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Before the West ever
jaw the American
l^owboy . . . Winterhawk
hiad become a Blackfoot
Legend.
SALT LAKE TERRITORY
THEATRE GROSS
UTAH - flAHO - MONTANA
(to
DATE)
$550.X)00
DENVER TERRITORY,
THEATRE GROSS %JLiJi ,
{3 WEEKS)
$350 000
In Monroe, La. "WINTERHAWK" broke the
all-tine house record, did more first
thon "JAWS" in first 7.
5 days
"WINTERHAWK" did more fint 3 days than
"INFERNO" in first 7:
"WINTERHAWK" did more first 3 days rinm
"EARTHQUAKE" in first 7.
"WINTERHAWK" did more fint 2 days than
"R- PINK PANTHER" in first 7.
WINTERHAWK" opened
DALLAS, BATON ROUGE and
the entire mid-south to
BLOCKBUSTER BUSINESSII
SI, LEE HOLDRIDGE .«, TECHNICOLOR* „«,.TECHNISCOPE* SZSr CHARLES B. PIERCE

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No, 21
ONE
/he TuUe e^ 'ihe meti&rL r^ctu/ie yncLdA'
AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF THE big mistakes this business
maizes is to operate under the
impression that its product is perishable,
that if it isn't quickly used up, it will
spoil. As a result, pictures not only are
played off too fast, they are played too
fast, all too often with "insufficient time
to permit the doing of a good, let alone
the best, job of merchandising. This has
been a longtime cause of poor grosses
for many pictures that, under the right
circumstances, would do considerably
better.
Related to this is the tendency to convey
to the public that the majority of the
pictures aren't worth seeing, if one may
judge by the stress that is laid largely on
selling a mere handful of big pictures.
That bad habit originates with the distributors
who have increasingly inclined
to play down pictures, virtually sneaking
them on the market, because they lack
big names. There are exceptions, of
course, but they are few and far between.
And, with the advent of the era of blockbusters,
so-called, this errant attitude
has been compounded. Distributors "expect"
certain of their pictures to lose
money—an attitude that has spread to
exhibitors—with the dependency for sufficient
profit to cover these losses to come
from the "big guns."
This, in turn, has unavoidably seeped
through to the public. Hence the peaks
of patronage—all too few—and the valleys
that are all too many and too deep.
There was a time when both distributors
and exhibitors adhered to the positive
point of view that "a picture is new
until it has been seen." That was applied
not only to pictures in cmTent-season
release but even to reissues. And, it has
been proved over and over again, that
good attractions that may not have
attained their patronage potential, often
can be replayed with more than satisfactory
results. Sometimes, a picture that
did not do at all well on its first time
around is given added value because of
the presence in its cast of a newly made
personality, or a "timeliness" that is
given the picture by a current happening.
Our point is that too many pictures
are undersold, resulting in one of the
biggest causes for the break in the moviegoing
habit that cannot be sustained
when it has to depend on just skimming
the "peaks."
We reiterate a frequent statement that
a high contributing factor in attendance
irregularity is due to overpricing of admissions—and
concessions items. This,
again, is a case of viewing our product in
trade as "perishable"—and so "get al
out of it quickly today—never mind tomorrow."
Any exhibitor, who thinks the
public doesn't sense that, because people
do turn out for the big attractions thai
are sold big, needs only to ask his patrom
or hear them talk to one another. Thi;
harks back to one-night stand and carnival
shows that were "here today anc:
gone tomorrow" operations. But the
movie theatre is a permanent institution
an asset to its community, even if it operates
only on weekends in the smallest o1
crossroads centers.
No one expects to do top business on
every attraction. But, above-average attendance
can be gotten for most of them
if the right methods are employed. A low
price won't make a dud attraction a success.
But a good picture, properly sold at
a reasonable admission price, will attract
twice as many people as will a picture
that is scaled too high; and the moderatepriced
scale also can produce bigger
grosses.
It is gratifying to note that some of
our contentions are proving themselves
on a growing scale, as more and more
pictures are hitting the reissue route or
ax'e being played "late." Because of their
"renewed" timeliness or other appeals.
or, having, originally been released at
roadshow scales, they still have a substantial
"want-to-see" potential at moderate
prices. In the latter instance, there
have been several exceptional examples
with long runs in these secondary situations,
even after these pictures ran a,^
long as a year or more under their initial
hard-ticket policies. And the increas(.' in
attendance and in dollar take, under the
change in policy, is sufficient proof that
the "right price" is an important factor
in attracting volume patronage.
Another business-building factor is
known as audience appeal—for and by
the physical attractiveness of the theatre.
In recent months, there has been a
considerable upsurge in the renovatiuu
and modernizing of theatre propertitvs,
in addition to large-scale new construction.
The theatre, whether indoor or outdoor,
cannot be separated from the picture.
Attractive surroundings for a good
attraction at an attractive price is an unbeatable
combination.
6

I
Democrals Will Back
'Harry' Premieres
LOS ANGELES—Rcbort Strauss,
Dciiu
cratic National Committee chairman, appearing
with producer Bill Sargent on the
August 20 closed-circuit TV marketing
seminar for the TheatroVision presentation
of "Give 'Em Hell. Harry!", announced
that the Democratic Party will endorse
special fund-raising previews of the film
Tuesday night (23) before official openings
the following day. The previews will be
held in more than 100 key cities throughout
the country and will be sponsored by local
party organizations in all 50 states. Strauss
said.
Sargent also disclosed that he will
re-create
in
part the famous whistle-stop tour that
President Harry S Truman made during the
1948 campaign for the presidency.
A major part of the promotional push
will be a special six-car "Give "Em Hell.
Harry!" train that will carry Whitmore.
Sargent and other members of the production
on a 16-city publicity blitz that will
bagin in Chicago Wednesday (17). The train
will arrive in Independence, Mo., for the
world premiere of the attraction at Mid-
America Cinema Corp.'s Independence
Cinema for the benefit of the Truman
Memorial Statue Fund.
The tour will end in Washington. D.C..
Tuesday (23). where there will be a tribute
to the late President, with prominent Democratic
leaders of Congress in attendance.
Later that night, a gala benefit preview will
be held at the Loews' Palace Theatre in
Washington.
Hal Marshall, advertising-publicity director
for the production, outlined for an estimated
2.000 exhibitors the $1,850,000 promotion
campaign for "Give 'Em Hell. Harry!",
stating that more than SI. 000.000 will
be spent on newspaper advertisina. A total
of S400.000 will be used for nadonal 30-
second TV spots, over $100,000 will be
spent on radio, including saturations buys
on all three major networks (these promotions
began Labor Day weekend) and approximately
S250.000 is being spent on the
whistle-stop tour. The closed-circuit marketing
session and other special promotions
were allotted $100,000.
More than $5 million in advance film
rental guarantees have been obtained for the
TheatroVision production, according to
Sargent, with "Give 'Em Hell, Harry!",
starring James Whitmore as HST. set to
open in 1.545 theatres across the nation
Wednesday (24).
Suslov Emigrates to U.S.
NEW YORK— United HIAS Service
announced the arrival of Soviet cinematographer
Mikhail Suslov. 36. who had tried
for two years to emigrate to the U.S. Suslov's
Soviet film credits include more than
30 attractions. His production of Anton
Chekhov's "The Seagull" took the silver
prize for motion picture photography at the
San Francisco International Film Festival
in 1973.
USC Film Theatre Manager Course
^^^ Available on Tape Cassettes
LOS ANGELES— Ihe nation's first complete
university-level course in motion picture
theatre management and operation,
inaugurated at the University of Southern
California during the spring 1974 term, is
now available on audio tape cassettes in
"textbook kit" form at a cost of $100, it
was announced by Prof. Herbert E. Farmer,
director of services of the USC Division of
Cinema, under whose supervision the course
was initiated.
Purchased by Leading Circuits
Advance sets of the cassettes already
have been purchased and are being used for
personnel and executive training by more
than 100 individual exhibitors and theatre
circuits, as well as by Columbia Pictures,
according to Prof. Farmer. The circuit list
presently includes Pacific Theatres. Los
Angeles; United Artists Theatres, San Francisco
and New York: New York-based
Loews Theatres; Wometco Theatres, Miami;
the Kerasotes circuit in Illinois; Los Angeles-based
Metropolitan Theatres; San
Francisco's Cooper Theatres and Westside
Valley Theatres; Missouri members of the
Kansas City-based United Motion Picture
Ass'n; Canada's Famous Players Theatres,
and the Army & Navy Motion Picture Service.
Thirty-two hours of lectures are embodied
in the package of 16-two-sided cassettes,
representing the instructional talents of
more than 30 Southern California executives
from various segments of exhibition,
plus a group of ten others in related fields.
The course itself evolved from the joint
efforts of the Southern California Coordinating
committee of the National Ass'n of
Theatre Owners (NATO) of Southern
California and the USC Department of
Cinema, whose chairman is Dr. Bernard R.
Kantor. Veteran produced-distributor-e.xhibitor
Sol Lesser. NATO of California
president Robert W. Selig, a top executive
of Pacific Theatres, Los Angeles, and Bruce
C. Corwin, president of Metropolitan Thetres
Corp., Los Angeles, as well as thenchairman
of the exhibitor co-ordinating
committee, undertook the responsibility of
programing a 16-week curriculum with
Prof. Farmer and of gathering the facult\
of show business specialists and others who
taught the course.
List of Subjects Covered
Subjects covered during the weekly twohour
classes on the USC campus included:
a history of the development of the motit)n
picture theatre; buying, booking and distribution;
operation and booking of specialized
theatres; operational and physical
similarities and differences between walkin
theatres, drive-in theatres and multithcatrcs;
theatre design and maintenance; technical
advances and equipment costs; personnel
selection and training; industry and community
responsibilities; the rating system;
legislation; advertising, publicity, promolioi
and media relations: new marketing trends;
labor relations; snack bar operations; entertainment
trends and exhibition as a career.
The all-volunteer faculty besides top executives
of various California theatre circuits,
included the Hon. Jack Fenton, majority
leader of the California State Assembly;
Charles Champlin, entertainment
editor of the Los Angeles Times; Al Lapidus
of Los Angeles, president of the Nation
Ass'n of Concessionaires; film industry
labor leaders Roy Brewer and Frank Mc-
Bryde, and the two top men of the Research
Center of the Ass'n of Motion Picture &
Television Producers, association vice-president
Wilton R. Holm, director of the center,
and center chief scientist Prof. Petro
Vlahos.
The complete course is being marketed
through Tape Books, Box 5254, Beverly
Hills, Calif. 90210, a division of Martin
Roberts Associates. The kit has the physical
appearance and weight of an over-size textbook,
with the 16 cassettes "sandwiched"
in molded niches between the covers. A
syllabus prepared by Prof. Farmer is included,
as well as a workbook entitled "Motion
Picture Projection and Theatre Presentation"
prepared by the Society of Motion
Picture & Television Engineers. An audio
tape player also is available as an extra option
for' $29.95.
Begelman Is Elected
Senior V-P of CPI
NEW YORK— David Begelman. executive
vice-president of Columbia Pictures
Industries and president
of its motion pictures
division, has
been elected senior
executive
vice-president
of the corporation,
it was announced
by Leo Jaffe,
I j^M^M chairman of the
r*"
^M board. Begelman will
;^^|
continue to serve as
president of the moi;;iltiian
ji^^^.^ pictures division.
laffe said. "The title change is in recognition
of Begelman's growing participation
in the total affairs of the corporation as
well as his outstanding accomplishments
as head of our motion pictures division."
Begelman, formerly vice-chairman and
co-founder of Creative Management Associates,
one of the largest talent agencies
in the industry, assumed the presidency of
the Columbia Pictures division in Septeinber
1973. He has been a member of the board
of directors since joining the company and
also is a member of its executive committee.
Begelman will continue to maintain his
office at the Burbank Studios in Burbank,
Calif.
BOXOFFICE :; September 1, 1975

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Academy Sets October
Bow for New Facility
HOLLYWOOD— Mid-October tentatively
has been set for the formal dedication oi
the new Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences headquarters in Beverly Hills,
according to Academy president Walter
Mirisch. The seven-story facility, with a
mirror-glass facade, is
located on the northeast
corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Almont
Drive.
In addition to administrative offices, the
new headquarters contains a 1,111 -seat
theatre, an 80-seat screening room and a
major film industry research library. It is
the first time in the 48-year history of the
Academy that all of its facilities have been
located under its own roof.
The Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in the ncv\
building will be used by the Academy'
members to screen works in an ideal filmviewing
situation. All aspects of the theatre's
design, including the screen, seat
placement, sound system, acoustics and projection
room, have been custom-designed
to make the theatre the finest possible facility
for screening films. Advance planning
by members of the Academy's special technical
committee assures that the theatre will
be able to accommodate every presently
anticipated technological advance in the ait
of filmmaking for at least a quarter of a
century.
The Academy's Margaret Herrick Library
occupies two floors of the new building
and contains more than 8,000 books,
pamphlets and periodicals about the movi'
industry. It generally is acknowledged to
be the most complete film-related librar\
in the world. Its facilities are available without
charge to the membership of the Academy,
students, the press, studio research departments,
other libraries, imiversities and
the public.
The Academy headquarters, which cost
$4.2 million, was built by Buckeye Construction
Co. of Beverly Hills. Maxwell
Starkman, AlA, of Beverly Hills was the
architect.
Begelman Chairs VCI Unit
For Mountbatten Dinner
NEW YORK— David Bjgclman. president
of C-olumibia Pictures and executive
vice-president of Columbia Pictures Industries,
has agreed to serve as chairman of
the entertainment industry committee for
for his work in behalf of underprivileged
and handicapped children will be held at
the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria
in New York City Tuesday evening, October
14.
Begelman previously was vice-president of
MCA Artists and vice-chairman of the
board of directors of Creative Management
Associates.
MARTIN HONORED—Henry "Hi*
Martin, president of Universal Pictures,
lionored as "Man of the Year" by
NATO of New York State, is presented
a plaque by Sidney J. Cohen, right,
president of the association. The presentation
was made at the exhibitor
organization's recent annual convention
in
the Concord Hotel, Lake Kianiesha.
Expansion-Oriented Meet
Planned by NITE in KC
KANSAS CITY—An expansion-oriented
meeting of independent exhibitors is planned
here by members of the National Independent
Theatre Exhibitors Ass'n Tuesday-
Wednesday (23-24).
Tom Patterson, president of the Southern
Independent Theatre Exhibitors Ass'n,
Jonesboro. Ga., said a flood of inquiries
about the new Southern organization
prompted the group to arrange the Midwest
meeting.
Expected to attend are representatives
from Florida. Tennessee. Alabama, Mississippi,
North and South Carolina. Louisiana,
Arkansas and Kentucky chapters.
Recently Southern California exhibitors
met to organize the California Theatre Exhibitors
Ass'n, another offshoot of the SITE
organization. Two representatives are expected
to attend the NITE meeting in
Kansas City.
Patterson pointed out that SITE does not
intend to compete with the National Ass'n
of Theatre Owners but will act to protect
the best interests of exhibitors and distributors,
who believe they have been neglected
by present industry groups.
Crown Acquires Worldwide
'Brother Charles' Rights
HOLLYWOOD— Crown International
the Variety Clubs International dinner honoring
Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten
of Burma, K.G.. it was announced by
Pictures has acquired the worldwide distribution
rights to "Welcome Home, Brother
Monty Hall, president of the global show Charles," it was announced by Crown president
business organization.
Mark Tenser.
The dinner honoring Lord MounLbatten The film stars Mario Monte, Reatha
Grey, Stan Kamber and Tiffany Peters, The
plot deals with a black man who returns
from prison set on his own special brand
of revenge and finds that his friends are as
much a ripoff as those who railroaded him
into
prison.
UCLA graduate Jaiuaa Fonaka produced
and directed from his own sciceiiplay.
Gov't Tax-Shelter Probe
Could Hurt Film Output
WASHINGTON— An investigation of
tax shelters currently being pursued by the
House Way and Means Committee could
endanger financing of independent film
productions, which account for over half
the theatrical films exhibited in the U.S.
Majors generally have well-established lines
of credit but sources outside the banking
domain in most cases provide backings for
independents. A favorite approach to financing
is via the formation of limited
partnerships.
l-arry Gordon, a registered broker uho
president of Investor Sales Corp. of New
is
York and who was involved in financing
the distribution of several films in 1974
through partnerships, elaborated on the
technique.
"The government has allowed certain tax
benefits for the partnership arangements,"
Gordon said. "These include a rapid advance
depreciation which generally exceeds
the initial cash outlay. This enables the investor
to minimize possible losses and make
it worth his while to participate. In reality,
it is a temporary deferral of payment of
taxes that allows an investor to use the time
gained by that delay to reinvest in more
films or in his own business."
The limited partners must be able to show
that they are in such a position that possible
loss of money wouldn't be of great con.sequence,
Gordon pointed out.
While profits can range from two and a
half to three times the investment, the risks
in such a venture are high, Gordon said.
What makes such an investment attractive is
the tax shelter providing rapid depreciation.
The Ways and Means Committee may
not recommend the continuation of such
shelters and any extreme legislative changes
could not have a more catastrophic effect
on the industry than the advent of TV, according
to Gordon.
"It is known that more than half of the
world's motion picture income is derived
by the U.S., yet we are the only Western
nation which doesn't have a statutory subsidy
for it a-d the other arts, as do other
governments," he said. "It appears to many
in the industry that the tax relief available
for motion picture investors under the present
law is tantamount to a tacit acknowledgement
of our government's lack of subsidies
to the arts and this inadvertenth
furnished an unplanned way to fill the
void."
'Love and Death' Selected
As 17 Magazine's Choice
NEW YORK—Woodv Allen's United
Artists release of 'Love and
"
Death has
ibeen selected as Movie of the Month by
Seventeen Magazine. Entertainment editor
Edwin Miller said that Allen "displays a
genius for comedy" which ranks him with
Groucho Marx and Buster Kcaton. Quoted
in the October issue. Miller states that the
film is so funny that viewers will probably
want to sec it again. Allen's co-star Diane
Keaton was praised both as a foil for Wo

Brant Cortright Wins $25,000 First Prize in Billy Jack Contest
Brant Cortright (center at mike) smiles as he learns that he is the winner
of the first prize—$25,000 in cash— in the "Billy Jack Vs. the Critics Contest
Sweepstakes." The winnings came in the form of the world's biggest
negotiable check, shown in the background. Second from right is .lohn Burke,
president of Billy Jack Enterprises.
By RALPH KAMINSKY
HOLLYWOOD—Tom Laughlin's Billy
Jack Enterprises gave away $100,000 August
12 as the final act in his "Billy Jack
Vs. the Critics Contest/ Sweepstakes." The
awards presentation was made before an
assemblage of some 700 prize winners and
guests who came to the Burbank Studios to
receive their prizes and to participate in an
outdoor picnic.
The $25,000 first prize went to Brant
Cortright, director of the Do It Now Foundation.
He received his award in the form
of a 7x20-foot check, described as "the
world's largest negotiable check."
A Bank of America representative handled
validation on the spot and. after the
program ended, Cortright folded the massive
voucher and was given a limousine ride
to a bank where, in more ceremonies, he
received the cash.
The $10,000 second prize went to Cpl.
Mary E. Dunn, a Marine stationed at Twentynine
P;ilms. Calif. Cpl. Dunn told the
audience that the prize was "vindication
Flanked by two armed guards. Brant
Cortright makes a show -stopping entrance
ut the bank, $25,000 check under his arm.
At left is eye-catching Patti Clifton, who
is featured in "The Master Gunfighter."
for
the razzing she had suffered from fellow
Marines for entering the contest." Thj best
part of it all. she observed, was that the
award represented "about two years pay for
a Marine."
The third prize of $7,500 was won by
Robert Joseph, a freelance writer.
In his prize-winning essay. Cortright
.
pointed out that film criticism "inevitably
becomes tied to an institutional form, publishing,
in order to survive . . Thus the
paradox: How does an institLUion. whose
essence is stability and sameness, judge a
form whose essence is change :ind movement?"
The contest was kicked off last April
when Laughlin announced it in IS daily
Southern California newspapers, asking for
essays to answer the question: "Why are
critics out of touch with the audiences?"
He timed the competition to draw attention
to the reissue of "The Trial of Billy
Jack" in Southern California. The featurj
film originally opened in November 1974.
It since has grossed more than $40 million,
despite largely unfavorable reviews from
critics, according to Laughlin.
Winners of other major prizes were Rob-
T. Solton. who placed fourth and won a
ert
1975 Plymouth Voyager; Nancy Murphy,
fifth, a 1975 Plymouth Trail Duster; Robert
Reveal, sixth, a 1975 Plymouth Duster, and
Laurence Dankel. seventh, a Mark Twain
boat with outboard motor and trailer.
Another 900 prizes included color TV
sets, motorcycles, stereo sets, calculators,
radios and bicycles. These items were given
away in a random drawing for contestants
whose essays did not win one of the major
awards and for contestants who chose to
enter only the sweepstakes.
Making presentations of prizes were
actresses Allison Benko. Patti Clifton and
Joan Sosa. all in Laughlin's upcoming production.
"The Master Gunfighter." and Russell
Lane and Michel Wilson, both of whom
were in "The Trial of Billv Jack."
Davison to Start Lensing
'Other World' Overseas
HOLLYWOOD—Producer Donn Davison
announced shooting will start Monday
(1) in the Philippine Islands on "Mysteries
of the Other World." The feature, which is
budgeted at $950,000, will be filmed in the
U.S., Canada and ten foreign countries.
"Mysteries of the Other World" was
adapted for the screen by former TV writer
Barbara Morris Davison. Williams Sachs is
directing the production, which will employ
an international crew.
Davison, who disclosed that he is a "psychic
researcher" as well as a producer, said
the picture has no "actors." Elaborating, he
stated, "The actual contents (of the film)
are top secret but I can guarantee that the
motion picture audiences of the world have
never seen anything like it."
Distribution will be handL-d by Film Ventures
International, currently involved with
the boxoffice hit "Beyond the Door."
Two other productions charted by Davison
are "Free 'n" Easy" and "Fancy."
Universal Promotes Chergi
To Sales in Buffalo
NEW YORK—William Chergi. Minneapolis
salesman for Universal Pictures, has
been promoted to sales
representative covering
the Buffalo exchange area, it was announced
by Ro'bert L. Carpenter, general
sales manager of the company. The appoinlmcnt
becomes effective Tuesday (2), Chergi
to headquarter in Cleveland.
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Turning Point' Scheduled
As Major Fox Release
Twentieth Century-Fox has scheduled
'Turning Point." a dramatic story set against
a writer to prepare the screenplay . . .
Jonathan Taplin has formed the Taplin Co.
to develop and produce feature films and
has begun production planning on "Not
Fade Away," a movie about Buddy Holly
and the Crickets which is scheduled to roll
at 20th Century-Fox and on location in
Mississippi beginning September 20. Taplin
is executive producer, with Don Kranze as
producer and Jerrold Freedman directing
the screenplay by Tom Drake from an
original story by Drake and Jerry Allison
began Monday. August 25, on
"Harry and Walter Go to New York," with
Mark Rydell directing and Don Devlin and
Harry Gittes co-producing and Tony Bill as
executive producer for Columbia Pictures
release. The company is on location in
Mansfield. Ohio, for two weeks shooting
scenes at the Manfield Reformatory, built
in the 1890s. After location shooting the
crew will return to Hollywood for three
months of filming at the Burbank Studios
and locations in the Los Angeles area.
Stigwood to Produce Film
On Xonely Hearts Band'
The Robert Stigwood Group, Ltd., has
acquired motion picture rights to "Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band" with music
by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The
film will be based on the stage production
presented last year in New York by the
The Yablans
Stigwood Organization . . .
Co. has signed Daniel Taradash to write the
screenplay for "The Other Side of Midnight,"
Bill Cosby and Raquel Welch will star in
from the novel by Sidney Sheldon to "Mother, Jugs and Speed," the new 20th
be produced by Frank Yablans and Martin Century-Fox comedy to be filmed on dozens
Ransohoff. The film will be shot beginning of locations in the Los Angeles area beginning
March 1 on locations in Marseilles, Paris,
October 20 with Peter Yates directing
Chicago, California, New York and the the original screenplay by Tom Mankiewicz.
Greek Islands. Taradash, who has completed Joe Barbera will be executive producer . . .
Thayer David and E. J. Andre have been
writing "The Adelita," has moved into offices
at 20th Century-Fox to work on the
screenplay . . . Producers Robert F. Blumofe
and Harold Levcnthal began shooting Tuesday
(19) in Stockton, Calif., on "Bound for
Glory," based on the autobiography of
Woody Guthrie with David Carradine as
Guthrie. After six weeks in Stockton the
company will move to Bakersfield for three
weeks and do five weeks of filming in the
ists will release . . . "Lipstick." a contemporary
1 . . .
Los Angeles area. Ronny Cox and Melinda
the background of a ballet company, as a
major release to be co-produced by Herb Dillon have been cast for roles. United Art-
Ross and Arthur Laurents. Ross will direct
Laurents" screenplay and shooting will begin
drama to be produced by Freddie Fields
as soon as Ross completes "The Seven-Per-
Cent Solution" which he is directing. The
with Dino de Laurentiis as executive producer,
will be directed by Lamont Johnson.
film will be made in conjunction with the
American Ballet Theatre . . . Producer Walt
David Rayfiel is writing the script for the
picture which will be shot in Los Angeles
deFaria has acquired "The Mouse and His and Beverly Hills beginning about October
Child," a children's novel by Russell Hoban
The D'Blity Co., headed by Stan
which he plans to make as a full length animated
Sirotin. has acquired "West by West-West,"
a western farce screenplay by Mickey Rose
film . . . Larry Harmon Pictures will
produce a feature film based on the life of and John Carsey which D'Blity plans to
Duke Ellington. Harmon has acquired film begin filming in the winter.
and television rights from the late musician's
son, Mercer Ellington, and is seeking
Art Carney Assigned Role
In Para's 'Won Ton Ton'
Art Carney will play an eccentric film
company president in "Won Ton Ton, the
Dog Who Saved Hollywood" for Paramount
Bros, release . . .
Romanus has been signed for
role in "Bogart Slept Here," a Warner
a
Joyce Van Patten will
have a major featured role in "The Bad
News Bears," the new Paramount picture
produced by Stanley Jaffe. Chesty Morgan
has been signed by director Federico Fellini
for a lead feminine role in "Casanova," now
shooting at Cinecitta Studios in Rome with
Donald Sutherland in the title role. Also
Daniel Emil Fork has been signed for a
co-starring role. Alberto Grimaldi is producing
for Universal release . . . Michael
Anderson jr, has been signed for a key role
which his father is directing
. . Alvin Childress, the
for
in 'Logan's Run"
MGM .
original Amos in television's "Amos "n'
Andy" series, has been signed for a role in
Universal's "The Bingo Long Traveling All-
Stars and Motor Kings," now filming in
Savannah, Ga. . Hutton is set to
play opposite Burt Reynolds in " 'Gator," to
be directed by Reynolds for producers Jules
Levy and Arthur Gardner for United Artists
release . . . Peter Hurkos will be featured
in Wolper Productions' "Monsters Among
Us" for Sun International release.
Bill Cosby. Raquel Welch
Star in 20th-Fox Comedy
signed for roles in "The Duchess and the
Dirtwater Fox," a Melvin Frank production
for 20th Century-Fox release. Filming will
be on locations throughout Colorado with
Frank directing the screenplay written by
him . Austin, 39-inch-tall second
baseman for the Indianapolis Clowns from
1964 to 1967, has been signed for a role
in Universal's "The Bingo Long Traveling
All-Stars and Motor Kings" . . . Stuart Whit- i
man will play the title role in "Tony Saitta,"
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an Italian production to be filmed on loca- i
tion in Montreal by Security Fihns and also
j
featuring Martin Landau and John Saxon in
the cast . . . Simpson Hemphill, owner of a
1.000-acre plantation near Greenwood,
Miss., has been cast in "Ode to Billy Joe."
the Max Baer production for Warner Bros.
release, now shooting in that area. Hemphill
has a pivotal role as the preacher who saw
what Bobbie and Billy Joe did on the Tallahatchie
Bridge on the third of June 1952.
Joan Hotchkis will play the role of Bobbie
Lee's mother, also JJenry Flaut, leading insurance
man in Greenwood has been cast . . .
Joel Grey has been signed to join the cast
of Universal's "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution"
. . . Daniel Massey has been signed for
"Sarah," starring Glenda Jackson and shooting
in England . Thomerson has been
signed for MGM's "All-American Girl" now
shooting in the Seattle area . . . Crane Jackson
has been set to portray Hollywood
gossip columnist Jimmy Fidler in "W. C.
Fields and Me," now filming at Universal
Studios football star Bemie
Casey has been signed by director Nicolas
Roeg for a starring role in "The Man Who
. Kathleen Lloyd has
Fell to Earth."
been set for a role in "The Missouri
Breaks." an Elliott Kastner presentation
of an Arthur Penn film for United Artists
release.
Michel Legrand Is Signed
For 'Robin and Marian'
Michel Legrand has been signed to compose
and conduct the music for "Robin
and Marian," a Rastar Pictures-Shepherd
production for Columbia Pictures release
. . . Clark Gassman will conduct and arrange
the musical score for "Gifts of an
Eagle" . Bernard Herrmann
will write the score for the George Litto 1
production, "Obsession," starring Cliff
Robertson and Genevieve Bujold. The film
originally had been titled "Double Ransom"
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MFI Productions to write the screenplay
for Charles Teitel's "Between the Sheets,"
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set to begin shooting this month in Holly-
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wood .
to write the script for the story, "The Ebony
Tower," written by John Fowles. The story
was purchased by George Schaefer for his
Compas Productions . Pate has
been signed to compose, arrange and conduct
the music for "Sudden Death," new film
by Cariith C. Byrd Productions shot on location
in the Philippines in association with
Hemisphere Productions. The film re-teams
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Robert Conrad and Don Stroud and introduces
Conrad's daughter, Nancy, in her I
first film role . . . The music group Wahas
been signed to write and perform the
score for "The River Niger," produced b>
Sidney Beckerman and Isaac Jones and di-
,
rected by Krishnah Shah.
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Sidney Buchman Is Dead;
Producer and Scenarist
NEW YORK—Sidney Buchman. 73.
film
producer and scenarist, died Saturdav. August
23. in Cannes. France, where he had
lived for the past ten years.
A native of Duluth. Minn.. Buchman
went to Hollywood in 1930 and in 1932 did
also produced and wrote the screenplay for
"Boots Malone."
Buchman was a former president of the
Writers Guild, a producer at Columbia
Studios and an assistant to Harry Cohen.
head of that studio, from 1942 to 1951.
Following testimony before the House Committee
on Un-American Activities in the
early '50s. Buchman was engaged 1960
in
by 20th Century-Fox as a writer-producer
to make films in Europe as an independent
producer for distribution by 20th-Fox.
He leaves his wife: a daughter by a former
marriage. Susan Silver, and a brother,
Harold.
Last Rites for Gus Lampe,
Schine Chain Gen. Mgr.
HOLLYWOOD — Services were conducted
August 22 at the Church of the
Hills in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Hollywood
Hills, for Gus Lampe. 74, who for 32
\cars was the general manager of the
Schine Theatre in Gloversville. N. Y. He
died August 19 at Century City Hospital.
For many years after leaving theatre
management he booked talent for the
famed Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador
Hotel in Los Angeles and was friends with
every great name in show business who
played the Grove.
He leaves his wife Anne, two sons Joseph
and Frank, seven grandchildren and a
brother.
San Francisco Film Festival
Extends Entries Deadline
S.\N FRANCLSCO—The deadline for
entering the film compyetition of the 19th
annual San Francisco International Film
Festival has been extended to Wednesday
(10). Entries in both the Film-as-Communication
and the Television Films divisions
will be accepted no later than this new date.
Awards will be announced shortly before
the Film Festival, which takes place October
15-26 at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre.
Winning entries will be screened in conjunction
with Festival activities.
For further information, contact Mark
Chase at the Festival office. 1409 Bush St.,
San Francisco 94109. telephone (415) 928-
MOTION PICTURES RATED
BY THE CODE & RATING
ADMINISTRATION
The following feature-length motion piclures
have been reviewed and rated by the
Code and Rating Administration pursuant
screenplay. "Sign of the Cross." for to the Motion Picture Code and Rating
his first
Program.
Cecil B. DeMille. He later collaborated on
"If I Had a Million." "From Hell to Heaven"
and "Love Me Forever." Among other
Ouchman screenpays were "Mr. Smith Goes
to Washington" and "Jolson Sings Again."
Title Distributor
Embryo (Plura)
Goodbye, Norma Jean (Stirling Gold)
Roting
PG
[rJ
More recently he was one of the writers on
"Cleopatra."
He became a producer in 1937 and was
Hester Street (Midwest Film)
Jury of One (Avco Embassy)
PG
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involved with "A Song to Remember." Kiss of the Tarantula (Cinema-Vu) PG
"Over 21" and ".Saturday's Hero." Buchman Le Sex Shop ( ) ( Peppercorn-
Wormser)
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92 in the Shade (UA) [r]
No Way Out (Cinema Shares)
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The Parasite Murders (Transamerican ) g
Two (Colmar)
PG
What Have You Done
With Our Daughters?
(Peppercorn-Wormser)
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n No. 246 of
July 23, 1973.
The Code and Rating Appeals Board has sustained
the R rating given to the film "Farewell, My Lovely,"
Avco Embassy release. The appeal was brought by the
E K Corp, the film's corporate producer.
Special Midnight Salute
To 'Tommy' Over NBC-TV
NEW YORK—"Tommy" was the subject
of a special salute on NBC Television's
"Midnight Special" Friday night, August 22.
Roger Daltrey, who portrays the title role
in the Robert Stigwood-Ken Russell production,
current Columbia Pictures release, had
tapyed a segment which was featured along
with film clips. This was the fifth network
exposure for "Tommy" in a period of two
weeks.
"Tommy" won the top award for films
on CBS-TV's "Rock Music Awards" special
with Ann-Margret, Daltrey and Keith Moon
as presenters. The ABC-TV "Wide World
of Entertainment" special on the premiere
of "Tommy" was a repeat telecast; Daltrey
was a guest on the Merv Griffin Show, the
segment currently being shown in cities
across the country, and was a guest on the
AM-America Show on ABC-TV.
'You'll Go Blind' Is Set
To Open in Texas in Oct.
HOLLYWOOD—With lopar Films' "If
You Don't Stop It, You'll Go Blind" reporting
impressive grosses in three separate
areas. Topar president Tom Parker has announced
plans to book the motion picture
in more than 30 Texas situations in October.
"If You Don't Stop It. You'll Go Blind"
had excellent boxoffice during an eight-week
run at the Cine Theatre. Rochester. N.Y,.
and exhibited patron-attracting power in its
first two weeks at the Cine. .Albany. N.Y.
Outstanding business marked the film's first
weekend at the Rialto 11 in Edmonton. .Mia..
Canada.
ABC-TV to Commemorate
AIP's 21st Anniversary
NEW YORK—.American International
Pictures' 21st anniversarv will be observed
with a "Wide World: Special" on the ABC
Television Network on Friday. September
12. from midnight- 1:.30 a.m.. EDT. The
program, "Monster Beach Party—21 Years
of A. I. P.." will be hosted by Geraldo
Rivera and feature
as guests such AIP stars
as Raqucl Welch. Annette Funicello and
Frankie Avalon.
Monster and Beach Party movies helped
put the Samuel Z. Arkoff-James Nicholson
company on the map. Among the films to
be excerpted will be the current "The Wild
Party." starring James Coco and Ms. Welch,
some of the Avalon-Funicello Beach Party
films, "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1961)
starring Vincent Price. Woody .Mien's
"What's Up. Tiger Lily?" (1966). one of
— the company's biggest hits "Wild in the
.Streets" (1968) and Ralph Bakshi's animated
and live action "Heavy Traffic" (1973).
Filming in Kansas City
For Dandrea Release
KANS.AS CITY— Location filming has
started here on 'The Student Body" by
Brandywine Productions, headed by John
Shipp. area film distributor, who is the
executive producer. National distribution
will be by Dandrea Releasing Corp. (formerly
Centaur) and is headed by Frank
Moreno. Release by Easter is planned.
Ed Carlin is the producer and Gus Trikonis
is the director of the film. Both
teamed up for "Swinging Barmaids," currently
in release by Premiere. Starring in
the film are Warren Stevens and Judith
Roberts.
The story evolves around three girls just
out of reform school being used in experiments
conducted by a crooked psychiatrist.
Shooting of scenes has been at the University
of Missouri-Kansas City, Rockhurst
College, Woodside Racquet Club, downtown
Kansas City and the Kansas City International
Raceway.
Lanir Set As Distributor
Of 'Blond Man' Sequel
NEW >ORK lanir Releasing Corp..
New York-based distributor, has acquired
U.S. and Canadian rights to "The Return
of the Tall Blond Man With One Black
Shoe." The film, which is the sequel to the
successful "The Tall Blond Man With One
Black Shoe," recently was completed in
France. It stars Pierre Richard in the original
role he created as the violinist with his
head in the clouds and Mireille Dare as
Christine.
Initial openings have been set Wednesday
(17) at the Harvard Exit, Seattle: Wednesdav
(24), Cerberus and Studio, Washington,
D.C.; Wednesday (24), Cheii. Boston.
and October 29. Rotunda. Baltimore.
Edwin Holly is the new vice-president for
finance and administration at First Artists
Productions.
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the 20 key cities checked. Pictures with fewer than five engagements are not listed. As new runs
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relation to normal grosses as determined by the theatre managers. With 100 per cent as "normal,"
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Sid Cohen Re-Elecled
NY NATO President
BUFFALO— Sidney J. Cohen w.is reelected
to his ISth term as president of
NATO of New York
Sidney J. Cohen
State at the organization's
recent convention
in the Concord
Hotel, Lake
Kiamesha in the
Catskills, New York.
Dan Fcliman of
the CinemaNational
circuit was chairman
of the conclave,
which featured an
exciting golf tournament
and some serious business meetings.
A number of distribution company heads
.ittcndcd the powwow.
In his address to the assemblage, Cohen
predicted a "return to better times soon."
Former Comerford Head
John E. Coyne Jr. Dies
SCRANTON, PA.—John E. Coyne jr.,
former president of Comerford TTieatres,
died Tuesday morning. August 19, at Moses
Taylor Hospital after a long illness.
Coyne in 1963 acquired the local theatre
circuit founded by the late M. E. Comerford.
at one time the largest independent
movie house circuit in the county. Coyne
sold the corporation in 1969. He also was
president of Mecca Realty Co. and Coyne
& Co. insurance.
A native of Scranton, Coyne was a lieutenant
commander in the Navy Reserve at
the time of his death. He was a member of
the Scranton Country Club; a fourth degree
knight and memiber of Council 280, Knights
of Columbus, Scranton, and a member of
the Purple Club. Scranton Lodge of Elks.
Green Ridge Sportsmen's Club, St. Claire's
Church and its Holy Name Society.
He leaves his wife Mary; son John E.
Coyne IH, a junior at Mount St. Mary's
College, Emmitsburg, Md.; a brother James
of Media, Pa.; three sisters and several
nieces and nephews.
Tommy' Multiples Gross
Over $1M Chicago, NYC
NEW YORK— In its first two wide multiples,
"Tommy" has grossed over .S 1.000,
000 in its first 12 days.
In New York, where the Robert Stigwood-Ken
Russell production for Columbia
Pictures is now into its 22nd consecutive
week, the first week of its wide multiple
rolled up $624,981. Its mini-multiple has
grossed $641,568 and its exclusive first run
at the Ziegfeld Theatre had topped a million,
so the overall New York gross is over
$2,260,000.
In Chicago, the first
12 days have grossed
$392,823, which brings the wide multiple
totals in Chicago and New York to
$1,017,804.
New York Film Festival Scheduled
For I3fh Year Sept. 26 to Oct. 12
NEW YORK—The 13th annual New
York Film Festival wih take place Friday
(26) to October 12. it has been announced
by Martin E. Segal, president of the Film
Society of Lincoln Center. Opening and
closing nights will be at Avery Fisher Hall
in Lincoln Center, with all other programs
scheduled for two showings each at the
Center's Alice Tully Hall.
Richard Roud, director of the Festival
and chairman of the program committee,
stated that nine films have been confirmed
and that approximately a dozen more were
selected by the end of August. The committee
includes Richard Corliss, Roger
Greenspun, Arthur Knight, Arthur Mayer,
Charles Michener, Susan Sontag and Henri
Langlois as special consultant on retrospective
programs.
The films chosen to date arc:
"Every Man for Himself and God
Against AH" by Werner Herzog is the most
generally admired and best liked film at
this year's Cannes Film Festival, winning
the Jury Special Grand Prize. Adapted from
the Kasper Hauser story of the sudden appearance
in Germany in the 1820s of a
young man with no memory and no knowledge
of the outside world, the film is expected
to signal Herzog's breakthrough
from cult favorite to universally recognized
filmmaker.
"Milestones," an American semidocumentary
directed by Robert Kramer and
John Douglas, uses fiction and actors to examine
the radical generation of the Sixties
and where they are today.
"Grev Gardens" is a U. S.-made docu-
N A T O S A L V T E—Mannie A.
Itrown, right, president of Frontier
Aniascnicnt Co., Buffalo, receives a
plaque from NATO of New ^'ork
Stale honoring him for his more than
60 years in the distrihufing and entertainment
busines.s. Making the presentation
is Danny Fellman of the Cinema-
National circuit, who was general
chairman of the exhibitor organization's
annual convention held recently in the
(oiK'ord Holi'I, Lake Kiamesha, T>i.\.
menlary by Albert and David Massles about
Edith Bouvier Bealc and her daughter Edic,
who live in a decaying East Hampton mansion,
surounded by garbage, raccoons and
memories.
"Elektreia," also acclaimed at Cannes,
is a modern Hungarian version of the
Electra myth, done as a musical tragedy by
Miklos Jancso.
"Xala," from Senegal, is Ousmane Sembenc's
view of the "black bourgeoisie"
which has been banned in its own country.
A New Yorker Films release, it concerns
an aging Senegalese businessman who is unable
to consummate his third polygamous
marriage.
"The Story of Adele H." by Francois
Truffaut is a one-character love story from
France, starring Isabelle Adjani as a girl
who follows an English lieutenant in a hopeless
quest from Guernsey to Nova Scotia
to Barbados.
"Black Moon," shot in English by French
director Louis Malle, is a four character
film set in the future during a war between
men and women. Cathryn Harrison is the
girl who discovers a looking glass world.
As the inhabitants of an isolated country
house, Teresa Giehse plays a bed-ridden
old woman and Joe Dallesandro and Alexandra
Stewart are a twin brother and sister.
"Pas Si Mechant Que Ca " (The Wonderful
Crook) by Swiss filmmaker Claude
Goretta is a dramatic and adventurous story
of Gerard Depardieu, a happily married
man who turns bank robber to meet his
payroll. Marlene Jobert is the girl who gets
mixed up in his life.
"La Chienne" (The Bitch, 1931) is a
retrospective film, Jean Renoir's first sound
feature and one of his best. Seen in a subtitled
version for the first time in this country,
it stars the late Michel Simon as a
middle-aged man who falls in love with a
heartless tramp in Montmartre, with tragic
results for both. Excerpts from other films
with Simon will be shown.
Dolphin Is Fined $4,000
For Exhibiting 3 Films
IRVINGTON. N.J.— Dolphin Bros, of
New York City, operators of the Art Theatre
here, was fined $4,000 in Essex County
Court after pleading guilty to a 12-count
indictment charging violation of the state's
obscenity statute. Judge Richard B. Mc-
Glynn rejected a plea by the prosecutor's
office that a ma.ximum fine of $12,000 be
issued.
Judge — McGlynn ruled that three X-rated
films "Candid Couch," "Double Exposure"
and "Undercover Girl"—shown at the Art
for four days last March had been exhibited
as package and that the $4,000 penalty had
been assessed for the four days at $1,000
per day.
Attorney Nicholas E. Caprino told the
court that his client Dolphin Bros, was
planning to change the films at the Art.
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B R O A D W Ay
0INO DE LAURBNTJIS CORP. has
moved the base of its operations from
the Gulf & Western Building here to Beverly
Hills. The new address is 202 North
Canon Dr., Beverly Hills. Calif. 90210.
phone (213) 550-8700.
•
Roy Thompson & Associates will observe
Irs merger with the Don Davidson
Agency of Philadelphia, plus the opening
of offices in Washington. D. C, and Phila-
playing at the Lido East and Love theatres.
"Linda Lovelace Meets Miss Jones" opens
Monday (8) at the Circus Cinema. In this,
Linda Lovelace is matched against Georgina
Spelvin, star of "The Devil in Miss
Jones." Also appearing are Harry Reems,
Darby Lloyd Rains and Arlana Blue.
•
Elton John competed in the recent Robert
F. Kennedy Charity Tennis Tournajnent
and the singer's tennis prowess was compared
on ABC-TV with his pinball wizardry
in a scene from the Columbia release, "Tommy."
The Robert Stigwood-Ken Russell
Production has grossed over $7,260,000 in
its New York run, first at the Ziegfeld Theatre
and currently at showcase houses.
"Tommy," directed by Ru.ssell from his
screenplay as based on the rock opera by
the Who, stars Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed,
the Who and Roger Daltrey as Tommy.
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Adolph Weingarten has been named consultant
on international acquisitions for A.
J. Bauer & Co., it was announced by president
Ray Blanco. A former press correspondent,
Weingarten will headquarter at
the Bauer offices here and work closely with
Blanco while contacting foreign producers
in regard to possible acquisitions.
A further appointment was that of John
McLaughlin as assistant sales manager.
McLaughlin is a Lehman College graduate
with wide experience in accounting and
communications.
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"Ifs Not Farewell Yet, My Lovelies" or
"More Marlowe at Midnight" was presented
by Robert W. Meyer, managing director oj
the Columbia I and II theatres over Labor
Day weekend. From August 29 through
August 31, the houses had three features,
beginning at midnight, which were based
on the stories of Raymond Chandler, currently
represented by the Robert Mitchum
sky produced, directed and co-wrote the
successful "Harry & Tonto" last year which
garnered a "best actor" Academy Award
for comedian Art Carney.
film. "Farewell, My Lovely," in which the
star portrays Philip Marlowe.
His latest film is the soon-to-be-releascd
The three films were "Lady in the Lake" 20th Century-Fox comedy, "Next Stop.
(1946), directed by and starring Robert Greenwich Village."
Montgomery as detective Philip Marlowe: Mazursky, who graduated from Brookhn
delphia, with a cocktail reception at the
Americana Hotel Wednesday (3). The merger
"The Brasher Doubloon" (1947). starring College with a degree in 1951, joins an illuscy
will provide a single and centralized agen-
George Montgomery as Marlowe, and "The trious contingent of past winners includiny
for entertainment advertising and promotion,
Falcon Takes Over" (1942), starring George Sam Levenson, Sylvia Fine Kaye, Allie
covering Pennsylvaitia, Delaware, Sanders as the Falcon in the original adapta-
Sherman, Peter Nero, Judge Jack Weinstein
New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia and the tion of "Farewell, My Lovely."
and the Hon. Shirley Chisholm. He will accept
District of Coliitnbia.
The Dick Powell film "Murder, My
his award November 15 in ceremonies
Sweet" (1944), which is the second screen to be held at the Brooklyn College Student
The porno scene: Lorraine Alraune, an
Center.
version of "Farewell, My Lovely," will be
accomplished artist who stars in the X-rated shown at the Regency Theatre Sunday In announcing the award, Harkavy stated.
"In Sarah's Eyes," was present August 26 through Tuesday (14-16) and on the same "The thousands of alumni and students of
afternoon and evening—for the world premiere
of the film at the Cine Lido. She directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with Carole Maziirsky's storied career are honored h\
bill will be "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (1941) Brooklyn College who have followed Paul
The mark he has made
autographed copies of the main ad, which Lombard and Robert Montgomery, as part his acceptance. in
she created. Accompanying Ms. Alraune, of the theatre's RKO and Goldwyn schedule.
the motion picture industry is a tangible
who is described as "working her way
contribution toward heightening the prestige
through college," were the film's producerdirector,
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of his alma mater."
Carter Stevens, co-star Eric Ed-
The Walt Disney Film Festival this sum-
wards (who portrays Ms. Alraune's husband
mer has been so successful that the distributor,
Buena Vista, is planning a winter sea-
For Overseas by FAW
'Mean Streets' Release Set
in the film) and actor Jamie Gillis, who appears
in the forthcoming "Mirage D'Amour" son. Beginning December 19, there will ibe
NEW YORK—"Mean Streets" will be
(Illusion of Love). "In Sarah's Eyes" also is
four weeks of Disney fare, both old and distributed overseas by Films Around the
new.
World, Inc., it was announced by company
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to
The long-closed DeMille Theatre was set
reopen with a new $1.50 admission policy
of double bills. The Paratnount releases
of "Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not
Enough" and "Serpico" were set as the first
program for the house, which had been
closed because of a fire and then a dispute
over the management of the theatre.
•
Hortense Schorr is publicity coordinator
on Columbia's release of the Jan Kadar
film, "Lies My Father Told Me." She has
been handling Bryanston product recently.
•
"Mitchell" starring Joe Don Baker will
open at 40 flagship theatres Wednesday (10).
The police thriller involves Baker as a detective
mixed up in a multimillion-dollar
narcotics case. An Emmanuel L. Wolf presentation,
the Allied Artists release was directed
by Andrew V. McLaglen and co-stars
Martin Balsam, John Saxon. Linda Evans
and Merlin Olsen.
NJPB Receives $50,000 Grant
TRENTON, N.J.—New Jersey Public
Broadcasting has received a $50,000 grant
from the New Jersey Committee for the Humanities
to produce a motion picture and
six videotaped public forums dealing with
the subject of equality. Ken Stein will be
executive producer for the film and the
project, with Smokey Forester to produce
I he forums.
Brooklyn College Alumni
Salutes Paul Mazursky
NEW YORK— lilnini:ikcr Paul M.i/ursky
has been named the "Alumnus of ihc
Year." by the Brooklyn College Alumni
Assn it has been announced by Ira Harkavy,
president of the organization. Mazur-
president Irvin Shapiro. The film was directed
by Martin Scorsese and released here
by Warner Bros, in 1973, with Harvey
Keitel and Robert De Niro heading the
cast.
Scorsese also directed Ellen Burstyn in
her Academy Award-winning "Alice Doesn't
Live Here Anymore" and has just completed
"Taxi Driver" for Columbia Pictures,
starring De Niro and Cybill Shepherd.
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" also
will be distributed in foreign markets by
FAW. The zany British comedy, starring
the cast of the TV series "Monty Python's
Flying Circus," is released by Cinema 5 in
the United States and by EMI in the United
Kingdom.
The film has been leased to U.G.C. for
France, P.A.C. for Italy and Film Trust for
South Africa. Contracts have also been
for in closed distribution Australia, Norway,
Denmark and Thailand. Negotiations
are now in progress for Greece, Sweden,
Japan and the remainder of the Far East.
Mini in Proposed Complex
RIVERDALE, N.J.—A group of local
busincssjiien have proposed a plan to convert
the former Amcracc plant in Butler
into a shopping center with apartments and
a mini-theatre. The complex of buildings
covers approximately 1 1 .2 acres, bordered
by Kiel Avenue. Park Place and Main
Street.
"The Exorcist, Part 11" will begin pr
diiclion in January, 1976.
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'Coonskin' Captures
695 in NY Debut
NEW YORK— Coonskin." the controversial
live and animated feature from Ralph
B.ikshi and Bryanston Pictures, confounded
lis critics by averaging 695 in its opening
,11 the Bryan West (710) and Trans-Lux East
(fiSO). Again second but farther down the
ladder was "A Pain in the A - -." French
.iMiiedy in its second week at the 68th Street
PI a> house with a 405. Up one notch was
Nashville," averaging 280 for the llth
round at the Baronet (240) and Cinema II
(320).
Tied for fourth place were a pair of
strange bedfellows: averaging 270 apiece
wore the G-rated "Benji," 9th week at the
Ciuild. and the long-running sexer "Intimate
Teenagers," 17th week at Rialto II. "Anita.
.Swedish Nymphet" kept its fifth place with
a 2.^5 in the second time at Rialto I. "Naked
Came the Stranger" was back, coming in
sixth with a 220 for its 14th round at the
World.
1 ast week's number one, "Farewell, My
1 ovely." went showcase to join that divisions
champion "Jaws." The Disney bill of
I antasia" and "Alice In Wonderland"
scored, as did "Rollerball," "The Fortune"
and "Funny Lady."
In the reissue department. "The Exorist"
did such good business at the Criterion that
the Coronet was added to the run.
(Average Is 100)
Astor Plaza—Russian Houlette (Emb) 130
llth _ Baronet—Nashville (Para), wk 240
Beekman—Love and Death (UA), 10th wk 130
Bryan West—Coonsldn (Bryanston) ..._ -.- -...710
Cine—The Dragon Flies (20th-Fox) -..- 125
Cinema I—The Day of the Locust (Para),
Patterson II— Part 2 Walking TaU (AIP). 3rd w
Playhouse—The Seduction of Muni (SR)
Towson—Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(SR), 6th wk
Three theatres—low* lUniv). 10th wk.
Westview I—Noshvill. (Para), 5th wk.
Westview III—Jacqueline Suiann'a One* b No
Enough (Para), 9th wk —
Westv.ew IV—Roce With the Devil (20lh-Fox).
2nd wk
Cinema Il-Noshville (Para), llth wk 320
86th Street East—S. O. S. (Milkytone News),
4lh wk. ..._..- -..- 190
Guild—Benji 9th (Mulberry Square), wk -..270
Paramount—Love and Death (UA), llth wk -...140
Paris—ChorloHe (Gamma 111), 9th wk _ 95
Plaza—Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(Dimension), 3rd wk ...150
Radio C.1y, Music Hall-Hennessy (AIP). 4th wk. 150
Rialto 1 —Anita. Swedish Nymphet (Cambist),
2nd wk. ., -.235
Rialto II—Intimate Teenagers \' -'-'•::•::'
17th wk. .270
68th Street Plavr . A Pain in the A - -
(Corwin-Mahi-- .:r.-! v.,: 405
State II—The Dragon Flies i20lh-Fox) 150
Sutton—Love and Death (UA), llth wk 220
Trans-Lux East Coonskin (Bryanston) 680
Victoria—S. O. S. (Milkytone News), 2nd wk 75
World—Noked Came the Stranger
(Catalyst Films), I4th wk 220
*Love and Death' Pulls 340;
'Mimi' Posts 300 in Baltimore
BALTIMORE—"Love and Death" remained
the top gro.sser of the week with
340 at two houses. "The .Seduction of Mimi"
pulled off 300 in its bow at the Playhouse
while "Rollerball" raced to a fast 200 at
Cinema II. "Jaws" captured 185 in a 10th
ibig week.
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BUFFALO
^erritt Jesson, tentatively designated developer
for Lockpsort's Triangle Block,
has disclosed that he has signed a lease with
a firm for a twin cinema as the central
attraction on the block. The agreement is
contingent on ample parking for the mall.
Jesson told his tenants to expect a Sept. 1,
1976, opening date.
John J, Serfustini, manager of the local
20th Century-Fox exchange, has heard that
his company will release three Brut productions,
the first due in October . . . Mannie
A. Brown, president of Frontier Amusement,
reports that Crown International Pictures
will sponsor the opening event at the
forthcoming national NATO convention in
New Orleans. Frontier is releasing Crown
product locally. This marks the ninth con^
seoutive year that Crown has greeted exhibitors
at the kickoff cocktail party of the
NATO powwow.
Holiday 5 and the Holiday and Sheridan
drive-ins are showing "Sidecar Racers,"
which, they declare, is "the ultimate race
thrill." The film is rated PG . . "Benji"
has opened at the Como 6,
.
Evans and
North Park. The family film is from Mulberry
Square Productions, Dallas, Tex.
Lawrence Welk and his "TV family" appeared
at Niagara Falls International Convention
Center August 26 . . . Lewis T.
Fisher, producer of Melody Fair, was the
speaker at a recent luncheon-meeting of the
Rotary Club in the Statler-Hilton . . . The
Orchard Park town board has told its attorney
to draw up a local ordinance giving
the town a say in what kind of entertainment
comes to Rich Stadium.
Joseph P. Garvey, general manager of
Holiday Theatres, Cheektowaga, is taking a
vacation tour through New England with
his wife and three children ... A Canadian
newspaper columnist quipped: "Some reader
wants to know if 'Jaws' is the autobiography
of Howard Cosell" . . . Local film men
had a great time at their annual golf tourneybanquet
at the Erie Down Course in Canada
recently.
"Hennessy," from American International
Pictures, is offered at the Cinema II, Seneca
Mall and Como 6.
The Eastern Hills Cinema I and 2 ad
declares, "The big movie break! Sixteen
years and under, $1.25 at all times!" The
movement apparently is growing.
Comax Telcom Corp., which does business
under the name of International Cable,
has filed an application with the New York
State Commission on C.'kTV seeking approval
to acquire a controlling interest in
Amherst Cablevision. The Amherst firm is
operated by Alfred E. Anscombe, former
chief barker of Variety Club Tent 7. He has
been asked to explain the details of the
change in control to the town board of
Amherst . . . Mannie A. Brown, president
of Frontier Amusement, advises that Larry
Lapidus has been engaged as a consultant to
Holiday Theatres of this city. Lapidus headquarters
in New York City.
Harvey & Corky, owners of the Century
Theatre, 511 Main St., have depositetl
$1,000 in a city escrow account, thus initiating
the intention of paying back ta.xes
on the building. Harvey Weinstein, 23, and
Corky Berger, 24. are partners in the
corporation which bought the theatre for
$25,000. Immediately they inherited some
$27,000 in back taxes but announced their
intention to pay. Berger said he hopes the
payment plan will wipe out the overdue
taxes by next February . youth was
jailed and another released on bail after
they pleaded innocent to charges connected
with the shooting of three teenagers the
other day in the crowded Apollo Theatre
on Jefferson Street. The case is to be heard
Monday (8).
Msgr. F. W. Growney is dead. He was a
great friend of the late Vincent R. MoFaul.
former general manager of Shea Theatre.
"Part 2 Walking Tall" is being shown at
Holiday 5, North Park, Towne and the
Buffalo, Park and Sheridan 2 drive-ins.
There is a second film at the ozoners . . .
A filmmaking program at the University
of Buffalo's media center will be part of a
new statewide arts program for qualifying
high school studente, it has just been announced.
Nancy Sue Swartz has become the bride
of Russell Conrad Petrella, son of Albert
J. Petrella, former chief barker of Variety
Tent 7 . . . Screen star Joanne Woodward
and two of her daughters visited in Niagara
Falls, Ont., during a recent weekend.
Myron Gross, past chief barker of Variety
Tent 7, is recovering in the hospital after
suffering a broken leg in a downtown auto
accident. He was on his way to work in
the Grosby Building, where he conducts a
booking service.
Cultural Series Scheduled
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.—Eleven motion
H. Edge Hall on the college eanipiis.
Former X Theatre Is
Building New Image
DANVILLE, PA.—Although he is far
from establishing any boxoffice records at
his Capitol Theatre here. Peter Manouse
believes he has succeeded in giving area
residents something they haven't had in a
— long time "good film entertainment, nonoffensive
movies and a clean house."
Manouse opened the aging Capitol Theatre
last March, just about a year after an
active group of residents forced the theatre
to close in a disipute over the showing of
X-rated films.
At that time, the theatre had been closed
several years and was reopened by a new
management with a double feature of "Deep
Throat" and "The Devil in Miss Jones."
Area residents were quick to respond and
soon a group began picketing the theatre,
located on Danville's main street.
Several theatre employees, including the
manager, subsequently were arrested when
two underage girls allegedly were admitted
into ithe theatre while the X-rated films were
being shown. Soon after the arrests, the
itheatre closed. It is believed that Danville
and Lawrence. Mass., are the only two
towns in the U. S. where residents picketed
and actually closed a theatre, Manouse said.
A foirmer employee of a cosmetics firm,
who said that films always had interested
him, Manouse came here from Binghamton,
N.Y., and then reopened the Capitol
Theatre with no previous experience in
theatrical management. He beoame his own
bookkeeper, janitor and ticket-taker and
said, "1 probably have the lowest payroll
of any theatre in the state."
While the Capitol under Manouse has
attracted all the former picketers with his
film shows, he has brought in some R-rated
movies, contending that to succeed here he
must appeal to both the young people and
adults 'by presenting a variety of films.
Recent films at the Capitol have included
several Walt Disney productions, "Murder
on the Orient Express," "The Towering Inferno"
and "Gone With the Wind." In addition,
Manouse has presented a local rock
group for a concert and has featured three
live country-western shows. He also has
managed to present .several fihns .suggested
by patrons for the theatre. While July is
"definitely the worst month of the year for
indoor theatres," Manouse said the last two
films at the Capitol have meant the best
iboxoffice and concession sales for him to
date.
Metzger Office Robbed
NEW YORK—The Manhattan office
of
film director Radley Metzger. who is head
of Audubon Productions, a producing and
pictures are included among the 26 theatrical,
distriibuting firm, was entered August 21 by
dramatic, dance and musical attractions two gunmen who stole a 175-pound sale
scheduled for the 1975-76 cultural .scries at
Atlantic Community College in suburban
containing $100,000 in jewelry and cash.
Two employees, a handyman and a maid,
Mays Landing. The subscription scries will were handcuffed by the gunmen, who fired
open Saturday (6) with the movie "Siddhariha."
a warning shot as they burst into the quarters.
The maid and handyman freed themselves
All the films will be .shown Saturday
evenings in the auditorium of the Waller
after appro\iiiiatel\' an hoin- and noli-
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Ozoner Manager Is Cited
In Lower Allen Township
HARRISBURG. PA.—In addition to tlic
citation against the employees of the Capital
City Mall cinemas for showing Sunday
movies in suburban Lower Allen Township,
citations were issued on the same charges
against Richard J. Jones, owner-manager
of the Spring Drive-In Theatre in Silver
Township. The police acted on
orders of Cumberland County Dist. Atty.
Harold E. Shcely.
Jones was cited because he was selling
tickets and acting as projectionist at his
drive-in. Two other county theatres which
also were ordered to stop showing Sunday
movies were closed on Sunday. They are
the College Cinema. Shippensburg. and the
Cumberland Drive-In. Pcnn Township. Carrolls
Development Corp. of Syracuse, N.Y.,
owners of the Capital City Mall cinemas,
has been paying the fines of $50 a person,
plus costs, for the citations each Sunday.
The district attorney says he is acting
under the authority of a 1935 state law
prohibiting Sunday movies unless a municipality's
voters approve them in a referendum.
All four theatres are circulating petitions
in their respective municipalities in
an attempt to get the Sunday movies issue
on the ballot November 4.
Curtis Messinger Appointed
Controller for ASCAP
NEW YORK— Curtis C. Messinger has
been appointed controller of the American
Society of Composers. Authors and Publishers,
ASCAP president Stanley Adams
announced. Messinger comes to the performing
rights society from the major New
York law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
Messinger succeeds Carl Levinton, who
retired after 37 years with ASCAP. -Carl
Levinton has done an extraordinary job for
the men and women who write and publish
America's music," president Adams said.
Longtime B. S. Moss Mgr.
Sol Shapiro Dead at 60
CEDARHURST. N.Y.—.Sol Shapiro, an
employee of B. S. Moss Enterprises theatre
circuit 36 years, died August 9 of kidney
failure at Brookdale Hospital Center. He
w as 60 years old.
Shapiro until his death was manager of
the Central Theatre, Cedarhurst. He also
Was manager for the Moss Malveme movie
house, as well as the Belair Theatre, Valley
.Stream, N.Y.
Prior to service during World War 11.
Sh.ipiro had been manager of the old Gem
1 hcatre (later the Pix) at Far Rockaway.
He leaves a daughter, Barbara.
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PHILADELPHIA
fhe Summer Film Festival at the TUCC
(Temple University Center City) Cinemateque.
which has been enjoying great success
with its nightly showings of classic and
rare film features, will carry the season
through Labor Day (1) week. With programs
changed every two nights, the festival's
final week will offer "Pygmalion,"
Quartet," 'God Needs Men" and "The
Captain's Paradi.se." to which will be added
"Why Man Creates?", Saul Bass' Academy
.Award-winning featurette.
Dick Richards, director of "Farewell. M>
Lovely." which opened at area theatres. vv;is
in town to meet the press to promote the
Robert Mitchum feature.
It will cost more for CATV viewers in
Lock Haven, now that the city council has
granted a rate increase of $1 to $5.50 a
month to Susquehanna Valley TV Corp.
.\ cinema seating 180 persons is included
the plans for the restoration of the Grand
in
Opera House in Wilmington. Del., the
state's nonprofit center for the performing
arts. The Opera House has reached its primary
fund-raising goal of $3.8 million, allowing
for the additional improvements including
the motion picture theatre, which
will be constructed in the front basement
area of the Opera House.
Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope,
becoming a year-round regional arts center.
will begin a ten-week weekly motion picture
scries which will include "antihero"
films. In conjunction with the film showings,
there will be discussions by social scientists
on the social implications of the
film . . . Kino-Verj Film Productions has
been formed here by George Rodzon,
George A. Eigo. Joseph F. Johnson and
Ix)uis Varricchio. The new firm has established
headquarters at 209 South Sartain
St.
Retired NY Projectionist
William E. Howe Is Dead
Bl AVER. PA. —Funeral Mass was celebrated
Saturday, August 16, tor William E.
Howe, retired projectionist for the former
Oriental Theatre in Rochester, N.Y., who
died Wednesday morning, August 13, in
the Beaver Valley Geriatric Center, Brighton
Township. He was 81.
Born in England, Howe was a former
resident of Rochester, N.Y. He was a member
of Sts.
Peter and Paul Catholic Church,
Beaver.
He leaves a son, William J. Howe, Rochester,
N.Y.; one daughter. Mrs. Donald
(Honey) Morgan, Beaver, nine grandchildren;
five great-grandchildren: one sister,
Mrs. Kathryn Maxwell of Beaver, and two
stepsisters, Mrs. Sara Arlow, Fontana, Calif.,
and Mrs. Marie Wilson, Beaver Falls, Pa.
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PITTSBURGH
garry Minsky, vice-president and secretarytreasurer
of the new Cinema Shares
International Distribution Corp. and vicepresident
of CS'ID's parent company. Omni
Capital Corp.. is the son of Howard Minsky.
"Love Story" producer and formerly of
Squirrel Hill here and a film salesman for
WBP. This writer used to make trips into
the territory with Howard and we knew his
family. He and his brother were nephews of
Harry Minsky Kalmine. WBT zone manager.
Very active is the Mount Lebanon Cable
Co. with a two-dozen channel capacity. It
costs $6.50 monthly and offers 24-hour
news . . Area theatres have been showing
.
"Man-Eater," "Naked Came the Stranger,"
"Sharks' Treasure," "Torso," "Tidal Wave."
"Mandingo," "Rings of Passion," "My
Pleasure Is My Business." "Massage Parlor,"
"Is There Sex After Death?", "Teenage
Cowgirls," "The Aibductors." "Scenes From
a Murder," "Tommy." "Cry Rape" and
"Point of Terror."
The Liberty is to get all new projection
and sound equipment. This theatre has been
adding new seating in recent weeks .
Meercy Braff (Mrs. Marvin) Weiner, NATO
of Western Pennsylvania executive secretary,
who had a cornea transplant and recuperated
some months ago, checked into
the local Eye and Ear Hospital and underwent
an operation for a detached retina.
Her many friends extend their good wishes
for her health and hope that she'll be back
on the job soon; however, the hospital says
she will be inactive for probably eight
weeks.
George Ttce, N.ATO of Western Pcnnsyl-
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vania president, reported that the NATO
pay TV committee meeting in New York
was very informative, that cable TV and
pay TV are moving rapidly in some areas.
Film producers-distributors are making now
product available to theatre-at-home firms
D. Judson is the new curator
at the Museum of Art. Carnegie Institute,
succeeding Sally Dixon, resigned. Judson.
as an instructor at Pitt department of fine
arts, inaugurated the first courses in film
history and theory; also, he is president of
the Regional Film Council of Kttsburgh.
The Garden featured "Mount of Venus"
. . . Jacques Kahn and Carol Sloan visited
Tom Laughlin's Billy Jack Enterprises in
Hollywood regarding publicity and advertising
plans for "The Master Gunfighter,"
an October release . . . The Guild brought
in two Robert Altman films. "California
Split" and the first showing here of "Images"
Stanley followed "Cooley High"
with "Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of
Gold."
at Screen Guild is handling "Beyond the
Door."
Theatre Management Program with 12
sessions gets under way Thursday (4) at
Duquesne University here. The independent
Showcase Theatre city newspaper directory
advertised the program which will feature
Duquesne faculty members for the first four
weeks, then lectures and discussions by local
movie industry people for eight weeks.
Showmen are enrolling for the course, which
costs only $40 via NATO of Western Pennsylvania,
sponsor,
Dorothy Steam, Lou Hanna and Jim
Nash jr. are operators of the three DuBois
theatres. Ann Nash, mother of Jim, is not
a part of these exhibition units . . . Aglaia
and Tom Zaimes operate their Monroevillc
Drive-In under the title of Taged. Inc.
D. W. Griffith's "Judith of Bethulia"
(1914) will be the free history feature Sunday
(14) at the Carnegie Lecture Hall.
season and among upcoming bookings are
"The Freak Sisters," "My Sister Eileen,"
"Certified Mail" and "Specimen: Female"
. . . Pennsylvania Crime Commission said
that 375 Pennsylvania businesses are linked
to "the mob" . Pittsburgh Forum,
which had featured an article stating that
the mafia controlled the city's adult theatres
but had no proof, folded. This weekly
only recently changed hands.
Keystone State Gets Yet
Another 'Obscenity' Bill
PITTSBURGH—Another of the so-called
obscenity bills has been added to the file in
the Pennsylvania General .Assembly. This
time it is SB996, which would amend Title
18 (crimes and offenses) of the commonwealth's
consolidated statutes, regarding a
section enacted Nov. 25. 1970. Specifically
added to a long lisit of "obscene" materials
(photos, prints, drawings, books, etc) are
motion pictures and sound recordings. TTiere
are several degrees of possible misdemeanor
counts noted in
the proposal and the section
,which names any person (minor) 17 years of
age or older who sells, exhibits, etc.. "obscenity"
to any person 17 years of age, etc.,
Between film direction assignments, Milton
Katselas, formerly of this city, directed
Inactive for several months, work again being found contrary to the act, would have
is in progress at the downtown Bank project,
which will have two balcony theatres, scene" in paid public exhibition could not
this age upped to 18. What would be "ob-
the stage play "P.S. Your Cat Is Dead" in
San Francisco . . . "The $50,000 Climax"
for Morgan American Management Corp. be deemed thus in museums, libraries, etc.
was featured at the Art Cinema but the city
County district attorneys might bring actions
on so-called community standards and
paper would not print this title. "The Big Back-to-school shows—matinees—August
Game." the newspaper's title, was substituted,
with another film, "Pleasure Palace," fered at a numiber of city area theatres,
21-22-23, featuring "Supenbug," were of-
there are provisions for speed-up in civH
hearings, issuance of preliminary injunctions
and transportation! (of film) enters into
on the bill and advertised. Art Cinema's new with a bicentennial metric ruler given to
show is a top adult feature. "The Passions those in attendance . . . Carnegie Cinema
the proiposial. Mostly, it is another rewrite
of Carol," and upcoming is the noted "Private
Afternoons of Pamela Mann."
showings of Divine in "Pink Flamingos"
for the third weekend offered midnight
and mostly, too, it seems to be unconstitutional.
Bizarre showed "Upright Action"
Frank Jay "Bud" State Senators Murphy. Ross. Dougherty,
and Helen Thomas observed
their 30th anniversary and
and "Inside Pussycat" . . . L'Amoure continued
its policy of local strip gals with films
Orlando and Sweeney are sponsors of the
present
bill was eldest son Jay Mark Thomas,
which is now before the Senate Judiciary
recently
"Blackmail for Daddy" and "Lacy Bodine"
returned after two years in Iran, who Committee.
is
Legacy" and "69 Sunset Strip"
resuming teaching duties at Akron. Ohio.
were features at the Liberty . . . Ritz Mini
Bud manages Cinema 356 at Sarver for
showed "Double Header" and "Tijuana
Molly and Joe Mulone.
Blue" . . . District theatres will exhibit
"Framed" this month . Silverman
Bi/urre is opening a :w adult film
David Friedman Named V-P
Of Eastern Sales by CPT
NEW YORK—David Friedman. Eastern
regional sales manager for Columbia Pictures
Television syndication, has been named
a vice-president, it was announced by William
Hart, senior vice-president of syndication
for CPT.
In his new position. Friedman will be
responsible for all sales activity in the
Eastern states and also will deal with New
York-based advertising agencies and TV
station representatives.
Friedman, who joined the parent company,
Columbia Pictures Industries, in 1964
in the management training program, has
been regional sales manager since November
1974. He joined the syndication department
in 1966.
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and her husband Joseph returned Auuiivt
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25 after a two-week vacation. They
first s|vnt their three days at Mount Poconos
in Pennsylvania, devoting the remaining
iinu- to visiting Foxs relatives in Utica.
N A. While there. Mrs. Fox found plenty
of lime to go sightseeing.
For the first time since the opening of
Rome Theatres' 170 Drive-In. a film played
in the ozoner three consecutive weeks. The
tc.iiure was "Part 2 Walking Tall." accordinj;
to owners Leon B. Back and Edward A.
Klin pel
jr.
I'hil Glazer, chief of Associated Pictures
( ,> , and his wife and his son Charles left
\uyiist 21 for a vacation in Ocean City.
I'hil is scheduled to be in his office Tuesday
. Irving Fishbone, one of seven vicepresidents
(2)
and office manager of Caplan
Bros. Glass Co.. vacationed August 22-28
.It Host Farms in Pennsylvania . . . Miss
Rena Bittman. payroll chief at Schwaber
World-Fare Theatres, left August 25 for
Michigan to attend the wedding of a relative.
She's due back at her desk Tuesday (2).
Frank Sinatra vocally caressed 7.000 fans
for an hour and a half at the Merriweather
Post Pavilion Tuesday night. August 19. and
when he was through they rose to cheer him.
He smiled greatly and told them. "I wish
you good health and sweet dreams and soft
things and hugging and kissing and peace
in your time." The cool Sinatra performed
during a cool summer evening accompanied
by a 39-piece orchestra. Newspaper reviews
were most favorable.
Phyllis Diller, Theodore Bikel. Melba
Moore and Penny Singleton will perform
in a musical. "Salute to the American Worker,"
at the Baltimore Civic Center Monday
(1). Ms. Moore has received numerous entertainment
citations, including a Tony
Award for her role in the Broadway production
of "Purlie." The presentation is being
sponsored by the Baltimore Bicentennial
Committee and the AFL-CIO.
Carol Channing was the comic heroine of
"iLorelei," which was presented at the Painters
Mill Music Fair August 26-31 .
Sunny, locally born $IOO-an-hour fashion
model turned beauty editor, has an exclusive
five-year contract with Avon, for whom she
recently taped a TV commercial. However,
after a varied career and three marriages
two with the first husband—she realized,
finally, her early ambition—to act. The
acting career that she desperately wanted
started and ended in 1969 when she had
second billing in "John and Mary." which
starred Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow.
L. Earl Griswold, sociology professor at
Western Maryland College and chairman
of the sociology department, is a professional
filmmaker, among his other interests.
He said he became interested in film about
a decade ago as an educational tool to
"supplement the written text." In 1967. the
( arroll Counts commissioners g.nc him
a luoncN lor lilm history ol their counlN.
And after the film was finished, he had
convinced himself he had a future as a
producer. Now, via his Washington-based
film company. Total Communications Laboratory
Productions, he has produced films
on six Maryland counties—Carroll, Frederick,
Cecil, Worcester, St. Marys and Kent.
The films, which cost about $800 a minute,
run 26 minutes ("a TV half-hour," he explained)
and include a range of film techniques.
At the moment, Griswold is fascinated
primarily by this art medium. "I'm
happiest when I'm shooting film in some
village," said Griswold, who grew up in
upstate New York. "Films are a tremendously
creative outlet for me."
Paramount Pictures' "Phase IV " has won
the Grand Prix at this year's Festival Internazionalc
del Film di Fantascienza held in
Trieste. Italy. A suspense tale that marked
the debut of graphic designer Saul Bass,
"Phase IV" starred Nigel Davenport, I.ynne
Frederick and Michael Murphy.
Corinne F. Hammett, motion picture editor
of the News American, recently visited
the Walt Disney Productions studios in Burbank,
Calif. In an article describing her
experiences at the studios, she mentioned
that Frank Thomas has been with Disney
Productions since 1934 and is a chief animator
there.
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Japanese-language films in one auditorium
and Chinese-language (Mandarin) in the
other. The 500-seat Nippon is managed by
Satoshi Furuya and will be playing Shochiku
productions chiefly, its owners being
distributors of this company's releases in
Hawaii. The 400-plus-seat Golden Harvest,
with Albert Wong managing, is the island
showcase for Golden Harvest Co. of Hong
Kong.
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J^merican Film Institute has announced
premiere showings of Bill Sargent's
TheatroVision production of "Give 'Em
Hell. Harry!" Thursday (18) at 6:30 and
9 p.m. at the AFI Theatre in the Kennedy
Center. The film stars James Whitmore as
President Harry S Truman.
"Pirosmani"; August 26, "Odd People."
"The Ferocious One" and "A Bird Thai
Sings," and August 27, "Lenin in Poland"
and "Tenderness." The series will run from
Tuesday (9) through Sunday (28). Other
film series listed in the API Theatre's brochure,
edited by Michael Webb, film programing
manager. September through October
12. are "Films That Got Away,"
"Marlon Brando" and "Blacks in American
Films."
Fred Erling, Loews Eastern Seaboard
manager, after returning from a week's
vacation on Cape Cod, was busy setting
up a campaign for "Ali the Man" and "Ali
announced that "Give 'Em Hell,
Harry!" will play Loews' Embassy Wednesday
(24) through Friday (26) following the
invitational premiere showing at the Palace,
which will be a fund-raiser for the National
Democratic Committee.
LaVerne Boswell, 20th Century-Fo.\ head
booker, after a vacation in Puerto Rico,
attended the NATO of Maryland symposi-
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Luther "Buck" Buchanan was named manager
. . . Bill Thompson has been added to
the 20lh-Fox booking department.
Robert Folliard, Bob Folliard Films, is
setting up area multiple playdates for "Seventeen
and Anxious," which he exclaimed is
outgrossing many "biggie" summer releases!
the Fighter," which opened at Loews' Palace
.A.ugust 29 as a double feature. Me! Bryanston Pictures' local office is pleased
Press screenings of API's "Soviet Cinema
Today" series were: August 25, "Red Snowball
Tree," "Beware Automobile" and tributor of the films, was a recent visitor
Maron, sales manager for CinAmerica, dis-
that its division manager, Jerry Garfinkcl.
has been promoted to general sales manager
of the company.
Universal's suspense comedy. "The Bingo
"
Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings.
starring Billy Dec Williams, James E.irl
Jones and Richard Pryor, for 1976 release,
has completed shooting on Macon. Cia,.
locations. Motown Corp. is producing, with
vice-president Rob Cohen as producer. Universal
is financing the $3.8 million production
("Jaws" started at $4 million and was
completed at $8 million). John Badhani is
the director.
The film is about "people and their efforts
to achieve a little measure of independence
at a time (the 1930s) when black
pjople had little independence," according
to the Post's Hollis I. West, who visited the
set during the filming in the "Bible Belt"
city's ball park (which was set in St. Louis
in the film). Nedra Watt is credited with the
women's costumes and Toy Russell as the
makeup artist, the first black woman to be
admitted to the union. Cinematographer Bill
Butler, who worked on "Jaws," headed the
film crew.
Cohen, the 26-year-old producer, is
quoted as saying: " "Bingo Long.' based on
the novel by William Brashler. is not a
is baseball picture. It a comedy based on
true human experience and true American
history. If it does cross over and white
people see it and enjoy it, we effectively will
have broken the unwritten rule that black
pictures can bring in only an X amount of
profit."
Arrest of French Hookers
Halts Attack on Cinemas
LYONS. FRANCE—Fifteen prostitutes
recently launched a protest campaign against
legal restraints to demonstrate to authorities
their desire to work sans peiir el sans reproche.
Dubbing their action "Operation
Virtue," the prostituee group contended
that laws inhibited their "activities" and at
the same time allowed "suiggestive" movie
titles to be displayed openly.
Armed with paint buckets, glue and
posters, they worked swiftly to plaster the
fronts of cinemas with the slogan: "Who is
corrupting our children? We or you?"
Operation Virtue's coup d'etat came after
furious activity when the femmes used their
last poster to decorate the door of the local
tax collector. Officialdom ended the nuitivais
qiiari d'heure with the arrest of three of
the "ladies of the (presumably) evening."
causing the short-lived crusade to grind to
a humping halt.
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PORTl AND— loni Mover [heatrcs has
announced the planned construction of a
three-screen theatre complex to be located
in the Southgate Shopping Center, Salem,
Ground breaking is scheduled for
(15). with completion set for Feb.
1976.
circuit presently has a four-sc:.- t
complex nearing completion in Corvallis ard
quad under construction at Valley River
Shopping Center in Eugene, with the grand
opening set for November 15.
completion of the theatre complexes
in these three cities will bring Tom Mover's
Portland-based theatre circuit to a total ol
50 screens.
Fellini's 'Casanova' Is
Victim of 'Movie-napers'
ROME—Italy, which has been plagued
hy kidnapings of marry varieties, now has
recorded a heist which may be a "first"
.in where. Thieves broke into the refriger.iied
vaults of Technicolor on the Via
Tiburtina sometime between August 14 and
August 18 (a holiday period in Italy) and
escaped with the negatives of Federico Fellini's
"Casanova" and two other in-production
motion pictures (a third of Pier Paolo
Pasolini's "Salo: Or the 120 Days of Sodjj
om" and Damiano Damiani's western titled
"A Genius, Two Friends and a Fool").
Industry officials said the theft, which
involved 74 reels, threatened a loss of millions
of dollars and "would only have been
carried out by persons seeking ransom
money."
"It's difficult to understand how the theft
could have happened," Fellini said. "The
vaults of Technicolor are like the Bank of
Italy. For me, the damage is incalculable."
"Casanova" is a $10 million epic on the
life of the 1 8th century Venetian adventurer
lo follow Fellini's Oscar-winning "Amarcord."
Dennis Weaver Set As 1st
Judge for O'Brian Awards
HOLLYWOOD—Dennis Weaver, president
of the Screen Actors Guild, has been
selected as the first judge for the 12th annual
Hugh O'Brian Acting Awards competition,
according to the UCL.A Theatre
Department and O'Brian.
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Iwelve finalists, who already have been
selected from the UCLA Theatre Arts Department,
will present six scenes for the
competition. They will compete for prize
money totaling $1,850 and the opportunil>
lo display their talents to an audience ol
iiniied entertainment industry notables at
I ( 1 A's Macgowan Hall Wednesday, Oclohcr
S.
Weaver's current TV series. "MeCloiid.'
h.is made him among the best-known names
111 the industry. This will be the first time
iliLit Weaver has been a judge on the awards
program. He will be joined by six additional
indues, to he annoimced.
Abraham Blumenfeld Dies;
Theatre Circuit Owner
SAN FRANC LSCO— Funeral services
were held Monday, August 25, for Abraham
"Abe" Blumenfeld,
prominent theatre circuit
owner, who died
Salurdav, August 2.1.
/ '^,/ J^ He was' 72.
^^^' Blumenfeld, at the
vHH
height of his business
career, operated more
than 50 movie houses
in
partnership with his
three brothers.
Included
in the circuit hold-
Abe Bluiiiciifeld 1^^^ ^^^^ ,^^. y„|,^.j
Artists. Orpheimi, Tivoli and Esquire theatres
in San Francisco and others in Marin
Coimty. Sacramento. Oakland and Stockton.
Calif.
A former chief barker of Varietv Club
lent 32, Blumenfeld also was a member of
the San Francisco Bodies Scottish Rite and
a 50-year member of Marin Lodge 191,
AF&AM.
He leaves his wife Leah; a daughter. Ann
Corin; a son, Gordon; six grandchildren,
and two brothers, Nate and Joseph. The
family suggests memorial contribution to
the Variety Club or the Blind Babies
Foundation.
Erdman's 'Crash of 79'
Is Slated for Filming
DENVER— While on a visit to Denver.
Paul E. Erdnian of Belvedere, Calif., revealed
that his latest novel, "The Crash of
'79," has been accepted for publication by
Simon & Schuster and that it will be made
into a motion picture by Paramount. Erdinan
says that while the new novel is based
on a financial fact of our times, he hopcN
It never comes to pass.
"The financial fact of our times." according
to Erdman, "is that the Arab nations
are gathering in too many of our dollars
and too much of the currency of other nations
in exchange for their oil."
Erdman said that continuing at the present
rate, the Arab countries could have a
surplus of a half-billion dollars in cash belore
this decade ends.
His visit here was sponsored b> Pocket
Books. Inc.. which has just put out a soft
cover version of his "The Silver Bears."
Marilyn Hassett and Jill
Kinmont Aid Fund Drive
ALBUQUERQUE — Marilyn
Hassett.
who portrayed Jill Kinmont in Universal's
"The Other Side of the Mountain." has
arrived here to join the former ski champion
in a drive to raise $750,000 for the
espansion of St. Joseph's Hospital.
The Universal film star and Ms. Kinmont
will appear on round-the-clock radio and
IV programs during the week-long drive
inspired by the will and determination of
gymnast Mitzi Morrato, now
a quadraplcgic as a consequence of a fall
Irom a balance beam last May.
Mike Persons Honored
AsTOrMgr,o{Year'
BO/F.\1AN. .MON I Mike Persons,
manager of the Grand and Diane driveins.
Lander, Wyo.. was chosen "TGI Manager
of the Year" at the recent Theatre
Operators, Inc., convention held in West
Yellowstone, Mont. TOL which operates IS
screens throughout Montana and in Lander,
bases the honor on performance in proper
marketing of films, staff involvement in
promotions and tic-ins and adherence to
company procedures in expense control and
overall sound management.
The prize given with the "Manager of
the Year" honor was a trip for Persons and
his wife to this year's NATO convention in
New Orleans.
.Awarded a trip to the 1976 Rocky Mountain
Motion Picture Ass'n convention in
Denver for himself and his wife was Dan
Klusman, manager of the TO! theatres in
Bozeman, for "excellence in film promotions."
Additionally, a cash prize was awarded
Ron Lewis, manager of the Ellen Theatre
in Bozeman, for "most outstanding lobbv
display."
The three-day TOI convention included
a day-long seminar on more effective theatre
management as well as a picnic attended
by the families of all managers.
The convention was under the direction
of Tim Warner and Stephen Moser of the
lOI general offices in Bozeman. Theme of
the confab was "TOI— 14 Years Old and
(irowint;
Stronuer."
Boothmen's Local in Pact
Covering All LA Screens
HOLLYWOOD— For the first time in its
history. lATSE Local 150 has signed pacts
with all Los .Angeles area theatres, majors
and independents. The agreements were
arrived at on schedule, with the boothmeii
receiving benefits which include a 25.6 per
cent wage hike spread over a three-year
period.
Local 150 business agent Frank McBryde.
disclosed Augu.st 20 that the union also will
receive a health and welfare increase of .'^O
cents per hour. The pension fund contribution
is being hiked .32 cents an hour and
there is a provision for a ten-day sick leave.
McBryde stated that the sick-leave benefit
was something which no other lATSE local
has at this time. The boothmen also received
three holidays in the new contract.
Ihe agreement covers 2.^5 movie houses
with over M)0 screens.
Members of the local's negotiating committee
were McBryde; Frank Rubin, union
president; Ralph Kemp, secretary-treasurer,
and George Farley, assistant business agent.
Duo in Reedley's Future?
Rl IDI I > .
II There is a possihilltv
that a twin cinema will he built here
lo serve the 11,000 people who live in this
valley town. The theatre will
be constructed
along the lines of the Cinema I and II
which recently opened in Los Banos, Calif.
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Hollyv/ood
gATHRYN D. McKEE has joined 20th
Century-Fox as manager of compensation
and William K. EUermeyer is the new
manager of employment, it was announced
by E. A. Bowen, vice-president and treasurer.
•
Maslansky Koenigsberg public relations
company has moved to new headquarters
at 6671 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood and has
announced that Michael Lehman has been
added to the staff as an account executive
in films and music.
•
Laura Antonelli has been signed by executive
producer Herman Cohen to
co-star
with Jean-Paul Belmondo in Cerito Films'
"Scorpion Reef," which director Claude
Pinoteau starts lensing in October. Didier
Chatelain will be associate producer of
"Scorpion Reef," which was adapted for
the screen by Jean-Loup Dabadie from the
best-selling novel by Charles Williams.
•
Barry Cherin has left Universal Pictures
publicity department and joined Maury
Foladare Associates as a staff publicist,
with his first chores being on "Brother, Can
You Spare a Dime?", new Dimension Pictures
release, and the Danny Thomas Show
for TV.
*
Sanrio Film Corp. of America has acquired
the Animation Center in Hollywood
and is acquiring additional space to accommodate
its staff. Currently in production
is an animated feature film, "Metamorphoses."
*
Creative Entertainment has postponed
shooting on "A Special Terror" from October
1 to November 1 to permit director
Joe Mazzucca to direct an independent
bicentennial special.
•
Roy Cummings, president of the Hollywood
Foreign Press Ass'n, has named coordinating
committees for the 33rd annual
Golden Globe Awards, to be presented in
January. Max B. Miller will head the documentary
film committee; M. E. Marzouk
is chairman of the TV programing committee,
and the association's board of directors
will serve as the foreign films committee.
*
Ihc Screen Actor Guild's nominating
committee has submitted 18 nominations
for election to the Hollywood section of the
national SAG board of directors. Named
for 14 three-year terms are Claude Akins.
Charles Briggs, Carl Mathis Craig, John
Forsythe, Sumi Haru, Marvin Kaplan,
Frank Maxwell, Kent McCord, Cliff Norton,
John Randolph, Joseph Ruskin, Ro.i
.Soble, Yale Summers and Marie Windsor;
for two-year terms, Kathleen Freeman and
Carmen Zapata, and for two one-year
terms, Victor Jory and Dennis Weaver.
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love & Dealh' 375;
'Door' 350 in LA Bow
LOS ANGELES—"Love and Death" in
a 1 0th week maintained its sway over the
Regent with 375. Creeping close was "Beyond
the Door." pulling 350 in its bow at
the Chinese and National. "Rollerball"
scooted into third with 345 in an eighth
week. "Coonskin" opened with a snappy 205
at two houses while "Monty Python and the
Holy Grail" grabbed 295 in a fourth week.
(Average Is 100)
8ih 345
Cmerama-Rollerball (UA), wk
Hollywood Pussycat The Private Ailemoons of
Pomelo Mann (SR), 15th -^k ..__100
Los Feliz—Don-t Cry With Your (SR) 75
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Music Hall—The Middle the World (SR),
2nd wk 50
National, Chinese— Beyond the Door (SR) 350
Pacific, Avco 1—Farewell. My Lovely (Emb) 135
Plaza—Monty Python and the Holy Groil (SR),
4th wk 295
Regent—Love and Deoth (UA), 10th wk __375
UA Cinema !, Egyptian—Coonskin (Bry) .205
Village—Noshville (Para) 7th v.'k _ 160
Vogue, Avco II—Brother. Can You Spore a Dime?
(Dimension), Znd wk .200
'laws' Gnaws at Denver,
Finishes 10th With 425
DENVER—In its tenth week "Jaws" bit
off a healthy chunk of the moviegoing market
with the Cooper reporting 425. Three
theatres happily reveal that "The Happy
Hooker" hooked a second place gross of
200. Two films tied for third. Pulling 175
were "Death Race 2000" at eight theatres
and "The Apple Dumpling Gang" for the
Colorado 1
third week at seven theatres.
Aladdin—Tommy (Col), 18th wk _ 110
Centurv 21—Rollerball (UA), 8th wk 130
Centre—Beyond the Door (SR), 2nd wk. ., 165
Cherry Creek—Nashville (Para), 5th wk. lOO
Young Frankenstein (20th-Fox),
36th wk _ _ _..125
Continemal—The Fortune 6th 100
(Col), wk
Cooper—lows (Univ), 10th wk 425
Eight theatres—Death Roce 2000 (SR) 175
Esquire—Charlotte (SR) 13";
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Paramount, Crest—Cleopotra Jones ond the
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Cosino ol Gold (V.'Bl, 2nd v,k ,.
Seven theatres—The Apple Dumpling Gang
(BV), 3rd wk. . 17L
Three theatres—Part 2 Walking Toll (AIP).
3rd wk -.._ - _ ...100
Three theatres-The Happy Hooker (SR) .200
12 theatres—While Line Fever (Col) -110
University Hills 2-The Other Side ol the
Mountain (Univ), 24th wk 160
Ken Russell Will Direct
'Valentino' Film for UA
HOLLYWOOD — British director Ken
Russell is in Hollywood, his first trip to the
movie capital, to begin work on "Valentino,"
described as a multimillion-dollar
project by producers Robert Chartoff and
Irwin Winkler. Russell's participation was
announced at a press conference Monday.
August 25. at the American Film Institute,
attended by the trio along with Mike Medavoy.
United Artists vice-president in charge
of West Coast production.
Russell will write the screenplay with
Mardek Martin, co-author of Warner Bros.'
"Mean Streets." and the film will delve into
Valentino's early days in Italy. Paris and
the U.S.. up to his death in New York in
1926.
Shooting is slated to start early ne.xt year
on locations in Europe. Now York and Hollywood.
The Valentino role, nor any of the
others, have been cast.
"Murder b\ Death" i
iroduclioii in the fall.
20th-Fox Int'l to Release
Embassy Films in UK
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.— A selected
number of future .Avco Embassy films will
be distributed in the United Kingdom by
20th Century-Fo.\ Int'l, it was announced
jointly by Milton Goldstein, executive vicepresident
of Avco, and David Raphel, president.
20th Century-Fox International.
Under the arrangement, effective August
1
S. .Avco supervises sales policy and also
maintains its own English pormotion and
publicity staff.
"The decision to have 20th-Fox handle
the major part of our distribution in the
UK." revealed Goldstein, "was made after
careful review by the new Avco management
of its sales operations. Through a
major company like 20th-Fox. we believe
that we can achieve greater penetration in
this important market than was possible
when Avco distributed its pictures exclusively."
Raphel welcomed the prospect of releasing
Avco films. "Avco has an important
product lineup for the next two years and
vvc look forward to working with the company
to provide the kind of sales result
that will prove of maximum benefit to both
our companies."
Initial
Fox
Avco pictures
International
to
include
be released
"Farewell.
b,\
My
Lovely." starring Robert Mitchum; "Russian
Roulette," starring George Segal; "Man
Friday," starring Peter O'Toole and Richard
Roundtree: "The Reincarnation of Peter
Proud," starring Michael Sarrazin: "Diamonds."
starring Robert Shaw and Richard
Roundtree. and "Part 2 Walking Tall."
starring Bo Svenson.
John Ollerman Takes Helm
At Colusa, Calif., House
COLUSA. CALIF.—John Ollerman ol
Chester. Calif., in Plumas County, has taken
over the operation of Colusa Theatre. He
succeeds Garland B. Sivley. who has been
connected with—or has managed— the
showhouse for the past 30 years. Sivley and
his wife have taken over management of the
new Yuba City Racquet Club complex.
Mrs. N. C. Steele, owner of the Colusa
I heatre property, said negotiations with the
Ollermans were handled by her son Ned
jr., who resides in Oregon and is in the real
estate business there.
Ollerman, an experienced theatre operator,
is married and has a teenage daughter.
Lambert Handles Brenner
Films in Charlotte Area
NEW YORK— Toni Lambert of Lambert
Films will represent Joseph Brenner
Associates, Inc. in the Charlotte exchange
it area, was announced by Steven Brenner,
vice-president and general sales manager.
One of Lambert's first assignments is the
setting up of a drive-in saturation on "lorso."
followed by a saturation booking oi
in "Girl Room 2A."
-heduled to beu .Actor Sandy Kevin was married on the
set of "Ode to Billy Joe" August IS.
LOS ANGELES
{Jerbert F, Solow, formerly vice-president
in charge of worldwide production for
Meiro-Goldwyn-Mayer. has been named
president of Hanna-Barbcra Television, newly
formed to produce prime-time entertainment.
He will be involved in development
of all forms of programing except animation
productions.
Eric Falkenberg has been named Eastern
sales manager for Cinema Product Corp., it
was announced by Ed DiGiulio. president.
Cinemas Southwest Adds
San Antonio Twin Unit
From Southwestern Edition
SAN .'\NTONI0—Cinemas Southwest,
inc., of Corpus Christi purchased the Perrin
Plaza Twin theatre and took over its operation
August 15. The purchase was announced
by Peggy F. Hopkins, city manager
of Cinemas Southwest's theatres here.
The Perrin Plaza Twin theatre was formerly
operated by Steak-Out. Inc., of Dallas.
The acquisition of the Perrin Plaza Twin
theatre brings the nimiber of indoor screens
in San Antonio operated by the Corpus
Christi-based circuit to a total of six.
Vis. Hopkins said that both the Callaghan
Twin and the We.stwood Twin operate on a
SI per seat any hour pwlicy which has become
very popular with San Antonio moviegoers.
This policy is being extended to cover
the admission price at the Perrin Plaza Twin
theatre as well.
Recent screen attractions include Walt
Disney's "Bambi" on one screen and the
double bill of "Freebie and the Bean" and
The Towering Inferno" on the second
screen.
Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Is Now ASCAP Member
jr.
NEW YORK—Actor Efrem Zimbalist
has joined the American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers, it was announced
recently by president Stanley
Adams. The motion picture and television
star is the son of Efrem Zimbalist, who was
a famed violinist, and Alma Gluck, a worldfamous
opera star, and has composed a
number of chamber music works.
The actor, who has appeared in plays.
films and two major television series, wa^
co-producer of Gian Cado Menotti's Pulitzer
Prize-winning opera, 'The Consul." He
also spent five years as dean of students at
Philadelphia's prestigious Curtis Institute of
Music, where he studied composition before
going to Hollywood.
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Ampex Earnings Up 23 Per
Cent in First Quarter
REDWOOD CITY. CALIF.—Ampcx
Corp. .'\iigust 19 announced continuing
operations pretax earnings of $2 million for
the first quarter ended Aug. 2. 1975. These
earnings represent a 23 per cent increase
over the previous year's first-quarter earnings
of SI. 6 million.
nonrecurring IBM settlement."
The net earnings for the first quarter o\
the current fiscal year were $1.6 million,
or 14 cents per share,
including 5 cents pershare
benefit from the utilization of net
operating loss carryforwards. The same
quarter a year ago. net earnings were $13.1
million, or $1.21 per share, which included
the $13 million nonrecurring IBM settlement
and a 51 cent per-share tax benefit
from net operating loss carryforwards.
Hausman further stated that revenues for
the current fiscal quarter totaled $63.7 million,
an increase of $2.3 million over the
previous year. He also indicated there was
a reduction of the company's debt in the
amount of $ I I million during the first quarter.
Ampex has worldwide operations in magnetic
recording and tape, data storage and
information
systems.
SEATTLE
^arper Paul Williams, Pacific Film Enterprises,
was in this city and Portland
recently making courtesy calls and discussing
future product. William's company is expanding
into the Pacific Northwest and soon
will be opening an office in either Portland
. . . Patrice Steele, former
or our town
Pretax earnings from continuing operations
booker for Paramount for the
nonrecurring
Pacific
exclude royalties,
licenses
and settlements which last year amounted to
$13 million.
Northwest area, is now a booker with Pacific
Film Enterprises.
Arthur H. Hauman. Ampex president and
executive officer, said. "'Last year's
Roddy McDowall is performing on stage
Gene Keene's Cirque Dinner Theatre in
chief at
"Charley's Aunt" and your correspondeni.
first-quarter operating earnings were distorted
by the inclusion of the $13 million Goldman, and his assistant Joe McCann
,Stu
Australian Film Industry
Is Alarmed by Imports
OTTAWA — Government officials in
Australia have expressed alarm about the
increasing dependence of the country on
the importation of theatrical motion pictures
and filmed TV entertainment. Members
of Australia's fledgling film industry
are equally concerned about the dominance
of foreign product.
A government body, the Australian Film
Development Corp., has spent $7.7 million
since 1970 subsidizing local films and TV
programs. But there still is a long way to
go, since in 1974 Australia produced onl\
19 feature motion pictures, an increase of
nine over the 1973 total. However, 873
theatrical films were imported—232 from
the U.S. and 89 from the United Kingdom.
It was noted by a government spokesman
that a nation of 13,000,000 people,
which claims to have produced the world's
first full-lenglh motion picture, should be
able to make a belter showing in film
production.
Howard Griffiths of the Australian Writers
Guild declared, "The employment
situation never has been so bad for our
members and people in other industry
unions."
A Labor Party congress last February
urged that the government require all TV
to be at least 75 per cent Australian ui
origin, both to protect the industry and for
nationalistic
reasons.
not only had the pleasure of viewing the
performance press night but also interviewed
the fine actor at a session in the Cirque.
Roddy stated the current engagement is his
first stage performance in the last seven
years. Nanette Fabray. a personal friend of
both McCann and yours truly, is next at the
Cirque, opening Tuesday (23).
Personable M. W. -Bud" Saffle of Saffle's
SAN FRANCISCO
J)oug Lamer, Universal's head booker who
recently transferred here from Los
Angeles, was married Sunday, July 27, to
Carolyn Paulik. a speech pathologist.
Jim Toler is in fair condition in Los
Banos Hospital following a heart attack.
I:m owns those three "jewel-ibox" theatres:
the Empire. Placerville, the Crest, Los Banos
and the Chabot. Castro Valley.
Chris Peters' fine El Rey Theatre in Manleca
burned to the ground Monday. .August
4. while playing "The Towering Inferno."
With real disasters, who needs movies? .
The Vecino Theatre in Chico, a porno
house, also was completely destroyed in two
separate fires this month . State
Theatre in Orovillc has withstood the recent
quakes and aftershocks handsomely, reports
manager Danny Roach,
Those mini-riots at the Market Street
inema here and the Lux Theatre in Oak-
C
land were merely fans mobbing karate
champion Jim Kelly. Kelly was making a
round of personal appearances for the opening
of 20th-Fox's "Take a Hard Ride." a
western in which he stars with Jim Brown.
Lee Van Cleef and Fred William-on.
WOMPIs held their August social meeting,
hosted by Doris Monzo, Wednesday,
August 20. at Jovanelos. Guest speaker
D ane Feinstein of the board of supervisors
was unable to attend due to the police strike
negotiations. Nevertheless, the WOMPI carried
on in high spirits with their "Basket ol
Cheers" raffle. First pize winner Al Hemingway
of Cinemation was bestowed a haltgallon
each of vodka. Scotch and bourbon
The second prize of six bottles of wire went
10 Ted Reisch and third prize of one case
ol beer went lo Rico Rafael. Special thanks
Theatre Service in the Pacific Northwest,
with headquarters in this city, will b; hostcommentator
for an exciting 17-week scries
of movie classics. "The Greatest Movies
Ever Made." starting Monday (8) at 1 1 p.m.
on the local .ABC affiliate following ihj
Monday night professional football game.
is Saffle owner of the Seattle Saffle Theatre
Service, booker and buyer of motion piclures
for theatres throughout northwestern
Washington, northern Idaho and .Alaska,
including five movie houses of his own.
"The Apple Dumpling Cang" was in its
fourth big week at the Valley and .Sno-King
drive-ins, as well as at the Bellevue Overlake,
.Seattle Aurora and Renton Village
cinemas.
"The Happy Hooker" recently opened in
the UA Cinema 150. Ne.xt door. "At Long
Last Love" was having its initial run at the
UA Cinema 70 . . . "Farewell. My Lovely"
was the new attraction in the Fifth .Avenuj
Theatre.
to all who contributed toward this raflle.
as proceeds will go toward the WOMPI International
convention to be held in
in 1976.
our city
Miss U.S.A. Making Movie
Debut in 'Six Pack Annie'
SAN FRANCISCO— Lmdsay Bloom.
Miss U.S.A. in 1973, makes her film debui
in the stellar title role of "Six Pack Annie,
an American International release, v\hicli
t)pens Wednesday (24) in hardtops and
drive-ins in the San Francisco Ba\ area.
Filmed in color and laced with slapstick
comedy, "Six Pack Annie" features the vi
vaeious blue-eyed Lindsay in the role of a
busty, blonde beauty who is the amorou'
target of every red-blooded Romeo in a
snail Southern town.
Sheriff Marlin Wateis. pla\ed h> Joe
lliggins, is an unscrupulous romantic who
seeks to entice her into his arms. Higgis
is well-known as the sheriff in the TV car
conmiercial.
The cast includes Raymond Dantoi. Sid
Melton. Larry Mahan. Doodles Weaver.
Jana Bellan. Louisa Moritz and Stubbs
Kaye.
John C. Broderick produced the pictme
which was directed by Graydon F. Davii!
from a story by Norman Winski. who al-^i'
wrote the screenplay with David Kidd a d
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. . . Tom
Denver Museum Anxious
To Add Film Screenings
DENVER — While many a local filmmaker
has criticized the Denver Art Museum
for being "indifferent to film." that
simply isn"t true, according to museum director
Thomas Maytham. Some moviemakers
have gone so far as to accuse the
museum of not considering the cinema as
an art form.
Maytham states emphatically. "That attitude
just doesn't exist."
Rcna Andrews, in a Denver Post article
written after she had interviewed the museum
director, said: "Maytham admits that
little in the way of film viewing is available
at the Denver Art Museum. However, he
lists reasons for this—as well as a desire to
change the situation.
"His concern is particularly convincing
when one learns that it was Maytham who
introduced film retrospectives—and highly
successful ones at that— in his previous
position as acting director of the .Seattle Art
Museum.
"Film until now has been used as a didactic
medium at the Denver Art Museum, primarily
utilized to supplement art exhibits
and expand on them. Another museum film
activity was a recent tie-in with the Flick
Cinema to show films on the American West
as the museum featured an exhibit on the
same theme.
"Other film events have been held in cooperation
with the Denver Public Library.
"The main problem with showing films
in the museum is one of a proper space.
says Maytham. The museum, unfortunately,
has no auditorium—one of few major museums
without one—and the acoustics leave
.1 lot to be desired in both the lunch and
Llining-room area and in
galleries.
"In order to utilize one gallery, provided
the exhibit was the kind that hangs on the
wall and not sculpture, the museum still
would need high-quality projectors, a screen
and a way to block the light out of the windows.
To build an auditorium, of course,
would cost far more.
"But Maytham isn't despairing. He is
looking for ways to make film-showing possible
at the museum. For instance, he would
like to do a summer festival on the work
of Colorado and national filmmakers for
the slate's centennial observance.
"The museum's budget is no help. Ii is
Sl..^ million, compared with S7.5 million
at I'le Boston Art Museum. Ihj Denver
museum also has a small staff—29 persons
—compared with 400 paid staff members
at the Boston museum. "What delights me
is that filmmakers believe the museum is a
proper place to show their art,' Maytham
says. 'We are anxious to do films. But there
are problems.'
"He believes if the museum received
funds of $5,500. some film programs would
be possible. While in Seattle. Maytham was
responsible for a number of film programs,
some of which were free to the public.
"The various series ranged from film on
art works to the features of Japanese filmmakers
and the work of American directors
including Alfred Hitchcock. Frank Capra
and John Ford. Even the controversial Leni
Riefenstahl film. Triumph of the Will' was
shown.
"He recalls, with satisfaction, the popularity
of a Hitchcock film festival. He said
the 230 seats were occupied and 250 additional
persons were "lined up in the rain
waiting to come in.'
"When Maytham was contacted at home
about the problem, he handled it with the
showmanship of a real cinema lover. 'Run
another one.' he said."
DENVER
Ppperson Film Service located in .Salt Lake
City has moved. The new address is
1212-B South State St.. Salt Lake City. Utah
84111.
Fred Kaysbier has installed a new fourtrack
sound system in his Mesa Theatre.
Douglas. Wyo. The theatre is one of the few
in the state of Wyoming which is equipped
with this type sound.
Doing business on the Row were Don
Simmons. Romona Theatre, Kremmling:
David Cory. Goodhand Theatre. Kimball.
Nebr.: Bob Spahn. United Enterprises of
this city, and Howard Campbell and Neal
I.loyd. Westland Theatres. Colorado Springs
Philibin. district manager for
American International Pictures, was in
town and. along with branch manager Jerry
Collins, was calling on the accounts.
Ross Campbell, president of Theatre Operators.
Inc.. headquartered in Bozeman.
Mont., has announced that Bob Johnson
has joined the organization as manager of
its theatres in Miles City. Mont. He is succeeding
Wayne Knudsvig. who has resigned.
Johnson is a twenty-three year veteran of
exhibition, having managed theatres in Poplar
and Havre. Mont., prior to moving to
the new post. He is the former secretary
of NATO of Montana.
Jack and Hazel Felix celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary and then the
loving youngsters boarded a plane for a
trip to Lake Tahoe. San Francisco and
up and down the West Coast. Rumors
|ioints
to the clffci that Hazel is to receive a Distinguished
Service Medal or an award for
valor and br;ivery are simply witlmui toun-
Hallbergs Leave Lincoln
To Reside in Colorado
DENVER—Herman Hallberg,
vice-president
for both Highland and Cooper-Highland
circuits since the acquisition of Cooper
Theatres Co. by Cheyenne-based Highland
Theatres, and his family moved to a
recently
purchased home in Littleton. Colo., during
the holiday weekend. Hallberg has
maintained offices here since June, commuting
to and from Lincoln, Neb., where
they had resided 16 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Hallberg, Mr. and Mrs. E.
N. "Jack" Thompson, Cooper Foundation
president, and Doris Grady, who has been
Hallberg's secretary, and her husband were
feted August 17 by Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Kroll at their home in Lincoln. Mrs. Grady
remained in the Nebraska city as secretary
to Kroll, who is Eastern district manager
for the company.
The Hallberg's daughter Annette is a
high school senior. Their son Jim and his
wife Jean attend the University of Nebraska;
son John resides in .Atlanta. Ga.,
and another daughter, Mrs. Howard
(Cathy) Ebemeier, teaches at Millard, Neb..
and lives in Omaha.
Gene Amole to Host Larry
Tajira Awards Banquet
DENVER—Gene Amole, local broadcaster,
will host the annual awards dinner
in honor of the late Larry Tajira, drama
and motion picture critic for the Denver
Post until his death.
Each year the Larry Tajira Memorial
Foundation honors groups and individuals
for their contributions to the arts for the
previous year. This year's program also will
feature a presentation to the winner of the
first annual Tajira scriptwriting competition.
A $500 award will be presented to the
winner. Judges are now busy going over
the more than 40 scripts submitted in the
contest.
Tickets to the banquet, to be held at the
Denver Athletic Club, are $10, and can be
secured by sending $10 along with a
stamped addressed envelope to the Tajira
Foundation Banquet. 1433 South Eudora
St., Denver. For further information call
757-0664.
Bicentennial Film Bows
EXETER. N.H.— Andre Dc I^i Vitxe'.s
.\nijrican Bicentenmial film "These States"
had its premiere showings August 16
through August 18 (7:30 p.m. nightly) at
the Exeter Town Hall. Etonations were $2
for adults and $1 for children under 15
years of age. with proceeds going to the
Seacoast Arts, Inc.. whose purpose is to
promote the arts im the seacxxist region. The
attraction is to be scheduled throughout the
U.S.

Lewis Wolff to Continue
As 20th-Fox Consultant
NEW YORK— Lewis N. Wolff, who has
been consultant to 20th Century-Fox anil
president of the company's real estate subsidiary,
20th Century-Fox Realty & Development
Co.. for the past four years, will
phase out of direct operating responsibilil\,
it was announced by Dennis C. Stanfill,
chairman of the board and chief executive
officer of 20th Century-Fox.
Stanfill said that Wolff would terminate
his position of president of the real estate
subsidiary, but would continue to advise
20th-Fox in real estate matters and explore
potential joint ventures with the company.
He said that "Lew Wolff has provided us
with four years of sound judgment, innovation,
and leadership in the company's
real estate activities, including the purchase
of our Century City studio property from
Alcoa, the acquisition of our lease to operate
Marineland of the Pacific, the sale of
our former New York property, and the disposition
of the Century Ranch. His performance
has been outstanding; we look
forward to his continued counsel."
Stanfill added that Wolff will continue in
his position as chairman of the board of
Marineland and represent 20th-Fox in the
area of governmental relations pertaining
to the studio property.
E. A. Bowen. vice-president and treasurer
of 20th-Fox, will be the supervising executive
for the company's real estate activities.
Vince Maher, vice-president of Fox Realt\
& Development, and Judy Frank, project
director of studio development, will report
to Bowen.
Wolff stated that he made the decision
to resign his 20th-Fox position because of
pressing time requirements in his other activities.
Wolff is managing partner of Wolff-
Sesnon Development Co. and president of
San Jose Center Corp., which was formed in
1966 to develop the $70 million Park Center
project, which is now under construction
in San Jose.
set in Seattle with Sterling Theatres, General
Cinema Corp., Mann Iheatres. Northwest
Diversified and many independents
for exhibition of "Challenge to Be Free."
Japanese Grosses Strong
For 'Gone With the Wmd'
HOLLYWOOD—Cone With the W ind "
hit a gross of $82,5
1.'5 at five theatres in its
Saturday and Sunday opening in Japan and,
on the strength of that performance, the
film has been booked in two additional
Tokyo houses Saturday (13).
Frank E. Rosenfelt, MGM president and
chief executive officer, said the two-day
grosses reflected almost 100 per cent business
in each of the five theatres, three in
Tokyo, one in Nagoya and one in Fukyoka.
"Gone with the Wind" was in general
release in Japan just over three years ago.
Eastgate Quad Progresses
SHREVEPORT, LA. — Construction
work is Hearing completion on the new
Ogden-Perry Theatres' Eastgate Cinema IV
here. Opening date is slated for October
for the quadplex. which will have a total
of 2,000 seats divided equally.
'Crazy Mama' Reports Big
First Week in Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO—New World Pictures'
"Crazy Mama," starring Cloris Leachman,
grossed $202,966 in its first multipleengagement
week in the San Francisco area.
It was announced by NWP president Roger
Corman.
Outstanding boxoffice figures were reported
by the Capitol Iheatrc. San Jose:
Sunnyside Drivc-In, Fresro, and McHenry
Theatre, Modesto.
"Crazy Mama" is a Julie Corman production
directed by Jonathan Demme. Als,:
starring are Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern
and Jim Backus.
'Twilighter' Policy at Quad
HADI 1:Y. MASS.—The .Mountain Farms
cinemas IV have a "Twiliter" policy in effect
on a daily basis, with reduced admission
between 5:30 and 6 p.m.. auditoriums
one and two; between 5:15 and 5:45. auditorium
three; and between 5:45 and 6:15.
auditorium four.
"White Line Fever" opened at New York
showcase theatres August 27.
'Challenge to Be Free' Is
Set for January Showings
PORTLAND—Sam Oetinger of Pacific
International Enterprises, Medford, Ore.-
based four-wall distributor, was in this cit\
last month setting dates and signing contracts
with Bill Spencer of Tom Moyer Theatres;
Don McMurdie, McMurdie Theatres;
Jack Lovett, Lovett Interstate, and
Mark McDougald of Adamson. All are for
Jan. 14. 1976, breaks. A total TV saturation
campaign is slated for the entire state
of Oregon on PIE's new adventure film.
"Challenge to Be Free."
Oetinger reported that the same dates arc
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SALT LAKE CITY
Tom Philibin, division manager for American
ager of the Century theatres.
International Pictures, just returned
John Dahl, local representative of New
from a business trip to Denver, working
World Pictures, announces the Utah-Idahowith
Jerry Collins in the accounts department.
-Part 2 Walking Tall." an AIP re-
Montana area saturation run of "Crazy
Mama" Wednesday (24). The film is a se-
lease, is doing "fantastic business" in the
Utah. Idaho and Montana territories. Tom
said. \IP also has 55 bookings set for "Born
Losers" in the Utah. Idaho and Montana
territories, with openings slated for Wed-?esday
(17) and Wednesday (24).
Congratulations to Max Watson, manager
of the Fox Cottonwood Mall Theatre, whose
wife Karma gave birth to a girl .Saturday.
August 16.
Mann's Villa Theatre will premiere John
Wayne's newest film. "Rooster Cogburn."
October 17, with the event sponsored by
the Salt Lake Kiwanis Club . . . "The Sting"
is showing through Tuesday (2) at Mann's
Fox Cottonwood Mall Theatre—the picture's
farewell performance before being
withdrawn from release for five years.
Jack Haigh of Syufy Enterprises was in
town to discuss ideas for triplexing the Century
21 Theatre with Roger Peyton, man-
TUCSON
^ucson 200" was the theme emblazoned in
hundreds of lights atop "A" Mountain—Sentinel
Peak—from which lookouts
signaled the approach of warring Apaches
in territorial days. The lights, of course,
proclaimed the city's great five-day-long bicentennial
birthday party August 20-24.
August 22 was a bonus—movie day, when
visitors to events held at the Community
Center Complex watched the filming of a
segment of TV's "Petrocelli."
In the Arena, continuous motion pictures
were shown from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.. a "Reel
Women's Film Festival By and/or About
Women: A Reel Women's World." A big.
gala, civic birthday bash, the celebration
pwinted up what a show business town this
city really is! The Preble family is an example.
Forefathers of the three Preble boys
owned a showboat and a circus and their
dad was born in a circus tent. The connection
with the movies is that Rita Hayworth's
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Tom Bullock of Ambassador Releasing is
very pleased to announce the opening of
Threshold: The Blue Angels Experience"
at Plitfs Parkway and Syufy's Las Vegas
Four Drivc-ln. both in Las Vegas. Nev..
August 27.
Mike "Marty" Martindale of 20th Cenlury-Fox
married Maxine Dale Saturday.
August 23. in Elko. Nev. Congratulations!
Keith Perry, vice-president/ operations.
Universal Theatre Supply, recently returned
from a trip which took him to San Francisco,
Los Angeles and adjacent areas .
Marcia Phillips. UTS secretary, just returned
from a vacation in Minnesota and
Wisconsin.
Dane Denick, national sales manager for
Macbeth Sales Corp.. was in town on business.
father taught Mom Preible, Helen, how to
dance and Grandmother Preble, Katie
Hughs Preble, taught a then young (and
unheard of) Red Skelton how to dance. Circus
folk, the Moore family, with its "Mess
of Mutts" dog act, calls this city home when
not on the
road.
20th-Fox Int'l Names Three
In Overseas Positions
PARIS. FRANCE—Francisco Rodriguez
has been appointed managing director ol
20th Century-Fox, Italy, it has been annoimced
by Emile Buyse, vice-presideni
Continental Europe, 20th Century-Fox Intl.
Rodriguez will succeed Oscar Lax, who has
been moved to a new position with 20th
Fox in Paris.
Rodriguez, who had acted as 20ih-FoNN
Latin American supervisor from 196.'! to
1970, subsequently held the position of sales
manager for MGM International and then
was 20th-Fox's home office represcntali\ :
in Spain.
Benjamin Benhamou has been appoiiilcd
20th-Fox's home office representative in
Spain, it also was announced by Buysc.
Benhamou, who will be headquartered in
Madrid, succeeds Rodriguez. Benhamou had
been the manager of the Paris exchange,
ihe manager of 20th-Fox in Marseilles, and
director of the Moroccan office for 20ih
Fox.
Lakeside Duo Debuts
In Clearfield, Utah
CLEARFIELD. UTAH—Ihe Lakeside
I
win Cinema here was unveiled with a special
premiere Wednesday night. August 20.
lor Ogden city officials and local dignitaries.
The invitational event was followed
the next evening by a screening for Filmrowites,
with the general public attending
(he grand opening Friday. August 22.
The duo is equipped with 210 Massey
Polaris seats in one auditorium, while the
other theatre has 96 similar seats.
The booth is equipped with re-conditioned
E7 projectors, along with Christie and ORC
xenon lamphouses. Equipment was furnished
by Universal Theatre Supply. Salt
Lake City.
The Lakeside Twin is owned by Howard
and Gary Coleman, who also own the Ideal
Theatre in Clearfield.
Inaugural attractions were "Part 2 Walking
Tall" (in the large auditorium) and
"Funny Lady."
'Murder Over the City' Sets
Records in Overseas Runs
NEW YORK—"Murder Over the City."
a Columbia Pictures release starring Jean-
Paul Belmondo. is setting a sizzling boxoffice
pace in its first wave of overseas engagements.
In Hong Kong the Belmondo action-adventure
has amassed a phenomenal threeweek
total of $243,433.
In Japan the Belmondo adventure continues
to generate top boxoffice grosses, as
evidenced by the three^week total of $199.-
252 from Tokyo.
Belmondo's special brand of daredevil excitement
is also proving a boxoffice magnet
with filmgoers in Israel. Following a smash
eight-week season in Tel Aviv, resulting in
a total bo.xoffice gross of $42,959. "Murder
Over the City" is now playing to rousing
boxoffice figures in Jerusalem, with an opening
two week figure of S7.076.
Booth Tarkington Stories
Are Filmed Most Often
NEW YORK— Broadcast Information
Bureau, in preparing its Bicentennial edition,
has discovered that Booth Tarkington is the
.\mcrican author whose works have been
adapted most often for films. Following
Tarkington in screen popularity are Marl.
Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan
Poe and Sinclair Lewis. The most popuLii
female authors are Fannie Hurst, who wrote
the often-filmed novels "Imitation of Life"
nnd "Back Street," and Olive Higgins Proui\
("Stella Dallas" and "Now Voyager").
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KANSAS CITY—"Jaws" surfaced with
465 in a ninth week in the Midland. "Roller-
ball" scored with 370 in a second week at
two houses while "One of Our Dinosaurs
Is Missing" opened with a big 355.
(Average Is 100)
Blue Ridge 2 The Apple DiimpUng Gang
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Blue FUdge Ranchmart 1, 1—RoUerball (UA).
2nd wk 370
Blue Ridge 4, Ranchmart 4 Love and Death
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(UA) 8th wit ^ 115
Fine Ar-s—The AFT) 110
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Y^e preopening campaign for
"Beyond the
Door" wasn't one of the noisiest 'but
the movie is turning out to be one of the
highest grossers of the summer season. As
Ed Seguin of the Plitt Theatre circuit advertising
and publicity department puts it. "It
has been challenging tooxoffice records at
the State Lake as well as in
other cities."
Mike Stern said that The Wind and the
Lion." which has had e.Kcellent opening
an
run at his Edens 2. will be moving into his
company's McClurg Court Theatre. This
means that •'Rollenball." also a top summer
grosser in its first showing, moves out and
will continue a run at the Essaness circuit's
Woods Theatre in the Loop. "Love and
Death" will continue its run at the Edens 1.
with "Monty Python and the Holy Grai!"
opening at the Edens 2. Stern said his company
had negotiated for a new Peter Sellers
comedy. "Undercovers Hero."
With the moving of "Monty Python" out
of the Carnegie Theatre. "The Man in the
Glass Booth" moves in. This film was exhibited
at the Carnegie in late January of
nois, attended a meeting of the NATO cable
TV committee in New York. A specific
point of discussion concerned the nature of
this year as part of the American Film
Theatre series. Oscar Brotman. in announcing
the new multi-point distribution system and
the necessity of constant vigilance in regard
the opening of "The Man in the Glass
Booth." said audience response in January to the pay TV problem.
was "unbelievalble" and that he has had
many inquiries as to when the film might
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Harvard Theatre. Harvard, reportedly
Tribune veteran columnist Will Leonard
is going to concentrate on a program
of films with a sex theme.
said "The Hound of the Baskervilles," playing
at the Playboy Theatre, is "the best
(Sherlock) Holmes picture ever made with
Basil Rathbonc as Holmes. Nigel Bruce as
Dr. Watson and John Carradine as Barrymore,
the
butler."
Best wishes to Clarence Kcim of the
Lange organization. Keim is recovering from
Theatre Chair Upholstering
a Stroke but signs indicate it won't be long
until he returns to work.
.
Bill Lange was in California to meet with
Taylor-Laughlin in connection with "The
Master Gunfighter." The new film stars
Tom Laughlin of "Billy Jack" fame
Meanwhile. Laura Kroll carried on at Lange
headquarters and work is progressing for
the Friday (12) opening of "The Happy
Hooker." with Lynn Redgrave . . . Marion
Brown, formerly with JMG Film Co. and
Cinerama Releasing Corp., has joined William
Lange & Associates.
The S-K Film Co. personnel and Sam
Seplowin were saddened to hear about the
death of Bud Rogers, sales head of Walter
Reade Continental. Seplowin said he had
known Rogers for almost 50 years and he
had been his representative for over 15
years while heading Select Film Co.. now
known as S-K Film Co.
Jack Clark, president of NATO of Illi-
Applause for Bob Ellison, who wrote
"Bucktown." It has been a substantial grosser
in its opening here at the Roosevent Theatre
and word was received that it has been
a success in its showings in other areas of
the
country.
With the successful launching of •Mitch-
ell" in the metropolitan and Illinois territory.
Nat Nathanson, Central division manager
for Allied Artists Pictures Corp., and
branch manager Elliott Slutzky are turning
attention to a campaign for A.'V's Thanksgiving
feature. "Conduct Unbecoming."
When Fred Ftorence of Mescop heard
about how "Blazer Girls" was catching on
in early openings, he booked the film in
two Mescop drive-ins. While S-K Films is
the distributor in this territory for the
Ixvitt-Pickman movie. Moe Dudelson has
been handling the Milwaukee teriitory for
S-K.
Irv Kupcinet Open
To Be Held Sept. 8
CHICAGO— For the 24th consecutive
year. Harry Balaban was chairman of the
annual Tent 26 golf outing at Elmhurs'
Country Club, with the result that the turnout
was once again a sizable one.
Monday (8) there will be another Variety
Club golf outing. This will be the third anual
Irv Kupcinet Open, an all-day affair
to be held at the Evanston Golf Club. The
entry fee for the tournament honoring
Kupcinet, columnist and TV star, will be
$500, with all the proceeds going toward
helping to build the Variety Club-Karyn
Kupcinet Center for Special Children at
Little City.
The tournament will culminate in a banquet
show gala, with Bob Hope: Monty
Hall, Variety Clubs International president;
Sammy Davis jr.. Milton Berle and
Forrest Tucker.
Michael J. Hewlett, secretary of state
and general chairman, will serve as toasimaster.
Each player and his lady will be the
guests of Arnold Morton Sunday evening
(7) for precelebration festivities at his
Arnie's.
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Kas.; We!>t Loop. Manhattan, Kas.; Cincnui.
Columbia; Uptown. Rolla. Mo.; Fo\. .Sedalia.
Mo.; Campus. Warrensburg. Mo.;
North Gate I. Rapid City. S. D.; Broadway
Cinema. Yankton. S. D.; Beverly I. Casper.
Wyo.. and Paramount. Cheyenne. Wyo.
Richard Durwood, senior vice-president
of American Multi Cinema, and wile Marjorie
were on a Balkan tour August S-22.
sponsored by the Friends of Art. Thc\ visited
Yugoslavia, Turkey. Romania and Kiev.
Russia.
The Brookside Theatre, Mann circuit af
filiate, which has been playing double-fcaiiire
encore films at 75 cents admission,
opened with "'Panorama Blue" Wednesda\
August 27. Tickets sold at S2.50 each for
the X-rated film in 70mm superscope widescreen
Panoramascope with four-track
stereo sound. Marcus Film distributes the
Richard Ellman presentation for this area.
K.C. Area Saturation Sept. 24th
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THIS YEAR'S MAD, MAD WORLD OF
SHEER LUNACY AND COMPLETE INSANITY
Forty years ago, according to the Kansas
City Times Monday. August 25. William
Powell starred in "Escapade" with I.uise
Rainer at the Plaza Theatre. Elisabeth Bergner
had the lead in "Escape Me Never" at
the Apollo.
Plitt Circuit Opens
Cherryvale Triplex
CHICAGO— Plitt Theatres new triplex,
the Cherry vale 1-2-,^, began full operation
F riday, August 29. Located in the Cherryale
Mall Shopping Center, the multitheatrc
is offering a different program in each
iiiditorium.
All three theatres will be open for matinees
daily at 1:30 p.m.. with conlinuou'
performances.
The predictions of a number of are.i
press members and civic leaders were placed
in a time capsule which was embedded ii
the sidewalk fronting the triplex. A not:ilicin
on the bronze lid notes that the capsu'
!- not to be opened until 2025 .A.D.
School of Ozarks Honors
Branson, Mo., Theatre
BRAN.SON. MO- The DiekinscMi en
eiiit's
Owen Theatre here was honored with
I special feature article in .SOTO, the student
publication of the School of the Ozarks.
Laurence Barney, manager of the theilre.
ard his wife Doris, who is cashier,
\ere mentioned as employing several
of the
^; ) students each year.
With low rates and long lines, the Owen
1 heatrc is prospering despite the new campus
theatre," according to Barney. He feels
students visit the theatre for a relaxing evening
off campus.
Women students have made up the win
iiing Owen Theatre softball team in thi.
Branson Women's Softball league sinec
1972.
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LOUIS
"phc Jablonow family definitely is sportsminded.
Circuit vice-president Jules
Jabionow's daughter Jill was a member of
this city's team which competed in the National
City Girls' Junior Tennis Tournament
in Mowie, Md.. last month, in which teams
from New York, Florida, Texas, California.
Chicago and Washington, D. C„ met.
Jim Sabo, formerly with Buena Vista and
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. is the new branch
manager at Avco Embassy. Division manager
John O'Leary was in town to lend a
helping hand to his new staffer.
"'Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not
Enough," based on the best-seller, opened
to outstanding business at Northwest Plaza,
Jamestown Mall, Des Peres 4 and Avalon
Cinema . "Winterhawk" opened
August 27 at Mark Twain, Granada, Des
Peres, Northwest and in Belleville and East
Alton, III. Michael Dante stars as the Indian
fighter . . . Wehrenberg Theatre has two
exclusive runs with far-out "Monty Python
and the Holy Grail" bringing in the younger
set at Westport Cine and "Linda Lovelace
for President" on the screen at the Crown
Cine.
Harry Hoff, president and chairman of
the board of Ringold Cinema Equipment
Corp., advises that they have renewed their
lease at 8421 Gravois as they start their
fourth year of "A-to-Z" theatre service.
Hoff began his career back in 1933 as a
shipping clerk with National Theatre Supply.
John Mattler. vice-president of Ringold.
has been in the industry just "a measly 20
years." Hoff admits that he doesn't work
as hard now as he did in his younger days
and enjoys a round of golf now and then.
Celebrating another sort of anniversary
are the Herman Gorelicks, former St.
Louisans now residing in Chicago, where
Herman is associated with the Ross Theatres.
The Gorelicks. who operated Crest
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Films here, are celebrating their 50th wedding
anniversary with a second-honeymoon
Caribbean cruise to South America. They
have two daughters, six grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren. Their son-in-law
George Cohn is publicity director of Mid-
America Theatres in this area.
William Lustig, manager of National
Screen Services' local branch prior to its
co'nsolidation with the Kansas City office,
has been promoted to manager of NSS' Los
Angeles exchange, it was announced by Milt
Feinberg, NSS general sales manager. Lustig
succeeds Ennis Adkins, resigned.
The Meramec Film Society is giving interested
persons the opportunity to view past
film classics through a lecture-film discussion
program beginning Monday (8) at
Meramec Community College. The series is
divided into three categories—historic.
American, foreign and domestic. In the historic
division, students will view classics
such as Charlie Chaplin in "The Immigrant"
and "The Tramp," the Marx brothers in
Horse Feathers," D. W. Griffith's "The
Birth of a Nation," and the 1920 film "The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." The American
series will include "King Kong." "The Gold
Diggers of 1933," James Cagney in "Public
Enemy," John Wayne in "Stagecoach" and
Spencer Tracy in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
The foreign and domestic series will include
"La Strada." starring Anthony Quinn;
"The Seventh Seal," directed by Ingmar
Bergman: "Hiroshima Mon Amour": "The
Invasion of the Body Snatohers," and "Citizen
Kane," directed by Orson Welles.
Interested persons may attend as many as
14 films in the three series for .$7.50: $5
entitles the viewer to attend films in any
two of the series, and $2.50 is the charge
for films in any one series. The society will
meet every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.,
with the final session Decemiber 8 in the
Meramec Student Center, Room 201. Further
information is avuilable by calling 966-
3402. extension 260.
Joseph Venezia, recently re-elected president
of the Blue Ribbon Art Club, will havs
a one-man exhibit at the University City
Cinema and the South County Cinema
ihiinigh .September. Vcnezia's oil paintings
lealure seascapes and studies of flowers,
butterflies and lions! He has won numerous
prizes over the past 20 years and has had
exhibits at the Museum of Science and
Natural History, the St. Louis Public I i-
brary and Fontbonne College.
Linda Bolruba, girl Friday to lorn Si-
Jiions. publicist for General Cinema Corp.,
who left GCC to give birth to a son, Matthew,
June 1, is again employed there on a
part-time basis ... A note from Carl Sussnian,
formerly in theatre management but
away from the industry for the past two
years, advises that he is interested in returning
to the fold in this area. He has had
experience in advertising and understands
concession, payroll and booth o|K'ration.
Mid-America Theatres Has
Annual Managers' Confab
ST. LOUIS—Mid-America Theatres he,
its annual one-day managers' meeting a
Tan-Tar-A, Lake of the Ozarks. Gener.i
Manager Jack Jablonow presided at th
session, with the following St. Louis are:i
managers attending:
Bob Meyer, Esquire: Wayne Caldwci
Village: Steve Weber, Brentwood: Dan M^
Cann, Fine Arts: Kurt Mester, 4 Season>.
Sam Di Mercurio, Manchester: Dave Bar
clay. Paddock: Carl Ruskaup, South Cii.
Cinema: Larry Weir, St. John's: Don Stin
devant. Holiday: Dennis Bass, 1-70 Dri\^
In. and Larry Sherrill, Plaza Drive-In.
In addition to the local executives, Georec
Day, Hi-Way 50, Jefferson, Mo.: Mar'
Borrowman. Campus Cinema, Columbi.i
Mo., and Ron Garsow, Lake Cinema. Lake
Ozark, also were present.
The business meeting was held in the
morning, followed by a cruise on a chartered
Lake of the Ozarks boat. After a
luncheon at Tan-Tar-A, those in attendance
enjoyed an afternoon of swimming, golfing
and tennis.
Longtime Indiana Manager
Cleon Point Has Resigned
KENDALLVILLE, IND.—Cleon Point,
who has managed theatres in Kendallville
for 30 years and most recently has helmed
the Strand. Hi-Vue and .\uburn-Garrett
theatres, has resigned. Point came to Kendallville
Feb. 13, 1946, to manage the
Strand Theatre for the late Robert L. Hudson
sr., who died three years ago. For the
previous 17 years. Point managed movie
houses, one of which he owned, in the Lima,
Ohio, area.
Point's wife Pearl has managed the concession
stand at the Hi-Vue Theatre.
A September vacation is planned by
Point, who says he then may return to a
managerial position in a one-theatre operation,
since "I'm not interested in retirement—too
many years in the business to
stop all at once."
A related field also is being considered b\'
Poimt but, in any event, he plans to remain
in northeastern Indiana.
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in Paramount's "Framed," accepts a
key to the city presented by Howard
Berger, manager of the city's Department
of Publicity and Tourism. Ms.
Van Dyke spent t^vo days in the city
promoting the action-adventure film.
'Jaws' Grips Lead:
950 in Memphis 7lh
MEMPHIS — For the seventh week
"Jaws" has a firm grip on the lead with
the Park reporting a solid 950. The Malco
Quartet I registered 425 for the third week
of "Love and Death." while "The Return
of the Pink Panther" slipped into third
place with Malco Quartet 2 and Southbrook
3 pulling 310 for the sixth week.
(Average Is 100)
Crosstown—Part 2 Walking Tall (AIP), 6th wc, . 80
Malco—Bucktown (AJP), 2nd wk 100
Malco Quartet 1—Love and Death (UA), 3rd wk 425
Malco Quartet 2, Southbrook 3—The Return
of the Pink Panther (UA), 6th wk 310
Malco Quartet 3—The Drowning Pool (WB),
5th
Malco Quartet 4—The Wind and the Uon (UA),
6th wk
MemiDhian, Southbrook 1—The Happy Hooker
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Paramount—Hollerball (UA), 2nd v,-i
Park—Jaws (Uruv), 7th wk
Plaza 1 facqueline Susann'i
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ATLANTA
Qlenn Simonds, American International
Pictures' Atlanta branch manager, and
Dave Tribble. the company's Southeastern
director of advertising and promotion, hosted
a luncheon for Lindsay Bloom, who stars
the title role of "Six Pack Annie."' at the
Diplomat Restaurant. Leonard Allen. Atlanta
freelance agent, was in charge of Ms.
Bloom's tour. Guests for the affair were
newspaper film critics and representatives
of radio stations. Lindsay, a 24-year-old
beauty who measures 36-24-36, is a native
of Omaha. She attended the University of
Utah and left for Phoenix, where she went
into modeling. In 1972 she moved to California
and a year later, as Miss U.S.A.
1973, she traveled to Tokyo, where she
finished in fourth place in the Miss International
competition. She became one of the
Ding-a-Ling girls in the Dean Martin television
show and made appearances in many
TV productions. In "Six Pack Annie" she
plays a blonde who has many suitors. Special
guests at the luncheon were Bob Hogg
sr., distributor of Miller beer, and son Bob
jr. and Bill Tompkin. Miller representative
in Atlanta. He presented those in attendance
with six-packs of the delightful brew.
Margaret Hilley, 20th Century-Fox
cashier, is enjoying a late summer vacation
Lyrda Burnett, United Artists
in
booker, has returned to work following a
brief ilhiess.
Excerpts from Charles Higham's -KATE
—The Life of Katharine Hepburn." have
been appearing in the Atlanta Constitution.
The book is published by W.W. Norton &
Co., Inc.
Coca-Cola International Corp.'s board
declared a dividend of $50.80 per share,
payajble October 1 to holders of record
Tuesday (16). The company is a domestic
investment firm with assets consisting solely
of common stock of the Atlanta-based Coca-
Cola Co. and is not engaged in any business
operation pertaining to the bottling or sale
of Coca-Cola. For the three months ended
June 30 its profits totaled $50.72 per share,
up from $44.78 per share in the same
period last year.
Robert Tarwater, United .Artists branch
manager in Atlanta (whose boss J.R. Velde,
UA's general sales manager, is national distributor
chairman for the Will Rogers Hospital
and Research Center, at Saranac Lake,
N.Y.) is heading the fund campaign in the
.Atlanta territory. Tarwater has been flooding
the mails with literature to stir up interest
in the drive. Two automoibiles will be
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secretary Martha Williams reports
that the response to date indicates that the
1975 campaign is getting up a head ol
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Juanita Elwell, former WOMPI who new
makes her home in Toccoa. visited in Atlanta
recently and enjoyed calling up hj:
former associates on Filmrow. She was the
editor of the WOMPI Bulletin before her
retirement and reminded Atlanta's Boxof-
FiCE correspondent that she had provided
many items to include in the Atlanta new~
section of the magazine.
Coca-Cola notes: .Albert H. Swett, formerly
general counsel of the Xerox Corp.. has
'been named vice-president and gener.i'
counsel of the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola (
Robert A. Keller, manager of the Co^a
Cola legal division, was promoted to vicepresident
. USA. the division
responsible for domestic product-on ard
marketing, promoted A. Gordon Gray from
national production manager to vice-president,
and named Charlene C. Brewton personnel
manager.
Tradepress screenings recently at 20th
Century-Fox's Filmrow Playhouse included
"Zeibra Force" and "Confessional." distributed
by Harnell Independent Productions:
"Forgotten Wilderness," a San Brcck
Wilderness, Inc., production, screened for
Jack Hamna of Knoxville. Shown in the
Peachtree West Preview Theatre were the
Bill Herring/World Films presentation o'
Leningrad Kirov Ballet presentation o!
Tchaikovsky's complete "Swan Lake," fc.ituring
Valery Panov as Jester; Russ Meyer's
"SuperVixens," distributed by Jack Vaughan
Productions: "Blazing Stewardesses," "distributed
by Clark Film Releasing Co.. and
"The Man in the Glass Booth." distributed
by the American Film Theatre.
Joan Hotchkis will portray Bobbie Lee's
mother in "Ode to Billv Joe."
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Influx of Film Comedies
Hyped by Atlanta Critic
ATLANTA—^Farnum Gray, the Atlanta
Constitution's entertainment writer and critic,
commented recently on the fact that
"rarely have so many good comedies played
Atlanta theatres at once."
The funny films range from "the surreal
silliness of 'Monty Python ard the Holy
Grail' to the more realistic "Cooley High.' "
Gray rated the latter film as a "funny, warm
experience for anybody ... a snappily paced
human and well-m::de film."
He described "Monty Python" as "a
crazy leg puller . . brilliantly silly."
.
"The Return of the Pink Panther" he
found "the best of the movies starring Peter
Sellers as Insf>ector Clouseau. the bungling
French detective. Few comedies have ever
come so close to provoking continuous
laughter from first frame to last."
"Love and Death." he commented, is
"Woody Allen all the way. It's verj' funny
with imoressive sight gags and a few tidb'ts
for the literati."
Of "The Phantom of Liberte." he commented:
"Luis Bunuel made this surreal
comedy with his usual skill and assurance,
but there is no point to it."
'Bingo Long' Star Awards
PrJzes to 3 Ga. Youths
MACON. GA. — Three 12-year-old
youths have been announced as winners of
the Greater Macon Baseball Competition
sponsored by Richard Pryor, one of the
of Universal's "The Bingo Long Traveling
stars
.All-Stars and Motor Kings."
which
just completed location filming here.
Wayne Johnson was awarded a trip to
are Billy Dee Williams and James Earl
Jones. John Badham is directing for executive
producer Berry Gordy and producer
Rob Cohen.
Wedding on Farm Set
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MI.XMI—Two pay TV firms are competing
intensely here for the home entertainment
market.
The firms include Miami Communications.
Inc., a subsidiary of Wometco Enterprises
(which owns Wometco theatre circuit),
and Private Channel Club, a division
of Midwest Corp., Charleston, W.Va. Both
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JACKSONVILLE
J^rthur "Art" Caster, veteran manager of
ABC Florida State Theatres' suburban
Edgewood Theatre, was pictured in the Sunday
edition of the Florida Times-Union as
he received a special award from two Jacksonville
chapters of Daughters of the American
Revolution for running a color film
regarding the nation's bicentennial celebration
in 1976. For the past eight years An
has cooperated with the DAR in observing
American Historv Month and Constitution
Week.
Charley King, advisor to the booking staff
of Richard Lewis. American International
Pictures manager in this city, is repeating
again this year his perennial role as organizer
of the annual Filmrow golf tournament
scheduled for October 10 at the Baymcadows
Country Club. About 200 members of
the motion picture industry are expected to
attend the golf gathering, Charley said, from
this city and other parts of Florida and the
South, plus New York and California distributors.
Prizes will be awarded to all participants
and an added highlight in addition
to a cocktail party and banquet, will be
the awarding of a Basket of Cheer by
Women of the Motion Picture Industry in
closing a raffle which began last July.
.
George K. Freidel, salesman on Ed
Chumley's staff at 20th Century-Fox, is
counting the weeks until he will become
eligible for retirement in 1976 . . Dorothy
Davalt. longtime staffer in the Paramount
office, made a vacation trip to Syracuse,
N. Y., and environs accompanied by her
aged mother who made the trip to visit old
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toward the holding of a public flea market
on Ramona Boulevard Saturday, October 4
Walt Meier, a roving executive of Tranvlux/
Inflight Theatres who formerly operated
four local units of the theatre circuit before
their sale earlier this year to Kent Theatres,
has finished negotiations with Allan Shackleton,
head of Great American Theatres,
resulting in the acquisition of the Cine Theatre
in Tampa by GAT. The Cine is a 345-
seat house with a policy of presenting Spanish-language
family motion pictures to Spanish
American residents living in the West
Tampa and Ybor City areas of Tampa.
Judith Gardner, the half-sister of Robert
L. "Bob" Jones, ABC FST city manager,
became the bride of Russell Speer, an official
of the Seaboard Coastline Railroad, at
formal ceremony in the Englewood Christian
Church of this city. Bob served as a
groomsman, his wife was the matron-ofhonor,
and his brother Sgt. James R. Jones
of the U. S. Air Force, who came here
following a tour of duty in Turkey and before
rcpMDrting to an Air Force base in
Montana, gave the bride away. The bride's
mother is Mrs. 'Vdda Gardner of this cit\
and the groom's parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Speer of Americus, Ga. The newlyweds
left for a honeymoon at a water ski
resort in Alabama . wedding of
note to Jacksonville Filmrow was that o*'
the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Harlan. He
is administrative assistant to Harvey Garland,
president of Florida State Theatres
and supervisor of all other theatres in the
ABC Theatre circuits. John's son Michael
V. Harian married Nora Gail Rogers of
Maitland in a ceremony at the Seventh Day
.'\dventist Church in Winter Springs. Her
parents are Mr. and Mrs. James P. Rogers
of Maitland. Michael is attending Valencia
Community College in Orlando after serving
three years with the U. S. Marine Corps in
South Vietnam.
Solidly endorsed as "not to be missed"
entertainment is "Ali the Man/Ali the
Fighter" in Charles Brock's Sunday movie
review column in the Florida Times-Union,
following the film's Friday opening at the
ABC FST downtown Florida and Eastern
Federal Theatres' suburban Ribault Driveln
.. . terms another new opener,
"Hennessy," at EFT's Royal Palm 1 and
Town & Country theatres, as "a one of a
kind manh-.mt thriller" . . . Not so kind in
appraising "Monty Python and th.- Holy
Grail." an opener at General Cinema's Expressway
Cinema II theatres. Brock says.
"There's something to offend everyone.
There are scatalogical jokes, masochistic
monks and a liturgical service" which he
listed among undesirable parts of the film.
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Film Openings in Miami
Delayed by Many Factors
MIAMI — Nashville" reaches Miami
more than six weeks after its premiere in
New York to rapturous reviews. With the
blush off the rose, the Robert Altnian film
stumbles badly at the boxoffice.
The Sorrow and the Pity" and "l-acombe.
I.ucien," two superb French works
that made critics' best-ten lists in 1973 and
1974, arrive here almost a full year later.
"The Return of the Pink Panther" takes five
weeks to reach south Florida and 'Aloha.
Bobby and Rose" takes five months.
Puzzling Way of Life
For Miami moviegoers all of this amounts
to a puzzling and painfully familiar way of
life: after a major film breaks with a splash
in New York, the prospective south Florida
patron is bombarded with reviews, and then
he waits . . and waits . . . and waits.
Why does Miami, ere of the top five
movie-attending communities in America
(according to a study by Universal Pictures),
get some films later than others, and
some not at all?
Quite commonly, the distributor and the
Miami theatre owner cannot agree on terms,
says John Huddy in the Miami Herald. For
example, the distributor may want a topline
theatre like the Dadeland Twin ard
the
film buyer says that's insane, the picture
is 'an art film and belongs at the Sunset."
Complains the exhibitor: "Producers
don't know the town half the time and they
haven't the slightest idea what theatres are
suitable."
Disagreement
Arises
give up on an otherwise distinguished feature.
"Hearts and Minds" 10 months on the
circuit and yet to play Miami, is an example.
"Columbia had the picture, tested it and
dropped it," said Eddie Stern, Wometco
film buyer. "Warner Bros, picked it up .
it tested in Gainesville, a college town.
Nobody came."
Director-writer Floyd Mutrux. whose
Aloha, Bobby and Rose" sat around for
three months before catching fire, explained
why his youth-tiriented love story took five
months to reach Miami: "It's a hit and there
were no prints." Less than 400 prints of
"Aloha" were available from Columbia
compared to more than 1,000 for "Jaws."
Mutrux says some directors, over-protective
of their films, may make tempermental
demands, thus delaying distribution.
Mutrux cited one well-known director
who only wanted his pictures to play "chic
(Continued on next page)
MIAMI
^^onty Python and the Holy Grail," a hit
at the Westchester Cinema in southwest
Dade County, has moved to six theatres
in Dade and Broward counties. It has been
called the funniest comedy of the year in
some reviews.
"Bug." Paramount creepy-crawly film
opened here ,\ugust 22. The film, based on
the novel The Hephaestus Plague," stars
Bradford Dillman and Joanna Miles.
Every Monday afternoon, children and
> oung adults who are residents of the Haven
School for the Mentally Retarded in South
Miami are treated to an outing at the Beach
Theatre. Lincoln Road. Prior to watching
a vaudeville show at the theatre, the youth
are given a tram bus r'de along Lincoln
Road and a snack. A picture of the group
being entertained appeared recently in the
Miami Beach Daily Sun Reporter.
A new face on the Florida scene is Count
Vladimir Grocholski, who has a thorough
knowledge of the history of Poland. He was
production director of a major film company
in Poland and is involved now in the
American Institute of Polish Culture. The
39-year-old Polish aristocrat is the son of
Count Remigiusz Grocholski, a leader in the
Resistance forces during World War II. and
Princess Barbara Czetwertynski, also a Resistance
fighter. His grandfather Prince
.Seweryn was imprisoned for four years in
Auschwitz and Buchenwaold concentration
camps.
.Although Count Grocholski has served on
Replies the distributor: "Theatre owners the board of directors of the .American Institute
for Polish Culture since 1970, he has
are too set in their ways."
New York distributors, basking in the not been actively involved until this year.
glow of rave reviews, may make unrealistic His wife Magdalene and their children have
demands for a prize import, not aware that lived in Miami since 1970. He emigrated
Miami differs from the East Side of Manhattan
in cinema taste. So, a Miami theatre Many institute members, under the lead-
to the U.S. in 1967.
circuit refuses to meet the often stiff terms ership of Mrs. Lewis Rosenstiel, are soon
and the Miami moviegoer does not see the to take the grand lour of Russia and Poland.
film.
Many Miamians are accompanying Mrs.
Sometimes both exhibitor and distributor Rosenstiel on the tour.
John Huddy of the Miami Herald says
that "with the sex symbol all but hooted
out of Hollywood, and the boy-girl story as
rare as an honest politician, the best American
films in recent years have dealt with
male relationships—from 'Midnight Cowboy"
to "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid," from 'Scarecrow' to Busting," 'C

Jacksonville WOMPIs Give
Report on Year's Projects
JACKSONVILLE—Marsha J. Weaver,
president of the Jacksonville WOMPl group,
has issued an annual growth report on the
local WOMPI service activities just prior to
the international WOMPI conclave in Chicago
during September.
Ms. Weavers comprehensive report for
the year dealt mainly with the work of
committees, their accomplishments, shortcomings
and plans for the future.
Beginning with the program committee,
chaired by Karen Lukaszewski. Marsha
pointed to a successful effort to produce
membership turnouts by alternating meetings
between lunch and evening sessions,
by adding the fillip of door prizes, and,
through advance preparation and media
publicity, staging a popular bosses luncheon
and WOMPI installation. All innovations
resulted in far greater attendance and profit
for WOMPI.
Coupled with the enthusiasm expressed
by Ms. Lukaszewski. Ms. Weaver e.xpressed
delight with the efforts shown by Martha
Scott by energizing both the membership
and publicity committees as
their chairleaders.
As examples of Ms. Scott's zeal,
WOMPI expanded to 40 members—from 30
the past year—and publicity galore, consisting
of 16 articles for 420 lines in local
daily newspapers, a newspaper picture of
WOMPI members, a TV appearance, numerous
radio spots, and a total of 1,960 lines
in trade magazines.
President Weaver presented as the most
indefatigable committee, the one on bulletins,
headed by Julie Williams and issued
every month of the year and with distinguished
covers by Frances Conner, leading
to more reading of WOMPI futures than
in
the past.
President Weaver served her membership
in many more valuable assignments when
she voluntarily accepted the chair position
of leading several important fund-raising
projects: 1) The Basket of Cheer raffle. 2)
The staffing of concession booths at Gator
Bowl football games, the industry-wide sale
of calendars and note paper, the sale of
umbrellas, the conduct of Community Club
Awards (WOMPLs biggest money-maker of
the year), the also profitable flea markets
and the sale of wrapping paper.
Philomena "Phil" Eckert stayed close to
her industry base for WOMPI when she
sternly held out her slapping hand and
pointed her right index finger to a few.
very few, WOMPI members, to explain
that the Dimes from Dames of Jacksonville
WOMPIs should amount to $113.45, and
they listened to her and followed her direc-
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went to the Will Rogers Hospital, and
even more money was raised by Ms. Eckert
and her associates in the annual theatreaudience
collections.
The WOMPI Sunshine Committee, headed
by Julie Williams, provided a pulsing
more than
heart to WOMPI by sending out
100 kind messages of cheer.
WOMPI's most active of all committees
of the year was industry service, headed
jointly by Martha Scott and Frances Conner
as co-chairmen, and taking part in 11
industry service projects during 1975, including
work as hostesses at the annual
Filmrow Golf Tournament, hostess work at
the opening of "Jaws."' handling 20 telephones
at the annual Channel 7 auction.
The WOMPI humanitarian committee,
headed jointly by Frances Conner and
Martha Scott, spent a total of $318.50 in
carrying out 33 projects during 520 hours
by assisting needy senior citizens, the city's
Juvenile Shelter, the Easter Seal drive, the
Salvation Army, the All Saints Home for
Aging Catholic Citizens, the Outreach Program
for Mentally and Physically Handicapped
Children, and others.
Film Openings in Miami
Delayed by Many Factors
(Continued from preceding page)
East Side theatres in New York."
Studio politics may result in months
rolling by before a major film comes to
town. Huddy suggested. "The Return of
the Pink Panther" and "Love and Death"
are both United Artists comedies. Rather
than open two similar works at the same
time in Miami, the studio staggered them.
"Warner Bros, kept promising me 'Freebie
and the Bean' for six months." said
independent theatre owner Alan Fishman
of the Roosevelt. "They kept delaying the
film
their
because they decided to make 'Freebie'
big Christmas picture."
Until recently, specialized films, often
requiring specialized handling, fared the
worst in Miami theatres. But that is all
changing, according to Nat Chediak of the
Cinematheque Theatre in Coral Gables. In
the past, Chediak said it was not unusual
for him to write a major studio three or
four times without receiving a reply.
Today, aware that major circuits would
rather bypass European product and "difficult"
films, the distributors are finally
answering Chediak's mail. "Things are getting
better." he said.
Broward County Executives
Seek Filmmaking Projects
MIAMI—A business group called "Brow-
.ud for Stars" has formed in suburban
Broward County to lure filmmakers and
their budgets away from Dade Coimty. The
group's new executive committee includes
Robert Collins, Irv Cowan. Harry Powell.
Lonnic Jackson. Walter Banks. Don Schiel,
Doug Donn and Tom Dix.
First project is to develop an inventory
of available film resources as a guide to outof-town
film producers.
Macon Mayor Loses Role
After Community Protest
M.\CON—Mayor Ronnie Thompson, set
to play a minor role in "The Bingo Long
Traveling .Ml-Stars and Motor Kings," has
found his stardom short-lived.
For no sooner had word surfaced that
Thompson had been offered the bit role ol
a white baseball team owner who hires .i
black player than a group of Macon citizens
protested in a letter to film producers at
Universal.
The Concerned Citizens League, headed
by Herbert Dennard. insisted that "a man of
Thompson's character ... in the role of a
fictitious character comparable to Bran eh
Richey adds insult to the injury already
caused the black community."
The League counts among its supporters
300 members of the Macon black community,
including college students, businessmen
and professionals. Cited in the letter, which
resulted in Thompson being ousted from
the role, were alleged instances of hi^
"political history" where "he has used th;
issue of race, in a negative way, to advance
his political career." The protest noted the
mayor's "shoot-to-kill" order regarding
looters and his refusal to celebrate Januarx
I 5 as Martin Luther King Day.
Producer Rob Cohen explained that he
had offered the bit part to Thompson b;
cause "he had been wonderful to us and
when people treat you that way. you don't
investigate backgrounds." After having visions,
however, of all the film's stars walking
off the picture due to the controvers\.
Cohen said he decided to ask Thompson
to forget the role.
"We've spent more than $1 mill'on in .i
few months and given employment to
5.000-7.000 Georgians (mostly daily extras)
in a time of recessioin," Cohen explains.
"Making a movie is a commercial activity
and the last thing I want to do is get into
a political controversy."
"One incident Tke this," added the youthful
producer, "and your (state) film production
will drop to zero."
Thompson, who has contemplated another
term in office although he reaches the
legal limit in December, says he is anxious
to begin a new career in film. In addition
to losing the lucrative film role, he is afraid
the contretemns with Universal will hurt his
demand in Hollywood from other studios.
"I'm lining up a film on mv eight years
in office that will make 'Walking Tall" look
like a Boy Scout expedition, a Sunday
School picnic," the mayor snaps. "But this
particular defamation has damaged those
negotiations. And my lawyers are determining
how much I've been damaged."
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I TECHNIKOTE CORP. 63 S.pbring SI., Chlyn 31. N. Y.l break on UA's "The Return of the Pink
Panther" in ihe Indianapolis Star.
California Academy of Sciences in San
'Jaws' Sparks Surge Francisco.
.'Vnd, like Dr. Samuel Gruber. shark behavior
specialist at the Rosensteil School of
In Shark Business
Marine and .Atmospheric Sciences, he says
MIAMI—As the "Jaws" mania continues what's out there is not nearly so dangerous
to grow, businessmen ajie devising spinoffs as what's here.
satisfy even the most avid shark fancier, Gniber says only 40 of 300 species of
to
from S50 shark teeth to "prehistoric killer" sharks are dangerous to humans. The shark
fishing
.specialist averaged the Florida attacks for
trips.
For a variety of reasons, growing numbers
over the past 29 years to be less than four
per year.
of South Floridians are paying for all
sorts of trinkets and shark adventures.
James Webb. Pflueger Co. sales manager,
The odds of a sihark attack, Dr. Gruber
concluded, are about "as great as the odds
the world's iargiist ta.xidermy firm, said that the swimmer will fly with his arms."
shark mounting orders have jumped 30 per
14-year-old Beverly White was badly
Sti-ll,
cent compared to last year, with a seven-foot bitten on her left arm as she swam chestdeep
in water at New Smyrna beach July
long, wall mounted shark costing albooit
$375.
15. That is one reason why more Floridians'
One chain of jewelry stores reported sales reaction to "Jaws" has been to stay out of
of $50 gold-capped sharks teeth are up 40
per cent over last year.
Jim DiTomaso, a mate aboard the Tiki
the water this year.
But even some who weren't predisposed
to selachiiphobia (fear of sharks) have been
fi.shing boat that operates from Bakers Haulover
terrified.
Marina, has sold more sharks' teeth "I love the water. I've spent my whole
from his collection in the past three months life near the water, but now when I get wet
than in the past 10 years.
I use the beach showers," said Pat Taylor,
Some sport fishing trips are tumdng into
Beach, Va.
VirgiiHiia
sihark hunts. One local captain is distributing For others, however, the blockbuster
movie was less than terrifying.
handbills advertising shark fishing trips
aboard his boat as "hunts for this prehistoric " "Jaws' didn't bother me. I stiU swim out
I killer."
far as u^ed to," said Janice Ransom.
as
But on the waterfront, many different She's read too many articles, she says, explaining
points of view were expressed about "Jaws"
impact. Like some 30 million other Amsricans,
how the mechanical shark works to
be scared.
"I was a little scared after I saw the
'Vinny Sinatra has seen the Universal
thriller "Jaws." Unlike some, however, he movie the first time." said Joseph Morator,
hasn't changed his aquatic habits.
13. just before he dove into the water. He's
seen "Jaws" three times plans to return
and "I never went swimming before, and I
for "more gore."
don't do it now," he says. "I've never liked
the ocean, because I know what's out there. Miss Ransom and Joseph, swimming off
I've seen those sharks."
Miami Beach and Key Biscayne, were
Jack Woolley, who knows what's out among those who've prompted Jim Holland,
there, too. hasn't changed his habits either. head of the county's Beach and Marine division,
" Woolley
conclude movie
'Jaws' didn't affect me," said
to that the thriller
who tells of "shark schools not 50 yards off has had little effect in Dade.
Key Biscayne" and families swimming within
Crowds are as large as ever at all of the
10 yards of them.
beaches, he says.
As Lester Freeman, greater Miami Chamber
"I have a healthy re.'ipect for sharks,"
Woolley, a diver, exiplains. "If I see one
of Commerce executive said, "With
while I'm diving, I leave him alone and get gasoline heading for a dollar a gallon, we've
away."
got wor.se things to worry about."
John McCosker, however, has changed
his recreational habits as a result of the
film "Jaws."
Chokeres Theatres Buys
"Absolutely." he says. "I've quit going to
Page Manor Cinema
the movies.
"But I still go swimming in the ocean."
DAYTON, OHIO—The Chakeres Theatres
circuit has purchased the Page Manor
McCosker is a marine biologist with (he
Cinema from the Century-Holiday Corp.
This 1,000-seat house will be remodeled
and operated as a first-run outlet in the
Dayton area.
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To Eric Distributing Post
DALLAS—Doug Nord has been named
booker-salesman at Eric Distributing Co.,
according to Eric Dc-
Neve.
Nord, 24, began
working in the business
in the Riverside
Drive-In.
Morrilton.
Ark., where he attended
school. He
then worked tor Jack
W o d e I 1 Associates
and United Artists
Theatres in San Francisco
and served as
Doug Nord
manager of the Vogue Theatre,
Mel Klein, branch manager for Columbia
in San Francisco, asked him in 1972 lo
join the distribution end of the industry.
Nord accepted his offer and worked as sales
representative during the next year. In
September, 1974, he moved to Dallas as
Columbia salesman and left August 22 to
accept his new position.
Nord, according to DeNeve. had not applied
for the position and did not know it
was available. Friends and customers, however,
recommended him, citing his youthful
enthusiasm and fairness, and he was offered
the job.
Prints of 'Pink Panther'
Tcdcen From New Laurel
SAN ANTONIO—A. C. Moreno, manager
of the New Laurel Theatre, reported
to police that burglars broke into the projection
room of the theatre and made off
with two prints of the film The Return of
the Pink Panther."
Police said the films, valued at $2,000.
were taken by the burglars who remained in
the theatre late August 22. The six reels
weighed more than 100 pounds.
A sign on the door of the theatre proclaimed
that Inspector Clouseau was on the
case.
The showing of the film continued Saturday,
August 23. when United Artists in
Dallas came to the rescue with another
copy of the film.
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and Mrs. Herman Sollock (city manager for
Maurice Braha's theatres) are taking their
vacation and during the two weeks away
from the job, they plan to visit their children
in Connecticut.
Beatrix "La Chata" Noloesca, the first
lady of Spanish-speaking vaudeville in west
.San Antonio, wa,s honored by fellow entertainers
and friends when she observed her
.SOth anniversary in show business. She began
doing theatre work when she was 13
years old. She was the cashier at the old
Zaragosa Theatre. She organized her own
company after performing throughout Mexico,
Central and South America, and performed
at the National and Alameda theatres
for many years, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez,
who is now a Hollywood film star,
began his career with Ms. Noloesca . . .
Lesley Dyer, now 8.5. recalled earning
money playing background music at silent
movie houses.
Maurice Braha, owner of the Aztec 3.
New Laurel. National and .Mameda. is observing
another birthday. Braha said that
he observed his annual 39th birthday. Our
best wishes to Maurice . . . Braha plans to
tour Europe accompanied by his lovely wife
Amelia. While he is gone, his theatre interests
will be handled by his assistants, Herman
Sollock. city manager, and Tom Powers,
manager of the Aztec 3.
A number of films will open for additional
playing time. They include "Funny
Lady" at the Century South 6; "Take A
Hard Ride" at the Texas, Bandera and Town
Twin; "The Hound of the Baskervilles" at
the North Star Cinema; "Gone In 60 Sec-
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DALLAS
fjoy Ragsdale has moved the Ragsdale Theatres'
offices from Brady to his new
address. Box 276. Burnet. 78611. He closed
his Moon-Glo Drive-In in Junction and is
moving equipment to Burnet where he is
opening a new indoor theatre named Oscar.
They bought the old indoor theatre in Burnet
and are in the process of remodeling.
When the Oscar opens, probably by Thursday
(18). it will be the only house in town.
Ragsdale will still operate the Texan in
Junction and will do the buying and booking
for the Yellow-Jacket Drive-In. Menard.
Phil Guiles is following in hii father's
footsteps. He loves the theatre business and
is quite enthusiastic over his new job as
sales trainee at Buena Vista, Good luck.
Phil.
Claudia Elliott and Tina Fleming of
Grimes Film Booking are having fun with
their new telephone system "Speed Dialing."
Now the -women call the Atlanta home
office simply by dialing "48" instead of
(404) 434-7346. No more do they hear "the
line is busy" for customers.
Bill Bond'.s first week at Grimes Film
Booking was busy viewing four .new pictures
for immediate release and three days of
sales meetings with Mack Grimes, president,
and Bennie Lynch, vice-president. Mack
Grimes was in Dallas recently and learned
from the Atlanta office that four theatres
in .Atlanta had booked "Naked Came the
Stranger" to play Friday (5) through November.
Bennie also is handling the rerelease
of "The Outlaw."
Claudia Elliott, secretary and assistant
booker at Grimes Film Booking, has returned
from Oklahoma City where she
worked with Jim O'Donnell, a new Grimes
Film Booking associate. Ms. Lynch announced
that O'Donnell will handle Grimes
product and she would appreciate friends
in
the Oklahoma territory honoring Jim with
playdates. O'Donnell is located at 2101 S.
Pennsylvania. Oklahoma City, 73108. The
telephone numiber is (405) 632-7544.
Granny's Dinner Theatre is anticipating
a house record with the opening of "Catch
Me If You Can." starring the well-known
film personality Jane Russell. Reservations
are coming in steadily for this show which
opens Tuesday (9).
Libby Simonton, who heads the Women
of Variety rummage sale committee, has
announced that the women's group will conduct
the organization's first rummage sale
Thursday—Saturday (25-27). Mrs. Simonton
reports clothing, furniture, accessories
and other items are accumulating at a fast
rate in the storage space donated by 20th
Century-Fox. Variety members are urged
to continue trying to obtain more items
for the sale. Serving on the committee are
the following members: Ix)uise Bridge. Betty
Doak. Marlyn Edwards. Grace Hartgrove.
Jo Johnson. Marilyn Rabakukk. Robbie
Skinner. Wanda Slaughter. Mary Stewart
and Bessie Williams.
In a festive south-of-the-border setting
complete with mariachos band, more than
200 barkers, their wives and guests were
treated to a Mexican dinner and bingo at
the Variety Club Fiesta Fun Night. July 22,
at the Holiday Inn Central. Not only did
the event gross more than $400 for the
Variety Club Care-Van Center but it provided
a delightful evening of fun and entertainment.
Jean O'Donnell was chairperson
of the event and Marlyn Edwards and Bessie
Williams headed the prize and decoration
committees, respectively.
We are happy to report that Sol Sachs,
motion picture veteran, has been released
from the hospital and is recuperating at his
home, 5818 E. University Blvd.. Dallas,
75206. While in St. Paul Hospital he was
given a pacemaker to assist his heart. He
is a great card lover, so send cheer cards.
Bobby Pinkston had an unusual experience
recently working in the Oklahoma State
Penitentiary to restore theatre equipment
damaged during a prison riot . . Congratu-
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Detroit-Based Circuit May
Take Over McLendon Units
DALLAS—A Detroit-based eiicuit nKi\
lake over operation of the Dallas-liased Me-
Lendon Theatres, one of the largest cireiiils
in the state, aceording to a report in the
Dallas Times Herald.
The Herald said an undisclosed source
indicated the Detroit circuit was expected
to assume a ten-year lease on almost all of
the McLendon circuit, about
3.'' screens at
1 ? theatres in Dallas. Fort Worth. Houston
and El Paso.
The lone theatres not expected to be affected
are the Capri and the Kinds, Dallas,
and a theatre in Fort Worth. They would
remain as McLendon interests, the newspaper
said.
The McLendon offices were expected to
remain in the Capri as headquarters of the
McLendon business complex, which includes
the radio station KNUS-FM. among
other properties. The McLendon circuit i--
owned by B. R. McLendon and Gordon
McLendon.
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Texas Variety Club Sets
Annual Golf Tournament
DALLAS—The Glen Lakes Country
Club will be the site of the annual Variety
Club of Texas Golf Tournament Monday
(22).
Entry fee for Variety Club members as
well as non-members is $60 if not already
purchased. The ticket includes one golt
green fee, golf cart, buffet lunch and two
banquet tickets. Extra banguet tickets are
S\5.
For ticket purchase or information contact
the Variety Club of Dallas, 1710 Jackson
St., Suite 206, Dallas, 75201. Committee
co-chairmen for the event are J. P.
Prichard and Dale Chappell.
"Ode to Billy Joe" is being produced and
directed by Max Baer.
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Q,eorge Grube, 14 Flags Drive-In. advised
that a soft drink truck, while making
a delivery, rammed into the boxoffice and
caused very extensive damage recently.
Jerry Brewster, United Artists sales manager,
is the local distributor chairman for
the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital sale of
tickets for the October drawing. He reports
sales are good but has several books still
available for this year's fund-raising. Those
interested
should contact Jerry.
Lloyd Hall, former partner in the Stigler
Theatres, now operates the Thompson and
Oklahoma Drive-In. Walters. He has a partner
in
that operation, too.
The Canadian Theatre, Purcell. one of
Oklahoma's oldest and most famous movie
houses, will be expanded completely and
modernized, reports owner E.G. Nicholas.
DALLAS
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lations to John Cantu. who recently was
transferred to Loews' Delman from Loews'
downtown theatre. Contu has been with
Loews Theatres since 1969. He started as
an usher and progressed over the years
to his present status. Charles Odell moved
from the Delman back to managing the
newly remodeled Loews" downtown theatre.
There were mixed emotion recently at
Eric Distributing Co. Don Scruggs, bookersalesman
and assistant to Eric DeNeve. told
his in-laws, who own the distributing company,
he was going into the real estate
ibusiness. Don plans to ibecome a broker.
All of us in the industry wi.sh him well.
Our deepest sympathy to Dowlen Russell,
3242 Princess Lane. Dallas, 75229.
Dowlen's mother Mrs. Madge Russell died
August 18 in the Presbyterian Hospital.
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The theatre originated via Walter Brown,
who built it in 1898.
A print of "The Return of the Pink Panther"
was stolen from a booth of the New
Laurel Theatre. San Antonio. Tex., recently.
Marquee changes: ".Sidecar Racers,"
.South Park and MacArthur Park: and ""Hennessy."
Villa. In Tulsa: ""Farewell. My
Lovely." Brook and Fontana: "Smile." Will
Rogers and 11th .Street Drive-In: ""One of
Our Dinosaurs Is Missing." Fox Plaza and
Village: and ""The Fortune." Plaza 3.
Sincere condolences to the wife and family
of Dudley R. Tucker, former Columbia
film salesman and Variety Club member,
who died recently. He had worked for Columbia
25 years. Funeral services were conducted
August 26 here. His parents had ibeen
veterans of the business, too.
Funeral service were conducted in the St.
Francis Episcopal Church with interment at
Restland Memorial Park.
Crescendo Cinema HI has completed
"Zig
Zag." a contemporary suspense-action-drama
filmed in Fort Worth stockyards area.
Screenplay and direction is by Perry Long,
with George Tregre executive producer.
CBH Sound of Fort Worth handled the
sound work. The film is to be released this
summer.
Women of Variety president Shirley Rowley
repwrts excellent results from first receipts
from the wishing wells placed in
Dallas theatre lobbies. The proceeds of the
project will go to the Variety Club Care-
Van Center to help sick and needy kids.
Some of the Dallas area theatres that have
authorized the WTV to put wishing wells
in their lobbies are: United Artists Theatres.
ABC Interstate. Loews, Trans-Texas. American
Multi Cinema. McLendon, Canyon
Creek, Chernoff and Meagher Theatres.
Tex. Wildlife Subject of 2 Films
AUSTIN—The Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department has produced two new 28-minute
films. "The Texas Game Warden" and
"The Wild Turkey in Texas."
New Production Manual Is
Tex. Film Services Guide
AUSTIN—The Texas Production Manual,
the states first comprehensive guide of
film services, personnel and equipment has
now been completed.
The manual has been in preparation for
two years. Although it has been delayed
several times because of budgetary limitations,
all data input has now been accomplished.
The production manual, more than 200
pages long, will be available to anyone who
wants a copy, but the commission will make
a special effort to see that it reaches out-ofstate
film and TV producers in order to
show the variety and extent of services
available in Texas.
SAN ANTONIO
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onds" at the Century South 6 and San
Pedro; and ""Superbug" at the Century South
6 and Fox Central Park ... In addition to
the showing of "'The Hound of the Baskervilles."
which has not been seen commercially
in the U.S. or Canada on TV or in
theatres for more than 30 years, there will
be a special film interview from 1927 with
Sir Arthur Conan Dyle at the North Star
Cinema.
Funeral services
were conducted recently
for Mrs. Hilda M. Powers. 77. mother of
Thomas E. Powers jr.. manager of the
Aztec 3 theatres. Survivors include two other
sons, two daughters, a brother, a sister. 18
grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Sincere condolences to Powers and
the
family on their loss.
It is estimated that more people have seen
"Jaws" than any other film, including "The
Exorcist." ""TTic Godfather" and "The Towering
Inferno." The film is at the Broadway
and Century South 6 in its ninth week.
Futuristic "After' Filmed in Texas
DALLAS—"After."' a Dallas-produced
film about the post-Apocalypse future, was
in production in July in North Texas. Producer
is Zack Burnett's Film Dallas company,
with Jim Murray as cinematographer.
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MINNEAPOl IS— -Jaws- continucti its
remarkable run at the Gopher, chewing up
ail rivals and surfacing with 635 in a ninth
frame. (Same theatre, same week with "The
Exorcist": 600) '•Nashville" looked bright
Major Radio Promotion Is
Held for 'Casino of Gold'
LOS ANGELES—KGFJ Radio conducted
a week-long promotion for Warner
Bros." new release. "Cleopatra Jones and the
Casino of Gold." Listeners calling the station
won four tickets each to the film's
opening August 27 at the State Theatre
in downtown Los Angeles.
KGFJ ran spots mentioning the opening
night's "Golden Glitter Costume Party,
sponsored by Metropolitan Theatres. Theatregoers
arriving at the State Theatre
dressed in unusual and colorful costumes
compete for prizes.
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"Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of
Gold" stars Tamara Dobson in her first
film role since her introduction in "Cleopatra
Jones." The new picture, directed b>
Chuck Bail, also stars Stella Stevens, Ii
was written and produced by William Tcnnant.
The film also opens the same day at the
Paramount in Hollywood and the Cresi in
Westwood.
Theatre Marquee Blaze
MILWAUKEE— Electrical trouble involving
faulty wiring was cited as the probable
cause of a blaze on one end of the U,A
Riverside Theatre's marquee. The movie
house is located a half-block from the Milwaukee
River, where a new bridge is being
constructed on Wisconsin Avenue. The
street has been closed and traffic rerouted
now for approximately ten months.
Double Feature for $1
LOS ANGELES—The Clinton Dollar
Theatre began a $1 admission price polic\
starting with the showing August 15 of
two Mel Brooks comedy films, "Young
Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles." both
starring Gene Wilder.
William Dyke Sees Films
In Wisconsin's Future
.VIILWAUKEE—Former Madison Mayor
William Dyke, who served two full terms in
that office, was featured in a siory in the
Journal as the investment director for a
low-budget motion picture being produced
near Tomahawk, Wis. Titled "The Great
Spider Invasion," it is a science-fiction
at the Cooper with .''OO in a fourth week as thriller in which 30-fcot, gaunt, black hair\
did "The ."Kpple Dumpling Gang" which spiders terrorize the folks living in northern
grabbed 300 in a second week. "Lx)ve and Wisconsin.
Death" had 250 in a sixth week.
.As pivviously reported, one of the producing
(Average Is 100)
Academy Monty Pylhon and the Holy Grail
firm's owners is Bill Rebane, the di-
rector who earlier made another
- (SR). 5th wk^ - 115
sci-fier,
Brookdale, Southdale—The Hetura of the
"The Selected," at his motion picture studio
Pink Panther (UA), 8lh wk 210
near Gleason, Wis. In addition to Dykj and
Cooper—Nashville (Para), 4th -.v,; 300
Four theatres— Part 2 Walking Tall A:F
2nd wk Rebane other owners are Richard Huff, a
200
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Gopher—Jaws (Univ). 9th wk. ^^35
Mann—loumey Into Fear (SR) 55
TV commercial producer from .Madison,
and Tim Gillet and Richard Plautz both of
(AA) Orpheum—Mitchell 85
Six theatres The Apple Dumpling Gang (BV),
Tomahawk.
2nd wk _.._ 300
Skyway I—Cooley High (AIP), 3rd wk ....100
Skyway III—Beyond the Door (SR), 4th wk
Dyke, incidentally, also has worked as
100
Terrace—Rollerball (UA!, 6th v.-k. _... 65 an attorney. TV weatherman, author and
12 theatres—Aloha, Bobby and Rose (Col)
World—Love and Death (UA), 6th wk
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....250 horse rancher. He was an unsuccessful Republican
candidate for governor of this state
"The Exorcist, Part II" will be directed
by Sam O'Steen from a script by William
Goodhart.
in 1974.
The film's story, as related by Dyke, concerns
an incident in which spider eggs drop
through an opening in the sky directly over
Lincoln County. The spiders, growing to
giant size, attack the residents and a couple
of scientists are called in to seek a way 1
stop this menace. The manner in which
they endeavor to accomplish this is in classic
science-fiction form.
Production got under way in June and
may be completed during October. Dyke
said it would be released in Gerrgia and
North Carolina and a Wisconsin premiere
would be held later.
Dyke stated he believes movie production
could become an important economic factor
in Wisconsin, which could beccme the "Hollywood
of the Midwest." Plans alreads are
under way for two more film projects here.
One is a western to be made in the southeast
corner of the state where a realistic Old
West setting is afforded by the rugged terrain
and some buildings that were constructed
a century or so ago. The other film would
be a love story to be shot in northern Wisconsin.
Milwaukee BFC Kicks Off
'75-'76 Season October 6
.MILWAUKEE—The Better Filnu and
TV Council of Milwaukee Area starts its
1975-76 season with a registration meeting
at Wauwatosa Civic Center the first Monday
in October. However, the organization
gets things under way earlier with a chartered
bus tour to the .Arlington Race Track
near Chicago.
Mrs. Len (Fran) Schmidtknecht, council
president, points out that this is a fund-raising
benefit event to help meet expenses expected
in connection with hosting the national
convention, to he held in Chicago
during 1976.
Mrs. .Schmidtknecht and four other council
members— Mrs. Robert Hunholt/. Mrs,
Harold Mclnch, Mrs. D. Gallen and Mrs.
Celia Fons—attended the recent Eagles Club
convention in Dallas. Tex.
LINCOLN
JnKllcii .Schradcr, one of ,M Schulter's assistant
managers at the Stuart, ha,s taken
an on-campus job—as hou«c manager of the
University of Nebraska's Kimball Recital
Hall. As much as .Al regrets losing JoEIIen,
he says the on-campus post represents recognition
of her abilities and is even more in
keeping with her university studies as a
music major senior. Fortunately for .-Xl. the
.Stuart vacancy will be filled by .Mike Murphy's
return as an assistant manager. He
will ccr.tinue to teach at Adams School but
will be pursuing his master's degree on campus
as well. Lou Jicha, who graduated this
summer from NU, is Al's other assistant
manager. All three will be busy in the days
ahead a,s the downtown Stuart prepares for
a Wednesday (24) opening of James Whitmore
as President Harry S Truman in
'Give 'Em Hell. Harry!"
It was hot and humid August 23 but football
enthusiast Walt Jancke stayed in the
air-conditioned comfort of his home to
catch the Los Angeles Rams on TV. The
Atlanta Falcons game the previous Saturday
afternoon was out in the blazing hot Memorial
Stadium at NU. Walt reports he, his
host Bill Land and three neighborhood boys
all were ready to call it ""quits" and go home
to lemonade by the end of the Falcon's third
quarter. Besides, Walt added, the live game
had "all the excitement of an old-fashioned
laffy pull."
State manager Dennis Garrison also documents
the intense temperatures at the Atlanta
Falcons game . Wallridge
and Susan Underbill, Lincoln High cheerleaders,
reported to work late that afternoon
—soaked. They were invited to participate
in the cheerleading activities set up for the
Falcons-Colts game. The "cheering champs"
also were invited earlier to appear in the
annual Shrine Hospital benefit game in the
same stadium.
Industry members around for more than
a few years recall Bill Williams of Nashville,
Tenn., as a native of Omaha. He was
former night editor for WOW Radio, Omaha.
Williams, Southern general manager for
Billboard Magazine and past president of
the Country Music Ass'n, died August 17.
according to news dispatches carried in
newspapers here,
Howard Hanson, native of Wahoo and
director of the Eastman School of Music
for 40 years until his retirement, will be
honored by Rochester, N."V., citizens. The
city's new outdoor theatre (2,000 seats) and
a plaza will be named the Howard Hanson
Plaza after the prominent musical director,
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now 78. Wahoo is the same Nebraska city
where famous motion picture producer Darryl
Zanuck was born.
Bruce Healey, Plaza doorman, accompanied
by several friends, went to Kansas
City for the August 2.^ weekend. Healey.
Lincoln Southeast senior and baseball team
player, and the others attended several bigleague
games ... A new doorman at the
Cooper-Highland Plaza is Terry Houchen.
a Lincoln High senior. Houchen previously
worked at the Plaza as an usher.
Mrs. Charles R. Schulter will be coming
here from her home in Allentown, Pa., to
help her grandson John Schulter celebrate
his second birthday Tuesday (16) at the
home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. Al Schul-
Tina Steinkamp, daytime cashier at the
downtown Plaza, and her husband Ernest
are due home Tuesday (2) after a two-week
vacation in
the Ozarks.
Newspaper readers here learned about a
group of male volunteers who will start
watching fwrnographic films and smoking
marijuana this fail in the Southern Illinois
University testing center to determine the
drug's effect on sexual response. Dr. Harris
Rubin, 43, a psychologist and associate professor
in the SIU School of Medicine, said
volunteers will watch films during periods
when smoking and not smoking legitimately
supplied pot. The tests, the "first objective
research of its kind," are funded by the
National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Home for a quick visit with relatives and
friends during part of their vacation were
Jay Maness and his wife Jeanne and the
three growing boys—Eldon, Craig and
Drew. The Maness family now lives in Des
Moines, where Jay is city manager for Duibinsky
Theatres. He formerly was with the
local industry. The visitors stayed with
Jeanne's parents Mr. and Mrs. William
Slaughter but managed to get around to see
some of their many friends. This included
a Monday night, August 25, date with Al
and Marilyn Schulter at their home. Al
manages Dubinsky's Stuart Theatre here.
It is understood that all theatres in the
city arc cooperating in distributing the Lincoln
Downtown Promotion Council's halfprice
ride coupon offer for all carnival rides
at the upcoming Nebraska State Fair. Cou-
Brochures flvailable
On Ihefflost Beautiful Christmas Trailers
pons used on a certain day of the fair will
give the holders (the general public attending
current local movie performances) rides
for half price.
Bruce Harmon worked all day August 24
(and the previous night) after the Plaza Four
manager spent the earlier part of August 23
in Hastings. He accompanied Charlene
Woolman. southeast Nebraska chapter president:
Bob Mercier, chapter vice-president,
and Leta Powell Drake, KOLN-TV personality,
to Hastings where they helped stage a
benefit carnival for muscular dystrophy at
the Imperial Mall. There have been previous
similar carnivals at Conestoga Mall in Grand
Island and at Gateway Shopping Center here
in which Bruce and other MD volunteer
fighters participated.
Manager Randy Hartman is looking for
an assistant manager again. It seems Lori
Bishop, the Cooper/ Lincoln's first feminine
assistant, discovered there was much more to
the job than she had realized at first. She
admitted it was too much for her at this
time. Meanwhile, John Slama is still Randy's
veteran assistant manager, although a second
Downtown, manager
one is needed . . .
Bruce Harmon also is interviewing assistant
manager applicants. They would succeed
Alan Shaw, who left to attend Kansas University
at Lawrence, Kas. John Fauss is
Bruce's only assistant currently ... A
University of Nebraska-developed production
was premiered August 28 at North
Platte. It explores Nebraska's resources and
land use through the eye of a LANDSAT
satellite camera. The NU Extension division's
media center. College of Engineering
and Architecture, and the State Department
of Education developed the unusual instructional
color production.
Mike Dobbins, one of this city's youngest
theatrical workers and supporters, is leaving
this month to become associated with the
theatre department at Highland Community
College in Freeport, III. As a teacher, Dobbins
also will pursue a degree in theatre
management and arts administration at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has
been theatre instructor at East High School,
a driving force behind this city's Colonnades
Dinner Theatre and he headed the new High
School Summer Repertory Theatre. Mike
has done guest directing, such as the Lincoln
Community Playhouse production of "Godspell,"
which opens Friday (5).
The Arthur Lapins hosted his parents Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Lapin and uncle Heim
Wolberg, all of Kansas City, as house guests
during the August 22-25 weekend. The
Lapins and Wolberg were en route to Denver
for the Saturday, August 30, wedding of
Iheir great-nephew Neil Burstcin. The stayover
in our town gave them another opportunity
to catch up with the activities of their
grandsons Jeffrey and Andrew and to participate
in a family celebration of Mr. aod
Mrs Irwin Dubinsky's 41st wedding anniversary
August 22, held at the Sarge Dubinsky
home.
Cathy Kroll, 17, is back at Oakgrove
Lutheran High School in Fargo, N.D., for
her senior year, beginning Tuesday (2).
Charles Kroll drove his daughter north over
the weekend . armchair traveling
via the 1975-76 travel and adventure series
seems even more inviting than usual as described
in a recently received yellow brochure.
Randy Hartman, manager of the
Cooper/ Lincoki, where the eight "trips" will
originate, and Chris Vogelsang of the Women's
Division, Lincoln Chamber of Commerce,
have been working on arrangements
and the season ticket sales. This is a jointly
sponsored Cooper-Highland and Women's
Chamber undertaking. It begins with "Winter
Magic in the Americas" October 7 and
ends April 6 in the British Virgin Isles.
Takeoff times for each trip are 2 p.m., 5:45
p.m. and 8:15 p.m.—or three performances
for each travel program.
A number of local industry staffers landed
back in university classrooms the last
week in August but most return to school
Tuesday (2) as junior or senior high class
members. At the State, manager Dennis
Garrison reports that high school graduate
Jim Mulvaney, a doorman, started business
major studies at NU. Over at Cinema 1 and
2, returning and new university students on
campus August 25 or 26 included Bruce
Draney and Mark Feldman, assistant managers;
Mary Martin, Jeanne Janecek, Kath\
Edwards and also Laura Brown, who be
came a Nebraska Wesleyan freshman; from
Cooper/ Lincoln's staff are Renee Rhodes.
Nebraska Wesleyan student, and Joan
Sasse, Deb Andelt and Tom Anderson, NU.
and from Plaza Four, John Fauss, assistant
manager; Cory Nickerson, cashier; Kevin
Mclnerney, head doorman; Kathy Maicr,
cashier, and Craig Lindgren and Paul Da\'io.
ushers, all enrolled at NU. Kye Kinbacher.
concession worker the past two years at the
Plaza, leaves her job Tuesday (2) to become
a freshman at St. Olaf's in Northfield, Minn
Bruce Draney, Cinema 1 and 2 assistan:
manager, happens to be an enthusiastic che^--
tournament player, so he was happy to see
some of the top participants in the U.S.
Championship held in this city the past two
weeks take time out to relax at the cinema.
One chose "The Happy Hooker," he observed.
Bruce planned to go to Kansas City
during the long Labor Day weekend to
in a regional chess meet there.
play
"Bite the Bullet" depicts an endurance
horse race across the American Southwest
in 1906.
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Analyzes Film Production
—
HARIFORD—The legend of a 'oneman"
show—especially in motion pictures
is more fiction than fact, actor-director
Maximilian Schell said in a newspaper interview
here.
"A film," Schell said, "was, is and always
will be a 'team' effort. No one nLin can take
credit for everything that's happening on
the screen. The writer has done his work,
the production crew has done its work, and
the actors have acted out what has been
prescribed as a particular story."
Schell was interviewed in conjunction with
commercial showings of the American Film
Theatre's "The Man in the Glass Booth." at
the UA Theatres East III and the UA-Taubman
Westfarms Movies II. He has the starring
role.
"The only man I could, in all honesty, say
who has worked 'solo.' " Schell continued,
"has been Chaplin. He took months upon
months to fashion a motion picture. But
beyond Chaplin, nobody in films can claim
the distinction of a 'one-man' show. It just
doesn't work out that way in the final
analysis."
"I'm writing a screenplay, to be donfe
perhaps later this year, or early in 1976,
depending on completion," Schell went on,
"and already I have begun talks with production
people, cameramen and those others
who are associated with such a project long
before the principal photography begins.
"We deal in cinematic concepts, using
words, of course, but it is, very much so,
primarily a visual outlet, and we approach
a scene, a setting, in a visual mood.
"I have enormous respect for production
people, in film, theatre, television, opera,"
Schell emphasized. "They are enormously
creative, and while the director, in which
capacity I have also worked, has the final
decision, of course, he must, if he wishes a
complete concept, rely on the contributing
decisions, the determinations of production
people, who know well indeed the instinct
that comes only with experience."
CATV Fee Prohibited
HARTFORD—Property owners can no
longer charge tenants a fee to hook up to
cable TV, under state legislation signed by
Gov. Ella T. Grasso.
MILWAUKEE
please call and let us know how many shipmates
you'll be bringing," said the attractive
invitation mailed to industryitcs and
their families by Carole Sutter, local manager
of the Bucna Vista Distributing Co..
referring to a special screening of "the biggest
Thanksgiving holiday attraction ever."
The "Double Disney Adventure" program
was held at the Mill Road II (Capitol Service)
Tuesday evening. August 19, and consisted
of "Treasure Island" and "Dr. Syn,
Alias 'The -Scarecrow." "
Thanks to Fred Florence of Mescop. 92.^5
West Capitol Dr.. for the following news
item: "Mel Glatz & Associates, theatre design
firm, has been retained by Tom Senn.
president of Thomas Theatres. Present plans
are to twin the Braumart Theatre, Iron
Mountain, Mich., and the Ironwood Theatre.
Ironwood. Mich. Construction is expected
to begin this fall."
A legal contest that began almost two
years ago between the city of Brookfield
and the Marcus Corp. over the building of
a movie theatre and restaurant in the shopping
center at North 124th Street and West
Capitol Drive may end soon as the result
of a meeting of the suburb's planning commission
recently, when a compromise was
suggested and considered. However, final
action was delayed 30 days while both sides
searched for possible code restrictions. Marcus
had contested the city's refusal to allow
construction of similar facilities at North
148th Street and West Capitol Drive. Zoning
would have allowed the constiniction
but neighbors had opposed it.
"Tommy," in its return engagement here,
is now in its sixth stanza at the Strand downtown
and the Avalon on the south side.
Pat Kohnke, manager of the UA Mayfair
Theatre in Wauwatosa, is now recovered
from a bout with pneumonia which had
plagued him for several weeks. Others who
are recovering from recent illnesses include
Joe Reynolds, veteran showman and longtime
manager of the Towne (Towne Corp.)
Theatre, and Joyce Lindberg. manager of
the Southgate (UA) Theatre.
"Tuesday Is Comedy Night" was the head-
Ii,ne in newspaper advertising for the 24
Outdoor (Hales Corners) which listed these
four all-time comedies: "Future Perils of
Laurel and Hardy." "Horse Feathers," 'My
Little Chickadee" and "Duck Soup." In contrast
the Starlile Drive-In featured four
"orgies of evil" August 26: "Brain of
Blood." "Blocd Dracula's Castle," 'Twilight
People" and "Nightmare in Wax."
"l-ast chance to sec 'Benji' for .Seven
Years" was the come-on contained in the
newspaper ad concerning the movie showing
at the Modjeska and Paradise, UA theatres
on the city's south side. Companion feature
was 'Vanishing Wilderness."
Lake Geneva Regional News, weekly
newspaper primmed in Lake Geneva, had a
front-page story stating that "the Geneva
Theatre would be razed this fall and replaced
with two theatres in one building."
according to information received by that
city's board of appeals. Two variations from
this city's zoning code were permitted
Standard Theatres, the owner. The news
story continued: 'Construction of the theatre
was estimated tentatively at $250,000.
The single lobby will be at the north, adjacent
to Thumbs Up, and will open into the
hall leadii-g to the two theatres where different
movies will show simultaneously. Patrons
will be seated facing the south, the
screens being at the side of the building
adjacent to the alley ... A story in the
same issue of Lake Geneva Regional News
reported that the Marcus Theatre Corp. had
"taken over operation of the Lakes Outdoor
Theatre, on Highway 50 west of Williams
Bay, from the Kohlberg Theatre Corp. of
Chicago. It is temporarily under the management
of Don Perkins. Extensive remodeling
and general upgrading of facilities is
planned in
the near future."
Local film industrjites have received another
mailing from J. Hunter Todd telling
all that his forthcoming International Film
Festival of the Americas (November 7-16)
in the Virgin Islands now has mutual pacts
with Berlin, — Moscow. Egypt. Yugoslavia
and Iran "more than any other international
film festival." The entry requests from
filmmakers are '"300 per cent over last
year"s record figures."' Todd claims.
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Trwin Dubinsky, president of Dubinsky Bros.
Theatres, and his son-in-law James
Rodenberg, vice-president and counsel for
the company, were in town August 13-14
inspecting the circuit's six theatre units and
checking the remodeling progress at the
River Hills Riviera theatres and at the Plaza
Theatre. The remodeling at the Fleur Four
theatres recently was completed.
Carl Hoffman of the Dubinsky booking
office here took a four-day vacation, returning
to work August 18 . and Jeanne
Maness and Jay's family departed August
18 for a two-week vacation. While Jay is
gone. Marv Graybeal, Plaza manager, and
Roy Disney. Galaxy manager, were watching
the Dubinsky city operation . . . Jay's
two assistants. Craig Hicks and Marge
Miller, were operating the River Hills/Riviera
theatres.
"The Apple Dumpling Gang," showing
at the Plaza, has been doing an outstanding
business and setting house records, it was
reported by Plaza manager Marv Graybeal.
"It really is doing twice the business for us
that "Bambi" did." Graybeal said. "We are
appealing to the younger set as well as a
great many adults." Graybeal also reports
that the Plaza staff has named the theatre
"Des Moines' most funtastic theatre, the
family center of Iowa."
Brent Sargent, Dubinsky circuit's IngersoU
manager, recently arranged for patrons
of the theatre to park at the Steak-O-Rama
Restaurant across the street from the theatre.
Said Sargent. "This is just one small
step that we arc taking in trying to improve
our customer-patron service at the Ingersoll."
Ed Buckley, Fleur Four Theatre manager,
returned from a week's vacation in
Chicago. Ed reports he returned to a thriving
business at the south-side quadplex.
where the current attractions are •Mont\
Python and the Holy Grail." "Part 2 Walking
Tall." "Jaws" and "Love and Death."
Ed commented that the theatre has been
doing maximum business most of the summer
with a marked increase in concession
sales . . . Charles Ijeak. son-in-law of Galaxy
manager Roy Disney, joined the Dubinsky
management staff as the new manager of
the Wakonda Theatre.
People have been coming and going at
the local office of Warner Bros. Vacationing
at home the week of August 23 was cashier
Dorothy Short. The following week, branch
manager Bob Hirz left for a two-week vacation,
with one week to be spent in the San
.
Francisco area. Salesman Norman Holt was
operating out of the office during Hirz's
vacation . . Saturday, August 23. booking
clerk Karen Balliet and Tom Uthe were
in united marriage in Hartley, hometown
of the bride. The following week the couple
honeymooned in the Black Hills region of
South Dakota. Karen will continue to work
here and will be commuting from their
home near Madrid, where Tom farms with
his father.
Filmrow bade farewell to Mickey Ellis
of the Paramount office and Jeff Rodda of
the Universal office Friday, August 15, the
final day for each in their respective jobs.
Mickey is taking a position with a firm in
the Minneapolis area and Jeff will be moving
this month to Arizona, where he plans
to enter the insurance field.
Norman Holt, Warner Bros, salesman,
and his wife Pauline announce the engage-
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daughter, Roberta, who will marry Robei
Scbwenke at the First Christian Church here
Saturday (27). Roberta is employed by Blue
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OMAHA
Quch things as electric bills weren't of much
concern when the Orpheum was first
opened here years ago as a plush movie
palace. However, energy crises and escalating
power rates have shown Mayor Edward
Zorinsky what all those beautiful ceiling and
side wall fixtures are costing to turn on these
days. After an inspection and a SI 7.700
bill, lights-only the mayor commented.
"We're overlit." The total utility bill for
July was $44,000. The Orpheum's original
luxurious early 20th century decor was retained
when the showplace was taken over
by the city as a performing arts center.
Condolences to Wilbur Adams, film advertising
salesman at S&M Service, whose
wife Maude died Sunday, August 17, after
a long illness, .'\dams. who has been with
S&M almost 40 years, has many, many
friends among theatre owners throughout
Iowa. Nebraska. Minnesota and the Dakotas
who offer their sympathy at this time.
Loy Holman Exits Sedalia
State Fair Twin Cinema
SED.^LI.^. MO.—Loy Holman, former
owner of the State Fair Twin Cinema, told
the press here in mid-July that he was resigning
as theatre manager because of the
X-rated films the new cinema owners
planned to exhibit. HBM Investment Co.,
formed by Holman throe jears ago, previously
had arranged a lease agreement with
producer Marty Greenwald of Movie Showcase.
Inc.. Las Vegas. Holman at that time
agreed to remain as manager of the cinema.
Neal to Manage Madison
NASHVILLE, TENN.— General manager
Orville Crouch of Loews Theatres has
announced promotion of John Neal from
assistant manager. Loews' Crescent, to managership
of the circuit's Madison Theatre.
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CINCINNATI—"Love and Death'
posted
575 in a second week at two theatres to
Ijad all grosses. "Jaws" gnawed away at
second place with 500 for a ninth frame at
four theatres. "Seven Alone" opened to a
S'Weet 475 on four screens while "Part 2
Walking Tall" pulled 450 in a third stanza.
(Average Is 100)
Carousel 1 —The Other Side of the Mountain
(Univ), 13th wk _ 375
Carousel 2, Stud;=s—Love and Death (UA),
2nd .575
Four 475
thea'res—Seven Alone
-.vk Four theatres—laws :Vn;v 9h 500
Four theatres—The Apple Dumpling Gong
(BV), 6th wk 200
lnierna:ional 70— Deliver Me From Evil (SR) 75
Showcase 1—Nashville (Para), 4th wk 400
Showcase 2 —Jacqueline Susann's Once Is
Not Enough (Pa-tii '--. .-.k 275
Showcase 3—Part 2 Walking Tall Al? ird wk. 450
Showcase 5—A Boy and Hi; Dog J- .400
Skvwclk 1—The Fortune :. 150
Three theatres—Sirile iV.A 100
Times Towne—The Betum oi the Pink Panther
13th wk _ _ 400
Tri-Countv—The 5th wk. -..300
Drowning Pool (WB),
Valley—RolIerbaU (UA), 6th wk. 275
"Jaws' Gobbles Up BIO in 8th;
'Python' Has 355 in Cleveland
CLEVELAND— -Jaws" gobbled up the
competition with 610 in an eighth week at
four houses. "Monty Python and the Holy
Grail" had a smashing 355 gross at World
East and World West. "Rollerball" raced
through a fourth week at the Village with
320. Also big scorers were "The Apple
Dumpling Gang" and "Part 2 Walking
Tall." pulling 260 each.
Colony—Emmanuelle (Col), 5th wk 145
Four theatres—The Man in the Glass Booth
(AFT) _ 90
Four theatres—Jaws (Univ), 8th wk 810
Hicpodrone, Shaker—Cooley High (AIP).
Madis n, North!:e;3 ?:zz^ '.—SuperVixens (SR),
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Seven theatres— Part 2 Walking Tall .-.:?; 260
Six thea-res-The Apple Dumpling Gang (BV).
2nd wk 260
Six theatres-French Connection 11 (2"t.-,-Fox) 150
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Three theatres—Nashville (Para), 3rd wk
Two theatres—The Other Side of the Mountain
(Univ), 12th wk _ _ _ 130
Villaae—Rollerball 4th 320
(UA), wk.
World East, World Wes--Monty Python
Holy Grail (SR) and the 355
'Ja-vvs' Has 310 in Detroit 8th;
"ApDle Dumpling Gang' Sweet 300
DETROIT — "Jaws" gripped the city
aga'n with 310 at eight houses in an eighth
week. "The Apple Dumpling Gang" had a
sweet bow in 18 theatres to score 300.
"Na.'.hville" completed a sixth week at Radio
City with 275 while a double hill of "Killer
Snakes" and "Black Dragon" had 225.
Eight theatres-laws (Univ), 8th v,-k. 310
Eight theatres—Doc Savage, the Mon of Bronze
(WB) 60
18 theatres-The Apple Dumplmg Gang BV) 300
15 theatres—Mitchell AA 65
Five theatres— Love and 180
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Fox—Killer Dragon iSR),
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Northland—Rollerball (UA), 5th 210
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Radio City—Nashville (Para), 6th wk 275
Seven theatres—The Wilby Conspiracy (UA) 60
Seven theartres—Night Moves (WB) — 60
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30 theatres—White Line Fever (Col)
Three theatres—The Wind and the Uon (UA),
7th wk _ _I2S
Three theatres-Take a Hard Ride (20lh-Fox),
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Tovme 1—Monty Python ond the Holy Grail
(SR). 3rd wk 95
Two theatres Cleopatra Jones and the
Casino oi Gold (WB), 2nd wk. - 185
GRIFFITH SALUTE—The U.S.
Postal Service recently issued a commemorative
stamp honoring film pioneer
D. W. Griffith, perhaps the single
most influential director in the history'
of American films. Toledo Postmaster
General Frank Goldie, left, met a local
representative of the film industry,
Dennis R. Young, manager of the
Westwood Theatre (an Art Theatre
Guild movie house), to introduce the
new stamp to the public in Toledo.
Long Lineup Presents New
Problem for Management
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO— If you wait
in a long line to see a popular movie, as
did David A. Shevetz at the Uptown Theatre
here, only to learn that your wait was
in vain, you might not be so an,xious to go
to that particular theatre again. Shevetz
wrote a letter to the editor of the daily
Youngstown Vindicator as follows:
"A ver\' popular movie playing in the
Youngstown area deals with sharks. The
lines have been very long and waiting takes
up to two hours or longer. Being in this
situation, I've seen that the general public
demonstrates great patience and a goodnatured
attitude toward this time-consuming
situation and is rewarded with the
statement: "Sorry, we are sold out!' After
waiting in line two or more hours to watch
the movie, this is totally wrong and downright
unfair to the public that supports area
theatres.
"The theatre management knows the
seating capacity of its theatre and each
ticket sold is numbered so that an accurate
count can be made. Why, then, should this
situation exist in which a person standing
in line for two or more hours is turned
away? It would not be difficult for the management
to have ushers take a head count
while the line is formed and make a cutoff
when the number of people has reached
the theatre's capacity, thereby avoiding th^'
ugly situation of people waiting in line for
a movie they would not see anyway'.'
"If the area theatres want the public sup
port of the movie industry, they in turn
should give the public the saine simple
courtesies and mannerisms that they themselves
expect."
'Seven Alone' a Hit
In Mideaslern Area
l.OLl.SVILl.L—L>man Da>lon, president
of Doty-Dayton Productions, reported
a total 5165,176 five-day gross for the company's
feature film "Seven Alone" in the
I.ouisvillc-Cincinnati-Dayton, Ohio - Lexington,
Ky. market areas.
Cincinnati scored S53,6S5: the Dayton,
Ohio, figure was 537,84.3; Lexington, Ky.,
had a $34,226 boxoffice, and Louisville reported
a lofty 539,422.
Dayton said good-to-excellent grosses
were recorded throughout the area, with
the Twin Hills Drive-In at Herrodsburg.
Ky., establishing a new one-night house
record.
"Seven Alone" stars Dewey Martin, Aldo
Ray, Anne Collings and Stewart Petersen
and is rated G.
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Hype 'Darktown Strutters'
By LOIS BAUMOEL
CLEVELAND—Two beautiful girls
were
in Cleveland for the world premiere August
1 3 of New World Pictures' "Darktown
Strutters" at the Embassy. Scrumpy-Dump
and Shaker theatres. Trina Parks and Shirley
Washington arrived two days before the
inaugural unspooling to help promote the
film.^
Trina, who is five feet, eight and one-half,
made her film debut as Thumper using
karate on Sean Connery in "Diamonds Are
Forever." But, wearing huge wire-rimmed
glasses, Ms. Parks looks more like a student
than a siren.
She majored in music and was trained in
dancing, including ballet, under the tutelage
of Katherine Dunham, Martha Graham and
the New Dance Group in New York. Ms.
Parks was the principal dancer with the
Katherine Dunham Company when it played
in Paris in the production of "Deux
Anges Sont Vcnu." She remained in Paris
for some time and was a featured dancer
in a TV special there with Michel LeGrand.
Her acting career began in that glamorous
city when she landed a dramatic role in
"Emperor Jones," starring James Earl
Jones.
The actress' father, musician Charles
Frazier, has played with Cab Calloway.
Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine and Billic
Holiday. Presently, he is traveling with his
own band. Frazier spotted his daughter's
talents early and enrolled her in the Brooklyn
Academy of Music. Though not at the
moment married, Trina has a two-year-old
daughter, Tennel.
Ms. Parks, who was seen in "Beyond the
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Valley of the Dolls" and -'The Great Whii
Hope," is playing her first starring role in
"Darktovsn Strutters," a film that was si-,
weeks in the making. During the shootin;'.
she was in an accident when she lost control
of her motorbike and hit a pole. V'
though the girls constantly appear on then
oversized three-wheelers in the mo\ie, the;
claim to have done very little of their ov
riding.
Trina has signed to make another filial
for New World. "Run for the Money."
Lovely Shirlex Washington, the ninth O:
13 brothers and sisters, is familiar with
Cleveland, since she was born and rearc;)
in nearby Detroit. The former Miss Blac!-
America, winner of a succession of beaut,
contests— Miss Elks of Detroit, Miss Ell
of Michigan. Miss Elks of America, Mi\^
Bronzeville in Philadelphia and Miss Sepi.i
International Beauty in Canada— needles,
to say. is a beauty!
Ms. Washington is an extrovert who lovehaving
her palm read and handwriting
analyzed. Too. she is a great believer i-
extra sensory perception (ESP).
Her other film credits include "Dead Eml
Dolls," "Wonder Women," "Detroit OOno
and "Bamboo Gods and Iron Men."
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Daintily nibbling their lunches at the Kc
and Quarter, the two attractively attire!
young actresses were looking forward i
planned autograph parties at the world p: :
niierc
of "Darktown Strutters."
'Strutters' Stepping High
In Cleveland Engagement
HOLLYWOOD—New World Pictures'
"Darktown Strutters" grossed S26.244 in
three houses in the first seven days of its
run in Cleveland. The film played the Shaker
Theatre, the Scrumpy-Dump and the
Embassy Theatre, with personal appearances
by Trina Parks and Shirley Washington,
former Miss Black America, both starring
in the film, promotirg the ergagemcnt.
The singing group the Dramatics sing
their hit single "What You .See Is What
You Get" in the film about a quartet of
cycle-riding soul sisters who foil plans for
world domination.
.-Mso starring in the picture are Roger E.
Mosley. Stan Shaw. Bettye Sweet and Edna
Richardson.
Cinema 1. II Unveiled
In Los Banos. Calif.
From Western Edition
LOS BANGS, CALIF.—The new Cm
e "a I ad II is open for business in th:
San Joaquin Valley town. Located in ,;
large shopping center on the west side, the
luxury showcases are offering first-run
features.
This brings the total of theatres in Lo-^
Bancs to three, the third being the recenllremodeled
Crest in the downtown area.
Tom Graff, Carniel theatre owner, is .1
partner in Cinem.i 1 and II.
CLEVELAND
Qii the third Friday in October "The First
Monda) in October." a new play by
Lawrence and Lee, will have its world premiere
at the Play House. Academy Awardwinning
actor Melvyn Douglas will play
opposite Jean .Arthur who has come out of
retirement to do this play that opens the
60th season of the Play House. These veteran
stars appeared together in the movie
"Too Many Husbands" in the 1940s.
Douglas reportedly told a member of the
Play House staff by phone. "I'm coming to
Cleveland to do this play because I think
it is the best play Lawrence and Lee have
ever written." (Douglas played the original
Broadway versions of Lawrence and I^e's
"Inherit the Wind" and "The Gang's All
Here"). Ms. Arthur was signed for the role
last month and first heard that Douglas
would be her co-star at a recent party given
at Lawrence's home in Malibu.
Playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert
Lee will be in residence at the Play
Hou.se with the start of rehearsals in mid-
Septem.ber. Lawrence will direct the play.
Lawrence, a native of this city and a graduate
of Glenville High School and Ohio
State University, and Lee. an Elyria High
and Ohio Wesleyan University graduate,
have written many plays and musicals.
These include the smash hit "Inherit the
Wind." "Mame." "Shangri-la," "Dear
Worid." "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail."
"Jabberwock" and others. "The First Monda>
in October" is a comedy-drama which
explores the behind-the-scenes world of the
U.S. Supreme Court, postulating what might
happen when the first woman is appointed
a
justice.
Rae Deas is the manager of the recently
reopened Lvceum Theatre at ,354.S Fulton
Rd.
Odaline Saluan, former Cedar-Lee cashier
and sister of Albert and daughter of Jorge,
owners of the Saluan Restaurant in the Film
Bu'lding. married Wajih Daher August 9.
Following the wedding a large reception
wa, held at the Sheraton Cleveland.
Three former Karamu performers won
O'bie awards this year. Gilbert Moses, who
act;d here in the 1950s, won an award for
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directing "The Taking of Miss Janie Lincoln."
Rcyno Crayton, who left here a year
ago, received an Obie for acting in "The
First Breeze of Summer." which moved
from off-Broadway earlier this summer.
Meanwhile, another Karamu alumnus, Ron
O'Neal, star of ".Super Fly." replaced
Cleavon Little in the Broadway production
of Murray Schisgal's new play "All Over
Town." The stage production manager of
the 1974 Tony Award-winning musical
"Raisin" is Nate Barnett. a Kent State
graduate and another successful product of
Karamu.
Congratulations to Jud .Spiegle, sales representative
for the CineVu Co.. who recently
became a grandfather for the second
time. However, little Jamie is the first
granddaughter for the Spiegles.
Harley Berger, Academy advertising media
buyer, recently returned from a trip to
Toronto. Canada . Saturi, secretary
to Pat Mooney, American International Pictures
division manager, is spending her twoweek
holiday in the city catching up on lots
of odds and ends.
Ruena Vista and .\IP were robbed Tuesday
evening. August 19. The thieves made
off with two typewriters from BV and a
stereo from AIP.
Bob Gold, vice-president and creative director
of Marschalk Co.. was doubly amused
at seeing Roy Scheider in "Jaws." Scheider
and Gold were roommates during flight
training school with the .Air Force in Hondo.
Tex. In the role of the police chief.
Scheider supposedly hates the water and
can't swim. According to Gold, the two
went swimming every weekend while they
were stationed in Texas.
Two special performances of the Israeli
film "I Love You, Rosa." sponsored by the
I. L. Peretz Workmen's Circle School, were
held August 23-24 at the Workmen's Circle
Educational Center in South Euclid. The
color film, in Hebrew with English subtitles,
was nominated for an Academy
Award for "best foreign film" and was
shown here two years ago. The weekend
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CINCINNATI
Jeff
Ruff, head of C. J. Ruff Distribution,
has returned from a short vacation.
Margaret Baechle has joined the Buena
Vista staff as a clerk-typist . . . Margaret
Woodruff, retired Columbia Pictures booker,
was back on Filmrow at National Theatre
Supply while Helen Cirin. secretary,
was on a week's vacation.
Don Wirtz of Mid States Theatres is on
a two-week fishing trip in
Florida.
Exhibitors In town recently included Ben
Hathaway, Vevay, Ind.: Howard Shelton.
Vanceburg. Ky.. and Ohio exhibitors Harley
Bennett. Chillicothe. and Haro' Wheeler.
Galipolis.
Fountain Square Plaza is in the heart of
the downtown business district where "the
action is." Called "Summertime on the
Square," the action was going full tilt from
10 a.m. until 11 p.m. every day during the
month of August. Recently, the city recreation
commission and the park board, which
COLUMBUS
^anny Deeds announced the Ohio Theatre
subscription series for 1975-76 with the
stage attractions opening October 13 with
"Irene." Second attraction is "Don't Bother
Me. I Can't Cope." October 30; "All Over
Town," November 17; Sammy Cahn, December
8; "Together Tonight, Hamilton,
Jefferson and Burr," January 8, with Dana
Andrews, Howard Duff and John Anderson;
"Absurd Person Singular," February 5, and
"Give 'Em Hell, Harry!", with Ed Nelson
as Harry S Truman. One additional play is
to be booked, possijbly "Equus" or "Raisin."
"Jaws" went into a tenth week at Ci.nema
East and University City . longrunning
films here include "The Return of
the Pink Panther." "The Other Side of the
Mountain," "Nashville" and "Rollerball."
Constitutional guarantees of free speech
do not extend to public entertainment involving
"naked ladies," Franklin County
Municipal Judge Josoph M. Clifford ruled.
He handed down a brief decision on a motion
by attorney Laurence E. Stutz for striptease
dancer Jcanette Taylor, who performed
at the New Garden Theatre in a burlesque
show under the name of Maya Cherokee.
Miss Taylor, three other dancers,
manager Gerald T, Gifford and cashier
Patty Hegwood were arrested by city police
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are responsible for all the Square activities.
tried something different—movies. Among
the offerings were the Marx brothers in
The Big Store," "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
and "Showboat." The nights were hot and
muggy but the huge crowds didn't care.
They came prepared to enjoy the films, with
camp stools, blankets and focd. Mid States
provided the prints, screen, projector and
personnel. According to David Lyman, director
of the "Summer on the Square" program,
the movie project turned out to be
one of the most successful activities and
in all will, probability, be on next summer's
program.
Grant Frazee, Chakeres general manager,
and Wally Allen, booker, have returned
from the West Coast after attending a
screening of TayJor-Laughlin's new film
"The Master Gunfighter."
Lucille Arnold, a member of the Universal
office staff and with the company 34
years,
has retired.
under an ordinance prohibiting females
from exposing their breasts solely for entertainment
in a public place. Sturtz contended
that
the charge against Miss Taylor violated
her right to freedom of speech. Miss Taylor,
who is free under $300 bond, has asked for
a jury trial.
CLEVELAND
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was a prelude to the Workmen's Circle
School's annual film festival which begins
in October and continues through March.
The Yiddish films in the 1975-76 series
include: "Flying Matchmaker." October
11-12; "A Brivele der Mamen." November
15-16; "Where Is My Child?". December
6-7; "The Singing Blacksmith." January
10-11; "Tevye," February 14-15 and "Yiddle
With His Fiddle." March 13-14.
Mel Tillis, who appeared at the Coliseum
August 22 with Floyd Cramer and Boots
Randolph in "The Festival of Music,"
writes, tours, runs publishing company
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and is in films. Moviegoers recently enjoyed
Mel's dual role as himself and as a service
station attendant in 20th-Century-Fox's
"WW. and the Dixie Dancekings." starring
Burt Reynolds.
Levine to Keep Famed House
AUGUSTA. ME.—Josqph E. Uvine.
iiresident of Joseph E. Levine Pre-scnts.
Inc.. New York. h;is withdrawn his offer to
give to the sta,tc of Maine the Christine
Olson house in Cuiihi.ng, made f .mun s h.
Andrew Wycth piiintings. Thomas Dickens,
director of the -Stale Bureau of Parks and
Recreation, said :the offer wias withdrawn by
the film industry executive "ib>cc;iusc of an
iiiadeqiuitc proposed state bmlgct to mainl.iin
and operate the property."
IRS Interest Could Cause
Foreclosure Sale Delay
TOLEDO, OHIO—A foreclosure sale of
the Renaissance Hotel Building, which includes
the Renaissance-Valentine Theatre
and a parking garage, scheduled for August
15, was expected to be delayed by action
of the U.S. Department of Internal Revenue.
The Internal Revenue Service said it
would like to determine if two air-conditioning
units, valued at between $80,000
and $100,000 each, are considered part of
the real estate. The entire property is appraised
at $900,000.
The IRS has a lien of more than $30,000
on the corporation's personal property. If
the air-conditioning units, located on the
roof of the downtown structure constitute
part of the real estate, they would be included
in assets purchased at the foreclosure
sale. However, if the units were held
to be personal property, then the IRS would
like to attach them and sell them to satisfy
the lien.
Last December, Lucas County Common
Pleas Judge John J. Connors jr. issued an
order forbidding the IRS from attaching the
air conditioners. The government filed a
motion to delay the foreclosure sales pending
a decision on the status of the two units.
It says that a prior-to-the-sale decision
would prevent confusion and possible continued
court action over the assets includeJ
in the foreclosure sale.
Judge Connors is handling the mortgage
foreclosure action brought by People's Savings
Ass'n. which holds a mortgage of nearly'^
$600,000, and First National Bank of
Toledo, which is owed $50,000, according
to court records.
The Renaissance Corp., which operated
the theatre and hotel before financial problems
interfered, was headed by Terrencc
Gallagher, now involved in bankruptcy.
Douglas Theatre to Build
On Onetime Ozoner Site
OMAHA—Winchell Donuts, a national
operation, has signed a lease with Douglas
Theatre Co. to occupy a building to be
constructed by Douglas on the former 84th
and Center Drive-In land in Omaha. David
Livingston. Douglas vice-ipresident, said that
several other leases are in various stages of
negotiations.
According to plans of Douglas president
Russell Brehm. the rental structures will be
built to meet the needs of the lease tenants,
Livingston said. He emphasized there is no
plan to make the area a shopping center of
any type.
The property has been cleared of all
equipment and structures.
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Bangor Admission Prices
Lower to Lure Audiences
BANGOR. ME.—While a New York
City dweller plunked down $5 to see "The
Godfather." area residents generally were
admitted for $3. Why such a bargain?
"Our prices," Robert Kelly, manager of
the Brewer Cinemas, noted, "are geared to
an average income level. The man in Maine
.seldom makes what his counterpart in New
York does."
Kent Mockler, Mall Theatre and University
Cinemas manager, agreed. "A $5
single admission is too unrealistic for most
local people. People don't want to turn in
their wallet to go to a movie," he said with
a grin.
Bangor has added several theatres over
the past decade and yet, ironically, there
are more emporia to show fewer products.
Durina those years prices caught up to
$1.50,'$2. $3.
"When I took over as manager of the
Mall Theatre and University Cinemas (in
Old Town)." recalled Mockler. "I suggested
we lower prices except for films of unusual
quality and popularity."
Basically, that is how "buck n'ght" developed,
to lure audiences in on slow nights
like Mondays.
"It's been a very good th'ng for us," concurred
Kelly, who has been in his post at
Brewer Cinemas for ten months now.
"People flocked in," Mockler said, "to
see pictures that normally would be showing
for double the price. This success
prompted us to lower the prices on Wednesdays
and Thursdays to $1.50 and to $2 on
the weekends."
What many people do not know, however,
is that a senior citizen can gain entrance
to a local theatre anytime for $1—if
he can prove his age.
The Bangor theatre managers pointed out
d-fferent measures to keep admission costs
down.
"Most theatres have eliminated ushers."
sa'd Mockler. "And I do a great deal of
the (advertising) work here myself— pasting
the ads uo. laying them out ... I do this
for seven local newspapers."
Both Mockler ard Kelly ment-oned the
astronomic costs of heating and cooling
their theatres. The former recently bad the
enormous expense of soundproofing Cinema
II on Grant Plaza to stifle the nightly roar
from a rock band in an adjacent eat'ng
place.
The costs of operation versus the profits
are slim, Mockler finalized. "It's quite an
accomplishment that we've kept our prices
depressed. As for the future ... I would
like to see a graduated scale projected over
the week ... In effect (it has) re-created
an interest in the movies. Business has improved
and more people are coming out to
the theatres for a night out."
Beyond the Door' Grabs 400 Debut;
'Nashville
Pulls 380 in Boston 7th
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BOSTON
j^ilton Cohen, branch manager of Apple
Films, arranged a screening of General
Films' new combo "Games Girls Plays'" and
"Games Guys Play" Wednesday. August 20.
Film critics from the city and suburban
newspapers were in attendance.
Word seems to be going around that
revivals are more promising these days dui?
to a shortage of screen product. Mov'c
pages in the Boston paper featured ads tor
"The Hound of the Baskervilles" at the
Exeter Street house and for "A Clockwork
Orange" and "Deliverance" at 20 area theatres.
Paraniouiit's "Jacqueline Susann's Once Is
Not Enough" concluded a 10- week run at
the Circle Cinema, Brighton, and August 28
went into shopping center cinemas at Framinigham.
Woiburn. Dedham and Danvers. as
well as Sack Theatre's' downtown Savoy
complex.
Jim Engle, branch manager at Jud Parker
Films, has his staff all excited about the
new musical version of "Jack and the Beanstalk"
set for New England booking at
Thanksgiving time. According to advance
comment by those who have seen the film,
it looks like a boxoffice bonanza.
again after a severe illness. He was undergoing
treatment, including several operations,
at Simms Hospital, Arlington, for six
weeks. Phil says he is feeling as good as
ever and everybody agrees he sure looks
that way. Friends spent the better part of
the day August 18, greeting him and listenmg
to his description ol the p;ist several
weeks.
Free movies in various suburbs are becoming
more and more regularly scheduled.
Over in Watertown. th; public library has
been sponsoring a children's program of
Laurel and Hardy. Charlie Chaplin and Little
Rascals films and Road Runner cartoons.
Sack's Music Hall Adds
Stage Bookings. Concerts
BOSTON—Sack Theatres' 4.400-seat Music
Hall, across the street from the Shubert
stage theatre, goes back to rock concerts,
ballet, oipera and stage shows, after a summer
of films, opening Mo^nday (15) with
new rock blast, the Average White Band.
Roberta Flack is booked for Monday (21).
and then, a full season of stage bookings,
including Jefferson Starship. Bonnie Raitt
and Johnny Mathis. starts.
The Boston Ballet is set for a season
opening Novemiber ^ at the Music Hall, and
Al Terban, manager of the house, is negotiating
with Paul Anka. Sack Theatres
management said the house is not fadi^ng
out completely on films, but will interpolate
films between the bookings. The 4.400-seat
house, biggest in town, has been seeking
tryouts of musicals and plays.
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INCORPORATIONS
—Connecticut—
B&C Family Amusement Center; Martin
A. Cohen, 9 Sandpiper Drive, Bloomfield;
Cohen, president; Joseph Bonfiglio secretary.
H-lerlainmenl. Inc.; Richard D. Ziff. 22
Red Center Lane, Farmington; Ziff, president;
Joseph A. Costa, secretary-treasurer;
led I. l.ipkin, vice-president.
ILS Productions, 9 Benedict PI., Greenwich;
N. S. Waterman jr., chairman; Gerald
.Schlesinger jr., president-treasurer; John
Lynch, vice-president; Phyllis Grabowski.
sL-cretary; Robert G. Crystal, director.
Frenzy Productions, Inc., 41 Fletcher
Ave.. Byram; William D. Frenzy jr.. presi
dent; Ciary R.
Frenzy, secretary.
Kockville Cinemas, Inc., 20 Main St..
Koikvillc; Angelo Palma, presidenl-lreasiiior.
Aiilhonv Albciiise. secrclarv.
Lockport's Palace Marks
Its Golden Anniversary
From Eastern Edition
LOCKPORT, N.Y.—Marking the halfcentury
that has lapsed since its first opening,
the Palace Theatre at 2 East Ave.
hela a special stageshow recently.
The showhouse was purchased in 1971
by developer Elmer Granchelli, who intended
to demolish it. But. reluctant to
destroy the historic structure and wishing
Bob Rancatore, branch manager at .Avco-
Embassy Films, greeted circuit executives
to revitalize it, he opened the Palace as a
and exhibitors Thursday. August 21. at thj
John Parker, office manager at Jud Parker
discount motion picture house. The Palace
Jud Parker screening room for a showing
has hooked family movies, staged live shows
Films, has a plaque on his wall that at-
of "Diamonds." starring Robert ("Jaws")
Shaw and Shelley Winters. Screened later in
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and offered such community services as
free films Saturday mornings.
tracts attention. It reads: "Ever have one of
those days when everything goes right and
Dennis Harrison, manager, said the anni-
the day was "Call Mr. .Shatter." featuring
there is no one around to see it happen?"
Stuart Whitman and Peter
Curbing.
versary program reflected "back on the
50 years of entertainment provided by the
theatre, as well as pointing ahead to what's
yet to come."
Features of the program were a salute
to the music of the motion picture industry,
a silent movie with organ accompaniment
and other offerings.
Shakey's Tie-In Promotes
'Jolson Story' Playdate
From Western Edition
HOLLYWOOD—Shakeys pizza parlors
arc participating in a special promotional
tie-in with Columbia Pictures' rerelease of
"The Jolson Story," in 70mm and stereophonic
sound, set for the Beverly Theatre
in Beverly Hills .August 28. The pizza
chain's ragtime pianists will play songs made
famous by Jolson and will plug the BcverU
Theatre playdates.
Tickets were given away to patrons
twice nightly at all 45 Los Angeles area
Shakey's parlors.
Nick Russo's G&G Communications set
last week, starting August 27. a saturation
—Rhode Island
booking in the Greater Boston and Worcester
Cinedomc Movie HoLise Corp.. Provi-
RHODE ISLAND
areas of "Pippi Goes on Board." Carl dence; directors, Ferdinando lannarelli.
Rcardon, publicity director, and Neal Evans
developed a heavy advertising campaign
Q,eneral Cinema Corp. kicked off day-anddate
Ellen Ericson; 10 shares, no par common;
to own, operate, lease, purchase, maintain
and generally manage
Rhode Island premieres of AIP's
motion picture theatres
and
"Part 2 Walking Tall" and Mulberry
houses.
utilizing TV and radio spots, plus numerous
tie-ups in department stores, tor the third
popular "Pippi" adventure.
Gemacre Promotions. Inc.. Warwick
Square Productions' "Benji" at the Garden
City and Lincoln Mall
02887; directors. George C. Este and Mary
Cinema complexes,
Everything seems to look more natural on
with large-scale, state-wide advertising. .Ml
Esposito; 1.000 shares, no par common.
Church Street now that Phil (Mucka) Stein
General Cinema situations at both malLs are
charging $1.25 for all seats to 2 p.m. on a
is back on Filmrow. Stein, a real veteran of
the Boston business since 1920, is around
dailv basis.
Neighborhood Screening for Youth
NEW BRITAIN. CONN.—The .South
Central Neighborhood Corp. and the New
Britain Area Conference of Churches have
Ibrmed a non-profit organization to provide
evening recreational activity for the cit>'s
youth, including showing.s of vintage and
more recent film product on Thursday
nights (7 and 9:.^0 p.m.) at the C^imp Community
Center. 15 Prospect St. ,\dmi'vsion
is
SI.
Maiden Movies at $1.25
MAIDEN. MASS.—The Granada Twin
cinciu.is. now charging $1.25 on a regular
h;isis. .idvLMiised: "Why Pay More—$1.25
All Week!"
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Use 'Hawaiian Happening'
In Philly to Hypo 'Aloha'
PHILADELPHIA—For the opening ot
'Aloha, Bobby and Rose" at Budco's Cioldman
Theatre in center city, a '"Hawaiian
Happening" was staged by Richard Markovitz.
publicity director for Cohimbia Pictures
here, and Linda Goldenberg. promotion
and publicity chief for the Biidco Theatres
circuit. Joining efforts and enlisting the
support of WFIL Radio, top rock music
station on the radio band here, there was a
blend of music, entertainment, free pineapples
and bananas during the celebration
in front of the theatre for the special preview
performance.
The radio station, linking with one of its
in.ijor advertisers. Peter Paul Candies, distributed
several hundred admission tickets
to the preview in an air drawing among
listeners. The station's mobile stage parked
m front of the movie house was the entertainment
scene with Princess Annabella doing
the hul-a-hula dancing a-nd Madeline
Chambers the guest star.
The station's popular deejays, atong with
the contingent of "WFIL Boss Chicks," in
go-go dancing style. di.stribuled free records
and record albums, free T-shirts. Dole banianas
and Peter Paul candies.
The "Hawaiian Happening" was widely
publicized and promoted in advance.
NEW HAVEN
JJing Kong," the RKO 1^)3.^ rek-asc. was
shown at the West Haven High School
.Auditorium on a recent Friday afternoon as
a free attraction sponsored 'by the West
Haven Public Library.
Personal appearances are increasingly rare
for new product in the New Haven area.
The Fairmount Theatre, which is on an adult
film policy, got considerable attention hosting
an autograph-signing session with principal
player Gwen Starr of states rights" "Sexteen."
Nicholas Mauro, president of the Mauro
Construction Co.. announced plans for early
construction start on his long-projected $8
to $10 million complex in North Branford.
The center, to initially contain ice skating.
tennis, bowling, archery, swimming, shooting
ranges and other activities, is to be
developed on a 35-acre tract north of Route
80 and just east of the East Haven town
line.
"Part 2' Bows in Vermont
BURLINGTON. VT. — AIP booked
Vermont premiere of "'Part 2 Walking
Tail." into Merrill Theatre Corp.'s downtown
Stale.
HARTFORD
J)an Dzi.s, promotion chief for the Murr\
l.cvine Mini Theatres Corp. of Connecticut,
came up with an unusual pitch for
a "live" stage show— in itself a rare attraction
for area exhibition—at the Queen Plaza
Cinema, Southinglon. On stage was a show
billed as "Dr. Evil and His Terror cf the
Unknown." A horror film completed the
program. For good measure. Dzis used teaser
ads. captioned. ""Lost or .Strayed—Giant
Seven-foot Gorilla."' Copy commented: ""If
seen notify the "Dr. Evil .Stage Show." 621-
014.3. Do Not Try to Capture!"
New York radio-video personality Joan
Shepherd, in town for a Connecticut public
TV press lur.ehecn at the Hotel Sonesta
tcid the :'-eniblage of s'-ctt'r'g these words
WORCESTER
pwo of the biggest pre-opening ad eampaigns
in recent months in mid-Massachusetts
were accorded .Allied Artists'
"Mitchell," day-and-date at the Paris Cinema,
Worcester, and Leicester Drive-In, Rte.
9; and Mulberry Square Productions' '"Benji."
General Cinema Corp.'s Worcester Center
cinemas III. AA rerun ""Gold" was
"Mitchell" companion feature at both theatres.
Two area theatres dropped their regular
"Dollar Night" policy with bookings of
Columbia's "Funny Lady." The Barbra
Streisand starrer was shown at the Webster-
Dudley cinemas II and Southbridge Twin
cinemas.
David Mayberry, writing in
the Worcester
Gazette, examines the Motion Picture .Ass'n
of America ratings with considerable detail.
He explains that the ratings are designed to
provide infornialion for parents, who should
make the deeisions .ih.uit what their children
view at local ihc.iiics. Mayberry pointed out
to his readers that tour criteria are used in
judging films: theme, language, nudity and
sex, and violence. The board ""does not rate
for quality or lack of it," MPAA president
Jack Valenti writes, and all decisions are
is subjective in nature. Valenti ako quoted
The
LONGEST
RUNNING HIT
In
N.Y.G.
on a New Jersey billboard; "Get More Out
of l.ifc^—Go to a Movie." He miLscd: "Fanta-stic.
Imagine it. "Get more out of life, go
to a mov'e.' Spinoza couldn't have done
better. When you start believing that show
business has any relation to life, you're
making a profound mistake."
.MorrLs Keppner and David Tarantul. who
have had a 99 cents admission policy in
effect to 2 p.m. weekends at the Burnsid-e
cinemas II. East Hartford, expanded the
II. plan to the Avon Park theatres Avon.
Warner Bros.' "A .Star Is Born," 1954
release starring the late Judy Garland, was
screened at the Life Sciences Center. Trinity
College, on a recent Saturday night. Admission
was SI
as saying that 85 per cent of exhibitors use
the system in selling tickets and that most
"responsible" filmmakers subject their works
to the MPA.A. The only major exception is
pornographic filmmakers, who routinely
give their product an X-rating (sometimes
XXX). which is perfectly permissible under
the system.
.lohn P. Lowe, division manager. Redstone
Theatres, reports "an encouraging response
" to the recently instituted "Economats"
policy at the Redstone Showcase
cinemas IV. The four-auditorium complex
is charging SI. 25 to 3:30 p.m.. Mondays
throiigh Fridays. The same tab. incidentally,
is in effect to 2 p.m. at General Cinema
Corp.'s Worcester Center cinemas III.
The Oxford Twin Drive-In is offering free
nvniature golf to oarly-arriving patrons. Ads
urge patrons to come early for the sport.
Patriot Cinemas, which recently took over
the Lincoln Plaza Cinema, are emphasizing
the dollar-admission plan. The daily ad logo
ixiinis up the lire, "$1 Always."
Surf Hypos 'Rainy Days'
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Cinema, raw on a $ l-admission-.it-all-tinies
for all seats, advertises scheduling of matinees
on rainy days.
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September
NE-3

Vermont Exhibitors
Effort in
Believe Extra
Promotion Pays Reward
By ALLEN M. WIDEM
MONTPELIER—Vermont summer trade,
including exhibition, is reported benefiting
from stepped-up publicity generated by the
State Agency of Development and Community
Affairs, focusing on the traditional
proliferation of fairs, bazaars, auctions.
-Old Home Days" and other community
events across the state.
Significantly, boxoffice response—especially
for Universal's "Jaws"— is strongest
in many years for many cities and towns.
And, like other states in New England.
Vermont has its share of "Dollar Nights"—
$1 admission in effect— geared to embellish
and enhance early week trade, customarily
the slowest days at Green Mountain state
theatres.
significant
Two of the interests spearheading a
promotion pitch are Merrill Theatres
Corp., headed by independent exhibitor
Merrill Jarvis, in metropolitan Burlington,
and SBC Management Corp., which
operates in the New England and adjacent
New York region. Latter's exploitation is
under supervision of Richard J. Wilson.
vice-president-merchandising.
It is the studied philosophy of both Jarvi>
and Wilson that unless exhibition, both circuit
and independent, can indeed maintain
a momentum of promotional effort and
endeavor to build and sustain moviegoing
the year-round, even the most ambitious
national advertising publicity geared by
major and independent distribution will not
aid and abet theatre attendance.
Jarvis, who has conducted an ample share
of benefit shows for well-deserving Vermont
charitable organizations, tells Boxoffice
that where a well-planned promotion
Additionally, he uses a heavy-type full
ad border rule to concentrate attention on
Jarvis theatres, both four-wall and underskyers,
in Burlington and suburban areas.
Care is taken, week after week, to include
theatre street location, phone number and
starting times, in newspaper advertising.
CINERAMA IS IN
SHOW BUSINESS IN
HAWAII TOO
When you come to Waikiki,
don't miss the famous
BlM^I^
Don Ho Show. . . at
iHOTELsi Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel.
IN WAIKIKI IILI I . Kl LI TOWLKS I IH;LW/\TI R
For his part, Wilson, once a theatre manager
himself in Connecticut for SBC's forerunner
corporation (Lockwood & Gordon
Theatres), finds that a theatre manager's
conscientious concern with theatre advertising
and supplementary local-level promotion
^"can go a long, long way to facihtate
a feeling of 'want-to-see" on the part of the
leisure-minded."
He cites successful use, for example, of
heralds, flyers and the like geared to major
product.
'Selling' Films Locally
He points out the need for a theatre manager,
too. to determine and develop means
and methods of "selling" motion pictures
on the local level far beyond the accepted
newspaper advertising approach.
•Newspapers," he says, "are a traditional
outlet for theatre advertising, but this, in
itself, is not the full answer. There arc
ways—winning ways—of promoting more
trade. It takes a resourceful, redoubtable
manager to develop such an outlook, but it
has been done and will continue to be done
by the more conscientious cinema people.
"The most concerted campaign in newspaper
advertising," Wilson continues, "is
more effective if an imaginative theatre
manager indeed goes out of his way to make
the presence of a major movie in town
known to the so-called "opinion-makers"
over and above the printed media. This can
be mere casual conversation with members
of the local Rotary Club, an address before
a women's organization, a succinctly-worded
display on the "community events" bulletin
hoard in a supermarket.
Promotion Always Helps
is implemented—either for new or rerun
Fve never heard." he told Boxoffice.
product—attendance is encouragingly brisk.
"of a motion picture, as excellently conceived
as it may well be, not benefiting from
He holds to the theory, too, that daily
newspaper advertising must be changed
extra, local-level promotion."
constantly, in light of what is accepted and
Wilson recalled a recent typical situation.
what is allowed to dawdle by—on the part
"I was in the airport at Burlington and got
of the leisure-minded Vermonter.
into conversation with a fellow passenger.
Jarvis uses the time-honored "countdown"
concept— i.e., "X Days Morel" foi
He said he felt that Hollywood wasn't going
to make any more 'G'-rated movies because
continuing attraction and/ or "X Days From
of the pronounced success of the "R' and
Now!" for upcoming bookings. He fancies
and 'X' attractions. I promptly— and pointedly—
reminded him that the Walt
use of gag-lines, catch-lines and the like.
Disne>
Studios, for one, were still very much in
business; that Mulberry Square Productions
was among the relative newcomers in the
'G' ranks, and within the two or three minutes
conversation, I believe that 1 had con
verted' a stranger's thinking.
"How many people that same airline
passenger would tell about our conversation
is not so important as the obvious fact thai
I. as a working member of the film exhibition
business, went out of my wa\ to correct
an obvious misconception."
Both Jarvis and Wilson, with lifelong
l(lndI1es^ for exhibition, feel, most assuredly.
ihai local-level promotion can prove the
iliHeience between brisk and "ho-hiim "
Composer Legrand Plans
To Direct His First Film
DENVER— It was revealed in an interview
here that Michel Legrand plans to
direct a motion picture. He has composed
scores for more than 100 films and says he
wants to find out if he can direct.
This was disclosed in an article by Arlynn
Nellhaus, staff writer for the Denver Post.
Portions of the interview follow:
".After having composed scores for more
than 100 films, Michel Legrand plans to
direct a picture. Legrand, whose credits
include 'Brian's Song,' 'Summer of '42.'
'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Umbrellas of
Cherbourg,' has bought the rights to 'Blind
Love.' a best-seller in his native France.
"Does he feel qualified to spring from
film composer to film director? Legrand
answered that question first with a sad-eyed
expression that would melt ice. 'I don't
know,' he softly said. Lifting his glass of
Coke, he added, "But I'm going to find out."
"He continued: "What keeps us working'?
For me, I need to know more about myself
all the time. I want to progress. I want
to see if I can direct. I am very curious.
If life isn't an adventure, it's a bore.'
"Legrand, 43, refuses to compose what
directors expect of him. 'They want canned
music—the obvious. I try to find a new
style—a new theme—a new something.'
"One such "new something' was 'Umbrellas
of Cherbourg.' He and director
Jacques Demy tried for a year to find a
producer for the film opera. They were told.
"You're two nice guys but you're crazy."
"Finally, he said, "We found a woman
who didn't know what she was doing and
gave us a title money with many pieces of
string.' The outcome made film history
and the composer commented. 'To do what
has been done isn't fun.'
"Legrand composes all the time, 'even
when i don't have to.' He compares himself
to an athlete who always stays in practice.
I keep the muscles ready,' he said.
"Besides his film scores, Legrand has
done albums for Barbra Streisand, Dizzy
Lena Home, Johnny Mathis and
Gillespie,
others. He also has put out a string of
his own, with his next being 'The Concert
Legrand.'
"He will go to Paris to work on his
musical version of "The Count of Monte
Cristo," which will open in a Paris theatre
in the fall. But perhaps his biggest need
and desire is for a machine to exist which
would allow him to write down music as
fast as it pops into his head."
Robert S. Meyer Robbed
Of Over $4,000 by Thug
.ST. LOUIS—Robert S. Meyer, manager
ol the Esquire Theatre, was pistol-whipped
and robbed of over $4,000 as he was making
a night deposit at a Richmond Heights
baflk shortly after midnight recently. The
robber struck him on the head with his
pistol, Meyer stated, after he handed over
the bag containing the theatre receipts. The
thug then drove off in Meyer's car.
The auto was found abandoned three
hours later at Hamipton and Park avenues.
BOXOFFICE :: September 1. 1975

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Governmeni Policy Is
Flayed by Filmmakers
MONTREAL—Peter Adamakos, president
of the Society of Filmmakers, August
12 issued a statement saying that his organization
"views with regret the attitude of the
federal government and of its film agencies
that led to the announcement by the secretary
of state of a voluntary quota and
increased tax allowances tor film investment."
In a press release, Adamakos declared:
"Since 1963 the Society of Filmmakers has
demanded that a legislative quota be initiated
and that government support for film
financing be recognized as good business
both for the financial wealth of Canada in
selling abroad and for the cultural wealth
of Canadians at home.
Problems Unrecognized
"While the secretary of state certainly
demonstrates that his heart is in the right
place, his actions show that he either does
not recognize the problems of the Canadian
film industry or that he is bowing to the
strong pressures of the powerful lobbying
by the distributors and exhibitors in this
achieved when productions were plentiful
will be observed. Famous Players and
Odeon could cheerfully agree at this point
to a voluntary quota, since they were fully
cognizant of the fact that there had been but
few productions last year in the English
sector. No doubt an announcement will be
made that the goals could not be fulfilled,
hence showing a lack of need of legislated
quotas.
'Token' Gesture
"What about the good news that not only
will the exhibitors show Canadian films but
they will invest in same the sum of $1.7
million? Considering that they take about
$60 million per year from this country, this
is nothing more than a token gesture to
quiet their critics.
"Like the voluntary quota, the definition
investors; but good intentions alone do not
make motion pictures.
"Therefore, the Society of Filmmakers
calls upon the secretary of state to take a
stand on Canadian film policy— fulfill his
election promise of 115 per cent write-off;
make it mandatory that for every foreigner
working on a Canadian film there must be
a Canadian hired in equal capacity; reject
the 'gift' of $1.7 million by the exhibitors
and impose a tax of 15 per cent on their
earnings, such monies to be disbursed to
the producers through the CFDC (rather
(Continued on next
page)
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'Aloha, Bobby and Rose/ 'Death Race
2000' Pull Excellent' in Vancouver
VANCOUVER— Two blockbusters
were
ushered in for the British Columbia Day
festivities and the weather cooperated by
being just a little too cold for outdoor
activity. Registering "excellent" figures
were "Death Race 2000" at the Odeon and
".'Moha. Bobby and Rose" at the (?oronet.
Slill outstanding were "Jaws'" in a seventh
week at the Vogue and "RollerbaH" in a
I
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fourth outing at the Stanley.
B:j.—Monly Python and the Holy Grail
(AFD), 8th wk _
Co;ono' — Aloha. Rose
Good
Exc-Meni
Bobby and (Col)
D n-r 3 F ^ The Return ol the Pink Panther
^b^l .Good
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Good
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,e and Death (UA) Very Good
..__ )d r— Death Ha 20O0 TDj Excellent
Pn f h- —Russian Roulette (BVFD), 3rd wk. Good
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P. J -The Wind and the Lion (UA),
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CALGARY
yenie Haraldson, United Artists branch
manager, is pleased to report that the
opening week of "Rollerbair' in Famous
Players' Chinook here toppled house records.
Not only has each daily record been broken
but, naturally, the weekly record, too. "The
Return of the Pink Panther" also has been
doing record-breaking business in Westmount
A in Edmonton, Haraldson said.
A new face in the distribution end of the
industry in this city is Peggy Helgeson, who
now is working in the office of Paramount
Film Services. Peggy, from Alberta's Peace
River country, is new to the movie business
lucky Edmontonian had a chance
to win a trip for four to Disney World,
courtesy of Southgate Shopping Center,
which held its '"birthday sale" August 13-
30. Included in the seven-day stay in Disney
World were accommodations, admission to
the theme park for two days, tickets for 16
rides, one sightseeing tour and $300 spending
money. The trip was arranged by Sun
Travel via Air Canada.
ing under less-than-ideal conditions while
said changes have been taking place but all
agree that the finished plant will be well
worth the inconvenience. Jim still is far from
being recovered from his downstairs fall in
the old exchange building. Regular checkups
by his doctor have not proved to be
very helpful—nor comforting as to the future.
In the meantime, Jim goes his painful
way and tries to make the best of it.
The production crew for the latest Robert
Altman production has been in this city
since May working on various pre-production
projects for the shooting of "Buffalo
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Bill and the Indians." It all has come together
now and the cameras are rolling. The
epic stars Paul Newman along with Geraldine
Chaplin and several other wellknown
performers. Altman says the film
"will have very little
to do with the original
play. We're not going to follow it but the
film is based on a Broadway play by Arthur
Kopit." This picture will add to Altman's
position in Hollywood, as it is the beginning
of a multipicture deal with producer Dino
de Laurentiis. Altman's career goes back to
the mid-1950s and started in TV. where he
worked six years. Through an up and-down
period, he made a number of films but hit
it big in 1970 with "M*A*S*H," which
earned more than $40 million.
Six more nonhits followed and then it
was "Nashville," another hit. and while it
isn't setting any records, it is doing very
respectable business. In just over four weeks
it has grossed $1.5 million and is ranked
among the top-grossers. "Nashville" opened
in Calgary Place Cinema Two to disappointingly
low grosses, considering the fact
Max Candel of Consolidated Theatre
that the director of the film was in town.
But Altman films are not always appreciated
Services. Don Mills, is spending some time
by the paying public and the director himself
in this city working with Louis Litchinsky
on the recent change in management .
says that his pictures must be seen more
Away for two-weeks' vacation is Hector
than once to be appreciated fully.
Ross (Theatre Agencies) and family. The "Nashville" is a typical example of his
Rosses are spending most of the time on
filmmaking style—a lot of characters, several
the water, with Los Angeles as their
plots
base
on the go at one time and usually
of operations. Have a happy holiday.
several conversations going at once. This
Rosses! makes for movies that are hard to market
!
and if a publicity campaign goes wrong, the
Jim McLaughlin, manager of Victoria picture dies. In discussing his filmmaking
F;im Services, reports extensive renovations technique, Altman says, "Everything that
develops ... the philosophy is always there.
to that company's warehouse, depot, shipping
area and revising rooms are almost just dc'pends on how much confidence you
It
completed. Victoria's staff has been work-
have in your work. That allows you to
break the normal patterns. Sure, I had influences—there
were influences—ibut I
wouldn't know what they were. My first exposure
to film was going to the movies and
I didn't know directors had anything to do
with them."
Speaking of "Buffalo Bill and the In-
dians." Altman says the film will be "a
more . well, it certainly won't be a con-
Tallahatchie Bridge Is
Re-Created in WB Fihn
From Southeastern
Edition
GREENWOOD. MISS.—The real
Tallahatchie
Bridge collapsed with infirmity and
fell into the Tallahatchie River a few years
ago, and a shiny new concrete one has taken
its place.
But that hasn't stopped Max Baer's fihn
company from finding a TallahatohJe Bridge
and a creditable facsimile of the real thing
the place that Billy Joe McAllister jumped
off and where he and Bobbie Gentry threw
some mysterious something into the river.
According to local historians, the famous
Bobbie Gentry song of 1967 could have
been written about several bridges in the
area—one of which collapsed, another was
torn down. But a third,
on a gravel road out
of Itta Bena. on the Chickasaw Ridge, will
be the location for the tragic event in "Ode
to Billy Joe." which Baer is making for
Warner Bros. It tells the dramatic story of
young love in Mississippi and is based on a
sad incident in Ms. Gentry's young years.
Minister Len Evans Seeks
Firm Quota Assurances
WINNIPEG— Industry Minister Len
Evans, commenting on the announcement
that Odeon Theatres (Canada) and Famous
Players had agreed to devote four weeks
each year to Canadian-produced films, declared
that the federal government must
take steps to ensure that at least 25 English-
Canadian films are produced and exhibited
annually.
Evans emphasized that he welcomed the
agreement but said he was concerned that
the arrangement would not generate a large
enough demand for new English-Canadian
films. He suggested that Hugh Faulkner,
secretary of state, obtain a written commit
ment from the two foreign-controlled cir
cuits to prevent the Canadian films fron
being exhibited in summer and early De
cember, traditionally a slack time for the
atres.
Government Policy Flayed
By Society of Filmmakers
ventional film. It will be more a two-character
thing. There definitely will be two
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than burdening the Canadian taxpayer, let
main characters." He has had his own eighttrack
system devised to allow him to con-
the industry pay for itself), and prohibit the
National Film Board from being in competition
with the private film industry and
tinue stockpiling dialog in order to pack as
much sound as possible into his movies.
open the doors of the CBC to Canadian
"Buffalo Bill" is being shot with long lenses,
producers.
with the cameras situated yards away from
"Faulkner has demonstrated the courage
the action. The crew all will be dressed in
of convictions vis-a-vis the U.S. domination
proper costumes so that if they should walk
in the publishing industry. Let him now do
in front of the cameras it will look as if
the same for the Canadian filmmaker."
Ihey arc a planned part of the action. Most
of the action is west of this city on the
Morlcy Reservation, with curious townspeople
as well as natives trying to watch
CINERAMA IS IN
SHOW
the filming. Work BUSINESS IN
is scheduled to carry on
through to November HAWAII
on
TOO.
the picture and
wc
When you
can only hope come to Waikiki,
that our weather will
don't
cooperate.
miss the famous
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[hawaiiI Don Ho Show. .
Joan HiUchkis has been cast in Warner
Lhoteu
. at
Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel.
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Bros.' "Ode EDGEWATER
to Hilly Joe."
K-2 BOXOFFICE :: September 1. 1975

"
Ihe
Suspect Arrested in Que.
Charged With Airer Hit
CALGARY—A man arrested near Montreal
July 17 by Quebec provincial police
was brought to Calgary to face charges in
connection with a ransom-robbery. He now
has been charged with the May rO'bbery of
the 17th Avenue Drive-In.
Guy Marcel Smith of Calgary. Vancouver
and St. Jerome, Que., was arraigned in provincial
court Monday, August 11. on ten
new charges arising out of a quarter-milliondollar
extortion involving a bank manager
and his wife, as well as the armed robbery
of the underskycr.
In the theatre theft, $4,850 was stolen
from the cinema and $246 from cashier
Mac Wong. The thief entered the boxoffice
in eastern Canada in connection with the
extortion
holdup.
VANCOUVER
Johnny Bernard, in ecstasy over the business
"Jaws" is doing at the Vogue, with an
e ghth week in
excess of any other picture's
gross this year, paused long enough to remark
that "you just knew things generally
were not good when mink coats dropped below
the $1,000 mark."
Visiting Filnirow were Roy Roberts of
the Yukon Theatre. Whitehorse: Mike Radulovich.
Auto Vue Trail, and Bob Bennett
i;f the Castle, Castlegar.
The nontheatrical film field remains ac
live throughout the summer months, particularly
at the Vancouver Mu.seum and
Planetarium complex, which features a scienoe-fiction
film festival each Thur.>.da>
through Sunday at 7:45 p.m., with matinees
Saturday ard Sunday at 1:15 p.m. Admission
is $1.50.
Nationalists to
Urge Provincial
Legislation on Six Film Policies
VANCOUVFR- 'Canadians are doing
something wrong," Vancouver Sun film
critic Les Wedman told a gathering of Canadian
nationalists Saturday afternoon.
.August 2. "So much wrong has been done
and nothing done right to correct it that it
is too late to expect this country ever to
have a flourishing and profitable featurefilm
industry."
Wedman's remarks were reported b\
Province movie critic Michael Walsh as
follows: "Wedman made his somber prediction
during a panel discussion organized
by the Conmiittee for an Independent Ca-
just at closing time and handcuffed the
manager and the cashier before fleeing with ada. Part of the CIC's annual general meeting
the money.
held in Vancouver, the 75-minutc ses-
Smith was remanded in custody after sion focused on the problems of Canadian
electing judge and jury trial on the new moviemakers and introduced a number of
a
charges. Another man still is being sought film policN proposals.
Panel Representatives
Joining Wedman on the panel were
James Cameron, national public relations
director for Famous Players; Sandra Cathercole,
Council of Canadian Filmmakers
chairperson; Joseph Beaubien, legal counsel
the Canadian Film Development Coip.,
for
and Patricia Robertson, representing the
British Columbia Film Industry Assn.
"Although pessimistic about the future
of domestic feature filmmaking, Wedman
was the gathering's most persuasive speaker.
'In 1963,' he said, 'Canada was the sixth
most important foreign market for Hollywood
films.'
or . . . don't draw flies if they are.'
"Ottawa, he said, has created a situation
in which 'getting government money hav
become a national pastime' and 'eNerxbodN
is playing with filmmaking.'
"The federal governme'in has >m lilni
policy, Wedman charged. Appointment ol
former National Film Board chief S>dne\
Newman as a special adviser to Secreiar)
of Stale Hugh Faulkner 'is another stall.'
The film business is a political loothail
that has been bounced back and forth to;
loo loni;.' he said. 'If Faulkner wants rceonimendatlons,
here are a few: Do away with
the entire CFDC as it currently exists and
put filmmaking under the control of one
man. a businessman who knows how to
spend money wisely and how to make
money." Wedman suggested Famous Players
president George Destounis as a Sl-a-year
film
czar.
"In addition, Wedman proposes a tough
five-year plan designed to make or break
a Canadian feature-film industry. "Give
each Canadian filmmaker, regardless of experience,
what he needs to make a feature
film. If it fails to make money, cut him off
the freeloaders' list. If in five years there
are still no profitable and popular Canadian
films, cut them off completely and let
them go out and hustle for themselves as
American filmmakers have to do now and
do well. Meanwhile, get the provinces to
establish quotas for Canadian films and
the boxoffice levy, too. But if, after a trial
period of five years, Canadians still aren't
supporting Canadian films and if filmmakers
aren't making Canadian films worth attending,
let's forget the whole thing.'
"Other members of the CIC panel were
less far-ranging in their remarks. Speaking
for the CCFM, Sandra Cathercole outlined
the history of an 'extremely corrupt situation.'
There has been, she said, "an absolute
lack of government resolve since the beginning.'
She described the CFDC as a
system that does not work' and charged
Ken McBean of Westcoast Theatres left
for a holiday Disneyland, leaving Dave "In 1968, the year after the CFDC wa<
control of Canadian film distribution
that U.S.
was
at
founded, Canada was the U.S.'s third largest
and exhibition facilities a case
Gilfillan to mind the store in his absence
foreign market. Last year, he said, we made of 'squatters' rights masquerading as free
. . . Chris Sullivan, Paramount manager,
took advantage of the beautiful August
weather for a week in the country, as did
enterprise."
"Both the CFDC and Famous Players
it into the No. 1 position, 'seeing and paying
to see more American films than any
Roly Rickard. Warner Bros, representative, other country in the world.' In the last four representatives responded to the Cathercole
was
who
in returned after a week of sun to give
booker Diane Over^bo a shot at the ozone. grown by 98.9 per cent.
and unconvincing in his defense of the federal
Joseph Beaubien patronizing
attack.
years boxoffice receipts Canada have
investment agency. Retreating behind
International Trend
Over in Victoria, manager Larry Oya, "Wedman put the situation in perspective
a smokescreen of figures and questionable
fresh from his
"Man Friday"
stint as Johnny Bernard's by pointing out that the American experience
was not unique. American films are
at the Vogue, handled the
International Film Festival at the Counting claiming a larger share of the movie market
House. The programs were a reprise of in most countries. It is an international
facts, he
splendid job
"James
{'layers president
said that the
of creating
Cameron,
Destounis,
CFDC had
an industry.'
representing
was
done "a
Famous
far more
convincing. Confining himself to a discussion
those at the Varsity in July.
trend, one that Canadians have been least
of marketplace realities, he out-
many
able to resist. 'Blame,' Wedman said, 'must
lined the problems involved in the
It might be midsummer when this business
be shared by Ottawa and the filmmakers
of motion pictures.
p.omotion
is traditionally in the doldrums but
themselves.'
there were so many holdovers in every part
session ended with CIC memberdelegates
adopting a six-point film policy
"He flayed moviemakers for their failure
of the territory that Victoria Film Services
produce successful commercial films.
to
posted its lowest numiber of shipments ever,
for the
Instead, there have been too many movies
outside of winter when drive-ins are closed.
coming year, the CIC will urge provincial
nationalist organization. In the
that 'don't gel shown in Canadian theatres
governments to frame:
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TORONTO
nine-week "Early Hitchcock Festival"
JP^
was kicked off August 15 at the Capitol
Fine Art here. Under usual circumstances,
the great director would have been
Invited to the city for the opening but Hitchcock
has just completed his 53rd film. Pictures
are shown once nightly, plus a Sunday
matinee. Four silent films are included in
the festival—"The Ring." "The Farmer's
Wife." "Champagne" and "The Man.\man"
—and these have been given a sound background
provided expertly by Horace Lapp
at the piano. Other Hitchcock films in the
series are "Blackmail," "Murder." "The
Skin Game." "Rich and Strange" and
"Number 17." George Watson is manager
at the Capitol Fine Art.
Work has started here on a iow^budget
titled feature film "Brethern." Executive
producer is Chalmers Adams and the director-editor
is Dennis Zaboruk. In the cast
are Kenneth Welsh. Sandra Scott, Tom
Hamff. Richard Fitzpatrick. Candice O'Connor
and Alison McLeod.
ing the same old hackneyed film footage,"
Mora said while here. "Neither would I use
one of those deep-voiced narrators reciting
The opening of the Canadian National
Exhibition was a certain indication that the
long, hot summer is moving on. Local theatre
attendance usually declines during the
20-day run of the exhibition . . . This city's
own Gordon Sinclair had a leading part in
this year's opening ceremonies, rather than
an invited dignitary from elsewhere. "Sine."
kilts and all. also was a prominent figure
at the Scottish World Festival, held in conjunction
with the CNE opening. He is now
75 and still going strong as one of Canada's
most colorful personalities.
Variety Chib of Ontario Tent 28 moved
the location of its monthly luncheon meeting
to the large Canadian Room at the Royal
York Hotel here. The opening meeting of
the season was held Wednesday. August 27.
as nostalgic salute to the "Happy Gang,"
perhaps the most popular group on Canadian
radio in the '30s and early "405. Surviving
members were brought together again
for a CNE appearance. They included Bert
Pearl, Kay Stokes, Eddie Allen, Bobby Gimby.
Cliff McKay, Jimmy Namaro and Joe
Niosi—all
outstanding musicians.
Current NFB bookings locall> include
"Behind the Scenes" at the Danforth; "Offshore"
at the Coronet; "Summer in Canada"
at the Hyland 2 and the Humber; "In One
Day" at the Albion 1, and "We're Gonna
Have Recess" at the Parkway Drive-In.
August 15, 20th-Fox showed "The Rocky
Horror Show" at the annual Film Expo,
held at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa,
for the Canadian Film Institute. The event
Phillipe Mora, director and film editor,
was a visitor in this city to promote "Brother,
was closed with this screening. Both Doug
Ouderkirk, publicist for 20th-Fox, and
Can You Spare a Dime?" This feature-
length documentar>' is made up of newsreel Dianne Steele Schwalm, assistant publicist,
attended the showing. "The Rocky Horror
clippings and is being distrilbutcd in Canada
by Ambassador Films. First engagement Show" is due to have its North American
locally was set for the Eglinton. "I decided premiere here this month and plans are
it wouldn't be one of those TV documentaries
which have no depth and kept repeat-
under way for a terrific promotional campaign.
Doug Ouderkirk is to be married to Debbie
Aston of London Saturday (20) and best
wishes from everyone from the local industry
statistics and telling the audience how to
are extended to them. Doug and Dianne films.
react to the images on the screen. I wanted
people to resf>ond on their own to the whole
Schwalm already have taken over the advertising
• Legislation of a levy on boxoffice gross
kaleidoscope of comic and tragic events
earnings of all films exploited in Canadian
work at the Buffalo 20th-Fox
branch. Other main centers involved will
theatres in order to return a portion of the
stretching from the Wall Street crash to
Harbor.
include Rochester, Syracuse and Albany.
massive Canadian boxoffice revenues to the
Pearl
could
scenes
evoke
more
I felt
bona
oibjectively
that
fide
as an
sounds
than any
outsider
and
American."
I
film
N.Y. Dianne told this correspondent that
production of Canadian films and
Fox hopes to "host" another seminar in Oc-
the necessity for public funding.
reduce
"The federal government will be urged
towards:
tober, similar to the one held last spring, to
promote upcoming product for fall and
Christmas-season release.
Voluntary Quota Plan Is
Denounced by Filmmakers
TORONTO—The umbrella organizatio:i
for the English-language Canadian filmmaking
industry, the Council of Canadian
Filmmakers, has sent a telegram to the
federal government denouncing the voluntary
four-week quota agreed to imder Sec
retary of State Hugh Faulkner's sponsorship
by Famous Players and Odcon Theatres
(Canada). The setup was described by the
council as "a diversionary tactic that undercuts
current negotiations with the provincial
governments for mandatory quotas and
levies."
Ihe Council of Canadian lilniniakers
says it is demanding that the government
implement only the proposed capital-cost
allowance proposed for filmmakers.
Council chairman Sandra Cathcrcole
said in the lok'tirani llial "the proposal will
not substantially alleviate the film industry^
problems but rather compound them." Ii
went on to express the organization's shock
at the unexpected moves and its "complete
opposition" to them.
Additionally, the council asserted that
the expanded voluntary quota would "only
further encourage a branch plant mentalits
in the industry," since it presents little threat
to the circuits' control of their largest foreign
market. It claimed that the $1.7 million
that Famous and Odeon agreed to invest
in film production in Canada represented
less than 1 per cent of the annual
boxoffice gross of the two dominant circuits.
Kirman Cox, council executive, charged
that the problems of the Canadian film
industry are industry-wide and can only be
solved by legislation, rather than "procrastinatory
fiddling about."
The real issue," Cox pointed out, "is
mandatory quotas and levies and Faulkner's
actions only delay confronting it."
He commented further that the Theatre
Action recently was amended in Ontario to
allow for implementation of a quota and
that the next logical step would have been
an "Order-in-Council." Cox also said that
Faulkner previously admitted publicly that
the voluntary quota system doesn't work
and that its reimposition now is "completely
irrational."
Mandatory Quotas, Higher
Taxes Form CIC Policies
(Continued from preceding page)
• Legislation of screen time quotas for
Canadian features and shorts in all commercial
cinemas in Canada, to guarantee
all Canadians the right to see Canadian
• Legislation requiring Canadian ownership
of distribution and exhibition companies
operating on major scale in Can-
a
ada.
• New and stronger leadership of the
government film agencies—CFDC, NFB
and CBC.
• Increase in the withholding tax from
the current 10 per cent to a new rate of
25 per cent for film exhibition and distribution
companies.
• Use of Canadian movies on .Air
Canada flights.
"1 he above resolutions were passed with
virtually no dissenting votes to become official
positions of the CIC."
Airer Expansion Planned
C.'VNION, OHIO—Charlie Truran. exhibitor,
is planning to convert his East ?>0
Drive- In into a three-screen operation. The
underskyer recently was twinned.
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(142) Doc CinAmerica S- 4-75 SI
4772 Aloha. Bobby and Rose
(89) D Col 4-14-75 PG I
4778 And Now for Something
Completely Different (89) C.Col 5- 5-75 PG
4768 And Now My Love
(121) C-D Avco Embassy 3-31-75 PG t
4804 Anita. Swedish Nymphct
(87) Sex Cambist 8-1S-75 %
4792 Apple Dumpling Gang. The
(100) W-C BV 6-30-75 Ej
,
Artur Rubinstein: Love of Lift
(91) Doc New Yorker 5-12-75
4764 At Long Last Love
(115) I? M-C 20th-Fox 3-17-75 m
•
Bar Salon
(84) D ..Les Films Andre Forcier 4-28-75 ±.
4771 Best Friends (85) D Crown 4-14-75 @ +f
4791 Beyond the Door
(98) Ho Film Ventures 6-30-75 H ±
4755 Big Con, The
(80) Sex C 808 Pictures 2-10-75® ±
4782 Bile the Bullet (131) W Col 5-19-75 PG A3 +
4769 Black Gestapo. The
(88) Ac-D Bryanston 4- 7-75 U ±
4799 Blaiing Stewardesses
(85) Sex W-C ..Independent Infl 8- 4-75 H ±
4775 Blood in the Streets
(Reviewed as "In the Name of Love")
(100) Ac-D ....Independent Infl 4-28-75 (H +
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(90) Doc Red Ball Films 5-26-75 ±
4794 Boss Nigger
(87) 'Si W Dimension 7- 7-75 PG A3 +
4795 Boy and His Dog, A
(87) SF LQ/Jaf 7-14-75 m +
4765 Brannigan (111) Sus-Ac UA 3-24-75 PG A3 +
4780 Breakout (96) p Ac-D Col 5-12-75 PG A3 -f
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Brother. Can You Spare a Dime?
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4797 Bug (100) SF-Ho Para 7-28-75 PG B +
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4769 Camp for Swingers
(90) Melo Boxoffice 4- 7-75 ® +
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4776 B
4792 Charlotte (100) Sex D ...Gamma 111 6-30-75 (X) +
4754 Child Under a Leaf
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4789 Cleopatra Jones and the
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Comedians
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(111) Melo ...Trans-World Films 2-3-75 ±
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Bryanston 8-18-75 El +
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4763 Daughters, Daughters!
(88) C Steinmann-Baxter 3-17-75 PG +
4778 Day of the Locust. The
(144) D Para 5- 5-75 B A4 -1+
4802 Death Knocks Twice
4780 Death Race 2000
(84) SF-Ac New World 5-12-75 HC +
4794 Devil's Rain, The (86) Ho Bryanston 7-7-75 PG -f
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Give Away Burt Reynolds Standees
As Part of 'Dixie Dancekings To-Do
Identifying
Xanthus
Sets Up Mountain'
Visual interpretations of what Witch
Mountain was thought to look like and the
identity of Xanthus served as the basis for
the tridentatc campaign manager Herbert
M. King carried out for "Escape From
Witch Mountain" at Ogden-Perry's Broadacres
Cinema in Hattiesburg. Miss.
In order to prime patron interest. King
and his staff set up in the lobby a miniature
Witch Mountain they had constructed
from screcnwire and plaster of paris. At
the base of the mountain they placed their
own rendering of Xanthus, the Byzantine
castle and estate of the film's ominous
Aristotle Bolt. King noted that the display
was especially fascinating to children, so
much so that it hardly made it through the
engagement without being damaged.
To stir up interest for the film outside
the theatre, King arranged a tie-in with
radio station WXXX involving a What is
Xanthus? contest. Beginning three days before
opening night, the contest elicited much
response from listeners, "sensational," in
fact, according to station general manager
Jim Cameron. No one correctly identified
Xanthus until the last afternoon. The winner
received a year's pass to the theatre,
while all others received a pass to the film.
King also arranged a special screening
for youngsters aged ten to 1 2 who had been
told earlier to draw what they thought Witch
Mountain looked like. Twelve winning artists
received free tickets, while the overall winner
received a year's pass.
KRZY
Country music station
in Albuquerque gave away
five of life-size these standees
of Burt Reynolds along with
50 soundtrack albums as part
of a campaign Mark Avolio.
manager of Commonwealth
Theatres' Hiland Theatre, devised
for "W. W. and the
Dixie Dancekings." The station
and Enchantment Boot
Co. bought out the theatre for
a specivl preview screening,
complete with 150-car parade
from the boot firm to the
theatre,
prizes and free boots.
Avolio's campaign also included
a record store tie-in
and one with a local news
dealer to promote the film
with banners on delivery
trucks urging, "Read the
Book, See the Movie." In return,
Avolio set up a paperback
book display in the
lobby.
Manager Uses
Parade
To Bally 'Pink Panther'
Ms. Beverly G. Angus, manager of the
UA Lynbrook Theatre in Lynbrook, N. Y.,
turned the recent Southern New York Volunteer
Firemen's Ass'n Parade and Drill
into an opportunity to reach a large audience
with news about her new booking of
"The Return of the Pink Panther."
Leading the parade was the only float
entered— the Bicentennial-themed red, white
and blue liberty bell constructed by the
theatre staff. And pulling the float was a
truck, on the bed of which stood employees
dressed in colonial-period costumes along
with Ms. Angus' two promotional pieces:
an A-frame covered with Panther posters
and the theatre's own Inspector Clouseau.
More than 70 volunteer departments
participated in the parade.
Bantam Books to
'Hearts of the
West'
Print
Bantam Books will publish the novcli/ation
of MGM's "Hearts of the West,"
starring Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald
Pleasencc, BIythe Danner and Alan
Arkin.
Art from the picture, a comedy-iirama
focusing on a Midwestern lad and his adventures
in the Hollywood of the '30s,
will be displayed on both front and back
covers of the paperback, which is scheduled
for release this fall.
"Hearts of the West" was produced by
Tony Bill and directed by Howard Zieff
from a screenplay by Robert Ihompson.
Four Alexanders department stores in
New York City supported the first
showcase break for Columbia Pictures'
"Tommy" with full window displays
using posters, T-shirts, slacks and
soundtrack albums. The Ken Russell
film surpassed the million-dollar mark
during its 14-week world premiere eni;ai;fnieiJt
at the Ziegfeld Theatre and
now is continuing to do outstanding
business at eight theatres in the metropolitan
area.
•
Model planes are a natural tie-in for
"The Great Waldo Pepper," and manager
Miroslav Skripnik of the Huron
Theatre in Port Huron, Mich., reports
the movie has drawn patrons who not
only like Robert Redford, but who love
airplanes as well. Candy girls Jennifer
Jarvis, left, and Bonny Tipa hold one
of the planes used in the lobby display.
*
Steven Avitable, manager of the Cinema-
Brookline in Boston, added to the excitement
of sell-out showings of "Gone with
the Wind" by outfitting his staff in special
shirts. Emblazoned on the shirt fronts were
silkscrecncd likenesses of Rhetl Butler and
Scarlett O'Hara.
The movie classic was the first to play at
the redecorated Patriot Cinemas hardtop.
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