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BROADWAY<br />
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, now in the<br />
new Easter show, will have<br />
midst of its<br />
a Pop Arts Festival on a twice-a-year, sevenweek<br />
basis. The opening series, running<br />
from September 15 to November 3, will feature<br />
such stars as Neil Sedaka, the Boston<br />
Pops Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler<br />
and Tony Orlando and Dawn.<br />
Shows will van from one-night stands<br />
to several weeks and will include jazz, pop,<br />
semi-classical concerts, rock, ice shows and<br />
children's programs. Producers are Sid<br />
Berstein.<br />
Bill Fields and the Music Fair.<br />
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art and<br />
The American Cinematheque's "Paris/ New<br />
York" program is now under way, with<br />
screenings at the museum's Junior Auditorium<br />
through May 7. A highlight was the<br />
presentation Tuesday evening (5) of the late<br />
silent "The Shopworn Angel" (1928), directed<br />
by Richard Wallace and starring<br />
Gary Cooper. Nancy Carroll and Paul Lukas.<br />
Although the last two reels were missing<br />
and the sound portions of the film also<br />
were gone, the Paramount release was still<br />
very impressive, especially as accompanied<br />
by Dick Hyman on the Baldwin organ.<br />
Cinematheque head Gene Stavis introduced<br />
the program, which had been created<br />
by the late Henri Langlois, head of the<br />
Cinematheque Francaise. Upcoming are<br />
DeMille's "Saturday Night" (1922) Tuesday<br />
(12), James Cruze's "Mannequin" (1926)<br />
with Warner Baxter, Zasu Pitts and Walter<br />
Pidgeon, Saturday (16), and the French film<br />
"Prix de Beaute" (1930), by G. W. Pabst<br />
and Genina, with America's Louise Brooks,<br />
Saturday (23).<br />
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The 107th edition of Ringling Bros, and<br />
Barnum & Bailey Circus is now at Madison<br />
Square Garden through June 5. The unquestioned<br />
star of the show is animal trainer<br />
Gunther Gebel-Williams, who has several<br />
spots on the program and major participation<br />
in the processions. Exhibitors could<br />
take a few tips on showmanship from the<br />
latest presentation of "The Greatest Show<br />
on Earth."<br />
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"The Goodbye Girl," a romantic comedy<br />
written for the screen by Neil Simon, is<br />
filming in<br />
the city for the next month after<br />
six weeks of shooting at MGM Studios in<br />
Culver City. Described as a happy love<br />
story, the Warner Bros, presentation stars<br />
Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason and<br />
introduces nine-year-old Quinn Cummings.<br />
Ray Stark is producing and Herbert Ross<br />
is directing.<br />
The Rastar feature will use such local<br />
sites as Shubert Alley, Showcase Studios.<br />
Open Space Theatre, the Metropole Cafe<br />
and the Roosevelt Island tram, plus various<br />
streets, stores and buildings. Also to be<br />
filmed is the Subaru display at the Auto<br />
Expo at the Coliseum, during the time the<br />
exhibition is open to the public.<br />
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In town: Sissy Spacek arrived Tuesday<br />
(5) for promotional activities on behalf of<br />
E-2<br />
Robert Altman's "3 Women," the 20th<br />
Century-Fox release in which she stars with<br />
Shelley Duval and Janice Rule. The film<br />
is now at the Coronet.<br />
The Film Society<br />
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of Lincoln Center anil<br />
the Department of Film of the Musuem of<br />
Modern Art is presenting the sixth annual<br />
"New Director/ New Films" series, Wednesday<br />
(13) through Wednesday (27). Representative<br />
works will be screened from such<br />
countries as Hungary, the USSR. Poland/<br />
Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Portugal, Great<br />
Britain, France, Canada and West Germany.<br />
The U. S. is represented by two features<br />
and two featurettes.<br />
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Updating: The Elgin Theatre again has<br />
abandoned its revival policy and is now advertising<br />
itself as an outlet for rock acts.<br />
The Embassy Theatre on 49th Street is<br />
changing its name to the Pussycat Theatre<br />
and will debut Wednesday (13) with Alex<br />
De Renzy's very hard-core feature, "Babyface."<br />
The theatre once was called the<br />
Trans-Lux West and then briefly the Bryan<br />
West.<br />
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Congratulations to film importer and distributor<br />
Robin von Joachim, who was married<br />
here March 31 to Rachel von Mandovska.<br />
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"The Beast," Walerian Borowczyk's erotic<br />
fairy tale of beauty and the beast, opens<br />
Wednesday (15) at the RKO Stanley Warner<br />
59th Street East. Sirpa Lane stars as the<br />
beauty portion of the story, a Jason Allen<br />
Films release.<br />
Biiier Winter Didn't<br />
Hurt Some Pa. Airers<br />
WILKES-BARRE, PA. — In spite of<br />
devastating winter weather, energy crunches,<br />
tightened finances and stiff first-run competition<br />
from the indoor movie houses, the<br />
long, hard winter did not seem to hurt the<br />
six drive-ins operating in this northeastern<br />
Pennsylvania area.<br />
Of the six ozoners in the immediate area,<br />
four have been operating on a seven-day-aweek<br />
basis, including the West Side Drivein<br />
at Larksville and the Comerford Drivein<br />
in Dupont, both owned and operated by<br />
Sportservice of Buffalo, N.Y.; the independently<br />
owned Oak Hill Drive-in. Moosic,<br />
and the Garden Drive-in, Hunlock<br />
Creek.<br />
Another airer, the Wilkes-Barre Drivein,<br />
only operated weekends, while the West<br />
Wyoming Drive-In in West Wyoming is<br />
waiting for fairer weather to reopen for the<br />
season. The only underskyer to shutter was<br />
the Sunset Drive-In in Mountaintop.<br />
The Wilkes-Barre Drive-In, which usually<br />
closes for one month when winter is at<br />
its worst, lost two to three months' business<br />
this past season, according to Arthur Scavo,<br />
manager. "When highways are impassable,"<br />
he said, "you can't expect people to fight<br />
their way to a drive-in."<br />
The major problem, Scavo said, apart<br />
from the weather itself, is the matter of<br />
vandalism. "But it's a problem we've learned<br />
to live with," he added. "Financially, it's<br />
too high to overcome. Prosecution is tough,<br />
especially when the damage has been caused<br />
by juveniles."<br />
The only other time of the year when<br />
patronage falls down is in the fall when<br />
football is king, Scavo said, because the<br />
Wilkes-Barre caters to a clientele generally<br />
16 to 25 years of age. This drop usually<br />
lasts from September until Thanksgiving.<br />
At present, Scavo said the ozoner is doing<br />
standard business "but once the weather<br />
gets better, the drive-in again will excel in<br />
the type of movie that has made us the<br />
home of big pictures." Scavo points out that<br />
the Wilkes-Barre Drive-In plays first-run<br />
features during its regular spring and summer<br />
season.<br />
Scavo explained that he feels the demand<br />
for different types of motion pictures may<br />
be influenced by social trends but the outdoor<br />
theatres will continue to have a unique<br />
group of patrons year after year. At the<br />
Wilkes-Barre Drive-in, where there is no<br />
charge for children under 14, rainchecks<br />
and refunds are provided for dissatisfied<br />
customers.<br />
UA's 'Audrey Rose' Bowed<br />
In Greater NY April 6<br />
NEW YORK—"Audrey Rose," a Rober<br />
Wise production based on the Frank D<<br />
Fellitta best seller about reincarnation, open<br />
ed at seven first-run theatres in the Nev|<br />
York area Wednesday (6) as an Easter holi<br />
day attraction from United Artists. They ar<<br />
the Loews' State 2, Loews' Cine and thj<br />
Eastside Cinema, Manhattan; Plainviewl<br />
Plainview, and Lynbrook, Lynbrook, L.l)<br />
and Cinema 46 1, Totowa, and the Middle<br />
town 1, Middletown, N.J.<br />
The film stars Marsha Mason, Anthon<br />
Hopkins and John Beck and introduce]<br />
Susan Swift as Ivy.<br />
Wise directed from a screenplay by Ef<br />
Felitta and Joe Wizan and De Felitta pn<br />
duced the film for release by United Artis<br />
Music is by Michael Small.<br />
Ralph Bakshi Will Visit<br />
NYC to Plug 'Wizards'<br />
NEW YORK—Ralph Bakshi, whose aimated<br />
science-fiction film "Wizards" wl<br />
open at the Trans-Lux East and othr<br />
metropolitan area theatres in late April, wl<br />
arrive in New York Monday (18) fori<br />
series of screenings, seminars and int