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SHOW-A-RAMA IS 

ALL 

IT 

BEGAN nine years ago—a year 

after the two regional exhibitor organizations 

in the Kansas City territory 

joined ranks—when Show-A-Rama was 

born. Its purpose was to bring exhibition, 

distribution and other industry elements 

together to kindle interest and effort by 

which the industry as a whole would secure 

a larger share of the public's entertainment 

dollar. That the objective has 

been achieved is indelibly written in the 

record for the past nine years, with attendance 

reaching new highs—not just 

from Kansas and Missouri, but from 

throughout the United States—with the 

future Show-A-Rama conclaves looking 

still brighter. 

Show-A-Rama IX, convened in Denver 

last week, represented a further amalgam 

of exhibitors from virtually every 

state in the Union, with attendance 

from Canada, England, Australia and 

Mexico. Sponsored jointly by United Theatre 

Owners of the Heart of America and 

the Rocky Mountain Motion Picture 

Ass'n, the meetings were participated in 

by delegations from the Montana Theatres 

Ass'n and New Mexico Theatre Owners 

Ass'n, among others. Thus, the geographic 

spread of Show-A-Rama 's scope 

has taken on new dimension, as well as 

giving proof that there is widespread interest 

in good showmanship, which is 

not confined by state or other boundaries. 

Nor is the enthusiasm engendered at 

the convention, for, just a week after its 

closing, word has come from circuit operators 

and individual exhibitors telling of 

the values they derived from it and that 

they will attend and bring other colleagues 

next year. 

In the tradition that was soundly and 

solidly established nine years ago, Show- 

A-Rama IX brought out a flowing exchange 

of information, not only on how 

to better merchandise pictures, but on 

how to get the most out of other phases 

of theatre operation. The equipment and 

concessions people and experts in these 

lines contributed substantially to the success 

of this business-building event. Interest 

therein was implicit in the way 

exhibitors attended each meeting—to almost 

capacity and from early morning 

until late in the afternoon. This elicited 

much favorable comment. 

As at all Show-A-Rama meets, the 

"little fellows" in exhibition were not 

overlooked. Designated as the Small 

UNITY AT WORK! 

Town Business session, of which Ross 

Campbell, president of Theatre Operators, 

Inc. of Sheridan, Wyo., was the 

moderator, practical and tested businessbuilding 

ideas were presented by a group 

of representative theatremen. 

The participation by production and 

distribution executives, sales heads and 

directors of advertising, added substantially 

to the practical values exhibitors 

derived from their outlines of forthcoming 

product and specific examples of advertising 

and merchandising plans that 

were prepared especially for this event. 

Further noteworthy is the fact that 

two members of the distribution branch 

of the industry worked hand-in-hand 

with exhibitors in the staging of Show-A- 

Rama IX. Marvin Goldfarb, president of 

Rocky Mountain Motion Picture Ass'n, 

is district manager of Buena Vista Distributing 

Co., and John Dobson, vicepresident 

of RMMPA, is Denver branch 

manager for United Artists. Together 

with Larry Starsmore, president of Westland 

Theatres of Colorado Springs, Mr. 

Dobson served as executive co-chairman. 

Bob Tankersley, president of Western 

Service & Supply Co., Denver, headed 

the theatre equipment and concessions 

exhibits. And the Show-A-Rama IX committee 

list from Denver reveals active 

participants from among other film distribution 

companies. Of course, the Kansas 

City contingent, headed by Doug 

Lightner, president of UTOHA, took active 

roles and responsibilities, but a 

double salute is due the Denver team for 

the job so well done. 

Show-A-Rama IX was, indeed, a great 

show- demonstrating how very much 

alive this business still is and that interest 

is widespread among exhibitors in 

extending greater effort in their own behalf 

and, as well, to improve the image 

of the industry in general, which means 

doing a good showmanship job. And it is 

encouraging to observe how very much 

support is given thereto by the producers 

and distributors. This, too, exemplifies 

unity. 

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TO MEETS WITH DISTRIBUTORS 

Nationwide Movie Week 

Proposed for September 

NEW YORK—Establishment of a National 

Movie Week the last week in September 

was proposed to film distribution 

sales managers by members of the National 

Ass'n of Theatre Owners trade practices 

committee in their three-day meetings here 

this week. 

Sessions with the sales chiefs began 

Monday (7), with Marshall Fine. NATO 

president and head of the trade practices 

committee, leading that organization's 

delegation. Also on the committee and in 

attendance for NATO were Sunnier Redstone, 

chairman of the board; Jack Armstrong, 

board chairman-designate; Irving 

Dollinger and Milton London. 

SEEK TOP ATTRACTIONS 

Under the proposal submitted by NATO 

each film company is asked to release its 

best picture during Movie Week, which 

would be staged immediately after the introduction 

of the new television series for 

the fall. Purpose of the heavy concentration 

on top movies would be to weaken the 

competition of the new TV shows. 

Following the first three meetings Monday 

with Buena Vista, 20th Century-Fox 

and Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer, reports were 

that response to the idea was excellent and 

that each company said it would try to 

schedule "a very top picture" for release 

that week, preceding each release with a 

big promotional campaign. Twentieth-Fox 

indicated that it would try to release its 

"Fantastic Voyage" for Movie Week, and 

MGM indicated it would prefer that NATO 

select a picture from its upcoming product 

list and would work toward releasing it. 

Meeting with the NATO committee from 

Buena Vista were Irving Ludwig, president 

and general sales manager, and Leo 

Greenfield, western division manager. At 

the 20th-Fox home office, NATO delegates 

met with Joseph M. Sugar, vice-president 

in charge of domestic sales, and at MGM 

they conferred with Morris E. Lefko. vicepresident 

and general sales manager; Mel 

Maron, roadshow sales manager, and Jay 

Eisenberg, attorney. 

DISCUSS TRADE PRACTICES 

The conferences also brought up a 

variety of trade practices, with NATO representatives 

urging that bids be awarded 

"within a reasonable time" and asking 

that the terms of winning bids be disclosed 

to all bidders. NATO also urged the 

film companies to give more consideration 

to the needs of small town theatres. Unfair 

competition through 16mm operations 

was discussed and the film companies expressed 

themselves as concerned with protecting 

the theatre accounts insofar as 

possible. 

Of the NATO requests, Buena Vista said 

it now notifies winning bidders within 24 

to 48 hours; 20th-Fox does so within seven 

days, and MGM within seven to ten days. 

Buena Vista said it also now discloses 

terms of winning bids, but 20th-Fox and 

MGM both expressed opposition to that 

proposal. 

On Tuesday

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Prince Philip on Tour 

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14 Mirisch Films Costing $60 Million 

Scheduled for United Artists Release 

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MIAMI—Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of 

Edinburgh, arrived here from Jamaica 

Wednesday NEW YORK—The 

(9) to begin a ten-day 

Mirisch Corp., which 

tour of 

has completed five features, including two 

U.S. Variety Clubs expected to garner millions 

roadshow pictures In 

of 

the last six months, 

that 

dollars for organization's 

will continue this stepped-up production 

charities. The Prince was met here by 

pace throughout 1966 

James Carreras, head of Hammer Film 

and into 1967, according 

to 

Productions, London, 

Harold J. Mirisch, president. 

and international 

chief barker of Variety Clubs International, The Mirisch organization will launch a 

who will accompany the royal party on its minimum of eight more features in the 

tour. 

13-month period starting May 1. These 

The series of banquets and dinners in 14 pictures, which will all be released 

such cities as Miami, Houston, Tex., Los through United Artists, represent a combined 

Angeles, Chicago and New York will range 

total of more than $60,000,000 in 

from $100 to $1,000 per plate and will aid unreleased negatives and production 

the particular charitable endeavors of the 

local Tents as well as those of Variety International. 

conunitments. 

The five completed pictures are "Cast a 

The first of these affairs was Giant Shadow," made in Israel and Italy 

the Prince Philip Banquet held here by producer - director - writer Melville 

Wednesday night. 

The Prince and his party were to appearon 

Shavelson, with Kirk Douglas and Senta 

Berger starred and guest appearances by 

Friday ill) night in Houston, where he Frank Sinatra, Yul Bryrurer and John 

was to speak at a $100 to $1,000 plate Wayne, which will have its world premiere 

dinner to raise funds for the Variety Boys 

Club. Planners of that affair hope the proceeds 

from the dinner will enable them to 

in three New York theatres March 29 as 

a roadshow with general release across the 

U.S. to follow; "Hawaii," based on James 

build a new clubhouse. 

Michener's best-selling novel, filmed in 

The Prince's visit to Los Angeles Monday 

be highlighted by a private 

Hawaii by Walter Mirisch and directed by 

George Roy Hill, starring Julie Andrews, 

reception, preceding the dinner, hosted by Max von Sydow and Richard Harris, which 

oil magnate George Getty, with tickets will have its world premiere in New York 

costing $1,000 each. The dinner which follows 

at the DeMille Theatre October 10 on a 

will cost $100 per plate. 

reserved-seat basis; "The Russians Are 

On Wednesday Q6), the $100-per-plate Coming, the Russians Are Coming." produced 

and directed by Norman Jewison, 

dinner in Chicago is expected to raise more 

than $150,000 for Variety, one half of starring Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, 

which will go to the Chicago Tent's La Jonathan Winters and Paul Ford, which 

Rabida Sanitarium charity project. 

will be nationally released in June; "What 

The tour will culminate on Saturday Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" produced 

in New York at a $150 per plate banquet and directed by Blake Edwards with Sergio 

at 

the Americana Hotel, titled "The Lively 

Fantoni, Giovanna Ralli, Aldo Ray, James 

Arts of New York Salute Prince Philip." 

Cobum and Dick Shawn starred, scheduled 

for national release in July, and "The 

Broadway star Alan King will emcee the 

entertainment portion of that affair and Fortune Cookie," produced and directed 

performers will include Ethel Merman, by Billy Wilder, with Jack Lemmon and 

opera stars Madame Zinka Milanov and Walter Matthau starred, is scheduled for 

Robert Merrill, ballet stars Edward Villella 

release in October 

and Patricia McBride, Betty Comden and The other nine pictures for Mirisch are 

Adolph Green and the New Christy "Return of the Seven," starring Yul Brynner; 

Minstrels. 

"How to Succeed in Business Without 

A chorus line will be made up of Lauren Really Trying," is based on the Broadway 

musical hit: "Oh Death, Where Is Thy 

Bacall. Arlene Francis, Kitty Carlisle, 

Phyllis Newman, Miss Merman and Miss Sting-A-Ling-A-Ling," starring Gregory 

Comden. and a complete production number 

Peck; "A Garden of Cucumbers" will staralso 

from the current Latin Quarter Show Dick Van Dyke; "High Citadel" will be di- 

will be included. 

rected by J. Lee Thompson: "In the Heat 

N.Y. Supreme Court Denies 

Preminger Application 

NEW YORK—The New York Supreme 

Court has denied an application by Otto 

Prenunger and Carlyle Productions for a 

stay of any minor cutting of Columbia's 

"Anatomy of a Murder" for TV use. 

The application stemmed from Carlyle's 

appeal now pending a decision by the 

Court of Appeals for a reversal of the 

opinion in Columbia's favor passed down 

by the Supreme Court January 19. At 

that time. Supreme Court Justice Arthur 

G. Klein ruled that "no proof has been 

adduced that this cutting and editing 

would be done in such manner as to interfere 

with the picture's story line," and 

that "implicit in the grant of television 

rights is the privilege to cut and edit." 

BOXOFTICE March 14. 1966 

of the Night": "The Judgment of Corey." 

an untitled original by Billy Wilder, and 

"The Great Japanese Train Robbery'' to 

be produced aird directed by David Miller. 

UA-De Laurentiis Deal 

Extended to Six Films 

NEW YORK—Producer Dino De Laurentiis 

and United Artists president 

Arthur B. Krim announced the extension 

of the recently completed three-picture 

deal for a total of six films. Tire three 

new films, all in color, include "Absurd 

Universe," written and directed by Federico 

Fellini. Scheduled to start in July, the 

picture will star Marcello Mastroianni. who 

first won International fame In Fellini's 

"La Dolce Vita." 

The second film," "Gramigna's Bandit." 

starring Clint Eastwood, directed by Alberto 

Lattuada, is an adventure stoi 

in Sicily. 

The third project. "A River of Dollars," 

is scheduled to begin on March 14 with 

Burt Reynolds and Henry Silva starred, 

and will be produced for De Laurentiis by 

Donati Carpent hi. 

The three pictures originally set for UA 

release by De Laurentiis include "A Dollar 

a Head," and "Matchless." in which Princess 

Ira Furstenberg will make her motion 

picture debut starring opposite Broadway 

actor Patrick O'Neal, and also directed by 

Lattuada. 

The third picture is "The Witches," a 

trilogy 

currently before the cameras starring 

Silvana Mangano in all three episodes 

directed by Luchino Visconti, Vittorio 

De Sica and Renato Castellani. 

Television Industries OKs 

Buying Beacon Stock 

WILMINGTON, DEL.—Acquisition of all 

outstanding stock of 26 firms known as 

Beacon Corporation has been approved by 

stockholders of Television Industries, Inc., 

who also voted to change their company's 

name to Trans-Beacon. 

Expected to become directors of the 

company and active leaders in management 

are Sheldon Smerling, Edwin Shapiro 

and Charles A. Greenfield, all of Los Angeles, 

termed the "sellers" of Beacon. 

Effective date of the agreement is 

March 15 dependent upon approval of applications 

for listing on the American, 

Midwest and Pacific Coast stock exchanges. 

Price of the acquisition was 550,000 common 

shares. $400,000 cash and $350,000 in 

5 per cent notes. Completion of the transaction 

will make Smerling, Shapiro and 

Greenfield the corporation's largest single 

stockholder group with about 35 per cent 

of the outstanding shares. 

Paramount to Reissue Two 

Frank Sinatra Pictures 

NEW YORK—Paramount Pictures, which 

is re-releasing Cecil B. DeMille's "Tire Ten 

Commandments" for Easter showings in 

1966, will also reissue two of Frank 

Sinatra's pictures, "Come Blow Your Horn" 

and "All the Way." the latter being the 

new title for "The Joker Is Wild," this 

spring. 

"Come Blow Your Horn." which was 

originally released in 1963, also stars Lee 

J. Cobb, Barbara Rush. Molly Picon. Jill St. 

John and Tony Bill. When "All the 

was released in 1957 as "The Joker Is 

Wild." it star-red Mitzi Gaynor. Eddie Albert 

and Jeanne Cram and won an Academy 

Award for the song, "AH the Way." 

Both Sinatra pictures will be backed by an 

all-new advertising and public! 

Trans-Lux Dividend 

NEW YORK—The directors of Trans- 

Lux Corp. have declared the regular quarterly 

dividend of 15 cents per share on 

the common stock, payable March 31 to 

stockholders of record March 18, 1966.

. . Way 

Fox Studio Celebrates 

3 Years of Progress 

HOLLYWOOD — Richard D. Zanuck. 

vice-president in charge of production for 

20th Century -Fox, hosted a studio party 

on stage 15 Friday (4) called "the 20th- 

Fox festival of three years of hard labor." 

The huge stage was crowded with representatives 

of the press and the studio's 

stars and executives. Harry Sokolov. executive 

assistant to Zanuck, said almost 

1,000 persons were present. 

James Denton, director of publicity for 

the studio, in a statement entitled "Why 

We Celebrate," outlined the three years 

of activity which had brought the company 

from a mammoth $39,796,094 financial loss 

in 1962 to net earnings of $8,773,000 for 

the first three quarters of 1965. 

The statement contrasted the almost 

hopeless situation of the studio before the 

reorganization of the company under 

Darryl F. Zanuck, and the activity current 

on the lot today. 

Denton pointed to the success and 

achievements of the company's recent motion 

picture releases, such as garnering 22 

Richard D. Zanuck, vice-president in 

charge of production for 20th Century- 

Fox, is shown at the company's studio 

party with his mother Virginia (left) 

and his wife Lili. 

Academy Award nominations for seven 

films in the current Oscar selections. He 

pointed to such boxoffice champions as 

"The Sound of Music," "Those Magnificent 

Men in Their Flying Machines." "Our Man 

Flint," "The Agony and the Ecstasy" and 

"Do Not Disturb," and to the success of 

the company's television aim. 

"The future is bright," Denton's statement 

said, listing productions completed 

and ready for release: "Stagecoach," "How 

to Steal a Million," "The Blue Max," "Fantastic 

Voyage," "Modesty Blaise" and "The 

Bible," and productions now shooting: 

"Way . Out," "Hombre" and "The 

Sand Pebbles." 

Doris Day in 'Caprice' 

HOLLYWOOD — Richard D. Zanuck, 

vice-president in charge of production for 

20th Century-Fox, has announced that 

Doris Day's next motion picture will be the 

comedy, "Caprice," for producers Aaron 

Rosenberg and Martin Melcher. "Caprice," 

a satire on the theft of industrial secrets 

from rival manufacturing firms, has been 

set for a May 1 starting date. No leading 

man has yet been signed. 

Columbia 6-Month Earnings 

Down to $443,000 Profit 

NEW YORK—Columbia Pictures reports 

earnings of $443,000, or 19 cents per share, 

for the six months 

ended Dec. 25, 1965, 

compared with $1,- 

390,000. or 69 cents 

per share, for the 

JR. same period in the 

preceding year, ac- 

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president, who 

ing at the boxoffice and, therefore, adversely 

affected the earnings for the company. 

The amortization of these pictures 

will continue during the balance of the current 

year. 

However, Columbia "is encouraged about 

the pictures which are currently in release 

and scheduled for release," he said, mentioning 

"The Silencers," "The Chase," 

"Walk Don't Run," "The Trouble With 

Angels," "Lost Command," "Born Free" 

and "Three on a Couch," all these to be 

released from February through the summer 

of 1966. 

"Our television subsidiary, Screen Gems, 

continues to improve in profits and we 

have every reason to believe that its gross 

and earnings for the year will be one of 

the highest ever attained. Based on the 

number of shows already sold for the next 

season, we anticipate this forward progress 

will be maintained," Schneider remarked. 

The earnings per share of the Columbia 

common stock, after preferred stock dividends, 

for both the current and the prior 

year, are based on the 1,871,482 shares 

which were outstanding Dec. 25, 1965. 

MPO Pictures to Produce 

'Agent 36-24-36' in B.W.I. 

NEW YORK—MPO Pictures, 

headed by 

Paul Heller, who produced "David and 

Lisa," which was distributed by Continental 

Distributing, has completed plans to 

make "Agent 36-24-36," which will go before 

the cameras in Jamaica. B.W.I. , March 

14 with Troy Donahue, who recently completed 

a seven-year contract with Warner 

Bros., 

starred. 

Alan V. Iselin will be executive producer 

and Marshall Stone, TV director, has been 

signed to direct the picture, which will be 

filmed in Eastman Color entirely on location 

in the Caribbean area. Andrea Dunn, 

who has just completed "The Russians Are 

Coming, the Russians Are Coming," Mirisch 

picture for United Artists, has been cast 

as the female lead and Albert Dekker will 

be featured with Valerie Allen and Lucinee 

Bridou. Heller is producing in association 

with Futurama Productions. 

Heller is currently negotiating with 

major distributors for theatrical release of 

"Agent 36-24-36," which will be available 

in July. Worldwide television rights are 

held by ABC Films, Inc. 

Sarnoff Envisions Full 

Home Entertainment 

HOLLYWOOD — Gen. David Sarnoff, 

board chairman of Radio Corp. of America 

and recipient Sunday (6) of the Screen 

Producers Guild's annual Milestone Award, 

envisions a comprehensive communications 

system of the future to be located in the 

home and consisting of telephone, television, 

radio, still and motion pictures. 

Sarnoff spoke before a gathering of 1,000 

persons at the annual SPG dinner at the 

Beverly Hilton Hotel. 

The first David O. Selznick Award to 

the "producer of the year" went to Robert 

said that these results 

had been anticipated 

and had been 

announced at the an- 

A. Schneider nual meeting. 

Wise for his production of "The Sound of 

Schneider said that Music," and was accepted on his behalf 

a number of high cost pictures released by Julie Andrews. 

during the past year and the first two 

quarters 

Sarnoff told 

of 

the 

this year proved 

gathering the 

disappoint- 

home 

communications center would be equipped 

for stereophonic radio and recorded sound, 

with television appearing on a screen 

mounted on the wall, regulated in size, 

color and volume by pressing buttons or a 

remote control device no larger than a 

matchbox. 

He predicted telephone service providing 

both audio and visual contact, push-button 

communications that would enable the 

housewife to look at merchandise in various 

stores on her own home screen and 

make her selections, and push-button operations 

involving computers that would deduct 

the proper amount from her bank 

account. 

"Tape recorders will be linked to the 

home receiver and display screen, to store 

radio and television programs, motion pictures, 

and telephone conversations, if desired, 

for immediate or delayed playback," 

Sarnoff continued. "Tomorrow's homes will 

have libraries of great films, comparable 

to today's collections of musical recordings 

—and this will open a tremendous new 

market for Hollywood's products." 

Sarnoff said the growth of a worldwide 

audience linked in simultaneous sight 

and sound would present "fresh opportunities 

and responsibilities" to those who 

create and produce films and broadcast 

programs. "They will be able to draw more 

extensively upon many cultures and traditions," 

he said, "and they will be obliged 

increasingly to suit their creations to a vast 

public of varied nationalities, tongues and 

customs." 

However, Sarnoff concluded, this revolution 

in communications will not alter other 

aspects of contemporary life. "I do not believe," 

he said, that the coming forms of 

entertainment in the home will ever 

destroy the urge to enjoy firsthand the 

pleasures of the concert hall, the theatre, 

museum or stadium. Nothing will ever 

submerge man's gregarious instinct. 

"Should the tendency to remain glued to 

the TV chair and screen become too pronounced," 

he said, "I imagine that the 

voice of final authority in the home will be 

telling her husband, 'Let's put on our coats 

and go to the movies.' " 

To Produce 'Belladonna' 

HOLLYWOOD-^Toe Hyams and Arthur 

Ross have formed Avanti Productions, an 

independent company, which will 

produce 

"Belladonna," based on Ross' script, for 

Paramount Pictures. 

BOXOFFICE :: March 14, 1966

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2Cth-Fox Introduces 

New Style Pressbook 

NEW YORK—A new concept m pressbooks, 

replacing the old style used by all 

major companies for decades, will be used 

on all forthcoming 20th Century-Fox releases, 

starting with the current "The 

Plight of the Phoenix," Jonas Rosenfield 

Jr., vice-president and director of advertising, 

publicity and exploitation, told the 

tradepress at a conference at the City 

I 

Squire Motor Inn Friday 

"Pressbooks are tools to be used by exhibitors 

and we have started from scratch 

to devise a pressbook that will best accomplish 

this purpose," Rosenfield said, in 

explaining that surveys establish that 

pressbooks are no longer used to sell motion 

pictures to exhibitors and that most of 

today's elaborate pressbooks are actually 

holdovers serving no useful purpose. 

"The old style is cumbersome, often confusing 

and no longer fulfills the requirements 

of modern showmanship," Rosenfield 

said, in pointing out that, for years. 

pressbooks have been like the weather: 

everybody talked but nobody ever did anything 

about them. 

Rosenfield then outlined to the tradepress 

representatives the five principal 

ways hi which the 20th-Fox pressbooks 

have been modernized by showing the 

"The Plight of the Phoenix" book. 1—The 

size has been reduced to 8' 2 xl4 inches for 

greater compactness and filing and the 

pages are perforated for easy removal of 

material, which is printed on only one 

side: 2—All publicity material is printed in 

press release form and may be detached 

simply and sent out for local planting: 3 

Ads and publicity cuts are reproduced 

clearly on quality paper in order to meet 

the needs of exhibitors whose local newspapers 

utilize the offset process: 4—For 

fast reference, the material has been 

separated into clearly-labeled publicity, exploitation 

and advertising sections: 5—The 

flexibility of the new format permits pressbooks 

to be printed in as many pages as 

are warranted by available material on a 

particular picture. Conventional pressbooks 

must be "padded" so that an equal 

number of pages will result. 

New Terrytoon Releases 

Scheduled Through June 

NEW ROCHELLE. NY. 

— Terrytoons. 

Inc.. division of CBS Films. Inc.. continues 

its release of one cartoon per D 

through 20th Century-Fox. marking wide 

public and exhibitor acceptance of its newest 

cartoon characters. 

With the Cinderella-type Sadcat join- 

Terry 

toons releases also include subjects featuring 

the Astronut. James Hound, the old 

standbys Heckle & Jeckle, the M 

Moochers and Possible Possum. 

Newest releases listed by Terrytoons include 

"Gems From Gemini." released in 

January, and "Haunted House Cleaning.' 

coming up in May. both featuring the 

Astronut: James Hound in "Dr. Ha Ha." 

February release: Heckle & Jeckle m 

Movie Makers," Match; the 

Martian Moochers in "Champion Chump," 

April, and Sadcat in "Scuba Duba Do." 

June. 

Columbia '66 Drive Named 

'Salute to Rube 

MPAA in 1965 Sees 

Jackter' 

NEW YORK — Columbia Pictures has 

143,477 Ad Uniis 

NEW YORK—During the past year, the 

Advertising Code Administration of the 

Motion Picture Ass'n of America—Michael 

Linden, director—reviewed an overall total 

ited its 1966 drive, which stalled 

Friday ill) and will 

run through June 23, 

as a "Salute to Rube 

Jackter," the vicepresident 

and general 

administrative executive, 

according to Mo 

Rothman. vice-president 

in charge of 

world 

distribution. 

The designation is "a 

tribute to a man who 

has been one of the 

Rube Jackter 

industry's leading 

sales executives and 

one of the real spark plugs of the Columbia 

organization for the past forty years." 

The weeks ending June 2 and June 9 

will be designated as "Columbia on Every 

Screen" weeks, with the branches reporting 

the highest percentage of theatres 

playing Columbia releases earning specialdividend 

points for the week. All Columbia 

personnel at each branch will be eligible 

for special "Man of the Week" awards, 

through recommendations submitted to the 

drive captain who will select a winner each 

week. The special awards will be granted 

to those who have contributed a particularly 

imaginative or effective idea to 

advance their own special function. 

whether it be in bookings, collections, promotion 

or any other phase of branch 

op< rations. 

In addition to Columbia's four regional 

divisions in the U.S. and the Canadian 

division, branches which have been operating 

independently will be united as a sixth 

division for the purpose of the drive. 

Rothman said. 

Magna to Handle Release 

Of 8 Goldman Films 

HOLLYWOOD—Magna Pictures 

Distribution 

Corp., will handle the release of 

eight new features for Harold Goldman 

Associates. The films will be sold as four 

dual bills in the months of April, May, July 

and September, five in color. 

Goldman, who made the deal with Marshall 

Naify. Magna president, formed his 

own company six months ago. Special 

m rchandlsing campaigns will be set. and 

Magna sales vice-president Joseph C. 

Emerson believes that the company may 

have to add more exchanges to its present 

eight. 

The new releases are as follows: For 

April, the science-fiction combination. 

lation Inner Space," with Scott 

Brady. Gary Men-ill. Sheree North. John 

Howard, and "Frozen Alive," with Mark 

Stevens. The May duo is "Cyborg 2087." 

Michael Rennie, Wendell Corey. Eduard 

Franz, Karen Steele. Warren Stevens, and 

Man With Two Faces." Tab Hunter and 

Zina Walker. 

The summer combination is "Ride the 

,nd." Darren McGavin, and "Flight 

to Fury." with Dewey Martin and Fay- 

Spain. The September pair is "Outlaws of 

Red River," George Montgomery, and 

"Sunscorched." Mark Stevens and Marianne 

Koch. "Alive." "Faces" and "Fury" 

are not in color. 

of 143.477 units of advertising, publicity 

and exploitation in 1965, a substantial increase 

over the 1964 grand total of 107,809. 

The bulk of the material submitted for review 

is still photographs. These totaled 

131,276 and the Advertising Code found it 

necessary to reject, or cause to be revised 

—843 stills. 

In the all-important category of advertisements, 

posters and accessories, a 

total of 5.435 items were reviewed. Corrections 

and rejections in this category 

totaled 422 or approximately 8 per cent of 

the submittals. 

Ralph Hetzel, acting president of the 

MPAA. following review of the 1965 annual 

report of the Advertising Code Administration, 

stated: "The member companies 

of thus Association once again have 

indicated their sense of responsibility to 

the public and to the industry by 

voluntarily submitting for review and revisions, 

if necessary, all of their advertising, 

promotion and publicity for all films 

bearing the Production Code seal. 

"Of course, not all advertising that appears 

in the motion picture pages of our 

newspapers enjoys the services of our Advertising 

Code Administration. However, 

a constant effort is being made to inform 

advertising departments of the leading 

newspapers in the country of the dedicated 

and conscientious work that the industry 

has carried on for the past 35 years to 

maintain and improve the standards of its 

advertising." 

Concluding his report, Linden commented 

that the year 1965 showed an increased 

use of television, radio, advertising 

heralds and production background featurettes. 

In connection with the general support 

of the member companies' advertising departments. 

Linden expressed his appreciation. 

NGC Gets OK to Acguire 

5 Theatres, ABC One 

NEW YORK—The petition by National 

General Corp. for permission to acquire 

five additional theatres was ruled on Friday 

(4) by Federal Judge Edmund L. 

Palmieri, who also ruled on a similar petition 

for one theatre by American Broadcasting 

Companies. 

Judge Palmieri granted the National 

General Corp. request to build a 1,000- 

seat theatre in Kettering, Ohio, and a twin 

theatre complex, seating 1,700. at the 

Frandor Shopping Center in Lansing. Mich. 

The court accepted an agri 

reached by the circuit and the government 

calling for certain restrictions in approving 

the requests to purchase the State Drivein 

in Missoula, Mont., from Mountain- 

View Theatres, and to build a 1,000-seat 

theatre in the Mission Valley Shopping 

Center at San Diego, Calif. Decision on 

the request to build a 900-seat house in 

Tucson. Ariz., was reserved. 

Palmieri granted the ABC request to acquire 

a 700-seat theatre at the Shoppers 

Shopping Center in Maplewood, Minn. 

March 14. 1966 11

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IN GENERAL RELEASE THIS SUMMER 

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— 

20lh-Fox Introduces 

New Style Pressbook 

NEW YORK—A new concepl In pressbooks, 

replacing the old style used by all 

major companies for decades, will be used 

on all forthcoming 20th Century-Fox releases, 

starting with the current "The 

Flight of the Phoenix." Jonas Roscnfieki 

jr., vice-president and director of advertising. 

publicity and exploitation, told the 

tradepress at a conference at thi 

Squire Motor Inn Friday (4) 

"Pressbooks are tools to be used by exhibitors 

and we have started from scratch 

to devise a pressbook that will best accomplish 

this purpose," Rosenfield said, in 

explaining that surveys establish that 

pressbooks are no longer used to sell motion 

pictures to exhibitors and that most of 

today's elaborate pressbooks are actually 

holdovers serving no useful purpose. 

"The old style is cumbersome, often confusing 

and no longer fulfills the requirements 

of modem showmanship." Rosenfield 

said, in pointing out that, for years, 

pressbooks have been like the weather; 

everybody talked but nobody ever did anything 

about them. 

Rosenfield then outlined to the tradepress 

representatives the five principal 

ways in which the 20th-Fox pressbooks 

have been modernized by showing the 

"The Flight of the Phoenix" book. 1—The 

size has been reduced to 8'ixl4 inches for 

greater compactness and filing and the 

pages are perforated for easy removal of 

material, which is printed on only one 

side: 2—All publicity material is printed in 

press release form and may be detached 

simply and sent out for local planting; 3 

Ads and publicity cuts are reproduced 

clearly on quality paper in order to meet 

the needs of exhibitors whose local newspapers 

utilize the offset process; 4—For 

fast reference, the material lias been 

separated into clearly-labeled publicity, exploitation 

and advertising sections; 5—The 

flexibility of the new format permits pressbooks 

to be printed in as many pages as 

are warranted by available material on a 

particular picture Conventional pressbooks 

must be "padded" so that an equal 

number of pages will result. 

New Terrytoon Releases 

Scheduled Through June 

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. 

— Terrytoons. 

Inc.. division of CBS Films. Inc.. continues 

its release of one cartoon per month 

through 20th Century-Fox. marking wide 

public and exhibitor acceptance of its newest 

cartoon characters. 

With the Cinderella-type Sadcat join- 

I 

ing the list of characters this year. Terrytoons 

releases also include subject 

turing the Astronut. James Hound. 

standbys Heckle & Jeckle, the Martian 

Mooehers and Possible Possum. 

Newest releases listed by Terrytoons include 

"Gems From Gemini." released in 

January, and "Haunted House Cleaning." 

coming up in May. both featuring the 

Astronut: James Hound in "Dr. Ha Ha." 

February release: Heckle & Jeckle in 

M id Up Movie Milkers." March: the 

Martian Mooehers in "Champion Chump." 

April, and Sadcat in "Scuba Duba Do." 

June. 

Columbia '66 Drive Named 

'Salute to Rube Jackter' 

NEW YORK — Columbia Pictures 

has 

ited its 1966 drive, which started 

Friday (11) and will 

run through June 23. 

as a "Salute to Rube 

Jackter." the vicepresident 

and general 

administrative executive, 

according to Mo 

Rothman. vice-president 

in charge of 

world distribution. 

The designation is "a 

tribute to a man who 

has been one of the 

Rube Jackter 

industry's leading 

sales executives and 

one of the real spark plugs of the Columbia 

organization for the past forty years." 

The weeks ending June 2 and June 9 

will be designated as "Columbia on Every 

Screen" weeks, with the branches reporting 

the highest percentage of theatres 

playing Columbia releases earning specialdividend 

points for the week. All Columbia 

personnel at each branch will be eligible 

for special "Man of the Week" awards, 

through recommendations submitted to the 

drive captain who will select a winner each 

week. The special awards will be granted 

to those who have contributed a particularly 

imaginative or effective idea to 

advance their own special function, 

whether it be in bookings, collections, promotion 

or any other phase of branch 

operations. 

In addition to Columbia's four- regional 

divisions in the U.S. and the Canadian 

division, branches which have been operatdependently 

will be united as a sixth 

division for the purpose of the drive. 

Rothman said. 

Magna to Handle Release 

Of 8 Goldman Films 

HOLLYWOOD—Magna Pictures 

Distribution 

Corp.. will handle the release of 

eight new features for Harold Goldman 

Associates. The films will be sold as four 

dual bills in the months of April, May, July 

and September, five in color. 

Goldman, who made the deal with Marshall 

Naify. Magna president, formed his 

own company six months ago. Special 

merchandising campaigns will be set, and 

sales vice-president Joseph C. 

Emerson believes that the company may 

have to add more exchanges to its present 

eight. 

The new releases are as follows: For 

April, the science-fiction combination, 

"Destination Inner Space," with Scott 

Brady. Gary Merrill, Sheree North. John 

Howard, and "Frozen Alive." with Mark 

Stevens. The May duo is "Cyborg 2087." 

el Rennie, Wendell Corey, Eduard 

Steele. Warren Stevens, and 

"Man With Two Faces." Tab Hunter and 

Zina Walker. 

The siunmer combination is "Ride the 

Vmd." Darren McGavin, and "Flight 

to Fury." with Dewey Martin and Fay 

Spain. The September pair is "Outlaws of 

Red River." George Montgomery, and 

"Sunscorched." Mark Stevens and Marianne 

Koch. "Alive." "Faces" and "Fury" 

are not in color. 

MPAA in 1965 Sees 

143,477 Ad Units 

NEW YORK—During the past year, the 

Advertising Code Administration of the 

Motion Picture Ass'n of America—Michael 

Linden, director—reviewed an overall total 

of 143,477 units of advertising, publicity 

and exploitation in 1965, a substantial increase 

over the 1964 grand total of 107,809. 

The bulk of the material submitted for review 

is still photographs. These totaled 

131,276 and the Advertising Code found it 

necessary to reject, or cause to be revised 

—843 stills. 

In the all-important category of advertisements, 

posters and accessories, a 

total of 5.435 items were reviewed. Corrections 

and rejections in this category 

totaled 422 or approximately 8 per cent of 

the submittals. 

Ralph Hetzel, acting president of the 

MPAA. following review of the 1965 annual 

report of the Advertising Code Administration, 

stated: "The member companies 

of this Association once again have 

indicated their sense of responsibility to 

the public and to the industry by 

voluntarily submitting for review and revisions, 

if necessary, all of their advertising, 

promotion and publicity for all films 

bearing the Production Code seal. 

"Of course, not all advertising that appears 

in the motion picture pages of our 

newspapers enjoys the services of our Advertising 

Code Administration. However, 

a constant effort is being made to inform 

advertising departments of the leading 

newspapers in the country of the dedicated 

and conscientious work that the industry 

has carried on for the past 35 years to 

maintain and improve the standards of its 

advertising." 

Concluding his report, Linden commented 

that the year 1965 showed an increased 

use of television, radio, advertising 

heralds and production background featurettes. 

In connection with the general support 

of the member companies' advertising departments. 

Linden expressed his appreciation. 

NGC Gets OK to Acquire 

5 Theatres, ABC One 

NEW YORK—The petition by National 

General Corp. for permission to acquire 

five additional theatres was ruled on Friday 

by Federal Judge Edmund L. 

Palmieri. who also ruled on a similar petition 

for one theatre by American Broadcasting 

Companies. 

Judge Palmieri granted the National 

General Corp. request to build a 1,000- 

seat theatre in Kettering, Ohio, and a twin 

complex, seating 1,700. at the 

Frandor Shopping Center in Lansing. Mich. 

The court accepted an agreement 

reached by the circuit and the government 

calling for certain restrictions in approving 

the requests to purchase the State Drivein 

in Missoula. Mont., from Mountain- 

View Theatres, and to build a 1,000-seat 

theatre in the Mission Valley Shopping 

Center at San Diego. Calif. Decision on 

the request to build a 900-seat house in 

Tucson. Ariz., was reserved. 

Palmieri granted the ABC request to acquire 

a 700-seat theatre at the Shoppers 

Shopping Center in Maplewood, Minn. 

BOXOFFICE :: March 14. 1966 11

i 

NATIONWIDE 

POPULAR RELEASE 

THIS SUMMER, EVERYWHERE 

FOR EVERYONE! 

THE NATIONWIDE POPULAR RELEASE of Walt Disney's MARY POPPINS 

will be supported by an unsurpassed campaign sparkling with fresh new appeal, 

\ 

to tell everyone, everywhere, in the most exciting and powerful way possible, that 

the world's most acclaimed motion picture is coming this summer.

JULIE ANDREWS DICK VAN DYKE 

DAVID TOMLINSON GLYNIS JOHNS 

• 

DDTRICE • GARBER • LANCHESTER TREACHER • OWEN EdWYNN TECHNIl 

Screenplay by 

DON 

robertSTEVENSDN rwmm Co producer 

Based on the Mary Poppms books 

-PLTRAVERS BILL 1 

IRWIN 

Music and Lyrics by Music Supervised & Conducted by 

RTBonmiv 

n Co., Inc. • C'964 

EVERYONE WANTS 

Walt Disney Production! 

TO 

SEE ITAGAIN AND AGAIN!

OWMAN'S 

! 

3 > against 

— 

A ! 

REPORT 

Ferguson 

Urges Exhibitors: 

Distribution Advertising Men Unveil 

Promotion Plans on 4 Productions 

By M. B. SMITH 

Director of Advertising, 

Commonwealth Theatres 

DENVER—The very heart of Show-A- 

Rama IX, held in the Hilton Hotel, February 

28 through March 3, was its showmanship 

and the examination of specific advertising 

methods. This year, the show invited 

four advertising men, elected by the 

advertising departments, from the major 

film companies, balancing the fact that 

four exhibitor showmen were also speaking 

on advertising for specific motion pictures 

Archie Herzoff, of Universal studios, was 

invited to speak on the plans for "And Now 

Miguel," a picture which Universal has 

high hopes for in the family trade. Little 

had been heard about the film up until 

convention time. Pat Cardi and Michael 

Ansara star in it. The film was produced 

by Robert Radnitz who gave exhibitors the 

famed "Island of the Blue Dolphins." by 

the same author, Joseph Krumgold. Its 

plot concerns a Mexican family raising 

sheep on a farm near Taos, N. M. The 

crux of the story deals with a boy growing 

into manhood. It is in Technicolor. 

Herzoff announced that "Miguel" will 

have its world premiere in Albuquerque. N. 

M., on June 2, which will spearhead a 

heavy saturation playoff in that territory 

during the following 30 days. National advertising 

will be geared to family magazines 

and such groups as the Parent 

Teachers Ass'n, the National Library Ass'n 

and children's organizations. Exhibitor reaction 

to the materials and advertising 

angles were excellent, and many in the 

audience felt the film should be given advance 

screenings and special benefit openings 

on the local scene. 

1 

BORN FREE (Columbia) 

Robert S. Ferguson, vice-president in 

charge of advertising, publicity and exploitation 

for Columbia Pictures, went before 

the convention and exposed the general 

approach to "Bom Free." Before unveiling 

plans for the film, he gave conventioneers 

an interesting analysis of the 

differences in showmanship in this country 

and overseas. 

Carl Foreman produced the film, in color, 

from a book which gained considerable 

readership in America. It tells the story 

of three little cub lions as raised by a husband 

and wife who are hunters. Virginia 

McKenna and Bill Travers play the leads, 

and the film was shot in Kenya, with many 

attendant problems. Here, again, the basic 

advertising approach will be aimed at old 

and young alike—the family trade. Exhibitors 

were highly impressed with the 

problems in filming such a picture, and 

many advertising men present felt that 

color TV clips, good circus-style ads, and 

special advance screenings would be beneficial 

keys in selling the film. 

Ferguson said "Bom Free" will get special 

handling in five key cities at Easter 

time, and then it would go into general release 

around June 1. The film scenes exposed 

to the conventioneers were very 

impressive. 

•PROMISE HER ANYTHING' (Para) 

Mort Hock, advertising manager for 

Paramount Pictures, presented the basic 

advertising approach for Paramount's 

"Promise Her Anything," a very sassy, 

spicy comedy in Technicolor, with Warren 

Beatty arid Leslie Caron in the leading 

roles. Keenan Wynn, Hermione Gingold, 

Bob (ûrunings and Lionel Stander also 

have major parts. He exposed the teaser 

trailer, the regular trailer and the TV clips 

to the audience, along with basic art and 

ad copy for the newspaper campaign. The 

basic campaign has been keyed to reach 

the young people, considerable sex motivation 

was evident in the material shown. 

Paramount is making available a very 

clever herald on the picture, and considerable 

attention is being given the music 

and paperback book promotions. Exhibitor 

reaction to the new pressbook gives Paramount 

plenty of credit for a very clever approach 

to the picture, which is now in 

release 

DUEL AT DIABLO' PLANS (UA) 

Dona'd Smolen, director of advertising 

for United Artists, presented plans on UA's 

"Duel at Diablo," a high-tension Western 

with James Garner and Sidney Poitier in 

the leading roles. Teaser trailers were 

shown and Smolen made a strong impression 

in his presentation of the film, e'iciting 

favorable reaction from exhibitors on 

the description of how his department is 

approaching the development of a trailer 

and the basic ad art. Smolen invited dozens 

of leading exhibitors and advertising men 

to the United Artists' suite in the hotel, 

where they had mounted a tremendous 

display of "the fresh art" approach to 

many UA productions. The company recorded 

over 4,000 feet of taped comments 

from exhibitors about advertising problems 

and ideas. Many exhibitors reacted 

well to the impressive scenes from "Duel at 

Diablo," and a majority of them felt that 

this western picture should do extremely 

well in the Great Plains area! 

NEW NSS LOBBY DISPLAY 

Paul Lazarus, National Screen Service, 

appeared before the convention as a part 

of the distributors' advertising session. He 

made one of the most practical speeches at 

the convention, built around the company's 

"program of progress" plans. He answered 

the three most prevalent questions that 

exhibitors are prone to ask, and he presented 

the audience with a brief picture of the 

problems that his company has to cope 

with. It was quite evident that NSS is 

giving renewed attention to "new art." 

research, and better methods for display 

work. His unveiling of a new lobby display 

idea made a hefty impression. 

Build Your Attendance 

By Utilizing Research 

DENVER—Terming American exhibitors 

"the world leaders in film promotion today," 

Robert S. Ferguson, vice-president in 

charge of advertising and publicity for Columbia 

Pictures, cautioned delegates to the 

Show-A-Rama IX convention here Thursday 

< relaxing their responsibility 

in selling motion picture product. 

"When an exhibitor fails to insure that 

each film plays in his theatre as long as 

it should," said Ferguson, "he is contributing 

to the so-called shortage of quality 

product, which exists—if it exists at all 

because other exhibitors have been equally 

irresponsible." 

Ferguson reminded exhibitors it is especially 

important today, "when the industry 

is at one of the most crucial stages in 

its history, that exhibitors assume greater 

responsibility in film merchandising. The 

situation is crucial today." he said, "because 

the achievement of a position of strength 

a :i i profit is often followed by a relaxing of 

effort that can lead to apathy and neglect." 

He termed exhibition's success in the last 

decade only "limited success," and added 

that it "must be strengthened and protected 

from new threatening influences. 

"Today." Ferguson continued, "more than 

at any other time in our history people are 

constantly seeking new and different excitements. 

The most difficult aspect of this 

trend is that each new excitement has an 

extremely short duration, and the search 

goes on at an accelerated pace. And, too. 

the industry is facing more competition 

from other forms of leisure activity. 

INCREASE CREATIVE EFFORTS 

Ferguson told exhibitors that they must 

increase their creative efforts to maintain 

and expand their market, and must assume 

their share of the responsibility in merchandising 

film product. "After all," he 

said, "it is he (the exhibitor) who is closest 

to the buying public. It is he who is in a 

position to see whether his portion of the 

market is just catching on to the latest 

trend or whether it is striking out in a new 

direction. It is he who knows from direct 

experience who does or does not line up at 

his boxoffice." 

Pointmg out that Columbia has one of 

the most advanced testing and research 

programs in the industry for evaluating 

national and regional trends, Ferguson 

said, however, that it is up to the exhibitor 

to evaluate audience reaction and preference 

at individual theatres. 

"If exhibition is to keep pace," he said, 

"it must look for the answers to some of 

its problems in more extensive research. 

Tire day of running ads 'by the seat of the 

pants' is no longer showman-wise. 

"It is up to the exhibitor to perform his 

own research as a means of getting to 

know the potential filmgoers in his market 

area and what is required to bring them to 

the theatre," Ferguson continued. He listed 

several ways of accomplishing this: verbal 

sampling of patrons, questionnaire cards, 

telephone surveys and direct mailings, and 

added: "The point is that it can be done 

as simply or as elaborately as the exhibitor's 

budget will allow." 

14 BOXOFFICE :: March 14,

PICTORIAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 

SHOW-A-RAMA IX 

CONVENTION IN DENVER 

! 

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jpped, weaponless, 

alone and only ten 

desperate seconds 

ahead of the 

killers! 

• 

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PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY 

VAN DER BERG CORNEL WILDE • CLINT JOHNSTON • and DON PETERSM

- 

Gene 

Cornel Wilde has 

begun an in-depth, 

nationwide, publicityg 

P. A. tour 

or breaks via 

Wilde appearances 

on network and 

local TV shows, 

with unusual and 

dazzling visual 

inating 

ack album of 

native music on 

Folkway Records 

tie-ups with leading 

Ear-stopping lobby 

recording with native 

music and special 

attention-riveting 

sound effects 

critics around the 

country: four-color 

illustrations of 

picture's landscapes, 

suitable for framing, 

mailed to them 

in advance of all 

openings 

SHOW-A-RAMA SIDELIGHTS 

-By JESSE SHLYEN. 

ELMER C. RHODEN, chairman of the 

board of Commonwealth Theatres in 

Kansas City, in his role as master of ceremonies 

Bit the Wednesday evening banquet, 

pointed to an upward trend in the film 

industry. He said that, as an oldtimer in 

this business, he has seen a revival during 

three depressions and. "once again, the 

motion picture exhibitors are pulling themselves 

up by their bootstraps," after a trying 

period. While honoring Miss America 

(Debra Bryant of Kansas City, Kas.) with 

a Show-A-Rama plaque, he also presented 

tier with a Commonwealth Theatre pass 

good for admission to the circuit's houses 

in Lawrence, Kas., where she is a student 

at the University of Kansas Medical School, 

majoring in pediatrics. 

Larry Starsmore, executive co-chairman 

of Shoiv-A-Rama, received the "Exhibitor 

of the Year" Award, sponsored by Lorraine 

Carbons, at the Thursday (3/ luncheon. 

Marvin Goldfarb and Douglas Lightner 

were honored with Show-A-Rama 

plaques of appreciation for their hard work 

t'ti the convention as presidents of the two 

sponsoring exhibitor organizations. Rocky 

Mountain Motion Picture Ass'n and the 

United Theatre Owners of the Heart of 

America, respectively. 

Giving hours of their time at the information 

and registration desk were Mrs. 

Robert Tankersley, Mrs. Marvin Goldfarb, 

Doris Herman and Linda Turner of MGM's 

Denver office; Mrs. John Telia, wife of the 

Pox Intel-mountain city manager, Denver; 

Sue Tudor, secretary to Marvin Goldfarb, 

Buena Vista, and Mrs. Dick Conley. wife 

of the Fox Midwest Theatres district manager 

in Kansas City. Also orchids should 

go to Mary Gray Bayes for her arduous 

labor at the press table. She is the wife 

of Pete Bayes, United Artists area exploited-, 

and heads the Bayes and Associates 

Advertising Agency. 

Denver 

statue 12 feet high, made of sheet copper, 

weighing 492 pounds, also was of interest. 

The statue was a landmark in 1892 atop 

Denver's Mining Exchange Building. 

The equipment exhibition and concession 

display was one of the best in a long time 

with a total of 48 exhibits. There was 

plenty to see in the latest equipment and 

to sample in sizzling hot dogs, delicious 

pizzas and refresiling drinks. 

Lou Holtz, veteran comedian, brought 

back memories and proved that he is still 

a top entertainer at the Wednesday night 

banquet despite his age of 73. Following 

his lively act of dialect story-telling, singing 

and dancing, Pat Collins, a noted 

hypnotist, demonstrated her ability to put 

people to sleep and have them respond to 

her suggestions. Among those on the stage 

were Bob Corbit of Paramount Gulf Theatres, 

New Orleans, and Mrs. Bev Miller of 

Miller Theatres, Kansas City, who showed 

that they have natural acting ability with 

versatile facial expressions and gestures. 

Richard "Cactus" Pryor, who officiated as 

master of ceremonies at luncheons and 

banquets, kept the audience in stitches 

with his sparkling wit. He had the crowd 

howling at Tuesday night's dinner with his 

act as an exhibitor from Copenhagen, Denmark. 

His dialect fooled most everybody. 

Theatremcn of Davenport, Ia„ united 

to pay the expenses of Shirley Davis of 

the Davenport Times to Show-A-Rama as 

a gesture of public relations. 

Mark Betson, inventor of Minicast, which 

eliminates speakers at drive-ins by using 

the car radio, transported several carloads 

of exhibitors to Wolfberg's East 70 Drivein, 

Aurora, Colo., for demonstrations. Another 

tour was a visit to the newly opened 

Continental Theatre in the southeast section 

of the city and the new Villa Italia 

Cinema Theatre. 

; 

Martin Rackin, producer of "Stagecoach." 

20th Century-Fox, after being presented 

Duke Dunbar, attorney general of Colo- 

with the "Producer of the Year- rado, who extended a welcome at Tuesday's 

Award Tuesday night, appealed to the industry 

luncheon, was executive secretary of the 

to help worthy students go through Film Board of Trade for the Denver area 

college. 

in the '20s and Denver correspondent for 

Boxoffice during those early days. 

Larry Wilson, lecturer on human relations, 

delivered a lively dramatic speech as was good to see Irv Dubinsky and his 

It 

the final speaker at Thursday afternoon's young son Sarge from Lincoln and Sid 

session. In his talk. "On Target With People," 

Metcalf from Nebraska City. Neb. Jesse 

he emphasized that "we create our Pratt. Kansas exhibitor, also was around 

own limitations." The only way to get From Calgary was Paul Hanner of Odeon 

ahead, he said, is to "believe in ourselves." Theatres, who is a regular contributor to 

Understanding the business that we're In Boxoffice's Showmandiser section. Jack 

Braunagel, Jaybee Theatres. Hot Springs. 

will give us enthusiasm to sell it to others, 

lie pointed out. 

Ark Boggs, Helena. Ark.; Basil 

Fogelson, Marceline, Mo; Don Burnett. 

Al McClure, Wichita exhibitor, caught Lamed, Kas.. Paul Ricketts. Ness City. 

the bridal bouquet at the Helen Rose Kas.; Glen Cooper, Dodge City, Kas. and 

Fashion Show Tuesday afternoon for the Elvin Lambert. Smith Center. Kas.. in our 

promotion of MGM's "Made in Paris." midst frequently. Lambert won a goldplated 

Winchester rifle. 

Attracting attention on the registration 

floor was a replica of a stagecoach with a George Willhoite, Comi7W7iwealth's Uptown 

man and woman dummy in old Western 

Theatre. Columbia, Mo., played a re- 

garb to promote "Stagecoach." the 20th turn engagement as organist for Show- 

Century-Fox film. An "Old Prospector" A-Rama. 

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QNE OF THE TRULY big entries into 

feature production on the horizon and 

possibly in the immediate future is Selmur 

Productions, a subsidiary of American 

Broadcasting Co. (Par-amount Theatres 

now joined with the giant communications 

firm of ITT. News that Leonard Goldenssn, 

president of ABC, and Carlo Ponti 

are discussing productions with the idea of 

a joint production deal comes from New 

York. Selmur has not been very lucky with 

its television pilots. 

Selig Seligman, head of Selmur, is a 

graduate of Harvard Law School, summa 

cimi laude. Following this he was one of 

the prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials 

in Germany after the war. Later he followed 

this before going into the Selmur operation 

as program chief of ABC's Hollywood 

operation. 

With the resources now available to the 

company of the ABC-ITT combination, especially 

the far-flung international empire 

in communications of ITT, Hollywood 

looks for a widespread expansion of Selmur. 

The Ponti deal is the first step. 

Howard W. Koch, Paramount vicepresident 

and studio and production head, 

announced that a major production deal 

has been concluded between Paramount 

Pictures and Henry Hathaway for the filming 

of four important motion pictures to 

be produced and directed by Hathaway for 

Paramount. The first film under the new 

pact will be "The Last Safari," based upon 

Gerald Hanley's high adventure novel, 

"Gilligan's Last Elephant," with John Gay 

assigned to prepare the screenplay. Wal- 

BySYDCASSYD 

Wendell Mayes has been signed by 

Carthay Center Productions, Inc., producing 

and packaging arm of National General 

Corp., to produce as well as write the 

screenplay for Carthay's forthcoming production 

of "The Stalking Moon," based 

on a novel by Theodore E. Olsen, which 

will be published shortly by Doubleday 

and Co. Hayes will start on "Stalking 

Moon" following completion of his work 

at Warner Bros, where he is writing the 

screenplay and will produce "Hotel" for 

director Richard Quine, Rod Taylor 

starrer . . . Kevin McClory, producer of 

"ihunderball," is currently in Hollywood 

for conferences with United Artists executives 

regarding future production plans 

for his Branwell Films Co. McClory shortly 

will begin preproduction activities on 

"The World Below," underseas adventure 

film to be shot in the Bahamas. "Thunder- 

according to the latest UA estimates, 

ball,'' 

will gross in excess of $20,000,000 before 

the end of this month . Jones, 

director and co-producer of the cartoon 

Academy Award nominee, "The Dot and 

the Line," is currently on location work 

on "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," 

the latest project of his MGM Animation- 

Visual Arts Department. Jones and production 

designer, Maurice Noble, journeyed to 

La Jolla for a story conference with Ted 

Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, author 

of the Grinch tale . . . Thirty years ago 

Gary Cooper starred in "Lives of a Bengal 

Lancer," which was a big Paramount hit. 

Universal has announced that the company 

will re-make the film as one of its major 

productions on Edmund Grainger's slate. 

James Kennaway, British novelist and 

screenwriter, has been signed to write a 

new treatment of the Francis Yates Brown 

classic. Grainger also is preparing "Khy- 

lace E. Hunt sr., and Frank Beetson jr.. 

ber Pass." original and screenplay by 

will be associated with Hathaway in his 

Robert Hardy Andrews . Sam 

new deal with Paramount . . . George Katzman will start three MGM pictures 

Axelrod will produce and direct "Sequined 

over a period of 12 weeks, beginning 

Eyebrows, Neon Lips," from his original March 21. The fust is "52 Miles to Terror;" 

screenplay, starting this summer for "The Hank Williams Story." and "Fastest 

United Artists release. Axelrod is now Guitar Alive." 

writing the script, which he describes as 

"a 1967 'Alice in Wonderland,' except 

that 'Alice' is a man instead of a looking "The Royal Performance" a co-production 

venture between Gorki Studios, Mos- 

glass, who goes through a television tube 

in today's never-never land." Axelrod 

made his film directing debut with "Lord 

cow, 

will 

and 

roll with 

Ariada 

a 26-week 

Films, Ltd. 

shooting 

of England 

schedule. 

Love a Duck," made by Charleston Enterprises, 

Landau-Unger Co. and Victor Pahlen, an 

his own producing company, and American citizen of Russian descent, each 

has 50 per cent of Ariada. The screenplay 

by William Hume and Sergei Mikhalov 

will be directed by Anthony Asquith. The 

the new film also will be produced the 

same way, under his multiple-picture 

agreement with UA . Benson and 

Richard Bluel announced they will coproduce 

"Paniolo," a feature about the 

Hawaiian cowboy and the early, rugged 

days of Hawaiian ranching on the Big 

Island during the reign of King Kamehameha 

V in the 1870s. With full cooperation 

from the state, Bluel and Benson 

report that the Hawaiian Visitors Bureau 

has agreed to reconstruct a portion of the 

town of Hilo, where some of the action 

takes place—and then it will remain as ately begins work on the construction of 

a permanent tourist attraction. Previously 13 ships—two large ships and five smaller 

announced by the pair, who have offices ones for actual sea shooting, plus four for 

at Paramount, was the feature "A Turn the studio and two for dry exteriors. The 

in One." 

pair will also begin meetings with Spanish 

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casting directors to find 50 Englishspeaking 

actors to undertake roles in the 

Bolshoi, Kirov, and Kiev ballet companies 

and the Moscow symphony orchestra are 

part of the $7.5 million production of the 

musical scheduled for a June 15 start . . . 

In Madrid, preparing the forthcoming 

Landau-Unger Co. production of "Cervantes," 

which David Karp scripted, producer 

Henry Weinstein and director Vincent 

Sherman signed Enrique Alarcon as 

art director on the film. Alarcon immedi- 

film . 

producer Andrew J. 

Fenady Associates has been signed by MGM 

. . . Prior to the 

to create, develop and produce new television 

and feature properties. Fenady has produced 

"Branded" throughout the current 

season and part of the previous year. He 

has written and produced several motion 

pictures, including the unreleased "Ride 

Beyond Vengeance," starring Chuck Connors. 

Fenady's signing marks the second 

important development deal set by MGM 

within a week. Announced earlier was the 

signing of Stirling Silliphant to an exclusive 

television contract, also for both 

new series and features 

filming of the novel, "The Liberation of 

Lord Byron Jones," top-flight motion picture 

and television writer Stirling Silliphant 

and novelist Jesse Hill Ford, and 

film producer Ronny Lubin will invade 

Broadway for the first time next autumn 

with the stage version based on the novel. 

The trio is currently in negotiations with 

Martin Ritt to direct the play. He and 

Lubin were partnered in the production 

of the Paul Newman starrer, "The Outrage." 

for MGM. 

f 

Jack Lemmon has purchased "The Job 

Hunter," novel by Allen R. Dodd jr.. for 

production under his Jalem Productions 

banner. The property, published early this 

year by McGraw-Hill, is the story of an ad 

executive who finds himself out of a job. 

Recently. Jalem announced it is preparing 

"Cool Hand Luke," by Dorm Pearce, as the 

first picture for the company that will not 

star Lemmon . Ronny Lubin 

and writer Stirling Silliphant announced 

their association as partners to film Jesse 

Hill Ford's highly acclaimed "The Liberation 

of Lord Byron Jones." Silliphant, 

who wrote the Sidney Poitier-Anne Bancroft 

starrer. "The Slender Thread," will 

write the screen adaptation of Ford's 

literary hit. Lubin, who produced such 

films as "Billy Budd" and "The Outrage," 

will hold the production reins. No distribution 

deal has been set . . . Joseph E. Levine 

is preparing a biography on the late conductor 

Arturo Toscanini, under his Embassy 

Pictures banner. The company has 

purchased the biography of Toscanini, "The 

Maestro," by Howard Taubman, written 

when Taubman was music editor for the 

New York Times. No production details 

. . . David 

have been set on the property 

Weisbart has set two scripters for films 

which will roll this year at 20th-Fox 

studio. William Fairchild, now completing 

the Gertrude Lawrence biography script 

for Robert Wise and Fox, moves over 

March 1 for "The Secret of D-Day." from 

Gilles Perrault's novel. Harlan Ellison will 

adapt "Valley of the Dolls," Jacqueline 

Susann novel due out this month . . . Playwright-scripter 

Lawrence Roman is currently 

writing the script for Universal's 

"Pitchfork Patrol." 

Producer Roland Arch set Mala Powers 

to co-star in "Mother of Pearls," which 

deals with the fleeing of Nazi Germans, 

and will be produced by Arch's independent 

company BritNan Productions, Ltd. The 

picture will be shot in Europe. Previously 

signed for the film was Patricia Barry . 

Veteran actress Margaret Rutherford was 

set by Charles Chaplin for a pivotal role 

in the Marlon Brando-Sophia Loren picture, 

"A Countess From Hong Kong." 

Chaplin, who is directing the film in London, 

based on his own original screenplay. 

also has Sidney Chaplin and Tippi Hedren 

in the cast. Jerome Epstein is producing. 

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)an Connery, Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg in a Jerome Hellman production'^ FINE MADNESS!' 

i-starring Patrick O'Neal, Colleen Dewhurst, Clive Revill, Werner Peters John Fiedles 

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Wins Feb. Blue Ribbon Award 

By VELMA WEST SYKES 

MATIONAL SCREEN COUNCIL members voted "The Heroes of Telemark," a Benton 

Film production released by Columbia, the Boxoffice Blue Ribbon Award for 

February. The film dramatizes a little-known aspect of World Wax H wherein 

resistance workers in Nazi-held Norway keep Hitler from obtaining nuclear power. 

Kirk Douglas stars as the Oslo University physicist, with Ulla Jacobsson and Michael 

Redgrave as co-stars. Produced in a Norwegian province devoted to skiing, the picture 

as directed by Anthony Mann provides some thrilling scenery and action sequences. 

Renewed in the December 6 issue of Mrs. Hy Augustine, Sheboygan Better 

Boxoffice, the reviewer said in part: "A Films Council . 

magnificent 

thrilling and dramatically and scenically scenery in the action-packed adventure 

authentic World War H picture in the drama is outstanding and the film boasts 

epic tradition of 'The Guns of Navarone,' an excellent cast.—Lois Baumoel, Cleveland 

Motion Picture Council review- 

this S. Benjamin Fisz production has all 

the ingredients of a blockbuster, including chairman. 

a name cast headed by Kirk Douglas, long "The Heroes of Telemark" is a good 

a top star, and the British Richard Hams film and Kirk Douglas is excellent in it. 

of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' fame, plus 

magnificent backgrounds of Norway's 

snowy mountains with their breathtaking 

ski descents human interest 

. 

is not neglected, with stress laid on the 

differences between Douglas, as a scientist 

anxious to avoid a holocaust, and 

Harris, who gives his finest portrayal to 

date as the rugged, dynamic Norwegian 

Resistance leader . 

Krasker's 

camerawork is superb." 

A Boxoffice Success 

The boxoffice success of "The Heroes of 

Telemark" is evidenced by its score of 

177 per cent of average business, as 

shown by first-run reports from key cities. 

Comments from NSC members about it 

as "suitable entertainment for adults as 

well as children" include these: 

"The Heroes of Telemark" is a fine, 

heroic drama . a change of pace 

these days.—Ernest O. Thompson, Ada 

(Okla.i Evening News . . . After a survey 

of films I have not seen, "The Heroes of 

Telemark" still gets my vote as family. 

... 

... David 

Dr. Rolf Pedersen 

Kirk Douglas 

Knut Straud 

Richard Harris 

Uncle 

Michael Redgrave 

Anna 

Ulla Jacobsson 

Jensen 'The Mysterious Stranger) 

Roy Dotrice 

Terborcn 

Major Frick 

Eric Porter 

Anton Diffring 

Mervyn Johns 

Colonel Wilkinson 

Professor Logan ... 

General Bolts 

Sigrid 

Nilssen 

Barry Jones 

Keen 

Jennifer Hilary 

Michael 

Weston 

Arne 

Agnes E. Rockwood, Bennington (Vt.) 

Banner . very good films on the 

ballot this month but this is the most 

outstanding that is suitable for both 

adults and children.—J. Coleman Darnel 

jr.. Spartanburg Fine Films Committee 

exciting and beautifully photographed 

adventure film which the entire 

family should enjoy.—James L. Limbacher, 

Dearborn Press. 

There is beautiful scenery and exciting 

intrigue in "The Heroes of Telemark."— 

Mrs William A. Dalton, I.F.C.A., New 

York City . is a glut of spy films 

but "The Heroes of Telemark" is at least 

based on a true adventure and has some 

great ski scenes.—Don Braunagel, Pontiac 

Press . is a good adventure film. 

—Alfred L. Peloquin, Bay City Times. 

An excellent adventure story with lots 

of action and suspense and very fastpaced 

and absorbing. The photography is 

outstanding, particularly the shots of 

the skiers. The true aspect of the story 

adds to the interest of the film.—Mrs. 

Roderic B. Thomas, Texas Motion Picture 

Board of Review, Dallas. 

The Cast 

Claus 

William Marlowe 

Oli Alan Howard 

Freddy 

John Golightly 

Gunnar Sebastian Breaks 

Henrik 

Patrick Jordan 

Einar 

Brook Williams 

Hartmuller Karel Stepanek 

Erhardt Gerard Heinz 

Stunnfuhrer George Murcell 

German Ski Sergeant .. Victor Beaumont 

K.7iippelberg 

Wolf Frees 

Mr. Sandersen 

Russell Waters 

Mrs. Sandersen 

Elvi Hale 

Doctor at Hospital Maurice Denham 

Production Staff 

Directed by 

Anthony Mann Casting 

Maude Spector 

Screenplay by 

Ivan Moffat, Location Manager Jimmy Komisarjevsky 

Ben Barzman Continuity 

Kay Mander 

Produced by S. Benjamin Fisz Sound Editor 

Ted Mason 

Music Composed and Conducted by 

Malcolm Arnold 

Sound Recordists 

Bill Daniels. 

Gordon McCallum 

Director of Photography Robert Krasker 

Special Effects .... John P. Fulton, A.S.C. 

2nd Uni Director/Cameraman 

Gil Woxholt 

in Supervisor .. George Pitcher 

Art Director 

Tony Masters 

Editor 

Bert Bates 

.... Timothy Burrill 

Camera Operators John Harris, 

Ronnie Maasz, John Burrows 

Wardrobe Supervisor Elsa Fennell 

Make-Up 

Neville Smallwood 

Hairdresser 

Maude Onslow 

Stunt Advisor 

Jerry Crampton 

Color by 

Columbiacolor 

A Benton Film Production 

SKIING TO ESCAPE THEIR GERMAN PURSUERS. RICH- 

ARD HARRIS AND KIRK DOUGLAS SPOT ENEMY PLANE 

THE FRIENDLY RABBIT ULLA JACOBSSON CUDDLES 

IS LATER BLOWN TO BITS BY A GERMAN LAND MINE 

PREPARING TIME BOMBS TO BLOW UP A FERRY CAR- 

RYING HEAVY WATER TO GERMANS FOR NUCLEAR USE 

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National the basis of outstanding 

Screen Council on 

merit and suitability for family 

entertainment. Council membership comprises 

editors, motion picture radio and TV film 

commentators, representatives better films 

of 

councils, civic, educational and exhibitor organizations.

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BAROMETER 

This chart records the performance of current attractions in the opening week of their first runs in 

the 20 key cities checked. Pictures with fewer than fire engagements are not listed. As new runs 

is are reported, ratings are added and averages revised. Computation in terms of percentage in 

relation normal grosses as determined by the theatre managers. With 100 per cent as "normal," 

to 

the figures show the gross ratings above or below that mark. (Asterisk * denotes combination bills.) 

Agony cmd the Ecstasy, The (20th-Fox)

A 

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Plan Cinema Center 

In New York City 

NEW york a $50,000,000 theatre, 

film production center and skyscraper development 

called Cinema Center is being 

planned for the site of Madison Square 

Garden, now on the west side ol Eighth 

Avenue between 49th and 50th strei ts, adjacent 

to tin Times Square area, according 

to Mitchell Pelt, chairman and head 

Ol thi Madison Square Garden Corp. 

Demolition of the current Madison 

Square Garden will nol begin until late 

in 1967 upon completion of the $116,000.- 

iioii Madison Square Garden Sports and 

Entertainmenl Center, now being erected 

on the site "i the Pennsylvania Railroad 

Station, between Seventh and Eighth avenues 

and 31st and 33rd streets. 

The new development will consist of 

twin 39-story office towers, one on the 

Eighth Avenue side of the block and the 

other on the Ninth Avenue side, with a 

connecting seven-story structure in the 

middle of the towers containing film and 

recording studios, four motion picture theatres, 

each with 750 seats, and two legitimate 

theatres, each with 1,500 seats and 

suitable for Broadway musicals. The entrances 

to the film theatres will be on the 

street level, the film and recording stuuld 

be on a plaza level below and 

the legitimate theatres will be on the upper 

level The film production and processing 

facilities would include three large studios 

with filming, taping and recording stages. 

each measuring 100x80 feet and 25 feet 

high, these could be divided into smaller 

to 

Pelt. 

The purpose of the d velopment, Felt 

explained, would be to provide "the best 

facilities" for the kind of motion pictures 

that are usually produced in New York 

and these studios would induce local motion 

picture producers to stay in New 

York. But. Cinema City would "not compete 

with Hollywood." he stressed. 

The Cinema City plan was announced 

at a time when local film interests are 

City Hall's help in the construction 

of a film production center in New 

York, a project endorsed by Mayor Lindsay. 

Although pictures like "The Group," 

directed by Sidney Lumet for Charles K. 

Peldman, have been entirely filmed In New 

York, many producers feel that the laeilire 

are inadequate and that there 

are only a half-dozen studios in Manhattan 

equipped to meet the needs of feature 

filmmakers. 

Cinema V Acquires British 

Film Directed by Karel Reisz 

NEW YORK—Cnv i' touting, 

Inc.. has acquired 'Morgan!—A Suitable 

Case for Treatment," a British-made feature 

directed by Karel H 

Vanessa Redgrave and David Warner, for 

release in the U.S. The picture will have 

its American premiere in the spring of 

1966. 

A Quintra production. "Morgan!— 

Suitable Case for Treatment" features 

Robert Stephens and Irene Handl and has 

music written by John Dankwoith. Reisz 

directed "Saturday Night and Sunday 

Morning" and "This Sporting Life." the 

latter also produced by Reisz. 

AT CONTINENTAL'S BENEFIT PREMIERE—The benefit premiere of "The 

Gospel According to St. Matthew" at the Fine Arts Theatre in New York drew 

out-of-town exhibitors who had a brief session in the lobby before the showing 

,,i I In picture. Left to right: Walter Reacle jr.. president of Walter Reade- 

Sterling; George Stern. Associated Theatres. Pittsburgh; Oscar Brotman. Brotman-Sherman 

Theatres. Chicago; Norman Weitman. general sales manager of 

Continental, the distributing division of Walter Reade-Sterling, and Jack I'ruchtniiin. 

JF Theatres. Baltimore. 

Four Reade Managers Win 

Prizes for Showmanship 

OAKHURST. N.J.—Pour managers were 

the winners of February's "Manager of the 

Month" competition among all Walter 

Reade-Sterling theatres, it was announced 

by Nick Schermerhom, vice-president for 

theatre operations. 

The winners were Frank Deane of the 

Community in Eatontown. N.J.. who won 

two prizes, one of which was for his special 

campaign on "Ship of Fools"; Ann De- 

Ragon of the Strand Theatre. Plain field. 

N.J.: E. I. Bennett of the Baronet Theatre, 

Long Branch, N.J.; and Jon Doyle, then of 

the Carlton Theatre, Red Bank. N.J.. who 

has since been promoted to city manager of 

the company's three theatres in Kingston. 

N.Y. 

The monthly contest is conducted among 

the managers of the more than 50 theatres 

in New York. New Jersey and California 

of the Reade organization, in which 

they submit reports on the promotional 

advertising, and publicity work they do on 

the pictures playing their theatres, or on 

special events they arrange for their the- 

Cash awards are made for the best 

Reade-Sterling Awards Prizes 

For Top Scrip Book Sales 

OAKHURST. N.J.—Two theatre managers 

and three concessions m 

winners in the annual drive conducted by 

the Walter Reade-Sterling theatre organization 

to sell admission scrip books during 

II,. Thankgiving-Christmas-New Year's 

period, it was disclosed by Nick Schermerhorn, 

vice-president for theatre operations, 

at the circuit's Oakhurst. N.J. executive 

offices. 

Declaring the total scrip books sales 

among the more than 50 motion picture 

theatres comprising the circuit had exceeded 

any prior holiday sales. Schermerhom 

said that two tb had 

ngled out for cash awards for the 

results they achieved. They are George 

Caron. city manager for Reade thi 

in Asbury Park. N. J., for the record 

achieved at the Mayfair Theatre; and to 

Jon Doyle, for his work at the Carlton 

Theatre. Red Bank. N.J. 

Concession stand managers, who also 

participated in the sales effort, and who 

received cash awards were: Carolyn Lamb 

of the Carlton, first prize: Maurine Mc- 

Gahan of the Community, Kingston, second: 

and Mary Ann Morson of the Town 

Theatre Middletown. N.J.. third. 

N.Y. Exhibitors Face 

$1.50 Minimum Wage 

ALBANY—The introduction of a Senate 

bill recommended by Gov. Nelson A 

Rockefeller for a two-step increa.se in the 

.state's minimum wage to $1.50 by April 1. 

1967. and the passage of a bill in the Assembly 

providing for a hike to $1.50 an 

hour- effective Oct. 15, 1966. assured exhibitors 

Tuesday that they will face 

a higher pay rate for ushers, cashiers, 

doormen and matrons. 

Amendments offered by the Republican 

minority to incorporate the governor's 

recommendations into the Democratic Assembly 

bill were defeated. Most of the Republicans 

then joined in passing the bill 

and sending it to the Senate. Republican 

majority leader in the Senate. Earl W. 

Brydges. indicated the Democratic bill 

would die in committee, while the governor's 

bill will be brought to the floor for 

action. 

Glen Alden 1965 Earnings 

Down From 1964 Figure 

NEW YORK—Glen Alden Corp.. the 

parent company of RKO Theatres, reports 

1965 operating earnings of $6,526,000. before 

deducting non-operating items of 

$3,213,000, resulting In net income of $3,- 

313.000. or 69 cents per share on 4.804,114 

shares outstanding. This compares with 

the 1964 operating income of $6,000,000. 

before income from non-operating items 

of $3,777,000. resulting in net income of 

$9,777,000. or $2.04 per share on 4,796,902 

shares. 

Sales and revenue for 1965 were $79,170,- 

000, compared with $98,621,000 in 1964, 

the annual report revealed. 

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The Oscar Smash in Two Theatres 

As Most NY Holdovers Drop Points 

NEW YORK—Except for "The Oscar," 

which had a smash opening week at Loew's 

State and at the Festival Theatre on 57th 

Street despite mild reviews, business at the 

Times Square first runs was down in the 

second week of March, partly attributed 

to the lack of any other new pictures. 

Best of the others were "Promise Her 

Anything," strong in its second week at the 

DeMille and the east side Beekman Theatre; 

"The Chase," in its third week at the 

Victoria, and "Our Man Flint," still holding 

up in its sixth week at the Forum. 

Doing just average were "Inside Daisy 

Clover," in its third week at the Radio City 

Music Hall; "The Flight of the Phoenix," 

in its fifth week at the Astor and the small 

Paris Theatre, and "Battle of the Bulge," 

in its 12th week of two-a-day at the Warner, 

all of these due to be replaced by new pictures 

long before the Easter period. However, 

the three other two-a-day pictures 

"My Fair Lady," in its 72nd w eek at the 

r 

Criterion; "The Sound of Music," in its 

53rd week at the Rivoli (up a bit from the 

preceding week) and "Doctor Zhivago," in 

its 11th week at Loew's Capitol—held up 

well, the latter again being close to capacity. 

Another two-a-day film, "Cast a Giant 

Shadow," will open at the DeMille Theatre 

March 29. 

Much better were many of the east side 

art houses, headed by the Fine Arts, where 

"The Gospel According to St. Matthew" 

had a smash third week, higher than the 

strong second week. Also big were "Lord 

Love a Duck," in its second week at 

Cinema I; "Impossible on Saturday," in 

its third fine week at Cinema II; "The 

Shop on Main Street," holding up in amazing 

fashion in its fifth week at the 34th 

Street East, and "A Thousand Clowns," 

in its 12th week at the Trans-Lux East. 

"The Merry Wives of Windsor" was mild 

in its one week at Loew's Tower East but 

was better in its two-day engagements at 

the neighborhood spots. 

Two new foreign films, "The Sleeping 

Car Murder" and "Dear John," opened 

during the week at the Coronet and Loew's 

Tower East, respectively. 

(Average Is 100) 

Astor—The Flight of the Phoenix (20th-Fox), 5th 

wk 125 

Baronet Mole Companion (IC), 3rd wk 150 

Beekman Promise Her Anything (Para), 2nd wk,..165 

Cornegie Hall Cinema To Die in Madrid (Altura), 

24th wk 120 

Cinema Lord Love a Duck (UA), 2nd wk 175 

Cinema II— Impossible on Saturday (Magna) 3rd 

_ wk 

1 60 

Cinema Rendezvous King ond Country (AIP), 6th 

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Coronet The Spy Who 

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(Para), 11th wk 

Criterion—My Fair Lady (WB), 72nd wk. of 

DeMille Promise Her Anything (Para), 2nd wk. 

Embassy Juliet of the Spirits (Rizzoli), 18th wk. 

Festival The Oscar (Embassy) 

55th Street The Lady General (Shaw), return run 

2r,_1 

-The Gospel According to St. Matthew 

(Cont'l), 3rd wk 

Forum Our Man Flint (20th-Fox), 6th wk 

Guild Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying 

(20th-Fox), 9th wk 

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-The 10th Victim (Embassy), " 

\urray Hill Those Mognificent Men in Their 

Flying Machines (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 

ans The Flight of the Phoenix 20th-Fox), 5th 

Plaza Vivo Maria (UA), 1 1 th wk 1 

Radio City Music Hall Inside Daisy Clover (WB), 

plus stage show, 3rd wk ] 

Rivoli—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 53rd wk. 

RKO 23rd Street Othello (WB), 3rd wk 

RKO 58th Street— Othello (WB), 3rd wk 

Sutton The Chase (Col), 3rd wk 

Trans-Lux East A Thousand Clowns (UA), 

34th Street East The Shop on Main Street 

(Prominent), 5th wk 

Victoria The Chase (Col), 3rd wk 

Warner— Bottle of the Bulge (WB), 12th wk. of 

World 

Sweet Skin (Times), 3rd wk 175 

Solid 195 Initial Week 

For Spy Duo in Buffalo 

BUFFALO—Spy stories continued strong 

as the combination of "The Spy With My 

Face" and "To Trap a Spy" scored a whopping 

195 in its fust week at the Center 

Theatre. "The Greatest Story Ever Told" 

turned in another solid 200 in the third 

week at the Century. Walt Disney's "The 

Ugly Dachshund" still was very good at 

the Cinema and Amherst. 

Center—The Spy With My Foce (MGM); To Trap' 

a Spy (MGM) .195 

Century The Greatest Story Ever Told (UA) 

_ 3rd wk 200 

Cinema, Amherst The Ugly Dachshund (BV); 

Winnie the Pooh (BV), 3rd wk 170 

Colvin The Spy Who Come in From the Cold 

Granada The Agony and the Ecstasy (20th- 

Fox), 1 1th wk 

Teck The Sound of Music (20th-Fox),'49t'h wk. 

"The Loved One' Grosses 170 

At Baltimore Charles 

BALTIMORE—"The Loved One," at the 

Charles Theatre, an art house, was the 

only new attraction, opening strong and 

continuing busy at the boxoffice over the 

weekend. "Judith," which had been substantial 

for two weeks, tapered off suddenly. 

"Our Man Flint" and "The Oscar" 

were doing well among the holdovers. 

Five 

Mayfair 

West 

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (AIP), 

The Agony and the Ecstasy (20th- 

New—The Sound of Music I20th-Fox) 50th wk 1 30 

Playhouse— Life at the Top (Col), 4th wk 125 

Reisterstown Plaza The Oscar (Para), 3rd wk 135 

Senator—Made in Paris (MGM), ' 

4th wk 90 

Town Our Mon Flint 20th-Fox), 5th wk. 130 

Uptown, Westview Judith (Para), 3rd wk 100 

Top Gross for N.Y. House 

NEW YORK—Magna Pictures "Impossible 

on Saturday" grossed $10,100 in the 

first four days of its second week at the 

Cinema H Theatre. This is a record for 

the 296 -seat house. 

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NGC Buys 8 Theatres 

In the New York Area 

LOS ANGELES—National General Corp. 

has purchased eight theatres of the Town 

& Country circuit in the New York area. 

Six of the houses are in Nassau County on 

Long Island and the other two are in 

Brooklyn, N.Y., and Providence, R.I. With 

the imminent opening of the Fox Plaza on 

Staten Island, Fox Eastern Theatres, a 

subsidiary of NGC, will have nine major 

theatres in operation on the East Coast. 

Additional locations are under consideration. 

Eugene V. Klein, NGC president, said, 

"This transaction is the initial step in our 

penetration of the Eastern United States 

and is part of our planned $50 million, 100- 

theatre expansion program. All of our 

nine Eastern theatres are under three 

years old and contain the most modem 

and up-to-date facilities for which our 

company is noted. This brings the number 

of theatres in operation in National General's 

circuit to 228." 

Slate East Africa Premiere 

On Foreman's 'Born Free' 

NEW YORK—East Africa will have the 

world premiere of a major picture for the 

first time in its history in Nairobi, Kenya, 

March 21 when Carl Foreman's "Born 

Free" will open with President Jomo Kenyatta 

and his cabinet of ministers on hand. 

The Nairobi premiere will benefit the 

charities of the Rotary Club and the Elsa 

Fund of Kenya, which was established by 

Joy Adamson, author of the best-selling 

book. 

Joy Adamson and her husband, George, 

will also attend the Kenya opening, as 

will Peter Lukoye and Omar Chambati, who 

play featured roles in the Columbia picture. 

Also on hand will be the cub lioness which 

portrayed Elsa in the film. 

MGM's 'Singing Nun' Set 

For Easter at Music Hall 

NEW YORK—Radio City Music Hall's 

Easter stage-and-screen show, with MGM's 

"The Singing Nun," starring Debbie Reynolds, 

heading the program, will open 

Thursday, March 17 (St. Patrick's Day), 

following a four-week run for Warner 

Bros.' "Inside Daisy Clover." 

"The Singing Nun," directed in Panavision 

and Metrocolor by Henry Koster, 

co-stars Ricardo Montalban and Agnes 

Moorehead with Greer Garson as guest 

star and Ed Sullivan playing himself. The 

stage program is headed by Leon Leonidoff's 

"The Glory of Easter" and a new 

revue, "Hello Spring," produced by Russell 

Markert. 

AA's 'Leather Boys' in 17 

NEW YORK — Allied Artists' "The 

Leather Boys," an R. Lee Piatt presentation 

directed by Sidney J. Furie with Rita 

Tushingham starred, opened in 17 theatres 

in the New York metropolitan area Wednesday 

, including the Apollo, 8th 

Street Playhouse and the Midtown theatres. 

"The Leather Boys' had its American 

premiere last fall at the Festival and 

Trans-Lux 85th Street theatres. 

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ALBANY 

R Ian V. Iselin, president of Iselin Drive- 

In Theatres and maker of four motion 

pictures, disclosed "Agent 36-24-36," 

a suspense-action drama about a Central 

Intelligence Agency operator, will go into 

production at Jamaica, West Indies, today 

(14) on a $400,000 budget. Troy Donahue 

will star and Alfred Dekker will portray 

the villain. The color film will have 

underwater sequences. 

United Artists will observe its annual 

"Playdate Drive" June 26 through July 

9. Signs at the exchange spotlight the 

campaign, during which the goal is "A 

UA picture on every screen each day." 

Salesman Dave Litto and booker Ron 

Pure will head the area push. 

"A Patch of Blue" was advertised in a 

local newspaper as beginning a run at 

Stanley Warner's Delaware on Friday ill). 

It succeeds "The Loved One" at the art 

house. 

Gene Ganott, former manager of the 

Erie, State and Plaza theatres in Schenectady, 

died. Recently, he had been in 

charge of the drug department at an Electric 

City department store, after resigning 

as house manager of the Hellman. A native 

of Schenectady. Ganott. 55. started 

in the industry as an usher and also served 

as assistant manager of the Palace here. 

. 

"The Great Race" registered the biggest 

gross of any Warner Bros, film 

screened at the Strand in three years. 

The "take" was so substantial the comedy 

could have been held over a third week. 

Top admission for "Race" and the followup 

"Inside Daisy Clover" was $1.50. Times- 

Union critic Bob Day called one of the 

"Daisy" scenes a minor masterpiece 

Strip advertising on the doors of downtown 

theatres is increasing. The Palace 

had "arresters" for "The Silencers" pasted 

outside and inside two sets of lobby 

doors. 

John Wilhelm, former 20th Century-Fox 

branch manager, has added Frank Purner's 

Bijou, North Troy, a weekend operation, 

to his buying -booking accounts. For 

the first time in several years, the theatre 

held a night trade screening of "The 

Silencers," arranged by Columbia manager 

Herb Schwartz. Among those attending 

were Adrian Ettelson, Fabian district 

manager; Irene Econome, Fabian datesetter; 

Ray Smith of Smith Booking Service, 

who is a retired WB branch manager: 

John Capano, booker for Upstate Theatres, 

Inc.; Al Cahill of Stanley Warner's 

WAST-TV, and Columbia booker Doug 

Herman. 

Closing Tuesday (8) was a record 11- 

week run of "Thunderball," at the Branche 

in Latham. "Viva Maria" followed the next 

day and is believed to mark the first 

time owner Jim Branche has booked a "B" 

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opened the house in May 1964 

Colony at Schenectady also screened 

"Maria." 

Ronnie Shard, manager last season of 

Alan Iselin's Turnpike Drive-In, has moved 

to the Auto-Vision Theatre. East Greenbush, 

which has reopened. Jack McMahon 

continues as manager of Iselin's Super 

50, Schenectady-Ballston Spa Road. Bill 

Hebert. assistant general manager for 

Iselin, supervised the reopenings. Bill Barrington, 

the circuit's general manager, 

soon is expected back from Florida, where 

he was in charge of three Iselin drive-ins 

during the winter. 

Norm Pratt, exhibitor and soundman, 

installed a p.a. system in the ballroom of 

Schine's Ten Eyck Hotel for the annual 

dinner of the State Broadcasters' Ass'n 

with Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller as speaker. 

MPA Member Firms Start 

Cardinal Spellman Film 

NEW YORK — Production on a 28- 

minute film on the life of Cardinal Francis 

Spellman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of 

New York, has begun in New York and 

the completed picture will have its premiere 

at a dinner in honor of the Cardinal's 

50th anniversary as a priest at the 

Waldorf Astoria Hotel May 14, according 

to the Motion Picture Ass'n of America. 

The film will be a gift of the motion picture 

industry as the first presentation of 

the new Catholic Educational network of 

the Archdiocese of New York and will 

serve as a permanent historical record. 

Member companies of MPAA joined in 

this venture are Twentieth Century-Fox. 

whose facilities are being used to make 

the film, and Allied Artists. Columbia, 

MGM, Paramount, United Artists, Universal 

and Warner Bros. 

The film is being directed by Richard 

Schneider, who has directed such TV specials 

as NBC's "Tribute to President Kennedy" 

and the color coverage of the White 

House on Inauguration Day, and Robert 

Crean, who received an Emmy Award for 

his work on "The Defenders." is writing 

the narrative for the film. 

Jack Wiener Named V-P 

Of Columbia International 

NEW YORK^Jack H. Wiener, publicity 

director for the Continental division of 

Columbia Pictures International, has been 

elected a vice-president of that company, 

the board of directors announced. 

Wiener has been Continental publicity 

director of Columbia International with 

headquarters in Paris since joining the 

company in September 1956. Prior to that 

he had been a member of the Metro- 

Goldwyn-Mayer advertising-publicity organization 

in the United States. 

Royal Films on IFIDA Board 

NEW YORK—The governing committee 

of Independent Film Importers & Distributors 

of America has accepted an application 

for membership from Royal Films 

International, the foreign film distributor 

of Columbia Pictures, which is currently 

releasing "Repulsion" and "Life at the 

Top," both English-language features. 

Donald F. McConville will represent Royal 

on the IFIDA board. 

Knits Afghan, Starts Raffle 

To Help Rogers Hospital 

NEW YORK—Ann Weimer, long-time 

MGM "Hello Girl" learned at first hand 

what the Will Rogers Hospital means to 

Ann Weimer shows her work. 

folks in the industry. A friend of hers 

returned from Saranac Lake with glowing 

reports of the kindly treatment, the dedication 

of the doctors and nurses, the comfort 

of a private room on the long road to 

recovery. Ann wasn't in a position to express 

her appreciation of Will Rogers with 

an endowment, but she did what she could. 

She knitted a large, woolly afghan and is 

currently embarked on her own personal 

raffle 

It took six months, after-hours and 

weekends, to complete the beautiful garment, 

truly a labor of love. Ann wanted 

this to be her own personal project. She 

not only paid for the wool, a lot of it, but 

also had raffle tickets printed at her own 

expense. The handsome afghan is on display 

on the seventh floor of MGM's home 

office at 1540 Broadway. Tire raffle tickets 

are only 25 cents each, but many a sizeable 

check has been dropped into the 

raffls repository from MGM executives 

who have been touched by Ann's devotion 

to Will Rogers and who are mighty proud 

of their "Hello Girl" with a heart. 

Bebchick to Retire at MGM; 

Parker to Succeed in Boston 

BOSTON — Benjamin Bebchick, MGM 

manager here, who entered the industry 

in 1916 at Paramount, will retire after 

39 years with MGM, according to Morris 

E. Lefko, vice-president and general sales 

manager. Bebchick, who joined MGM in 

1927, will be succeeded by Judson Parker, 

currently Boston division manager of 

Continental Distributing. 

Parker entered the industry as a shipper 

at Warner Bros, in 1937 and later 

joined United Artists, before becoming 

sales manager for Universal. 

Cy Kaplan in Embassy Post 

NEW YORK—Cy Kaplan has resigned 

as vice-president and general sales manager 

of Independent Television Corp. to 

become vice-president for television sales 

for Bknbassy Pictures, according to Joseph 

E. Levine, president. Previously. Kaplan 

served for five years as director of national 

sales for NTA and midwest sales manager 

for ZIV for three years before his sevenyear 

stay with ITC. 

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Norman Robbins Elected 

Head of N.Y. Cinema Lodge 

NEW YORK — Norman Robbins, vicepresident 

and general manager of National 

Screen Serv- 

has been 

Iloe, 

elected 

/ "V president of N e w 

\ York's Cinema Lodge 

of B'nai B'rith. to 

succeed Howard Minsky. 

executive vicepresident 

of Cinerama. 

Inc., who now 

tions and publicity, and Mel Maron for 

membership and membership retention. 

Michael G. Shapiro was elected secretary, 

Howard Schulman as treasurer and 

Rabbi Ralph Silverstein as chaplain. Trustees 

are Alex M. Arnswalder, Julius Collins. 

Donald S. Preeberg, Jack H. Hoffberg. 

Marvin Kirsch. Joseph Maharam: 

Eugene Margoluis. David V. Picker, Sol 

Rissner. Samuel Rosen. Herman Schleier. 

Stanley Schneider, Hon. Arthur H. 

Schwartz, Cy Seymour and Louis Wolff. 

Delegates to the District Grand Lodge 

Convention of B'nai B'rith are: Norman 

Robbins. Leonard Rubin, Jack Levin, Jack 

Hoffberg and Carl Levine with Milt Livingston, 

Abe Glick, Joseph Maharam, Michael 

G. Shapiro and Ted Lazarus as alternates. 

Delegates to the Metropolitan 

Council of B'nai B'rith are Norman Robbins, 

Leonard Rubin. Carl Levine and Jack 

Levin with Jack Hoffberg, Milt Livingston. 

Mel Maron and Abe Glick as alternates. 

Leonard Rubin was chairman of the 

nominating committee this year, the other 

members being Abe Dickstein, Irving 

Greenfield. Martin Levine. Joseph B. Rosen 

and A. W. Schwalberg. 

Installation of officers for 1966-67 will 

take place at the Presidents' Luncheon, 

to be held at the Hotel Astor March 24 

with Robbins to be welcomed as new president 

and Minsky honored as outgoing 

presidi nl 

Franco Cristaldi to Head 

Italian Producers Ass'n 

ROME—Franco Cristaldi, president of 

Vides Films, was unanimously elected 

president of the Italian Motion Picture 

Producers Ass'n March 4 and was installed 

In office for two years. He succeeds 

Goffredo Lombardo of Titanus Films. 

Carlo Pontl and Dino De Laurentiis were 

also elected to the management committee. 

Cristaldi most recently produced "A Rose 

for Everyone," starring Claudia Cardlnale. 

which Columbia Pictures will distribute in 

the U.S. later in 1966. 

"Darling.'' an Embassy Pictures release, 

received five Academy Awards nominations 

BROADWAY 

JJARRY GOLDSTEIN, Allied Artists exploitation 

manager who has retired 

after 52 years of film industry service, the 

last 21 of them with AA, was honored by 

Nat Nathanson, AA vice-president and 

gi ui al sales manager, and 30 other fellow 

i 

employes at a luncheon at Sardi's March 

3. Harry's three brothers, Morey "Razz" 

ing "The Grand Prix," arrived for meetings 

with MGM home office executives on the 

forthcoming Cinerama picture and Andrew 

Kuehn, a member of MGM advertising department, 

got back from London Monday 

(7) after conferences on Stanley Kubrick's 

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"2001: A Space Odyssey," currently shooting 

there. ' * * 

Sheldon Roskin of Solters, 

O'Rourke & Sabinson. left for London 

Wednesday 

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for conferences on "Morgan!—A 

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Suitable Case for Treatment." 

which Cinema V will distribute in the U.S. 

• 

Joseph J. Amiel, a member of the 

United Artists legal staff since 1962, 

has resigned to devote his time to the creation 

and writing and motion picture and 

* 

TV projects. * ' Edward Sargoy of Sargoy 

& Stein, New York law firm, lectured 

on "Problems of Motion Picture Production. 

Distribution and Exhibition Under 

Copyright" March 3 in Prof. Walter J. 

Derenberg's advanced seminal- for lawyers 

and graduate students at the New York 

University School of Law. this being Sargoy 

's 15th yearly talk on motion picture 

* " * aspects. Saul Jeffee, president of 

Movielab. Inc.. and Herbert E. Farmer of 

the cinema department of the University 

of Southern California, spoke on "Motion 

Picture Technology and Training in the 

USSR." at an open meeting of the 

Society of Motion Picture and Television 

Engineers Wednesday i9» at United Nations 

Plaza. 

• 

Jessica Levy, casting director oi the 

film version of Mary McCarthy's "The 

Group." discussed the challenge of casting 

the United Artists release at the Cosmopolitan 

Club Tuesday i8> and William 

Gandall. a member of Paramount's field 

and advertising department; actor Sterling 

Hayden; John Lodge, former governor 

of Connecticut: film director Irvm 

Kershner. and Drew Pearson, nationally 

syndicated columnist, participated in a 

debate "Do the Ten Commandments Still 

Apply to Today's Political World?" at Yale 

University, New Haven. Tuesday '8> as 

part of the academic promotion for the 

forthcoming re-release of Cecil B. De- 

Millc's "The Ten Commandments" by 

Paramount. * • * 

The Mystery Writers 

of America attended a special showing 

of Warner Bros.' "Harper" starring Paul 

Newman as a private detective, Wednesday 

at the WB screening room. 

• 

Maurice Silverstein, president of MGM 

International; Emery Austin, assistant director 

of advertising, publicity and exploitation; 

Arthur Egberts, international coordinator 

for "Doctor Zhivago," and Morris 

Frantz, MGM Int'l advertising head, 

Goldstein. Warner Bros, general sales 

manager; Jack, AA national advertising 

and publicity director, and Aaron, who is 

manager of the Metropolitan Life Insurance 

Co. of Boston, as well as Nat Furst, 

AA New York branch manager, who headed 

the luncheon committee with Nathanson. 

• • Salvatore Billitteri. American Inter- 

• 

headquarters in Hollywood. 

Robbins has 

been serving as exeeutive 

returned from the three-day international 

vice-president 

advertising and publicity meeting in Paris 

of the Lodge since 

on "Zhivago" Monday (7). Producer Kenneth 

1)1. ins 

the summer of 1965 

Hyman and director Robert Aldrich 

and has headed the organization's fundraising 

effort this past year. 

for Los Angeles for conferences regarding 

national East Coast production head, left 

also came in from Europe to complete 

casting and hold conferences with MGM 

Cinema Lodge elections were held at a "It's a Sick, Sick World." 

executives in New York on the forthcoming 

membership meeting at the Paramount 

"The Dirty Dozen." 

Building Tuesday . Elected vice-presidents 

Michael Mindlin jr., vice-president of 

• 

were Max Fried for fund-raising and Filmways in charge of advertising and pub- 

Academy Award 

financing; Leonard Kaufman for youth 

returned from Italy Thursday HO' 

Patch of Blue." 

Elizabeth 

nominee for 

Hartman. 

MGM's "A licity, 

service; Ted Lazarus for Anti-Defamation 

League; Carl M. Levine for programing 

"The Vampire Killers" for MGM while activities on the film. * 

following meetings on the currently-shoot- 

arrived Wednesday (9> for 

• 

Annette 

promotional 

Funicello, 

Edward Lewis, producer of the forthcoming; 

Milton Livingston for public rela- 

who will star in Interna- 

American 

tional's "Fireball 500," met the press at a 

press party at the Regency Hotel, accompanied 

by her husband and agent. Jack 

Gilardi. before leaving for Hollywood. " ' * 

Cornel Wilde got to New York Wednesday 

< 9 1 as part of his key city tour to promote 

Paramount's "The Naked Prey." * * 

* 

Ralph Nelson, who completed filming "Duel 

at Diablo" for United Artists, also got in 

Monday (7 to confer on release plans with 

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home office executives. 

Film Critics Circle Gives 

Four Awards to 'Zhivago' 

NEW YORK — Four awards went to 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Doctor Zhivago" 

at the 25th annual awards ceremony of the 

Film Critics Circle of the foreign language 

press Friday (4), with a special broadcast 

marking the organization's silver anniversary. 

"Doctor Zhivago" won as best picture 

of the year and the three other awards 

included: David Lean as best director, 

Julie Christie as best actress and Omar 

Sharif as best actor. 

Sigmund Gottlober. who originated the 

critics circle 25 years ago and who has 

been executive secretary ever since, was 

master of ceremonies. Si Seadler accepted 

the awards for MGM. 

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MICHAEL KLINGER and Tony Tenser 

of Compton Films returned to London 

and held a press conference to announce 

latest developments in their rapidly growing 

company. Klinger and Tenser said that 

in selling their latest production, "Cul de 

Sac," directed by Roman Polanski, to Martin 

Ransohoff of Pilmways, they now had 

disposed of all of their product in the 

States. In the future, they said, they would 

concentrate on film production, with the 

company geared to produce a minimum 

of 16 features in the next 18 months—the 

Alex Jones has been appointed advertising 

coordinator of Rank Theatres. His 

appointment is part of the Rank plan to 

By ANTHONY GRUNER 

fully integrate advertising and film booking 

to obtain the best possible results during 

film playoffs of John 

Carre's "The Deadly Affair" began last 

le 

week with London location scenes at St. 

James Park following a week's intensive 

rehearsals by producer-director Sidney 

Lumet with the full cast of the Columbia 

Picture, headed by James Mason, Simone 

Signoret, Maximilian Schell and Harry 

Andrews. Other members of the cast will 

be several distinguished actors belonging 

to the Royal Shakespeare Co., including 

David Warner, Kenneth Haigh, Lynn Redgrave 

and Max Adrian . Feldman 

announced the appointment of Jerry 

Bresler as head of production for Famous 

Artists Productions, Ltd. For the past 

month, Bresler has been organizing the 

production of "Casino Royale" and has 

now reported to the set where he will be 

co-producer of the James Bond film with 

Irving Sunasky Completes 

'W.I.A' in Philippines 

NEW YORK—Irving Sunasky. who was 

co-author and production assistant on 

Morris Engel's "Weddings and Babies," 

which was made in New York with Viveca 

Lindfors starred a few years back, recently 

returned from the Philippines where he 

wrote, directed and co-produced "WJ.A.," 

ia military term for Wounded in Action) 

in English with several New York players, 

as well as Filipino actors. With his coproducer. 

Samuel Zerinsky, Sunasky is 

currently negotiating w-ith several distributors 

for a major release for "W.I.A." 

Sunasky served in the medical corps in 

the Southwest Pacific in World War II 

and his experiences during the Philippine 

liberation in 1945 formed the nucleus for 

his screenplay. No studio facilities were 

used for any of the 42 locations on the 

Islands for "W.I.A." and the Philippine 

Department of National Defense supplied 

military equipment, ambulances and other 

vehicles manned by Army personnel. In 

addition to Steve Mario, recently featured 

in "The Young Captives," Maura Mc- 

Givney, who is featured with Doris Day in 

her current "Do Not Disturb," and Albert 

Quinton, who has acted with the Shakespearean 

troupes in New York, Sunasky 

had Leopoldo Salcedo, one of the favorites 

in Filipino films, in a leading role and also 

as associate producer. 

Sunasky had high praise for Filipino 

technicians, including laboratory personnel, 

which enabled him to bring in 

"WJ.A." on a $92,000 budget. For his 

Myriad Productions, he has also completed 

"The Year of the Horse," which he 

first 12 of these during the remainder of 

1966. Most of the films, with total budgets 

exceeding $8,000,000. would be co-productions 

or co-financed features. In some 

cases, however, Compton would finance 

the subjects 100 per cent. Among those 

slated are "The Loch Ness Monster." directed 

by George Pal and to be made on 

location in the Loch Ness region; "The 

Luna Park Murder"; two more sciencefiction 

Feldman . Century-Fox will 

pictures; a new musical version of hold the world premiere of "Modesty 

"Alice in Wonderland"; a spectacular open Blaise" at the Odeon Leicester Square on 

May 5 in aid of the Newsvenders Benevolent 

air action picture, titled "Beau Brigand," 

starring Patrick Allen and Peter Cushing 

Fund. The film is produced by Joseph 

and dealing with the Foreign Legion of Janni and directed by Joseph Losey and 

many years ago. 

stars Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk 

Klinger and Tenser said they had been Bogarde. Harry Andrews and Michael 

"overwhelmed" with offers of partners 

Craig. 

from New York and Hollywood. They also 

Tippi Hedren arrived in London last 

reported they would make another Sherlock 

week to begin work on the Charles Chaplin 

picture, "A Countess From Hong Kong," 

Holmes film with John Neville and 

Donald Houston, following the success of 

starring Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren. 

"A Study in Terror." This also would be Miss Hedren plays Brando's wife in this 

for Columbia release. They said they now contemporary comedy written and directed 

will expand the number of producers, di- 

by Chaplin for Universal release . . . Nat 

also authored and directed, and he will 

next produce "Impact," to be made in the 

spring in Greenville, Ohio, on a total 

budget of $80,000, and then "Ask Me Tomorrow," 

later in 1966, he told the traderectors 

and writers on the Compton staff Cohen, managing director of Anglo- Amalgamated, 

left for New York last week end 

to cater to the forthcoming production demands. 

Klinger and Tenser would act as where he will take part in a series of propress 

at a luncheon at Pinoy-Pinay, a 

Philippines restaurant. 

cufive producers. 

duction discussions over four future Anglo 

subjects: "Far From the Madding 

News in brief: Director John Frankenheimer, 

technical adviser John Bonnier, 

Max Balaban to Aid Isaacs 

Crowd," based on the Thomas Hardy 

novel, to star Julie Christie; "The Diamond 

writer Robert Alan Aurthur, art director 

Spy." based on the Ian Fleming story; On 'Commandments' Sales 

Richard Silbert and production supervisor 

William Kaplan arrived in London 

NEW YORK—Max Balaban has been 

"Rocket to the Moon." based on the Jules 

Verne novel, and "Lock Up Your Daughter." 

the Lionel Bart musical. 

tional sales coordinator for Cecil B. De- 

last week for discussions with MGM 

appointed assistant to Phil Isaacs, naon 

"Grand Prix." This is an MGM release 

in color and is an Ultra Panavision motor Poe, 20th-Fox Executives 

Mille's "The Ten Commandments." it is 

announced by Paramount Pictures' general 

British managing director Arvid Griffen 

racing drama which begins production at 

sales manager Charles Boasberg. 

To London for 'The Bible' 

the beginning of May . Nigel 

In his new post, Balaban will assist 

Marsh has formed a new company, Kadimar 

Film Productions, to film "Hannah." vice-president of 20th Century-Fox; Joseph the epic spectacle, which is one of Para- 

NEW YORK—Seymour Poe. executive Isaacs in all phases of sales activities for 

the story of a modern Joan of Arc. According 

to Marsh, the film will tell the true mestic sales, and Jonas Rosenfield jr.. in 1966. 

M. Sugar, vice-president in charge of domount, 

Pictures' most important releases 

story of the short and tragic life of Hannah 

vice-president and director of advertising, Balaban has held a number of key posts 

Szenes. a Jewish girl who was shot publicity and exploitation, left for Lon- 

in Paramount's domestic distribution or- 

at the age of 22. Paul Marsh will write don Wednesday > to attend the first ganization, both in sales and advertisingpublicity. 

screening of the completed version of "The 

of a graduate He is New York 

the book and the first screen treatment 

Films' 100-minute puppet and Bible." the Dino De Laurentiis production University. 

special effects feature, "Thunderbirds Are which will be roadshown in the fall of 

HENRIETTA, NY.—Eastman Kodak is 

Go," produced by Sylvia Anderson and 1966. 

directed by Dave Lane, began shooting at Accompanying them were Jerome Edwards, 

general counsel, and David Raphel. For Educational Center 

Kodak Negotiating on Site 

Slough Studios last week. With two units 

shooting simultaneously for 16 weeks, the vice-president of international sales, and 

Zanuck, 20th-Fox president; De Laurentiis 

type educational center a 390-acre site 

Anderson and her husband Gerry have and John Huston, who directed and plays 

here. Plans call for a series of buildings to 

been responsible for the television series, the role of Noah in "The Bible." They expect 

to return to New York in mid-March. 

be constructed on rolling terrain along the 

"Thunderbirds," which is now on offer to 

Genesee River on the west side of East 

first 

using a new type of television 

film will be the shot in this country 

aid. Miss 

negotiating to purchase land for a campus- 

on 

the five will meet there with Darryl F. 

the U.S. networks. 

River Road at Lehigh Station Road. 

The company has options on the prop- 

Vittorio Gassman and Virna Lisi are 

starred in "There's Something Funny Going 

On." 

erty and will seek approval of the town for 

appropriate zoning. 


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The Auditorium Theatre in Perry, first 

opened in 1898 and closed the first of 

this year as a motion picture theatre, has 

been reopened by Philip Scoville of 

Geneseo and Prank R. Versage of Mt. Morris. 

The theatre is in the town hall and 

much of it is owned by the town. Scoville 

also operates houses in Olean, LeRoy and 

Lima Versage will be managing director. 

Hi said the house will operate on a fulltime 

basis, with special matinees planned 

for children. 

Albert .F. IVttcIla. Tent 7 chief barker, 

will preside at a general membership 

luncheon meeting today 1 14 > in the club 

Houlihan, manager of the Paramount 

exchange here, held an invitational 

screening on "Paramount 1966." which is 

made up of clips on the company's upcoming 

product, on Friday (11) 

Frank Quinlivan, Dipson city manager, 

set up showings of "That Darn Cat" and 

"Plash, the Teenage Otter" at the Abbott 

and Bailey theatres . Reuter. manager 

of the United Artists branch, held an 

Invitational screening of "The Group" Saturday 

i5> in the Motion Picture Operators 

room. 

The Courier Express is advertising its 

Courier Cable TV. which has rates of $4.95 

a month with a S30 installation charge . . . 

The film "Human Growth." tracing human 

development through adulthood, is being 

shown in conjunction with family life lectures 

sponsored by the advisory committee 

of the Buffalo Youth Board. A program for 

girls. 9 to 13, was held yesterday 

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the one for boys, 9 to 14, is scheduled next 

Sunday '20' in the Museum of Science. 

Adults had the opportunity to see the film 

Thursday '10' and hear a panel discussion 

by a group of doctors. 

Harry Unterfort, Schine Theatres division 

manager, was here for conferences 

with managing director Joe Garvey of the 

Granada. Promotion plans for "Madame 

discussed. 

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According to Rochester newspapers. 

Lester L. Pollock, director of the Rochester 

War Memorial, will resign his position 

effective tomorrow '15'. He was manager 

of Loew's Theatre there for more than 30 

years before accepting the memorial post. 

( hull- \ Martina, president of the 

Lyell Theatres of Rochester, reported his 

company's newly acquired Paramount Theatre 

there had been shut down Sunday > 

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by a strike of Local 71 of the International 

Union ol Operating Engineers, and there 

io immediate plans to reopen. The 

union reportedly charged the management 

contract by refusing to discuss 

two union employes. 

said the theatre has no boiler 

and uses city steam, and "we can't understand 

them ' i 

two men to 

turn on a valve to let in the steam. We 

can't afford this type of operation and 

have closed down the theatre ." . . Lyell 

operates four other theatres in Rochester, 

the Regent. Lyell. Waring and Starlite 

Drive-in. 

Vandals broke a door and tore up the 

candy counter at the Rialto Theatre in 

Albion, projectionist Joseph Ciarico told 

police. 

'Zhivago' in Philadelphia 

Draws Capacity Crowd 

PHILADELPHIA A capacity audience 

comprised of Pennsylvania's most distinguished 

political, business and society 

leaders attended the premiere of Metro- 

: 

Matt Helm's Dean Martin) van featured 

"The Silencers" was parked all day in 

in 

front of Shea's Buffalo as part of a nationwide 

Goldwyn-Mayer's "Doctor Zhivago" Wed- 

stunt for the picture. The picture nesday 1 the Boyd Theatre for the 

will open after the close of "Thunderball" benefit of the Pennsylvania Academy of 

Morris, who heads his own ad the Pine Arts. Sponsored by the women's 

at Gloversville. was here working committee of the Academy, the affair was 

on "The Ten Commandments" with Prank preceded by a lavish gourmet dinner at 

\ n I oew s city manager. 

the Peale Club, where an ensemble of musicians 

playing balalaikas set the motif 

for the evening. 

The red carpet treatment was repeated 

at the theatre with another group of musicians 

greeting the notables as they arrived 

for the 8:30 showing. 

The Pennsylvania Academy is the oldest 

existing fine arts school and museum 

in the United States. Mrs. Boudinot 

Stimson and Mrs. Walter H. West jr., 

were co-chairmen of the benefit. 

Representing MGM at the premiere 

were Mel Maron. roadshow sales manager, 

and Sidney Eckman, Philadelphia branch 

manager. 

Coca-Cola Sales, Profit Hit 

All-Time High in 1965 

ATLANTA—Sales and earnings of the 

Coca-Cola Co. reached an all-time high 

in 1965. This announcement was made 

by J. Paul Austin, president, following a 

meeting of the board of directors on March 

7. 

Consolidated net profit for 1965, after 

reserves, taxes and other charges, amounted 

to $75,719,561. an increase of 16 per cent 

over the $65,344,086 earned the previous 

year. Per share earnings for 1965 were 

$2.66. compared with $2.30 a share in 

1964 after adjusting to reflect the two-forone 

stock split in 1965. 

Net profit for the fourth quarter of 1965 

was $14,831,074, or 52 cents a share, compared 

with $12,716,177. or 45 cents a share, 

In the last quarter of 1964. 

Consolidated sales in 1965 were $864.- 

041.454 as against $833,566,733 in 1964. 

The directors declared a dividend of 

47'_. cents per share, payable April 1, to 

stockholders of record at the close of business 

March 17. Tins is the fourth consecuar 

that the dividend has been raised 

and the sixth increase in the last eight 

years. 

Provision for income taxes for 1965 was 

$76,575,000. 

Jacob F. Fox Dies 

ATLANTIC CITY—Jacob P. Pox. a pioneer 

motion picture theatre exhibitor in 

South Jersey, is dead at the age of 89. His 

career started in the nickelodeon days and 

he retired in 1940. He was a member of 

the Variety Club and also the Motion Picture 

Pioneers. 

PITTSBURGH 

gidney Pink, former local exhibitor who 

has been an independent film producer 

in recent years in Hollywood and 

Spain, will be co-producing with Westinghouse 

Broadcasting Co. In a 30-picture 

deal which will cost $15 million. Pink is 

lining up the first production in Spain. 

These $500,000 pictures will be shot in 

color and will be available first to theatres, 

then for showing on the Westinghouse 

television channels. Westinghouse 

also has purchased television rights to approximately 

12 British films, all post 1960 

features, including the "Carry On" group. 

Henry P. Otto, Penn Hills legislator who 

was responsible for the removal of the 10 

per cent admission tax in the state, with 

the exception of Pittsburgh, along with 

other members of the house of representatives, 

has introduced into the general assembly 

an amendment to the state athletic 

code. The amendment proposes the 

requirement of any promoter or manager 

of a theatre or similar facility planning to 

present a closed circuit telecast of a boxing 

bout or wrestling match to secure a permit 

from the state athletic commission. The 

aim is to protect the general public from 

phony boxing bouts or wrestling matches. 

Forward township road board, in the 

McKeesport area, collected $4,277.88 from 

its amusement tax in 1965 . . . First showing 

in this country of the British comedy 

"Alphabet Murders" is at the Shadyside 

Theatre here . Rodnok jr., Oakmont 

exhibitor, visited his parents at thenhome 

in Florida. His mother, who underwent 

heart surgery here last summer, is 

recuperating very well. 

Thirty area drive-ins were opened B 

ago in the Beaver Valley, ABC reopened 

Thursday (3) and on Friday reopened 

were the Green Garden, Aliquippa, and the 

valley's Spotlight 88, the latter for its 19th 

season. 

The Ritz at Baden now offers Thursday 

Ladies Day with admission at 50 cents 

Borough council, in special 

session, passed on first reading an 

ordinance awarding an exclusive CATV 

franchise to Westmoreland Cable Co. 

A new bill in the legislature would amend 

the local tax enabling act, approved Dec. 

31, 1965. to provide that no tax shall be 

levied, assessed, or collected on admissions 

to amusement parks or individual amusements 

or rides. Sponsored by Reps. C. 

Timothy Slack iR.. Chester I ; Robert E. 

Clarke iR.. Blair •; Benjamin J. Reynolds 

iR.. Chester!, and John Stauffer iR., 

Chester), this measure is now in the 

hands of the ways and means committee. 

MGM screened "Lady L" at the WAMO 

Bldg. and sneak previewed "The Glass 

Bottom Boat" at the Fulton Theatre . 

A $50,000 sett made to Eli 

Kramer of Harrisburg by the Altoona 

Video Corp. Friday which ended 

abruptly a broach of contract 

daysburg. Kramer claimed he had 

the Lamont brothers. Robert and Daniel, 

'ring and financial advice to help 

establish a CATV system at Altoona in 

BOXOFFICE March 14, 1966 E-7 

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BALTIMORE 

B ilied Motion Picture Theatre Owners of 

Maryland plans to hold its annual 

meeting Thursday (17) in the One West 

(restaurant*. Eleven directors will be 

chosen and they, in turn, will decide upon 

a meeting to name officers for the fiscal 

year. Jack Whittle, executive secretary, 

is vacationing at Port Lauderdale, Fla. 

His return is indefinite. 

Albert Roe is the new manager at the 

Liberty Plaza Theatre, having been promoted 

from the Senator where he was assistant 

to Bill Moore. Both houses are in 

the Durkee circuit. The Senator has inaugurated 

a series of six Saturday morning 

shows for benefit of Baltimore's Walters 

Art Gallery. Mayor Theodore McKeldin 

addressed the initial audience Saturday 

(5). 

Maurice Cohen has taken over the Diamond 

State Drive-in near Dover, Del., 

which makes three theatres under his 

management. His son Irwin, film buyer 

and booker, made an inspection tour of 

Maryland's eastern shore. 

John Dunn who represents film companies 

at the Maryland Censor Board, is 

a patient at Union Memorial Hospital for 

major surgery. 

Funeral services were held in Salisbury, 

Md., for W. Marsh Gonner. 64, who was a 

district manager for Schine Theatres after 

coming to Salisbury from Wheeling, W. Va., 

in 1935. He later sold out to Schine interests, 

and remained with the company. 

He leaves his wife. 

Barton Harris, Mayfair Theatre manager, 

has been transferred to 235 Drivein, 

southern Maryland, where he is manager 

of both the theatre and concessions. 

He was replaced at the Mayfair by Gloria 

Texter . Clements is a new assistant 

manager at the Town. 

Ronald Freedman, owner of the Rex 

Theatre, became a father for the first 

time when his wife gave birth to a boy 

Ross Jeffry at Johns Hopkins Hospital. 

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Two Denver Houses 

NEW YORK—LoeWs Theatres, making 

its first move west of St. Louis, has announced 

plans to construct two new theatres 

near Denver. 

Arthur Tolchin and Bernard Myerson, 

chief executives of the theatre division of 

Loew's Theatres & Hotels, and Leonard 

Kline, director of leasing for Perl-Mack, 

developer of two shopping centers, announced 

jointly that the Loew's theatres 

would be located in Northglenn and Southglenn 

shopping centers in the Colorado 

city. 

The theatres will each seat about 1,200 

persons and will represent a total investment 

of $1,200,000. Construction is set to 

start this summer on the Northglenn 

center, but no construction dates have 

yet been announced for the Southglenn. 

Tolchin and Myerson said the move to the 

Denver area was due to "the bustling and 

growing progressive activity which our 

people have observed in this city." 

Lippert Sees Food, Wine 

In Theatres as Patron Key 

HOLLYWOOD—In line with his present 

plans for a high-style hardtop on the Sunset 

Strip, theatre owner Robert Lippert is 

broadening his area of operation and is 

seeking sites in Palm Desert, LaJolla, 

Visalia and Corcoran. 

With European seating, which does away 

with inner-aisles, the small houses will be 

constructed to include facilities for the 

serving of beer and light wines, as well as 

specially cooked snacks. 

"The trend today is toward smaller theatres," 

says Lippert. "One way to draw 

customers to a film is to give them the 

same comforts they would find in their 

own living rooms watching TV. The Europeans 

and a few houses in New York have 

found the formula very successful, but. to 

my knowledge, it has never been tried on 

the West Coast." 

Lippert says he will announce his completed 

plans within a few weeks. 

W. Coast Bow of 'Hawaii' 

Is Scheduled for Oct. 12 

HOLLYWOOD—The West Coast premiere 

of the multi -million-dollar "Hawaii." 

produced by Walter Mirisch and directed 

by George Roy Hill for United Artists release, 

will be held here in the Egyptian 

Theatre October 12. Columbus Day. The 

film will open In New York two days earlier. 

'Hamlet/ 'Pussycat' Win 

Six Awards in Press Poll 

NEW YORK—United Artists' "Hamlet" 

and "What's New Pussycat?" have won six 

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awards in the All-American Press Ass'n's 

eighth annual Movie Bests Awards poll. 

"Hamlet," which will have an invitational 

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premiere on Monday at the 

Plaza Theatre, won four awards, best foreign-language 

film; best actor, foreignlanguage 

film, Innokenti Smoktunovsky: 

best director foreign-language film, Grigori 

Kozintsev, and a special award for Boris 

Pasternak's translation of Shakespeare's 

"Hamlet" into Russian. 

The two awards to "What's New Pussycat?" 

are: Best Song—"What's New Pussycat?" 

and best newcomer actor, Woody 

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Allen. 

"Hamlet" will begin its regular engagement 

at the Plaza Theatre on Tuesday 

film was previously honored at 

the Venice International Film Festival 

where it received a special prize. It also 

wr 

as the opening attraction at the second 

New York Film Festival. 

George Jessel to Emcee 

Eddie Awards March 27 

HOLLYWOOD — George Jessel. the 

"Toastmaster General" of the United 

States, has been set by the American 

Cinema Editors president Gene Fowler to 

serve as master-of-ceremonies for the 16th 

annual Eddie Awards to be telecast "live" 

on Sunday 1 the Cocoanut Grove. 

Joining Jessel and the ACE in honoring 

outstanding achievement in ten categories 

of motion picture and television production 

will be Stephen Boyd, David Brian. Lloyd 

Bridges. Raymond Burr, Barrie Chase, Zsa 

Zsa Gabor. Greer Garson. Frank Gorshin. 

Carolyn Jones, Brian Keith. Robert Lansing, 

Virna Lisi, Maureen O'Hara. Cesar 

Romero. Roger Smith, Robert Stack and 

Jane Wyatt as presenters. James E. 

Blakeley and Frederick Y. Smith are cochairmen 

of the event. 

Levine Signs Stephen Boyd 

To Star in 'Golden Bulls' 

HOLLYWOOD—Stephen Boyd will star 

In Joseph E. Levine's "Caper for the Golden 

Bulls," based on the recently published 

suspense-thriller by William P. McGivern. 

The film, an Embassy-Paramount co-production, 

will be made later this year in 

Hollywood. Madrid. Rome and Paris by 

Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse. The 

picture will be released domestically by 

Embassy and throughout the rest of the 

world by Paramount. 

College Study Role 

For Banned Films 

ALBUQUERQUE—A local art theatre, 

put off-limits to Catholics three years ago, 

is now playing a major role in a film 

criticism course being offered by the University 

of Albuquerque 

Special showings of one of the current 

films at Don Pancho's Art Theatre are 

attended by all students in the course, 

along with drama director James Morley 

and Father Timothy Gibbons, philosophy 

professor at UA. 

Ed Lowrence, Don Pancho's manager, 

said some of the films to be seen by the 

students are on the "condemned list" for 

Catholics. Films on this list are often 

shown on college campus screens during 

film festivals or for class study. They are 

not considered harmful when viewed as a 

pant of a course of study with a critique 

in mind, Lowrence said. 

Director Jim Morley is highly pleased 

with the course and especially proud because 

it is the first such course in the state 

and because of the importance of the motion 

picture in the world today. "Motion 

pictures are the most personal art form 

there is since almost everybody comes into 

contact with them all through their lives. 

Not everyone buys a fine painting, goes to 

a concert or buys a book, but everyone goes 

to the movies," he said. 

The films are preceded by an introduction 

and followed by a 45-minute discussion. 

Later, the students write a critique 

of each film. Films shown so far include 

"To Die in Madrid," "Wild Strawberries," 

"Ivan the Terrible," "Repulsion," and 

"Darling." 

Lowrence is offering the films below 

ordinary cost to help the course get started. 

A $10 fee is charged each student for the 

15 films. More than 50 students are enrolled 

in the course that was inaugurated 

this 

semester. 

Movietone News to Film 

Philip's Visit for Britain 

HOLLYWOOD—Arthur De Titta. West 

Coast bureau manager of Movietone News, 

has been assigned by the British office to 

produce a special documentary of Prince 

Philip's visit to the Pacific Coast. 

The newsman will cover the prince's 

arrival at Palm Springs, where he will meet 

with former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 

the special program at UCLA, 

when Prince Philip will receive an honorary 

Doctor of Laws degree, and the $1.000-aticket 

dinner party, given by Tent 25. 

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SAN FRANCISCO—"The Rare Breed" 

took in moderate earnings at the Alhambra, 

New Mission and El Rey with a combined 

first-week rating of 155 per cent. The Alhambra 

ballyhooed opening night with a 

1,265-pound Polled Hereford steer stationed 

in the lobby and hot beef broth served to 

shivering customers. "Doctor Zhivago" and 

"The Chase" continued to do well at 400 

and 425 per cent respectively. The Coronet 

was the scene of sneak previews which 

packed the house two Friday nights in a 

row. "The Loved One," a consistently high 

scorer throughout its 11-week run,, finished 

up with another 200. Olivier's "Othello" replaced 

it. 


Alhambra, El Rey, New Mission The Rare Breed 

155 

3rd 

Coliseum Judith (Para), 2nd wk 275 

Coronet—The Chase (Col), 3rd wk 425 

Fox-Parkside The Agony and the Ecstasy 

(20th-Fox), 1 1 th wk 1 40 

Fox-Warfield—The Ugly Dachshund (BV), 3rd wk. . 200 

Golden Gate Cinerama Battle of the Bulge 

(WB), 11th wk 450 

Larkin To Die in Madrid (Altura), 3rd wk 300 

Metro That Man in Istonbul (Col), 3rd wk 300 

Clay Juliet of the Spirits 

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Orpheum Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 4th wk 400 

Presidio Life at the Top (Col), 2nd wk 175 

St. Francis Inside Daisy Clover (WB), 2nd wk.. . 90 

Stage Door The Loved One (MGM), 11th wk...200 

United Artists The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 

50th wk 425 

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Orpheum 

Hollywood, 

Shane (Paramount), reissue 

Hollywood-Paramount Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 

1 1th wk 

Ins, Los Angeles Do Not Disturb (20th-Fox), rerui 

on Street (Prominent), 

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5th 

Juliet of the Spirits (Rizzoli), 4th wk..l80 

Hall 

Pantages Harper (WB), 2nd wk 250 

inside Daisy Clover (WB), moveover, 4th wk.. 65 

State— Weird, Wicked World (ABC) 70 

A Thousand Clowns (UA), 11th wk 180 

Village 

Vogue— Lord Love a Duck (UA), 6th wk 130 

Warner 

The Flight of the Phoenix 

Beverly 

(20th-Fox), 5th wk 120 

Warner Hollywood The 330 

Silencers (Col) 

Sound of Music (20th-Fox' 

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Moment to Moment (Univ). 

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'A Patch of Blue' 300 Start 

At Portland Off-Broadway 

PORTLAND—The Off-Broadway, a 438- 

seater on the second floor of Parker's 

Broadw-ay Theatre Building, reported its 

biggest boxoffice gross since the small theatre 

opened in August 1964. The first 

week of "A Patch of Blue" at the Off- 

Broadway was estimated at 300 per cent. 

Bagdad, 82nd Street Moment to Moment (Univ)..135 

Broadway Those Magnificent Men in Their 

Flying Machines !20th-Fox), 29th wk 175 

Cinema 21 Where the Spies Are (MGM), 2nd wk.; 

The Heroes of Telemork (Co), 6th wk 145 

Fine Arts Lord Love a Duck (UA); Kiss Me, Stupid 

(UA), 

Fox—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 49th 

Guild Juliet of the Spirits (Embassy), 4th wk 

Hollywood Battle of the Bulge (WB), 7th wk 

Irvington The Spy Who Came in From the 

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Denham—The Ugly Dachshund (BV), Winnie the 

Pooh (BV), 3rd wk Not Available 

Denver The Silencers 200 

(Col) 

A Patch of Blue (MGM) 225 

Esquire 

International— Battle of the Bulge (WB), 11th wk..l25 

Paramount— Inside Daisy Clover (WB) 155 

Towne Where the Spies Are (MGM), 3rd 75 

wk 

Vogue Darling (Embassy), 2nd wk 300 

Wadsworth, Mayan, Centennial, North, Monaco, 

Valley Spy in Your Eye (AIP), Secret Agent 

Fireball (AIP) 100 

'Pawnbroker' Scores 200 

First Week in Seattle 

SEATTLE—"The Pawnbroker" led newcomers 

and holdovers with an excellent 

first week at the Uptown boxoffice, where 

the rating read 200 per cent. "The Flight 

of the Phoenix" also was highly attractive 

to Seattle theatregoers, turning in a first 

week of 160 at the Coliseum. "The Sound 

of Music" continued its popular run at the 

Fifth Avenue, with 175 for its 49th week, 

which was improvement over the preceding 

seven days. 

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Blue 

Winnie the Pooh (BV), The Ugly 

Dachshund (BV), 3rd wk 150 

Coliseum— The Flight of the Phoenix (20th-Fox); 

War Party (20th-Fox) 160 

Avenue 

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The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 

49th wk 175 

Music Box— 80 

Inside Daisy Clover (WB), 2nd wk 

Orpheum Thunderball (UA), 

Paramount—Our Man Flint 

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HOLLYWOOD—A preview of Magna 

Pictures release, "impossible on Saturday," 

was held here for 200 community leaders 

Remarkable 'Music' 400 

at the Lytoon Center Wednesday < 9 > . The 

52nd Week in LA 

Western premiere at the Four Star Theatre 

for the benefit of the New Hope for 

LOS ANGELES—"The Sound of Music" 

wound up its first year at the Wilshire Theatre 

with a terrific 400 per cent for its 52nd "Patch of Blue,' 'Silencers' 

cal Center will be held Friday (18). 

Children Guild of the City of Hope Medi- 

week. "The Silencers." on Hollywood Boulevard, 

came up with an excellent 330, out- 

DENVER—Two new pictures jumped into per and dance will be held at the Beverly 

Do Well in Denver Starts 

Following the premiere, a midnight supdueling 

"Harper." which grossed a healthy the profitable 200 class immediately upon Hilton Hotel, with tickets at $100 each. Ann 

250. Also very strong were "Patch of Blue." their arrival in Denver, "The Silencers" Miller, Mrs. Clark Gable, Mrs. Robert 

"Doctor Zhivago" and "Our Man Flint." starting off with 200 at the Denver Theatre 

and "A Patch of Blue" glossing 225 at chairmen. 

Stack and Madame Raoul Aglion are co- 

Baldwin, Bruin, Fairfax The Pawnbroker (AIP) 

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Beverly Our Man Flint (20th-Fox), 5th wk 335 

the Esquire Theatre. The week's largest 

Carthay The Agony and the Ecstasy (20th-Fox) gross precentage, however, was the 300 recorded 

by "Darling" at the Vogue Theatre. 

20th wk 65 

Chinese Thunderball (UA), 11th wk 225 

Stan Fleischer Appointed 

Cinerama— Battle of the Bulge (WB), 12th wk. .230 Aladdin The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 50th wk.,150 

Crest—A Patch of Blue (MGM), 13th wk 270 Centre The Flight of the Phoenix (20th-Fox) 1 40 Art Supervisor for WB 

Egyptian The Oscar (Embassy), 3rd wk.. 150 Continental The Agony and the Ecstasy 

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El Rey, Loyola, Warren's The Great Race (WB), 

Fox), 6th wk 100 HOLLYWOOD — Stanley Fleischer has 

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Cooper The Greatest Story Ever Told (UA), 

been appointed supervising art director for 

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his new assignment. Fleischer will supervise 

all art directors in designing sets for 

motion pictures and television. 

With Warner Bros, for 31 years. 

Fleischer has been head of the company's 

art department for the last eight years. 

He has been art director of more than 80 

WB pictures, starting with "Green 

Pastures." 

Danny Kaye Sets 3 Week 

Troop Tour in Vietnam 

HOLLYWOOD—Danny Kaye will 

leave 

here Tuesday (29) for a three-week entertainment 

tour of military bases, camps and 

hospitals in Vietnam under the auspices of 

the Hollywood Overseas Committee-USO, 

announced George Chandler, HOC chairman. 

Accompanying him on the tour will be 

Liberty Records recording star Vikki Carr 

and pianists Sammy Prager and Andy 

Thomas. 

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LOS ANGELES—Sidney P. Solow. chairman 

of the amusement section of the 1966 

United Jewish Welfare Fund, named 37 

executives from all phases of the entertainment 

industry to serve as studio and division 

chairmen of the campaign for $1 million 

in the Greater Los Angeles area. 

Ben Hershe and Bernard Barron. Columbia 

Studios: Bernard Donnenfeld and Arnold 

Burk, Paramount Pictures: David 

Foster, publicists' division; Arthur Gardner. 

Republic 4-Star: Frank Gertz and 

Monty Hall, NBC: Gerald Glickman and 

Sam Sherman, allied industries division; 

Irvin Goldring, business managers' division, 

Sol Halperin and Arthur Hauser, 

20th-Fox. 

Also. Robert Heifer, musicians' division: 

Abe Heller, Warner Bros.: Ben Hoberman, 

ABC-radio; Dr. Ralph Kaplan, media communicators' 

division: Harris Katleman and 

Ray Kurtzman. industry producers' division; 

Robert Shapiro and Howard Lipston. 

ABC-TV; Raymond Klune and Roger 

Mayer. MGM; Ben Benjamin, agents' division; 

Henry Coleman. CBS; Gerald Fried, 

music division; Irving H. Levin, theatres 

and exchanges division; Jess Qppenhelmer, 

writers' division; Mort Robson. directors' 

division; Lome Greene, actors' division; 

Bernard Weitzman and Ed Perlstein. 

Desilu: Jack Sattinger, Allied Artists; Alex 

Schreiber, bowling division: George Slaff. 

Goldwyn Studios: Phil Singer, recording 

division, and Marshall Wortman, Universal 

Studios. 

Universal's 'Now Miguel' 

Bow Set for Two Cities 

ALBUQUERQUE — Universal's Robert 

Radnitz production of "And Now Miguel" 

will have its world premiere here June 2 

and will open in Dallas the following day. 

This will serve to launch the film in the 

Texas. Oklahoma and Denver territories. 

Radnitz and member of the cast are to 

attend both openings and take part in advance 

promotional activities now being 

planned along the same pattern used by 

Universal for its successful launching of 

"Island of the Blue Dolphins" two years ago. 

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Racing Equipment Is Set 

For MGM's 'Grand Prix' 

HOLLYWOOD—Racing equipment for 

"The Grand Prix." the Cinerama color 

production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. will 

be provided by Shelby American. Inc. 

manufacturers of racing cars. Phil Gersdorf. 

publicist, will operate out of European 

offices on the classic upon completion 

of his "Doctor Zhivago" stint here. 

Pierson to Do Screenplay 

For Jalem's 'Cool Hand' 

HOLLYWOOD—Jalem Productions, Jack 

Lemmon's company, has signed Oscarnominee 

Frank Pierson to write the screenplay 

of "Cool Hand Luke." announces Gordon 

Caroll, vice-president of Jalem. who 

will be the producer for the film. Pierson 

wrote "Cat Ballon." 

A Columbia release, the filming of the 

adaption of the novel by Don Pearce, is 

scheduled for a fall start, with Stuart as 

the director. This fulfills one of Jalem's 

commitments with Columbia, which will 

not star Lemmon. He does head the cast 

for "Luv," to be co-produced by Manulis 

Productions and Jalem. which is to gel 

under way this summer. 

NGC's Fallbrook Theatre 

Names McKinney Manager 

LOS ANGELES—Robert K. McKinney 

has been named manager of National General 

Corp.'s new Fox Fallbrook Theatre 

In Canoga Park, it is jointly announced by 

John Klee, Pacific Coast division manager, 

and William Hertz, district manager. 

McKinney, 35, who served in the Air 

Force from 1950 to 1954 as a radar operator 

and chief projectionist in New Mexico 

and Arizona, has been transferred from 

the Fail-fax Theatre in Los Angeles to the 

new West Valley theatre. Previously, he 

managed theatres in Pasadena. South Pasadena 

and Thousand Oaks. 

Bayshore Ready to Start 

'Sleep, Sleep, Pussycat' 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF.—Bayshore 

Productions here is readying "Sleep, Sleep, 

Pussycat" for filming in San Francisco and 

Santa Clara County. It will be produced 

and directed by William Maron, and will 

star Rhoda Maron, who had the lead role 

in "The Find." 

An original story', the film will deal with 

the effect on a 9-year-old girl when the 

man next door comes into her mother's 

life. What she does about the interloper 

leads to a "horrible and shocking climax," 

Maron said, "and is bound to stir up considerable 

controversy." 

Para. Signs David Janssen 

For 'The Warning Shot' 

HOLLYWOOD—David Janssen has been 

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Friday night (4) and theatre employes "The Warning Shot." it was announced by 

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meat. 

and studio and production head. The 

Police were looking for a person or persons film is the first in a multi-picture deal between 

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the actor and Paramount. The pic- 

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patties, 13 fish patties, and eight —Officer Needs Help." will be produced by 

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Bob Banner and directed by Buzz Kulik 

for Paramount and Bob Banner Associates 

It goes before the cameras here in April. 

Ups MPRF Contribution 

HOLLYWOOD—A continuing ci. i 

to the Motion Picture Relief Fund of 1 per 

cent of his participations in past and 

future film productions has been made by 

Robert Arthur. This is in addition to his 

regular contributions through the voluntary 

payroll deduction plan. 

LOS ANGELES 

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Charles Depew as Long Beacharea 

district manager, according to Don 

Guttman. general manager. He replaces 

Frank Sohner who is field supervisor under 

Frank Diaz, division manager for drive-ins. 

Art Gordon was named walk-in theatre 

division manager and Ben Ohre, formerly 

with Fox West Coast Theatres, has been 

named booker for drive-ins. 

William Thedford. chief of operations for 

Fox West Coast Theatres, and John Klee, 

division manager, are back from a Portland 

business trip. 

The world premiere of Warner Bros. 

"Stop the World I Want to Get Off" will 

be held April 13 at Pacific's Pantages . . . 

Pacific's Cinerama Dome has scheduled 

"Khartoum" to follow "Battle of the 

Bulge." probably in late June. 

Seymour Borde. president of Borde & Associates, 

has obtained the United States 

and Canadian rights for "Red. Yellow and 

Pink." starring Anita Ekberg. from SS&B 

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Mass and brunch was cut about 

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Roy Cooper attended NATO's first executive 

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since. He also was a partner of Roy Cooper 

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and a past chief barker. He served as 

president of the Blind Babies Foundation 

since 1955 . . . Kathryn Brobeck, wife of 

Roy Brobeck, vice-president of B. F. Shearer 

Co. i theatrical supplies), died. She also 

leaves three sisters and a brother. 

Luelia Hoppe, Roy Cooper's secretary, 

spent a week away from her desk to make 

arrangements for her father's funeral in 

Omaha. 

Slaygirls Have Big Role 

In 'Silencers' Ballyhoo 

HOLLYWOOD — The Slaygirls, Dean 

Martin's luscious companions in Irving 

Allen's "The Silencers," a Columbia release, 

took part in the extensive promotional 

activity attached to the initial West 

Coast opening of the picture Friday ( 4 > 

Jan Watson, Mary Jane Mangier, Marilyn 

Tindall, Barbara Burgess, Inga Nielson 

and Karen Joy appeared at the theatre 

and distributed copies of the record, "The 

Silencers," to 500 ticket buyers. 

'Velvet Trap' Is Ready 

HOLLYWOOD — Mark Brown Productions 

will distribute "Velvet Trap," Kenway 

Productions exploitation feature for the 

United States, with the 80-minute film going 

into release at once. Ken Kennedy was 

the writer-director-producer and has moved 

his office to Hollywood to prepare for his 

next feature to be made here. 

Film Festival Judges 

HOLLYWOOD—The American members 

of the international panel of judges at the 

11 -day Argentinian film festival, which 

opened in Rio de Janeiro Wednesday ( 2 > 

included Abby Mann, Arthur Knight and 

Sidney Solow. all from Hollywood. Others 

went from New York. 

Plugs 'To Die in Madrid' 

HOLLYWOOD — Clem Perryout made 

personal appearances here on his Oscarnominee 

"To Die in Madrid." The film is 

playing at the Beverly Hills Canon Theatre. 

Other cities on Clem's list are San 

Francisco. New York and Boston. 

'Skaterdater' Screening 

HOLLYWOOD—Special screening of the 

Oscar short nominee, "Skaterdater," were 

held at the National Ass'n of Skateboarders 

Santa Monica convention held here Saturday 

and Sunday (5 and 6) 

'Special Editor's Award' 

Goes to 'Pawnbroker' 

From Eastern Edition 

NEW YORK—For the first time in the 

history of Macfadden-Bartell Corp., publishers 

of five top motion-picture magazines, 

a "Special Editor's Award" will go to 

"The Pawnbroker," as an example of a 

"picture produced with uncompromising 

craftsmanship that brings to the screen 

a rare emotional and universal appeal," 

it was announced by Frederick A. Klein, 

executive vice-president and general manager 

of Bartell Media, Inc.. publishers of 

Photoplay Magazine. 

The golden medallion plaque will be 

presented by Klein to the film's star, Rod 

Steiger, on "The Merv Griffin Show" early 

in March. 

The unprecedented award cites Steiger 

for etching "an unforgettable cinematic 

portrayal of classic beauty," and also honors 

producer Ely A. Landau for his "foresight, 

artistic excellence and courage in 

bringing this dynamic and brilliant drama 

to the international motion picture screen." 

'Virginia Woolf Premiere 

At Pantages on June 22 

HOLLYWOOD—The world premiere of 

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," Warner 

Bros, picturization of Edward Albee's 

play, be held on June 22 at Pacific's 

hit will 

Ben Hamm, 83, industry attorney, died 

Pantages Theatre, it was announced by 

Wednesday (2). In 1918 in the midst of a 

Jack L. Warner. Other opening dates 

career with Bell Telephone as an electrical Famous Artists Names 

around the country will be announced 

Bresler Production Head 

shortly, according to Benjamin Kalmenson, 

LONDON—Jerry Bresler, now co-producer 

WB executive vice-president. 

on "Casino Royale," has been ap- 

pointed by Charles K. Feldman as head of 

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production for Famous Artists Productions. 

Ltd. Bresler also will supervise final chores To Work on Tor's 'Namu' 

on "Anyone for Venice?" filmed by Joseph HOLLYWOOD—Dave Davies will work 

Mankiewicz in Italy. 

as unit publicist on Ivan Tors' film, 

"Namu. the Killer Whale," the feature 

starting in San Juan Islands of Puget 

S'ound, Wash., which wall be released by 

United Artists. Laslo Benedek directs the 

story about the 5-ton, 24-foot killer whale 

taken in captivity last summer, which became 

a national news story. 

Actor William Frawley Dies 

HOLLYWOOD — William Frawley. 73, 

whose highly successful career spanned 

vaudeville, Broadway musicals, motion pictures 

and television, died March 3, after 

being stricken on Hollywood Boulevard. 

He had been ailing for more than a year, 

and underwent major surgery 12 months 

ago. Married, he had been separated from 

his wife for many years. It is not known 

if she is now alive. Two brothers and a 

sister survive. 

Jack Fier 

HOLLYWOOD—Jack Fier, 69, product-ion 

manager for George Axelrod's Charleston 

Productions, was stricken suddenly and 

died on March 3. Prior to his affiliation 

with Charleston, he had been production 

manager at Columbia Studios for 18 years. 

He entered films in 1920, was a staffer of 

the Film Daily and later with National 

Screen Service. He leaves his wife. 

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Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman and 

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prizes before boarding the buses for the 

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Hudson, 

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rifle. The TV set was taken home 

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Paramount Theatre manager, from San 

Francisco: Murray Gerson, formerly with 

Universal in Denver, from Los Angeles for 

American International Pictures; Jules 

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Bill Harrison, former Universal salesman 

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and Floyd Brethour, former Universal office 

manager, from Westland Theatres, 

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MGM salesman 

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Directors of the New Mexico Theatre 

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Trinidad Kehr, Prairie Theatre, 

Ogallala, Neb., visited his sister who resides 

in Denver . . B. J. McKenna jr.. El 

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the Kansas City district . . . Lou Avolio 

and Verne Watkins ambled to Filmrow to 

set dates for the theatres in Albuquerque 

Smith and Russ Berry, Highland 

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Cmea of Allied Artists joined Frank Green 

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Paramount district manager, held 

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exchange manager here . . . Jules 

Gerelick conferred with Jack Felix of 

Favorite Films. 

Funeral services were held for John M. 

Thomas, 57. Thomas had been a salesman 

here for Allied Artists and Paramount Pictures 

but he left the industry several years 

ago. He leaves his wife Ethel, a son, a 

daughter and two grandchildren. 

The Esquire has scheduled a series of 

kiddies shows called "Cho Cho Matinees" 

Ashby has sold the Chief Theatre, 

Steamboat Springs, to George Frick. 

Ashby, a pioneer in the Denver territory, 

was RKO exchange manager here before 

going into exhibition at Steamboat Springs 

more than 20 years ago. 

Filmrow visitors included Bob Heyl, Wyoming 

Theatre, Torrington, Wyo.; Bill 

Bertolero, Black Hills Amusement Co., 

Rapid City, S.D.; Mr. and Mrs. U. A. Kane, 

Fiesta Drive-in, Las Cruces, N.M.; Sam 

Rosenthal, Bison, Buffalo, Wyo.; John 

George, State, Rapid City, S.D.; John Burton, 

Nile, Mitchell, S.D.; Lionel Semon, 

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Seattle 'Interim' Film 

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SEATTLE — A local film censorship 

squabble was settled for the time being 

when the city council passed an "interim" 

ordinance that made it unlawful for exhibitors 

to show an "obscene" motion picture 

or play to persons under 18. The effect 

of the interim ordinance will be to 

allow 18-to-21-year-old patrons to see more 

"borderline" films, films that in the past 

have had an "adults only" label slapped on 

by the Board of Theatre Supervisors. 

The ordinance was created after Judge 

James Mifflin ruled in Superior Court in 

November that all of Seattle's moviecontrol 

ordinances were unconstitutional. 

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drafted—in the interim until the Supreme 

Court hears the appeal—an ordinance that 

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maintain the city's policy of controlling 

film showings, their content and their 

audiences. 

The suit had been brought by James 

Selvidge, manager of the Ridgemont and 

Edgemont theatres (the Fine Arts Guild 

and by local distributing representatives of 

several Hollywood studios. Sterling Theatres, 

Seattle's largest exhibitor, joined the 

suit as an intervenor. 

"The Slender Thread" has been selected 

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DENVER — Delegates of the Montana 

Theatre Ass'n, meeting here on February 

27 prior to the Show-A-Rama IX convention, 

elected Bob Conn of Kalispell new 

president of the regional affiliate of National 

Ass'n of Theatre Owners. Robert 

Sias of Missoula was named secretary and 

Herbert H. Bonifas of Chinook was named 

treasurer. 

Named directors were Richard Snyder, 

Wolf Point; Jim Bailey, Hamilton; Roy 

Roper, Butte; George Buzza, Great Falls; 

Douglas Williams, Billings; C. Mclntyre, 

Billings; Jim Arnst, Fort Benton, and 

Henry Flussy, Anaconda. 

PORTLAND 

The new Fox-Evergreen manager for the 

Music Box Theatre here is 27-year-old 

Dave Jorgenson, who 

jjrff^Bfcw. joined the circuit as 

MtAi VBk a d°orrrLan m 1958. A 

W'"~ ^l|l 4-year Navy veteran, 

I jM he returned to the 

company in 1963 and 

Ml '*9 W2P"~ 

fSt P> *p became assistant 

manager at the Fox. 

Before being named 

to the post, he attended 

National General 

Corp.'s managers 

school in Los Angeles 

. . . 

Dave Jorgenson 

Jules Gerlick, 

Western sales manager 

for Favorite Films, was on Filmrow 

with Bob Pamell, Seattle and Portland 

sales manager, conferring with exhibitors. 

"Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying 

Machines" will end its 30-week run tomorrow 

(15) at the Broadway. Another 20th- 

Fox film. "Do Not Disturb," will replace it. 

Eric Sundholm, who is manager of the 

Broadway, says the picture was to have 

opened Christmas week. He will use his 

holiday campaign, with special performances 

Friday (25) and "New Year's Eve" 

—April 1. 

Dick Rose, Guild Theatre manager, reports 

heavy college attendance for "Juliet 

of the Spirits," which started its fifth week 

Wednesday < 9 ) . He said some students 

attend from the University of Oregon in 

Eugene, 109 miles south, and from Oregon 

State University, Corvallis, 80 miles away. 

There have been repeats—particularly 

from patrons who want a better understanding 

of the Fellini technique, he said. 

SEATTLE 

'Zhivago' Benefit Premiere 

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.—The Boys Club of 

Arizona will receive the proceeds from the 

Qharmian Carr, 20th-Fox actress who appeared 

in "The Sound of Music," was 

benefit premiere of MGM's "Doctor here Monday (7) for publicity appearances 

Zhivago" Wednesday (16) in the Kachina that included KING-TV's "Telescope 

Theatre. 

Show," KOMO-TV's "Katherine Wise 

Show" and a radio interview on KIXI. 

Portland was covered by a special radio 

hook-up. She went to San Francisco after 

leaving Seattle. 


3rd 

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20 

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and 

1 

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'Doctor Zhivago' 400 

Sixth Week in Loop 

Chicago Loop theatre business held 

up very well once again, with 'emphasis 

on "The Silencers" in the third wi 

the Chicago and "The Spy With My 

Fact combined with "TO Trap a Spy" at 

the Roosevelt, also in the third wi 

fact, both theatres reported holdouts and 

weekend lineups. "The Chase, a newcomer, 

started off as a top grossei al thi 

State Lake Theatre 


Bismarck Palace— Doctor Zhivago MGM), 

6th wk 400 

Chicago—The Silencers Col) 3rd wk. 

Cinestage- The Agony ond the Ecstosy (20th- 

Fox), 10th wk 300 

Esquire Moment ..165 

to Moment niv), 2nd wk. 

Michael Todd— The Sound ot Music MGM), 

47th wk 250 

McV.cker^ Bottle ot the Bulge (WB), 12th wk. ..155 

Oriental Thunderbolt IV, 10th wk 200 

Roosevelt— The Spy With My Foc> MGM); To 

'.' 

Che 

Trap a Spy V ttk 250 

The 

MGM). 

United Artists— A Patch of Blue 

6th wt ... .175 

Woods— Our Man Flint 20th-Fox), 6th wk 170 

'Silencers' in 450 Debut 

At Kansas City Brookside 

KANSAS CITY—"The Silencers" at the 

Brookside lured the crowds with a record 

450 per cent in its opening week. Another 

opener, "Our Man Flint," tripled a 1 

business at the Plaza. 'The Plight of the 

Phoenix" in its opening week at the Roxy 

pulled 150 per cent. Among the holdovers. 

"A Patch of Blue" continued strong at the 

Embassy twin theatres with 300 per cent 

registered for the third week. "Battle of 

the Bulge" scored 250 per cent for the 

second week at the Empire. 

Brookside—The 

Capri—The Agony 

Silencers 

and the 

(Col) 

Ecstasy 

450 

?0th-Fox), 

1 th wk 90 

1 

Embassy I, wk...300 

2—A Patch of Blue MGM), 3rd 

Empire— Bottle of the 

Kimo— Juliet of the Spirits 

Midland—The Sound 

Bulge 

of Music 

WB), 2nd wk 

wk 

,20th-Fox), 34th 

350 

150 

wk 200 

Paramount- -Inside Daisy Clover WB), 2nd wk...l00 

Plaza—Our Mon Flint 20th-Fo> 300 

Rockhill— Darling 135 

wk 

Uptovn— The Ugly Dachshund BV Winnie the 

Pooh 'BV). 3rd wk. ...175 

Roxy—The Flight of the Phoenix (20th-Fox) 150 

Kerasotes Updating Pair 

For Illinois Students 

CHAMPAIGN. ILL. — Remodeling of 

Co-ed I in the University of Illinois campus 

district was started last month under the 

..-ion of Manager James Ackron The 

theatre is remaining open while the renovation 

is in progress- 

George Kerasotes. president of Kerasotes 

Theatres which owns the Co-ed I. said 

that the circuit's Princess Theatre m Urbana 

also will be updated. When the Princess 

project is completed. Kerasotes said the 

theatre will be renamed the Cinema and 

booked with art films slanted at the Uniof 

Illinois students. 

"Picture Mommy Dead" stars Don 

Ameche, Martha Hyer and Zsa Zsa Gabor. 

THEATRE EQUIPMENT 

**J N. ILLINOIS IT., INDIANAPOLIS. IND 

" Everything lor the Theatre" 

Eric B. Green Is Dead; 

K. C. 20th-Fox Manager 

Kansas ci i v Si rvic foi Eric B 

Green, branch manager of 20th Cei 

Fox. were held al 

a.m. Tuesday '8' 

1 1 

m 

i, .lid'i in 

Eric B. Green 

since 1959. 

company since 1950. ith the durlii", 

which he was a booker. He was head 

'Russian Adventure 7 

To Bow in Chicago 

CHICAGO — Cinerama's "Russian Adventure 

With Bing Crosby" will have its 

world premiere March 29 at the McVickers 

Shot with three cameras, as were 

the original Cinerama films, the new picture 

will be presented at the McVickers 

utilizing three projection booths. 

Full-page ads in four major newspapers 

ainady are heralding the premiere, which 

will be followed by showing of the film 

on a roadshow policy oi ten pi rformances 

weekly—seven evenings and matinees on 

day, Saturday and Sunday. 

Ascap to Hold Dinner 

For Music Educators 

KANSAS CITY—The American s 

of Composers, Authors and Publishers 

(Ascap) will host a dinner for distinguished 

guests and officials of thi 

National Conferenc 

Sunday 

> 

MENC's convention will 

be held in thi' Municipal Auditorium Friday 

through Tuesday 18-22'. and Ascap 

it will havi the exhibit. 

Gene Bruck, the society's coordinator of 

concert and symphoi Ethel 

Robinson, executive secretary of that division, 

and Dick Frohlich. Ascap public 

i.lations director, will host the party, towith 

famous composer members of 

the society who will be on hand for the 

convention. 

Sturges to 

Begin Filming 

From Wester 

HOLLYWOOD— Producer-director John 

Sturges will start filming 

Champion" July 11 at Oulton Pail. 

land. 

Councilwoman Urges 

Boycott on Obscenity 

KANSAS CITY—Mrs. Harry Hagan. a 

member ol the city council, 

showing ob- 

. 

comer chapel 

/erland Park. 

Kas at 3 p.m. 

>iile 

preventing 

motion 

the 

pictures 

showing of 

as a 

this 

means 

type 

of 

of 

ai the graveside in 

film. 

_ Oak Lawn cemi tery, Addi' ma club at the Catholic 

chancery, she pointed out the city has 

I Maysville. He died 

Saturday (5) m his 

ered difficulty in outlawing such 

)\eiiaiid Park home 

( 

pictures because of numerous legal rulings. 

was 

ii, 44. 

named branch man- 

city has maintained 

an ordinance against obscenity and 

all films so theatre managers can 

be asked to delete sequences that municdpal 

lawyers deem obscene under guidelines set 

up by the courts. 

i 

booker from 1955 until 1959. His first job 

"There are many ways to bring pressure 

against the showing of these < obscene' 

in the film industry was with Eagle Lion 

in 1950. also as booker. 

movies and against the selling of this kind 

of literature." Mrs. Hagan said. For 

He leaves his wife Wilma. two sons 

instance, she added, the more than 30,000 

Richard 

Dianne 

and 

and 

Robert, 

Kimbcrly, 

and two daughl 

PTA women and their families in the area 

all of the home: 

could visit every place where books or 

his mother, Mrs. Lolla D. Green of Charleston, 

111., and a brother Dayton of PI 

magazines are sold and could let it be 

known they object to this and plan to 

Tin Mot inn Picture Ass'n of Greater 

boycott the store. This literature no 

Kansas City suggests contributions be madi 

longer would be on the shelves. 

to its welfare fund in Green's memory. 

Donations should be sent in care of Frank 

"If obscene movies were treated like- 

Thomas, Allied Artists Pictures. 1700 

Wyandoite St, 

wise, the economic impact would bring 

about the change in the theatre owner's 

policy. People themselves must do something 

about these conditions," she pointed 

out. 

"Government is not the guardian of 

morals." she continued. "It is merely a 

means by which civic morality can be administered. 

It can rise no higher than the 

a 1 standard of the community manifested 

by the individuals who make 

" 

it 

Universal Signs Don Weis 

To Direct 'Four Winds' 

From Western Edition 

HOLLYWOOD — Don Weis has been 

signed by Universal production head Edward 

Muhl to direct "Four Winds." dramatic 

story of World War II. rolling April 

Manila. Weis left for the Philippines 

to select locations. No cast has been set 

but there will be two American leads, 

male and female, with the remainder of 

players to be selected in the islands. 

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KANSAS CITY 

2Srea exhibitors attending Show-A-Rama 

IX in Denver included Mr. and Mrs. 

Don Burnett of Lamed, Kas., Mr. and Mrs. 

Dale Danielson of Russell, Kas., Mr. and 

Mrs. Dean Zimmerman, who work for the 

Danielsons at their theatre, Mr. and Mrs. 

Paul Ricketts of Ness City, and Mr. and 

Mrs. Elvin Lambert of Smith Center. Mrs. 

Zimmerman returned home with a jeweled 

pin which she won at the convention and 

Lambert won a gold-plated Winchester 

rifle. 

The Women of the Motion Picture Industry 

plans to give a St. Patrick's Day 

party Sunday (20) at the Catherine Hale 

Home for Blind Women . Sutter 

of E&S Theatres, who was in Menorah 

Hospital for a checkup, was released Monday 

(7) and has been at home recuperating. 

He is expected back at work today 

(14). 

Hazel Droz, exhibitor at Anthony, Kas., 

has been on vacation in Hawaii . . . Gerry 

Haile, branch manager of Paramount Pictures, 

has returned from a business trip 

in the territory . . . S. P. "Buddy" Meade 

of the Meade Theatre and a drive-in at 

Kingman, Kas., has been inducted into 

service and is stationed at Lackland Air 

Force Base, near San Antonio. 

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New and Used Equipment 

Rentals — Spotlights 

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Modern Shop 

Repair Work 

Children's Mercy Hospital Tuesday (8). 

They are under the opinion that more 

Filmrowites should go to look at the facilities 

there so they can see the hospital 

is a worthy charity project and know what 

is being done there. Winningham believes 

if industry people were more aware of 

the need for support they would get behind 

the annual charity premiere benefit 

and sell all the tickets. 

Paul Ricketts of Ricketts Theatres at 

Ness City, Kas., reports wind damaged 

the screen of his drive-in at Plainville on 

Friday (4) and he will have to replace 

it. He plans to erect a new all-steel screen. 

Dr. James K. Loutzenhiser, psychiatrist 

and film scholar, who spoke on "A Layman 

Looks at Contemporary Cinema" at 

the February 20 forum at the All Souls 

Unitarian Church, has since given his talk 

at Pius X High School on February 24 

and at St. Teresa High School on Wednesday 

(2). 

< 

Al Elewitz, special fieldman for Universal 

Pictures, has been in town setting 

up a promotion for "The Rare Breed" 

which opened Thursday the Crest 

Theatre in Wichita. He worked in conjunction 

with Commonwealth Theatres, the 

American Polled Hereford Ass'n and the 

Glenn Cunningham Youth Ranch, Au- 

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• 

Screenings were: "The Dirty Game" 

(AIP) at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday Commonwealth. 

B. J. McKenna, owner of a theatre and 

drive-in at Paola, Kas., has sold both 

operations to C. J. Thomas, the son of 

Charles Thomas of the Parkside Theatre 

in Marshall. C. J. has been working for 

a lumber company in Osawatomie, Kas., 

where he lives. 

ST. 

LOUIS 

\A7edding bells are scheduled to ring in 

late April for Marge Collins of Allied 

Artists, past president of WOMPI, and 

Cliff Burtt, owner of Burtt's Film Delivery 

Service. The pair will live in the 

new Grand Tower apartments. 

Missouri Illinois Theatre Owners board 

meeting is set for noon today (14) in Arthur- 

Enterprises' screening room at the 

Fox Theatre. Featured on the agenda will 

be a report from the several members who 

were in attendance at Show-A-Rama IX 

in Denver. A buffet luncheon will be 

served. 

Magdalena Weinhardt, mother of the 

late Susanne Weinhardt McGlasson, former 

staff member at Arthur Enterprises, 

died Saturday (5), just eight days after 

the death of her daughter. 

Joyce Turnbull has resigned from the 

staff of MGM to assume full-time duties 

as a homemaker and expectant mother . 

New Paramount booker is John Catanzaro, 

formerly with United Artists. 

Omar Sharif, star of MGM's epic, "Doctor 

Zhivago," is expected to be on hand 

for 

gusta, Kas. 

the Tuesday (29) premiere of the film 

at Arthur Enterprises' Ambassador Theatre. 

The showing will benefit the Spanish 

Special invitations have been mailed for 

John Long of the George Regan Film a press preview of "Doctor Zhivago" which Pavilion . WOMPI Club, with 

Distributing Co. reports his son and MGM is sponsoring on Tuesday at Pauline Wrozier as president, will entertain 

prospective members at a buffet din- 

daughter-in-law are the parents of a the Capri Theatre . will 

daughter. Long's fourth grandchild and screen a product reel "Entertainment ner meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday (15) in 

second granddaughter . Evens. 

1966" at 1:30 p.m. today at Commonwealth 

screening room. 

Fox. 

the screening room at Arthur Enterprises' 

area representative of United Artists, left 

Wednesday (9) for a business trip in St. 

Out-of-town exhibitors seen on Filmrow 

were: H. L. Frazee, Camdenton; P. R. selling milk-chocolate candy bars at 50 

As a special Easter project WOMPIs are 

Louis. 

Dick Orear, Frank Thomas, Doug Lightner 

and Jack Winningham went to a Mills; Clyde Leeson, Carthage; Frank pital . . . WANTED: Books—paperbacks 

Black, Mound City; Scott Fleener. Gravois cents each to benefit the Will Rogers Hos- 

luncheon and were taken on a tour at Weary, Richmond; Marvin Hembree, and hard-covers, fact and fiction, to stock 

Stockton; Leon Robertson, Lawrence, Kas.; the patients' library at Will Rogers Hospital. 

Each WOMPI is a collection agent 

Myron Woolever, Unionville; Mr-, and Mrs. 

H. E. Aldridge, California, Mo.; Fred Wilcox, 

Gallatin, and Chet Borg, Fort Scott. Allied Artists providing the depot for pack- 

in the books drive, with Marge Collins at 

ing and shipment. These books are for the 

isolation area of the hospital and cannot 

after their use be passed on to other hospital 

areas. A serious shortage exists and 

all industryites have been asked to drop 

off a book or an armload of books on 

their next visit to the Row . . . Election 

of officers for the 1966-67 WOMPI term 

Morton "Bud" Truog of United Artists will be held April 20. 

the Missouri territory and reports 

traveled in 

business is picking up 

Klug, UA booker, and Pat 

. . . 

Gasisch, 

Jack 

UA 

bookers' secretary, are egg on an diet. 

They won't tell what they have "gained." 

Albert Critchlow Dies 

ALTON. ILL.—Albert Critchlow, owner 

and operator of the Roxana Theatre which 

was closed October 31, died in St. Joseph's 

Hospital Friday, February 18. Burial was 

in Arlington National Cemetery. 

"The Night of the Generals" is a thrilling 

manhunt for a murderer against the 

background of Nazi-occupied Warsaw and 

Paris, climaxing in West Berlin. 

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of Torture" and "Cave of the Living 

Dead," followed by "A Stranger Knocks," 

"Macbeth," "The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse" 

and "The Return of Dr. Mabuse." 

. 

The Hyde Park, a part of the Kohlberg 

circuit, was closed briefly for some repairs. 

The theatre was only slightly damaged 

when an adjoining business building 

was destroyed by fire Kohlberg. 

head of Kohlberg Theatre Enterprises, 

returned from a sojourn in Florida. 

He immediately started work on preopening 

activities for two of his new properties 

—the 900-seat Lawrencewood and the 1,- 

800-seat Morton Grove. 

Honor Blackmail made a brief stopover 

visit here before going on to Denver 

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ducer Alan Iselin was in town to plug his 

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Monster," prior to its scheduled Chicago 

area debut . Colleen Moore Hargrave 

announced she is negotiating a movie 

deal for her memoirs, which she is completing. 

Joe Feulner of H&E Balaban announced 

that the company's Rockford Drive-In, the 

Robbin Drive-in and the River Lane Outdoor 

will open for spring weekend operation 

as of April 1. 

The new stage show at the Regal Theatre 

features 36 rock and roll singers and 

entertainers, including the Marvellettes, 

The Contours, La Vern Baker, Wayne 

Cochran and the C. C. Riders, The Dells 

and Tammi Terrell, with Red Saunders 

and his orchestra ... A report from the 

Oriental Theatre shows that all boxoffice 

records there have been broken with 

"Thunderball." In ten weeks grosses totaled 

$750,000 and attendance continues at a 

heartening rate. 

A recent article written by a moviegoer 

about reduced admissions for "oldsters" 

continues to draw responses from various 

channels. This week Ralph Schoenig. manager 

of the Lake Theatre, announced in 

a Chicago Tribune column that his Lamar 

and Lake theatres in suburban Oak 

Park have a Golden Age Movie Club that 

is open to "all persons 60 years of age or 

older living in Oak Park and other communities." 

Members are entitled to attend 

all regular performances for 50 cents admission. 

The Tribune, investigating the 

matter, added a column note stating that 

the club in its third year has 3,000 members, 

including persons from Chicago and 

suburbs. 

Ida Kamenska will include Chicago in 

her itinerary in connection with her 

award-winning movie, "The Shop on Main 

Street." It will open at the Loop and the 

Carnegie theatres, both Brotman & Sherman 

properties . of Chicago 

are including a bosses luncheon in upcoming 

events. The installation dinner for 

new officers will also be a feature event 

in the club's schedule for 1966 . . . Warner 

Bros, press chief Frank Casey is confident 

that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, 

as well as director Mike Nichols, will 

include Chicago in their tour in late June 

on behalf of "Who's Afraid of Virginia 

Woolf?" 

The Bryn Mawr Theatre completed its 

Thursday night opera series, with reports 

that these programs were well received. A 

program of Shakespeare films is next in 

line for special Thursday night showings. 

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'10th Victim' Opens 

In Memphis With 225 

MEMPHIS- A newcomer and a holdover 

stood at the head of the city's grossing 

list when the week's business was 

totaled, as "Our Man Flint," the holdover, 

carried off first honors with 250 

for a sixth week at the Malco. The newcomer. 

"The 10th Victim." wound up its 

opening week at the Guild with a sturdy 

225 per cent. Meanwhile, "The Agony and 

the Ecstasy" turned in another notable 

round at the Crosstown, registering 175 

in its tenth week. 


Police Find It's a Movie, 

Not a Teenage Gang War 

DAVIE, FLA.—Residents of this small 

farm community, quickly awakened to a 

volley of gunshots, called police who sent 

patrol cars speeding to the scene of what 

was thought to be a teenage gang war. 

With guns drawn, the police encountered 

a band of Mexican militia engaged 

in a battle with henclimen who were 

guarding three black -gowned women from 

the cover of a ranch house. Moving in 

cautiously, police learned they were in the 

midst of the filming of a scene for "The 

Devil's Sisters." 

Director William Grefe. deaf from the 

fusillade, did not understand the situation 

and immediately chewed out the police on 

the spot, thinking they were extras who 

had arrived in the wrong costumes. The 

mistake was rectified, and after a brief 

inspection for firearms permits, the police 

returned sheepishly to the station house. 

Beverly Hall Reassigned 

To Theatre in Lumberton 

LUMBERTON. N.C.—Beverly G. Hall has 

been sent here from Columbia. S.C.. to 

succeed Bill Cutts as manager of the 

Carolina Theatre, one of the Wilby-Kincey 

circuit houses. Hall's appointment was announced 

by William Enloe. the circuit's 

supervisor for this area. 

Hall joined the circuit's staff ten years 

ago while he was still a high school student 

in his hometown of Rocky Mount. Prior 

to his Columbia assignment, he worked for 

the circuit in Charlotte. 

Chicopee Cinema Promises 

'Refined Movies' Policy 

SPRINGFIELD—Reid Enterprises, owner 

of the Art Cinema in suburban Chicopee. 

has reached an agreement with the 

Chicopee city solicitor's office to maintain 

a "refined movies" policy, and. in return, 

the solicitor's office said the theatre would 

be issued a license every two weeks. 

A squabble broke out some weeks ago 

over product selectivity at the theatre, 

cries of "obscene" entertainment being 

sounded in the community. 

Annual MPEOF Convention Will Meet 

In Grand Bahama Island May 72-75 

JACKSONVILLE -Henry B. Glover, an 

independent exhibitor at Largo and 

dent of the Motion Picture Exhibitors of 

Florida, announced heir that the annual 

MPEOF convention will be held May 12- 

15, for the first time on foreign soil. He 

said thai arrangements have been complet 

id which provide the MPEOF m< tnbei 

and officers with reserved accommodations 

at the palatial Grand Bahama Hotel In 

the community of West End on Grand Ba 

hama Island in the British West Indus 

In spite ni the facl that the convention 

'. 

inch will feature 

li u of NATO as its main 

speakers and workshops for working theaii. 

in. ii 'i in island has some of the most 

famous 

i ational facilities of the Caribbean 

area. Oli-season economy rates will 

evailing during May. Special rates 

conventioneers will range from $26 

to $37 daily for doubles and $17 to $28 

for singles. Hairs include breakfast and 

Mn round-trip boat fare from 

Palm Beach is $20. 

Mrs. Betty Loop, secretary to Horace 

Denning, local district supervisor for Dixie 

Drive-in Th< 

:n for the convention, and Den- 

Crosstown—The Agony and the Ecstosy (20th- 

Fox). 0th wk 1 175 

Guild—The 

Malco— Our 

10th 

Man 

Victim 

Flint 

iEmbassy) 

20th-Fox] 

.. 

6th 

....225 

250 

»i 

site is abroad, Glover explained thai LI is 

Palace— Thundcrball more accessible from a geographical standpoint 

10th wk 150 

than many 

Paramount—The Sound ot Musk (20th-Fox), 

48th wk 100 

parts cf Florida would be 

Plaza The Heroes ot Tclcmork Col), 2nd wk. .100 to exhibitors who live at distant points. ning is the MPEOF trea 

The Money Trap (MGM) 

is 2 resort only 4' hours from 

The British Other officers active In making arrangements 

State 

Studio Kwoidan (Cont'l) 

Warner— 

.... 1 25 

Palm Beach by cruise ship and only 30 

for the yearlj gathering are Carl 

The Rorc Breed Univ), 2nd wk. 

minutes away by airline from West Palm Floyd. Haines City: Mark DuPree, Silver 

Beach. 

Springs: Harvey Fleischman, Miami; Pete 

Glover said that MPEOF officers are Stuns. Tampa; Ignacio Carbonnell, Key 

now preparing an outstanding industry West, and Robert Heekin, Jacksonville. 

Atlanta WOMPI Names 

Nominating Committee 

ATLANTA—Agnes Bailey, secretary to 

the manager of Buena Vista here, is chairman 

of the nominating committee for th( 

WOMPI Club. She will be assisted by Nell 

Middleton. secretary to the MGM division 

manager and a past WOMPI president: 

Katherine Moore, secretary at National 

Theatre Supply: Margaret Thompson, secretary 

at Benton Bros. Film Express, and 

Orris Smith of MGM. 

Five members were inducted into the 

club at the February meeting. They are 

Annette Vaughn. Dominant Pictures; Ellen 

Jones and Ruby Robbins. Buena Vista; 

Jane Armstrong. MGM. and Betty Dillingham, 

20th Century-Fox 

Mary Edna Brand: presented a program 

on "Hats and History" at the meeting, including 

a collection of hats from 1896 with 

facts on fashions through the years and 

the events in history that were prevalent 

when the hats were in vogue. WOMPIs 

serving as models were Marcelle Kohn. UA; 

Marilyn Craddock, Craddock Films: Mrs. 

Middleton: Mrs. Vaughn: Sara Masdon 

and Carolyn Hulsey. UA; Mrs. Thompson 

and Mary Jane Keen. Warner Bros. 

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Crossett Loan Declared 

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LITTLE ROCK. ARK.—A federal loan 

of $78,400 for a drive-in theatre at Crossett 

represents an individual ruling and does 

not open the door to similar loans throughout 

Arkansas. 

That was the reply of Bruce Bennett. 

Arkansas attorney-general, to a request by 

Robert A. Carpenter, a Hamburg drive-in 

theatre owner, that Bennett reconsider an 

opinion under which the Arkansas Industrial 

Development Commission approved 

the loan for construction of a drive-in at 

Crossett, which is near Hamburg. 

Carpenter had advised Bennett that the 

loan to the Crossett airer backers had 

placed him in an unfair position of having 

to compete against a nonprofit corporation 

in a theatrical venture. 

Bennett, who had issued an opinion 

classing the Crossett business as an "industry," 

said that the first action was taken 

by the Crossett Industrial Development 

Commission and later approved by AIDC. 

"The opinion my office rendered was 

confined to that application only and any 

other similar applications will have to be 

started through their local industrial 

development committees and then be approved 

by the state commission," Bennett 

was quoted by the Little Rock Democrat. 

"The money being loaned comes from the 

Small Business Administration with no 

local or state money involved." 

In the original opinion referred to by 

Bennett, dated February 2 and made public 

by the AIDC two weeks later, the attorney-general 

said that the 1955 act 

creating the AIDC and authorizing "industrial" 

loans, must be construed "liberally." 

Carpenter immediately challenged the 

attorney-general on his classifying the 

Crossett drive-in project as "industry" and 

therefore eligible for the loan. Carpenter 

told the Little Rock Gazette that he remembers 

that the attorney-general's office, 

a few years ago, ruled that movie theatres 

could not be regarded as "industry" and 

had to pay the 3 per cent sales tax on containers 

used in concessions sales. 

Carpenter also told the Gazette that he 

asked a lawyer about the use of SBA funds 

for such an enterprise and was advised 

that any legal action challenging the loan 

would cost him about $3,000. Carpenter 

said he didn't have the money to wage the 

fight and that he doubted the theatre organization 

to which he belongs would want 

to contest it since some of the members 

welcomed Bennett's original opinion as a 

new route to theatre financing, an assumption 

which seems to have been a false hope 

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MEMPHIS 

Cpring came early to the Memphis trade 

territory. Drive-ins, which have been 

closed during the coldest weeks of the 

winter, are reopening daring these warm, 

bright days of early spring. Three Arkansas 

reopenings, for instance, came 

March 4: J. A. Eggerman's Glenwood, 

Glenwood: Southern Theatres' Skylark, 

Pocahontas, and the Starlite, Gassville. 

MGM tradescreened "The Glass Bottom 

Boat" at the Park Theatre March 4 . . . 

Bob Bostick, Southern manager of National 

Theatre Supply, attended Show-A- 

Rama in Denver . Elizabeth De- 

Guire, who operates the Shannon Theatre, 

Portageville, Mo., was a Memphis visitor. 

William H. Cook, Valley, Water Valley; 

Mrs. Grady Green, Grenada, Grenada; 

Frank Heard, Lee Drive-In, Tupelo; C. N. 

Eudy. Houston, Houston, and Leon Rountree. 

Holly, Holly Springs, were among 

visiting . . Mississippi exhibitors Andy 

Jonas. Trenton Drive-In, 

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Trenton, and 

W. F. Ruffin, Ruffin Amusements Co., 

Covington, were in town from Tennessee. 

Keigler Flake in Charge 

Of Pay TV Equipment 

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HARTFORD—Keigler E. Flake has been 

named general manager of WHCT-TV 

(Channel 18), America's sole on-the-air 

subscription TV experiment. 

Flake, succeeding Mark Forrester, who 

has resigned after two years in that capacity, 

will be in charge of both subscription 

TV and commercial operations of 

WHCT-TV, which is owned and operated 

by RKO General, Inc. 

For more than a year, Flake was general 

sales manager, then general manager for 

northern California operations, based in 

San Francisco, of Subscription TV, Lie. 

the company that inaugurated pay TV on 

the Pacific Coast. (A California referendum 

which closed down that operation has 

since been declared unconstitutional by 

California's 

Superior Court.) 

Prior to working with Subscription TV, 

Flake served as assistant to the executive 

vice-president of R. H. Donnelly Corp., 

direct-mail advertising and merchandising 

firm. 

Norelco Will Introduce 

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NEW YORK—A new Plumicon color 

camera line, the PG-70, will be introduced 

by Norelco at the National Ass'n of Broadcasters 

convention in Chicago March 27- 

30, and will be a feature of the North 

American Philips studio exhibit in the 

Continental Room of the Conrad Hilton 

Hotel. 

The new camera, Norelco says, is more 

functional and compact than any existing 

system. It features zoom optics, prism 

beam split, printed circuit cards in modular 

construction and completely transistorized 

circuitry. Its ability to deal with variations 

in flesh tones and shadows will be 

illustrated through color monitors on a 

studio set with live models at the convention. 

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John H. Stembler. president of Georgia 

Theatre Co. and a reserve colonel in 

the Air Force, received word while he was 

a patient in Emory University Hospital 

that his nomination by President Johnson 

to brigadier general had been approved by 

the Senate. He reported back to the GTC 

office Monday (7) 

A week of miserable weather, including 

sleet and snow, followed by three days of 

continuous rain, put a damper on business, 

especially drive-in operations. Hazardous 

driving conditions, with which Atlantans 

are not familiar, cut deeply into the hardtop 

trade and dealt blows to a group of 

first-class pictures that had openings during 

the week. 

Ernest Martin of Winchester, Term., 

general manager of the Cumberland 

Amusement Co., has been named "man of 

the year" by the Jaycees. He is a frequent 

visitor to Filmrow in the course of his 

duties with Cumberland, which operates 

the Oldham Theatre and Family Drive-In 

at Winchester, plus 13 other locations in 

Tennessee. 

Bill Roth of the Palace in Gallatin, Tenn.. 

paid a visit to Filmrow . Hart, special 

fieldman for United Artists, who set 

the original engagement of "The Greatest 

Story Ever Told" when it opened its roadshow 

stand at Martin's Georgia Cinerama 

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Qarl Heine jr.. Universal booker, has returned 

from a week's vacation in Detroit 

Carol Jean Barnette, daughtei 

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of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Barnette. is to be 

married on May 28 to Ken Boudreaux. 

Phil Salles, Covington theatre owner, 

was m town on business, as were Ira Olroyd. 

Tech Theatre, Franklin. La., and 

John Luster of the Luster circuit 

The husband of Anna Ryan. Warnej 

Bros, assistant cashier, was hospitalized 

chief biller Ruth Cooks husband 

suffered a broken ankle. 

Sylvia Gregoire has returned to Buena 

Vista as secretary . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

screenings were "Lady L" and 

"Maya" '4i 

. MGM tradescreened 

"The Glass Bottom Boat" at tin 

new Robert E. Lee Thi at 

The Robert E. I.ee also will be holding 

an invitational premiere of "Juliet of the 

Spirits" . Bennin. MGM Southern 

division manager, was in the city . 

Lewis Oubre. formerly with Buena Vista, 

has joined MGM as a salesman. 

Spring Opening Possible 

For 24th Durkee Theatre 

Durkee Enterprises. 

Ground was broken in October and 

opening is scheduled for late spring. Featuring 

facilities for stereophonic sound and 

70mm projection, the Plaza will offer patrons 

parking for 410 cars, a covered 

canopy between the entrance and lobby 

proper, an interior boxoffice and widespaced, 

clear-view seating by Heywood 

Wakefield. Other features are to be an art 

gallery, sound -proofing between the lobby 

and auditorium, spacious aisles and combination 

candy counter and coffee bar. 

The designer of the Plaza is Mitchel 

Abramowitz. while the general contractor 

is William Bros. & Small of Annapolis. 

Michigan Allied Backs 

FCC's CATV Decision 

DETROIT—Milton London, president of 

Michigan Allied and executive director of 

the National Ass'n of Theatre Owners, says 

the FCC's decision to assert jurisdiction 

over CATV is in conjunction with the 

thinking of his organization. 

"By means of CATV, a community can 

be forced to pay for the very same programs 

it now views free if the elected represent^' 

nit or foolish enough 

grant a CATV franchise without a specific 

to 

clause prohibiting its use for pay 

TV." London said. 

The Michigan Allied official asked theatremen 

to contact their mayor 

managers and commissioners to inform 

them of a pay TV' possibility through 

CATV. 

'Girls Friday of Showbiz' 

Organize for Philanthropy 

HOLLYWOOD—Now the girls in the 

Executive secretaries to motion picture 

and television stars, directors, producers, 

writers, etc.. where they are appropriately 

named "Girls Friday." the group already 

has provided three children with surgery. 

Major fund-raising events will be held 

throughout the year and the entire proceeds 

from these events will be funncled 

Into the charity work. 

Dee Somers, acting publicity chairman 

and "girl Friday" to Stanley Warner Theatres 

chief on the Coast, Herb Oopelan, 

supplied this list of officers: Winifred 

Robertson, president; Jan Ellis, executive 

vice-president; Doris Turner, first vicepresident; 

Jill Renton, second vice-president; 

Estella Frankel, secretary; Helen 

Melnick. treasurer; Dee Somers, philanthropy 

chairman: Sydney Whitmore, publicity 

chairman, and Natalie Drapkin, bulletin 

chairman. Mailing address of the 

group is post office box 8565, Universal 

City. 

ANNAPOLIS. MD. — Construction is 

Michael Caine Gets Role 

sing rapidly at the Plaza Theatre, 

which faces Parole Plaza Shopping Center 

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HOLLYWOOD—Michael Caine was selected 

by Otto Preminger for one of the 

on Route 2 at Forest Drive. Being built 

at an estimated cost of $450,000. the Plaza 

six star parts in his next film "Hurry Sun- 

is to be the 24th theatre operated by F. H. 

down," based on the best-selling novel by 

K. B. Gilden. Production on the Paramount 

release is scheduled to begin June 

1 on location in the South. 

Cornel Wilde on Tour 


HOLLYWOOD—Cornel Wilde is making 

a six-city personal appearance and promotional 

tour for his picture "The Naked 

Prey," with release set for April. A graduate 

of Columbia, the actor-director-producer 

will be a guest lecturer at many 

schools and universities on the trip. 

NC Circuit to Build 

In Greensboro Center 

GREENSBORO. N.c. — The Friendly 

Shopping Center has been announced as 

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business have their own organization devoted 

to the philanthropic job of providing 

reconstructive or corrective surgery for 

needy children. On February 15 the formal 

organization of Girls Friday of Showbiz 

took place. Formal installation of the officers 

operates the Carolina and National theca 

will be on Tuesday atres in Greensboro. 

at the Corsi- 

n Restaurant. 

Dave Garvin jr., district manager for 

the circuit, told the Greensboro New 

the theatre is to be built on the northeast 

corner of Northline Street and Pembroke 

Road. Architect for the house is the Six 

Associates, Asheville, but Garvin declined 

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e of a 750-seat theatre which will be 

operated by North Carolina Theatres when 

it opens next fall. The circuit currently 

to estimate the cost of the new theatre. 

However, he told the News that the 

front of the building will be "of most 

modern design, featuring an almost 100 per 

cent glass-enclosed lobby. The front will 

be triangular with an open-look boxoffice 

at the point of the triangle." 

Staggered seating will give every patron 

a clear view of the screen which will cover 

nearly all the front wall of the auditorium. 

Bright, modern colors are to be utilized in 

theatre decorations and for the carpets, 

front curtain, drapes and seats. 

Garvin said negotiations for the theatre 

were made through Frank R. Hutton, 

vice-president and general manager of 

Friendly Center, Inc. Edward B. Benjamin 

is president of the shopping center. 

The Friendly Center house will be the 

first new Greensboro film theatre since 

the Victory was built and opened in 1942. 

The latter was renamed the Cinema when 

it was remodeled in 1948. The two local 

North Carolina houses date back to the 

'20s, the Carolina opening in 1927 and the 

National in 1921. Another Greensboro theatre, 

the Center goes back to vaudeville 

days, when it was operated as the 

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JACKSONVILLE 

Deebee Ludwig, Florida State Theatres 

home office receptionist, is in Baptist 

Hospital recovering from major surgery 

Prince, an expert on theatre 

machine repairs, went into Baptist Hospital 

for observation after an auto accident. 

A team of VVOMPI members served as 

hostesses at a sneak preview screening of 

"Glass Bottom Boat" at the downtown 

Florida. Kitty Dowell, WOMPI president, 

said that assistance is always 

WOMPI 

available to exhibitors and distributors for 

special presentations to the public through 

the WOMPI industry service committee 

Ma this, Paramount manager, 

held two advance product screenings. He 

presented "Nevada Smith" to a large industry 

group at a morning screening in the 

downtown Center and "The Ten Commandments" 

was shown to a group of 

VIPs at an afternoon showing in the suburban 

San Marco Art Theatre. 

R. F. Mackes. a former Florida exhibi- 

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tor residing at Sciota, Pa., is returning to 

the industry as manager of the Okeechobee 

Drive-In at Okeechobee exhibitors 

included Charles Blews, Capri 

Art, Lake Worth; William Carroll, Vogue, 

Orlando: Ralph Bailey, Eagle, Blountstown; 

Thomas E. Bell, Smyrna, New 

Smyrna Beach; Henry Koehner, Raymon. 

Frostproof; Roy Bang, Orlando; Pete Dawson, 

United Booking Service, Miami; William 

Lee, Cinema. New Port Richey, and 

Dick Eason, MGM Theatres. Leesburg. 

W. A. "Bill" McClure, Universal manager, 

returned from a company sales 

gathering in New Orleans and journeyed 

to Miami with his division chief Pete F. 

Rosian to attend the world premiere of 

"Madame X" . 

WOMPI groups 

held Tupperware sales parties as part of 

their current fund drive. 

Three Florida State Theatres managers 

have formed a team to present a 1966 series 

of recognized musical film classics from the 

past on a Thursday-only policy. They are 

Joanne Starr. Colony Theatre, Winter 

Park; H. A. "Red" Tedder. Matanzas Theatre. 

St. Augustine, and Iva Lowe. WOMPI 

manager of the local San Marco Art Theatre. 

Their current programs include 

"Rose Marie," "Sweethearts," "Showboat," 

"Brigadoon," "Girl of the Golden West," 

"The Great Caruso" and "The Merry 

Widow." 

Barbara Hutchinson is now serving as 

ing office . . . 

Tom Sawyer's secretary in the FST book- 

Sunny Greenwood, Universal 

booker, said that her leg will soon 

be out of a cast after several weeks of 

hobbling about on crutches . . . Former 

motion picture star Lynn Bari came in 

town to head the cast of "Barefoot in the 

Park," a Broadway touring company's 

presentation at the Civic Auditorium. 

The long run of "The Greatest Story 

Ever Told" is expected to surge past Easter 

on the screen of Sheldon Mandell's Five 

. 

Points . support for "A Patch 

of Blue" carried this Academy Awards 

nominee into a third week at FST's Edgewood 

. Spy Who Came in From 

the Cold." also an Oscar nominee, moved 

easily into its second week at FST's downtown 

Center and students 

were supplied with discount coupons for 

attending special performances of "Othello" 

at the San Marco Art Theatre. 

Correction: An item in this column 

February 14 stated that "The Woman's 

Club presented the program in an effort to 

win a $500 prize from Theatre Owners of 

America for use in helping to support a 

local dental clinic." Mrs. Margaret Twyman, 

director of the community relations 

department. Motion Picture Ass'n of 

America, advises Boxoffice: "Actually 

this Woman's Club program was presented 

in our 'Movies and You' Awards competition, 

so the $500 prize will be presented to 

the winning club by the community relations 

department of MPAA. The competition 

closes April 1 and the awards will 

be announced at the General Federation 

Convention in June in Chicago." 

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For Philip's Visit 

From 

Western Edition 

tickets for which are $100 a plate. 

Jim Nicholson, chief barker, told the 

members that during his regime membership 

has increased to 360. a one-third gain. 

Fred Stein, president of Statewide Theatres, 

inducted some new members at the 

meeting. 

New members are Richard Zanuck. 

Men yn LeRoy. Robert W. Selig. John Klee. 

Zack Beiser, Richard Harris. David Greenberg, 

Matt Appelman. Jack Bohrer, Jay C. 

Christensen. Martin S. Colbert. Jim Jacobson. 

Larry C. Smith. David West. Irwin 

Yablans, Pat Buttram, James E. Jacobson, 

Dr. Hal Gerard, and Irving H. Levin. 

Gerard and Irving reinstated their memberships. 

Paramount Names Flicker 

To Eastern Production 

NEW YORK—Norman Flicker, a member 

of Paramount's home office legal staff 

specializing in production matters, has 

been named eastern production representative 

for Paramount by Howard W. Koch, 

vice-president and studio production head. 

In his new post. Flicker will serve as 

liaison between the studio and the home 

office on all phases of production activities. 

He joined Paramount's legal department 

in 1952 and. after serving as Navy lieum 

the Korean War, 

a 

returned to 

the company in 1956. Flicker ha 

ted to law practice before the U.S. 

Supreme Court. His wife. Barbara, is also 

an attorney 

Muriel Franklin portrays Joseph Cotten's 

daughter in Joseph E Levine's forthcoming 

"The Tramplers." 

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MIAMI 

Jôu Fishkin is leaving the theatre business 

after 42 years to manage an apartment 

complex for Lou Brandt. Fishkin's 

latest post was with Brandt Theatres' local 

operation, mostly the Lincoln Theatre on 

Lincoln Mall at Miami Beach. His assist- 

HOLLYWOOD—Mike Fninkovich, pasl 

chief barker of the London Variety Club 

and now a member of Tent 25. presented 

an exciting vista on Prince Philip's Los 

Angeles visit at the monthly meeting of 

the club. The prince is due to arrive Mon- 

PJ Hogan has been named lo replace 

him at the Lincoln. "The Silencers" 

day a three-day visit. 

will open at the house soon, followm 

Three of the better-known muslcmakers, Agony and the Ecstasy." 

Henry Mancini. Elmer Bernstein and 

John W. Bryan has been named president 

of Florida Films, Inc., of Fort Lauder- 

Johnny Green, will form a "piano 

and present a musical rendition at a dinner 

dale He has been an in film 

executive the 

for the prince. Louis Armstrong also 

processing business for more than 

Florida's tourist 

will be on hand. Included on the dais are 

Miami Seaquarium 

to be Jack Lemmon. Jimmy Durante and was presented the governor's award of 

Cary Grant, who will emcee 

mini for "significant contributions to 

A private reception lor Philip preceding 

economy.'' 

the dinner will be hosted by oil ma 

donation, 

George Getty, who made a $25,000 Louis Wolfson, vicepresideni 

state Hep. who Is 

and more than 30 persons have signified 

of broadcasting for wometco, 

their intention of attending the evenl has qualified as a candidate for re-election, 

Tickets are $1,000 each. A limited number seeking a third term. He is running in 

of tickets are available for the reception. group 4, countywide and is a third generation 

of his family to engage in public 

Frankovich said, and 62 of the 100 tables 

already have been sold for the dinner, service. 

> 

Mitchell Wolfson. head of Wometco. was 

chairman of the Jackie Gleason Dinner 

held Sunday 1 3 the Pontainebleau 

Hotel. Gleason was honored at the national 

B'nai B'rith Youth Services dinner 

and ball, attended by stars of screen, radio. 

TV and nightclubs. He was chosen because 

of "the fine example he has set for 

the youth of America, overcoming many 

obstacles to become the great personality 

lie is." The B'nai B'rith Foundation supports 

Hillel House on over 250 college 

It also provides vocational 

guidance for students about to enter college. 

Proceeds from the $100-per-couple 

dinner will go to the organization's youth 

program. 

Son? writer Al Jacobs has just completed 

the background music for Thunderbird 

International Pictures' "Sting of Death" 

and now is doing another score for "The 

Devil's Sisters." A Miami resident ten 

years, Jacobs has been writing songs for 

40 years. 

flarvey Fleischman, official of Wometco, 

theatres in the 

area, including the Parkway. Mayfair, Sunset. 

163rd Street and Palm Springs, feature 

continuous art displays of local artists. 

as do many other area houses. He does not 

think such displays are financially beneficial 

to the theatres, although they might 

some amount of goodwill. In his 

opinion, it is a sort of "gimmick" that theidopted 

a few years ago when theatre 

business was not too good, and now. 

when business has picked up, it is not 

necessary. 

lii-iii Kaplan, vice-president of the new 

Bay Harbor Theatre. Miami Beach, was 

mi Beach Sun in Its 

daily picture-profile feature "The Sun 

Beams On" Allyson. who i 

the Coconut Grove Playhouse The- 

Goodbye Ghost." has postponed a 

kidney stone operation to complete her 

engagement here. 

\ -i>--. i.M i section in the Miami 

News highlighted "Madame X." which 

world premiered here Thursday (3) in the 

Carib, Miami, Miracle and 163rd Street 

theatres, with premiere engagements also 

in more than 50 theatres throughout 

Florida. Producer Ross Hunter. Lana Turner, 

John Forsythe. John Van Dreelen 

and Burgess Meredith took part in the 

at fan- 

Harry Botwick of Florida State Theatres 

hosted a luncheon for veterans of the 

Battle of the Bulge in the Dupont Plaza 

Hotel. The veterans also were guests to 

view the movie of the same title which 

opened at the Sheridan Theatre. 

Movie magnate Albert Warner of Miami 

Beach is giving $200,000 to Mount Sinai 

Hospital to establish his family physician 

Dr. S. Charles Werblow as a founder member 

of the institution. Last year Warner 

gave the hospital $1.3 million for a continuing 

care pavilion. 

Ushers for the Prince Philip Banquet on 

Wednesday >9> include Mrs. P. William 

Burke, wife of the Variety Children's Hospital's 

president; Mrs. Edward J. Melniker. 

president of Variety Women's committee; 

Mrs. George Mat-Lean, wife of the chief 

barker of Variety: Mrs. George C. Hoover. 

wife of Variety International director; Mrs. 

Newell Taylor; June P. Cutting; Mrs. William 

V. Delanhunt; Iris Kite; Mrs. Henry 

Oxell; Mrs. Charles R. Jacobson; Mrs. 

Arthur Apple; Mrs. Sigmund Eisenberg; 

Mrs. Edward Newman and Anne Barrow. 

The $12,000 Cadillac which Miamians 

saw Lana Turner driving in "Madame X" 

has been purchased by the Star at a 

marked-down price of $6,000 . . . Richard 

Poole has been named assistant manager 

of the new Bay Harbor Theatre . . . Danny 

Thomas and George Jessel attended the 

Sunday i6> dinner at the City of Hope to 

honor state attorney Richard Gerstein as 

"man of the year." Funds will be used 

to establish a research fellowship in Gerstein's 

honor. 

Jayne .Mansfield, her husband Matt 

Cimber and their child arrived in Key West 

for a two-week working vacation. She is 

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United States. At least 85', j of them could helpsupport 

themselves with proper training. 

Fight for some 126.000 children who will become 

mentally retarded this yearunlesswedosomething. 

That's the real waste. Because with what we 

know, mental retardation could be cut in half. 

In half, mind you. 

So think about it. With some help from you and 

the other guy, maybe some day you'll be right. 

Maybe it couldn't happen to yours. 

Or even the other guy's. 

Here are six things you can do now to help prevent 

mental retardation and bring new hope 

to those whose minds are retarded: 

1. If you expect a baby, stay under a doctor's or a 

hospital's care. Urge all expectant mothers to do so. 

2. Visit l'cal schools and urge them to provide special 

teachers and special classes to identify and help mentally 

retarded children early in their lives. 

3. Urge your community to set up workshops to train 

retardates who are capable of employment. 

4. Select jobs in your company that the mentally retarded 

can fill, and hire them. 

5. Accept the mentally retarded as American citizens. 

Give them a chance to live useful, dignified lives in 

your community. 

6. Write for the free booklet to the President's j 

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DALLAS—Judge A. R. Stout has rejected 

a motion by attorneys for the Interstate 

Theatre Circuit seeking to halt enforcement 

of an injunction requiring theatres to carry 

the line "unsuitable for young people" in 

of certain pictures. 

Interstate contended thai the permanent 

injunction should have been issued within 

ten days of the February 19 permanent injunction. 

Grover Ham. attorney, commented: 

"No home-ruled city in Texas can 

interfere with the display of a motion picture 

unless the judicial system provides 

prompt and final adjudication 

Spanish-Language Films 

Baffle Dallas Reviewers 

DALLAS— "Suitable for young persons" 

classification was accorded automatically 

to 15 Spanish-language films when the 

city's film board failed to classify the 

pictures within five days after the Stevens 

Theatre requested a decision. 

The film board, which has asked for a 

Spanish translator to be added to its 

membership as an alternate, did not view 

the films and the Spanish-language reviews 

submitted with the pictures were so 

brief the board members did not feel informed 

sufficiently to classify the films. 

The ordinance creating the board specifies 

that when it fails to act in five days 

a film is to be labeled as suitable automatically. 

The board ruled "Quick! Before Ii 

to be suitable for young persons. "Not 

suitable" classification was given, on rent 

the theatres, to "The Collector," 

"Mondo Freundo," "Red Lanterns." "The 

Hot Bed." "Shocking Moment." "Backfire," 

"Josette." "Bitter Rice" and "One Naked 

Night." 

Classification was withheld, pending additional 

information, for "Glass Bottom 

Boat" and "Lord Love a Duck." 

Young Laborer Is Charged 

In Dowling Theatre Fire 

HOUSTON — Carl E White, 19-yearold 

laborer, has been indicted by a Harris 

County grand jury on charges he started 

a S100.000 fire at the Dowling Theatre 

January 13. 

Police said White had signed a statement 

m which he confessed setting fire 

to the theatre for the first time early in 

When he learned that firead 

extinguished that fire, he wenl 

b.1 and 

d a second one which resulted in 

the costly damage. 

White said in his that he 

had played with a band at the theatre on 

9, four- days befon 

Mort Sahl Signs for Film 

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HOLLYWOOD—Night club comb 

Sahl joins Sandra Dee, George Hamilton. 

Holm and Bill Bixby in "Three 

for a Wedding," the romantic comedy being 

produced by Douglas Laurence and directed 

by Peter Tewksbury. as a M 

Laurence-Wasserman production for MOM 

release. Shooting is to begin here April 

18. 

Concessions Forum to Be Feature 

Of UTOO One-Day Convention 

OKLAHOMA CITY—The annual convention 

of the United Theatre Owners of 

Oklahoma and the Panhandle of Texas 

in the 

will be held here tomorrow < 15 > 

Skirvin Hotel. The one-day event promises 

to be one of the best in the six years it 

has been held 

Woodie Sylvester, president of UTOO. 

says door prizes and attendance prizes 

will be awarded at various tune. 

the morning, afternoon and evening 

sessions. 

Paul Stonum, chairman of the convention, 

announced this schedule of events: 

9 to 10 a.m.—Registration. 

10:15 a.m.—The Rev. H. N. Conley, rector 

of St. John's Episcopal Church, who was 

active in the motion picture business before 

being ordained, will give the keynote 

address. 

Noon—Luncheon session in the Continental 

Room, with Dr. A. E. Darlow of Stillwater 

as the speaker. 

1:30 p.m.—Afternoon session begins, featuring 

new product from various distributing 

companies. Trailers are to be 

shown. 

3 p.m.—Concessions will be discussed, with 

Three Paramount Staffers 

Are Promoted in Dallas 

DALLAS—Jack Haynie. recently named 

sales manager of Paramount's Dallas exchange 

territory, has 

been in the motion 

picture industry for 

more than 16 years. 

Included in his experience 

was his 

service for Republic 

Pictures and Colum- 

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he moved 

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to Paramount 

as a salesman. 

He and his wife Mary 

have two children, 

Jack Havnic Sharon and Stephen. 

Paul Rozenburg 

has moved from Paramount's booking 

manager's desk to succeed Haynie a 

Texas salesman. Carl Sims was promoted 

from second booker to booking man.! 

Veteran Dallas Boothman 

E. A. Holt Dies in Irving 

DALLAS—Funeral services were held m 

Irving Friday '4> for Earl A. Holt. 66. who 

bad been projectionist 

for th( 

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Holt was a native of Cleburne and an 

Irving resident less tha resided 

Dallas 55 years and had served as business 

in 

agent several years for the Dallas 

projectionists' local as successor to the 

lato Harvey Hill. 

He leaves his wife, a stepson, his brother 

of Dallas and two sist

DALLAS 

\X7e are happy to report that Walter 

Perm is holding his own, although he 

must remain in the hospital several weeks 

and is unable to receive visitors. We know 

he would enjoy receiving cards from his 

friends. His address is Room 703, St. Paul 

Hospital, Dallas . . . Another patient who 

would appreciate a card or letter from industry 

friends is Louis Pullenwider, now 

in Veterans Hospital, Dallas. 

Theo Routt, Universal booker, has been 

busy getting his daughter Mary Elise 

Shannon off to the Philippines, where her 

husband is stationed . . . Minna Mae 

Stevison has been doing volunteer work as 

clerk for the free mobile x-ray units for 

the tuberculosis organization. Minna Mae 

is a very active volunteer for various types 

of services many WOMPIs cannot perform 

since these particular services must 

be handled during office hours. 

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The apartment of Don Overton of the 

Rodes Theatre was destroyed by fire. He 

lost everything in the blaze except the 

clothes he was wearing. He also is connected 

with Theatre Poster Service. 

The Video Independent Theatres' Rialto 

was robbed here by a man who thrust a 

note to the cashier demanding all the 

money. The cashier said she did not see 

a gun but she believed the man had one. 

Ronnie Collier, former operator of the 

Ritz Theatre at Britton who now is teaching 

at Putnam High School, was a visitor 

to Pilmrow. Also seen on the Row were 

Homer C. Jones, Rialto. Alva; Paul Stonum, 

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Mrs. R, R. Powers, Rex, Sentinel, and from 

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in the pool of the Sheraton's swimming 

pool when the wind swept away all of the 

cover of soapsuds. The actress was here on 

a promotional visit for "The Silencers," 

which stars Dean Martin . . . Comedian 

Don Knotts was to fly into Houston March 

13 in behalf of his "The Ghost and Mr. 

Chicken," then come here Monday (14). The 

film will have a multiple opening March 24. 

Becky McFerran was in Miami Beach as 

Houston's representative at Universal's 

"Madame X" premiere. While there, she 

was to compete in a talent contest that 

could win her a screen test in Hollywood. 

Miss McFerran, who runs her own dance 

studios, was a runner-up last summer in 

The Houston Post's Finishing Touches 

course Model Co-Ed contest. She was 

named Miss X by judges in a contest cosponsored 

by the Post and the Cinema 

theatres. 

Charmian Carr, who is seen as Uesl, the 

eldest of the seven Von Trapp children in 

"The Sound of Music," will be in Houston 

on the first anniversary of the showing of 

the film at the Alabama, where it is in its 

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Joan Staley, the Hollywood screen star, 

will be in the city in advance of the 

new Universal movie, "The Ghost and Mr. 

Chicken." in which she co-stars with Don 

Knotts. The film is slated to open at the 

Ronald Ibbs, 

Texas Thursday (17) . . . 

famed Shakespearean actor and founder of 

the Dublin Players, has been named artistin-residence 

at Incarnate Word College. 

Ibbs has also appeared in several movies. 

Bob Bixler was in town in advance of 

"The Greatest Story Ever Told" for a oneweek 

roadshow engagement at the Broadway 

on March 25. Bixler, who is also 

personal representative for Bob Hope, said 

that the comedian's Christmas Show, which 

was seen on NBC-TV. may be brought to 

movie audiences. Interstate is going to give 

the show a test run at one of its Dallas 

theatres. If this showing proves successful, 

the film will be released throughout the 

country. 

George Dunning, the composer-conductorarranger, 

was in the city. Dunning has 

written the musical scores for more than 

100 movies . Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. 

sponsored the showing of two Saturday 

morning showings (5), one at the downtown 

Texas and the other at the suburban 

Woodlawn. At the Texas it was "Godzilla 

vs. the Thing" and at the Woodlawn on the 

screen was "Jack the Giant Killer," both 

screen programs being rounded out with 

cartoons and free prizes. Admission was 

with either six Pepsi or Mountain Dew 

bottle 

caps. 

The regular monthly meeting of the 

Motion Picture Council will be held Wednesday 

in the Wayfarer Motor Hotel. Faye 

Kemper, film director for WOAI-TV, will 

speak on selection of films for television. 

A question and answer period will follow. 

The San Antonio Motion Picture Council 

is an organization consisting of 22 of the 

major religious, civic, and youth groups in 

the city. Mrs. Henry Shaper sr. is president 

Radio station KITE, in conjunction with 

Cinema I at North Star Mall, is conducting 

a contest for listeners on the 

Paul Morgan Show. Listeners are invited 

to send in on a card the number of people 

attending the showing of "Those Magnificent 

Men in Their Flying Machines." A 

correct guess will entitle the individual to 

take a party of 50 to see the showing. The 

closest guess each day will receive four 

tickets to see the film ... On Saturday 

and Sunday, each patron attending the 

showing of "That Darn Cat" at the suburban 

Broadway was presented with a free 

can of Kal Kan cat food. 

Joseph E. Levine's "Darling" has been 

nominated for the best picture of the year 

by the Academy of Motion Picture Aits and 

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will be a Good Friday opening oi 

drive-in Mr and Mrs. Allen Laird, who 

White 

River, si), attended the basketball tourna- 

Falls. Laird does a lot of 

high school refereeing . . . Lloyd Kingsbury, 

who has the theatre at Platte, S.D.. 

is anxiously awaiting the opening of the 

bridge across the Missouri River between 

Platte and Gregory. 

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New Indoor Theatre 

ForWesiPoini,Neb. 

WEST POINT. NEB—The West Point 

community hailed the announcement that 

an indoor theatre again will be opei 

here soon. 

Construction of a theatre on Main 

Street will start as soon as frost is out of 

the ground, according to an announcement 

by Mr. and Mrs John Casey & Associate. 

A building permit has been issued by the 

city council. 

Plans call for a fireproof, concreteblock 

building, 41x120 feet. The front is 

to be cf decorative stone. All modern 

equipment will include a widescreen and 

the latest projection equipment. Seating 

capacity is to be 375. 

Casey emphasized that the theatre will 

be completely air conditioned and operate 

the year around. At present there is no 

other conventional theatre operating in 

this progressive eastern Nebraska cattlefeeding 

center. 

The operator of the new situation has 

not been announced. 

Strawberry Point Jaycees 

Redecorate Their Theatre 

STRAWBERRY POINT. IOWA — The 

Jaycees. who have been operating the 

Orpheum Theatre the last nine months. 

gave the house a bright new look with two 

evenings of well-planned work by volunteer 

crews. 

UA's 'Frankie and Johnny' 

Premiere in Baton Rouge 

BATON ROUGE— "Frankie and Johnny." 

Edward Small's film version of the famed 

bluea classic, starring Elvis Presley, will 

have its world premiere at the Gordon 

Theatre on Thursday < 

Donna Douglas. Sue Ane Langdon and 

Nancy Kovack. the three beauties who costar 

in the United Artiste release, will 

attend the red-carpet opening. The girls 

will arrive in the Louisiana capital Tuesday 

(29) for a series of personal appearances 

culminating in the prea 

festivities. 

250 Easter Dates Booked 

For 'My Fair Lady' 

NEW YORK Warner Bros. "My Fair 

lady," which opened In New York City in 

October 1964 and recently passed the 70th 

week of its roadshow engagement at the 

Criterion Theatre, making it the longest 

run of any picture to play that house, will 

open In more than 250 special engage 

throughout the U.S. for the Easter holiday 

season in April. 

The Sound of Music 290 Grosser 

In 47 th Round in Omaha Dundee 

OMAHA—With only a few more weeks 

year's run at the Dun- 

to go to complete a 

dee Theatre. "The Sound of Music" continued 

to pack them in. Last week, the 

47th. the Julie Andrews attraction spurted 

to nearly three times average receipts with 

the announcement the movie had reci ved 

tei Vcademy Awards nominations. 

Close on the heels of the Dundee patron 

pleaser was "Thunderball," which was in 

its tenth and final week at the Admiral 

Theatre. The James Bond thriller left a 

string of records in its wake i 

Ralph Blank said "Thunderball" did a 100 

per cent more business than the mighty 

"Goldfinger." and "Thunderball" ran only 

ten weeks compared with the 13 weeks 

for "Goldfinger" 

The boxoffice tempo was fast right 

down the line: for example, "The Great 

Race" went above 200 for a third week 

at the Omaha, 


Admiral— Thunderball wk (UA), 0th 270 

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Cooper—The Agony and the Ecstasy (20th- 

.120 

dion Hills— Bottle ot the Bulge ;WB), 

OMAHA 

Nolan Knight, decoration chairman, reported 

that ten Jaycees turned out with J)»n Shane, city manager for the Tripaint 

brushes and rollers in hand, rolled States Theatre Corp., spent several 

up their sleeves and went to work In days out in the state last week supervising 

earnest on Monday night. The volunteers a number of management changes. Jon 

were back on the job again Wednesday McNutt, manager of the Capitol Theatre Bit 

evening and by 11 p.m. they had the lobby. Grand Island, resigned to go into the radio 

interlobby and auditorium freshly painted. field. Gene Kelley. manager of Tri-States' 

Next on the list was to be painting of the Rivoli Theatre at Hastings, was transferred 

exterior as soon as weather is favorable, to the managerial post at Grand Island. 

to be followed by more interior improvements. 

was chosen to head the Rivoli at it: 

Charles Dodd, Shane's assistant in Omaha, 

Charles Porchal of the Orpheum Theatre 

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in Omaha has been promoted to assistant 

manager to Shane. 

Firemen were called to the Cooper Foundation's 

State Theatre when the in 

smelled smoke. But the old saying. "Where 

there's smoke there's fire." didn't hold 

true. The trouble was quickly traced to a 

burned-out ballast In a fluorescent light in 

the lobby. 

F.d Metzger of Tyndall. S.D typical 

remen throughout tintory 

oi the 

who suffered more than current bard- 

hip Hum the MKiw and gales of thi 

was hoping for a break in the 

weather so he could get his drive-in ready 

for a Good Friday opening. On 

Nebraska line at Harrington. Mi and M 

Becker were geared to get going on 

Hi-Vue Drive-in. But the bl 

their 

dealt their hopes a severe blow. The frost 

hadn't left the ground before the heavy 

snow and accompanying drifts cam. 

It's a question of how soon the thermometer 

will climb and stay in the higher 

regions to put the ground in shapi 

opening preparations. Columbia salesman 

Ed Cohen got caught in the early 

of the blizzard but made it back into the 

southern part of the territory before the 

Omaha—The Great Race AVB), 3rd wk 

Orpheum—The Flight of the Phoenix 

State—The Ugly Dachshund i 

2nd wk 

Five Minneapolis Films 

Double Average Grosses 

MINNEAPOLIS "The Sound of Music" 

held on to the top spot with a 225 in Its 

49th week at the Mann. Close behind was 

"A Patch of Blue" m its second at thi 

Lyric. Two new films. "The Heroes of Telemark" 

at the World and "The Ugly Dachshund 

,1 place 

with "Battle of the Bulge." all doing 

double-average business. "The Rare Breed" 

dropped to 85 in its second and last week 

at the State. 

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Academy—The Agony and the Ecstasy '20th-Fox) 

10th wk. 

Greatest 

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Cooper—The Story Ever Told !UA) 

10th wk. ... 150 

Gopher—The Ugly Dachshund (BV) ... .. .200 

Lyric— A Patch ot Blue MGM), 2nd wk. 

Mann—The Sound of Music 20th Fov 

49th 

Orpheum—Thunderball 

wk 225 

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St. Louis Pork Cinerama Battle ot the Bulge 

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State—The 

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Rore 

.... .200 

Breed [UntvJ, 2nd wk. 

Thi Heroes ot Telemork (Col) ...!!... !200 

winds, which reached gusts of 105 miles 

an hour in the northern part of the state, 

began drifting the roads closed. 

. 

Harman Grunke, drive-in owner at 

O'Neill, is a lieutenant in the National 

Guard and has been appointed to a staff 

position. He was in Omaha to attend his 

first staff session Miller, exhibitor 

at Atkinson, his wife and son Patrick had 

a double purpose in attending the Show- 

A-Rama at Denver. The Millers also 

visited their daughter, who lives in Denver 

McKee, who has the Inland Theatre 

at Martin, S.D.. was able to be back 

to work after undergoing major surgery 

and he reports he's getting along fine . . . 

Also recovering from major surgery is 

Clarence Coon. The former head of the 

Sac Theatre at Sac City. Iowa, was operated 

on at St. Joseph's Hospital in Sioux 

City, Iowa. He recently sold the Sac to 

Dwight Hanson of Rockwell City. Iowa. 

Mr. .md Mrs. Kaulcy Comiell. exhibitors 

at Bassett. are touring the West but plan 

to be back in time for what they hope 

Exhibitors on the Row included Nebraskans 

Jack March. Wayne: Don Campbell. 

Central City: Richard Smith. David City: 

Art Sunde. Papillion: Earl Nancel. Bellevue. 

and Jack McCarthy. Louisville, and 

Iowans Vem Brown and Lee Rasmussen, 

Missouri Valley; Jim Travis, Milford, and 

Arnold Johnson, Onawa.

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Jnterest in CATV is continuing here. The 

most recent addition is the system at 

Stevens Point, Teletron, Inc., the wholly 

owned subsidiary formed by the Milwaukee 

Journal and which also owns the Wausau 

CATV system. 

Freelance publicist Harold "Bud" Rose, 

handling the promotion and group sales for 

"The Ten Commandments," which is returning 

to the Warner Theatre April 6, did 

business by phone from his Mount Sinai 

Hospital bed when he went there for an 

examination. 

Manager John McKay of the Riverside 

and Standard Theatres, Inc., are receiving 

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Lovell's appearance at the Riverside Theatre. 

The astronaut narrated a 20-minute 

color "space" film and took part in a 

student press conference from the stage. 

More than 2,500 students were on hand. 

Bemie Strachota and George DeGrace 

were co-chairmen of the "mayor's committee 

for the civic welcome" of the astronaut. 

Howard Ross, branch manager of Paramount, 

was host at a screening of his 

company's "Night of the Grizzly" and 

"Paramount 1966" in the Standard screening 

room. 

Val J. Wells, executive secretary of the 

Milwaukee Motion Picture Commission, released 

these film evaluations: 

GENERAL AUDIENCE — "Spy in Your 

Eye," "Kid Rodelo," "Winnie the Pooh," 

"The Mermaid." "The Phony American." 

"One Way Wahine," "Dracula 

Prince of Darkness," "Alice of Wonderland 

in Paris," "White Mane," "North 

by Northwest," "The Shop on Main 

Street," "Plague of the Zombies," "Sleeping 

Beauty," "Tsar to Lenin," "Bad 

Girls Don't Cry," "A Man Could Get 

Killed," "The Moment of Truth," "The 

Nuns," "The Singing Nun," "That 

Little 

Dam Cat." "Father of a Soldier." "A 

Ballad of Love," "Mister Buddwing," 

"Frankie and Johnny," "And Now Miguel," 

"The Gospel According to St. Matthew." 

"The Ugly Dachshund," "Son of a 

Gun Fighter," "Blindfold," "The Collector," 

"King Rat," "False Shame." 

MATURE ENTERTAINMENT—"Madame 

X." "The Sleeping Car Murder," "Ride 

Beyond Vengeance," "The Last Chapter," 

"Walk in the Shadow," "Make Like a 

Thief," "The Chase," "To Trap a Spy," 

"The Spy With My Face," "Queen of 

Blood," "Blood Bath," "Nevada Smith." 

"The Oscar." 

ADULTS ONLY—"A Woman Is a Woman," 

"The Flesh Is Hot," "Swedish Wedding 

Night," "The Married Woman." 

NOT TO BE SHOWN—"Bad Girls Go to 

Hell." 

"A Girl in Every Port" portrays Elvis 

Presley as a young Navy lieutenant. 

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French Film Award 

To Peter Ustinov 


PARIS—Peter Ustinov became the fourth 

English- language filmmaker to receive the 

Cinematheque Francais' Tribute d'Honneur 

award Friday night Feb. 25 at ceremonies 

kicking off the French film museum's 

Ustinov Festival at the Palais de Chaillot. 

Previous recipients are D. W. Griffith, 

William Wyler and Preston Sturges. 

The award pays tribute to Ustinov's contributions 

as a director, writer, producer 

and actor, citing his multiple work in 

MGM's "Lady L." 

Two Fall Roadshows Amass 

Advance Ticket Sales 


NEW YORK—Two of the roadshows set 

for openings in the fall of 1966, "The 

Bible," being released by 20th Century- 

Fox, and "Hawaii," the Mirisch production 

for United Artists release, have amassed 

cash advances from individual ticket sales 

and group sales deposits. 

Bob Solomon, managing director of 

Loew's State Theatre, where "The Bible" 

will open September 28, has received over 

1.100 requests for tickets in response to a 

two-page ad in the Sunday New York 

Times of February 13, eight months prior 

to the premiere. The film has over $30,000 

in cash advance, Solomon said. 

For "Hawaii," despite the fact that there 

had been no initial announcement of the 

film's opening, United Artists has received 

ticket requests for the New York premiere 

in excess of 62,000, according to UA and 

the Mirisch Corp. The first consumer ad 

for the UA release did not appear until 

Sunday, February 27 edition of the New 

York Times, with the premiere set for 

October, more than seven months away. 

SAC Names Kathy Nolan 


HOLLYWOOD—Kathy Nolan is 

the new 

representative of the Screen Actors Guild 

on the permanent charities committee, 

succeeding Rosemary De Camp. George 

Chandler serves on the board of the PCC 

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DES MOINES 

T^Jost recent word from Russell Doughten 

jr., producer of "The Hostage," is the 

first full-length feature ever filmed in Iowa 

now has been edited. Scoring and sounddubbing 

will take another six weeks. Printing 

of Heartland Productions' debut film 

will be done by Technicolor. According to 

Doughten, authorities at Technicolor say 

they haven't seen such fine quality film in 

more than five years from a movie which 

cost less than $1 million to make. A title 

song has been written for the film by Ron 

Hanna, Des Moines folk singer. Negotiations 

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Roy 

Metcalfe and Duane Kruger. Cedar Rapids 

exhibitors, attended the Chicago Variety 

Club luncheon honoring Milt Pineberg as 

King for a Day on his promotion with 

National Screen Service. 

David Johnson is new manager of the 

Orpheum at Marshalltown. He replaces 

Hairy Dearmin who resigned after managing 

Marshalltown theatres for 22 years. 

Welcome to Filmrow to Nora Jane Patterson 

who replaces Pat Swesey at Paramount 

Matthews of Tri-States and the 

WOMPI Club has been appointed to serve 

on WOMPI's international nominating 

committee. 

Alice Patton, Frank Rubel's secretary at 

Central States and WOMPI editor, recently 

served on the municipal jury panel in Des 

Moines. 

"The Sound of Music" now has gone into 

its 50th week at the Capri Theatre here. 

According to Dick Glenn. Capri manager, 

one fellow has seen it at least 25 times. 

a Gogo' Meeting 

Cinerama's Russian Film 

To Run 3 Hours 12 Minutes 


HOLLYWOOD—Producer Harold Dennis 

has ordered a 3-hour 12-minute length 

for release prints of the Bing Crosbynarrated 

"Cinerama's Russian Adventure" 

production that opens in 41 theatres in 

April. The color extravaganza of circuses, 

ballets, sports and art was imported on 

exchange deal by Jay Frankel. It will play 

the Stanley Warner Theatre in Hollywood 

beginning Easter week. 

Lear Jet Corp. Names 

Danny Kaye to Post 

From Western 

Edition 

HOLLYWOOD—Danny Kaye has moved 

his activities into top industrial management, 

joining the Wichita firm of Lear 

Jet Corp. as a vice-president. He will continue 

his entertainment activities, but will 

participate actively in the international 

marketing of the aircraft, announced William 

P. Lear, president. Kaye holds a 

commercial pilot's license, which should 

help him with his added duties. 

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LOS ANGELES—Henny Youngman, TV From Southeast Edition 

and nitery comic, conferred with producerdirector 

Jack H. Han-is here and viewed Harold Robbins and Te Teffeteller of the 

MARYVILLE, TENN.—Howard Brooks, 

the first cut of "Mother Goose a Gogo." Capitol Theatre attended the recent MGM 

Youngman has a cameo role in Harris' seminar in Atlanta when the film company 

soon-to-be completed widescreen color showed exhibitors product to be released 

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'Our Man Flint' 400 

In Big Detroit Bow 

DETROIT—"The Sound of Music.'' in U.s 

29th week at the MadlSOn, still was doing 

extremely well as it held first place with 

450, OUtgrOSSing all the new pictures m the 

area. Close behind, in its first week al 

the Grand Circus, was "Our Man Flint,' 

which started its run with a very comfortable 

400. In third place was "The Oscar 

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with 225. 

(Averoge Is 100) 

in Who Come From Adams The Spy the Cold 

(Para), 5th wk 125 

Fox— Jewel Box Revue 

Grand Circus Our Mon Flint 20th-Fox) 400 

Madison- The Sound ot Music -n Fox), 450 

. 49th wk. 

Moi Kai— The Grcot Race VVB 

Mercury Woods 

Michigan—The 

-Inside Daisy Clover (WB) 200 

Oscor 

Palms— The Money Trap VGV 

Lit.- ot the Top C 2nd wk 

Studio S- The Loved One '.•'.' )ih wk 190 

* Juliet ot the Spirits [Rizzoli), 9th 

110 

'The Sound of Music' Still 

Out Front in Cleveland 

CLEVELAND—No film, new or old, seems 

able to catch up to the high ratin 

tinually scored by "The Sound of Music" 

but "Thunderball" struggled manfully in its 

llth week and continued to do 150 per cent 

at the Detroit and Shaker boxoffices. The 

art houses grabbed off the higher percentages 

after these two winners, as "To Die 

in Madrid" scored 140 and "Juliet of the 

Spirits." in its third week, ran up to 150. 

Allen, Morylond—The Chase (Col) 1 75 

Colony Darling (Embassy), rerun, 2nd wk 

Continental—To Die in Madrid (Altural 

125 

140 

Detroit, Shaker—Thunderball (UA), llth wk 150 

Heights, Westwood— Juliet of the Spirits 

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Spy Who Came in 

(Rizzoli), 

Hippodrome, 

3rd wk 

Shore— The 

50 

From the Cold P~.ro 2nd wk 90 

Ohio—The Sound of Music 20th-Fox), 49th wk...275 

Palace—The Agony and the Ecstosy 20th-Fox), 

llth wk 70 

Severance 

Vogue— 

State— Lord 

Life 

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80 

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Love a Duck .A 2nd wk 

ot the Top Col 

'Thunderball' Tall 375 

llth Week in Cincinnati 

CINCINNATI—Raw March weather did 

not pha.se attendance at first-run houses. 

"The Agony and the Ecstasy" opened well 

at the Capitol and "The Chase" intrigued 

patrons during its first week at Princeton 

Cinema. "Sound of Music." in its 49th 

week at International 70. and "The Spy 

Who Came in From the Cold," in its fourth 

week at the Valley. Lipped their gross 

records over the previous week. 

Albee Our Man Flint (20th-Fox), 5th wk 140 

Ambassador Judith (Para), 3rd wk 

Capitol— The Agony ond the Ecstasy (20th-Fox) . .200 

Esquire—The 10th Victim Embassy , wk 300 

Grand—The Ugly Dachschund 3rd wk 175 

International 70—The Sound of Musk (20th-Fox), 

49th .i 

. . .260 

Princeton Cmcmo—The Chase 

Times Townc Cinema— Thunderball UA), llth wk 375 

Twin Drivc-ln—Queen of Blood AIP| 100 

Valley—The Spy Who Came in From the Cold 

(Paro), 5th wk 125 

A promotion for "The Silencers" kickoff 

In Chicago was a breakfast for 100. 

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DETROIT The world premiere engagement 

of "The Group" began Friday (4) 

with a four-theatre opening of the United 

Artists r< 

Mary-Robin Redd, one of the eight actresses 

who collectively play the title role, 

was here to help launch the picture at 

the Mercury, Woods, Terrace and Calvin 

theatres, 

"The Group," the widely-discussed film 

version of the best-selling novel by Mary 

McCarthy, will have a three-theatre premiere 

m New York City at the Astor. 

Trans-Lux East and Murray Hill tin litres 

on Wednesday (16). 

DETROIT 

J)»iothv Duncan of Wyandotte, long acme 

in the Greater Detroit Motion Picture 

Council, reports the death of her 70- 

year-old father. 

The Royal Theatre, managed for the 

Wisper and Wetsman circuit by John 

Ferger, held a tradescreening and sneak 

preview oi MGM's "The Glass Bottom 

Boat." 

Filming in Hawaii 

HOLLYWOOD -Hugh Benson and Richard 

Bluel will film their Hawaiian cowboy 

story. "Paniolo." over in the islands. 

New Cincy Drive-In 

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CINCINNATI — Mitchell Blachschleger 

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late this month, the first new drive-in to 

be constructed in this area in the last 

nine years. 

The de luxe Academy, which has a capacity 

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the TOC Booking Agency are the new 

Weddle, Lawrenceburg, Ind.; Ohioans Moe 

Potasky. Troy, and Harry Wheeler, Gallipolis. 

operators 

Kentucky 

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Ova Comett, Booneville; 

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Booking Service is booking 

Mahaffey, Beattyville, and Howard 

E. C. Nagle 

and buying for the drive-in at Richwood. 

W. Va., for owner James Wolverton . 

Shelton, Vanceburg. 

Universal staff members gave Bob Scarborough, 

student booker, a "send-off" at a 

surprise party at the Variety clubrooms. 

Bob has resigned to join the Navy. 

Isaacs, Paramount publicity department, 

Phil 

was in to arrange for "The Ten 

Commandments," a summer release 

Among the exhibitors on the 

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Joe Joseph, Parkersburg, W. Va.: J. C. 

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Demolition Order Issued 

For Youngstown Palace 

YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO—City officials 

plan to issue a ten-day notice to demolish 

the remainder of the old Palace Theatre 

Building on the northeast corner of Central 

Square. The partially demolished 

building has been called an "eyesore" and 

a nuisance to the central business district. 

Stephen C. Baytos & Associates, which 

planned a plaza apartment-theatre-parking 

complex for the valuable downtown 

site more than two years ago, has been unable 

to demolish the building because it 

became involved in a lease dispute with 

Dr. H. T. D'Amato, optometrist, whose 

lease runs until 1970. 

Col.'s 'Casino Royale' 

To Have Five Directors 

stern 

Edition 

HOLLYWOOD — Producer Charles K. 

Feldman, who is shooting "Casino Royale," 

Ian Fleming's James Bond adventure story 

in London, announced the picture will have 

five directors. Each chosen for their special 

abilities, Joe McGrath for the comedy; 

Robert Parrish for the suspenseful elements, 

with second-unit director Richard 

Talmadge working here in Hollywood. The 

other directors are being selected. Film 

will be distributed throughout the world 

bv Columbia Pictures. 

'Molly Brown' in Film Series 

seat Bushnell Memorial Auditorium under 

sponsorship of the Favorite Film Series, 

Children's Museum of Hartford. 

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CANTON, OHIO—A motion picture theatre 

seating 1,000 patrons will be among 

new units added in a $15,000,000 expansion 

announced for the Mellett Mall Shopping 

Center. 

Mellett Homes, Inc., which operates the 

present $7 million shopping center at Whipple 

Avenue and Tuscarawas Street West, 

announced the plans for adding a 65-acre 

development, the project to include a highrise 

apartment, a 150-room motel, a medical 

building and general office building, as well 

as several more retail store buildings. 

No indication was given by Arthur James, 

president of Mellett Homes, on the future 

operator of the theatre. 

Chicago Variety Quarters 

Updated, Ready for Use 

the Variety Club of Illinois house committee, 

is reminding all members that the 

clubrooms are open and in full operation 

on an every night and Saturday afternoon 

basis. New carpeting, new fixtures, new 

air conditioning and new atmosphere will 

greet members and their guests. 

Al supports Madge Raymer, his wife who 

is president of the Women's Variety Club, 

in keeping barkers alerted to "The-Last- 

Saturday-Night-of-the-Month" events 

sponsored by the auxiliary. These are social 

affairs, with snacks and surprise entertainment. 

New Variety Club members include Virgil 

Bresley of Confection Cabinet Corp.; 

Phil Brochstein, MGM publicity chief; 

Irving Dreeben, Universal Pictures; William 

L. Durante of the Oak Theatre; 

Thomas M. Gerety of MGM; Jack Gilbreth, 

United Screen Arts; Charles E. 

Good, Buena Vista; Sidney Kaplan, new 

Paramount Pictures branch manager; Bernard 

Mack, Filmack Corporation president; 

Edward Ross, Plaza Art Theatre; 

Leo T. Schauer sr., 20th Century -Fox; 

Dave Schatz, president, Chicago Used 

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HARTFORD—MGM's "The Unsinkable 

Molly Brown" was screened at the 3,277- 

producer 

of the Sherlock Holmes film, "A 

Study iii Terror." has signed a multi-picture 

deal with Columbia, which probably 

will include another Holmes picture. 

"A Study in Terror," a Columbia release, 

was showcased by the Rank circuit in England 

and will open in the United States 

April 27. 

The owner of a theatre group in Detroit, 

Cohen says he is pleased to have the opportunity 

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COLUMBUS 

^Janager Sam Shubouf of Loews Ohio 

has instituted weekly Saturday evening 

organ Sing-a-Long interludes with 

Tom K. Hamilton, Columbus organ hobbyist, 

at the Robert Morton console. 

Samuel T. Wilson, Dispatch theatre 

editor, is in New York until Sunday (20) 

to 

see new Broadway shows and films. 

Charles Sugarman brought in Richard 

Burton's "The Spy Who Came in From 

the Cold" Wednesday

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In Boston With 150 

BOSTON — Business was fast-paced, 

running on almost the same levels as the 

< 

preceding week, and rain on Friday and 

Saturday 6 helped at the boxoffices. 

Leading the city's gross returns for the 

week were "The Sound of Music." in Its 

51st week at the Gary, and "Our Man 

Flint." showing for the seventh week at 

the Savoy, both of these popular films 

grossing 150 per cent. "Thunderball" and 

"Battle of the Bulge" tied for the nexl 

spot with 130 per cent as several othei 

pictures grossed in the 105-125 class. 

Is 100) 

Thread iParo), 

Loved One (MGM). 

Astor—The Slender 3rd wk 120 

Beacon Hill—The Ilth wk. ...115 

Boston— Battle of the Bulge (WB), 11th wk 130 

Capri Judith (Para). 3rd wk. ...125 

Loyin' Center— East Is East (SR), Spoonful 

ISR) 

Chen—The Chase (Col), 3rd wk.,., 

105 

....125 

Circle Cinema—The Oscar [Embassy), wk. ..125 

3rd 

E*etcr 

Gary—The 

Othello 

Sound 

WB), 3rd wk. 

ot Music 20th-Fox), 51st wk. .150 

Kenmorc Square. Park Square Juliet o» the 

Spirits (Rizzoli] 3rd wk 125 

Mayflower—The Ugly Dachshund BV!, 3rd wk. .125 

Music 

Orpheum— 

Hall Thunderball 

Inside Daisy Clover 

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3rd 

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Paramount North by Northwest (MGM), re- 

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Paris Cinema— The Umbrellas Cherbourg 

(AIP), 

Savoy—Our 

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'Othello' Triples Average 

First Week in Hartford 

HARTFORD—"Othello." backed by strong 

promotional endeavor, hit 300 in its open- 

Ing Webster week. The booking, incidentally, 

follows a special two-day multiple-run 

here some weeks ago. 

Allyn—The Redeemer (Empire) 70 

Art Cinema— Repulsion Royal Love on a Pillow 

(Royal), reissue, 2nd wk 60 

Berlin—The House SR Tickle Me (AA), 

Centrol—The Money Trap MGM), 2nd wk 

Cinerama— Bottle ot the Bulge (WB), 21st wk. . 

Cine Webb— Thunderball A Ilth wk. 

Elm—The Sound ot Music ,20th-Fox), 37th wk 

Strand—The Agony and the Ecstasy i20th-Fox), 

"A Patch of Blue' Soars 

To 350 in New Haven 

NEW HAVEN—Opening night festivities, 

including a reception for city and county 

officials hosted by the New Haven cancer 

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campaign, contributed immeasurably in 

boosting "A Patch of Blue" to a heftj 

350 first week at the Whalley Theatre. 

Crown Our Man 

Forest— 

Flint (20th-Fox), 4th wk 

Rapture (IC) 

Lincoln— Juliet of the Spirits 2nd 

125 

100 

wk.,.,115 

(Rizzoli), 

Milford Cinema, Milford Drive-In—The Chase (Col); 

various co-features 

Paramount—The Redeemer 

20C 

SW Onemart—The Sound 

Empire) 

of Music ?0th-Fox), 

37th wk .,100 

SW Roger Sherman—The Flight of the Phoenix 

I20th-Fox) .250 

Westville, Whitney— Judith Para) . 

Whalley—A Patch of Blue MGM) 

William Hoffman Resigns 

At Groton Shoppers Mart 

GROTON. CONN—William M. Hoffman, 

president of the Groton Shoppers 

Mart, rapidly expanding shopping center 

here, has resigned to assume control of the 

$1 million Groton Motor Inn 

The Groton Shoppers Mart interests are 

building a motion picture theatre for lease 

by UA Theatres. New York. The inn. 

which contains 66 rooms, was previously 

operated by the Knott Hotel group. 

Massachusetts Theatres 

Exempt From Sales Tax 

BOSTON—One of the most important 

legislative victories In film industry history 

has been won by Theatre Owni 

New England through whose efforts 

Massachusetts exhibitors were exempted 

from the surprise 3 per cent limited salts 

tax, passed by the state's House and Senate 

and signed by Gov. John A. Volpe. The 

levy goes Into effect April 1. 

While the state « a s agog at the passage 

of the bill, which had been contested foi 

more than a year. Carl Goldman. TONE 

executive secretary and legislative consultant, 

reported to exhibitors who bcsieged 

his office with phone calls thai they 

were exempt from the sales tax. 

"Massachusetts exhibitors have much to 

be thankful for because of the hard work 

and vigilance these past 14 months of 

TONE and its executive secretary Carl 

Goldman." Malcolm Green, TONE president, 

stated. "As a result. Governor Volpe 

signed a sales and excise tax bill into law 

on Wednesday (2) with admission taxes 

and film rentals specifically excluded from 

the bill. In addition, practically all concession 

items are also excluded. 

"The value of belonging to a strong 

Two Rhode Island Marks 

Set by 'Sound of Music' 

WARWICK, R.I.—Manager Alfred Oddi 

of the Warwick Cinema was presented a 

Certificate of Merit and Showmanship from 

at a film during a Single run. The ceremony 

marking the record-breaking 

formance was widely covered by news 

media in Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts 

cities and towns. Many papers 

carried pictures of the awards presentation 

at the Cinema, which is operated by Town 

& Country Theatres. 

regional exhibitor association was never 

more exemplified than by this achievement. 

All exhibitors in the state will now 

benefit from our local victory, which 

complements thi successful national campaign. 

Membership in TONE automatically 

membership in NATO. No exhibitor 

can afford to be without membership 

in both." 

TONE'S victory in getting theatres exempted 

from the tax was highlighted by 

the fact, that the limited sales tax goes on 

new and used automobiles: excise taxes on 

jumped two cents per pack and 

those on liquor by an average of 30 per 

cent, effective the next morning after the 

bill was signed. The House gave final approval 

by a roll call vote of 118-102; the 

Senate. 21-16. 

The measure will remain in effect until 

Dec. 31, 1967. At that time tin Legislature 

may take action to let it die, extend it or 

pass new revenue-producing legislation. 

How the new $180,000,000 in state revenue 

will be collected and distributed raises 

many questions for state fiscal and tax 

experts to answer but exhibitors are completely 

out of the state sales tax picture. 

Shop Center Theaire 

Planned in Bristol 

BRISTOL. CONN.—Hartford County is 

20th Century-Fox Film Corp.. when his getting another shopping center theatre. 

theatre held "The Sound of Music" for the 

49th week and attendance passed the 363.- Bristol Shopping Plaza, Inc.. headed by 

000 mark. The presentation to Oddi was Wallace Barnes, president of the Associated 

made by John Peskos. New England advertising 

Spring Corp.. has purchased a 1.5- 

and sales manager for 20th-Fox. He acre tract on Farmington Avenue for $220,- 

was assisted by Harry Weiss of the company's 

000 and will build a center containing 

Boston office. 

specialty shops and a motion picture the- 

The "Sound of Music" achievements at atre. 

the Warwick represent state records both 

for the length of run and for attendance 

Sack Programs Published 

For News Strike Period 

BOSTON— Anticipating the nev 

' placed Sunday > 

full-page ads for the Beacon Hill, Savoj 

Music Hall, Cheri and Capri theatres, reading: 

"To Our Patrons: May we suggest that 

you clip out this advertisement of our 

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Purple Heart Award Made 

At Providence Cinerama 

PROVIDENCE—The Cinerama Theatre 

on Hope Street, a Lockwood & Gordon 

Enterprises operation which was showing 

"Battle ol the Bulge." was selected as the 

seine ot a recent milita 

M -Gen. Leonard Holland, state adjutant 

general, was honored with a citation 

from the oi the Purple 

Heart, just prior to the screening of film 

before a capacity audience. 

The citation, award for the general's 

his "community, fellow citizens 

and veterans." was presented by Clair Voss. 

national commander of the order. Assist 

impressive ceremony were Ronald 

in 

national \ ue -commander: Wilfred 

Bacon, commander of the order's Woonsocket 

chapter, and Arthur Barry of the 

chapter. 

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The ceremony drew widespread attention 

and resulted in considerable newspaper 

publicity. 

Larry Johnson. Cinerama manager, offered 

the use of the theatre, and helped 

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Veteran Showman Irv Sochin Returns 

To Boston for 'Juliet' 

BOSTON — Irving Sochin, vice-president 

of Rizzoli Film Distributors of New- 

York, returned to his home town for press 

interviews, radio and TV promotions for 

the Rizzoli film, "Juliet of the Spirits." 

distributed in this territory by Edward 

Ruff and Mel Safner, and playing at two 

Boston theatres—the Kenmore Square and 

Park Square cinemas. 

Boston is still his home and he has 

relatives in Revere and Brockton. 

Born in the west end, on Chambers 

Street, he moved to Dorchester where he 

attended the Christopher Gibson School 

and later Boston English High. He formed 

a little jazz combo, himself at the piano; 

Max Karninsky. one of America's greatest 

jazz trumpet players, at the trumpet; Jack 

Marshard at the drums and Bill Snierson 

as "Bill Swanson." discovered the 

Andrew Sisters while playing at the Hotel 

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"The Shawmut Syncopaters." 

During the '20s, when the Charleston 

craze was prevalent, Irving went on the 

road with a band and a group of Charleston 

dancers. He continued playing with his 

musical group. L-ving's Entertainers. He 

recalls the many "battles of music" he 

had with the late Mai Hallett, who was a 

favorite Boston orchestra leader, as well as 

with Rudy Vallee, who was just coming 

into his own as a band leader. 

After a nationwide tour with the band, it 

became too much of a chore to try to control 

a group of young musicians, so Sochin 

disbanded the orchestra and joined another 

Bostonian, Joe Lukatch, forming a 

two-man singing team called Irving & 

Lewis. They were kept busy playing vaudeville 

houses from coast to coast. Irving 

traveled with a miniature piano to keep 

playdates in remote theatres where baby 

grand pianos weren't subject to frequent 

tuning. 

It was during an engagement in Chicago 

that Texas Guinan caught the singing act 

and booked it into the Green Mill Night 

Club of Texas. After a few months of 

working from 7 p.m. till 8 a.m. with Texas 

Guinan. the tired young Bostonians decided 

to give up show business and return 

to the Hub. 

The first business venture which attracted 

Irving was the opening of a series 

of automatic photographic shops, where 

one dropped a quarter into a slot and a 

strip of six pictures was returned. His first 

site was at 226 Tremont St., opposite the 

Saxon Theatre, then the Majestic. His 

success was immediate and Sochin opened 

similar photo-vending shops at Revere 

Beach and other summer resorts along the 

New England coast. He made his headquarters 

in Old Orchard Beach, Me. 

When the craze died down. Irving 

opened a furniture store in Lewiston, Me., 

where he remained for two years. 

An opportunity arose for the former 

—Right Now 

AWARD LUNCHEON — Irving 

Sochin, center, vice-president of Rizzoli 

Films, is shown with Cy Evans, advertising-publicity 

director for General 

Cinema Corp., Boston, and James F. 

Droney. prize-winning journalist of 

the Boston Traveler. The trio were 

photographed at a press luncheon in 

Boston for New England editors in 

recognition of the award-winning film, 

"Juliet of the Spirits," a Rizzoli release. 

musician, who still missed show business, 

to begin as a salesman for United Artists, 

covering West Virginia and Kentucky, 

calling on many theatre managers where 

years before he and his partner entertained 

as the team of Irving & Lewis. Eventually, 

Irving became general sales manager at 

Universal Pictures, for three years, and 

then vice-president and general sales manager 

of the J. Arthur Rank Distributing 

Co. in the United States. 

Realizing the need for "independent" 

product in motion picture theatres, Sochin 

sought out suitable films for distribution. 

His organization, Time Films, released 

"Mondo Cane," which became the second 

largest grossing independent motion picture 

in the United States. As a former 

musician, Irving introduced the Oscar 

contending tune, "More." which he had 

taped in the United States, using the composer's 

wife Katyna Ranieri to sing it. 

Prior to this, the film was made without 

a musical score. It was Sochin who catapulted 

"Mondo Cane" to national prominence 

with this tune. 

With the vast national success of "Mondo 

Cane." Sochin was asked to take over the 

entire distribution of Angelo Rizzoli. 

Italian picture motion impresario and 

largest publisher of magazines and books 

in Europe. Started only a year ago, in 

December 1964, Rizzoli Film Distributors 

at 712 Fifth Ave., is headed up by Sochin 

and a staff of experts who are currently 

talking about then big picture, "Juliet of 

the Spirits," winner of "the best foreign 

film of 1965," the Golden Globe Award 

and accolades from critics everywhere. 

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W. H. Graves, 80, Dies 

AMESBURY, MASS.—William H. Graves, 

80, a pioneer motion picture exhibitor, and 

in latter years a newspaper editor, is dead. 

Graves operated a motion picture theatre 

on Main Street in 1912 and later joined 

the staff of the Amesbury Daily News, retiring 

as editor some years ago. 

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Industry Must Find Ways to Attract NEW HAMPSHIRE 

Youths Looking for Life 

By ALLEN M. WIDEM 

HARTFORD—Employe recruitment, retainment 

and regrouping aren't being 

taken lightly by exhibition in the six -state 

New England region. 

For the thing, the prevailing $1.25 

minimum wage is being easily, almost effortlessly, 

paced out of youthful popularity 

by more lucrative offers. 

Theatre managers, be they in the bigger, 

populous centers or in one-theatre centers, 

are finding the problem of getting help, 

particularly people interested in exhibition 

as a career, is a major problem. 

The idea of working nights and weekends 

must be introduced within the sphere 

and scope of glamorous labor, say theatre 

owners, and. from today's 40-hour-andless-working-week, 

with stress on daylight 

hours, it's increasingly difficult to find the 

youthful worker, part-time or full-time, 

who looks to the motion picture theatre as 

a career center. 

ASKED FOR GUIDANCE 

"We've gone to area high schools and 

colleges, asking guidance instructors and 

the like, if they know of young people, 

either men or women, who'd like to start 

a career in motion picture exhibition," one 

prominent theatre circuit owner told 

Boxoffice. "and too often we get a response 

bordering on apathy and indifference. 

Jobs in advertising and television 

and the more challenging concept of electronics 

and space seem to arrest these same 

young people's attention and we can't lure 

them as in the old days." 

Another circuit owner remarked that 

the prevailing mood of little patience on 

the part of house managers to "stay" with 

a newly recruited aide in the demanding 

and delicate days of training has contributed 

to the siphoning off of new 

personnel. 

"We're faced these days," he said, "with 

the very obvious problem of working with 

'old pros'— people who have literally grown 

up in the business, understand it and are 

fond of the theatrical pace—or with raw 

recruits who couldn't care less, sadly 

enough, about our so-called traditions. And 

when you try to mesh the two generations 

into a cohesive whole, you're gambling with 

temperament and tempo. Too often, the 

older ones merely drift away and the 

young ones tell you they couldn't care 

less." 

WANT ADS HELP SOME 

In the main. New England exhibitors are 

relying on want ads to get new help. A 

screening session—in effect an interview 

doesn't necessarily weed out the undesirables 

or those merely looking to the 

theatre job as a fill-in between moresought 

occupations. 

As for training, theatre owners have to 

rely upon house managers and assistant 

managers to impart some of the basic essentials 

of house operation. This applies 

to such vital categories as courtesy and 

concern for the patron. 

One theatre owner mused: "I'm glad 

enough to see a cashier at least attempting 

Careers 

a smile, instead of sullenly doling out 

tickets in the boxoffice. And when those 

now rare occasions of long boxoffice lines 

come along, I'm gratified to know that the 

'old pros,' my cashiers who've been with 

the theatre for at least a year, take the 

tumult in stride and seem to infuse the 

newer ones with at least a minimal calm." 

Concerned industry sources comment 

that the contraction of theatrical exhibition—the 

diminishing quantity of smalltown 

theatres—has done more to turn people 

away from promising careers than all 

of the greater salary lures from other 

fields-of-endeavor. It is noted that all too 

often a small-town theatre shutters abruptly 

and the small-town administration 

or chamber of commerce or like agency 

doesn't step forward in a vigorous civic 

gesture to get the theatre open again. And 

the townspeople see these things happen 

and tell each other, "Don't go into a theatre 

job; it can't last too long." 

"Our industry." added another industry 

pioneer, "has a very bad record of spewing 

forth too much downgrading in the 

public prints. This hurts our image, not 

only with those we want to see patronize 

us but with the young people we could 

have gotten interested in theatrical exhibition 

as careers. 

"When a small town—or, for that matter, 

a large city theatre closes—somebody 

with a sense of industry responsibility, if 

not prestige, should see that the newspapers 

treat the happening as something 

affecting the local area's economy. But the 

guy who's forced, for varied l'easons, to 

close his theatre is embittered and he takes 

out some of the bitterness in the public 

print. And then, I ask you, how do we 

convince high school and college guidance 

counseling people that our business is as 

strong as it ever was?" 

NEW HAVEN 

pranklin E. Ferguson, general manager 

of the Maurice Bailey Theatres, was 

New York business visitor . . . MGM's 

a 

"Butterfield 8" was screened at the United 

Church on the Green as "The 4th Film 

Dialog." Admission was free. 

Italians Pack Theatres 

For U. S. Western Films 

HARTFORD—The biggest screen attractions 

in Italy are U.S. westerns, reports 

Irving Sochin, vice-president of Rizzoli Film 

Importers. 

Here for the Connecticut premiere of 

"Juliet of the Spirits" at the downtown E.M. 

Loew's, Sochin told Allen M. Widem, Hartford 

Times amusements editor: 

"It's quite a sight to walk into a movie 

theatre in Rome and see the tremendous 

crowds gathered to watch stories of the 

American West. The enthusiasm is so contagious 

that many, many Italian moviemakers 

are turning out westerns. The theatres 

use up the available U.S. supply very 

quickly." 

QLuy Langley, northern New England correspondent 

for Boxoffice, is mourning 

the death of his wife Eva, following 

a long illness. She was a native of Taunton, 

Mass.. and worked in department 

stores in Providence, R.I., for several years. 

She also was employed at the Walsh- 

Kaiser Shipyard in Providence during a 

period of World War II when her husband 

temporarily left the editorship of a New 

Hampshire weekly newspaper to serve as 

chief clerk of the marine electrical department 

at the same plant. 

Leo J. Archambault, 63. manager of the 

Latchis Theatre in Milford, died at a 

Nashua hospital February 18 after a brief 

illness. He was a native of Fall River, 

Mass., and moved to Milford from Hartford, 

Conn., 18 years ago. He leaves his 

wife Clara; two daughters, two brothers 

and two grandchildren. 

HARTFORD 

Industrial construction costing $84 l /2 million 

is on drawing boards for Connecticut 

sites, according to the state development 

commission ... A late May opening 

is anticipated for the hardtop theatre being 

built for Stanley Warner Theatres in 

the Gateway Shopping Plaza, Danbury. 

The facility will contain 1,200 seats. 

The Stanley Warner College, in the 

Storrs Shopping Center, adjacent to the 

University of Connecticut campus, is running 

a series of Wednesday and Thursday 

programs highlighting the New York 

Times film critics' best attractions of 1965. 

Morris Simms, theatre manager, planted 

a feature story in the Willimantic Daily 

Chronicle, the area newspaper. 

Frank Morel New Manager 

At Lawrence Cinema 1, 2 

LAWRENCE. MASS.—John P. Lowe, 

Redstone Theatres district manager, announced 

the promotion of Frank Morel, 

house manager of the de luxe Cinema 1 

and 2 complex. West Springfield, Mass., to 

managing director of the Lawrence Cinema 

1 and 2, succeeding John Corbett, resigned. 

Richard Muir, who joined the circuit's 

management training program at West 

Springfield a year ago, has been designated 

acting house manager of Cinema 1 and 2 in 

West Springfield. 

Corbett, who had been with the circuit 

since the Lawrence complex's opening in 

June 1965. is to announce a new industry 

affiliation. 

Pittsfield Critic Resigns 

PITTSFIELD. MASS.—Milton R. Bass 

has resigned as entertainment editor of the 

Pittsfield Berkshire Eagle to become program 

manager of WMHT-TV. educational 

television outlet in Schenectady. N.Y. He 

had been with the Pittsfield afternoon daily 

for 

15 years. 

Richard Arlen, who will be seen in 

"Johnny Reno." made his first big hit in 

the 1927 picture, "Wings," starring Gary 

Cooper and Clara Bow. 

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Odeon Circuit Acquires 

Montcalm in Montreal 

TORONTO—The Odeon Theatres Canada), 

Ltd.. has leased the Montcalm Theatre 

in the northeasl (French-speaking) 

section of Montreal from its forme 

ators. United Amusement. Ltd., and, after 

widening the aisles and rows, the theatre, 

now seating only 700, opened with "From 

Russia With Love" Saturday (12). 

Harold Woolley, formerly manager of the 

Odeon Electra Theatre, will manage the 

Montcalm and he will be succeeded at the 

Electra by Guy Parent, formerly assistant 

manager at the Odeon Cremazie Theatre. 

The Montcalm was formerly the Rosemount 

and has been a live : tiou 

the past couple of years, when it was called 

the Folies Bergere. 

NFB Will Not Co-Produce 

Canadian Feature Film 

MONTREAL—The Ass'n 

of Professional 

Filmmakers of Canada, which has been 

active in an effort to create an exti 

film production industry In this country, 

has issued a release expressing "indignation" 

following the refusal of the National 

Film Board council to co-produce "La 

Tour." the next feature film of Gilles 

Carle, with the Onyx Film company. 

Trade sources say the film's scenario 

had all the qualities required and these 

qualities had been approved by the production 

people. The filmmakers say they do 

not know how the NFB arrived at its decision, 

but think it is definite there is 

nothing to be hoped for from the board 

for the Canadian film industry. 

According to NFB governors, in refusing 

to co-produce the film, the board refuses 

to enter into co-production with Canadian 

companies. 

The association said once again the NFB 

evades responsibility and chooses routine 

and security, rather than attempt to favor 

a domestic full-length production. It said 

NFB fears too many similar projects 

would be presented to it. The association 

added the NFB prefers to co-produce with 

foreign filmmakers, thus causing 

difficulty for this country's industry. 

UA Names Harold Langston 

Canadian Publicity Head 

NEW YORK—Harold "Nick" Langston, 

Canadian publicity director for Columbia 

Pictures two years, has been named Cana- 

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dian director of publicity of United Artists 

by Al Fisher, UA director of exploitation. 

He replaces Archie Laurie, who died. 

From 1951 to 1958. Langston served as 

Canada', 

publicity director of Odeon Theatres 

Ltd., in Toronto and he later moved 

to Biltmore Theatres in Toronto in the 

same capacity, remaining there until 1964. 

20th-Fox 

From Western 

Edition 

Observance 

HOLLYWOOD — Richard D. Zanuck 

hosted a press cocktail party. Friday '4' 

at 20th Century-Fox Studios marking tinthird 

anniversary of resumption of fullscale 

production in the studios. 

Anjanette Comer has been signed to costar 

opposite Michael Caine in "Funeral in 

Berlin." 

Seven Toronto Houses Are Rating 

Excellent With Various Films 

TORONTO Man. wre reported 

as 'Judith" turned in a strong second 

week at the Imperial, Yorkdale, Golden 

Mile and Runnymede "A Patch ol Blui 

was doing well going into its third week 

I'owne ( 'uienia. :i ". a "1 >a i lni" 

in its 21s1 week al the Capitol Fine An 

and in its first week at two other houses. 

"Thunderball" continued to do excellent 

business in its tenth week at the Carlton. 

Birchcliff. Westwood— Darling (IFD) Excellent 

Capitol Fine Art Darling (IFD), 21st wk. ..Excellent 

Carlton— Thunderball (UA), 10th wk Excellent 

The Moment of Truth SRj Very Good 

,;. Tom Jones (UA); Never on 

"' 

Sunday Good 

iroup of six theatres— The Ghost and 

th, HumanoicK « Very Good 

The Sound ot Music (20th-Fox), 

4 'th wl Excellent 

Our Mon Flint 20th-Fox), 5th 

Excellent 

Humber group The Knack I A'; Never on Sunday 

reissue 

UA1 Good 

Hyland— Life ot the Top (Col) Excellent 

Imperial, Yorkdale, Golden Mile, Runnymede 

Judith 

Towne Cinema—A 

Para) 2nd wl 

Patch 

Very Big 

of Blue (MGM), 

2nd wk Excellent 

University- The Agony and the Ecstasy (20th- 

Fox, 10th wk Good 

Yorkdale, International cinemas 

Fox) 

Rapture 

(20th- 

...Fair 

'The Loved One,' 'Repulsion' 

'Excellent' in Winnipeg 

WINNIPEG—Business improved for the 

second consecutive week, led by new arrivals 

"The Loved One" and "Repulsion." 

The continuing strength of "The Sound 

of Music" and "Boeing Boeing." the latter 

ending a month-long run. aided the upsurge. 

"Made in Paris." "The War Lord" 

and "The Knack" also showed above averaye 

grosses. Continued strength is anticipated 

for the return of a special engagement 

of "Othello." 

Capitol—Mode in Paris (MGM) Good 

Gciety—The Loved One (MGM) Excellent 

Garnck—The War Lord Univ), 2nd wk Good 

Kings—The Sound of Music 20th-Fox), 

43th wk Very Good 

Kid Rodelo Para:, Seven Slaves Against 

Average 

the World 

Metropolitan— 

Parol 

Boeing Boeing (Para), 4th 

wk 

Odeon—The Knack UA 2nd wk 

Very Good 

Good 

Park Thunderball (UA), 10th wk Average 

Towne Repulsion (Col) Excellent 

'Pawnbroker,' 'Sound of Music' 

Pace Grossers in Vancouver 

VANCOUVER^—"The Pawnbroker." in Its 

fourth week at the downtown Odeon. and 

"The Sound of Music." in a 50th week at 

the suburban Ridge, led the town in a 

generally dull week. 

Capitol—The Spy Who Came From the Cold 

(Para), 3rd wk. 

Moment 

Coronet, four other theatres- Moment 

(Univ) 

Dominion— Ship of Fools C Bollou 

.Foir 

Villaoe of the Giants IFD': Operation 

C.I.A. IFD' Fair 

Th.- Pownbrokcr IFD), 4th wk Good 

Red Line 7000 (Para), 2nd Foir 

wk 

Agony ond fhe Ecstojy (20th-Fox), 

Th, 

Above 6th Average 

Ige 50th wk. .Good 

The Sound of Music m Fax), 

Othello 4th -- Fair 

Are MGM) Average 

the Spies 

Thunderball lOtfl '- Slow 

Three 'Excellent' Ratings 

Recorded in Montreal 

MONTREAL— At the Palace. "Thunderball." 

which has been attracting steady good 

patronage, continued on at a good clip 

Elsewhere the fairly good program of hold- 

well 

duration also continued to be 

patronized. 

Alouette—Those Mognificcnt Men in Their Flying 

Machines 

2nd 

.Good 

Avenue Life 

Capitol Our 

.... Fox), 2nd wk Good 

Cinema Festr 

a (SR), 23rd wk Good 

Cinema Place 

Love in 4 Dimensions 

(SR), 2nd 

Excellent 

Dorv'ai' (Red" Room)- Ship of Fools (Col), 3rd wk. .Good 

. 

Dorvol (Salle Doree)- That Darn Cat Fmp), 3rd 

Elysee (Salle Rcsnais)—The Shomcless Old Lady 

Go id 

Elysee (Salle Ei'senstein)—The Passenger (SR), 

3rd w k Good 

Imperial- Good 

the Bulge (WB), 5th wk Battle of 

Kent— Repulsion (Col), 3rd wk Excellent 

,. in Mode Pans MGM) Good 

(UA), Palace—Thunderball 10th Excellent 

wk 

(SR), Parisien— Le Corniaud 7th wk Good 

Seville—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 50th 

w k 

Good 

Vendome—^Love Mafes (SR), 4th wk Good 

Westmount— Darling (IFD), 1 0th wk Good 

York—That Darn Cat Emp), 3rd wk 

NFB Transfers Bill Orr 

To Position in London 

VANCOUVER One of the West Coast's 

most vigorous and ardent promoters of 

artistic, documentary and educational 

films has been transferred to England. 

Bill Orr, district officer of the National 

Film Board here, is in London representin- 

the NFB. He will serve Belgium, the 

Netherlands and Germany distributing 

Canadian tourist films and educational, 

documentary and adult education films for 

theatres and television. His position is 

from three to five years. 

He was accompanied to London by his 

wife Joan and their three children. 

Of special interest to Orr will be his 

contacts in Belgium, where the International 

Center of Films for Children is located. 

He headed a local committee which 

evaluated more than 100 pictures and set 

up the popular Child's Own Theatre. 

Devises Color Process 

For Black-White Films 

HOLLYWOOD — Leo L. Fuchs, widely 

known still photographer before he became 

a motion picture producer with Universal's 

Shirley MacLaine-Michael Caine starrer 

"Gambit." has evolved an additive color 

process by which vintage black and white 

motion picture footage can be converted 

to projection in natural hues. 

Fuchs believes that film archives and 

libraries will find the process particularly 

interesting In use with antique newsreels 

as it will reveal the actual colors of clothes 

and historical backgrounds of earlier eras, 

of which the original black and white 

photography obviously give no indication. 

Canadian Guild to Honor 

Best Director and Editor 

MONTREAL — The Directors Guild of 

it will sponsor the 

first annual guild awards for best direction 

and editing of films produced in this 

country last year. The awards will be presented 

in conjunction with the Canadian 

film awards dinner, to be held here May 

6. 

Through these awards the guild hopes to 

encourage recognition of talent and skill 

in Canada in the cultural area of filmmaking. 

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This year's Oscar presentations are just bookings predominate. At Odeon's Fairlawn, 

"Magnificent Men," in its 35th week, 

a few weeks away, and locally the 

1966 Academy Awards contest is in full was still going strong. Nearing its first 

swing. This is an annual joint project with anniversary at the Eglinton, "Sound of 

the Toronto Daily Star and about 70 Music" continues to play to near-capacity 

Ontario theatres participating. The contest 

houses. "Darling" has done top business 

will reach into an estimated 14 million 

at the Capitol Fine Art for 21 weeks, and 

has opened at the Birchcliff and Westwood 

homes during the seven weeks of the 

contest. Top prize of a Chevrolet sports as well. "Thunderball" continues to pack 

coupe goes to the contestant who picks them in solidly at Odeon's big Carlton in 

the highest number of Oscar winners. its 10th week. 

Ballots are published in each issue of the 

Among the few new bookings were "The 

Rare Breed," opening Wednesday (2) at 

Loew's Uptown. "The Brigand of Kandahar" 

paired with "Arizona Raiders" started 

Star over the entire period of the contest. 

More than six weeks of planning went into 

the promotion. Heading this committee is 

Charles Chaplin, vice-president and Canadian 

general manager of Seven Arts, 

who also is chairman of boxoffice promotion 

and public relations for the Motion 

Picture Industry Council of Canada. Also 

representing the industry on this committee 

is Bill Summerville, Mort Morgolius 

and Jim Nairn from Famous Players; 

Charles Mason from Odeon. and Raoul 

Auerbach and Don Watts from Twentieth 

Century. 

Three Canadians have been named to 

committees of the National Ass'n of Concessionaires, 

which has a Canadian section. 

Sydney Spiegel is head of the membership 

retention committee. Charles 

Sweeney is on the membership committee 

and Jack Fitzgibbons is on the finance, 

concession idea-man-of-the-year contest 

and public relations committees. 

The Nortown here was one of many 

houses in cities across Canada that booked 

Warner's "Othello" for a longer hardticket 

run. starting Wednesday 

1 is 

as a result of the outstanding success this 

British National Theatre production had 

in its earlier two-day engagement in many 

key cities. These exclusive Canadian engagements 

are on a two performances a 

day basis. Although there will be no reserved 

seats, only the total number of 

seats in the house for each performance 

will be sold, assuring a seat for each 

ticket holder. "Othello" is the third in 

Warners' build-up of six cultural productions. 

Elsewhere on the local scene, long-term 

Thursday (3 > at the Albion group of Odeon 

suburban houses. "Spy in Your Eye" and 

"White Freight for Hong Kong" opened 

Wednesday (2) at the Downtown. Midtown. 

State. Park, Century and two driveins, 

as did "High Infidelity" at the International 

Cinema and Yorkdale Cinema. 

MONTREAL 

The James Bond "Pussy Galore" girl, 

Honor Blackman, was the center of 

attraction here at the airport as the United 

Kingdom's new Super VC10 jetliner 

touched down in Montreal for the first 

time . film festival arranged by 

Montreal Star Travel Festival has proven 

that residents still are keen movie fans. 

The festival is to be held at the Place des 

Arts Thursday and Friday (17 and 18 > 

and is completely sold out. There were 6.- 

000 tickets sold in just two days. The festival, 

which consists of 15 films from 15 different 

countries, covers various aspects of 

national life of the countries concerned, 

showing its people at work and at play. 

The Cinema Verdi, which has been 

having considerable success with "special 

attractions," again scored with "Salto." 

a film by T. Konwicki and with the star 

of "Ashes and Diamonds," Z. Cybulski. 

The film carried French subtitles. 

Volkswagen Canada announced in line 

with its new policy of maintaining a consistent 

concept in advertising it has commissioned 

Crawley Films, Ltd., of Ottawa 

to produce a movie on Canada's position 

in international trade as a contribution 

to the 1967 centennial celebrations of 

Canada. 

"The Ten Commandments" will return 

to Montreal on Friday April 1 when it 

will open on a continuous-run basis in 

the Capitol Theatre . announced 

was that the Carlo Ponti picture "Doctor 

Zhivago," presented by Metro-Goldwyn- 

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\jmth not much in the way of hockey 

and skiing, the indoor pastime of 

bingo is again flourishing in and around 

Ottawa with service clubs, churches, 

lodges, veterans and other organizations 

sponsoring games for which the prizes 

range up to automobiles as well as $1,500 

in cash for a jackpot. BlngO is limited by 

law to "occasional games" but this ruling 

is not clearly defined and the resulting 

situation is detrimental to the entertainment 

business. 

Pending: a decision by the Ontario legislature 

on the operation in Ottawa of 

cablevision systems, the civic board of control 

here has delayed action with respect 

to applications by four- privately owned 

companies for a franchise to establish a 

community network, for which the city 

planned to collect a percentage of revenue 

With spring-like weather expected within 

a few weeks In the district, preliminary 

arrangements are being made for the reopening 

of drive-ins. including managerial 

appointments. Hubert Richer, house managei 

it the Ottawa Elgin, is slated to take 

of the Seaway Drive-In at Cornwall, 

while Andre Sabourin. assistant to 

Jack Marion at the Britannia, is named 

for the Pembroke Drive-In. 

At long last, Ernie Warren, manager 

the Ottawa Elgin and district super- 

of 

visor of 20th Century units, was able to 

break away for a Florida vacation following 

the 10-week-run of "Thunderban" at 

Hi, Elgin where "The Chase" is now playing. 

At the Little Elgin "Life at the Top" 

has rounded out its third week. 

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" 

had a good third week at the Ottawa Regent 

where Manager Leo Ouellette is pushing 

the fact that star Richard Burton is 

again an Academy Award nominee. With 

ten nominations, "The Sound of Music." 

of course, is booming in its ninth month 

at 

the Nelson. 

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of Doug Watt, are setting a healthy pace 

as indicated by holdovers. "The Heroes of 

I', mark" continued for a third week at 

the Somerset and Queensway. while 

"White Voices" gained a second wick at 

the Elmdale, where, incidentally, the feature 

was one of five on local screens which 

had been classified by the censor board 

for "restricted attendance." 

Silent Film Pianist Is 

Still Busy at Keyboard 

NEW KENSINGTON. PA.—Gussie Dea 

of Lower Burrell, who was a movie theatre 

pianist for the Manos Theatre Corp. 35 

enjoys entertaining In nightspots in 

the Allr-Kiski Valley and recently has returned 

to her old job as accompanist for 

silent movies presented by the Allegheny 

Valley Classic Film Society in the New 

Kensington Holiday Inn. 

At 77, she has nimble fingers and plays a 

lively tune. The talkies ruined her career 

as a theatre musician, she says, but she 

never quit playing pianos and organs and 

she keeps very busy filling engagements. 

Recently she accompanied the silent 

"Phantom of the Opera" and David Wark 

Griffith's "Ditolerance." In the early silent 

screen years she wrote a number of themes 

which interpreted the screen story action. 

Mrs. Dea didn't start in the business as 

a pianist, however. She started as a film 

saleswoman at Pittsburgh in 1908. After 

selling pictures, she became an accompanist 

for vaudeville acts and silent movies 

and this continued for 35 years on a regular 

basis. Her husband, John Dea. is deceased. 

She is the mother of two daughters 

and the grandmother - of six. She lives with 

her son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. 

Donald Wall. 

Came Film to Shapiro 


NEW YORK — Irvin Shapiro's Film 

Agency has acquired the western hemisphere 

sales of Charles Lumbroso's "Three 

Bedrooms in Manhattan," directed by 

' 

At the big Capitol, where "The Slender Marcel Came, starring Annie Glrardot 

Thread" reaped nice business. Manager with Maurice Ronet and Genevieve Page. 

Jim McDonough has two stage attractions 

Shapiro also distributed Carne's classic 

coming: "Pels Eiroann." a musical "Children of Paradise" in the 1940s. 

company from Ireland. Friday night 

and The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem 

on Monday and Tuesday nights '21 

and 22), both at S4.50 top. 

VANCOUVER 

The annual international film festival 

h re will be held September 8-17 in 

the Lyric Theatre. The president is Harold 

Huggins. public relations director for 

coholic Foundation and a veteran 

promoter of cultural affairs. The immediate 

past presidenl Charles Marshall will 

be program director. Other officials are 

A. C. G. Roberts. Darcy Drab, Mis. R. H. 

Carlile, Mrs. Michael Ryan, C. J. Short. 

Robert Todd, Ken Kerr, Mrs. Lawrence 

Williams, John Averill and Mrs. Richard 

Chambers 

Joan Dalgleisb of MGM and her husband 

Gordon beal the resurgence of winter 

which brought snow flurries and freezing 

temperatures to the lower mainland by 

taking a holiday in Hawaii—but it rained 

1.24 inches the day they arrived in Honolulu. 

Visiting Filmrow were Jim Petrovich. 

who operated the Park White Rock for 

many years, and Paul Gauthier of Quesnel, 

who was in to set bookings for the 

Caul) and Casbar drive-ins. 

Doug and Jane Dunn of the Colonial 

Theatre held a birthday party for their 

son Douglas, who was 21. 

Recovering in General Hospital from 

surgery were Grace Mitchener. with the 

former Empire-Universal, and Rene Rheaume, 

MGM stenographer. 

Syd Freedman of the Studio claims there 

taurant near his theatre which f< a- 

tures "home cooking." complete with waitress 

who stands beside the table to nag 

the customer. And on the next block, he 

says, there is a spot reserved for gourmets, 

In Canada that's a glutton.) 

President of the Film Exchange Employes. 

Local CE-71. is Lou Young of 

United Artists. Vice-president is Margaret 

Morrison, Paramount: secretary-treasurer. 

Diane Overbo. Warner Bros.: recording 

secretary. Bemice Magill. Paramount, and 

acting business agent. Terry Spatra of 

Paramount. 

"The Oscar" was produced by Clarence 

Greene and directed by Russell Rouse. 

. 

Manager Doug ML Pinder of the Rideau. 

who is president of the Ottawa Valley 

Theatres Ass'n. has a new assistant manager 

Maurice Lacroix. recently at Pembroke 

T«o Ottawa tv stations are preparing 

to start color broadcasting in October 

Ernest Bushnell of CJOH has reported 

that some of the necessary equipment already 

is installed, while the CBS outlet 

its will get color programs from Toronto. 

A circuit of four theatres is announced 

for the playing of the same family programs 

for Saturday and Sunday matinees. 

The general admission being 50 cents. 

The group comprises the Rideau. Ottawa. 

Capitol. Cornwall. Soper. Smiths Falls 

and the Winchester at Winchester. 

Odeon units here, under the supervision 

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Spectre Invasion of Monterey Focuses 

Bud Rose, Milwaukee freelance publicist, shows the 

pose he assumed for 216 hours in futile effort to 

hatch his goose's eggs as part of a promotional stunt 

Earlier, when he and the bird were promoting 

"Father Goose," 

mother— not a father—when 

Rose discovered 

she 

the goose 

began laying 

was a 

eggs. 

Rose says he understands that a new picture is 

being made called "Mother Goose a Gogo" and he 

and "Miss" Roger Goose are ready to go. 

'Stagecoach' Screenplay 

To Become Paperback 

The Joseph Land on screenplay of Martin 

Rackin's "Stagecoach" has been novelized 

by Robert W. Krepps and will be published 

by Fawcett Gold Medal Books timed to the 

national release of the film. 

The 20th Century-Fox production is 

based on a screenplay by Dudley Nichols 

from the "Stage to Lordsburg." written by 

the late Western writer Ernest Haycox. 

The Haycox story ran only 2,500 words in 

Collier's magazine in 1937. while the 

Krepps novelization will be 60.000 words 

long. Publication of the paperback is by 

special arrangement with the estate of 

Haycox. 

Classroom Study Guide Set 

For 'Ten Commandments' 

A four-page student study guide on Cecil 

B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments 

On Kindair's Thunderball Playdate 

A first-run engagement of "Thunderball," 

already heavily presold nationally, 

could look like such a sure thing at the 

boxoffice that an exhibitor might well 

conclude that there was no necessity for 

a big campaign. 

But in keeping with its policy of "making 

the big ones even bigger," the Kindair 

Theatres of Monterey County went all out 

to promote the James Bond film which 

played day-and-date at its Steinbeck Theatre 

on Monterey's historic Cannery Row 

and at the Globe in Salinas. 

Such a campaign was all the more important 

since there was a last-minute slash 

of advertising funds on the part of United 

Artists. So the undaunted promotion 

manager of Kindair, Howard Williams, embarked 

on an intensive publicity campaign 

to offset this eleventh-hour reversal of 

promised cooperative advertising funds. 

He contacted the local Seven Seas Skin 

Diving School and enlisted the aid of 

owner Ted Duffy in making a display of 

skin-diving equipment as used in "Thunderball" 

in the lobbies of the Steinbeck 

and Globe. Advance releases on the film 

stressed Duffy's enthusiasm for the picture 

because of its authentic presentation of 

skin diving techniques and equipment. 

MOCK INVASION SETS PACE 

But the heart of the promotion was a 

mock invasion by the agents of James 

Bond's arch enemies "Spectre" on the 

Monterey shore near the Steinbeck. The 

"invasion" was staged in connection with 

Mayor Minnie Coyle's proclamation of 

Monterey as the skin-diving capital of 

northern California. Also on hand to view 

the proceedings was local Pacific Grove 

police chief Ernest McAnaney who is wellknown 

for lus rescue sea patrol, "McAnaney's 

Navy." which looks out for the safety 

of the area's skin divers. The "invaders" 

debarked from a special training boat provided 

by the diving school, and then 

demonstrated for the press various pieces 

of equipment used in "Thunderball." 

has been prepared by Paramount Pictures 

in conj miction with the return of the 

scuba tanks, masks, spears, 

picture 

this Easter. 

same type of underwater gun as that used 

knives and the 

Prepared by Dr. Howard L Hurwltz, 

by James Bond. And, of course, a local 

prominent educator and model appeared 

editor, 

as 

the 

Miss Skin Diver of 1966. 

outlines 32 classroom projects and assignments, 

The promotion got extensive newspaper 

and facilitates discussion of the coverage and appeared on the evening news 

TV film before and after viewing by students. of the local stations in Monterey and 

Exhibitors can order the "Ten Commandments" 

Salinas. 

guide in quantity from Hani And what kind of grosses did "Thunder- 

K McWilliams Associates. 405 Broome ball" have in Monterey? The first week's 

Street. New York. 

nearly SI 2.000 was a close runner-up to the 

BOXOFT1CE Showmandise Mar. 14. 1966 — 37 — 

Monterey, Calif., Mayor Minnie Coylc and Pacific 

Grove police chief Ernest McAnaney view the 'Thun 

derball" invasion in Monterey as port of a stunt for 

the United Artists picture at Kindair's Steinbeck 

Theatre 

theatre's record-breaking gross for "Mary 

Poppins," the second week was a healthy 

$10,000. The Globe's first week was just 

under $10,000 and the second nearly $7,000. 

Total gross for the six-week engagement 

at the Steinbeck was a fast-paced $36,000, 

just behind the smash $40,000 for "Mary 

Poppins," while the Globe, day-and-dating 

with Ray Syufy's Auto Movie Drive-In. 

turned in a trim $20,000 in just under five 

weeks, comparing favorably to the hefty 

$25,000 exclusive Salinas engagement for 

"Poppins." 

Book Dealer Promotion, 

Contest Set for 'Juliet' 

More than 200 New York bookstore owners 

will attend a showing of the awardwinning 

"Juliet of the Spirits" on Tuesday 

(15). After the showing, the owners will 

be invited to enter a contest for the "Best 

Window Display" of the recently released 

Ballantine paperback of "Juliet of the 

Spirits." Winners of the contest will be 

announced by Irving Sochin. vice-president 

of Riz/.oli Films, on Wcdnesd;i 

to coordinate with the opening of *he film 

In 25 houses throughout Metropolitan 

New York. 

The Rizzoli Film Distributors release is 

in its fourth record-breaking month at 

the Embassy Theatre on Broadway.

— 

6-Mik Wagon Chase 

Eye-Popping Slunt 

l Mk 

As a street stunt tor 'The Hallelujah Trail," W. P. 

Rector, manager ot the Tucker Theatre, Liberal, 

Kas, used a mule-pulled covered wagon loaded with 

"whisky." Starting 6 miles from the theatre, the 

stunt is climaxed in front of the house by a "shootout" 

by the sheriff and the desperado. In the meantime, 

bottom photo. Temperance Union members 

"picket" the theatre with their "anti-gin" signs. 

An attention-getting street stunt highlighted 

the playdate campaign of W. P. 

Rector, manager of NGC's Tucker Theatre 

at Liberal. Kas., for "The Hallelujah 

Trail." He depicted the whisky-run by the 

covered wagons in the picture. 

Starting at KT.TR, 6 miles from town, a 

wagon pulled by two mules and driven by 

"Red-Eye," the rum-running desperado, 

was pur-sued by "Sheriff Dead-Eye" in a 

gun-blazing chase. The stunt was climaxed 

in front of the theatre, when the sheriff 

shot Red-Eye in a gun battle. As the 

wagon reached the scene, "Temperance 

Union" members were picketing the theatre 

with "anti-gin" signs. 

Th? hour-long street ballyhoo was under 

police escort. During the fight at the theatre, 

the intersection was blocked off to 

avoid a traffic snarl-up. 

tion, KSCB. He promoted a western outfit 

from a dealer for a prize, going to the 

person who could write "Hallelujah Trail" 

the most times on a postal card. The winner 

had 575 on her card. 

'Thunderbair 

Sweepstakes 

Valentine 

Effective 

In an all-out effort to maintain a continued 

SRO business on "Thunderball" 

after an already record-breaking six-week 

run. Manager Bernard Bispeck of the 

Shaker Theatre in Cleveland set up a 

"Thunderball Valentine Sweepstakes." 

The big merchant tie-up included such 

prizes as pancake dinners, pizza treats, 

steak dinners, 007 talc and after-shave 

lotion kits, etc. 

Each week, during the four-week promotion, 

he ran a 3-column reverse ad, 

paid for by each merchant, announcing 

their cooperation in the sweepstakes and 

the "Thunderball" holdover. Each merchant 

had corresponding window displays. 

One of the merchants, Shakey's Pizza, 

included a tagline on $800 worth of radio 

spots on Cleveland stations. Each merchant 

also supplied a model hostess with 

free coffee and donuts as patrons entered 

the theatre each day. Special signs tying 

in the sweepstakes plus the coffee treat 

were placed in the lobby giving each merchant 

proper credit. 

Bispeck had a giant heart made up and 

placed in front of the boxoffice, through 

which the cashier sold tickets. The heart 

also carried copy on the sweepstakes. 

The manager said he had so many calls 

about the sweepstakes that it was necessary 

to install a special answering service 

tape recording with the details. On the 

night of the drawing, Bispeck played to a 

full house, even though it was not necessary 

for the registrants to have been 

present to win. 

'Juliet of the Spirits' 

To Play Juliet Theatre 

Irving Sochin, vice-president of Rizzoli 

Films, has set a novel booking of "Juliet 

of the Spirits" for the Juliet Theatre, 

Poughkeepsie, N.Y., April 20. 

Arrangements were made with the local 

winery near Poughkeepsie to distribute a 

small bottle of wine to each adult on opening 

day. This is so that "Juliet of the 

Spirits" will have "Spirits" on hand at the 

Juliet Theatre. 

To Schools for 'Othello' 

Dick Weber, general manager and partner 

with Jim Benton in the Strand Thea- 

Rector had coverage of the "gun fight" tre, Plattsburgh, N.Y.. highlighted his 

by KUPK-TV, which carried it on the 10 campaign for "Othello" through a promotion 

at 22 schools, including Ticonderoga, 

p.m. newscast. Radio station KLIB carried 

a remote broadcast from the time the F0 miles away, and Port Henry. 40 miles 

wagon left until the final shootout. 

from Plattsburgh. It paid off in a record 

Rector also held a contest through the cross. 

cooperation of the city's other radio sta- 

Oscar Awards Bally 

In Ontario Widespread 

A widespread contest on the Academy 

Awards is under way in the Canadian 

province of Ontario, with the deadline for 

voting set for April 15—three days prior to 

the presentation of Oscars in Hollywood. 

The co-operative project with the Toronto 

Daily Star is to involve 70 Ontario theatres 

and, cumulatively, reach 14-million homes 

and at least twice that number of readers. 

Starting February 26, the contest is 

offering a top prize of a Chevrolet Impala 

sports coupe for the contestant picking the 

highest number of Oscar winners. The 

runner-up will receive a 25-inch color TV 

set, a console stereo and an 11-inch portab'e 

TV. Third prize will be $1,000 in 

groceries. Seventeen additional prizes of 

season theatre passes, valued at $2,210, will 

be donated by the circuits involved 

Famous Players, Odeon and 20th Century. 

Half-page size ballots will be printed in 

each issue of the Star throughout the contest. 

In addition, the newspaper is hanging 

llx8-inch promotional cards on 1,800 

street-sale boxes and will carry banners on 

its delivery trucks. Also, the Dominion 

grocery chain, which is contributing the 

third prize, will distribute 500,000 heralds 

on the contest. 

Promotional contributions from the industry 

will include a special two-minute 

trailer for participating theatres. 

The promotion was arranged by a committee 

headed by Charles Chaplin, vicepresident 

and Canadian general manager 

of Seven Arts, who is chairman of boxoffice 

promotions and public relations for 

the Motion Picture Industry Council of 

Canada. Assisting him are Bill Summerville. 

Mort Morgolius and Jim Nairn of 

Famous Players, Charles Mason of Odeon 

and Raoul Auerbach and Don Watts of 

20th Century. 

Additional Academy Awards promotion 

organized by Chaplin's MPICC committee 

includes a series of panel discussion shows 

on TV stations across Canada. Companies 

with nominees will provide two-minute 

film clips and other material as a basis for 

discussion. The committee also has asked 

participating TV stations to offer local 

theatres advertising spots at reduced rates. 

'Singing Nun' Campaign 

Special full-page color ads for MGM's 

"The Singing Nun" have been scheduled for 

the March and April issues of Life. Look 

and McCalls magazines. The ads were 

geared to capture a major segment of the 

family market. 

'Zhivago' Cover Girl 

Julie Christie, star of MGM's "Doctor 

Zhivago," was the cover subject on the 

March 8 issue of Look Magazine. Produced 

by Jack Hamilton, the six-page inside feature 

on the Academy Award nominee includes 

ten photographs by Douglas Kirkland 

and prominently focuses on her porof 

"Lara" in the David Lean film. 

This cartocn was sent to H. S. Baker, manager of the Logon Theatre, Logan. W. Va , by a patron of 

"That Darn Cat" at the house. A note attached, read: "This cartoon shows my feelings about cats, but 

'That Darn Cat' of yours was pretty darn cute. Tom Weaver." 

38 BOXOFFICE Showmandii Mar. 14, 1966

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ALLIED ARTISTS 

Curst- of the Voodoo > 

Haliday, 

Dennis Price, Lisa Danlely. Nothing 

big. but it Is passabli il you are desperately 

shsrt of something to plaj Played Wed 

through Sat.—Harold Bell, Opera Hon 

Theatre, Coaticook. Que. Pop. 8.000. 

AMERICAN INTERNAT.ONAL 

Pajama Party 'AlP* Tommy Kirk, 

Annette Funicello. Harvey Lembeck. If 

you must make a few extra dollars, then 

their "beach-type" films such as 

this one. I first play th m on the Sunday- 

Tuesday break, then repeat them in a 

months on a Friday and Saturday. 

They do pretty well even on repeats. Played 

i-ii. Sat. Weather: Good.—George C. clanton. 

Daw Theatre. Tappahannock, Va 

BUENA VISTA 

Old Yeller —Dorothy Mc- 

Guire, Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk. This reissue 

did much better than average business. 

However, my "average" durii 

last six months has b en low ! d 

through Sat.— S. T. Jackson, Jackson Theatre. 

Flomaton. Ala. Pop. 1,480. 

COLUMBIA 

Collector. The (Col) Terence Stamp. 

< 

Samantha Eggar, Maurice Dallimore. This 

was a picture that received many good 

e raiments. I thought it was very eood. No 

a lue. Business slow. Played Thins.. 

S. Funk, East Main Drive-In 

Theatre, Lake City. S.C. 

Lord Jim 

i 

Col —Peter O'Toolc. James- 

F,li Wallach. This one needs publicity, 

especially in small towns. The tit! 

nothing unless you have a lot of 

for customers. Peter O'Tooli ha 

prove himself in this house. Good 

draggy spots, excellent phony. 

Slow business. Played Wed 

.i Sat Weather: Sn I 

Manuel, Geitner Theatre. Silver Creek, 

N.Y. Pop. 3,400. 

EMBASSY 

Darling 'Embassy. Laurence Harvey, 

Dirk Bogarde, Julie Christie. Excellent picood 

adult film. My patrons 

loved it. Julie Christie might just win an 

Academy Award for this one. Held it for 

two weeks and drew big crowds. We 

. 

• Adults-Mature 

In 

: Mar. 

CAPSULE 

REVIEWS 

GREEH SHEET 

A MONTHLY SURVEY 

OF CURRENT FILMS 

MARCH 1966 

ISSUE 

The Film Board of National Organizations 

American Jewish Committee 

American Library Association 

Daughters of the American Revolution 

Federation of Motion Picture Councils 

General Federation of Women's Clubs 

National Congress of Parents and Teachers 

National Council of Women of the U.S.A. 

National Federation of Music Clubs 

Protestant Motion Picture Council 

Schools Motion Picture Committee 

ALICE OF WONDERLAND IN PARIS 

i 

Childhood Productions). 

A feature-length cartoon incorporates five 

children's stories by Bemelmans, Crockett Johnson and 

Thurber in a story which takes Alice to Paris instead of 

Wonderland. (General Audience-Children) 

THE MONEY TRAP (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) . 

this 

sordid melodrama money induces two police detectives 

with impeccable records to become involved in crime. 

(Adults) 

APACHE UPRISING (Paramount). Hero Rory Calhoun 

in this violent western prevents a stagecoach robbery and 

wards off an Apache raid. (Adults-Mature Young People" 

THE BRIGAND OF KANDAHAR (Columbia). British 

adventure tale set in India, in which a half-caste officer, 

badly treated in Her Majesty's Army, joins the native 

tribesmen in attacking English outposts. (Adults-Mature 

Young People) 

THE CHASE (Columbia). A convict's escape is the fuse 

which ignites every explosive passion in the people of a 

small Texas town. (Adults) 

DRACULA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS (20th Century-Fox) 

Dracula strikes again in a gory British horror film. 

(Adults-Mature Young People) 

PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES (20th Century-Fox). This 

British shocker tells a tale of a Cornish village plagued 

by grave robbery, Zombies and voodooism until a famous 

London physician puts an end to the mystery. 

(Adults-Mature Young People) 

THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (Prominent Films). A 

Czech film portrays the deeply moving relationship between 

an elderly Jewish widow and the man placed in 

control of her small shop during the Nazi occupation of 

Slovakia. (Adults-Mature Young People) 

TEN LITTLE INDIANS (Seven Arts). A British remake 

of Agatha Christie's suspenseful mystery tale about ten 

captive guests who are picked off one by one. by their 

unseen, vengeful host. (Adults-Mature Young People) 

THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX (20th Century-Fox) 

A diverse group of men whose plane has crashed in the 

Sahara, effect their own rescue, in an exciting adventure 

story. (Adults-Mature Young People-Young People) 

INSIDE DAISY CLOVER (Warner Brothers). A fifteenyear-old 

girl rockets to film stardom at the expense of her 

private life. 

(Adults) 

LIFE AT THE TOP (Royal Films International). In this 

well-acted British sequel to "Room At the Top," a frustrated 

opportunist finds that marrying the boss's daughter 

doesn't guarantee happiness. (Adults) 

LORD LOVE A DUCK (United Artists). A way-out farce 

that wildly satirizes a giddy lot of teenagers and their 

elders as well. 

(Adults) 

THUNDERBALL (United Artists). The fourth of the 

James Bond series, in which Agent 007 takes to underwater 

sleuthing with the aid of science-fiction gadgetry. 

Young People) 

THE UGLY DACHSHUND (Walt Disney). Disney presents 

the trials of a huge Great Dane who is raised with 

a litter of dachshund puppies and thinks he is one of 

them. (General Audience) 

WILD WILD WINTER (Universal). A campus comedy 

about a never, never college where the primary interests 

are skiing, rock 'n' roll, and how the boys can meet the 

girls. (Young People) 

A lavish Ross Hunter produc- 

to protect 

her husband and son from scandal. (Adults-Mature 

Young People) 

MADAME X (Universal). 

tion re-tells the story of a wife who ruins her life 

WINNIE THE POOH AND THE HONEY TREE (Walt 

Disney). Walt Disney has made a cartoon featurette of 

parts of A. A. Milne's children's classic, "Winnie the 

Pooh." (General Audience-Children) 

40 BOXOFFICE Showmandiser : 

14, 1966

Times 

...20th-Fox 

. Sherpix 

AA 

1 

I 

BOXOFFICE B O OK I N G U I D 

ws. Running time is in parentheses. The plus and 

current reviews, updated regularly. This department 

ALPHABETICAL INDEX 

e releases, c is for CinemaScope; V VistaVision; 

p Ponavision; j Techn.rama; s Other anamorphic processes Symbol (j denotes BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon 

Award; Q 

e 

Color Photogrophy Notional Catholic Office (NCO) ratings: Al— Unobjectionable for General 

Patronage; A2— Unobjectionable for Adults or Adolescents; A3— Unobjectionable tor Adults; A4—Morally 

Unobjectionable for Adults, with Reservations; B—Objectionable «n Part for All; C—Condemned. For 

listings by company in the order of release, see FEATURE CHART. 

21 

EVIEW DIGEST 

AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX 

Very Good; + Good; — Fair, Poor; = Very Poor. the summary H is rated 2 pluses, = as 2 minuses. 

1 II 

2994 ©Agent for H.A.R.M. (S4) Ac Dr.Univ 1-24-66 B 

2962 s^QAgony and the Etstasy. 

The (140) Todd-AO 20th-Fox 9-27-65 A2 

2996 All Men Are Apes (S5) Drama. .Adelphia 1-31-66 

Alphaville (100) SF P-C 12-13-65 A3 

And So to Bed (112) Medallion 8-23-65 

2952 CD. 

2958©Apache Gold (91) © West... Col 9-13-65 A 

Uprisinn ;s 29S9 0Apache (90) W Para 1-10-66 A2 

2947 ©Arizona Raiders (S8> s Western Col 8- 9-65 A 

>Bambole (111) Ep C Col 8-16-65 C 

> ©Battle of the Bulge (162) War Or WB 1-10-66 Al 

©Beach Ball (83) Mus Para 10- 4-65 

I 

Beachgirls and the Monster, 

i 

The (70) Melodrama U. Films 11-15-65 

S. 

! Bedford Incident. The (102) Sus Dr Col 10-18-65 A2 

I ©Big T.N.T. Show, The 

(93) Folk and Rock Mus AIP 1-24-66 

i©Billie (87) Com Dr UA 9- 6-65 Al 

I Blood Bath (SO) Ho Drama AIP 2-28-66 

©Boeing Boeing (102) Con Farce. Para 11-29-65 I B 

I ©Brigand of Kandahar, 

The (81) Adv Drama Col 1-24-66 A2 

©Buddha (134) Melo Locert 8-30-65 A3 

Bunny Lake Missing (107) My Dr. 10-18-65 A3 

I Is Col 

2965 ©Carry On Cleo (85) Farce Governor 10-11-65 

2959 Caressed (81) Drama Brenner 9-20-65 

2948 ©Casanova '70 (113) Embassy 8- 9-65 Comedy B 

2976 Cavern, The (83) Drama 20th-Fox 11-15-65 A2 

2998 ©Chase, The (135) p Drama.... Col 2- 7-66 A3 

2966 ©Cincinnati Kid (113) Drama. MGM 10-11-65 B 

2975 City of Fear (90) Melo AA 11-15-65 B 

2978 ©Coast of Skeletons 

(90) ® Action Drama ..Seven Arts 11-22-65 A2 

2935 Comict Stage (71) W . 6-21-65 

2957 ©Country Music Caravan 

(S3) Musical Colorama SR 9-13-65 Al 

©Crazy Paradise (95) Comedy . 

2955 Curse of the Fly, 

9-13-65 

The (86) Ho D 20th-Fox 9- 6-65 Al 

12-13-65 B 

2984 Curse of the Voodoo (77) Melo 

III 11 Ifl J 

=: 4+2- 

+ + + tt + 

U 

1+2- 

2+1- 

3 2 

9- 1 

5-2 

± 6+2- 

3+1- 

+ 6+ 

tt 10+ 

2971 Frankenstein Meets the Space 

Monster (78) S-F AA 11- 1-65 

Friend of the Family, 

A (95) © French Comedy ... I -C 12-20-65 A2 

2970 ©Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster 

(85) ® Sci-Fic Cont'l 

2978 Ghost, The (96) Horror Melo.. Magna 

3003 ©Ghost and Mr. Chicken. The 

(90) Comedy Unit 

2963 ©Git! (92) Adv Drama Embassy 

2942 Glory Guys. The (112) ® West..UA 

2960 Goldstein (85) Avant-garde Satire Altura 

©Grand Substitution, The 

(116) Melo Frank Lee 

2953 Great Armored Car Swindle, The 

(SSVi) Melo Taurus SR 

2942y©Great Race, The (152) (g Com WB 

2961 ©Great Sioux Massacre, 

The (91) :c) Western Drama ..Col 

Greed in the Sun (122) Melo. MGM 

2944 ©Gunmen of the Rio Grande 

(86) Western AA 

2940 ©Halleluiah Trail, The (136) ® C W UA 

2939 ©Harlow (125) ® Drama Para 

3000 ©Harper (121) Detective Drama.... WB 

2974©Harum Scarum 

(85) ® Drama with Music. MGM 

2946 ©Harvey Middleman, Fireman (75) C Col 

2946 Having a Wild Weekend 

(95) Com with Songs WB 

2949 (J© HELP! (90) Com with Songs . . UA 

2194 ©Hercules Against the Moon Men 

(90) ® Melodrama Governor 

2951 ©Hercules vs. the Giant 

Warriors (94) Spec ..John Alexander 

2982 ©Heroes of Telemark, 

The (131) ® War Drama Col 

10-25-65 A2 

11-22-65 

Ho 2945 Dark Intruder (59) Drama ... Urn. 8- 2-65 A2 

2952 Darling (122) Dr Embassy 8-23-65 A4 

2980 Dead Eyes of London (104) Melo Magna 11-29-65 

2955 ©Devils of Darkness 

(88) Ho Susp 20th-Fox 9- 6-65 B 

2972 ©Die, Monster, Die (78) ® Ho Dr AIP 11- 1-65 

2988 ©Do Not Disturb (102) © Com 20th-Fox 1- 3-66 A3 

3000©0racula— Prince of Darkness 

(90) Horror 20th-Fox 2-14-66 A2 

2978 ©Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine 

(90) Q Comedy Fantasy AIP 11-22-65 A2 

©Doctor Zhivago (197) Period MGM 1-10-66 A2 

2990 Dr 

3+ 

• 

6+1 

2+1- 

± 4+1- 

5H 

+ 7+ 

2980 Eleanor Roosevelt Storv. 

The (90) Doc 

AIP 11-29-65 

Enchanting Shadow. The 

(85) Melo ..... Run Run Shaw 8-30-65 

Eroica (82) Polish Melo AmerPol 2-14-66 

2942 Eva (115) Drama . 

2985 ©Evening With the Royal Ballet. 

7-12-65 B 

An (93) Sigma III 12-20-65 

Eye of the Needle. The 

(97) Ital Com Eldorado 8- 2-65 

2969 ©Face of Fu Manchu. The 

(96) ® My Dr Seven Arts 10-25-65 + ± + H 

Family Drama. MGM A2 H * 

Diary (114) Ital 7-16-65 • 

2939 ©Family Jewels, The (100) Comedy Para 7- 5-65 Al - • 

Fascist. The (102) Ital. Com Embassy 8-18-65 H 

3003 Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (83)..E»e 2-28-66 ± ± - 

Female Prince, Tha 

(105) Mus Drama Run Run Shaw 8-30-65 

2979 Fiendish Ghouls. The 

(74) Horror Melo Pacemaker 1129-«5 + 

2946 ©Finger on the Trigger (87) ® W. AA 8- 2-65 

Five Gents' Trick Book (95) C. Toho 1-24-66 + 

2990 ©Flight of the Phoenix. The 

6+1 

2t 

5+1- 

5+ 

(148) Adv Dr 20th- Fox 1-10-66 Al ft tf tt tt tt

Jones-Carpenter. 

-Taurus 

11-29-65 

REVIEW DIGEST 

AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX * Very Good, 

Good; — Fair; - Poor; = Very Poor. In the summary tt is rated 2 pluses, 

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2986 Life at the Top (117) Drama. .Col 12-20-65 A4 

Life Upside Down (93) Fr Dr . . Landau 

10- 4-65 

2960 Little Nuns, The (101) Com Embassy 9-20-65 A2 

2963 Little Ones. The (66) Dr Col 10- 4-65 

2996 Lord Love a Duck (105) Satire... U A 1-31-66 A4 

iioO uLove and Kisses (87) 

Com with Songs Univ 8-16-65 A2 

Love in 4 Dimensions 

(105) Episode Com Eldorado 10-25-65 C 

2967 Loved One. The (116) MGM 10-18-65 B 

—M— 

Madame White Snake (105) 

Fairy Tale Frank Lee 12-20-65 

3003 ©Madame X (100) Drama Univ 2-28-66 

2964 Mad Executioners, The (92) Cr Dr.. Para 10- 4-65 A2 

Maedchen in Uniform (91) Dr Seven Arts 9-20-65 A2 

2995 ©Made in Paris 

(105) P Com with Mus MGM 1-31-66 A3 

2989 ©Magic World of Topo Gigio. 

The (72) Cartoon Col 1-10-66 

3001 ©Make Like a Thief (80) Dr. .. Emerson 2-21-66 

Male Companion (92) C.lnfl Classics 2-14-66 A3 

2961 ©Marriage on the Rocks (109) ® CD WB 9-27-65 B 

Married Woman. The (94) Dr. . Royal 10-25-65 C 

Mermaid, The (99) Melo ..Frank Lee 2- 7-66 

2965 Mickey One (93) Drama Col 10-11-65 A3 

2955 ©Mission to Hell 

(83) §) Adv Dr . SR 9- 6-65 

Moment of Truth, The (105) Doc Rizzoli 8-25-65 A4 

2997 ©Moment to Moment (108) Drama.. Univ 2- 7-66 

2993 Money Trap, The (92) ® Sus Dr. .MGM 1-24-66 B 

Mother and Daughter (80) Melo. . Artkino 11-15-65 

2959 Motor Psycho! (74) Melodrama ....Eve 9-20-65 

2973 ©Mozambique (98) Dr Seven Arts 11- 8-65 

2953©Muneta (108) Western WB 8-30-65 Dr Al 

2977 Mutiny in Outer Space (85) S-F Melo AA 11-22-65 

2981 My Pal Wolf (76) Melo Pitkin 12- 6-65 

—N— 

2969 Nanny, The (93) Susp Dr. .. .20th-Fox 10-25-65 

2972 y©Never Too Late (105) © Com..WB 11- 1-65 A3 

2945 9 Miles to Noon (66"/ 2 ) Melo • 

8- 2-65 

+ + + tt 

- 

+ 6+ 

4+1- 

5+1- 

tt 3+1- 

3+1- 

5 1 

2+2- 

1'2 

Ohayu (93) Melo Shockiku 2-14-66 

2954 Once a Thief (107) ® Cr Dr MGM 8-30-65 A3 

2998 ©One Way Wahine 

(SO) © ..Com With Mus USA 2-7-66 

2975 Operation C. I. A. (90) Melo. .AA 11-15-65 A2 

3004 ©Oscar, The (119) Drama. ... Embassy 2-28-66 

2987©0thello (170) ® Drama WB 1- 3-66 A2 

2990 ©Our Man Flint 

(107) Adv Com 1-10-66 

© 

— PQ— 

20th-Fox 

2957 ©Paris Secret (84) Doc Cinema V 9-13-65 

2983 Patch of Blue, A (105) ® Dr MGM 12-13-65 A3 

2998 Phony American, 

The (72) Com Drama Signal 2-7-66 

2970 ©Pinocchio in Outer Space 

(71) Cartoon Univ 10-25-65 Al 

3000 Plague of the Zombies 

(90) Horror 20th-Fox 2-14-66 A2 

2972 ©Planet of the Vampires (86) S-F. .AIP 11- 1-65 A2 

2995 Playground, The (95) Satire Jerand 1-31-66 

3002 .Piomist Her Anything (98) C.Para 2-21-66 A3 

2997 Pussycat Alley (93) Melo Goldstone 2-7-66 

3004 Queen of Blood (81) Space Drama.. AIP 2-28-66 

—R— 

® 2960 Rage to Live, A (101) Drama UA 9-20-65 A3 

Railroad Man, The (105) Dr. .. Conf A2 

Rape, The (86) Melodrama Zenith 2-28-66 

2953 Rapture (104) © Drama.. Int'l Classics 8-30-65 

2996 ©Rare Breed, 

The (97) ® Outdoor Dr Univ 1-31-66 Al 

2976 Ravagers, The (88) War Dr. . Hemisphere 

11-15-65 

2974 ©Red Line 7000 (110) Ac Dr Para 11- 8-65 B 

2971 Repulsion (105) Drama Royal 11- 1-65 C 

2971 Return From the Ashes (105) Susp Dr UA 11- 1-65 A3 

2982 Return of Mr. Moto. The 

(71) My Dr 20th-Fox 12- 6-65 B 

2965 ©Revenge of the Gladiators 

(100) © Act Spec Para 9- 6-65 A2 

©Reward, The (92) © OD Dr 20th-Fox 9-20-65 A2 

2959 

2948 Rope of Flesh (90) Melodrama ..Eve 8-9-65 

2951 Rotten to the Core 

(90) Farce Comedy Cinema V 8-23-65 A3 

2952 Samson vs. the Giant King 

(91) Spec John Alexander 8-23-65

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Jerry Lewis. Janet Leigh, 

Ain Mobley 

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OThe Wrong Box 

Michael 

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Garner. 

©The Tramplers Arl 

James 

Mltchum 

Cotten. 

A Man Called Adam D 

©A Place Called Glory ..Ad 

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My Wife's Enemy (90) C 

Marcello Mastrolannl. Ludana 

Paluzal. Vlttorio De Slca 

Korara (110) D 

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©La Calda Vita (11Q> p 

Catbarhu Speak. John Perrtn 

©The Gendarme 

(93) 

Louis de Funes 

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COMING 

©Oh Dad. Poor Dad. IV 

Hung You in the Clo 

I'm Feelin' So Sad 

©Assault on a Queen 

Frank Sinatra, Vlma 

©This Property 

Natalie Wood, Robert Redford 

©Nevada Smith , 

Steve McQueen. Karl 

OThe Psychopath 

Patrick Wymark. y 

John Standing 

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20TH CENTURY-FOX 

Rapture (104) D 

Patricia Gnzzl. Meltyn Douglas 

©The Agony and the Ecstasy . D 

Charlton Heston. Rei Harrison 

UNITED ARTISTS 

"After the Fox 

Peter Sellers. Victor Mature 

©Return of the Sever 

Vtil Brynner 

UNIVERSAL 

"lAnd No* Miguel 

Pat Cardl, Michael Ansara 

©Arabesque 

ffrejory Peck. ft^hla Lorer. 

Out of Sight (90) 

Robert 

Plrw 

601 

OBIindfold (102) ? 6615 

Jack 

Warden 

Munster Go Home (90) 6616 

©Incident at Phantom Hill 

WARNER 

SA Big Hand for 

Lady (95).... 

Joanne 

Woodward 

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BROS. 

Little 

Haydeo, Judy Hughes 

CHILDHOOD PRODUCTIONS 

7 Dwarfs to the Rescue (84) Feb 65 

Rossana Podesta. Roberto Rlsso 

Georges Marrhal 

©Hansel and Gretel I The 

Bremen Town Musicians 

Oct 65 

Narrator: Paul Trtpn 

©Sleeping Beauty (70) Oct 65 

Narrator: Paul Tripp 

©Snow White (74) Oct 65 

Narrator: Paul Tripp 

CINEMA V 

The Model Murder Case 

Dec64 

Ian Hendry, Margaret Johnston 

Hnnald Kraser 

Nothing But a Man (92) D . 

65 

Ivan Dixon. Abby Lincoln 

Nobody Waved Goodbye 

Jun 

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,RTKINO 

he Wondrous World Around 

Us (60) Doc. 

BUENA VISTA 

(All in color) 

FEATURETTE SPECIALS 

50 Yellowstone Cubs (48) 

52 Disneyland After Dark (48) . 

70 Golden Horseshoe Revue (48) . 

71 Tattooed Police Horse (48) . 

REISSUE CARTOONS 

1401 Boat Builder (7) 

1402 Brave Little Tailor (7) 

1403 Olympic Champ (7) 

1404 Two Week's Vacation (7) ... 

1405 Man's Best Friend (7) 

1406 Pluto's Sweater (7) 

1407 Bubble Bee (7) 

1408 Blame It on the Samba (7) 

1409 Hook. Lion and Sinker (7) . 

1410 Straight Shooters (7) 

1411 A Good Time for a Dime (7) 

1412 The Lone Chipmunks (7) . 

SINGLE-REEL CARTOONS 

23 The Litterbuo (7) 

TWO-REEL CARTOON SPECIALS 

39 A Symposium on Popular 

Sonos (20) 

55 At 

(re-rele; (22) 

79 Freewayphobia (16) 

THREE-REEL LIVE ACTION 

SPECIALS 

05 Islands of the Sea (28) 

i099 Eyes in Outer Space (26) . . 

THREE-REEL CINEMASCOPE 

071 Wales (24) 

072 Scotland (25) 

COLUMBIA 

COLOR FAVORITES 

. . 

(Technicolor Reissues) 

«01 Pickled Puss . .Jan 66 

1607 Dog. Cat & Canary (6) Feb 66 

HOLIDAY SERIES 

:551 Holiday in Puerto Rico 

(10) Sep 65 

.552 Holiday in New 

Orleans (10) Dec 65 

LOOPY de LOOP 

(Color Cartoons) 

1701 Wolf Hounded (7) ....Jul 65 

1702 Little Bo Bopped (6) Aug 65 

.703 Tale of a Wolf (6!/2 " ) 

.704 Life With Loopy (6y2 ) Dec 65 705 Creepy Time Mar Pal (6V2 ) 

706 Snoopy LooPy ..Apr 

.707 The Do Good Wolf 

(6V2 ) Jun 

MR. MAGOO REISSUES 

(Technicolor) 

751 Magoo's Homecoming 

(6) Jul 

752 Merry Minstrel Magoo 

(6) Aug 

753 Magoo's Lodge Brother 

(6) Oct 

754 Magoo Goes West (6) . . Nov 65 

755 Terror Faces Magoo 

(6) Dec 65 

.756 Bungled Bungalo 

(6!/2 ) Jan 66 

757 Magoo Breaks Par (6) Apr 66 

ONE-REEL COLOR SPECIALS 

J651 My Trip to New York 

(7) Aug 65 

i652 Dream of Roses (10'/ 2 ) Nov 65 

»53The Crocodile (8) ..Nov 65 

i654 The Violin, st (7) Feb 66 

1655 The Interview (5) 66 

SPECIAL COLOR FEATURETTES 

J441 Wonders of Kentucky 

(20) Jul 65 

i442 Wonderful Norway (18) Nov 65 

443 Wonderful Scotland 

(18) Mar 66 

SERIALS 

(15 Chapter-Reissues) 

J120The Vigilante Jul 65 

5140 Batman & Robin ...Oct 65 

J160 Black Arrow Jan 66 

SISOThe Lost Planet ...Apr 66 

THE THREE STOOGES 

5401 Oulz Whizz (15>/2 ) ... .Jul 65 

!402 Hula-La-la (16) Sep 65 

J403 Slap Happy Sleuths 

U6) Oct. 65 

">404 Hocus Pocus (16V2 ) Nov 65 

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5405 Studio Snoops (16) . . Dec 65 

;*06 Hot Ice (16

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Feature reviews 

The Singing Nun 

MGM i617) i»S Minutes Rel. April '66 

As dramatic entertainment, enhanced by the catchy 

tunes composed by the original Singing Nun, tin. 

warming story should score heavily at tin- boxofiice 

The picture is almost presold by the popularity of the 

thirty-six songs written by the Dominican Sister, tin 

best known being the 1,000,000 best seller. "Dominique." 

this, combined with the drawing power of D 

nolds, Greer Garson rehead In nun's garb 

and Ricardo Montalban as a priest oi great charm as 

well as strong will, makes the picture a great attr: 

for teenagers and it can be promoted as family entertainment 

Chad Everett, In his best role to date. 

| 

MGM faith m him as their most promising male Mar. 

Only one false note strikes the viewer and n is probably 

n. gligible The story is not autobiographical, and certain 

tacts about the leal Sister Ann. known to audiences. 

may lx> missed: but the melodies she composed, agreeably 

carrying English lyrics written by Randy Sparks, will be 

recognized. Oscar winner Harry Sukmaii acted as musical 

director and composed the score. John Beck produced 

and Henry Koster directed. 

Debbie Reynolds. Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson, 

Agnes Moorehead. Katharine Ross, Chad Everett. 

The Naked Prey 

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Paramount (6525) !*s Minutes Rel. April '66 

Set in Africa a century ago, this film is an intensely 

dramatic account of one mans struggle for survival. 

Primitive conditions are absolute; the plot, basic. Besides 

producing and directing the disquieting drama. Cornel 

Wilde plays the leading role of a white hunter, whose 

is valor given recognition by warrior tribesmen in Africa. 

when, instead of putting him to death instantly, he is 

set free, naked and weaponless, to be hunted down by 

those I men of the tribe who have killed ten 

lions Definitely not for the squeamish, this film will 

appeal to the audiences who loved "Mondo Cane" and 

more of the documentaries that showed primitive customs 

and barbaric torturing. Filmed entirely in Africa. 

much of the scenery is magnificent. Location sites include 

Vendaland of the Northern Transvaal. Bechuanaland. 

Mozambique and Southern Rhodesia. Sharing acting 

honors equally with Wilde is Ken Gampu as leader of 

the warriors, and considered the finest actor amoi 

people. Direction brings out significantly the deep attachment 

between brothers in the primitive tribe, in 

spite of their incredible cruelty to outsiders, and the 

le parallel betwet for survival of the hunted 

white man and the animal life all around him 

Cornel Wilde. Grit V;in Den Berg. Ken Gampu, 

Patrick Mynhardt. Bella Randels. 

Johnny Reno 

Paramount 

Minutes 

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filmed and. with a east of top names of 

today and yesterday, this is another outdoor action 

tilm made-to-order for the males and the youi 

But. with the return of Jane Russell, it has more g 

appeal. In addition to the Lyles regulars. Lon < 

and Richard Arlen. Dana Andrew 

Drake and Robert Lowcry 'the amazing Clark 

Tom 

Gable 

have 

look-alike), all lead;: 

roles In this Stevi Fisher screenplay, based on a 

r and Lyles. Laid m the 1880s in Kansas, 

with a peace-loving U.S. marshal 'Andrews' 

this deals 

who is forced town p 

as Indians bent the killing of their chief's 

son. Director R. G. Springsteen has injected shooting and 

a dash of spice, a 

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Russell takes 

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Andrews rides away with Miss 

Russell, a saloon own> 

Russell 

looks as slender and seductive as of yore. Andrews 

two-fisted portrayal and Drake is outstanding as a young 

D.i n.i \nclrews. J.mo Russell, Ion

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- i Candice Bergen leaves for Europe, Elizabeth Hartman 

marries a society baby doctor, Joanna Pettet marries a 

budding actor-playwright, and Shirley Knight works in 

! a hospital until she meets magazine editor Hal Holbrook. '"^ 

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whom aggressive Jessica Walter has wangled a , c 

job. Joan Hackett has an unfortunate affair with a 

dissolute painter and Joanna keeps her job and finally 

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leave Ms wife, she becomes friendly with James 

Broderick, a young doctor who also tries to help Joanna 

and Elizabeth with their marital problems. After Candice 

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returns from Europe with a Lesbian baroness, Joanna's 

 

accidental death brings the other seven together again 

| j to attend her funeral. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

Mary McCarthy's novel of the same name was one of 

all -tune best-sellers, especially among women readers. 

bookshop tie-ups for window displays of the book 

with group photos of the eight new actresses who play 

the title role. 

CATCHLINES: 

Now on the Screen—Mary McCarthy's Novel About 

Eight College Girls Forced to Face Life's Realities.

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410 seats, modern building 

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