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Liberty<br />

BOSTON<br />

Coimui 11. Faucheri owner ol the Wesl<br />

Newton rriplex Cinema in Newton, a<br />

i suburb, h.is purchased the King<br />

ma in downtown Manchester, N.H..<br />

and renamed ii ["he Movies. The theatre is<br />

being redecorated and remodeled, with an<br />

emphasis on updating the lobby and concessions<br />

section. When The Movies reopens<br />

early [his month, it will he the only theatre<br />

operating in Manchester.<br />

Burbura Spillane. office secretary at Cinema<br />

Film Buying & Hooking, declared alter<br />

her first week on the job that she thoroughly<br />

enjoyed the office routine. Prior to joining<br />

CFB, Barbara lived in London tor a year<br />

aftei serving as a waiti ess at Filene's Restaurant.<br />

Chestnut Hill. We might add that<br />

Barbara is single and a gorgeous blonde.<br />

The appointment of Phillip G. Boyle as<br />

director of labor relations has been announced<br />

bj Melvin R. Wintman, president<br />

oi GCC theatres, a subsidiary of General<br />

Cinema Corp. Boyle, who joins General<br />

Cinema after employment by the City of<br />

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Boston as a labor relations attorney, holds<br />

a bacheloi Oi arts degree from Yale University<br />

and a J. D. from the Suffolk Law<br />

School. A member ol the slate and federal<br />

bars, Boyle will have his headquarters at<br />

the circuit's home office in Chestnut Hill<br />

and will report directly to Howard W.<br />

Spiess. \ ice-president for operations.<br />

Universale Boston exchange people have<br />

been extending congratulations to Mrs. Eun-<br />

Sook Lee and her husband Kyu-Wang Lee,<br />

parents of a handsome baby boy. Mrs. Lee,<br />

called "Sookie" by her co-workers, already<br />

is back to work and reports herself to be<br />

healthy and happy. The new son, named<br />

Robert Run-Sang Lee, already is up to 10<br />

pounds after starting a month ago at 6<br />

pounds 7 ounces. Sookie's husband is on the<br />

staff at Harvard College, a research fellow<br />

in the chemistry department.<br />

Harry Germaine, Associated Films Distributors<br />

at New Haven, reports a heavy<br />

demand for his film shorts and noted that<br />

the Cinemart at Hamden, Conn., had booked<br />

his release. "Ridin' the Edge," to show<br />

with "The Greatest," opening on national<br />

release. The Stratford Cinema in Stratford,<br />

Conn., is showing one of Harry's best<br />

shorts, "The Greatest Show on Earth,"<br />

ahead of Woody Allen's "Annie Hall."<br />

Clara Botto, Universal contract girl, took<br />

advantage of the long Memorial Day weekend<br />

to fly to Fort Lauderdale. Fla., with<br />

several friends.<br />

Smiling and personable Janet Cuddy, who<br />

has been with the Columbia exchange for<br />

three years, is the daughter and grand-<br />

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THEATRE<br />

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POSITION<br />

BOXOFFICE-THE NATIONAL FILM WEEKLY<br />

825 Van Brunt Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. 64124<br />

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daughter of well-known Filmrow figures.<br />

Her lather is Jack Cuddy of Film Transportation.<br />

Her grandfather, Bill Cuddy,<br />

was booker and office manager at Pathe exchange<br />

at 39 Church Street, the first movie<br />

exchange to locate in what is now Filmrow.<br />

Bill knew practically every theatre man in<br />

New England and, with your correspondent,<br />

Ernie Warren, was a prime mover in many<br />

of the social<br />

activities.<br />

SPRINGFIELD<br />

John 1). Morrison, manager-partner. Pleasant<br />

St. Theatre, Northampton, phasedout<br />

his popular "silents" programs for the<br />

summer months, planning to resume the<br />

schedule in September. The concluding<br />

show featured Chaplin's "The Immigrant.<br />

He has instituted a dollar-night policy for<br />

Tuesdays (excepting "special events"), with<br />

ads asserting, "How Can You Resist?"<br />

Prom season prompted Harry Schwab.<br />

Air-Line Drive-In, Chicopee. to link up with<br />

WHYN-Radio on promotion for United<br />

Artists' "Carrie," part of a Dusk-to-Dawn<br />

show (other titles: "The School That<br />

Couldn't Scream," "Night of Bloody Horror,"<br />

"Drum" and "Women and Bloody<br />

Terror"). Nine winners, selected in a Saturday<br />

drawing at the theatre, got money for<br />

a pair of prom tickets and loan of a tuxedo<br />

(Yale-Genton Clothes). Other prizes for the<br />

nine: Corsage and boutonniere (courtesy of<br />

the Wilbraham Flower Shop) and, to top it<br />

all off, a chauffeured limousine, courtesy of<br />

Springfield's Cunningham Livery Service.<br />

Schwab's ad catch-line read: "You'll Never<br />

Forget Carrie's Prom—Nor Do We Want<br />

You to Forget Your Prom!"<br />

VERMONT<br />

International filmmaker Marcel Ophuls, on<br />

a visit to the University of Vermont,<br />

Burlington campus, lamented that all too<br />

few Americans will be seeing his latest release,<br />

"The Memory of Justice," because of<br />

its length (four-and-a-half hours). The documentary,<br />

he said, is not the usual kind of<br />

attraction expected to line up people in the<br />

street; this film's length further discourages<br />

exhibitors by limiting the number of showings—and,<br />

hence, the income— per day.<br />

Merrill Jarvis, who heads Merrill Theatre<br />

Corp.. said that he had been trying—unsuccessfully,<br />

to date—to get a print of "The<br />

Memory of Justice" from the distributor,<br />

Paramount, learning that there have been<br />

only two prints on the East Coast. The<br />

Burlington Free Press, largest newspaper in 1<br />

Vermont, quoted Paramount vice-president<br />

Gordon Weaver as saying, "Anybody who<br />

would like to rent the film can come to I<br />

Paramount and rent it." Weaver was further<br />

quoted as saying that chances of Paramount<br />

gaining a return on its $500,000 investment<br />

in the Ophuls attraction were "practically<br />

nil."<br />

BOXOFFICE :: June 6, 1977<br />

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