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PHILADELPHIA<br />
^1 iMalnifelt, owner of the TLA Cinema,<br />
has opened an old-fashioned ice cream<br />
parlor next door to his theatre. Inspired by<br />
an old Jean Peters movie and with the theatre<br />
located on South Street, he named the<br />
place Pickup on South Street.<br />
"Safari Madness," a $25-per-person party<br />
scheduled for Saturday (30). will be held by<br />
Arlene Samschick at her home in Loveladies<br />
Harbor on Long Beach Island. N.J..<br />
for the benefit of Variety Club Tent 13's<br />
Variety Heart & Lung Institute at Hahnemann<br />
Hospital. The party is limited to "250<br />
bwanas and memsahibs."<br />
Richard Markovitz. who joined the local<br />
office of Columbia Pictures to coordinate<br />
promotions for feature films, formerly was<br />
account executive at Spiro & Associates,<br />
one of the larger advertising agencies here<br />
. . . Irving Blumberg, Warner Bros, promotion<br />
chief, arranged a preview screening at<br />
the Top of the Fox screening room for<br />
"Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold,"<br />
the invitational showing for film critics and<br />
media representatives. The feature opens<br />
Wednesday (13) at the Milgram Theatre in<br />
midtown.<br />
Academy Screening Room, intimate midtown<br />
theatre on the repertory circuit, has<br />
scheduled a number of seldom-seen films<br />
for the remaining summer weeks, starting<br />
with "Jazz on a Summer's Day," a film<br />
account of the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival.<br />
convicted of lewdness and conspiracy.<br />
Telesystems, the only C.-KTV firm now<br />
operating within the city limits, is now<br />
offering for the first time the Home Box<br />
Office pay-cable .service, with recent film<br />
features, extra sport events and special<br />
programs. Subscribers are called upon to<br />
pay an extra $8.50 a month for the service,<br />
with films like "The Sling" and "Harry &<br />
Ton to" offered.<br />
A children's film series, including animated<br />
films, documentaries, abstract art and<br />
nonverbal films appealing to children ages<br />
four to ten. is to be shown at the Pennsylvania<br />
State University Capitol Campus in<br />
Harri.sburg as part of a children's literature<br />
course taught at the college. The film showings<br />
open to the public are free . . . The<br />
Community Organization for Mental Health<br />
& Retardation is initiating a .series of six<br />
film showings coordinated with trips to various<br />
sections of the city. Starting with "Shotgun<br />
Joe," with "Titicut Follies" and "Growing<br />
Older" among the selected features, all<br />
of the films are highly entertaining and<br />
touch on areas of mental health and retarda-<br />
Theatre in Planned Development<br />
PRINCETON. N.J.— Briar Hill Development<br />
Corp. has announced plans for a<br />
$1.S million shopping center which would<br />
include a motion picture theatre. The complex,<br />
to be named Woods Tavern Plaza,<br />
would occupy 9.7 acres off Route 206<br />
opposite Partridge Run.<br />
Pa. Pr.ison rv{^ovie Prograni<br />
Is Popular With Inmates<br />
ALLENTOWN, PA.—To break the<br />
tion.<br />
monotony<br />
of confinement and offer entertainment<br />
for the inmates, first-run motion pictures<br />
have been .shown regularly at the<br />
Montgomery Courbty Prison here. Warden<br />
Lawrence V. Roth said "the success of the<br />
film program has raised morale noticeably<br />
among the inmates and they look forward<br />
to the resumption of the film showings in<br />
.September after the summer months."<br />
Money for the rental of the films has<br />
come from the prison welfare fund, which<br />
is derived from sales at the prison commissary.<br />
Among the<br />
films which have been shown<br />
to the inmates were "High Plains Drifter,"<br />
"Buck and the Preacher" and "Slaughterhouse-Five."<br />
Bookstore Clerk Fined $3,000<br />
PHILLIPSBURG. N.J. — Bobby Ray<br />
Howell, former clerk in a local adult Ixwksitore,<br />
was fined $3,000 for selling two motion<br />
pictures and a magazine in violation of<br />
the slate's anti-obscenity law. Warren County<br />
Judge Bry Nildsen jr. imposed a maximum<br />
fine of $1,000 on each of the three<br />
counts on which a petit jury had found he<br />
had violated the state statute. Howell wa-s<br />
acquitted by the jury on six other counts<br />
which also involved films and other material<br />
purchased by slate investigators at the Memorial<br />
Parkway Adult Bookstore.<br />
Joe Griffin, manager of the Berkshire<br />
Mall Theatre, UAT house in Reading, reports<br />
that "Jaws," now starting its second<br />
month, has set a record at the theatre. He<br />
also reports a lot of youngsters are going to<br />
see "Jaws." "Not the real young ones," he<br />
explained, "but kids about 12 on utp are<br />
coming with their parents and they seem to<br />
enjoy it, maybe more than the adults" . . .<br />
WFIL Radio has linked a major promotion<br />
to "Jaws" by offering listeners shark-repelling<br />
T-shirts. WFIL, which enjoys the<br />
largest youth following in local radio, has<br />
printed special T-shirts portraying the great<br />
white shark and saying: "Listen to WFIL<br />
and I'll Lxave You Alone." Every hour during<br />
the broadcast day, WFIL deejays draw<br />
names at random from entries received to<br />
award the T-shirLs to listeners who merely<br />
have to send in their names. With the station<br />
going all out for the promotion, it also<br />
helps sastain continued interest in<br />
the film.<br />
Anthony Battista, operating the Lane<br />
Theatre, which has been the target of continuing<br />
protests from the Oak Lane community<br />
since it adopted its X-rated film<br />
policy last February, was convicted in common<br />
pleas court on charges of permitting<br />
nude women to dance at an advertised<br />
iburle,sque .show. The burlesque shows were<br />
added recently to stimulate sagging theatre<br />
attendance. Battista was convicted of conspiracy<br />
and liability for the conduct of the<br />
women. He was placed on six years' probation<br />
by Judge Benjamin W. Schwartz. The<br />
fenKiie dancers who were arrested also<br />
were<br />
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