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THAT<br />
ELECTRONIC JACKRABBITS'<br />
oft-quoted statement about<br />
this industry, "The more it<br />
changes, the more it remains the same,"<br />
has come to the fore again this week,<br />
paralleling a condition of the past, but<br />
many times more harmful. We refer to<br />
the reference made in the report in this<br />
issue of Martin H. Newman's speech delivered<br />
at the NATO of Michigan's 54th<br />
annual convention held at Troy, Mich.<br />
Mr. Newman, who is NATO's chairman<br />
of the pay TV committee, informed the<br />
gathering of the destructive incidence of<br />
unfair competition from cable pay TV to<br />
theatres operating in Olean, N.Y., Pottsville.<br />
Pa., and Reston, Va. There current<br />
motion pictures are<br />
being competitively<br />
offered—while first to the theatres, the<br />
basis is that, "if the exhibitors do not<br />
take them immediately, they will be sold<br />
to the cable operators."<br />
This reminds of the parallel condition<br />
that existed back in the early days of this<br />
business, when itinerant exhibitors with<br />
portable equipment carried films from<br />
town to town in the rural areas. They<br />
would set up the equipment a few miles<br />
from towns housing theatres that represented<br />
substantial investments in brick<br />
and mortar, as well as in years of effort<br />
on the part of smalltown exhibitors to<br />
eke out a living. These were called "jackrabbit"<br />
shows—and they were kept hopping<br />
throughout the country by the<br />
hundreds, if not the thousands.<br />
Another parallel was the method by<br />
which these itinerant shows obtained the<br />
pictures they were showing. So flagrant<br />
was this operation that a Copyright Protection<br />
Bureau was set up in New York,<br />
operating on behalf of distributors to<br />
detect and prevent copyright violations<br />
in unauthorized exhibitions of films.<br />
Those copyright laws still are in force,<br />
updated to meet conditions of today and<br />
to retrieve films illegally acquired and<br />
exhibited, whether commercially or privately.<br />
And another parallel to this current<br />
destructive competition was the offering<br />
of films to schools and churches—ahead<br />
of, or instead of, the theatres in those<br />
smaller towns, if the established theatre<br />
operators didn't meet the demanded<br />
terms.<br />
Yes, this goes back some 30 to 40 years<br />
and, perhaps, more. But, in one form or<br />
another, similar practices have dogged<br />
this industry's foot-steps and deterred its<br />
progress. The itinerant "jackrabbit"<br />
operators may have gone "underground,"<br />
as it were, but unfair competition of another<br />
ilk stUl is rampant.<br />
For example, there are the so-called<br />
"storeroom shows" and "exhibition<br />
nooks" incorporated with coffee houses<br />
or restaurants. Not all of the films they<br />
exhibit are of the pornographic types.<br />
Yet this is competition to regular movie<br />
theatres, for every patron they attract<br />
may be subtracted from the regular<br />
throng of moviegoers.<br />
The offering and sale of regular film<br />
product to so-called "free" TV, when it<br />
first began some 20 years ago, involved<br />
only films that were not less than seven<br />
years old, dating back to their last showings<br />
in regular movie theatres. But this<br />
"protection" has been reduced to nil,<br />
what with films in release only a few<br />
months currently appearing on TV.<br />
Cable TV has become widespread in its<br />
growth. It attempted to acquire current<br />
theatrical films, but without much success.<br />
However, the Federal Communications<br />
Commission may now succeed in<br />
making that inroad on the motion picture<br />
industry's "preserves" an actuality.<br />
Yet, the exhibition branch of the industry<br />
is putting up a strong fight and,<br />
hopefully, may overcome this threat.<br />
Still, the movie moguls are not content.<br />
Through one guise or another, they<br />
are "invading" and subjugating the<br />
movie patronage field to offshoots that<br />
the industry-at-large must consider as<br />
unfair and destructive competition as<br />
jackrabbits"<br />
modern-day "electronic<br />
scattered hither and yon.<br />
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Unions Rally to Block Proper Exhibition of Films Vital<br />
Runaway Productions<br />
WASHINGTON, DC—To focus Congressional<br />
attention on the urgent necessity<br />
of legislation to block or control runaway<br />
film production, all unions and guilds of the<br />
motion picture and television industries will<br />
stage a rally here May 14 and 15. Top international<br />
officers of each of these organizations<br />
and all rank and file members who<br />
can make the trip are being assembled for<br />
the demonstration under the sponsorship of<br />
the National Conference of Motion Picture<br />
and Television Unions.<br />
These leaders see the rally project as a<br />
historical occasion—the first time all of the<br />
industry's labor organizations have united<br />
,to fight for a common goal.<br />
"This is the moment to unite our ranks<br />
for action and to muster political pressure<br />
and focus national attention on what we<br />
need, what we must have to protect and<br />
promote employment and union conditions<br />
in the motion picture and television industries,"<br />
declared the call issued to all locals<br />
and guild chapters to dispatch delegates to<br />
the assembly.<br />
Among union leaders planning to be at<br />
the rally are Richard F. Walsh, president<br />
of the International Alliance of Theatrical<br />
Stage Employees; Charles Pillard, president.<br />
International Brotherhood of Electrical<br />
Workers; Edward M. Lynch, president. National<br />
Ass'n of Broadcast Employees and<br />
Technicians; Bill Baldwin, president, American<br />
Federation of Television and Radio<br />
Artists; Harold M. Hoffman, national assistant<br />
executive secretary. Screen Actors<br />
Guild; John Pecoraro, national legislative<br />
director. International Brotherhood of Painters<br />
and Allied Trades, Ben Lxjveless, executive<br />
secretary of Hollywood Transportation<br />
Drivers, Local 399, International Brotherhood<br />
of Teamsters. The latter is co-chairman<br />
of the rally preparations.<br />
Although James Gavin, president. Screen<br />
Actors Guild, says a prior commitment will<br />
make it impossible for him to be here for<br />
the rally, he said that he endorsed it.<br />
Also endorsing the Washington demonstration,<br />
Robert Hyle, business agent of<br />
Motion Picture Studio Mechanics, Local 52,<br />
lATSE, and co-chairman of the National<br />
Conference of Motion Picture and Television<br />
Union, sees the united effort in opposition<br />
to runaway production as "a good<br />
omen for future joint action for common<br />
objectives."<br />
Wm. L. Brown Is Elected<br />
General Cinema Director<br />
BOSTON—William L. Brown, president<br />
of First National Boston Corp. and the<br />
First National Bank of Boston, has been<br />
elected a director of General Cinema Corp.,<br />
it was announced by Richard A. Smith,<br />
president of the theatre and beverage company.<br />
Brown, who has been president since<br />
1971, joined the First National Bank of<br />
Boston in 1949 and, after numerous promotions,<br />
became executive vice-president and a<br />
director in 1969.<br />
BOXOFHCE :; April 23, 1973<br />
To Industry Image, Says White<br />
DETROIT— "The entire motion picture<br />
industry suffers when those responsible for<br />
film production and marketing undermine<br />
the medium's image as an art form by<br />
using outlets not geared to show movies to<br />
maximum effect."<br />
This was the major thrust of a speech<br />
delivered here Thursday (12) by Roy B.<br />
White, president of the National Ass'n of<br />
Theatre Owners. He spoke at the Celebrity<br />
Luncheon of the NATO of Michigan convention.<br />
The exhibitor conclave took place<br />
Wednesday and Thursday (11-12) at the<br />
Troy Hilton Inn on the outskirts of Detroit.<br />
Public<br />
Wants Good Presentation<br />
"The film art is presently being subjected<br />
to cruel and potentially disastrous<br />
treatment by those who control its creation."<br />
White declared. This is occurring,<br />
he said, "when the public has shown a<br />
sincere willingness to turn out by the hundreds<br />
of millions to go to the lovely, comfortable<br />
theatres which are being built at<br />
a cost of $200 million per year. These<br />
beautiful, functional new theatres have the<br />
capability of presenting the film art in the<br />
proper frame, as it was intended to be<br />
presented." This also holds true for presently<br />
existing theatres, he stated.<br />
Deprecating "the rush to exhibit this industry's<br />
works of art in airplanes, boats,<br />
storerooms, lofts, dingy hotel rooms" and<br />
other inadequate facilities, the exhibition<br />
leader posed the question:<br />
"Is our creative community, which is<br />
indeed the keeper of the keys to the 'film<br />
art' kingdom, so weak, so blase and so<br />
career and profit-oriented that they will permit<br />
the greatest art form the world has<br />
ever known to be desecrated, demeaned<br />
and distorted in this manner? Does creativity,<br />
artistic integrity, involvement and above<br />
all—responsibility—end when the art is<br />
captured and imprisoned on the film? I<br />
think<br />
not!"<br />
Each of the near disasters the industry<br />
underwent "was by our own hand." White<br />
declared, adding:<br />
"We did not create TV, but we certainly<br />
nurtured and sustained it—and we continue<br />
to do so. We did not write the consent<br />
decree, but we caused it to be written.<br />
Will we be the architects of the next walk<br />
through the valley of death? Will we blow<br />
it again? Must we be our own worst enemy?"<br />
Reminds of<br />
'Cinerama' Success<br />
Pointing to the "landslide business" which<br />
"This Is Cinerama" is now enjoying, he<br />
viewed it as reflecting the fact that people<br />
want impact—involvement—and illusion.<br />
"Even if those who should shoulder the<br />
responsibility of restraint and sound judgment<br />
fail to do so, we can and should<br />
further widen the technological gap—actually<br />
a chasm—between high impact, audience-involving<br />
theatrical exhibition which<br />
enhances the art, as opposed to much of<br />
today's peripheral exhibition which degrades<br />
it."<br />
Pointing out that theatres do not limit<br />
viewer enjoyment with the restrictions of<br />
"a little box," he termed them the sole resource<br />
for providing the surroundings for<br />
"the phenomenon" of audience participation.<br />
"We— and we alone," he said, "can<br />
create the true illusion and thus provide the<br />
magic carpet for escapism."<br />
Although the industry was now "on the<br />
road back" from its recent difficulties.<br />
White cautioned:<br />
"I trust that those who search for the<br />
end of the rainbow will not, in their enthusiasm,<br />
cause the rainbow to disappear<br />
and never again return. I hope that the<br />
leaders of the creative industry will exercise<br />
a responsibility to the continuity of<br />
the film art, which is still in its infancy,<br />
and help it to mature and develop."<br />
Concluding, he noted that a "serious reevaluation"<br />
of the film industry is occurring,<br />
with new people and ideas emerging, together<br />
with "new thinking not bound by<br />
the habit and traditions of the past."<br />
'Hi' Martin Is Honored<br />
By Michigan NATO<br />
DETROIT—Henry H. 'Hi" Martin, president<br />
of Universal Pictures, was honored<br />
Thursday (12) at the<br />
54th annual convention<br />
of the National<br />
Ass'n of Theatre Owners<br />
of Michigan, of<br />
which Milton H. London<br />
is president. At<br />
Celebrity<br />
the exhibitor organization's<br />
Luncheon, held in the<br />
Gordon Ballroom of<br />
T^oy Hilton Inn,<br />
Henry H. Martin ^^f<br />
Martin was awarded a<br />
plaque and collector's item for his "many<br />
years of distinguished service to the world<br />
of motion picture entertainment and the<br />
many charities with which the industry is<br />
associated."<br />
Carol Channing and Charlton Hestoa<br />
were among the motion picture stars who<br />
participated in the Michigan NATO salute,<br />
along with film company executives from<br />
across the country.<br />
Martin, who had flown from Tokyo for<br />
the occasion, told the assemblage that Japan<br />
is producing "prestigious motion pictures."<br />
Citing the similarity of theatregoing trends<br />
there and in the U.S.. he said long lines of<br />
moviegoers can be seen in Tokyo waiting to<br />
view "the good features." while "poor-rated"<br />
films are met with non-acceptance and a<br />
lack of<br />
attendance.
—<br />
TWEhniETH<br />
CENTURY-F=OX<br />
FILM CORPORATION<br />
PETER S. MYERS<br />
VICE PRESIDENT<br />
DOMESTIC DISTRIBUTION<br />
Dear Exhibitor,<br />
Once again, the smell of money is in the air. And once<br />
again, we're counting on your support— the same kind<br />
of exhibitor energy and ingenuity that marked the Christmas<br />
launching of "The Poseidon Adventure" and made it the<br />
nation's biggest grossing motion picture.<br />
Now, for prime summer playing time, we can do it again<br />
with "Emperor of the North Pole," starring Academy Award<br />
winners Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine in the fight of the<br />
Century. There is the same great smell of money about this<br />
unique, star-bright, action adventure.<br />
Let's kick it off at Easter together—with a great preselling,<br />
hard-selling teaser trailer; a smash behind-thescenes<br />
dociimentary, a teaser one-sheet all capped off<br />
with another massive prime-tim e network and local television<br />
buy to peak this attraction re d-hot for the 4th of July 1<br />
We've got the picture and the campaign—you've got the<br />
theatre and the screen. Let's make box-office history again—<br />
and let's all take a real deep breath of that smell of money!<br />
Enlist for the campaign with your man from Fox,<br />
Best<br />
regards.<br />
PETER S. MYERS<br />
Vice President,<br />
Domestic Distribution<br />
April 16, 1973<br />
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MPAA Registers G, PG and R Ratings<br />
As Protection Against Their Misuse<br />
NEW YORK—The film rating system's<br />
G, PG and R ratings have been registered<br />
with the U.S. Patent Office as certification<br />
marks of the Motion Picture Ass'n of<br />
America, it was announced Monday<br />
by Jack Valenti, MPAA president.<br />
(16)<br />
"Under the terms of the Rating Program,"<br />
Valenti noted, "the G, PG and R<br />
ratings may be employed only in connection<br />
with films which have been submitted<br />
to and so rated by the Code and Rating<br />
Administration. Only the X rating may be<br />
self-applied.<br />
"During the more than four years the<br />
rating system has been in operation, over<br />
2,100 feature-length films have been submitted<br />
to and rated by the Rating Administration.<br />
By comparison, there have<br />
been less than a handful of serious instances<br />
in which G, PG or R ratings have been<br />
applied without authorization or otherwise<br />
misused.<br />
"By registering these three ratings with<br />
the Patent Office as certification marks,<br />
we are fulfilling an obligation not only to<br />
parents, who must be assured that advertised<br />
G, PG and R ratings have actually<br />
been assigned by the Rating Administration,<br />
but also to the numerous producers and<br />
distributors who, of their own volition, honestly<br />
and faithfully comply with the formal<br />
rating procedure.<br />
"The G, PG and R ratings have always<br />
been protected under state laws against 'unfair<br />
competition.' Registration of these<br />
ratings with the Patent Office affords added<br />
protection by making their unauthorized<br />
use, or their misuse, a violation of the<br />
Federal Trademark (Lanham) Act, under<br />
which offending advertising material may,<br />
pursuant to court order, be seized and<br />
destroyed.<br />
"We hope, of course, that it will prove<br />
unnecessary for the Motion Picture Ass'n<br />
to invoke the legal remedies provided by<br />
the Lanham Act. But, in the meantime, we<br />
are able to assure parents, as well as producers<br />
and distributors who voluntarily submit<br />
their films to the Rating Administration,<br />
that the G, PG and R ratings are protected<br />
under both federal and state law."<br />
Whitehead Avoids Query<br />
On Censorship of Films<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Clay T. Whitehead, director,<br />
White House Office of Telecommunications<br />
Policy, which recommends to<br />
the President, who then initiates action by<br />
sending bills to Congress, at a meeting held<br />
here at the Beverly Hilton Hotel offered a<br />
guarded look at his forthcoming report on<br />
cable TV to the Academy of Television<br />
Arts and Sciences. Whitehead's pre-seminar<br />
press conference was called off, he told<br />
officers of the Academy, because he didn't<br />
"' t to conflict with "The Boss," who was<br />
th'':<br />
'"otel<br />
for the John Ford presentation<br />
evening.<br />
The general content of his talk was to the<br />
effect that the White House blue-ribbon<br />
committee making the study for the President<br />
paid close attention to First Amendment<br />
applications for any home system of<br />
this nature. He said that this Bill of Rights<br />
amendment should preclude any governmental<br />
control, but when questioned about<br />
the bill advocating censorship which was<br />
sent to Congress by the President, he<br />
avoided answering.<br />
Other speakers offered Hollywood producers,<br />
promoters and talent<br />
representatives<br />
hope for the future. Richard Lubic, president<br />
of Home Theatres Network, which he<br />
said was financed by the Getty fortunes,<br />
advised theatre owners to stop seeking governmental<br />
control of CATV, stating that<br />
such control would be placed on theatres<br />
as well, if it came.<br />
Dr. Aaron Stern, MPAA ratings director,<br />
saw CATV's potential as greatest in the nontheatrical<br />
field of education and information.<br />
Lubic, however, foresees films running<br />
day-and-date on theatre screens and TV.<br />
Proposed Obscenity Law<br />
Could Darken Theatres<br />
BOSTON—Martin F. Nolan, chief of the<br />
Boston Globe's Washington bureau, in a recent<br />
dispatch, remarked that the Nixon administration<br />
"may be setting out to darken<br />
movie screens across the land with a littlenoticed<br />
anti-obscenity law as part of the<br />
revised criminal codes sent to Congress<br />
March 22."<br />
"Even though the Supreme Court," Nolan<br />
continued, "is still pondering eight new<br />
cases on obscenity, with decisions expected<br />
soon. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst<br />
has proposed a legal definition of obscenity<br />
that could close down movie houses, poetry<br />
classes, museums and needlepoint seminars.<br />
"Under the proposed law, it's anyone who<br />
distributes, displays or exhibits, 'whether for<br />
profit or otherwise':<br />
" 'An explicit representation, or detailed<br />
written or verbal description, of an act of<br />
'<br />
sexual intercourse . . .<br />
"That means the last of 'Last Tango in<br />
Paris' with Marlon Brando and friend.<br />
"... 'or other violence indicating a<br />
'<br />
sado-masochistic sexual relationship . . .<br />
Larry Marks Is Named WB<br />
Music Services Director<br />
BURBANK, CALIF.—Larry Marks has<br />
been named director of music services for<br />
Warner Bros., it was announced by Frank<br />
Wells, president of the company. Marks<br />
succeeds Joe Boyd, who has been devoting<br />
full time to a feature documentary on Jimi<br />
Hendrix which he is producing for Warners.<br />
Marks most recently produced recordings<br />
for Helen Reddy and Jimmy Webb following<br />
four years with A&M Records, where<br />
he served as producer for Lee Michaels, the<br />
Flying Burrito Brothers and Liza Minnelli.<br />
Newman Tens Michigan nato<br />
'Cable TV Threatening<br />
Theatre Film Priority'<br />
DETROIT — Theatres in three towns<br />
where cable pay TV is currently operating<br />
are already encountering difficulties with<br />
motion picture distributors over product<br />
availability.<br />
That information was imparted here<br />
Thursday (12) by Martin H. Newman,<br />
chairman of the pay TV committee of the<br />
National Ass'n of Theatre Owners. He<br />
spoke to exhibitors attending the NATO of<br />
Michigan convention, held at the Troy<br />
Hilton Inn on the fringe of Detroit.<br />
The theatres involved, said Newman, are<br />
located in Olean, N.Y., Pottsville, Pa., and<br />
Reston, Va. "They have a big problem right<br />
in their own back yard, because Warners<br />
are releasing current motion pictures to<br />
cable in their towns. We have been advised<br />
that the exhibitors have been told by both<br />
Warners and Columbia that if they do not<br />
take their pictures immediately they will be<br />
sold to cable."<br />
Indicating that this situation underlined<br />
the urgent need for financial backing of his<br />
committee's work by exhibitors, Newman<br />
asserted: "It is not our aim to stop Pay TV<br />
or cable television, but merely to preserve<br />
motion picture films for viewing in our<br />
theatres<br />
first."<br />
Expressing the view that movies produced<br />
for theatrical exposure cannot have equivalent<br />
viewer impact on cable "because until<br />
they are established by theatrical distribution<br />
the public does not begin to appreciate<br />
them." He cited "The French Connection"<br />
as a case in<br />
point. And he added that "it is<br />
not just cable that is a threat to us, but all<br />
movies on television."<br />
" 'Honor Thy Father,' a book by Gay<br />
Talese, could have been made into a movie<br />
for theatre use, and we might have had<br />
another picture equal to 'Valachi Papers',"<br />
Newman continued. Instead, he said, "it<br />
was thrown away one night recently" as a<br />
network television show, where it garnered<br />
poor reviews.<br />
Based on recent moves by certain cable<br />
operators, he predicted that the medium<br />
would attempt to thrust in two new directions<br />
in the future. He anticipated that<br />
these would be:<br />
1. Switching cable subscribers to an<br />
extra charge arrangement for popular<br />
programs they now receive as part of<br />
their monthly subscription fee.<br />
2. A determined effort to woo advertisers<br />
into substantial use of cable.<br />
The NATO official<br />
also disclosed that his<br />
committee is paving the way for groups of<br />
theatre executives to meet in Washington<br />
with their congressional representatives.<br />
They will present their arguments against<br />
the prior or simultaneous use of theatrical<br />
films by cable.<br />
BOXOFFICE :: April 23, 1973
1776' Selected by DAR<br />
Best All-Family Film<br />
WASHINGTON — Jack L. Warner's<br />
'1776," the musical dramatization of the<br />
drafting and signing of the Declaration of<br />
Independence, was announced Monday (16)<br />
js the film "most outstanding in merit for<br />
ill-family viewing," by the motion picture<br />
;ommittee of the National Society of the<br />
Daughters of the American Revolution. The<br />
;ommittee met here during the annual<br />
::ongress of the DAR, which has 196,000<br />
Tiembers. The award-winning film is a<br />
[Columbia Pictures release.<br />
The Continental Congress Award certifi-<br />
;ate honoring "1776" was presented by<br />
Virs. Charles Todd Lee of Scarsdale, N.Y.,<br />
National DAR motion picture chairman,<br />
It<br />
a dinner for the DAR committee by the<br />
Vlotion Picture Ass'n of America. The<br />
iward was accepted in behalf of Columbia<br />
'ictures and of producer Jack L. Warner<br />
)y Ken Clark, executive vice-president of<br />
he MPAA.<br />
"'1776' came out on top in a real grassoots<br />
vote," said Mrs. Lee. "The choice<br />
eflected the sentiment of our state and<br />
ocal committees on motion pictures across<br />
he country.<br />
"The picture has outstanding merit for<br />
dewing by the entire family because it is<br />
ively, human and marvelously entertainng.<br />
It has merit because it deals with the<br />
erious subject of the birth of our country<br />
n a way that faithfully recreates the history<br />
nade in 1776 at the Second Continental<br />
rongress in Philadelphia. It brings that hisory<br />
alive for us nearly 200 years later.<br />
"The film comes to the screen opporunely,<br />
at a time when we are concentratng<br />
our thoughts on observance of the Bientennial<br />
of the American Revolution in<br />
976."<br />
Z!ontinental Names Lager<br />
Uss't Gen. Sales Mgr.<br />
NEW YORK — Harold Lager has been<br />
ppointed assistant general sales manager<br />
or Continental Distributing, the motion<br />
licture division of the Walter Reade Or-<br />
;anization, Inc., it was announced by Budd<br />
togers, general sales manager.<br />
Prior to joining Continental, Lager was<br />
lietropolitan New York branch manager of<br />
0th Century-Fox. He joined Fox in 1968<br />
s executive assistant to the vice-president<br />
1 charge of domestic sales. Lager has spent<br />
is entire working career in the motion pic-<br />
Lire industry. He joined Columbia Pictures<br />
1 1962 as a film booker, subsequently shiftig<br />
to Rizzoli, Embassy Pictures, and in<br />
967 was appointed assistant general sales<br />
lanager of Allied Artists Pictures.<br />
iOews Declares Dividend<br />
NEW YORK—The board of directors of<br />
oews Corp. has declared a regular quar-<br />
:rly dividend on the company's common<br />
:ock of 29 cents per share, payable May 1,<br />
) shareholders of record April 19.<br />
Burton Robbins Presents Variety Club Sunshine Coach<br />
Burton Robbins, president<br />
of National Screen<br />
Service, presents a Variety<br />
Club Sunshine Coach to<br />
Dr. Margaret Ciannini,<br />
director of the Mental Retardation<br />
Institute of the<br />
New York Medical College.<br />
The Mental Retardation<br />
Institute is the major<br />
"Heart" project of Tent<br />
35, Variety Club of New<br />
York.<br />
Ned Bosnick May Form<br />
Distribution Company<br />
NEW YORK — Ned Bosnick, writer-producer-director<br />
of "To Be Free," announced<br />
that if a proper distribution deal could not<br />
be arranged for the film, he is ready to form<br />
a distribution company when and if the<br />
need arises. He is backed by a syndicate of<br />
Houston investors.<br />
The film, which had its premiere in Pittsburgh,<br />
opens Thursday (26) at New York's<br />
First Avenue Screening Room, a theatre<br />
which shows films that have had little or<br />
no distribution. Bosnick paid high tribute to<br />
the Screening Room's founder, Ralph E.<br />
Donnelly, vice-president of AIT Theatres,<br />
for developing the policy which has given<br />
exposure to films that couldn't afford the<br />
steep advertising and grossing averages of<br />
more conventional houses.<br />
Should he decide to activate a distribution<br />
company, Bosnick said he would approach<br />
other filmmakers whose works had<br />
been shown at the Screening Room for<br />
potential acquisition of their films. Meanwhile,<br />
Bosnick's publicity representative, the<br />
Bernard Lewis Co. in New York, will handle<br />
all matters. Bosnick is now in Houston preparing<br />
another production.<br />
'This Is Cinerama' Opens<br />
In Detroit and Toronto<br />
NEW YORK — "This Is<br />
Cinerama," the<br />
first Cinerama film, opened Wednesday<br />
(18) at the Northland Theatre in Detroit<br />
and the Glendale Theatre in Toronto. The<br />
reissued motion picture which revolutionized<br />
the entertainment industry when it<br />
premiered over 20 years ago has had a<br />
highly successful Los Angeles run and recently<br />
opened in Boston. It returns to New<br />
York City May 1 1 at the Ziegfeld Theatre.<br />
For the 1973 rerelease of "This Is Cinerama,"<br />
a single projection system has been<br />
developed that retains the impact of Cinerama<br />
while blending the three original<br />
negatives into one image. The Lowell<br />
Thomas and Merian C. Cooper presentation<br />
is distributed by Cinerama Releasing.<br />
5^1<br />
rv<br />
UJA Will Honor Yablans<br />
For Humanitarian Service<br />
NEW YORK — Frank Yablans will<br />
be<br />
honored for his outstanding record of humanitarian<br />
service at a luncheon tendered<br />
by the Entertainment and Communication<br />
Division in behalf of the United Jewish<br />
Appeal Monday, June 5, at 12 noon, at the<br />
New York Hilton Hotel. The announcement<br />
was made by chairmen Richard N. Goldstein<br />
and Seymour H. Malamed.<br />
Yablans, although his schedule is a taxing<br />
one, serves as a member of the board of directors<br />
of the Will Rogers Hospital and the<br />
Motion Picture Ass'n of America, and is a<br />
director of the Boys Clubs of America. In<br />
addition, he holds the position of chairman<br />
of the Entertainment Division of the Federation<br />
of Jewish Philanthropies, and is a<br />
trustee on the American Film Institute. His<br />
efforts have been recognized by many important<br />
organizations. He is the recipient of<br />
the 1972 William J. German Human Relations<br />
Award tendered by the Entertainment<br />
and Communication Division of the<br />
American Jewish Committee and was honored<br />
by the Variety Club of Southern California<br />
Tent 25 luncheon. He was named<br />
an international ambassador of Variety<br />
Clubs International following his outstanding<br />
work as co-chairman of Variety's 45th<br />
annual convention, and was awarded a<br />
special plaque citing his "dedicated efforts<br />
in behalf of Variety Clubs' local and worldwide<br />
charities devoted to aiding needy children."<br />
Elkins, Newsweek to Film<br />
'Wonders of Man' Series<br />
NEW YORK—A series of drama-documentaries<br />
based on Newsweek Books' successful<br />
"Wonders of Man" series are being<br />
developed by Elkins Productions of Canada<br />
and Newsweek, Inc., it was announced by<br />
Hillard Elkins, president of the Torontobased<br />
Elkins Productions of Canada, S.<br />
Arthur Dembner, president of Newsweek<br />
Books, and Lee Weston, general manager<br />
of Newsweek broadcast division.<br />
serve<br />
Elkins will<br />
as executive producer on the project.<br />
OXOFFICE :: April 23, 1973
Producer Is Exuberant<br />
Over Promotion Tour<br />
By JOHN COCCHI<br />
NEW YORK—Young Graham Faulkner<br />
was in an exuberant state as he spoke of his<br />
first tour for his first film, in which he stars.<br />
He plays Francis of Assisi in Franco 2^ffirelli's<br />
"Brother Sun, Sister Moon," which<br />
Paramount is releasing. After visiting San<br />
Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit and Dallas<br />
with co-star Judi Bowker, the British-born<br />
actor was happy to be returning home but<br />
as enthused about the places he'd been.<br />
Zeffirelli had also participated in the tour.<br />
Before arriving in London, Faulkner<br />
stopped off in Atlanta and Washington,<br />
D.C. to promote the film. He mentioned<br />
that he originally was interviewed for the<br />
role of one of the disciples, but wound up<br />
with the lead. The film's religious theme<br />
has appeal, he feels, because of its very<br />
pronounced difference from the permissive<br />
fare now being released. There is a nude<br />
scene, however, but it reflects Francis' desire<br />
to forsake all worldly possessions for a<br />
life of poverty and devotion to God and<br />
fellow man. Faulkner said this scene was<br />
the hardest to shoot, mainly because the<br />
sun was constantly disappearing.<br />
Zeffirelli spent nine months in shooting<br />
the film on location in Italy, since each season<br />
was important to the story. The bit<br />
actors had to learn English for their roles,<br />
although the film was almost entirely post<br />
dubbed. The Italian version was first into<br />
release in Europe, Faulkner noted.<br />
The young actor voiced his pleasure at<br />
working with Sir Alec Guinness as the Pope,<br />
although Sir Alec only had five days of<br />
work on the film. After a severe auto accident,<br />
Zeffirelli had decided not to use The<br />
Beatles in the leads but to shoot a more<br />
straightforward story. Donovan was in on<br />
the film from that point, although he was<br />
on the set some three months after shooting<br />
started in order to compose his songs and<br />
the score.<br />
Faulkner said that his religious outlook<br />
hadn't changed, but that he has a greater<br />
insight into religion as a result of working<br />
in the film. An admitted film buff, Faulkner<br />
said he admired the works of Kazan and<br />
Kurosawa. He hopes to continue working<br />
on the stage and in films.<br />
"Brother Sun, Sister Moon" had its New<br />
York premiere on Sunday (8) and was presented<br />
in London Wednesday (11) at a<br />
special performance for the Duke of Gloucester.<br />
John W. Findlater to Japan<br />
For Talks on Disco-Vision<br />
UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIF.—John W.<br />
Findlater, MCA vice-president and president<br />
of MCA Disco-Vision, Inc., left for<br />
Japan to join Lew R. Wasserman, president<br />
of MCA, Inc., who is presently in Japan.<br />
While in Japan, at the invitation of several<br />
major electronics manufacturing companies,<br />
Findlater will attend a series of<br />
meetings with executives of Mitsubishi Elec-<br />
trie Corp., and other Japanese companies<br />
whose representatives attended MCA's public<br />
and press demonstration of its Disco-<br />
Vision video disc system at Universal<br />
Studios last December.<br />
The Disco-Vision meetings in Tokyo,<br />
Osaka, Kyoto and Nara are for the purpose<br />
of discussing inquiries that MCA has received<br />
regarding possible joint venture arrangements,<br />
licensing or other areas pertaining<br />
to the manufacturing, marketing and<br />
distribution of Disco-Vision players developed<br />
by MCA's research and development<br />
laboratories.<br />
MCA® Disco-VisionTM "hardware" units<br />
resemble conventional record players, but<br />
employ a low-powered laser beam light<br />
source rather than a pressure stylus to play<br />
back video discs on standard home television<br />
receivers.<br />
'Airport' to Be Premiered<br />
Over ABC-TV Network<br />
NEW YORK—"Airport," one of the biggest<br />
boxoffice hits in movie history, will<br />
premiere on the ABC-TV network during<br />
the 1973-74 season, it was announced by<br />
Martin Starger, president of ABC Entertainment.<br />
The winner of ten Academy<br />
Awards, including one for Helen Hayes as<br />
Best Supporting Actress, the Ross Hunter<br />
production for Universal was written for the<br />
screen and directed by George Seaton, from<br />
Arthur Hailey's best selling novel.<br />
Released in 1970, "Airport" stars Burt<br />
Lancaster and Dean Martin in the story of<br />
an airport locked in by a blizzard and a<br />
flight menaced by a bomber. Also starring<br />
are Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, Van<br />
Heflin, Maureen Stapleton, George Kennedy,<br />
Barry Nelson, Dana Wynter, Lloyd<br />
Nolan, Barbara Hale, Gary Collins and<br />
Jessie Royce Landis.<br />
'Superchick' to Premiere<br />
In Six Cities June 6<br />
HOLLYWOOD — Newton P. Jacobs,<br />
president of Crown International Pictures,<br />
announces that his company's release<br />
"Sup)erchick" will premiere simultaneously<br />
in six cities in the United States the week<br />
of June 6. Cities are Denver, Salt Lake City,<br />
Houston, San Francisco, Boston and Dallas.<br />
The film has been set and firmed to date<br />
in 1463 situations. All openings will be<br />
backed with "Crownmanship '73" campaigns<br />
including personal appearances.<br />
John Burrows produced, Ed Forsyth directed,<br />
Marilyn Tenser was executive producer,<br />
and Joyce Jillson stars.<br />
Vagar Films Announces<br />
May and June Releases<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Ward Pennington, general<br />
sales manager of Eric Biedermann's<br />
Vagar Films, announces two features for<br />
May-June release. For May, "The Surabaya<br />
Conspiracy" starring Mike Preston, Barbara<br />
Bouchet, Michael Rennie and Richard<br />
Jaeckel. For June, "Game of Murder" starring<br />
Sue Lyon, Fernando Rey and Gloria<br />
Grahame.<br />
Sidney Glazier Will Speak<br />
In China on Filmmaking<br />
NEW YORK—Academy Award-winning<br />
film producer Sidney Glazier has been invited<br />
by the People's Republic of China to<br />
come to Peking in June to discuss movies<br />
and television film projects for America and<br />
the western world. Glazier is the first American<br />
filmmaker to go to the People's Republic<br />
of China. He will spend four weeks<br />
in the capital city and other film centers of<br />
that country.<br />
Accompanying him on the trip as adviser<br />
will be Han Suyin, the noted authoress<br />
who has written novels and historical books<br />
on China. Dr. Han, who is also a physician,<br />
had three novels purchased for filmmaking,<br />
and she also wrote the screenplay for Andre<br />
Malraux's "Man's Fate," a story of the<br />
Chinese Revolution. She is a regular visitor<br />
to China, where she was born and educated.<br />
Glazier, one of America's leading independent<br />
film producers, will be meeting with<br />
film directors, writers, and artists of China<br />
to exchange information and ideas. He will<br />
also explore the possibilities of co-producing,<br />
with the Chinese film industry, feature<br />
films as well as a special series of unusual<br />
television films. These are to be made on a<br />
people-to-people basis on actual life events<br />
in the contemporary world of the People's<br />
Republic of China.<br />
Glazier first won recognition in films by<br />
winning the Academy Award for his production<br />
of "The Eleanor Roosevelt Story."<br />
His film, "The Producers," won an Academy<br />
Award for the best original screenplay.<br />
Among his other films, many of which won<br />
Academy Award nominations, were "First<br />
Love," "The Twelve Chairs," "Quackser<br />
Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx," "The<br />
Night Visitor," "The Bird With the Crystal<br />
Plumage," "Glen and Randa" and "Take<br />
the Money and Run."<br />
Glazier is currently producing a movie<br />
of the Brian Moore best-selling novel,<br />
"Catholics," starring Trevor Howard, which<br />
is being filmed on location in Ireland.<br />
'Lost Horizon' to Receive<br />
Big NBC-TV Promotion<br />
NEW YORK—Ross Hunter's musical<br />
version of "Lost Horizon" will receive one<br />
of the largest national promotions in television<br />
history the week of April 23 as<br />
NBC-TV's top four daytime shows spotlight<br />
the film. News of the Columbia Pictures<br />
release, aimed at the big Easter holidays<br />
market, will be tied in with the<br />
awarding of guest tickets to contestants on<br />
"Baffle," "Hollywood Squares," "Who,<br />
What & Where" and "Three on a Match."<br />
The 20 on-the-air promotions, together<br />
with visual and audio credits, will reach a<br />
total of 125 million viewers during the<br />
weekday (23-27) period.<br />
"Lost Horizon" was directed by Charles<br />
Jarrott, with songs by Burt Bacharach and<br />
Hal David. Starring are Peter Finch, Liv<br />
UUmann, Sally Kellerman, George Kennedy,<br />
Michael York, Olivia Hussey, Bobby Van,<br />
James Shigeta, Charles Boyer and John<br />
Gielgud.<br />
8 BOXOFFICE :: April 23, 1973
—<br />
3 New Warner Releases,<br />
1 Reissue Pull Big Grosses<br />
BURBANK, CALIF. — Three new Warier<br />
Bros, releases and one reissue are piling<br />
ip extraordinary grosses coast-to-coast and<br />
n select situations, according to Leo Greenield,<br />
vice-president and general sales maniger.<br />
In its opening day in New York City and<br />
^os Angeles, Greenfield reported, "Scare-<br />
;row" did smash business at Cinema One,<br />
ind at the Bruin Theatre, Los Angeles. This<br />
s the Jerry Schatzberg film, produced by<br />
Robert M. Sherman, and starring Gene<br />
lackman and Al Pacino.<br />
With openings in 50 cities, "Class of '44"<br />
s matching the impressive kind of business<br />
lone by its predecessor, "Summer of '42,"<br />
tne of Warners' all-time top grossers. "In<br />
act," Greenfield said, "this picture is topling<br />
'Summer of '42' in at least two spots<br />
Jetroit and Washington, D.C." Produced<br />
nd directed by Paul Bogart with Harry<br />
Leller as executive producer, "Class of '44"<br />
tars Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser and Oliver<br />
l)onant.<br />
At the same time, the Warner sales chief<br />
ited that "Camelot" on its first reissue enlagements<br />
at the Fox Wilshire, Los Ancles;<br />
the Alhambra, San Francisco, and the<br />
^ine Dome, Orange, scored records.<br />
Also, Greenfield declared that Warners<br />
i doing blockbuster business in about 50<br />
ituations with "5 Fingers of Death," the<br />
lun Run Shaw action drama about Chinese<br />
lartial<br />
arts.<br />
Propose 'Sleuth/ 'Hot Rock'<br />
"or Edgar Allan Poe Award<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Two 20th Century-Fox<br />
sleases, "The Hot Rock" and "Sleuth,"<br />
ave been nominated for the Edgar Allan<br />
'oe award as the best screenplay of 1972<br />
1 the mystery field. The awards will be<br />
lade May 4 at the Essex House in New<br />
'ork.<br />
"The Hot Rock," a comedy-thriller staring<br />
Robert Redford, George Segal and<br />
lero Mostel, was produced by Hal Landers<br />
nd Bobby Roberts and directed by Peter<br />
'ates.<br />
"Sleuth," the highly acclaimed Palomar<br />
ictures, Ltd., production, starring Sir<br />
.aurence Olivier and Michael Caine, was<br />
reduced by Morton Gottlieb and directed<br />
y Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with Edgar J.<br />
cherick serving as executive producer.<br />
JSIA Names Robert Scott<br />
Assistant Film Director<br />
WASHINGTON—James Keogh, director<br />
f the United States Information Agency,<br />
amed Robert S. Scott, a veteran of 35<br />
ears in the audio-visual and entertainment<br />
lelds, to be assistant director for motion<br />
ictures and television. In this capacity, he<br />
'ill head the agency's motion picture and<br />
;levision service which, through film and<br />
jlevision products, seeks to provide foreign<br />
udiences with the visual experience with<br />
'hich they can form their images of the<br />
United States in true context and perspective.<br />
Scott, 56, is chairman of the board of<br />
governors and past president of the Information<br />
Film Producers of America. He<br />
brings to USIA a wide experience as a<br />
writer, actor, manager and producer of<br />
films for both government and private industry.<br />
Columbia to Distribute<br />
'Stone Killer' Worldwide<br />
NEW YORK — Columbia Pictures<br />
and<br />
Dino De Laurentiis have concluded an arrangement<br />
for Columbia to distribute in<br />
many parts of the world, "The Stone<br />
Killer," being produced and directed by<br />
Michael Winner, starring Charles Bronson.<br />
Currently in production in Los Angeles,<br />
with one week of filming scheduled for New<br />
York, "The Stone Killer," which co-stars<br />
Martin Balsam, was written for the screen<br />
by Gerald Wilson from a novel by John<br />
Gardner.<br />
The film revolves around a tough police<br />
detective,<br />
played by Bronson, with crusader<br />
dedication, who uses his own irregular<br />
methods to wage a one-man battle against<br />
crime.<br />
ABC Gets Five-Year Pact<br />
To Televise Oscar Awards<br />
HOLLYWOOD — The Academy Awards<br />
ceremonies will be presented exclusively on<br />
the ABC Television Network for five consecutive<br />
years beginning in 1976, it was announced<br />
jointly by Martin Starger, president<br />
of ABC Entertainment, and Daniel Taradash,<br />
president of the Academy of Motion<br />
Picture Arts and Sciences.<br />
One of the most popular television programs<br />
each year, the Academy Awards were<br />
presented by ABC for ten consecutive years<br />
(1961-70) and have been a major television<br />
attraction for 21 years.<br />
Zanuck, Brown, Universal<br />
Acquire 'Digger's Game'<br />
NEW YORK—Richard D. Zanuck and<br />
David Brown, in association with Universal<br />
Pictures, have acquired the motion picture<br />
rights to "The Digger's Game," new best<br />
selling novel by George V. Higgins.<br />
The highly acclaimed novel, which made<br />
its first appearance on The New York<br />
Times best-seller list Sunday (15), is a fast<br />
moving portrait of the world of crime set<br />
in a Boston background.<br />
Motown Records to Issue<br />
Album From 'The Mack'<br />
NEW YORK—The soundtrack album<br />
from Cinerama Releasing's film "The Mack"<br />
has been released by Motown Records.<br />
Music for "The Mack" was composed<br />
and conducted by Willie Hutch, Motown<br />
Records recording artist and composer of<br />
such hits as "California My Way" and<br />
"Learn to Fly." Included on the full soundtrack<br />
album are the two songs from the<br />
top-selling single, "I Choose You" b/w<br />
"Brother's Gonna Work It Out."<br />
CALENDAR SE EVENTS<br />
APRIL
.<br />
'Cuckoo's Nesl' to Be<br />
Fantasy's Next Film<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Saul Zaentz, Fantasy<br />
Productions board chairman, whose feature<br />
film "Payday" is being released by Cinerama,<br />
said the Rip Torn feature will be<br />
followed by the Ken Kesey novel, "One<br />
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which has<br />
scored bookstand sales of over 4,000,000<br />
copies to date. The firm also has the third<br />
largest independent U.S. record company.<br />
Fantasy Records, based in Berkeley,<br />
Calif., in connection with openings of "Payday"<br />
in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco<br />
and Chicago, supplemented the Cinerama<br />
promotions for the opening of the<br />
film with its own promotion department,<br />
involving record retailers, wholesalers and<br />
disc jockeys. In both Los Angeles and San<br />
Francisco, Zaentz said, special midnight<br />
screening were held under the sponsorship<br />
of underground FM stations to make the<br />
film into a subject of discussion on and<br />
off the air in that section of the community.<br />
In both cities, Don Carpenter and Ralph<br />
J. Gleason, vice-president, were interviewed<br />
on TV.<br />
Presaging a closer tie-up between the<br />
independent record companies, approximating<br />
the movements of Warner Bros.,<br />
MCA, MGM and the other majors heavily<br />
involved in the record business, Zaentz sees<br />
the impact of recordings prereleased to the<br />
market as a promotion for forthcoming<br />
films, on the same level as that of a book<br />
or magazine article, similar to those in the<br />
past which appeared in the Saturday Evening<br />
Post, Life, Collier's and other national<br />
publications.<br />
Gleason told <strong>Boxoffice</strong> that Fantasy sent<br />
out news releases concerning the project<br />
to their own regular press lists, as differentiated<br />
from the national and local<br />
motion<br />
picture press releases.<br />
In addition to producing feature films,<br />
Fantasy has been involved in movie scores<br />
and other film activities. The firm did the<br />
score for "Fritz the Cat" and also issued<br />
an LP of the music. The company also did<br />
the soundtrack for "Black Girl." On this,<br />
Gleason noted, they sent out an LP to<br />
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3,000 Stations and also released a specific<br />
promotional single 45rpm disc to all the<br />
rhythm-and-blues disc jockeys at all the<br />
black audience stations in the country.<br />
The soundtrack to an animated film,<br />
"Heavy Traffic," the second feature of<br />
Steve Krantz and Ralph Bakshi, is being<br />
scored by Ray Shanklin and Ed Bogas, who<br />
did "Fritz the Cat." It will be exploited in<br />
the same way.<br />
Zaentz said he is co-producing and Fantasy<br />
is fully financing the Kesey film, which<br />
will be co-produced with Kirk Douglas'<br />
Bryna Co., which holds all the screen rights.<br />
Michael Douglas also is a participant.<br />
Robert Carpenter Appointed<br />
Univ. Gen. Sales Mgr.<br />
NEW YORK—Robert L. Carpenter has<br />
been named general sales manager of Universal<br />
Pictures, effective<br />
Monday (16), it<br />
was announced by<br />
Henry H. Martin,<br />
president of Universal<br />
Pictures.<br />
Carpenter assumes<br />
the general sales manager<br />
duties from Martin<br />
who became president<br />
of the company<br />
„ , , „ January 1. Martin<br />
Robert L. Carpenter succeeded Milton R.<br />
Rackmil who became president emeritus.<br />
Carpenter was appointed assistant to the<br />
general sales manager in December 1971,<br />
moving to New York from Los Angeles<br />
where he had been branch manager for<br />
eight years. Prior to that. Carpenter was<br />
from 1958 to 1963, Memphis sales manager<br />
for Universal. He joined the company in<br />
1949 as a booker in the Memphis exchange,<br />
where he was promoted to salesman in 1952<br />
and branch manager in 1957.<br />
AIP Acquires Distribution<br />
Of Merrick's 'Manson'<br />
HOLLYWOOD—American International<br />
has acquired distribution of "Manson," Merrick<br />
International Pictures' factual footage<br />
showing Charles Manson and his "family"<br />
before and after the notorious Tate-Labianca<br />
murders. The shocking feature-length<br />
expose reveals activities of the killers and<br />
their followers that have never before been<br />
shown. National release date is May 18.<br />
Laurence Merrick produced and directed<br />
"Manson," which was nominated for an<br />
Academy Award as Best Documentary Feature.<br />
It was the winner in this classification<br />
at the latest Venice Film Festival and<br />
the Nyon, Switzerland, Film Festival.<br />
Intimate scenes or interviews include<br />
those with Manson himself, Susan Atkins,<br />
Patricia Krenwinkel, Leslie Van Houten<br />
and other "family" members. Former deputy<br />
district attorney Vincent Bugliosi discloses<br />
secrets guarded by the "family."<br />
Western Mislabled Musical<br />
"High Plains Drifter" (Univ), reviewed<br />
in this issue, incorrectly is called a musical<br />
instead of a western. The printers inadvertently<br />
put in the wrong line.<br />
AFI Announces Awards<br />
To 14 Filmmakers<br />
WASHINGTON — Fourteen<br />
filmmakers<br />
have received awards totaling more than<br />
$100,000 to make new films in the latest<br />
cycle of Independent Filmmaker Awards<br />
announced Monday (16) by AFI director<br />
George Stevens jr. A review committee<br />
composed of Constance Beeson, Jordan Belson,<br />
Jan Kadar and Donn Pennebaker made<br />
final selections from among the 396 applicants,<br />
with additional help from Irvin<br />
Kershner. The committee met at AFI's Center<br />
for Advanced Film Studies March 26-30.<br />
The new awards range from $2,000 to<br />
$10,000. Recipients are:<br />
Stephen Beck, 23, Berkeley, to make an experimental<br />
film, "Cycles," Roberta Cantow, 25, New York, to<br />
direct "Holy Boy With Life," a dramatic film; Paul<br />
Cerny, 27, Los Angeles, to direct "The Homecoming<br />
(Come Back Soldier)," a dramatic film; Henry Cheharbakhshi,<br />
29, Chicago, for a documentary, "Janice;"<br />
Vincent Collins, 28, San Francisco, to make an animated<br />
film, "Stolking the Essence of Animation;"<br />
Tony Conrad, 33, New York, for "Articulation of<br />
Boolean Algebra for Film Opticals," an experimental<br />
film; Deborah Dickson, 27, New York, to make "Coming<br />
of Age: Portrait of a High School Girl," a documentary;<br />
Elliott Erwitt, 44, New York, for a documentary,<br />
"Old Time Fiddler's Convention;" Linda<br />
Feferman, 23, New York, to make a documentary,<br />
"A Film About Menstruation."<br />
James Johnson, 23, Areata, Calif., to make "Transman,"<br />
an experimental film; Standish Lawder, 37,<br />
New Haven Conn., to make "Experimental Stereoscopic<br />
Cinematography," an experimental film; Frank<br />
P. Mouris, 28, islew York, to do "S. S. Androgyne,"<br />
an animated documentary; Mark Obenhaus, 27, also<br />
of New York, to direct 'Mumbles End," a dramatic<br />
film, and Claudia Weill, 27, New York, to make "An<br />
American Jew or That Nice Girl From Scarsdale," a<br />
dramatic film.<br />
One hundred filmmakers have now received<br />
AFI Independent Filmmaker Awards<br />
totaling more than $670,000; of these 52<br />
films have been completed to date. The Independent<br />
Filmmaker Award program is<br />
funded by the National Endowment for the<br />
Arts. In addition to NEA support, AFI received<br />
a $2,000 grant from the Peg Santvoord<br />
Foundation, which the Institute designated<br />
as part of Mark Obenhaus' award.<br />
The next cycle of awards will be made in<br />
October; the deadline for applications is<br />
July 15. All inquiries should be addressed<br />
to the Independent Filmmaker Program, the<br />
American Film Institute, 501 Doheny Road,<br />
Beverly Hills, Calif., 90210.<br />
John J. Nolan Elected V-P<br />
By lATSE Executive Board<br />
NEW YORK—John J.<br />
Nolan was unanimously<br />
elected vice-president by the general<br />
executive board of the International Alliance<br />
of Theatrical Stage Employees & Moving<br />
Picture Machine Operators of the U.S.<br />
and Canada at its meeting in Las Vegas,<br />
Nev., Monday (9) through Friday (13). This<br />
election was held to fill the vacancy created<br />
by the death of international vice-president<br />
John Horohan and Nolan's appointment is<br />
effective<br />
immediately.<br />
A member of Stage Employees Local 1,<br />
New York, since January 1948, Nolan has<br />
served as a trustee and as a vice-president<br />
of the local. He also held the office of<br />
president of Local 1 from May 1967 until<br />
May 1972.<br />
In other official capacities, Nolan was<br />
elected in 1967 to the executive legislative<br />
committee of the lATSE 1 0th District and<br />
was elected a trustee of the New York City<br />
Central Labor Coimcil in 1971.<br />
10 BOXOFFICE :: April 23, 1973
1 Bel-Air.<br />
.<br />
president<br />
Lrthur Freed, Noted Lyricist<br />
)f Musical Films, Is Dead<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Arthur Freed, 78, lyrist<br />
pioneer of Hollywood musical films,<br />
ed of cancer Thursday (12) at his home<br />
Born in Charleston, S.C., Sept.<br />
1894, he became a songplugger after<br />
aduating from Exeter Academy in 1914.<br />
e was a member of the Marx Brothers<br />
:t during 1916 and joined Gus Edwards<br />
1 1917.<br />
In 1921 he and Nacio Herb Brown<br />
)rmed a songwriting team in Hollywood<br />
id became the first such team signed as<br />
ingwriters by a major studio when they<br />
iined MGM. Their "Broadway Melody of<br />
?29"' was among many of their musical<br />
its. Songs included "Wedding of the<br />
ainted Doll," "You Were Meant for Me,"<br />
iinging in the Rain," "You Are My Lucky<br />
tar" and "Pagan Love Song."<br />
Starting as a motion picture producer<br />
ith "Babes in Arms" in 1939, later his<br />
ther musical films were "Meet Me in St.<br />
ouis," "Singin" in the Rain," "Gigi," "On<br />
le Town" and "Easter Parade."<br />
"An American in Paris," which Freed<br />
reduced in 1951, won eight Academy<br />
wards, including the best film Oscar. He<br />
so was presented an honorary Oscar in<br />
968, the French Legion of Honor in 1953<br />
nd the Milestone Award in 1964. He was<br />
resident of the Academy of Motion Picire<br />
Arts and Sciences 1963-67 and was<br />
resident of the Screen Producers Guild.<br />
Freed leaves his wife Rene, a daughter,<br />
Irs. Marvin Salzman. and two grandchilren.<br />
Funeral services were private.<br />
Itramer Succeeds Munilla<br />
n Cinema Int'l Position<br />
LONDON—Hugo Stramer has succeeded<br />
imael Munilla, who resigned as general<br />
lanager of Cinema International Corp. in<br />
LTgentina. it has been announced by comany<br />
heads Arthur Abeles and Henri Mihaud.<br />
As general manager in Argentina,<br />
tramer also will supervise Uruguay and<br />
araguay.<br />
Stramer has submitted his resignation to<br />
le Motion Picture Export Ass'n of<br />
imerica, for which he had been managing<br />
irector of Ampeca and Afram over the<br />
ast year and a half, having offices in<br />
.ondon.<br />
^GM Music Publishing Unit<br />
leaded by Murray Spom<br />
CULVER CITY, CALIF.—James T. Aurey,<br />
jr, president and chief executive offier<br />
of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, announced<br />
lie appointment of Murray Spom as viceiresident<br />
and general manager of the comlany's<br />
music publishing division.<br />
The appointment, Aubrey said, is the first<br />
tep in restructuring Robbins Music Corp..<br />
.eo Feist, Inc., Miller Music Corp., and<br />
lastings Music Corp., MGM's publishing<br />
ompanies, with a view toward enhancing<br />
heir position of preeminence in the music<br />
lublishing<br />
field.<br />
MOTION PICTURES RATED<br />
BY THE CODE & RATING<br />
ADMINISTRATION<br />
The following feature-length<br />
Title<br />
Bang the<br />
Distributor<br />
Drum Slowly (Paramount)<br />
Book of Numbers (Avco Embassy)<br />
The Game of Murder (Vagar)<br />
Ground Zero (Robert Sheble)<br />
Hannah, Queen of the<br />
Vampires (*) (Atlas)<br />
Let the Good Times Roll (Columbia)<br />
Ludwig (**) (MGM)<br />
Massage Parlor '73<br />
Santee (Crown)<br />
Smack (Hallmark)<br />
(Brian)<br />
The Surabaya Conspiracy (Vagar)<br />
Rating<br />
PG<br />
m<br />
m<br />
PG<br />
(*) Supersedes R rating listed in Bulletin No. 221.<br />
(**) Supersedes R rating listed in Bulletin No. 226.<br />
Charles Powell Promoted<br />
To MGM V-P, Advertising<br />
NEW YORK<br />
been promoted to<br />
PG<br />
PG<br />
PG<br />
®<br />
PG<br />
motion pictures<br />
have been reviewed and rated by the<br />
Code and Rating Administration pursuant<br />
to the Motion Picture Code and Rating Program.<br />
Charles M. Powell has<br />
MGM division viceof<br />
advertis-<br />
^ll^^^^^<br />
ing, publicity and ex-<br />
^H|^H||^^^ ploitation, it was an-<br />
^r^^^^^M nounced by Douglas<br />
^„j^^^|^^»<br />
Netter, executive vice-<br />
% ^^y^y president.<br />
Powell has been director<br />
of advertising,<br />
publicity and exploitation<br />
for the company<br />
since joining it<br />
in March 1972. Prior<br />
Charles M. Powell<br />
to that, from 1969, he<br />
was director of advertising and publicity<br />
for Frankovich Productions.<br />
Powell joined Columbia Pictures in 1959,<br />
where he served as a key publicity and<br />
exploitation executive. He also has been<br />
a publicity executive for Paramount Pictures<br />
and NBC.<br />
'Slaughter' Sequel Retitled<br />
"Slaughter's Big Rip-Off" is the release<br />
title for American International's new contemporary<br />
action drama in which Jim<br />
Brown plays Slaughter. The picture was<br />
filmed under the temporary title "Slaughter<br />
11" as the sequel to last year's highly successful<br />
'Slaughter." Starring with Brown in<br />
this latest version are Ed McMahon, Brock<br />
Peters, Don Stroud. Gloria Hendry, Richard<br />
Williams and Art Metrano. It was produced<br />
by Monroe Sachson and directed by Gordon<br />
Douglas. Don Williams was the associate<br />
producer, and the script was by Charles<br />
Johnson. National release is July 3.<br />
AFI/Kent School to Offer<br />
4th Summer Film Course<br />
KENT, CONN.—For the fourth consecutive<br />
year, the American Film Institute<br />
will co-sponsor with the Kent School a<br />
15-day, intensive summer institute for film<br />
educators at the Kent School in Connecticut.<br />
The course runs August 11-26 and is designed<br />
for educators on all grade levels<br />
interested in film. The course is made possible<br />
by a grant from the National Endowment<br />
for the Arts.<br />
Literary critic Edmund Fuller (The Wall<br />
Street Journal), author G. William Jones<br />
(Landing Rightside Up in TV and Film),<br />
Professors Frank Burke (University of Kentucky)<br />
and Dirk Duyk (Trinity College)<br />
will be on the faculty for the course. Three<br />
areas of scholarship will be covered in more<br />
than 180 classroom hours: (1) film history<br />
and criticism, (2) film production, and (3)<br />
film study in the school.<br />
Film professionals also will participate as<br />
guest lecturers for the program. In past<br />
years, guests have included Mike Nichols,<br />
William Friedkin, Fredric March, Alan Arkin,<br />
Andrew Sarris, Arthur Penn, Richard<br />
Schickel and Teresa Wright.<br />
The Kent School is located in the Berkshire<br />
Mountains in Connecticut near the<br />
New York State line. Tuition for the course<br />
is $300, including living accommodations,<br />
meals and laboratory expenses. Credit is<br />
available through Trinity College, Hartford.<br />
Educators interested in further details<br />
should contact Tom Andrews, director,<br />
Kent/AFI Summer Film Institute, the Kent<br />
School, Kent, Conn.<br />
Two NGP Fihns Charted<br />
For NY Flagship Openings<br />
NEW YORK—"Extreme Close-Up" and<br />
"Fists of Fury." two films recently acquired<br />
for distribution by National General Pictures,<br />
will open in New York at Blue Ribbon<br />
Flagships. "Extreme Close-Up," written<br />
by Michael Crichton, the best-selling<br />
author of "The Andromeda Strain" and<br />
"Terminal Man" and dealing with the invasion<br />
of personal privacy, opens May 2.<br />
It will be followed on May 9 by "Fists of<br />
Fury," most successful Chinese-made Kung-<br />
Fu adventure film, which stars Americanborn<br />
Bruce Lee, acknowledged as Asia's<br />
first superstar. "Fury" also will play at<br />
Broadway's newest theatre, the National.<br />
British Variety Tent Gets<br />
$15,000 From Klein Estate<br />
LONDON—Charities of Variety Tent 36<br />
of Great Britain will receive $15,000 from<br />
the estate of the late A. J. (Jack) Klein,<br />
pioneer Max Factor, Ltd., executive and for<br />
many years head of the cosmetic firm's<br />
operations in England. An active member<br />
of the London Variety tent, ill health forced<br />
his business retirement in early 1972, and<br />
he died late last year. Klein was a frequent<br />
Hollywood visitor with a large circle of<br />
friends on the West Coast, and an intimate<br />
of founding members of the Factor company.<br />
iOXOFHCE :: April 23, 1973 11
'^Mfwood ^cfmt<br />
Elaine May to Produce, Direct<br />
Own Screenplay for Para.<br />
Elaine May will produce and direct her<br />
own original screenplay entitled "Mikey and<br />
Nicky" for Paramount Pictures. The picture<br />
will star Peter Falk and John Cassavetes,<br />
in the title roles. It is the story of the relationship<br />
of two men in the underworld,<br />
one the intended victim of a "hit," who is<br />
aware that he is slated to die, and the other,<br />
a trusted friend, who may or may not be<br />
able to help him. Filming is scheduled to<br />
start in June, on locations in Philadelphia<br />
. . . Beginning in May, Martin Ransohoff<br />
will produce, with Philip Kaufman directing,<br />
the best-seller by James Houston "The<br />
White Dawn," for Paramount Pictures. The<br />
screenplay has been completed in collaboration<br />
by Ransohoff, Houston and Thomas<br />
Rickman. Warren Oates and Lou Gossett<br />
have been signed to star in the film, with the<br />
entire shooting to be done on location in the<br />
Arctic. The picture is being co-financed by<br />
Paramount and Film Funding Corp. of<br />
Beverly Hills . . . Paul Newman will star in<br />
"The Eiger Sanction," based upon the Trevanian<br />
novel. Filming will take place on<br />
extensive European locations, including the<br />
Eiger Mountain in Switzerland. A Richard<br />
D. Zanuck/ David Brown and Newman/<br />
Foreman production for Universal Pictures,<br />
Newman will portray a fictional super antihero<br />
named Jonathan Hemlock. Zanuck and<br />
Brown will be executive producers and John<br />
Foreman will produce. Newman and Foreman<br />
will soon travel to London to meet<br />
with Trevanian . . . American International<br />
concluded an agreement with Max J. Rosenberg<br />
and Milton Subotsky of Amicus Productions<br />
to produce "The Revenge of Dr.<br />
Death," it was announced by Lawrence A.<br />
Gordon, vice-president in charge of worldwide<br />
production. Rosenberg and Subotsky<br />
made the highly successful terror films,<br />
"Tales From the Crypt" and "The Vault of<br />
Horror," and for AIP they produced<br />
"Scream and Scream Again." Production on<br />
"Dr. Death" will start in London, early<br />
May.<br />
Hal Holbrook Signed to Co-Star<br />
In Film With Clint Eastwood<br />
Hal Holbrook, recently highly acclaimed<br />
for his performance in the TV special<br />
"Pueblo," was signed by producer Robert<br />
Daley to star with Clint Eastwood in Warner<br />
Bros.' "Magnum Force," the sequel to the<br />
studio's boxoffice hit, "Dirty Harry." The<br />
Malpaso production will be directed by Ted<br />
Post from a screenplay by Mike Cimino,<br />
based on a story by John Milius and on the<br />
original character created by Harry Julian<br />
Fink and Rita M. Fink . . . Michael Lerner<br />
and Victor Campos were added to the cast<br />
of the George Peppard film "Newman," by<br />
producer Richard Irving. Two of Los Angeles<br />
most colorful old landmarks — the<br />
Third Street tunnel and the Baltimore Hotel<br />
By SYD CASSYD<br />
at Fifth and Los Angeles Streets—have been<br />
selected by producer Irving and director<br />
Richard Heffron as key location sites. Entire<br />
sixth floor of the hotel, built in 1910<br />
and a VIP hangout in its heyday, will be<br />
taken over for action scenes in the detective<br />
drama . . . Three leading Latin American<br />
actors, Pedro Armendariz, Nancy Rodman<br />
and Christina Moreno have been set for<br />
major starring roles by producer Leon Benson,<br />
in the Metromedia Producers Corp.<br />
production of "Chosen Survivors," currently<br />
filming at Churubusco Studios in Mexico<br />
City. Sutton Roley is directing the Joe Reb<br />
Moffly screenplay. They join Jackie Cooper,<br />
Alex Cord, Diana Muldaur, and recently<br />
signed Lincoln Kilpatrick and Gwen Mitchell<br />
(latter of "Shaft" fame), and the<br />
other top stars previously set.<br />
Gene Wilder, Jackie Cooper,<br />
Heiuy Fonda in Star Roles<br />
Gene Wilder was selected by producer<br />
Michael Hertzberg to star in Warner Bros.<br />
"Black Bart," currently filming on the Burbank<br />
lot, with Cleavon Little in the title<br />
role, and Mel Brooks, directing. Wilder<br />
plays a boozey gunslinger in<br />
the screenplay.<br />
He joins previously announced Harvey<br />
Korman, Madeline Kahn and Slim Pickens<br />
in the comedy western about a black sheriff<br />
who outwits a town full of borderline<br />
bigots . . . Jackie Cooper was set by producer<br />
Leon Benson for a starring role in<br />
"Chosen Survivors," a Metromedia Producers<br />
Corp. production. Cooper is the first of<br />
eight American stars to be signed for the<br />
Joe Reb Moffly suspense-shocker, to be<br />
directed by Sutton Roley. The film is being<br />
produced in association with Churubusco<br />
Studios and the Film Bank of Mexico. It<br />
will be filmed entirely in Mexico. Just<br />
added to the cast were Alex Cord, Diana<br />
Muldaur, Barbara Babcock, Richard Jaeckel<br />
and Bradford Dillman . . . Henry Fonda<br />
will star as a gunfighter turned lawman, in<br />
the Sergio Leone-Titanus Films production<br />
of "My Name Is Nobody." Written and conceived<br />
by Leone, the film will be produced<br />
by Fulvio Morsella and directed by Tonino<br />
Valeria. A three-month shooting schedule<br />
begins the middle of May in Santa Fe,<br />
N.M., and then moves to Spain and Italy<br />
. . . Charlton Heston has been set for a<br />
cameo role as Cardinal Richelieu in "The<br />
Three Musketeers," to be directed by Richard<br />
Lester. Oliver Reed and Michael York<br />
star in the film. Heston's scenes will be<br />
filmed next month in Spain.<br />
Barbra Streisand to Portray<br />
Nurse in Paramount Film<br />
Barbra Streisand will star in "With or<br />
Without Roller Skates," motion picture to<br />
be based on a new novel by George Slavin.<br />
Martin Ehrlichman will produce the film<br />
which concerns the experiences of a young<br />
nurse who pursues compassionate and occasionally<br />
unorthodox ways of helping her<br />
patients. The production is scheduled to<br />
commence in the fall of 1973 for Paramount<br />
Pictures . . . Elke Sommer is being<br />
starred in "A Trip to Vienna," which will<br />
be produced and directed by Edgar Reitz<br />
from his own screenplay on location in Germany.<br />
During the last seven years, Reitz has<br />
won five awards at the Cannes and Venice<br />
Film Festivals. The film is a comedy-drama<br />
set in the mid- 1940s . . . Producer Paul N.<br />
Lazarus III set Anne Randall for a key role<br />
in MGM's "Westworld," now filming at the<br />
studio with Michael Crichton directing from<br />
his own screenplay. Yul Brynner, Richard<br />
Benjamin and James Brolin star. Miss Randall<br />
is in the forthcoming motion picture<br />
"Stacey," and has appeared this season in<br />
numerous television series. Linda Scott, who<br />
just completed a role in "Hangup," has been<br />
signed for one of the female leads in "Westworld."<br />
Dick Van Patten also has been<br />
signed for the key role of a banker transported<br />
to a far-out vacationland manned by<br />
robots . . . Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Delon<br />
and Bemadette Laffont will star in "Colinot,<br />
the Petticoat Lifter" for Warner Bros., starting<br />
early in May in France. Directed and<br />
written by Nina Companeez, the comedy<br />
film is set in 12th Century France and tells<br />
of the love of a peasant youth for a young<br />
peasant girl and his quest for her after she<br />
has been carried away by brigands. Produced<br />
by Mag Bodard for Pare Films Productions<br />
and Warner Bros., the film also<br />
stars Francis Huster and Alice Spritch . . .<br />
Valerie Harper, two-time Emmy Awardwinning<br />
actress of the "Mary Tyler Moore"<br />
TV show, was set for a major role in<br />
"Freebie and the Bean," a detective actiondrama<br />
for Warner Bros, starring James<br />
Caan and Alan Arkin. The actress will play<br />
the role of Arkin's wife in the film, being<br />
produced and directed by Richard Rush.<br />
Isaac Hayes Debuts As Actor<br />
In Film for<br />
De Laurentiis<br />
Isaac Hayes, Academy Award-winning<br />
composer, has been signed by Dino De<br />
Laurentiis, to make his dramatic acting debut<br />
in the starring role of De Laurentiis'<br />
"Two Tough Guys." Hayes will portray a<br />
former policeman in the film, which 's<br />
scheduled for the cameras, on location in<br />
Chicago, sometime in August. Michele<br />
LufK) will direct from an original screenplay<br />
by Vincenzoni Badalucca. This will be<br />
the first of two films that Hayes will make<br />
for De Laurentiis . . . Following the young<br />
black actor's brilliant performance with<br />
Dennis Weaver in "McCloud" last month,<br />
executive producer Jordan Wank re-cast the<br />
role of Brian, in "People Toys," to utilize<br />
the fine talents of Tierre Turner. The Barrister<br />
production stars Gene Evans, Sorrell<br />
Booke, Shelley Morrison and a number of<br />
child stars . . Jitu Cumbuka will portray<br />
.<br />
the long-time all-pro basketball star Oscar<br />
Robertson in "Maurie," currently filming<br />
with Frank Ross and Douglas Morrow producing<br />
and Daniel Mann directing. Also<br />
joining the cast are Tol Avery and child<br />
actress Lori Bush. Previously set were<br />
Bernie Casey, Bo Svenson, Janet MacLachlan<br />
and Stephanie Edwards, who co-star in<br />
the National General release.<br />
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lelays in mailing—plus an inability to find<br />
suitable entries—resulted in the late<br />
rival of NSC members' January ballots.<br />
an effort to remedy this situation—and<br />
ing the ballots up to date—the editorial<br />
iff elected to choose the top two votetters<br />
and ^ward one the Blue Ribbon<br />
ivard for January and the other leader the<br />
ibruary award (in the order of their release<br />
tes). This seemed especially fitting, since<br />
between the two releases—there were<br />
ven Academy Award nominations.<br />
So, with explanations out of the way, we<br />
nounced that the January Blue Ribbon<br />
(vard went to "The Emigrants" (WB), runrup<br />
spot to "Treasure Island" (NGP) and<br />
morable mention to "Travels With My<br />
ant" (MGM).<br />
Two 20th-Fox releases led in February,<br />
th the Blue Ribbon Award going to<br />
ijeuth" and runnerup position to "The<br />
:artbreak Kid."<br />
On their ballots, NSC members made the<br />
llowing observations:<br />
"The Emigrants"<br />
One of the few films that fits <strong>Boxoffice</strong>'s<br />
ckward priority (i.e.: "suitable entertainent<br />
for adults as well as children").—Jeff<br />
illar, Houston Chronicle . . . Best!—Jean<br />
senstein, American Film Institute, NYC<br />
. This is the only one I've seen, but it's<br />
ry well done.—Mrs. W. J. Tait, Marin<br />
PC, San Rafael, Calif. . . . "Sleuth" may<br />
more fun, but this is well worth seeing.<br />
-Dave Mclntyre, San Diego Evening Trible<br />
. . . "The Emigrants" for tears; "Sleuth"<br />
r laughter.—Sister Bede Sullivan, Univ.<br />
Toronto . . . Probably will not have<br />
neral appeal, but a worthwhile picture.<br />
rs. Frank J. Baldus, GFWC, Indepenince,<br />
Mo.<br />
Not all have opened here, of course, but<br />
rhe Emigrants" is way above those that<br />
ive.—Joan E. Vadeboncoeur, Syracuse<br />
erald-Journal & Herald-American . . .<br />
n incredibly astute and sensitive film about<br />
milies, for families.—Fred W. Wright jr.,<br />
. Petersburg Evening Independent . . .<br />
:nsitive directing and unusually fine charter<br />
development place this among the<br />
;tter pictures of the year!—Lois Baumoel,<br />
leveland MPC.<br />
"Sleuth"<br />
A great play becomes an above-average<br />
Im.—Bob Pate, Jacksonville (Fla.) Journal<br />
. Though I do not consider it particularly<br />
litable for younger members of the family,<br />
is a most entertaining mystery with all<br />
nds of surprises, in the capable hands of<br />
/o artists.—Mrs. C. M. Stewart, Soroptoist<br />
Club of Lincoln.<br />
"Treasure Island"<br />
Good flicks this month, but the good<br />
les—unfortunately—are for adults, while<br />
le only fair one is for kids. There is a<br />
sson to be learned in this list. "Treasure<br />
land" is no treasure—but something is<br />
:tter than nothing.—Al Shea, WDSU-TV,<br />
ew Orleans . . . Robert Louis Stevenson's<br />
Iventure story "Treasure Island" should be<br />
ijoyed by all ages.—Mrs. Wayne F. Shaw,<br />
SUSD of 1812, Lawrence, Kas "Treas-<br />
:e Island" is excellent entertainment.<br />
alph B. Smith, Examiner-Enterprise, Bar-<br />
3sville, Okla. ... A real winner for this<br />
JXOFnCE :: April 23, 1973<br />
The Emigrants": This is a soft-sell film<br />
with extraordinary impact. We<br />
rated it one of the year's ten best, and<br />
I think it's to the credit of Buffalo filmgoers<br />
that the response at the boxoffice<br />
was enough to warrant a three-month<br />
run—maybe more—at a rather out-ofthe<br />
way theatre. Someday I'd like to see<br />
this teamed up on a double bill with<br />
"Joe Hill."—Doug Smith, Buffalo<br />
Courier Express.<br />
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January in March? Is mail running<br />
this late or what? I send back the ballots<br />
as soon as I get them! Sorry if they<br />
are late.—Don Leigh McCulty, W. Va.<br />
Theatrical Services, Clarksburg. (No,<br />
Don, it's not the U.S. Postal Service<br />
it's the lack of G and PG-product and<br />
the erratic releasing pattern of distributors,<br />
which make it difficult to compile<br />
a worthwhile ballot every month.<br />
MJG)<br />
* * *<br />
Excellent list—several goodies.<br />
Fred C. Souttar, independent, Shawnee<br />
Mission, Kas.<br />
* * *<br />
Quite an assortment this month.<br />
"The Heartbreak Kid" is a funny, sad,<br />
compelling commentary. "The Emigrants"<br />
is a bit too heavy for the kiddies,<br />
but a fine family flick. "Travels<br />
With My Aunt" is distinguished by<br />
Maggie Smith's great performance. We<br />
also liked "Sleuth" and "Child's Play."<br />
Our nomination for the stinker of the<br />
month: "Innocent Bystanders."—Jerry<br />
Krupnick, Newark Star-Ledger.<br />
* * *<br />
"Sleuth" had a good cast and was<br />
very interesting. "Treasure Island" was<br />
good for the family, although some<br />
adults would think it too juvenile.<br />
Mrs. J. R. Muterspaugh, Indianapolis<br />
NSC group.<br />
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This month's BOXOFFICE Ust is<br />
most impressive, because it has four<br />
very good motion pictures listed (i.e.:<br />
"The Emigrants," "Travels With My<br />
Aunt," "The Heartbreak Kid" and<br />
"Sleuth"). I am going far out on the<br />
limb to list them in the order I think<br />
they will be voted on by the members.<br />
All four of the pictures have been<br />
nominated ui one category or another<br />
for Academy awards.—Angelo J. Mangialetta,<br />
WAGA-TV, Atlanta.<br />
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Half of these aren't family fihns, I'm<br />
afraid, in spite of their ratings.—Louise<br />
Sweeney, Christian Science Monitor,<br />
NYC.<br />
* * *<br />
"The Emigrants" is a movie that<br />
everyone should see. Not for just the<br />
beauty and emotion, but as a reminder<br />
of the roots from which we grow.<br />
Mis. Shirley H. Gunnels, GFWC, Fowler,<br />
Ind.<br />
month's audience. Second choice: "Travels<br />
With My Aunt."—Mrs. Frederic H. Steele,<br />
Atlantis, Fla. . . . Not<br />
the greatest, but suitable<br />
fare.—Agnes E. Rockwood, Bennington<br />
(Vt.) Banner.<br />
"The Heartbreak Kid"<br />
Simon's funny story. May's superb direction<br />
and Charles Grodin's debut performance<br />
(an unforgettable one) make "The Kid"<br />
totally entertaining. And Jeannie Berlin's<br />
performance—rare!—Walt Reno, KORK<br />
Radio, Las Vegas . . . "The Heartbreak Kid"<br />
is the best American comedy since "Bob &<br />
Carol & Ted & Alice." And Elaine May can<br />
take her place in the echelon of American<br />
directors. The performances she's drawn<br />
from her cast couldn't be battered. Any man<br />
under 80 who doesn't walk out of the movie<br />
in love with Cybill Shepherd can officially<br />
be declared dead.—John Kane, American<br />
Int'l Pictures, NYC.<br />
The fact that "The Heartbreak Kid" was<br />
nominated for two Academy awards makes<br />
it a big contender for the Blue Ribbon<br />
Award. Excellent performances by all of<br />
the actors.—Laura E. Ray, Indianapolis<br />
NSC group ... A first-rate, delightful comedy.—Tom<br />
Hodge, Johnson City (Tenn.)<br />
Press-Chronicle ... As warming as a cup<br />
of auld lang syne; rollicking.— 'Bruce H.<br />
Petri, Fond du Lac Reporter.<br />
Some very good pictures this<br />
month, but<br />
"The Heartbreak Kid" gets my vote. A<br />
good story about a most-bigotted young<br />
man, who finds out he is not so important<br />
after all.—Mrs.<br />
. . Superb<br />
Paul Gebhart,<br />
acting; a<br />
Cleveland<br />
memorable<br />
WOMPI .<br />
story.—Mrs. Carl M. Sauer, Indianapolis<br />
NSC group.<br />
"Travels With My Aunt"<br />
Maggie Smith is a wonder as Grahame<br />
Green's zany Aunt Augusta, and director<br />
Cukor has outdone himself with tasteful<br />
decor and photography. The picture—a wild<br />
escapade that takes Augusta and her introverted<br />
nephew all over Europe—keeps its<br />
pace and style, thanks to the overall MGM<br />
production values. Miss Smith could easily<br />
win her second Oscar!—Robert J. Spatafore,<br />
teacher, San Francisco . . . Maggie<br />
Smith is hard to beat!!—Victor R. Yehling,<br />
Rockford (III.) Newspapers . . . While I<br />
could not rate this as "family" entertainment,<br />
I foulnd it an absolute delight—both<br />
in performance and acting. Frankly, when<br />
we left the theatre, my wife and I both felt<br />
like booking passage on the Orient Express.<br />
Beautiful.—Doug Smith, Buffalo Courier<br />
Express.<br />
Miscellaneous<br />
Black Girl: Several very fine films on the<br />
list this month, but "Black Girl" probably<br />
best presents an entertainment and message<br />
that can be fully appreciated by both old<br />
and young members of a family. Unfortunately,<br />
when we reviewed the film, we were<br />
the only whites in the theatre. The public<br />
still needs a lot of education about cinema<br />
and the universal message that certain excellent<br />
films—regardless of the color of<br />
their creators—can convey.—^William J.<br />
Knittle jr., KXLU Radio, syndicated columnist,<br />
Venice, Calif.<br />
While I found "Sleuth" a gripping movie<br />
—even after having seen the stage production—and<br />
laughed 'til my sides ached at<br />
"The Heartbreak Kid" (Jeannie Berlin is<br />
marvelous), I must vote for "Black Girl,"<br />
since the honesty of its presentation, its topicality<br />
and the universality of emotion (as<br />
opposed to what's become standard blackfilm<br />
fare) set it apart as a major motion-picture<br />
contribution—^Ellen G. Aman, Toledo<br />
Times.<br />
13
BOXOFFICE<br />
BAROMETER<br />
This chort records the performonce of current attractions in the opening weeic of their first runs in<br />
the 20 key cities checlied. Pictures with fewer than five engagements ore not listed. As new runs<br />
ore reported, ratings ore added ond averages revised. Computation is in terms of percentage in<br />
relotion to normol grosses as determined by the theatre managers. With 100 per cent as "normal,"<br />
the figures show the gross ratings al>ove or l>elow that mark. (Asterisk * denotes comi>inotion bills.)<br />
160 550 140 200 80 225 400 115 200 200 200 100 240<br />
Black Caesar (AIP)
:<br />
director,<br />
oliday Is Expanding<br />
Ten Auditoriums<br />
BUFFALO—Joseph P. Garvey, manag-<br />
Holiday Theatres, announces<br />
company is going ahead on four more<br />
latres, to be built next to Holiday<br />
k5-6 and to be known as Holiday<br />
!-9-10. Work on the new houses is to<br />
'in at once.<br />
The present n'ew building at Holiday City<br />
the Aerohead Inn, located on the site of<br />
: former Aero Drive-In and western New<br />
irk's newest and most luxurious inn. It<br />
ened recently with a gala party for local<br />
magers of film exchanges, politicians and<br />
wspaper folks.<br />
The Holiday complex now consists of<br />
)liday 1-2-3-4-5-6 and two inns.<br />
Garvey says construction on the new<br />
;atres is to start at once and they are<br />
neduled to open late this fall. All will<br />
iture the last word in theatrical exhibiin.<br />
The Holiday theatres have become very<br />
ipular with the public, especially because<br />
e houses feature family pictures and Satday<br />
and Sunday matinee films for chilen.<br />
rhree Sisters' Acquired<br />
or AFT Presentation<br />
NEW YORK—Ely A. Landau, president<br />
the American Film Theatre, has an-<br />
)unced the acquisition of the 1970 British<br />
im version of Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisrs,"<br />
starring Laurence Olivier, as one of<br />
e eight major motion pictures to be prented<br />
to American and Canadian audiences<br />
)mmencing this fall. Joining in the anjuncement<br />
were Sydney Safir, managing<br />
rector of Lion International, and David<br />
lake, New York representative, world disibutors<br />
of the National Theatre Company<br />
f Great Britain film.<br />
"The decision to present Three Sisters'<br />
5 part of our initial program is an especially<br />
gnificant development to the state of the<br />
Im arts today in that it is a graphic demnstration<br />
of what the American Film Thetre<br />
could mean to makers of serious motion<br />
icture drama all over the world," Landau<br />
tated in making the announcement.<br />
The American Film Theatre begins its<br />
remiere season in October with some 500<br />
ricatres throughout the U.S. and Canada<br />
articipating. Eight new major film producions<br />
will be shown in matinee and evening<br />
lerformances on two successive regularly<br />
cheduled weekdays each month for eight<br />
onsecutive months.<br />
In addition to "Three Sisters," the series<br />
vill include the following major productions<br />
lased upon contemporary works of the theitre:<br />
Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman<br />
:ometh," Eugene lonesco's "Rhinoceros,"<br />
-larold Pinter's "The Homecoming," Edvard<br />
Albee's "A Delicate Balance," John<br />
Dsborne's "Luther." Simon Gray's "Butley"<br />
ind Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's<br />
Lost in the Stars."<br />
"Only a small segment of the American<br />
BOXOFFICE :: April 23, 1973<br />
public had the opportunity of seeing Olivier's<br />
brilliant stage production of 'Three Sisters'<br />
in Los Angeles in 1970. More surprisingly,<br />
when a highly acclaimed motion picture version<br />
of that production was subsequently<br />
directed by Lord Olivier, starring the National<br />
Theatre Company of Great Britain, it<br />
could not find an American or Canadian<br />
distributor to present the film in a manner<br />
commensurate with its importance and prestige,"<br />
said Landau. "The inclusion of this<br />
superb film production in our series clearly<br />
illustrates one of the American Film Theatre's<br />
underlying 'reasons-for-being' and<br />
clearly underscores our avowed purpose of<br />
bringing great theatre-on-film to motion<br />
picture and theatre audiences everywhere."<br />
Bob Bothwell Is Promoted<br />
To Vice-President by NGT<br />
LOS ANGELES—Bob Bothwell has been<br />
promoted to vice-president of National General<br />
Theatres and division<br />
manager of the<br />
Eastern division, it is<br />
announced by Nat D.<br />
Fellman, president of<br />
the Los Angeles-based<br />
theatre circuit.<br />
Bo t h w e 1 1, who<br />
moves to his new post<br />
in New York from<br />
San Francisco where<br />
he has been a district<br />
Bob Bothwell<br />
manager in the<br />
Northern Pacific division, will have supervision<br />
of over 30 theatres in New York.<br />
New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,<br />
Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana.<br />
He has been with National General<br />
Theatres and its predecessor companies<br />
since 1937.<br />
Md. Censors Won't Cut<br />
'Last Tango in Paris'<br />
BALTIMORE—The Maryland State Motion<br />
Picture Censor Board has decided not<br />
to "cut in" on "Last Tango in Paris." The<br />
three board members voted unanimously to<br />
allow the film to run without deletions in<br />
Maryland movie houses, although members<br />
split on just how artistically and morally<br />
worthwhile the motion picture was.<br />
Mary Avara, the board secretary, claimed,<br />
"There isn't anything in it—no frontal<br />
nudity, no scenes of intercourse or variations.<br />
Indeed, the average person will see it<br />
and want his money back."<br />
In terms of quality, Margery A. Shriver<br />
thought "Last Tango in Paris" was "a good<br />
movie." However, board chairman David J.<br />
Preller sr. agreed with Mrs. Avara, calling<br />
the film "rather dull."<br />
New Ozoner Operation<br />
EASTON, PA.— Richard Wolfe of Easton<br />
and Paul Angstadt of Reading, Pa., have<br />
taken over the operation of the Dallas<br />
Drive-In at Dallas, Pa., from the Fox Thea-<br />
Management Corp. The two were oper-<br />
tre<br />
ators of the Boyd Theatre here before it<br />
was razed in 1972. They operate five other<br />
theatres in Pennsylvania.<br />
GCC Triplex Is Under<br />
Way in Viewmont Mall<br />
SCRANTON, PA.—Ground was broken<br />
last month for a three-theatre complex in<br />
the Viewmont Mall. The triplex, to be<br />
operated by General Cinema Corp. of Boston,<br />
will be known as Viewmont Mall<br />
Cinema I, II and III.<br />
The auditoriums will seat 576, 400 and<br />
300, respectively, and will feature push-back<br />
seats. An art gallery will be incorporated in<br />
the lobby to provide a showcase for local<br />
artists.<br />
GCC spokesmen said that the triplex is<br />
being designed with the ultimate aim of<br />
eliminating both patron congestion at the<br />
boxoffice and auto congestion in the parking<br />
area.<br />
'The Seven Ups' Completes<br />
Filming in New York City<br />
NEW YORK—"The Seven Ups," Phil<br />
D'Antoni's crime-thriller for 20th Century-<br />
Fox, completed production in New York<br />
Friday (13). D'Antoni, whose previous attraction<br />
for 20th-Fox was the Academy<br />
Award-winning "The French Connection,"<br />
made his directorial bow on the new film,<br />
which he also produced.<br />
Roy Scheider and Tony Lo Bianco are<br />
starred in "The Seven Ups." Featured are a<br />
number of well-known New York stage<br />
actors, including Victor Arnold, Ken<br />
Kercheval, Larry Haines and Richard<br />
Lynch. The picture was shot entirely on<br />
location in New York City and outlying<br />
areas, with even the interiors filmed on<br />
actual sites.<br />
Kenneth Utt served as executive producer<br />
on the film, which was written by Albert<br />
Ruben and Alexander Jacobs from an original<br />
story by New York City detective<br />
Sonny Grosso, who also served as technical<br />
adviser.<br />
AFT Productions Are Set<br />
In Schenectady, Colonie<br />
SCHENECTADY. N.Y. — The first<br />
area<br />
movie house to be chosen to represent the<br />
American Film Theatre for the 1973-74<br />
season is the Mohawk Mall Theatre. The<br />
Fox in Colonie, N.Y., also has been named<br />
an AFT house.<br />
Starting in October, the eight newly produced<br />
motion pictures adapted from outstanding<br />
theatre works by contemporary<br />
writers will be available on a once-a-month<br />
subscription basis. Sales will begm this<br />
spring. Only four performances of each<br />
production will be given — in consecutive<br />
Monday and Tuesday matinee and evening<br />
showings.<br />
Pa. Sexual Display Bill<br />
HARRISBURG, PA.—State Sen. Edward<br />
Howard (R-Bucks County), with four<br />
others, entered Senate Bill 232 which would<br />
add provisions to the Crimes Code prohibiting<br />
the public display of offensive sexual<br />
material. Co-sponsors include Senators<br />
Hager, Messinger, Dougherty and Ewing.<br />
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Third Near-lOOO Week in New York<br />
Recorded for 'Devil in Miss Jones'<br />
NEW YORK — Climbing to 995 in its a 405 average for a second frame at the<br />
third round at the Lincoln Art, "The Devil Cinerama (400) and RKO 86th Street Twin<br />
in Miss Jones" still ranked No. 1 on the II (410) (last week the film's average was<br />
first-run business barometer without serious 565 for the two houses but a typographical<br />
opposition. Second-place "Last Tango in error listed it as 505). No. 6 was "Godspell."<br />
Paris" kept up its 720 pace through an 1 1th with a 390 fourth week at Columbia II.<br />
week at Trans-Lux East, while No. 3 "Scare- Finishing just out of the top six in their<br />
crow" was making its 540 debut at Cinema opening weeks were "Class of '44," 335.<br />
I- Sutton; "State of Siege," 305, Beekman, and<br />
"High Rise" remained in the fourth spot "Book of Numbers," 300, DeMille.<br />
on basis of a 435 third frame at the World. (Average is lOO)<br />
"The Mack" dropped from last week's No. 3 Beekman state of siege (Cinema 5) 305<br />
rung to this week's No. 5, although it had ^i;jramJ=f";MrK ('^c'), ind wkV i :;::;::: iog<br />
our<br />
best wishes<br />
for the success<br />
of the<br />
ERIC THEATRE<br />
TRENTON. NEW JERSEY<br />
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Columbia White Sister (Col), 5th wk 35<br />
Columbia II Godspell (Col), 4th wk 390<br />
Coronet Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Para) 230<br />
Criterion Wottstox (Col), 9th wk 170<br />
DeMille Book of Numbers (Emb) 300<br />
East 59th Street 2 Ludwig (MGM), 6th wk.<br />
. 150<br />
86th Street East Block Mama, White Memo<br />
(AlP), 4th wk 90<br />
First Avenue Screening Room The Challenges<br />
i(Dean Selmier) 90<br />
'Lincoln Art The Devil in Miss Jones (Meatball),<br />
3rd wk 995<br />
Little Carnegie I Love You Rosa (Leisure Medio)<br />
8th wk 150<br />
Orleans It tiappened in Hollywood (Screw),<br />
13th wk 100<br />
Paris Money, Money, Money (CRC), 3rd wk 205<br />
Penthouse ^The Voult of Horror (CRC),<br />
5th wk 35<br />
Radio City Music Hall Tom Sawyer '(UA),<br />
5th wk 170<br />
RKO 86th Street Twin The Vault of Horror<br />
(CRC), 5th wk 60<br />
RKO 86th Street Twin II The Mack (CRC),<br />
2nd wk 410<br />
68th Street Playhouse .^uch a Gorgeous Kid<br />
Like Me (Col), 3rd wk 210<br />
Sutton Class of '44 (WB) 335<br />
Trans-Lux East ^Lost Tango in Paris (UA),<br />
nth wk 720<br />
Victoria Black Mama, White Mama (AlP),<br />
4th wk 105<br />
World High Rise (Mature), 3rd wk 435<br />
Ziegfeld I Am a Dancer (Cinevision), 3rd wk. . .140<br />
'Five Fingers of Death'<br />
Buffalo Leader at 190<br />
BUFFALO—"Five Fingers of Death,"<br />
190, second week at downtown Loews'<br />
Teck and the East Twin Drive-In, led Buffalo<br />
first-run products in the report week.<br />
Most forceful challengers for the top spot<br />
were "The Mack," 180, fourth week, Buffalo<br />
Theatre; "Prison Girls." 160, first<br />
week. Backstage Theatre, and "Class of<br />
'44," 160, new at the Colvin and Holiday 3.<br />
Amherst Theatre of Blood (UA) 140<br />
Backstage Prison Girls (SR) 160<br />
Buffalo The Mock (CRC), 4th wk 180<br />
Center The Voult of Horror (CRC) 130<br />
Colvin, Holiday 3—Closs of '44 (WB) 160<br />
Holiday The Poseidon Adventure (20th-Fox),<br />
17th wk 140<br />
Holiday 6—The Thief Who Came to Dinner (WB) 125<br />
Kensington Lost Horizon (Col), 2nd wk 135<br />
Maple Forest, North Park Two People (Univ),<br />
2nd wk 120<br />
Maple Forest 2 Child's Play (Para), 2nd wk. ...120<br />
Plazo North ^Man of La Mancho (UA), 4th wk. .140<br />
Teck, East Twin Five Fingers of Death (WB),<br />
2nd wk 190<br />
'Class of '44,' "Cesar' 200<br />
First Week in Baltimore<br />
BALTIMORE — All-in-all, the report<br />
week was a period of solid business for most<br />
Baltimore first-run theatres and substantial<br />
grossing p)ercentages resulted. Two new features<br />
led with 200 each, as "Class of '44"<br />
and "Cesar and Rosalie" made successful<br />
debuts, while second-week "Lost Horizon"<br />
grossed 190 at the Westview II and Towson.<br />
5 West Travels With My Aunt (MGM), 5th wk, 175<br />
Glen Burnie Mall, Senator Class of '44 (WB) . .200<br />
Playhouse Cesar ond Rosolie (SR) 200<br />
7 East Cries ond Whispers (SR) 150<br />
Three theatres The Life and Times of Judge<br />
Roy Bean (NGP), 3rd wk 85<br />
Westview II, Towson ^Lost Horizon '(Col),<br />
2nd wk 190<br />
Theatrical Agent Is Dead<br />
PITTSBURGH—Joseph Hiller, 84, a<br />
leading theatrical agent here for 46 years,<br />
died Saturday (14) at Montefiore Hospital.<br />
He came here in the early 1900s and found<br />
15 theatres in Pittsburgh with orchestras<br />
and many nickelodeons where piano players<br />
were always needed. An early song-plugger<br />
for Irving Berlin, he was a Variety Club<br />
member for many years and was chief barker<br />
of Tent 1 in 1942. Hiller retired last year<br />
but his theatrical agency has been continued<br />
in the Carlton House. He leaves his wife<br />
Evelyn, brother Sam and a sister, Mrs. Betsy<br />
Silverman.<br />
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TOM SAWYER," United Artists' musical<br />
version of the Mark Twain classic,<br />
has grossed over $1 million so far as the<br />
Easter holiday attraction at Radio City<br />
Music Hall. The film began March 15, with<br />
the annual pageant "The Glory of Easter"<br />
on stage.<br />
Johnny Whitaker as Tom, Celeste Holm<br />
as Aunt Polly, Jeff East as Huckleberry<br />
and Warren Gates as Muff head the cast<br />
under the direction of Don Taylor. Produced<br />
by Arthur P. Jacobs, the APJAC<br />
International-Reader's Digest presentation<br />
was written for the screen by the Sherman<br />
brothers, who also did the songs.<br />
•<br />
Robert B. Morin, executive vice-president<br />
of the Cannon Group, returned Thursday<br />
(19) from Los Angeles. He had screened<br />
numerous independent productions for<br />
possible acquisition and distribution by the<br />
company.<br />
•<br />
Harold Brown, vice-president in charge<br />
of sales and distribution for American International<br />
Television, has returned to his<br />
New York office. He had attended the<br />
MIP-TV (Marche Internationale Programmes)<br />
conference in Cannes Friday (6)<br />
through Wednesday (11).<br />
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"The Super Cops" begins production<br />
Monday (23) in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant<br />
section, with Gordon Parks directing<br />
for MGM. Ron Liebman and David Selby<br />
are portraying Officers Dave Greenberg and<br />
Bob Hantz, the cops whose exploits earned<br />
them the nicknames Batman and Robin.<br />
•<br />
Hope Clarke, co-star of the Joseph E.<br />
Levine-Brut-Raymond St. Jacques film,<br />
"Book of Numbers," hosted the cast from<br />
the Broadway show "Don't Bother Me, I<br />
Can't Cope" on opening day—Wednesday<br />
(11)—of the new movie at the DeMille.<br />
Miss Clarke, who also is featured in the<br />
show, appeared in the theatre lobby for<br />
WNEW-TV's "Black News" show moderated<br />
by Marion Watson.<br />
The German Information Center and<br />
Goethe House New York (Fifth Avenue<br />
and 82 nd Street) held a reception and a<br />
preview Tuesday (17). A 28-minute color<br />
documentary on present-day Germany, "In<br />
the Heart of Europe," was shown.<br />
•<br />
"I Am a Dancer," Cinevision's dance film<br />
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engagement at the Ziegfeld. Special<br />
showings of the film have been held recently,<br />
among them a screening Wednesday<br />
(18) for several hundred children from the<br />
five boroughs, arranged through New York's<br />
Youth Services Agency; the entire Professional<br />
Children's High School and their<br />
seventh and eighth-grade dance students at<br />
a morning screening Thursday (19). Students<br />
of the American Ballet Theatre, the<br />
Joffrey School, the School of American<br />
Ballet and the Dance Theatre of Harlem<br />
also attended. A low-priced ($1.50) senior<br />
citizens' performance will be held Thursday<br />
(26) at 11:30 a.m. Tickets can be purchased<br />
by mail, through the Senior Citizen's<br />
Program, care of the theatre.<br />
•<br />
Openings: "To Be Free," Thursday (26)<br />
at the First Avenue Screening Room, following<br />
"Ciao Manhattan," with the late<br />
Edie Sedgwick and the late Isabel Jewell;<br />
Peter Cashing in "And Now the Screaming<br />
Starts," Friday (27) at the Forum and<br />
Juliet II; "Wedding in White," Canadian<br />
award-winner, American premiere Sunday<br />
(29), Little Carnegie.<br />
"Godspell" opened Wednesday (18) at<br />
the UA Cinema 150, Syosset, and the<br />
Loew's Troy Hills, Parsippany, while continuing<br />
at New York's Columbia II. "Last<br />
Tango in Paris" begins Wednesday (25) at<br />
Century's Five Town Theatre, Woodmere,<br />
L.I., and United Artists Theatres' Bellevue<br />
in Upper Montclair, N.J., while the recordbreaking<br />
run at the Trans-Lux East here<br />
goes on.<br />
•<br />
In the magazines: April's Gallery Magazine<br />
features "How Not to Make a Smash<br />
Movie," an informative behind-the-scenes<br />
look at what went on during the shooting of<br />
"Gone With the Wind," by Andy Herz,<br />
and "Tarzan Swings Again," by Dave Zinman,<br />
a chapter from his<br />
forthcoming book<br />
"Saturday Afternoon at the Bijou." This<br />
marks the second recent issue of Gallery<br />
to feature a posthumous article by Andy,<br />
which is something of a record.<br />
April's Films in Review features a career<br />
article on Jean Neguiesco, by Richard<br />
Campion; Samuel A. Peeples' "The Mechanical<br />
Music Makers," telling of the musical<br />
accompanists to silent movies, and Dave<br />
Zinman's look at Our Gang, also from his<br />
book.<br />
Jet Magazine devotes its Thursday (26)<br />
cover and five pages to Freda Payne and<br />
"Book of Numbers," the film in which the<br />
singer makes her movie debut.<br />
•<br />
Showcases for Wednesday (18): "Wattstax";<br />
"Save the Tiger"; "Soylent Green."<br />
first run at Four-Star De Luxe theatres;<br />
"Scorpio," first run at Red Carpet theatres;<br />
"Sounder"; "Pete 'n' Tillie" 'and "Silent<br />
Running"; "The All American Girl,"<br />
Adult<br />
Showca.se presentation debut; "Cabaret";<br />
"The World's Greatest Athlete" and "Dumbo";<br />
"Up the Sandbox," and "Vault of<br />
Horror" and "The Mind Snatchers" (formerly<br />
"The Happiness Cage").<br />
"Love and Pain and the Whole Damn<br />
Thing" began Thursday (19) at Columbia<br />
Showcase theatres.<br />
NORTH JERSEY<br />
The exclusive New Jersey reserved-seat engagement<br />
of "Last Tango in Paris," due<br />
to open at UA's Bellevue in Upper Montclair<br />
Wednesday (18), has been postponed<br />
until Wednesday (25). The action followed<br />
a statement by the mayor and town commissioners<br />
of Montclair that they would<br />
take legal action, if necessary, to prevent<br />
the showing of "Last Tango in Paris" in<br />
their town. Earlier, representatives of several<br />
organizations and citizens' groups, all<br />
from Montclair, had voiced their objections<br />
to the showing of the X-rated film at a<br />
township meeting at which Mayor Peter J.<br />
Bonastia and the commissioners were present.<br />
Mayor Bonastia has requested the Essex<br />
County sheriffs office to send a detective<br />
to witness the film, presumably on opening<br />
night, and determine if it can be confiscated<br />
under New Jersey state obscenity laws. In a<br />
recent article in the New York Times which<br />
dealt with the Upper Montclair controversy,<br />
Mayor Bonastia was quoted as saying:<br />
"From what I hear, it ('Last Tango in Paris')<br />
is not the kind of picture we want in Montclair."<br />
On the opposite side, a newly formed<br />
organization in Montclair called the Citizens<br />
for Free Choice announced their plans<br />
for a telephone and letter campaign in<br />
support<br />
of the theatre's right to present the<br />
film. The group also pointed out that a<br />
U.S. District Court judge ruled the state<br />
obscenity laws as unconstitutional last November.<br />
There were no indications that<br />
United Artists planned to withdraw the<br />
film.<br />
Northpoint Plaza Patrons<br />
Have Festive Oscar Night<br />
BALTIMORE—The Northpoint Plaza<br />
Theatre, 2399 Northpoint Blvd., was specially<br />
decorated with figures of Oscars, with<br />
the winning picture and winning actors<br />
listed for each year since the awards started,<br />
to mark Academy Award Contest night.<br />
Four cabaret-style tables and chairs were<br />
placed in the lobby, with red tablecloths<br />
and round candles. Potato chips and pretzels<br />
were on each table, while a large table<br />
at the side offered a large sheet cake and<br />
several trays of hors d'oeuvres at well as<br />
a punch bowl.<br />
As patrons arrived for the evening show—<br />
and at the time that the contest winners<br />
were announced—they were invited to help<br />
themselves to the refreshments.<br />
Fifteen prizes were awarded to winners<br />
of the Academy Awards competition, with<br />
all prizes donated by local merchants.<br />
John Wright is manager of the Northpoint<br />
Plaza Theatre and Harry Segal is<br />
district manager.<br />
E-4<br />
BOXOFFICE :: April 23, 1973
K.0 Bruce Bair and James Sample, 139<br />
lovice; runner-up in the 1947 novice class<br />
s Mike Napolitan. KO Mclntyre and<br />
Vlanion won the right to participate in the<br />
National AAU Championships to<br />
be staged<br />
n Boston next month. All of these AMA-<br />
\AU boys won jackets, medals, pins and<br />
rophies and the team won the Sportsmanhip<br />
Award.<br />
BUFFALO<br />
^riday the 13th was observed with onenight<br />
stands of terror films in five area<br />
notion picture showplaces. "The Raven,"<br />
idgar Allan Poe's story, was on the bill at<br />
he Boulevard, Seneca and Eastern Hills<br />
inemas and the 1-290 Drive-In. "Night of<br />
he Living Dead" was presented at midnight<br />
n the downtown Palace.<br />
Jerry Edebtein, now a member of the<br />
ales staff of WADV in the Rand Building,<br />
ut over an excellent tie-up with the Holiay<br />
Theatre and the Eastern Hills Cinema<br />
n "Class of "44." The first 50 graduates of<br />
3cal high school or college classes of 1944<br />
3 contact the station were awarded guest<br />
Ickets to the opening presentation of "Class<br />
f '44" at the Holiday or Eastern Hills. The<br />
lunt was a popular one and attracted a lot<br />
f attention on the part of students of the<br />
lasses of '44.<br />
Innocent pleas have been entered for the<br />
lanager and owners of the Allendale Thea-<br />
•e, 293 Allen St.. on charges of "promoting<br />
n obscene film." City Judge James J.<br />
K.ane<br />
:t $250 bail for Benjamin Solomon of<br />
leveland, the manager, and set May 9 for<br />
le trial of Solomon and Buffaledo Corp. of<br />
oledo, the owners. Detective Joseph Scinta<br />
lid in the complaint that he and City Judge<br />
heodore S. Kasler, after paying admission<br />
;es, viewed an untitled movie in which<br />
Implicit sex acts were shown. Judge Kasler<br />
ent to the theatre at the request of police<br />
) determine if there was probable cause to<br />
rosecute on obscenity charges . . . Marlon<br />
rando's starrer, "Last Tango in Paris," is<br />
jming to town and will open May 9 in<br />
le Amherst, now a Cinemette theatre, at<br />
le city's line. All seats will be reserved and<br />
II tickets will be $4 at all times. The admce<br />
sale has opened and inasmuch as the<br />
Im is X-rated, the premiere ad says "No<br />
ie under 18 admitted."<br />
William Abrams, manager of the United<br />
rtists branch, invited exhibitors to a preew<br />
of "White Lightning" Monday (16) in<br />
le operators' screening room at 498 Pearl<br />
:. Burt Reynolds and Jennifer Billingsley<br />
•e starred. The feature was applauded by<br />
le theatremen . . . Bausch & Lomb of<br />
ochester, developers of CinemaScope for<br />
le screen, has appointed Kenneth J. Zdziei<br />
of Fairport as director of quality, Soflens<br />
vision. He previously was with two Chiigo<br />
firms . . . Robert J. O'Neil of Wilimsville<br />
has been app>ointed vice-president,<br />
arketing, for the Entertainment Products<br />
roup of GTE Sylvania in Batavia. He<br />
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BALTIMORE<br />
^welve Baltimoreans will attend the 40th<br />
Variety Clubs International convention<br />
in Dublin, Ireland, joining approximately<br />
1,400 who already have made reservations<br />
to attend the May 4-12 event. Going to<br />
Dublin from here are Phil Harris, chief<br />
barker. Tent 19; Mrs. Ellen Davis, member<br />
of Women of Variety 19; Mr. and Mrs.<br />
Harry Friedlander; Michael and Manny<br />
Rudick; Miriam Bobys; Anne Bobys; Mr.<br />
and Mrs. Phil Weinberg, and Mr. and Mrs.<br />
Sol Wagner. Some will be staying at the<br />
Intercontinental Hotel and others at the<br />
Burlington Hotel during the get-together.<br />
Leon B. Back, general manager, Rome<br />
Theatres, and president of NATO of Maryland,<br />
and Mrs. Back returned from Los<br />
Angeles Monday (16). They stayed at the<br />
Sportsmen's Lodge in North Hollywood<br />
within walking distance of their son and<br />
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Leon B.<br />
Back jr., and his mother Mrs. Lillian Back,<br />
who just celebrated her 87th birthday<br />
March 16. The star attraction of the trip<br />
was little Leon B. Back III, now one month<br />
old, who delighted his grandparents and<br />
great-grandmother no end. Leon brought<br />
back scores of pictures of the infant to show<br />
co-workers and friends.<br />
Walter Teed, manager of Rome's Super-<br />
170 Drive-In, has just purchased a home in<br />
south Florida, presently as an investment<br />
but ultimately in<br />
which to retire.<br />
Miss Susan Kropfelder, clerk-typist in<br />
R/C Theatres' main office, 19 West Mount<br />
Royal Ave., just celebrated her 19th birthday.<br />
The office crowd gave her a surprise<br />
birthday party Friday (13). highlighted by a<br />
delicious cake (with 20 candles for "good<br />
luck") and ice cream.<br />
Aaron Seidler, executive at R/C Theatres,<br />
and Mrs. (Pearl) Seidler just returned Monday<br />
(16) from a three-week trip to Europe<br />
which included Israel, London, Italy and<br />
the Scandinavian countries. The last day of<br />
the journey was spent in New York. The<br />
trip was Seidler's birthday present to his<br />
wife . . . Mrs. Frances Simpson, manager<br />
of R/C Theatres' Fredericksburg, Va., office,<br />
will leave Friday (27) for San Francisco<br />
to visit some of her family.<br />
Henry Dusman of J. F. Dusman Co., 12<br />
East 25th St., North Baltimore, was extolling<br />
with great pride the beautiful building<br />
which houses his office. He stated he<br />
purchased the house about 24 years ago<br />
and very soon it will be 100 years old!<br />
Mayor William D. Schaefer designated<br />
Sunday (15) through Saturday (21) as "Walt<br />
Disney Week" in the city to celebrate Disney's<br />
50 years of family entertainment.<br />
Local TV and radio stations tied-in to promote<br />
the event . . . The exclusive premiere<br />
in Maryland of "Ace Eli and Rodger of the<br />
Skies," starring Cliff Robertson, was held<br />
Wednesday (11) at the Northpoint Drive-In,<br />
Cluster, Crest and Harford Mall Cinema 2<br />
. . . Jack<br />
F. Beauchamp, general manager<br />
of WBAL-TV, was elected vice-president<br />
of the WBAL-TV division by the Hearst<br />
Corp. at a meeting of the corporation's<br />
board of directors.<br />
The death of actress Minna Gombell<br />
Saturday (14) in Santa Monica, Calif., at<br />
the age of 81, had especial significance<br />
here. She was graduated from Western<br />
High School here in 1909 and performed<br />
in "The Private Secretary," put on by the<br />
1911 graduating class of City College (the<br />
boys' high school).<br />
the News American pointing up the school's<br />
recent gala, opening centennial events.<br />
Phil Harris, chief barker of Tent 25,<br />
C. William Pacy, executive, F. H. Durkee<br />
Enterprises, and a member of the Mc-<br />
Donogh School board of trustees, is current<br />
chairman of the Centennial Ball here. He<br />
appeared in a group photo Monday (16) in<br />
advises<br />
that the Variety Club is having Israeli<br />
Night Wednesday (25) at Overlea Hall from<br />
7 p.m. to 1 1 p.m. The star attraction will be<br />
a performance of Israeli dancing by a guest<br />
artist. There also will be Bernie Allen's<br />
orchestra, a continuous open bar and a<br />
"fabulous" buffet. Harris advised early<br />
reservations, which may be made by phoning<br />
484-2947 (Mrs. Leslie Cimino, Variety<br />
secretary) or LA 3-0662 (Harris) ... In<br />
conjunction with Women of Variety, Tent<br />
19 held a joint meeting Tuesday (10) at the<br />
Balmoral Apartments Party Room. It was<br />
pledged that enough money would be raised<br />
for four Sunshine Coaches before the end<br />
of the year. Wednesday (11), at a meeting<br />
in Mayor William D. Schaefer's office,<br />
Variety presented a Sunshine Coach for the<br />
bureau of recreation for the handicapped.<br />
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3XOFFICE :: April 23, 1973<br />
E-7
WASHINGTON<br />
Ttobert S. Scott has been named assistant<br />
director of the U. S. Information Agency<br />
by James Keogh, USIA director. He will<br />
head the agency's motion picture and TV<br />
service. In this capacity Scott, through film<br />
and TV productions, will seek "to provide<br />
foreign audiences with the visual experience<br />
with which they can form their images of<br />
the U. S. in true context and perspective."<br />
Scott is a past president of the Information<br />
Film Producers of America and is chairman<br />
of the board of governors. He has worked<br />
in the film sections of the Air Force Ballistic<br />
Missile Program and the Atomic Energy<br />
Commission and since 1970 as director of<br />
the local office of the Aerospace Corp.<br />
The Variety Club's benefit celebrity banquet<br />
for the Catholic Office of Drug Education<br />
(CODE) at the Shoreham Hotel<br />
Wednesday (25), honoring Princess Grace<br />
of Monaco and with Vice-President Spiro<br />
T. Agnew as special guest, will be attended<br />
by the diplomatic contingency, members of<br />
the Congress and official Washington as<br />
well as theatrical personalities. Among those<br />
from the stage, screen and TV accepting<br />
invitations, besides Art Linkletter, who will<br />
act as master of ceremonies, are George<br />
Kennedy, Johnny Weismuller, Celeste Holm,<br />
Dick Shawn, Tammy Grimes, Mike Douglas,<br />
Laurence Tierney, Jack Benny, Maureen<br />
O'Hara and Jennifer O'Neill. Chief barker<br />
is David H. Legum and CODE's national<br />
coordinator is Father Roland Melody, S.T.<br />
Alex Schimel, Universal branch chief,<br />
screened "Guns of a Stranger" for exhibitors<br />
at MPAA Tuesday afternoon (10) and that<br />
evening Warner Bros, sneaked "Scarecrow"<br />
at the K-B Cinema . . . MGM division manager<br />
Jerry Levy tradescreened "Soylent<br />
Green" at MPAA Wednesday (11) and<br />
"Wicked, Wicked" Friday (13) . . . Fritz<br />
Goldschmidt, Avco Embassy branch manager,<br />
invited exhibitors to attend a tradescreening<br />
of "Wedding in White" at the<br />
K-B screening room Thursday (12) . . .<br />
Donna Liftman, National General branch<br />
manager, screened "Fists of Fury" and also<br />
screened the first two reels of "Lady Ice"<br />
for exhibitors Thursday (19) at MPAA.<br />
Robert Bums, manager of the new Jerry<br />
Lewis Cinema 1, 2 and 3 in District Heights,<br />
attracted much attention as a result of his<br />
publicity for the opening Wednesday (18)<br />
of Paramount's "Charlotte's Web"' by having<br />
local talent as costume characters. Harley<br />
Davidson's Independent Theatres books<br />
the 798-seat complex—266 seats in each<br />
auditorium.<br />
The WOMPI Club elected Betty Kelly,<br />
Wheeler Films, as its new president for<br />
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1973-74. Judy Pratt, National Archives, and<br />
Julie Nolan, District Theatres, were elected<br />
first and second vice-presidents, respectively.<br />
Doris Lackey, also of District Theatres, was<br />
chosen recording secretary and Helaine Bell,<br />
Wheeler Films, corresponding secretary.<br />
Cathy Mathis, Byron Motion Pictures Laboratory,<br />
elected as treasurer, completed the<br />
slate of officers, which was elected unanimously.<br />
The installation has been set for<br />
June 16 at the Ramada Inn.<br />
Raymond St. Jacques, director, producer<br />
and star of "Book of Numbers," said while<br />
here: "We have made Hollywood realize<br />
that blacks are around."<br />
American Film Institute had a press<br />
showing of "Wrestling Queen" and "Frankenstein<br />
in a Fishbowl" in the AFI screening<br />
room Monday (16). The films were replacements<br />
for the Tuesday (17) program. As a<br />
result of the 11th cancellation, "Princess<br />
Yang Kwei Fel," by the distributor, Daniel<br />
Talbot, the theatre was dark Monday (16).<br />
AFI announced the following replacements<br />
for withdrawn films: Thursday (19), Krzystof<br />
Zanussi's "Family Life"; Saturday (21),<br />
Abel Gance's "Napoleon" (an additional<br />
third showing), and Sunday (22), H. P.<br />
Carver's "Silent Enemy" (two additional<br />
showings).<br />
BUFFALO<br />
(Continued from page E-7)<br />
joins Sylvania from the Admiral Corp.,<br />
Chicago.<br />
Variety Club members will celebrate<br />
Monte Carlo night Saturday (28) in the<br />
clubrooms at 193 Delaware Ave., when<br />
barkers and barkerettes will have an opportunity<br />
to make some real money and enjoy<br />
some excellent food served by Clint La-<br />
Flamme . . . The Eastman Kodak Co. of<br />
Rochester soon will introduce a pocket Instamatic<br />
camera "about the size of a pack<br />
of cigarets." Company sources said the camera.<br />
Model 10, will cost less than the<br />
cheapest, which lists for $29.95 . . . Queen<br />
Elizabeth and Prince Philip will spend<br />
seven hours in the Niagara Peninsula June<br />
The Courier Cable Co. has asked<br />
28 . . .<br />
the common council for a two-year extension<br />
on its franchise agreement to provide<br />
citywide CATV service by next February.<br />
Tony Mercurio, Paramount branch manager,<br />
announces that his company and Motown<br />
Industries has signed Diana Ross in a<br />
two-picture agreement. Diana is the star of<br />
"Lady Sing the Blues," which has been a<br />
big boxoffice hit in this area . . . "Brother<br />
Sun, Sister Moon," a Paramount production,<br />
opened Wednesday (18) at Holiday 6, 3801<br />
Union Rd., and Cinema II on the Boulevard<br />
Mall. It is Franco 2^ffirelli's first film<br />
since "Romeo and Juliet" . . . Walt Disney<br />
Productions' "Charley and the Angel" and<br />
"Cinderella" opened Wednesday (18) at<br />
Cinema I on the Boulevard Mall, the North<br />
Park on Hertel Avenue and the Towne,<br />
Abbott and Ridge Road.<br />
Sidney J. Cohen, president of NATO of<br />
New York State, visited Chicago and also<br />
addressed NATO of Michigan at its convention<br />
in a hotel just outside the city.<br />
Cohen recently returned from a board<br />
meeting in Pompano Beach, Fla., and now<br />
is back at his desk in the local offices at<br />
496 Pearl St. ... A series of short films<br />
was presented during the day-long open<br />
house Saturday (14) at Genesee Community<br />
College. The films, ranging in length from<br />
three to ten minutes, varied in form and<br />
style and were shown in the Forum.<br />
Exhibitors in the state of New York were<br />
urged by Sidney Cohen, on his return from<br />
Pompano Beach, Fla., to step up their participation<br />
in film co-productions and to encourage<br />
others to do likewise. He also announced<br />
that it was decided at the meeting<br />
of NATO directors to name a special committee,<br />
to be appointed to prepare recommendations<br />
for the implementation of a<br />
program for annual NATO film awards to<br />
be voted on by the public in theatres from<br />
Memorial Day through Labor Day. The<br />
winners would be announced at NATO's<br />
annual convention and the creation of a<br />
new NATO award will be recommended.<br />
A throwback to 1940, a Model T of jukeboxes,<br />
is going into production at the<br />
Wurlitzer plant in North Tonawanda in<br />
mid-May. It has been introduced in New<br />
York City and is called the Nostalgia.<br />
Present plans call for 2,000 of the instruments<br />
to be produced . . . Douglas Edwards,<br />
CBS news correspondent, is slated to talk<br />
on "The World Today" at the annual advertising<br />
week luncheon of the advertising<br />
women of this city Wednesday (25) in the<br />
Statler Hilton.<br />
Leslie G. Arries jr., vice-president and<br />
general manager of WBEN, has granted<br />
permission to Variety Club Tent 7 to use<br />
any facilities needed in the making of that<br />
long-expected Tent 7 documentary.<br />
Frank Arena, Loews city manager, previewed<br />
"Wattstax" Sunday night (15) in the<br />
Buffalo Theatre. The feature had its regular<br />
opening Wednesday (18) in Loews'<br />
Teck.<br />
Avon Theatre Is Reopened<br />
CANASTOTA, N.Y.—The Avon Theatre<br />
in Canastota was reopened late last month<br />
as a movie house after having been used<br />
for diverse presentations for the past ten<br />
years. Operations manager John Smith said<br />
the Avon would show films on Thursday,<br />
Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, with<br />
kiddies matinees scheduled for the weekends.<br />
Underskyer Starts Season<br />
NEWVILLE, PA. — Donn H.<br />
Mowery,<br />
owner of the Cumberland Drive-In here,<br />
announced that the airer has opened for the<br />
1973 season. A fire in the concession building<br />
March 17 caused extensive damage,<br />
delaying the start of operations. Replacement<br />
of equipment is under way.<br />
E-8 BOXOFFICE :: April 23, 1973
. Also<br />
eminar Held by MGM<br />
or 'Soylenl Green'<br />
LOS ANGELES — Keyed to the Red<br />
rpet<br />
showcase engagement here of "Soyt<br />
Green," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ex-<br />
Attending the publicity and advertisng<br />
seminar for "Soylent Green" held<br />
or approximately 100 exhibitors in Los<br />
Angeles are, left to right, Amos Boy-<br />
:tte, MGM division sales manager; Bill<br />
kladden, MGM vice-president-domesic<br />
sales, and co-producers Russell<br />
rhacher and Walter Seltzer.<br />
5ive advertising, publicity and promotion<br />
ipaign was unveiled to exhibitors Tues-<br />
(10) at a luncheon in the International<br />
jm at the Tail o' the Cock Restaurant,<br />
rring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylorting<br />
and Edward G. Robinson, "Soylent<br />
;en" opened Wednesday (18) at Red<br />
•pet theatres in the Greater Los Angeles<br />
a.<br />
'roducers Walter Seltzer and Russell<br />
icher and Bill Madden, MGM vicesident-domestic<br />
sales, co-hosted the semiparticipating<br />
from the home office<br />
•e Charles M. Powell, director of adverig,<br />
publicity and exploitation; Ted Hatd,<br />
national advertising coordinator, and<br />
n Flinn, publicity executive. Representthe<br />
division office were Amos Boyctte,<br />
:s manager, and Judson Moses, adverig-promotion<br />
manager,<br />
'resentations included slides of the wideging<br />
campaign, outlines of extensive<br />
rs by Heston and by five young actresses<br />
iwn as the "Soylent Green" Furniture<br />
Is, national TV guest appearances by<br />
ston and a May Co. department store<br />
motion through Koret of California and<br />
demoiselle Magazine.<br />
\mong the 100 exhibitors in attendance<br />
"e representatives from Pacific Theatres,<br />
C Theatres, National General Theatres,<br />
(HoUywood Office—6425 Hollywood Blvd., 465-1186)<br />
United Artists Theatres, General Cinema<br />
Corp., Edwards Theatres circuit, California<br />
Sterling Theatres, Sero Amusement Co.,<br />
Metropolitan Theatres, American Multi<br />
Cinema, Cinema Service, Exhibitors Service,<br />
Great Western Theatres, Sanborn<br />
Theatres, Cummings Theatres, Western<br />
Amusement Co. and Film Booking Service.<br />
Vincent Tubbs Attending<br />
Berkeley Film Sessions<br />
BERKELEY, CALIF. — Vincent Tubbs,<br />
press director of community relations at<br />
Warner Bros., returned to the University<br />
of California for a second meeting with<br />
students enrolled in an all-April seminar<br />
on "Black Film History — Appraisals and<br />
Projections."<br />
On a two-day panel with veteran actor<br />
Clarence Muse the previous weekend,<br />
Tubbs' topic was "Let's Say a Good Word<br />
for Hollywood Today," during which he<br />
discussed recent black-oriented films, promotion<br />
and distribution.<br />
The most recent sessions also featured<br />
actresses Isabel Cooley and Juanita Moore<br />
as speakers. Scheduled for subsequent<br />
panels are Gordon Parks jr., Raymond St.<br />
Jacques and Melvin Van Peebles.<br />
Ron Weed Appointed Film<br />
Factory General Manager<br />
HOLLYWOOD — Ron Weed has<br />
been<br />
named general manager of the Film Factory,<br />
Hollywood-based motion picture production<br />
organization, it was announced by<br />
Gene Weed, president. The company is a<br />
subsidiary of Chuck Blore Creative Services.<br />
Formerly distributor for London, Dot,<br />
Liberty and King records in Dallas, Ron<br />
Weed has had extensive experience in motion<br />
picture production. He has produced<br />
films for the Dallas Cowboys as well as<br />
technical and training films for Ling-<br />
Temco-Vought. He also headed his own<br />
graphics and design company in Dallas.<br />
Enchanted Filmarts Buys<br />
Great Western Theatres<br />
LOS ANGELES—George Willson,<br />
president<br />
of Enchanted Filmarts, and William R.<br />
Gibbs, senior vice-president for distribution,<br />
announced Monday (16) the company has<br />
acquired the Great Western Theatres Corp.<br />
in negotiations represented by T. Roger<br />
Duncan, counsel for Enchanted. Enchanted<br />
has purchased the corporation outright and<br />
will assume all managerial reins of the company,<br />
effective immediately.<br />
TBS Starts Extensive<br />
Construction Project<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Extensive construction<br />
is under way at the Burbank Studios in an<br />
effort to accommodate the lots' unprecedented<br />
need for the rental space and facilities<br />
required by feature, TV and TV commercial<br />
producers. Robert K. Hagel, general<br />
manager of TBS, explained that his<br />
company, which has just celebrated its first<br />
birthday, housed as many as 24 separate<br />
shooting companies every day. With only 28<br />
sound stages (some of which were being set<br />
and lighted while others were being used<br />
for shooting), that is more than capacity<br />
rental. The outdoor sets, of course, also<br />
were in total use—and since space is at a<br />
premium on the 103-acre property, building<br />
new stages there would have required tearing<br />
down some of the outdoor sets.<br />
Hagel continued that, with over half of<br />
the shooting on the lot being done for TV, it<br />
was obvious that at least six of the studio's<br />
giant sound stages should be cut in half,<br />
making each half at least 90x135 feet,<br />
which is considerably larger than the new<br />
stages being built elsewhere for TV production.<br />
Four of the stages are being totally divided,<br />
with each half having totally separate<br />
walls and foundations. The other two will<br />
be divided with movable partitions so that<br />
a company which needs to open a section<br />
for a long shot or rear projection can do so<br />
in just a few minutes. Dividing stages rather<br />
than building new ones also is less costly<br />
and therefore does not increase rental rates.<br />
Hagel went on to say, "Now that shooting<br />
abroad is<br />
no longer the economical temptation<br />
that it once was, it is important that<br />
every Hollywood production headquarters<br />
offer facilities and manpower at realistic<br />
prices. With the new sound facility which<br />
we have just opened—and our continuing<br />
program of technical growth—we plan to<br />
keep the Burbank Studios the industry's<br />
major, competitive theatrical production<br />
center."<br />
Billboard Leased by AIP<br />
To Promote 'Dillinger'<br />
LOS ANGELES—American International<br />
has leased the billboard at the southwest<br />
corner of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards<br />
and is displaying a montage of stars<br />
and scenes from "Dillinger," which will be<br />
released in late June. In excess of 1,500,000<br />
automobiles pass this intersection monthly.<br />
XOFFICE :: April 23, 1973 W-1
I<br />
Hollyy^ood<br />
Happenings<br />
achievement in laboratory research and development<br />
with a technical award for its<br />
"DeLuxe System 7 Computerized Printer<br />
and Process Control."<br />
•<br />
gONAR DYER,<br />
vice-president/ industrial novel, it is announced by Carl F. Reardon,<br />
relations at Walt Disney Productions, vice-president and general manager of<br />
who recently retired after 29 years at the GGP Releasing Co. The film will open in<br />
studio, has resigned from the board of directors<br />
of the Ass'n of Motion Picture and Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Kentucky,<br />
ten states, including Ohio, Michigan, Texas,<br />
Television Producers. Dyer was feted by the Nebraska, Utah and West Virginia. In excess<br />
of 5,000,000 copies of the book have<br />
association at a small luncheon at Cave des<br />
Roys, attended by board members and studio<br />
labor relations executives. Edward P.<br />
•<br />
been sold in the U.S. to date.<br />
Prelock, manager of labor relations for Disney,<br />
has been named to succeed Dyer on the grants," has received the national Inter-<br />
Max von Sydow, star of "The Emi-<br />
AMPTP board. The Burbank Studios, headed<br />
by Robert K. Hagel, general manager, picture.<br />
Religious Film Award for the Warner Bros,<br />
was accepted as a member of the AMPTP,<br />
•<br />
bringing the total number of member companies<br />
to 73.<br />
Trueblood of "The Candy Snatchers," a<br />
Tiffany Boiling and director Guerdon<br />
•<br />
General Film Corp. feature, left for the<br />
Frank Jones Associates, a service and world premiere in Miami, scheduled for<br />
production company dealing in all phases Thursday (12).<br />
of film, filmstrip and slide production, announced<br />
its opening at 2609 West Olive Cinemobile's new Mark VIII, the only<br />
•<br />
Ave., Burbank Calif. 91505. The phone known eight-wheel-drive vehicle in the<br />
number is (213) 842-7422.<br />
Western hemisphere, will be used on Arizona<br />
locations for "The Trial of Billy Jack,"<br />
•<br />
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Trader Horn," which is going into production next month.<br />
new adventure film starring Rod Taylor,<br />
•<br />
Anne Heywood and Jean Sorel, has inspired Producer-director-writer Sidney Sheldon,<br />
four Trader Horn Safari tours to Africa as back from London, immediately started<br />
a joint venture of American Airlines, preproduction work on "The Naked Face."<br />
BOAC, the Fred I. Tourtelot Organization<br />
•<br />
and Percival Tours.<br />
A special press conference for 50 representatives<br />
of high school and college news-<br />
•<br />
Jim Kelly, co-star of "Enter the Dragon," papers and cinema departments was held at<br />
Warner Bros, drama of today's martial arts, the Beverly Hilton Hotel Thursday (5) for<br />
has come back to Los Angeles from location Brian De Palma, director of American International's<br />
terror drama, "Sisters." The<br />
filming in Hong Kong.<br />
*<br />
picture opens soon in six theatres in the<br />
The first J. W. Robinson's-City of Hope Greater Los Angeles area.<br />
Tennis Invitational begins Saturday (28) on<br />
•<br />
over 100 private courts between San Diego Dorothy Uhnak, author of "Law and<br />
and Santa Barbara and concludes Sunday Order," was in town for interviews about<br />
(29), with 50 celebrities playing a series of her book which is being published by<br />
exhibition matches on Court One at the Los Simon & Schuster. Mrs. Uhnak is a former<br />
Angeles Tennis Club. Information is available<br />
from Mirisch-Landia Public Relations. generations of New York City policemen.<br />
policewoman and her story is about three<br />
•<br />
Bob Evans is producing "Law and Order"<br />
A national release date of June 8 has for Paramount Pictures.<br />
been set for "Pippi Longstocking," with<br />
•<br />
328 key situations sold for the film version Johnny Mercer, president of the songwriters'<br />
"Hall of Fame," announced 15 liv-<br />
of Astrid Lindgren's best-selling children's<br />
ing composers and authors have been nominated<br />
for the 1973 award. They are Lou<br />
Lee ARTOE XENON LAMPHOUSE<br />
Alter, Leonard Bernstein, Sam Coslow,<br />
SPECIAL MADE AND DESIGNED FOR 3SMM THEATRE<br />
Mack David,<br />
OPERATION<br />
Edward Eliscu, Cliff Fried,<br />
1000 WATT/ 1600 WATT<br />
Bud Green, "Johnny" Green, Herbert<br />
LAMPHOUSE $500<br />
Magidson,<br />
Edward Heyman, Jay Livingston<br />
1600 WATT / 2500 WATT LAMPHOUSE $7SO<br />
and Ray Evans (as a team). Harry Ruby,<br />
Al Stillman and Allie Wrubel.<br />
Lee ARTOE XENON RECTIFIERS<br />
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Honoring their parents on their 60th<br />
2500 WATT<br />
$m^^ ^M AMERICAN MADE ^<br />
wedding anniversary, the son<br />
500.00<br />
and daughter<br />
$700.00<br />
; YEAR PRO RATA GUARANTEE CASH<br />
of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Lesser of Beverly<br />
PRICF-r/w//A.— ,.-\\\\\\vN.2::-/'//////?-«vV and Sciences recognized DeLuxe General's<br />
Creative Management Associates has<br />
been retained to represent Winters/ Rosen<br />
Productions.<br />
•<br />
The Samuel Goldwyn Studios sound department<br />
is handling post-production sound<br />
on Paramounfs "Hit."<br />
•<br />
. . ?", was surprised with a<br />
Barbi Benton, star of "How Did a Nice<br />
Girl Like You .<br />
birthday party at Hugh Hefner's "pad."<br />
Among the guests were Diana Ross, James<br />
Caan, Lynda Day George, Jim Aubrey,<br />
Berry Gordy and Lex Barker.<br />
•<br />
Peggy Lee receives the 23rd annual<br />
Brotherhood Award from the National Conference<br />
of Christians and Jews at a gala<br />
dinner and dance at the Beverly Hilton<br />
Hotel Wednesday (25). Alex Colman will be<br />
honored with the Humanitarian Award,<br />
while Alex Menke will receive the Founders<br />
Award.<br />
•<br />
Variety Club Tent 25 is offering donation<br />
books so that on happy or sad occasions<br />
one can simply tear out a coupon and send<br />
a contribution to Variety Boys Club. Send<br />
to the Boys Club, 2530 Cincinnati St., Los<br />
Angeles 90033, for your book and have a<br />
perfect gift for all time.<br />
•<br />
Warren Oates returned to Hollywood<br />
from a London visit for conferences with<br />
American International Pictures officials on<br />
personal appearances for "Dillinger," which<br />
is set for June 20 release.<br />
•<br />
James T. Aubrey jr., president and chief<br />
executive officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,<br />
announced the appointment of Murray<br />
Spom as vice-president and general manager<br />
of the company's music publishing<br />
division.<br />
•<br />
Alfonso Tafoya, current first vice-president<br />
for Nosotros, a group of professional<br />
actors and actresses with Spanish surnames<br />
dedicated to improving the image of Latins<br />
in TV and motion pictures, has joined the<br />
staff of KABC-TV as an announcer.<br />
•<br />
International Roadmanagement Services<br />
has opened a new office at 6912 Hollywood<br />
Blvd. IRS handles the travel problems of<br />
entertainers, offering personal road managers,<br />
maintenance security, sound systems,<br />
mobile and studio recording facilities and<br />
truck rental and delivery.<br />
•<br />
Stephanie Rothman, head of creative development<br />
for Dimension Pictures, is this<br />
year's guest director at the University of<br />
Chicago Festival of the Arts, scheduled for<br />
May 1-2. Following screening of Miss Rothman's<br />
"It's a Bikini World," "The Student<br />
Nurses," "The Velvet Vampire" and "Group<br />
Marriage," there will be a dinner and panel<br />
discussion hosted by the Documentary Film<br />
Group.<br />
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Pacific Opens Mount Vernon Twins<br />
LOS ANGELES — A mayoralty proclamation,<br />
klieg lights and the Vagabond<br />
Drum and Bugle Corps marked the ribboncutting<br />
ceremonies formally opening the<br />
de luxe Mount Vernon Twin drive-ins in<br />
San Bernardino. The Mount Vernon is the<br />
latest ozoner to operate under the Pacific<br />
Drive-In Theatres banner.<br />
Mayor W. R. "Bob" Holcomb, Councilman<br />
William Katona and City Attorney<br />
Ralph Prince officiated. Adding glamor to<br />
the event was Barbara Sigel, young star of<br />
"Time to Run." Also present were Harold<br />
Werthwein and Judy and Bruce Foynter<br />
sr., developers.<br />
Harold Citron, Frank Diaz, Frank Soh-<br />
'Deep Throat' Takes Over<br />
No. 1 Spot on LA List<br />
LOS ANGELES—"Deep Throat" regained<br />
the 1,000 level (ten times average<br />
business at the Hollywood Pussycat) in its<br />
20th week and again stood No. 1 on the<br />
first-run scene here. "Last Tango in Paris,"<br />
ending its first month at the Fine Arts, reported<br />
640 per cent and "Ludwig," new on<br />
Officiating at opening<br />
ceremonies for the<br />
Mount Vernon Twin<br />
drive-ins, San Bernardino,<br />
are, left to riglit,<br />
Judy Poynter and Harold<br />
Werthwein, developers;<br />
Barbara Sigel,<br />
star of "Time to Run";<br />
Mayor W. R. "Bob"<br />
Holcomb, and Harold<br />
Citron, director of theatre<br />
operations, Pacific<br />
Drive-In Theatres.<br />
ner. Murray Propper and Ed Corbett headed<br />
a delegation from Pacific's home office in<br />
Los Angeles and joining them were Zack<br />
Beiser, Ray Montgomery, Leonard Schwartz,<br />
Jim Melikian and John Teeter.<br />
Don Immenschuch, San Gabriel district<br />
manager; district manager Al Schreiner, and<br />
manager Bruce Poynter jr. were hosts.<br />
Pacific executives were presented with<br />
the "key to the city" and a "certificate of<br />
recognition" was awarded by Jerry Mackley<br />
and Tina Barten, chamber of commerce<br />
representatives, "in appreciation for providing<br />
family entertainment to San Bernardino."<br />
Lido The Emigrants (WB), 4th wk 75<br />
Pontages The Mad Bomber (Cinemation) 75<br />
Pix, Wiltern The Voult of Horror (CRC) 90<br />
Plaza Ludwig (MGM) ''600<br />
Regent—Cries and Whispers (SR), 12th wk .'." '200<br />
UA Cinema Center 1 Chloe in the Afternoon<br />
(Col), 5th wk 80<br />
UA Cinema Center 3 ^Poydoy (CRC), 4th wk. . . ^ 65<br />
UA Cinema Center 4 The Discreet of the<br />
Bourgeoisie (20th-Fox), 16th wk 100<br />
UA Westwood Slither (MGM), 5th wk 360<br />
'Sleuth/ "Lost Horizon'<br />
the Plaza screen, also was in the supergrossing<br />
class at 600.<br />
Rate 275 in Denver<br />
(Average Is 100)<br />
ABC Century City 2 ^The Greot Walti (MGM),<br />
22nd wk '.<br />
, . 65<br />
Beverly The Nelson Affair (Univ) ... 190<br />
Bruin Sleuth (20th-Fox), 17th wk 95 "Sleuth"<br />
Crest Cinema<br />
and "Lost<br />
Sove the Tiger Horizon," holdovers, (Para), 8th wk.<br />
hit<br />
. .270<br />
Fine Arts Lost Tongo in Paris (UA), 4th wk. . . .640 the 275 bull's eye. "Sounder," 16th week at<br />
Fox Wilshire Mon of La Moncho (UA), 17th wk. 65<br />
Hollywood Five Fingers of Death (WB), 3rd wk. 80<br />
the Crest Theatre, scored 200, rounding out<br />
Hollywood Cinema, National Lost Horizon (Col), the report's<br />
5th wk<br />
top trio.<br />
1 60<br />
Hollywood Pacific High Plains Drifter (Univ) ...350 Aloddin Mon of La Mancha (UA), 17th wk 100<br />
Hollywood Pussycot ^Deep Throot (SR),<br />
Center The Poseidon Adventure (20th-Fox)<br />
20th wk<br />
1 ,000 17th wk ]00<br />
Century 21 Jeremiah Johnson (WB), 16th wk. ..100<br />
Cherry Creek, Villa Italia ^Lost Horizon (Col),<br />
2nd wk 275<br />
CINERAMA IS IN<br />
Cinderella City, North Valley, Westland<br />
Two People (Univ), 2nd wk 110<br />
SHOW BUSINESS IN<br />
Cooper Sore the Tiger (Para), 6th wk 120<br />
Crest Sounder (20th-Fox), 1<br />
HAWAII TOO.<br />
6th wk 200<br />
Denham Sleuth (20th-Fox), 4th wk 275<br />
When you come to Walkiki,<br />
Denver 1, Lakeside ^Walking Toll (CRC), 2nd wk 110<br />
Denver 2 Black Gunn (Col), 2nd wk 100<br />
•^°'^'t miss the famous<br />
BlB^i/C*'<br />
Do" Ho Esquire Cesar and Rosalie (SR) 50<br />
[HAWAiil Show. Flick 1 The Discreet<br />
. at<br />
Charm of the Bourgeoisie<br />
.<br />
i(20th-Fox), 4th wk 1 30<br />
l^Hgma<br />
J Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel.<br />
Flick 2 International Film Festival 110<br />
IN WAIKIKI: REEF • REEF TOWERS EDGEWATER Paramount The Thief Who Came to Dinner<br />
(WB), 2nd wk • 95<br />
University Hills The Emigrants (WB), 6th wk. ..135<br />
DEN'VER—A score of 275 was good<br />
enough to rank a film as Denver's top boxoffice<br />
draw during the report week and both<br />
Tent 25 Salutes Scullys-<br />
Membership Rise Noted<br />
LOS ANGELES—Over 600 attended the<br />
Variety Club of Southern California Tent<br />
25 Wednesday (18) testimonial luncheon<br />
honoring Vin Scully, long-time Dodger<br />
broadcaster, it is announced by Joseph<br />
Sinay, chief barker.<br />
Milton L Moritz, vicepresident<br />
of advertising and publicity for<br />
American International Pictures, was chairman<br />
of the luncheon held in the Grand Ballroom<br />
of the Beverly Hilton and past chief<br />
barker Monty Hall was master of ceremonies.<br />
Also taking part in the program were<br />
Sherrill C. Corwin, chairman of the board<br />
of Metropolitan ITieatres Corp. and president<br />
of Variety Clubs International, and<br />
Leland L. Kirk, assistant secretary-treasurer<br />
of Walt Disney Productions, who presented<br />
four Sunshine Coaches for the use of needy<br />
youngsters. In making the presentation, Kirk<br />
said: "It is in keeping with Walt Disney's<br />
wishes that these coaches are being given<br />
to aid needy children."<br />
A fifth coach was donated by Jeff and<br />
Randy Lapin, representing their father Al<br />
Lapin, chairman of the board of International<br />
Industries.<br />
In other Variety Club business, Sinay<br />
reported a "phenomenal upsurge" in Tent<br />
25 membership in the first four months of<br />
1973. The membership now stands at 810<br />
and Sinay hopes it will reach 1,000 before<br />
the year is up.<br />
Newest members of Tent 25 include Jack<br />
L. Warner, Jack Haley jr., Cary Grant,<br />
Bullets Durgom, Abe Lastfogel, Richard<br />
Crenna, Paul Kohner, David Brown, Jules<br />
C. Stein, Jonie Taps, Herman Citrom, Stanley<br />
Kramer, John Factor, Paul Mazursky,<br />
Danny Goodman, Tony Owen, Irving Ludwig,<br />
Paul Ziffren, Victor Carter, Arnold<br />
Familian, Fred Tushinsky, Ben Maltz, Alfred<br />
Lushing, Elmer Bernstein and Tom<br />
Brokaw.<br />
Also, Amnon Bamess, Albert Parvin, Albert<br />
Spiegel, Gary Familian, Bram Goldsmith,<br />
Dan Greenberg, Al Lapin jr., Henry<br />
Rogers, Irwin Goldenberg, Martin Ransohoff,<br />
Yale Summers, Charles Fries, David<br />
Janssen and Sol Schwartz.<br />
Dick Stafford to Soxton<br />
LOS ANGELES — Saxton Films announces<br />
the appointment of Richard Stafford<br />
of Cardinal Films of Jx)s Angeles to<br />
handle its product in the Los Angeles and<br />
San Francisco-Seattle-Portland territories.<br />
Stafford has been Western division for Cinema<br />
5, where he has been one of the leaders<br />
in that company's distribution network.<br />
"The Laughing Policeman" has had Anthony<br />
Zerbe added to its cast.<br />
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)XOFFICE :: April 23, 1973 W-5
—<br />
LOS ANGELES<br />
Leon P. Blender, American International<br />
Pictures' executive vice-president in<br />
charge of sales and distribution, and Richard<br />
B. Graff, vice-president and general<br />
sales manager, are back from New York<br />
iTieetings regarding the release of "Heavy<br />
Traffic," "Dillinger." "Slaughter II," Sisters,"<br />
"Blacula II," "Coffy" and "Little<br />
Cigars." AIP's Southern division sales manager<br />
Robert Steuer returned from Dallas<br />
after setting releases for the same films.<br />
Bill Madden, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer<br />
vice-president, domestic sales, was in Detroit<br />
for the NATO of Michigan convention<br />
and meetings with exhibitors for holiday<br />
datings of "Pat Garrett and Billy<br />
the Kid,"<br />
"Shaft in Africa" and "The Man Who<br />
Loved Cat Dancing."<br />
M e t r o-G o 1 d w y n-Mayer's<br />
"Soylent<br />
Green," starring Charlton Heston, Leigh<br />
Taylor-Young and Edward G. Robinson,<br />
opened Wednesday (18) at Red Carpet theatres<br />
in<br />
the Greater Los Angeles area.<br />
Edward Fox, who stars in Fred Zinnemann's<br />
"The Day of the Jackal," arrives in<br />
town in early May to meet with committee<br />
members in charge of the black-tie benefit<br />
showing sponsored by the International<br />
Student Center at the Pacific Cinerama<br />
Dome. Following the charity premiere, set<br />
for May 17, the picture begins a regular<br />
exclusive engagement at<br />
the Dome.<br />
Vince Edwards departed on a seven-city<br />
personal appearance tour to plug "The Mad<br />
Bomber," his current starrer for Phil Yordan<br />
and Cinemation.<br />
Lewis Oubre jr. of Southern Film Distribution<br />
Co. in New Orleans won an allexpense-paid<br />
trip to Las Vegas from Ray<br />
Molina Productions for his performance in<br />
"Voodoo Heartbeat," a Saxton Films release.<br />
AIP introduced a package of films entitled<br />
"Monsterama" for Easter release. All<br />
to be shown on one bill, the features included<br />
"Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster,"<br />
"YOG—Monster From Space," "The Incredible<br />
2-Headed Transplant" and "Destroy<br />
All Monsters."<br />
Robert Saxton, president of Saxton Films,<br />
returned to Los Angeles after a swing<br />
around the country calling on distributors in<br />
New Orleans, Atlanta, Charlotte and Kansas<br />
City. Saxton, who also serves as vicepresident<br />
of NATO of North and South<br />
Carolina, took a few days to oversee his<br />
theatre business in South Carolina.<br />
Robert M. Weitman returned Friday (13)<br />
from New York meetings with Columbia<br />
Pictures home office executives.<br />
Mamoulian reminded the assemblage that<br />
as recent as ten years ago one could stay at<br />
home reading a book or go to see a horrorsuspense<br />
story and get "kicks" and thrills<br />
from it. "One could return to reality easily<br />
after this," he stated. "But today, with<br />
muggings, killings and the atom bomb in<br />
reserve in the wings, the reality of the horror<br />
stories has caught up with us.<br />
All these<br />
terrors of the insecure household and real<br />
world have become real."<br />
Actor Rock Hudson was cited for his<br />
role in Paramount's "Seconds" (1966), as<br />
well as for his entire career; actress Fay<br />
Wray for her work in the classic thriller of<br />
all time, "King Kong," and actor Barry Atwater<br />
for his portrayal of the vampire in a<br />
TV production.<br />
Bob Clampett, award-winning veteran<br />
animator-producer, who created Bugs<br />
Bunny, Tweety & the Putty Cat, Porky Pig,<br />
Cecil the Sea Sick Sea Serpent and many<br />
other great cartoon characters, showed a<br />
sample reel as he received his trophy from<br />
the society.<br />
Joseph R. Mass, advertising director for<br />
International Syndication Co., received a<br />
special award for creative advertising, publicity<br />
and promotion, while David Simmons,<br />
vice-president of the Ecuadorian-based production-distribution<br />
company, received the<br />
award for the firm's president, James B.<br />
Mobley, for "The Caves of the Tayos,"<br />
which he currently is shooting in the Andes<br />
Mountains of South America.<br />
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A gala West Coast double premiere of<br />
Arthur P. Jacobs' musical adaptation of<br />
Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" will benefit<br />
the Resthaven Community Mental Health<br />
Center. The events will be May 23 and May<br />
26 at ABC Century City II.<br />
11th Annual Awards Given<br />
By Count Dracula Society<br />
HOLLYWOOD—A crowd of 400 fans of<br />
films in the spooky zone of horror and<br />
imagination paid $10 each to attend the<br />
11th annual Mrs. Ann Radcliffe Awards<br />
dinner of the Count Dracula Society, held<br />
Saturday (7) at the Alexander Hotel. Robert<br />
Wise, president of the Directors Guild of<br />
America, veteran filmmaker and Oscar winner,<br />
received the society's Cinema Award<br />
for his accomplishments.<br />
Although his last science-fiction feature<br />
was Universal's "The Andromeda Strain,"<br />
Wise has a record in this genre dating back<br />
to the early '40s. He edited "Curse of the<br />
Cat People" in 1943 and "The Body<br />
Snatchers" in 1955, with his directorial<br />
work on "The Day the Earth Stood Still"<br />
(1945) still appearing before the public constantly<br />
on TV. In 1951, his entry was "The<br />
Haunting."<br />
As Wise accepted his award after a fine<br />
introduction by Rouben Mamoulian, he told<br />
the enthusiastic group of writers, directors,<br />
producers and fans that he had more fun<br />
and excitement in films of this type than<br />
with "The Sound of Music," which, he<br />
added, was "the big one" in terms of<br />
grosses.<br />
'Billy Jack' Screen Tests<br />
Held in Century City SC<br />
LOS ANGELES — Over 60,000 persons<br />
viewed "Billy Jack" screen tests arranged<br />
by Warner Bros, in a unique promotion<br />
with the merchants of Century City Shopping<br />
Center here. The talent search, conducted<br />
on two consecutive Fridays and<br />
Saturdays, utilized a videotape camera set<br />
up in the center of the shopping area. A<br />
23-inch monitor enabled shoppers to view<br />
the tests live. The performer judged most<br />
talented will be offered a role in the sequel<br />
to<br />
"Billy Jack."<br />
All merchants in the 55-store complex<br />
distributed screen test entry blanks and featured<br />
"Billy Jack" displays. Four local TV<br />
stations—Channels 2, 4, 9 and 11—telecast<br />
the competition, which also was covered by<br />
four top radio outlets — KABC, KRLA,<br />
KLOS and KIIS.<br />
In addition to six ten-foot displays at the<br />
shopping center, plugging the local "Billy<br />
Jack" engagement, the film's featurette was<br />
shown continuously on a special 23-inch<br />
screen via a rear-screen projector.<br />
Print media covering the unusual promotion<br />
included the Herald Examiner,<br />
Entertainment Today and the weekly magazine<br />
Centurion.<br />
"Billy Jack" stars Tom Laughlin and Delores<br />
Taylor. The National Student Film<br />
Corp. production was produced by Mary<br />
Rose Solti and directed by T. C. Frank<br />
from a screenplay by Frank and Teresa<br />
Christina.<br />
W-6 BOXOFFICE :: April 23, 1973
NGT District Manager<br />
Post to James Sutton<br />
LOS ANGELES — James R. Sutton has<br />
iccn promoted to district manager in the<br />
^^^^^<br />
, Northern Pacific division<br />
of National<br />
General Theatres, it is<br />
announced by Nat D.<br />
Fellman, president of<br />
the Los Angeles-based<br />
theatre circuit.<br />
k ^'^JJ^P<br />
Sutton, who moves<br />
^L ^SF to his new post in San<br />
^^<br />
Francisco<br />
""JP^^^<br />
from Los<br />
Angeles where he has<br />
^^^ ^K^^^^^<br />
„ ^ been an administra-<br />
Janies R. Sutton<br />
yve assistant in the<br />
lomc office, started his career with the<br />
irm's Midwest division in 1946.<br />
^ew Clause Might Hamper<br />
udependents' Production<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Inclusion of an umrella<br />
clause and the establishment of grievnce<br />
and arbitration procedures have been<br />
dded to the Producers Guild of America<br />
asic agreement of 1968 in an amendment<br />
greement signed Wednesday (11) by Billy<br />
1. Hunt, executive vice-president of the<br />
Lss'n of Motion Picture and Television Proucers,<br />
and Lou Greenspan, executive dicctor<br />
of the Producers Guild of America,<br />
he agreement, which takes effect immeditely.<br />
was reached after many months of<br />
cgotiation between the guild and AMPTP.<br />
The umbrella clause is one of several<br />
ems in the amendment agreement and<br />
rings the PGA to parity with similar umrella<br />
clauses of other Hollywood guilds.<br />
It makes the basic agreement binding, not<br />
nly upon employer signatories, but also<br />
pon (1) subsidiary companies producing<br />
ictures in the U.S. in which the signatory<br />
as a 50 per cent or more financial interest<br />
nd (2) independent companies producing<br />
ictures under financial, production or disibution<br />
contracts with signatory employrs,<br />
unless the employer gives the PGA<br />
ppropriate notice that the picture is not to<br />
e covered by the basic agreement.<br />
The inclusion of the umbrella clause is<br />
ignificant regarding increases in employer<br />
ontributions to the guild's pension and<br />
ealth and welfare plans for producers, as-<br />
Dciate producers and executive producers<br />
'ho heretofore were not covered when<br />
'orking for such subsidiary or independent<br />
ompanies.<br />
The amendment agreement also estabshes<br />
grievance and arbitration procedures<br />
3r producers with regard to interpretation,<br />
r alleged violation, of the agreement. These<br />
ew procedures do not apply to disputes<br />
rising out of personal service contracts.<br />
:olo. Wants DST Changed<br />
DENVER — The Colorado House of<br />
epresentatives passed a memorial to Conress<br />
asking that body to shorten the period<br />
)r Daylight Saving Time from the present<br />
x months to<br />
four months.<br />
D E N y E R<br />
gevere weather conditions are hampering<br />
drive-in operations throughout the entire<br />
Rocky Mountain area. Many of the outdoor<br />
theatres have had to postpone their<br />
seasonal openings due to the fact that a<br />
heavy snow cover has prevented any access<br />
to the theatres themselves. Snow depths<br />
have averaged approximately 175 per cent<br />
of normal through most of the territory<br />
and, most peculiarly, the heaviest snow<br />
storms, rating close to blizzard proportions,<br />
have occurred during the weekends. Exhibitors<br />
are hoping for a fast spring warmup<br />
to get back into operation and to try to<br />
recoup a part of those grosses which were<br />
wiped out in the weekend storms.<br />
Funeral services were held here for Fred<br />
L. Knill who died at age 68. <strong>Boxoffice</strong> regrets<br />
that Knill's age was incorrectly reported<br />
last week as 58. One of the pioneers<br />
in both exhibition and distribution in the<br />
Rocky Mountain area, Knill had been a<br />
Colo. House Passes Bill<br />
Restricting X Film Fare<br />
DENVER—The Colorado House of Representatives<br />
has passed on first reading a<br />
bill that would outlaw the showing of X-<br />
rated films in such a manner that the screen<br />
could be viewed from outside the theatre.<br />
Aimed specifically<br />
at the East 88th Avenue<br />
Drive-In in Adams County, the bill was<br />
introduced by Rep. Morgan Smith from that<br />
county.<br />
The East 88th Avenue ozoner, opened in<br />
1971, showed family-type films the rest of<br />
that year, lost money and switched to X-<br />
rated films in 1972, showing them all year.<br />
The practice was continued until the drivein<br />
was closed this year by two court orders.<br />
One such order was based on the X-rated<br />
films, the other on the premise that the airer<br />
had not done the proper amount of work<br />
around the theatre, such as putting in sidewalks,<br />
curbs and gutters as required by the<br />
permit issued for the original construction.<br />
The owners say they were waiting until the<br />
roads around the theatre were graded properly.<br />
The proposed law would prohibit the<br />
promotion of obscenity to persons under 18<br />
years of age. Violations would be a Class<br />
One misdemeanor subject to a fine of up<br />
to $5,000.<br />
The films shown by the East 88th Avenue<br />
Drive-In are plainly visible over a wide<br />
area. Residents complain they cannot use<br />
their backyards or the nearby schoolhouse<br />
for evening activities, since the screen easily<br />
can be seen.<br />
Smith pointed out that the present laws<br />
relating to the promotion of obscene materials<br />
to minors involve only the "one-toone"<br />
relationship; that is, the sale of the<br />
material or, in this case, a theatre ticket to<br />
a minor.<br />
But in the present case, according to<br />
Smith, the youngsters are exposed to it<br />
whether they want to be or not or whether<br />
their parents want them to be or not. Smith<br />
booker, office manager and salesman for<br />
Warner Bros. Pictures until 1932, at which<br />
time he left to help in forming the Gibraltar<br />
Enterprises circuit of theatres. For the past<br />
ten years he had operated the Fred Knill<br />
Booking & Buying organization, serving independents<br />
in the area. He is survived by<br />
his wife Irene; his son Dr. Lamar Knill, his<br />
daughter Mrs. Barbara Wilmore. and seven<br />
grandchildren.<br />
Columbia had a Friday the 13th screening<br />
of the new rock musical "Godspell" at<br />
the Century Screening Room and also<br />
screened "Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me"<br />
at the Century.<br />
Dolly Heyl, wife of Bob Heyl, Wyoming<br />
Theatre. Torrington. Wyo., escaped serious<br />
injury in a three-car smashup in the outskirts<br />
of Torrington . . Milton Boehm,<br />
.<br />
Cover Theatre, Fort Morgan, visited the<br />
exchanges to set datings.<br />
views the situation as an invasion of privacy.<br />
One lawmaker said the bill<br />
was rather in<br />
scope. He said that if the outdoor theatre<br />
needs to be regulated, then the bill should<br />
be specific.<br />
On two occasions the underskyer has<br />
tried to make changes so that the films<br />
could not be seen outside the theatre. In<br />
both instances they have been stopped by<br />
the Adams County Board of Supervisors.<br />
The drive-in proposed building a 30-foot<br />
fence and, failing in that, they tried to put<br />
up a light screen that would shut off the<br />
view from the outside. In fact, the theatre<br />
had the poles erected for the light screen<br />
when the supervisors stepf)ed in. These matters<br />
are in the courts.<br />
Leonard Nimoy to Narrate<br />
'The Caves of the Tayos'<br />
HOLLYWOOD — James Mobley, president<br />
and chief executive officer of International<br />
Syndication Co., production-distribution<br />
firm with home offices in Quito,<br />
Ecuador, announced that Leonard Nimoy<br />
has been signed to appear in and to narrate<br />
"The Caves of the Tayos," documentary<br />
feature now being lensed in Ecuador.<br />
Nimoy will narrate the script by Mobley<br />
and author Peter Tompkins.<br />
"The Caves of the Tayos" is slated for<br />
theatrical release late in 1973 through<br />
National Leisure.<br />
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Highland Is Building<br />
Twin Airer in Denver<br />
DENVER — Highland Theatres, headquartering<br />
in Boulder. Colo., is building its<br />
14th drive-in in southwest Denver. It will<br />
be a twin operation, with a 500-car capacity<br />
in each theatre. To be named the Cinderella,<br />
the facility is scheduled to open May 30.<br />
The dual ozoner has been designed by<br />
Mel Glatz, Lakewood, Colo., and it has 13<br />
acres of space, with room for expansion.<br />
The theatre is located at Santa Fe and<br />
Hampden avenues.<br />
A fully automated projection room will<br />
be a feature and the latest model of Reed<br />
speakers will be installed. The screen tower<br />
is being erected by Shelby. Butler Fixture<br />
& Mfg. Co. is building a modern concession<br />
stand, with most of the serving equipment<br />
being supplied by Proctor Distributing<br />
Co., including a Cretors President popper,<br />
Supurdisplay butter servers. Star food warmers,<br />
Sitco beverage dispensers, Polar Chip<br />
ice chests, Scotsman ice machines, Schaeffer<br />
ice cream chests. Speedster pizza oven, Roll-<br />
A-Grill<br />
hot dog machines and Howard refrigerators<br />
and freezers.<br />
The projection booth will be supplied by<br />
National Theatre Supply and Western Service<br />
& Theatre Supply, with NTS supplying<br />
Simplex 35 projector mechanisms, LL-3<br />
pedestals and 175 drive-in sound systems.<br />
Schneider Corp. lenses will be used and<br />
EPRAD Super Hotshot heaters.<br />
Western Service will furnish four X-6000<br />
xenon lamphouses by Optical Radiation<br />
Corp., along with two General Register<br />
ticket machines.<br />
Kindoir to Build Dualer<br />
WATSON VILLE, CALIF. — Kindair<br />
Corp. has announced that it will build a<br />
twin theatre in the Pajaro Valley Shopping<br />
Center, to be constructed at Airport and<br />
Freedom Boulevard. D. Kirke Erskine of<br />
Kindair said the theatre "will be a modem,<br />
free-standing structure with two auditoriums<br />
containing approximately 400 seats each."<br />
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William McQuiston Jr. Is<br />
Ncrnied SRO Ad Director<br />
SEATTLE — William R. McQuiston jr.<br />
has been named advertising director for the<br />
Sterling Recreation<br />
Organization, it was<br />
announced by Fredric<br />
A. Danz, president of<br />
SRO. McQuiston joined<br />
SRO in July 1971<br />
as art director. He is<br />
a graduate of the<br />
Burnley School of Art<br />
in Seattle and attended<br />
Santa Ana College<br />
in<br />
Wm,<br />
California.<br />
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As advertising director<br />
for SRO and Entertainment Consultants<br />
(SRO's in-house advertising agency),<br />
McQuiston will be responsible for the coordination<br />
and publicity of all of Sterling<br />
Recreation Organization's theatre, broadcast<br />
and bowling facilities throughout Washington.<br />
Oregon and California.<br />
May 1 Debut Planned<br />
For Stardust Dualer<br />
VISTA, CALIF.—The Stardust Twin<br />
Cinema, located in the Broadway Shopping<br />
Center, is expected to open May 1, according<br />
to Gordon Sigafoose, owner-manager.<br />
Each of the auditoriums will seat approximately<br />
230 and the booth will have 35mm<br />
projection equipment. A local premiere<br />
event is being planned for the theatre's<br />
opening.<br />
Sigafoose, who currently resides in La<br />
Jolla but plans to move his family to Vista<br />
after the end of the present school year, will<br />
operate the Stardust Twin Cinema as an<br />
independent theatre and will book two firstrun<br />
pictures for simultaneous runs weekly<br />
through a Hollywood booking organization.<br />
The house policy, he says, will be to have<br />
one G-rated feature playing at all times,<br />
with the other more suited to the tastes of<br />
adult audiences.<br />
Lease for Twin Signed<br />
COTATI, CALIF.—Lease negotiations<br />
have been completed between Codding Enterprises<br />
and William A. Blair for a twin<br />
theatre in a new shopping complex to be<br />
known as Holiday Park.<br />
PORTLAND<br />
Exhibitors miglit benefit from attending an<br />
Academy Awards presentation ceremony,<br />
the whole event including a glimpse<br />
of celebrities, running the gauntlet of press<br />
and fans, as they leave their luxury limousines<br />
at the entrance to the Dorothy Chandler<br />
Pavilion of the Los Angeles County<br />
Music Center. And, if the reaction of fans<br />
could register votes, some of the Oscars<br />
might go to different stars. <strong>Boxoffice</strong> was<br />
well-represented at the recent Oscar event,<br />
with Western editor Syd Cassyd in the front<br />
ranks outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion<br />
interviewing stars and providing both<br />
reporters and photographers with helpful<br />
information.<br />
Your correspondent Arnold Marks and<br />
his wife Isabelle, along with son Rupert J.<br />
and his wife Kathleen, were on hand for<br />
the Academy Awards gala. Marks also is<br />
entertainment editor for the Oregon Journal<br />
and Rupert served as photographer for his<br />
father. The event additionally served as<br />
young Marks' first wedding anniversary<br />
celebration — a true "paper" celebration!<br />
Rupert has been attending premieres, visiting<br />
studios and movie locations since his<br />
childhood and his father completes a 30th<br />
year on the Journal December 23.<br />
4 Entrants Tie in Annual<br />
San Diego Oscar Contest<br />
SAN DIEGO, CALIF.—The San Diego<br />
Tribune reported that four contestants in the<br />
14th annual Oscar Sweepstakes contest<br />
sponsored by theatres in San Diego County,<br />
the Evening Tribune and the San Diego<br />
Union tied for top honors. The four entrants<br />
correctly guessed nine of ten categories in<br />
the<br />
Academy Awards. Winners were slated<br />
to participate in a tie-breaking contest to be<br />
held at the Westgate Plaza Building, Second<br />
and Broadway.<br />
The three top winners in the annual competition<br />
will be escorted on a tour of a<br />
studio in Hollywood.<br />
Members of the judging committee were:<br />
Clark Jordan, chairman, Loma Theatre; Art<br />
Thomas, Spreckels Theatre; Bill Russo and<br />
Cal Tyler, El Dorado theatres; Herb Burton,<br />
Del Mar Drive-In; Art Paulsen, retired,<br />
formerly manager of the Valley Circle Theatre,<br />
and Oscar Nyberg, retired, former district<br />
manager for National General Theatres.<br />
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KAYSVILLE, UTAH—Cinema Theatre<br />
Corp. of Utah acquired the Davis Drive-In<br />
here, effective March 15. Charles McElyea<br />
has been appointed manager of the twin<br />
underskyer.<br />
A spokesman for CTC said the screen<br />
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W-8 BOXOFFICE :: April 23, 1973
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Numbers/ 'The Mack'<br />
^ach 300 in Chicago<br />
CHICAGO—"Book of Numbers," openig<br />
at the Roosevelt, tripled average busiess<br />
at that theatre and tied second-week<br />
The Mack," Oriental, at 300 for the metroolitan<br />
first-run grossing leadership in the<br />
;port period. "The Emigrants," playing a<br />
3th week at the Cinema, still possessed<br />
oxoffice punch and rated 250, tying with<br />
ighth-week "The Heartbreak Kid" for<br />
jnner-up honors.<br />
(Average Is 100)<br />
arnegie ^The Heartbreak Kid (20th-Fox),<br />
8th wk 250<br />
inema The Emigrants (WB), 1 3th wk 250<br />
iquire Save the Tiger [Para), 6th wk 150<br />
ichael Todd Sounder (20th-Fox), ) 7th wk 150<br />
riental The Macic (CRC), 2nd wk 300<br />
ayboy Cesor and Rosalie (SR), 2nd wk 175<br />
Dosevelt Book of Numbers (Emb) 300<br />
ate Lake The Voult of Horror (CRC), 2nd wk. 175<br />
nited Artists Slither (MGM), 3rd wk 1 25<br />
foods Blacksnake (SR), 3rd wk 150<br />
Jourgeoisie,' "The Emigrants'<br />
ead Kansas City With 250s<br />
KANSAS CITY—A relatively<br />
quiet busiess<br />
week saw newcomer "The Discreet<br />
'harm of the Bourgeoisie" at the Festival<br />
nd fifth-week "The Emigrants," Fine Arts,<br />
)p barometer listings with 250 each. Endig<br />
its fourth month on the Parkway 2<br />
;reen, "The Poseidon Adventure" grossed<br />
n even 200.<br />
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lue Ridge I, Ploza, Watts Mill I<br />
The Thief Who Came to Dinner (WB), 3rd wk. 170<br />
lue Ridge II, Empire 1, Ranch Mart —<br />
1<br />
Two People (Univ) 110<br />
lue Ridge III, Ranch Mart 2 ^The Train Robbers<br />
(WB), 8th wk 95<br />
lue Ridge IV The World's Greatest Athlete<br />
(BV), 8th wk<br />
1 00<br />
Dulevard, Riverside, Twin II The RoomMates<br />
(Gen'l) 175<br />
rywood 2, Empire 2, Glenwood I Shamus (Col),<br />
5th wk 135<br />
nbassy ^Sleuth (20th-Fox), 6th wk 125<br />
;stival The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie<br />
(20th-Fox) 250<br />
ne Arts ^The Emigrants (WB), 5th wk 250<br />
3ur theatres The Heartbreak Kid (20th-Fox),<br />
3rd wk 150<br />
lidland Mon of La Mancha (UA), 8th wk 125<br />
arkway 2 The Poseidon Adventure (20th-Fox),<br />
16th wk 200<br />
anch Mart 3 Jeremiah Johnson (WB), 16th wk. 175<br />
ruman Corners III Steelyard Blues (WB),<br />
5th wk 100<br />
im and Kathy Lane Buy<br />
>edan, Kas., Chief Theatre<br />
SEDAN, KAS.—Jim and Kathy Lane of<br />
ulsa, Okla., have purchased the Chief<br />
heatre here from Mr. and Mrs. Colin<br />
lacRae. The Lanes operated the theatre<br />
3r nearly five years after leasing it from<br />
Irs. O. H. (Bernice) Gregg, now residing<br />
1 Chanute, Kas.<br />
Mrs. MacRae, who gave birth to her fifth<br />
hild last November, found her time well<br />
iken and could not keep up with the<br />
leatre<br />
chores.<br />
)ickinson Duo Bows Soon<br />
SALINA, KAS.—Glen W. Dickinson,<br />
resident of Dickinson Operating Co., anounced<br />
that the Mid-State cinemas I and<br />
I in the Salina Mid-State Mall will open in<br />
pproximately 45 to 60 days. The circuit<br />
Iso operates the Vogue and 81 drive-ins<br />
ere. Plans are being made to refurbish the<br />
'ogue.<br />
ST .<br />
LOUIS<br />
^aude Jefferis, wife of the late A. Jefferis,<br />
former president of the Allied<br />
Theatre<br />
Owners organization of the area, a resident<br />
of Piedmont, has been much in the news<br />
lately in connection with a series of sightings<br />
of strange multicolored objects in the<br />
sky over the Ozark town located approximately<br />
130 miles south of here. Hundreds<br />
of residents claim to have seen the objects,<br />
with many admitting to a certain uneasiness<br />
about the lights in the sky. Mrs. Jefferis,<br />
who was active in operation of the family<br />
theatres in Piedmont, now teaches photography<br />
at the high school and has produced<br />
time-exposure photographs of several "flying<br />
objects" taken from the porch of her<br />
home behind the Pine Hill Drive-In. The<br />
pictures show an object shaped like a child's<br />
top or gyroscope hanging in the western<br />
sky. "When you look at it through binoculars,<br />
it appears to rotate like a gyroscope."<br />
she said. "Closer observation revealed spinning<br />
or swirling white, amber, green and<br />
red lights." Mrs. Jefferis said she has seen<br />
as many as four objects in the sky at one<br />
time. "They seem to blink signals to each<br />
other, then speed off in different directions<br />
and disappear."<br />
Gene Bearden, chief of police, said he's<br />
seen the lights and received hundreds of<br />
reports. "My first impression was that it is<br />
something that McDonnell-Douglas or the<br />
government is experimenting with. Obviously<br />
they haven't harmed anyone and don't<br />
seem to pose a threat," Bearden said. One<br />
pragmatic Ozarkian questioned by a Globe-<br />
Democrat reporter said, "You'd think if the<br />
federal government didn't know what these<br />
things were they would send the Army in<br />
to investigate them. There ain't been one<br />
federal agent in town. You reckon the<br />
American government has got something<br />
we don't know about?"<br />
Arthur Enterprises' Magic Lantern Theatre<br />
is featuring through April gallery showings<br />
of oil<br />
paintings—butterflies and studies<br />
in flowers— by Joseph Venezia. General<br />
Cinema Corp.'s Grandview Cinema is displaying<br />
acrylics by Mary Virginia Brown<br />
during the same period.<br />
Film stars booked to appear in productions<br />
in the forthcoming Municipal Opera<br />
season include: Don Anieche in "No, No<br />
Nanette," the week beginning July 2; Carol<br />
Channing in "Lorelei," a special pre-Broadway<br />
engagement for seven days starting July<br />
30; Debbie Reynolds in "Irene," the week<br />
beginning August 6, and Agnes Moorehead<br />
in a 13-night engagement of "Gigi," starting<br />
August 28.<br />
A French film festival will be held at<br />
Webster College Monday (23) through<br />
Wednesday (25), with nine recent films being<br />
shown. Screenings are at 2 and 6 p.m.<br />
on each of the three days. Most of the films<br />
will have English subtitles and all will be<br />
shown in the Loretto-Hilton Center at 130<br />
Edgar Rd. Tickets for the series are $6 for<br />
the general public and $2.50 for students,<br />
with single showings $1 at the door. Three<br />
of the directors will be present to discuss<br />
their work following the screenings. Tickets<br />
for the film festival may be obtained from<br />
the modern language department at Webster<br />
College.<br />
Jefferson Square Duo<br />
Plans Are Set by L&M<br />
CHICAGO—Ground breaking for the<br />
Jefferson Square Mall, which took place<br />
Sunday (1), has spurred the planning for the<br />
previously announced Twin Cinema structure,<br />
according to S. J. Berman, vice-president<br />
and general manager of L&M Management<br />
Co. of Chicago. The theatre will be<br />
built on a four-acre plot south of the Eagle<br />
Supermarket and directly across the street<br />
in the new shopping mall.<br />
Berman said construction will be started<br />
this fall, with opening scheduled for mid-<br />
1974, to coincide with the initial opening of<br />
the shopping facilities.<br />
The twin auditoriums will seat a total of<br />
1,300 persons, with liberal and convenient<br />
parking facilities for the exclusive use of<br />
theatre patrons. The most modern design in<br />
projection and sound equipment, seating,<br />
lounge areas and concession facilities are<br />
being included.<br />
L&M Management owns and operates 24<br />
other theatres in Illinois, Iowa and Indiana,<br />
including five other locations in the Joliet<br />
area.<br />
Indiana Moves to Include<br />
Films in Obscenity Law<br />
INDIANAPOLIS—The Indiana Senate<br />
has completed action on a bill which would<br />
include films under the state's obscenity<br />
law. This action was the result of a recent<br />
court decision in Fort Wayne, Ind., where<br />
charges against a film theatre operator were<br />
dropped after Allen Superior Court Judge<br />
Alfred C. Moellering upheld a previous decision<br />
that the Indiana obscenity statute did<br />
not cover films, since there was no specific<br />
mention of them.<br />
The decision left Fort Wayne authorities<br />
virtually powerless to invoke state laws<br />
against pornographic films. However, the<br />
operator of one of the sexplicit film houses<br />
in Fort Wayne currently is awaiting trial on<br />
charges of violating a recently adopted Fort<br />
Wayne ordinance, which is expected to be<br />
tested in court.<br />
Malco Opening 200-Secrter<br />
SIKESTON, MO.—Herbert R. Levy,<br />
vice-president of Memphis, Tenn.-based<br />
Malco Theatres, and John J. Nooney of St.<br />
Louis, vice-president of Nooney Co., owner<br />
and manager of Kingsway Plaza, announced<br />
that a 200-seat movie house will be opened<br />
in the shopping center late this summer. To<br />
be called the Mall Cinema, construction is<br />
slated to start immediately.<br />
OXOFFICE :: April 23, 1973 C-1
KANSAS CITY<br />
^on Walker, Warner Bros, publicist, reports<br />
that a multiple city break of the<br />
new martial arts film, "Five Fingers of<br />
Death," will be held May 2 at the Empire<br />
and Metro Plaza theatres and the 1-70,<br />
Boulevard and Riverside drive-ins. There<br />
will be a special midnight screening of the<br />
feature at the Metro Theatre Saturday (28),<br />
sponsored by radio station KWKI. Disc<br />
jockeys from the station will be present.<br />
Much on-the-air publicity will be given to<br />
this screening and arrangements have been<br />
made to pass out heralds and special T-<br />
shirts. There also will be a karate demonstration<br />
immediately preceding the screening<br />
by the Jayhawk Judo-Karate Academy<br />
of Kansas City, Kas., directed by Terry<br />
Hudson.<br />
The UMPA board meeting has been<br />
rescheduled<br />
for Tuesday (24). It will be held<br />
at noon at the UMPA office,<br />
at which time<br />
the new officers and directors will be recognized.<br />
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STARRING<br />
Charles<br />
Bronson<br />
Telly<br />
Savalas<br />
Jill<br />
Ireland<br />
John Shipp, Thomas-Shipp Films, was<br />
in Lincoln, Neb., to attend the opening of<br />
the Cooper Plaza theatres Wednesday (18).<br />
Shipp, also recently was hailed by Crown<br />
International Pictures as the "Playdate Mate<br />
of the Month". "Crown Prints," the Crown<br />
International house organ, featured John's<br />
smiling face on its cover. Inside, an indepth<br />
article covered Shipp's industry activities<br />
. . . Mary Hayslip, Thomas-Shipp<br />
office manager, returned last week from her<br />
Caribbean odyssey.<br />
Darrell Manes, Commonwealth Theatres<br />
district manager, is not the president of the<br />
Motion Picture Ass'n of Greater Kansas<br />
City as incorrectly reported in this column<br />
last week in reference to the "Pioneer of the<br />
Year" dinner honoring Jay Wooten. Manes,<br />
who is president of the United Motion Picture<br />
Ass'n, is co-chairman of the Wooten<br />
dinner committee with Danny Smart of<br />
Commonwealth. Lee Joehncks, Commonwealth<br />
Theatres concessions director, is the<br />
president of the MPA, which is sponsoring<br />
the Wooten dinner Tuesday evening (24) at<br />
the Alameda Plaza Hotel, in the Diplomat<br />
Room. Dinner starts at 8, preceded by<br />
cocktails, 7 to 7:45 p.m.<br />
Jeff Schnabel, who has been food manager<br />
at American Multi Cinema's Southwyck<br />
Seven theatres, Toledo, Ohio, since the<br />
multilheatre opened Aug. 3, 1972, returned<br />
here Tuesday (3) as manager of the circuit's<br />
Capri Theatre, where "The Sound of Music"<br />
currently is "packing 'em in." AMC's<br />
Southwyck Seven, located in the Southwyck<br />
Shopping Center, features an innovative<br />
concession stand with a menu to appeal<br />
to all ages. A sit-down, fast-food operation<br />
with a seating capacity of 84, the stand is<br />
available to all center patrons from morning<br />
shopping hours until theatre closing time.<br />
A wide range of food items is featured, including<br />
ten varieties of AMC's own Poco<br />
Pizzas, four flavors of milk shakes, hot<br />
Bavarian pretzels, chocolate-covered bananas,<br />
Hickory-Dickory Dawgs and many<br />
other goodies.<br />
Judy Helton, Universal booker, took a<br />
brief vacation last week. Marilyn Hobbs left<br />
her position at Universal. She and her family<br />
will be moving to Poplar Bluff Saturday<br />
(28).<br />
Screenings at Commonwealth: "Wicked,<br />
Wicked" (MGM), Monday (16); "The<br />
Three Dimensions of Greta" (a General<br />
Films release, distributed by Thomas-<br />
Shipp Films), Wednesday (18); "The Family"<br />
(a Pisces Group picture, distributed by<br />
Mercury Film), Thursday (19), and "The<br />
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(20) . . . "Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me,"<br />
will be screened Tuesday (24).<br />
Petite screenings: "Lost in the Desert"<br />
(Col) Monday evening (16) and "Ludwig"<br />
(MGM) Tuesday (17).<br />
Roy Hurst, 20th Century-Fox branch<br />
manager, was in San Francisco Wednesday<br />
and Thursday (4, 5) for a national sales<br />
Linda Howell, secretary to<br />
meeting . . .<br />
Ed Bomberger, Commonwealth Theatres<br />
executive vice-president, has returned from<br />
Connie Miles is the new<br />
a vacation . . .<br />
secretary to Richard Resch, Buena Vista<br />
branch manager.<br />
Ralph Aniacher, Midwest Films branch<br />
manager, visited the Des Moines area last<br />
week. Bill Rice, Midwest salesman, was in<br />
St.<br />
Louis.<br />
Gene Krull, National Theatre Supply<br />
branch manager, was surprised on his birthday<br />
Thursday (12) when he received an<br />
apple spice cake from the employees of NTS<br />
and a pineapple upside down cake from NSS<br />
workers.<br />
P. R. Black of Mound City was a Filmrow<br />
visitor . . . Also Wally Kemp of Commonwealth<br />
Theatres, Grand Island, Neb.<br />
Everett Haglund Is Dead;<br />
Veteran Theatre Manager<br />
CHICAGO—Everett Haglund, who spent<br />
his entire working career in movie house<br />
operation, died in early April at the age of<br />
63. Haglund was manager of M&R Amusement<br />
Co.'s Evergreen theatres 1 and 2. Prior<br />
to this position, he managed theatres for<br />
NATCO, Gallos Bros, and Joseph Stern.<br />
Survivors include his wife Ellen; a son,<br />
Glenn; a daughter, Mrs. Nancy Otterness,<br />
and five grandchildren.<br />
'Midnight Plowboy' Burned<br />
FREDONIA. KAS.—A print of the film<br />
"Midnight Plowboy," ordered destroyed by<br />
the district court, was burned a few days<br />
ago by Sheriff Hubert Harris of Wilson<br />
County and Dave Clark, assistant county<br />
attorney. Three motion pictures were seized<br />
at the drive-in here last summer by the<br />
county attorney's office on the grounds that<br />
they were "obscene." The other two movies<br />
were ruled "only objectionable" but "Midnight<br />
Plowboy" was ordered destroyed.<br />
Fire Levels Upshaw Theatre<br />
MOUNTAIN GROVE, MO.—The<br />
Upshaw<br />
Theatre here was totally destroyed by<br />
fire Monday (9). Russell Upshaw, the owner<br />
and operator of the theatre, does not plan<br />
to rebuild the house.<br />
Mrs. John Minor Dies<br />
HAYS, KAS.—Mrs.<br />
John (Gameth) Minor,<br />
53, wife of the Fox Theatre manager,<br />
is dead. In addition to her husband, she<br />
leaves five grandchildren.<br />
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Tele.: (317) 634-4952<br />
KANSAS CITY<br />
John Wongberg<br />
1703 WyondoHe St.<br />
Kansas City, Missouri 64108<br />
Tele.: (816) 421-2324<br />
ST. LOUIS<br />
George Phillips<br />
Humboldt Building<br />
539 N. Grand Blvd.<br />
St. Louis, Missouri 63103<br />
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CHICAGO<br />
proven International, which has "Little<br />
Laura and Big John" in current release,<br />
advised Jack Gilbreth, head of Gilbreth<br />
Film Co., that playdates for its summer<br />
release, "Su{>erchick," are coming in<br />
from all areas of the country. Jack is of<br />
the opinion that this will be one of the<br />
more important summer releases.<br />
Following several weeks of spring-like<br />
weather, a number of drive-ins in the area<br />
opened for the summer season. However,<br />
drenching rains and snow reversed the<br />
weather pattern, with provoking results. In<br />
nearby Milwaukee, 14 inches of snow<br />
brought a temporary shutdown at all theatres<br />
and in Freeport, located a couple of<br />
hours from our town, two feet of snow<br />
brought business to a standstill for several<br />
days.<br />
Good wishes to Bill Heino of Buena Vista<br />
in connection with upcoming surgery at<br />
LaGrange Community Hospital.<br />
Jay M. Goldberg, president of JMG<br />
Films, and Virgil Jones, head of area operations<br />
here, were in Milwaukee in connection<br />
with future openings of films, including<br />
"Savage," "Cries and Whispers" and<br />
"The Harder They Come."<br />
The testimonial luncheon honoring Bessie<br />
Gilbreth for 60 years in the industry will be<br />
held in the Octagon Room of the Ambassador<br />
Hotel Tuesday, May 1. Write WOMPL<br />
20th Century-Fox, 550 West Jackson Blvd.,<br />
Chicago 60606, for reservations on or before<br />
Thursday (26).<br />
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H. 'Bill' Cobb New<br />
enl 45 Chief Barker<br />
Cobb is<br />
newly elected chief barker of Variety<br />
Tent 45. Cobb, president<br />
and general<br />
manager of Lakeside<br />
Theatres and Westside<br />
^lEW ORLEANS—W. H. "Bill"<br />
W. H. Cobb<br />
Theatres, was a charter<br />
member of the<br />
tent which has been<br />
in existence 19 years<br />
and he had belonged<br />
to the Memphis tent a<br />
year before coming<br />
here to help form the<br />
New Orleans Variety<br />
anization. He has held the office of<br />
perty master on several occasions,<br />
^obb also has been a 32nd degree Mason<br />
re than 25 years and holds a permanent<br />
tributing membership in the Shriners<br />
spital for Crippled Children, as well as<br />
ig chosen Mr. Rotary by the Rotary Club<br />
VIetairie for 1971. He entered show busis<br />
at the age of 13.<br />
Since I have been in show business for<br />
ctically all my life," he noted foUowhis<br />
election to chief barker, "it is only<br />
iiral that Variety, which is 'the Heart<br />
Show Business,' is so dear to my heart.<br />
J, since I have always had a soft spot<br />
my heart for unfortunate children,<br />
iety's cause of helping them is my cause,<br />
Officers elected by Tent 45 included<br />
Icolm G. Mundy sr., first assistant chief<br />
ker; E. A. MacKenna, second assistant<br />
5f barker; C. J. Mabry, dough guy; Mi-<br />
1 Vernaci, property master. Canvassmen<br />
Albert F. Backer jr., Dan M. Brandon,<br />
;ene T. Calonge, Phil Johnson, John J.<br />
hards and C. Clare Woods. Associate<br />
vassmen are William C. Coe jr., George<br />
Doody and Ed J. Finnin jr. Also elected<br />
e Gibbons Burke, fixer, and Michael<br />
liar jr., press guy.<br />
frs. Mary Bicknell, wife of Ben Bick-<br />
I, ABC<br />
Interstate's division manager,<br />
; elected president of Ladies of Variety,<br />
It 45. Vice-presidents include Mrs. Dan<br />
Brandon, Mrs. John Dobbs, Mrs. Wiln<br />
C. Gehring, Mrs. T. Milton Hynes,<br />
5. E. A. MacKenna and Mrs. Marie Vosn.<br />
Other officers elected are Mrs. Harry<br />
Thomas, secretary; Mrs. Thomas N.<br />
•ner, treasurer, and Mrs. Michel Vernaci,<br />
orian.<br />
rhe installation of officers for Tent 45<br />
I Women of Variety will take place at<br />
Variety Club headquarters, 221 Royal<br />
Wednesday, May 2. Music and enteriment<br />
will be furnished by the Skylarks.<br />
re. Storey Holding Line<br />
n Hot Food Concessions<br />
\TLANTA—Hot foods dispensed at<br />
orgia Theatre Co. drive-ins and those of<br />
irey Theatres in this metropolitan area<br />
"holding the line" on prices despite the<br />
'rocketing price of meat.<br />
E. E. Whitaker, GTC executive vice-<br />
Tun/ 'Relaxation<br />
Keynoting 4'Day<br />
Annual NATO of Arkansas Conclave<br />
HOT SPRINGS, ARK.—The 1973 convention<br />
of NATO of Arkansas has been<br />
booked into the Majestic Hotel here May<br />
6-9, it was announced by Don Novak, president<br />
of the exhibitor organization.<br />
Novak also announced these convention<br />
activities:<br />
Sunday, May 6—A favorite with the registrants<br />
will be the Calcutta, the fun starting<br />
at 5 p.m., with Bonita Paul and her Cordovox<br />
furnishing the entertainment.<br />
"Don't miss this—she's great," said Harold<br />
Thomas, chairman of the entertainment<br />
committee.<br />
Monday, May 7—Golf tournament at the<br />
Hot Springs Country Club, 9 a.m. Registration<br />
will be in the lobby of the hotel from<br />
9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday's events will be<br />
climaxed by a trip to Majestic Lodge on<br />
Lake Hamilton for a twilight barbecue and<br />
musical hoe-down. Casual dress is suggested<br />
and buses will be furnished to drive<br />
all to the lake, leaving the hotel at 6:30<br />
p.m.<br />
Tuesday, May 8—Registration, 9 a.m.<br />
until noon. Luncheon will be in the convention<br />
hall of the hotel at 12:30 p.m.<br />
president and director of operations, said<br />
his circuit's 20 outdoor locations (eight in<br />
Atlanta) will not increase the price of their<br />
hot dogs and barbecue sandwiches. After<br />
studying the markup from the circuit's suppliers.<br />
Whitaker said he decided to absorb<br />
the<br />
cost.<br />
Jim Edwards, Storey's vice-president in<br />
charge of operations, said they were going<br />
to do the same thing, despite the fact that<br />
their concessions offer a more varied assortment<br />
of hot foods, including hot dogs,<br />
hamburgers, pizzas, corn dogs and french<br />
fries.<br />
$500,000 Indoor Duo<br />
Announced in Memphis<br />
MEMPHIS—Construction will start late<br />
this spring or early in the summer on this<br />
city's first new downtown indoor theatre<br />
to be built in many years. Target for opening<br />
the two-auditorium complex, which will<br />
be named Towne II Cinema, is early 1974.<br />
The theatre will be built by Miller-Memphis<br />
Enterprises of Helena, Ark., of which<br />
George Miller is president, and will cost an<br />
estimated $500,000. The site is at Beale and<br />
Fourth, contiguous to the new Beale Street<br />
Urban Renewal Blue Light District.<br />
One side of the theatre designed by the<br />
Memphis firm of Bologna-Hamilton, will<br />
seat 600 patrons; the other will seat 300.<br />
Design of the one-story structure will be<br />
contemporary with a sand-blasted concrete<br />
exterior. There also will be courtyards and<br />
extensive landscaping of the 2.5 acres on<br />
which the theatre is to be located.<br />
Entertainment will be by "The Lassies"<br />
and there will be bingo and prizes. Later in<br />
the evening, registrants will attend a Hawaiian<br />
feast and be entertained by another<br />
great group, "The Golden Girls."<br />
Wednesday, May 9—^The president's<br />
champagne breakfast at 9:30 a.m., with<br />
entertainment by "The Ouachitones." The<br />
convention will then adjourn.<br />
Novak also announced these committees<br />
to handle arrangements for convention<br />
events: Nominations—Robin Wightman,<br />
Harold Thomas and Bob Spencer; decorations—Bob<br />
Carpenter and Jack Lowrey;<br />
bingo—Don Nevin and Marjorie Malin;<br />
publicity—Eugene Boggs and Bob Kerby;<br />
golf—David Chaffin and Gordon Hutchins;<br />
tickets — Frazier McWilliams, Clarence<br />
Hobbs and James Risinger; entertainment<br />
Harold Thomas; registration—Mary Beth<br />
Reed and Edith Evans.<br />
Registration fees for the convention for<br />
members of NATO of Arkansas are $30<br />
for couples, $20 for singles. For nonmembers,<br />
the fees will be $40 for couples, $25<br />
for singles.<br />
'Don't Play Us Cheap'<br />
World Bow in Atlanta<br />
ATLANTA—Melvin van Peebles personally<br />
conducted the world premiere of his<br />
"Don't Play Us Cheap" Thursday (12) at<br />
Eastern Federal Corp.'s 600-seat Coronet<br />
Theatre, where three benefit performances<br />
were sponsored by the Southern Election<br />
Fund, Inc.<br />
Afternoon shows were presented at 3:30<br />
and 5:30 p.m. (each a sellout) and the gala<br />
showing came at 9 that evening with Van<br />
Peebles and stars of the picture—Rhetta<br />
Hughes, Avon Long and Esther Rolle (featured<br />
as the maid in the TV series "Maude")<br />
—making personal appearances.<br />
Van Peebles, whose previous hit was<br />
"Sweet Sweetback," wrote, produced, directed<br />
and stars in the picture, which was<br />
filmed in Santa Fe, N.M., the first nonwestern<br />
feature to be filmed in that area.<br />
Van Peebles made "Sweetback" in Hollywood<br />
but, despite the fact that the setting<br />
of "Don't Play Us Cheap" is Harlem, he<br />
chose Santa Fe as his filming site.<br />
"Don't Play Us Cheap" was a Broadway<br />
musical comedy before Van Peebles transferred<br />
it to the screen.<br />
Teddi Stewart was on the Atlanta scene<br />
coordinating the premiere with Leonard<br />
Allen, Atlanta freelance promotion agency<br />
operator, and George Shepp, EFC's Atlanta<br />
city manager.<br />
OREM, UTAH—Twin theatres are scheduled<br />
for construction in the recently opiened<br />
University Mall. The shopping complex<br />
features year-around air-conditioning.<br />
XOFFICE :: April 23, 1973 SE-1
. . Harry<br />
ATLANTA<br />
E, Whitaker, Georgia Theatres Co. vicepresident,<br />
reported a freak happening<br />
£J<br />
that saved the circuit's Athens Drive-In<br />
when a tornado knifed through the area<br />
helping<br />
tornado victims at Conyers (20 miles from<br />
Atlanta). She drove a truck back and forth<br />
to Atlanta to get clothes and food and then<br />
seeing that they were distributed to the<br />
needy. Seems that Virginia is always there<br />
and available to help when there is a disaster<br />
such as this."<br />
We were not surprised by this information,<br />
since Virginia, a WOMPI vice-president<br />
and voted WOMPI of the Year by the<br />
club members, lives a life dedicated to<br />
doing good works and helping others<br />
through the WOMPI service committee.<br />
What did surprise us, however, when we<br />
called to ask about this characteristic episode<br />
on her part, was to learn that the<br />
truck she was tooling around was a five-ton<br />
rig. Now, who said anything about the<br />
"weaker sex?"<br />
Georgia Theatre Co. has taken over the<br />
Sunset Drive-ln, Brunswick, where the circuit<br />
also owns and operates the Starlight<br />
Drive-In, Ritz and Lanier theatres, as well<br />
yloutjCyM^<br />
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as the Casino TTieatre on nearby St. Simon's<br />
Island.<br />
Marquee changes: Fine Art, "Brother<br />
"KNOW HOW" is our most important Sun, Sister Moon"; Ben Hill II, "A Clockwork<br />
Orange"; Town & Country, "The<br />
asset. /^^<br />
Thief Who Came to Dinner"; Broadview I,<br />
'Lady Sings the Blues"; Emory, "Cabaret";<br />
Phipps Plaza, "Life and Times of Judge<br />
Roy Bean"; Toco Hill and South DeKalb I.<br />
"KNOW HOW" made us first with "The World's Greatest Athlete"; Miracle,<br />
Automation.—<br />
"The Heartbreak Kid"; Cobb Center, South<br />
DeKalb II and Suburban Plaza. "The Godfather";<br />
ouCe^^H^<br />
National III. "Last House on the<br />
Left"; Coronet. "Don't Play Us Cheap";<br />
Capri, "Lost Horizon"; Cherokee, Belvedere,<br />
"KNOW HOW" made us first with<br />
Ben Hill, North Springs and Cobb<br />
Xenon. /^<br />
Cinema, "Class of '44"; Lakewood, "Sounder";<br />
UjCC^f^<br />
Village and Strand, "Steel Arena"; Film<br />
Forum, "Sunday, Bloody Sunday"; North<br />
DeKalb, "Charlotte's Web."<br />
"KNOW HOW" puts you in the picture, Sara Lee Dorton, head of the 20th Century-Fox<br />
accounting department, returned<br />
call QUEEN - we know how to give<br />
to her duties after recuperating from surgery<br />
at Georgia Baptist Hospital . . . Joe<br />
personalized service.<br />
Harper, head of the Birmingham-based R.<br />
^ OCCC^M^<br />
C. Cobb Theatres' Atlanta booking headquarters,<br />
also returned to work, with the<br />
consent of his doctors. He had been recuperating<br />
Feature Service<br />
at home from spinal disk surgery.<br />
2409 First Ave., North<br />
Mrs. Linda Drummond has resigned from<br />
Birmingham, Alabama 35203<br />
Allied Artists and returned to her former<br />
Telephones: (205) 251-8665 & home in Jacksonville as secretary to Jim<br />
328-5675<br />
Kirby, film buyer and booker for Florida<br />
State Theatres. Before coming to Atlanta,<br />
Mrs. Drummond had worked at several<br />
Jacksonville film exchanges . . . United<br />
CINERAMA IS IN<br />
Artists hosted a screening and luncheon at<br />
SHOW BUSINESS IN<br />
Georgia Theatre Co.'s Lenox Square Theatre<br />
HAWAII TOO.<br />
of "White Lightning" and "Tom Sawyer."<br />
When you come to Waikiki<br />
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!|^?J Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel.<br />
early this month: the drive-in was directly<br />
in the path of the death-dealing funnel but,<br />
just before it reached the airer, the tornado<br />
lifted and leap-frogged beyond the GTC<br />
layout. Coming down on the far side, the<br />
tornado dealt terrific damage to a residential<br />
area. Then, as it approached the Alps<br />
Drive-In, owned and operated by Newman<br />
"Moon" Corker, the tornado gave a repeat<br />
performance by zooming high into the air<br />
and coming down on the far side of the<br />
Alps airer.<br />
A few days after this tornado and others<br />
swept through this area, your correspondent<br />
received an anonymous memorandum reading:<br />
"Mrs. Virginia Clifton, booker at Columbia<br />
Pictures, was working with the Civil<br />
Columbia branch manager Lamar Mc-<br />
Garity set up an invitational night screening<br />
of "Godspell," his company's version of the<br />
tremendously successful stage show of the<br />
same name, Friday (13) in Columbia's<br />
Filmrow Playhouse . . . Variety Women of<br />
Tent 21 entertained at a cocktail party<br />
Tuesday (10) in honor of TV personality<br />
Phil Donahue, who was here as honor guest<br />
at the city's Dogwood Festival. The party<br />
was held in Variety's headquarters in the<br />
Fox Theatre Building. Louise Bramblett of<br />
Wil-Kin's candy division, is president of<br />
Variety Women.<br />
Donn Davison, president of Lion Dog<br />
Enterprises, announced May 1 as the date<br />
for cameras to resume rolling on his company's<br />
production of "Ride Again." Shooting<br />
had to be postponed earlier this year<br />
when accidents to cast members and other<br />
bad luck plagued filming. Davison has returned<br />
from Charlotte, where he conferred<br />
with Bob McClure of the Charlotte Booking<br />
Service concerning the world premiere this<br />
summer for "Ride Again." Davison also<br />
visited J.G. "Pat" Patterson, president of<br />
the Charlotte-based Empire Motion Pictures<br />
Co. Davison and Patterson are long-time<br />
friends and Davison reported they celebrated<br />
their many years as "show business<br />
cronies" with a champagne dinner in Patterson's<br />
Charlotte studios.<br />
Recent trade and press screenings: at Columbia's<br />
Filmrow Playhouse — "Night<br />
Watch" and "A Touch of Class," Avco<br />
Embassy; "Schlock," Wayne Chappell Releasing<br />
Co.; "Lost Horizon," Columbia;<br />
"Don't Play Us Cheap," a Melvin van<br />
Peebles production . . . "Class of '44" was<br />
screened for college students and "Brother<br />
Sun, Sister Moon" for Catholic pastors and<br />
laymen at the Preview Theatre in the Atlanta<br />
Film Building . Purdy, 20th-<br />
Fox office manager, lit up his screening<br />
room for "Ace Eli and Rodger of the<br />
Skies."<br />
Stephen Cucich, formerly Southern division<br />
director of advertising and promotion<br />
(Continued on page SE-4)<br />
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for Cinerama Releasing Corp. but now head<br />
of his own agency in Atlanta, is handling<br />
two of Cinerama's upcoming films, "Vault<br />
of Horror," booked to open May 1 1 at Martin's<br />
Rialto, and "The Mack," which<br />
opened Friday 20 at Loews' downtown<br />
Grand. On the latter picture he huddled<br />
with John Hebert, Loews' city manager,<br />
and he worked up a special promotion stunt<br />
with John Clark, manager of the Rialto,<br />
and Ronnie Otwell, promotion chief of the<br />
Martin circuit, in Columbus.<br />
Ed Montoro, president of Atlanta-based<br />
Film Ventures International, reported that<br />
his company's release,<br />
"When Women Had<br />
Tails," starring Senta Berger, was held over<br />
at three R. C. Cobb locations in Birmingham—a<br />
hardtop and two outdoor theatres<br />
(the Fairpark and Airport drive-ins). Montoro<br />
said never before had these three situations<br />
held over a<br />
picture but record grosses<br />
for his picture forced a change of policy.<br />
Montoro returned from Dallas, where he<br />
had set up statewide breaks for the picture,<br />
then left for Chicago to make arrangements<br />
for distribution in that territory. Before he<br />
returns to Atlanta, he will make similar<br />
stops in Des Moines, Seattle, Los Angeles<br />
and Denver. Montoro is confident that by<br />
the end of June he will have 200 prints in<br />
theatres in various sections of the country.<br />
The A. Stephen Cucich Agency is involved<br />
with Montoro in publicizing the picture.<br />
Filnirovf visitors included Jack Hammonds<br />
of Albertville, Ala., and son Randy;<br />
Barron Godbee jr., general manager. Pal<br />
Amusements Co., Vidalia; Danny Deaver,<br />
Eastern Federal Corp.'s director advertising<br />
and exploitation, Charlotte; Ronnie Otwell,<br />
Martin Theatres Co. vice-president in<br />
charge of promotion and advertising, Co-<br />
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FOLLOWING CALCUTTA, ENTERTAINMENT AND DRINKS<br />
MONDAY (MAY 7)<br />
GOLF TOURNAMENT—PRIZES—HOT SPRINGS COUNTRY CLUB 9:00 AM<br />
REGISTRATION 12:00 NOON TIL 5:00 PM<br />
MAJESTIC LODGE—LAKE HAMILTON—BUS 6:30 PM FROM HOTEL<br />
COCKTAIL PARTY, BAR-B-Q, ENTERTAINMENT, CASUAL DRESS<br />
TUESDAY (MAY 8)<br />
REGISTRATION 9:00 AM TIL NOON<br />
LUNCHEON—CONVENTION HALL— 12:30 PM<br />
ENTERTAINMENT, BINGO (Prizes a-plenty)<br />
COCKTAIL PARTY 6:30 PM<br />
HAWAIIAN FEAST 7:30 PM<br />
ENTERTAINMENT<br />
WEDNESDAY (MAY 9)<br />
CHAMPAGNE BREAKFAST 9:30 AM<br />
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MEMPHIS<br />
Qet ready for 3-D glasses. Opening at the<br />
Guild is another 3-D movie, a sciencefiction<br />
production titled "The Bubble."<br />
Glasses furnished for this film will be more<br />
comfortable and effective than those used<br />
with 3-D pictures in the 1950s.<br />
Memphis WOMPIs had a big dinner at<br />
the home of Mary K. Baker, the club's<br />
chairman of the nominating committee. This<br />
committee, including Lurlene Carothers and<br />
Lois Boyd, announced a slate of nominees<br />
to be voted on at the next meeting. Plans<br />
for sending a delegation to the September<br />
6-9 WOMPI international convention in<br />
Kansas City were discussed.<br />
Capri Theatre at Owensboro, Ky., opened<br />
for business Wednesday (11) . . . The<br />
Sunset Drive-In, Martin, was reopened for<br />
the season Wednesday (18). Other drivein<br />
debuts included the Elias at Osceola,<br />
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handled in Memphis . . . Covington patrons<br />
are moving outdoors for the spring and summer,<br />
the Ritz Theatre in that town closing<br />
and the Raco Drive-In turning on its lights.<br />
Mrs. Lucile Allen Akers, who founded the<br />
Memphis Better Films Council in the 1930s<br />
and served as president for many years, died<br />
at the Medicenter here following an illness<br />
of six weeks.<br />
JACKSONVILLE<br />
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FOR SALE<br />
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hosted a Tupperware party for all<br />
her home<br />
members of the WOMPI Club at<br />
Saturday (14) ... Again the WOMPIs<br />
have won the weekly CCA competition. The<br />
girls are doing really good in the "Golden<br />
Garbage Savings."<br />
A welcome back to Linda Johns, daughter<br />
of Vivian Ganas of ABC Florida State Theatres.<br />
Linda will be starting at Floyd Enterprises<br />
soon . . . The week's screenings included<br />
MGM's "Wicked, Wicked"; 20th<br />
Century-Fox's "Ace Eli and Rodger of the<br />
Skies"; MGM's "Solyent Green"; Universal's<br />
"Guns of a Stranger"; Al Rook's<br />
"Delta Factor"; United Artists' "White<br />
Lightning" and Jack Vaughan's "Apple<br />
Time."<br />
A star attraction at the Arts Festival 15,<br />
held here recently, was actress Agnes<br />
Moorehead in a one-woman show, "An<br />
Evening With the Fabulous Redhead." Miss<br />
Moorehead read from James Thurber.<br />
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George Bernard Shaw and William Blake<br />
each a magnificent performance. Other attractions<br />
included ballet, art exhibits, films<br />
and musical numbers.<br />
The annual Country Music Festival was<br />
held at the Coliseum, featuring Marty Robbins.<br />
By coincidence, "Country Music," a<br />
sort of fictionalized biography of Robbins<br />
was showing at the Southside Drive-In . . .<br />
"Fear Is the Key," starring Barry Newman<br />
and Suzy Kendall, is another one of Alistair<br />
MacLean's best sellers, currently at the Fox,<br />
Midway and Ribault drive-ins. One of Newman's<br />
small freight airliners gets shot down<br />
with his wife and son and $8 million in<br />
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international currency aboard. The story<br />
goes on from there and develops suspense<br />
all the way .<br />
sonville is "The Thief Who Came to Dinner,"<br />
at the Cedar Hills and the Town and<br />
Country. Ryan O'Neal is cast as a rather<br />
successful cat burglar who would rather be<br />
known as the chess burglar.<br />
The Mack' Grosses<br />
400 in Memphis 2nd<br />
MEMPHIS—"The Mack," a<br />
500 opener<br />
at Loews' in the preceding report, came<br />
right back with a resounding 400 second<br />
week and kept the No. 1 grossing rung on<br />
the Memphis business barometer. "The Life<br />
and Times of Judge Roy Bean" also is proving<br />
to be a money-maker in Memphis, as<br />
indicated by a 325 third week in its Park<br />
Theatre engagement. "The Poseidon Adventure"<br />
continued its brilliant run at the<br />
Crosstown with a 300 in its 14th week.<br />
(Average Is 100)<br />
Crosstown The Poseidon Adventure (20th-Fox),<br />
I4th wk 300<br />
Loews' The Mock (CRC), 2nd wk 400<br />
Maico Wottstox (Col), 5th wk 200<br />
Memphian The Thief Who Came to Dinner<br />
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Park The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean<br />
(NGP), 3rd wk 325<br />
Plaza— Up the Sandbox (NGP), 3rd wk 100<br />
NEW ORLEANS<br />
Jrene Mexic of Star Advertising and her<br />
husband Joe met with Sylvia Sydney,<br />
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where Miss Sydney is starring in the<br />
current attraction. Irene also conferred with<br />
Tony Alterman of MGM, Dallas, Tex., to<br />
set up the campaign for the opening of<br />
"Soylent Green" at the Orpheum Theatre.<br />
Hansen Acquires Novate<br />
NOVATO, CALIF.—Keith K. Hansen<br />
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situation, it was announced by R. C.<br />
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The newly decorated Midfield, now consisting<br />
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auditorium, was reopened under the Cobb<br />
banner March 30 with the world premiere<br />
of American International Pictures' "Sisters"<br />
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was outstanding for both features,<br />
Cobb reported.<br />
The Midfield Twin brings up to 20 the<br />
number of Cobb screens in this metropolitan<br />
area. Cobb also announced that the<br />
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Irondale, also a suburb of Birmingham, has<br />
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ATLANTA—It has been confirmed that<br />
Scott Wilson, Atlanta-born actor, will appear,<br />
ironically enough, as Wilson in the<br />
filmization of "The Great Gatsby," based<br />
on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel. In a recent<br />
visit here, a stopover while en route to visit<br />
his parents in Thomasville, Scott Wilson<br />
told reporters that he had a "good chance"<br />
to get the part of Wilson (a killer) in "Gatsby."<br />
Scott Wilson is no stranger to such a role.<br />
In fact, he has made a career of killing and<br />
being killed on the screen. He was one of<br />
the murderers in the film version of Truman<br />
Capote's "In Cold Blood" and .the picture<br />
ended with his execution.<br />
In "The Grissom Gang" he was a retarded<br />
killer and he was cast as a cop who<br />
accidentally gunned down a suspect in "The<br />
New Centurions." In his most recent film,<br />
"Lolly-Madonna XXX," he gets stomped to<br />
death by his father in a scene which Wilson<br />
described as "very heavy."<br />
So the role of Wilson in "The Great<br />
Gatsby," in which he will be called on to<br />
"rub out" Robert Redford, who has the title<br />
role, is just about par for the former<br />
Atlantan.<br />
Really a shy and soft-spoken person,<br />
Scott Wilson contrasts sharply in real life<br />
with the screen characters he portrays.<br />
"I don't agree with violence," he said<br />
here, "but violence has been in films ever<br />
since they've been making pictures. Now<br />
many directors are dealing with violence as<br />
it really is and I think it's probably good<br />
that they're doing that. If it makes people<br />
aware that they don't like violence, then it<br />
has served a purpose."<br />
Wilson expects to report for work on<br />
"Gatsby" in July and is excited over the<br />
fact that many of the interior scenes will be<br />
filmed in London.<br />
In retrospect, Wilson admits that he has<br />
been "particular about roles when I really<br />
couldn't afford it. I've only made seven<br />
pictures in six years, which is not very<br />
many." Between film jobs he has worked as<br />
a painter and has difficulty at such times,<br />
remembering his true calling.<br />
"Within a year after 'In Cold Blood' I<br />
turned down three-fourths of a million dollars<br />
in work. Maybe I was just dumb but<br />
after you work on things like 'In the Heat<br />
of the Night,' winner of the Academy<br />
Award for best picture of the year, and 'In<br />
Cold Blood,' which is a classic, you want to<br />
stay at that level. You can't let yourself<br />
retrogress."<br />
Consequently he has been in only "Castle<br />
Keep," "Gypsy Moths," "The New Centurions,"<br />
"The Grissom Gang" and "Lolly-<br />
Madonna XXX."<br />
He usually spends the Christmas holidays<br />
with his parents in south Georgia.<br />
Aquarius Theatre Opens<br />
PHOENIX—The 178-seat Aquarius Theatre,<br />
3522 West Cactus, opened last month<br />
with "The Sword in the Stone" and "Nikki"<br />
as the inaugural attractions. Operator of<br />
the showhouse is J. G. Boles.<br />
MIAMI<br />
^he Miami News is giving its readers an<br />
opportunity to win free movie tickets.<br />
The three best questions (with answers)<br />
sent in by readers concerning the movies,<br />
TV or other aspects of show business<br />
prior to May 7 will each win a pair of<br />
tickets to the winner's choice current film<br />
playing here. The three winning questions<br />
and all other interesting queries will be<br />
printed (with answers) by the News, following<br />
the judging.<br />
Bryan Foy, who has been in<br />
the business<br />
of making "all-talkie" feature films longer<br />
than anyone still active, dropped in at Harrigan's<br />
at the Miramar Hotel to see his pal<br />
Sammy Walsh. Foy still is hopeful of doing<br />
a Florida-based film. His last one made<br />
here was "PT-109."<br />
Mickey Rooney is starring in the Coconut<br />
Grove Playhouse in the hit British comedy<br />
"No Sex, Please." The show opened Tuesday<br />
(17) and continues through Sunday<br />
(29). Mickey and his wife now live in Fort<br />
Eva Marie Saint made an<br />
Lauderdale . . .<br />
appearance in mid-month at a swank luncheon<br />
at the Coconut Grove Hotel, the first<br />
annual Juvenile Diabetes Foundation benefit.<br />
More than 300 persons attended to aid<br />
the<br />
foundation.<br />
Movie actress Denise Darcell participated<br />
in an annual luncheon sponsored by the<br />
Dade County Federation of Women's clubs<br />
to raise funds for scholarships for deserving<br />
students at the Miami-Dade Community<br />
College and the University of Miami. Miss<br />
Darcell modeled during the fashion show,<br />
which highlighted the luncheon.<br />
Grand Theatre's Updating<br />
Project Is Now Completed<br />
DU QUOIN, ILL.—Bill Ivy, manager of<br />
the Grand Theatre here, announced the<br />
completion of a two and one-half month<br />
remodeling project at the showhouse.<br />
Among the improvements is a newly renovated<br />
marquee, now painted red and white.<br />
"Now you can see it from clear down<br />
the street and before you couldn't," said<br />
Ivy.<br />
Patrons entering the building also note<br />
the newly painted charcoal ceilings and the<br />
combination charcoal and pink walls.<br />
In addition to the remodeling, the Grand<br />
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Hach Dallas Festival<br />
lad Much to Praise<br />
DALLAS— "Even those who haven't<br />
een to the movies since 'Mrs. Miniver'<br />
ere suddenly aware this month that Dallas<br />
as the incredulous owner of two film festiils,"<br />
wrote Philip Wuntch, entertainment<br />
Titer for the Dallas Morning News, as the<br />
;cond of those early April festivals was<br />
rawing to a close.<br />
"The U.S. Film Festival was held first<br />
lis year, April 1-8, at the 1,770-seat Melorial<br />
Auditorium Theatre," Wuntch connued.<br />
"The USA Film Festival, held at the<br />
00-seat Bob Hope Theatre on the SMU<br />
ampus, followed April 9 and will close its<br />
oors Sunday" (the 15th, the day Wuntch's<br />
istival retrospective appeared in the Dallas<br />
lorning News).<br />
Wuntch's Critique<br />
Amended Film<br />
Now in<br />
Transportation Rates<br />
Effect Throughout Texas<br />
DALLAS—^Amended film transportation<br />
agreed upon by committees from the<br />
rates,<br />
Texas Film Carriers Ass'n and NATO of<br />
Texas, became effective Sunday (15). On<br />
that date, the following changes went into<br />
operation:<br />
1. The schedule of rates from 1 to 100<br />
pounds, covering scales 1 through 14, were<br />
increased by 15 per cent.<br />
2. Circuit minimum charge was increased<br />
from $1.59 to $1.83.<br />
3. Lot shipping charge was increased<br />
from 60 to 70 cents.<br />
4. Special emergency service was increased<br />
from 13 to 15 cents per mile, a<br />
$3.58 minimum replacing the $3.11 minimum<br />
charge.<br />
The carriers had asked for a 25 per cent<br />
hike to cover their increased costs of operation<br />
but compromised at the 15 per cent<br />
figure.<br />
"The NATO of Texas transportation<br />
committee," said Charles Paine, president<br />
of the Texas exhibitors organization, "is of<br />
the opinion that due to rising costs in labor,<br />
trucks, fuel and workmen's compensation<br />
insurance, this adjusted rate is fair and will<br />
serve to stabilize the film carriers operating<br />
throughout the state."<br />
A copy of the new schedule of rates may<br />
be obtained upon request from the NATO<br />
of Texas office. Suite 206, 1710 Jackson,<br />
Dallas, Tex. 75201, upon request or may be<br />
secured from an exhibitor's film carrier.<br />
Wuntch's summary of the two festivals<br />
antinues, in<br />
part:<br />
The statistics tell us the cold facts. The<br />
J.S. Film Festival, according to a Memorial<br />
Luditorium spokesman, drew approximately<br />
,500 people during its one week duration.<br />
>n a brighter note, at presstime, SMU was<br />
lipecting more than a 5,600 total for the<br />
'eek's run of the USA Film Festival.<br />
Had both festivals failed, the film festival<br />
:ene in Dallas would probably not have<br />
ontinued next year. That would, of course,<br />
ave been a cruel blow in the city's cultural<br />
uarters, which now apparently recognize<br />
Im as one of the fine arts. Dallas, as has<br />
een well-publicized, is a fihnmaking and<br />
Imgoing center; it ranks third in the nation<br />
I film production and its theatres constently<br />
outgross those in Houston and<br />
illanta.<br />
Success Deserved<br />
But the USA Film Festival's resounding<br />
jccess is a deserved one. In organization<br />
nd. texture, it was the more sweeping event.<br />
t embraced a larger variety of the old and<br />
ew films, the avant garde and the tradition-<br />
1 in filmmaking. Even if it hadn't been<br />
RO every night, it would stand alone as<br />
le most successful festival in the local<br />
iree-year history of film festivals.<br />
The U.S.<br />
Film Festival was not without<br />
;s strong points. Vincente Minnelli was an<br />
leal and timely subject for the Director's<br />
letrospective. The Minnelli name is, of<br />
ourse, a hot one, with daughter Liza's<br />
ecent Oscar and the Judy Garland mysique<br />
still very much in evidence. Among<br />
ly happiest memories of the hectic, backo-back<br />
festivals<br />
are those of a middle-aged<br />
k'oman who brought her children each night<br />
see "Meet Me in St.<br />
Louis" or the delightul<br />
"The Pirate." Late into the night she<br />
TOuld ask the<br />
director questions about the<br />
nusical productions and the talents of Miss<br />
jarland.<br />
Minnelli. for his<br />
part, was always courte-<br />
)us and intelligent in his answers, never<br />
tooping to a quick, flippant remark. And<br />
he Minnelli fans who stayed each night<br />
were loyal and knowledgeable. It was also<br />
a smart idea to include short clips from<br />
Minnelli fikns not shown full-length in the<br />
Retrospective, giving a full view of the director<br />
as both a musical and dramatic<br />
artist.<br />
But the USA Film Festival was so much<br />
the meatier in the quality of its new offerings—ranging<br />
from Alan Pakula's bittersweet<br />
"Love and Pain and the Whole Damn<br />
Thing," with Maggie Smith, to Russ Meyer's<br />
sardonic "Blacksnake."<br />
And the quality of its older films was<br />
stronger, too. "Satellite screenings," a new<br />
concept in film festivals locally, were set up<br />
at various locations on the SMU campus to<br />
show old films ranging from the classic<br />
"Citizen Kane" to the campy "Flying Down<br />
to Rio" and "King Kong" to the little-seen<br />
"Rasputin and the Empress." I saw one<br />
gentleman willingly slap down the price of<br />
a festival ticket just because he wanted to<br />
catch the last half of "Citizen Kane."<br />
Wise Policy on Critics<br />
The USA Fihn Festival was also very<br />
wise in having Judith Crist, HoUis Alpert,<br />
Arthur Knight and Esme Dick select the<br />
films—and, most importantly, be there to<br />
discuss their selections with the audience<br />
and the visiting celebrities. Regardless of<br />
what one feels about the "critic as superstar"<br />
syndrome, Crist, Alpert, Knight and<br />
Dick know how to moderate a discussion<br />
in a precise and entertaining fashion.<br />
Both festivals had some expected celebrities<br />
who didn't quite make it. Liza Minnelli<br />
didn't show up at the U.S. Film Festival<br />
but surprise visits were made by Jack<br />
Nicholson, Glenn Corbett and Kathleen<br />
Widdoes, whose film "Savages" was probably<br />
the best new picture shown at the<br />
event ... At the USA Film Festival Cloris<br />
Leachman failed to show but Raoul Walsh,<br />
subject of the festival retrospective, proved<br />
as feisty and colorful as any director of<br />
Hollywood folklore could possibly be.<br />
Celebrities ran the gamut from Virginia<br />
Mayo to Dennis Hopper.<br />
Redford to Accept<br />
'Jeremiah' Award<br />
OKLAHOMA CITY—Robert Redford,<br />
star of "Jeremiah Johnson," and Mrs. Redford<br />
have been invited to attend the National<br />
Cowboy Hall of Fame's annual Western<br />
Heritage Awards banquet Saturday<br />
(28). Redford has been asked to accept the<br />
Wrangler trophy won by the movie, according<br />
to Joel McCrea, president of the<br />
board of directors of the National Cowboy<br />
Hall of Fame.<br />
Accompanying the Redfords will be Mr.<br />
and Mrs. Sydney Pollack, Delle Bolton,<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wizan and Mrs. Edward<br />
Anhalt, who were associated with the winning<br />
picture.<br />
Dale Robertson will accept an award for<br />
outstanding contribution to western films<br />
and William H. Clothier will accept one<br />
for outstanding contributions through cinematography.<br />
Dominic Frontiere, composer<br />
and arranger of the background music for<br />
"Train Robbers," will accept a Wrangler<br />
for his music.<br />
Also representing the motion picture industry<br />
at the annual banquet will be actress<br />
Barbara Stanwyck, who was elected honoree<br />
in the Hall of Fame, and members of the<br />
family of the late Buck Jones, another<br />
honoree.<br />
Edmond, Oklo. Shopping<br />
Center to Have 2 Units<br />
EDMOND, OKLA.—Two movie theatres<br />
are planned as units of the 30-store<br />
shopping center approved by the city council<br />
in the Trails addition west of town. The<br />
center will be known as Trails End Shopping<br />
Center and is expected to be ready for<br />
business by August.<br />
The center will be built on a 6'/4-acre<br />
tract at the comer of Edmond Road and<br />
Santa Fe, with a running stream separating<br />
the center's shops and parking lot.<br />
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^ideo Notes: During the recent circuit conclave,<br />
announcement was made of a<br />
multi-faceted, prize-loaded managers' contest<br />
for June, July and August. "The only<br />
. . .<br />
test for your effort," prospective contest<br />
competitors were informed by the Video<br />
management, "will be; does it sell tickets?"<br />
General optimism, a few short speeches<br />
and the presentation of a fine watch to J.<br />
Paul Shipley, dean of Video managers, were<br />
other features of the Video meeting, according<br />
to the circuit's bulletin, Around the<br />
Circuit. Another feature was the "interested<br />
presence of Richard Forsling, chairman of<br />
the board for Cablecom-General."<br />
being made at the UTOO March convention<br />
. . . Bill Miller, manager of the Miami<br />
Coleman Theatre, successfully promoted<br />
"George!" with a Mutt Matinee, two of<br />
them in fact. At a Wednesday 4:30 p.m.<br />
showing, any patron bringing his dog on a<br />
leash was admitted free. Miller provided a<br />
free biscuit for each guest dog and there<br />
were very few fights among the visiting<br />
canines. At a special Saturday Mutt Matinee,<br />
a patron could get a discount by merely<br />
showing a snapshot of the dog, a much<br />
calmer affair than the tense Wednesday<br />
matinee, when so many growlers were on<br />
the scene.<br />
Judy Goeringer Completes<br />
Training as Boothwoman<br />
CORDELL, OKLA.—Mrs. Judy Goeringer<br />
of Bessie may well be the only woman<br />
projectionist in this state.<br />
Video's Around the Circuit also had<br />
praise for the March UTOO convention,<br />
declaring that it lived up to its slogan, "the<br />
biggest compact convention in the land." "It<br />
was every bit as good—short and snappy<br />
sessions, interesting speakers and features,<br />
lots of variety—thanks to program chairman<br />
Bob Powell of Guthrie, who is to be<br />
congratulated not only for this fine job but<br />
also on his being elevated to the UTOO<br />
presidency for the next year," said ATC.<br />
Sally A. Davis, an employee of Video<br />
Chickasha theatres, was recipient of the<br />
first scholarship award presented by the<br />
United Theatre Owners of Oklahoma and<br />
the Panhandle of Texas, the presentation<br />
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Mary Meadows, an employee of the<br />
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Leaders of America at Tulsa . . . Belinda<br />
Stover, another Miami theatre employee<br />
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... A picture of Frank Love, Video manager<br />
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a painting by Fred Olds in the Holiday Inn<br />
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of the Clinton Art Guild.<br />
Anotiier Video manager who got his<br />
picture<br />
in a local paper was Nelson Myers in<br />
Cleburne, Tex. Nelson's appearance in the<br />
Cleburne Times-Review for Sunday, March<br />
11, was in connection with the kickoff of<br />
the YMCA "Friend of Youth" campaign<br />
for sustaining memberships. Myers, cochairman<br />
of the drive, was shown poised to<br />
boot a football held on a kicking tee by<br />
campaign chairman Bob Mahanay. "Myers<br />
is reportedly a dropout from the Cowboys'<br />
Kicking Caravan," the Times-Review cutlines<br />
noted.<br />
Permit Issued for GCXI<br />
Duo in Lexington, Ky.<br />
From Mideastern Edition<br />
LEXINGTON, KY.—The city building<br />
inspection department has issued a building<br />
permit for a twin theatre in the Fayette<br />
Mall, 3301 Nicholasville Rd. To cost $350,-<br />
000, the movie house will be called Cinema<br />
I and II and will be operated by General<br />
Cinema Corp.<br />
Cinema I will seat 530 persons and Cinema<br />
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Floyd King, chief projectionist at tlie<br />
Cordell, Okla., Washita Theatre and a<br />
high school senior, watches his trainee<br />
Mrs. Judy Goeringer thread the projector.<br />
She started work at the local Washita<br />
Theatre, where her mother Mrs. Laura<br />
Swift is manager. First Judy assisted her<br />
mother in floor walking and other duties<br />
at the Washita but then became interested<br />
in the projection room activities and was<br />
trained by Floyd King, chief projectionist<br />
at<br />
the theatre.<br />
In giving King the green light to teach<br />
her daughter to handle the booth work,<br />
Mrs. Swift was looking to the future since<br />
King, a high school senior, graduates this<br />
spring. Mrs. Swift also has had him train<br />
Marcus Martin jr. for booth work.<br />
Judy, despite her many duties around the<br />
theatre, still has time to be a Red Cross<br />
water safety instructor and teaches water<br />
safety in the summer in Cordell or at the<br />
Clinton-Sherman Air Park Pool.<br />
It's Mrs. Swift's policy to show no X<br />
films and to train and crosstrain as many<br />
teenagers as her staff can employ. Of the<br />
theatre's ten employees, all except three are<br />
teenagers. In addition to Judy. Floyd and<br />
Marcus, mentioned above, the staff includes<br />
Eddie Tackett, Cindy Currie, Stanley<br />
Brown, Cheri Simmons, Pattie Shipp, Ed<br />
Cunningham, the janitor, and Mrs. Swift.<br />
As manager, Mrs. Swift says she "will<br />
always try to run a clean, quiet and enjoyable<br />
theatre and always endeavor to get the<br />
showgoing habit back to the pleasant recreation<br />
it was in the past."<br />
The entire Washita Theatre Building is<br />
now rented, according to Mrs. Swift. There<br />
are two beauty shops—^Elaine's and Sue's<br />
and the basement is used as a ballet school,<br />
of which Carol Reiter is<br />
instructor.<br />
WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASS. — Michael<br />
Harkins, formerly manager of the<br />
Walter Reade Charles complex, Boston, has<br />
joined Redstone Theatres. He has been assigned<br />
in a managerial capacity at the<br />
Showcase cinema I-II-III-IV-V here.<br />
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yariety Tent 17's Chili Fest, March 26, attracted<br />
175 barkers, their wives and<br />
guests to eat home-cooked chili and beans,<br />
washed down by beer and soft drinks at the<br />
Grand Ballroom of the Adolphus Hotel.<br />
Credits noted in the tent's monthly publication,<br />
The Dallas Barker, included: Lloyd<br />
Edwards for furnishing meat for the chili;<br />
Bill Slaughter for furnishing the chili recipe<br />
and for supervising cooking of the chili; Bill<br />
Wood and John Lindley for assisting in<br />
cooking the chili; committeemen Terry Graham,<br />
chairman, Jim Crump and Bob Nicholson<br />
for selling tickets; Ray Willie jr. for<br />
providing the beer; Lee Parrish for contributing<br />
garnishment for the chili and cups<br />
for the beer; Bill Johnson for donating the<br />
soft drinks; WOMPI Nell McMahan, Jo<br />
Ellen Greenele, Genevieve Koch, Karen<br />
McWhorter, Carol Robinson, Jo Bailey and<br />
Patricia Kennel for handling beer sales.<br />
Sympathy is extended to Betty McDaniel,<br />
booker at Columbia. Her husband Claude<br />
suffered a fatal heart attack Saturday (7)<br />
and funeral services were held in L^wisville,<br />
with burial in Dallas, Monday (9).<br />
Burl Lovelace of Starline Pictures hopes<br />
to be released from the hospital by Mother's<br />
Day, May 13. He's recuperating nicely following<br />
a series of operations . . . Jack<br />
Durrell and his wife moved their Major<br />
Films Distributing office back to its original<br />
location in the Tower Petroleum Building,<br />
retaining their original telephone number.<br />
Variety 17 Seeking Name<br />
For Sunshine Coach Pool<br />
DALLAS—Tent 17 barkers are seeking<br />
a name for the motor pool from which they<br />
will operate their fleet of 27 Sunshine<br />
Coaches, which are used as transportation<br />
for all handicapped and underprivileged<br />
children in this area.<br />
"Since Variety's name will be emblazoned<br />
on a great number of buses operating daily<br />
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committee is asking all barkers to submit<br />
an appealing name for the new center.<br />
Name titles should be sent to the Variety<br />
Club Office, 1710 Jackson St., Suite 206,<br />
Dallas, Tex. 75201."<br />
The motor pool center, which will be<br />
located at Dallas Rehabilitation Institute,<br />
7850 Brook Hollow Dr., was made possible<br />
when Variety and DRI secured a grant from<br />
the Hoblitzelle Foundation to build a<br />
maintenance garage to repair and service the<br />
Sunshine Coach fleet. The center will bear<br />
the Variety Club of Dallas name but will be<br />
operated by DRI personnel. A joint board<br />
composed of equal representation of VC<br />
and DRI members will govern the new<br />
operation, when it is complete.<br />
"It is expected that the 27 Sunshine<br />
Coaches now in operation will be increased<br />
considerably by the Variety Club during the<br />
coming years," said Lynn Harris, chairman<br />
of the Variety Sunshine Coach committee.<br />
"With the regular service and proper<br />
maintenance that the center will provide,<br />
we can expect longer service from the vehicles<br />
and, more importantly, through<br />
planned schedules, take care of more children<br />
who desperately need transportation to<br />
get to hospitals, special schools and recreational<br />
sites."<br />
FORT WORTH<br />
restaurant and movie complex, for<br />
J!^ which<br />
a $655,400 building permit, has been<br />
issued by the City of Arlington, will be<br />
built at 901 East Pioneer Pkwy. Seven<br />
restaurants and four theatre auditoriums<br />
all under one roof—will be part of the<br />
project for which Transworld Contractors<br />
of Dallas has the contract. The building is<br />
expected to be ready for dining and movie<br />
viewing by July 4.<br />
Bruce Lee, who played Kato, the Green<br />
Hornet's trusted friend in the TV series, has<br />
jetted into stardom in Asian-made movies<br />
and now it's reported that he's so idolized<br />
that he cannot walk through the streets of<br />
CINERAMA IS IN<br />
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When you come to Waikiki,<br />
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Hong Kong or Taiwan without being<br />
mobbed. What has Bruce Lee to do, then,<br />
with Fort Worth? Simply that his latest<br />
picture, "Fists of Fury," opened in<br />
this area<br />
at nine theatres Wednesday (11). The film<br />
has English dialog and its violence is said<br />
to make "the worst violence dished out by<br />
American actors as gentle as a horseshoe<br />
pitching contest." Jack Gordon, Fort Worth<br />
Press columnist, preparing the area for<br />
"Fists of Fury," quoted an American observer<br />
who had just visited a Hong Kong<br />
studio (where "Fists of Fury" was made):<br />
"At the close of a day's shooting, a typical<br />
Hong Kong set looks like a front-line dressing<br />
station after a battle."<br />
Benefit showings of 1967's "Thoroughly<br />
Modern Millie," starring Julie Andrews,<br />
Carol Channing, Bea Lillie and John Gavin,<br />
were held at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Thursday (5)<br />
at the Fort Worth Palace Theatre. Tickets<br />
were $2.50 per patron for the showings<br />
sponsored by the Downtown Fort Worth<br />
Lions Club for its charities.<br />
Fort Worth Asks Only That<br />
Theatres Shield Screens<br />
FORT WORTH—Assistant city manager<br />
Bill Gordon stated that local police are<br />
following a policy which provides that officers<br />
will not interfere with X-rated theatres<br />
unless their screens are visible from streets.<br />
Gordon, who heads the city public safety<br />
department, said he knows of no plans to<br />
change the policy. He said it evolved from<br />
federal court decisions.<br />
The city officials said that no attempt has<br />
been made to censor films.<br />
"It would be difficult to know where to<br />
draw the line. We do insist, however, that<br />
the theatres shield their screens from people<br />
passing on city streets," said Gordon.<br />
Gordon outlined the policy when asked<br />
whether police here would follow the example<br />
of Dallas officers and seize prints of<br />
"Deep Throat" if local theatres attempted to<br />
show it.<br />
The assistant city manager said that he<br />
has not seen "Deep Throat" and had no<br />
desire to do so.<br />
"But, from what I've heard and read<br />
about it, I would conclude that it is no<br />
better and no worse than a lot of other<br />
X-rated films shown here," Gordon said.<br />
Gordon said he does not know whether<br />
an attempt will be made to exhibit "Deep<br />
Throat" in the city now that it has been<br />
banned in Dallas.<br />
Operators of X-rated theatres say they<br />
follow a policy of denying admission to<br />
juveniles.<br />
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^elvin Van Peebles, actor-director, best<br />
known for his hit film "Sweet Sweetback,"<br />
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Black Arts Festival . . . The National<br />
Organization of Women presented the sixth<br />
film of its feminist film festival Friday (13)<br />
in Room 116 of the Science and Research<br />
Building at the University of Houston. The<br />
film was Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity"<br />
(1944), with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred<br />
MacMurray. Pat Dowell and Susan Butler<br />
led a discussion after the showing of the<br />
film.<br />
Director Robert Aldrich, producer Stan<br />
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"The Beatles: Away With Words," a multi-media<br />
presentation tracing the history and<br />
effect on society of the famous English<br />
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Music Hall, Thursday (12) through Sunday<br />
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. . .<br />
Chill Wills was here to cut a series of<br />
commercials for Sizzler Steak House<br />
"Last Tango in Paris" is scheduled to open<br />
May 2 at the Bellaire Theatre. There will be<br />
showings at 8 each evening, at 2 p.m.<br />
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday,<br />
and at 5 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday.<br />
Admission to all showings will be $4 . . .<br />
Among the new films arriving in Houston<br />
were "The Nelson Affair," Town and Country<br />
6, Northwest 4 and the Shamrock Cinema;<br />
"Class of '44," sequel to "Summer of<br />
'42," at the cinemas in Gulfgate, Northline<br />
and Meyerland shopping centers and at<br />
Loews' Twins.<br />
Weldon Givens to Abilene<br />
To Manage GCC Complex<br />
ABILENE, TEX.—Weldon Givens, formerly<br />
manager of ABC Interstate's Queen<br />
and Westwood theatres here, has come back<br />
to manage General Cinema Corp.'s Cinema<br />
I and Cinema II. Givens succeeded Mike<br />
Husband Thursday (5) at the helm of the<br />
GCC duo.<br />
For the last four years, Givens has been<br />
managing in Denison for ABC Interstate,<br />
with which he was affiliated 15 years. His<br />
previous assignment in Abilene, with that<br />
circuit, was for 3'/2 years.<br />
A native of Wichita Falls, Givens was<br />
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Husband left General Cinema to travel<br />
in Switzerland as part of a work-study program.<br />
Twin Theatres Announced<br />
For Waco UR Project<br />
WACO, TEX.—Twin theatres are to be<br />
part of the Ivy Square development on a<br />
nine-acre tract made available under the<br />
Riverside II (Tex R-88) Urban Renewal<br />
Project and oriented to the Baylor University<br />
community. Construction is to start<br />
on the project this year.<br />
Plans for Ivy Square have been approved<br />
by the city plan commission and the Waco<br />
city council. The triangle of land faces Interstate<br />
35 and is directly across University-<br />
Parks Drive from Fort Fisher. Also in the<br />
project will be a series of specialty shops,<br />
with 25 rental apartments above, an 84-<br />
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'Deep Throat' Exhibition<br />
Brings Six Indictments<br />
HOUSTON—Six persons were indicted<br />
by a Harris County grand jury Thursday<br />
(12) in connection with the showing of the<br />
much publicized sex film "Deep Throat."<br />
The jury returned seven true bills—one<br />
felony indictment charging theatre manager<br />
Joseph M. Spiegel and five employees with<br />
conspiracy to exhibit obscene matter and<br />
six misdemeanor indictments charging each<br />
person with exhibiting obscene matter.<br />
District Judge Joseph M. Guarino set<br />
Spiegel's bond under the felony indictment<br />
at $20,000. All other bonds were set at<br />
$5,000.<br />
Spiegel, appearing as manager of the<br />
Cinema West Art Theatre, lost the first<br />
round of his fight to show the film Tuesday<br />
when District Judge I. D. McMaster issued<br />
a search warrant against it.<br />
Local vice officers halted the showing of<br />
the one-hour movie Tuesday afternoon (10)<br />
and seized both the film and advertising<br />
posters that evening.<br />
The film, viewed by packed houses since<br />
it opened here Tuesday morning, depicts<br />
acts of sodomy from all angles, in the words<br />
of vice officer Troy R. Driskell, who testified<br />
at the hearing before Judge McMaster.<br />
The movie had previously been seized in =<br />
New York and Dallas. A showing of the |<br />
film here about a year ago excited no great<br />
interest.<br />
Indicted along with Spiegel were Edna<br />
N. Brashear, James M. Ohmart, Bonnie K. 1<br />
Moore, Ernest R. Feille jr. and John W.<br />
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Galveston News Layout<br />
Boosts Loccd Bookings<br />
GALVESTON, TEX.—Bernie Ponce,<br />
manager of ABC Interstate Theatres' three<br />
local units—^the Martini, State and Broadway—rated<br />
a five-column layout featuring<br />
products booked for the three theatres in<br />
the March 13 Galveston News.<br />
"We are constantly striving to bring the<br />
very best in entertainment for adults as well<br />
as children to our three theatres," Ponce<br />
was quoted by the News. "We feel proud of<br />
our bookings that will do just that for our<br />
patrons of Galveston County."<br />
Followed then detailed information for<br />
Galveston readers about films booked for<br />
the three ABC Interstate theatres for the<br />
remainder of March, including a column of<br />
comment on the making of "Alice's Adventures<br />
in Wonderland," which followed "The<br />
World's Greatest Athlete" on the Broadway's<br />
screen.<br />
Supplementing the product write-up was<br />
a three column picture showing Ponce<br />
seated at his desk, looking over film promotion<br />
material with Jack McDonald.<br />
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XOFFICE April 23, 1973 SW-7
THIS<br />
WHAT<br />
SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY THE PUBLISHER<br />
HAVE<br />
YOU<br />
DONE<br />
LATELY<br />
FOR<br />
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LOVE<br />
OF<br />
YOUR<br />
LIFE?<br />
We have some suggestions.<br />
For your lungs, stop smoking<br />
cigarettes.<br />
For your skin,<br />
avoid excessive sun. For your<br />
mouth, get regular dental<br />
checkups. For colon-rectum,<br />
ifyou're over 40, get an annual<br />
procto. If you're a woman,<br />
examine your breasts once a<br />
month. And have a Pap test<br />
regularly.<br />
And if you're smart, get a<br />
complete health checkup<br />
once a year. Even ifyou never<br />
felt better in your life.<br />
It's up to you,<br />
too.<br />
SAN ANTONIO<br />
^Jrs. Margie Overstreet recently observed<br />
her 23rd year at the Woodlawn Theatre.<br />
Mrs. Overstreet began her career at the<br />
Woodlawn as an attendant at the concession<br />
stand. When ABC Interstate Theatres sold<br />
the Woodlawn to Cinema Arts Theatres,<br />
she was transferred to Interstate's Broadway,<br />
where she spent three years. Margie<br />
then joined Cinema Arts and worked at the<br />
downtown Texas and Laurel for one year<br />
each. When John Wayne's "The Alamo"<br />
premiered at the Woodlawn, she returned<br />
as cashier. When Sid Shaenfield became<br />
manager of the Woodlawn, she was named<br />
assistant manager, the post she holds at<br />
present. In addition she has been named<br />
relief manager for all local Cinema Art theatres.<br />
Our congratulations and continued<br />
success to Mrs. Overstreet!<br />
Children's matinees were held Saturday<br />
and Sunday (15) at the North Star Mall<br />
Cinema II and McCreless Cinema II and<br />
the Broadway, with admission at $1. The<br />
feature film was "Godzilla vs. the Smog<br />
Monster." At the McCreless and North Star<br />
there were three showings Saturday and two<br />
Sunday, the Broadway scheduling three<br />
Richard Zanuck Expresses<br />
Thanks to San Antonians<br />
SAN ANTONIO—"We are more than<br />
pleased that we decided upon Texas for<br />
the shooting of our motion picture," a<br />
Hollywood film producer wrote the San<br />
Antonio News Wednesday (4).<br />
The letter from Richard Zanuck, producer<br />
of "The Sugarland Express," came as he<br />
announced an end to photography for the<br />
movie. He wrote:<br />
"Now that we have come to the end of<br />
our stay in San Antonio and have finished<br />
photography, I want to take this opportunity,<br />
on behalf of the cast and crew to thank<br />
all the people of San Antonio and the surrounding<br />
areas for welcoming us so warmly.<br />
"We have found our work here even<br />
more rewarding than usual because of the<br />
cooperation and friendliness of local citizens.<br />
"Our production office has received lit-<br />
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seen on the screen of the Olmos and at<br />
the North Star Cinema No. II. At the Olmos<br />
he is in "Man of La Mancha"; at the North<br />
Star Mall Cinema, he is in "The Ruling<br />
Class."<br />
Texas Lutheran College will present a<br />
Bergman Film Festival Wednesday (25)<br />
through May 14: "Through a Glass Darkly."<br />
Wednesday (25); "Winter Light," Friday<br />
(27); "The Silence," Sunday (29); "Hour<br />
of the Wolf," May 1, and "Shame," May 4.<br />
Admission for the entire series will be a<br />
$7.50 sponsor's fee, $1.50 for individual<br />
showings.<br />
"Fists of Fury," a Hongkong made west-<br />
doing top business on the local movie<br />
ern, is<br />
front. Starring newcomer Bruce Lee, it's at<br />
the Josephine and Aztec-3. Another sleeper<br />
. .<br />
hit, "The Legend of Boggy Creek," is at the<br />
suburban Woodlawn and the new Westwood<br />
Twin Cinema . New films scheduled to<br />
start here: "Class of '44," Century South;<br />
"Charley and the Angel," North Star and<br />
Cinema South; "Scorpio," due at the Broadway<br />
and "Soylent Green," Century South.<br />
crally hundreds of telephone calls from San<br />
Antonians offering their services in various<br />
ways to aid with the filming."<br />
Zanuck added, "May I offer our special<br />
thanks to the members of the Department<br />
of Public Safety and the various law enforcement<br />
agencies who went out of their<br />
way to cooperate with us. It was a privilege<br />
to have them work alongside us."<br />
X Theatres Offer Voters<br />
Admission at Half Price<br />
AUSTIN—Police raids on X-rated movie<br />
theatres here became more and more frequent<br />
as city elections approached, raising<br />
protests that a local city councilman was<br />
using the anti-pornography campaign to win<br />
headlines to get reelected.<br />
Just to show there were no hard feelings,<br />
however, one local skinflick sponsored three<br />
councilman Dick Nicholas Appreciation<br />
Days "to express our sincere appreciation<br />
for his recent attacks on our business. The<br />
attacks increased our business greatly," the<br />
theatre owner stated.<br />
Admissions and art book prices were cut<br />
in half for all patrons with voter registration<br />
cards.<br />
"Tales From Beyond the Grave," for<br />
Warner Brothers, is based on four stories<br />
by R. Chetwynd-Hayes.<br />
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Lost Horizon' Hits<br />
50 in Minneapolis<br />
MINNEAPOLIS—"Lost Horizon" got<br />
ider way with a moderate 250 at the<br />
ann Theatre, a figure considered disaplinting<br />
for such a production. A heavy ad<br />
mpaign in newspapers and on television,<br />
js a benefit premiere and attendant<br />
opla plus additional studio tub-thumping<br />
;ally failed to make itself felt to any<br />
ticeable degree at the boxoffice. The big<br />
lise was made, instead, by an Oriental<br />
iport, "Five Fingers of Death," which<br />
ared to a 350 opening-week figure at the<br />
:ademy. One other new arrival just<br />
raped by, "Black Caesar" posting a light<br />
lO at the State. "Sleuth" continued to<br />
ow legs at the Skyway I, where it frisked<br />
with a 400 in a third frame. Elsewhere,<br />
;ures trailed off as holdovers reached the<br />
:l-end of their runs and grosses drooped<br />
cordingly.<br />
(Average Is 100)<br />
demy Five Fingers of Death (WB) 350<br />
oper Sove the Tiger (Para), 5th wk 150<br />
pher The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean<br />
:NGP), 7th wk 100<br />
inn—Lost Horizon (Col) 250<br />
jheum The Cheerleaders (Cinemation),<br />
3rd wk 190<br />
/way Sleuth (20th-Fox), 3rd wk 400<br />
/way II Two People (Univ), 2nd wk 200<br />
ite Block Coesor (AlP) 100<br />
irld ^The Heartbreok Kid (20th-Fox),<br />
lOth wk 100<br />
ed Mann Acquisition May<br />
et New Ownership Record<br />
MINNEAPOLIS — Ted Mann, veteran<br />
hibitor and circuit head, who announced<br />
It he's in the process of purchasing a<br />
0-theatre circuit from National General<br />
)rp., Los Angeles, for $67,500,000 in cash,<br />
)uld, if the transaction is realized, beme<br />
the largest theatre owner in the U.S.<br />
le NG circuit includes the famous Graum"s<br />
Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, with<br />
ler movie houses located in Arizona,<br />
)lorado, Washington, Montana, Kansas,<br />
;w York, Texas and Canada. One of the<br />
5atres is the new 1,400-seat National Genii<br />
Theatre located off Times Square and<br />
i circuit includes many of the showhouses<br />
the old circuit established by 20th Cenry-Fox<br />
Studios.<br />
Also announcing the sale was Eugene V.<br />
ein, board chairman and president of Namal<br />
General, who said that closing of the<br />
le is subject to completion of Mann's<br />
lancing. Klein also said that American<br />
nancial Leasing Corp. of Los Angeles<br />
11 get a seven-year option to acquire a<br />
If-interest in the new Ted Mann There<br />
Corp. for its participation in the sale,<br />
le Mann Theatre Corp. also will headlarter<br />
in Los Angeles.<br />
Over the years Mann built up an exnsive<br />
circuit of theatres across this area.<br />
1970 he sold them to General Cinema<br />
3rp. of Boston for $6 million. But in that<br />
insaction, Mann retained the real estate<br />
id so is, in effect, leasing those theatres<br />
General Cinema. In this area, that cirlit<br />
now has 28 screens in 22 houses.<br />
Mann regularly commutes between<br />
inneapolis and Los Angeles. He also has<br />
ventured into the realm of production via<br />
such films as "The Illustrated Man" and<br />
"Celebration at<br />
Big Sur."<br />
It was in 1935 that Mann, born in Wishek,<br />
N.D., entered exhibition by leasing<br />
the old Oxford Theatre in St. Paul for<br />
$100 a month.<br />
Plaza Quad Bow Includes<br />
Student Film Premiere<br />
LINCOLN—The world premiere of an<br />
animated film made by a University of<br />
Nebraska student was screened for the<br />
opening of Cooper Theatres' new fourplex<br />
in Lincoln. The film "Orchard Heritage," a<br />
30-minute featurette, depicts a war between<br />
tribes of fruits and vegetables. This presented<br />
for director Mike Brown and his<br />
associates unusual problems with perishable<br />
"actors."<br />
The movie was financed through grants<br />
from the American Film Institute, Cooper<br />
Theatres, Nebraska Student Union Programs<br />
Council and Mary Cowell Ross, a<br />
New York attorney and alumna of the University<br />
of Nebraska. The premiere Sunday<br />
(15) was part of an open house for the<br />
new Plaza theatres 1-2-3-4. This was attended<br />
by Cooper staff and construction<br />
workers and their families who were involved<br />
in the building project, which includes<br />
three floors of office space above<br />
the theatres.<br />
Other pre-opening events included open<br />
houses for the business community of Lincoln<br />
and for the news media of the city and<br />
surrounding area Monday and Tuesday evenings<br />
(16, 17), as well as Wednesday evening<br />
(18) when several regular feature films<br />
also were shown to invited guests of Cooper<br />
Theatres.<br />
Cinema Theatre Debuts<br />
REDFIELD, S.D.—Redfield Corp.'s 460-<br />
seat Cinema Theatre, owned by Tom Gallup<br />
and George Trone, was opened to the public<br />
March 16. Cost of the facility was estimated<br />
at $100,000.<br />
ROSTVOLD OPEN HOUSE—Mr.<br />
and Mrs. J. M. Rostvold, Harmony,<br />
Minn., will observe their golden wedding<br />
anniversary Sunday (29) with<br />
an open house from 2 to 5 p.m. at the<br />
Greenfield Lutheran Church, Harmony.<br />
The event will be hosted by<br />
their children. The RostvoWs recently<br />
retired after nearly 40 years in theatre<br />
business in Harmony, Caledonia and<br />
Spring Grove, Minn.<br />
Wage Hike Would Hurl<br />
Economy: Vonderhaar<br />
MINNEAPOLIS—A proposed<br />
increase<br />
in the Minnesota minimum wage, currently<br />
at $1.60 an hour, has come under attack<br />
from NATO of North Central States. President<br />
Ray Vonderhaar, writing in the current<br />
issue of NATO Report, says: "A $5 or $2<br />
or $1.80 state minimum wage might look<br />
good on the books and labor will be friendly<br />
come next election. But will slapping on<br />
a higher minimum wage rate really solve<br />
the unemployment problem? Or give the<br />
low wage-earner a bigger pay check? Or<br />
increase the earning power of teenagers?<br />
Or raise the economic level of the poor?"<br />
In a word, Vonderhaar answers his own<br />
questions with a "no."<br />
He adds that a higher minimum wage<br />
"will not reduce unemployment; it will increase<br />
it. It will force business into more<br />
selective hiring practices: using one adult to<br />
do the work of several teenagers, replacing<br />
marginal workers with fewer productive<br />
employees and increasing the use of automated<br />
equipment. The employer who cannot<br />
make use of these choices and whose<br />
manpower budget is already stretched to the<br />
breaking point must cease to operate. End<br />
result: fewer jobs."<br />
A minimum wage in the neighborhood of<br />
$1.80 is given a strong chance of passage<br />
by the current legislature, now in its waning<br />
weeks of session. Such a proposal already<br />
has been adopted by the Minnesota House<br />
of Representatives. Vonderhaar is urging<br />
exhibitors to join efforts to quash the plan<br />
in the Senate. Not only are theatremen<br />
alarmed by the proposed minimum wage<br />
hike but the important Minnesota resort<br />
industry—which relies heavily upon seasonal<br />
teenage workers during the busy<br />
summer months—looks upon any increase<br />
as an action which would cause possibly<br />
far-reaching alterations in its hiring practices.<br />
The indication there is one voiced by<br />
Vonderhaar: adult labor would be available<br />
at that price ($1.80 an hour or more) and<br />
so teenagers would lose that job potential,<br />
too.<br />
120-Screen Ozoner Closes<br />
CEDAR FALLS, IOWA—Cinema 360<br />
on Melrose Drive has closed and the property<br />
reportedly is for sale. The airer, which<br />
featured 120 individual screens, opened as<br />
Circle 1 Theatre in the fall of 1971. The<br />
Cinema 360 name was adopted last May.<br />
Paul Trippler to Tulsa House<br />
CANOVA, S.D.—Paul Trippler, who<br />
managed motion picture theatres in Milwaukee,<br />
Wis.; Denver, Colo., and Ames,<br />
Iowa, from 1965 to 1969 and most recently<br />
has been associated with the Canova Herald,<br />
will assume management of a new shopping<br />
center cinema in suburban Tulsa, Okla.,<br />
this month. The theatre, operated by an<br />
Oklahoma City-based company, is nearing<br />
completion.<br />
5XOFFICE :: April 23, 1973 NC-1
MINNEAPOLIS<br />
gob DeJarnette, United Artists branch<br />
manager, has set a saturation opening<br />
for "Tom Sawyer," the musical to bow in<br />
June with 30 prints working across this<br />
territory. Indications are that the movie will<br />
be pitched as one with adult appeal, not<br />
merely as one for the kids . . . DeJarnette<br />
also is mapping the campaign for the next<br />
James Bond picture. "Live and Let Die."<br />
Starring the new 007, Roger Moore, that<br />
film is set for a July bow.<br />
John Pilmaier, MGM division manager,<br />
flew in from Chicago for routine branch<br />
business. Meanwhile, Dean Lutz, MGM<br />
branch chief, set "Soylent Green" for a<br />
Wednesday (18) day-and-date opening at<br />
the State Theatre here and the Strand in<br />
St. Paul . . . "Last Tango in Paris" has<br />
been set for a May 2 bow at the Academy<br />
Theatre, with all seats reserved at $4 flat.<br />
The Capitol Theatre, St. Paul, was sold<br />
by Martin Lebedoff to Ferris Alexander.<br />
Alexander operates the Rialto, American<br />
and Empress theatres in this city, all of<br />
which consistently run X-rated films. The<br />
Capitol thus far has had an ordinary subsequent-run<br />
policy . . . Filmrow visitors: Ron<br />
Greely, Kim Hi Drive-In; Sid Heath,<br />
Flame, Wells, and Ray Vonderhaar, Tentilino<br />
Enterprises, Alexandria.<br />
Heavy snows hit the territory Sunday and<br />
Monday (8, 9), along with plunging temperatures.<br />
Many drive-ins, which had opened<br />
way back in mid-March and amid balmy<br />
temperatures, had to close again—temporarily.<br />
Temperatures in Minnesota dropped<br />
to near ten degrees above zero, snow drifts<br />
in southern Minnesota and parts of Iowa<br />
reached eight feet in depth and elsewhere up<br />
to 17 inches of snow depth was recorded.<br />
The National Weather Service labeled it the<br />
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most severe April snow storm in the 92<br />
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Roy Smith, William H. Lange Distributing<br />
Co. branch manager, returned from<br />
Denver where he gave away his sister-in-law<br />
in marriage Saturday (7) The bride's new<br />
name: Mrs. Virginia Head . . . The Flying<br />
Cloud Drive-in in suburban Minneapolis<br />
was sold by Bob Levy and now will be<br />
operated by Northwest Cinema.<br />
Warren Branton, former film salesman<br />
for 20th Century-Fox and a Filmrow veteran<br />
long retired, is reported seriously ill<br />
and hospitalized . . . "The Sound of Music"<br />
continues to do turnaway business at the suburban<br />
Park Theatre. It bowed Friday (13)<br />
at the Norstar Theatre in St. Paul—and<br />
that engagement is being heaving publicized,<br />
since it'll be the first time the picture has<br />
played in 70mm and full stereo sound in<br />
the capital city.<br />
"Charlotte's Web" was screened by Paramount<br />
Saturday (7) at the Terrace Theatre<br />
for an invited audience of 700 teachers and<br />
students. Forrie Myers, Paramount branch<br />
chief, said reaction was beyond expectations:<br />
"They really ate up that film." And a<br />
tradescreening also was held for "Paper<br />
Moon," the newest Peter Bogdanovich<br />
movie.<br />
The Stardust 17 Drive-ln, Grafton, N.D.,<br />
owned and operated by Arlo Henriksen, will<br />
reopen May 2 . . . Northwest Cinema held<br />
a meeting of all its managers Tuesday (10),<br />
the sales seminar held at the Marquette<br />
Inn . . . Co-stars Gary Grimes and Jerry<br />
Houser arrived in town Thursday (12) to<br />
beat the drums for "Class of '44," which<br />
was playing at the World Theatre here and<br />
the Cine I in St. Paul . . . "Five Fingers<br />
of Death" appropriately "killed 'em" at the<br />
boxoffice in both this city and St. Paul,<br />
easily winning holdovers. A tentative May<br />
2 citywide break has been set for the<br />
sizzler.<br />
The board of directors of NATO of North<br />
Central States was scheduled to meet at<br />
noon Tuesday (3) at the downtown Poodle.<br />
Discussion was expected to center around<br />
such problems as the minimum wage proposed<br />
by the Minnesota Legislature and<br />
NATO's fight against cable TV.<br />
MILWAUKEE<br />
^anager Jack Ringe of Marcus' Centre<br />
Theatre had three of his ushers clad in<br />
cap and gown go scooting up and down<br />
Wisconsin Avenue and around town in a<br />
"41 Ford convertible. They found ready<br />
takers as they handed out flyers to promote<br />
Warner Bros.' PG-rated "Class of '44"<br />
which opened Wednesday (1 1). It also is<br />
showing at Skyway Cinema 1 and Southtown.<br />
Your correspondent was in Chicago<br />
the same day the young stars, Gary Grimes<br />
and Jerry Houser, were there as part of<br />
their three-week tour to publicize the film.<br />
Would they manage to squeeze in a visit to<br />
Milwaukee, we wanted to know? "No<br />
chance," came the reply. The pair was slated<br />
to move on to Cincinnati the very next<br />
morning (and they had flown to the Windy<br />
City from Toronto the day before). It was<br />
intriguing to learn the youths had insisted<br />
upon being checked into the Presidential<br />
Suite at the Sheraton Blackstone Hotel. Reason?<br />
Seems the suite has a piano on which<br />
five U. S. Presidents have played, including<br />
Truman and Nixon. We didn't find out<br />
which one is the pianist, Gary or Jerry. But<br />
we did get around to paying a first visit to<br />
the new JMG Film Co. office at 32 West<br />
Randolph St. to say "hi" to division manager<br />
Virgil Jones. We then learned that<br />
Virgil had been a visitor to Beer City only<br />
the day preceding to meet with exhibitors<br />
along Filmrow.<br />
This city's recently returned POW hero<br />
Capt. Stephen R. Leopold revealed here<br />
how he and other prisoners of the Viet<br />
Cong at Camp Plantation would recall old<br />
movies to help pass the time. He said one<br />
member of the POW group, a Marine from<br />
Rochester, N.Y., named Capt. Bruce<br />
Archer, could recall the plots of more than<br />
500 movies he had seen. "And not just<br />
vaguely but in detail," Leopold told reporter<br />
Bob Wells of the Journal. Archer used to<br />
the Movies," etc., and with Archer taking<br />
the lead would hold each other spellbound<br />
by the hour telling what Gregory Peck,<br />
John Wayne or Debbie Reynolds had done<br />
next. Leopold now is home with his parents<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leopold, 1129 North<br />
Jackson St.<br />
Columnist Kay Marsh in the Franklin-<br />
Hales Corners Hub commented recently on<br />
the subject of "taking in a movie." Said<br />
she: "If you're finding that you've hardly<br />
heard of many of the performers and productions<br />
nominated for this year's Academy<br />
Awards, then you, too, probably belong to<br />
the middle-aged generation that more or<br />
less<br />
has gotten out of the habit of going to<br />
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"tell movies" at night, taking turns with the<br />
other POWs, "but he also could tell matinees.<br />
Then, on Christmas, he gave us a<br />
triple feature," Leopold related. Capt. Leo-<br />
pold said he wouldn't swear to the accuracy<br />
of the plots Archer relayed and he suspects<br />
the Marine may even have improved on<br />
Hollywood now and then "but the audience<br />
was not composed of critics." The POWs<br />
did their own programing of "Monday<br />
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^on Walls, general manager, Dubinsky-<br />
Fridley Theatres, reports that "Steelyard<br />
Blues" (WB), showing at the Fleur here,<br />
is one of the top grossing pictures in the<br />
country. He says business generally is good<br />
throughout the area and that "Sounder"<br />
(20th-Fox) still is drawing excellent attendance.<br />
Walls and Dick Glenn are enjoying<br />
their work in newly remodeled offices at 222<br />
Crocker.<br />
Mrs. Tim (Hazel) Evans, former owner of<br />
the Evans Theatre, Anamosa, currently is in<br />
Iowa Methodist Hospital with a broken hip<br />
suffered in a fall . . . Byers Jordan, booker<br />
for Commonwealth, Kansas City, was in<br />
town Thursday (5) calling on circuits.<br />
Chuck Caligiuri, Paramount branch manager,<br />
is very pleased with results on showings<br />
of "The Godfather" following the<br />
Academy Awards presentations. It is doing<br />
great in all situations, he says.<br />
Filmrow visitors: Dick Peterson, Story<br />
Theatre, Story City, and Jim Mirtz, Perry<br />
and drive-in, Le Mars.<br />
Obscenity charges against the assistant<br />
manager of the Fort Theatre, filed ibecause<br />
of the showing of "Deep Throat," have been<br />
dismissed and the movie house has ended<br />
the film's 40-day run. Police seized the print<br />
March 14 and charged Mrs. Janet Hartman<br />
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nance." Before the hearing could be held,<br />
the theatre owner, Mini-Cinema of America,<br />
went to U.S. District Court and obtamed<br />
a temporary restraining order against<br />
further prosecution until a hearing was held<br />
in federal court. The owner claimed the<br />
film should not have been seized until a<br />
hearing had been held to determine if it was<br />
obscene.<br />
. . Jay Cobb, manager<br />
Central States news: Oky Goodman, manager<br />
of the Rivoli Theatre, Oskaloosa, was<br />
a recent visitor in the office here . . . Jane<br />
Frost, secretary to Larry Day, was married<br />
Sunday (8) to Alan Heggen at the Grandview<br />
Lutheran Church . . . Art Stein, general<br />
manager, is back at his desk after vacationing<br />
in Mexico .<br />
of the Regent, Cedar Falls, recently had a<br />
radio-promoted contest on "Cabaret," in<br />
cooperation with a local station . . . Ron<br />
Montgomery, Fort Dodge, is arranging a<br />
free night in May at the drive-in there . . .<br />
Tom Ramstad, Cinema, Iowa City, reports<br />
a total of 1,366 attending "Sounder" via<br />
group sales. Because of Fred Teller jr.'s<br />
. . . Double<br />
efforts, a total of 600 group sales to students<br />
for "Sounder" was recorded<br />
buck night continues to be successful at the<br />
. . All<br />
Collins Road Drive-In, Cedar Rapids . . .<br />
"Showdown" is being promoted via radio at<br />
Cinema II, Cedar Falls. The picture opens<br />
on a saturation basis next month .<br />
drivers of green cars were admitted free St.<br />
Patrick's Day at the Hastings Drive-In . . .<br />
The weekend rains are causing difficulties<br />
for drive-ins all over the area.<br />
LINCOLN<br />
"phe Plaza fourplex, which opened to the<br />
public Thursday (19) after a series of<br />
invitational functions, will be known as the<br />
Plaza theatres. But, if you're referring to<br />
the entire five or six-story (two levels,<br />
theatrewise)<br />
structure, then circuit executives report<br />
you're talking about the Cooper Plaza<br />
Building.<br />
Recent industry visitors included Sol Malisow,<br />
Avco Embassy, Minneapolis, and Jack<br />
Eckhardt of Cinemation, an independent<br />
operating out of Chicago. Eckhardt was<br />
here to spread the word about the firm's<br />
recently opened Kansas City branch. Local<br />
industry members also had an opportunity<br />
to meet Ray Russo of Chicago, 20th Century-Fox<br />
regional manager, who has had<br />
the Des Moines branch, operated by David<br />
Gold, recently placed under his jurisdiction.<br />
Douglas Thaetres Co. president Russell<br />
Brehm hosted the Russo-Gold lunch gathering.<br />
Moving is a pretty common word in SJarge<br />
Dubinsky's vocabulary these days. He and<br />
his family hope to be doing this by fall if<br />
the contractor gets their new home<br />
at 6420 Rogers Circle completed on schedule.<br />
TTie entire Dubinsky Brothers home<br />
office staff will be moving soon after May<br />
1 if the Stuart Building remodeling schedule<br />
for the new Dubinsky headquarters is kept.<br />
The Dubinskys say the new space, formerly<br />
occupied by Cooper Theatres, will give them<br />
three times the floor area as in their original<br />
Stuart building quarters.<br />
Hiring of four new ushers and four new<br />
concession workers gets the suburban Cooper/Lincoln<br />
Theatre staff up to its full<br />
strength again, reports manager Duke<br />
Smith. The transfer of a number of the<br />
Cooper/ Lincoln staff who worked there for<br />
Jay Maness to the new downtown Plaza<br />
theatres, where Jay now is manager, created<br />
the staff vacancies. New Cooper/ Lincoln<br />
ushers joining the staff are Daniel Newton,<br />
John Fauss, David Tomkinson and David<br />
Reinig. New behind the concession stand<br />
are Debra Andelt, Donna Manly, Cathy<br />
Taylor and Janelle Sommer. In addition to<br />
assistant managers Gary Bryant and Gary<br />
Myers, previous staff members remaining<br />
at the suburban house include Priscilla Luke<br />
and Barbara Stevens, cashiers; Judie Meyer,<br />
concessions, and Randy Griffin and Mike<br />
Wacker, doormen.<br />
It may be a wet spring at best but this<br />
hasn't stopped manager Dennis Garrison<br />
from starting his State staff on a cleanup.<br />
He says storage rooms were the first to feel<br />
the effects ... As of Friday (20), Douglas<br />
3 was offering — movie patrons three films<br />
with "S" titles "Sounder," still drawing<br />
crowds after an early February opening;<br />
"Shamus," and "Soylent Green." "Lady<br />
Sings the Blues" that day ended more than<br />
a two-month run, according to manager<br />
Lee Levorson . . . Manager Duke Smith<br />
comments that "Charlotte's Web," by Paramount,<br />
must be the first or one of few cartoons<br />
that is sad. He caught the new Plaza<br />
offering about the spider named Charlotte<br />
when it was shown Saturday morning (14)<br />
at the Cooper/ Lincoln for area elementary<br />
school teachers.<br />
Walt Jancke took in a statewide aquarium<br />
society meeting exhibit at the Villager Saturday<br />
(7), finding out that there are lots<br />
more varieties of non-edible fish than he<br />
ever realized.<br />
Young newspaper carriers Brad Brabec<br />
and Jeff Charroin will have only 12 days<br />
to do their sightseeing in Germany and<br />
Romania as Sunday Journal and Star winners<br />
of Parade's Young Columbus trip in<br />
1973. They left New York City Thursday<br />
(12). But a special dividend prize this year<br />
will permit the two youths to go to the<br />
movies all throughout 1973. They received<br />
Cooper Theatre Co. passes, good for the<br />
year, from Chuck Kroll, assistant vicepresident<br />
for the locally based circuit.<br />
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CINCINNATI—'The Life and Times of<br />
dge Roy Bean" grossed 400 in its third<br />
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he Poseidon Adventure," 16th week at<br />
posted 375 and "The<br />
ick," second week at the Albee, pulled<br />
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'O other first-run films registered 300<br />
;h — "The Heartbreak Kid," eighth week<br />
the Place Cinema, and "Walking Tall,"<br />
rd week at the Northgate.<br />
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bQSsador The Poseidon Adventure (20th-Fox),<br />
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ousel 2 Sleuth (20th-Fox), 6th wk 275<br />
nd Trick Boby (Univ), 3rd wk 100<br />
thgate—Walking Tall (CRC), 3rd wk 300<br />
:e—The Heartbreak Kid (20th-Fox), 8th wk. . .300<br />
dio Cinemas Feilini's Roma (UA), 3rd wk. ..175<br />
les Town Cinema The Lite and Times of<br />
udge Roy Bean (NGP), 3rd wk 400<br />
h Century Sounder (20th-Fox), 15th wk 75<br />
)st Horizon' Composite 400<br />
Three Cleveland Theatres<br />
CLEVELAND— "Lost Horizon," making<br />
debut here at three theatres—Fairview,<br />
ews' East and Loews' Yorktown—aver-<br />
;d out at 400 and took over the grossing<br />
dership without any serious challengers.<br />
e next highest grossing percentages were<br />
5 and 160 for "Sounder" and "The<br />
Lck,"<br />
respectively.<br />
lar^Lee Sounder (20th-Fox), 12th wk 175<br />
ony Man of La Moncho (UA), 17th wk 100<br />
; theatres The Heartbreak Kid (20th-Fox),<br />
th wk 130<br />
; theatres The Life and Times of<br />
udge Roy Bean (NGP), 3rd wk I 50<br />
r theatres Lolly-Modonno XXX (MGM) 100<br />
ee theatres Sleuth (20th-Fox), 5th wk 120<br />
5 theatres Two People (Univ), 2nd wk 100<br />
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ee theatres Lost Horizon (Col) 400<br />
rid East, V/orld Vy^est (UA), 2nd wk 90<br />
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the theatre boxoffice to neighbor-<br />
Dd homes by cable, it is announced by<br />
Boudouris, president. The exhibitor conve<br />
will be held in Toledo at the Sheraton<br />
itel.<br />
Boudouris reports that the system will<br />
)vide for crediting all receipts to indilual<br />
theatres playing the particular pices<br />
selected by viewers at home. He adds<br />
It it also is the basis for a new concept<br />
drive-ins permitting simultaneous multi-<br />
3gram pre.sentation, visible only inside<br />
and in daylight, if desired,<br />
uipment already is designed and availa-<br />
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iemonstration, according to Bourdouris.<br />
rove City Council Moves<br />
Attract Film Houses<br />
GROVE CITY, OHIO—This suburban<br />
mmunity near Columbus hopes the action<br />
FILMING 'MOTOWN 9000'—Under the direction of producer-director<br />
Artliur Marks, who also is president of General Film Corp. of Hollywood, fullscale<br />
production of the feature movie "Motown 9000" was launched in<br />
Detroit, as<br />
a company of Hollywood professionals supported by local actors and actresses<br />
faced the cameras in locations ranging from Precinct One of the Detroit Police Department<br />
to the waterfront beneath Ambassador Bridge and a remote section of the<br />
city's famous park on Belle Isle. Shown, left to right, are: Vonetta McGee, who<br />
plays a lead role; producer-director Arthur Marks; Harry May, cinematographer;<br />
Ken Swor, first assistant director; Orville Hampton, screenwriter, and, center front,<br />
the male lead, Alex Rocco.<br />
of the city council in reducing the present<br />
20 per cent admissions tax will entice film<br />
theatres and other forms of entertainment<br />
to locate in the area. At present Grove<br />
City has no movie houses.<br />
The city council, by a 4-1 vote, cut the<br />
admissions tax measure so that patrons of<br />
entertainment activities would pay either<br />
20 per cent of the ticket price or 25 cents,<br />
whichever is less. The rollback is expected<br />
to cost the city about $15,000 in lost<br />
revenue but the council believes the loss<br />
will be worth it to help draw entertainment<br />
facilities.<br />
Harold Bobbins Will Be<br />
Adcraft Club Speaker<br />
DETROIT— Harold Robbins will be the<br />
guest of honor at a luncheon sponsored by<br />
the Adcraft Club of Detroit, to be hM at<br />
the Hilton Hotel Friday (27). Robbins will<br />
address the meeting on the subject "Sex<br />
and the Automobile," a subject near and<br />
dear to him. also a part of his current Simon<br />
& Schuster/ Trident best-seller, "The Betsy."<br />
Advertising agency, broadcast media and<br />
automobile industry executives will be in<br />
attendance.<br />
Elect Chas. Sugarman<br />
NATO of Ohio Prexy<br />
Charles Sugarman<br />
COLUMBUS—Charles Sugarman, operator<br />
of Cinema East in suburban Whitehall,<br />
was elected president<br />
of NATO of<br />
Ohio for the 1973-74<br />
term. Sugarman, who<br />
had been serving as<br />
first vice-president,<br />
succeeds Ben Cohen<br />
of Cincinnati.<br />
M. H. "Mike" Chakeres,<br />
president of<br />
Chakeres Theatres,<br />
Springfield, Ohio, was<br />
chosen first vicepresident.<br />
Al Boudouris, Toledo, Ohio,<br />
president of Cine and EPRAD, was named<br />
second vice-president. Myron F. Price of<br />
Price Theatres, Newark, Ohio, was reelected<br />
treasurer and Jim Burgess, Columbus,<br />
was re-elected executive director.<br />
Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman will<br />
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D. Watkins, Modern Theatres, took the<br />
usual filmland group to the Indians'<br />
opening baseball game here Saturday (7)<br />
. . . Lou Raetner, exhibitor, returned to the<br />
city relaxed and tanned after spending several<br />
months at his winter home in St. Croix,<br />
Virgin Islands . . . The Leatherwood Drivein,<br />
Bamesville, operated by Rolland Hall,<br />
has reopened.<br />
Fran Schwartz, Universal bookkeeper, recently<br />
received an engagement ring from<br />
fiance Frank Chipuk. The couple has set<br />
October 20 for the w^edding date.<br />
Frank Musto, Universal sales<br />
representative,<br />
is feehng the pressure of women's lib.<br />
Musto, who for the past ten years has<br />
served as president of Boys' West Denison<br />
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. . . Jim<br />
youngsters, claims that the girls' section is<br />
growing more rapidly than ever<br />
Ryan, Universal branch manager, entertained<br />
relatives from Buffalo during a recent<br />
weekend . . . Fair Hooker, Gene Hickerson,<br />
Ben Davis, Walter Johnson, Tom<br />
Darden and Jim Houston were some of the<br />
Cleveland Browns players participating in<br />
the Variety Club's 18-hour telethon which<br />
started at II p.m. Saturday (7). Also participating<br />
was Ernie Kellerman, now with<br />
the Bengals.<br />
Laura Green, a successful Karamu Theatre<br />
alumnae and former Play House curtainpuller,<br />
took time from her busy schedule to<br />
appear on the Variety telethon. Laura costarred<br />
in the film "Putney Swope." Currently<br />
she is seen in several TV commercials,<br />
the most familiar being the one in<br />
which she stands on her head in a karate<br />
class discussing stocks and bonds. Miss<br />
Green soon will appear in the movie "Sweet<br />
Monday."<br />
The creation of a<br />
was announced by Mayor Ralph J. Perk.<br />
The commission will determine community<br />
commission on CATV<br />
needs, regulatory policy and the cos.ts, revenue<br />
and benefits of such a system. The city<br />
is cooperating with Atlanta, Boston and<br />
acousti-wall<br />
Indianapolis in<br />
this telecommunications policy<br />
research project.<br />
After viewing a short color film, the<br />
Cuyahoga County Grand Jury indicted two<br />
North Olmsted men Tuesday (3) on 19<br />
counts of selling obscene movies and one<br />
count of possessing 300 obscene movies for<br />
sale. Saverio Bellino and Frank J. Kosec,<br />
owners of Caesar's Lounge (Bellino also<br />
owns Bellino's Hair Styling for Men in<br />
Lakewood), were indicted for allegedly selling<br />
the films between December 9 and February<br />
7 to agents from Westshore Enforcement<br />
Bureau, federal officials and North<br />
Olmsted police. An investigation is under<br />
way to determine where the films were<br />
made.<br />
Actress Linn Mason presented a monolog.<br />
"The American Woman," in the Notre<br />
Dame College gym . . . Actor-director Edmund<br />
Lyndeck, currently a guest director<br />
at the Play House, is involved in the prizewinning<br />
documentary "The Sorrow and the<br />
Pity." It is Lyndeck's voice in the English<br />
translation of some of the French dialog.<br />
Lyndeck did the work 16 months ago but<br />
has not seen the movie, which was due to<br />
open at the Heights but was postponed because<br />
of the continuing success of "The<br />
AU-American Girl."<br />
Marianne McAndrews, local actress who<br />
made her movie debut in "A Lovely Way<br />
to Die" and later played the milliner in<br />
"Hello, Dolly!", has just completed a horror<br />
movie with her husband Steward Moss . . .<br />
A 1914 barber chair was given away at the<br />
Heights Theatre's midnight movie March<br />
31. The man with the lucky ticket stub was<br />
from Chicago and fortunately arrived in the<br />
city in a Volkswagen pickup truck. John<br />
Redmond, Heights Theatre house manager,<br />
helped him load the barber chair into the<br />
truck. Someone in Chicago will be surprised<br />
with the gift.<br />
When Louis Nizer, well-known attorney,<br />
appeared here at the Book & Author luncheon<br />
in the Hotel Statler Hilton, he referred<br />
to an incident in his recent book, "Implosion<br />
Conspiracy," the story of the trial, conviction<br />
and execution of Julius and Ethel<br />
Rosenberg. In the presence of guards and<br />
matrons, the Rosenbergs brought together<br />
for the last time, were overwhelmed with<br />
passion. Nizer said he told Otto Preminger,<br />
who is producing the film, that if he adds<br />
to that scene, the movie assuredly will earn<br />
an X rating.<br />
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Paramount and Mid States helped<br />
to man the phones in the telethon campaign<br />
for Easter Seals for crippled children Sunday<br />
(8) . . . Janet Freeman is new contract<br />
clerk for 20th-Fox, succeeding Mary Ferring,<br />
who has gone to Dallas, Tex., to train<br />
as a stewardess for American Airlines . . .<br />
Jo Harrison, district manager for Bil-Ko<br />
Film, attended the NATO of Michigan regional<br />
meeting in<br />
Detroit.<br />
Larry Thomas, Tri-State booker, is convalescing<br />
nicely at home following surgery.<br />
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^ive Fingers' Leads<br />
oston Films at 450<br />
BOSTON—Encouraged by cold, rainy<br />
ather and abetted by quality product in<br />
antity, the motion picture grosses boomed<br />
d the leaders posted pvercentages in the<br />
Os and 400s. Showing the way for all<br />
ston bookings, "Five Fingers of Death"<br />
lyed a 450 second week at Savoy One<br />
d first-week "The Mack" ran up 385 at<br />
; Saxon Theatre. Also reaching the 300<br />
ss was "Lost Horizon," an even 300 in<br />
bird week at Circle Cinema.<br />
(Average Is 100)<br />
3rles East The Effect of Gamma Roys on<br />
^on-in-the-Moon Marigolds (20th-Fox},<br />
1th wk 120<br />
3rles West The Discreet Charm of the<br />
lourgeoisie (20th-Fox), 1 1th wk 140<br />
;ri One The Heartbreak Kid (20th-Fox),<br />
1th wk 125<br />
;ri Two Sleuth (20th-Fox), 9th wk 200<br />
:le Cinema Lost Horizon (Col), 3rd wk 300<br />
•ter—^esar and Rosalie (SR), 3rd wk 125<br />
imore Two People (Univ), 3rd wk 100<br />
fws' Abbey Two The Cheerleaders<br />
Cinemotion), 4th wk 145<br />
amount Wattstax (Col), 3rd wk 210<br />
is Cinema Hurry Up or I'll Be 30 (Emb),<br />
ird wk 130<br />
Alley—Slither (MGM), 3rd wk 225<br />
•oy One— Five Fingers of Death (WB), 2nd wk. 450<br />
oy Two—Sounder (20th-Fox), 1 5th wk 210<br />
;on—The Mack (CRC) 385<br />
st End—The Naked Countess (Crown) 155<br />
^attstax'<br />
Highest Grosser<br />
New Haven at 250<br />
NEW HAVEN—"Wattstax" and "Five<br />
ngers of Death" headlined area film news<br />
opening New Haven engagements at 250<br />
d 225, respectively, and far out-grossed<br />
other current runs. "Wattstax" produced<br />
No. 1 gross percentage at the Roger<br />
erman, while "Five Fingers" compiled its<br />
5 on the screens of the College Theatre.<br />
iwl and Milford drive-ins.<br />
lemart Sleuth (20th-Fox), 6th wk 90<br />
lege. Bowl, Milford Five Fingers of Death<br />
WB) 225<br />
lege Street Cinema Lody Caroline Lomb<br />
UA) 90<br />
coin Cries and Whispers (SR), 3rd wk 100<br />
ford Cinema II, Wholley ^Shamus (Col),<br />
1th wk 60<br />
ger Sherman Wottstax (Col) 250<br />
>wc:ase Cinema II The Heortbreak Kkl<br />
20th-Fox), 4th wk 60<br />
rk Square Cinema The Discreet Charm of<br />
•he Bourgeoisie (20th-Fox), 3rd wk 60<br />
irtford's<br />
Top-Level Trio<br />
rosses Substantial 150<br />
HARTFORD—With two exceptions, all<br />
ms available to Hartford ticket-buyers<br />
assed neatly above the 100 average level,<br />
th a trio of 150s representing peak busiss.<br />
Grouped at that mark were "High<br />
se," "Black Mama, White Mama" and<br />
leuth," all holdover features.<br />
t Cinema High Rise (SR) Swinging High<br />
:SR), 3rd wk 150<br />
on Park North, Webster, Meadows<br />
Black Gunn (Col) '35<br />
on Twin I, Rivoli Cesor and Rosalie (SR) .... 1 15<br />
rlin Cine II, Vernon Cine II Jeremiah Johnson<br />
(WB), 3rd wk 125<br />
rlin—Sex and the Office Girl (SR); Party Girl<br />
(SR); Gabrielle (SR) '25<br />
rnside. Cinema I<br />
Sleuth (20th-Fox), 4th wk. .<br />
.150<br />
ntral, UA Theatre East The Heartbreok Kid<br />
(20th-Fox), 4th wk 50<br />
lema II, Moll Cinema, Vernon Cine I—<br />
Shamus (Col), 3rd wk 125<br />
leramo Man of La Mancha (UA), 9th wk. ... 40<br />
and— Block Mama, White Mamo (AlP),<br />
2nd wk 150<br />
oylent Green' Booking<br />
HARTFORD—MGM scheduled the Concticut<br />
premiere of "Soylent Green" for<br />
ednesday (18) at the Cinerama Theatre.<br />
)XOFFICE :: April 23, 1973<br />
Portsmouth, N.H., Cinema<br />
Used in Emergency Drill<br />
PORTSMOUTH, N.H.—The Jerry Lewis<br />
Cinema on Lafayette Road was the scene<br />
of a simulated disaster used by the Portsmouth<br />
Hospital and nine area law enforcement<br />
and emergency organizations to test<br />
their methods and procedures March 15.<br />
Two such tests must be held each year by<br />
the<br />
emergency organizations.<br />
In the March 15 drill, the simulated condition<br />
was that five persons had been killed<br />
and 36 others seriously injured in an explosion<br />
at the theatre. The Portsmouth<br />
Fire Department ambulance was the first<br />
to arrive at the "disaster" scene, then firemen<br />
arrived to set up emergency lights to<br />
locate "victims" in the darkened theatre.<br />
Police arrived almost simultaneously with<br />
the firemen and began to close off the theatre<br />
area and direct traffic away from it.<br />
High school youths, all volunteers were<br />
found in the theatre, partly buried beneath<br />
piles of rubble. The "injured" were rushed<br />
to the hospital, where emergency crews of<br />
doctors and nurses "treated" their simulated<br />
injuries. The cuts, bruises, burns and fractures<br />
were produced by an employee of the<br />
state Division of Public Health, who used<br />
a variety of wax, paint and dirt to achieve<br />
realistic effects.<br />
When ambulances arrived at the theatre,<br />
crews found total confusion. Some "victims"<br />
were wandering around outside the theatre,<br />
bodies were blocking the doorway and<br />
screams filled the air. In less than an hour,<br />
all the injured had been processed and<br />
treated at the hospital.<br />
The exercise— at least as to the time,<br />
place and the nature of it—came as a<br />
surprise to the participating agencies.<br />
Charles Webb Managing<br />
At Wakefield's Starlite<br />
WAKEFIELD, MASS. — Charles W.<br />
Webb is the new manager of the Starlite<br />
Drive-In, which was opened for the season<br />
Wednesday night, March 29. Webb, with<br />
Redstone Management since 1963, replaces<br />
Manny Gianni, who has been transferred<br />
to Redstone's Showcase cinemas in Lawrence.<br />
The management of the Starlite Drive-<br />
In, which has raised considerable money<br />
for the Jimmy Fund, refuses to show any<br />
X-rated pictures, as do so many other airers.<br />
The drive-in is a unit of National<br />
Amusement under Redstone Management,<br />
which consists of 12 divisions directed from<br />
home offices in the Park Square Building in<br />
Boston.<br />
Serving in this area as division managers<br />
for the circuit are Lawrence Nason,<br />
who has charge of drive-ins in Greater<br />
Boston and is a resident of Melrose, and<br />
John Nerich, who is in charge of the indoor<br />
cinemas, such as the Cleveland Circle, Lawrence,<br />
Woburn and Dedham. Nerich lives<br />
in Lynn.<br />
The Redstone circuit has under construction<br />
a fourplex in Woburn on routes<br />
120 and 38.<br />
Sack Adding Theatres<br />
In Suburban Boston<br />
BOSTON—Ben Sack, Boston showman,<br />
took over the Natick and Danvers cinemas<br />
formerly held by Loews Theatres Tuesday<br />
(17) as the first step in an expansion program<br />
for his Boston-based circuit.<br />
Sack had outlined the expansion in several<br />
areas in suburban Boston at a press conference<br />
Tuesday night (10).<br />
The Natick Cinema will be converted at<br />
once into a two-screen situation and Sack<br />
will push for the completion and opening<br />
of his four-screen complex in Danvers<br />
while keeping the former Loews' unit as a<br />
single-auditorium cinema. Sack said, too,<br />
that construction will begin in Brockton in<br />
July on a four-screen complex at the Junction<br />
of routes 24 and 27 near the Cardinal<br />
Gushing Hospital. Auditoriums in this complex,<br />
to be ready for an opening during<br />
the next Christmas season, will be designed<br />
to seat 1,000, 800, 600 and 400 patrons.<br />
These additions to the Sack circuit will<br />
bring its number of theatres up to 27. The<br />
circuit is operating 12 downtown Boston<br />
theatres, plus a four-screen complex in<br />
Leominster.<br />
William Rabinowitz Will<br />
Lease 16mm Norwich Unit<br />
NORWICH, CONN.—William Rabinowitz<br />
is building a plush, 16mm theatre seating<br />
90 patrons for theatre operators who<br />
plan to book art film festivals and Saturday<br />
afternoon cartoon matinees for the children.<br />
Rabinowitz, who will lease the theatre<br />
to the unnamed operators, said that the<br />
small theatre on Franklin Square will be<br />
a "real plush place, characterized by wallto-wall<br />
carpeting and air conditioning."<br />
Squashing rumors that the theatre will<br />
show X films, Rabinowitz said, "I doubt<br />
if they could even obtain X films for showing<br />
on their equipment."<br />
"We are trying to do some good for the<br />
downtown district," he added to the Norwich<br />
Bulletin. "We have persuaded the<br />
Singer Sewing Co. to move into our building<br />
to provide larger shopping quarters for<br />
the public and this move will enable the<br />
Connecticut Bank & Trust Co.'s Franklin<br />
Square office to expand into the old Singer<br />
Store. All of this promises to do a lot of<br />
good for downtown Norwich and we want<br />
to help in this respect as much as we can."<br />
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BOSTON<br />
X/ariety Club's Bill<br />
Koster, executive director<br />
of the tent's Jimmy Fund, announced<br />
that Saturday (28) has been designated<br />
as "General Electric Employees<br />
Day" at Fenway Park, with the Red Sox<br />
playing the Cleveland Indians. At least<br />
15,000 GE employees and friends are expected<br />
to be part of the capacity crowd<br />
watching the game and a presentation to<br />
the Jimmy Fund. Koster also announced<br />
that the tent's officers and members are<br />
well organized for the current Jimmy Fund<br />
drive, which is being participated in, as<br />
usual, by theatres of all six New England<br />
states.<br />
Ed Myers, New England Seating president,<br />
announced completion of installation<br />
of 250 chairs at Bob Dolan's Time Theatres'<br />
Cinema at Bridgeport. The Cinema<br />
will be opened late this month<br />
Proulx, manager at Paul<br />
. . .<br />
Vartigan's<br />
Ray<br />
New<br />
Meadows Theatre at North Reading, arranged<br />
a publicity tie-up with Grant's<br />
Bradford House, a nearby restaurant, for a<br />
co-sponsored Dinner-Movie Night featuring<br />
a potpourri of delicious foods and a movie<br />
for two. This deal is offered on a weekly<br />
basis on specified nights of the week.<br />
Wednesday (11) was a day of spectacular<br />
openings at Boston movie houses— "The<br />
Last Tango in Paris," Cheri complex; "Class<br />
of '44," Cheri II; "TTiis Is Cinerama,"<br />
Beacon Hill; "I Am a Dancer," Walter<br />
Reade's Charles Cinema I; Visconti's "Ludwig,"<br />
Charles East; "Godspell," Loews'<br />
Theatre. "Cabaret" and "The Godfather"<br />
were doing very well and holding in many<br />
situations which brought them back in<br />
connection with the Oscar awards.<br />
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Fine Arts' evening school, has been offered<br />
the position of artist for the General Cinema<br />
Corp. advertising department under the<br />
direction of Nick Lavidor. Carolyn, who<br />
joined General Cinema after graduating<br />
high in her class at Bay State College,<br />
previously had worked in the circuit's home<br />
office film department, as executive secretary<br />
to the director of concessions and in<br />
the advertising department. Fellow workers<br />
are happy to see Carolyn moving steadily<br />
up the staff ladder.<br />
Joe Testa, chief engineer at the Massachusetts<br />
Theatre Equipment Co., has completed<br />
installation of Cinemecannica automated<br />
booth equipment at Joe Battiglini's<br />
Marlboro Twin Cinema on Route 20. Each<br />
side of the twin, due to open late this<br />
month, has a seating capacity of 350 patrons<br />
. . . Filmrow's Eddie Comi and his<br />
wife Mary are off on a vacation trip to<br />
Florida. While there, they will stop at the<br />
Placid Lake estates near Orlando to look<br />
over condominiums with the idea of establishing<br />
a second home for the winter<br />
months.<br />
Joe Barilla, American International's<br />
shipping department manager, welcomed a<br />
new addition to the department—Donald<br />
Simi, 16, son of Buena Vista's branch manager<br />
Florio Simi. Donald, seemingly, is being<br />
trained to follow in his father's footsteps<br />
and is working during off-school<br />
hours while attending Boston Latin School.<br />
After school closes for the summer, he will<br />
work fulltime. He lives at home and says<br />
that he has his sights set for either Princeton<br />
or the University of Pennsylvania.<br />
Merrill Jarvis, owner of the Flynn Theatre<br />
in Burlington, Vt., and Showcase Cinema<br />
1, 2, also in Burlington, announced that<br />
he has joined Arthur Friedman's Cinema<br />
Film Buying and Booking Service. The<br />
Showcase complex was scheduled for a<br />
Wednesday (18) opening . . . Bob Viano,<br />
Capitol Theatre in Arlington, and his wife<br />
Florence got away from Massachusetts'<br />
spring showers by heading for Florida on<br />
their vacation trip.<br />
Bud Orkin, construction engineer for<br />
Esquire Theatres, left Boston on an extended<br />
trip to Scranton, Wilkesbarre and<br />
Lancaster in Pennsylvania, Newburg and<br />
Poughkeepsie in New York, checking on<br />
equipment and inventory in the 17 theatres<br />
recently acquired by Esquire from the ABC<br />
circuit. Bud said that Esquire's new fourplex<br />
at Seekonk in this state is set for an<br />
immediate construction start. It will have<br />
fully automated booth equipment from<br />
Cinemeccanica and 2,800 Irwin Atlas high<br />
back chairs.<br />
Film district and exhibition friends extended<br />
sympathy to Irving Mendelson of<br />
United Artists on the death of his father,<br />
who was 90. Services were held at New<br />
Bedford.<br />
Dave Fox, installation engineer at Major<br />
Theatre Equipment Co.. arrived home after<br />
a three-week trip to Mexico. He was bubbling<br />
over with praise for the places he had<br />
visited, the climate and the Mexican mountains<br />
and said he intends to go back on<br />
future vacations. En route home, Dave<br />
spent a few days at New Orleans, getting<br />
acquainted with the French Quarter—so he<br />
had some interesting things to tell the boys<br />
at the Hilton lunchroom.<br />
Chris, Frank and Steve, bookers at Warner<br />
Bros., were excited over reports of<br />
record-breaking business for their karate<br />
picture, "Five Fingers of Death," at Sack's<br />
Savoy Cinema. They claim that their company<br />
is the first on the screen with karate<br />
films being made in the Chinese studios.<br />
Indications are that there's a flood of such<br />
pictures on the way.<br />
Well-remembered Maine moviemen: Joe<br />
Dondis, Abe Goodside, Connie Russell sr.,<br />
Saul Hayes, Dick Flora, Wendell Hone,<br />
J. J. Hone (his father), George Limberiz,<br />
Colby Robinson, Bill Frieday, Harlan Higgins,<br />
Andy St. Ledger, Fred Leavitt, Rod<br />
MacGregor, Bill McPhee, George and<br />
Ethel MacKay.<br />
Gold Film Passes Offered<br />
To Stage Show Patrons<br />
SPRINGFIELD—In a "first" for western<br />
Massachusetts exhibition, the downtown<br />
2,400-seat Julia Sanderson Theatre (formerly<br />
the Paramount), is offering a Gold VIP<br />
pass, good for all motion pictures to be<br />
shown at the theatre during the next year,<br />
to purchasers of tickets for a "Mini-Subscription<br />
Series" of stage attractions.<br />
The theatre, operated by Wally Beach<br />
and Sam Scheckter on lease from Western<br />
Massachusetts Theatres, shows films during<br />
open time between stage presentations.<br />
The "Mini-Subscription Series" includes<br />
"Story Theatre," at $6.50 top admission,<br />
Thursday (5); Marcel Marceau, at $6:50<br />
top admission, Wednesday (11); Erroll<br />
Garner, at $5 top admission, May 2; a<br />
touring company of "Godspell," at $7.50<br />
top admission. May 7, 8; Danny Davis and<br />
the Nashville Brass, at $5 top admission.<br />
May 30.<br />
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HARTFORD<br />
The three Jerry Lewis cinemas in the region—at<br />
Canton, South Windsor and<br />
Suffield — have resumed film buying<br />
through Network Cinema Corp., New York.<br />
The threesome had been scheduling product<br />
through Frank Ferguson & Theatre Associates.<br />
Pleased with initial response to a new<br />
policy of senior citizen theatre parties at its<br />
Central in West Hartford, Esquire Theatres<br />
of America has extended the plan to Paris<br />
cinemas I-II, Wethersfield, also on a<br />
sfKjradic basis. Recently shown was Paramount's<br />
"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,"<br />
1970 release starring Barbra Streisand.<br />
Showtime was 1:30 p.m., on a Wednesday<br />
in West Hartford and on a Thursday in<br />
Wethersfield. The price: 99 cents.<br />
Columbia's "Heroes of Telemark," 1966<br />
release toplining Kirk Douglas, was shown<br />
on a recent Sunday night at 7:30 at the<br />
Emanuel Synagogue, West Hartford, under<br />
sponsorship of the ninth grade class of the<br />
Hebrew Academy of Greater Hartford.<br />
Tickets sold for $1.25 (adults) and 75 cents<br />
(children).<br />
Film industry<br />
lawyer Louis Nizer was in<br />
town, addressing a book-author luncheon at<br />
G. Fox & Co., the department store, in<br />
conjunction with his new book, "The Implosion<br />
Conspiracy."<br />
Dallas E. Roper Protests<br />
X-Film Ad Ban by Papers<br />
NEW YORK—The latter-day policies of<br />
a number of key city newspapers in banning<br />
certain types of advertising—X-rated and<br />
R-rated motion pictures—are scored by Dallas<br />
E. Roper, writing in "Editor & Publisher,"<br />
the journalism trade publication.<br />
"I suspect," he writes, "that those papers<br />
which defend their rights to publish 'the<br />
truth' and then refuse a segment of their<br />
readership the right to know about the<br />
movies have not really examined their actions.<br />
For surely any newspaperman worthy<br />
of the honor of being called that would<br />
recognize a double set of standards."<br />
"How can one crusade on the one hand<br />
against government interference and censor-<br />
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such censorship himself?<br />
"I can sympathize with the publisher who<br />
bans 'sexy' language and pictures from<br />
such ads but to refuse to even print an ad<br />
saying that the movie is being shown is<br />
really a bit too much.<br />
"Just think, however, that in Oklahoma<br />
City, the person who does the censoring<br />
gets to watch the movies. Wow! That must<br />
be a great job.<br />
"Too bad some people can't practice<br />
what they preach."<br />
RHODE ISLAND<br />
^he SBC circuit put a new price-schedule<br />
policy into effect for the remaining<br />
weeks of "Man of La Mancha" at Cinerama<br />
Theatre, Providence, with a $1.50<br />
charge for young patrons at all times;<br />
showings at 7:30 p.m., weekdays; 1:30,<br />
7:30, Saturdays; 1:30, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m.,<br />
Sundays.<br />
A Rhode Island chapter of the Bruce<br />
Dern Fan Club is to be formed to greet the<br />
actor when he arrives in Newport in May<br />
to play the key role of Tom in Paramount's<br />
new version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The<br />
Great Gatsby." Robert Redford and Mia<br />
Farrow are the stars.<br />
Police Called to Settle<br />
Theatre Rental Problem<br />
WESTERLY, R.L—Police were called to<br />
the Westerly Cinema when a crowd of about<br />
70 men, women and children refused to<br />
leave the theatre after owner Mathew J.<br />
Serra stopped the showing of a film at 6:20<br />
p.m., Sunday (1).<br />
Serra said he had an oral agreement with<br />
Ernest Capalbo, 70, of New Rochelle, N.Y.,<br />
to show an Italian-language film twice between<br />
1 and 7 p.m. When it became apparent<br />
to him that the second showing could<br />
not be completed by 7 p.m., he ordered<br />
the film stopped.<br />
Capalbo told the Westerly Sun and the<br />
police that he had rented the theatre from<br />
1 to 7 p.m. for two showings but that a<br />
lengthy intermission after the first showing<br />
made it impossible to complete the<br />
second showing by 7. He and his group<br />
refused to leave the theatre until the second<br />
showing was completed.<br />
Policemen were able to persuade the<br />
patrons to leave only after Capalbo was<br />
taken to the station house. He was released,<br />
however, and he and his group were<br />
advised to take their complaint to the Better<br />
Business Bureau.<br />
Manchester Fourplex Is<br />
Opened by UAT Circuit<br />
MANCHESTER, CONN.—United Artists<br />
Theatre Circuit has opened two additions—each<br />
seating 250—to its 800-seat UA<br />
Theatre East in the Manchester Shopping<br />
Parkade.<br />
The complex is to be called UA Theatres<br />
East I-II-III.<br />
SPRINGFIELD I<br />
Qeneral Cinema Corp.'s Eastfield Mall<br />
Cinema, Springfield, tied up with a<br />
photography studio for Saturday-Sunday<br />
matinee showings of National General's<br />
1972 release, "Snoopy, Come Home," the<br />
first 25 ticket-holders for each performance<br />
being invited to have their pictures taken<br />
free. The lucky youngsters were able to<br />
pose with a life-sized "Snoopy."<br />
MPAA Ratings Being Used<br />
By Largest Maine Paper<br />
BANGOR, ME. — The Bangor Daily<br />
News, which has the largest daily circulation<br />
in Maine (80,000-plus copies), is<br />
using the Motion Picture Ass'n of America<br />
ratings in its daily "Entertainment Timetable"<br />
on the amusement page.<br />
Attractions playing in metropolitan Bangor<br />
are listed under G. PG, R or X headings.<br />
The headings are followed by agatetype<br />
explanations of the MPAA's ratings.<br />
NEW HAVEN<br />
John Ahearn, who operates the Lawrence,<br />
New Haven, and Centre Cinema, Wallingford,<br />
has taken over the 350-seat Jerry<br />
Lewis Cinema, North Haven, from the<br />
Fellows family interests for an undisclosed<br />
sum. He is calling the theatre the North<br />
Haven Cinema.<br />
Long-time screen actor Dennis Morgan<br />
addressed more than 250 Connecticut volunteer<br />
cancer campaign workers at the annual<br />
kick-off dinner the other night at the<br />
Waverly Inn, Cheshire.<br />
Three-Film Sexploitation<br />
Programs New Trend<br />
HARTFORD—A latter-day development<br />
in the region's sexploitation situation finds<br />
an increasing number of theatres scheduling<br />
as many as three full-length features on a<br />
single program.<br />
A similar approach has been in effect<br />
for many years at New England drive-in<br />
theatres, the latter, of course, gearing product<br />
selectivity to family-oriented product.<br />
Warner Groups in Merger<br />
WESTPORT, CONN. — Warner<br />
Bros.<br />
Entertainment, Inc., of Westport, has filed<br />
a certificate-of-merger with the Secretary<br />
of State's office at Hartford, merging the<br />
firm with Warner Bros. Entertainment<br />
Corp., a New York company.<br />
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)rive-in reopenings, with staff changes,<br />
clearly show the arrival of the spring<br />
ason in the eastern Ontario territory. For<br />
veral months the 20th Century Britannia,<br />
anaged by Jack Marion, was the only<br />
Mner in this city that operated every night<br />
the week but the Odeon Queensway has<br />
iturned to a full weekly schedule. Mana-<br />
;rial representatives for 20th Century also<br />
ive scattered from our town to take over<br />
sen-sky units. Formerly assistant to Doug<br />
inder at the Rideau, Garfield Wilson has<br />
;en transferred to manage the Peterboro<br />
rive-In at Peterboro and Ronald Gaines<br />
3W is at Cornwall to manage the Seaway,<br />
n important switch for Craig Kilroy, asstant<br />
to Ernie Warren at the twin Elgins,<br />
his return to the 20th Century Airport<br />
ioner, which is not far from eastern Onrio's<br />
International Air Terminal.<br />
The Ontario Film Ass'n scheduled its<br />
(urth annual film showcase Wednesday (4)<br />
irough Sunday (8) at Geneva Park to prode<br />
an opportunity for the viewing of many<br />
lovies, including shorts by representatives<br />
'<br />
film clubs and other organizations. Some<br />
5 distributors arranged for continuous<br />
:reenings starting at 9 a.m. each day.<br />
Tlie federal government's Canadian Rao-Television<br />
Commission has ruled that it<br />
is opposed police censorship of news pro-<br />
'ams on the air, for which there was a<br />
lOve for an agreement by the Canadian<br />
ss'n of Broadcasters and the Canadian<br />
ss'n of Police Chiefs. The CRTC stated<br />
lat the independent dissemination of news<br />
a primary requirement.<br />
Local theatres cashed in on the anual midrm<br />
school break of one week because the<br />
eatherman failed to cooperate by dishing<br />
Jt unfavorable atmospheric conditions for<br />
utdoor activities, all this in the period<br />
jring which theatre managers were on the<br />
St lap of Oscar nominations promotion<br />
impaigns. There were numerous holdovers,<br />
he list was topped by three attractions<br />
hich reached their fourth months as<br />
cademy Awards were announced. They<br />
ere: "Sounder," at the Capitol Square<br />
'inema; "The Poseidon Adventure," at<br />
le Elgin, and "Deliverance," at Place de<br />
The Odeon Mall basked in the<br />
ille . . .<br />
3otlight during the engagement of "Love,<br />
wedish Style," when a startling and resaling<br />
story with an intimate illustration<br />
ppeared in the Citizen featuring "Love,<br />
wedish Style" by name and unabashed<br />
nplication. Of course, the picture held for<br />
second week.<br />
A combination of U.S. and Quebec feajres<br />
made up the club program March 15<br />
f the National Film Theatre in the govemlent's<br />
Library Theatre. The pictures screeni<br />
were "Seven Days in May" and Claude<br />
utra's 1963 feature "A Tout Prendre."<br />
he pair for the following Sunday were<br />
Pour la Suite du Monde," from Quebec,<br />
nd the German picture "Spies Spione,"<br />
irected by Fritz Lang.<br />
'Poseidon Adventure,' Five Other<br />
Holdovers in<br />
EDMONTON—Edmonton first<br />
Edmonton 'Excellent'<br />
runs fell<br />
into just two classes in the report week:<br />
"excellent" and "very good." All of the<br />
half-dozen "excellent" grossers were holdovers—<br />
"The World's Greatest Athlete,"<br />
"Steelyard Blues," "The Poseidon Adventure,"<br />
"Sounder," "Where Does It Hurt?"<br />
and "Jeremiah Johnson."<br />
Copilano, Londonderry A, Meadowlcrk<br />
The World's Greatest Athlete (BV),<br />
2nd wk Excellent<br />
Garneau Steelyord Blues (WB), 3rd wk. ...Excellent<br />
Jasper Cinema, Klondike Cry of the Wild<br />
(NFB), 2nd wk Very Good<br />
Odeon Avonti! (UA), 2nd wk Very Good<br />
Paramount The Poseidon Adventure (BVFD),<br />
2nd wk Excellent<br />
Rialto Carry On Around the Bend<br />
(Astral) Very Good<br />
Roxy Sounder (BVFD), 14th wk Excellent<br />
Towne Cinema Where Does it Hurt? (IFD),<br />
25th wk Excellent<br />
Varscona Man of La Moncha (UA),<br />
7th wk Very Good<br />
Westmounf A Jeremiah Johnson (WB),<br />
2nd wk Excellent<br />
Grosses Holding Firm Trend<br />
At Toronto First-Run Houses<br />
TORONTO—Grosses were only slightly<br />
below the preceding week's level, when exhibitors<br />
had reported a decided readjustment<br />
upward in attendance and grosses.<br />
"The Sound of Music," playing its return<br />
visit for Toronto theatregoers, and five<br />
other bookings attracted strong boxofficc<br />
response. "Sleuth" and "The Heartbreak<br />
Kid" each registered "excellent" gross totals<br />
for the week.<br />
Carlton Lost florizon (Col), 2nd wk Fair<br />
Fairlown Charlotte's Web (Astral), 2nd wk Fair<br />
Glendale Mon of La Moncha (UA), 3rd wk Fair<br />
Hollywood (North) Deliverance (WB),<br />
25th wk Very Good<br />
Hollywood (South) ^The Heartbreak Kid<br />
(BVFD), 2nd wk Excellent<br />
Hyland 1 Shomus (Col) Good<br />
Hyland 2 Pete 'n' Tillie (Univ), 14th wk Fair<br />
International Cinema The Emigrants (WB),<br />
1 4th wk Fair<br />
Towne Cinema Save the Tiger (Para), 6th wk. .Good<br />
University Sleuth (BVFD), 3rd wk Excellent<br />
Uptown 1 Slither (MGM) Very Good<br />
Uptown 2 The Thief Who Came to Dinner<br />
(WB), 2nd wk Fair<br />
Uptown 3 Travels With My Aunt (MGM),<br />
14th wk Good<br />
Uptown Backstage Lady Sings the Blues<br />
1<br />
(Para), 20th wk Very Good<br />
Uptown Backstage 2 Payday (AFD), 4th wk. ...Fair<br />
Yonge Theatre of Blood (UA), 2nd wk Good<br />
York 1 Lady Caroline Lamb (UA), 5th wk Fair<br />
York 2 Hammersmith Is Out (IFD), 4th wk. . . .Poor<br />
All Winnipeg First Runs<br />
Gross in Upper Ranges<br />
WINNIPEG—Business continued steady<br />
during the report week and at about the<br />
same level as the comparable week a year<br />
ago. Buoyancy was due to the Academy<br />
Awards and several thriving holdovers<br />
"The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean,"<br />
"The Poseidon Adventure," "Steelyard<br />
Blues" and "Fritz the Cat." The double bill<br />
of "Love and Marriage" and "Dandy" also<br />
joined the ranks of "excellent" grossers.<br />
Capitol The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean<br />
(NGP), 2nd wk Excellent<br />
Downtown Love and Marriage (Danton); Dandy<br />
(Denton)<br />
Excellent<br />
Garrick II Avonti! (UA), 5th wk Good<br />
Kings Man of La Moncho (UA), 2nd wk. ..Average<br />
Metropolitan The Poseidon Adventure (BVFD),<br />
5th wk Excellent<br />
1<br />
Odeon Carry On Around the Bend (Astral),<br />
4th wk Average<br />
Park Fritz the Cat (Prima), 3rd wk Excellent<br />
Polo Park Deliverance (WB), 15th wk. . . .Very Good<br />
North Star Steelyard Blues (WB),<br />
II<br />
2nd wk Excellent<br />
The Heartbreak Kid' Grosses<br />
'Ebccellent' in Calgary First<br />
CALGARY— -"Excellent" again was the<br />
most common gross rating announced by<br />
Calgary exhibitors after counting their<br />
week's receipts. Newcomer "The Heartbreak<br />
Kid" and six holdovers— "The<br />
World's Greatest Athlete." "Deliverance,"<br />
"The Poseidon Adventure," "The Great<br />
Waltz," "Sounder" and "Steelyard Blues"<br />
made up the week's "excellent" class.<br />
"Shamus," another new picture, scored<br />
"Very Good" at the Uptown I.<br />
Brentwood, Chinook The World's Greatest<br />
Athlete (BV), 2nd wk Excellent<br />
Calgary Place Save the Tiger (Para), 3rd wk. 1<br />
Fair<br />
Grand Two The Heartbreak Kid (BVFD) ..Excellent<br />
North Hill Cinerama Deliverance (WB),<br />
14th wk Excellent<br />
Polliser Square 1 The Poseidon Adventure<br />
(BVFD), 14th wk Excellent<br />
Polliser Square 2 The Great Waltz (MGM),<br />
14th wk Excellent<br />
Towne Cinema The Emigronts (WB), 2nd wk. Good<br />
Uptown 1^-Shamus (Col) Very Good<br />
Uptown 2 Sounder (BVFD), 14th wk Excellent<br />
Westbrook 1 Steelyord Blues (WB), 3rd wk. Excellent<br />
'Heartbreak Kid,' "Horizon'<br />
'Elxcellent' in Vancouver<br />
VANCOUVER—Two newcomers, "The<br />
Heartbreak Kid" at the Vogue and "Lost<br />
Horizon" at the Park, opened to "excellent"<br />
business and "The Life and Times of Judge<br />
Roy Bean" at the Orpheum Theatre built<br />
up an "excellent" second week. With the<br />
exception of "Avanti!", which had a good<br />
fourth week in the Odeon Theatre, the remainder<br />
of the first-run product here was<br />
just<br />
so-so.<br />
Capitol Jeremiah Johnson (WB), 4th wk Fair<br />
Coronet Two People (Univ) Average<br />
Downtown Deliverance (WB), 15th wk Average<br />
Fine Arts A Separate Peoce (Para), 2nd wk. ..Fair<br />
Hyland Two Amorous Women (Peerless)<br />
Fair<br />
Odeon Avonti! (UA), 4th wk Good<br />
Orpheum The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean<br />
(NGP), 2nd wk Excellent<br />
Park Lost Horizon (Col) Excellent<br />
Park Royal Cinema 2 Rainbow Boys<br />
(Mutual)<br />
Average<br />
Stanley I Am a Dancer (Ken) Fair<br />
Varsity Imoges (Col), 3rd wk Fair<br />
Vogue The Heartbreak Kid (BVPD) Excellent<br />
70RON70<br />
\X7ith the "countdown" on during the<br />
last<br />
few days before the Sunday (8) Variety<br />
Club's massive Bike-A-Thon, chief barker<br />
Doug Wells was a guest on Elwood Glover's<br />
CBC-TV "Luncheon Date" Monday (2) to<br />
spur on interest in the event. Entry forms<br />
were available at all area theatres, milk<br />
stores and other retail outlets.<br />
The efforts of the Canadian Film Development<br />
Corp. to encourage production of<br />
low-budget English-language feature films<br />
seems to be having results. "Peep," a psychological<br />
drama based on a play by Jack<br />
Cunningham, was completed a few weeks<br />
ago in this city. Cunningham also produced<br />
and directed the film. Shooting also is set<br />
(Continued on page K-4)<br />
OXOFFICE :: April 23, 1973 K-1
K-2 BOXOFFICE :: AprU 23, 1973<br />
CALGARY<br />
Qrvine Fruitman, Cinepix general manager<br />
for Canada, was in town meeting with<br />
various people in the industry and visiting<br />
friends . . . Happiness is reporting that<br />
Walter DuPerrier of Prairie Allied Booking<br />
Ass'n is back at his desk again after a stay<br />
in Foothills Hospital here. Although feeling<br />
much better, Walter at present is working<br />
restricted hours and gradually will work<br />
back into a full-time routine . . . March 31<br />
the Provincial Museum & Archives in Edmonton<br />
presented an afternoon film program<br />
in its theatre. Shown were "Settlement<br />
of the Western Plains," "Romance of Transportation"<br />
and "Spruce Bog." The presentation<br />
was open to the general public at no<br />
admission charge.<br />
Saul Isenstein, Columbia Pictures branch<br />
manager, was taken to the hospital March<br />
29. After undergoing treatment in Calgary<br />
General Hospital for double pneumonia,<br />
Saul was feeling much better Tuesday (3)<br />
but still confined. His many friends are<br />
hoping that his recovery will be rapid, that<br />
he soon will be able to return to work.<br />
March 28 Saul had announced that his<br />
daughter and son-in-law had arrived home<br />
for a month's holiday. Mr. and Mrs.<br />
Thompson currently are stationed in Frobisher<br />
Bay, N.W.T., where he is employed<br />
as a social worker and Marilyn is a nurse.<br />
When the Thompsons left Frobisher Bay,<br />
the wind and temperature gave a combined<br />
chill-factor of 79 degrees below zero.<br />
Stan Phillips, United Artists booker-salesman,<br />
reported his mother had been visiting<br />
with him for a week. March 30 his father<br />
and brother arrived from Saskatchewan by<br />
car and, after a few days with Stan and his<br />
family, they returned home.<br />
Norman Low, who operates the Alcan<br />
Theatre in Fort Nelson, B.C., was a recent<br />
exchange visitor. Also visiting the exchange<br />
were Mr. and Mrs. Komperdo of the<br />
Princess<br />
Theatre in Killiam; Roy Bayrak of the<br />
Mayfair and drive-in theatres. Olds, and Reg<br />
Doddridge, formerly with Warner Bros. Reg<br />
was collecting stamps and reports that he<br />
was a victim of the flu that is so prevalent<br />
here.<br />
At a very unusual ceremony March 28,<br />
Sandra McBean, daughter of Ken McBean,<br />
branch manager of International Film Dis-<br />
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Ethel Kitchen, reviser at Paramount<br />
Films, accompanied by her husband, flew to<br />
Vancouver Island because of her father's<br />
illness. Although still in the hospital, her<br />
father is<br />
recovering. Chuck enjoyed the flying<br />
but Ethel will never win awards from<br />
Air Canada for her enthusiasm.<br />
Peggy Thorsen recently joined the staff<br />
of International Film Distributors—and a<br />
very cute addition, too . . . "Walkabout," a<br />
picture pointing up the contrast between<br />
modern man and the aborigine, was screened<br />
by Pulse, a Christian arts society in<br />
Edmonton. The feature was shown in Room<br />
TL-11 of the University of Alberta's Tory<br />
Building and was open to the public at a<br />
nominal charge.<br />
Mark Smith, treasurer of the Canadian<br />
Federation of Film Societies, has resigned<br />
his position with Mobil Oil and has moved<br />
to Ottawa to accept a position with the<br />
federal government. Smith will remain on<br />
the council for the remainder of the season,<br />
with council member Don Macpherson<br />
taking over as treasurer for the federation.<br />
The Roxy Theatre in Edmonton showed<br />
"Winter Light" as part of its continuing<br />
Bergman festival. The feature starred Ingrid<br />
Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand and Max von<br />
Sydow and was rated "adult" by the censor<br />
board.<br />
Doug Rissling of Macklin, Sask., was in<br />
town doing some booking and advises that<br />
he has added a complete confectionery<br />
stand to the theatre. It already has proved<br />
successful. Rissling does not run the usual<br />
weekend program but operates on a Sunday-to-Tuesday<br />
basis. He has found this<br />
to be satisfactory in his situation.<br />
After the regular presentation at the Calgary<br />
Jubilee Auditorium March 16 of "The<br />
Clowns," the Calgary Film Society had a<br />
"night owl" program for those wishing to<br />
"make a night of it." There was a 20-<br />
minute intermission after the feature showing<br />
before the screening of the following:<br />
"Zelenka," "Claude," "The Shade of the<br />
Apple Tree," "The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon<br />
Kit," "Moments Spent" and "Amblin."<br />
The 17th Avenue Drive-In here recently<br />
opened for the season with a double bill<br />
of "Kama Sutra" and "Venus in Furs" . . .<br />
As part of its March Fine Arts Festival,<br />
the University of Calgary presented a<br />
festival of Quebec-made films . . . The<br />
Lethbridge Community Film Festival was<br />
held March 17-18 on the campus of the<br />
University of Lethbridge. The event was<br />
sponsored by the Southern Alberta Council<br />
on Public Affairs in cooperation with<br />
Lethbridge Community College, the University<br />
of Lethbridge and the University of<br />
Alberta, department of extension. Using<br />
seven theatres simultaneously, features from<br />
all around the world were shown—a tremendous<br />
undertaking for the people of<br />
Lethbridge, who are to be congratulated for<br />
bringing such an outstanding program to<br />
the community.<br />
The National Film Board in Edmonton<br />
presented the sixth in its series of Frenchlanguage<br />
films March 20 in the NFB Theatre.<br />
Included in the programs were "Cesar<br />
et Son Canot D'Ecorce" and "Le Reel du<br />
Pendu." The show was open to the general<br />
public at no admission charge . . . The<br />
Calgary Public Library offered a series of<br />
films during March, including "The Magic<br />
Tree," "Exeter" and "The Sea."<br />
Raid on Cinema Surprises<br />
Police Chief of Laval<br />
MONTREAL — A personal investigation<br />
into the confiscation of the film "Sex and<br />
the Office Girl" from the Chomedey Theatre,<br />
260 Labelle Blvd., has been launched<br />
by Laval Police Director Leo Lequin. The<br />
seizure was the second in just over a month.<br />
Morality squad officers in Montreal February<br />
15 confiscated "Sex and the Office Girl"<br />
at the Eve Theatre.<br />
Declaring that the Chomedey raid was<br />
"made without my knowledge," Lequin<br />
said, "I don't know yet whether our legal<br />
advisers told the detectives to seize the film,<br />
so I can't say what charges will be laid. In<br />
any event, it is not usual for detectives to<br />
raid a theatre without the knowledge of the<br />
police chief and I'm going to find out why<br />
it happened this time."<br />
The owner of Georges Theatre, St.<br />
Therese, where "Sex and the Office Girl"<br />
also was showing, voluntarily canceled the<br />
movie's run.<br />
In the meantime, a delegation from various<br />
associations of the Quebec film industry<br />
met with Quebec Justice Minister Jerome<br />
Choquette to protest what they consider an<br />
intolerable dilemma facing distributors and<br />
exhibitors in the province. On the one hand,<br />
movies are a cultural affair under provincial<br />
jurisdiction and, in Quebec's case, subject to<br />
the Cinema Act of 1967. All films shown<br />
publicly in the province must be submitted<br />
to the Quebec Cinema Supervisory Board<br />
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the pictures according to three categories of<br />
age.<br />
Obscenity, on the other hand, is<br />
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T ocal theatre screens were loaded with fashion show sponsored by the Women of<br />
Academy Award nominees just prior Variety and Simpson-Sears over CHAN-TV<br />
to and following the big night in Hollywood. netted $815 . . . Elder statesman Abe Feinstein<br />
has accepted the job as Tent 47 his-<br />
"Sounder" was at the Park, then moved<br />
into the Odeon, New Westminster, and the torian and will be drawing together all the<br />
Fraser and Dolphin. "Lady Sings the Blues," records of the club since it was established<br />
which had 16 weeks of playing time in the in 1966 . . . Left over from the 1973 telethon<br />
is the mystery of who organized reado-<br />
Famous Players houses, was in its second<br />
week, day and date, in the Odeon, West graph and outdoor sign displays . . . When<br />
Vancouver, and Haida. "The Poseidon Adventure"<br />
moved over to the Denman Place to line up this phase of the campaign, he<br />
canvasman Steve Flinders started to work<br />
and Cinema 1, Lougheed Mall, after 13 found place after place which already had<br />
weeks in the Orpheum and held. "Cabaret," been approached and was committed to<br />
which had been on metropolitan screens give the tent the space . . . Both Steve and<br />
since the first of the year, had its biggest Peter Barnett would like to thank whoever<br />
week at the Bay, where it went into a fifth lined up the coverage but he or she still<br />
frame and was joined by the Delta Drivein.<br />
It also went into a fourth stanza in passenger Sunshine Coach presented to the<br />
remains a mystery . . . Besides the 15-<br />
the Fox, Victoria. "Lady Sings the Blues" Prince George Ass'n for the Mentally Retarded<br />
at the telethon, two other requests<br />
was held over for a second week in the<br />
Counting House, Victoria, on its second run. are being considered. One is from Abbotsford<br />
and the other is from our town<br />
"The Godfather" opened in five metropolitan<br />
theatres on the day after the awards, which will bring the number put on the<br />
playing at the Strand, Park Royal Twin, road to 13.<br />
Richmond Square, Paramount (New Westminster)<br />
and Lougheed Drive-In.<br />
While a couple of first runs were lining<br />
up the customers in droves, the really big<br />
"Trinity Is Still My Name," which had news was the reissue of "The Sound of<br />
not fared too well downtown, had an eightweek<br />
engagement at the Park Royal, five a seven-year hiatus. The critics had a field<br />
Music," which returned to the Ridge after<br />
weeks at the Paramount, New Westminster, day with it. The Sun's Les Wedman, never<br />
and one week at the Delta Drive-In, all to one to backtrack on a stand, merely ran his<br />
very good business. It then was moved into initial critique, in which he called the picture<br />
a "bummer." This took up most of a<br />
the Guildford Towne Cinema.<br />
Friday's leisure section. Michael Walsh of<br />
United Artists publicist Nick Langston<br />
the Providence who, in those days<br />
spent a couple of very busy days working<br />
964 ( 1<br />
was in search of the avant-garde and as a<br />
with the media on the campaign for the<br />
consequence never saw the picture, caught<br />
local engagement of "Last Tango in Paris,"<br />
it on a weekend. He liked it but agreed<br />
which opens in the Odeon May 23.<br />
with the critics—because it just was not a<br />
Due to Crown Zellerbach phasing out its<br />
pulp mill operations, the whole town of<br />
Ocean Falls was due to be abandoned but<br />
was saved by the intervention of the government<br />
of British Columbia, which bought<br />
the town lock, stock and barrel for $1 million.<br />
Present plans envision keeping the<br />
profitable part of the mill going and building<br />
up extensive fishing and hunting resorts.<br />
Among the bidders for the town was the<br />
Atlas Finance Realty Corp. Its bid was<br />
signed by H. M. Singer of the Calgarybased<br />
real estate developers, better known<br />
here as Hymie Singer, who operated the<br />
Palomar Nightclub, the old State (now City<br />
Nites) and the Rio in Victoria, on a doublefeature,<br />
vaudeville policy.<br />
Shavings from the tent peg, courtesy of<br />
press guy Jim Peacock—The February 26<br />
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critic's picture. It was evident that their<br />
opinion was of no concern to the public,<br />
as each weekend performance was a complete<br />
sellout and the picture appeared headed<br />
toward a new house record . . . Buena<br />
Vista's "The Sword in the Stone" started its<br />
Gordon Guiry of Astral, Calgary, and<br />
Orville Fruitman of Cinepix were visiting<br />
local circuit heads and booking offices.<br />
Gordon almost flipped when he saw our<br />
spring flowers all in bloom, cherry trees in<br />
local reissue showings via a multiple of the<br />
Park Royal, West Vancouver Twin, Richmond<br />
Square Twin and the Guildford<br />
Towne Cinema, all these Famous Players<br />
suburban houses ref)orting very good business.<br />
full blossom, spanking waves raised by a<br />
gentle spring wind at the beaches—all backed<br />
up by the magnificent panorama of<br />
mountains, looking all the world like gigantic<br />
ice cream cones and mantled by a<br />
bright, new snowfall.<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Randy Archibald of the<br />
Armond Theatre in Cranbrook, B.C., are<br />
very proud and happy to announce the arrival<br />
of a daughter, Kelly. Born March 16,<br />
Kelly weighed seven pounds. Waiting to<br />
welcome Kelly at home were brother Chris<br />
and grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Bud Archibald.<br />
Congratulations and best wishes to the<br />
Archibald family from their many friends<br />
in<br />
the industry!<br />
Seen in the exchange were Ed Somshor<br />
of the Capitol Theatre, Ponoka; Don Purnell,<br />
Red Deer; John Dobek of the Crowsnest<br />
Pass theatres, Blairmore, and Axel<br />
Jensen from the Kam Theatre, Camrose.<br />
Recent travelers: Blain Covert, WB<br />
branch manager, went to Winnipeg March<br />
19 to work in that branch a few days . . .<br />
Gordon Guiry, Astral Films branch manager,<br />
flew to Vancouver March 19 for the<br />
week.<br />
TORONTO<br />
(Continued from page K-1)<br />
to start Monday (23)) near Brantford on<br />
"The Hard Part Begins," a fictional story of<br />
a fading country singer. Director is Paul<br />
Lynch and in the cast will be Donnelly<br />
Rhodes, Nancy Belle Fuller and Paul Bradley,<br />
who was seen in "Goin' Down the<br />
Road."<br />
Lionel Newman, musical director of 20th<br />
Century-Fox, has vetoed at least half of the<br />
theme music for "The Neptune Factor"<br />
scored by local composer William McAulay.<br />
Hollywood composer Lalo Schifrin is to<br />
write a new score. The film is due to open<br />
in American cities May 31.<br />
The locally produced feature, "Pleasure<br />
Palace," had its world premiere at the Tivoli<br />
here. Bennet Fode, owner of the Tivoli, financed<br />
this film.<br />
Nick Langston, publicity director for<br />
United Artists here, created a "Bloody Vincent"<br />
— vodka and tomato juice — to mark<br />
the world premiere of "Theatre of Blood,"<br />
held at the Yonge March 15. Special guests<br />
on this occasion were Christopher Plummer<br />
and the entire pre-Broadway cast of "Cyrano."<br />
Following the screening, Twinex Century<br />
executive Dudley Dumond (until recently<br />
manager of this downtown theatre)<br />
led approximately 75 guests to the unused<br />
Winter Garden Theatre above. Built in 1913<br />
and closed in 1929, the Winter Garden<br />
contributed to the eerie atmosphere of the<br />
occasion and, with a jovial flair of showmanship,<br />
Dumond flung back the stage curtains<br />
to reveal a "Theatre of Blood"-style<br />
buffet, complete with a fake poodle pie<br />
centerpiece. The Winter Garden's colorful<br />
history makes good newspaper copy locally<br />
from time to time, although suggestions<br />
about reopening it never materialize. Most<br />
recently, scenes for a TV series were filmed<br />
here.<br />
CINERAMA IS IN<br />
SHOW BUSINESS IN<br />
HAWAII TOO.<br />
When you come to Waikiki,<br />
h|[M!jl^<br />
don't miss the famous<br />
n^^J? Don Ho Show. .<br />
.<br />
at<br />
JHorasJ Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel.<br />
IN WAnOKl. REEF • REEF TOWERS EDGEWATER<br />
K-4 BOXOFHCE :: April 23, 1973
V<br />
• ADLINES & EXPLOITIPS<br />
• AlPHABETICAL INDEX<br />
• EXHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY<br />
• FEATURE RELEASE CHART<br />
• FEATURE REVIEW DIGEST<br />
mumm,<br />
• SHORTS RELEASE CHART<br />
• SHORT SUBJECT REVIEWS<br />
• REVIEWS OF FEATURES<br />
• SHOWMANDISING IDEAS<br />
THE GUIDE TO i BETTER BOOKING AND B U S I N E S S - B U I L D I N G<br />
FILM OPENS IN SCANDINAVIAN STYLE<br />
"The Emigrants" opened in colorful<br />
Scandinavian style at ABC North Central's<br />
Norshor Theatre in Duluth, Minn., following<br />
a benefit premiere performance sponsored<br />
by the Duluth Chapter of the American-Scandinavian<br />
Foundation (ASF).<br />
Proceeds from the premiere went to<br />
benefit two ASF scholarship programs for<br />
the exchange of students, scholars, writers<br />
and trainees between the United States,<br />
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and<br />
Sweden.<br />
Shortly after the highly acclaimed film<br />
was booked into the theatre, manager<br />
George R. Brown met with the ASF steering<br />
committee, at which time the idea to<br />
stage the premiere performance was conceived.<br />
Invitations were sent to all the consuls<br />
of the Scandinavian countries, city and<br />
state officials and other Scandinavian leaders.<br />
Those receiving invitations were encouraged<br />
to attend in ancestral costumes and<br />
participate in a pre-show Scandinavian<br />
coffee<br />
party.<br />
Scandinavian artifacts were displayed in<br />
the theatre lobby and lounge area, and<br />
paintings by David Erickson, famous Norwegian<br />
artist, were placed on display in<br />
the Norshor Art Gallery.<br />
The premiere received excellent news<br />
coverage in the local press, including a<br />
front page, color photograph and inside story<br />
Flags representing the Scandinavian<br />
countries sway gently in the breeze<br />
under the canopy in front of the Norshor<br />
Theatre in a colorful tribute to<br />
the premiere engagement advertised on<br />
the marquee.<br />
1^'H*^/^-i^^<br />
A group of colorfully clad ladies addressed<br />
the crowd in both native tongue<br />
and English prior to the benefit showing<br />
of "The Emigrants" at the Norshor<br />
Theatre in Duluth, Minn.<br />
in one of the Sunday supplement sections<br />
of the Duluth News-Tribune. A total of<br />
1 1 newspaper articles were published regarding<br />
"The Emigrants" and its local premiere<br />
appearance.<br />
Radio-TV coverage also proved extremely<br />
favorable. Elsie M. Melby, vice-consul<br />
for Norway, and a couple of women dressed<br />
in beautiful Scandinavian clothing appeared<br />
on KDAL-TV's Betty Kending Show; film<br />
clips and announcements concerning the<br />
premiere were aired on WDLO-TV, and<br />
Miss Melby joined Earl W. Olson, consul<br />
for Sweden, as a guest on another local<br />
women's program, the Ruth Crassweller<br />
Show, on WDSM-TV. All three television<br />
stations carried coverage on their 10 p.m.<br />
newscasts the night of the benefit performance.<br />
Additionally, KDAL carried a special 30-<br />
minute program devoted to the opening of<br />
the picture in the Duluth area. The program,<br />
hosted by the Rev. George Schroder, featured<br />
three other members of the clergy<br />
and John Norton, ASF Midwest representative.<br />
The emigrant movement to the<br />
United States was the topic of discussion.<br />
WAKX Radio carried messages in Finnish,<br />
Swedish and Norwegian regarding the<br />
benefit showing.<br />
Window displays themed around the coming<br />
of the movie appeared in Duluth's leading<br />
department store. The Glass Block,<br />
and at the Scandinavian Interior Design<br />
store in town.<br />
BOXOFHCE Showmondiser :: April 23, 1973 — 55<br />
Over 1,100 people— a sellout—attended<br />
the premiere performance. Dignitaries in<br />
attendance included Mayor and Mrs. Ben<br />
Boo; the Royal Swedish Consul, General<br />
and Mrs. Kurt Granstedt; Alex Kyykhkynen,<br />
the Finish consul; Earl W. Olson,<br />
and Elsie M. Melby.<br />
An organist playing Scandinavian folk<br />
music greeted the patrons as they entered<br />
the theatre. Scandinavian delicacies and<br />
coffee were served on the mezzanine and<br />
in the Arrowhead lounge. Fifteen ladies<br />
dressed in Scandinavian costumes (nine<br />
Norwegian, six Finnish) appeared on stage<br />
prior to "curtain time," offering narration<br />
in both native tongue and English.<br />
Primary recipients of the film proceeds<br />
were the Carl Sandburg Memorial Fund<br />
for the exchange of journalists, writers and<br />
poets, and the newly formed King Olav V<br />
(first Norwegian Monarch) 70th Birthday<br />
Fund for the unrestricted exchange of students<br />
between Norway and the United<br />
States.<br />
The American-Scandinavian Foundation<br />
is a publicly supported, non-profit educational<br />
institution set up for exchange between<br />
the United States and all the Scandinavian<br />
countries. The Foundation is supported by<br />
individual and corporate donations, and a<br />
nationwide membership. Chapters are located<br />
in 22 major cities across the U.S.<br />
Dressed in ancestral costumes, women,<br />
such as the pair pictured above, helped<br />
set up display tables packed full of<br />
interesting Scandinavian artifacts in the<br />
lobby area.
^arade, Prizes Add Color to Matinee<br />
Performance for 'Ttie Wizard of Oz<br />
Some were handmade, some were rented, but all the same, theatre personnel<br />
from the Cinema I and II theatres in Cedar Falls, Iowa, donned costumes representing<br />
characters from the "Wizard of Oz" for a fun-filled promotion held in<br />
conjunction with a pair of weekend matinee performances of the popular movie.<br />
rhe "Wizard of Oz," one of the most<br />
irt-warming children's film stories ever<br />
iduced, was brought back to the screen<br />
the Cinema I in Cedar Falls, Iowa, for<br />
pecial weekend matinee highlighted by a<br />
orful parade and all kinds of fun and<br />
!es for the local young citizenry.<br />
Dennis Morlan, manager of the Cinema<br />
nd II in Cedar Falls, put his head tober<br />
with the merchants at a local shopg<br />
center and officials at radio station<br />
EU, and the group came up with a comed<br />
promotional effort for the playdate.<br />
W\ the youngsters in the community were<br />
ited to decorate a bicycle, tricycle, wagon<br />
just themselves and join in a parade<br />
Dugh the College Square Mall, a local<br />
pping center facility.<br />
Prizes totaling $75 were offered by the<br />
College Square merchants, including cash<br />
prizes awarded to such groups as the Girl<br />
Scouts, YMCA, Cub Scouts, etc.<br />
The Mall area was specially decorated<br />
to blend in with the story theme of the<br />
movie. A yellow brick road was constructed<br />
out of yellow paper tablecloths painted with<br />
brick markings.<br />
Theatre personnel dressed up like characters<br />
from the "Wizard of Oz" and joined<br />
in the parade down the yellow brick road,<br />
which meandered through the Mall.<br />
KLEU donated 100 free radio spots in<br />
an effort to boost the promotion. In addition,<br />
one of the KLEU disc jockeys was<br />
selected as the Grand Marshall for the<br />
parade.<br />
Safe-Cracking Bally<br />
Inspired by Thief<br />
When Warner Bros.' "The Thief Who<br />
Came to Dinner" opened in San Francisco<br />
and the Bay area, it inspired an equally<br />
exciting "Crack Our Safe" contest, sponsored<br />
by a local jewelry store chain and<br />
a popular area radio station. The contest<br />
was conceived by Jack Wodell Associates,<br />
a San Francisco-based ad agency.<br />
Radio station KIOI aired promo spots<br />
heralding the contest for over two weeks,<br />
inviting its listening audience to guess the<br />
winning combination to an imaginary safe.<br />
Listeners were invited to pick up entry<br />
forms at the radio station or any Beadazzled<br />
jewelry store in the area.<br />
"Most safes open by correctly turning<br />
the dial a set number of digits to the left,<br />
and a small number of digits to the right,"<br />
the contest rules stated. "This is the basis<br />
for the promotion. Simply guess what the<br />
winning combination is and print your name<br />
in the blanks provided on the entry forms."<br />
In the event of a tie, a drawing was to<br />
be held to determine the grand prize winner.<br />
Prizes included a $100 Beadazzled<br />
gift certificate; dinner for two at San Fmncisco's<br />
famed Blue Fox Restaurant; assorted<br />
gift certificates ranging from $25 to $50;<br />
20 Henry Mancini soundtrack albums, and<br />
20 traveling chess sets.<br />
In addition to the "Crack Our Safe Contest,"<br />
in-store displays were pwsted in all<br />
Beadazzled jewelry stores throughout the<br />
ivoli<br />
f:<br />
sgendary 'Creek' Monster<br />
nerges in South Carolina<br />
/lanager Carl W. Roose of the Hub<br />
iatre in Newberry, S.C, employed the<br />
^ices of an energetic young high school<br />
lent, outfitted him in an ape costume<br />
turned him loose on the local populous<br />
a fun-loving promotion in behalf of<br />
theatre's playdate for "The Legend of<br />
Sgy Creek."<br />
loose rented the simian outfit from a<br />
tume supplier in Charlotte and garnered<br />
services of David Kinard, a sophomore<br />
Mid-Carolina High School, to circulate<br />
ut town as the local Boggy Creek monin<br />
residence. A sign attached to the<br />
aster's back provided the specifics, such<br />
the title, where and at what times the<br />
n& was playing.<br />
"Although Newberry is not considered<br />
the most ideal town in the world for exhibiting<br />
new product (population 10,000),<br />
we felt the results of our one-week run<br />
with Boggy Creek were outstanding," Roose<br />
said.<br />
Buffet Follows Premiere<br />
A special midnight showing was arranged<br />
for the world premiere of "Theatre of<br />
Blood" at the Yonge in Toronto, Ont.<br />
After the performance, guests were<br />
escorted upstairs to an unused second-level<br />
theatre which has been closed for many<br />
years. The eerie setting of the old theatre<br />
added to the hour and the occasion, bringing<br />
chills to everyone's spine, particularly<br />
when a special buffet was revealed from<br />
behind the closed curtain.<br />
An attractive young thief not only calls<br />
attention to the exciting new Warner<br />
Bros, film, "The Thief Who Came to<br />
Dinner," but also the equally exciting<br />
"Crack Our Safe" contest it inspired in<br />
the San Francisco Bay area. The contest,<br />
sponsored by a local jewelry store<br />
and a popular area radio station, was<br />
conceived by Jack Wodell Associates,<br />
a San Francisco-hased ad agency.<br />
56 BOXOFFICE Showmondisor :: April 23, 1973
IJT ¥¥C C* L" U TJTf"P Listed herewith, alphabetically by companies, cae all of the feature pictures<br />
FIjUO 0£iIlYlU£i reviewed in BOXOFHCE from lanuary 1 through March 31, 1973. This is<br />
designed as a further convenience for Picture Guide users, the page numbers being the key to reviews kept<br />
therein. Between quarters. Review Digest pages serve as a cumulative P. G. index for feature pictures.<br />
Documentary, Experimental Films<br />
P.G.Page or P.G.Page or I<br />
Rev. Date Rev. Date » »
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An interpretive analysis of lay and tradepress reviews. Running time is in pomtr . lo^. Tlie plus and minus<br />
signs indicate degree of merit. Listings cover current reviews regularly. ® is for ClnemoScope; ® Panavision;<br />
® Tecliniroma; ® Other Anomorpliic processes. Symbol a denotes BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon Award; All<br />
films ore in color except tiiose indicated by (b&w) for black & wliite. Motion Picture Ass'n (MPAA) ratings:<br />
SI—General Audiences; PG—Ail ages admitted (parental guidance suggested); g]— Restricted, with<br />
persons under 17 not admitted unless accompanied by parent or adult guardian; (^—Persons under 17 not<br />
admitted. Notional Catholic Office for Motion Pictures (NCOMP) ratings: A1— Unobjectionobie for General<br />
Patronage; A2— Unobjectionable for Adults or Adolescents; A3— Unobjectionable for Adults; A4—Morally<br />
Unobjectionable for Adults, with Reservations; B—Objectionable in Port for All; C—Condemned. Broadcasting<br />
and Film Commission, National Council of Churches (BFC). For listings by company, see FEATURE<br />
CHART,<br />
I2eview digest<br />
AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX<br />
++ Very Good; + Good; - Fair; - Poor; = Very Poor.<br />
—A—<br />
4553 Across llOtb Strwt<br />
(102) Cr UA<br />
a z<br />
Adversary, The<br />
(UO) C Audio Brapdon U-27-72<br />
4531 Aif 'n' Family (100) C Slierpix 10-16-72 PG A3<br />
Alliance for Progress<br />
(108) Polit D Tricontinenlai<br />
4548 And Hope to Die (99) M-Doc HGH<br />
Anotlter Nice Mess<br />
(66) Satire Ftn« Films<br />
Asptiyx, Tlie (98) ® Sus . . Paragon<br />
4528<br />
4542 Assassination of Trotsky, The<br />
(103) Hi CRC<br />
Asylum (100) Doc Robinson<br />
4545 Asylum (88) Ho-Sus CRC<br />
4550AvantiI (140) C UA<br />
—B—<br />
4571 Baby, The (85) Sus Scotia Int'l<br />
Bad Barbara (92) Sex Sherpix<br />
4528 Bad Company (93) W Para<br />
4566 Baron Blood (90) Ho AlP<br />
4567 Baxter! (100) CD NGP<br />
Belated Flowers (100) Melo Artkino<br />
4565 Black Caesar (92) Ac Melo AlP<br />
Black Fantasy (78) D.. Impact Films<br />
4544 Black Girl (97) D CRC<br />
4557 Black Gunn (94) Ac Col<br />
4561 Black Mama, White Mama<br />
(87) Ac AlP<br />
4529 Blue Money (93) Sex Crown<br />
4557 Bone (92) D Jack H. Harris<br />
4575 Booby Trap<br />
(92) Sus <strong>Boxoffice</strong> Int'l<br />
Book of Numbers D . Avco Emb<br />
4581 (SO)<br />
Brother of the Wind<br />
(87) OD-Ad Sun Infl<br />
4577 Brother Sun, Sister Moon<br />
(121) ® Hi Para<br />
S^a<br />
1-8-73BC ± - ± ± +<br />
3-19-73<br />
12-11-72 PG A3<br />
10-23-72 PG<br />
10- 2-72<br />
11-20-72<br />
10-23-72<br />
e A3<br />
PG<br />
12- 4-72 PG A2<br />
12-18-72 IB B<br />
3-12-73 PG<br />
2-26-73<br />
10- 2-72 PG<br />
2-19-73 PG<br />
2-25-73 PG<br />
12-11-72<br />
2-19-73 m<br />
11-13-72<br />
U-27-72 PG<br />
1-22-73 m<br />
2- 5-73 m<br />
10- 9-72<br />
1-22-72 IB<br />
3-26-73 (H<br />
4-16-73 m<br />
2-12-73 a<br />
4- 2-73 PG<br />
4527 Cancel My Reservation (99) C . .WB 10- 2-72<br />
4538 Carry On Doctor (95) C AlP 11- 6-72<br />
4527 Case of the Naves Brothers, The<br />
(97) Hi (b&w) Europix 10- 2-72<br />
4559 Cesar and Rosalie (110) C Cinema 5 1-19-73<br />
4568 Charlotte's Web (94) An-M ..Para 2-26-73<br />
. . Col 10-16-72<br />
4547 Child's Play (lOO) ® D Para 12-11-72<br />
4532 Chloe in the Afternoon (97) C<br />
Circus Girls<br />
(30) Doc Walter Gutman 12<br />
4580 Class of '44 (95) ® C-D WB 4-<br />
4554 Confessions of Tom Harris<br />
(90) Bio Gatnnur 1- 8-73<br />
Corpse Grinders, The<br />
(72) Ho Geneni 10- 9-72 IB<br />
4534 Countess Dracula (93) Ho 20th-Fox 10-23-72 PG<br />
Country Girl<br />
4-72<br />
9-73<br />
(65) Sex Melo.. Hollywood Cinema 10- 2-72 (g)<br />
4562 Crazies. The (103) Ho ....Cambist 2- 5-73 m<br />
4572 Creeping Flesh, The<br />
(92) Ho Columbia 3-12-73 PG<br />
4537 Crescendo (83) Melo WB 11- 6-72<br />
4564 Cries and Whispers<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<br />
+<br />
A4 +<br />
A3 +<br />
A2 -H-<br />
A3 +<br />
C ±<br />
+<br />
A3 4+<br />
+<br />
A3 ±<br />
+<br />
+<br />
A2 ±<br />
A3 +<br />
A3<br />
A4<br />
+<br />
+<br />
Al +<br />
PG A3 tt<br />
A3 +<br />
+<br />
A3 +<br />
A3 - ±<br />
B +<br />
A3 + ±<br />
+ +<br />
-H +<br />
+ -H-<br />
+ ±<br />
+<br />
+<br />
H<br />
+<br />
± + ±<br />
+ +<br />
± 4+<br />
± -H-<br />
+<br />
+ ++<br />
+<br />
= +<br />
++ ±<br />
+ ±<br />
+<br />
+<br />
# +<br />
(95) D New World 2-12-73 A4 # + 4+ tt +<br />
Cruel and Unusual Punishment<br />
(15) Doc (b&w) Bailey 1-22-73<br />
—D—<br />
4532 Darwin Adventure, The (91)<br />
(g Hi 2mh-Fox 10-16-72<br />
4539 Daughters of Satan (90) Ho .... UA U-13-72 Bl C + + = ±<br />
4532 Deadly Trap, The (90) Sus ... .NGP 10-16-72 PG<br />
4545 Dcathmakers, The<br />
(93) Sus Gamalex 12- 4-72 +<br />
4559 Dirt Gang, The<br />
. .<br />
Howco 10- 9-72<br />
(89) Motorcycle D AlP 1-29-73<br />
4529 Dirty Dan's Women (90) My<br />
4539 Dirty Little Billy (93) W ....Col U-15-72 H A4 ± +<br />
4582 Dirty Mind of Young Sally<br />
(94) Sex C-F ....<strong>Boxoffice</strong> Int'l 4-16-73<br />
4542 Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The<br />
(100) ©Satire 20th- Fox 11-20-73 PG A3 # +f ++ +<br />
A3<br />
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Last Tango in Paris (129) D . . UA 2-12-73 ® C -h<br />
Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean,<br />
The (120) ® Ac NGP 12-11-72 PG A3<br />
Limbo (112) D Univ U-20-72 PG A3<br />
Limit, The<br />
(90) (g D Cannon-New Era 12-18-72 PG A3<br />
Little Laura and Big John<br />
(82) Ac-Melo Crown<br />
Lolly-Madonna XXX<br />
(103) ® D MGM<br />
Long Goodbye, The (112) ® Cr UA<br />
Lost Horizon (150) ® M ..Columbia<br />
Love (Szei-elem)<br />
(92) D (b&w) ....George Gund 10-16-72 Al<br />
Love Minus One<br />
(94) D Multi-Pix Lti. 1-22-73 Q<br />
Love, Swedish Style<br />
(83) C Scremctffl Int'l<br />
Ludwig (173) ® Hi MGM<br />
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4- 2-73 H A4<br />
3-19-73 m Al<br />
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3-19-73 Bl A4<br />
Mack, The (110) D Cinerama 3-26-73 E<br />
I/lad Love (252) D New Yorker 11-27-72<br />
fan of La Mancha<br />
(135) ® M UA 1-15-73 PG A3<br />
Manson (S4) Doc Merrick Int'l. 12-11-72<br />
Uechanie, Th« (95) Ac UA 11-27-72 PG A3<br />
Miss Leslie's Dolls<br />
(85) Sex- Ho World-Wide 3-12-73 Bl<br />
tolly and Lawless Jthn<br />
(98) W Producers 1-15-73 PG<br />
Honey, Money, Money (115) C CRC 4- 9-73 M<br />
iloonwalk One<br />
(96) Doc Perelz W. Jahannat l2- 4-72 9 Al<br />
horning After, The<br />
(78) Sex My Mature 9-1S-72<br />
Anthers, The<br />
(74) Sex Melo .<br />
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(SB) D Crmro Int'l 2-26-73 m<br />
lecromancy (82) He CRC 10-23-72 PG A3<br />
lelson Affair, The<br />
(118) ® Hi Univ 4- 2-73 PG A3<br />
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Calcutta!<br />
(105) Sex Satire Cinematian 11-13-72 C<br />
luUide In (90) D ..HaroK Rskkiic 10- 2-72 m<br />
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ayday (103) D Cinerama 1-29-73 m A4<br />
'ete 'n' Tillie (112) ® C Univ 1- 1-73 PG A4<br />
'hedre (90) Tragedy Altura 4-16-73 PG A2<br />
igkeeper's Daughter, The<br />
(93) Sex Farce ..<strong>Boxoffice</strong> Int'l 12- 4-72<br />
lay It as It Uys (101) D ..Univ 10-16-72 (H A4<br />
lease Stand By<br />
(102) (F) Milton Prod. 12- 4-72<br />
oor Albert & Little Annie<br />
(88) Sus Europix 11-27-72 H<br />
^Peseidon Adventure, The<br />
(117) ® Ad 20th-Ftx<br />
'riest and the Girl, The<br />
(87) D New Yorker<br />
rince Igor (110) M Artkino<br />
risen Girls<br />
(84) Sex Dr . . . AlP-United Prod 2-19-73 (Si<br />
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age (100) D WB U-27-72 PG A3<br />
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The Werewolves Arc Here!<br />
(92) Ho William Mishkin 10-30-72<br />
eflection of Fear, A<br />
(89) Melo Columbia 3-12-73 PG A3<br />
oomMates, The (87) D GFC 2-12-73 m C<br />
tiling Class, The (150) Satire . . UA 9-25-72 PG A4<br />
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ivages (108) F Angelika<br />
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;orpio (114) Spy UA<br />
:ream in the Streets, A<br />
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lall nioniDMn, Jack Mullaney<br />
GLOBE<br />
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ama's Ghost (93) Ho. Nov 72<br />
Lopher Brook.s<br />
Beast & tbe Vixens<br />
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Connections (S7) Sex. May 73<br />
Busy. Talie Cochrane<br />
nonster (95) Ac-Ad ..Jun 73<br />
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RTAINMENT VENTURES<br />
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Whitman, Connie Strickland<br />
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Stepdaughter (85) ... Mar 73<br />
! Ellb, Chris Hut)bell<br />
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Warriors<br />
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Damoo, Bartiara O'Nefl<br />
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^EATUkC REVIEWS<br />
Symbol ® denotes color; © CinemoScope; (g Panavislon; ® Techniroma; ® other anamorphie processes. For story synopsis on each picture, see reverse side.<br />
SCARECROW m ^'1<br />
Warner Bros. (206) 115 Minutes Rel. Apr. '73<br />
An original screenplay by Garry Michael White,<br />
"Scarecrow," produced by Robert M. Sheiinan, is without<br />
question one of the best films of the year. Gene Hackman ^"<br />
and Al Pacino give excellent performances as two drifters - i-<br />
who find a means of salvation in each other's friendship,<br />
while Jerry Schatzberg's direction and Vilmos Zsigmond's<br />
Panavision and Technicolor photography are really inthat<br />
John Huston brought to last year's "Fat City" and<br />
should generate a lot of favorable response from critics<br />
and public. At times, the Warners release approaches<br />
classic proportions as the two men undergo various experiences<br />
which cause drastic changes in theu- personalities.<br />
Pew masterpieces are without flaws and there are some,<br />
notably in Richard Lynch's homosexual character: he's<br />
too obvious for the later revelation to have any impact.<br />
Controversy is sure to be stirred up by the theme, e. g.,<br />
are bums really as symbolic as they seem here, can a<br />
worthless ex- convict be regenerated through the selfless<br />
devotion of a friend?, etc. Both stars got into character<br />
by panhandling before production started. Filming in<br />
Reno, Denver, Detroit, Canon City (Colo.) and smaller<br />
towns adds to the overall believability of this winner.<br />
Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Eileen<br />
Brennan, Ann Wedgeworth, Richard Lynch.
FEATURE REVIEWS Story Synopsis; Exploitlps; Adiines for Newspapers and Programs
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30c<br />
, 1263<br />
. Few<br />
Pes<br />
.<br />
per word minimimi $3.00. CASH WITH COPY. Four consecutive insertions for price<br />
s. When using a <strong>Boxoffice</strong> No., figure 2 additional words and include 50c additional, to<br />
ost of handling replies. Display Classified. $25.00 per Column Inch. CLOSING DATE:<br />
f<br />
noon preceding publication date. Send copy and answers to Box Numbers to BOXl,<br />
825 Van Brunt Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. 64124. No commission allowed.<br />
HELP WANTED<br />
5IATE OPENINGS for Drive-In<br />
rs and Assistant Managers in all<br />
;. Rapidly expanding circuit. Good<br />
vacations, hospital insurance,<br />
baring. Send photo and resume<br />
rting salary requirements to John<br />
[, Davis Theatres, Inc., 311 - 11th<br />
)es Moines, Iowa 50309. All replies<br />
tial.<br />
HE MANAGERS. Due to exponth<br />
conventional and drive-in openne<br />
established Florida company.<br />
t employee benefits. Mail backinformation<br />
to Perry Reavis, Jr.,<br />
Federal Theatres, P. O. Box 8412,<br />
fille, Fla. 32211.<br />
DA CIRCUIT has openings for exd<br />
drive-in and hardtop managers,<br />
inge benefits. Send resume and<br />
ihotograph to <strong>Boxoffice</strong>, 2915.<br />
POSITIONS WANTED<br />
FRIDAY" to circuit head or as<br />
supervisor, knowledgeable all<br />
theatre operation, projection to<br />
ons. Will relocate east or mideast.<br />
oxolfice, 2908.<br />
EtTISING MANAGER. All media,<br />
>n, exploitation and theatre adlion.<br />
25 years experience. Salary<br />
plus benefits. EMPLOYED. Box-<br />
916.<br />
rRE MANAGER: 25 years experi-<br />
Large conventionals, drive-ins.<br />
le immediately. 148 N. Arcadia,<br />
)n, Kentucky 40503. (606) 277-0569.<br />
:CT GENERAL MANAGER for small<br />
Age 30. Any location considered,<br />
e, 2919.<br />
CHARGE experienced California<br />
r presently employed but availr<br />
challenging position. <strong>Boxoffice</strong>,<br />
JSINESS<br />
OPPORTUNITIES<br />
OPPORTUNITY for aggressive,<br />
is young man or couple to lease<br />
tion to buy old established supply<br />
Owner wants to retire. State quals.<br />
<strong>Boxoffice</strong>, 2907.<br />
LENS<br />
REPAIR<br />
epoir all Cinemascope and prime<br />
Low prices on request. <strong>Boxoffice</strong>,<br />
POPCORN MACHINES<br />
ilAKES OF POPPERS, caramel com<br />
ent, iloss machines, sno-ball ma-<br />
Krispy Korn, 120 So. Hoisted, Chill.<br />
60606.<br />
STAGE CURTAINS<br />
•E CURTAINS, theatre chairs. Will<br />
easonoble prices. All work guar-<br />
Call Syracuse, N. Y. (315) 454-<br />
MARQUEES, SIGNS<br />
ned. Engineered. Built, Erected,<br />
ned on Lease or purchase plan,<br />
nt Electrical Advertising Systems,<br />
m. Pa. (215) 675-1040.<br />
BUSINESS<br />
STIMULATORS<br />
O CARDS. $5.75M. 1-75. Other<br />
available. Off-On screen. Novelty<br />
Prospect Avenue. Brooklyn,<br />
ork. (212) 871-1460.<br />
attendance with real Hawaiian<br />
cents each. Write Flowers of<br />
, 670 S. Lafayette Place, Los An-<br />
Calif. 90005.<br />
O CARDS DIE CUT. 1-75, 1500<br />
lation. Different color, 500 in each<br />
e. $5.75 per thousand. Premium<br />
Is, 339 West 44th St., York, New<br />
10036. Phone: (212) CI 6-4972.<br />
FFICE :: April 23, 1973<br />
EQUIPMENT FOR SALE<br />
BERNZ-O-MATIC IN-CAH HEATERS. Exclusive<br />
factory authorized soles, service<br />
and parts. STANFORD INDUSTRIES, 311<br />
Waukegan Ave., Highwood, 111. 60040<br />
(312) 432-0444.<br />
REBUILT . . . Simplex XL, Centur,<br />
booth, all makes, models. <strong>Boxoffice</strong>, 2867<br />
3SMM PROJECTION BOOTHS FOR THE<br />
ECONOMY MINDED EXHIBITOR. COM-<br />
PLETE. $1,500.00, <strong>Boxoffice</strong>, 2840.<br />
TWO BRAND NEW KOMPAK Passimeters<br />
manufactured by Perey Turnstiles. Originally<br />
$500.00 each. Buy both for price of<br />
one. Write Newport Shopping Center,<br />
P. O. Box 399, Newport, Kentucky 41072.<br />
PAIR OF 35mm HOLMES TYPE 8 PRO-<br />
JECTORS less lenses. Pick up in person<br />
for $800.00. Phone 273-1924. Worth more.<br />
John R. Stegmoyer, 114 E. Poplar St.,<br />
Lebanon, Pa. 17042.<br />
SUPERSCOPE ANAMOHPHICS, $85.00<br />
pair. Also Bausch & Lomb, $300.00 pair.<br />
35mm Universal DeVry portables, rewind<br />
sets and more. <strong>Boxoffice</strong>, 2921.<br />
THEATRE SPECIAL: Inventory clearance.<br />
One 35mm Super Simplex head,<br />
$250.00. Two 16mm JANS, changeover, 30<br />
watt amplifier, dousers, excellent, $696.50.<br />
Pair of Bell & Howell arcs with 50 watt<br />
dual amplifiers complete for theatre use<br />
and like new, $895.00. Send for free listing.<br />
Hecht, Box 443, Ellenville, N. Y.<br />
12428.<br />
FOR SALE: Two Ashcrait Super Cinex,<br />
two Ashcraft Cinex 170, two Strong Excelile<br />
135 and four Ashcraft (super power)<br />
SR S85. <strong>Boxoffice</strong>, 2922.<br />
Four Powers 6B heads. New gear, big<br />
gate, $85.00 each. Chamberlain, 121 Dellrose<br />
Dr., Donelson, Tenn. 37214.<br />
PAIR OF GOOD clean ready-to-go Simplex<br />
High One-Kilowatt Arc larnps and<br />
matching National rectifiers. Ma''.e offer<br />
to Nancy Willard, 6311 Southwood Ave.,<br />
Clayton, Missouri 63105.<br />
EQUIPMENT WANTED<br />
USED EQUIPMENT bought and sold<br />
Best prices. Texas Theatre Supply, 915<br />
So. Alamo, Son Antonio, Texas 782C5.<br />
MAIN DRIVE, pivot shaft, for Western<br />
Electric 209 or 1211 soundhead. Scenic<br />
Theatre, Pittsfield, N. H. 03263^<br />
HOLMES, 35mm portable projectors.<br />
Model 8, constant speed with Mazda lamp.<br />
Write<br />
Also one Simplex portable projector.<br />
or call lames Shealy, 115 Lake Elizabeth<br />
Dr., Columbia, S. C. 29203. Phone 754-<br />
0744.<br />
TOP PRICES PAID—For soundheads,<br />
lamphouses, rectifiers, projectors, lenses<br />
and portable projectors. What have you?<br />
STAR CINEMA SUPPLY, 217 West 21st St.,<br />
New York 10011. Phone (212) 675-3515.<br />
WANTED; Pair of intermittent movements<br />
in good condition for Super Simplex;<br />
Motiograph or similar bases with brackets<br />
to mount Motiograph SH-7500 soundheads.<br />
One set of two upper ond two lower 3-D<br />
magazines. Price must be right. Entice<br />
us—we might buy anything you want to<br />
sell if we can rebuild it and it's<br />
cheap. <strong>Boxoffice</strong>, 2923.<br />
FILMS<br />
FOR SALE<br />
16mm FILMS. Postcard brings bargain<br />
list logo Films, P.O. Box 143, Scranton,<br />
Pa. 18504<br />
16mm FAMOUS CLASSICS. Illustrated<br />
catalog 25c. Manbeck Pictures, 3621 -E<br />
Wakonda Drive Moines. Iowa 50321<br />
.<br />
16mm COLLECTORS CLASSICS. Send<br />
10c for list. Joe Tiadora, 239 Alexander<br />
Rd., New Britain, Conn. 06053.<br />
FILMS WANTED<br />
COLLECTOR WANTS any good I6mm<br />
prints. Whitney, Box 886, Grand Cayman,<br />
British West Indies.<br />
WANTED: I6nun and 35mm films. All B<br />
westerns, serials. Mitchell Sohaperkotter,<br />
Box 4492, Memphis, Tennessee 38104.<br />
CASH FOR YOUR old slides, 35mm<br />
silent, sound film, equipment. <strong>Boxoffice</strong>,<br />
2925.<br />
CLEDIiine HOUSE<br />
THEATRES FOR SALE<br />
WE SELL THEATRES. Joe Joseph, Theatre<br />
Broker, P.O. Box 31406, Dallas 75231.<br />
Phone (214) 363-2724.<br />
FOR SALE) Excellent adult theatre building<br />
in Moline, 111. Terrific value at $75,-<br />
300.00. Write Midwest Theatres, 8816 Sunset<br />
Blvd., Los Angeles, Ca. 90089 for information<br />
DRIVE-INS AVAILABLE. Required. Bovilsky,<br />
34 Batson Street, Glasgow, Scotland.<br />
TROPICAL ISLAND. I6mm theatre on<br />
Anguilla Island in the West Indies, IIO<br />
miles east of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.<br />
6,000 population, no competition. $50,000.00<br />
cash. Joe Joseph, Box 31406, Dallas 75231.<br />
300 SEAT THEATRE. Small college town,<br />
northwest Ohio. Newly redecorated, brick<br />
building. Family operation. Two bedroom<br />
dwelling. $40,0(10.00 Box 167, Van Wert,<br />
Ohio 45891.<br />
ULTRA MODERN 750 car drive-in in<br />
Michigan, with $50,000.00 home. Owner<br />
retiring to Florida. Capri Drive-in, Box<br />
180, Rt. 5, Coldwater, Michigan.<br />
FOR SALE: Fully equipped, growing<br />
Simi Valley—Thousand Oaks, California<br />
area. (213) 662-5482.<br />
INDOOR: Cincinnati. Priced low for<br />
quick sale. Contact B. Berger, Lucerne<br />
Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Phone (305)<br />
532-2541.<br />
FOR SALE: THREE THEATRE GROUP including<br />
deluxe rocking chair theatres and<br />
one beautiful drive-in with new selfservice<br />
concessions. Including real estate.<br />
All located in highly populated prosperous<br />
Tennessee county. Doing Fair plus<br />
business, potential much greater under<br />
close supervision. Priced at approximately<br />
one half replacement cost. Terms cash,<br />
however, local bank has agreed to<br />
finance 1/2 to responsible party. Only<br />
principles and qualified buvers need to<br />
apply to Box 40311, Nashville, Tennessee<br />
37204.<br />
TO SETTLE AN ESTATE: Equipment and<br />
realty of two theatres. One indoor and<br />
one drive-in. Progressive community. Expanding<br />
economy. Terms up to 20 years,<br />
Haley and Smith, Attorneys, Box 66, Seminole,<br />
Texas 79360.<br />
FAMILY THEATRE. 650 seats, good<br />
equipment, brick and steel building, nice<br />
apartment. County seat, only theatre.<br />
West central Texas. <strong>Boxoffice</strong>, 2920.<br />
DRIVE-IN AND INDOOR THEATRES. Hill<br />
City, Kansas. County seat. Write Lily<br />
Welty, Hill City, Kansas.<br />
THEATRES WANTED<br />
DRIVE-IN THEATRES WANTEDl Boston<br />
based theatre circuit seeks to acquire<br />
drive-in theatres anywhere in U. S. TOP<br />
DOLLAR PAID! Write <strong>Boxoffice</strong>, 2750.<br />
WANTED TO BUY OR LEASE: Indoor or<br />
outdoor. Contact Mike Kutler, 2108 Payne<br />
Avenue, Room 212, Cleveland, Ohio 44114.<br />
(216) 696-4110.<br />
CENTRAL ILLINOIS: Wanted to lease indoor<br />
and/or outdoor (option to buv)<br />
Chuck Thomas, Delavan, 111. 61734. (303)<br />
244-7445.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS<br />
FIREWORKS: Commercial and Display.<br />
Catalogs $1.00. Buckeye Fireworks, Box<br />
2705, Akron, Ohio 44301.<br />
COMPLETE THEATRE LIST of the entire<br />
United States including Alaska and Hawaii.<br />
Comes complete in hard cover with<br />
theatre name, address, city and state, zip<br />
code, owner or affiliate, and number of<br />
seats. Also have same information for<br />
Canada. List for United States, $200.00.<br />
List for Canada, $175.00. Send check or<br />
money order to Theatre Information, 2012<br />
Vinewood, Suite 2, Pueblo, Colorado<br />
81005.<br />
DON'T THROW ANYTHING AWAY . . .<br />
We buy movie posters, uncut pressbooks,<br />
stills, trailers, etc. Old—Current—Any<br />
Quantity. Also want set of door panels<br />
for "HELP." Cinema Attic, Box 7772, Philadelphia,<br />
Pa. 19101.<br />
THEATRE SEATING<br />
THEATRE CHAIR UPHOLSTERING! Any<br />
where, finest materials. LOW prices. Custom<br />
seat covers made to fit. CHICAGO<br />
USED CHAIR MART, 1320 So. Wabash,<br />
Chicago, 60605. Phone: 9S9-45I8.<br />
SPECIALISTS IN REBUILDING CHAIRS.<br />
New and rebuilt theatre chairs for sale.<br />
We buy and sell old chairs. Travel anywhere.<br />
Seating Corporation of New York,<br />
247 Water Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., 11201.<br />
Tel. (212) 875-5433. (Reverse charges).<br />
FIRST CLASS REBUILDING since 1934.<br />
Arthur Judge, 2100 E. Newton Ave., Milwaukee,<br />
Wisconsin.<br />
NEW ENGLAND SEATING « CON-<br />
STRUCTION CO.. INC. 15 years experience<br />
covering the USA. Reconditioned<br />
used chairs. On location refurbishing.<br />
Specialists in installation and staggering.<br />
Sewn seat covers, all makes. Complete<br />
line fabrics and vinyls. Entire theatre<br />
equipment available. Call collect (617)<br />
142-3830, 33 Simmons St., Boston. Mass.<br />
02120.<br />
300 self rising theatre seats. Extra thick<br />
padded backs. Extremely comfortable.<br />
Good condition. Off the floor. $5.00 each.<br />
Kansas City area. <strong>Boxoffice</strong>, 2918.<br />
FOR SALE: 400 Bodiform seats. Harry<br />
Melcher Enterprises, 3238 West Fond du<br />
Lac Ave., Milwaukee, Wise. 53210.<br />
650 AMERICAN BODIFORM upholstered<br />
seats. Good condition, $10.00 each, no<br />
less in Dallas. Call Dallas 361-5381 or<br />
276-9870-<br />
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