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HARTFORD<br />
Brea camera shop!> tied-up with United<br />
Artists Ihealres" Westfarms Movies 3<br />
lor Columbia's "Eyes of Laura Mars." prizes<br />
including an expensive Nikon camera. Westfarms,<br />
incidentally, is charging $1.50 (advertised<br />
as "early bird matinee price") for<br />
shows starting before 1 p.m. on a daily<br />
basis, while its sister picx. Theatres East 3.<br />
in the Manchester Shopping Parkade. is<br />
charging SI. 50 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday and<br />
Sunday afternoons.<br />
Sylvia Slieber, .Avon Twin, brought back<br />
United Artists" "Annie Hall." advertising:<br />
"Last chance! "Annie Hall' being withdrawn<br />
from all theatres!" Sylvia, who is current<br />
president of the Connecticut Ass'n of Theatre<br />
Owners, slotted 20th-Fo.\"s ""Damien<br />
Omen 11" for the same week. And enterprising<br />
gal that she is—well aware of what<br />
splendid weekend weather can do for cinema<br />
attendance in summertime—Sylvia inserted<br />
this line in ad-: Matinees Sat-Sun<br />
(Bad Weather Only).""<br />
The Garde, New London, which has been<br />
on a live entertainment policy in recent<br />
months, started the projection booth again,<br />
with scheduling of Paramount's "Saturday<br />
Night Fever." Admission. Monday through<br />
Thursday, was 99 cents for all scats at all<br />
Sampson-Spodick-Ro.sen Norwich Cineiiias<br />
2 and Groton Cinemas 2, with thj<br />
eastern Connecticut premiere of Paramount's<br />
"Grease,"' have been running 10:30<br />
p.m. shows Fridays and Saturdays— rather<br />
late time for feature programing in this region.<br />
Business has been excellent in both<br />
cities.<br />
The Groton Drive-In, Groton. has come<br />
up with a distinctive new ad logo. It has<br />
the undcrskyer's idcniity imprinieil on a<br />
sketch of a projection niaciiiiic.<br />
Patrick Farrell, reviewing Warner Bros."<br />
•Hooper"' in the Advocate, said, in part:<br />
•However much "Hooper' is basically a<br />
crash-bang demolition film like all the<br />
others of its kind, it's never dehumanizing<br />
like the rest. Its questions about the ethics<br />
of stunting and moviemaking are naive, and<br />
its answers half-baked, but even that"s pleasant<br />
in a way that has everything to do with<br />
Reynolds' split personality—something serious<br />
and naive underneath the jaded wisecracking."<br />
ear-old<br />
controversy concerning a cable TV firm's<br />
rat.-s back to the State Public Utilities Control<br />
Authority for a ruling.<br />
Judge Dorsey said that the state agcncv<br />
should have given New London-based Eastern<br />
Connecticut Cable Television. Inc.,<br />
which services some 10,000 customers, advanc;<br />
notice of the PUC.A's adverse rale<br />
ruling lor ECCT in March 1975. At the<br />
same lime, the judge did noi specif) whether<br />
HCCr is entitled to a new he.iring on<br />
rates.<br />
Vintage Cinema Tickets<br />
Come in Handy at Sale<br />
SPRINtil 111 D. MA.SS.— One never<br />
knows when vintage cinema tickets will<br />
come in handy. R,iy Stone Ponliac-Buick.<br />
for its 197K nuulel year-end sale, i>flered<br />
to take "any old thing"' in trade, suggestions<br />
including "ticket stubs Irom I i>ew's Poti."<br />
1 iH'Ws Ihealres' Springlield onilei w.is<br />
shui down many vears ago.<br />
BOXOmci: September 4. ')7^