature at Grand
Valley State College's Thomas Jefferson
College. Mrs. Rodin will continue her career
as a marriage and family counselor.
Twin Theatre Planned
From Eastern
Edition
JOHNSTOWN, PA.—Twin theatres are
planned at the new Richland Mall on 45
acres of land in Richland Township on
Elton Road, off Route 219. five miles south
of here. The enclosed 650.000-square-foot
mall opens November 4 with Penn Traffic,
K-Mart and Sears as tenants of the $6 million
complex built by Unimich Development
Corp. of Grand Rapids, Mich. The twin
theatres are to be part of a phase containing
90 small stores, including food outlets, etc.,
now in construction.
DETROIT
phe Longest Yard," Paramount's Bun Rc\-
nolds starrer, opened its first run engagement
at the Abbey, Towne. Dcartwrn.
Woods, Parkway, Terrace, Wyandotte,
Showcase Cinema in Pontiac and Showcase
Cinema in Sterling Heights. United .Artists'
"Juggernaut," meanwhile, steamed into the
Macomb Mall Cinema, Tel-Ex Cinema.
Showcase (Sterling Heights), Showcase (Pontiac),
Livonia Mall Cinema, Dearborn, Radio
Citv, Wyandotte. Abbey. Quo Vadis and
Woods'
Producer Mark L. Lester, whose "Truck
Stop Women" is being released by American
International Pictures, was in town to talk
about his film, accompanied by Merrie Lynn
Ross, who served as his production supervisor.
Lester said that "Truck Stop Women"
cost only $300,000 to make and he expects
it to gross $4 million. The 27-year-old filmmaker
thinks that in general women work
harder and are more conscientious and better
organized than men. Therefore, he sees
it as natural for his motion pictures to show
women as strong and men. if not weaklings,
standing around waiting for women to tell
them what to do. Lester, who also wrote and
directed "Truck Stop Women." already is
looking forward to his next film. "Border
Town Women," which reportedly will have
a $2 million budget.
The October 14 "Tipoff" column of the
Free Press observed: "Some of the raciest
adult film fare you can find in East Lansing
is shown at the Unitarian Universalist
Church, where Friday night (October 11)
the feature was 'Love and the French
Woman,' with seven short, sexy stories."
According to the item, "the church member
who organized the shows finds that adult
films attract more viewers in this college
town than the Walt Disney movies he offered
last
year."
Anyone who was downtown early Friday
evening. October 4, and saw the Regent
Theatre and Lyman Building would have
found them missing the next morning. In
a blink of an eye. the urban renewal "bomb"
fell—and the structures vanished.
The city of Trenton is opening the Trenton
Theatre, which it purchased earlier this
year. The building has been and continues
to be renovated. A number of activities have
been planned and the Trenton Community
Theatre also will be making its home there.
The former adult film house more than
likely will have a lecture-concert series,
travelogs
and perhaps Disney films and cartoons.
The question asked in a recent Free Press
"Sound Off" column concerned the fact that
some viewers have voiced dissatisfaction
with the policy of editing movies for TV
and it wanted to know if readers were "upset
when parts of a movie you saw in a theatre
are censored on TV?" A total of S4.fi
per cent answered "yes" and this segment
made the lillovving comments: "If a movie
has to be edited, don't show it on TV";
"movies on TV are chopped up so badly 1
don't bother watching them": "what's the
on-off button for?", and "there are commercials
which are more offensive than
anything in the movies." "No" replies constituted
15.4 per cent of those polled and
one made the stinging observation:
"Movies today are garbage. They shouldn't
be shown at all. W^ don't need that stuff
in our homes."
A "What Next?" item appeared in the
East Detroit Community News when a
councilman inquired at the last regular meeting
whether the city's pornography ordinance
prohibits theatres from having employees
work in the nude. The councilman
explained that during a recent visit to
Philadelphia, he learned some X-rated movie
houses there had resorted to nude employees
to boost boxoffice grosses. The reply to the
question concerning the ordinance came
from the city attorney, who said. "Yes. we
covered everything!"
Plan Twin Theatres
In Fairmont Center
From Southeastern
Edition
FAIRMONT, W. VA.—The new $2.5
million Kroger Square Shopping Center on
Country Club Road will contain a twin
movie fiouse 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,
to be owned and operated by Grant and
Lawrence Thomas of Oak Hill, has been
signed, according to 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'. 2 -acre site, across from
Jayenne School, the Kroger store will be the
nucleus of Marion County's newest shopping
center.
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CINCINNATI
gob Rehnie. vice-president of Tri-State
Theatre Service, was the second speaker
in the series of lec-
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W^^ October 24. Rehme's
topic was "Advertising.
Publicity and Promotion."
Bob Rehnie
Gene Ger-
rard. theatre editor of
Columbus Citizen-Journal, C
the opened the
series with a
discussion on the qualifications
necessary to become a theatrical critic.
Thursday, October 31, Roy White and Don
Wirtz of Mid States were the lecturers, presenting
two more facets of the movie business.
Wally Merganthai, United Artists booker,
has returned from a short vacation . . . Mary
Smith, secretary for Interstate Theatre Ser-
Action Against Westwood
Is Deplored by Toledoan
TOLEDO, OHIO—Toledo resident D. J.
Szymanski recently wrote a letter to the
editor of the Blade deploring the financial
burden (and the principle) involved in
prosecution of the Westwood Theatre.
Stated Szymanski: "After reading of the
time and expense being wasted on the
Westwood Theatre trial, I was moved to
speak out for the thousands of Toledoans
who disagree with Robert Anderson but
who haven't the money to come to the
Westwood's defense.
"The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that
communities are to set the standards by
which they live, with or without pornography.
There is a very simple criterion for
determining whether a community wishes a
business to remain open. The citizens either
patronize the business (in essence paying
them to remain open ) or they do not
patronize the business and the concern folds
as a financial failure. Had the Westwood
been suffering great financial reverses before
this court battle'? Had they filed bankruptcy
or gone into
receivership?
"If viewing these movies degrades, offends
and appeals to the prurient interests
and baser instincts of any citizens, then I
humbly suggest they patronize some othci
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Exhibitors in town included Mrs. Fred
May. Dry Ridge, Ky.i Ken Neal. Maysvillc.
Ky., and John Hewitt, Bethel.
An inquisitive squirrel lost its life when
it was e.xamining WLW-T"s transformer the
other day. The engineers had to shut down
everything and acquire some new parts before
power could be restored three hours
later. The station was swamped by over
5.000 calls from viewers inquiring about
their blank screens—and the loss of a soap
opera ... A huge statue of the Nutcracker
toy was on display recently on the Fountain
Square Plaza to alert the public and to promote
the Cincinnati Ballet Company's six
performances of Tchaikowsky's "Nutcracker
Suite" ballet at Music Hall during the
Christmas week for the pleasure of all children—young
and old. Mayor Theodore M.
Berry issued a proclamation declaring "Nutcracker
Week." The statue will be moved
to Northgate Mall sometime this month.
,4,Qtheatre.
If they can neither find anything
artistic, literary, scientific or funny in these
films, I suggest they confine their viewing
to a different type of film. If they have
hangups of their own, I fail to see why
they should foist them on the remaining
citizens of Toledo. There are people of
Toledo who enjoy seeing unedited films of
the kind the Westwood shows and I fail
to see how one man can deny these people
their rights. After all, we are citizens of
Toledo, too, and we want the Westwood
to remain open and show the kind of films
it has shown in the past without legal
harassment from someone of a more prudish
bent."
Albee's Facade, Lobby May
Survive UR Demolition
CINCINNATI — There is a possibility
that the facade and lobby of the closed
Albee Theatre may be incorporated into any
development of the south side of Fifth
Street because of its architectural and historical
value. This would be accomplished
under the city's "listed property" controls.
The Albee's fate will be decided by the
Cincinnati Architectural Board of Review
at a meeting this month.
The Albee currently is scheduled for demolition
along with other buildings in the
same block in the city's downtown urban
renewal program.
'Longest Yard' Radio Contest
DAYTON. OHIO— Mary Pleasant, man-
,iger of Loews' Ames, arranged a contest
with WONE Radio during the second week
of Paramount's "The Longest Yard." The
radio station ran promotion spots, awarding
guest tickets to listeners phoning in at
various times of the day.
Residents Protest R
Films at Ohio Airer
LEBANON, OHIO—Some 50 residents
attended a recent meeting of the Lebanon
City Council to protest the showing of R-
rated films at the Old Fort Theatre, because
the screen is visible from U.S. 42 and also
from a residential area to the east. In addition,
petitions signed by 425 persons also
were presented. The petitions asked that R-
rated films not be shown or that the theatre
be forced to build barriers to prevent the
screen from being visible from outside the
theatre proper.
Explicit scenes on the theatre screen.
viewed by passing motorists, could be a
traffic hazard, according to the Rev. Allen
Jones of Calvary Baptist Church. Furthermore,
such scenes "amount to pandering
free advertising for the theatre, the same
thing as a billboard." he charged. The Rev.
Jones said this was an unwarranted intrusion
into the minds of decent people.
The Rev. Darl Swisher of the Church of
the Nazarene. another speaker before the
council, said. "We believe the unrestricted
showing of these movies is a violation of
their right to show restricted films."
Mayor Myles Pence and City Atty. J.
William Duning said they would investigate
and make a report.
Parent in Dayton Decries
Ads for R. X-Rated Films
DAYTON, OHIO—Ads for motion pictures
came in for some stinging criticism
when Jeanne Buxton of Fairborn, Ohio,
recently wrote the "Talk to the Daily News"
column of the Dayton News. Ms. Buxton's
letters follows: "Is there a chance of getting
the ads for some of the movies cleaned
up? Many parents are concerned about the
lewd, obscene words and pictures describing
the R and X-rated movies that our children
are exposed to when they turn to these
pages seeking information on entertainment.
I understand some newspapers around
the country even have quit advertising R
and X-rated movies because of their adverse
effect on the community.
"If that big a step couldn't be taken to
help clean up our community, surely some
improvements could be made. How about
it. for the sake of our children, youth and
decent people of our commimity?"
Ed ONeil, advertising director for Dayton
Newspapers, Inc., quipped, 'It sounds
trite but you should see them before we
clean them up!" He added, more seriously,
that the policy was to keep ads morally
and socially acceptable.
"This has varying connotations depending
on the reader," O'Neal commented.
"In a mass medium you try to determine
this on a broad community scale."
O'Neil observed, "Ads for R-rated movies
usually are more in need of cleaning up
that those for X-rated movies. I guess
having less to sell to the audience which
only goes for hard-core motion pictures
causes more oversell."
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Okip Yassenoff of Rainbow Theatres has
reopened the 1.000-seat New Main on
the east side. The inaugural was "Lady Sings
the Blues." with all seats priced at $1. Yassenoff
expects the house will become a community
cultural center, with presentation
of community talent. The New Main has
a large stage and complete stage equipment
and lighting.
Howard and Edith Ransom, writers and
producers of "Baby Needs a New Pair of
Shoes." shown at Towne Cinema, are former
residents of this city. Ransom was graduated
in the East High School class of 1954
and his wife is a graduate of West High
School. The Ransoms made a fortune in
real estate and construction in Los Angeles.
Howard believes "Baby Needs a New Pair
of Shoes" is the first all-black-financed film.
About 15 local residents appear in the film,
which deals with the numbers racket. The
Ransoms are planning additional features.
All-American Cablevrsion followed an
initial antithcatrc ad in local dailies with
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LIMA. OHIO—The U.S.
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S. Huffman of Lima to rewrite a brief
of more than 100 pages in connection with
his argument for the reversal of an overturned
conviction of a local theatre operator
for showing allegedly obscene films
at Cinema One in this city. Huffman had
ordered the theatre closed as a piihll;
nuisance.
This is believed to be the first time in
the memory of observers that the high court
has turned down a brief for failing to
comply with a rule that requires the briefs
to be "concise and free from burdensome,
irrelevant, immaterial and scandalous matter."
By an 8-1 vote, the justices ordered
the brief be stricken from the courts
records. Justice William O. Douglas dissented,
maintaining that the court is noi
overworked.
In addition to the long-winded brief, the
justices also may have objected to an appendix
to the brief, which contained more
than 4,500 still pictures of sexual activity
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PITTSFIELD—William G. Baumgartner,
Hallmark Releasing Corp. district manager
lor western Massachusetts, has been
William ii. Baumgartner. left, receives
US Air Force Recruiting Service
plaque from Pittsfield Mayor Evan
Dobelle. right, in ceremony at Pittsfield.
awarded the highest civilian honor by the
U.S. Air Force Recruiting Service.
Baumgartner, honored recently at a
luncheon in his behalf at the Holiday Inn
here, received the USAFRS Plaque for his
instrumental contributions and cooperation
with the Air Force.
According to S. Sgt. John Roberge, Air
Force recruiter here, Baumgartner aided by
sponsoring giveway nights, distributing recruiting
material and planning effective advertising
for the campaigns. Presenting the
plaque was Pittsfield Mayor Evan Dobelle
who lauded Baumgartnefs efforts toward
public service and his dedication to nonprofit
agencies.
A former four-year veteran of the Air
Force. Baumgartner began working at the
Pittsfield Drive-! n here ten years ago. His
position now includes supervision of nine
Esquire theatres in the Western Massachusetts
area. He is married and has five
children.
Attending the kmcheon were several Hallmark
officials and Air Force Recruiting
Service personnel, including Col. Joseph
Marchant who flew in from New York
Citv.
Tom Carey, 71. Dies
HARTFORD—Thomas F. Carey. 71,
long-time booker of "live" shows in New
England motion picture theatres, died
October 1.^ at St. Francis Hospital. He
scheduled Harry Foster Welch, portraying
Popcye the Sailor Man," into cinemas in
the six-state region for many years. He was
based in the Loews' Poli Palace office buildins.
6.^5 Main St., for many years.
$2; children, $1.2.') at all matinees.
'Airport 1975' a Spectacular 700;
'Pelham One Two Three 375
BOSTON—A wave of new product
bolstered averages at the boxoffices here.
"Airport 1975" opened at Cinema 57 Two
with a spectacular 700. "The Odessa File"
captured .^15 at two theatres and "The Taking
of Pelham One Two Three" drew 375
at Cinema 57 Two. Two kung fu films
•Return of the Dragon" and "Chinese
Hercules" opened at the Astor with .160.
(Average Is 100)
Astor— Return of the Drogon (SR);
Chinese Hercules (SR) 360
Charles—Going Places (SR, 2nd wk 150
Charles East Chinotown (Para), 5th wk 120
Charles West— Rolling Stones (SR), 3rd wk 130
Chen Orie, Pi Alley The Odessa File (Col) , .315
Chen Two Harry and Tonto (20th-Fox), 3rd wk, ,130
Chen Three The Longest Yard (P
-The Gambler (Para), 2nd wk, . 200
Cinema 57 One The Taking of Pelham One Two
Three (UA)
Cinema 57 Two Airport 1975 (Univ)
Pans Cinema Flesh Gordon (SR), 3rd wk
Savoy One Juggernaut UA), 4th wk
Savoy Two Deoth Wish Para), 2nd wk
Saxon Mixed Company ;UA)
West End Cinema— Campus Pussycats (SR),
Norma SR), 2nd wk
"The Odessa File' Pulls 200
In Opening at New Haven Units
NEW HAVEN—Columbia's "The Odessa
File" at the Cinemart and Milford Cinema
II chalked up a brisk 225. "Harry and
Tonto" set 200 in Showcase Cinema I and
"The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi' Jacob"
drew 175.
Cinemart, Milford Cinema I The Odessa File
(Col) 225
College Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman (SR);
Fearless Fighters (SR) 1 50
Crown The Life and Times (SR), Campus Girls
(SR), 3rd wk 135
Police Seize Films
In Hub 'Porn' Raid
BOSTON— Police raided a Combat Zone
establishment Wednesday, October 23, and
confiscated allegedly "obscene and hard
core pornographic" films from the building.
Lt. Earl Crocker, who led the nine-man
raid, said a municipal court had authorized
the raid and specified seizure of 21 films
and records from Jolar, a new business
opened Friday, October 18.
Crocker said men from the Boston Police
Dept.'s vice squad had visited the theatre
one night and viewed the films. The warrant
for the raid was based on their affidavits.
The Boston Globe reported the president
of Jolar is Larry Trambitas of .Seattle,
Wash., and that the $50 license for Jolar
to operate as an amusement center and
coin-operated movie picture house listed
a Roy Mackic, whose address was given
as the Hotel Avery here. Mackie was not
Showcase Matinee Price Drops
registered at the hotel when the raid occured.
BOSTON—Two of Redstone Theatres'
Showcase cinemas have announced new "We've got enough of our home grown
matinee prices. Adults are admitted Wednesday
and Saturday, $1.75, and Sunda>, of-towners coming in," Crocker said
degenerates in this city, without these out-
about
BOXOFFICE November 4. 1974
the raid. "These purveyors of filth seem to
Miltord Cinema I, Roger Sherman
The Destructors (AlP) 160
Showcase Cinema I Horry ond Tonto
(20th-Fox) 200
Showcase Cinema II The Longest Yard (Para),
3rd wk 165
Showcase Cinema III That's Entertainment!
(UA), 11th wk 70
Showcase Cinema IV The Gambler (Para),
2nd wk 150
York Square Cinema The Mod Adventures of
'Rabbi' Jocob (20th.Fox) 175
'Harry and Tonto' Grosses 300
In Hartford at Three Theatres
HARTFORD—Two newcomers, prcmicring
here at the just-opened The Movies
I-II-lII, performed well at the boxoffice,
"Harry and Tonto" led with .300 at three
theatres and "The Mad Adventures of
Rabbi' Jacob" scored 225 at three theatres.
Both drew excellent business to The Movies
as did 1939 classic "Gone With the Wind."
"The Destructors" from American International
scored 200 at four theatres.
Art Cinema Fontosy Girls (SR); Theatre Gomes
(SR), 2nd wk 130
Burnside, Cinema I—The Gambler (Para) 300
Central, Cinema City I Flesh Gordon (SR),
2nd wk 130
Cinema City II—The Groove Tube (SR), 18th wk. . 60
Four theatres The Destructors (AlP) 200
Rivoli The Curious Teenager (SR), The Teasers!
(SR), 2nd wk 115
Showcase Cinemo I—Mixed Com pony (UA) 175
Showcase Cinema II That's Entertainment!
(UA), 1 Ith wk 50
Showcase Cinema 111—11 Horrowhouse (20th-Fo
2nd 70
Showcase Cir
-The Longest Yord (P
2nd wk, .
s— Horry and Tonto ;20th-Fox) ...
Three theatres—The Mad Adventures of
'Rabbi' Jocob (20th-Fox)
Webster Shonghoi Lil and the Sun Luck Kid (SR)
Men of iron (SR), 2nd wk
get free reign."
The shop, located in the heart of the city's
Combat Zone at Washington and Essex
streets, bore a red welcome mat reading,
"We're proud to serve you." The inside was
decorated with psychedelic posters of men
and women embracing. Fluorescent bulbs lit
up the red and blue carpeting. Several of
the 21 booths were labeled "for couples
only" and contained black leather couches.
The films ran from four to 12 minutes
and customers paid a quarter for each one
and a half minutes of viewing time.
Crocker said the films seized "have no
value—they are just hard core porno and
quite obscene. Films like 'Deep Throat'
at least have a plot. These have no scientific
or political value, no plot, no nothing." No
specific titles were mentioned but a picture
in the Globe showed part of a poster advertising
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by the exchanges, is continually demonstrating
his cooperation with the industry.
A recent example was a saturation booking
over New England that was short on delivery
of prints to the exchange. At the last
minute. Fred chartered an airplane which
carried eight prints to Biddeford and Lewiston.
Me.. Laconia. Concord and Lebanon,
N.H.. Burlington. Vt.. Pittsfield and Fitchburg.
The plane arrived at Fitchburg. the
last stop, at 8 p.m. on the dot. just in time
for the showing of the co-feature. The
Correspondent Ernie Warren is back after
a delightful three weeks in California, riding
cable cars in San Francisco and visiting
the wonders of that great state . . . Our
apologies to Maurice Levine, who was reported
in the Oct. 14 issue as returning
home from a long spell in the hospital.
The wrong address was given and the correct
one is 29 Whites Ave.. Watertown,
02172.
The Merrill Theatres has taken over
operation of the Plaza 1 and 2 Cinemas
on Dorset Street in South Burlington. Vt..
president Merrill G. Jarvis reports. The
cinemas were formerly owned by Carrol's
Development Corp. of Syracuse. N.Y. Cinema
Film Buying. Inc., Boston, will do the
booking and buying effective immediately.
Paramount had back-to-back trade screenings
at the Parker Room: "The Klansman"
October 15 and "The Dove" October 16
. . . Arthur Friedman and Roger Lockwood's
Cinema Film Buying Service has
notified all exchanges they are agents to
buy and book prints for Rene Tremblay's
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overtime in lining up dates for a saturation
booking on "Jeremiah Johnson" with 125
theatres participating. That was followed by
a new combination, "Summer of "42" and
"Class of '44," booked for the weeks of
October 23 and October 30 with 135 prints
on order.
'Herbie' Draws Big Gross
In Mountain Farms Contest
HADLEY. MASS.—"Herbie drove to a
strong boxoffice return at the Mountain
Farms Four Theatres here with a prize
plane had been delayed by a heavy thunderstorm
between Pittsfield and Fitchburg but contest as the key to its campaign.
knowing the "show must go on." Fred had Manager James Merck and assistant Jeff
persevered.
Aldrich arranged a tie-in with Northhampton
VW local dealer, which provided a
full sized Love Bug for a lobby display and
a miniature Herbie as first prize in the contest.
The theatres furnished a free pass to
every prospect who took a test drive in a
VW at the dealership, and there were
cross-plugging posters at both establishments.
The contest was described in ads in five
newspapers and on WAQY Radio, plus marquee
copy at the theatre. It drew over 8.-
500 entries. Woolco Department Store furnished
a bicycle as a second prize and
Almy's Department Store furnished another
as third prize.
The Merck-Aldrich team also arranged
"movie bonus" with the Gillette Razor
a
Co., which furnished enough Trac II razors
so that one was given to each adult male
patron. There also was a quiz contest on
WHMP Radio, with two passes given daily
for two weeks.
RI Premiere for Comedy
PROVIDENCE — Seven Rhode Island
theatres were participants in a day-and-date
regional bow of "Mr. Superinvisible," K-Tel
Int'l release, starring Dean Jones. The G-
rated comedy premiered at the Coventry.
Coventry; Park, Cranston; Greenwich, East
Greenwich; Fairlawn, Pawtucket; Cinema
and Meadowbrook. both Warwick; and
United. Westerly.
Anti-Obscenity Groups
Protest Judge's Ruling
WORCESTER. MASS.—Representatives
of several anti-obscenity groups have tried
unsuccessfully to meet with Worcester
Superior Court Judge Vincent R. Brogna to
protest his ruling over three X-rated films.
Judge Brogna had ruled that "Deep
Throat." "The Devil in Miss Jones" and
"Behind the Green Door." in a civil suit,
had not been proved obscene under the
new Massachusetts obscenity law.
The protesters included Mary McCarthy,
president. Citizens Upholding Responsible
Education, Inc.. Worcester; City Councilor
Mary Scano; the Rev. David E. Wuori, Elm
Street Congregational Church, Fitchburg;
and Rita Warren. Brockton, Youth of
America.
Mrs. Warren told the press that she had
been informed by Judge Brogna that the
case should be appealed to the State Supreme
Judicial Court.
The woman said that she would seek
such an appeal, plus an injunction to prevent
the films from being shown while that
appeal was pending.
Jndusfry pioneer Albert M. Pickus of Stratford
will have another wedding in the
His granddaughter. Wendy
Harrison of Woodbridge. will marry
Mark Greenberg of West Haven. Wendy is
attending the School of Nursing at the
Her proud grand-
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Owners, and long active in the regional
exhibition affiliate. Connecticut Ass'n of
Theatre Owners.
Franklin E. Ferguson, major-domo of the
Maurice Bailey Theatres, came up with a
99 cents admission for daily 2 p.m. matinee
showings of "Kazablan" in the Connecticut
premiere at the Whalley. New Haven, the
Courtesy in advertising can never be overdone,
as witness the use of the phrase
"Over 17 Please" for R-rated product playing
the Capitol, Milford. The suburban
cinema recently brought back "Chitty Chitty
1968 comedy,
for 1:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday matinees,
charging 75 cents for all patrons for all
Georgie JessCl and a host of other stars
headlined a Roy Radin-produced vaudeville
revue for benefit of the New Haven Police
Union the other night at Wilbur Cross
High School Auditorium.
Drive-In Shortens Week
PINEHURST, MASS.—The E.M. Loew's
Pinehurst Drive-In has dropped Monday
through Thursday showings for the remainder
of the cold season.
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NH County Atty. Found Innocent NEW BRITAIN
Of Violating Film Obscenity Law
NORTH HAVERHILL. N.H.—Grafton
County Atty. John Eamcs was found innocent
October 22 on two counts of violating
New Hampshire's obscenity law in showing
allegedly sexually explicit films at the
Barnes family-owned Colonial Theatre.
Bethlehem. N.H.
The Grafton County Superior Court
jury, which deliberated nearly 15 hours,
was deadlocked on two other counts against
Eames, both involving showings on other
dates.
His brother Jeremiah was acquitted on all
four counts. Both brothers had been charged
with two counts of obscenity for June 28
showings and two counts for July 1 showings.
New Hampshire State Police raided the
Colonial Theatre during showings of states
rights releases "Deep Throat" and "The
Devil in Miss Jones."
Asst. State Atty. General Robert J.
Johnson, who prosecuted for New Hampshire,
remarked. "We will have to decide
SPRINGFIELD
facelift lor an old theatre is under
J^
way
here with the arrival of a new concertproducing
group. The Julia Sanderson Theatre,
1700 Main St.. leased from Western
Massachusetts Theatres to Joseph Savino.
will be the new home for an entertainment
series. Mike Azarin. producer of the Twilight-Concerts-on-the-Lawn
at Lenox in
past summers, plans to book concerts featuring
popular singers in the next year. The
first concert was by Bonnie Raitt. daughter
of musical-comedy star John Raitt. October
18. Name of the corporation is Dusk In-
Concerts, Inc., of New York. If the concerts
are successful, Azarin said, he will try
to book more attractions such as dance and
theatre.
The site of the former RKO-Stanley
Warner Theatre here may become a hotel
if developers Colebrook Corp. and Mondev
USA, Inc., follow through on rumored
plans ... At the newest cinemas, the Redstone
Showcase 6 complex in West Springfield,
excellent audience response was reported
to a sneak previewing of "The Mad
whether we try the case again. I don't think
the decision means there will be no further
obscenity prosecutions."
John Eames, who had been suspended
from prosecuting criminal cases in Grafton
County by the State Attorney General's
office, said he felt that the verdict meant
"the films are not obscene."
The jury deadlocked on two charges, he
said, because the jurors could not determine
whether he was responsible for the actual
showings.
State Atty. Gen. Warren B. Rudman remarked;
"I'm disappointed because I would
like to see a clear and convincing statement
from a New Hampshire jury on what community
standards are going to be. That's
still up in the air now as far as I'm concerned."
Asked about Eames' status as county
prosecutor. Johnson said: "There are serious
questions of his ability to perform and to
continue to perform as county attorney."
Adventures of "Rabbi' Jacob." Also sneaked
was "Harry and Tonto" . . . College students
are offered a 50 cents discount at
the Redstone theatres here.
The Memorial Drive-In, West Springfield,
went on a Friday-Sunday schedule for the
rest of the year . Bros. "Jeremiah
Johnson" was saturated in area theatres
here . drive-ins, seeking greater
winter crowds, are advertising three films
on the same bill and relying heavily on
ad-copy . Allen & Cooley Cinemas
I-II in the Springfield Shopping Plaza participated
with other businesses in an ad
geared to the theme "The Plaza Has It
All!" The ad stressed the free parking and
no traffic jams.
A benefit showing of Universal's "Airport
1975" premiered at Redstone's Showcase
Cinemas 6 here. Proceeds went to a fund
for the Sacred Heart Elementary and Notre
Dame High School destroyed by fire.
'Mixed Company' Sneaked
WOBURN, MAS S.—United Artists'
"Mi.xed Company" was sneak-previewed on
a recent Sunday night in Redstone Theatres'
Showcase Cinema 1. The auditorium's current
attraction, UA's "Juggernaut." was
shown before and after the preview.
latest Jerry Lewis Cinema, a 350-seat unit
in New Milford. to late winter. The
cinema, being built in the Plaza-7 Shopping
Mart, will be operated by Walter Bueli.
Murry J. Levine, northern Connecticut
franchise holder and national president of
JI.C, said plans for a twin cinema in the
K-Mart Shopping Plaza, Cromwell, some 18
miles to the south of Hartford, were being
sidelined
temporarily.
major fire at the
J^
downtown Palace Theatre,
flagship of the Perakos Theatres
Associates circuit, was averted through
quick work of the New Britain Fire Department.
The blaze, which provided only
smoke damage to the building, was discovered
shortly after midnight. It was contained
to the Main Street portion, and the
cinema was able to open on schedule that
day.
P'rom the "50 Years Ago" column of the
New Britain Herald: "Ramon Novarro and
Barbara LaMarr are starring in "The Name
Is Woman.' a movie at the Capitol Thea-
Peter G. Perakos jr., assistant general
manager of Perakos Theatres Associates,
has been named by New Britain Mayor
Stanley J. Pac to a 25-member Citizens
Advisory Committee concerned with priorities
for spending funds under the 1974
Federal Housing and Community Development
Act.
HARTFORD
J^nother tie to downtown exhibition was
demolished, as construction crews
blew up the American Industrial Building.
19-story office building at 983 Main St..
to make way for another city garage. The
building was long a center for exhibition
and exhibition-related offices, including the
then-Warner Bros. Theatres Hartford district
office, long helmed by the late Henry
L. Needles.
Murry J. Levine, national president of
Jerry Lewis Cinema (JLC) and the JLC
northern Connecticut franchise-holder, was
in New York City for business meetings.
Sperie P. Perakos, president and chief
executive officer of Perakos Theatres Associates,
came through Hartford on a rare
visit. Also in town were John P. Lowe,
western New England district manager, Redstone
Theatres; and Milton Daly, home office
executive. United Artists Theatres.
'Throat' Picketed in Conn.
BETHEL. CONN.—About 15 persons
picketed "Deep Throat" at Cinema Bethel
on a recent Wednesday. Police Chief Richard
Carlo said that Bethel residents had
been cautioned against picketing action,
Delays Halt Cinemas
since this would serve to draw added attention
to the showings. Harry Bray, operator
HARTFORD — Construction delay has
pushed back the opening of Connecticut's of the cinema, remarked that the theatre
had been losing money and that "Deep
Throat" was shown to make money. The
Wednesday turnout, he said, was the best
in
two vears.
'Mr. Superinvisible' Premieres
MANCHESTER. N.H.—Four New
Hampshire theatres participated in a dayand-date
state premiere of "Mr. Superinvisible."
K-tel Int'l release.
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At Sorrento Festival
TORONTO—Canadian motion pictures
were presented September 20-28 at the
Sorrento International Film Festival, with
representatives of the Italian film community
as well as audiences drawn from the
general public viewing 47 productions from
Canada. The nature of the festival provided
an opportunity to introduce not only the
product of the Canadian film industry but
also the people involved in cinema production
in Canada.
Many of the Canadian films found
Italian distributors and several titles, such
as "Les Dernieres Fiancailles," directed by
Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, were sold to Italian
TV.
Bureau Aids Festival
The secretary of state's film festivals
bureau organized Canadian participation at
Sorrento in cooperation with the Naples
Tourist Board and the Sorrento Film Festival
organization and with the Canadian
Film Development Corp., Canada Arts
Council, National Film Board and the department
of external affairs.
stars Denise Filiatrault. Genevieve Bujold,
Chuck Shamata, Pia Shandel. Marthe Nadeau
and J. Leo Gagnon.
Ambassador Present
Also present at Sorrento were the Canadian
ambassador in Rome, Klaus Goldschlag,
as well as several members of the
Canadian Embassy at Rome: Ralph Stewart,
member of Parliament and chairman of
the Commons committee on radio, films
and assistance to the arts: Gratien Gelinas,
president of the Canadian Film Development
Corp.; Michael Spencer, director of
the Canadian Film Development Corp.;
Andre Lamy, assistant government commissioner
and president of the National
Film Board; Yves Blanchard, director of
the National Film Board office in Paris:
David Novek, director of information,
publicity and public relations for the National
Film Board, and Jean Lefebvre, director
of the festivals bureau, secretary
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'American Graffiti'
Completes Year
In Edmonton With 'Excellent' Gross
EDMONTON — "American
Graffiti"
celebrated its first birthday here with a
bo.voffice report of "excellent." The comedy
about American teens in
the '50s has played
for months in most cities here and in the
U.S. "The Longest Yard" opened here with
an "excellent" at the Paramount. "Carry on
Abroad" also drew an "excellent" in its
second week.
Avenue Breeiy (Univ), 3rd wk Excellent
Garneau— Uptown Saturday Night (WB),
7th wk
Excellent
Jasper Blue Mocon County Line (Astral),
7th wk Very Good
Klondike Horold and Maude (Para), 2nd wk. ..Good
Meadowlork—Mome WB), 5th wk Very Good
Paramount The Longest Yard (Para)
Excellent
Rialto 1— My Name Is Nobody (Univ),
6th wk
Excellent
Rialto 2 Carry on Abrood (Astral), 2nd wk. Excellent
Strand Dirty Mary Crozy Larry (BVFD),
6th wk Excellent
Graffiti (Univ),
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'Longest Yard' Opens in Calgary;
Six Other Films Score "Excellent'
CALGARY—A string of "excellents"
dominated the bo.xoffices here. "The Longest
Yard" in its opening week garnered an
Canadian participants present at the Sorrento
"excellent" rating as did "Alvin Purple" in
second frame. Longest-running town
Film Festival included: Robert Des-
its in
jardins of the secretary of state department,
is "The Sting" with 41 weeks on the screen
who was president of honor, and directors
and still pulling in "excellent."
Norman McLaren (with an 11 -film retrospective).
Calgary Place I Uptown Saturday Night (V^B),
13th wk Excellent
Grand Jean-Pierre Lefebvre ("Les
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Dernieres Fiancailles," as well as a retrospective
(UA), 2nd wk Fair
of his work), Ted Kotcheff ("The
Grand 2
wk
The Lords of Flatbush (Astral),
4th Excellent
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz"), Marcel Odeon The Sting iUniv), 41st wk Excellent
Palace The Longest Yard (Para) Excellent
Carriere ("O.K. . . . Laliberte"), Andre
Thot's Entertainment! (UA),
Forcier ("Bar Salon"), Don Shebib ("Between
Polhser Square 1
7th wk
Square 2
Excellent
Palliser Chinatown (Para),
Friends"), Peter Pearson ("Paper-
15th wk
Excellent
back Hero"), Claude Jutra ("La Mort d"un
Towne Blue Alvin Purple (AFD), 2nd wk. ..Excellent
Towne Red—The Toll Blonde Man With One
Bucheron"), Paul Almond ("Act of the Black Shoe (AFD) Poor
Uptown Breezy (Univ) Very Good
Heart"), John Wright ("The Visitor") and
Donald Brittain ("Dreamland: A History
Holiday Crowds in BC Boost
of Early Canadian Movies 1895-1939").
5 Film Grosses to 'Excellent'
Producers Marguerite Duparc-Lefebvre,
VANCOUVER—While generally regarded
Pierre Lamy Chalmers Adams and John
Remeny also attended the festival, as did
as a fall holiday. Thanksgiving here
brought bright sunshine and July temperatures.
Crowds responded with "excellent"
business at the bo.xoffices of "The Gam-
"The Longest Yard," "Return of the
bler,"
Dragon" and "Why Rock the Boat?" Of
the holdovers "Juggernaut" was still "excellent"
in its third week at the Odeon.
Bay Harrad Summer (AFD)
Good
Capitol Return of the Dragon (Col)
Excellent
Coronet ^Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
(UA)
Average
Denman Place Horry & Tonto ;BVFD) Good
Downtown The Gamblers Para) Excellent
Fine Arts Blozing Saddles WB), 28th wk. ..Average
Lougheed 1
— The Tomorind Seed iBVFD) . Good
Odeon Juggernaut lUA), 3rd wk
Excellent
Orpheum The Longest Yard ;Pora) Excellent
Park The Mad Adventures of 'Robbi' Jacob
(BVFD), 3rd wk Good
Stanley That's Entertoinment! (UA),
12th wk Average
Vogue Carry On Girls (Astral) Good
Varsity Why Rock the Boat? (Col)
Excellent
Winnipeg Grosses Up Sharply;
"Juggernaut' Scores 'Excellent'
WINNIPEG— Business moved up sharph
with three newcomers— "Juggernaut," "California
Split" and "Carry On Matron"
opening very strong. Two holdovers, "Uptown
Saturday Night" and "The Longest
Yard," continued with "excellent ratings.
Capitol—Uptown Saturday Night (V/B),
4th wk Excellent
Downtown Big Bad Mama IIFD); The Godson
(IFD)
Good
Eve—The Talc of the Dean's Wife (C-P);
Monica's Thing (C-P) Very Good
Garden City, North Star II Castaway Cowboy
(BV)
Averoge
Gorrick For Pete's Sake (Col), 5th wk Good
Garrick California Split (Col) Very Good
Grant Park Why Rock the Boot? (Col) Averoge
Hyland—Crozy Joe (Col), The Take (Col) Poor
Kings Carry On Matron I Very Good
Metropolitan The Longest Yard :Para),
2nd wk Excellent
North Star Juggernaut !UAj Excellent
Odeon Mr. Mojesfyk (UA), 7th wk Good
Park—Blozing Saddles (WB), 29th wk Very Good
Polo Park Our Time (WB), 4th wk
Good
Premiere of Two Canadian Films
Rates "Very Good' in Toronto
TORONTO—The premiere of two Canadian
films here was rated "very good" in
boxoffice returns. "Child Under a Leaf"
opened at the Towne Cinema and "Why
Rock the Boat?" from Columbia premiered
at the Four Seasons. "The Longest Yard"
maintained an "excellent" in its third week
and "Law and Disorder" in its first week
was recorded as "good."
Coronet Sex and the Other Woman (Danton);
Love Lords JDonton) Good
Eglinton That's Entertainment! (UA),
1 4th wk Very Good
Four Seasons—Why' i?ocii the Boot? (Col) Good
Hollywood North Chinatown (Para), 14th wk. ..Good
Hollywood South—The Tamarind Seed (BVFD),
6th wk Good
Hyland Harry and Tonto :BVFD), 2nd wk. ...Fair
1
Hyland 2—The Sting (Umv), 42nd wk Good
Imperial 2—The Longest Yard (Para),
3rd wk
Excellent
Imperial 3—The Hordest Port Begins (BVFD),
3rd wk Goad
Imperial 4—The Three Musketeers (BVFD),
27th wk Good
Imperial 6—Phase IV (Para) Good
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Missisaugua Square Four—The Beors and I
(BV)
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Towne Cinema—Child Under a Leaf (AFD) .Very Good
University—Death Wish (Para), 1 3th wk Good
Uptown 1—Juggernaut (UA), 3rd wk Good
Uptown 2 The Groove Tube (Ken)
Good
Uptown Backstage 2— American Graffiti (Univ),
Yonge
York 1
Big Bod Momo (IFD); Fugitive Killer
Lo'w and Disorder (Coi)
'Child Under a Leaf
Good
Debuts in Montreal
MONTREAL — The Murray Shostak-
George Bloomfield film "Child Under a
Leaf" premiered in Montreal October 17
at Cinema Place Ville-Marie, starting regu-
showings the following day. Proceeds
lar
from the premiere-night showing went to
the Montreal Women's ORT.
Filmed in and around Montreal in June
and July 1973. "Child Under a Leaf" stars
Dyan Cannon and Donald Pilon ("Deux
Femmes en Or." "Les Males," "La Vraie
Nature de Bernadette," "The Pyx," "Les
Corps Celestes"). Joseph Campanella and
Micheline Lanclot are featured in the motion
picture. The musical score was composed
by internationally known Francis Lai
("Love Story," "A Man and a Woman").
George Bloomfield directed.
Following the premiere of the movie,
a 45 rpm record by Richard Huet featuring
the title song was released.
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VANCOUVER
gellevue manager Dawson Exley and his
wife Dorric have become proud grandparents
for the third time. His daughter
Dorrie (Mrs. Ashley) gave birth to their
second granddaughter in mid-October.
Mother and father both are doing well but
Dawson and Dorrie have taken off to
Hawaii to recuperate, dividing their time between
Kaui, the flower island, and Maui,
known on the West Coast as '"Vancouver
West."
West Coast Theatres, a division of Prairie/
Allied, reportedly has taken over the Penmar,
Penticton, bringing the circuit's total
locally to six houses—a twin in Victoria,
a twin in Abbotsford, a single unit in Mission
and now Penticton. Most acquisitions
are reported to be in the offing.
Tom Hetherington of the Starlite, Nelson,
noted as "the garden spot of the Kootenays,"
now operates the Snackery in downtown
Nelson, where the decor matches the
theatre with massive tubs of flowers in full
bloom along the outside walls. Inside, a
multi-purpose restaurant, bar and snack
bar comprise the facility. Tom rightfully is
proud of giving Nelson a tasteful addition
to the town's social life.
Local distribtuors report that the World
Series cut into receipts, particularly in the
suburbs, as they were aired locally just at
a time when people would have been heading
for the theatre.
While most drive-ins were featuring allnight
programs with four-feature dusk-todawn
specials, the fall closures were starting
in the northern parts of the province.
The first to shutter were the Startime,
Prince George; Ranch, Dawson Creek, and
the Cache Creek airer. Others are cutting
back to weekends only, a policy which will
be maintained until weather conditions
make closing mandatory.
"That's Entertainment!" bowed out of the
Stanley after 12 weeks and the same week
our town played host to one of Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer's brightest stars. Myrna
Loy did a one-nighter in the Queen Elizabeth
in "Don Juan in Hell" October 17,
the last day of the "That's Entertainment!"
run and one day before she again was on
our screens in "Airport 1975," which opened
at the Bay and Lougheed 3.
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cosrl
. . . Mean-
City Nites hosted another West Coast
premiere with the showing of "The
Harder They Come" . Rembrandt,
16mm art house, cashed in on the current
Marx brothers revival kick featuring "Duck
Soup" and "Horse Feathers"
while. '"Animal Crackers" enjoyed a big
fourth week at the Dunhar and again was
held.
Canada's award-winning film "Slipstream"
played at midnight shows during
the Thanksgiving holiday at the Denman
Place. The week previous, a retitled "Three
Ring Circus" played a 14-house multiple
on the Famous Players circuit and the holiday
weekend saw "The Mysterious Island
of Captain Nemo" in the Park Royal, Richmond
Square and Lougheed 1 playing to
wall-to-wall moppets (and a few oldsters) in
each theatre.
Film crews, like armies, apparently travel
on their stomachs—which is why Tom
Ardies in his role of consultant during the
shooting of his novel "Kosygin Is Coming""
decided to solve any diet problems involving
the film's stars ahead of time. "1
don't want stars like George Segal going
out and trying some restaurant and coming
back upset,"' he explained. That is the
reason he now has distributed to stars and
crew, currently encamped at Denman Place
Inn, where some of the lensing takes place,
a list of the top eating places compiled by
the Sun's gourmet managing editor, Alex
McGillvray.
CALGARY
por local film buffs able to take things in
stride,
the Westbrook One presented an
exclusive engagement of the best of the
New York Erotic Film Festival. Billed as
"A Veritable Sensuous Celebration of
Award-Winning Shorts Selected From the
New York Erotic Film Festival by a Panel
of Judges Including Gore Vidal, Sylvia
Miles, Milos Forman, Terry Southern,
Betty Dodson, A! Goldstein, Holly Woodlawn
and Andy Warhol,"" the program had
a "restricted adult" classification.
A film on orchestral conducting techniques
was presented at the University of
Lethbridge at a noon concert. Titled "Point
of the Stick," the film featured Sir Adrian
Boult, conductor, and the London Symphony
Orchestra.
Lucien Needham, instructor
in the music department at the Lethbridge
University, introduced the film. The
public was invited to attend the screening
in Room E690 of the Academic Residence
Building and there was no admission fee . . .
A very nice surprise for exchange personnel
came when Reg Doddridge, well enough to
drop in for a short while, accompanied by
his lovely wife, came by to say hello to
friends ... A seldom-seen exchange visitor.
Bill Kelly, formerly of Paramount Film
Services, was in town. Still taking things
slow and easy. Bill is looking very well.
Once again on the Thanksgiving holiday
weekend, the open-air theatres in both this
city and Edmonton went all-out with duskto-dawn
programs. Locally, the 17 Avenue
tried a "Giant Grease Show"" aimed at
young rock fans, with the features "The
Lords of Flatbush,"" "Let the Good Times
Roll," "Rock Around the Clock," "Twist
Around the Clock" and "Don't Knock the
"
Rock. Sunset had "Uptown Saturday
Night," "The Terminal Man," "Cleopatra
Jones." "Cahill, United States Marshal" and
"The Man Called Noon."" The Cinema Park
went with "The Longest Yard,"" '"The
Friends of Eddie Coyle." "Three Tough
Guys," "The Soul of Nigger Charley" and
"Hannie Caulder." The Stampede had a
"Festival of the Undead" with "Vault of
Horror,"" "Beast of the Yellow Night."
"Children Shouldn't Play With Dead
Things," "Creature With the Blue Hand"
and "Terror in the Wax Museum." The
Corral featured "Blazing Saddles." "Red
Sun."" ""Steelyard Blues," "The Train Robbers"
and "The Life and Times of Judge
Roy Bean."
In Edmonton, there was much the same
fare, only more of it. The Belmont ran
"Bonnie's Kids," "Centerfold Girls," "Love
Times Three," "Senuous Teenager" and
"The Devil's Wedding Night." People at
the Golden West saw "No Sex Please,
We're British," "Carry On Doctor," "Carry
On Pimpernel," "The Valachi Papers" and
"Stone Killers." Parkland One went with
"'Fist of the Double K,"" "Shanghai Killer,"
"Screaming Tiger,'" "Deep Thrust" and
"Battle of the Amazons." Parkland Two
presented "'The Longest Yard," "Fear Is the
Key," "Serpico," "Hit" and "Let's Scare
Jessica to Death." The Sherwood had "Uptown
Saturday Night," "Class of "44,"
"Cleopatra Jones,"" "The Mackintosh Man""
and "Lady Ice." The Skyvue showed "That
Man Bolt," "Breezy," "Sugarland Express,"
"The Groundstar Conspiracy"" and "Newman's
Law." At the St. Albert, the features
were "Blazing Saddles," "Red Sun,"" "Deadly
Trackers," "The Getaway" and "Black
Belt Jones." On the screen at the Twin One
were "The Last Detail," "The New Centurions,"
"Sex Is a Game People Play,"
"The Pleasure Game" and "The Love Machine."
Twin Two ran "Doctor of Death,"
"Revenge of the Living Dead." "Curse of
the Living Dead." "W" and "Fangs of the
Living Dead." With weather in both cities
warm and dry. all the theatres did outstanding
business.
The Klondike Theatre in Edmonton presented
two showings of "Henry V," starring
Sir Laurence Olivier, Sunday afternoon,
October 13 ... In a recent column, we
inadvertently .stated that Alberta's newest
TV station was in this city, when it reall>
is in Edmonton. Wendell Wilkes is in charge
of ultramodern CITV in Edmonton. Apologies
and our best wishes for future success!
The Odeon Theatre here presented a Sunday
matinee in its W. C. Fields and Mae
West Festival, screening "My Little Chickadee,"
starring both Fields and Ms. West.
The Bergman Film Festival at the Roxy
Theatre in Edmonton, offered "Winter
Light " at a Sunday matinee. The Bergman
production starred Ingrid Thulin and Max
von Sydow.
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Traces History
Of Canadian Movies From /896
By MAXINE MC BEAN
CALGARY—The Canadian film industry,
from its inception in 1896 through
its growing years to 1939, was the subject
of a 90-minute TV special entitled "Dreamland:
A History of Canadian Movies"
presented on a national network. Opening
with a shot of the old Dreamland Theatre
in Edmonton (emblazoned with a sign reading
"Admission 10 Cents"), the National
Film Board cameras ranged from Victoria.
B.C.. right across Canada to the eastern
fully.
The very first motion picture shown in
Canada, "The Kiss," presented for a standing-room-only
audience in Ottawa's West
End Park July 21, 1896. was received
enthusiastically.
Thus, Canadian movies were born and
the industry has never looked back. Although
fortunes were never lost—or made
— in the early days, a considerable amount
of money changed hands. One enterprising
producer founded a new company in a new
city for each film he made—and always
seemed to leave town after the money came
in but before the bills were paid. It was
an era of great dreams, ingenuity and hard
work.
In 1903 Canadians saw their first film
of the national sport, hockey, lensed at
the Montreal Winter Carnival. Royalty in
the person of the Prince of Wales was followed
with a movie camera during his
visit in 1903 and Canada as a whole became
more conscious of the monarchy as
"people."
During the war years, 1914 to 1919,
movies were used to promote patriotism
and to convey information to citizens concerning
Canada's war effort. Censorsh'p was
first instituted during this period. Many
Canadians had very strong feelings about
the U.S. not being active in the war (World
War I ) and, to avoid any problems, all
scenes showing American flags were cut
from the film.
One of the outstanding characters in the
fledgling movie business was Ernie Shipman,
who obtained financial backing for
the classic feature "Back to God's Country,"
and some of this money came from
Calgary. This picture inadvertently became
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lady's leotard became wrinkled and she
discarded it.
Shipman made six more features in the
next four years. Norma Shearer began her
career in an epic produced in Saint John
titled "Blue Water." During the 20s nature
films came into their heyday and Calgarian
Bill Oliver became an outstanding cameraman.
The subject matter for many of his
films was world-famous naturalist Grey
Owl. The classic of Canadian movies, "Nanook
of the North." was made in 1921. In
into much detail of
coast. The film went
the background of the men who made 1927
pictures
Canadian International Films produced
the industry's pioneer days. Production
"Carry On Sergeant" in Trenton.
in
and camera techniques were explained This picture was produced on a grand
scale but overran its budget and schedule Y^o
and "died" after a very short run in a few
eastern cities.
The miracle of sound came to Canada in
1930 when "The Viking" was filmed in
Newfoundland. A story of romance and
seal-hunting in Canada, this picturce also
was a financial failure and the company behind
it went under. In the 1930s the Allen
family members were the first Canadians to
own a circuit of theatres. When Calgary's
Strand Theatre was still standing, the name
Allen could be seen set in title in the sidewalk
in front of the cinema. But Mssrs.
Nathenson and Zukor of Famous Players
were determined to control Canadian theatres
and by various means overcame most
opposition.
By 1930, Famous Players owned approximately
25 per cent of all Canadian theatres
and was involved in litigation under
the Combines Act. The charges were dismissed
in court due to insufficient evidence.
During the '30s, Associated Screen News
of Montreal produced hundreds of short
subjects, all noncontroversial. At about
this the time federal government decided
to establish a quota system for films made
in the British Commonwealth for exhibition
in Canada. This resulted in Hollywood production
companies moving into Victoria,
B.C., and shooting their pictures in horse
barns that had been converted into studios.
The royal visit of King George and Queen
Elizabeth in 1939 was fully covered and
was enjoyed by the whole country.
Although there was a scarcity of big
names in our movie industry, this TV special,
nonetheless, came across as one of the
best things the NFB has done. To maintain
the continuity and to carry the mood
of "the good old days," the entire production
was in black and white.
Nobleman Elected by SRCT
TORONTO—Alderman Ben Nobleman
has bcjn re-elected president of the Society
for the Recognition of Canadian Talent
(SRCT). which has among its prime objectives
the encouragement and promotion
of recognition of Canadian talent in the
Canadian entertainment industry and
abroad.
Canadian Films Score
At Sorrento Festival
(Continued from page K-IJ
of state department.
The Canadian media was represented by
Luc Perreault, a critic from La Presse;
Jacques Lina from the magazine TV Hebdo:
Renee Maheux, correspondent for Le Devoir;
Rene Rozon from the magazine Vie
des Arts, and Bunn> Wright, freelancer for
the Vancouver Sun. CBC-TV, Toronto, sent
Garth Price, while Gilles Sainte-Marie of
Montreal represented the national French
radio network.
MONTREAL
staff members of the National Film
Board of Canada. Dr. Lyle Cniickshank,
director of media/ research, and
Mike Rubbo, documentary filmmaker,
were invited to participate in the National
Press Photographers Ass'n's annual Flying
Short Course, which got under way
October 27 in Philadelphia. Cruickshank
and Rubbo were slated to tell and show
American photographers why the National
Film Board produces what many believe
are the best films in the world.
Les Films Mutuels' release, "Les Deux
Pieds Dans la Meme Bottine," was screened
for over 1.050 parents and children Saturday.
October 12, at the Rivoli Twin cinemas
at a matinee sponsored jointly by
CJMS Radio and the Montreal Journal.
Adding a festive atmosphere to the occasion.
Les Carcans, ten clowns in magnificent
costume, distributed balloons and other
prizes to add to the pleasure of the young
moviegoers. Produced by Productions SMR
in association with Productions Mutuelles,
"Les Deux Pieds Dans la Meme Bottine" is
a film by Pierre Rose with original music by
Yves Vincent. The family feature, distributed
by Les Films Mutuels, has been
booked for multiple playdates throughout
Quebec.
Guarantee of $26 Million
For 'Godfather IF Debut
From Eastern Editior^
NEW YORK—Advance guarantees totaling
at least $26 million have been received
for the premiere of "The Godfather, Part
IL" which will make its world bow in
December at 340 U.S. theatres, it was announced
by Frank Yablans, president and
chief operating officer of Paramount Pictures.
Yablans added that these advance receipts
are a record in the history of motion pictures
and "indicates the extraordinary interest"
in the sequel to Oscar-winning "The
Godfather," the film industry's all-time boxoffice
champion. "The Godfather, Part II"
begins its world premiere engagement in
New York as the Christmas attraction at
Loews' State I and State II, Orpheum.
Cine and Tower East theatres.
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Friday Midnight Films
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So successful was the "Friday Night
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At Milwaukee's UA Soufhgate Theatre
Costumed Employees Spark Premiere of
Entertainment!
Theatre employees costumed to resemble Lindberg was dressed as Ava Gardner
MGM musical screen personalities, coverage
Julie in "Showboat." Ushers Richard Roehr,
by the news media, displays and ban-
Greg Lindberg and Evan St. Martin por-
trayed the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow and
ners were ail part of the hoopla staged b\
Milwaukee's UA Southgate Theatre for its Tin Woodsman, respectively from "The
run of "That's Entertainment!" Even though
happened tub-thumping
Wizard of Oz." Some of the other "personalities"
Gene that last August,
appearing included Kelly.
continues with radio station "WEMP asking
Frank Sinatra. Carmen Miranda, Jean Har-
listeners to vote for their favorite star lowe and Fred Astaire. The costumes
were
or musical sequence in the film. There is
planned a Sunday afternoon piano or organ
concert in the theatre lobby featuring show
tunes from the movie. There is also a
letter-writing contest underway directed to
school groups. The letter judged best in
explaining what the writer liked most about
the film will win for him a camera donated
by Mike Crivello's Camera Center.
Manager Joyce Lindberg staged two
opening nights which featured staff members,
adorned in costumes reminiscent of the
dance and musical sequences in the movie,
mingling with patrons in the lobby. Miss
either provided free in e.xchange for a
promotional sign in the theatre's lobby or
else at a low rate by Melody Top Tent
Theatre Management. Barnes-Lorber, Dave
Miller's Shop and Sherkow's.
Ten-foot-high figures of Gene Kelly and
Frank Sinatra were fashioned from cardboard
and mounted atop posters positioned
at the theatre's entrance. Plans call for the
continued use of these likenesses at other
UA theatres when they play the film.
Assistant manager Brian Miller and usher
Daryl Skaradzinski bought several yards of
plastic on which they painted "That's Enter-
tamment!" They taped it to the marquee
where it produces, in Miss Lindberg's
words, "an unusual effect. We think it's
great."
A reminder of the Esther Williams sequences
in the film is found in the lobby
area where Aqua Spray, distributor of
Esther Williams swimming pools, has set up
a miniature pool, giant-size banner and
other accessories. The local Fred Astaire
Dance Studio loaned stills of Ginger Rogers'
dancing partner for a special window treatment.
Other displays include record album
jackets of releases by Frank Sinatra, Judy
Garland and others decorating the bannister
leading to the balcony. Collector's items
such as film posters and movie stills, borrowed
from the collections of film buffs
Dale Kuntz and John Friebe, were arranged
into a collage and are displayed in the refreshment
area.
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Opening night brouhaha
tor "That's Entertainlueni!"
at Milwaukee's UA
Southgate Theatre included
appropriately-costumed
theatre personnel portraying
personalities from the
movie. Greeting patrons
below the marquee, left,
were "Leslie Caron" cashier
Gery Tarcz on left,
and "Ava Gardner" manager
Joyce Lindberg.
Standing on the marquee
are three "Ozian" ushers.
Once inside the lobby,
right, patrons met even
more personalities such as
".kelson Eddy." ".leanetlc
"Howard
MacDonald."
K e e r and "G i n g < /
Rogers."
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After several unsuccessful attempts to
make the Saturday and Sunday kiddies'
shows pay off, Marvin Scott, manager of the
Kon Tiki theatre in Naples, Fla., reacted
a manner he himself said his peers would
in
consider unthinkable. He gave the movie
away.
With the former weekend afternoon
showings in some cases not even paying
for the cost of the film, Scott decided to
present a free show. The results were, in
his words, "too good to be true."
Four matinee shows, two each day,
brought in 1,222 youngsters ranging in
age from four to 12 and boosted concession
The film premiered in the city of broth-
stand sales to more than $500. "As erly love with the formal opening of
every manager knows," Scott beamed, "concession
Budco's Goldman Twin I & II.
profits are at times bigger than
film
rental."
The offering for his initial giveaway was
"Godzilla vs the Smog Monster." Scott said
he now looked forward to future weekend
kiddies' shows.
Word-of-mouth should be an obvious
result of the tie-in Budco Theatres' publicist
and promotion chief Linda Goldenberg
made with Paramount's "The Longest
Yard." Miss Goldenberg scheduled a special
showing of the film in the 'Vet Stadium's
Stadium Theatre for the Philadelphia Eagles
football team before their game with the
Dallas Cowboys.
Tony King, manager of AMC's Oakridge
6 in San Jose, Calif., suggests it's
time to begin planning babysitting service
for the holiday season. His successful arrangement
last year with members of the
Oakridge Mall Merchants Ass'n has
prompted him to repeat it this year.
Under the agreement, merchants purchase
books of tickets from the theatres, The
making them available to patrons wishing
to shop without their children. The youngsters
get to see a free movie while Mom
and Dad know the little ones are safe and
sound. King added that the theatre gross is
increased through the Christmas season.
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signs indicate degree of merit. Listings cover current reviews regularly. © is for CinemoScope; ® Ponavision;
® Techniromo; (s) Other Anamorphic processes. Symbol U denotes BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award; All
films are in color except those indicated by (b&w) tot black & white. Motion Picture Ass'n (MPAA) ratings:
El —General Audiences; PG—All oges admitted (parental guidance suggested); r — Restricted, with
persons under 17 not admitted unless accompanied by parent or adult guardian; x — Persons under 17 not
admitted. National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures (NCOMP) ratings: A1 — Unobjectionable for General
Patronage; A2—Unobjectionoble for Adults or Adolescents; A3—Unobjectionable for Adults; A4— Morolly
Unobjectionable for Adults, with Reservations; B—Objectionable in Part for All; C—Condemned. Broadcasting
and Film Commission, Notional Council of Churches (BFC). For listings by company, sec FEATURE
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4721 Abdication, The (103) .
4711 Act of Vengeance
9.16-74 PG A3
(90) Sex-Ac AlP S-12-74 e C
4730 Airport 1975 (107) P Ad-D . Univ 10-21-74 PG A2
4726 AnKircoril (127) C-D p . World 9-30-74 m A4
4710 Amazing Grace (99) C UA 7-29-74 gl Al
Anoel. The (129) @ D .
4699 Apprenticestiip of DuiJdy Kravitz, Ttie
5-20-74
(121) p; D Para 6-24-74 PG A4
Around the World With Fanny Hill
(92) Sex C Seabcrg 9-23-74 (»
—B—
Bank Shot (88) Cr-C UA 7- 1-74 PG 4701 A3
4725 Bears and I, The (89) Ad BV 9-30-74 m
4686 Beast Must Die, The
(93) ® Ho CRC 5- 6-74 PG A3
4720tsBenji (100) C-D .... Mulberry Sq. 9- 9-74 m Al
4713 Big Bad Mama
(87) Cr-Melo.. New World S-19-74|R]
4690 Black Connection— Run. Nigger, Run
(87) Cr Boxoffice Infl 5-20-74 g)
4713 Black Samson (90) Ac. .WB S-19-74 B
4686 Black Windmill, The
(106) P Ac Univ 5- 6-74 PG A3
4701 Bootleogers. The (110) Ac - . Howco 7- 1-74 PG
4711 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
(112) Ac UA S-12-74 H C
4707 Bunny Caper, The (90) Sex C ..GFC 7-22-74
4699 Buster and Billie (100) D ...Col 6-24-74 H B
—C—
4715 California Split (111) C-D Col 8-26-74 (H A4
4691 Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
(91) Ho-Ad *£) Para 5-27-74 m A3
4710 Castaway Cowboy, The
(91) Ad-C.BV 7-29-74 El Al
4695 Centerfold Girls. The
(92) Sus Melo ....General Film 6-10-74 (g
Charulata
(112) D R.D. Bansal Prods 8-26-74 A2
4703 Chinatown (130) i® My Para 7- 8-74 A4
4720 Chinese Godfather
(90) (Si Melo Clark 9- 9-74 m
46% Chosen Survivors (99) Ho Col 6-10-74 PG A3
4698 Christina
(98) P) Melo ..Int'l Amusement 6-17-74 PG
4682 4.,;Claudine (92) D-C ....20th-Fox 4-22-74 PG A3
4727 Cold Sweat (94) Ac Emerson 10- 7-74 PG
Confessor (73) Doc .
4-29-74
4678 Conversation, The (113) D Para 4- 8-74 PG A3
4687 Country Hooker
(75) Melo Boxoffice Infl 5-13-74
4709 Craze (96) Ho. .WB 7-29-74 11
4722 Cry of the Black Wolves, The
(90) Ad .
4692 Cynthia's Sister
9-16-74 PG
(86) Melo Boxoffice Infl 5-27-74
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m 4691 Daisy Miller (91) C-D Para 5-27-74 A2
4729 Dark Places (90) Ho CRC-AIP 10-21-74 PG A3
4707 Death Wish (93) Ac-D-.Para 7-22-74 [1 C
4684 Deranged (82) Cr AlP 4-29-74 m C
4709 Destructors. The (89) fp Ac ..AlP 7-29-74 PG A3
4698 Digby—The Biggest Don in the World
(88) C-F CRC 6-17-74 El Al
4694 Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
(93) Ac 20th-Fox 6- 3-74 PG A3
4714 Dirty O'Neil (89) Ac-C AlP 6-10-74 e C
4730 Don't Turn the Other Cheek
(96) C-W Infl Amusement 10-21-74 PG
4714 Dove, The (105) p ,
Dreams and Nightmares (60)
Para 8-19-74 PG A3
Doc New Yorker 5-20-74
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4707 Education of Sonny Carson, The
(105) ® D Para 7-22-74 B B
4704 11 Harrowhouse
Erotic
(98) P Ac C-D 20th-Fox 7- S-74 PG
Cinema
(78) Shorts .
producers 7-8-74
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3+1-
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4721 Escape to Nowhere
(118) Ad .
Face of Another (124)
9-16-74 PG A2
Melo Rising Sun Enterprises 6-24-74
Films by Artists (SI)
Shorts ...Films by Artists Pgm. 5-20-74
4721 Flesh Gordon (79) Sex F .
9-16-71 x
4704 For Petes Sake (90) C Col 7- 8-74 PG A3
4677 Foxy Brown (94) Sex D AlP 4- 8-74 @ C
4588 Frankenstein
(95) Ho-C 3-D Bryanston 5-13-74® C
4716 Free Woman, A (100) D New Yorker 8-26-74
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4724 Gambler. The (111) D Para 9-23-74 H A3
4719 'Gator Bait (91) Ac Sebastian 9- 9-74 m
4713 Girl From Petrovka, The
(104) C-D. .Univ g-19-74 PG A3
Girls 4717 For Rent (88) Ac.lndep. Infl 9- 2-74 H
4724 Girls in the Street
(90) Melo Boxoffice Infl 9-23-74
Goafs Horn, The
(100) b&w D Filmbulgaria 10-14-74 A4
4718 Going Places (117) . .Cinema 5 9- 2-74 m C
472SGold (120) *' Ac AA 10- 7-74 PG A3
4705 Golden Needles (92) c?) Ac D..AIP 7-22-74 PG A3
4685 Grand Dadais, Le
(84) D Infl Amusement 5- 6-74
4701 Gravy Train, The
(96) P Ac-C Col 7- 1-74 El A4
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(90) Doc-D ..American National 7- S-74 H
4723 Great Lester Boggs, The
(94) Ac C Starmaster 9-23-74 PG
4689 Groove Tube, The (75)
4723 Happy Days
Satire Levitt-Pickman 5-20-74 @| C
(90) Sex C Anonymous Rel. 9-23-74 (8
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4712 Harry & Tonto (110) C . .20th-Fox S-12-74 H A3
4694 Herbie Rides Again (S9) C ....BV 6- 3-74 El Al
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(96) 4719 Homebodies Ho C-D Avco 9- 9-74 PG A3
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(115) li D Prods. Unltd. 4-22-74 PG A3
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(85) Ho 20th- Fox 10-28-74 PG
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(98) Sus AlP 10- 7-74 m
4731 Hungry Pets
(98) Sex C Boxoffice Infl 10-2S-74
4716 Internecine Project, The
(91) SUS..AA S-26-74 PG
In the Name of the Father
(107) Melo New Yorker 6-24-74 A3
(86) («) Ac-C K-Tel 6-24-74 PG
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(105) Ho Media-Cinema 5-13-74 B
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"Long before we started shooting
THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK,
Governor Williams had his
film commission people working..."
William Beaudine. Jr.. Production Eb^ecutiue
Bi7/y Jack Productions
THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK PREMIERES ON NOVEMBER 13
When the Governor s office was contacted by Billy Jack Productions,
our people were able to furnish all the information needed and all the
required services. We assisted them in finding locations... crews...
wardrobe... cast... equipment and more.
We thank Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor and their production
executives for selecting Arizona. And we invite you to consider the many
unique advantages of Arizona in planning your next feature or
commercial production.
Governor's Arizona Film Commission
B V Sturdivani (Chairman) • Tom Chauncey
Dean Brown • Amanda Blake (Mrs Frank Gilbert)
Hugh Downs • Marvin D Johnson
Robert A Macon • James Nederlander
Dick Smith • Bill Kane (ex-ofticio)
Arizona
Call the Governor s office
(602)271-5011,
write: Film in Arizona, 1645 West Jefferson,
Phoenix, Arizona 85007
Fred Graham
Motion Picture Development Coordinator