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SEATTLE
Ralph Osgood, manager of the
Ronton Village
Cinema Twin complex, his wife
Fran and daughter Robin returned from a
week's vacation in the San Diego area.
There they were happy to see Robin's husband
Tim Murray with two firsts at the
Pacific Eight championships. Tim represented
the University of Washington. Robin
works at the Seattle Universal Pictures
exchange.
Sterling Recreation Organization's Puget
Park Swap Mark began its fifth season
March 26, offering people an opportunity
to buy, sell or trade an amazing variety of
items at a convenient location. Hours for
the Swap Market at the drive-in theatre
are from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. each weekend
through October, with manager Clark
Thompson taking reservations nightly after
7. Puget Park's seller's price is $3 per stall
on Saturday, $4 per stall Sunday and $6
per stall for an entire weekend. Buyers 12
years of age and over may enjoy the fun
for only 25 cents; children under 12 are
free . . . Rob McQuiston, SRO advertising
director, reported a fabulous gross for the
first week of "Bound for Glory" at the
Uptown Theatre, where the film opened
March 23.
Pete Tolins has opened Tolins Film Service,
Inc.. to handle film distribution at
3214 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland, Ore.
97214, where his telephone number is (503)
238-0806. Pete, well-known and respected
in the greater Seattle area, is servicing this
metropolitan region as well as the remainder
of Washington.
Connie Carpou, Avco Embassy branch
manager for this territory, was here March
30, calling on industry clients . . . Also calling
on accounts was Jeff Lee, Columbia
branch manager for Seattle, who has headquarters
in Beverly Hills, Calif. Jeff was
here Friday (1) after attending the opening
of the Columbia Cinema triplex in
Wenatchee the preceding day.
New on Seattle marquees: "Slap Shot,"
Varsity, Kenmore and SeaTac Mall; "The
Littlest Horse Thieves," Bay, Renton Roxy,
FINER PROJECTION -SUPER ECONOMY
Hurley
Bellevue Overlake. Sno-king and Midway
drive-ins; "The Domino Principle," Renton
Village. Seattle Aurora cinemas; "Black
Sunday." Coliseum, Everett Mall Cinema.
Bellevue Crossroads Cinema and SeaTac
Mall Cinema; "Raggedy Ann & Andy,"
& Clark I, Lake City. John Danz,
Lynn 1; "Airport '77" at the 5th Avenue,
Bellevue Crossroads Twin Cinema, SeaTac
Mall Cinema, Valley Drive-in; "The Late
Show," Seven Gables; "It's Raining in Santiago."
Guild 45th; "The Thief of Paris,"
Harvard Exit.
Filmrow screenings: at the Jewel Box
"SuperVan," March 30: "Demon Seed,"
March 31; "The Car," Tuesday (5).
Fun, the area's entertainment weekly, attracted
2,230 entries for its Academy
Awards contest but the best any entrant
could do was to list correctly five winners
of the seven categories. Fun's latest edition
has a "Decoding the Photos" contest in
conjunction with the area showing of "The
Eagle Has Landed," offering 25 pairs of
passes as prizes. Fun's coloring contest for
"The Many Adventures of Winnie the
Pooh" lured entries with 30 pairs of passes
as rewards.
Lou Kahn, Warner Bros, exchange manager,
was interviewed at Fun's tenth anniversary
Academy Awards party by KOMO-
TV, ABC's local affiliated station, Kahn
discussing the importance of "All the President's
Men" doing well in the awards. Many
other Filmrow personalities at the party
were seen on a segment of KOMO-TV's late
news following the Academy Awards telecast
and again on the next day's mid-morning
news. Fun ran a photo of KOMO-TV's
Milt Furness chatting with Kahn, as well as
a photo showing some of the industry
guests at the Fun party.
Driver Crashes Windows
At Seattle Sunn Office
SEATTLE — Sunn Classic Pictures'
branch office here was the scene of an
unusual accident early Saturday morning,
March 26, when a woman driving a Pacer
stepped on the gas, rather than on the
brake, in the exchange's parking lot and
took out two windows, an outside wall and
inside partition before stopping just in front
of branch manager Rich Richardson's desk.
Theresa Lanphere, secretary and first
staffer to reach the scene, summoned Richardson.
They, along with the building own-
Wenatchee Trio Bows
Under Mercy Banner
WENATCHEE, WASH. — Mike and
Kathy Mercy, Fred Mercy jr., and Earl
Barden of Mercy Enterprises and Yakima
Theatres hosted an invitational opening of
their new Columbia Cinema complex here
March 3 I
Among the special guests were city officials
and friends of the owners from the
area film industry, who were treated to
champagne and refreshments. Screenings
were held in each of the three auditoriums.
Cinema I seats 298 patrons and is
equipped with stereo; Cinema II and Cinema
III each seat 167. The booth features
an interlock system.
PORTLAND
J^n invitational screening of "Black Sunday"
was held March 30 at Mann Theatres'
Music Box Theatres, with the wide
range of prizes including a stay at a beach
resort and rides in the Goodyear Blimp,
according to Dewayne Belislye, Music Box
manager. Free ice cream "black sundaes"
were given to everyone attending the invitational
showing: distributed in the drawings,
in addition to a trip to the Inn at Spanish
Head in Lincoln City and four rides on the
Goodyear Blimp, were gift certificates from
Clark Junior (women's clothing stores) and
miniature balloons. Promotional work was
supervised by Mike Neely's Thunder Media,
the company which turned in such an out
standing promotional job here in conjunc
tion with KPAM Radio for "King Kong.'
An advance showing of "Black Sunday'
was held Thursday, March 31 at the Music
Box, followed by the public opening Fridaw
(1).
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"Black Sunday" also opened Friday (lj
the Bagdad Theatre, where Imogene Folj
wick, manager, reported record grosses for
two other films currently on the complex's)
screens: "Rocky," in a tenth week, and
Star Is Born," 15th week.
Correction: Boxoffice apologies to Ton)
Moyer, Luxury Theatres president, for refer
ring to him in a news item in an earlie
issue as being an assistant film buyer.
Schaefli Helms Ozoner
SEDALIA, MO.—Gary Schaefli has bee
transferred from Warrensburg, Mo., to mai
age Commonwealth's Hiway 50 Drive
here.
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HURLEY SCREEN COMPANY, Inc.
24 Snroh Drive Formingdole, L. I., N. Y., 1173S
8 a.m., boarding up the opening created by
the wayward car.
It was business as usual, however, Monday
morning, with only interruptions from
bidding contractors, adjusters and curious
passersby.
Ted Key wrote the screenplay for "The
Cat From Outer Space."
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