Boxoffice-November.07.1966

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE EDITION • NOVEMBER 7, 1966 

Including the Stctiontl Nni P>ga i>< All Cdltlaii 

Ike TuAe ef ine m&to&rL rictuAe yndu4^ For distinguished service 

to the cause of human relations, 

Robert H. O'Brien, president 

of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is 

the recipient of two high 

honors. On November 1, he was 

presented the annual Award of 

the Anti-Defamation League, and, 

on November 9, he will receive 

the annual Brotherhood Award 

from the National Conference 

of Christians and Jews. 

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UA-NATO in Accord 

On Heater Charges 

NIW 'tORk—The conclusu>n ol negotiations 

between the National Ass"n of Theatre 

Owners and United Artists, with UA 

agreeing to exclude drive-in heater rentals 

from gross receipts if the charge is entirely 

optional with the patron, not included in 

the admission price and limited to two 

heater charges per car, was announced 

Wednesday (2) by NATO president Sheriill 

C. Corwin and UA vice-president and 

i;eneral sales manager James R. \'elde. 

As previously announced, all other conit,iei 

differences had been resolved and the 

heater rental clause was the only item reni.iining 

under discussion. 

The revised healer rental provisions are 

fx'ing rushed to the branch offices and 

UA 

will be immediately affixed to existing conir.ict 

forms. United .Artists is preparing revised 

contracts incorporating all of the 

agreed-upon changes, but will continue using 

existing contracts until the revised contracts 

are available. However, all provisions 

of the revised contract will apply retroactively 

to the existing forms. 

"I speak for the entire NATO board of 

directors in expressing to United Artists 

C i>rp. and Messrs. Benjamin, Krim, Velde 

.Arnold and Eugene Picker our appreciaimn 

.itid 

for their statesmanlike posture in deal- 

ing with our negotiating committee," Corwin 

said. "With patience and understanding, 

this joint group along with Herman M. 

Levy, special councel for N.ATO, and Gerald 

Phillips and Joel Resnick, attorneys for 

UA, succeeded in ameliorating certain onerous 

provisions of the new UA contract. We 

feel that fair-minded exhibitors will find 

the corrections acceptable. 

"We call upon all distributors to sit 

down with N.ATO to correct by consultation 

any problem that may arise affecting our 

membership instead of unilaterally taking 

action on matters that so vitally concern 

exhibition," he continued. "It augurs well 

for the future that this first test of better 

exhibitor-distribution relations through 

NATO h.is met with such sanguine results." 

Corwin and Polon Named 

To IFIDA Event in Jan. 

Nl-AV >()RK—Sherrill Corwin, president 

I'l the National Ass'n of Theatre Owners, 

and Matthew Polon, president of RKO 

Theatres, will serve as exhibitor chairmen 

for the International Film Awards dinner, 

according to Joseph E. Levinc, dinner chairman. 

The IFIDA awards for best foreign 

films will be presented at the dinner-dance 

at the Hotel Americana Friday. Jan. 20, 

1967, 

Jean Goldwurm, president of Times Film 

Corp.. has been named chairman of the 

IFIDA awards committee for the annual 

dinner. Assisting Goldwurm on the committee 

will be Munio Podhorzer, president 

of Casino Films, and Sanford Weincr, president 

of Maritime Cinema Service. 

Corwin Makes Strong Plea 

To Fight Daylight Time 

MEMPHIS— Exhibitors were urged to 

"take the most aggressive steps possible" in a 

campaign against compulsory daylight saving 

time by Sherrill C. Corwin, president 

of the National Ass'n of Theatre Owners, 

in a speech before the 57th annual convention 

of the Tri-State Motion Picture Theatre 

Owners here Tuesday ( 1 ). 

Expressing his concern over the implementation 

of compulsory DST nationally, 

Corwin said. "You. as owners of theatres in 

three states which have not been afflicted 

with this manipulation of time, are now in 

the midst of a bitter struggle to avert a 

calamitous change." He urged, "Leave no 

stone unturned." 

Urges Using SCTOA Ideas 

Corwin recommended that theatremen 

utilize the booklet prepared by Southern 

California Theatre Owners Ass'n, following 

its successful fight against a Los Angeles 

admissions tax, for helpful leads on 

methods of fighting DST. "Particularly pertinent," 

he said, "is the emphasis placed on 

getting petitions from the public and of 

having every employe of every theatre contact 

his elected representatives by letter, 

wire or phone." Corwin also suggested that 

theatremen avail themselves of "a great 

fund of information available from NATO's 

office and that they use material available 

in the NATO July Newsletter. 

As in his speech a week earlier before the 

National Ass'n of Theatre Owners of North 

and South Carolina, Corwin reviewed modifications 

made in the United Artists exhibition 

contract following discussions between 

U,\ and N.ATO officials (reported in detail 

in Boxoi I ic li October }\.) He reiterated his 

plea for an understanding of film production 

problems and called on the Tri-Slale 

unit to follow the lead of the Carolinas 

group by incorporating the NATO designation 

in its official title. 

Saluting the success of National Movie 

Month. Corwin told the exhibitors. "When 

the returns arc analyzed in a few weeks. 1 

hope that we can. with authority, go back 

to the film companies and say. "We have 

gotten off our duffs and gone out and sold 

your merchandise.' " 

For Annual Movie Month 

Urging the establishment of National 

Movie Month as an annual event. Corwin 

said. "We have kept vital interest in movies 

alive when it was needed most. .And when 

the results are evaluated, who knows but 

that next October we will have even better 

product, presold and audience-accepted for 

another campaign and surely a bigger 

achievement." 

Corwin compared his problems as a bigcity 

theatreman with those of small exhibitors, 

including such items as bidding and 

employment difficulties. "I want to reiterate 

that we are not going to rest until we 

eliminate the vicious, unconstitutional blind 

bidding that has grown like a monster and 

has placed us in the position of agreeing to 

exorbitant terms on pictures we have never 

seen," Corwin said. "No film company will 

ever convince us that they have to fill their 

Easter playing time six months in advance 

to protect themselves against their competition, 

if their competition isn't permitted to 

do the very same thing. What started out as 

a rare occurrence has become the standard 

method of selling and although we haven't 

as yet convinced the Justice Department that 

this matter should be resolved immediately, 

we will be persistent, we will be persuasive 

and we will ultimately prevail." 

Corwin promised that NATO would 

"move from strength to strength, unified by 

a common purpose and dignity that befits 

responsible and mature men. There will be 

no retreat to appeasement or surrender of 

our rights; no obsequious acceptance ol 

anything casually served up to us without 

proper consultation. But neither shall we 

engage in name-calling to accomplish our 

goals. Ours is a simple and well-defined purpose. 

We will gain respect. We shall fight 

cleanly, but tenaciously, to achieve the goals 

we have set. 

".Although historically there have been 

three divisions in our industry, each going 

its own way, let us hope that the next year 

will see the beginning of an understanding 

that will mark a new era in industrv relations. 

We are all in the movie business together, 

and with your help, we will accomplish 

success in our efforts to close 

ranks and move ahead to even greater 

achie\ements." Corwin concluded. 

Gov. John Dempsey Backs 

Toll TV in Hartford 

HARTFORD—Gov. John Dempsey. a 

candidate for re-election Tuesday (8), has 

expressed support of the RKO General multimillion-dollar 

subscription-television project 

here. 

The governor's support was announced 

in a letter to chairman Rosel H. Hyde of 

the F'cderal Comnumic.itions Commission 

in Washington in reference to WHCT-TV 

(Channel 18). 

The governor's letter said: 

"A subscription-television test has been 

in progress in Hartford for a period of more 

than four years. 

"I have been informed that this experiment 

is providing a desirable service to 

many thousands of families, my own included, 

who evidently enjoy the convenience 

and economy of viewing boxoffice entertainment 

on their home television receivers." 

BOXOFFICE November 7, 1966

AA Shows 1966 Profit 

Against Loss in 1965 

NEW 'ÔRK— Allied Artists Pictures 

Corp. reports a net profit of $513,000 for 

its fiscal year ended July 2. 1966, compared 

with a net loss of $1,490,000 in the 

previous fiscal year, these results being influenced 

strongly by the increase of domestic 

television film rentals, according to 

Claude A. Giroux. president. These domestic 

TV rentals went to S3. 346.000 from the 

51,762,000 level of the prior year, with 

network sales accounting for about $1,000.- 

000 of the $1,600,000 increase, Giroux said. 

Total revenues of $10,031,000 for fiscal 

1966 compared with $10,285,000 for 1965. 

In reporting the turnaround, Giroux said 

that operations improvements resulted in 

a reduction of selling and administrative 

expenses to $3,300,000 from the $4,200,000 

which had prevailed in the year earlier, this 

$900,000 improvement being accomplished 

at practically no loss in gross revenues, he 

pointed out. While cautioning against undue 

optimism, despite the profitable results 

in fiscal 1966. Giroux stated "the basic value 

of our extensive film library continues to 

increase in direct proportion to the massive 

appetite of the TV industry for motion pictures." 

Allied Artists reported continued progress 

in its debt reduction program, with short 

term loans of $1,832,000 being retired during 

the year. These loans were down to $2,- 

274.000 at July 2, 1966, from $4,106,000 

at the end of the 1965 fiscal year. 

In his message to AA shareholders. Giroux 

stated "our ability to extend profitable 

operations into our current fiscal year will 

depend on a large measure on the availability 

of capital for acquiring films with 

good boxoffice potential." in pointing out 

that both the general tight money market 

and the company's own capital deficit position 

had hampered ability to obtain such 

funds. The company had completed its program 

of centralizing management and operating 

functions at the New York home 

office and the Hollywood studio is now being 

operated solely as a rental lot for outside 

producers filming TV series and commercial 

and theatrical features. 

Seven Arts Named Morrison 

European Ad-Pub Head 

NhW YORK. — Cjrcg Morrison, who 

recently completed his assignment as associate 

producer of the Seven Arts-Paramount 

production of "Arrivederci, Baby," has been 

named European director of advertising and 

publicity for Seven Arts Productions and 

will headquarter in the London office, 

according to Edward S. Feldman, vice-president 

in charge of advertising and publicity, 

who returned from Europe after attending 

the Paris opening of "Is Paris Burning," 

also a Seven Arts-Paramount picture. 

Morrison will take an active part in the 

coordination of production and distribution 

advertising and publicity for Seven Arts 

films shooting abroad. 

Columbia Picks 80 Winners 

For Jackter Drive Awards 

NEW 0RK— '4 

.Mo Rolhman. Columbm 

Pictures vice-president of world advertisinu. 

has listed 80 theatrc- 

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Circuit, was 

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selected 

as the winner of the grand prize, a complete 

expense-paid round trip to Europe tor two. 

The 80 prizes, including television sets. 

watches, clock-radios and table model radios, 

are being awarded to various exhibitors, 

managers, bookers and film buyers "to 

acknowledge their unprecedented cooperation 

in going all out to accommodate us during 

the drive period and in helping us to 

make it the most successful drive in Columbia 

history," Rothman said. Winners were 

selected on the basis of recommendations 

submitted by Columbia's divisional and 

branch managers, the awards being aimed 

at recognizing the personal efforts of individuals 

in the exhibition field, regardless 

of the size of the specific theatre or circuit 

they represent. 

SAG Urges Pay TV 

On National Basis 

HOI, I. YWOOD — The Screen Actors 

Guild, in a brief filed with the Federal 

Communications Commission, has urged 

the authorization of pay television on a 

permanent nationwide basis. The briet. according 

to the SAG publication, Screen 

Actor, was filed following an invitation 

from the FCC to comment on the Zenith 

Corp. application for nationwide subscription 

television. 

The Guild cited four reasons for favoring 

such action: Prt>graming in the public 

interest, limitations to commercial T\' 

broadcasting, program content and direct 

source of production revenue. 

The brief asserted that the Guild is convinced 

it would be in the public interest to 

authorize pay TV and added that "1 6. ()()() 

members of SAG earn their livelihood from 

performing in television and theatrical motion 

pictures, which constitute the bulk of 

present-day television programing and 

hence have a vital economic stake in the 

present commercial television industry." 

Thus, the brief continues, the SAG would 

support no proposal which would impair 

economic health of its members. 

It cites limitations in commercial TV 

broadcasting restrictive to quality, variety, 

scope and diversity of the programs and 

asserts that the medium is not pure entertainment, 

but rather an adjunct to the advertising 

business. 

Indiana TO Returns 

To Full Membership 

.MEMPHIS Ihc return ol Ihc-urc Owners 

of Indiana to full membership in the 

National Ass'n of Theatre Owners was announced 

before the Tri-State Theatre Owners 

convention here Tuesday { I ) by Sherrill 

C. Corwin. NATO president. 

"It gives me great pleasure." Corwin said, 

"to report a further cementing of the unity 

that is NATO's. Shortly before my departure 

from the West Coast. 1 recei\ed a telephone 

call from my good friend. Richard 

I.ochry. president of the Theatre Owners of 

Indiana, advising me and. through nie. the 

a board meeting 

directors of NATO, that at 

the directors of his Indiana association had 

voted unanimously to end its "vacation of 

membership" from NATO, and that, effective 

immediately, they would resume active 

participation in our organization." 

Corwin said members of the Indiana 

group met with him informally in New York 

during the September NATO convention 

to discuss their return to full-time membership 

and that there had been subsequent 

discussions. 

"It is indeed good news that the differences 

which caused this temporary schism 

have been resolved." Corwin said. "Once 

again. NATO can boast of representing cver\ 

regional unit in America." He said that 

in addition to Lochry's position on NATO's 

hoard of directors, theatre owner Trueman 

Kembusch has accepted an invitation to 

serve as a director-at-large and that leaders 

of the Indiana unit will he invited to lend 

their abilities and talents to various NATO 

committees. "We welcome them wholeheartedly 

to deliberate with us in the many 

areas that require total exhibitor unity," 

Corwin said. 

Corwin has been invited to address the 

annual Indiana convention Nosenibcr 22 in 

Indianapolis. 

Variety to Honor Rinzler 

On His 50th Anniversary 

M:W ÔRK Samuel Rin/lcr. vclcr.in 

exhibitor, will be guest ol honor at the November 

membership meeting of the Variety 

Club of New York, to be held at the Americana 

Hotel Tuesday (15). Rinzler. in his 

SOih year, is marking more than half a 

century in the theatre business and, a few 

years ago, was dubbed "the Mark Twain ol 

the Motion Picture Industry" for his 

speeches at luncheons and dinners. 

Salah Hassanein is the chairman of the 

November 15 event and Philip Harling is 

co-chairman. Irving Dollinger. chief barker, 

has named Charles Alicoate, Ira Meinhardt, 

Si Seadler and Mel Konecoff to serve on the 

nominating committee with Jack Levin 

serving as chairman, this committee to be 

responsible for naming the slate of officers 

to govern the New York Variety Tent for 

1967. 

BOXOFFICE :: November 7, 1966

No^ 

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is a new Holiday, 

lâraniount Day; 

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...and you're the first to celebrate it!.. 

K

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Mr. Exhibitor, you are invited t)i 

a private cross-country screening 

of two Paramount blockbusteife 

10:30 

a.m. 

HARRY";^PALMER DIDN'T KNOW WHOSE FUNERAL IT WOULD BE. 

HE JUST HOPED \i/f^ ^ WOULDN'T BE HIS... 

PARAMOUNT PICTURES presents A HARRY SALTZMAN Production 

MICHAEL CAINE 

funeral intBerlin 

RAUL HUBSCHMID OSCAR HOMOLKA

the coming year. Both on the 

same day! Get in touch with your 

Paramount man for details. 

JOHN 

Wci9llCi 

is the gunfighter 

HoWaTOHaWKS 

liOBERT 

Inlliiilllllfl 

is the sheriff. 

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p.m.

Dallas Youth Film Forum Changes 

Format for 

DALLAS — The Dallas Youth Film 

Forum, made up of 100 high school students 

in the metropolitan area, plus students 

from several parochial schools, junior 

colleges and Southern Methodist University, 

has begun a new year with a new format, 

participating in a screen review program 

under the sponsorship of the Texas Motion 

Picture Board of Review. 

Local distributors and exhibitors cooperate 

with the Review Board by furnishing 

the film and the theatre for the screening 

and review sessions. 

At the first meeting this month, students 

took part in a film evaluation program ol 

"The Fortune Cookie" at Inlcrstatc Circuit's 

Esquire Theatre here. The next meeting 

will be held the first Saturday in November 

when the Forum students will see "Gambit" 

and discuss it at General Cinema's 

Nonhpark Theatre. 

Mrs. Roderic B. Thomas, chairman of 

the Texas Motion Picture Board of Review, 

described the purpose of the Ibruni opinion 

group "to develop a discriminating audience 

among our young people." 

She said the new format is "really a reorganization 

of a project carried on for 

several years under the board's sponsorship 

but we have enlarged it so much we 

feel like it is a whole new program." Speaking 

before the teenagers at the October 

session she continued: 

"During the year at these meetings you 

will see meaningful motion pictures which 

will be meaty enough for your thoughtful 

consideration. We want you to freely judge 

them artistically, esthetically and morally 

because only in this way can you develop 

habits of perception, analysis, judgment and 

selectivity necessary for intelligent living 

and the ultimate enjoyment of filmed programs." 

C. William Jones, minister of education 

at the Casa View Methodist Church in Dallas 

and a member of the SMU .School of 

Arts faculty, teaching courses in film criticism, 

was moderator for the session that 

followed the screening of the film. 

Divided into groups, with a spokesman 

delegated to express the opinion for that 

group, the students were enthusiastic in reviewing 

various aspects of "The Fortune 

Cookie." Mrs. Thomas announced thai 

Jones will help in the selection of films and 

moderate the remainder of the eight-program 

series scheduled monthly through the 

school term. 

Cinerama Profit Down 

HOLLYWOOD C merama. Inc. reported 

a gross income for 13 weeks of 

SI, 2 1 0.1 76 and S3. .352.20 1 for 39 weeks. 

The net profit (loss) for 13 weeks was 

S38,991 and $160,275 for 39 weeks. The 

net profit (loss) a share was one cent for 

13 weeks and 5 cents for 39 weeks. 

Cinema Reviewing 

Members of the Dallas YOuth Film 

Forum, at their October meetin):, discussed 

"Ihc lorlune Cookie" following 

screening of the film at Interstate's 

Ksquire Theatre. Divided into groups 

of six, the students selected a spokesman 

to express the opinion of the 

group. This was the first of an eightmonth 

screen and review meetings program 

scheduled under sponsorship of 

the Texas Motion Picture Board of 

Review. 

ABC Subsidiary to Handle 

J. Arthur Rank Feature 

HOLLYWOOD— Sclmur Productions in 

Hollywood and the Rank Organization in 

I-ontlon have joined forces to finance and 

distribute the De Grunwald production of 

the theatrical motion picture "Stranger in 

the House," starring James Mason. Geraldine 

Chaplin and Bobby Darin and presenting 

Paul Bertoya. Also, under terms of 

the three-way agreement. .Selmur Productions, 

the production subsidiarv' of the 

American Broadcasting Companies, will coproduce 

the film with Selmur's president. 

Sclig J. Seligman. as executive producer, 

and Dimiiri de Grunwald as producer. 

"Stranger in the House." currently filming 

at the MGM .Studios in Hngland in 

widescreen and color, is being directed In 

Pierre Rouve from a screenplay based on 

the best-selling novel by Georges Simenon. 

Selmur Productions will have distrbution 

rights of the film in the Western Hemisphere 

and the Rank Organization in the 

remainder of the world. Selmur Productions 

shortly will announce its selection of 

a major distributor to handle the film in its 

territory. 

Technicolor Earnings Drop 

rLxhnicolor. Inc.. .m- 

HOI 1 'I WOODnoimced 

earnings from operations of S2.- 

235,648. or 66 cents a share, for the first 

39 weeks of this year on net sales of S7().- 

383.105. This compares with a net income 

of S3. 684, 601 lor the same period m 1965 

on net sales of $74,626,378 or $1.10 a share. 

Russian 'Hamlet' Wins 

Frisco Top Award 

SAN FRANCISCO—The Russian film 

version of "Hamlet." directed by Grigori 

Kozintsev with Innokcnti Smoktunovsky in 

the title role, which United .Artists distri- 

Iniied in the U.S.. was named winner of the 

David O. Selznick Memorial Golden Laurel 

Award at the San Francisco Film Festival. 

The Selznick prize, a golden box. was presented 

to Valentin Kamenev, cultural counselor 

to the Soviet Embassy, who accepted 

II on behalf of Kozintsev Saturday (Oct. 29). 

\ctress Olivia DeHavilland made the presentation. 

Four other films received Silver Laurel 

.Awards: "The Gospel According to St. 

Matthew" (Italy), directed by Pier Paolo 

Pasolini: "Masculine Feminine" (France), 

directed by Jean-Luc Godard: "The Shop on 

Main St.. (Czechoslovakia), directed by Jan 

Kadar and Elmar Klos; and "Le Bonheur" 

(France), directed by Agnes Vardo. 

Golden Laurel trophies were awarded to 

Luis Bunuel. Mexican director, and Toshiro 

Mifune. Japanese actor. 

Taking part in the ceremonies, either as 

presenters or accepting awards on behalf of 

recipients, were Alan Pakula. film producer: 

Hope Lange. actress; Eric Svabik, Czechoslovakian 

producer: Yvette Mimieux, actress; 

Ralph Nelson, producer-director and 

Miiko Taka, actress. 

Others participating were producer Arthur 

Freed, a member of the Festival's Hollywood 

advisory committee and president of 

the Motion Picture .Academy of Arts & 

Sciences; Willard Van Dyke, curator of the 

film department of the Museum of Modern 

.Art in New York City and honorary chairman 

of the Selznick awards committee. 

The Festival is non-competitive, and gives 

no awards to theatrical features, but allows 

the Laurel awards committee to use the occasion 

for its presentations. 

I'red Astaire appeared at the final directors 

retrospective talk at the Festival on 

Sunday (Oct. 30). Clippings from a series 

of his films were shown and he talked about 

his current plans to make "Finian's Rainhow" 

for Warner Bros, in Januarv. 

Harry B. French Is Dead; 

Retired MAC President 

MINNLAPOLLS—Harry B. French, 78, 

died October 22. He was a long-time 

Minnesota showman who retired in 1958 as 

president and general manager of the 

Minnesota Amusement Co. (United Paramoiml 

circuit), which has its headquarters 

here. 

Before joining the F & R circuit, predecessor 

of Minnesota Amusement, he had 

managed and later owned theatres in Minnesota. 

At the outset with F & R he had 

been a district manager and assistant circuit 

head and then was with the Publix circuit, 

also a MAC predecessor, in similar capacities 

before becoming MAC general manager 

in 1944. He leaves his wife, a son and a 

daughter. 

8 BOXOFFICE :: November 7, 1966

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Paramount Day Set 

Nov. 15 in 30 Cities 

NEW 'lORK— Paramount Pictures Day 

will be celebrated in 30 branch cities across 

the United States on Tuesday, (Nov. 15). On 

that day exhibitors throughout the U. S. 

will be invited to their local branch for a 

full day of "Red Carpel" pre\ iew screenings 

of two of Paramount's blockbuster attractions 

for 1967, "Funeral in Berlin" and 

11 Dorado." 

Printed tickets for the all-day invitational 

event are already in the mails and will be 

hacked up by Paramount with national 

advertising-publicity to emphasize the bigness 

and impoilance of the day to Paramount. 

The schedule for Paramount Pictures Day 

\ull be the same in all branches. At a selected 

local theatre, the program will be launched 

at 10:30 with the screening of "Funeral 

in Berlin." Following lunch, the invited 

exhibitors will return to the local theatre 

to see "El Dorado" at 2:30 that same afternoon. 

The branch cities that will be headquarters 

for the national preview program are: Boston. 

.Albany, Buffalo. New Haven. Philadelphia, 

Pittsburgh, Washington, D. C, 

Atlanta, Charlotte, Jacksonville. Memphis, 

New Orleans, Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland, 

Detroit, Indianapolis and Milwaukee. 

Also, Dallas, Des Moines. Kansas City- 

Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, Los 

Angeles, Denver. San Francisco. Salt Lake 

City. Portland and Seattle. The program 

will be changed in New York, the company's 

'1st branch, where the pictures will be shown 

later on two different days. 

.Michael Caine. National Ass"n of Theatre 

Owners' Star of the Future, plays secret 

agent Harry Palmer in "Funeral in Berlin." 

which begins where "The Ipcress File" left 

' in terms of excitement and boxoffice 

icntial. The Technicolor thriller is a 

ilarry Saltzman production produced by 

Charles Kashcr and directed by Gu> Hamilton. 

Saltzman and Hamilton were on the 

team responsible for "Goldfinger." 

Two all-time champions, John Wayne 

and Robert Mitchum, co-star for the first 

time in "El Dorado," a Howard Hawks production 

in Technicolor. 

National General Expands 

Into Music Publishing 

HOLLYWOOD—As part of its expansion 

into all areas of the entertainment field. Naiional 

General Corp. has formed National 

(icncral Music Publishing, Inc., it was announced 

Wednesday (2) by Eugene V. Klein, 

president. 

Klein said that National General's entry 

into the music field is a natural development 

since the company, through its filmmaking 

arm National General Productions, 

be involved in much of the music for 

its various films. Announcement will be 

forthcoming shonly as to a top executive 

to head the new music division, Klein added. 

Paramount Has 4 TV Shorts 

For 'Is Paris Burning?' 

MAS' ÔRK— Paramount Pictures h.is 

created a series of four television featurettes 

of varying length for its roadshow presentation 

of "Is Paris Burning?" which are immediately 

available to the TV stations. 

The first, titled "He Must Find There 

Nothing," runs for 20 minutes and tells the 

exciting exposition of how the film was 

made on the streets of Paris which enabled 

director Rene Clement to capture the pulse 

of the action and the spirit of the 1944 Liberation. 

The title of the featurette refers to 

the fact that all modern aspects of the City 

of Light had to be hidden so that it resembled 

the Paris of 1944. 

The second featurette is a ten-minute version 

of 'He Must Find There Nothing" 

which makes it more easily programed for 

local shows of shorter duration. 

The third is a ten-minute short. "Reality 

Must Not Be Left to Chance." which uses 

scenes from the Paramount-.Seven Arts-Ray 

Stark presentation with voices-over by the 

stars commenting on the film. 

The fourth, an unusual featurette. which 

also runs ten minutes, shows two-time Academy 

.Award-winner Maurice Jarre and his 

lOO-piece orchestra actually scoring the motion 

picture in Paris. Columbia Records, 

which is releasing the original soundtrack 

album of the film's music, is joining in with 

Paramount on the national distribution of 

the featurette. 

General Precision Net Up 

For 3 and 9 Months 

TARRYTOWN. N. >. ^ Record sales 

and net income for the three and ninemonth 

periods ending .September 30 have 

been reported by General Precision Equipment 

Corp. In its third quarter report to 

shareholders. General Precision, parent 

company of National Theatre Supply Co. 

and Strong Electric Corp., announced threemonth 

net income of $3,000,000. or $1.15 

per common share, on sales of $84,076,000. 

This compares with net income of 

$2,020,000, or 75 cents per share, on sales 

of $73,369,000 for the 1965 period. 

For the nine-month period, net income 

increased to $8,595,000, or $3.27 per share, 

from $5,796,000, or $2.13 a share, in 1965. 

Sales for the first nine months this year 

were $238,254,000, compared to $219,604, 

000 in the preceding year. 

The board of directors has declared 

three dividends payable December 15 to 

shareholders of record November 30; a 

37'2 cent dividend on common stock: 

quarterly dividend of $1.18'^ per share on 

the $4.75 cumulative preferred, and a 

quarterly dividend of 40 cents per share on 

the $1.60 cumulative convertible preference 

stock. 

NGC Five-Cent Dividend 

LOS ANGELES— Directors of National 

General Corp. have declared a regular 

quarterly dividend oi five cents per common 

share, payable December 1 to shareholders 

of record November 18. 

ADL Humanity Award 

To Robert H. O'Brien 

M\\ 'lOKK Robert H. OUricji. president 

of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, received 

the annual Anti-Defamation League's "Human 

Relations Award" at a luncheon at the 

Hotel .Americana Tuesday (1) with 1,000 

members of the entertainment, business and 

financial fields in attendance, the largest 

audience ever attracted by a function ol 

the ADL. 

The award, a plaque "for devotion to the 

cause of human rights," was presented b\ 

Harry Brandt, honorary vice-chairman ol 

the .ADI.'s national commission. Brandt 

cited O'Brien as "a fine, warm human being," 

who has devoted great effort to many 

humanitarian causes, despite his busy 

schedule. The plaque was engraved: 

"The Human Relations Award to 

Robert 

H. O'Brien for devotion to the cause of 

human relations, presented by the Anti- 

Defamation League, Nov. 1. 1966." 

In his brief acceptance speech O'Brien 

thanked the ,ADL and called attention to 

two other industry workers in the cause of 

brotherhood over the years, Barney Balaban 

and Benjamin Melniker. 

Dore Schary, former MGM executive 

currently producing Broadway plays, who 

is national chairman of the .ADL. was the 

guest speaker. Schary urged the development 

of patience in dealing with problems of 

today. "In our impatience," he said, "we 

have grasped for the easy answer. Don't 

accept the quick answer. True knowledge 

can unite us into real brotherhood." He 

appealed for funds for ADL. which needs 

$5,257,000 this year. 

Schary was introduced by Jerome Edwards. 

1966 motion picture and amusements 

chairman, who also welcomed the 

guests and introduced those on the twotier 

dais. Invocation was delivered by Dr. 

Ralph Silverstein, chaplain of the New York 

Cinema Lodge of B'nai B'rith. and the 

benediction by the Rev. S. W. Hosie, ex 

ecutive director of the Foundation for the 

People of the South Pacific. 

O'Brien's work in behalf of brotherhood 

will be further recognized Wednesday (9) 

at a dinner at the Americana at which the 

National Conference of Christians and Jews 

will present its Brotherhood Award to the 

MGM president for "distinguished service 

m the field of human relations." 

David Horowitz Elected 

As Screen Gems V-P 

MAS YORK — David H. Horowitz, 

secretary of Screen Gems. Inc., since April 

1965, has been elected vice-president and 

general council of the company, it has been 

announced by Jerome S. Hyams. executive 

vice-president and general manager. 

Horowitz will continue to serve as secretary. 

He joined Screen Gems in May 1963, coming 

from the law firm of Schwartz & Frohlich, 

in which he had been a partner for ten 

years. 

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ATTENTION 

PIONEERS! 

28th Annual Dinner 

of the 

Motion Picture Pioneel 

Honoring 

will be held at the 

Americana Hotel 

NewYork 

Monday, 

November 21st. 1966 

JH 

THE GREATEST DRAWING IN MOTION PICTORE HISTORY 

34 SENSATIONAL 

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BbniBMJliliHiliiiiiii 

For Reservations and 

Dinner Tickets: ($25) 

write or phone 

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1600 Broadway. N.Y. 10019 •Telephone: CI 6-5700

AT WORLD PREMIERE OF PARAMOUNT'S IS PARIS BURNING? 

At premiere festivities in the City of Light, from left: two-time Academy 

Award winning muse man Maurice Jarre greets Paramount vice-president 

Martin Davis, Paramount president George Wcltner and Gulf & Western 

Industries president Charles G. Bluhdorn. Aloin Delon, one of the film's 

many stars, is at lower right. 

What the Germons failed to ochieve during World War II, the French did for the 

"Is Paris Burning?" premiere, simulating the burning of the Poris Opera House os 

they re-creoted the Liberation of Paris. Artificially created clouds of smoke hovered 

over and around the Opera House, dimming lights and erecting much interest during 

the world premiere festivities. 

The coauthors of "Is Paris Burning?" Larry Collins, left, and Dominique Lapierre, 

right, show newsmen the courtyard of the Paris Prefecture of Police, one of the key 

points in the Liberation of Paris, depicted in the film. 

Paramount vice-president Joseph Friedmon, back to the comcro, 

is presented to Queen Juliana of The Netherlands ond her consort. 

Prince Bernhard, upon the orrivol of the royal couple 

Col. Lucien Sarniguet, who replaced the 

French flag on the Eiffel Tower, presents a 

hand-made American flag to Larry Collins. 

Aloin Delon, right, sits ncor his countcrport, Jacques Choban Delmas, center, president 

of the Naticnol Assembly. Edgor Pisoni, left, minister of equipment, porticlpoted with 

Chaban Delmas in the insurrection that liberotcd Poris in 1944. 

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BySYD CASSYD 

Only Sey^n Features Are Scheduled 

For Production Start in November 

November will he a quiet month in Hollywood 

as only seven features are scheduled 

for production starts at the studios. Universal 

has the most active with three productions 

starting. The total number of productions 

on the starting list the previous month 

was 13. For November 1965 there was an 

even dozen. 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 

TiiiNDER At t.iiY. Burt Topper moves into 

this stock car racing feature with a cast 

which has met with approval by the audiences 

who dig this the most. Headed by 

Annette Funicello. Fabian and Diane Mc- 

Bain, they are supported by Warren Bcrlinger. 

Jan Murray. Maureen Arthur and 

Luree Holmes. Richard Rush directs the 

color and Panavision film which capitalizes 

on the nationwide popularity of the sport. 

It is handled as an "in-depth" treatment of 

the subject and has a primary base of a 

"thrill circus" group. The successful "Fireball 

500" film pattern will be followed by 

this one. 

COLUMBIA 

Bwi) oi Gold. Topped by Dean Martin 

and Stella Stevens, Stanley Shapiro will produce 

this comedy from his own screenplay, 

which he wrote with Nate Monaster. Shapiro, 

who was associated with "Pillow 

Talk." "Operation Petticoat" and "That 

Touch of Mink" in this production tells a 

sophisticated story of two New York people 

who try to out-maneuver each other in a 

love-game. Ultimately they decide they want 

the same thing—each other. Fielder Cook 

has signed Lee Garmes as the cinematographer 

with the production to be shot in color 

and Panavision. 

PARAMOUNT 

Barffoot in the Park. This film version 

of the Broadway stage hit is to be produced 

by Hal Wallis from the script by Neil Simon 

who wrote the stage version. Jane Fonda 

plays Corie opposite Robert Redford with 

Gene .Saks directing. Charles Boyer has a 

wildly funny character role. With Herb 

Fdelman, three members of the original 

Broadway cast are in the production. 

CmiKA. Rod Taylor plays a gunfighter 

and James Whitmore is cast as an Indian 

fighter in a Technicolor western, which is 

being produced under the Rodlor banner 

with Jack Jason. John Mills, Luciana Paluzzi 

and Ernest Borgnine arc in the cast. 

Based on the novel by Richard Jessup. this 

is the stor>' of a professional gunfighter and 

his romance with a Mexican heiress when 

ihc\ are stranded m a Colorado frontier 

fort being overrun by hostile Indians. Richard 

Fielder wrote the screenplay for the 

Gordon Douglas directed feature. 

UNITED ARTISTS 

Thk Law and Tomhstone. With Mexican 

locations never used before John 

Sturges" Kappa Productions and the Mirisch 

Corp. are working from Oscar winner Edward 

Anhalt's screenplay of a western drama 

story which stars James Garner, Jason 

Robards and Robert Ryan. A villainous 

group of men oppose Garner who plays the 

famed Wyatl Earp with Robards as Doc 

Holliday. 

UNIVERSAL 

The Battle Horns. Dick Berg, one of 

television's fine talents, moved over to features 

and chose this best-selling novel by 

Alan Sillitoe for the third on his schedule. 

Charlton Heston will be directed by Ralph 

Nelson, who has another Oscar winner. 

Maximilian Schell, to co-star. The latter portrays 

a German general in command of the 

prison to which Heston, playing a flamboyant 

symphony conductor, who with his 

entire orchestra is captured by the German 

troops during the last phases of World War 

II. in the Battle of the Bulge. The suspense 

drama was written for the screen by Joel 

Oliansky and James Lee. Nelson's list of 

directorial credits includes "Father Goose," 

"Lilies of the Field" and "Requiem for a 

Heavyweight." 

Games. This suspense shocker finds one 

of the new contract directors. Curtis Harrington, 

at the helm for producer George 

Edwards, with Gene Kearney doing a 

screenplay for the pair from their own original 

story. In Technicolor, Oscar winner 

Simone Signoret will play the role of a 

woman who develops a strange and mysterious 

influence over the lives of a young 

couple with whom she comes to live. Katharine 

Ross stars in the role of the young 

wife. James Caan co-stars. 

Perils of Pauline. Pearl White left her 

mark on both the .American public and the 

screen 50 years ago with this famous cinema 

landmark. Herbert Leonard re-creates 

the story in modern dress and will star Pat 

Boone and Pam Austin. The episodes will 

be harrowing and "almost too excruciating 

to he imagined" with hip heroines, heroes 

and villainous villains. Leonard produced 

for television the scries "Naked City" and 

"Route 66." The comic-melodrama will be 

shot in Technicolor. 

'Sweet Charity' to Universal; 1 

Shirle'y MacLaine Starred 

I ni\ersal uill bring the Broadway show. 

"Sweet Charity." to the screen with Shirle\ 

MacLaine to star in the film version. Production 

of the Technicolor multi-million 

. . . 

dt>llar film, which ranks as Universal's most 

important project for 1967, will get under 

way late in the year. Miss MacLaine plays 

the part of a dance hall girl which Gwen 

Verdun played on Broadw ay. Bill Fosse, who 

directed the stage show, will meg the picture 

and do the choreography. Cy Coleman and 

Dorothy Fields wrote the music and lyrics 

for "Sweet Charity," for which Neil Simon 

wrote the book Universal is rushing 

plans to start filming the Henry Livings 

production of the successful London stage 

play, "Eh?" in London, in January, under 

the title of "Work Is a Four Letter Word.' 

Peter Hall, famed managing director o 

Britain's Royal Shakespeare Co., will make 

his debut as a motion picture director on 

(he film. Da\id Warner, who starred on the 

London stage, has been signed to repeal 

his role in the film. Universal Productions. 

Ltd.. will make in association with producer 

Thomas Clyde of Cavalcade Films. Ltd. . . . 

Gene Levitt will produce "The Unkillables." 

the Ivan Tors Films' underwater actionadventure 

feature for Paramount release. 

Starring Lloyd Bridges, the script was written 

by Andy White. A target date of November 

in the Bahamas has been set with 

interiors shot at the Tors Miami studios 

This is the first for Levitt and Tors since 

1957, when Levitt wrote the screenplay and 

Tors produced "Underwater Warrior" for 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release. In the discussion 

stage is Levitt's original story and 

screenplay on "How to Steal a Submarine." 

Frank Sinatra, Mark Robson 

To Team in 'Detective' 

Irank Sinatra and .Mark Robson. wh>' 

teamed up two years ago at 2()th-Lo\ > 

the highly successful "Von R\an's Express, 

will be together again in "The Detective, 

which Fred Kohlmar will produce for the 

studio. Sinatra stars and Robson directs. 

The Fred Kohlmar-Mark Robson produc- 

lion, being scripted by Abhy Mann, is based 

| 

on the best-selling novel b\ Roderick Thorp, I 

with filming slated to begin next summer- 

Fonda and James .Stewart CO- 

star in "Fury at Firecreek," an original by' 

Calvin Clements, it was announced by Jack 

( 

. 

L. Warner. Vincent McEveety will direct 

for producer Philip Leacock. It is an 1870 

story of the battle between Fonda, a murderous 

outlaw, and Stewart, a kindh 

farmer, for the possession of a small Colo 

rado town. The film starts in December . 

Richard Greene, seen in American and 

British films and television, was signed by 

Ivan Tors Films to star in "Lost Island," 

outdoor adventure film for ABC and Paramount, 

and ten-year-old Robin Mattson costarring. 

With Greene playing a scientist who 

heads an expedition in search of lost islands 

exteriors arc to he lilnicd in the Bahamas. 

and the Miami and West Palm Beach, Fla., 

areas. Ricou Browning and John Florea 

produce and direct, starting next month. 

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BOXOFFICE November 7, 1966

WB Signs Peter O'Toole 

For 'The Great Catherine' 

HDI.I.ÂSOlMJ— An exploratory visit to 

Russia suLCCcdcd in convincing Peter 

O'Toole that he would like to star in "The 

Circat Catherine." film version of the plav 

by George Bernard Shaw. Jack L. Warner 

on October 30 concluded the deal, thus 

adding OToole's name to the ever-lengthening 

list of international stars signed for 

Warner Bros. Pictures. Warners also has set 

O'Toole for another starring role in "The 

Scarperer," based on the Brendan Behan 

novel. 

Zero Mostel. who starred on Broadway 

in the long-run "Fiddler on the Roof." and 

who is currently touring with "A Funny 

Thing Happened on the \\a\ to the Forum." 

will co-star with O'Toole in the .Shaw story, 

vcheduled for production next January. 

"The Great Catherine" will he the third 

motion picture for director Elliot Silverstein 

«ho won the Screen Directors' Guild award 

for his first. "Cat Ballou." Since then he 

directed "What's Happening." starring Anthony 

Quinn. for Sam Spiegel. He also has 

been signed hy Jack Warner to direct Anthony 

Quinn in "Home Is the Sailor" sometime 

next year. 

Hugh Leonard has written the scrcenplav 

for "The Great Catherine." and Dimitri 

Tiomkin will prepare the musical score. 

Jules Buck will be the executive producer. 

Buck will serve in a similar capacity for the 

second O'Toole picture at Warner Bros., 

"The Scarperer," a story of the European 

underworld. Both pictures are Keep Film 

productions for Warners, and will he made 

in 

Technicolor. 

OToole's last film appearance was in 

"The Night of the Cienerals." before which 

he starred with Audrey Hepburn in "How to 

Steal a Million." 

would be Sl.9() lor the year and a new alllime 

high for the company. He noted that 

sales for the year arc also at a new peak, 

running about 15 per cent ahead of last 

vear. 

Columbia Retitles Film; 

Acquires 'Goal/ 'Times' 

Nl \\ ^ ORK C\.lunibi,i Pictures has 

selected I he Game Is Over" as the American 

release title for "La Curee" (The Kill), 

which was directed in France by Roger 

\adim from Emil Zola's novel and starring 

his wife. Jane Fonda. 

Columbia has acquired distribution rights 

to "Goal," the Techniscope-Technicolor 

screen record of the complete 1966 Workl 

Cup series, according to Mo Rothman, 

vice-president in charge of world distribution, 

as well as worldwide distribution rights 

to Sieve Broidy's "Good Times," a musical 

starring the singing team of Sonny and Cher 

with George Sanders co-starred. 

Red Barber, dean of American sportscasters, 

has been signed by Columbia to 

narrate "Goal," which is a full-length documentary 

in color produced by Octavio Senoret, 

for American audiences. It was directed 

by Abidine Dino and Ross Devenish 

and runs approximately 100 minutes. "Good 

Times," which was directed in color hy 

William Friedkin and produced by Lindsley 

Parsons sr., had Broidy as executive producer 

of the Motion Pictures International 

film. 

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Century Projector Meets 

On 'Workshop' Plans 

UOSlON—Ceniurv Projector Corp. held 

a meeting of the board of directors of its 

"National Entertainment Workshop" October 

27 for the formulation of plans to activate 

the theatre and studio division of the 

company. The "workshop" has been formed 

to expedite the use of 3D, still and motion 

pictures for film theatres, medical photography, 

educational, industrial, training, sales 

and advertising, according to Larry Davcc. 

president. 

Recent demonstrations were made to representatives 

of theatre circuits and financial 

interests and, as far as is known, this new 

3D development is the only system that can 

malhemalically predict the exact placement 

of 3D images, thereby giving the director, 

script writer or educator an "exact" reproduction 

of the original in any plane of action, 

Davee said. 

Mexican Films for 20th-Fox 

.MEXICO CllY— "Mater Es Facil." 

of three Mexican pictures produced 

the lirst 

by Sotomayer Cincmatografica to be distributed 

in many countries by 20th Cenlury- 

I ox. had its world premiere at the Metropolitan 

Theatre here. The other two Mexican 

pictures acquired for distribution by 

20ih-Fox arc "Seis Dias Para Morir" and 

"Cuatro Contra El Crimen." 

2nd Dividend Boost in Year 

Announced by Dr Pepper 

DALLAS— For the second time this year 

Dr Pepper announces a boost in its quaricrly 

dividend payment to shareholders. In 

l.inuary the hoard of directors upped the 

lirst 

quarter payment from 20 cents to 22' i 

cents per share. In their regular fourth quarter 

meeting held in Dallas, October 27, directors 

approved another boost of 2' i cents 

per share, increasing the fourth quarter dividend 

to 25 cents payable December I to 

stockholders of record November 18. 

This represents a 25 per cent increase in 

the quarterly dividend rate for the company 

in the current year and marks the 148th 

consecutive quarterly dividend paid by the 

Texas-based soft drink manufacturer. Current 

figures are based on 1.478.430 shares 

outstanding, compared with 1.473.630 

^li.ires at the third quarter close last year. 

"Nine months earnings." according to 

Wesby R. Parker, chairman and chief executive 

officer, "were up 20 per cent over the 

same period last year." He reported earnings 

for the period at 52,155,383 and $1.46 

per share, compared with 51,779,135 and 

$1.21 per share in the same period last year. 

Parker estimated earlier that earnings 

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BOXOFFICE 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 five engagements arc not listed. As new runs 

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

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

the figures show the gross rotings above or below that mark, 

i 

' denotes combination bills.) 

Alvarez Kelly 200 

American Dream, An (WB) 125 100 100 no 70 80 

Bongl Bcmg! You're Dead (AIP) 100 115 

Beau Geste (Univ) 100 155 110 100 

Blue Max. The (20th-Fox) 250 225 160 300 200 180 275 

Chcraiber of Horrors (WB) 110 110 185 115 175 70 

Dead Heaf on a Merry-Go-Round (Col) 150 130 175 125 

Dear John (Sigma TI) 135 180 300 400 225 400 150 

Fantastic Voyage (20th-Fox) 165 160 250 250 400 300 250 

Fat Spy, The (Magna) 90 

Fine Madness, A (WB) 185 200 165 155 100 

FireSall SCO (AIP) 165 135 100 

Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (AIP) 155 100 

Gospel According to Si. Mcrtthew (Cont'l) 100 110 100 125 90 

How to Steal a Million (20ih-Fox) 250 150 150 225 150 300 225 160 125 

Imoosfible on Soturdcry (Magna) 100 175 185 

John F. Keimedy (Embassy) 200 160 150 200 150 90 250 150 

Kaleidoscope (WB) 100 110 175 125 

Kwraidan (Confl) 150 90 

Lady L (MGM) 200 140 350 195 170 95 200 

Last of the Secret Agents? (Para) 145 200 100 90 100 100 

Let's KiU Uncle (Univ) 95 110 90 

Lost Command, The (Col) 160 225 175 90 130 100 

Man cmd a Womcm, A (AA) 140 210 115 

Marco the MagniiicenI (MGM) 150 85 75 100 260 100 

Mister Buddwing (MGM) 125 140 140 100 125 125 135 

Moment to Moment (Univ) 200 

Morgcml (Cinema V) 250 145 160 225 

One Spy Too Many (MGM) 145 140 150 150 350 

Pad. The (Univ) 100 100 

Psvchooalh. The (Para) 135 140 100 85 

Romeo and Juliet (Embassy) 200 250 

RuB-'icmg Are Coming. The (UA) 170 160 350 650 200 225 400 

Seconds (Para) 150 300 

Smoky (20:h-Fox) 200 

Tarian and the Valley of Gold (AIP) 130 100 190 

Tom Curtain (Univ) 300 300 170 225 600 250 500 300 300 

Up to His Ears (Lopert) 145 150 115 125 190 175 

What Did You Do in the War? (UA) !65 200 105 275 350 175 250 100 

Who's Afraid of Virginia WooU? (WB) 300 300 400 375 375 400 550 500 450 

Wild Angels, The (AIP) 145 265 200 200 250 220 250 

ii Wrong Box, The (Col) 150 150 140 200 500 400 300 250 

100 150 175 167 

130 145 195 155 120 118 

50 120 90 91 

85 85 100 90 125 130 "lOs" 

200 310 400 100 200 200 220 175 200 

200~244" 

150 190 

110 160 100 126 

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300 700 275 140 225 180 200 266 

300 540 360 160 300 250 200 200 300 265 

80 85 100 180 106 

200 175 200 200 125 150 110 120 162 

140 105 100 90 120 122_ 

150 95 65 175 114 

125 90 200 190 150 200 120 

190 300 250 !90 200 175 400 160 212 

150 185 150 158 

100 100 _200 159 

110 175 175 137 

135 125 185 150 141 

175 250 105 200 160 100 250 150 200 400 19 6 

150 95 125 150 90 175 115 126 

85 65 145 99 

100 250 100 155 90 143 

260 190 183 

110 100 100 210 ~H9 

120 100 135 175 150 131 

125 90 100 150 90 100 135 250 ~139 

250 110 225 175 200 203 

130 90 150 140 145 

100 300 85 75 150 155 80 ~T22 

100 150 135 121 

140 150 185 200 195 

225 300 500 250 200 100 225 270 200 300 278 

125 155 195 ISO 120 156 

85 70 90 85 1o6 

100 75 125 120 

220 210 300 250 300 200 225 225 250 285 

125 230 215 200 100 '61 

150 130 270 75 135 195 90 155 120 125 169 

500 700 700 600 250 400 250 400 400 436 

145 200 150 2M 

300 440 160 160 125 195 120 240 250 247 

TOP HITS 

— OF — 

THE WEEK 

Individual runs, not an avtrage. 

Listings are confined to opening 

week figures on new releases only. 

1. Hawaii (UA) 

Boston 400 

Chicago 275 

2. Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (Col) 

Hartlord 350 

3. Fantastic Voyage (20th-Fox) 

Portland 200 

4. Georgy Girl (Col) 

New York 200 

5. John F. Kennedy (Embassy) 

Baltimore 200 

6. Return of the Seven (UA) 

Minneapolis 200 

7. Romeo and Juliet (Embassy) 

Boston 200 

Portland 200

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Film Industry Honors 

Msgr. Little in N.Y. 

M W 'iDKkMsyr. I homas F. Little, 

vsho rcccntl> retired as executive secretary 

ot the National Catholic Office for Motion 

Pictures to become pastor of St. Bartholomew's 

Church in Brooklyn, was honoreJ 

by the motion picture industry at the Hotel 

Americana October 31. Msgr. Little, a leader 

of the Catholic film organization (formerly 

the Legion of Decency) for 19 years, received 

a testimonial plaque from David 

Picker of United .-\rtists "in appreciation ol 

his resolute dedication to the highest standards 

of .American motion pictures, his understanding 

assistance to the American film 

industry and his loyal devotion to the welfare 

of .American moviegoers." 

Picker. Robert H. O'Brien, president ol 

MGM. and Waiter Reade jr., president of 

\\, liter Reade Theatres, served as co-chairmen 

of the luncheon and Virna Lisi, Italian 

star of Warner Bros." "Not With My 

Wife, You Don't," joined in the presentation 

to Little who also received a framed 

print of Titian's painting of Pope Paul III. 

the original of which hangs in Naples. Jack 

\ alenti, president of the Motion Picture 

\^^'n of America, who was abroad with 

President Johnson, served on the honorary 

committee for the testimonial. 

Others who joined in the tribute to 

Msgr. Little were Archbishop John Kroll 

of Philadelphia, chairman of the Episcopal 

tommittee for Motion Pictures: Rev. Patnek 

J. Sullivan, acting executive secretary of 

ihc National Catholic Office: Rabbi Ralph 

Silverstein, chaplain of Cinema Loilgc 

B'nai B'riih; Rev. David McClurken, director 

of broadcasting on the Broadcasting 

.Hid Film Commission of the National Council 

of Churches in the U.S.A.. and Benjamin 

Kalmenson, S. H. Fabian, George VVeltner, 

Claude A. Giroux. Matthew Polon, 

Joseph E. Levine, Salah M. Hassanein, Bernard 

Mycrson, Leonard Goldcnson. .Milton 

Rackmil and Arthur M. Tolchin. 

Friedman Back From Paris; 

'Paris' Stars in New York 

NEW >ORK—Joseph Friedman, ParaiiHHint 

vice-president and director of advertising 

and public relations, has returned 

from Europe where he attended the premieres 

of "Is Paris Burning?" in Paris, 

Brussels and .Amsterdam. In Paris, the film 

had two days of premiere showmgs. 

Paris Burning?" will have its reservedpremiere 

at the Criterion Theatre. New 

ôrk, November 10, following an invitation 

^lunving the night before. Already in New 

"tork to attend the opening are Leslie Caron, 

came in Tuesday ( 1 ) for a week of pro- 

I motion acti\ities, including the press preview 

Wednesday (2), director Rene Clement, 

came in from Paris. Robert .Stack, who 

arrived from Hollywood, and Larry Collins 

and Dominique l.apierre. authors of the 

best-selling novel on which the film is based. 

Anthony Perkins, who is rehearsing his 

Broadway stage play, "The Star Spangled 

Girl," will also participate in the premiere. 

Pittsburgh Theatre Managers Hit Tax 

With 'Open Letter in Newspaper 

Mrs. Twyman Stresses 

Selectivity in Films 

DhlROri— With the diversity of film 

fare available to us today, selection becomes 

the key word. Movies which receive wide 

support set the pace for what is to come." 

These were among the facts presented belore 

a communications panel, part of the 

Mississippi Valley regional conference ol 

the General Federation of Women's Clubs, 

at the Statler Hilton Hotel here Monday 

(Oct. 31) by Mrs. Margaret G. Twyman, 

director of the community relations department 

of the Motion Picture Ass'n of America. 

The support given to motion pictures. 

Mrs. Twyman said, is "the way you tell 

filmmakers what you want. Films must be 

evaluated by several measures—as a medium 

of communications, as an art form 

and as an entertainment form." 

She continued: "Our responses to any of 

the media reflect our own lives and beliefs, 

our own standards, our own experiences and 

our dreams. This, then, persuades us that 

not all movies will appeal to all people at 

all 

times." 

Mrs. Twyman emphasized the need for 

motion picture information, saying, "To 

bring this into even closer focus for you, as 

club leaders, let me just say a brief word or 

two about our Movies and You program 

with the clubs in the General Federation. 

As most of you know, this program was 

launched just last year and is now entering 

its second club year. Its purpose, broadly 

speaking, is to encourage club members to 

conduct an intelligent dialog with the movie 

industry. We are all too aware of the fact 

that many of you have "lost touch' with 

what is happening in this ever-changing 

world of motion pictures." 

Club presidents, officers and members of 

the Federation of 12 Midwestern states 

were present. Mrs. Thomas L. Houde, communications 

chairman of the Federation, 

moderated the panel, which also included 

representatives of radio, television and the 

press. 

Cinema V Sub-distributors 

For New England, Ohio 

MW ^ ORK--C ineina V Distributing 

has named two new sub-distributors. Edward 

Ruff Film Associates of Boston for the 

New England territory and John Holokan 

of Dayton. Ohio, for the Cincinnati territory, 

according to James Hendel, vicepresident 

and general sales manager. 

Both were effective Tuesday (Nov. 1) and 

will handle Cinema V"s current documentary 

leature. "The Endless Summer," and forthcominc 

releases. 

PITTSBURGH—Local theatre owners 

opened a new campaign against the city's 

admission with a paid newspaper ad. measuring 

three columns, 15 inches. Headed "An 

Open Letter to Mayor Barr and the Pittsburgh 

City Council" and signed by the Pittsburgh 

Theatre Managers Assn, the letter 

read: 

"Discrimination in any form is ugly and 

unfair. 

"The present tax on Pittsburgh movie-going 

and movie-goers is discriminatory. 

"Discriminatory because there are no admission 

taxes to movies in any city or town 

in Pennsylvania except in Pittsburgh. And 

in all of the United States, Pitlsburghers 

pay the highest tax. 

"Discriminatory because it has caused 

dozens of theatres in Pittsburgh to close up 

while theatres are opening in shopping centers 

all around Pittsburgh. And new theatre 

construction in Pittsburgh is far below that 

oi the rest of the country. 

"Discriminatory because every dark theatre 

means dozens of men and women out 

of employment. A dark theatre means a 

dark street—and merchants and restaurants 

who lose business. 

"Dark theatres are a blight on Pittsburgh's 

renaissance. You talk about bringing "life 

after dark" back to Pittsburgh. This is your 

opportunity to really do something about it. 

"We urge you to put an end to this discriminatory 

tax nowl We urge you to join 

the rest of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 

and take this discriminatory yoke off 

the neck of Pitlsburghers." 

A state law authorizing individual municipalities 

throughout the state to levy admission 

taxes up to 10 per cent was repealed 

recently, but at the urging of Pittsburgh 

the tax authorization was continued 

for cities over one million population. 

Glaus and Navari Join 

West Pa. Allied Board 

PlITSBLRGH — Iwo new members 

have been named to the board of directors 

of Allied Motion Picture Theatre Owners 

of Western Pennsylvania. Tliey are John O. 

Glaus, general manager of Gabc Rubin 

Theatres and Joel Navari, Eastwood Theatre. 

Vacancies on the board were caused by 

the resignation of Edgar Shaffer, who retired 

from the theatre business, and the 

death of Harry B. Hendel. 

Mayor Appoints Milgram 

PHILADELPHIA—Mayor James H. J. 

Tate has named David E. Milgram, president 

of Milgram Theatres, to the gas commission. 

He also is president of the Theatre 

Owners of Pennsylvania and is past chief 

barker of Tent 13. 

BOXOFFICE November 7, 1966 

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liquidator Strong in B'way Bow; 

Third Capacity Week for 'Hawaii' 

NEW YORK—Continued mild weather c°^:Xk''°'^':'"'!".°T.""'.'"^"'^''°"''''^^ . ^ 

in the first daVS of November kept some Cinemo 1, Cmema ll—a Funny Thing Hoppened 

, T. c- ,1 on the Way to the Forum (UA), 2nd wk IBi 

people away from the Tmies Square the- Cmemo Rendezvous—Croiy Quilt (ContI), 4th wk. 140 

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atres although "Hawaii" had its third capac- 

^--fJ-^^lJifo., '^rkid' "it Virginia Woo.« 

ity week at the DeMille Theatre and "The (wb), ^9ih wk ........... '35 

of two-a-day „', , „ 

,. ... . , „„, ;„ LêMille— Howoii UA , 3rd wk. 

Bible' was just slightly below capacity in 

^„,bossv— Aific (Para), lOth wk 

250 

185 

Its fifth week at Loews State. The two 

'«'(;^°;-3^*°tk,""^ .°.^^ .'^T.'^:"'""'' 135 

other long-running roadshows, "The Sound p.ne Arts—Georgy Girl (Coi), 2nd wit 200 

, ., ... . .1^,. „,„„i. .,, ,ho nivirvli rorum—Seconds (Paro), 4th wk 1^ 

ot Music, in Its both week at tne KlVOll. 

^^î^ ^^ j^j^ Lady (WB), moveover, continuous, 

and "Doctor Zhi vago," in its 45th week at mh wk ^ î _^^^^.^. ^„ j;„v ^^^--^; 

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l.oew's Capitol, also did fine business. 4th wk. of two-o-day 's 

_. „ J r-i \ii/^\f Little Carnegie— Loving Couples (Prominent), 

The one new Broadway film, MOMs moveover, 6th wk '75 

ôew^s^ 

"The Liquidator," had a strong opening "^'^'.' 

^?''"°;-°o"a°day"."'°'° . 

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week at the Warner, following two bad Lcew's state—The Bible (20th-Fox), 5th wk. 

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weeks of MGNTs "Mister Buddwing" at Loews Tower East—WJiiV Ahoid of Virginia 

the same house, while the new east side pic- 

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^^^.^/^.Hhe Vortuê Cookie' IvAi 2nd wk. ' : : I90 

ture, "10:30 P.M. Summer" was big in its Pons— a Mon ond o Woman AA), 16th wk 145 

. , r. -I- . . Ploza— Hotel Parodiso vMGM), 3rd wk 150 

first week at the Baronet. Two important p^^^,^ (-,,y ^^^,^ hqii—Any Wednesday (wb), 

new films. "The Professionals" and "Not ,,^P;-_^•,'==/ 

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With My Wife, You Don't," opened r.voIi—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 

Wednesday (2) at the Victoria and the 

RKO*'23rd'' st?eyTK6'''58th stVeii^^Second; 

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,.. ,. J ., ^M Sutton— Loves of o Blonde (Prominent) /uu 

on a Merry-Go-Round and "Seconds. Ul 34th street East—The shameless Old Lody (Cont'l), 

the other Times Square films. "The Fortune 

T,,";;°rLurEas^t-T"he Fortune Cookie (uX); Vnd wk. ' 1 Is 

Cookie" held up well at the Astor, as well Trans-Lux 85th street— 1, o Woman (Audubon), 

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as the Trans-Lux East and the Murray Vict'ôrio^beadHeoron a Merry-Go-Round (Coi), 

Hill, while "A Funny Thing Happened on 3rd wk '"^ 

the Way to the Forum," at Cinema 1 and 

Cinema II for its second big week: "Georgv 'Alfie' Muscular 230 

Girl," in its second big week at the Fine At Buffalo Colvin 

Arts; "Alfie," in its tenth week at the new BUFFALO—"Alfie" was the talk of the 

Embassy in Times Square and the east side town as it ran up an amazing 230 at the 

Coronet, continued to attract lines of movie- Colvin Theatre in its first week but ail 

goers each evening, all of these filmed other first-run features turned in soft grosabroad 

and all playing intimate theatres. ses. "Khartoum" opened at the Century and 

A new Czech film, "Loves of a Blonde," "Marco the Magnificent" at the Center, 

had a near-record opening week at the Sut- each with a mild, near-average gross perton 

while other foreign-language pictures centage ol 110. 

,.,.,, 11 II 1.. I I 

Buffalo— Alvorci Kelly (Col 92 

which held up exceptionally well included center—Morco the Magnificent (MGM) no 

"The Shameless Old Lady," in its fifth êntj^'^-;!*^^^*-" 

Tlle^^virrong' Box' Ic^^^^ 

moveover week at the 34th Street East; coivin—Alfie .Paro) .;-;••,, ??n 

"Loving Couples," in its sixth moveover ''° 

^'erng°;;;^"«d"HeS?%r?'L";'^:.Round 

week at the Little Carnegie; "1, a Woman," 

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in its third week at the Trans-Lux 85ih 

Street, as well as the Rialto and "A Man 

,^^ Bonheur' Grosses 175 

and a Woman," in its 16th week at the 

^^^^ ^^^^ .^ Baltimore 

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BAlTlMORi;— Although drive-in oper- 

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The Radio City Music Hall had a line 

.^^^^^^ complained that the weekend's fair 

third week with "Any Wednesday and a 

^^^^^^^ f,,i,cj ,o bring out theatregoers, 

fourth week started Thursday (3). Another 

.^^ ^^ ^^^ theatres reporting first-run per- 

Warner film, "Who's Afraid ol Virginia 

^.^ntages enjoyed a betler-than-average week 

Wool!?", closed a highly prolitable 20- 

^^..^^ ,^ ^-^^ exception—and it was exactly 

week run at the Criterion and Loew s lower „„._„„. 

East Sunday (6). Charles—who's Afroid of Virginio Woolf? 

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Astor—The 

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Fortune Cookie 

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(UA), 2nd wk. ..75 

Cri^^Senotor-Koleidoscope 

pive West Pike's—The Wrong 

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Box (Col), 7th wk. 1 15 

Boronet— 10:30 P.M. Summer (Lopert) 90 Hillendole—Alvorci Kelly i I, 120 

Bcekmon— The Liquidotor (MGM) 165 Hippodrome J. F. Kennedy [ 150 

Westvicw Lo Dolce Vifo (AlP), 

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2nd wk 165 

Moyfoir— Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 30th wk 200 

New—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 84th ..200 

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! IT ISN'T TOO LATE Northwood, Uplown-Mister Buddwing 

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— . .. (MGM), 2nd wk '^y 

-^ To Make Big Money Playhouse— Lo Bonheur (Clover), 5th wk 35 

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Not Avoilabic 

^ ÛlUiL'm .,l-i:i.1i r-1.ll Town— Fontostic Voyoge (20th-Fox), 3rd wk 160 

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Plaza- Romoo ond Juliet (Embassy). 1 75 

James Whitmore has a co-starrmg role m 

'he comedy-western "Waterhole No. 3." 

get Tern from^Ti 

'h^' '^'"'^'-' l^'l^'"'^s production for Para- 

^Mtk^MM 

"quick servico" HEillrl#*Wlm mount Picturcs. 

AtCKPlS BILK RIBBON — Joseph 

M. Sugar, right, vice-president in 

charge of domestic sales for 20th Centura 

-lox. accepts the BOXOFITCE 

Bliie Ribbon Award for Septcniljer in 

behalf of "Fantastic Voyage" from 

Donald M. Mcrsereau, associate publisher 

and general manager. Ihe presentation 

was made in New ôrk. The 

National Screen Council voted the film 

as outstanding family enfcrtainment 

for the month. 

Polanski's 'Cul de Sac' 

For Loew's Tower East 

NEW YORK. — Roman Pohmski's "Cul 

de Sac." a Filmways release distributed b\ 

Sigma III in the U.S., will open at loew'-. 

Tower East Monday (7) following the 20 

week run of Warner Bros'. "Who's Afraid 

of Virginia Woolf?." The Polanski film, 

which won the Golden Bear for "best film' 

at the 1966 Berlin Film Festival and the. 

Critics' prize at the Venice Film Festival.j 

stars Donald Pleascnce, Francoise Dorleacj 

and Lionel Slander and is Polanski's secondj 

lilm in English, lollowing hist year's "Rc-| 

pulsion," which won at the Berlin Festival 

that year. 

'Penelope' to Music Hall 

NEW YORK.—MGM's •Pcnelope." 

starring 

Natalie Wood with Dick Shawn, lanj 

Bannen and Peter Falk. will open at thej 

Radio City Music Hall Thursdav (10). fol-j 

lowing a four-week run lor Warner Bros.' 

"Any Wednesday." "Penelope" will play at 

the Music Hall until the annual Christmas 

.stage-screen show opens in December, the, 

picture to be Walt Disney's "Follow Me. 

Bovs." 

Choreographer for Paramount's "Fas\ 

Come. Easy Go," starring Elvis Preslcv 

will be David Winters. 

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RCA SERVICE 

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To Acquire Royal Castle 

NLW lORR riK- ABC t\-iisolid.iud 

rp.. in addition to increased sales and 

rnings for the 39-weck period ending Sep- 

. iiiber 25, announces that it has reached an 

^reement with Royal Castle System. Inc.. 

u>r the acquisition of its chain of restaurants. 

Net income for 39 weeks is reported at 

;, 305,012. after taxes, as against $3,868,- 

'S for the same period last year. Earnings 

per share for the 39-week period just ended 

51.44 as against last year's SI. 33. with 

figures adjusted to show a change in 

number of shares outstanding. 

Sales and income for the 39-week period 

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309.962 in the comparable period of 1965. 

.A regular quarterly dividend of 20 cents 

uas declared at a meeting of the board of 

directors, payable November 25 to stockf 

holders of record November 10. Benjamin 

chairman of the ABC board, 

noted that the company, during the 39-week 

period, continued to increase its sales and 

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operations in indoor motion picture theatres, 

as well as at other recreational facilities. 

acquisition of Royal Castle, subject 

to approval by that company's stockholders, 

will become effective December 30, it was 

.innounced jointly by ABC Consolidatcd's 

Sherman and William D. Singer, chairman 

the board of Royal Castle, based in 

Miami. Involved is the exchange of 390,000 

shares of .ABC Consolidated for all the 

.isseis of Ro\al Castle, subject to its liabilities. 

It is expected to add 51.10 to per share 

L-quity in ABC Consolidated. 

'Long Duel' Being Filmed 

By Rank in Spain Locations 

lONDON-Ihc Rank Organization's 

most expensive film to date, "The Long 

Duel," starring Yul Brynner and Trevor 

Howard with Harry Andrews featured, has 

started shooting in Spain, according to F. L. 

Thomas, managing director of Rank Film 

Distributors. 

The picture, budgeted at $3,000,000, is 

being produced and directed by Ken Anna- 

Ivin. The outlay is necessary for the Pana- 

'•iîon and Eastman Color production locaiion 

shooting in the Sierra Nevadas near 

Granada, followed by interiors filmed at 

Pinewood Studios. 

Mother of Rossi Bros. Dies 

M W ^ ORK- Lmili.i Brignola Rossi. 85. 

mother of Charles, John and .Stephen Rossi, 

who own and operate several theatres in 

New York state, died at her winter home in 

Hoboken. N.J. Burial was at Holy Cross 

Roman Catholic Cemetery. North Arlington. 

N.J., October 26. 

Barney Klied's Mother 

NEW ÔRK. — Services were held 

Wednesday (2) at Forest Park Chapel in 

Torcst Hills. N.Y.. for Jane Klicd. mother 

i>t Barney Klied, sales engineer for National 

Theatre Supply. 

BROADWAY 

JÎ.I RED K.ATZ, United Artists vice-president 

in charge of foreign sales, is 

back following a two-week trip to 

Japan, where he met with UA personnel 

and attended openings of "Khartoum" in 

Osaka and Tokyo. Seymour Mayer, first 

vice-president of MGM International, is 

also back following a business trip to the 

Middle East, where he attended the Israeli 

premiere of "Doctor Zhivago." • * • Producer 

Arthur Jacobs, who spent the last 

month in London following a heart attack, 

has returned to the U.S. but will be confined 

to his home in Hollywood for the next two 

weeks before reporting to his APJAC headquarters 

at 20th Century-Fox November 15. 

Mel Maron. MGM roadshow manager, 

returned from sales meetings in Detroit and 

left for Atlanta Thursday (3) for similar 

conferences. * * Dave Emanuel, president 

of Governor Films, went to Atlanta, Miami 

and New Orleans for meetings with circuit 

heads and Bill Pence, head of sales for 

Janus Films, left for Los Angeles to attend 

the opening of "Young Aphrodites" at the 

new Tiffany Theatre Wednesday (2) * * * 

Joyce .Selznick, executive in charge of Paramount's 

worldwide talent and literary department, 

went to Hollywood for studiobased 

conferences. 

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Now it's Seymour Foe, executive vicepresident 

of 20th Century-Fox, who is a 

grandfather, his daughter Amanda (Mrs. 

Perry Oxenhorn), whose husband is assistant 

to Joe Bellport. 20th-Fox international manager, 

having given birth to a daughter. 

Serena Hope Oxenhorn, Tuesday (1). * * * 

Ted Albert, formerly with Mike Hall Associates, 

has joined Harold Rand's publicity 

firm, he having previously served as 20th 

Century-Fox TV-radio coordinator for three 

years and, before that, with Paramount. 

* * * Hardic Frieberg, formerly president 

of Telcsynd, a division of Wrather Corp.. 

has been elected president of Imperial Television. 

• 

Susannah York, who was in New York 

publicizing "Kaleidoscope" for Warner 

Bros., stayed on to promote "A Man for 

All Seasons" for Columbia before returning 

to I ondon. * * Bobby Darin also left for 

England Thursdav f3) to co-star with James 

Mason and Geraldine Chaplin in "Stranger 

in the House." the Anatole de Grunwald 

production being made for Rank at the 

MGNf Studios. • • F. G. Nfarshall went 

to Boston Wednesday (2) in connection with 

the opening of "The Poppy Is Also a 

Flower" and Tina Marquand, daughter of 

Jean-Pierre Aumont and the late Maria 

Nfontcz. who is in "Texas .Across the River," 

for Texas from New York to attend the 

left 

Houston world premiere. 

Max E. Youngsfein returned to Los 

Angeles Thursday (3) folowing meetings 

with MGM president Robert H. O'Brien on 

his future production schedule. He will 

supervise post-production work on -"Welcome 

to Hard Times." just completed, and 

George W. Davis, head of MGM's art department, 

also returned to Hollywood Friday 

(4) following a tour of the British Isles. 

20th-Fox Launches Class 

For Film Sales Trainees 

NEW YORK—A sales trainee class, said 

to be the first in the history of the motion 

picture industry, convened Monday (Oct. 

31) at the 20th Century-Fox home office. 

Eleven carefully selected and screened 

trainees attended the class, which marks 

the formal beginning of 20th-Fox's development 

program designed to recruit and train 

young salesmen to function in the world of 

modern film distribution. 

Joseph M. Sugar, 20th-Fox vice-president 

in charge of domestic sales, addressed 

the first class, which was conducted by Abe 

Dickstein, assistant general sales manager 

and director of the training program. Cliflortl 

Bleeth, company personnel manager 

and registrar of the school, also was on 

hand. 

The instruction program in the home office 

for each group of trainees will be of 

three weeks duration. The curriculum will 

cover modern sales theory and practice, and 

intensive orientation in all phases of home 

office operation siich as accounting procedures, 

sales control, print and laboratory 

functions, advertising, publicity and exploitation. 

Following the home office instruction, 

each trainee will be assigned to 

a branch for on-the-job experience under 

the supervision of the branch manager. 

Upon completion of the home office and 

branch office instruction and practice, each 

trainee will become a salesman in one of 

the 31 20th-Fox branch offices in the U.S. 

Audubon Film Openings 

NEW YORK— Audubon Films' "I. 

a Woman." 

Danish-Swedish co-production starring 

Essy Persson, which is current at the 

Rialto and Trans-Lux 85th Street theatres 

in New York, will open in November at 

three other key art houses in Boston, Pittsburgh 

and New Haven, according to Ava 

I eighton. director of sales. The picture is 

also phning at the Cinema Art. Los Angeles. 

N.J. 

Allied Named Herman 

HIGHTSrOWN. N.J.— Howard Herman, 

vice-president of .Allied Theatre Owners of 

New Jersey, was named chairman of an 

interim committee to work out details for a 

statewide organization comprising all theatre 

owners in New Jersey at the luncheon 

meeting held Wednesday (2). Herman suggested 

the organization be called New 

Jersey Association of Theatre Owners. 

BOXOFHCE November 7, 1966 

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issued 

report on conditions within the film 

industr>' last week and found that a state 

of monopoly existed in the dominance of 

the Rank Organization and the Associated 

British Picture Corp. 

But there was little bite to the Commission's 

conclusions which had been made after 

an investigation lasting two years. The Commission 

merely recommended that Rank and 

•ABC should give an assurance that they 

would further extend the practice of "flexible 

booking." giving trial runs to films 

whose appeal to the public was uncertain 

and giving limited and partial circuit bookings 

to films of limited appeal. There was a 

minority dissident to this conclusion by 

J. M. Smith, an accountant who felt that 

neither group should go beyond the limits 

of its good commercial judgment. 

The Commission also declared that the 

two major circuits should take the lead in 

arranging for the film industry to make proposals 

for the Board of Trade providing for 

machinery to deal with disputes about which 

cinemas should be entitled to show films 

first. The Commission says it had received 

complaints that circuit cinemas were sometimes 

given priority over independent cinemas 

in the same area merely because of the 

circuits' booking power. It says the proposals 

also should provide for exhibitors to 

have the right to bid for films in competition. 

It also recommends that no cinema 

should operate a bar on a film for more 

than four weeks after starting to show the 

film; and that any other exhibitor should 

have the right to bid for a license to exhibit 

the film after that time. West End London 

cinemas arc exempt from this recommendation. 

The Commission has even stronger criticism 

with the renters and their practices 

within the industry. It states that distributors 

sometimes make the supply of a particular 

film conditional upon the acceptance 

of other films and says this is against the 

public interest and must stop. It is also opposed 

to the manner in which the Kinematograph 

Renters Society "collectively limit 

the extent to which exhibitors can use their 

cinemas for non-film purposes, such as 

bingo." It calls on the .Society to end this 

practice and also cease the restrictions on 

the licensing of films to exhibitors who book 

films cooperatively for cinemas that are 

not under common ownership or control. 

As previously reported in this column 

the Commission and its conclusion has not 

unduly worried the trade as few of the recommendations 

arc likely to hurt the basic 

interests of the major groups, although their 

pride may take a slight public rapping 

without much pleasure. For those sections 

of the industry who had hoped for big fundamental 

changes like a third circuit or the 

fundamental changes in the structure of the 

industry, there is nothing in the report to 

By ANTHONY GRUNER 

give them much joy. Already a spokesman 

for the Federation of British lilm Makers 

had gone on record with a comment that 

while the Commission had rightly identified 

what was wrong with the industry, it had 

failed to recommend measures strong 

enough to deal with it. The Commission 

while sympathetic to the problems of the 

producer seemed unable to suggest what 

should be done about help for them except 

provide for opportunities to give their films 

trial runs on the circuits. 

Says the report: "It seems desirable that 

any producer with a good idea should be 

free to compete for the public's support. 

Whether the films produced under such a 

system would be either better or more numerous 

was uncertain, but at least the consumer 

would have a better chance to show 

his preference." Producers' ideas, the report 

adds, could be put to the test of the public 

without first having to surmount the obstacle 

of acceptance by one or the other of 

the two major circuits. 

The Commission accepts the fact that the 

dominance of the two major circuits is at 

least partly responsible for the difficulty 

which some producers find in securing an 

outlet for films intended to appeal only to 

a minority. All the best popular films were 

taken by the circuits and the other cinemas 

that accepted their releases and minority 

films were therefore in effect confined to 

cinemas that could keep going exclusively 

on such films. 

The report was highly critical about the 

preference that the Rank cinemas gave to 

the Rank documentary short films, "Look 

at Life." It considered this "an unjustified 

interference with the choice of films available 

to the public." J. M. Smith in a minority 

report rejected this point of view and 

stated that Rank should not be required 

against its commercial judgment to replace 

"Look at Life" by short films and documentaries 

produced by other companies. 

One strong critic of the Commission and 

its report, entitled "A Report on the Supply 

of Films for Exhibition in Cinemas," was 

John Boulting. the independent film producer 

and director of British Lion who declared 

that the conclusions of the Commission 

were pathetically inadequate. Referring 

to Rank and ABC. he said, "To invite 

the duopoly which is operating against 

the public interest to modify itself voluntarily 

is like crying for the moon." If one 

did not have a high regard for the members 

of the Commission one would describe their 

proposals as idiotic. 

As your correspondent finished this report 

there was no comment available from Rank. 

ABC and KRS. They were all busy studying 

the report. 

News in brief: Paul McCartney and John 

Lennon have been signed up by the Boulting 

Brothers to write the music for Boultings' 

new film. ".Ml in Good Time," written 

by Bill (".Alfie") McNaughton and 

starring Hayley Mills. This is a comedv 

set in the north of England ... By agreement 

with the other shareholders Ton\ 

Tenser, managing director of Compton 

Group, has resigned and has sold his shares 

in the company. He is now setting up hiv 

own production and distribution organiziition 

in the business. Meanwhile Jack Barlow 

who joined Compton from the Rank 

Organization has been appointed general 

manager of the theatre division, formerly 

a position of activity controlled by Tenser 

.Studios, which has been in the 

hands of the official receiver since 1963, 

has been bought by a new company which 

proposes to expand studio accommodation 

to a total of five sound stages, one of which 

will be, it is said, the biggest in Europe. The 

directors of the new company include Richard 

Afton. the British television director 

and J. Binstock, solicitor and banker of 

\ 

London . Rank Organization will I 

spend one million pounds, about 52.800,000, i 

to make the Sydney Box picture. "The Long I 

Duel." This is the largest sum of money 

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the Rank Group has ever invested in one 

motion picture. The picture will be shot i 

in Granada and at Pinewood Studios and 

will be produced and directed by Ken Annakin. 

"The Long Duel" stars Yul Brynner. 

Trevor Howard and Harry .Andrews. The 

story is about an unorthodox British police 

officer and his attempt to capture a famous 

Indian bandit. The setting is India at the 

. . . "The Tor- 

turn of the century and the script has been 

wrillen by Peter Yeldham 

ture Garden" is the title of a new lilni. 

which Max J. Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky 

will make for Amicus Productions 

for Columbia release at Shepperton Studios, 

which will be directed by I reddic 

Francis . Films has acquired the 

Royally Cinema, which has been the honuof 

many Cinerama productions for the lasi 

two years . British premiere of "K 

. . . British pla> 

Paris Burning?" will be held at the Plaza 

Cinema on December 7 and will be at 

tended by French Ambassador M. Gcoffro> 

de Courcel. It is being sponsored by the 

Newspaper Press Fund 

Wright John Osborne has completed hi', 

screenplay for Tony Richardson's Wood 

lall-U.A production of "The Charge of thi 

Light Brigade." A series of meetings wav 

held in Paris between the writer, Richardson 

and James Fox, who will stir in the 

film, initiating mid-summer production 

plans. Fox, now on a promotional trek in 

Fiirope for Universal's "Thoroughly Modern 

Millie." is the first star to be signed loi 

the big-budget production. 

* * 

Irving Allen, who is over here setting up 

a new film for Warner Bros., entitled "The 

Kill" starring Ingrid Bergman and directed 

by Jack Smighl with Bill Graf and Adrian 

Scott as producers, said this about Columbia, 

his old alma mater: "In my opinion 1 

think Columbia has the best product program 

in the history of the compain 

Jack Le Vien has bought the film rights ol 

the story of the life of Orde Wingale and 

will do the story of the unconventiona 

World War II military leader. 

E-4 BOXOFFICE November 7, 1966

Norman Panama Discusses 

Producing on His Own 

NHV\' \ ORK.--Norman Panama, alter 

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soars of prixlucing. directing and writing 

Hollywood pictures, 

mostly in partnership 

with Mclvin Frank. 

has completed his 

first for his own Norman 

Panama Productions. 

"Not With MY 

Wife, ôu Don't." 

which Warner Bros. 

IS releasing in November. 

-At the same time. 

F'rank completed his 

first NDmiuii 

solo effort. "A 

r:iii:iiii:i 

Funny Thing Hap- 

.ncd on the Way to the Forum." which 

«as made in Spain for United Artists release. 

I'anama. who is touring ten key cities for 

Not With MY Wife." came to New York 

October 23 to attend the local opening of 

the comedy at three theatres, the Forum, 

the RK.O 58th Street and the RK.O 23rd 

Street on Wednesday (2) and Virna Lisi, 

who is co-starred with Tony Curtis and 

George C. Scott, came in from Rome to attend 

the opening, following which she will 

accompany Panama to some of the keys. 

Panama said he had been working on 

"Not With MY Wife" for two years, ever 

since he first acquired the property, then 

called "The Big Brass." His next solo production, 

for which a distributor has not been 

set, will be "The Hero Machine." from a 

novel by Howard Berk, and he also has two 

other properties on his schedule. "The Lady's 

Not for Framing" and an original. "A Little 

Bit Pregnant," a story about today's college 

youth. He would also like to direct a Broadway 

play for the 1966-67 season. Panama's 

first screenplay was "My Favorite Blonde." 

starring Bob Hope, for Paramount in 1941, 

with "Not With MY Wife" being his 22nd 

film. Some of his last films with Frank 

were "L'il Abner " and "The Facts of Life," 

the latter for United Artists release. 

Panama believes that Hollywood is too 

often "playing it safe" these days with actors 

demanding to see a script before signing 

while the front office is demanding to 

know "who's in it" before putting up the 

money. As a result, fewer pictures are being 

made in Hollywood while Europe makes fine 

films without big boxoffice stars, he maintained. 

Panama, who met the tradeprcss at luncheon 

at Sardi's October 26. then went to Boston, 

where he was a principal speaker at the 

annual division managers meeting of General 

Cinema Corp. at the .Somerset Hotel 

Thursdav (Oct. 27). 

Benedict Bogcaus has acquired the rights 

to "Wall Between." a novel by Elsie Oakes 

Barber. The story received national attention 

when it was serialized by the Hearst 

papers syndicate and then appeared in a 

Reader's Digest condensation. The story 

deals with a pastor of a church near a city 

in Connecticut and his voune. wealthv wife. 

BUFFALO 

Tent 7 will elect its directors for the ensuing 

year today (7). with the polls in 

the clubroom open from noon until 10 

p.m. Officers will be named by the new 

board. Nimiinated were Richard .Aaron. 

.Alfred F. .Anscombe. .Marvin Alias. Peter 

Becker. Harold Bennett. Harry Berkson. 

Melvyn Berman. Sidney J. Cohen. Hugo 

Diuilio, Samuel Dine, Charles E. Funk. 

Samuel Geffen. Myron Gross. Ronald 

Hoelcle, Robert King. O. Lyie Koch. Alex 

Lusthaus. Gasper Mendola. Warren Potash. 

Kenneth Reuter. John Serfustini. Edward 

Jauch, Marc l.ippman and Herbert 

Schwartz. 

. . . Dan 

Debbie Reynolds was here October 26 

and 27 for personal appearances in four 

Maxam stores in Buffalo. Niagara Falls. 

West Seneca and Cheektowaga 

Houlihan. Paramount branch manager, held 

an invitational preview of "Oh Dad, Poor 

Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and 

I'm Feelin' So Sad" Wednesday (2) at the 

Colvin Theatre in Kenmore. (What will exhibitors 

do when they have to put this title 

on the marquee?) 

The Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, has 

been awarded the gold "Oscar of Industry" 

award for the best corporate annual report 

of 1965. This is the second time the company 

has won the award, sponsored by 

Financial World Magazine. The other time 

was in 1953. 

Frank R. Versage, Perry. N.Y. exhibitor, 

was in town for booking and met with 

Cohen. New York Allied president, and 

Jerry George, branch manager of National 

Theatre Supply. 

\fotion pictures have been selected for 

the Niagara Film Society, with proceeds 

going to the Shaw Festival for next season 

at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Tickets are on sale 

for the series of eight films. Films are: Sunday 

(20). "Wrong Arm of the Law"; December 

4. "Tom Jones"; January 8. "Two 

Daughters"; January 22. "Tokyo Olympiad": 

F'ebruary 5, "That Man F'rom Rio"; February 

19. "Umbrellas of Cherbourg"; March 

5, "Repulsion" and March 19. "Juliet of 

the Spirits." 

Francis .Anderson, former manager-director 

of the Rochester Paramount and former 

district manager of Paramount Theatres, 

operated by American Broadcasting 

Companies, now is an executive with Vcnda-Snak. 

Rochester concession firm. 

Ike Ehrlichman, Universal branch manager, 

tradescreened "Fahrenheit 451" Tuesday 

(1) in the Motion Picture Operators 

screening room. 

Twentj' films never shown in Rochester 

and about the same number of popular 

films of the last 

three decades are being presented 

in the George Eastman House by the 

Dryden Theatre Film .Society. Those labeled 

"Premieres" are being screened on Tuesdays 

and Wednesdays and the "encores," on Fridays 

and Saturdays. The new films, according 

to James Card, motion picture curator 

at the Eastman House, have been released 

over a number of years. The list has been 

cleared with exhibitors to avoid any conflict. 

The premieres include the relatively 

new French film, "Alphavillc." a Venice 

Festival winner; "The Burmese Harp." from 

Japan, a San Francisco Festival winner; 

"The House Under the Rocks." from Hungary; 

"The Duel." from Russia; "The Red 

and the Black." from France and two Berlin 

Festival winners. The encores include 

those as recent as "Marriage Italian Style" 

and as old as "Ella Cinders" and "Lilac 

Time." John Ford's "The Informer" and 

John Huston's "The Maltese Falcon" also 

are on this 

list. 

.Sam Diamond, district manager for 20th 

Century-Fox. has announced the formation 

of a domestic sales trainee school that will 

be conducted by the film company. The 

school will serve as an on-the-job development 

program, designed to recruit and train 

salesmen equipped to handle today's distribution 

needs. Each trainee class will 

run for three weeks in New York. 

Dewey Michaels, head of Michaels Theatres 

and Buffalo impresario, got a big plug 

for his Festa Italiana which he is bringing 

to the .Memorial Auditorium in the current 

edition of .Ad-Vents, weekly publication of 

the Advertising Club, in which Jim De- 

Fazio jr.. devoted a long two-column splash. 

.\ina Niemcia, resident actress of the Studio 

Arena Theatre, is now on the screen in 

New York, where she is appearing in the 

motion picture "The Crazy Quilt." This is 

the picture she made so reluctantly that she 

appeared in it under an assumed name. Una 

Mela. The film was released in N.Y. about 

a month ago. just as she was arriving here. 

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American International Realigns 

Foreign Distribution Executives 

NEW YORK—Louis A. Lagalante, conirollor 

lor American International Export 

for 

Loo 

AIP Export, will 

Lagalante 

continue in a consulsultant 

and advisory capacity, his post having 

recently been taken over by Daniel 

Skouras as head of foreign distribution and 

sales, according to James H. Nicholson, 

president. 

Home, who has been plagued by the ill 

health of himself and his wife, said that 

he will function in co-production plans for 

American International and will prepackage 

picture productions for other companies 

as well, hut this will not necessitate the 

extensive traveling he had to do in his former 

AIP post. Now, it is Skouras who will 

be traveling abroad for AIP eight-to-ten 

months of the year. Home remarked. 

Discussing the extensive plans for the export 

branch of AIP, Skouras, who is the 

brother of John Skouras of United Artists 

but is not related to the 2()th Ccntury-F-ox 

family of the same name, said that the company 

is expanding its product for distribution 

abroad and adding new staff members 

for this work, including naming Antonio 

Epostalou as AIP representative for Southern 

Europe and the Middle East and 14 

new foreign-made features acquired for foreign 

distribution only, "Operation Atlantis," 

starring John Ericson; "Musketeers of the 

Sea," starring Pier Angeli and Robert Alda; 

"Ride the High Wind," starring Darren Mc- 

Gavin and Maria Perschy; "Cavalry 

Charge," with Frank Latimore and Alan 

Scott; "Space Probe Taurus," with Francine 

York; "Hercules vs. Rome," with Alan 

Steel; "Savage Gringo," with Yvonne Baslien; 

"MMM 8.1," starring Pier Angeli and 

Gerard Blain; "From Istanbul—Orders to 

Kill," with ( hrislopher Logan, and "Ciinger," 

"Sleeping Beauty." "Sexy Magico," 

"Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue" and "Primitive 

Love," most of them in color and made 

in Italy. There are no plans for their U.S. 

release by AIP, Nicholson said. 

In addition, American International has 

made arrangements to acquire new product 

for AIP Export Corp., including a deal with 

George Montgomery for an unspecified 

number of films, the first two made in the 

Philippines in color and Techniscope. 

"Guerillas in Pink Lace" and "Hell to Borneo," 

Skouras mentioned that "The Wild Angels," 

distributed in the U.S. this summer, 

would be playing in Stockholm, Copenhagen, 

Oslo, Amsterdam, Rome, Greece, Geneva, 

Brussels, Munich and in other key 

German cities by the first of the year and 

the picture would be released in South 

Corp. for the past 

seven years, has been 

promoted to assistant America in January, with negotiations being 

treasurer of American concluded for booking by top Latin .American 

International, headquartering 

circuits. In Paris, "The Wild .Angels" 

in New will be released by Intcr-I ranee Distributors, 

York, and David D. headed by Maurice .Arnel, the first of a 

Home, who has resigned 

number of AIP films to be handled by thai 

his post as company. 

V i c e-president in Skouras said that the response to AIP's 

charge of distribution current lineup is the greatest in the company's 

history and indications point to ;i 

200 per cent increase in foreign revenue in 

the coming year. Other foreign distribution 

arrangements call for day-and-date showing 

of "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine" 

and "The Raven" in three Copenhagen 

theatres, followed by "The Big 

T.N.T. Show" in two Copenhagen houses, 

while four AIP films, "Dr. Goldfoot," "Die, 

Monster, Die," "Diary of a Bachelor" and 

"Bikini Beach" will play in Norway during 

October and November, followed by "Pajama 

Party" and a second AIP film to play 

Norway in December. In Norway, AIP's 

franchise-holder is Filmimport and, in Sweden. 

AIP has made arrangements with Corona 

Films for distribution of its product. 

Skouras also announced the change of 

AIP Export Corp.'s overseas headquarters 

from London to Rome, this city now being 

considered the international market place 

for co-production and sales, London having 

declined in this respect in the last year, 

most of its features now being co-produced 

with American majors. MGM, Universal, 

etc.. he remarked. "Spy in Your Eye," a coproduction 

with Italian International, has 

become one of AIP's "biggest grossers in 

Latin America and the Middle East," he 

said. 

In addition to the AIP product being distributed 

abroad, the forthcoming L'.S. release 

schedule includes "Dr. Goldfoot anil 

.\t a tradepress luncheon .Vnicrican 

Internatiiinal Pictures president James 

|{. Nicholson (1) announced the appointment 

of Daniel V. Skouras as head 

of forciRH distribution for .American 

International Pictures Export Corp. 

Skouras was formerly Furopcan sales 

supervisor for the company. 

the Girl Bombs," "War Italian Style," 

"Trunk to Cairo," all made in Italy: "The 

1 .000,000 Eyes of Su-Muru," made in Hong 

Kong; "P. T. Barnum's Rocket to the 

Moon," now being filmed in Ireland, and 

"Glass Sphinx," made in Egypt, all also lo 

be distributed abroad, Skouras added. 

In addition to Nicholson, Home, Skouras 

and Lagalante, those attending a luncheon 

at 

the Absinthe House October 27 includcil 

Salvatore Billitteri, East Coast production 

head; George Reeves, AIP legal counsel; 

Howard Seed, assistant foreign sales head; 

Mort Golden, service department head who 

I 

is now Billitteri's assistant, and Ruth Pol- 

oge, East Coast advertising and publicity director. 

Max Rosenberg to Produce 

'Torture Garden' for Col. 

NEW ÔRK— M.ix R^^scnberg. whose 

.Amicus Productions, Ltd., ni.ide eight pici 

tures in cooperation with Milton Subotsky j 

in England during the last 27 months, will ; 

produce his next and most expensive production 

to date, "Torture Garden," for Columbia 

Pictures, starting at London's Sheppcrloii 

Studios in mid-November. 

Rosenberg, who came to New York for 

negotiations with Columbia, was here while 

the most recent of the eight pictures. "The\ 

Came From Beyond Space," a science-fiction 

adventure to be released in the U.S. b\ 

Embassy Pictures, completed filming at 

Twickenham Studios with Freddie Francis 

directing Robert Hutton and Jennifer Jayne 

"Space" will be teamed with another Amicus 

production, "The Terrornauls," previously 

completed for Embassy. Other Rosen 

berg-Subotsky pictures made in England 

were "The Skull." "Dr. Terror's House ol 

Horrors" and "Psychopath," all released b\ 

Paramount; "Dr. Who and the Daleks." distributed 

in the U.S. by Continental, and 

"The Deadly Bees" and "Daleks Invade 

Earth 2150." 

Freddie Francis will also direct "Torture 

Garden." which has a screenplay by Robert 

Bloch. author of "Psychiv" and will star 

lack Palance. Burgess Meredith and Be\erly 

Adams from Hollywood and England's 

Peter Cushing and John Standing. All ol 

the pictures made by Amicus are in color. 

Rosenberg stressed. In the days before Amicus 

was formed, Rosenberg made pictures 

in New York, including "Rock. Rock, 

" 

kock "Girl of the Night." He also 

made his first picture in England for Columbia. 

"It's Trad, Dad." 

At a tradepress meeting in New York, al 

which Robert S. Ferguson, Columbia's vicepresident 

in charge of advertising and pubiiciiN. 

iniroduced Rosenberg, the latter was 

questioned as to his reasons for making piclures 

in England. He cited: (I) The remarkable 

talent pool of stage-screen actors available 

in London; (2) The benefits to be derived 

from England's Eady Plan, and (.^1 

The fact that pictures cost less to make in 

London, despite the rising costs there in recent 

months. Rosenberg admitted that his 

pictures usually took four-lo-six weeks to 

complete and were modest-budget efforts 

that is before "Torture Garden." 

E-6 BOXOFFICE :: November 7, 1966

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ALBANY 

philip F. Hurling, ussistant to S. H. Falii.in. 

prosiilcnt of Stanley Warner 

(. \>rp., and chairman of NATO's Committee 

\j;.iinst l*ay TV. visited the Albany area. 

He visited several theatres and offices . . . 

labian Theatres' removal of its district oliices 

to the Latham Shopping Center, oiil- 

^Kle Albany, was spotlighted by an arresting 

cartoon card, giving new address (on 

Loudon Road) and telephone number. The 

on the second floor of a storeoffice 

building, are also occupied by Latham 

\ssociates. The latter is the name under 

-.ihich Si Fabian. Sam Rosen and Nat Lapkin, 

partners in the multi-million-dollar, 

.i5-sfore complex, operate. The Center 

iccenlly celebrated its ninth anniversary. 

\drian Ettelson. Fabian district manager. 

J.'ubles as the Center's general manager. 

\l Kellert. one-time chief barker of Albany 

\ .iriety Club, handles the publicity and 

.uhertising. He owns Kellert Agency. 

Gulf & Western Industries, Inc., Michii;.in. 

filed a certificate of merger with Paranunint 

Pictures Corp., New York, to coniinue 

business under the former's name. 

I'.irapix, Inc.. recently chartered in Delaware, 

registered a name change to Para- 

Pictures Corp., at the same time. 

Stra.sser, Spicgelberg, Fried and Frank, 

York, were the attorneys recording 

transactions with Secretary of State's 

Albany. 

.Newpapcr ud^ ertising, some of it off the 

theatre pages, heralded the "coming" of 

"Alfie." Paramount film involving abortion, 

at Cinema Delaware. Opening is November 

10. A one-inch leaser described "Alfie" as 

"rich, ripe and ribald." Made in England, 

it is rated A-4 by the National Catholic 

Office for Motion Pictures. An extended 

run is anticipated. 

Rock Hudson in John Frankenheimer's 

"Seconds" debuted November } at the Palace. 

"Waco," also a Paramount property, 

co-featured . Madison and Cinema 

Delaware, Stanley Warner situations, 

paired for matinee showings of "Snow 

White and Red Rose" and "The Big Bad 

Wolf," November 5, 6. They are Childhood 

Productions. 

Hcnrj Raylis, projectionist at the Delaware 

and Mrs. Baylis, will attend the testimonial 

dinner for Richard F. Walsh, president, 

l.'XTSE, which the industry is tendering 

at Hotel Americana, New 'Vork, December 

3, in recognition of Walsh's "substantial 

contributions" during 25 years as 

president of the union. Baylis officially will 

represent Albany Projectionists Local 324. 

The unit also will sponsor "Best Wishes" 

.idvertisement in the progam booklet. S. H. 

Fabian, president, Stanley Warner Theatres, 

and Jack J. Valenti. president. Motion Pic 

lure Ass'n of America, are among those 

serving on the dinner committee. 

.Mrs. Wadud Buumansuur's "New, Beautiful 

Plaza," Malone. ran separate copy, 

signed by star Audrey Hepburn, for "My 

Fair Lady." Mrs. Bouniansour closed the 

theatre in September to complete a modernization 

Harold de Graw set 

project . . . "Freckles" for a Saturday matinee at his 

Oneonta in Oneonla . . . Herbert Nitke's 

Community Rialto in Glens Falls and Pontiac 

in Saranac Lake offered special Friday 

night Halloween bills. The former exhibited 

two Beatles' films, "HELP!" and "A 

Hard Day's Night" . Gospel According 

to St. Matthew" drew satisfactory 

business in a two-day engagement at the 

Palace. Albany critics Robert Day and R. 

E. Kriecer wrote rave reviews. 

Associated Adding 2 

Houses, Updating One 

PITTSBURGH—Occupied with the operation 

of 40 theatres, the Associated circuit 

now has two new houses in construction 

and another one being torn down for 

reconstruction and modernization. 

In Butler Township, Butler County, the 

circuit has a modern theatre being built 

in the Point Plaza Shopping Center. Presently 

not named, the unit will be opened in 

the spring, says Ernest Stern, president. 

In Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle Associated 

is building a theatre, which will be the 

first to be opened in the downtown area 

since 1929. At McK.ecs Rocks, the Roxian 

Theatre exterior will stand while the entire 

interior is being removed for complete replacement. 

Lopez Acquires Theatre 

in C kll \NN()N. W. \ A. Russell Lopez 

has acquired the Colonial Theatre here 

Irom Mrs. Garland West. The house was 

owned and operated for many years by her 

late husband. She will continue as owner of 

the West Drive-ln here. Lopez is owner of 

the Park Drive-In and the Rilz Theatre in 

Clarksburg, W. Va. 

Stuart Ro.scnberg is directing and Gordon 

Carroll producing "Cool Hand Luke" 

for Warner Bros, on location at Stockton. 

Calif. 

PITTSBURGH 

The Hollywood Iheatre at Dormont has 

been reno\atcd and remodeled. New 

seats, carpet, wall and stage draperies, widescreen 

and lighting arc among installations. 

Comfort has been stressed in the seating. 

Auditorium, lobby and lounge areas arc 

newly decorated. Lobby walls have been 

covered with vinyl wallpaper and the new 

color scheme is gold and green. 

The Penn.sylvania Community Antenna 

Television .Ass'n held a two-day meeting in 

the Hilton Hotel here. Speakers were legal 

representatives and lobbyists from Washington, 

CATV industry directors and Federal 

Communications Commission officials. 

Roxy Scrrao's Super 66 Drive-In at Ford 

City was greatly improved during the season, 

particularly with new blacktopped 

roads at entrances and exits. 

Clay vs. Williams boxing on closed-circuit 

TV is licensed for the civic arena Monday 

(14), with admission at $3, S4 and S6. 

Navari Theatre, Eastwood, has a college 

students discount rate of 25 cents off the 

regular scale . . . "Is Paris Burning?" eventually 

will come into the Nixon Theatre here, 

but it must await the closing of "The Sound 

of Music." 

Jetta H. Gray, who was secretary to the 

late William Finkel of the Carson Amusement 

Co.. died October 26 in her home ai 

Wilkinsburg. 

About a dozen outdoor theatres have con- 

. 

tinued nightly operations in the city district, 

but this number more than doubles on 

weekends, up to date, depending upon the 

weather . . Lila Dale Thomas, daughter of 

Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. "Bud" Thomas, was 

"the prettiest in the parade" at the Wilkinsburg 

Halloween event and was so judged 

and acclaimed. The prize-winner's father is 

the independent film booker here. 

Several city councilmen have indicated 

the> may \ole against retaining the 10 per 

cent amusement tax which will be up for annual 

renewal in the next week or two. 

Regent Square Theatre at Edgewood will 

stage a December 3 morning food show under 

auspices of the Wilkinsburg Lions Club. 

The canned goods taken in for admission 

will be distributed to needy families at 

Christmas time. Sam Fleishman, manager 

of the iheatre. presents this Lions Club benefit 

show every year. He also is preparing 

for the theatre's 30th anniversary. 

Frank Ray, retired film shipper, is uncomfortable 

with arthritis, and he's not getting 

around much at this time. 

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^cmhLTS of the Motion Picture and Television 

Council of D.C.. will hear the 

I-.iiinhurgh Film Festival discussed at the 

December 12 meeting by Vaughn R. De- 

Long, a member of the festival's delegation 

and a former consul general to the U.S. 

legation in Edinburgh. His current post is 

chief of the overseas assistance and training 

branch of the U.S. Office of Education. 

Joseph B. Brecheen, Buena Vista manager, 

is recuperating at Holy Cross Hospital 

in Silver Spring after a slight heart attack. 

Alexander Schimel, Universal manager, 

who hud a "full house" of exhibitors at the 

screening of "Fahrenheit 451." is offering 

the picture for December 23 release. 

"Is Paris Burning?" will have a gala pretiiicre 

at the R B ."Xpex Tuesday evening 

(22) sponsored by the Circle Francais and 

Alliance Francais. The proceeds will go to 

the Convent of the Sacret Heart, according 

to Paramount publicist Ernie Johnston. 

James Shcuhan, MGM regional publicist, 

attended the three-day conclave in Memphis 

of the Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi 

Theatre Owners. 

.Sheldon Tromberg, president of Boxoffice 

.Attractions, issued theatre grosses showing 

"The Endless Summer" reached 53.000 

during the first five weeks at a $2 top in 

the 350-seat Janus. "Alley Cats" gros.sed 

535,518 in the first four weeks at .$1.25 top 

in the Lincoln and "Le Bonheur" theatre 

boxoffice take was $44,000 in its initial five 

playdales in the D.C. territory. 

Independent Theatres, of which Harlcy 

Davidson is president, has taken over the 

booking of the Charles Theatre at La Plata, 

Md. Henry Lawlor is the owner and operator. 

Glenn Norris, an associate of Davidson 

and president of Peninsula Theatres, is at 

Radford. Va., while associate Ronney Carpenter 

is visiting his parents in Illinois. 

James "Buster" Root, booker for Stanley 

Warner until ihc btioking department was 

moved to Philadelphia, is now with Sam 

Wheeler Films . Wheeler, brother to 

Sam. salesman with Lipsner Distributing 

Co.. is retiring. Jimmie Lipsner is expected 

to help his father Milton with the distributing 

and booking of films, as well as at the 

Laurel Cinema. 

>VOMPI president CiUherine_\1urphy 

had such a "wonderful time" at the recent 

WOMPl convention, she plans to attend 

in "fiT. fiS and '69 in New Orleans. Atlanta 

and Indianapolis, respectively. 

Baltimore exhibitor Jack Whittle ar- 

Manufacturer 

Discounts 

Lee ARTOE CARBON Co 

20% \l^ C^S 33h% 40% 

ranged a screening of the various companies 

product reel for the members of the Allied 

Theatres of Baltimore in the State on Tuesday 

(I). 

Don king, Town Theatre owner, and 

Jean Imhoff. house manager, had a sneak 

of "Way . Out" October 26 in conjunction 

with the feature "Fantastic Voyage." 

Sid Zins, Columbia regional publicist, has 

returned to the local exchange after completing 

a special assignment in Philadelphia. 

Harold kimmcl. Embassy manager, made 

a hurried trip to New York . . . United Artists 

Manager Edwin Bigley visited the 

Schwaber circuit in Baltimore, while salesman 

Luther Buchanan called on the Durkee 

circuit. 

Roth to Open 700-Seat 

Gaithersburg Theatre 

C.AITHLRSBURG. MD. — A mid-November 

opening is planned for Roth's 700- 

seat Montgomery Theatre in the Gaithersburg 

Square Shopping Center. The de luxe 

house will be the tenth unit operated by the 

Roth circuit, says Paul Roth, president. 

Decor will he Williamsburg-colonial in 

keeping with the award-winning design of 

the shopping center by the architectural 

firm of Bagley & Soule. Roth says this will 

be the first theatre in Maryland specificalU 

engineered for the new xenon projection 

system. The custom-designed high-gain 

screen will be augmented by the latest transistorized 

sound amplification. 

The seats were designed to reflect the colonial 

motif and to offer maximum comfort. 

Other features include an indoor-outdoor 

boxoffice, a luxurious coffee lounge, art gallery, 

private viewing salon and a colonialstyled 

refreshment facility. 

Roth's Montgomery will serve the booming 

"corridor center" of Monlgoiiiery County, 

projected to become the state's second 

largest population center. The shopping center 

adjoins Montgomery Village, new I.SOOacre 

"satellite city," a residential and apartment 

development, where 30,000 people are 

expected to live. 

Veteran showman Mannic Stutz has been 

appointed resident manager, under supervision 

of general manager Ned Glascr, who 

also is directing construction of two more 

Roth theatres to be opened within the year. 

Clay-Williams Fight Film 

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NEWS AND VIEWS' THE PRODUCTION CENTER 

[Hollywood OJitce~1714 Ivar St., Room 205. Phone: HO 5-US6i 

Academy Committees 

Are Named by Freed 

IIOI 1 "i WOOn Mcnihers ot four 

x^.nJemy of Motion Picture Arts and 

Nîonces committees for the current year 

have been named hy Arthur Freed, president. 

They are the general membership and 

three branch executive committees. 

General membership committee members 

include Richard Murphy, chairman; Harry 

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Brand. Macdonald Carey and Hal F.lias. 

music branch executive committee 

of Elmer Bernstein and Bronislau 

co-chairmen: Jack Brooks. Mack 

Gene de Paul, George \V. Duning. 

Hcrschel Burke Gilbert. Jerrald Goldsmith. 

John Green. Jay Livingston. Jerry Livingston. 

Arthur Morton. Richard NL Sherman 

rul Robert B. Sherman. 

Members of the short subjects branch 

.Accutive committee include Hal Elias and 

Hurry Tytle, co-chairmen; Joseph Ansen. 

Kinney. Leo S. Rosencrans and Adrian 

Woolery. 

Writers branch executive committee members 

arc Richard Murphy, chairman; War- 

Duff, Ivan Goff, Ernest Lehman, Edmund 

H. North, George Scaton and Daniel 

Taradash. 

I'reed previously announced members of 

ihe scientific or technical awards committee 

Gordon E. Sawyer, chairman; 

John O. Aalberg, Walter Beyer, LeRoy 

Dearing. Bruce H. Denney, Edmund NL Di- 

Farciot Edouart, Ferdinand L. Eich, 

Glenn Farr. Jack P. Foreman, Richard J. 

I loUlhcrg. George R. Groves, Sol Halprin, 

\\ilion R. Holm, G. Carleton Hunt. Fred 

Ihnes. U. Iwerks. Hal Mohr, James C. 

I'r.itt. Charles Rice. Vaughn C. Shaner. 

Sidney P. Solow, James L. Wassel, Waldon 

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AI.Bl yt I RQl I WKI.COME—Officials of Frontier Theatres greet actress 

Marcaret liele at the .Vlbuquerque Support, as she arrives to promote "Mother 

Goose \ Go-Go.' which opened a long run at the Kinio Iheatre. C;alhercd around 

her are Frontier represcnlaUves Lou Avolio, Ivan Lofstrom and Jess Baca of 

Albuquerque, and Bob Wallace, advertising director of Frontier from Dallas. 

Director John E. 

To Mexico for 'Law 

By SAM ASKINAZY 

MfiXICO CIT'V—Ever since 

"The Magnificent 

Seven"" was completed here several 

years ago it was said that director John E. 

Sturges would never make another picture 

in Mexico. 

However, he is coming back and is ready 

to start the cameras rolling on "The Law 

and Tombstone"—a tentative working title 

—near Torreon on "Wednesday (9). The 

$3'/2 million budgeter stars James Garner, 

Jason Robards and Robert Ryan in a western 

"based on historical fact—with a few libertics 

taken so that it docsn"t become a documentary."" 

grinned Sturges. 

This film starts, according to the director 

who's also producing the picture for Mirisch, 

where "Gunfight at the OK Corral" 

ended. The latter is another Sturges picture. 

"We came across this information when researching 

'OK Corral' and Eddie Anhalt 

wrote the script," Sturges said. Anhalt was 

responsible for the Award-winning '"Bccket."" 

The high-budgeted western deals with the 

clash between the Earps and the Clanlon 

gang which ran ""Tombstone."" Garner takes 

(in 

the role of Wyatt Earp who tracked dow n 

the Clantons (led by Robert Ryan) with 

famed gunslinger "Doc" Holliday portrayed 

by Robards. 

"Earp." says Sturges. "had a tremendous 

respect for the law and his oath of office. 

Once he started the cha.sc after the Clantons 

he turned in his badge and never wore it 

again. He believed that would've been hypocritical." 

"The Law and Tombstone" will be filmed 

on location until December 20 before returning 

to the Churubusco Studios for interiors 

until January 15. then a week at San 

Miguel Allende with total completion scheduled 

before the end of that month. The com- 

W-2 

Sturges Returns 

and Tombstone 

pany will be here for three months. 

Among Sturges' other credits are "Keeper 

of the Bees." "Sign of the Ram," "The Magnificent 

Yankee." "The People vs. 0"Hara."" 

"The Old Man and the Sea." "By Love Possessed" 

and "The Great Escape." 

"But 'The Magnificent .Seven' was probably 

the most successful film 1 ever made," 

says Sturges, pointing out that it must have 

taken in close to 100 million dollars at the 

bo.xofficc. "It must rate as the most financially 

successful picture ever made in Mexico. 

lt"s been rerun several times in European 

countries. Latin America and the Far 

liast and in just film rentals alone has returned 

more than S\5 million, says the director. 

In Sturges' opinion, "Return of the Seven" 

-which he wasn't involved with—was made 

in Spain probably for economic rea.sons. 

"That disagreement wc had years ago had 

nothing to do with it. That was with just one 

man (Ferrclis, who was Motion Picture Bureau 

director at the time) and had nothing 

to do with Mexico as a country. One of 

the reasons we're back here is because 

they've eased up a lot on regulations and are 

extremely cooperative. I haven't foimd such 

cooperation anxwhcre else."' 

The Mirisch company is receiving additional 

cooperation from the state and is 

building the entire city of "Tombstone" outside 

of Torreon at a cost of $100,000. 

"We're leaving it to them," says Sturges, 

"and I'm trying to get somebody—either 

the unions, the federal government 

the stale, 

or the motion picture industry itself—to 

maintain it so the set can be used for westerns 

in the future. The only condition I'm 

making is that they don't use it for another 

picture for one year. I'm pretty sure that 

if they'd kept the set we"d built for 'The 

Magnificent Seven" the company would've 

come back to make 'The Return" because it 

would"ve been a tremendous savings.'" 

Sturges and his assistant director. Tommy 

Schmidt, were delighted with the casting 

thcy'\c done here. "There were at least six 

of the ten other feature parts that we 

thought we"d have to cast in Holhwood. But 

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\se found them here by auditioning almost 11 

everybody." He added. "They"ve also got I 

some great crews and we're using the "Mex- |^ 

lean crew" with Jorge Stahl as cameraman. 

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Lucicn Ballard is our No. 1 cameraman 

and Nate Edwards is the production manager."" 

The director pointed out thai he'd been 

in Mexico eight times as a tourist and recommends 

filming in this country to all hiv 

friends. Proof of this is that .Sturges is hack 

again. 

Francis X. Bushman Room 

Dedicated in Hollywood 

HOLLYWOOD Dedication of the new 

Francis X. Bushman Room in the Hollywood 

Knickerbocker Hotel October 25 was 

highlighted by the unveiling of a bust of the 

actor. Mrs. Bushman was present along with 

deputy Los Angeles Mayor Eleanor Chambers 

and members of the mayor's advisory 

committee. 

The reception spearheaded the formation 

of the new Senior Citizens Club in Hollywood, 

which will headquarter in the hotel 

under aegis of the mayor's committee. Complete 

press. tele\ision and radio co\erage 

was given the event. James Thomas, owner 

of the hotel, greeted the guests and with 

Ruth Morris, vice-president, handled the 

proceedings. 

155-Foot Ship Set Built 

For U's 'King's Pirate' 

HOLLYWOOD—A set designed by art 

director George Webb has been completedl 

for Universal on one of the largest sets everl 

built on a sound stage, a 155-ftxit pirate] 

ship that will be used for ""The King's PI-' 

rate." starring Doug McClurc. Jill St. John 

and Guy Stockwell, The two-masted craft 

is mounted on hydraulic lifts so it can be 

rocked in any direction to create a sea-going; 

effect. 

Holmon to AMPTP Board 

- At a meeting of the 

HOI 1 >\VOOD 

Ass'n of Motion Picture and Television Producers 

Tuesday (1). Hal Holman of Warner 

Bros, wa-s elected to the board to fill 

the vacancy left by the death of E. L, De- 

Patie. Arthur Schacfer was elected to represent 

Warner Bros, on the board of the 

Contract Services Administration Tnistj 

Fund. 

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'Shadow World' Film Set 

HOLLYWOOD—"The Shadow World' 

will be filmed by producer-director Sy Bart 

lett for Columbia Pictures release, it wa' 

announced by Mike Frankovich. Bartleti 

will write the screenplay for the tentatively 

titled film based on his original story, anc 

has checked into the studio to begin work 

on the project. 


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showing November 1 1 of "The Pro- 

fessionals," Richard Brooks' motion picture 

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New UCLA Eye Institute 

Honors Dr. Jules Stein 

HOLl.\\\U(.)D I'hc Sd million }ii\cs 

sicin Kye Institiiic at the UCl.A Center for 

Health Sciences was dedicated Thursday ( 3 ) 

in ceremonies attended hy more than 500 

leading ophthalmologists from all over the 

world. The dedication honored Dr. Stein, 

board chairman of MC.-\, Inc.. parent company 

of L!niversal Pictures, who at one 

lime was a practicing ophthalmologist and 

is now chairman of Research to Prevent 

Blindness, Inc., a voluntary foundation seeking 

to conquer blindness. 

Stein, his wife and family and their associates 

contributed S2 million toward establishment 

of the institute and the remainder 

.if the funds came from film indusirv 'e.idu-r-.. 

university funds and a federal grant. 

The five-level, S.l.OOO-square-fixil instiiiite 

houses teaching and research facilities, 

areas for three powerful election microscopes, 

a 60-bed hospital unit specially 

equipped operating rooms, and an outpatient 

clinic that can handle 2,000 patients 

per month. In the children's section is a 

large ceramic mural depicting the "small 

world of children" designed h> artist Mary 

Blair under the supervision of Walt Disney. 

Constitutional Rights Unit 

To Sponsor Premiere 

HOLLYWOOD — The 

Constitutional 

Foundation will sponsor a special 

Columbia Pictures release, it was announced 

hy Mrs. Bud Yorkin, chairman of 

the event and member of the foundation's 

hoard of directors. 

The screening, which will be held at the 

Directors' Guild Theatre, will be followed 

an invitational supper party at Chasen's 

M.iurant. 

The Constitutional Rights Foundation is 

•n educational group working to further a 

wore comprehensive teaching of the exp.inded 

Bill of Rights in California schools. 

Grover Dale Is Signed 

For Part in 'Sixpence' 

IIOIIYWOOD — Actor-dancer-singer 

I'vcr Dale has been signed for a role in 

H.ilf a Sixpence," the Charles H. .Schneer- 

' icorge Sidney international musical pro- 

.luction starring Tommy Steele and Julia 

I osier. 

Grover has completed a key role in the 

Seven Arts musical "1 he Young Girls of 

Rochefort," which also stars Ciene Kelly, 

iherine Deneuve, Francoise Dorleac and 

orge Chakiris. George Sidney is directing 

Mxpcnce" with William Perlberg as execuii\e 

producer of this Paramount release. 

Boost for MP Charities 

HOI L\ WOOD— Motion Picture Permanent 

Charities boosted subscriptions for its 

silver anniversary campaign to $1,078,890, 

Raymond Burr, campaign chairman, announced. 

The campaign has been under way 

for four weeks. 

400-Seat Tiffany Theatre Is Open; 

1st New LA, House in 

Three Years 

Ihe Tiffany I hcatrc, located on the Sunset Strip. Is (he ni«ist motion picture 

house in l.os .AnKclcs. The $250.(t()0 de luxe house seats 4(M» and is co-owned b\ 

Robert Lippert and Harold Goldman. It contains the latest in sound and theatre 

equipment. 

HOLLYWOOD — The Tiffany Theatre, 

owned by producer Robert L, Lippert and 

veteran exhibitor Harold Goldman, was 

opened Wednesday (2) with an invitational 

American premiere of the Greek film 

"Young .Aphrodites" followed by a champagne 

supper. 

The de luxe 400-seater. built at a cost of 

S250.000, is the first to be built in the Los 

Angeles area in three years. At a press preview 

luncheon in the Playboy Club, Lippert 

said the plush theatre has European-style 

seating with no center aisle for maxinuim 

audience vie\sing and comfort. He said this 

was the most e\pensi\c house he ever had 

built. 

Writers Against Anti-Smut 

Proposition 16 at Polls 

HOI 1 >\\()()D Ihc C (Uincil of the 

Writers Guild of America West is opposing 

Proposition 16, an anti-obscenity measure, 

on which voters will cast ballots in tomorrow's 

(8) election. 

It was pointed out in a resolution by the 

WGAW against the proposition: 

"We must always fight for the right of 

expression, within good taste and social conscience," 

said Guild president Christopher 

Knopf. "Writers are, always have been and 

always will be against the arbitrary and 

loosely defined abridgment of freedom of 

speech. We believe Prop

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LA Crest Grosses 

600 With 'Alfie; 

'Hawaii' 3rd Week 410, 'Bible 400 

LOS ANGELES—A rare 600 was the 

first week score for "Alfie" at the Crest, 

thrusting it two notches above the city's 

two other supergrossers — "The Bible," 

which was 400 in a fourth week at the 

Beverly, and "Hawaii." 410 in its third week 

at the Egyptian. Behind this terrific threesome 

ranieed "The Sound of Music." 300 

in its 87th week at the Wilshire. and newcomer 

"I, a Woman." which ran up 265 

at the Cinema Theatre. Another lively 

opener was "The Appaloosa." which doubled 

average at the Vogue Theatre. 

(Averoge Is 100) 

Baldwin Hollywood—Way . . . Woy Out ;20th-Fox) 100 

Beverly—The Bible (20th-Fox), 4th wk 400 

Bruin—The Pod (Univ), 6th wk 100 

Chinese—Fantostic Voyage (20th-Fox), 1 1 tti wk. 1 70 

Cinema— I, a Woman (Audubon) 265 

Cineramo—Khartoum (UA), 19th wk 80 

Crest—Alfie (Para) 600 

Egyption— Hawaii (UA), 3rd wk 410 

Fine Arts—The Russians Are Coming 

(UA), 20th wk 80 

Four Star— La Doke Vita (AlP), 4th wk 100 

Hollywocd-Poramount— Doctor Zhivogo 

(MGM), SJth wk. 170 

. 

Ins—The Fighting Prince a> Donegal (BV) 100 

Lido—A Man and a Woman (AA), 5th wk 150 

Music Holl--The Wrong Box (Col), 11th wk 115 

Pontages—Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 

(WB), 19th wk 150 

Picfatr—Morgon! (Cinema V), moveover 100 

Regent— Bolshoi Ballet 67 (Pora), 3rd wk 110 

Vogue—The Appaloosa (Univ) 200 

Worner Beverly— Romeo and Juliet (Embassy), 

Worner Hollywood—Kaleidoscope (WB), 5th wk. 65 

Wilshire—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 87th wk. 300 

Wiltern—Goldfinger UA;, Dr. No (UA), reissues 100 

"The Liqruidator' Sturdy 140 

At Paramount in Denver 

DENVER—Among the first-week prod 

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To Make Big Money 

TRAILERS 

get Ihem from 

"quick service" 

riLMACK 

The Exhibitor Has His Say 

TO: 

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Title 

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Days of Week Played 

Exhibitor 

ucts. the highest gross percentage was 140 

for "The Liquidator" at the Paramount Theatre, 

followed by "Way . Out," 

which grossed 125 per cent in its initial 

week at ten Denver theatres. The big percentage 

among holdover films was 210 for 

"The Bible." in its third week on the Continental 

screen. 

Aloddin—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 84th 140 

Centre— Fontostic Voyage (20th-Fox), 4th wk. .150 

Continentol—The Bible 20th-Fox), 3rd wk. .210 

Cooper— Khartoum lUA}, 19th wk 

.100 

Denhom— Doctor Zhivogo (MGM), Slst wk. .. .180 

Denver Villa Italia—The Fighting Prince of 

Donegal (BV) 85 

Esquire—The Blue Max (20th-Fox), 14th wk 150 

International 70— Romeo ond Juliet (Embassy) ....120 

Paramount—The Liquidotor (MGM) 140 

Towne—Seconds (Para), 4th wk 100 

Vogue—The Umbrellos of Cherbourg (AlP), rerun 175 

Webber—Alvorci Kelly (Col), 3rd wk. No Precedent 

West, Auroro, LakeRidge, Woodlawn, Centennial, 

Oriental, Havona, Wodsworth, Valley, 

Monoco—Woy . . . Way Out (20th-Fox) 125 

'Hawaii,' "Angels/ 'Alfie' 

Big Grossers in Frisco 

SAN FRANCISCO—"Hawaii" created 

the big splash here as it attracted big attendance 

to the Coronet and grossed bountifully 

in its first week, the gross rating for 

the first seven days standing at 350. Also 

opening big were "The Wild Angels," 260 

at the Esquire, Crown and Spruce theatres 

and "Alfie," 250 at Cinema 21. 

Alexandria— Diabolique (Seven Arts), reissue. 

120 

3rd 

Cinema 21— Alfie (Pora) 250 

Cloy— Modemoiselle (Loperf), 2nd wk 100 

Coronet—Howoii (UA) 350 

El Rey Coliseum, New Mission, El Rancho 

Alvarez Kelly (Col) 115 

Esquire, Crown, Spnjce—The Wild Angels (AlP) . .260 

Golden Gote, Mission—Seconds (Para), 2nd wk. 90 

Lorkin—The Wrong Box (Col), 9th wk 90 

Metro—A Mon ond o Woman (AA), 2nd wk 140 

Music Hall— Mosculin Fcminin (Royal) 140 

Orpheum— Doctor Zhivogo {MOM), 37th wk 105 

Parkside—The Blue Mox (20th-Fox), 23rd wk. 

. . 90 

Presidio— Le Bonhcur (Clover), 5th wk 105 

Stage Door—Gigi (MGM), reissue, 4th wk 95 

St Francis— An American Dream (WB). 2nd wk. ..105 

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

84th wk 100 

Vogue—Morgan! (Cinema V), 15th wk 80 

Warficid— Fantastic Voyage (20th-Fox), 4th wk. 200 

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HAVE JUST PLAYED FOR THE 

GUIDANCE OF FELLOW EXHIBITOR'5. 

Blvd.. 

Kansas City. Mo. G4124 

David Winters, choreographer for Paramount's 

"Easy Come, Easy Go." will create 

six major dance sequences for the film. 

Company 

—flight 

Now 

SDG Award to Student 

To Produce Film 

HOI 1.^ WOOD—A 5.1.500 award from 

the Screen Directors Guild of .•\merica will 

permit a University of Southern California 

graduate student in cinema and his associales 

to begin filming an hour-long action 

western in Idmm and color. One of the longest, 

most ambitious USC student films attempted 

in recent years, the picture will be 

shot on location at Riverside and on a local 

••ound stage. 

Key to financing the film is the SDG 

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award, made personally to Alan Gadney, 

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who wrote "Diary of West Texas" and will I 

direct its filming. Gadney is a second-year 

graduate student at USC working for his' 

master's degree in cinema and ambitious 

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for a director's career in the motion picture 

industry. 

To earn the SDG award. Gadney made a 

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.^0-minute presentation to judges, using 

slides and verbal explanations of the film. I 

For a strictly student film, which will be 

non-commercial. Gadney will use the SDG 

funds to bring in his picture for under $2,- 

000. he believes. Contributing to the lowbudget 

enterprise will be numerous USC 

students, classmates of Gadney and others 

Hollywood studios, such as Desilu and Universal, 

have offered help and Gadney has 

succeeded in interesting other private resources 

in his venture. 

Cast and sets for "Diary of West Texas" 

includes a mother, father. 1 7-year-old son 

and 14-year-old daughter, a half-dozen Indians, 

seven horses, a mule, a sod hut and, 

an Indian attack. The "Indians" are mem-i 

bers of a Riverside riding club who will ride 

to the location near March Air Force Ba^c 

and perform for fun. The film is the stors 

of the emotional and psychological changes, 

in the lives of the two young people in thel 

Texas family during an Indian raid. It will! 

have an original musical score, with Gadneyi 

planning to weave the themes of some o( 

the world's oldest folksongs into the acconipanimenl. 

The USC Divison of Cinema, oldest and', 

largest school of its kind in the world, isi 

part of the newly formed School of Per 

lorniing Arts. The Division is headed b\ 

Dr. Ik-rnanl Kanlor. 

MP's New 'Goldfoot' Film 

Booked for L.A. Multiple 

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IIOI 1.^ WOOD Ameiic.m Inlein.ition 

al's "Dr. Cioldfoot and the Ciirl Bombs" h;i 

been booked for a multiple l.os Angeles en 

gagement beginning Wednesday (.^0). Thi 

color and widescrecn feature will open it 

.^0 hardtops and drive-ins. 

Fox to Have Larger Office 

In RTA Bldg. in Albany 

AI BAN^— 2()th Century-I ox will havi 

larger offices in the RTA building whei 

remodeling there is completed. 

Fox will be on the second floor. Warnc 

Bros., Iselin Enterprises and Paramoun 

have offices in the building. 

W-4 BOXOFFICE November 7, 196(

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MPRF Case Committee List 

Expanded to 13 Members 

m)l 1 N \\tK)l)— I Ap.iiiMon ol Ihc case 

^>>Miiiiiiloc ot the Molion Picture Relief 

1 imtl has been announced here by George L. 

Bagnall. fund presidenl. New appointees to 

the coinniittee are Ben Alexander. Clarke 

"Duke" Wales. .Ann Doran and Bruce Colvillc. 

The expansion was necessitated by a continuing 

major increase in the fund's case 

load, according to Bagnall. 

With the additions, the case committee 

now totals 13 including co-chairmen Bob 

Hunter and Wanda Tuchock and members 

William Bakewell. H. J. Hcrlcs. Mrs. Jean 

Hersholt. Paulene .Myers. Gladys Percey. 

Clavton Thomason and Kenneth Thomson. 

WOMPI Club of Hollywood 

Inducts 23 Members 

HOI 1 ^VVOOD — Iwenty-three new 

nicnibers were mducied at the recent meeting 

of the Holhwood club of Women of the 

Molion Picture Industry held at the Corsican 

restaurant. New members include Pat 

Anderson. Marjorie Bennett. Rosemarie 

Boutross. Katharine Biller. Pearl Carr, 

Leona Carrano. .Arlene Charles. Virginia 

Chenoweth. Marion Freeman, Luz Hidalgo 

Hill, Gertrude Irwin. Mary Evelyn Jaeger. 

\rline Judge. Rosalie Lentz, Eleanor Lerner, 

Janice Montgomery, Marie Lyon. Muriel 

Phillips. Suzanne Page, Ann Sidaris, Marjorie 

Smith. Dixie Stevens and Ruth Silo. 

Clatworthy Joins Shapiro 

For 'Band of Gold' Film 

HOLLYWOOD - Art director Robert 

( latworthy will be associated with Stanley 

Shapiro in his initial production for Columbia 

re'easc "Band of Gold." which Fielder 

Cook will direct. The cast is headed by Dean 

Martin and Stella Stevens. Clatworthy previously 

was associated with producer Shapiro 

on "Touch of Mink," "Lover Come 

Back" and "Bedtime Storv." 

Candice Bergen Co-Stars 

In UA's 'Live for Living' 

HOLLYWOOD—Candice Bergen is be- 

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I ing CO starred with Yves Montand in "Live 

for Living" which producer-director Claude 

Lclouch will make for United Artists release, 

l.elouch. Cannes Film Festival prize 

"A .Man and a Woman." ha.s 

winner for his 

scheduled production to start by the end 

of November, with filming to be on locations 

in Amsterdam and Kenya. 

CARBONS, Inc. '— —^ 

LOS ANGELES 

Tack lU-ssick. National Ihcalre Supply 

manager, was in Delavan. Wis., for 

Cicneral Precision Controls meetings. From 

there he went to New York for NTSC conferences. 

John Wenney. NTS engineer, als > 

intended the New York meetings. 

The French and Swedish consuls here 

will attend the premiere of Paramount"s "Is 

Paris Burning?" at the Warner Hollywood 

Theatre on Wednesday (9) as guests of the 

Thalians, which is sponsoring the black-tic 

affair for the benefit of the Hmotionalh. 

Disturbed Children. Consul general of 

F-"rance and Mrs. Gerard Peres and French 

commercial counsellor and Mrs. Raoul 

Aglion will represent the French g >vornment. 

it was announced by Mr. and Mrs. 

Glenn Ford, chairmen of the premiere 

committee, and .Agnes Moorehead. co-chairman. 

Swedish consul and Mrs. Walter G 

Danielson will attend in honor of Raoul 

Nordling, the Swedish consul-general in 

Paris. 

' 

The WOMPI Club held its monthly dinner-meeting 

October 25. Among the new 

members attending were Marjorie Bennett 

and Arline Judge. Other new members installed 

included women representing the 

Motion Picture Code Authority. Motion 

Picture Arts and Sciences, the Ass'n of Motion 

Picture and Television Producers. 

MGM Studios. Columbia Pictures, as well 

as other major studios. 

Phil Goldberg, son of Earl Goldberg and 

grandson of the late Ben Goldberg of Film 

Transport Co. of California, and his wife 

are expecting their second child . . . Dick 

Carnegie, branch manager, and Bill Wasserman. 

sales manager for United Artists exchange, 

are back from a Seattle sales conference 

Mary Temple, secretary to Dick 

. . . Carnegie, just returned from her vacation. 

Jules Gerelick. general sales manager ol 

Favorite Films, is back from a tour of his 

territory . . . George Nick Diamos was on 

the Row, booking and buying for Tri-Delt i 

Amusement Co. of Tucson. 

Jack .Sherriff, Manhattan Films branch 

manager, was in Phoenix and Tucson in 

.Arizona and Brawley, Calif., setting up 

"Wild .Affairs" and "Intimacy." Prior to 

the trip, he met with Harry Goldstone Enterprises, 

New York, on new product . . . 

Jack Goldberg was in San Diego on business 

Henry Pines. Uptown Theatre 

. . . Pasadena, who underwent surgery, is up and 

feeling fine again. 

Jerrj Persell, president of Crest Films. 

reports "Macbeth" has broken all record, 

for onL"-d;'\ showings, grossing SI. St)') in 

Bakcrsficid alone. The home office of Fcat.'re 

Film Corp. of America nvived to new 

and larger quarters at 420 N. Camden 

Drive in Beverly Hills, necessitated by .• 

stepped up release schedule. This reunited 

FFCA with the parent companv Harold 

Goldman Associates, located at Ihc same 

address. 

Hanson & Schwam Public Relations 

moved Its olfices to larger quarters at 92'is 

Edward Shaw, partner 

Sunset Blvd. . . . 

of Shaw & Roberts Public Relations, Bevcrh 

Hills, became a father last week with the 

iîrth of a son Christian Ray to his wife 

Wanda. 

Funeral scnices for Louis D. Clarke, 

former Fox West Coast Theatres manager 

of the Village Wcstwood Theatre and retired 

city manager of Long Beach, were 

held Wednesday (2) at Mottell's Mortuary^ 

in Long Beach. Clarke died October 26 

after a brief illness. He was horn Mar. 8. 

1883. and retired from Fox West Coast 

Iheatres Dec. 1. 1948. 

Felton's Arena Productions 

Opens Office at Paramount 

HOLLYWOOD — Norman Feltons 

Arena Productions, heretofore headquartered 

at 

MGM-TV. has established a second 

office at Paramou'it Studios, for which Felton 

wi'l produce motion pictures under a 

multiple contract. Initial feature scheduled 

is "The Happening." an original screenplay 

iiv 

Robert Thorn. 

Technicolor Names Sheaff 

HOIl\ WOOD Donald J. Sheall has 

heen named plant manager of the Technicolor 

te'evision laboratory at North Hollywood. 

Announcement of Shcaffs promotion 

from assistant plant manager was made by 

A. P. Lofquist jr., vice-president and 

general manager of the motion picture and 

television division. 

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SAN FRANCISCO 

fl rlhur Lnger, owner of California Concession 

Supply Co., celebrated his 69th 

hirthday with a small dinner for some of 

his close friends. Arthur has been in or 

around show business for over 50 years. He 

has been a reporter, theatre manager and 

theatre owner. He now operates the successful 

. . . Ray 

concession supply company Cook, owner and founder of Ray Cook 

Theatre Supply Co., recently bought out 

his junior partner, Tom Buskcy. They 

started the company in 1962 and have built 

it into one of the major theatre supply 

candy companies in Northern California. 

Tom has now moved into a major job with 

a local beer distributor. 

The Vogue Theatre was dark for the first 

time since the walkout and strike of two 

years ago. The theatre did not open because 

their projectionist failed to show up, and 

no substitute could be found ... Pat Patterson 

of Pat Patterson Productions, Inc., 

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was visited by Harry Goldstone ot Cioldstone 

Film Enterprises, Inc., who was here 

to attend the International Film Festival 

and to plug his two new films: "Once Before 

I Die" and "Hail Mafia." 

Cliff Coite, manager of the State Theatre 

and the Mesa Drive-In in Oroville, was 

killed in an automobile accident near Oroville. 

Coite was known as the unofficial 

mayor of Oroville . . . Jack Lucy, manager 

of the Fox Warfield Theatre, is adding the 

finishing touches to his new snack bar. The 

new bar is located right in front of the main 

entrance to the house. To make space for 

the bar about 40 seats were removed from 

the downstairs section of the theatre. The 

all-modern snack bar features syrup tanks 

in the basement, which adds much needed 

space to the bar. The old snack bar, which 

is located in the center of the lobby, will he 

used during busy periods. The Warfield is 

now in its fifth week of "Fantastic Voyage." 

Women of Variety held a successful benefit 

premiere showing of "Hawaii" at the 

Coronet Theatre. The event was followed by 

a midnight luau at the Gold Room of the 

Fairmont Hotel. The money from the 

event went to the Blind Babies Foundation. 

All the women that worked on this event 

deserve a "well done," especially Mrs. Roy 

Cooper, president of Variety Club Women, 

and Mrs. Bernie Mannheimer. 

Seven Hollywood stars were in the Bay 

area: Ray Milland was appearing in a play, 

Danny Kaye piloted his plane up for a rest, 

Danny Thomas emceed the opera Fol-de-rol 

1rnl 

ill the Civic .Auditorium. Susannah York 

was in town to plug her new film. "Kaleidoscope," 

Lloyd Nolan passed through on hist 

way to attend a Santa Clara University! 

trustees" meeting in Honolulu, Gene Barryj 

and Tony Bennett were in on business, j 

Ihf Kast Bay Motion Picture & T\' 

Council held its regular meeting November 

7 at the Franklin Recreation Center. Mrs. 

I)i\on, who is director of women's community 

affairs for KRON-TV, past president 

of the Oakland Berkeley chapter national 

honory society for women in journalism, 

past officer of the East Bay Press Women's 

Club. and who as a commentator, has been 

seen on all local channels, spoke on "The 

Education of a Viewer." 

'Wind Sign' Law Becomes 

Effective on Nov. 21 

S.\N 1 R.ANC ISCO—A new sign ordinance 

passed by the board of supervisors 

will become effective No\ciiiber 21. One 

of the provisions is of particular interest to 

theatre managers and owners, in the prohibi 

lion of "wind signs." A "wind sign" is defined 

as, "Any sign in the nature of a 

series of two or more banners, flags or other 

objects, fastened in such ;i manner as to 

move upon being subjected to pressure by 

wind or breeze." All such signs, regardless 

ol when they were erected, must be removed 

by November 21. 

The Department of City Planning will 

make surveys to insure compliance with 

this ordinance and non-compliance will be 

subject to penalties of a S.ÔO fine and si\ 

months' jail term, or both. 1 he office of the 

Department of City Planning says that compliance 

with the ordinance will be vigoroush 

pursued. 

Odeon Theatres Announces 

Two Managerial Changes 

fra.-n Canadian Edition 

TORONTO—Gerald M. Dow has been 

named manager of the Odeon Totem Theatre 

in Vancouver, according to Frank H. 

Fisher, vice-president and general manager 

of Odeon Theatres (Canada), Ltd. 

Steve Allen, formerly manager of the 

Totem, received a new appointment to direct 

the Odeon Theatre in Dune.in. B.C.. succeeding 

.Archie Owen. whii resigned. 

I 

Connecticut Assistance 

For Recreation Industry 

hfi m New tnglond EdlliPn 

HARTFORD C onnecticut's half-billion 

dollar recreation-tourism industry is gelling 

promotional aid on a state level. 

Gov. John Dempsey has proposed the 

formation of a vacation-travel advisory 

council to develop "the closest possible cooperation" 

between the state development 

commission and vacation-travel industry. 

Paramount's "Arrivederci. Baby," which 

will premiere in the U.S. in December, was 

produced and directed by Ken Hughes. 

W-6 BOXOFFICE :: November 7, 1966

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Sterling Opens Twin 

To Seattle Theatre 

SEATTLE 

Balli't opened at the Neptune 

si Al II I Sterling Theatres opened its 

( 1 ), for a limited two-week 

Tuesday 

!\Mn .idi.liiii>n to the 3-year-old Lynn Theaiie 

engagement, with matinees Wednesday. 

in Lynnwood Wednesday (2). The new Saturday and Sunday. Matinee prices are 

unit has an identical size auditorium, seating SI. 50 and S2, with evening general admission 

$2 and loges S2.50. 

< 1 1 persons, and shares a lobby and bo.\- 

,>tliee with the other unit. 

"Madame Butterfly" is scheduled for a 

The Lynn Twin differs from (he majority 

two-day showing only beginning Tuesday 

,'i iwin-theaire operations in Ihai the same 

pKiure will be shown on both screens, says 

(15) at the .Admiral. Neptune, .Magnolia, Bei- 

Vue and Lynn theatres . . . Opening here 

k-rrv \'itus. Sterling operations manager. 

were "The Liquidator" at the Music Hall 

"B\ showing features simultaneously on 

and "Mister Buddwing" and "The Nanny" 

10 attend al a convenient time," he pomts 

.1 staggered schedule, we enable theatregoers 

at the Orpheum. 

GUI. For instance, on opening night, "The "Hostile Witness" completed a satisfactory 

Russians Are Coming the Russians Are run at the Moore Theatre. Ray Milland. 

'.'ining" started at 7 o'clock. 8:41 and who is starred, played in the Broadway 

sQ. while the other feature, "Up to His production before taking it on the road. 

.Is," was shown at 7, 9: 15 and 10:50. Melville Cooper, motion picture veteran, 

\ itus says the starting times are made also is featured. 

;\>ssible by having two projection booths 

Twentieth-Fox traveling auditor Harry 

,uid by running the prints back and forth 

Wood and his wife are here for several 

In reels. 

AIP Lucky Playdate Drive 

Has New Money Winners DENVER 

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A 1 1 .AN! .A I' 

R J. Mckenna jr., president of the New 

o u r more industryites 

\vere made happy October 21 when their Mexico Theatre Owners Ass'n, traveled 

names were drawn as winners in American to Dallas for meetings , . . Mr. and Mrs. 

International Pictures' Bonus Lucky Playdale 

George McCormick, Skyline Theatre, 

drive, which ended October 1. 

Canon City, went to Alamagordo to visit 

Mrs. Esther Osley of Exhibitors' Service their daughter. 

won the first prize, a $100 U.S. savings 

bond, when her name was drawn by Mrs. 

Joe Novak has changed the Clyne Theatre 

Edythe Biânt, president of the Atlanta club 

at Pueblo from a double-bill to a sin- 

gle-bill 

of the Women of the .Motion Picture 

policy . . . Mitchell Kelloff has instituted 

a Wednesday "Ladies Day" in the 

Industry. 

Next name out of the hat (the snappy Uptown Theatre at Pueblo, with each 

fall fedora of AIP exchange manager woman being admitted free along with another 

Jimmy Bello sr.) was that of Mack Grimes 

adult patron. 

of Bailey Theatre, who was awarded a S75 

Mr. and Mrs. Herb Boehm. Cover Theatre. 

Fort Morgan, were in Woodward, 

savings bond. 

Third prize, a $50 bond, went to Jack 

Okla.. for their 5()lh class reunion. Boehm 

Rigg, president of Specialty Booking Service. 

said an astonishing 50 per cent of the 

Daisy Frances Lee of Martin Theatres received 

uraduatine class was in attendance. 

the fourth prize, a S25 savings bond. 

Manager Jimmy Bello announced that John Amero Prcrises Boston 

another Lucky Playdate drive has been under 

way since October 1 and will end Feb. Fr_m NCA Ergland Edition 

As Place to Shoot Fihns 

I, 1967 and cited these rules covering the BOSTON—This city has a lot to offer independent 

filmmakers, according to John 

competition: All playdates must be played 

and or paid for during this period only; Amero, who is shooting De-Lem Enterprises' 

Contest is tor the theatre exhibitor, buyer 

"Diary of a Swinger" here. 

or booker: Cards must be filled out and submitted 

by the person requesting the play- 

"Few [vople realize how many talented 

young people are studying filmmaking in 

dates; The names of winners of the four 

Boston. Most of them want desperately to 

prizes will be drawn Feb. 17. 1967, at noon 

work in independent films such as ours." 

by a person neutral to AIP business. Winners 

need not be present to win. 

Amero said. 

John and Lem Amero, producing "Diary 

of a Swinger" for De-Lem, are both New 

Englanders, as is their writer Robert Parker. 

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"Let's face it," John Amero continued. 

"Hollywood technicians and creative people 

are getting older and older. They're losing 

touch with our younger generation. The 

young people who are aiding in making this 

film are today's people making films about 

the world thev know." 

weeks. Up from San Francisco, they will go 

on to Salt Lake City . Fighting 

Prince of Donegal " (BV) opens Wednesday 

(9) at the Orpheum. .Also opening then is 

" 

"Fantastic Voyage (20ih-Fox) at the Paramount. 

"Any Wednesday," the Warner Bros, 

comedy now in its world premiere engagement 

at Radio City Music Hall in New 

York, will be released nationally for the 

Christmas holiday season, with booking 

into Seattle's Orpheum on December 2.1 

. . . Other offerings shaping up for the 

holidays include: "The Professionals" (Columbia) 

going into the Coliseum for Thanksgiving, 

and "Texas Across the River" (Universal) 

set for Martin Cinerama. Two features 

from MGM are scheduled: "Hotel 

Paradiso" and "Penelope." "After the Fox" 

will be the United .Artists Christmas offering, 

and "Gambit" (Universal) opens December 

23 at Martin Cinerama. 

Harvey Gollogher Is Dead; 

Retired Denver Manager 

OENVKR— Har\cy h. Gollogher. 7.V retired 

theatre manager, died unexpectedly in 

his home Octoher .10. Born in Stewardson. 

III., he attended schools and was married 

there. Moving to Colorado in 1933 he has 

managed theatres at Durango. Mancos, 

Trinidad and Canon City, all in Colorado, 

before coming to Denver in 1952. He retired 

as manager of the Bluebird Theatre in 

1958. 

He was a member of the Warreri Methodist 

Church. Kiwanis and the American Legion. 

He leaves his wife Maude, two daughters, 

a brother and a sister. Rites were in 

Denver, with burial in the Ft. Logan National 

Military Cemetery. 

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ossorted 

liquidator' Opening 

Grosses 250 in Loop 

CHICAGO—Weekend business was considered 

responsible for ihe over-all stable 

business picture, except at the Oriental, 

where The Liquidator" opened big and 

continued to do exceptionally well throughout 

the week. "Seconds." the only other newcomer 

in the Loop, opened with 200 per 

cent at the Chicago Theatre. Neighborhood 

theatres playing "Doctor Zhivago" reported 

full houses at all performances. 

(Average Is 100) 

Bomorck— Howoii (UA), 2nd wk 275 

Chicago Second* (Paro) 

J tSS 

Cinestagc— • • ; ' 

Remieo ond Juliet (Embossy), 4fh wk. 150 

Ejquire— Bohhoi Bollet 67 (Poro), 2nd wk 175 

Loop— Gigi iMGM!, reissue, 2nd wk 190 

MichocI Todd—The Sound of Mujk (20th-Fox), 

85lh wk 225 

Oriental—The Liquidator ;MGM) 250 

RoOMvcIt—AKorei Kelly (CoO, 4th wk 135 

State Loke—Oeod Heot on o Merry-Go-Round 

(Col) 2nd wk, ''5 

United Artists— Who's Afraid of Virginio Woolf? 

(WB), 15th wk 155 

Woods— FoBtojtic Voyoge (20th-Fox), 5fh wk 175 

Holdovers Score Best in KC 

As New Pictures Falter 

K.ANSAS CUV While new films were 

struggling to capture public interest, four 

holdovers grossed above the 100-mark. 

"Doctor Zhivago" posted 200 for its 31st 

week at the Capri and "The Sound of Music" 

matched that figure with its 68th week at 

the Midland. Rounding out the top four 

grossers were the combination of "David 

and Lisa" and "Lord of the Flies." I ."Ô at 

the Rockhill, and "Who's .Afraid of Virginia 

Woolf?", 125 at the Fine Arts. 

Boulevard. Crest, 1-70, Riverside, Isis— Queen of 

Blood (AlP); BkMd Both (AlP), assorted 

co-feotures OT 

Brookside— 1^ Doke Vita (AlP), 3rd wk 

1 

100 

Copri—Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 31st wk 200 

Embassy 1, 2— Gigi (^^GM), reissue, 2nd wk 100 

Empire— RuMion Adventure (URP), 6th wk 90 

Fine Arts—Who's Afraid of Virginio WooH? 

(WB) 16th wk 125 

Heort. H wc. 40 Disk-0-Tek Holiday (AA); Hot 

Rod 

KirtK)—Up 

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Ears Lopert), 3rd wk 100 

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

68th wk 200 

PoromDunt— Koleidoscope 

PI=zo—Dead Heat on o 

(WB), 

Merry-Go-Round 

2nd wk 95 

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2ncl wk 100 

Rockhill- Oovid ond Lisa Conl'l), Lord of the 

Flic) C - .':. 3rd wk 150 

Roxv— Fontostic Voyo9C 20th-Fcx;, 4th wk 100 

Uptown Gf ; 

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Ted R. Cauger Now V-P 

With City Bank in KC 

KANSAS CriA -Kd R t auger, who 

lormcrly operated A. V. Cauger Service 

advertising film company in Independence, 

has been elected assistant vice-president in 

the major accounts and business development 

division of the Cily National Bank 

& Trust Co. of Kansas City. He was with 

the First National Bank of Independence 

for five years. Before that he was vicepresident 

of industrial sales for the Reid H. 

Ra\ Film Industries in St. Paul. 

Heads Kingstree House 

From Southeost Edition 

KINGSTREE, S.C—Johnny Hale. Wilmington. 

N.C., has been named manager 

of the Anderson Theatre. He succeeds 

Frank Flowers. Hale"s appointment was announced 

by Floyd Naylor, district manager 

of the Stewart-Everett Theatre chain. 

T. E. Washburn and Wife 

Leaving Theatre Business 

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burn and his wite Lucille will leave the 

R t/ Theatre alter ih \ears. He has be.-n 

with Carey & .Mexander of Lebanon for 

more than 40 years, operating in .Attica. 

Monlicello and Rockville. 

Wi'.shburn says he will remain with ibe 

ihe;!tre until January, unless the house is 

sold before then. He and his wife plan to 

enter other business in Elkhart, Ind. 

1200-SeatThunderbird 

Opens in Chicago 

CHICAGO—The Thunderhird Theatre 

in Hoffman Estates, a northwest Chicago 

suburb, had its grand opening October 21. 

It features 1.200 seats on one floor, and introduces 

unique courtyard lounges containing 

flowers and foliage of the season. 

For the opening. 2.4.10 mums were displayed. 

The theatre is equipped with the latest 

stereophonic sound and a fi2-loot screen. 

Parking for 2.000 cars surround the Thunderbird. 

It is located in the Golf-Rose Shopping 

Center at the intersection of Golf, Higgins 

and Roselle roads. The Thunderhird 

was designed by Christopher Chamalcs, 

architect and city planner. 

The theatre is owned and operated by 

Duncan Kennedy, veteran Chicago-area theatre 

executive and a former vice-president 

of Great States and Balaban and Kalz theatres. 

He said the Thunderhird will show 

all of the outstanding releases from the major 

motion picture companies. The opening 

program was the Midwest premiere showing 

of "The Idol." .Also featured was "Boy. 

Did I Get a Wrong Number!" 

"The Thunderhird will also serve other 

community needs," said Kennedy. "It will 

be available for civic activities during the 

afternoons when it is not showing movies." 

The operating policy calls for continuous 

shows beginning at I p.m. on Saturdays. 

Sunda\s and holida\s. and fii.'Ô p.m. during 

the weekdays. The Thunderhird is the 

eighth theatre to be located in a Chicagoarea 

shopping center. 

Updated Port Isabel Roxy 

Renamed for Grid Team 

PORT ISABEL, TEX.—The Roxy. recently 

reopened under new management, 

has been renamed the Tarpon Theatre in 

honor of the Port Isabel High School football 

team. 

Soon after the reopening, the management 

shuttered the theatre again for two 

days to permit completion of the installation 

of new wiring and new concessions facilities. 

The new policy at the Tarpon is to show 

family-type entertainment and provide as 

comfortable facilities as possible to make 

theatregoing a pleasure. 

Harold Lloyd's Film 

Opens Chicago Festival 

CHIC.ACiO— Harold Lloyds 1925 film 

"The Freshman." updated with a soundtrack 

and a prologue, opened the second 

Chicago International Film Festival Saturday 

(5). Lloyd, who was on hand, has added 

excerpts from six other of his early 

comedies and has entitled the work "Harold 

Lloyd's I'unny Side of Life." 

Patrons of the festival 

arc a group of society 

matrons headed by Mrs. Homer Hargravc. 

the former Colleen Moore. All film 

programs and events will be held in the 

Playboy Theatre, except the awards banquet, 

which will be at Wilding Film Studios 

on Friday (11). 

Irving Theatre Updated 

For Fall-Winter Season 

From Southwest Edition 

IRVING. TEX. — When "The Fighting 

Prince of Donegal" made its Texas debut 

on the screen of the Irving Theatre early 

this month, the 18-year-old house had just 

been overhauled and considerable remodeling 

completed. 

"I think it"s as nice as any theatre in 

Dallas," said Manager C. B. Landrum. "I 

know it's as clean as any." 

During a ten-day renovation, the entire 

building was repainted, woodwork rcvarnished, 

floors bleached and tile replaced in 

the lobby. Restroom curtains were replaced 

and new plumbing fixtures installed. The 

nearly 900 theatre chairs on the main floor 

and in the balcony were repainted, reupholstered 

and made secure to the floor. New 

aluminum doors were installed near the 

boxoffice. 

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mount also screened "The Spirit Is Willing" 

October .'^l at the Commonwealth screening 

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Wasn't" by Childhood Productions Wednesday 

(2) at Commonwealth. The Rockhill 

Theatre had a sneak preview of "The 

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KANSAS CITY 

Qn the day of "ghosts and goblins," October 

31. Adeline Rosewicz of Universal 

started the day by asking branch 

manager Ray McKitrick, "Trick or treat?" 

He replied. "Trick." So. when he returned 

from lunch he found all his office furniture 

overturned, including the couch. He 

rang for .Adeline for dictation and told her, 

"Sit on the couch." At last count. Universal 

still has the same number of employes. So. 

the boss apparently is a good sport. 

A. E. Jarboe of the Ritz Theatre in Cameron 

is getting along fine after having a 

cataract removed from his right eye in St. 

Mary's Hospital. Kansas City. He reports 

he has had no pain with the eye and he is 

following the doctor's orders. 

says he was pleased with the grosses for 

the combination "Queen of Blood" and 

"Blood Bath." which played over the Halloween 

weekend. 

I.. J. Kimbriel, Missouri Theatre Supply, 

returned October 21 from a hunting trip 

to Mitchell. S.D.. with seven pheasants. 

The Ritz Theatre, Council Grove, has installed 

a new Hurley Super-Optica screen 

which was purchased from Missouri Theatre 

Supply. 

A. C. Wooten of the Davis Theatre, Higginsville. 

is boasting of the finest sound he 

has ever had in one of his theatres. The 

complete system was rebuilt by independent 

sound engineer Tom Smith. 

Mr. and Mrs. Don Burnett, Larned, Kas., 

has returned from an eventful trip to Europe, 

which was sponsored by the Wichita 

Shriners . . . After many years of apartment 

dwelling. Dale and Katie Danielson, 

Russell. Kas.. are geitmg more and more 

excited about the new house they are building 

now that it is beginning to "shape up." 

They plan to move in sometime after the 

first of the year. 

Paramount had a special sneak preview 

of "Oh Dad. Poor Dad. Mama's Hung \ ou 

in the Closet and Lm Feelin' So Sad" at 

.Shameless Old Lady." Continental's Frenchlanguage 

film. 

Ont-of-to\vn exhibitors seen on Filmj 

Al Elewitz, Universal fieldman. was here 

October 24-28 working with Robert Goodfriend 

and George Kieffer of Durwood 

Theatres on a promotion for "Texas Across 

the River," which opens at the Embassy 

Thursday (10). 

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Jo Ann Elliot, secretary to Joe Bondank 

of 2()th Century-Fox, was named "Secretary 

of the Day" by K.MBR Radio October 

.^1. She received an orchid, small 

trophy, two tickets for dinner at the Wishbone 

and two tickets to the Plaza Theatre. 

She is leaving the industry Thursday (10) 

to work at the First National Bank. 

Chet Hyifon, Commonwealth booker, 

drove to Memphis October 27 for a oneweek 

booking trip. 

Robert Mcyn on October 24 took over 

as customer service man and shipper for 

Missouri Theatre Supply. He is well qualified 

and experienced in this line. He is a 

member of Local 498 of the Operators 

Union of Kansas City. Kas.. and was projectionist 

at the Electric Theatre and Lakeside 

Drive-In. 

Mary Hayslip, Warner Bros, booker, says 

her dog Mopsy gave binh to five schnauzer 

puppies Ocloher 21 and they already have 

a home waiting for them. 

John Vos. salesman for Paramount Pictures, 

was in Milwaukee last week to attend 

his son's wedding . to holidays 

this month the WOMPI board meeting has 

been changed to Tuesday (8) WOMPIs 

, . . 

who wish to purchase clothes for the Salvation 

Army dolls contact Judy Helton ai 

HA 1-5624. There are Mi outfits on hand 

Mary Margaret Miller entered Research 

Hospital October 31 for a series of tests . . 

Herbert Miller of Jefferson City, who used 

lo be a partner of "Bev" Miller. Special 

Attractions, in the 50 Highway Drive-In. 

was in Kansas City last week for a visit 

. 

Donamarie Morse succeeds Linda Skid as 

Buena Vista secretary, who left Friday (4) 

lo wail (or the stork. 

Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Featherston of the 

Opera Theatre, Cherryvale. reported their 

daughter-in-law had entered a Wichita hospil;il 

with encephalitis (sleeping sickness). 

row: CKde Russell. Stover: Prince Black, i 

Mound City: Elmer Bills. Moherly; Basil 

Fogelson. Marceline; Harley Fryer. Lamar; 

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Mrs. A. C. Wooten. Higginsville; Hank 

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Doering. Garnett, Kas.; Eldon Roles, Oska-I 

loosa. Kas.. and Joe Presley. Huntsville,! 

Ark. 

Condolences lo Mildred Rile\. Common-i 

wealth switchboard operator, on the death 

of her grandmother October .^0. 

Alice Ellene Miller, 55, a booker forj 

National Screen Service 24 years, died in' 

her home Wednesday (2) of cancer. She! 

was a life resident of Kansas City. She| 

leaves her mother Elizabeth B. Miller of the! 

home, and a brother Vernon Miller of: 

Kansas City. Services were held Saturday 

(5) in Newcomer's Funeral Home at 1331 

Brush Creek. 

Detroit Free Press 

Is Against DST 

From MdoQit Edition 

Dl TROIT—The Detroit Free Press has 

published an editorial arguing against compulsory 

Daylight Savings Time. NATO and; 

Allied Iheaires of Michigan have been,' 

waging a crusade against DST. 

The Free Press advocated speedy passagej 

of the necessary exempting act. Frank J. 

Kelley, attorney general, asked the governor 

and legislature to lose no time before 

passing the act. 

Orange State Theatres 

Lists Managerial Changes 

(rom icuthcost Edition 

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Frank 

Clements, vice-president and general manager 

of Orange State Theatres, announced 

that John M. Welch, for many years with 

the Chalhub and General Cinema circuits, 

h.is been named manager of the Cinema 70 

here. John Salvage, formerly with Sport 

Service Corp.. is the assistant manager 

trainee at the theatre. 

Clements said Hayden Bivins was moved 

from the Boynton Cinema to Delray Drive- 

In. 


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CHICAGO 

Toe Fuelncr bought the Auburn Theatre in 

nearby Rocklord. III., eflective Tuesday 

(1). He plans to remodel the house . . . 

Yelk, manager of the Milford, was 

I hospitalized following a heart attack. 

Kermit Riissel is busy traveling the Midwest 

m connection with openings of "Dia- 

\>liqiie." a reissue of a l955-.'i6 film. The 

unie has been playing in Milwaukee area 

iicatres. Ii opens next in Minneapolis. 

Dexter P. Cooper jr., has been named a 

\ ice-presideni of Bell & Howell Co. He will 

have responsibility in the area of special new 

prixluct developnient, with his headquarters 

1 Pasadena, Calif. 

Plans have been announced to renovate a 

^0-year-old barn and construct the "Karyn 

kupcinet Playhouse" on the Shimcr College 

campus. The theatre is being named 

lor the daughter of Mrs. Irv Kupcinet, who 

.11 22 was pursuing a career in movies and 

the theatre at the time of her death in 1963. 

Kupcinet is a columnist for the Chicago 

Sun-Times. 

OMo Prcminger, who is scheduled to he on 

hand for the film festival this month, plans 

to start exploitation in connection with his 

upcoming "Hurry Sundown." Michael 

( aine. star of the film, checks in Monday 

1 14) for press rounds. 

The Chicago Daily News film critic Sam 

I csner was so enthusiastic about "Seconds" 

he used the film as a topic of conversation 

when he appeared as a guest on Mai Bellairs' 

show on W'BBM . Artists 

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203 North Wabash Ave. The new phone 

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.\ddic Klein, he.al of the K.i\lmc Candy 

Co., IS recuperating at home following an 

eye operation Rehak of the H&E 

Balaban organization spent a vacation in 

Champaign with his daughter and granddaughter. 

The McVickers is once again operating 

as a legitimate theatre with the opening of 

"Half a Sixpence." In 1962 it returned to 

live theatre, after many years as a movie 

house. After a season of "Do Re Mi," "La 

Plume de Ma Tanfe" and "Irma La Douce" 

the movie screen again took over. In 1962 

there were complaints from patrons about 

the sight lines from the rear and the sound 

system in the balcony. Now the necessary 

alterations, at no little expense, have been 

made to alleviate these problems. The entire 

main floor has been elevated 7' 2 inches 

and seats have been replaced. The stage area 

has been deepened to compensate for the 

lack o( wing space. 

"Sallah," reported to be the first comedy 

made in Israel, opened for its initial 

showing at the Bryn Mawr Theatre on Chicago's 

The 400 Theatre 

north side . . . booked the reshowing of Jacqueline Kennedy's 

filmed tour of the White House. 

Women for Yates Committee sponsored the 

program. 

Seven theatres will now carry the Monday 

(14) heavyweight championship fight 

between Cassius Clay and Cleveland Williams 

on closed-circuit TV. Tickets are on 

sale at the B&K State Lake, on a reservation 

basis, the Uptown, Maryland. Central 

Park, Capitol, Lake and State theatres in 

the Roseland district. 

Ray Milland arrived here to appear in 

"Hostile Witness" at the Studebakcr The- 

:tre . . . Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, 

co-authors of "Is Paris Burning?" 

spent a few days here to talk about the 

movie version. The film opens Thursday 

( 10) at the Cinestage. 

Mervyn LeRoy has taken an option on 

"\ Pennant for the Kremlin." written by 

Paul .Molloy. Chicago Sun-Times columnist 

Shawn, a stopover visitor, talked 

about two new movies in which he has a 

role. "Penelope" and "Way . Out." 

Dowagiac House Sold 

To Donald G. While 

Frcm Wcitern Edition 

DETROIT — Donald G. White, owner 

and operator of the Fivc-.Mile Drive-In at 

Dowagiac, bought the Dowagiac Theatre 

from Mrs. E. J. "Bob" Pennell. Her husband, 

who is dead, was a widely known 

circuit owner. 

The theatre was closed in .September. Extensive 

modernization is under way and November 

15 is to be the opening date. 

L. A. Groups Buy Blocs 

To 'Is Paris Burning?' 

Fr n' Western Edition 

HOLLYWOOD—More than 

64 industrial, 

commercial, fraternal, school and charity 

groups have purchased large blocs of reserved 

tickets for the engagement of Paramount's 

"Is Paris Burning?" at the Warner 

Hollywood Theatre. 

Such organizations as the California Institute 

of Cancer Research, the Hollywood 

Presbyterian Hospital and the Five Acres 

Foundling Home have bought out the entire 

theatre for an evening, while others such 

as the Children's Asthma Research, the 

Lions Club, All State Society and Golden 

Tours, have reserved large sections of the 

theatre. 

The black-tie November 9 premiere of 

"Is Paris Burning?" will be sponsored by 

The Thalians. The group's clinic for maladjusted 

children will benefit. 

Greeley, Colo., Theatre 

Wins a Cooper Contest 

Frrm Western Edition 

GREELEY, COLO. — Evan Martin, 

manager of the Chief Theatre, received a 

SIOO savings bond from John Schafluelzel. 

Cooper Foundation Theatres city manager, 

as winner of the Cooper sig design contest. 

Contestants included 19 Cooper theatre 

managers from a three-state area. Entries 

were judged on originality, concordance 

and attractiveness. Martin's entry will be the 

basis of the new sig to be used by all Cooper 

Foundation Theatres. He also is a junior 

at Colorado Stale College, where he is majoring 

in business. 

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and United Screen Arts in the Midwest, has 

joined David E. Riley in the printing and 

publishing business. The new company. 

Chicago-based, is called Inter-Media Press, 

and will specialize in theatrical printing and 

publishing, as well as engage in theatrical 

promotions, including full photographic 

and editorial facilities. 

Joseph Cardinal Named 

'•^ Eastern Editi-.n 

S\ RACUSE — Joseph L. Cardinal has 

been appointed sales manager of the Syracuse 

branch of American Seating. Grand 

Rapids. .Mich. He has a B.S. degree from 

LeMoyne College. 

Tevlin Joins Superscope 

Fr-m Western Ed'ton 

SUN VALLEY'. COLO.—C. J. "Tev" 

Tevlin. formerly RKO Studios vice-president 

and head of facilities and motion picture 

operations for Howard Hughes Productions, 

has joined Superscope. Inc., a.s a senior 

executive. 

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BOXOFTICE ;: November 7. 1966 jC-3

Every 5 minutes a child is born 

who will be mentally retarded. 

You say it couldn't happen to yours. 

The other guy says it couldn't happen to his. 

Whose is it happening to.^ 

If it makes you feel better, keep on thinkinfi your 

child couldn't be mentally retarded. Ignore the 

whole thing—until it happens to you. 

But we'd rather you helped us fight. Fight for 

the 5'_. million mentally retarded people in the 

United States. At least 85'. of them could helpsupix)rt 

themselves with proper training. 

,' 

Fight fors(jmo 126.(XK)children who will become 

mentally retarded this year unless we do something. 

Thai'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 arc six things you can do now to help prevent 

mental retardation and bring new hope 

to those wliose 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 local schools and urge tlicm 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 arc capable of omploymenl. 

4. Select jobs in your company that the mentally retarded 

can till, and hire them. 

5. Accept the mentally retarded as American citizens. 

Give them a chance to live useful, dignified lives in 

your community. 

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

Committee on Mental Retardation, Wash- S 

ington, D.C. 

C-4 BOXOFFICE :: November 7, 196

Tri-Slalers Oppose 

DST, Support Code 

M1;MFHIS — ItKMlic luwicis irom 

Mississippi. Arkansas and lonnessee went 

home from the 57th annual convention in 

Memphis resolved to fight Daylight Savings 

Time in their stales, not to show films that 

do not hear the Code Seal and to classify 

adult movies as such. 

These resolves came after M. .A. Light- 

president of Maico Theatres, spoke 

man jr.. 

to the final business session Wednesday (2). 

Lightman explained that the law passed 

by Congress will put the entire nation under 

Daylight .Savings Time automatically April 

I in all states whose legislatures do not 

pass a law to keep standard time before 

\pril I. 

Lightman appealed to theatre owners to 

spearhead the campaign, aided by other 

citizen groups, to see their legislators "before 

the bills were introduced." This suggestion 

was loudly applauded and several 

pledged to be missionaries in their states. 

Lightman also gave a resolution that the 

National Ass'n of Theatre Owners endorsed 

and received promises of support. 

The resolution 

follows: 

1. RE.SOLVED that the National Ass'n 

of Theatre Owners enthusiastically endorses 

the revised Motion Picture Production Code 

as a responsible and constructive effort to 

harmonize the requirements of creative and 

mature production with the cultural and 

moral interests of our society. 

2. That the National Ass'n of Theatre 

Owners particularly commends those provisions 

of the Code which fulfill an industry 

responsibility of advising the parents as to 

the nature of sensitive films so that they, 

and they alone, free from any arbitrate' 

restraint, may intelligently fulfill their 

parental responsibility in determining the 

suitability of any motion picture film for 

themselves and the members of their 

families. 

3. That the National Ass'n of Theatre 

Owners believes it esssential to the health 

of the motion picture industry and the 

interests of the motion picture public to 

preserve and strengthen the integrity of the 

motion picture Code Seal. 

Lightman said Memphis theatres had been 

cla.ssifying pictures and avoiding pictures 

without the Code .Seal for several years. 

Bob Harrington, "Chaplain of Bourbon 

Street." with a red Bible in his hand, 

preached a sermon to the convention and 

made a terrific hit. discussing "Where You 

Are and Where You Are Going." 

50-Cent Bargain Matinees 

Frcm Western Edition 

PORTLAND—The first-run. downtown 

Empire, screening Buena Vista's "The 

Fighting Prince of Donegal." hosted "Big 

Bargain Matinees" on Monday and Tuesday, 

charging only 50 cents for all seats 

from opening hour to 6 p.m. 

Tri-State Assn Elects 

Watson Davis President 

Discussing exhibition problems at the Tri-State Theatre Owners con>ention 

are, left to right: Burgess Waltman, Columbus, Miss.; \\illiam Schrecker. I upelo. 

Miss., and Harold Thomas, Fayctteville, Ark. 

Watson Davis, Malco Theatres, 

left, 

is congratulated on hLs election as 

president of Tri-Statc I heatre Owners 

bv Sherrill C. Corwin, president of the 

National .\vs'n of Theatre Owners at 

the Memphis convention. 

MEMPHIS—Watson Davis, advertising 

and promotion manager for Malco Theatres, 

is the new president of the Tri-Statc Theatre 

Owners for 1967. Davis, who invented and 

plays the role of "Sivad." colorful stage and 

television monster that promotes horror 

films, was elected at the 57th annual convention 

of the -Arkansas. Mississippi and 

Tennessee .Association at the Chisca Plaza 

Hotel here Tuesday (I). 

"Sivad" (Davis spelled backward) started 

out on the Malco Theatre stage to promote 

horror movies and his fame spread to television. 

The kids love the old monster and 

Davis appears at many shows for children. 

Frank Heard, Tupelo, Miss., was elected 

secretary-treasurer, and J. T. Hitt. who presided 

over the 1966 convention, attended by 

300 exhibitors, was named chairman of the 

board. Hitt is from Bentonville, Ark. 

Named as vice-presidents were: Arkans 

is— Robert Wightman. Little Rock; Tennessee— 

Dick Lightman. MaIco executive. 

Memphis: Mississippi—Charles Eudy. Houston. 

Delegates elected to the National Avs'n of 

Iheatre Owners were K. K. King, ,^rkans;is; 

Leon Rountree, Mississippi, and Herb 

Kohn. Malco executive, Memphis. Tennessee. 

Directors are: Arkansas—Edith Evans. 

Newport: Jack Lowrey. Russellville: W. P. 

I lorence. Magnolia: Mildred Wren. Little 

Rock: Marjorie Malin. Augusta: Gordon 

Hutchins. Russellville. and Bruce Young, 

Pine Bluff. Tennessee—Norman Fair. 

Sonimerville: J. NL Flexer. Waverly: Ed 

Dohcrty. Memphis: Howard Nicholson. 

Memphis: Zelda Lebovitz. Memphis, and 

Dave Lebovitz. Memphis. Mississippi— Max 

Connett. Newton: T. M. Jordan, luka; Lloyd 

Royal jr.. Meridian: J. B. Davis. Grenada: 

Teddy Soloman. McComb; Frank Heard, 

Tupelo, and J. NL Mounger, Calhoun City. 

Miami Beach Cautious 

On a Film Studio Bid 

MIAMI—A "nationally known" company 

wants Miami Beach to assist it in getting 

a 50-year lease on eight or more blocks of 

South Shore property, where a giant television 

and movie studio would be built. The 

company's name has not been made public. 

Elliott RiHiscvelt. mayor, said the company 

wants the city to float Si 5 million in 

industrial bonds against the guaranteed 

lease. 

"But. " said the mayor, "how can we be 

certain the company will be in business 50 

vears?" The company is reported to be 

worth S44 million. Roosevelt said. He said 

the company would have to be able to show 

that the city would lake no loss if an agreement 

were put into effect. 

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pifly members of ihe Atlanta Better Films 

Council were guests of 20th Centuryf-"ox 

in the Filmrow screening room for a 

special showing of "The Blue Max." now 

having an excellent hard-ticket engagement 

at Storey's Rhodes Theatre . . . Wilby- 

Kincey's 4.000-seat Fox Theatre was packed 

October 30 for a sneak preview of Columbia's 

"Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round." 

coupled with "Seconds," a Paramount release. 

Trade and press screenings included three 

at Columbia's Filmrow Playhouse. Gemini's 

"The Undertaker and His Pals." Allied Artists' 

"Run for Your Wife" and MGM's "The 

Venetian Affair." and a loner at 20th Century-Fox's 

screening room, Embassy's "A 

Pistol for Ringo." 

Kugene Jacobs of New York. United Artists' 

Southern division manager, paid one of 

his periodic visits to the Atlanta exchange 

theatre closing reported; the 

Peach, in Fort Valley, Ga., which changed 

hands a week ago . Jackson (Ga.) 

[)rive-In has closed for the winter. 

Paul Maddox, Universal exchange booker 

who makes his home in nearby Smyrna, escaped 

injury in a traffic accident October 

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J::nies Zimmerman, Martin's .Atlanta district 

manager, says UA's "Hawaii," is due 

to open a roadshow engagement at the circuit's 

Georgia Cinerama Christmas week 

. . . Perry Reavis added some '"super-mod" 

touches to the opening of Warner Bros.' 

"Kaleidoscope" at Meiselman's Cherokee 

Theatre, staging a contest with audience participation 

with prizes for patrons with "the 

most mod look" a la Susannah York, who 

stars as a London dress designer, giving the 

Gcrshwin-Kastner production the real 

Carnaby Street image. 

Ralph Buring, 20th-Fox fieldman, has returned 

from Miami where he set up a series 

of contests with students of the University 

of Miami in connection with the multiple 

(seven-theatres) engagement of his company's 

"Way . Out." 

Seen on Filmrow were Baron Godbee of 

Pal Amusement Co., Vidalia, Ga., and 

Ward Bennett of the Bennett Drive-In, Abbeville. 

Ala. 

> ilby-Kincey has made the facilities of 

the 1..5()()-seat Roxy Theatre available to the 

tri-state (Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia) 

convention this month for the showing of 

proiluct reels, always an important feature 

of such gatherings. 

(icruld Rafshoon Advertising Agency, 

which handles Paramount I'ictures' publicity 

and advertising accounts in this area, had 

lo backtrack and cancel a number of activities 

when Ann-Margret's promotional 

tour for "The Swinger" was scrubbed. Rafshoon, 

head of the agency and former 2()th 

Century-Fox fieldman in the Southeastern 

territory, also has the Wilby-Kincey Theatres' 

account and services the chain's 4,- 

OOO-seat flagship, the Fox, and l..S00-seat 

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Atlantans noted with considerable glee 

that the fine television production of l.erner 

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Zena Provcndie (Mrs. A. W. Bcrnsohnl. 

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Jose Ferrer, Charles Laughton, Susan Hayward, 

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Subsequent runs and return of some oldies 

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Toco Hill and Martin's VVesigate II coupled 

Columhia's -Birds Do It" and "Rings 

the World," while Georgia Theatre 

Co.'s Greenbriar and Plaza featured Liz 

Taylor in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and 

"Butterfield 8." Carters' Capri Cinema is 

showing a pair of .Alfred Hitchcock thrill- 

crs, "Marnie" and "The Birds." Four the- 

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four drive-ins (Forest Park, 

Scott. Smyrna) are featuring Columbia's 

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Don't Run." MGM's "The Glass 

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Hollywood . Crown Cola Co., 

(Ga.)-based soft drink firm, has 

John H. Glenn jr., the former 

astronaut, as chairman of Royal Crown 

Cola International, Ltd., in the first move 

of a major expansion program for the in- 

corporation. Glenn, pilot in the 

first manned orbital flight, also is 

vice-president of corporate development for 

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N.J. 'Beefsteak' Dec. 6 

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HAWTHORNE. N.J. —"All members of 

the motion picture industry" have been invited 

to attend a "beefsteak" and get-together 

December 6 in the Westmount Country 

Club in West Paterson by the Allied 

Theatre Owners of New Jersey. .Announcement 

of the event was made here by 

Howard Herman, president of New Jersey 

Allied. 

Atlanta Films Council 

Has 43rd Anniversary 

.ATLANTA—The Atlanta Better Films 

Council, organized Oct. 15, 1922, by De- 

Sales Harrison, celebrated its 43rd anniversary 

last month, featuring a birthday 

cake. Presiding at the October 27 luncheon 

meeting was Mrs. H. B. Floyd jr., new 

president. 

Mrs. L. L. Newell was the principal 

speaker and Sam F. l.ucchese, retired reviewer, 

critic of the .Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 

was a special guest. 

Serving with Mrs. Floyd are Mrs. George 

W. Shell and Mrs. John Pinchback. vice- 

presidents; Mrs. Clinton Johnston, recording 

secretary; Mrs. Mike Carmichael, corresponding 

secretary; Mrs. Robert M. 

Bruce, treasurer; Mrs. F. W. Richards, auditor, 

and Mrs. Robert Jordan, parliamentarian. 

Few such film organizations existed 

when the council was founded, and it has 

eoniinued to dedicate itself to the promotion 

of the higher-type films. The group 

reviews and previews pictures and presents 

evaluation reports to the press, schools and 

interested organizations. 

Rossano Brazzi, Peter Sellers and Britt 

Ekland are co-starring in "The Bobo," being 

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HENDER.SON. TEX.— Earl F. Schreihcr. 

who joined the managerial staff of East 

Texas Theatres in July, has assumed charge 

of the Strand Theatre. 

Prior to joining the East Texas circuit. 

Schreiber was associated for several years 

with the Jefferson Amusement Co.. Beaumont. 

He previously had served four years 

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Laredo. He is a native of Harris County, 

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He and his wife, the former Mary Reyna 

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Quintet in Memphis 

Scores Above Average 

MF.MPHIS— Five Memphis first-run 

Icalures scored better than average despite 

the local political campaign which was al 

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Theatre managers are blaming the campaign 

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Crsstovsn— Doctor Zhivogo (MGM), 19fh wk. . . .225 

GuiW -She Done Him Wrong (SR); The Wrong 

Arm of the Low fCont'l), rerun .... 40 

Maico— Alvorei Kelly (Col), 2nd wk 190 

Polace— Khartoum (UA) . . 125 

Paromouni- The Blue Max (20th-Fox), 2nd wk.'. 130 

Plaza—Seconds Paro) 100 

State— Sing a Song tor Heaven's Soke (sk) ......100 

Studio- Choplin's Art ot Comedy Hemisphere); 

Lourel and Hardy's Laughing '205 (MGM) 35 

Worncr— Fantastic Voyoge (20th-Foxl, 3rd wk 150 

'Gospel According to St. Matthew' 

Grosses 175 in New Orleans 

NEW ORI.F.ANS—The only newcomer 

on local screens. "The Gospel .'Xccording to 

St. Matthew." led the week's gross percentages 

at 170. Deadlocked for second place 

were two holdovers. "Fantastic Voyage" at 

the Orpheum and "Romeo and Juliet" at 

the Lakeside, each with 

150 per cent. 

Gcntilly—The Gospel According to St. Matthew 

(Conf'l) ,75 

Jov Who's Afraid of Virginio Woolf? (WB), 3rd wk. 75 

t jW i,|. Romeo and Juliet (Embassy), 2nd wk. ..150 

I V. I jt. Cot on a Hot Tin Roof (MGM); 

Butterficid 8 VGM: reissue 2nd wk 90 

Mortins Cinerama La Dolce Vito (AlP), 2nd' wk'.' 

Orohcum— Fontostic Voyage (20th-Fox). 4th wk. 

110 

150 

Robert E. Lee— Doctor Zhivogo (MGM), 30fh wk. . .125 

Cooper Theatres Holds 

Meeting in Lincoln, Neb. 

Fr-m North Central Edifiir, 

LINCOLN. NFB.- Representatives from 

Minneapolis. Denver. Greeley, Colorado 

Springs. Omaha and Lincoln Cooper theatres 

met here for Cooper Foundation's second 

general meeting of the year. 

At the (me-day meeting from Lincoln 

were foundation president Jack Thompson: 

vice-president Herman Hallhcrg. in charge 

of operations for the 12 Cooper houses in 

the six cities; Leora McGrew. accounting 

department manager, and Larry Louis. cit\ 

manager. Group sales representatives for 

Cooper's roadshows also were on hand. 

The Golden Age Club program, pioneered 

in this part of the country by Cooper, 

were among items discussed. 

MEMPHIS 

yÔMPI held its monthly meeting at a 

dinner in the home of Helen Van 

V'ulpen at Whitehaven. President Marianne 

Bartlett presided. Service ch;iirman Leone 

Cooper said gifts to patients at Shelby County 

Hospital would be the Thanksgi\ing project. 

Lois Evans reported on two families 

WOMPl uill -adopt for Christma.s." 

WOMPI members handled the registration 

of Theatre Owners Convention last 

week. Chairman Betty Bell and Peggy Hogan 

were in charge of table decorations . . . 

Katherinc Keifer now is working at Allied 

Artists. 

. . Mena. 

Clarence Scoggins, Film Transit, was in 

Biipiisi Hospital for a checkup . 

\rk.. patrons have moved indoors for the 

uiiiler. The Mena Drive-In closed and the 

1 yric Theatre has opened. 

The Yell Theatre at Yellville. Ark., has 

closed 

. Drive-In at La Center. 

K\.. has closed. 

C C. Bach, manager, and R. L. Bostick. 

southern manager, attended a National Theiitre 

Supph Co.. managers meeting at Lakelawn 

Li>dge in Delavan. Wis., and went on 

to an American Seating Co. meeting in 

Grand Rapids. 

Leon Rountree, Holly at Holly Springs; 

Mart Mounger. Mart. Calhoun City, and 

Frank Heard. Lee Drive-In. Tupelo, were in 

town from Mississippi. 

From Arkansas came Orris Collins, 

Capitol. Paragoiild; Marjorie Malin. Lura. 

August; William Elias. Elias Drive-In. Osceola; 

John Staples. Carolyn. Piggott; Mr. 

and Mrs. L, F. Haven. Imperial. Forrest 

(ily. accompanied by their daughter Rosemary 

H. kirkpalrick . Basse. 

Starlite l)ri\c-ln. L'nion City, also was a 

visitor. 

Stewart & Everett Names 

Hayes Manager o/ Year 

MOUNT AIR^, N.t. -Charles C. 

Hayes, manager of Stewart & Everett's 

Cinema here, has been named manager of 

ihc year for outstanding showmanship, 

resulting from the circuit's monthly contest 

.imong the managers during a six-month 

period. He placed in the top four positions 

each month and won first place in August. 

More Nonagricultural Jobs 

From New England Edition 

HARTFORD—The U.S. Labor Deparimeni 

reports that the six-state New England 

region added some 22.000 jobs outside agriculture 

between Julv and August. 

Manufacturer 

Discounts 

Lee ARTOE CARBON Co 

20%°tjy55SS 33^'. 

SE-4 BOXOFFICE November 7. 1966

. . . The 

. . The 

. . George 

. . Louise 

. . Lightning 

. , The 

. . "The 

Three SW Theatres 

To Baskin< Gilliant 

DALLAS— Frank J. Baskin am.) John 

- .-m Southwest Edition 

Gilliant of San Antonio have taken over 

operation of three Texas theatres from Stanley 

Warner Theatres of Texas as of October 

26. The theatres involved are the Border 

in Mission, Pioneer in Falfurrias and the 

Texas in Raymondville. 

Baskin and Gilliant also own the Meadowbrook 

Drive-ln. Fort Worth. L. M. Wcldon, 

who has been operating the Meadowbrook 

for the partners, will continue to 

manage that airer and do the hooking and 

buying for all four theatres. 

SAG Names New Slate; 

Heston Is Re-Elected 

From Western Edition 

HOLLYWOOD — Charlton Heston, reelected 

president for a second term by 

Screen Actors Guild, is backed by Macdonald 

Carey, first vice-president; Whit Bissell, 

second vice-president; Ricardo Montalban. 

third vice-president; Ron Rawson. fourth 

vice-president; Marie Windsor, recording 

secretary, and Gilbert Perkins, treasurer. 

Directors, for three-year terms, are 

Claude .'\kins. Chick Chandler, George 

Chandler, John Dehner, Frank Faylen, 

John Gavin, Charles Lane, Rita Lynn. Jock 

Mahoney, Karl Maiden, Kathleen Nolan, 

Guy Stockwell, Woody Strode, Henry Wills. 

Directors, for one-year terms, are Richard 

Basehart and Don Dubbins. 

Members of the national board of directors 

whose terms do not expire are Nick 

.Adams, Leon Ames, Gene Barry, I.yle Bcttger, 

Ann Doran, Frank Ferguson, Kathleen 

Freeman, Thomas Gomez, Rafer Johnson, 

Victor Jory, Keye Luke, Agnes Moorehead, 

Harry Morgan, Paulene Myers, Jeanette 

Nolan, Walter Pidgeon, Donald Randolph, 

Thurl Ravenscroft, Gene Raymond, Ingcr 

Stevens, Ray Teal. William Walker, James 

Westerfield, Marie Windsor. Kecnan Wynn. 

.Man Young. 

Guild branches are represented by 25 

persons on the 67-member national board 

of directors and these branch representatives 

are elected under rules of procedure 

.idopted by the branches. 

NEW ORLEANS 

pat Hcbcrt of Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer has 

taken a leave of absence to await the 

.irrival of the stork the last of this month. 

Her fellow employes held a shower for her 

October 28 . Pabst of Blue Ribbon 

Pictures attended the tri-state convention 

last week in Memphis. 

Anna Claire Leggctt, MGM. visited her 

son at Northeast Louisiana State College 

at Monroe . Harper. MGM 

booker, is vacationing at home. 

Gulf States Theatres News—Teddy Solomon, 

president, returned from his European 

trip bearing gifts for his employes, wallets 

from Italy for the men and an assortment 

of bracelets, pins and earrings for the women 

. circuit is making good use of 

its new airplane. Solomon flew to Shreveport 

to visit Joy Houck of Joy Theatres and 

flew to Memphis with Jim DeNeve, Bob 

Boovy, and Bobby Sartin for the convention. 

. . Joy Gianforte, Shreveport city 

manager, underwent minor surgery and is 

Gulf States opened its 1-82 

doing fine . . . 

Cinema at Greenville, Miss., Wednesday (2) 

with "Fantastic Voyage" , combina- 

. 

tion "Blood Beast" and "2000 Maniacs" is 

There will 

doing well over the circuit . . . 

be an extensive television campaign for 

"Spinout," which opens Thanksgiving week 

. . . Visitors to Gulf States at McComb, 

Miss., included Jerry Kennedy, 20th 

Century-Fox struck the Do 

Drive-In at Mobile, Ala., causing about 

SI,000 in damages. The airer now is back 

in operation. 

Screenings included "10:30 P.M. Summer" 

(VA) at 20th-Fox screening room; 

"Deadwood "76" (FIF) and "Secret Agent, 

Super Dragon" (U.SA), Blue Ribbon Pic- 

. 

tures; "A Venetian Affair" (MGM), Paramount 

Gulf screening room 

sneaked "What's Up Tiger 

. 

Lily'.'" 

. AIP 

October 

27 at the Lakeside Theatre. 

"Gigi" returned to the Lakeside Theatre 

James Bond duo "Dr. No" and 

"Goldfinger" was back at Loew's State . . . 

"Appaloosa" opened at the Joy. while "The 

Swinger" bowed at the Sacngcr and "Mister 

Biiddwing." at the Orphcum . Gospel 

According to St. Matthew" entered its 

second week at the Gentilly-.Art Theatre and 

"Chamber of Horrors" opened in a multiple 

run of 12 hardtops and three drive-ins. 

Two attractive young women. Audrey 

Marsh and Barbara Hinyub, have joined the 

staff of United Theatres. 

Paramount Gulf members were hosts to 

the October WOMPl meeting in the Smokehouse. 

They included Helen Bila, Delia 

Favre. Jenny Vedros. Don Kay. Lee Nickolaus 

and retired active members Estelle 

Barra. Ethel Holton and Anna Ryan. Those 

attending received a large orange and black 

Halloween flower. Blue ribbon perfect attendance 

awards went to Betty Browne, 

Richards Center; Shirley Eagan. Exhibitors 

Poster Exchange; Mrs. Nickolaus of Don 

Kay; Marie Saucier, Film Inspection Service; 

Agnes Schindler, Masterpiece Pictures; 

Lillian Sherick, Motion Picture .Advertising; 

Doris Stevens, Warner Bros., and as.sociate 

member Claire Rita Stone. Reports on the 

convention were given by those assigned 

to certain events by president Sherick. The 

business sessions are to be reviewed in the 

bulletin. 

Drive-In Sues Railroad 

Over High-Beam Lights 


SAN JOSE—Operators oi the Spartan 

Drive-In here have filed suit in Superior 

Court seeking 5150,000 damages and a permanent 

injunction against the Southern Pacific 

Railroad. The complaint asks an injunction 

to prevent engines from using highbeams 

at the switching tracks, contending 

that the bright light makes the screen picture 

invisible to patrons. 

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'Fortune Cookie' Is Cited 

By Motion Picture Group 

from Western Edition 

HOLLYWOOD — The Southern California 

Motion Picture Council has selected 

Billy Wilder's "The Fortune Cookie" for its 

comedy award, citing the Mirisch Corp. 

presentation for United Artists release as 

"a picture of outstanding merit.'" 

The award was presented Wednesda\ 

(26) by Elayne BIythe. president of the 

Council, at a luncheon in the Assistance 

League Playhouse. In honoring the picture, 

the Council stressed "excellent performances" 

in a film for "youth, mature youth 

and adults. ' citing "honesty and humanity" 

as important tones in the picture. 

BOXOmCE November 7, 1966 SE-5

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JACKSONVILLE 

gunny Jaszai (pronounced ya-say). Universal 

booker, and her husband Victor 

completed a honeymoon tour which carried 

them around the long coastal perimeter of 

Florida. She said they enjoyed a visit with 

Ignazio "Iggy" Carbonnell. owner of the 

Strand Theatre in Key West, when they 

reached the southernmost part of the continental 

United States. 

Bob Moscow, who operates the Central 

Agenc\ in Atlanta, has leased the Playhouse 

Theatre in St. Petersburg with plans to operate 

it with the same type of art film policy 

as ihat of the San Marco Art Theatre in 

Jacksonville. Bill Boardman. former operator 

of the Playhouse, is scheduled to remain 

as house manager. 

Sheldon Mandell, co-owner of the firstrun 

Five Points Theatre, and his house manager. 

Harley Bellamy, reported the long run 

of "Doctor Zhivago" will end tomorrow (8) 

after 25 weeks of playing time. This is the 

second longest run in Jacksonville motion 

picture histor\, exceeded only by "The 

Sound of Music." which had the staying 

power of 31 weeks—also at the Five Points. 

"Alfie," opening there Wednesday (9). is 

expected to keep the Five Points patrons 

streaming in profitably until February when 

"Hawaii" is to open on an advanced-price, 

reserved-seat policy. 

Friends of Walt Meier, exploiteer and 

manager of the big. downtown Florida Theatre, 

will be glad lo know that he has been 

released from Baptist Hospital for a period 

of recuperation at his ocean-front home at 

Jacksonville Beach. He was injured severely 

in an automobile accident in late September. 

Young Tommy Floyd, son of Carl Floyd 

of Haines City, owner of the extensive Floyd 

U-H-l 

ARC LAMPS 

"with intergrated Lightronic 

Control at no extra cost 

ROY SMITH CO. 

65 Pork St. Jacksonyille, Florido 

circuit, spent a few days here visiting offices 

along Filmrow . . . Pete Rosian. division 

manager of Universal from Cleveland, came 

in lor conferences with W. A. "Bill" Mc- 

Clure, Universal manager, and his staff. 

When Peic returned home. Bill went south 

lo call t)n seseral major exhibitors in the 

Miami area. 

Horace Denning, district supervisor of 

Dixie Drive-ln Theatres, is back at his office 

in the Atlantic Drive-In after a trip to Dixie's 

home office in Atlanta. 

For the first lime a film-bidding situation 

has begun for Thomas E. Bell's Smyrna 

Theatre in New Smyrna Beach and the 

nearby Funland Drive-In at Edgewater. a 

Another ncu 

unit of Fknd Theatres . . . 

bidding situation has come into being for 

the group of first-run houses playing to 

Cape Kennedy workers and their families 

on Merrilt Island and the vicinity of Cocoa 

Beach. 

Carlton Robinson's Lincoln Theatre at 

Ke\ West has been closed ... Ed Bledsoe. 

Universal salesman, began a trek through 

the resort area of southwest Florida. 

Ralph Weir of Williston is now booking 

lor the private theatre at Hobeau Farms, 

formerly booked by the Enterprise Booking 

'-ervice. Jack Dreyfus, operator of the vast 

spread for the breeding and training of race 

horses near Ocala. provides a unique service 

for his employes by giving them weekend 

movies at the farm. The motion picture projection 

equipment also is used for slud>ing 

the condition and gaits of horses undergoing 

training. 

The 700-seat Plant Brittain Theatre had 

its grand opening on October 19 at the Plant 

Pla/a Shopping Center in Plant City ... J. 

B. Cunningham, who recently closed the 

Jones Theatre at Graceville, Fla., has reopened 

the Rose Theatre at Hartford. Ala. 

Roy 1,. Bang, who closed the State Theatre 

in Eustis, is now operating a unit of 

Kent Theatres at Stuart . Goulds 

Theatre at Goulds has been reopened b\ 

(icra'd Busch . by Florida St;itc 

Theatres were the Ritz at Sanford ;Mid the 

De*-olo Theatre at Arcadia. 

Members of the Motion Picture Charity 

( lub were all smiles on their wa\ to the 

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way shows and rides, the MPCC received 

a share of the profits for use in operating 

the Sunny Acres Park for Handicapped 

Children. All MPCC members did veoman 

uork by serving as ticket lakers and aiding 

in super\ision of the midway, ably assisted 

by their fellow industry organization on the 

distaff side. Women of the Motion Picture 

Industry. 

iiank as the Jacksonville Agricultural and Industrial 

lair ended its I I -day-and-night rim 

uiih an attendance clocked past the 200.000 

mark. As co-sponsor of the Blue Grass Mid- 

During the absence of Walt Meier, manager 

of the downtown Florida Theatre, his 

assistant Herb Ruffner served as the impre- 

. . 

sario of a well-attended Saturday night • 

sneak preview of "Return of the Seven" I 

during the run "Way . Way Out." 

Al Hildreth, manager of the San Marco 

.Art Theatre, was called to the Florida State 

riiealres home office on a temporary assignment 

following the recent resignation of the 

I ST ad writer. WOMPI Claudia Tavlor. 

Congress Approves Stiff 

D. C. Obscenity Measure 

Fro-n Eostern Edition 

WASHINGTON— Exhibitt)rs. producers, 

printers and others in this city would be • 

subject to fines up to S.'^.OOO and/or jail' 

terms up to a year under a new antiobscenit\ 

bill that has been approved by the House 

and the Senate. The measure will go into 

effect unless President Johnson vetoes it. 

Currently, the District of Columbia law 

forbids selling or offering to sell or to giveaway 

obscene materials or lo have them 

in possession. The bill would extend this to 

acting in. posing for. recording, producing 

or participating in obscene productions. 

The U.S. attorney also could ask the District 

Court for temporary and permanent 

injunctions against the means of production, 

sale or exhibition, such as printing presses 

and theatres. The films and publications 

could be seized under direction of the court 

Swedish Film Week to Be 

In Montreal Nov. 18-24 

rr:r-T Canadion Edition 

MONTRFAI.—A Swedish film 

week has 

been scheduled by the Montreal International 

Film Festival for the Vendome Cinem.i 

No\ ember IS lo 24. There have been man\ 

changes in Sweden filmmaking since the 

July 196.^ Swedish government subsidy to 

the cinema. 

Kenne Fant, managing director ol 

Svcnskfilminduslri. the most important pro 

duction company in Sweden, says films 

ha\e doubled since the grant was made and 

half of the tilmmakcrs today are newcomcfto 

feature films. Most of the directors are 

former writers and film critics, such as Jorn 

Donner. who wrote "A Sunday in September"; 

Bo Widerberg, "The Pram": Vilgot 

Sjoman. "The Mistress" and Hans Abranison. 

Yngve Gamlin. Lars Gorling and 

laage Danielsson. 

Matinees in St. Albans 

!r m Nc* England Edition 

ST. ALBANS. VT.- The Welden Theatre 

pla\ed "Gulliver's Travels Beyond the 

Moon" at Saturday and Simday matinees. 

charging ."Ô cents for all seats. 

SE-G BOXOFFICE :: November 7, 1966

C I Ufl S br Thr Nr* York TIT 

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It takes a good education, to get a good job today 

As a businessman, you know what it takes to get ahead 

in today's industry. But most young people don't. 

Of all those \vho will enter the labor force by 

1970, 7.5 million will not have completed hijrh 

school. It's a big problem for our country. A 

real problem for our economy . . . and for 

indu.stry, too. 

What can you do about it? 

Plenty ! In your own community, make it \jonT 

business to show how imjjortant a pood education 

is in business today. Talk about it. 

Write about it. Urpe your business and civic 

organizations to cooperate. 

Convincing young people of the value of get- 

ting all the education and training they can is 

not only good for your community, it's good 

for your business, too. After all, the quality of 

your future employees depends a lot on their 

education. Even your pre.sent employees can 

benefit greatly by up-grading their skills 

through on-the-job training or night .school. 

For more information on how you can help 

solve the continuing education problem in 

your community, write: The Advertising 

Council. 25 West 45th Street, New York, New 

York 10036. 

^

MIAMI 

III Simon, manager of the Beach Theatre, 

is seeking persons who took part in 

the hheration of Paris as a promotion for 

"Is Paris Burning?" The picture is to open 

at the theatre December 22. 

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Florida Stale Theatres held Saturday and 

Sunday (5 and 6) matinees for the duo 

"Snow White and Red Rose" and "The Big 

Bad Wolf" at the Boulevard. Shores, Suniland. 

Gables and Paramount theatres in 

greater Miami and at the Florida in Hollywood; 

Coral Ridge and Plantation, Fort 

I audcrdale: Florida in West Palm Beach 

and the Lake in Lake Worth. 

"Whal's Lp Tiger Lily?" has been hooked 

to open Thursdav (17) at Wometco's Maylair 

and Sunset theatres . . Perry Como 

. 

and his wife Roselle arrived at their Jupiter 

home. 

Gene Levitt, who produced "Combat" on 

Iclcsision for three years, has been named 

producer for "The Unkillablcs" at Ivan Tors 

Studios. Shooting of the film is expected to 

start hy the middle of the month. 

I he League of Women Voters had a film 

made to demonstrate the use of voting 

machines. It is being shown at various 

Florida State houses and some of the 

Wonietco theatres. 

1 he Loew's Riviera in Coral Gables promoted 

National Movie Month via closcdcircLiit 

television in the lobby. Lettering on 

the screen read: "October Is National 

Movie Month. Go out to see a movie." 

The audio portion announced upcoming 

pictures. Also, an announcement asked 

viewers to write National Movie Month a;. 

many times as possible on a post card in a 

contest. The winner received dinner for two 

and the second prize was a record album. 

Frank Coniglio Is Renamed 

Head of NY Projectionists 

From Eastern Edition 

BUFFALO—Frank H. Coniglio of Local 

25Jt of Rochester has been re-elected president 

of the New York State Ass'n of Motion 

Picture Projectionists. Other officers are 

George Samuelson, Jamestown, Local 266, 

first vice-president; John Short, Corning. 

Local 480. second vice-president; Antone P 

Ralbovsky. Gloversville. Local 290, third 

vice-president; George F. Raaflaub, Syracuse, 

Local 376, secretary-treasurer. 

Members of the executive board are H. 

Paul Shay, Elmira, Local 289, southern division; 

Henry O'Neil, Watertown, Local 

338, eastern division; Fred W. Messman, 

Utica, Local 337, central division; Fred J. 

Young, Niagara Falls, Local 12L western 

division; Steve D"inzillo, New York, Local 

306, metropolitan division; Charles Johnson, 

Binghamton, Local 396, sergeant-atarms. 

'Caressed' Set for Philly 

frjTi Eastern Edition 

PHILADELPHIA— "Caressed." the fes-, 

tival award-winning picture distributed na-| 

tionally by Joseph Brenner .Associates, will} 

be the first independent film to play the 

Randolph Theatre in nine years. 

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Always in the Forefront With the News 

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BOXOFFICE ;: November 7, 1966

' 

—Bill 

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ond: 

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James 

I Sharon, 

: 

Rogers 

I 

The 

I The 

I The 

2 

Varieiy Golf Tourney 

Exceeds Rogers Quota 

D.M.l.AS loni ^ ork ol \ ork 1 ihiis 

carried off the low golfer award and high 

score "honors" were won by R. D. Teagar- 

(len of Interstate Theatres at the Dallas \'a- 

'rieiy Club's annual golf tournament last 

month. The event was played over the Glen 

Lakes Country Club fairways, greens—and 

roughs. 

competition went down in Tent 17's 

'records as the best in the long series of an- 

Inual benefit tournaments, attracting a cap-city 

entry list of 120 golfers. The tourney 

this year was held as a benefit for the Will 

Hospital at Saranac Lake. N.Y.. and 

• 

exceeded its quota for support of the indus 

I 

try's hospital. 

two-day affair, which started Sunday, 

October 9. with a fun-fest cocktail parity, 

was climaxed with an awards hanqiict 

the next evening at the Holiday Inn Central. 

banquet attracted 350 barkers, their 

I 

wives and guests. 

Other winners in the golf tourney, in addition 

to York and Teagarden. were: Championship 

Flight— Dillon White, first; Acic 

Mims. second: Ben Dyer, third. First Flight 

Phillips, first: Frank McCabe. sec- 

Bill Rautenberg. third. Second Flight- 

Broiles, first: Bill Curtis, second; I.cc 

third. Third Flight— Bill Burke, 

first; Allen Dillon, second: Bill Wood, third. 

Chill Wills Day Observed 

In Texas on October 29 

TI \.— Go\. John Connally, 

BFI \ 11 1 1 . 

in conjunction with the Bee County An- 

nual Western Celebration, declared October 

29 as Chill Wills Day in Texas. 

Wills, veteran Hollywood film actor, was 

the guest of the Bee County Chamber of 

Commerce officials during the celebration. 

In his proclamation, the governor noted 

that Wills has brought fame and honor to 

Texas by portraying the rich historical and 

cultural tradition of the Lone Star Slate and 

lis people. Wills is a native Texan. 

A copy of the proclamation was presented 

to Wills at the 2 p.m. Saturday rodeo 

by emcee Jimmie Goodman. 

Granbury Palace Theatre 

Opened by the Poores 

C.RAMU R>. 1 1 \.—The I'al.ice Theatre 

opened the tall ami winter season on 

October 14 with "Torn Curtain." Mr. and 

Mrs. Poore. operators of the Palace, have 

booked a long list of family films to show at 

admission prices of 75 cents for adults and 

50 cents for children. 

The Palace operated Friday-through- 

Monday the first two weeks but moved to 

a full week's schedule starting October 26. 

Wometco Raises Dividends 

-':'" Scutheast Edition 

M I.AM I—Wometco Enterprises Inc., has 

increased its quarterly cash dividend from 

14 cents a share on Class A stock to 151 

cents a share. 

Tulsa s New Fox Will Open Nov. 23; 

NGCs First Theatre in Oklahoma 

Frederick \ante kershner of Tulsa designed the NfJC Kox Ihealre, which is 

being completed in Tulsa's Country Club Plaza. 

TULS.A—Marking its first entry into Oklahoma 

exhibition. N,iiional General Corp., 

\'\ ' 

J 

^^^ 

ol Los .-\ngeles will 

open its most modern 

motion picture theatre, 

the $500,000 

Tulsa Fox, November 

^ 

"^TH -i with a benefit 

fJ^l showing. 

The l.OOO-seat theatre, 

now under construction 

at the Country 

Club Plaza, 51st 

Street and Harvard 

G. L. Nichols Avenue, will be given 

-" a gala first-nighter 

opening in true Hollywood tradition, with 

entertainment, searchlights and music, it 

was announced by William H. Thedford 

and Dan A. Poller, co-director of NGC theatre 

operations. 

George Leroy Nichols, who will manage 

the new theatre, has moved here with 

his family from Joplin, where he had been 

managing the Fox Theatre. Nichols, a .^0- 

year veteran with NGC, has managed other 

circuit houses in Springfield, Scdalia and 

Kansas City in Missouri and in Wellington, 

Liberal and Wichita in Kansas. 

The opening picture will be "Alfic," presented 

as a benefit for the Tulsa Recreation 

Center for the physically limited. 

The showplace is being equipped with all 

the newest projection processes— including 

Cinemascope, Todd-AO, Panavision and 

Cinerama. Transistorized stereophonic sound 

is being installed to handle the seven-channel 

recording used in Cinerama presentation. 

Scientifically controlled air conditioning 

and heating for year-round climate control 

and American Bodiform chairs will 

contribute much to the comfort of patrons 

at every showing. 

The new Fox is part of a 550,000,000. 

ihree-ycar expansion program which will 

add 100 new theatres to the ranks of NGC 

properties. The circuit already has 242 

theatres in 19 states. .Mthough it has operated 

for years in Kansas, the circuit first 

entered the Texas exhibition field when it 

unveiled the Fox in El Paso last year. 

The new Tulsa showplace was designed 

by Frederick Vance Kershner of Tulsa; the 

W, R. Grimshaw Co.. also of Tulsa, is the 

contractor. J. Walter Bantau, NCiC construction 

supervisor, has been in charge of 

work on the Fox, assisted by L. E. Pope of 

Denver and John Tartaglis of Los Angeles. 

Carl Levy Succeeds 

Late Julius Gordon 

BEAUMONT. TEX. — Carl D. Levy, 

who has been serving as executive vice-president 

of Jefferson Amusement Co. and East 

Coast Theatres, was elected president of 

both circuits at a stockholders and directors 

meeting. Levy succeeds the late Julius M. 

Gordon as president of each circuit. 

Elected to the boards of directors for 

both companies were L. C. K\burz and 

Richard Jack. Re-elected were R. H. Park, 

E. L. Kurth jr. and J. W. Outlaw jr. 

Levy said that expansion plans initiated 

by Gordon for both companies will be carried 

out. 

"We have just completed the Colonial 

Theatre in La Porte, Tex.," he pointed out 

"and construction of new theatres in Port 

.•\rthur. Orange and Longvicw is now under 

way. We have additional theatres planned 

for Beaumont and Nacogdoches in the near 

future." 

Jefferson Amusement operates theatres 

in southeast Texas and owns KJAC-TV, 

NBC affiliate in the Port Arthur-Beaumont 

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ROWI.K^ GRAM) FINALE— K. H. Rowky, co-founder of Rowley United 

Theatres and who now resides in Be>erl> Hills. Calif., was anion); the 230 guests 

attending the cocktail party-dinner at the Statlcr Hilton Hotel, Dallas, closing the 

circuit's Ciolden Juhilee t'elehration. Others present included partners, managers 

and employes of the circuit and representatives from Dallas exchanges and suppliers. 

Cash awards were made to circuit managers who presented the most outstanding 

exploitation and advertising campaigns on four "Juhilee" pictures. 

DALLAS 

Tames Hendel, vice-president and general 

manager of Cinema V, spent a week 

in Dallas working with Al Wolf, his local 

distributor who has offices in the Merchandise 

Mart. Hendel was very much pleased 

with the results for the company's "Morganl" 

and he and Wolf were working out 

runs for Cinema V's latest picture. "The 

Endless Summer," in this territory. That 

film's Southwestern premiere will be held 

December 21 at the Fine Arts Theatre, to 

be followed by an extended run. 

Mable Guinan, Boxoffice correspondent, 

left late Friday, October 28, for De- 

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to Caroline Crouch, a new employe in the 

American International Pictures accounting 

department. Caroline formerly worked 

at Cross Roads Theatres . . Vivian Cooper 

returned to her job at AlP, which made 

e\eryone al the office very happy. 

Woody and Betty Gibbs have decided to 

.idopt an 8-ycar-old girl Woody found on 

one of his many trips as a missionary in the 

mountains of Mexico. Her name is Blanc.i 

and she is very much pleased with her neu 

parents. The Gibbs had two sons of then 

own but the boys are now married and have 

ihe.r own homes. Betty is on the AlP staft 

and Woody formerly was with Universal 

Pictures and Texas Theatre Service. 

It's good to be able to report that Dor- 

1 :li\ .McCann's husband Pat. who reccnth 

sullered a slight stroke, now is back at work. 

Donnhy is secretary to Sol Sachs of Continental. 

Has anyone been to the zoo lately? Well, 

just ask Thclma Jo Bailey about this: she 

and her three school-age-and-under niece 

and nephews spent considerable time there 

on the weekend. She says the Dallas zoo; 

compares favorably with the San Francisco! 

and St. Louis zoos. In fact, Thelma Jo 

thinks it"s much better. 

Bill Lewis, who was engaged in motion 

picture publicity and commercial advenisiiig 

in the Southwest for 38 years, has an-, 

nouiiced the opening of his own agency ati 

351)5 Turtle Creek Blvd. to handle sales 

promotion, advertising and public relations, I 

Lewis's most recent business connection wasj 

with Columbia Pictures as Southwestern advertising 

and publicit\ manager. He formerly 

was with Warner Bros, and United Art- 

ists in the same capacity. 

HOUSTON 

T)ean Martin, upon his arri\al al the 

Houston International Airport October 

26. was met by fans and a gala, brass-band, 

reception. A special suite was improvisedj 

in the Continental Houston so that Martin; 

wouldn't have to ride an elevator . . Ann-i 

. 

Margret was here on a promotional visit! 

in behalf of her latest Paramount film.l 

'The Swinger." 

Champion moviegoer to the Alabama, 

where "1 he Sound of Music" is being 

shown, is Mrs. Stewart Stanuell, who has 

seen the film more than SO times. Art| 

Kat/en. publicity director for Interstate) 

Theatres here, has issued a run-of-thc-picture^ 

pass to Mrs. Stanuell. The film is scheduled 

to end its record-breaking long run in December. 

It is now ill its S3rd week at the 

Alabama. 

Mark Miller, the Hollywood actor, was in 

on a \isit with his Houston area relatives. 

He re\ealed that he has completed a deal, 

with I'rank X. Tolbert, colunmist on the 

Dallas Morning News, to make a movie of 

Tolbert's "Bigamy Jones." The book has 

been under option to various people for ten 

years but the rights are now held by Miller 

and his p.irtner Dominic l>onticre. who will 

produce the film. Plan calls for the film to 

he shot in Brackettville. beginning in April. 

All tickets to the November 10 testimonial 

dinner honoring Jack Valenti have been 

sold, according to Leon Jaworski, the dinner 

program chairman. Well over 1,000 requests 

have been received to attend the 

event in the Shamrock Hilton's Regency 

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Highlighting the opening of "Is Paris 

Burning?" at the Ciayl\ nn Ihcaire November 

17 will l-e a st\le show with latest fashions 

in furs in the lobby at 7:30 p.m. prior to 

the opening at 8. There will be an art dis- 

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play featuring 40 original Daumier lithographs 

loaned from Brandeis University. 

The opening proceeds will go to Brandeis 

University. The proceeds on the Sunda> ( 20) 

showing will he for the benefit of B'n;ii 

B'rith Pasadena Lodge 2172. "The Blue 

Max." the current attraction, will end a 12- 

week run at the Gayhnn. 

New Texas Golden Triangle 

Theatre 

Boriski, operator of the Alray, finds 

I that with few exceptions, new foreign films 

I are duds at his boxof f ice. The same holds 

ilrue for art films shown by Interstate at 

some of its operations, the Tower, River 

Oaks and Delman. 

film series will be presented by the 

.Arts .Ass"n in the Prudential 

auditorium, opening with D. W. Griffith's 

and a collection of Charlie 

one-reelers dating from his 1914 

days. The Friday night series is 

to C.A.A members and SI. 50 per eve- 

to nonmcmbers. Tickets must he pur- 

at the C,A.\ Museum, as no tickets 

are sold at the door preceding the 8 p.m. 

screenines. 

KHOU-TV Film Policies 

Clarified by Director 

llOl SI ON Dlmh Borba. director of 

programing and operations at KHOU-TV, 

answered a letter to the editor written b\ 

Bernice Surovec in which she asked: Would 

you tell me why Channel 11 (KHOU-TV) 

keeps replacing its movies on Friday night? 

Borba answered: 

is true that KHOU-TV will telecast 

its own feature films on Friday night in 

place of the CBS Friday night movies. We 

will continue to carry the Thursday night 

movies. 

"Long before CBS announced a Friday 

night movie we had made several major 

involving hundreds of thousands 

dollars in new feature films for telecast 

our Friday night movie this fall. We feel 

that the features that we own compare favorably 

both in content and vintage with 

these purchased by the network for nation- 

telecast. In some instances, we feel that 

our features are better. From a standpoint 

money, the fact that wc pay around $}.- 

500 to S4,000 per feature for exclusive 

showing here as compared to the network 

paying S200.000 for a feature to be shown 

a hundred or so television markets 

throughout the country would indicate that 

we are competing directly with the network 

the purcha.se of outstanding features." 

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\A7hile in New Mexico recently, this correspondent 

and a Ponca City friend 

accompanying him decided to take advantage 

of a previous invitation from Marhn 

Butler of Albuquerque to get in some fishing. 

Butler, former Oklahoma City exhibitor 

of the Log Cabin supper club here in 

1944-45, had arranged for us to go up to 

Lake Navajo, in the extreme northwestern 

part of New Mexico. We spent three days 

and nights on his houseboat and our part\ 

managed to haul in some 70 rainbow trout 

ranging from 10 to 12 inches long. We also 

landed aroimd three dozen blue gills and 

bream and had a fine fish fry on the boat 

the second night out. 

Some oldtimers here will remember Marlin 

Butler. The old Log Cabin was in the 

northwest part of Oklahoma City and the 

late Chct Humphrey remodeled it from a 

supper club into a theatre, which he sold 

to Butler in 1944 and which the latter in 

turn sold in 1945. From here. Butler went 

to .Albuquerque, where he and the late Fred 

Morlcy were interested in several indoor 

theatres and drive-ins. Butler now operates 

one drive-in—the Sunset—and has another 

drive-in leased to Frontier Theatres of Dallas. 

He started in exhibition while quite 

young. He was born near Mountain 

View and while in high school operated projectors 

in several towns, including Hobart. 

.\Iangum and Mountain View. 

The Butlers have two sons—Gary, 26. 

and Ben, 23—and a daughter Mary, 14. 

Gary, just recently discharged from the 

armed forces, spent much of his service time 

in Korea, where he was manager of the base 

theatre. He now plans to be a commercial 

pilot and already has made his first solo 

flight. Ben Butler is scheduled for induction 

into the Air Force around January 1. Both 

Gary and Ben are graduates of the University 

of New Mexico, located in Albuquer- 

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Margie Mankins, a waitress at Maxine's 

Film Coffee Shop on Filmrow, had the 

misfortune to lose her home and all its 

contents in a fire Tuesday (2). The only 

things saved were the clothes that Maxine 

and her two daughters, 13 and 9. were 

wearing—and the family is entirely without 

other clothing. Filmrow employes and other 

customers of the coffee shop have been 

generous in their contributions but more 

is needed until the family can get back on 

its feet. Any reader wishing to help Maxine 

and her daughters in their great need may 

do so by mailing a check to Margie Mankins, 

712 West Sheridan, Oklahoma City. 

Okla.. 73102. Assistance in any amount or 

form will be greatly appreciated. 

Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Trout of Enid were 

recent Filmrow visitors but your correspondent 

was out of town and missed the 

opportunity to visit with the Trouts. Wesley's 

articles on how to deal with various 

projection problems appear regularly in 

The Modern Theatre . 70 

Drive-In in Oklahoma City is owned and 

operated by Charles Ferris and son Maurice 

and Bob Busch. Not much of value was 

taken but considerable vandalism was performed 

by the intruders. The Ferrises also 

own and operate the Villa, a first-rim suburban 

theatre here. 

Ward Royalty, longtime booker and office 

manager for MGM who retired several 

years ago. was a recent Filmrow visitor. .So 

were Virby Conlcy, Ellis and Ranger, Perryton, 

Tex.; Robert Huff, Gem, Ryan: F. B. 

Anderson, Riverside, Norman: Milan G. 

Steele. Buffalo and Lakeside. Pawnee; Roy 

1.. Rollier. I.amont at Lamont: T. V. Mc- 

Dowell, Bison, Buffalo: Frank Henry. Caddo 

Drive-in, Anadarko, and Frank Myers, 

an independent distributor from Dallas, 

Two oldtimers in the motion picture industry, 

both now retired, visited Filmrow 

recently. Glen D. Thompson, long-time exhibitor, 

operated theatres in several towns 

of this area before turning the situations 

over to his sons to operate. The other oldtimer 

was Tom McKean. long-time Paramount 

salesman here, as well as in Dallas. 

Des Moines and Kansas City . . Frank 

. 

Carbone, Paramount exchange manager in 

Denver, stopped on Filmrow bricfh en 

route to New Orleans for the October 19-20 

Paramount sales meeting. Carbone was Paramount's 

exchange manager here until lie 

was transferred to the Colorado post several 

months ago . Rice, loe.il Paramount 

manager, also attended the company's New 

Orleans meeting. 

Olin and Nell Niickols, operators of the 

Magic linpire f-.xpress office here, spent 

five fabulous days in Las Vegas, where they 

li.ul the time of their lives. Now they are 

ii\ing to catch up on the sleep they lost 

while keeping up with activities in the famous 

Nevada desert spot. They visited most 

of the large casinos and shows but what 

seems to have impressed them most was the 

spectacle of a young elephant playing the 

slot machine at the casino in the Duncv 

Hotel. The elephant's handler would slip a 

coin in the slot and then let the elephani 

pull the slot machine's handle with its trunk 

While they were watching, the young elephant 

was fortunate enough to hit a jackpot. 

They stayed in the Sands Hotel, in the 

new Tower part of the hotel. It seems that 

Nell had the most luck at the slots. Olin 

taking a few chances with the dice. They 

are already making plans to go back next 

year. 

Bet Baird, Oklahoma City Shipping and 

Inspection Bureau, motored to New Orleans 

to attend a meeting of film carriers. From 

there, he and his wife Opal were to drive to 

California for a brief vacation. 

Actor James Burge of Oklahoma City ha^ 

joined the Hilberry Classic Theatre. U'aync 

State University's famed repertory conip.in\ 

which opens its fourth season in Januar\ 

at Detroit, Mich. Burge, an Oklahoma University 

graduate, is the son of Mr. and .Mrs. i 

James C. Burge of this city. The elder Burge 

was with Cooper Foundation Theatres here 

for several years and also was with the 

MGM publicity department. While acting, i 

James Burge is working towards his masters 

degree in the theatre arts at Wayne Stale 

He was active with the University Players 

while attending Oklahoma Uni\ersit\. 

where he received his BF.A degree last June 

.•\ii open stage theatre in the classical tradition, 

the Hilberry is comparable in design 

and intent to the Stratford (Ontario) Festival 

Theatre and the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in 

Minneapolis. The Hilberry. established in 

19ri3. has a resident company of 38 actors, 

actresses and technicians—each a recipieni 

of a theatre fellowship or grant-in-aid—representinc 

20 states. 

Oklahoma City House 

Renovated, Reopened 

OKI AHO.MA CIT^— lollowing a 

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000 renovation, the lormer Ma\ flower Theaire 

at 1133 Northwest 23 was reopened! 

Wednesday (2) with Embassy Pictures'' 

"Romeo and Juliet." Now renamed the 

Mayflower Cinema, the theatre is owned 

and operated by Sam Caporal and his sons; 

Pete, George and Chris. 

Foreign and specialty films will make up^ 

the theatre's bookings under its new p.'licy. 

The opening picture, the Ro\al Ballet's pres-t 

entation of Prokofiev's ballet treatment of: 

Shakespeare's dramatic iheme. is heingi 

shown by the Caporals as a reserved-scat 

attraction playing ten performances weekb 

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and officials representing Marcus Iheatres Management C'o.'s 45 

theatres in Wisconsin attending the t»(>-day annual fall conclave 

and a seminar on National Movie Month at Milwaukee in the 

Pfisler Hotel. Ben Marcus, who is president of the company , is 

seated, center. On his left is Joe Strother, vice-president of hooking 

and buying, and on Marcus' right is H. B. lollette, vice-president 

and general manager. 

'Fighting Prince' Is 

200 Opener in Omaha 

l)\l \H.\ — I roni all sides came complaints 

of slow business, both in Omaha and 

around the territory. Figures were so-so in 

Omaha, with "The Fighting Prince of Donegal." 

at the State Theatre, the best offering. 

This movie, written by Omahan Robert 

Rcilly, was launched with a highly successful 

premiere for the benefit of the Home 

of the Good Shepherd. 


Cooper—Doctor Zhivogo !MGM), 29th wk 115 

Dundee- The Sound of Music i:20th-Fox), 81st wk. 120 

Irxiion Hills—The Blue Mox (20th-Fox), 9lh wk. ..110 

Omoho— Seconds Pora 95 

Orpheum— Alvorez Kelly (Col) 95 

State—The Fighting Prince of Donegal (BV) 200 

Milwaukee May Bar Minors 

From 'Adult' Movies 

Mil UAL KIT—On the heels of a propositi 

directed at the ck>sing of the Princess 

Theatre here, the common counciTs judiciary 

committee has recommended that the 

city study enactment of a law to prevent 

children from attending "adults-only" movies. 

The committee said the study should be 

made by the city's motion picture commission 

and the city attorney's office. The commission, 

headed by executive secretary Valentine 

J. Wells, has asked the common 

council's license-rules committee to revoke 

the Princess Theatre's license as a result of 

what the commission has termed "the showing 

of an objectionable picture." 

.•\ hearing was held, and the result was 

that a meeting was to be arranged with police, 

theatre officials, the city attorney's office 

and the commission. 

On October 24 the resolution was sponsored 

by alderman Robert J. Jendusa. He 

said theatres were permitting children to 

attend movies that were for adults only. The 

Milwaukee Journal printed an editorial declaring 

the proposed law "unworkable." 

Daylight Savings 

Time Opposition 

In Lincoln Led by Jack Thompson 

LINCOLN—Jack Thompson, as a past 

president, is no stranger to the Lincoln 

Chamber of Commerce board. But his appearance 

October 26 was in a different capacity—to 

oppose a Daylight Savings Time 

proposal before the civic group. The president 

of the Cooper Foundation Theatre was 

accompanied by his attorney Charles Thone. 

Chamber aviation committee chairman 

Stan Broutman. leading the proponents, 

said only Nebraska. North Dakota and 

Tennessee apparently would not be on Daylight 

Savings Time next year when the federal 

legislation goes into effect. Nebraska's 

earlier law to remain on standard time prcsails 

over the federal law putting all slates 

on daylight time unless a state legally makes 

it otherwise. 

Broutman said four other chamber committees 

supported the move to get Nebraska 

in step with the nation time-wise. Thone 

contended that Nebraska, in effect, is already 

under a Daylight Savings Time provided 

by geography. He observed the state 

is at the west end of the Central Standard 

Time zone. If Nebraska had a daylight 

time law, he said, this would actually put 

It two hours ahead. This is why, he added, 

North Dakota and Texas have reversed the 

da\ light time law and set their clocks back 

an hour from standard time. 

Both Thone and Thompson told the 

chamber that "time is money to the theatre 

people." that theatre people from the National 

Ass'n of Theatre Owners on down will 

fight 

it. 

Referring to the NATO convention in 

New York, Thompson said the organization 

knows that Daylight Savings Time can cut 

theatre business from 10 to 30 per cent. It 

is damaging to drive-ins, particularly, he 

continued, since it means a 10 p.m. starting 

time for these film operators. He told 

the group there are too many other forms 

of outdoor activity to attract potential movie 

patrons earlier in the evening. 

Broutman's presentation for Daylight 

Savings Time included a graph showing 

L'.S. theatres in I9(i3 had decreased 26 

per cent in establishments, 15 per cent in 

receipts and 1 1 per cent in payroll over comparable 

figures in 1958. 

The only increases shown in the statistics 

in the same year comparisons was a 4 per 

cent payroll hike in California (on daylight 

time), and a 6 per cent increase in receipts 

and 10 per cent increase in payroll in Nebraska, 

(not on fast time). Broutman said 

this data did not include drive-in figures 

because he could not obtain them. 

George Monroe, 91, Dies; 

Long-Time Theatreman 

Kl AKM ^. NFB.—tieorge O. Monroe. 

91. one-time owner of a chain of theatres 

in Iowa and Nebraska, is dead. The pioneer 

showman retained the Fort Theatre, which 

a son George has been operating for several 

years. 

He built the Monroe Theatre in Omaha 

around 1910. This was his first film theatre. 

Monroe later added iheatres in Beatrice, 

Hastings. Falls City and Lincoln, in 

Nebraska, and others in Cedar Rapids and 

Clinton in Iowa. 

He leaves his wife, another son. one brother 

and five grandchildren. 

Eastwood Theatre Chairs 

Refurbished by Neva-Burn 

FAST HARTFORD, CONN.—A feature 

of the recent renovation of the Perakos 

Theatres' Eastwood Theatre here wa,s the refurbishing 

of the chairs in red nylon with 

natural wood veneer trim by Neva-Burn 

Products Corp. of New York. 

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Ci. Paul's first free-standing theatre in 

man\ years, the Norstar. has receiveil 

great support from business organizations. 

A two-day open house was arranged by the 

Chamber of Commerce and the Loop's 

leading stores. Featured at the open house 

were hourly showings of MGM's 45-minute 

"Movies of Tomorrow." Wednesday (2) 

civic leaders, public officials, television and 

radio representatives and others attended 

a premiere. The open house was the idea 

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been named recipient 

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was announced hy 

the Israel government 

press office in Jerusalem. 

The award is 

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Mlii'.n and is presented 

on a highly selective 

basis in recognition of 

distinguished service in the cause of Israel's 

development. 

will be awarded the medal at a 

formal dinner-dance December 1 1 in the 

grand ballroom of the Pfister Hotel here. 

The affair is sponsored by the Milwaukee 

Israel Cabinet, with William J. Feldstein. 

Milwaukeean. as dinner chairman. 

Levi Eshkol. Israel prime minister, cited 

for his service to Israel and his 

in the American and Milwaukee 

Jewish communities. 

A business and civic leader, Marcus also 

the Pfister Corp. and the Wisconsin 

Big Boy Corp. He has served as director 

of Missouri Fidelity Union Trust Life Insurancc 

Co. and now is executive commit- 

chairman. He also is a director of the 

Milwaukee Jewish Welfare Fund, a director 

of Mount Sinai Hospital and was founder 

Ihc Variety Club Epilepsy Center at the 

hospital. 

to Ben D. Marcus for service in the 

of Israel development." Below the 

inscription is the prime minister's signature 

in Hebrew, with his name and title in 

English. The bronze medal is about 2-^h 

inches in diameter and is mounted on a 

blue and white ribbon. Israel colors. It is 

encased in a native Israeli olivewood box 

that is lined in blue velvet. The cover of the 

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box bears an embossed metal seal of Israel. 

FINER PROJEaiON-SUPER ECONOMY 

MILWAUKEE 

pjarn Melcher has added the Majestic Theatre 

in Cudahy to his chain. The Majestic 

used to be operated by Larry Kelly, 

the mayor. Melcher also operates the Slinger 

and Delton drive-ins. the .Metro at Prairie 

du Chien and the Temple at Viroqua. 

Ga|;e I). Brcrcton and his wife announce 

the marriage of their daughter Carol .Ann 

to David Barnhardt of Bernie, Mo. Brereton 

is a Watertown theatre management and 

promotion man. 

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MKSC'OP now is booking and buying for 

Eleanor Reilly's Cresent Theatre at Shawano 

. . Ben Marcus' latest addition to his 

circuit will be the new Southtown which 

opened Wednesday (2). Festivities and 

sneak preview were Tuesday. 

Universal head inspector, Leone Beckman, 

has retired after more than 30 years 

on the job. Branch manager M. P. "Pat" 

Halloran and his staff hosted an office 

luncheon, then a party at the Embers supper 

club. Leone has been succeeded by Isabel 

le Schroeder. 

Ri)bert W. Swanson, producer of the film 

on Wisconsin, "We Like It Here." has been 

named to head the 1966 Metropolitan Milwaukee 

Muscular Dystrophy campaign for 

the second year. His work last year brought 

in S4 1.000.' 

Sterling C. Quinlan, president and general 

manager of Field Communications Corp.. 

Chicago, addressed a radio-television seminar 

at the University of Wisconsin. He criticized 

television's three major networks for 

what he called appealing to "the lowest 

common denominator." He said commercials 

are being ignored as well as programs. He 

deplored the networks' increasing use of old 

movies. Field Communications Corp. has 

an application before the Federal Communications 

Commission to establish a new 

UHF- station here. 

The Italian comedy, "Mafioso.' opened 

the Milwaukee F'ilm Circle's 16th season at 

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the University of Wisconsin October 1. 

Other films to be shown include "Forbidden 

Games. " "An Evening With Keaton," "Baltic 

Express." "Odd Obsession." ".An Evening 

With Chaplin." "The Exterminating Angel," 

"Way Down East" and "The Man Who 

Walked Through the Wall." Students are 

charged 75 cents and others, SI. 

Italian beauty Rosanna Schiaffino stars 

with Tony Curtis in Paramount's uninhibited 

comedy, "Arrivederci, Baby!" 

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gob Rcilly Daj was observed here on the 

premiere of "The Fighting Prince of 

Donegal" at the State Theatre. The local 

advertising official wrote the book "Red 

Hugh. Prince of Donegal," from which 

Walt Disney drew the plot for the film. 

Mayor A. V. Sorenson issued a proclamation 

setting aside the day in Reilly's honor. 

The premiere was for the benefit of the 

Home of the Good Shepherd. 

Joe Myer of S&M Film Service, one of 

the early-day members of the movie industry 

in this territory and still active, expects 

to be back on the job soon after being 

a patient in Lutheran Hospital. He said 

he was raring to get back into the harness 

after undergoing treatment for several 

weeks. 

Jim Ricketts jr., new branch manager for 

Columbia at Des Moines, visited with Ed 

Cohen, representative for this territory, and 

then went on to Lincoln to meet with circuit 

heads. 

Lee Rasmussen is redecorating the enlire 

front of the Rivoli Theatre at Missouri 

Valley, Iowa ... At Rock Rapids. Ra\ 

Mellenberndt is reflooring and reseating the 

Rapids . . . Roger Blunt is installing magnetic 

sound at the Strand Theatre in Miili>rd. 

Iowa. 

Dave Mueting has closed the Denison, 

Iowa, Drive-In for the winter and is devoting 

his time lo the construction of new 

homes in .Manning. Iowa. 

Kd Cohen, veicran Columbia salesman 

lor the Nebraska-South Dakola-lowa territory, 

is a grandfather. His daughter Barbara 

Hornsby gave birth to a 6-poimd 14'/2- 

ouncc girl in Bishop Bergan Hospital. Baptismal 

services for Jenifer Leigh Hornsby 

were held in Christ the King Church. Barbara's 

husband, a commercial pilot, was 

the victim of a fatal collision over the Gulf 

ol Mexico several months ago . . .Wally 

Kemp, of the Grand Theatre at Grand 

Island, has returned from Cleveland, where 

he visited his daughter. 

Bill Barker, old-timer on Filmrow and 

member of Co-Op Booking Service, has 

gone lo Portland, Ore., and plans to spend 

most of the winter on the West Coast . . . 

Warren Hall, veteran exhibitor at Burwell 

and active in the promotion of the Burwell 

Rodeo, is busy entertaining upland bird 

hunters who come from miles away to take 

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I.indy Anderson, exhibitor at LIk Poiril. has 

returned from a hospital. 

Bill Doebci, Fox representaii\e in this 

area, has returned from vacation . . . Mrs. 

Henry Carlin. exhibitor at Spalding, announced 

that her son-in-law and daughter 

uill be living in Omaha. He is a doctor 

anti now is assistant professor of surgery 

at Creighlon University School of Medicine. 

Exhibitors on Filmrow included Nebraskans 

Don Johnson, Schuyler; Clarence 

Frasier, Havelock; Mrs. Henry Carlin, 

Spalding; Richard Smith. David City and 

West Point; Jack March. Wayne; Mr. and 

Mrs. Guy Griffin, Plattsmouth; Sid Mctcalf, 

Nebraska City; lowans John Rentfle. 

Audubon; S. J. Backer, Harlan; Arnold 

Johnson, Onawa; Byron Hopkins, Glenwood; 

Orville Marsh, Villisca, and Missourian 

Orville Mundt of Rock Port. 

LINCOLN 

phe Nebraska Variety Club's Siuishinc 

Coach finally arrived here at its permanent 

home, the Nebraska Orthopedic 

Hospital. Bringing the bus down from 

Omaha, where it was delivered by the Columbus, 

Ohio, plant, were Mort Ives, chief 

barker, and King George, a member of the 

Omaha tent. This followed an informal 

ceremony with Eppley Foundation representatives, 

one of the major Sunshine Coachfimd 

donors. Cooper Foundation Theatres 

of Lincoln is another big donor. 

Jack Thompson, Cooper Foundation 

Theatres president, spent several days visiting 

Cooper theatres in Greeley and Colorado 

Springs. He reports construction progress 

on the new house in Colorado Springs 

is keeping up with the Cooper/ Lincoln 

project here. 

Nebraska Theatres Corp. is getting read> 

for its roadshow engagement of the English 

pri>duction of "Romeo and Juliet" by the 

English Royal Ballet. It opens the two-a-day 

schedule Wednesday (16) at the Stale. Currently 

drawing the crowds at the Slate is 

"The Lighting Prince of Donegal." This 

Disney production is based on former 

Creighton professor Robert T. Reilly's book 

about Red Hugh. The film opened the da\ 

alier Omaha's premiere October 2.'^ ai the 

Slate 

there. 

."Vs president of the Lincoln Nav\ League. 

Walt Jancke was master of ceremonies October 

27. when the city's league members 

and Navy reserves welcomed the new Ninth 

Naval District commander, Adm. Dennis 

Lyndon of Port Omaha. The admiral, a native 

of Atchison, Kan., assumed his new 

post after being assigned to a cruiser - destroyer 

Flotilla. 

Paramount's "Easy Come, Easy Go" will 

star Elvis Preslev and will be produced bv 

Hal Wallis. 

'The Hostage' Debut 

Opens Cinema Twins 

DES MOINES—The October 23 world 

premiere of "The Hostage," the first fulllength 

motion picture made in Iowa by 

Heartland Productions, also marked the 

opening of Cinema I and Cinema II in the 

Easlgale Shopping Center. 

The gala premiere, preceded by a reception 

and dinner at Hotel Savery. had all 

the trimmings of a Hollywood opening 

and then some. 

As Jennifer Lea. one of the Hollywood 

stars in attendance, put it: "This is the 

greatest. In Hollywood, they don't build 

new theatres for premieres, they don't have 

parades lo the theatre in matching convertibles 

and they don't have bands on 

hand." 

. . . Hush, 

Henry Farrell, author of "The Hostage" 

and who also wrote "What Ever Happened 

to Baby Jane?" and "Hush 

Sweet Charlotte," was on hand to tell the 

audience that "this is the most exciting 

night of my life." 

Earlier, Gov. Harold Hughes had proclaimed 

the week of October 24 as "Iowa 

Movie Industry Week" in recognition of the 

new industry within the state's borders. Des 

Moines mayor George Whitmer had proclaimed 

the day as " 'Hostage' Day," recognizing 

that a new industry. Heartland 

Productions, brings a new and excitingly 

differeni industry to our stale and our city 

Following the black-tic dinner and reception 

at Hotel Savery, the motorcade 

IraNcled lo ihe Easlgale Cinema I and II tor 

I he premiere at Dick Davis's new $.'(.'^0,000 

twin theatre-restaurant venture. 

Audience reaction and newspaper reviews 

were most favorable to the film, which 

presently is showing in scores of cities in 

Iowa and with dales being arranged in 

Omaha and Minneapolis. Russell Doughlen, 

president of Heartland and director of the 

film, announced that a November 23 special 

preview of "The Hostage" is scheduled for 

the University of California at Los Angeles. 

A later premiere is slated in the New York 

area. 

Following the Des Moines premiere, the 

"Hostage" troupe, including the stars of the 

film and Doughton, went to ten Iowa cities 

where ihe film presently is showing. More 

ihan 100 playdates are scheduled for the 

movie this month in Iowa. 

"The Hostage" was filmed in Des Moines 

last year and Doughlen made use of veteran 

communily pla\ house actors in several 

roles. 

Doughlen indicates his firm has its second 

feature on tap and that an announcement 

will be made in the near future. 

Xenia Theatre Remodeling 

i-rom MidcosI Edition 

XENIA, OHIO—The Xenia Theatre is 

nearing the completion of a $1."50,000 remodeling 

program. The theatre should be 

open on or about Thanksgiving. 

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CINCINNATI—Competing with niimerou!> 

live attractions, first-run theatres experienced 

about normal grosses for this 

time of year. However, "Fantastic Voyage." 

in its third week at the Capitol, was more 

than three times average and customers 

still swarming in to see "The Russians Are 

Coming." which grossed .^00 in its 12th 

week at the Times Towne Cinema. "Doctor 

Zhivago." pla\ing for the .Ôth week at 

the \'alley. continued to draw well and 

grossed 140 per cent. 


Atbce- Bo«in9 Boeing iParo!: Who's Been 

Sleeping in My Bed? Paro). reissues 100 

.350 

Fantastic Cop.tDl- Voyage 20th-Fox), 3rd wk. . 

Grord- Khartoum LA 100 

Interrol o^'Ol ~0— Mister Buddwing (MGM) 90 

Princeton Cincmo—Gigi (MGM), reissue, 3rd wk. 80 

Times Towne Cirwma—The Russians Are Coming 

(UA), I2tti wk 300 

Twin— Alvorei Kelly (Col) 90 

Volley—Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 30th wk 140 

'Blue Max' Top Newcomer 

Among Detroit First Runs 

DHTKOIT— While The .Sound of Mu- 

continued to lead Detroit first runs in 

83rd week at the Madison, "A .Man and 

a Woman" proved a strong runner-up in 

its third week at the Studio-North, "The 

Blue Ma.x." which recently closed a roadshow 

engagement, was the leading newcomer 

among first runs proper, gaining 

third place on the gross ladder with 170 in 

seven-theatre showing. 

Adorns— Fantastic Voyoge ;20th-Fox), 3rd wk 150 

s 21 other theatres—The Fighting Prince 

" a< "Donegal (BV) 100 

Cinemo II, MocDmb, NoPACst, Radio City, 

Koi— An American Dream (WB| 

Fox—Tarion and the Volley of Gold (AlP); 

120 

Fronkenstein Conquers the World (AlP), 2nd 120 wk. 

Grand Circus, Mercury, Village, Quo Vadis, 

Warren, Cinema II —Koleidoscope (WB) 110 

Modisorv—The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 83rd wk. 355 

Michigon, Vogue, Terrace, Gatewoy, Wyandotte, 

Comclot, Royal Oak—The Blue Mox (20th-Fox). .170 

9th wk 125 

Northland—Torn Curtain (Univ), 

Polms, BIcomfield, Woods, Studio-New Center, 

Lo Porisien— Seconds Parol 120 

Studio-1 — Impossible on Solurday (Mogno), 3rd wk. 130 

Shxlio-8— Bolshoi Bollct 47 (Para) 100 

Sludio-hiorth A ond Mon o (AA), 

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.Motion Picture Exhibitors will actively 

sponsor a clothing drive for both 

Thanksgiving and Christmas. ,\ccording to 

president Joe Rembrandt, there will be containers 

in all theatre lobbies, with l.oew's 

and Warner Theatres again cooperating. 

The Plain Dealer also supports the drive 

for outgrown clothing for needy school children 

. . . Bill Kohagen. manager of Imperial 

Pictures. .-MP distributor, will move his office 

to larger quarters around December 1. 

The firm will occupy the fifth floor quarters 

of the Cleveland Motion Picture Exhibitors 

Ass'n and the space formerly used 

by Belpic Pictures, Motion Picture Sound, 

screen activity at room 427. will also benefit 

from the move with larger quarters, for 

which the company has been hoping for 

some time. 

Jack Lewis, formerly with Universal and 

with ,AIP. now is covering about the same 

territory for 20th Century-Fox. Last week 

he was in Toledo and attended the premiere 

of "El Greco" at the Valentine Theatre. The 

Decatur Public Works Unit 

Appi)roves CATV Franchise 

Central 

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DECATUR, IND.—The public works 

has approved a tentative franchise agreement, 

subject to the city council's enactment, 

for CATV to be provided by CIT- 

COM. a subsidiary of the Citizens Telephone 

Co. 

Joseph Clark, manager of radio station 

VV.ADM. one of the original applicants for 

such a system: Dr. Harry Hehble. representing 

Community Television, Inc.. of Indianapolis, 

and Philip I.armore. counsel 

representing VVANF-TV. Fort Wayne, objected 

to the 

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Fortune Cookie' Delights 

Patrons at 2 Cleveland Houses 

C I r:\i:i.AND— laughs goi ihe top percentages 

as the Detroit Theatre, with "The Time-Jump in Ohio 

ITOO Points to DST 

Fortune Cookie." soared up to .^.SO and the 

COIIMHIS II ilic Ohio Legislature 

Shaker Theatre, on the other side of town, 

approves Daylight Savings Time, the state 

got the same high count with the same film. 

will be operating two hours ahead of the 

The Colony, showing "Doctor Zhivago." 

normal geographic time zone, it was pointed 

out by Ken Prickctt in a letter to the 

hit the .^00 m;irk in the film's 31st week. 

Allen— Kaleidoscope WB) 75 

Colony — Doctor Zhlvogo (MGM) 31st wk 300 editor of the Columbus Dispatch. 

Contincnlol— Modcmoiscllc LDpcrt) 95 Prickctt. executive Detroit, Shaker 

secretary 

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Theatre Owners of Ohio, noted 

Fortune Cookie (UA) 350 

Heights— Impossible on Soturdoy Magna), 2r>d wk. 110 

Hippodrcmc Va.larl Seconds (Para) 75 

Ohio—The Sound of Music 20th-Fox), 

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HOLLYWOOD—William J. Immerman, 

associate legal counsel for American International, 

has been named as a member of 

the board of trustees of the Screen Actors 

Guild-Producers Pension and Welfare 

Plans. 

black-tie affair was a social highlight of the 

season in Toledo and was sponsored by a 

group with ties in both Toledo. Ohio, and 

Toledo. Spain . Bluffestone, reccnlK 

a palieni at .Mount Sinai Hospital, is 

recuperating nicely at her daughter's home. 

('aria Vermes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 

Al Vermes of the Mercury and Yorktown 

theatres and a student at Mount St. Joseph 

in Cincinnati, won the contest for the 

choice of design for the school's Christmas 

card , Pearl Widzer is enjoying a 

short autumn vacation . Zide of 

Imperial Pictures attended the ,'\kron opening 

of General Cinema's new Cinema I 

and Cinema II theatres recently. 

Herb Robinson, Eastern district sales 

manager for Buena Vista, visited the local 

office on Thursdav and Friday, then went 

to Cincinnati to visit with exchange manager 

"Pat" Halloran , Vermes, 10, 

grandson of Mrs, Ted Vermes, won first 

prize at the Red Raider Camp for "greatest 

improvement in camping." He is also a 

grandnephew of the Yorktown and Mercury 

owners. 

Dorothy Nicklln of the Genoa Theatre. 

Genoa. Ohio, now is doing her own booking 

and buying . Kendrach. Mingo 

Theatre. Mingo Jet., has closed the house 

due to slow business. Kendrach said he is 

saddened by the closing, since the house 

dates back to the original Mingos. 

Mideast Conclave Set 

Mar. 13-15 in Columbus 

COLL.MBU.S—The Mideast regional convention, 

sponsored b\ the Independent Theatre 

Owners of Ohio, will be .March \}. 14 

and I.S in the Sheraton-Columbus Motor 

Hotel, The convention will include .Mlicd 

Theatre Owners of Western Pennsylvania 

and Allied Theatre Owners of West Virginia. 

Exhibitors from Kentucky and Indiana 

are being invited. 

Sam Schultz, ITOO president, announced 

ihe selection of Paul Vogel, Wellsville, as 

general convention chairman. The convention 

committee includes Joe Rembrandt, 

Cleveland: Jack Silverthorne, Cleveland: 

Marshall Fine, Cleveland; Olen Martin, 

Bucyrus. and Ken Prickctt, executive secretary. 

Prickctt and his wife are in Jamaica until 

Monday (14). His office will remain open. 

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^îJh the Allied Artists ollicc here closed, 

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uncertain . R. Ruben, business agent 

for Projectionists Local 199, has returned 

to his desk after an illness . . . Roy Trebnick. 

a permit man, has taken on the midnight 

shift temporarily at the Fine Arts, 

succeeding Phil Parsons, who moved out 

to the Cinderella. 

.Sol Krim scheduled a weekend conference 

at New York's Americana Hotel with 

his brother Mac Krim of Beverly Hills and 

Tom Patterson of Stratford. Ontario, on 

the coming production of "Dieppe—the 

Shame and the Glory." 

Mickey Zide, assistant general manager 

of .'\mcrican International, is in town for a 

combined business and holiday visit for ten 

days, including visits to the AIP exchanges 

operated by his father Jack Zide in Detroit, 

Cleveland. Cincinnati and Indianapolis. 

Henry Zapp, retired booker who was 

with Co-Operative Theatres for years, has 

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lla.. feeling much better after two weeks' 

hospitalization. 

. . . 

Martin Shafcr of Wayne Amusement Co. 

reports the new swanky Top of the Quo 

cafe in the Quo Vadis Theatre at Westland 

will open after the first of the year 

Warner Bros, manager Howard Kinser had 

scheduled meetings with executives Morey 

Goldstein. Ralph lannuzzi and Robert L. 

Conn. 

Ricliard Kline, area manager for General 

Cinema, was in Boston, circuit headquarters, 

for a few days. 

Detroit's biggest theatre, the Fox. featured 

"The B-D-ers," which turned out to 

be Hemisphere's "The Blood-Drinkers." The 

original title was rejected for advertising 

purposes by both the Detroit News and 

Detroit Iree Press, according to Manager 

William Brown of the Fox, and the contracted 

form was devised as an acceptable 

substitute. However. Brown was surprised to 

find the original title appearing in advertising 

for a suburban drive-in which was 

playing it. but was assured by the newspapers, 

he said, that this was caused by a mistake 

in handling copy. 

Arthur B. Grcndahl, 65. with Jam Handy 

Organization, industrial motion picture producer 

since 1925, died October li in Ann 

Arbor. He was senior member of the art. 

graphics and .slide film development. He 

leaves his wife Muriel and two daughters. 

COLUMBUS 

Dohert .MiKliik-y, manager, announces that 

the S4-weck run of "The Sound of 

Music " at Northland Cinema will end soon. 

The run establishes a new record for Columbus 

film houses. McKinley said total attendance 

should exceed 500.000. more than 

half the population of metropolitan Columbus. 

"The Liquidator" will open November 

Id al the Northland. 

i-'.-l McGlone of RKO Palace is back al 

work after brief hiispilalizalion for a severe 

cold publicist Fred Oestreicher 

is back at work at Barcroft Advertising 

Agency after recovery from a fall . . . Norman 

Nadel. former Columbus Citizen- 

Journal theatre editor, was elected presiilenl 

of New York Drama Critics Circle 

foi a two-year term. 

Rein Rahakukl( is in town lo work on 

preparations for opening of the two new 

I oeus suburban theatres here. They are 

expected to be completed by the holidays. 

Rabakukk. early in his Loew's career, was 

assistant manager at Loew's Ohio and 

Loew's Broad. 

Charles Sucamian of Cinema East will 

open "The Fortune Cookie" Wednesday 

Lou Michael of Town and Country 

(9) . . . 

Cinema has started a weekly Saturday 

morning children's show . . . Jerry Knight 

of the Drexel had a local first run of "The 

Gospel According to St. Matthew." Showings 

were sponsored by various church organizations. 

City officials are studying the possibility 

of acquiring 20 acres of land near Veterans 

Memorial Auditorium for an all-weather 

stadium which could be used for shows, 

conventions and sports. It would be connected 

b\ a bridge with the auditorium. 

The site is across the Scioio River from the 

downtown theatre district. The stadium 

would include a two or three-story garage. 

A resolution adopted at the 21st annual 

convention of the Columbus Diocesan 

Council of Catholic Women here reaffirmed 

the council's conviction that individual parental 

responsibility is the key to the kinds 

of movies and television shows viewed by 

children. The convention was attended by 

1.201) women from 23 Ohio counties. 

FP, 20Jh Open Twin 

Drive-In at Windsor 

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WINDSOR. ONT.—Famous Players and 

20ih Century Theatres have opened a twin 

the junction of Walker Road and 

drive-in at 

Highway 98, on the outskirts of Windsor, 

just seven miles from the heart of the city. 

Two sets of twins, one 4 and the other 78 

years old. were among the guests of honor 

at the opening. 

The new dri\e-in occupies 28 of the owners' 

original 44 acres, and is divided into 

east and west audience areas. It is believed 

to he the first operation of its kind in Canada. 

Fight hundred cars can be accommodated 

in the west section, and the east seclion 

has space for 700. Both have in-car 

healers for year-around operation, and both 

areas are served by a central refreshmcnl 

center, which has two U-shaped counters. 

This refreshment space alone covers 5.000 

square feet. Twin projection facilities are 

provided above this area. 

The twin will have a first-run policy, occasionally, 

and at other times will book concurrently 

with other Twinex and FP downtown 

houses. 

Columbia Ncimes Dionne 

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MILWAUKEE — Columbia Pictures has 

announced the appointment of John Dionne 

as branch manager here. Formerly, he was 

a film salesman for United Artists. The appointment 

is eflecli\e inimedialeh' and he 

will report to Milt Zimmerman, Midwestern 

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Union leaders chat 

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Tîchael H. Chakeres, Mce-president and 

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Springfield, presided at a managers" meeting 

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holiday promotions were made. 

W Kolkmever, Universal branch man 

agcr and chief barker of Tent 3. and Ro) 

While. Mid-.Stalcs president, appeared on 

television programs to promote the benefit 

performance of "The Fortune Cookie" 

Wednesday (2) at the Times Towne Cinema. 

Money raised will go for a Sunshine 

(\>ach. 

Oilober 28 was a holiday for school children 

throughout the state. Theatres in the 

Chakeres circuit had special Halloween 

shows for the children. There was a Halloween 

costume contest, free masks and 

other novelties to celebrate the day . 

Halloween was observed at midnight shows 

at most theatres. The Chakeres circuit added 

to the fun by giving away jalopies and 

hail other gimmicks. 

The film colony welcomes Joyce Smith, 

new office staffer at 20th-Fox . . . Nate 

Mutnick, MGM booker, had all the trimmings 

when the office staff helped him 

celebrate his birthday . Boudot, UA 

office manager, is on vacation. 

Visitors included Harry Buxhaum. 20th- 

Fox central division manager; Guy Greathouse. 

Aurora. Ind.: Bud Hughes. McKee, 

Ky.; Moe Potasky. Troy, and Leslie Berg, 

Wapakoneta. 

Chakeres Theatres has installed electric 

in-car healers at its drive-in at Piqua. which 

is to stay open during the winter. 

Louisville Drive-In 

Planned by Switow 

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l.OL'ISN'ILLE — Switow Theatres will 

soon start construction on a 1.200-car drivein. 

The Switow brothers also operate the 

Kentucky, Vogue and Westend theatres 

and the Preston Drive-In in Louisville. The 

neu dri\e-in will have a 250-seat indoor auditorium, 

connected with a cafeteria, and 

will be equipped for year-round operation 

The drive-in will fill the gap left in South 

Louisville by the loss of the Dixie Drive-In. 

which will be razed to make way for a shopping 

center. 

Skunk Reluctant to Leave 

Home in Newport Cinema 

Ffam New England Editiun 

NEWPORT. N.H.—The first several 

rows of the Newport Cinema were vacant 

for several nights while a skunk made himself 

at home under the stage. 

A Paul Newman film. "Harper." was being 

shown during the animal's visit. Thi: 

skunk left the theatre before the program 

was changed October 19 to a movie called 

"Wild, Wild Winter." 

District conservation chief Jesse Scott 

suggested luring the animal from the theatre 

with a trail of peanut butter on crackers 

but cleanup crews were not advised of the 

plan and swept out the "bait." 

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Film Seminar at Yale 

Planned by Perakos 

Nl \\ H \\ [iN—A day-long seminar on 

"The Motion Picture as An Art Form" is 

planned lor the âle University campus 

Wednesday (9). Sperie P. Perakos, a member 

of the Vale alumni film board and fellow 

of Yale's Pierson College, announced. 

Perakos. who also is vice-president and 

general manager of Perakos Theatre Associates, 

a Connecticut circuit, is coordinating 

the program designed for >ale students 

interested in motion pictures and drama. 

with Robert Brustein. dean of the Yale 

drama school, and novelist John Hersey, 

now master of Pierson College. 

The invited afternoon and evening participants 

include producer-director Otto 

Preminger; director Norman Jewison: Mo 

Rothman. vice-president in charge .of 

worldwide sales, Columbia Pictures; L. 

Douglas Netter, producers representative 

for Ivan Tors and Irving Allen; Irving Allen 

and .'Mien M. Widem, Hartford Times 

amusements editor. 

loe Tilenda New Manager 

At Perakos' Cinema One 

HARTIORD — Joe Tilenda, formerly 

with the Stanley Warner and Redstone circuits, 

has joined the Perakos circuit as 

manager of the de luxe Cinema One. Fast 

Hartford. 

He succeeds Paul Macbeth, who has left 

the company. 

Previously. Tilenda served as assistant to 

Al .Swett. .Stanley Warner New England 

zone advertising-publicity manager, and in 

managerial capacities with SW at New London, 

Conn., Newburyport and Lynn, Mass., 

and with Redstone Theatres in Toledo, 

Ohio. 

Tilenda will manage Cinema One under 

supervision of Perakos metropolitan Hartford 

district manager John D'Amato. 

Stage-Screen Combination 

lit KlINCiON. \ 1- Ilic Strong Theatre 

ottered a combination stagc-and-scrcen 

show, rare in recent years, on a recent Saturday, 

at SI. 25 top. Children were admitted 

for ."iO cents. "Dr. Evil and His Terrors of 

the Unknown" appeared on the stage and 

the screen attraction was American International's 

"Die, Monster, Die." Free 

shrunken heads went to first l.Ô patrons. 

'Batman' Ring Giveaways 

BRIDGEPORT—The Majestic distributed 

free "Batman" rings in conjunction 

with the premiere of Governor Films' "The 

Black Torment" and "Hercules Against 

the Moon Men." 

Goes to Weekend Schedule 

WF.S1 SPRINGFIELD. MASS.—The E. 

M. 1 ocu Ri\erdale l^rive-In has dropped 

Monday-through-Thursday showings for the 

remainder of the season. 

Urges Exhibitors: 

Robert Ferguson 

Vse Talented Advertising People 

BOSTON— Speaking at the General 

Cinema Corp.'s annual division managers' 

meeting in Boston Wednesday night (Oct. 

2(1 ). Robert S. Ferguson, Columbia Pictures 

vice-president in charge of advertising 

and publicity, urged exhibitors to keep 

amateurs out of the act and leave their 

local advertising campaigns to professionals. 

During the course of his speech at the 

Somerset Hotel dinner meeting, Ferguson 

briefly discussed the effects of the new production 

code, the rising importance of roadshow 

attractions, the distributor's obligations 

to the exhibitor, and the exhibitor's 

responsibility to his audience. 

In this connection, the Columbia executive 

had special praise for Boston exhibitor 

Ben Sack. Ferguson noted that. "Ben Sack 

•brought showmanship back to Boston at a 

time when movie business was at an ebb. He 

restored the motion picture to its rightful 

place as Number One on the Boston entertainment 

scene." 

The highlight of Ferguson's address was 

Four Simultaneous 

Roadshows for Sack 

BOSTON—Ben Sack, president of .Sack 

Theatres, at an announcement luncheon. 

Wednesday. October 26. revealed that his 

circuit will make motion picture history 

here by running four roadshow films at the 

same time in four Sack houses, a first for 

the city and believed to be a first for the 

country. 

Sack reported he had just completed 

arrangements for the presentation within 

the coming months of four more reservedseat 

attractions marking a record number 

of roadshows for the Sack Theatres and. 

with reserved-scat attractions also at the 

Boston Cinerama Theatre and the Cleveland 

Circle Theatre, will establish a new highwater 

mark for the city. 

Following "Doctor Zhivago" into the 

Saxon, will be "The Bible," Following 

"Hawaii" into the Gary will be "The Sand 

Pebbles," The first reserved-scat engagement 

at the new Sack Cheri 2. opening in I'ebruary. 

will he "'A .Man for All .Seasons," 

Completing the quartet will be '"The Taming 

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of the Shrew. starring Elizabeth Taylor and 

Richard Burton, who are also involved as 

co-producers, at the Cheri I in March. 

With '"A Man for All Seasons" at the Cheri 

2. the new twin theatre will have the distinction 

of playing roadshow engagements 

back to back. 

Sack told the press that ""the motion 

picture has now reached cultural maturity," 

He said: "The motion picture industry has 

long promulgated the advertising slogan. 

"Movies .'\re Better Than Ever." Never before, 

however, has this slogan assumed such 

Ins plea to exhibitors to bring the professionals 

back to the advertising of films. 

"We're spending the money to make the 

pictures." Ferguson said. "We're spending 

the money to merchandise the pictures. 

We're spending the money to advertise the 

pictures. I urge you to spend some money, 

too. in recruiting and hiring talented advertising 

people for your theatres. 

"The dav of the amateur is gone. NOW 

IS THE TIME FOR PROFESSIONALS. 

Let those without talent sell candy. Let 

those without talent handle the ushering 

chores. But above all, keep those without 

creative talent away from the ads. Don't let 

them tamper with areas that are beyond 

their abilities. 

"Advertising is a job that calls for knowledge, 

skill, talent and experience. Either 

use the ads as we give them to you without 

change, or hire the best man you can find to 

correct and alter them to fit your local 

situation. Keep the amateurs out of the act 

and you and we will be so much better 

off." 

an aura of truth. 

Confronted with competition 

from television and other lesiure-time 

.ictivities. film producers have, for the most 

part, concentrated on producing superior 

motion pictures. Quality, not quantity, is the 

byword of the day. The cla.ssics. best-selling 

noNcIs and hit stage plays have become the 

warp and woof of the motion picture 

industry. The net result is that cultural 

entertainment, hitherto available only in 

large metropolitan centers to the relatively 

few who were accessible to the legitimate 

theatre and who could afford the sky-rocketing 

admission prices, is now becoming increasingly 

available on motion picture 

screens all over the world." 

Sack pointed out "This is the year of the 

roadshow. In the past year alone, two outstandinc 

hits of the stage were brought 

brilliantly to the screen to the delight of 

more than I.2.'!0.000 filmgoers at the Saxon 

and Gary theatres in Boston alone. 'My 

Fair Lady' played for 54 weeks and, most 

recently, "The Sound of Music' just concluded 

an engagement extending over 83 

weeks. Currently, two best-selling novels, 

translormed into mammoth motion pictures, 

dominate the film scene — 'Doctor Zhivago' 

at the Saxon and "Hawaii' at the Gary. And 

the future holds more of the same." 

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New Films Display Boxoffice Power 

BOSTON—Boosted by the arrival the 

preceding week of "Hawaii," picture business 

responded throughout the city with 

good grosses. "The Shameless Old Lady" 

opened at 155 at the Kenmore and "Feelin' 

Good." the first color musical feature ever 

produced and photographed in its entirety in 

Boston, opened with 140 at the Paramount. 

"Way . Out" grossed 130, registering 

well with Jerry Lewis at the Orpheum, 

and "The Gentle Rain" scored 120 at the 

Mayflower. 

"Hawaii" itself was the city's most productive 

grosser, following its 400 opening 

with an equally strong second week. 


Astor—Alfi« (Paro), 4th wk UO 

Beacon HJI The Russlam Are Coming (UA), 

18th wk '15 

Boston Russian Adventure URP), 5th wk 100 

Chen—The Wrong Bo« Col), 7th wk 130 

Cinemo Fontosfic Voyage 

Circle 

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The Endless Sun (Cinema V), 

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4th wk 150 

G»y— Howaii (UA), 2nd wk 400 

Kenmore The Shameless Old Lady (Cont'l) 155 

Mayflower— The Gentle Roin (Comet); Web of 

Feor (Comet) 120 

Music Hall Dead Heat on o Merry-Go-Round 

(Col), 2nd wk 135 

Orpheum— Woy Out (20th-Fox) 130 

Paramount Feelin' Good (Pikej, world premiere 140 

Pons Cinemo Romeo and Juliet (Embossy), 

2nd wk 150 

Savoy— D'Oyly Carte Opera Company on stoge. 

Saxon Doctor Zhivogo (MGM), 33rd wk 200 

West End Cinema The Shop on Main Street 

(Prominent), 23rd wk 115 

Tall 300 Gross for 'Dead Heat' 

Second Week in New Haven 

NEW HAVEN—"Dead Heat on a Mcrry- 

Go-Round" continued to dominate the grossing 

percentages with a second week of 300 

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at the Weslville and Whitney. "The f-ighting 

Way 

Prince of Donegal" and "Way . 

Out," among the newcomers, were strong 

draws, too. 

Way Out (20th-Fox); 

Bowl, Poramount—Way . . . 

venous co-feolures 200 

Crown A Man and a Womon (AA), moveovcr, 

5th wk 100 

Lowrence Motor Psycho! (SR). High Yellow 

(SR), 2nd wk 70 

Lincoln The Gospel According to St. Matthew 

(Confl) 80 

Locw's College Return of the Seven (UA) 90 

Milford Cinemo, Center Kolcidoscope (WB); 

The Third Day (WB), reissue, 2nd wk 100 

L-ncoln The Gospel According to St. Matthew 

(Confl) 80 

Loew's College Return of the Seven (UA) 90 

Milford Cinemo, Center Koleidoscope (WB); 

The Third Doy 'WB), reissue, 2nd wk 100 

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Milford Drive-In- Alvorei Kelly (Col); The Guns 

of Navarorse (Cot), reissues, 2nd wk 80 

Strand Goldfinger (UA); Dr. No (UA), 70 

SW Cinemart The Sound of Mulic 

reissues 

(20th-Fox), 

71st wk 60 

SW Roger Sherman, Ansonia Capitol The Fighting 

Prince of Donegal (BV) 

Wcstville, Whitney Dead Heat on a Merry-Go- 

Round (Col), 2nd wk 300 

'Dead Heat' 300, 'Prince' 225 

Lead Spotty Hartford Week 

H.ARTFORD—Weeks after opening. 

"The Wrong Box" continued to display surprisingly 

strong power at the de luxe Burnside. 

Of the week's newcomers, "The Fighting 

Prince of Donegal" and "Seconds" reported 

brisk takes. Another film showing 

hoxoffice punch was "Dead Heat on a 

Merry-Go-Round," appearing for the second 

week at E. M. Loew's. 

Cinema 1, Meriden, Monsfield 

Allyn, Bristol, 

The Fighting Prince of Donegal (BV); various 

co-features 220 

Art Cinema Impossible on Soturday (Magna); 

How NOT to Rob o Deportment Store 

(Artixo) 100 

Berl n Assignment Female (SR); Cover Girl 

Killer (SR), moveover 100 

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Blue Hills, Farmington, UA Theatre East Dr. 

(UA); Goldfinger (UA), reissues 100 

Burnside—The Wrong Box (Col), 4th wk 125 

Central, Storrs College Kaleidoscope (WB), 2nd wk. 115 

Cine Webb Manchester State, East Hartford, 

Pike Seconds iPara): various co-features 

Cinerama 

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The Bottle for Khartoum !UA). 9th wk. 90 

Elm— The Sound of Music 

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(20th-Fox), 71st wk. .. 75 

Deod Heot on o Merry-Go-Round 

E. Loew's 

(Col); The Great Sioux Massacre (Col), 2nd wk. 300 

Strand Doctor Zhivogo (MGM), 23rd wk 90 

Webster The Gospel According to St. Matthew 

(Cont'l) 80 

Bert Ccmdle Is Planning 

3 More Films for U.S. 

BOSTON -Producer Bert Caudle, whose 

film, "The Gentle Rain." is playing the 

Mayflower Theatre and day-and-date in 20 

neighborhood theatres and drive-ins in the 

territory, in town for promotion and publicity, 

believes that films are "mighty salable 

merchandise." 

Caudle, who retired from .Sears Roebuck, 

where he was vice-president in charge of 

merchandising for the firm's 16-slorc chain 

in Brazil, has also produced two Portuguese 

films for Brazilian distribution and plans 

three more for the U. S. 

Caudle feels that "American film exhibitors 

haven't kept up with the times." He said 

"other industries siibsidi/e youngsters just 

out of college, paying them good salaries 

while they learn the business. That way they 

get top young minds and creative energies, 

which is just what the film industry needs." 

He also said he feels the film business 

"is a sick business. It's too inbred. It di-)csn't 

have enough imaginative blood. These film 

boys think their industry is something special 

but it's not. It's just like the retail business. 

You buy merchandise and you sell it but the 

merchandise must be good. I'm following the 

example of Joe I.evine. He's good at buying 

and selling things and. after 23 years in the 

retail business, so am I." 

Next territory for "The Gentle Rain" will 

be North Carolina. Regarding the film, he 

said: "This is a sensitive, beautiful love 

story. If we had Taylor and Burton, we 

wouldn't have to work so hard to fill theatres. 

But, I made this picture on a limited 

budget: couldn't afford stars with their highpriced 

tags. My leads arc two exciting newcomers—Christopher 

George, who's making 

a name for himself in the TV series "Rat 

Patrol" and Lynda Day, who was on Broadway 

in "The Devils," and is a TV actress 

also." 

The picture was filmed in Brazil, directed 

by the late Burt Balaban and was the 

first film made there with direct sound. 

Caudle, who has homes in North Carolina, 

Florida and Brazil, says he's in the film 

business to stay and has already planned 

three more films and selected scripts for 

them. 

Feature Film Corp. Signs 

Pact With Ellis Gordon 

BOSTON— Ellis Gordon Films will distribute 

all up-comIng releases of Feature 

Film Corp. of America throughout New 

England, it was announced by Harold Goldman, 

FFCA president. The films are to be 

handled from Ellis Gordon exchanges here 

and in New Haven. 

The first two pictures available for this 

area under the new agreement are "Dimension 

.S" and "Cyborg 2087." Others will be 

"Ride the High Wind." "Sun Scorched" 

and "The Destructors." the latter a co-production 

with United Pictures Corp. of Hol- 

Ivwood. 

NEW HAVEN 

J^rs. Bertha t'alechman, 80. widow of 

C oiincciicui industry pioneer Benjamin 

"Barney" Calechman. died here. The Calechmans 

owned and operated the Howard 

Theatre for many years . New Haven 

County Bar Ass'n. headed by Herman M. 

Levy, executive secretary of United Motion 

Picture Theatre Owners of Connecticut, is 

recipient of the 1966 Connecticut State Bar 

Ass'n award "for out.standing meritorious 

service to the public, the bench and the 

bar." 

Joe Letezio sr., projectionist at the Perakos 

Beverly, Bridgeport, returned from a 

deer-hunting trip to New Brunswick, Canada. 

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MASS.—A spring opening is 

ithc goal of Campus Twin Cinema. Inc., 

|which is constructing a dual indoor fhejatre 

on the Hadle> -.Amherst line, practically 

on the University of Massachusetts 

campus. The actual site of the new theatre 

;is the Zayre Shopping Center. 

announcement of the new project 

made by Robert Waldman. treasurer of 

Twin Cinema. Waldman said that 

the new theatre is to have a sealing capacity 

iof 1.000. 70mm .^5mm projection and cli- 

control. It is to show "the best available 

product in both commercial and art 

forms," according to Waldman. 

Campus Twin Cinema is headed by president 

David E. Dick. 

Parents. Teachers Can Aid 

In Anti-DST Campaign 

KANSAS CITY—The United Motion 

Picture Ass'n is asking members to inform 

parents and educators of the desirability 

of using Standard Time instead of 

Daylight Saving Time. States can exempt 

themselves from DST which will go into 

effect April 30 unless legislative action is 

taken against it. 

association is seeking enough public 

support to prompt legislators to rule out 

fast time in Missouri and Kansas. ,'\n entire 

slate must observe Standard Time if DST 

is not wanted. 

newsletter published by the association 

wherever DST has been eliminated 

the action was due largely to parents and 

educators. The newsletter points out that 

showmen should appeal strongly to those 

groups. Printed matter about the time conventions 

is available from the association. 

The price is $4 a thousand. 

Other promotion tools available are intapes 

of the humorous song 

"Daylight Savings Time." They can be obtained 

without charge from bottlers, syrup 

or Alliance Recording Service. 

association is using members to ask 

teachers to request that discussion of fast 

be included on the agendas of fall education 

conventions. 

Museum of Modern Art 

Buys UCLA Student Films 

FfJT^ Eastern Edlt^•n 

NEW \ORK—Two sHidcni-m.ide 

films 

have been purchased by the Museum of 

Modern Art here, announces John W. 

Young, head of the UCLA motion picture 

division. 

The films are "Claude." an award-winning 

color animation film by Dan Mac- 

Laughlin, and "Hotdogger," a story of a 

boy on a skateboard by Dave Burrington. 

Surgery for Walter Wilson 

NEW HA\EN—Walter Wilson. Paramount 

Theatre assistant manager, underwent 

an emergency appendectomy. 

ROUNDABOUT 

Tiisi when theatre construction seems to 

"li.i\c had it." along comes another 

exhibitor with imaginative planning. 

To mind now comes the new enterprise 

of industry pioneer E. M. Loew, long at 

the forefront of independent New England 

exhibition experimentation in both hardtop 

and drive-in modus operandi. It's been 

said—and with some deserved justification 

—that Loew can project exhibition planning 

far ahead of the opposition. He's the sort 

of chap who can "feel" population expansion 

to the point where construction of a 

drive-in or a hardtop in a seemingly "uninhabited" 

region of this burgeoning six-state 

New England territory pays off most handsomely 

in a few months. 

His latest activity finds him very much 

engrossed in the start of construction of an 

l.lOO-seat hardtop on Riverdale Street, 

West Springfield, Mass. It is to be situated 

adjacent to the E.NL Loew Riverdale Drivc- 

In and will be a one-level structure of masonry 

and glass, about 200 feet from the 

street. Parking space will accommodate 

some 400 vehicles. 

I.oew plans equipping the theatre, to be 

known as the Palace Cinema, with 70mm. 

Significantly, right across Riverdale 

Street are located Redstone Theatres" handsomely 

resplendent Cinema 1 and 2 complex, 

and the Redstone forces, spearheaded 

by western New England division manager 

John P. Lowe, are building a third theatre, 

to be known as Cinema III. marking the 

first time in New England history that three 

showcases will have been located in the 

same structure. 

Redstone is building a similar project— 

Cinema III—at its Cinema I and 2 complex 

in Lawrence. Mass. 

The four theatres in West Springfield will 

have a total seating capacity of 4.000 

within about 1.000 feet of each other. 

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Playing "Khartoum, " the Empire, downtown 

Portland. Me., first run, announced a 

"Big Bargain Matinee," advertising admission 

from opening to 6 p.m. for only 50 

cents. 

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A consultant's study predicts that the 

number of New Englanders employed in 

manufacturing will continue to decline during 

the next 50 years as employment in 

By ALLEN WIDEM 

service occupations rise. 

The economic study wa.s conducted by 

.Arthur D. Little Co. of Cambridge. Mass.. 

in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps 

of Engineers, the new f-ngland Council and 

the National Shawniul Bank. 

Little was commissioned to make longrange 

predictions on the region's economy 

as part of its studies of New England's future 

water needs. 

The report predicts that only 23 per cent 

of the labor force in the year 2020 will be 

engaged in manufacturing, compared with 

35 per cent in 1960. 

The labor force will probably rise slightly 

NEW ENGLAND 

faster than the population, with rates of 

participation in the labor force—already 

higher than the national average because of 

more employment of women— probably rising 

slightly. 

Population will increase from 10.5 million 

to about 25 million, and about 86 per 

cent of the people will live in cities and 

suburban areas, compared with 76 per cent 

in I9W). 

The report predicts, too, that 

New Hampshire 

will replace Connecticut as the region's 

fastest-growing state, both in population and 

employment, because of accelerated industrial 

growth. 

Massachusetts should hold its own. economically, 

and Rhode Island's relative position 

should decline, because of its already 

high level of development. 

.Maine, now third in poulation and personal 

income, will grow more slowly than 

New England as a whole, according to the 

study. The excess of persons over jobs will 

continue to spur migration from the state, 

although at a slower rate than heretofore. 

Vermont's share of New England emplo\nient 

should decline at a slower rate 

than in the past, the report concluded, with 

per capita income rising faster than the New 

England average. 

New England construction contracts 

covering all categories— for 1966 closed in 

on the two billion dollar mark in July, the 

New England Council reported. The sevenmonth 

total stood at SI. 854. 35 1.000—better 

than one-third above the figure chalked 

up during the same time phase of 1965. 

Panther Moves to N.Y. 

From Gloversville 

From Eostcrn Ed t n 

NEW >ORk— Paiiilier Theatre Corp., 

formerly of Gloversville, N.Y„ now has 

headquarters here, it was announced by Herbert 

Nitke. president. He said the office at 

1501 Broadway was chosen because it is 

near the hub of the motion picture industry. 

"We will be able to fill the circuit's needs 

more promptly in New York." 

On duty at headquarters are Nitke: Ronald 

Zerra. assistant to Nitke: Lee Willis, 

cost control officer and coordinator: Sidney 

Levine, director of real estate and special 

projects; Sam Mills, director of advertising 

and publicity, and Chris Pope, chief 

buyer and booker, who succeeded George 

Lynch, who held the post more than 30 

years when the circuit was operated by the 

Schine organization. 

Harriett Pettit Is President 

Of Stanley Warner Club 

From Eastern Ediliori 

NEW YORK—Harriett Pettit. secretary 

to F. L. Foster, treasurer of Stanley Warner 

Theatres, has been elected president of the 

Stanley Warner Club. Inc.. made up of SW 

employes to promote the general welfare 

and fraternity spirit of its members. 

BOXOmCE November 7, 1966 NE-3

HARTFORD 

gal Carpcnteri, executive aide to Milton 

LeRoy, president of LeRoy Enterprises 

whose interests here include the Blue Hills 

Drive-In, now leased to General Cinema 

Corp., will fly to Winnipeg November 17 

for negotiations on additional theatre properties. 

Mike Alperin, Connecticut industry' pioneer, 

and his wife Kitty have left for Miami 

Beach, Fla. They will return to their West 

Hartford home in the spring . . . Doug 

Amos, general manager of Lockwood & 

Gordon Theatres, completed a tour of circuit 

theatres in Hartford, Providence and 

New Haven. 

Buddy Horan, formerly in downstate 

exhibition, has joined the Franklin Ferguson 

Art Theatre Circuit as manager of 

the first-run Webster, succeeding Gabriel 

Valente, who resigned. 

Joe Miklos, Stanley Warner district manager, 

put a discount plan into effect for 

Central Connecticut College students at the 

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their identification cards at the boxoffice. 

Note of industr>' pride: Both Joe Miklos, 

district manager for Stanley Warner Theatres, 

and George E. Landers, city manager 

for E. M. Loew"s Theatres, have long 

ranked high in amateur tennis competition 

in metropolitan Hartford. 

Allen M. Widem, Hartford Times amusements 

editor, was in New York for interviews 

with producer-director-writcr Billy 

Wilder, director George Roy Hill, actor 

Max Von Sydow. and actresses Julie 

Andrews and Judi West, in conjunction with 

East Coast openings of UA's "The Fortune 

Cookie" and "Hawaii." 

Movies are being shown Thursday nights 

at the Town Hall in Rindge under sponsorship 

of students of Franklin Pierce College 

in cooperation with the town of 

Rindge. One of the recent adult films was 

The Prize," starring Paul Newman and 

EIke Sommer. All townspeople are welcome 

to the movie shows, where small donations 

are accepted to help defray the cost of the 

programs. Children under 12 must be accompanied 

by an adult. 

Charlton Heston has been signed to star 

in Paramount 's "Will Penny," an Engel- 

Seltzer 

production. 

Seven Arts Names Harper 

Head of Syndicated Sales 

"^fD-n Eastern Edition 

NEW ÔRR— Richard ¥.. HarpLT. wh> 

has been an officer of Seven Arts since 19(-i5 

has been named vice-president, syndicate, 

sales for Seven Arts Television by W, Robcr 

Rich, executive vice-president and gcncr.i 

manager. He continues as executive vice 

president of REA Express—Seven An- 

Transvision. the company's travel enter 

tainment subsidiary, and will now be re 

sponsible for the supervision and administr.i 

tion of all domestic and foreign sales op 

eralions for the TV subsidiary. 

Prior to joining Seven Arts, Harper w.i> 

general sales manager for Samuel GoUiwyn 

Productions for 1964-1965 and. before 

that, was with MGM in various executive 

capacities for 18 years, was instrumental 

in creating MGM-TV and w;i-. 

named its general sales manager in 195" 

Two years later, he was named MGM-T\^ 

worldwide director of syndicated and fe. 

lure 

sales. 

Michigan Showmen's Ass'n 

Plans New Headquarters 

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Ass"n will move from the American Hotel 

to the Tuller Hotel December 1. 

Headquarters will include a general meeting 

room, a board room, a card room and 

an auxiliary room. Bob Morrison, general 

secretary, made the announcement. 

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Goldstein Holds WB 

Canadian Conference 

rOKONIO — l.cailing cxhihilors were 

the guests of Warner Bros, at a luncheon 

and product conference in the Park Plaza 

Hotel here. Officiating were Morey "Razz" 

Goldstein, president and general manager of 

WB Distributing Corp.. and Larry Leshansky, 

assistant to Goldstein. They were joined 

by Haskell Masters, Canadian general manager. 

Goldstein stressed that the lineup of product 

was "the greatest in the company's long 

history." Highlighting the product run-down 

was the 70mm version of the Broadway hit 

"Camelot," which is to premiere as a roadshow 

ne.xt October. 

Other upcoming films discussed were 

"Not With My Wife. You Don't," "Any 

Wednesday," "The Bobo," "Cool Hand 

Luke." "Hotel," "Triple Cross" and "The 

Naked Runner." 

Among out-of-town managers on hand 

were Blain Covert. Calgary: Earl Dalglcish. 

Vancouver; Phil Carlton, Winnipeg; Mickey 

Komar, Saint John; Archie Cohen. Montreal. 

Babe Coval of Toronto also was present. 

Donn Pearce, who wrote "Cool Hand 

Luke" after his personal experience as a 

prisoner on a chain-gang, will have a role 

in the Warner Bros.' film version of the 

novel. 

Industrywide Showa-Rama 

Convening in Toronto 

TORONTO—.Showa-Rama Canada "Oh. 

expected to be the largest exclusive industrial 

affair ever held in Canada, opens here 

today (7) in the inn on the Park. The fourday 

affair marks the first time that Canadian 

concession and motion picture industries 

will combine in a convention and tradeshow. 

The event is being sponsored by the National 

Ass'n of Concessionaires. Motion Picture 

Theatre Ass'ns of Canada, Motion Picture 

Theatres Ass'n of Ontario, Canadian 

Motion Picture Distributors Ass'n. Film 

.Advertising Circle and the Canadian Picture 

Pioneers. 

.Morning sessions will be devoted to business 

programs, with the afternoons being 

turned over to the 75-booth tradeshow. 

starting Tuesday (8). 

Business sessions will IcatLire top speakers 

on concessions and motion picture theatre 

promotions. After welcome addresses, 

the leadoff speaker will be John T. Sweeney. 

executi\e secretary of the Canadian Sugar 

Institute. His topic will be "Sugar in Your 

Profits." Scheduled to follow is George K. 

Brown, vice-president of Wyandot Popcorn. 

Marion, Ohio. 

,\t the annual luncheon this afternoon 

(7) in the Centennial Room. Marshall H. 

I inc. immediate past president of the National 

Ass'n of Theatre Owners, will be the 

leatured speaker. Paul N. Lazarus, executive 

vice-president of National Screen Service, 

also will be an afternoon speaker. His 

subject will be "The Image Makers." 

Tuesday morning (8) at 9. distributors 

uill show production reels, followed by a 

1 2; 1 5 p.m. luncheon sponsored by Pcpsi- 

Cola Canada. W. E. Emerson, company 

president, will be on hand. The featured 

speaker will be Bill Gove, sales expert who 

heads his own consultant organization in 

Coral Gables. Fla. 

The Canadian Picture Pioneers award 

dinner and industry ball will be at 6:30 

luesday evening. A black-tie affair, the 

event will be in the Centennial Ballrom. Dan 

Krendel will be honored as 'Pioneer of the 

'"''""•" 

Merchandising forums on drive-in theatres 

and restaurants and indoor theatres will 

be held after the luncheon and until the 

scheduled opening of the tradeshow at 4:30. 

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Adfilms. Ltd.. is scheduled to speak on 

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R. Wilson. Canada Dry national sirup and 

vending manager; K. O. VVclland. Crush international 

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and Ci. J. Leonidas, Coca-Cola, Ltil.. vicepresident. 

A noon luncheon Wednesday in the Park 

U.ilhdom will be sponsored by Seven-Up 

.iiui Shopsy Foods. Inc. The presentation 

of the Concession Idea Man of the Year 

awards will be made by Julian Lefkowitz. 

NAC vice-president and 1966 CIMY award 

chairman. Charles C. "Bud" Hofftnan. managing 

director of Niagara International Center, 

will speak on "It's the Attitude That 

Cdunts." 

A luncheon is scheduled at 12:30 p.m. 

Thursday (10) in the Trillium Room, sponsored 

by Cieneral Sound & Theatre Equipment. 

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Showa-Rama committees are headed by 

J. J. I'itzgibbons jr. and H. C. "Dick" Main, 

convention co-chairmen: Frank C. Troy, 

iradeshow: C. L. Sweeney and George Pettigrew. 

program; Don Watts. J. R. Nairn 

and Frank Lawson. publicity, and Dan 

Krende! and Arch H. Jolley, registration. 

NFB Films Win 4 Awards 

At San Francisco, Salerno 

MONTREAL— Four awards at the San 

1 rancisco and Salerno. Italy, film festivals 

uere awarded to NFB productions. In addition, 

the Salerno fesli\al presented Canada 

a silver plaque for the best selection of films 

among the 30 competing nations. 

At San Francisco, the Golden Gale 

Award went to "Memorandum." directed by 

Donald Britain, and "Buster Keaton Rides 

Again." directed by John Spotton. This was 

the third award for "Buster Keaton." 

Named in Salerno were "Nobody Waved 

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and "Bethune" by John Kemeny and Brit- 

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HOLLYWOOD — William Broker has 

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Columbia Studios, succeeding A. W. Bernstein, 

who retired after 23 years in that 

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Broker, who has been assistant purchasing 

agent for a year, formerly was purchasing 

director for Gough Industries. He is 

a past president of the Purchasing Agents 

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Producers Engel and Seltzer have begun 

preparations at Paramount Studios for filming 

"Will Penny," which is scheduled to go 

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9:40 

Monday (7) 

8:30 a.m.— Rcgistr.uion (t cnionnial Foyer). 

9:30 a.m.—Annual Meeting (Trillium 

Room). 

Motion Picture Theatres .Vss'n of 

Ontario. 

Welcome .Address H. C. Dick Main, 

co-chairman. MPTAC-N.AC. 

9:30 a.m.—NAC .Meetings (the Park Ballroom). 

Welcome .Address: J. J. O'Brien. 

N.AC president: 

J. J. Fitzgibhons jr., co-chairman. 

MPTAC-NAC. 

i.m. — "Sugar in Your Profit," John 

T. Sweeney, executive secretary, 

Canadian Sugar Institute. 

— 10:15 ;i.m. "Why lt"s Neces.sary," L. I.. 

Sheppard. president, S&S Vending, 

Toronto. 

— 11:00 a.m. "Your Popping Profits." 

George K. Brown, vice-president, 

Wyandot Popcorn, Marion, Ohio. 

12:30 p.m.—Cocktail Party (Centennial 

Foyer). 

Host: Union Carbide Co. of Canada. 

1:00 p.m.—Annual luncheon (Centennial 

Room). 

Motion Picture Theatres .Ass'n of 

Ontario. 

Guest Speaker: Marshall H. Fine 

of NATO. 

3:00 p.m.— Meeting (Trillium Room). 

Canadian Picture Pioneers branches. 

3:00 p.m.—"The Strangest Secret" (the 

Park Ballroom). 

Earl Nightingale film. 

3:30 p.m.—"The Image Makers" (the 


Paul N. Lazarus, executive vicepresident. 

National Screen Service 

Corp, 

6:30 p,m.—Canadian Picture Pioneers' 

Award Dinner and Industry Ball, 

honoring Dan Krendel, "Pioneer ol 

the Year" (Centennial Ballroom, 

black 

tie). 

Tuesday (8) 

9:00 a.m.—Screenum (Don .Mil Theatre). 

Motion Picture Distributors' Production 

Reels. 

\2.\> p.m.— Pepsi-Cola Luncheon (the 


Host: W. F. Emerson, president, 

Pepsi-Cola Canadian, Ltd. 

Guest Speaker: William N. Gove. 

"Value .Added." 

}:M) p.m.— Merchandising Forums (Talbot 

Room). 

Drive-ln Theatres and Restaurants. 

Moderator: Gerald Dillon. Theatre 

Confections. Ltd. 

}:M) p.m.— Merchandising Forums fWilket 

Creek Room). 

Indoor Theatres. 

Martin Simpson. Twinex Theatres. 

4:.^0 p.m.—Opening of Tradeshow (Centennial 

Room). 

Exhibits open until 9:30 p. in. 

Lucky prizes drawn every half hour. 

(Winners must be present.) 

Wednesday (9) 

'>:3() a.m.— Meeting i>l ihc Delegates (Trillium 

Room). 

Motion Picture Theatre Ass'ns of 

Canada and Canadian Motion Picture 

Distributors .Ass'n. 

9:30 a.m. — "Selling Your .Screens" (Park 

Ballroom). 

F. T. Stinson. .Adiilms. Ltd. 

10:00 a.m. — "Polish Your Image" (Park 

Ballroom). 

Joseph A. Whitniore. assistant to the 

president, Coca-Cola, Ltd. 

10:30 a.m.— "Slake and Satisfy" (Park 

Ballroom). 

G. S. Joyce. Pepsi-Cola Co. 

D. R. Wilson, Canada Dry. 

K. O. Welland. Crush International. 

H. E. Wooley jr., Seven-Up Co. 

G. J. Leonidas, Coca-Cola, Ltd. 

12:00 Noon—Seven-Up Shopsy Luncheon 

(Park Ballroom). 

Hosts; H. E. Woolley. president. 

.Seven-Up. Ontario. Ltd. 

Sam Shopsowitz. president. Shopsy 

Foods. Ltd. 

Presentation to CI MY .Award winners. 

(luesi Spe.iker: C harles C Bud" 

Hoffman, managing director. Niagara 

International Center. 

2:30 

"It's the Attitude That Counts." 

p.m.—Tradeshow Reopens. 

Grand Prize—GE portable color TV 

set. 

Lucky prizes every half hour. 

530 p.m.—Tradeshow closes. 

Thursday (10) 

9:30 a.m.— Meeting (Trillium Room). 

Motion Picture Theatre Ass'ns of 

Canada. 

12:30 p.m.—Cocktail and Luncheon (Trillium 

Room). 

Guests and Delegates: Motion Picture 

Theatre Avs'ns of Canada. 

Host: Lloyd C. Pearson. General 

Sound & Theatre Equipments. Ltd. 

2.M) p.m.— Executive Meetings (Trillium 

Room). Motion Picture Theatre 

Ass'ns of Canada. 

Ontario Film Classification 

TORONTO— .Among recent films chissified 

as "adult entertainment" in Ontario 

were "Alvarez Kelly." "Aniforos." "Girl 

Getters." "Hong Kong Hot Harbour." 

"Make Like a Thief." "The Pad (And How 

to Use It)." "Picture Mommy Dead" and 

"What's Up Tiger Lily?."" "Caressed," 

"Frustration." "II Deserto Rosso" and 

"Macabro"" have been given a "restricted" 

label. 

YFF Has Hollywood Office 


HOLLYWOOD — The Youth Films 

Foundation. Inc.. has established an office 

here at 1259 Tamarind Ave. Executive director 

Hettie Dyhrenfurlh says she has interested 

four independent theatres to show 

Saturday matinee films for children. S 

through 12. The YFF is working with 

churches. PT.A groups, service clubs and 

women's organizations to fill the theatres. 

Columbia's "Dead Heat on a Mcrry-Go- 

Round" was written and directed by Bernard 

Girard. 

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MONTRHAl,—With the introduction of riage" ended its run of five weeks and 

several outstanding features at the city's "Mandragola" took over. At the Parisien, 

leading motion picture theatres, boxoffice the Canadian premiere of the locally made 

results for the week showed up highly satis- "Pas sur la Neige" attracted good crowds, 

tactory. At the .Mouelte Theatre, the initial Alouette— Howoii la Excellent 

showings of "Hawaii- took place and good î^Z^ro'to^'ir v";otc^?orhTo>!L^3';d' t'k. 

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Foirvicw (No 2 Crnema)— Lody L (MGM), 2nd wk 

Imperial— Khortoum lUA), 19th wk Good 

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y crT Doctor Zhivogo (MGM), moveover, 

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Polocc— Lody L MGM) 

Porisien— DCS Pos sur lo Neige ....'.'.'.' 

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Excellent 

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Seville—The Sound at Music (20th-Fox), 84th wk r.ood 

Van Horrv-Thc Wrong Box (Univ) Good 

Vcndome—Golio (SR), 11 th wk. SS 

Westmcunt—The Idol (IFD), 2nd wk Good 

York— The Blue Mox 20th-Fcx), 17th wk. . 

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"Spinout' Earns Second Week 

At Eight Toronto Theatres 

TORONTO— Business really boomed in 

Toronto as nearly all first-run houses reported 

excellent returns. ".Spinout" did so 

well in its single-week booking at the Downtown 

and se\en other Twinex houses that 

it stayed a second week. ",\lfie" was also 

very strong in its opening week of the new 

twin cinema policy at the Hollywood and 

"Fantastic Voyage" claimed a third big 

week at the Imperial. "The Wrong Box" 

continued to attract big crowds in its fifth 

bumper week at the Carlton. 

Capitol Fine Art-Gigi (MGM), reissue, 3rd wk. 

Carlton— The Wrong Box (Col), 5th wk 

C ronct, 1 1 other theatres— Birds Do It 

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Excellent 

(Col); 

Born Free (Col) Good 

Kanforth—Tom Curtain (Univ); The Killers (Univ), 

reissue, moveover 

Downtown, seven other theotres—Spinout 

Excellent 

Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 

(^^GM) 

Eglinton—The 

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85th wk Excellent 

Fairlawn—The Blue Max (20th-Fox), 14th wk. Excellent 

Glendolc Cineroma— Romeo ond Juliet IFD) 

3rd wk Good 

Hollywood, Noiih Cinemo— Who's Afraid of Virginia 

Woolf? (WB), 13th wk Excellent 

Hollywood, South Cinema— Alfie (Paro) . . . Excellent 

Hylond— How to Sfeol o Million {20th-Fox), 

wk Excellent 

3rd 

Imperial—Fantastic Voyage (20ttl-Fox), 

3rd wk Excellent 

International Cinema, Yorkdole Cinemo—The Pod 

lUniv), 3rd wk Foir 

Towne Cinema—A Fine Madness (WB), 3rd wk Good 

University— Hawaii (UA) Excellent 

Seven Winnipeg Films 'Good' 

Although Grosses Slip Slightly 

WINMPECi—Crosses dropped a shade, 

due primarily to the preponderance of holdo\er 

situations, which slumped a shade after 

several excellent weeks. No particular situation 

was outstanding, though ".Mfie," 

"Doctor Zhivago" and "The King and I" 

were all above average and "The Sound of 

Music" continued to set a strong pace in its 

.S2nd week. 

Capitol — The Gloss Bottom Boot (MGM) 3rd wk. Good 

Goicty—Altie 'Pnrn) Good 

Gorrick—The Appolooso (Univ) Avcrogc 

Hyland The Kinq ond I (20th-Fox), reissue. 

2nd *k Good 

Kings— The Sound ot Music (20th-Fox), 

S2nd wk Averogc 

Lyceum— Our Mon Flint (20fh-Fox); Von Ryon's 

Express (20th'Fox), reissues Good 

Metropolitan— Doctor Zhivago (MGM), 11 th wk. . Good 

Odcon— Torn Curtain (Univ), 4th wk . Good 

Park—The Greatest Storv Ever Told UA) 2nd wk Good 

Towne— Gigi (MGMi. reissue Fair 

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N'ANCOUVHR — The surprise gross 

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.Africa." This restricted bill gave the Lyric 

iis best gross in months and was held over. 

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We are supporting the 

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motion picture men and a helicopter 

pilot were badly injured here October 

27 as their craft crashed near Montreal 

Expo '67 site. Helmut Engelhart. 38, a producer-director 

attached to Paul Herriot Productions. 

Toronto, and cameraman Peter 

Reusch, 63. also of Toronto, were injured 

along with the helicopter pilot Wilson 

.Southam of suburban Dollard des Ormeaux. 

The helicopter company Helisolair. Ltd.. 

said it was rather amazing that none of the 

men was killed. The three-seat Hughes helicopter 

was demolished. Engelhart and 

Reusch were on the second day of a filming 

job for the CTV Television Network. Michael-Hind 

Smith, vice-president of programing 

for CTV, said Engelhart and 

Reusch had been on a cross-Canada color 

film survey for a December Canada Centennial 

production. "Tomorrow Is Our 

Birthday." 

The Canadian Arts Council announced a 

subsidy of $10,000 is going to the Cinematheque 

Canadienne for a world retrospective 

of motion pictures. The council alst) awarded 

S3.000 some time ago to Pacific Coasts 

Festivals for its ninth annual international 

film festival at Vancouver. The retrospective 

of motion picture films by Cinematheque 

Canadienne will be held in August 

during the International Film Festival here 

in connection with the world's fair. The retrospective 

is organized in collaboration with 

the National Film Board and the International 

Film Festival organization. 

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Bona Arsenuult, secretary-general in the 

former Quebec pro\incial government, has 

hcci in Louisiana for the filming of a movie 

based largely on his research and writings 

on the Acadians. The film is being made by 

the NFB under a deal with the Quebec 

City-based Conseil de la Vie Francaise en 

Amerique. which is reaping the royalties on 

films and based on Arsenault's work. It is 

to (-.e a lull-length feature dealing with some 

of the history of the Acadians. Distribution 

in Canada and the United States is to begin 

m March and eventually an English-languagj 

version will be produced, according 

to the conseil. 

Uorokhy Lamour does not make movies 

anymore, although she is constantly receiving 

offers. She was here for personal appearances 

at a cabaret Faisan Bleu Hotel 

in Laval. She said she keeps occupied mainly 

With night club and television appearances 

and summer stock. "I don't much 

like the kind of movies they are making. 

I'm not a prude— 1 couldn't be after working 

with Hope and Crosby so long— but I 

like pictures to which you can bring your 

children or grandmother." And I don't 

know why they don't make more of them. 

They seem to do well." 

The National Film Board has started to 

liokl free public screenings of special films 

than 1.000 flowers were flown 

lioni Hawaii for the women who attended 

the opening of "Hawaii" at the Alouette 

Iheatre, sponsored by the Montreal Epilepsy 

Society. 

The 3'/2-hour "Hawaii" was fairly well 

received by film critics. Jan Wright of the 

Montreal Gazette said the film was a fairly 

healthy epic, as epics go. which only begins 

to drag towards the end. "It will be called 

loo long, and probably labeled antireligious. 

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Larry Collins, 37, and Dominique Lapierre. 

36. authors of "Is Paris Burning?" 

novel, were here to promote the picture 

based on their book. The film is to open 

at the York Theatre on Armistice Day (11). 

TORONTO 

flcadcniy .Xuard-winning actor Ld Begley 

v\ill be here to make a half-hour movie. 

"Do Not Fold. Staple. Spindle or .Mutilate" 

for the National Film Board. He will take 

the role of a labor leader who has not adjusted 

with the times, and is 

rejected by the 

union. The script is by Millard Lampell and 

John Vernon. Al Waxman also will be in 

the cast. 

I.ouis "Lou" Lodge, 58, president of 

I.ATSE Local 173. Toronto, is dead. Born in 

London. England, he came to Canada as a 

boy and became a projectionist at 19, joining 

the projectionists' union when he was 

21. He was with Famous Players, and for 

many years was projectionist at Twiiiex' 

Odeon in Toronto's Parkdale district. He 

was with l.oew's Uptown here at the time 

of his death. At one time or another Lodge 

held practically every executive position 

with Local 173. He leaves his wife Hilda, a 

son Lome and a daughter Barbara Finley, 

all of Toronto. 

. . . Following an invitational 

"Spinout" had a big week at the Downtown 

group of "Twinex" houses, and is staying 

for a second 

preview at the Don Mills. "The Trap" 

had its Canadian premiere in a multiple 

run October 20 at the Coronet group of 

Odeon houses. "Lappa Lotta Laughs a Day" 

and "The Early Bird" opened at the Capitol 

I ine .Art and Yorkdale Cinema. "Seconds" 

also had a multiple opening at the Yorkdale. 

Golden Mile, Runnymede, Vaughan and 400 

Drive-In. "The Liquidator" opened October 

28 at Loew's, and "Texas Across the Ri\er" 

opened the same day at Loew's Uptown. 

A new Toronto firm, Agathon Film Co., 

will start shooting ".After This Our Exile" 

as soon as financial arrangements have been 

made. Joseph Burke will direct. 

Toronto actor Larry Mann has been 

signed for a role in Universal's "Rough 

Nighl in Jericho." starring Dean Martin. 

( icoigc I'eppanl. Jean Simmons and John 

\kliilire. 

'The Bible' Is Winner 

Of Four Italian Awards 

HOLLYWOOD— In Taormina, Sicily, 

Dino de I.aurentiis' production of "THE 

BIBLE ... In the Beginning," which 20th- 

Fox is distributing, was the winner of four 

of the Golden David of Donatcllo Awards, 

including Best Picture of the Year. The 

Donatello Awards are sponsored by the 

Italian government and the motion picture 

industry. Darryl F. Zanuck, 20th-Fox 

president, attended the ceremonies, which 

were attended by De Laurentiis and John 

Huston, who was honored as Best Director 

lor "The Bible." 

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The industn's outstanding feature nl the 

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Inn on the Park. Toronto, today (7) through 

Thursday (10). The Ottawa registrations include 

Ernie Warren, supervisor of 20th 

Century Theatres; Doug Watts. Odeon 

supervisor; James McDonough, Capitol 

manager; Leo Ouellette, Regent manager, 

and Gordon Millar, Elmdale manager. In 

addition to the tradeshow and its array of 

convention speakers, the schedule includes 

the annual meeting of the Motion Picture 

Theatres Ass'n of Ontario, and the annual 

gathering of the Motion Picture Theatres 

Ass'n of Canada Wednesday and Thursday 

(9-10) and the Canadian Pioneers dinnerdance. 

President Douj; Pinder of the Ottawa 

\allc\ Theatre Managers Ass'n called a 

meeting of the district organization Wednesday 

(2) in the Holiday Inn when the chief 

business was a review of the successful 

October Is Movie Month Campaign, for 

which local theatres had an important role. 

The general result was up for discussion 

along with a lew shortcomings in this first 

cooperative drive, which came from actual 

experience. 

Casey Swedlove's Linden had a benefit 

perlormance October 27 for the Lindeniea 

.Municipal Ballet Ass'n with the screening 

of "The Red .Shoes." The proceeds were 

turned over to the Centennial .Scholarship 

Fund to assist dancers in training. On October 

31 the Odeon Elmdale presented a 

special screen program to promote the Capital 

Tourist Council. 

The big Ottawa Capitol is making quite 

a number of breaks in its film policy for 

stage attractions largely because the city 

has no legitimate theatre. Following the 

two-day engagement of the D'Oyiy Carte 

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Opera group, the theatre had a "Country 

Spectacular Show," with two performances 

Friday (4). Next the Vienna Johann 

Strauss Orchestra will play two nights (7-8) 

and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra is 

booked for Wednesday (9).' 

"Doctor Zhivago" continued strong as 

a roadshow in its 15th week at the Nelson, 

while four other theatres had holdovers for 

a third week as follows; Regent, "How to 

Steal a Million"; Elmdale, "Morgan! ': 

Little Elgin, "Gigi," and Capitol, "Fantastic 

Voyage." 

At theatres in eastern Ontario cities. "The 

Sound of Music" is having real success with 

a fifth week at the Peterborough Paramount, 

a third week at the Cornwall Capitol 

and a busy first week at the BrockvUle 

Capitol. "Doctor Zhivago" was drawing 

crowds in its fourth week at the Kingston 

Hyland. 

Ottawa's five drive-ins still are active but 

others around the district have closed down, 

including George Delaney's Skylark at 

Gananoque and the Brockville ozoner. 

The free film show for children Saturday, 

October 29, at the National Museum. 

Ottawa, had Disney's "The Living Desert" 

as its feature. The Ottawa Film Socictv. 

now in its 32nd season, has had two recent 

shows for club members. The features were 

"Moment of Truth" and "Billy Liar." The 

National Film Theatre had a Friday night. 

October 28. screening of "An Evening With 

Terence Macartney Filgate." In its 11th 

year, the Kingston Film Society presented 

the German picture "Metropolis" October 

26. It was produced in 1926. 

Vancouver Tenl 47 

Holds Annual Dinner 

VANCOUVER—Tent 47 held its annual 

dinner-meeting in the Georgia Hotel October 

26. In his report, retiring Chief Barker 

Harry Howard dwelt at length on the successful 

telethon, which is expected to net 

S35. ()()() for the Heart Fund. He announced 

plans lor the next one, tentatively set for the 

Queen Elizabeth in September. 

Variety Club events in the immediate 

future include "A Night in Mexico." 

scheduled for December 4 in the Commotlore 

Ballroom. The Christmas party for 

llic Kcl.udcd and Hamlicapped Children 

will he held in the Cave Supper Club, donated 

by second assistant chief barker Ken 

Staufler, December 18, with Syd Freedman 

in charge of entertainment. 

The tent also has assumed the ticket sale 

tor the premiere of "Hawaii" in the Park 

December 22. 

Elected crew members lor 1967 were Nat 

Bailey, Jack Bain. Bill Bellman (Radio 

CHQM). Jack Diamond, Abe Fcinstein (Astral 

Films), Jack Kylcs, Maynard Joiner 

(Famous Players), Ray Peters (CHAN-TV), 

Andy Robertson and Sun columnist Jack 

Wassermcn. 

A large group of new members were introduced 

to the lent, including Bill "Inkspots" 

Kenney. Eric Brown, George Fawcett. 

Dale Rumball, Ian H. Eraser, .Alfred 

Willeits. Arne Byarnson. Floyd Davis, Edward 

McDonald, .Mex, Louie and Ewart 

Blossom. 

VANCOUVER 

\A7ith its "Sex" oriented Nudies under fire 

the Blaine, Wash., Sea Vue Theatre 

made another pitch for the weekend Canadian 

dollar by running a "European" 

version of "A Fine Madness," which had 

opened in the Studio a few days earlier. 

Twentieth Century-Fox's "Blue Max" 

wound up a 17-week engagement in the 

Park to make way for "The Greatest Story 

Ever Told." which is expected to fill the 

screen until "Hawaii" makes its bow December 

22. 

Odeon departed from its usual multiple 

policy. .And with the exception of the North 

Van Drive-In. which day-and-daled the 

Vogue with "Namu, the Killer Whale" and 

"Ambush Bay." played repeats in its suburbans. 

"Cat Ballou" and "The Silencers" were 

at the Eraser. Dolphin and Odeon New 

Westminster. "Goldfinger" and "Dr. No" 

played the Hyland. "The Cireat Race" was 

at the Totem, North Vancouver and Westminster 

Drive-In. "Born Free," which has 

continued to build at the IJunbar, was held 

for a fourth week. ".Morgan!" which was in 

its 11th week at the Varsity, also was held 

o\er at the Odeon, West Vancouver. 

Staff changes due to resignations have 

nuncd I'.iLilette Kind from MCiM to L^nited 

Artists, with Grace Mitchener. long time 

l-nipire Universal secretary replacing her 

at MGM. Anne Walker also has come into 

MGM. 

Exhibitors noticed were Paul Gauthier of 

Quesnel; Lionel Courchine, Surrey Drive- 

In. and Mvron McLeod of Powell River. 

Detroit Area Catholics 

Sponsor Film Courses 

From Midcost Edition 

DETROIT—T wo film appreciation 

courses have been started by the Detroit 

Archdiocesan Institute for Continuing Education 

as the first of several cultural activities 

planned by the institute. 

"Seven Great Films" is being held in the 

New Theatre at New Baltimore, about 35 

miles north of here. Pictures are "Shane," 

"Night of the Hunter," "East of Eden," 

•Billy Budd." "The Seventh .Seal" and "Wild 

Strawberries." The Rev. Thomas E. Porter, 

dean of Colombiere College, will lecture after 

each film. 

"The Film as Art" is being presented at 

Bishop Foley High School in suburban 

Madison Heights. The series includes "The 

Red Balloon," "Citizen Kane" and "The 

Heart of the Matter." 

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• EXHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY 

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• FEATURE REVIEW DIGEST 

• SHORTS RELEASE CHART 

• SHORT SUBJECT REVIEWS 

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• SHOWMANDISING IDEAS 

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Scholastic Magazines Back 

'Is Paris Burning?' Film 

Scholastic M.iy.i/incs. in its support ol' 

Paramoiint's "Is Paris Burning?," prepared 

a bulletin board poster for use in junior and 

senior high schools throughout the United 

States and Canada. 

These posters, which give prominent 

placement and size to the film's title, have 

been mailed to every junior and senior high 

school principal in both countries. 

This is the latest in Paramount's extensive 

school and library campaign on the picture, 

which includes a study guide and pullout 

map; a Maurice Jarre music featurette; two 

versions of a "Making of a Film" featurette: 

star voice featurette; a series of French language 

films and displays; "Is Paris Burning?" 

bookmarks and window stickers and 

rack cards for the Pocket Book film version 

of the paperback. 

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Pretty Sue Bereni ii stroll 

lliroii);li Chicago's sophistic ulcd near 

north side dressed exclusively (to all 

outside appearances) in nothing htit a 

box. It's not that women's fashions are 

chani;ini;. hut it's one of the ways Cohin}hia 

had of letting residents know 

that "The Wrong Box" was playing the 

Esquire Theatre. 

Tantastic Voyage Contest Highlights Bally 

Of Durwood's Roxy Theatre in Kansas City 

A campaign that was "far out" in many 

respects launched the showing of "Fantastic 

Voyage" at the Roxy Theatre in Kansas 

City. The promotion was "far out" in geographical 

coverage and in broadcast attention, 

as well as unique in a contest with 

many winners. There was a four-way tie-up 

between WHB radio. Skclly service stations. 

Fncyclopaedia Britannica and Durwood 

Theatres. 

The heart of the campaign was a contest 

with a S400 set of reference books as grand 

prize and ."iOO sets of theatre passes. F.ntry 

in the contest was based on a blank—or 

"passport"—t>btained at one of the 100 or 

more Skelly stations—or by writing to 

WHB. It asked the contestant to match a 

medical term printed on his passport with 

those posted in Skelly stations. If the contestant 

matched his passport with a service 

station term, his entry was validated by the 

station credit card imprinter. This then became 

his passport for two to see the picture 

M the Roxy free. 

A passport could be entered in the contest 

li\ tielining a medical term on the passpiirt 

with information from the encyclopaeilia. 

This entry then was sent to WHB. A 

drawing from these passports chose the 

winner of the 24-voiume encyclopaedia. 

The "far out" air coverage began on 

WHB with spots about the contest October 

1 with 10-12 announcements daily. The acuial 

contest announcements ran at the rate 

of 10 to 12 daily from October 5 through 

October 15. thus focusing more than 130 

spots (in the engagement with a l.'i-day period. 

There also were many casual mentions 

of the picture and the contest on the air. In 

.iddition. Skelly stations joined the hoopla 

with double-faced 40x60s on H-frames at 

each station carrying copy about the contest, 

and with window cards in each station 

about the picture itself. 

The campaign was complete in many 

other aspects, an elaborate mobile display 

in a downtown l.^th and Main streets corner 

window focusing on "Fantastic Voyage." It 

had colored stills mounted on free form Oa- 

Cilo hacks, spotlighted by black light and 

given motion by suspension from the ceiling 

in circulating air. This corner is a 90 per 

cent traffic location. 

A special screening for the press, radio 

and television, potential group sponsors, 

medical leaders and representatives of the 

BOXOFFICE Showmandiser :: Nov. 7, 1966 — 1G9 — 

This lohhy poster in Durwood's Roxy 

Theatre in Kansas City announces the 

tie-up with Encyclopaedia Britannica. 

as part of the extensive campaign for 

"Fantastic Voyage." 

scholastic press was held the night before 

the opening. The opening night also was 

a benefit affair for members of the Operating 

Room Nurses .Ass'n with about 400 ot 

them taking advance tickets. 

A display of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 

was placed in the Roxy. and a color 

boiiklet on human anatomy was given with 

cards filled out in the lobby. .All local Durwood 

Theatres (II) displayed special arl- 

40x60 cross-plug posters. The "Fantastic 

Voyage" trailer was running in the Parkway 

and Embassy sets of twin theatres 

ihoughout the engagement. 

A special mailing in advance sent "Fantastic 

Vovage" color programs to critics ol 

area weekly and daily newspapers with a 

memo suggesting a review of the picture as 

soon as possible. 

The compaign was one of the most intensive 

of the fall movie month, said M. 

Robert Goodfriend. Durwood general manager, 

and George Kieffer, assistant, who 

fired up the campaign. The picture opened 

to the best first week the Roxy had in a 

year, and showed strength throughout the

Julie Chrislie on Radio 

For Maaazine Feature 

Academy A\\arJ-winning actress Julie 

Christie was heard over the ABC Radio Network 

all last week on a series of 11, oneminute 

radio spots calling attention to her 

ten-page color fashion spread in the November 

issue of McCalTs Magazine and her latest 

motion picture, "Far From the Madding 

Crowd." an Appia Films, Ltd., production 

for MGM. 

This double media national selling presentation 

was coordinated between MGM 

and McCall's. Miss Christie recorded the 

radio spots in Dorset County, England, the 

location site for the film adaptation of 

TTiomas Hardy's classic novel. .She described 

her views about current fashions and related 

various incidents that have taken place 

on the film set. 

A striking color portrait shot of the young 

actress appears on the cover of the November 

McCairs, in addition to the ten inside 

photographs by Otto Storch. The article, entitled 

"Julie Christie: A Wardrobe for London's 

Darling." was written by Virginia 

.Steele, McCall's fashion editor, and Helen 

Scheh and .Margery Marks, associates. 

Also starring Terence Stamp, Peter Finch 

and Alan Bates, "Far From the Madding 

Crowd" is being produced by Joseph Janni 

and directed by John Schlesinger. Frederic 

Raphael has written the screenplay. 

S:rd sXrlTnifJtÎ;? 

Two theatres in ScrantiMi and W'ilkcs- 

Barre, Pa., had identical campaigns for 

"Spinout." In the Scranton Strand and the 

Paramount in the other city, a rock "n' roll 

band played in the lobbies on the Saturday 

afternoon of the engagement. Those sessions 

were given publicity on radio for five 

days in advance of opening. 

.•\ jukebo.x, filled with Presley records, 

also was in use at each house. Passers-by 

were encouraged to play their favorite record. 

In both cities tie-ins were arranged 

for disc jockeys to play Presley recordings 

and music stores to set up displays. 

National Advertising 

MCiM's new Kl\is Presley starrer "Spinout" 

will be nationally advertised in November 

in several publications designed to interest 

young people in the Joe Pasternak 

production about Elvis in the racing world. 

Seventeen, Teen Magazine, Co-Ed, and Ingenue 

are among the periodicals which will 

sport advertising. 

To Make Appearance 

Shelley I'aharcs. a member of the "Spinout" 

cast, will be MGM's delegate at the 

convention of Motion Picture Theatre Owners 

& Operators of Georgia, Alabama and 

Tennessee, to be held in Atlanta on November 

13 and 14. 

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Manager liciu-\ii H nnd aj ihr I runs- Texas Tine Arts Theatre in Denimi, Tex., 

used these teenagers for an eye-poppint; stunt for "A Thousand Clowns." Fleven 

teenagers crammed into a little Volkswagen and toured shopping centers, the college 

campus and downtown Denton. When curious people gathered, the group would 

climb out from the car— one at a time. The last two unrolled this banner. In another 

stunt, signs on a red wagon (not shown) called attention to the playdate and a jigsaw 

puzzle cut from a I -sheet. Those working the puzzle received a pa.is to the 

theatre. The wagon was pulled about town hy a clown and contained the puzzle. 

Mrs. Woods was assisted in the effective stunts hy student assistant manager Larry 

Barr. The Denton Record-Chronicle played up the car stunt with a large fourcolumn 

piece of art. 

Rides on an I n::li\h hus through 

Dallas helped launch a screening of 

"Alfie" for members of the Dallas 

Times-Herald news staff Wednesday 

I?} in the Paramount screening room. 

The bus picked up the writers and took 

them home after the showing. From 

top of the bus, going down, are Virgil 

Miers, amusement editor, and his wife: 

Don Safran, amusement columnist, 

and his wife; Felix McKnight, managing 

editor, ami his wife, and Val Imm, 

society editor. The film will open on 

November 3 at the Cinema II in North 

Park. 

3-Way Tie-Up Highlights 

Fargo, N.D., Campaign 

A tie-in with K.VOX radio and the extensive 

Piggly-Wiggly supermarket chain resulted 

in an exhaustive exploitation campaign 

for MGM's "The Glass Bottom Boat" 

engagement at the Fargo Theatre in Fargo, 

N.b.^ 

A 65-inch newspaper campaign was augmented 

by .300-line cuts in three VViggly 

ads. Three separate sets of radio announcements 

heralded the contest, which offered 

a (ilasshopper boat and 100 guest tickets 

in prizes. Winners were announced daily 

over K.VOX for a week's duration. Fifty 

spots were purchased by the theatre and 

many more spots came gratis from the station, 

plugging the contest, plus an additional 

number from the Piggly Wiggly stores. 

Television time over K.THI ran from the 

Sunday in advance and the station also aired 

the two boat promotion trailers. The boat 

was first displayed at the theatre and then 

Miovoil to the Wiggly store. Special 30x40 

ilisplays were set up with stills at the four 

Wiggly outlets. 

When the results came in, the theatre reported 

that "The Glass Bottom Boat" was 

the biggest attraction of the summer. 

Special Appearances 

Rod la) lor was in New \ oxk representing 

MCrM's "The 1 iquidator" on an extensive 

three-day publicity schedule, the 

culmination of his key city promotional tour 

for the Leslie Elliot production. 

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Tlifse models, dressed as Confederate 

soldiers, were used in a street bally to 

distribute heralds on Boston street corners, 

stores, subways, parking lots and 

hotels for the Savoy Theatre engagement 

of Columbia's "Alvarez Kelly." 

The "lucky number'' board between 

the models was used to announce the 

winning numbers that matched the 

numbered heralds they handed out. 

Herald holders came to the theatre to 

match the numbers, and winners were 

awarded pairs of tickets to see the picture. 

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'Gambit' Wardrobe to Be 

Displayed Across Nation 

The elaborate Jean Louis designed wardrobe 

worn by Shirley MacLaine in Universal's 

'"Gambit" will he remodeled in key 

cities throughout the country in December 

by some of the nation's top models as part 

of the company's all-out campaign to launch 

the picture which has been set for a Christmas 

release. 

Michael Caine stars with Miss MacLaine 

in the Technicolor film produced by Leo L. 

I uchs and directed by Ronald Neame. 

'Buddwing' Radio Contest 

MCiM has set up promotion in Los 

Angeles with "Chester Unlimited." an interview-type 

show over station KNX. The 

show's host Lloyd Chester is inviting listen- 

"Why I 

ers to write him in 25 words or less, 

would like to see 'Mister Buddwing.' " The 

winner will see the picture at the MGM 

Theatre at the studio. Chester will host the 

screening party for the winner and his 

friends and will tape interviews for later 

replay on the air. 

Philadelphia 'Cat' Contest 

for the double-hill 'Cat on a Hot Tin 

Roof" and ""Butterficid 8" in Philadelphia 

radio station WFIL will run a promotion 

asking listeners to send in a postcard with 

the titles of the films. The cards will be 

drawn for a $50 gift certificate at Morton's 

Jewelry Store. 

Concentrated Fireball' Campaign Sets Pace 

For Canadian Showman s Successful Run 

Award-winning showman T. Ed Raithby, 

manager of the Odeon Casino in Halifax, 

N.S., carried out a complete campaign for 

his "Fireball 500" date, and "it really paid 

off where it counts the most—at the boxoffice," 

he says. "All in all the promotion 

proved to be a tremendous success. We did 

2\2 times the business we did for the comparative 

week last year." 

To start the promotion. Raithby arranged 

with a local car dealer for a new 1967 auto 

for a 72-hour marathon guess-the-mileage 

contest. He then set a tie-in with radio station 

CJCH, which handled the contest. The 

station's disc jockeys drove the car about 

the city, received entries and announced the 

winner. 

Contest at No Cost 

The contest was carried out free of 

charge for Raithby, whose only cost was for 

his regular advertising. The winner K. P. 

Cody was presented his prizes on the Casino 

stage. Raithby promoted a $50 gift certificate 

from a local furniture and appliance 

dealer as a prize to the winner and contributed 

$25 from the theatre as an added incentive. 

As another phase of the campaign, Raithby 

borrowed six Firestone tires for a lobby 

display and the dealer also supplied some 

streamers. In return, the dealer set up a .^sheet 

cutout on the playdate in the store. 

Slot-car racing, which is just beginning 

to take hold in Canada, was used for another 

tie-in. Bob Regimbal, manager of the 

Maritime Hobby Center, provided a racing 

display for use in the theatre lobby. The 

slot -car display was set up near a large pielure 

window of the theatre where it could 

be viewed easily from inside or outside. 

Hold Slot-Car Races 

Raithby also promoted slot-car races, offering 

$100 in prize money. Of the amount. 

$50 was supplied by the hobby center and 

$50 by the theatre. Three races were held, 

the first one four days prior to playdate. 

another one on the day before opening and 

the third one two days later. Along with the 

cash, prizes included three "I'irehall 500" 

trophies (supplied at half price by the distributor. 

Astral), two "Fireball 500" silk 

screened jackets (also at half price) and five 

cases (48 bottles each) of Coca-Cola (supplied 

free). 

Prizes at Theatre 

.At the slot-car races, disc jockeys and announcers 

from CJCH officiated as judges 

and timers. The prizes were awarded on 

stage, with disc jockeys as emcees. 

On the day before opening, Raithby 

planted a story on the picture in the Halifax 

Mail-Star. 

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Belly dancers stop traffic along the Hollywood 

Sunset Strip in an eye-catching 

promotion for Universal's "Beau Geste" 

prior to the city wide Los Angeles opening. 

The girls perform atop the marquee 

of Gene Autry's Continental Hotel to 

music amplified by a loud speaker. This 

caught the attention of these youths and 

other passers-by, afoot and in cars during 

the three-day stunt. 

Elephant Leads Film 

Bally in Indianapolis 

Columbia Pictures' publicity, promotional 

and exploitation activities are running rings 

around Indianapolis for the area opening of 

"•Rings Around the World." Following the 

world premiere in Tallahassee. Fla.. and the 

Milwaukee opening, the special exploitation 

team headed by Ken MacKay, working out 

of Columbia's home office, moved into the 

Indiana Capital. 

Included in the campaign is an elephant, 

whose personal appearances in and around 

Indianapolis are proving a considerable contribution 

to the promotional acrobatics. The 

performing pachyderm has met with interest 

from radio and television stations not only 

in the city but throughout the state, insuring 

full radio and TV coverage of this Don 

Ameche starrer. 

To support the work of the broadcasting 

media. Columbia is strengthening the grassroots 

campaign to create the live excitement 

of a real circus. To get youngsters into the 

"big top." theatres are offering free tickets 

arc the traditional 

to small fry who help clean up theatre 

fronts. In addition, ring side seats are being 

won by kids throughout the exchange are.i 

in return for their assistance in postering. 

Bands, parades, balloons and barkers 

elements used by the exploitation 

team in launching the circus' invasion. 

To supplement these the Columbia 

bally includes a behind-the-scenes glimpse 

into the fantastic world of the circus.

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XHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY 

lABOUT 

ALLIED ARTISTS 

Blood and Black l.acc (AA)—Cameron 

Mitchell, Eva Barlok, Mary Arden. A gory 

feast in gorgeous color. If you don't mind 

the gruesome details, it'll entertain you 

nicely. Settings are an eyeful. Played Wed. 

only—.Arthur K. Dame. Scenic Theatre. 

Piti'sfield. N.H. Pop. 2.300. 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 

Die. .Monster, Die (.MP)—Boris Karloff, 

Nick Adams, Suzan Farmer. Not as good 

as some of the others, but should do business 

in small towns. Played Thurs., Fri., 

Sat. Weather: Rainy and warm.—Terry 

Axley, New Theatre, England, Ark. Pop. 

2.136. 

BUENA VISTA 

Lt. Robin Crusoe, L.S.N. (BV)—Dick 

Van Dyke, Nancy Rwan. Akim Tamiroff. 

A good comedy and "Run, Appaloosa, Run!" 

is a neat co-attraction. Played Sat., Sun., 

Mon.—Arthur K. Dame. Scenic Theatre. 

Pitlsfield. N.H. Pop. 2.300. 

COLUMBIA 

Bom Free (Col)— Virginia McKenna. 

Uili Travers. Geoffrey Keen. You are free 

to talk this up as an excellent family picture. 

All ages enjoyed it. It is well worth 

the best playtime in small towns. Played 

Thurs., Fri., Sat. Weather: Cool.—C. D. 

Simmons, Grace Theatre, Grace, Ida. 

Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (Col)—Terrence 

Morgan, Fred Clark, Ronald Howward. 

This has a good selling title but only 

average picture content. To me, this could 

have been a far more exciting film. But we 

lake what we can get, with so few pictures 

like this around. Played Sat., Sun. Weather: 

Clear and warm.—John Heberle, Capitol 

Theatre, Rochester, N.Y. Pop. 330,000. 

Walk, Don't Run (Col)—Cary Grant, Samantha 

Fggar, Jim Hutton. You will be 

glad to play this fine comedy. It was enjoyed 

by all. Played Sun. through Wed. 

W. S. Funk, East Main Drive-In, Lake 

City, S. C. Pop. 4,500. 

EMBASSY 

Bounty Killer (Embassy)—Dan Duryea, 

Rod Cameron, Audrey IDalton. An excellent 

western, with Dan Duryea doing a very 

good job, as did everybody. We need more 

of the same color low-budget westerns, as 

A Little Raw but 

Good Boxoiiice 

We pluvcd Columbia's "The Silencers" 

(Dean Martin, Stella Stevens, 

Daliah I,a\i) and some of the boys in 

our town hadn't seen so much cheesecake 

before at one sitllnK. Many returned 

a second lime. It's a little raw, 

but Rood boxoffiee. 

C. D. SIMMONS 

Grace Theatre, 

Cirace, Ida. 

PICTURFSi 

500 Miles to Distributor: 

Smallest Community 

I'm: been in this theatre business 

nine years and this is my first time to 

write in. No doubt I serve the smallest 

ccmimunity in the world and almost 

all of my features are shown on TV 

before I tan get them. My distributors 

are 500 miles away. Can anyone top 

this? \>e run one picture per week, 

Fri., Sat., Sun.—Pop. 150. 

I'.wint; Theatre, 

Kwing, Va. 

CARL LANKFORD 

there is still a large segment that craves 

them. Played Thurs., Fri., Sat. Weather: 

Nice.—Paul Fournier, .Arcadia Theatre, St. 

Leonard. N.B. Pop. 1.900. 

2nd Best Secret .\gent in the Whole Wide 

\>orld. The (Hnihassy)—Tom .Adams, Karcl 

Slepanek, Veronica Hurst. This is as good as 

the title was long! As spy stories and gimmicks 

go, this was filled with action aplenty. 

Had very few drive-outs. The .second feature 

was "Git!" from the same company, 

an excellent boy-and-dog story. All dog 

lovers should be told about "Git!" Plaved 

Fri., Sat. Weather: Good.—I. Roche, Starlite 

Drive-In, Chiplcy. Fla. Pop. 3.2.'>(). 

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER 

Patch (.f Blue, A (MGM)—Sidney Poitier, 

Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman. 

This is a very good drama and attendance 

was above average. Played Sun., Mon.. 

Tues.—C. A. Swiercinsky, Major Theatre, 

Washington. Kas. 

Son of a GunfiRhtcr (MGM)— Russ 1amblyn, 

Kicron Moore, James Philbrook. Good 

color. Not bad for a cheap western, but 

the cheap westerns don't bring in the business 

any more. Played Fri., Sat. Weather: 

Good.—Leon Kidwell, Main Theatre. 

Stonewall, Okla. 

Your Cheatin' Heart (MCJM)—George 

Hamilton, Susan Oliver, Red Buttons. It 

was a mistake to play this fine picture back 

again. It just didn't draw, which surprised 

me after the gross it had the first time 

around. Our old big movies playing on IN' 

are hurting our boxoffiee this fall. Played 

Thurs., Fri., .Sat. Weather: Good.— M. W. 

Long, I.ans Theatre, Lansing, Iowa. Pop. 

1,328. 

PARAMOUNT 

Crack in the \\orld (Para)—Dana Andrews, 

Janetle Scoll, Kieron Moore. Wellmade 

science-fiction picture that did well for 

midweek. Beautiful shots and color. Played 

lues.. Wed. Weather: Hoi and drv. Teiiy 

Axle>, New Theatre, England, Ark. Pop. 

2,l3f). 

.Skull, The (Para)— Peter Gushing, Christopher 

Lee, Jill Bennett. Good of its type. I 

should have double-billed this, but didn't. 

Played Thurs., Fri.—S. T, Jackson, Jackson 

Theatre, Flomaton, Ala. Pop. 1,480. 

CENTURY-FOX 

20th 

Do Not Disturb (20th-Fox)—Doris Day, 

Kod Taylor, Sergio lantoni. I'm just tired 

of Doris and her current (whoever it ma\ Edbe) 

partner flitting through myriads of "-ar* 

Technicolor scenes during the same old. 

predictable, trite scenes. Others must be 

liring of it, too. No business. Played 

Ihurs.. Fri.. Sat. Weather: Good.—Don 

Stott, Calvert Drive-In, Prince Frederick, 

\KI. 

UNITED ARTISTS 

Frankie and Johnny (U.A)— Elvis Presley. 

Donna Douglas, Harry Morgan. Elvis 

is not as strong as he used to be. It may be 

his pictures are not so good, either. Played 

Wed. through Sat.—Harold Bell. Opera 

House. Coaticook, Que. Pop. 8,000. 

Lord Love a Duck (UA)—Roddy Mc- 

Dowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright.' Don't 

ask me who thought this up. It's pointless, 

but did business for me. Black and white 

hurt some. Played Sun., Mon. Weather: 

Hot and dry.—Terry Axley, New Theatre, 

England, Ark. Pop. '2.1 36.' 

UNIVERSAL 

Munster, Go Home (Univ) — Fred 

Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis. Here 

I am getting set for big business. It's here 

for the kids, but where arc they? Everyone 

must have gone to the lakes. Or do they say. 

"I can see ihem on TV." This is one I 

can't understand. 1 did so little on it. I'm 

going to bring it back later on a double 

bill. Maybe that's what it needed.—Leon 

Kidwell, Majestic Theatre, Allen. Okla. 

Pop. 1.000. 

Raiders, The (I'niv)—Brian Keith, Robert 

Culp. Judi Meredith. Ciood program western 

for double bills. Robert Gulp's name 

helps. Played Thurs., Fri., Sat.—S. T. Jackson. 

Jackson Theatre, Flomaton, Ala. Pop. 

1,4S(). 

Rare Breed, The (Univ)—James Stewart, 

Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith. James 

Stewart at his best, but it's no "Shenandoah," 

in picture or gross. However, wish I had 

more "Rare Breeds," a fine family movie. 

Played Sun., Mon. Weather: Hot.—Ken 

Christianson, Roxv Theatre, Washburn, 

N.D. Pop. 968. 

WARNER BROS. 

Big Hand for the Little Lady, A (WB)— 

Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason 

Robards jr. This is great entertainment and 

it moves! Similar to "Cincinnati Kid," but 

it is way ahead of it in enjoyment. Played 

Sun.. Mon.— .Arthur K. Dame, Scenic Theatre, 

Pitlsfield, N.H. Pop. 2,300. 

My Fair Lady (WB)—.Audrey Hepburn, 

Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway. This is 

truly a masterpiece! You couldn't ask for 

better entertainment on any .screen in any 

theatre. Our only argument was that we 

had to wait so long for it. Our crowds enjoyed 

it very much. Played a full week. 

Weather: Good.— Peter Silloway, Star Theatre, 

St. Johnsbury, Vt. Pop. 6,000. 

has 

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TV B O X F r I C E BOOKINGUIDE 

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obo %tr>n a> on ALPHABETICAL INDEX to tcot 

(Jl Ponavision; t Techniromo; s Other onomorph 

Award; C Color Photoqrophy. Not 

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a: p ae K a «.= z 

303SAgtnt 38-24-36 (105) Com SR 7-4-66 

3052 OAKie (U4) ® Or Pan S-29-66 A4 

3028 Alphabet Murders, The 

(90) Comedy MGM 3-21-66 A2 

3062OAI»afe2 Kelly (116) Hi D Col 10-10-66 

3049OAmbush Bay (109) War D UA g-22-66 

3054 OAmerican Dream. An (107) Dr .WB 9- 5-66 B 

XI21 And Now Miguel (95) ® Orama.Unir 5-16-66 Al 

3066OAn> Wednesday (109) Con WB 10-31-66 A3 

3058 OAppaloosa. The (99) Ad Or Uni> 9-19-66 A2 

3020 OArabesque (105) 5- 9-66 A3 

3015 OAround the World Under the Sea 

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3061OLtts Kill Uncle (92) Ho Sus. Uni« 10-10-66 A2 

3062 OLiquidator. The 

(105) £i Spy D MGM 10-10-66 A3 

3012 Lollipop (89) Melo Times 4-4-66 

30270Lost Commanif (129) War Dr Col 6- 6-66 A3 

OLotna (S»i(t) (88) Melo Pol-Ton Films 6-27-66 

3007 O Lore Hunger (72) Sex Drama. .Cambist 3-21-66 

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Laying CouPles (113) Dr Prominent 10-31-66 

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Iiudley .Mcnre, Kendill 

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OKiss the Girls and Make 

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Mlclu.l ((innor Ho. .Jun 66 

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M.irrtn Hro»n. CIn Marl 

The Witnesses (80) Dec 66 

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My Baby Is Black! 

MiM-hi Ardl Trrr. Hall Mellisi 

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ODestinalion Inner Space 

(93) SF..Se»66 

Scott ilndy, Bheree .North, Gary 

Men 111 

Frozen Alive 

(80) SF.Melo Sep 66 

Mark Stevens. Marianne Koch 

OCyborg 2087 (90) Oct 66 

.Michael Rrniile. Wetvdell Corey 

ODimension—5 (91) . Oct 66 

Jeffrey Hunter. Prance .N'uycn. 

Iion.ild Wo..d< 

ORide the High Wind (96) Nov 66 

liarrm McGavln. .Maria Prischy. 

Hrlan O'Sbaiighnrssy 

OSunscorched (78) Nov 66 

.Mark Stevens. Mario AJ..rf. 

Manannr Koeh 

GOLDSTONE ENTERPRISES 

OEigbteen in the Sun 

(85) CD. Oct 65 

Spaak 

Catherine 

Intimacy (87) D.. May 66 

Jack Gln^. Joan Blackmail. Nancy 

Malone. Barry Sullivan 

Wild Affair (87) C. May 66 

Terry. Thomas. Nancv Kuan 

No Return Address (76) . . 66 

Harry Loirjov. .Miria Hammonds. 

Shiunna lllrtlli-n 

Stork Talk (86) C Aug 66 

Tonv Britton. Anne llcynood 

The Touch of Flesh (76). D. Aug 6« 

Ted Marshall. Jeanne Italner 

GOVERNOR 

OWeb of Violence 

(90) Ac Ad.. 66 

Iire't llalsey. Margaret Lee 

Day of the Nightmare (89) Ho. 66 

FEATURE 

CHART 

Fr.drlc March. Ulane Cllcnio 

John Ireland. Elaine Verdugo. 

Qln Like Flint © C. 

l.lz Renay 

James n.ina 

Coburn, 

Sherry, 

Lee J. Cobb 

Alfredo Criado, 

Carry On Cabby (91) ..C. Nov 66 (87) Country MC Aug 66 

Skip Grrôn 

Sidney James. Haltle Jacques Tes Rllter 

QThe Quiller Memorandum 

Beauty and the Cave May 66 ©Carry On Venus (91) C. 66 ROYAL FILMS INT'L 

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Kenneth Williams. Bernard Crlbblns. Life at the Top (117) D Jmi 66 

Heorjê Sev'al, Alec Guinness, Mas OThe Gentle Rain 

Juliet Mills 

Laurence Harvey. Jean Simmons, 

Von SydoK. Senti Berger, George (110) Rom D. Sept 66 

Carry On Jack (91) C. .66 Honor Blackman 

Sandcis 

rhrlstopher George, Lynda Day Kenneth Williams. Bernard Crlbblns. SIGMA III 

OAnoel on Earth 

Juliet Mills 

The Merry Wives of Windsor 

3Two for the Road (gl C. (88) Fantasy. Jan 66 

A'idrey IIepb/2) Melo. 

Robert Morse. .Michelle Lee, Rudy TrIntlgnanI 

Anthonv yulnn. Alan Bates. 

Peter UuT. Rrnato Baldhil 

Vallee 

OOld Shatlerhand (130) Sep 6*= Irene Pap.vs 

TIMES FILMS 

Oiiy Madknn, Dallah I.avl 

Thank Heaven for Small 

Lollipop (89) D Mar 66 

Fa.ors (84) C Vera Vhnna. 

EAGLE AMERICAN MaiU Helen* Bias 

FILMS. INC Rapture (104) D Sep 65 The Pleasure Girls 

-Îndian Paint 

(90) Apr 

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lobnny 

Ian .McBhane. 

Trawford. Jay RIlverheeN 

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Eva 1112) 

OChina! (65) 

UNIVERSAL 

Doc. D. Jul 

Jun 

65 

65 

'^^,o-Go Big Beat' (82) Jun 65 

Jrarne Morrau. Stanley Baker. 

M llle Small. TTie Vnlnnh. Ijil.i JERAND 

VIrn. I.lsl 

and 'he Ijrwrrs 

The Playground 

Pretty But Wicked (83) . .Apr 66 

EMERSON FILM ENTERPRISES 

(95) Satire Nov 65 nd.tr l.va Lia Rossi 

llees 

OMake Like a Thief 

Vaughn. Ingar Siratton 

Sweet Skin «nv Siial Krista 

(80) My Nleo 

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Sands ol Beersheba (90) Dr. Jun 66 Pleasures 

Saturday NInht Bath 

Aug 66 

in Aprle 

Valeria Claogottlnl. 

Valley (81) C 66 LION-LENART 

Jran Tanne 

MIml Hlne^, Bert Fo-d, Cliff The Uncle (87) Melo. Aug 66 UNITED SCREEN ARTS 

Rupert Runaway Havlrv. 

Girl 

Rrrnda 

(62) Feb 

Bruce. 

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I.lll 

Seven Against the Sun 

Robert IriitKan 

St Cvr. Jock Mahoney 

OSecret Agent 

(115) 

Super Dragon 

Ad D Aug 66 

Gert Van LOPERT FILMS 

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Tver Berg. Soy Jun 66 

Fnirjibeth 

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Jean Marals, Ll h^van bol T..V 

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Arnod Htang. Pamela Hayes, 

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Hard Charger (97). Ac Oct 6S 

Liitiil Tiny Junior John>on 

S.ng a Song for Heavens 

Sake (95) ..DM Oct 66 

Red Foley, Chuck Wagon Gan( 

McABEE PICTURES 

I Mostri (127) CO.. Nov 65 

Vltlorlo (Passman, L'go Tognalzl 

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And So To Bed (112) . 

lllldr,:ardr .Vrff. llalUh Uri. 

C. Hay 65 

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Horrors of Spider Island 

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Image of Love (90) . 

Aug 65 

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OThe Moment of Truth 

(110) O..S«»65 

Linila l'hrl«tlan, Miguel Mirielln 

Juliet of the Spirits 

(144) Feb 66 

Gil letta Maslna, Samlra Mllo 

ROADSHOW ATTRACTIONS 

OCountry Music Caravan 

(83) Mus Sep 65 

Jim Reeves. Minnie Pearl 

Ray Price, 

QTennesset Jamboree 

(75) Mm. Sep 65 

Jim Reeves, Pierce, Marty 

Webb 

Robhins 

ROGOSIN 

OGood Times. Wonderful Times 

(70) Doc Melo Aug 66 

RON AND JUNE ORMOND 

O40 Acre Feud (80) 

Country Music Jul 65 

OGirl From Tobacco Row 

Girl! C Jan 66 

WOOLNER 

OLas Veoav H'llbillys (90) May 66 

June MansneM. Ferlln Husky. 

Mamie Van fvoren 

OLioblning Bolt (91) Apr 67 

Anthony Elsley. Faleo Lulll. Sophia 

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(90) Ad. Apr 67 

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150 Yellowstone Cubs (48) 

152 DisntylaniJ Alter Dark (48)... 

170 Golden Horseshoe Revue (48).. 

171 Tattooed Polite Horse (48) 

189 Run. Aonaloosa. Run! '< Aug 66 

6770? Zoo Is Company 

•('^^•> Sen 66 

67703 Fee Fi» Foes f6i/,) 

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Oct 66 

The Last Mohican 

(12) C Dialogue Oct 66 

\;.in .\rkin. A'i'linnv Hnll,n,i 

MR MAGOO REISSUES 

(Technicolor) 

6756 Bungled Bungalo 

'fi'^'> Jan 66 

67";7 Manoo Breaks Par (6) Apr 66 

67752 Madcap Magoo 

'6) Sen 66 

ONF.REEL BLACK AND WHITE 

67652 Th. Fishrrman 

ONF-REEL COLOR 

(41',) Ort ei) 

SPECIALS 

6654 The Violinist (7) Feb 66 

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6655 The Interview (5) Jun 66 

67651 Down Through the 

(91,'; 

SPECIAL COLOR FEATURETTES 

6441 Wonderful Scotland 

_"8> Mar 66 

674415000 Miles (19

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Symbol O 

denotes color; c CincmoScope; 'P Po Tcchniromo; s other onomorphic processes. For itory lynoptrs on each picture^ s«« r«vwM »id«. 

The Professionals ^t, °''T T' 

Columbia (014) 117 Minutes Kcl. Nuv. 'tib 

Two of the nation's top male draws, Burt Lancaster 

and Lee Marvin, are here given a strong outdoors adventuie 

story written by Richard Brooks, who also directed 

against magnificently stark Mexican backyrounas 

photographed in Panavision and Technicolor by Conrad "' ^ 

Hall. With Jack PaUmce and veteraixs Robert Kyan an i 

Ralph Bellamy in strong roles and the sulti-y Claudia 

Cardinale for lennnine allure, this is top action fare which 

revolution, the pictui'e starts off with a kidnaping premise, 

but scon develops even greater intrigue and suspense 

right up to the surprise climax. Lancaster is at his 

shoot-em-up acrobatic best. Marvin is fine as an embittered 

Army veteran, and Palance excels as a villainous 

Mexican bandit—all thiee may be typed, but their performances 

couldn't be bettered. The giant Woody Strode 

is another fighting character while Ryan is effective in a 

quieter part. Miss Cardinale, who is tempestuous and 

completely unsympathetic, shares female honors with 

fiery Maria Gomez. Brooks, whose last film was "Lord 

Jim," here never permits audience interest to lag. Mam-ice 

Jarre's hamiting musical score is top-notch. A Pax Enterprises 

production. 

Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin. Claudia Cardinale, Jack 

ralancc. RolxTt Ryan, Ralph Bellamy, Woody Strode.

. 

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THE STORY: "Spinout" iMGMi 

While Elvis and his traveling band are camped in the 

woods, car manufactuier Carl Betz tries to "buj-' him as 

a birthday president for his daughter 'Shelley Pabaresi, 

who is inlatuated with the singer and had forced him oil 

the road. She was di-iving her fast sports car and her 

father has a double motive—he wants Elvis to diive one 

of the Betz cars in a race. Shelley has competition in that « wii 

Diane McBain, writer on sex themes who is seeking the 'ur 

Perfect American Male, thinks Elvis qualifies. But the girl 

diimimer (Deborah Walley) in his band thinks she has 

bers. Elvis wants to enter the race so almost gets hooked 

by Shelley because of this. The old adage that there is 

safety in numbers does not quite prove tine, since he 

tries to keep them all happy. On the rebound, the tliiee 

giiis pair oif with others in the end and Elvis goes free, 

even though Dodie Marshall briefly becomes a fourth 

contestant. 

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Century, Norelco, Motiograph and RCA 

mechanisms. Projection Arc and Xenon 

Lamps—Rectiliers and Generators. Screens 

—Lenses. Servicing Vacuum and Transisor 

Sound Equipment- "Easy-to-under- 

;tand Course on Sound-Electronics." 

Speakers The ONLY SERVICE MANUAL 

NOW PUBLISHED ON SOUND PROJEC- 

TION. The Cost Only $8.50 for Manual 

and One (1) Year's Subscnplion to 

Monthly Bulletins. (Canada $9.50) Cash. 

Cashiers Check or P O. Order No CODs 

(Send Zip No.) 30 years experience' 

VreSLEY TROUT. Publisher-Editor. Box 575 

ENID, OKLAHOMA 73701. 

BOXOFTICE: 

THEATRE 

SEATD4G 

WE REBUILD THEATRE CHAIRS anywhere— 

iinost motenoli, BEST workmanship—LOW 

prices CHICAGO USED 

CniAIR MART, 1320 S. Wabash Ave Chicago 

Phone 939-4516 

SPECIAUSTS IN REBUILDINO CHAIRS, 

Best workmanship, reasonable pncei 

Have men, will travel Rebuilt ineatre 

chairs (or sale 700 American Stellar seals 

lor sale. Neva-Bura Products Corp.. 247 

Water Street. Brooklyn. NY,. 11201. Tel 

875-5433 Area Code 212. 

CHAIRS REBUILT ANYWHEREl EXPERT 

workmanship, personal service, finest materials 

Arthur fudge. 2100 E Newion Ave 

. 

Milwaukee. Wisconsin 

MISCELLANEOUS 

Texas Ruby Bed Grapelruit or Oranges. 

Shipped prepaid t9 GO Ici a AO lb. box. 

Perfect lor friends or employes lor Christmas 

or just for the lamily. Sammy's 

CJrapelrult. 1100 Harvey, McAUen, Texas, 

78501 

Buy. sell. bade. 35mm safely features, 

send list Bilde Films. B.odnax, VIrginio 

BUSINESS 

STIMULATORS 

BINGO. MORE ACTION. $4 50 M cards 

Other games available, on. off screen 

Novelty Games Corp.. 106 Rogers Ave 

. 

Brooklyn. NY Phone: 212-871-1460. 

Build crttendonce with real Hawaiian 

orchids. Few cents each. Write Flowers ol 

Hawaii. 670 S. Lafayette Place. Los Angeles 

5. Calif. 

Bingo Cards. Die cut 1. 75-500 combinations. 

1. 100-200 cotnbinallon Can be used 

lor KENO. $4.50 per M. Premium Products. 

339 West 44th St.. Now York 36. NY. 

BALLOONS: Kiddie shows, anniversaries 

special events. Southern Balloon. Box 

246. Atlanta ! '-,

EXHIBITORS OF 

CINCINNATI: 

When 1 ON A COUCH" was released 

we had 71 trailer prints working. Now we 

have 63 working and eight missing. That's 

not good for our business - or yours. 

If every exhibitor returned every trailer print promptly, it would mean more 

than $100,000 savings to 

us- and fewer broken hearts among our customers. 

NATIONAt SCR(EN SERVICE 1600 eROADWAY NYC AND 18 8RANCHES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.

Boxoffice-November.07.1966

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