Boxoffice-September.04.1978

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atre, now a parking lot. were also first-run
operations. The Arcadia and the Queen
Iheaires. once key S'.;cond-run theatres on
.Market Street downtown, no longer exist,
and ihe Strand Theatre, a third-run house
on the same street, is now the commercial
king Center.
The Luzerne County redevelopment authority
awarded a demolition contract this
week for the razing of the former Roxy
Theatre in Hanover Township just outside
of Wilkcs-Barre. Pa. . . . La Salle College's
Urban Studies Center concludes its summer
film series with the showing of the independently
produced film about black music.
"Passing Through."
Edie the Egg Lady, the star of the longrimning
cult film "Pink Flamingos," comes
lo town for a special concert at Grendel's
Lair, a few doors away from the TLI Cinema
where the film ran for several years of
Saturday midnights. Edith Massey. who
played the role in the film, comes here with
her all-female punk band aptly named "Edie
and the Incredible Edible Eggs."
Ihi- Be Cinema in Bclmar. N.J.. add-
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MR. EXHIBITOR!
ed midnight shows evjry night of the week
in addition to "The Rocky Horror Picture
Show" Friday. Saturday ar.d Sunday to
round out the summer season. It was "A
Three Stooges Festival" at midnight Monday.
"Mars Attacks the Earth" on Tuesday
Jhe Riallo Theatre is the only theatre opcrating
within the city limits of Wilmington,
Del. Once a first-run theatre, it
and "200 Motels' for Wednesday and
plays Thursday.
X-raied product exclusively. Lowe's
Theatre, now shut, and the Warner The-
Smoking $eclion.s would be permitted in
theatres along with most other public places
according to revised recommendations to
be made' by the New Jersey Public Health
Council when it presented its new smoking
restrictions at a public hearing Monday (1 1).
United Artists Theatres' State Theatre in
Easton. Pa., inaugurated a new boxoffice
policy for the new season providing for a
$1 bargain matinee every Wednesday and
Friday . . . Phillips Film Co.. based in Columbus.
Ohio, filed notice of its withdrawal
as an out-of-state corporation and will discontinue
doing business in Pennsylvania.
A lot of new product is headed this way.
which augurs well for the start of the new
season. Set for Wednesday (27) openings
are "Interiors," "A Wedding" and "Somebody
Killed Her Husband," with "Death on
the Nile" starting Friday (29). October premieres
call for "Blood Brothers." "Who
Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?" "The
Boys From Brazil." "Comes a Horseman"
and "The Wiz." November brings in "The
Lord of the Rings." "Slow Dancing in the
Big City" and "Moment by Moment" is
for December 22.
BUFFALO
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iin an anibilious 20-vear plan. Ihe plan, un-
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Jim Lavorata moved his National Theatre
Supply office Friday (I) to new headquarters
at 688 Main St.. where he now
set up for business. Sidnev Cohen, president
of New York Slate NATO and of Ihe Sheridan
Drive-In Theatres, moved into Ihe
same building. Both previously had been in
Ihe Motion Picture Operators Building at
498 Pearl St.. which was bought by Youthlime
Christian Center. Ihe operators' organization
moved a month agi> to the Carriage
House. 3000 Genesee St.. Chccktowaga,
NY.
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