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. . Richard O S T O N Uarold Levin, Now England district manager for Cinemation Industries, is elated over exhibitor comment on the firm's new release "Stavisky." starring Charles Boyer and Jean-Paul Belmont. It opened in Hartford and New Haven February 19 to outstanding grosses and is continuing an indefinite run in both situations. The Boston run opens Friday (21) at Ed Liter's E.\eter Street Theatre and prospects are that it will last into the summer. John Markle, publicity director at Columbia Pictures, hosted a press preview preceded by a champagne hour for "Shampoo." starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, at Sack Theatres" Cheri Cinema February 26. Critics and press representatives arrived from Albany. Buffalo. Hartford. New Haven. Springfield and Providence. Beatty came in by plane from the West Coast for the gathering and to accept the Harvard Hasty Pudding Club Man cf the Year Award, He also made an appearance on Pat Mitchells' "Woman '75" TV show. All seats were full ai the screening and Beatty drew plenty of excitement from ihc audience. Columbia's "Funny Lady" premiered here Wednesday (12) at two Sack Theatres. Cheri Cinema 1 continues to run it on a reserved seat policy while Cheri 2 will operate on a continuous show pwlicy. Paul Peterson at NFB Film Distributors welcomed Kasha Linville Case as his assistant and secretary. Ms. Case has an extensive background in education and was a professor of visual design at the University of North Carolina. She majored in design and architecture and served as an art critic for two national art publications. Art Forum and Art in America. She also directed the MIT Gallery in Cambridge. Peter Levin, assistant to Al Stein in the poster room at National Screen Service, is back from a vacation in Florida with a tan. He and a friend slopped at Daytona Beach and Orlando and toured Disney World. Ken Mayers' column in the Boston Herald gave the tip that Columbia would have . a crew in Boston preparing to set up production for "The Diggers Game," featuring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft, to start this spring Swartz of R-A-S Theatres announced he has taken over the Ford Hall Theatre in Lenox and will open it for the summer season in June. Formerly owned by the Elgin Theatres of New York, it is situated on the grounds of the Mystic CINERAMA IS IN SHOW BUSINESS IN HAWAII TOO. When you come to Waikiki, '^°"'* "^'^5 ^^^ famous 9l!3giiHl3A' '-ôn Ho Show. . at 'HAWAii' . [ hotels Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel. IN WAIKIKI REEF REEF TOWERS EDGEWATER Inn. center of entertainment in that area, and at one time programs were under the direction of Orson Welles. Paramount's booking department lined up a total of 85 theatres for the saturation booking of children's matinees Saturday (I) and Sunday (2) of rerelease "Black Beauty." Milton G. Gonzales of East Freetown, near New Bedford, has applied for membership in the Motion Picture Club of New England, making him the member covering the most mileage to attend. Gonzales is a licensed projectionist employed in the evening in New Bedford theatres and is also a fulltime employee of the Massachusetts State Dept. of Correction at Norfolk. He was an apprentice under the late Charles Sack, a veteran in New Bedford exhibition, and is also a licensed auctioneer. Gonzales and his wife Patricia have one daughter, 8. "Freeble and the Bean," starring Alan Arkin. began a saturation booking in suburban Hub theatres after completing an 18- week run in the city . . . Sack Theatres offered sneak previews of "Report to the Commissioner" February 28 and Saturday ( I ) at the Saxon and at the Sack Cinemas in Danvers and Natick. Films scoring high in Academy Award nominations are turning up at Sack Theatres. "Lenny" at the Cheri has received six nominations. "The Godfather, Part 11" at the Savoy complex has 1 1 nominations. "The Towering Inferno" at 57 Cinema has eight and "Murder on the Orient Express" at the same complex has six. "A Woman Under the Influence" at the Cheri has drawn two nominations: "Earthquake" at the Gary downtown has four to its credit. Completing the list is "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" with two nominations at the Beacon Hill. Boston is a continuing film festival. Currently at the Boston Public Library, sponsored by the Goethe Institute of Boston, is a film series titled "The Golden Age of German Cinemas." with the program including Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings in "The Blue Angel." The Beatles are back and at a blockbuster bargain. For die-hard Beatlemania fans there was a movie marathon of Beatle films at the Savoy here and at Sack Cinemas in Natuck and Danvers Friday (7) and Saturday (8). Beginning at midnight and running continuously until dawn, the festival of Beatle movies included "The Yellow Submarine." "Help!", "Let It Be" and "A Hard Day's Night." Admission price was $3.50. Carl Goldman, executive director of Theatre Owners of New England, has nipp>ed in the bud a proposal by the legislature to ban commercials in theatres. The proposal read "in no event shall any commercial motion picture theatre charging admission to patrons be permitted to advertise commercial products, either visually or on the screen and 'or audibly through a loud speaker system " Thr bill aUc would have prohibited Ihc '.hiiwinH of tr.iilcrs, 'Pippi Goes on Board' Set For Summer Run in NE BOSTON—"Pippi Goes on Board," third in the popular G-rated "Pippi " films, will be released this summer with opening dates slated in New England. Nick Russo of G & G Film Distributors. Boston, said that exhibitor interest in the picture is high and Carl Reardon, executive vice-president and national sales manager, has been setting up opening playdates. The second "Pippi " film, "Pippi in the South Seas," will have played in excess of 3.000 playdates by the end of April, including 180 theatres in Chicago and Detroit this month. The film will go out of release before May. MAINE The Brewer and Westgate Cinemas, suburban Bangor, brought back National General-Warners' "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" for Saturday-Sunday matinees, charging $1 admission for all patrons for all seats. AIP's "Macon County Line," the Max Baer jr-produced "R"-rated release, has been getting a sizable number of repeat bookings across the state, the young people's response in particular said to be significantly strong. A recent booking, for example, was the Bijou, Pittsfield. with a $1.75 admission price in effect. The Cinemetle Theatres in northeastern Maine are reporting brisk trade with $1 boxoffice "tab" on Mondays and Tuesdays at the University Cinemas I-II, Old Town; Mall Theatre. Orono; and Maine Coast Cinemas I-II. Ellsworth. The price goes to $ 1 .50 for Wednesdays and Thursdays, and $2 for weekends. .All cinemas provide 24- hour recorded telephone information service. In an unusual move for a Maine television station. WMTW-TV. the ABC Poland Spring affiliate, rescheduled the Saturday ABC movie. "Hustling." a new drama about prostitution, starring Lee Remick, from 9 to 11:15 p.m.. citing the film's adult theme. Even for the late showing, station manager Robert Joyce decided to carry a warning to viewers that " "Hustling' may not be desirable viewing for all." Dartmouth Seeks Arts Funds HANOVER. N.H.—The board of trustees of Dartmouth College has authorized what is called a selective effort to raise $6-million to enable the campus Hopkins Center for the Arts "to keep pace with the growing demands of undergraduates." Orten Films Dissolves WE.STPORT. CONN.—Orten Films. Inc., filed a certificate of dissolution with the Secretary of the State's office in Hartford. I NE-2 BOXOFFICE ;: March 17, 1975 I
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• MARCH 17, 1975 NATIONAL EXECUTI
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n CAMBIST FILMS LEE HESSEL, Preside
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Jury Verdict Is Upheld In Antitrust
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VCI's 1974 Humanitarian Award To Be
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I Five-City Benefit Premiere For 'G
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Variety Club Tent 25 Luncheon Honor
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AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE VICE PRESID
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MOVE OVE THOMAS & SHIPP FILMS, Inc.
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