Boxoffice-August.11.1975

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was filmed in the Canary Islands and stars
Jim Brown. Lee Van Cieef. Fred Williamson,
Catherine Spaak. Jim Kelly. Barry Sullivan
and Dana Andrews.
Mitzie Haber, financial officer for Teitel
Amusement Co., is recuperating at Edgewater
Hospital following a heart attack.
Reports on her recovery indicate that she
will be able to resume her activities within
a few weeks . . . Mrs. Esther Teitel set aside
her wood-carving activities so she could
carry on for Miss Haber. And another member
of the Teitel family is taking a leave
from her established routine: Diane, who
has been teaching in Boston, is going to assist
in the final editing of 'Between the
Sheets." Roberta Teitel will be assisting from
the sidelines but a new post with the Leo
Burnett .Advertising Agency creative department
will require some concentration.
Monroe Theatre owner Eddie Jovan continues
deep-sea fishing, one of his many
hobbies. On his last expedition in Florida
waters, he went after and caught some
really big ones.
Richard Stem of the Wilmette Theatre
has been vacationing in upper Wisconsin.
Richard's father Henry, an industry veteran
who was supposed to have started retirement
after operating the Cinema for many years,
is still on the scene and is very active on the
golf courses. Those who have seen him
swing his clubs at Columbus Park say he
looks 55 instead of 78 years of age.
Bob Stockmar of United Artists is back
from a vacation spent in the Wisconsin
Dells . . . Loretta Wiorski of United Artists
and her sister Pat Wie&newski. .American
International Pictures, left .Sunday 00) for
a week in Las Vegas.
Russ Hutcheon of Plitt Theatres has been
given the added responsibility of booking
for the circuit's downstate Illinois theatres.
Ed Gulberg, formerly manager of ihc
Coronet TTieatre. has joined the booking
department at Plitt Theatres.
A number of exhibitors are awaiting
Paramount's big fall film. "Three Days of
the Condor." with Robert Redford and
Fayc Dunaway. It will bow in theatres here
in October. The film deals with CIA espi-
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onage. Meanwhile. Paramount staffers are
meeting heavy demands for two of the summer's
top grosscrs, "Jacqueline Susann's
Once Is Not Enough" and "The Day of
. . the Ix)cust" Terri Porter was welcomed
at Paramount Pictures as Milwaukee cash-
The Varsity Theatre is advertising an adlission
of SI at all times.
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gev Miller of Mercury Films. Kansas City,
has -set a saturation booking for "State
Line Motel" in this territory starting
Wednesday (20). Mercury's "The Happy
Hooker" still is doing good business at
4 Seasons. Paddock and South City 1.
"The Drowning Pool" opened Wednesday
(6) at the Crcstwood. Village and Manchester.
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward,
stars of the film, were recipients of the annual
tribute of the Film Society of Lincoln
Center at Avery Hall, New York City. Only
Charlie Chaplin. Fred Astaire and Alfred
Hitchcock have been similarly honored. An
audience of 2.700 viewed a specially produced
film highlighting scenes from motion
pictures in which Newman and Miss Woodward
have starred, from their earliest features
to this latest release . . . Gail Strickland,
who shares the "drowning pool" sequence
with Newman, was in town on a
promotion tour and revealed that she
stripped to a bikini to get her role in the
film. She said that Paul Newman wants
everyone to have a good time on the set,
so when the scene was over. "I was shriveled
but happily shriveled." The picture marks
Miss Strickland's film debut. Her previous
experience has been in TV soap operas,
commercials and on Broadway and off-
Broadway stages.
"The Fortune," starring Warren Beatty
and Jack Nicholson, is current at Cross
Keys, Northland, Sunset Hills and Westport
Cine. Stockard Channing. who co-stars
in the film, met producer Mike Nichols for
the first time when she read for the part
with the two male stars. She has received
good reviews as a new comedienne and has
been signed to play the title role in Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer's upcoming "The All-American
Girl."
Earlier days in this city are recalled in a
scries being screened at 2 p.m. Tuesdays in
the Compton Branch Library, 1624 Locust
St. Two hundred years of St. Louis history
will be scanned Tuesday (12) in "1764-
1974." "A Missouri Calendar" Tuesday (19)
will present Missouri attractions through
four seasons, along with "A St. Louis Masterpiece:
The Cathedral Mosaics." Three
movies Tuesday (26) will provide views of
Missouri state parks .
Television
Was Live," a series featuring film clips belonging
to narrators Peter Lind Hayes and
his wife Mary Healy. will be telecast at
7 p.m. Tuesday (12) and each Tuesday night
thereafter. Personalities of the '50s are featured.
"Billy Jack" and "The Trial of Billy Jack"
arc coupled in a multiple at 1 1 area theatres
. . . "Bucktown." with Fred Williamson
ind Pam Grier. is doing good business at the
Arthur's Fox and U City Cinema . . . "Funny
Lady" has moved to Shady Oak where it
follows a six-week run of "The Day of the
I Dcust" . Segal stars In "Russian
Koulcllc." Avco Embassy release, at Cypress
Village, Des Pere 4, Jamestown Mall and
Lewis & Clark.
July 21 the wife of Roger Chinnici, district
manager of Mid-America Theatres,
gave birth to daughter Jennifer Rose. In a
switch, a shower was given for Chinnici by
the entire office crew at the 9900 Page Blvd.
headquarters. Helen Brown, who originated
the idea, was assisted by Millie Zais, Dorothy
Belew, Joanne Druley, Doris Mattli,
Jackie Lotz, Denise McDonald, Linda Polizzi,
Linda Janssen and supervisor Robert
Stanze. Cake and ice cream were served
while the proud father opened his
gifts.
A film on assertive training for women,
"Back to School—Back to Work." produced
by public TV station KETC-TV (Channel 9)
will receive the top award in the 1975 competition
sponsored by the National Council
on Family Relations of Minneapolis at the
annual convention of the council at Salt
Lake City Thursday (21). Producer-director
Peter Breta. in charge of production on the
winning film, won a blue ribbon at the 1974
American Film Festival for his "Someone
Special."
Dick Ford, of KSD-TV. Channel 5,
paid
tribute to Joe Schirmer. St. Louis' "King of
the Banjo," who suffered a fatal stroke on
stage as he played a medley of ragtime music
for an appreciative audience aboard ship in
the Caribbean June 29. Schirmer. 59, played
for years at the Steeplechase Lounge in the
Chase-Park Plaza Hotel and was signed by
Arthur Godfrey to appear on his "Spectacular
Minstrel Show" on TV in 1958. He
had worked for the Royal Caribbean Cruise
Line for the last three years. In addition
to his wife Ethel Mae. he is survived by his
son Perry and a daughter. Mrs. Sharon Watson
of Chesterfield.
Stash's, new nighter>' at Stan Musial &
Biggie's Airport Hilton Inn, is showing films
every day, 5 to 8 p.m., highlighting 50
years of baseball, including specials on All-
Star Games and the World Series.
MGlVTs toveable "Tom and Jerry" cartoons,
which have been out of production
1 8 years, will be coming back soon on TV,
Hanna-Barbera will make 48 new episodes
of their adventures for ABC.
Norman Delaney, who recently became
director of special projects for 20th Century-
Fox in New York, began his industry career
here in 1959 as manager of the now defunct
Norside Theatre. Three years later he joined
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