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CHICAGO<br />
Fven though the Gateway Theatre is undergoing<br />
extensive remodeling work, the<br />
new "owner, the Pohsh Alliance Assn., announced<br />
the presentation of "Land of Promise.'"<br />
The 15-day program. launched by the<br />
Chicago International Film Festival in cooperation<br />
with the Copernicus Foundation,<br />
features films from Poland as a special tribute<br />
to Andrzej Wajda. Director Wajda has<br />
been described by Time magazine as one<br />
of the world's foremost stage aind film directors.<br />
Films to be shown include "Everythmg<br />
for Sale." "Kanal," "Landscape After Battle"<br />
and "Man of Marble." All films are<br />
in 35mm and in Polish with English subtitles.<br />
The proceeds will benefit the Copernicus<br />
Cultural and Civic Center, which is<br />
being established to serve the Polish-Americam<br />
community and, in. fact, the entire Chicago<br />
area.<br />
L & S Theatre Corp. and the Tiffin Theatre<br />
Corp. moved to new and larger headquarters<br />
at 7106 N. Western Ave.. Chicago<br />
60669. A new telephone number will be announced<br />
shortly. Both companies are headed<br />
by Leo Freedburg.<br />
Barbara Gillespie, manager of the Tiffin<br />
Theatre, says "Beyond the Door. Part 2"<br />
rated especially good business,<br />
it<br />
even though<br />
arrived without the usual advance publicity<br />
during a week when attendance everywhere<br />
dropped because the first days of<br />
spring had people spending time outdoors.<br />
Richard Stern booked two first run dramas<br />
at his 3 Penny Cinema: "Mado" and<br />
"A Woman at Her Window." Director is<br />
Claude Sautet, who may be remembered for<br />
"Jean, Francois, Paul and the Others," and<br />
Michel Piccoli is the star.<br />
The Francis Parker Cinema, which has<br />
been quiet for the past months, is now back<br />
in business with a program of Japanese<br />
films. Featured are "Yellow Handkerchief"<br />
and "Crimson Bat."<br />
Plitt Theatres Inc. is using extensive newspaper<br />
advertising to tell moviegoers about<br />
the return of "The Exorcist" to the State<br />
Lake Theatre in the Loop. This is on exclusive<br />
engagement in 70mm and full stereo.<br />
Facets Multimedia Inc. will present a new<br />
children's film festival in May. The program,<br />
which highlights animated musicals,<br />
starts<br />
off with "Make Mine Music." This is<br />
a ten-part fantasy with such musical sequences<br />
as "Martins and the Coys," "Casey<br />
at the Bat." "Peter and the Wolf." "Gulliver's<br />
Travels," Hoppity Goes to Town" and<br />
Sinbad the Sailor."<br />
About eight years ago, a group of Indians<br />
took over an abandoned Nike missile<br />
site in Chicago's Belmont Harbor in protest<br />
to government disregard of their needs.<br />
They were taking a stand in behalf of jobs,<br />
housing and good schools for their children.<br />
The settlers drew considerable attention, but<br />
little or no results.<br />
However, through the efforts of a young<br />
local filmmaker by the name of Jerry Aronson.<br />
the set of incidents was kept alive in<br />
a 30-miinute film entitled "The Divided<br />
Trail: A Native American Odyssey." This<br />
was one of five films nominated for an<br />
Academy Award in the documentary short<br />
subject<br />
category.<br />
Facets Multimedia introduced what was<br />
considered a most interesting film: Orson<br />
Welles' 1976 film, "F for Fake." Welles<br />
uses the story of two men called hoaxers<br />
by many—Cliffort Irving (who wrote about<br />
Howard Hughes) and Elmyr de Hory, Irving's<br />
friend and recognized art forger.<br />
The 12th annual Variety Club Celebrity<br />
Ball was held April 20 at the Chicago Marriott<br />
Hotel. Restauranteur Arnie Morton<br />
was honored for his outstanding contributions<br />
to Variety Club children's charities.<br />
Mr. Morton and Barbara Eden were<br />
crowned as King and Queen of Hearts.<br />
Both Governor Thompson and mewly elected<br />
Mayor Jane Byrne issued proclamations<br />
designating April 12-21 as Variety Club<br />
Week in Illinois and Chicago.<br />
"Firepower," an action thriller from Associated<br />
Film Distribution, opened in Chicago<br />
area theatres on April 20. This is a<br />
fictional story of an illegal attempt by the<br />
U.S. government to return to America for<br />
trial a multi-millionaire industrialist who is<br />
wanted on criminal charges. To accomplish<br />
this effort, the government enlists the help<br />
of an ex-syndicate hit man. Stars are Sophia<br />
Loren, James Coburn, Jerry Fanon and<br />
O. J. Simpson. Filming was done in the<br />
Caribbean, Washington, Miami and New<br />
York.<br />
KANSAS CITY<br />
Robert R. Jackson, 54. was killed in a<br />
collision April 23 near Warsaw. Mo. Jackson<br />
was a shipper with Universal Film Exchange<br />
for the past ten years. Funeral services<br />
were held in Liberty. Mo.. April 26.<br />
Ralph J.<br />
Webber, former secretary-trcas-<br />
urer with Dickinson Operating Co., passed<br />
away April 23. He had been with Dickinson<br />
for 23 years until he retired in 1976. He<br />
belonged to Variety Tent 8 and was former<br />
treasurer of the now-defunct Motion Picture<br />
Assn.<br />
Canine Star Thrills<br />
Hospitalized Children<br />
Young patients at<br />
Children's Mercy Hos-|<br />
pital, 24th at Gilham in Kansas City, Mo..=<br />
had a special celebrity visitor recently when<br />
i<br />
the mongrel star of American Intemationiil'si<br />
"C.H.O.M.P.S." dropped by to entertain,<br />
The visitor was Hank, a 22-pound siWer.i<br />
black and beige mutt who plays the role oP<br />
"Rascal." the world's first computerized<br />
watchdog.<br />
LINCOLN<br />
^ith the arrival of spring in the frigid<br />
winterized Midwest, the drive-in theates<br />
are starting to cover from the snow<br />
and freezing temperatures. Last weekend<br />
Douglas Theatre's 84th & Drive-In played<br />
a hit combination of "Up in Smoke" and<br />
"Looking for Mr. Goodbar." while the Dubinsky<br />
Bros.' Starview offered "Corvette<br />
Summer" and "Convoy."<br />
David Livington, vice-president of Douglas<br />
Theatres, sees this summer as a good<br />
year for the drive-ins. He feels the outlook<br />
and product look very promising. His enthusiasm<br />
is perhaps keyed by Kevin<br />
Graham, the 84th & O's new manager,<br />
Graham is a past assistant manager at the<br />
downtown Douglas 3 Theatres. 84th & C<br />
opened with a big promotion for "Foul<br />
Play" which included Lincoln Radio Statior<br />
KHAT.<br />
This weekend Graham is taking advan<br />
tage of the disco craze by bookimg "Sat<br />
urday Night Fever" followed by a big discc<br />
contest. The event is co-sponsored by radi<<br />
KFRX and Team Electronics is installini<br />
special speakers and sound equipment<br />
Judges for the contest will be the FR><br />
Chicken and members of the Dance Empo<br />
rium. a local dance studio, with trophic<br />
being awarded to the best dancers ^com<br />
and third show on the billing are "Goin<br />
South" and "First Love."<br />
With the popularity of Jon Voight afte<br />
winning the best actor Academy Award fo<br />
"Coming Home." Smith hopes for an ovei<br />
flow on^Voight's new film "The Champ.<br />
Radio station" KFMQ and Cinema Theatre<br />
are giving away "Champ" posters to hel<br />
promote the film. "Same Time. Next Year<br />
is still holding its own also at the Cinemi<br />
THESFTTIE EQUIPMENT<br />
'Everything for the Theatre"<br />
,. CAPITOL AVt, IMOtANAPOLIS, IND.<br />
At the Douglas 3, Dave Livingston reac<br />
ily admits that the sleeper "Halloween" h£<br />
been a lite-saver for them the past fe'<br />
weeks. The picture is finally ending its ru<br />
this week and will be replaced by "Hurr<br />
cane." although Livingston admits that I<br />
hates to see it" go. Also new at the Dougli<br />
MW-2<br />
BOXOFFICE :: May 7,<br />
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