Boxoffice-August.11.1975

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LINCOLN
gruce Harmon, manager of the Cooper-
Highland's Plaza, finds he will have to
hire another assistant manager this month
after all. Alan Shaw, one of Bruce's assistants,
has decided to attend the University
of Kansas at Lawrence. Kas.. rather than
stay here at the University of Nebraska.
Alan was hired as successor to Doug Briggs.
who graduated from NU this summer and
has taken other employment.
Sarge Dublnsky made a one-day trip to
Des Moines to attend a special Warner Bros.
screening. That cut the Dubinsky vice-president's
golf^playing hours some for the week,
although weather has been cooperative after
a slow spring start. The spring was marked
by lots of rain; however, lan extraordinarily
hot summer has been noted for too little
rain.
Mayor Helen Boosalis inadvertently has
ended up with a special law officer on her
second police chief selection committee
Pierce R. Brooks of Lakewood, Ohio. This
is the group which will whittle 22 police
chief candidate names down to ten in the
weeks ahead. Mayor Boosalis will make her
choice by mid-September re a new police
chief for the city. Brooks, formerly on the
Los Angeles Police Department staff, w-as
technical adviser to the TV shows "Dragnet"
and "Adam- 12." He now is public safety
director for Lakewood. He's throwing in
his expertise free, with the city only picking
up his travel expenses.
The new Air Wisconsin flight schedules
between this city and Minneapolis couldn't
be better for Chuck Kroll, Eastern division
manager for Cooper-Highland Theatres,
especially from now until the preholiday
weeks as the 400-seat addition to the cir-
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houses in Iowa, the circuit head reports.
Both attribute the ^popularity to a desire to
see "Bambi" again or to attend with patron's
wish to attend with their own. if young, fam-
Blackhawk Films of Davenport. Iowa,
has been purchased by Lee Enterprises of
the same city, it was learned by the local
industry. One of Lee's Midwest and Northwest
city newsjjapers is the local morning
publication, the Star. Lee acquired Eastin-
Phelan Corp.. which operates Blackhawk
Films. Lee president Lloyd Schermer did not
disclose the purchase price. Blackhawk employs
about 85 persons in producing and
distributing 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm silent
and sound films in the home entertainment
field and plays a major role in the film mail
order industry. The firm was founded in
1927. Among its 2,000 titles marketed here
and abroad are Charlie Chaplin film. Laurel
and Hardy comedies, Biograph Studio films.
Hal Roach films. Major Motion Picture
Classias and documentaries prepared from
Movietone News and other libraries.
Russell Brehm, president of NATO of
Nebraska and Douglas Theatre Co., is back
on the job several hours each day after being
hospitalized for about a week at St.
Elizabeth Community Health Center for
surgery. Russell was among local industry
members going to Des Moines Wednesday
(6) for WB's special "Dog Day Afternoon"
screening. He returned Friday (8).
Bruce Draney, assistant manager at Cinema
1 and 2. returned here Saturday (9)
after spending the week in Minnesota with
his parents on a camping trip. His counterpart,
Mark Feldman. will start an outdoor
Fellow Nebraskans caught up on some
more of native Nebraskan Henry Fonda's
70 years of life through a Focus article in
the Sunday (3) newspaper on the film "Midway."
The article was based on the personal
military life of Fonda, Glenn Ford and
Robert Mitchum, who portray naval brass
conducting the sea battle that turned the
lido against the Japanese during World War
II. It seems I'onda served imdcr Chester W.
Nunitz, fleet commander, whom he portrays
in "Midway," when he was aide to
Adm. John Hoover. Fonda, who was a Navy
lieutenant, particularly recalls Hoover's thing
about tennis: "He left a string of tennis
courts on bases all the way across the Pacific."
Fonda not only had his hair whitened
to play Nimitz but tried to conceal a finger
whenever it showed in the "Midway" filming.
It seems Fonda's reading on Nimitz
turned up the fact that he lost a finger in
an accident. "So. whenever that finger is
showing in the film, I folded it back. Probably
only his aides and his family will
notice." observed Nebraskan Fonda.
Speaking of oldies, the University of Nebraska
Sheldon Gallery Film Theatre's offerings
as of Saturday (9) were Roy Rogers
in "Heart of the Rockies" and Gene .^utry
in "Trail to San Antonio" . . . Meanwhile,
south down 13th Street at Cinema 1 and 2.
two very, very modern new films opened
Wednesday (6)—^"The Happy Hooker" and
"The Fortune."
Acting is a lie, so you've got to learn to
do it est time in the world to run
Dumpling Gang." Bruce is of the opinion across what seemed to be a spotty shortage Omaha's packing house area, knows the
that the rereleased "Bambi" will outdo "The of Coke syrup recently, reports Charles
riding
"no."
manager. In recent days, that shortage seems says he discovered Shakespeare and "it discovered
me in Stratford-on-Avon, England,
with "One of Dinosiaurs Is Missing." to have been alleviated. Syrup providers
"The Apple Dumpling Gang" has been released
but hasn't yet been booked in this city. sufficient five-gallon containers in which to
told theatre circuits the problem was finding
in 1939."
According to Bruce, "Bambi" is pulling place the sweet stuff so it could be delivered Renovation and remodeling? Yes! New
in the crowds at the Pluza. That's also true to movie house customers; in other words, construction'.' Little, if any! The only Nebraska
exception currently scheduled will be
where it is playing at several Dubinsky return of the empty cans was slow, too.
the Douglas Theatre Co. houses slated for
Omaha sites not yet disclosed. Construction
woes of the depression, family illness,
Apple Dumpling Gang" but Dubinsky says Kroll, Cooper-Highland Ea.stern division
a cattle train caboose to Boston, etc. He
He won't disagree on the comparison
My
costs are too high, says circuit head Irwin
Dubinsky, but an even bigger reason is lack
of good product, even if there were more
theatres. People won't spvnd money for
films if they're not worth the price, ho in-
Marlon Brando will star in "VV<
Knee" for Coknnbia release.
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