Boxoffice-August.28.1967

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE EDITION • AUGUST 28, 1967 

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/he 

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vice-president 

by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

board of directors at the 

meeting held last Wednesday (23). 

Terrell joined MGM in 1950 and 

has been director of advertising 

and publicity since 1963.

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Vol. 91 

AUGUST 2 8, 

No. 19 

1 967 

NEW PRODUCT SOURCES 

EVENTS of the past week forecast an 

early end to the paucity of product 

which, over many years, has adversely affected 

the industry's progress. Many of 

the trade's pernicious practices have come 

about as a result of the product shortage 

and aggravated others. So materializing 

of plans that provide for substantial additions 

to the product supply to come to 

fruition early in the forthcoming season 

are being eagerly anticipated by exhibitors 

throughout the world. 

Conclusion of the agreement whereby 

a newly formed subsidiary of Cinerama, 

Inc., will handle the distribution of pictures 

to be made by affiliates of American 

Broadcasting Companies, plus two Cinerama 

films and others that will come 

from Cinerama's own facilities and other 

sources, indicate a total of approximately 

20 features for 1967-68 release. 

Columbia Broadcasting System's theatrical 

film production subsidiary is increasing 

its previously announced schedule, 

following conclusion of deals with 

producers, directors and stars and for 

story properties that indicate good quality 

and audience appeal. The total of 

product from this new film source has 

been announced as 22 by Gordon Stulberg, 

president of the CBS Theatrical 

Films Division, who long held an important 

production post at Columbia Pictures 

Studios. 

National General Corp., which last year 

got its production subsidiary under way, 

has expanded its plans and is setting up 

its own distribution organization, also 

will add substantially to the theatrical 

output. 

It is significant that involved in these 

three projects are men of extensive experience 

in production, distribution and 

exhibition, in two instances of which 

there is an overlapping or mutuality of 

interest. In the Cinerama-ABC project, 

Leonard Goldenson, William Forman and 

Samuel Clark bring to it their accumulated 

and long experience in theatre operations 

and their intimate knowledge of 

the theatres' product needs; and Seymour 

Poe, heading the production-distribution 

enterprise, has been eminently successful 

in that field. He, too, has an intimate 

knowledge of exhibition's product needs, 

as is evidenced by his statement, when 

the Cinerama-ABC agreement was announced, 

that orderly release of films and 

integrated programing were of primary 

importance, both to distribution and exhibition. 

If the new production sources 

strongly implement such a policy, it will 

have a most salutary effect in restoring 

attendance on an ever-widening scale. 

This recalls the staunch advocacy for 

orderly release that Ed Hyman, as vicepresident 

of ABC's theatre unit, espoused 

over many years prior to his retirement. 

The need has increased in the intervening 

years, which is strongly accented by the 

"disorderly" releasing practice, the helter-skelter 

pattern of which has left its 

impairing mark on the industry, both inside 

and out. 

NGC's continuing growth in the field 

of exhibition has given emphasis to the 

need for a greater and continuing supply 

of product. President Eugene Klein 

has, therefore, launched production and 

distribution units and has acquired the 

distribution of the CBS films, among 

others, to give assurance of a steady flow 

of pictures, not only for NGC's own theatres 

but for theatres generally. Five 

NGC pictures will be in production by the 

end of this year, with six to eight to be 

completed within the next year, and 15 

are in various stages of production. 

Encouraging, indeed, are the prospects 

inherent in these new sources of production 

and distribution as well as from the 

knowledge of the stepping up in the output 

coming from other companies. 

Highly Important Factor 

It 

often has been pointed out that favorable 

word-of-mouth is a highly important 

plus factor to a motion picture's 

theatrical success. When a film has or develops 

such a vital patronage-builder, 

its potential should not be dissipated by 

fast play-off and/or release to television. 

This was well brought out in a letter from 

Roger W. Hurlock, chairman of the executive 

committee of Allied Artists, to 

Sherrill C. Corwin, NATO president, viz: 

"Despite an erroneous report carried in TV 

Guide, "A Man and a Woman" will not be made 

available to the network until late 1969 or 1970 

at the earliest. 

"This is in fulfillment of a pledge which Allied 

made to you on April 12 conceding the validity 

of your strong stand on additional 'lead time' for 

theatrical exhibition of important films prior to 

TV, and promising to withhold 'A Man and a 

Woman' for an additional year longer than we'd 

originally intended, as to any telecasting." 

There's an example in this which, if 

followed by all distributors, could add 

many millions of dollars to boxoffice 

grosses and rental incomes. 

QcÂl^

TIME AND BRONFMAN BUY OUT 

LEVIN'S INTEREST IN MGM 

Get Total of 720,000 Shares; 

O'Brien Cites Assurance 

Of Investors' Support 

NEW YORK — Edgar M. Bronfman, 

president of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., 

^ U.S. liquor firm, and 

Time, Inc., of the 

Robert H. O'Brien 

pubhshing, broadcasting 

and papermaking 

fields, have agreed to 

purchase 720,000 

shares (representing a 

14 per cent interest) in 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 

Inc., the majority 

of the stock coming 

from Philip J. Levin, 

New Jersey realtor 

and dissident MGM shareholder who has 

waged an unsuccessful campaign against 

MGM management for nearly two years. 

Bronfman, his family and associates will 

buy 420,000 shares and Time, Inc., 300,- 

000. Levin, who lost a proxy fight for control 

of the film company last February, owns 

560,000 shares and has been the largest 

shareholder in the company, a position which 

Bronfman will assume with his current purchase 

and the 400,000 shares of MGM 

stock which he already holds. Levin will 

sell Bronfman 260,000 shares and 300,000 

shares to Time, Inc. An associate, Louis 

Green, will sell 60,000 shares to Bronfman, 

and the remaining 100,000 shares will be 

purchased from other sources. 

'Most Gratifying' to 

MGM 

Robert H. O'Brien, president of MGM, 

in a statement Tuesday (22) termed the actions 

"most gratifying to the board of directors 

and management of MGM. The assurance 

of support we have received from these 

investors is another reason why they and 

all of our other shareholders can look forward 

to the continued and increasing success 

of our company." 

Levin said his decision to sell came about 

because of a "situation where we couldn't 

go forward with it ourselves." He added: 

"Mr. Bronfman didn't want to make a public 

tender offer and didn't want to take a 

position on the possibility of another proxy 

fight. The situation wasn't benefiting anyone—the 

company or ourselves. Bronfman 

made us an attractive offer and we sold." 

Bronfman, who earlier in the year bought 

some 209,000 MGM shares from Puritan 

Fund of Boston, said he saw no need for 

management or operational changes in 

MGM, terming the film company "the bestmanaged 

company in a very exciting industry." 

He expressed his fascination with the 

in education, offering great opportunities 

for MGM to apply its skills in that field. 

"This is a marvelous investment," he said, 

"We are on the side of constructive management. 

We aren't going to wage a proxy 

fight and we won't fight anything that is 

good for the company." 

Time, Inc., vice-president and director of 

corporate development Robert R. Baker said 

his company does not at present own MGM 

stock. He referred to the stock sale to 

Time, Inc., as an investment and said, "We 

don't consider ourselves to be in any group 

or to be an associate of anyone." 

Studied Industry, Says Time 

Time, Inc., president James A. Linen, in 

a statement, said the investment "follows 

months of study on the motion picture industry," 

and "reflects the company's desire 

to obtain an investment position in the 

rapidly developing technology of the moving 

image, as well as in television programing 

and the music and record industries in 

which MGM has important interests." 

Both Bronfman and Baker took the position 

that it was "premature" to discuss their 

representation on the MGM board. Bronfman 

emphasized that Seagram is not involved 

in his family's interest in MGM and 

that there is "no possibility" that his investment 

might lead to a merger. 

The Samuel Bronfman Family Trust is a 

partner in the Canadian-based NGC Cinemas, 

a 50-50 property of National General 

Corp., the divorced 20th Century-Fox theatre 

circuit, and North American Cinema 

Centers. 

Bill Up to Bar FCC 

Okay of Pay TV 

WASHINGTON—A bill to prohibit the 

Federal Communications Commission from 

approving pay TV has been introduced by 

Rep. John D. Dingell (D., Mich.). Noting 

the recommendations of an FCC three-commissioner 

committee which indicated 

possible 

approval of a nationwide pay TV system, 

Dingell said, "The purpose of my legislation 

is to remove that threat by making 

it clear that Congress has not empowered 

the FCC to authorize pay television broadcasting." 

The Congressman acknowledged faults 

with free TV, but said these faults could 

be corrected without recourse to the fee system. 

He added that passage of the public 

television act with its aid to educational 

radio and TV would also lead to upgrading 

of programs available to the public. 

Dingell said that the "safeguards" proposed 

by the FCC committee would fall 

short of protecting free TV. He told the 

House that "in the areas where it would be 

authorized, pay television would replace 

free television on at least one station during 

prime broadcast time. It would thus limit 

the public's present program selection opportunities 

and tend to drag viewers away 

from free television. This would make sponsorship 

of free television less attractive to 

advertisers and could lead to a deterioration 

of program quality." 

Wyatt Earp- 

Hero With A Badge 

Or 

Cold-Blooded Killer? 

future of entertainment business and asserted 

that audio visual techniques, in his opinion, 

will be the "key" to a total revolution 

BOXOFFICE :: August 28, 1967

He Lived Through the Gunfight at the 0.1 

3. . JAMES JASON ROBER 

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! 

The National 

Association of 

Theatre Owners 

(NATO)-in its 

Fail 

Film Fairhas 

commended 

four pictures for 

excellence in 

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entertainment. 

This picture 

is one of them.

NGC Distribution Arm 

To Handle 22 CBS Films 

HOLLYWOOD—An agreement for longterm 

distribution rights for CBS theatrical 

films, including exclusive rights in the U.S. 

and Canada, was announced Friday (18) by 

National General Pictures Corp., the motion 

pictiire distribution subsidiary of National 

General Corp. 

According to Irving H. Levin, executive 

vice-president of NGC, who made the announcement, 

the agreement involves current 

production commitments for approximately 

22 films at a total budget in excess of $60 

million. Levin said present foreign plans call 

for one of two patterns: in certain areas, 

arrangements will be made with established 

distributors, while in others, a new joint distribution 

organization will be established by 

CBS Theatrical Films Division and National 

General Pictures. 

Levin said NGC had just put together its 

own distribution arm in May and "with the 

flow of product this agreement anticipates. 

National General and the joint organization 

overseas immediately becomes a 

major and 

important worldwide distribution organization." 

A foreign sales manager and sales 

staff for the joint CBS-NGP overseas distribution 

organization will be announced in 

the near future. 

Gordon Stulberg, president of CBS Theatrical 

Films, said, "This agreement allows us 

to offer our independent producers an aggressive 

and flexible worldwide distribution 

organization. I am quite pleased that we 

are in a position to do so much a short time 

after the formation of CBS Theatrical Films 

Division." 

Among the current production commitments 

all to be handled under some part of 

the new distribution agreement are the following: 

"The Last Revolution," produced 

and directed by George Pal; "The Toy 

Shop" produced by Malcolm Stuart and directed 

by Irvin Kershner; "Friday, the Rabbi 

Slept Late," produced by Si Litvinoff and 

Ray Wagner; "To Kill a King," produced 

by Al S. Ruddy and directed by Brian Hutton, 

and "Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones," produced 

by Samuel Goldwyn jr. and directed 

by King Vidor. 

Stanley Warner, Glen Alden Boards 

Unanimously Approve Merger Plan 

NEW YORK—A formal agreement of a 

merger between the Glen Alden Corp. and 

the Stanley Warner Corp. was unanimously 

approved by the boards of directors of 

the two companies Friday (18). The consummation 

of the merger is now subject to 

the approval of stockholders of both corporations. 

Glen Alden will be the surviving 

company, with Stanley Warner retaining its 

identity as a division of GA. 

Nathaniel Lapkin, who was elected SW 

president August 3, will become executive 

vice-president of the surviving GA organization, 

upon completion of the merger. 

Meshulam Riklis and Paul A. Johnston will 

continue in their respective posts as GA 

chairman of the board and GA president. 

The new agreement, which will be submitted 

to stockholders of both companies 

at special meetings at dates yet to be set in 

the month of October, calls for the exchange 

of each share of SW common, except 

shares owned by GA or SW, for between 

.50 and .55 of one share of a new 

GA $3 cumulative convertible preference 

stock, convertible at any time into seven 

shares of GA common stock. 

The exchange 

rate is dependent upon the average closing 

price of GA common during the five business 

days immediately preceding the stockholders 

meeting of GA or SW, whichever 

is earlier. The new preference stock will be 

senior to all classes of GA capital stock except 

for the $2.25 senior preferred stock. 

6 

It 

will have a maximum liquidating value of 

$110 and will be callable beginning Feb. 1, 

1973. 

GA paid an estimated $42 million for 

the Fabian Enterprises' 18 per cent slock interest 

in SW, on the basis of market value 

on July 23, when the purchase was then 

announced. S. H. Fabian, founder and former 

president of SW, and Samuel Rosen, 

former executive vice-president, became 

chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, 

on Lapkin's election to the presidency. No 

announcement has been made of an official 

position for either man in the surviving 

company. Trade rumors are that both will 

retire, since the sale of their Fabian interest 

in SW to GA was considered by many induslryites 

as the first step toward retirement. 

The merger involves the ownership of 

about 240 theatres. The Department of Justice 

is currently determining whether or not 

it will ask for divestiture of any of the theatres. 

GA has agreed in Federal court order 

not to oppose any demand for divestiture 

which may be made by the Government. 

In addition to the theatre holdings 

through RKO Theatres, GA is involved in 

textile, chemical and other operations. It is 

49.7 per cent owned by McCrory Corp., 

which in turn is 56 per cent owned by Rapid- 

American Corp., of which Riklis is chairman 

and president. 

Glen Alden Six Mos.' Net 

Reaches $4.9 Million 

NHW YORK—Glen Alden Corp., 

parent 

company of RKO Theatres, last week reported 

sales and operating revenues of 

$106,219,000 and consolidated net income 

of $4,924,000 for the six months ended 

June 30. Operating income amounted to 

$5,299,000, federal and foreign taxes on 

operating income totaled $2,235,000 and 

extraordinary credits, net of applicable 

taxes amounted to $1,860,000. 

Glen Alden, which earlier in the week 

had announced its proposed merger plans 

with Stanley Warner Corp., had a net income 

per average common share of stock 

outstanding during this six months period, 

after provision for preferred dividends on 

the $2.25 senior, and $3.15 preferred stocks 

of 7 cents. Operating income after federal 

and foreign income taxes was 31 cents per 

common share and extraordinary credits, 

net of applicable income taxes amounted to 

39 cents per common share. 

The above amounts combine on pooling 

of interests basis the individual income statements 

of BVD Co. only for the three months 

from April 2 to June 30 with those of the 

Philip Carey Manufacturing Co. and Glen 

Alden Corp. for the six months ended June 

30, 1967. 

BVD and Philip Carey were acquired by 

Glen Alden during May and June of this 

year, in accordance with agreements approved 

by the respective stockholders of 

April 12. There was no individual or itemized 

listing as to how RKO Theatres fared 

in the six months reported. 

MGM Earns $2,916,298 

For Second Peak Week 

NEW YORK — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

has set a new record for the second biggest 

week in the company's history by earning 

$2,916,298 in domestic film rentals, it was 

announced here Monday (21) by Morris E. 

Lefko, MGM vice-president and general 

sales manager. This new high, for the week 

ending Thursday (17), brings MGM's film 

rentals to a grand total of $19,005,405 for 

the seven-week period beginning June 30. 

The company's all-time record for a single 

week was established one week earlier 

with $3,164,698 in film rentals. The record 

for the second biggest week previously stood 

at $2,854,635. 

Wometco Now in Control 

Of Circuit in Bahamas 

MIAMI—Acquisition of its second onethird 

interest in Grand Bahama Theatres, 

Ltd., Freeport, Grand Bahama, by Wometco 

International, Ltd. was announced here 

last week by Wometco Enterprises, of which 

International is a wholly owned foreign subsidiary. 

The purchase price was not disclosed. 

The interest was acquired from Greater 

Freeport Industries, Ltd., an affiliate of the 

Power Corp. of Canada. The remaining 

one-third is owned by local Bahamian interests. 


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Westerns like.they used to? 

Universal^ just did 

topples boxoffice records o! "Shenandoah" 

and "War Wagon" in Ibxas premiere! 

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FORT WORTH, Worth 

TYLERJyIer 

ABILENE, Paramount 

BEAUMONT, Jefferson 

PORT ARTHUR, Village 

$27,840 

$17,360 

$6,139 

$6,178 

$8,653 

$5,943 

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First 5 days! 

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First 4 days! 

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Name Leonard Goldenson 

As 'Pioneer of the Year 

NEW YORK—Leonard H. Goldenson 

has been unanimously selected as 1 967 

"Picture Pioneer of 

';* 

^ 

the Year" by the 

board of directors of 

the Motion Picture 

Pioneers. The suggestion 

of the executive 

&^ J^ committee headed by 

^^L --^/^^^^^ president George F. 

^^^^ _^V^^^H Dembow was adopted 

'It the 

^^^klJlPj^Û MPP 

^^^^^^^^^ (22). 

Leonard ^(.uiiaiu Goldenson vjw.uv.ia«u /^ i i 

Goldenson is president 

of American Broadcasting Companies. 

Inc., parent of the television and radio network, 

and the Paramount chain of theatres. 

This year's annual dinner will be oii November 

20 at the Hotel Americana here and will 

mark the 20th anniversary dinner. To celebrate 

the occasion, the MPP board suggested 

that all surviving Pioneers should be 

assembled for a general tribute. The previously 

honored Pioneers are Adolph Zukor, 

Darryl F. Zanuck, Jack L. Warner, Robert 

Colorvision Int'l to Buy 

Allied Artists Studio 

NEW YORK—An agreement was signed 

last week (22) by George D. Burrows, 

president of Allied Artists, 

and Samuel Ray 

Calabrese, president of Colorvision International. 

Inc. for the sale of the Allied studio 

to Colorvision. The purchase price was not 

disclosed but it was stated that the amount 

involved was "substantial." 

Allied will continue to have its headquarters 

at the studio as well as continue the 

production of pictures there. The studio 

consists of three stages plus equipment, 

occupying three and a half acres. 

Calabrese stated that his company, which 

is a producer and distributor of films for 

television as well as in theatrical production, 

too, will change the name of the studio. 

Extensive remodeling plans will include the 

building of one of the most modern sound 

stages in Hollywood and a large parking 

area. 

Colorvision International has advised Allied 

of its intentions to start production in 

the near future of theatrical films at the 

studio. Negotiations are under way for the 

release of some of these future pictures by 

Allied. 

AA Omits Dividend 

NEW YORK—At the executive 

committee 

meeting of the Allied Artists board of 

directors last week, it was voted to omit 

payment of the quarterly dividend of the 

company's S'/i per cent cumulative convertible 

preferred stock due on Sept. 15, 1967. 

S. Benjamin and Arthur B. Krim. Milton R. 

Rackmil, the Mirisches and William Forman. 

A graduate of Harvard Law School, 

Goldenson began his career as a practicing 

attorney in New York, then entered the 

motion picture field in the early '30s when 

he acted as counsel for the reorganization of 

Paramount theatres in New England. In 

1937, he became assistant to the vice-president 

of Paramount in charge of theatre 

operations, and subsequently was elected 

president of Paramount Theatre Service 

Corp., and later, vice-president of Paramount 

Pictures, Inc. 

He rose rapidly in the organization and 

in the mid-'40s was named director of Paramount 

Pictures Corp., and president of various 

Paramount theatrical subsidiaries, subsequently 

heading ABC and its predecessor 

organizations. Long active in charitable endeavors. 

Goldenson has been a director and 

a member of such organizations as United 

Cerebral Palsy Ass'n, Will Rogers Memorial 

Hospital, the Advertising Council, the Hollywood 

Museum Associates and others. 

20th-Fox Promotes Coler 

Ad-Pub Mgr. 

To Int'l 

NEW YORK—Joel Coler, international 

publicity coordinator for 20th-Fox, has been 

promoted to international 

advertising 

and publicity manager. 

Jonas Rosenfield jr., 

20th-Fox's 

The surprise appointment 

was an "onthe-spot" 

promotion 

made last week by 

vice-president 

and director of 

advertising, at the 

Joel Coler 

company's international 

sales convention at the Hollywood 

studio. After introducing Coler to the convention 

delegates and praising his work, 

Rosenfield without advance notice named 

Coler to 

the new position. 

Coler, who joined 20th-Fox three years 

ago, had been with Gray Advertising as an 

assistant account executive for four years 

and previously worked for the National 

Broadcasting Co. in various capacities. 

Rotus Harvey to Retire 

After 45 Years in Trade 

SAN FRANCISCO—Rotus Harvey, 45- 

year veteran exhibitor, has sold his interests 

in the Westland Theatres to his brother 

Rodda W. Harvey and associates and said 

he plans to retire. 

Elect Henry H. Martin 

M. P. Pioneers Head 

NEW YORK—Henry H. "Hi" Martin, 

vice-president and general sales manager of 

Universal 

Pictures, 

has been elected president 

of the Motion 

Picture Pioneers h\ 

the organizations 

board of directors. 

Martin, who is a 

veteran of more than 

30 years in the motion 

picture industry, most 

recently served for 

two years as chairman ^, ,i », ,. 

of the industry's fund- "^^^ "' Martin 

raising efforts on behalf of the Will Rogers 

Hospital and the O'Donnell Memorial Research 

Laboratories at Saranac Lake. New 

York. 

Martin succeeds George F. Dembow who 

has served as president of the Motion Picture 

Pioneers during the past year. 

Martin began his career with Universal 

in the early '30s as a poster clerk in the 

Oklahoma City branch, rising to booker, 

then salesman before his film industry career 

was interrupted by military service 

during World War II. Rejoining Universal 

in Oklahoma City after the war, Martin later 

became branch manager in both that city 

and in Dallas, then district manager, later 

coming to New York as southern division 

manager, before becoming general sales 

manager and a vice-president in the late 

'50s. 

Prowse and Damone Win 

Injunction Against UPO 

HOLLYWOOD—An order to discontinue 

using the names and photos of actressdancer 

Juliet Prowse and actor Vic Damone 

in advertisements of the feature film "Spree" 

was issued by the local Santa Monica Superior 

Court Judge Wedward J. O'Connor. 

The injunction issued at the request of the 

and the releasing company was 

entertainers 

made against United Producers Organization, 

headed by Harry Ross. Levinson, 

Rowen and Klein represented UPO. 

Both stars objected to being identified 

with the film since it was claimed that the 

impression was given that they participated 

in an "unwholesome film." In foreign markets, 

the judge ruled that "for adults only," 

or similar phraseology couldn't be used. 

Richard Zanuck to Europe 

For Production Tour 

HOLLYWOOD — Richard D. Zanuck, 

20th Century-Fox executive vice-president 

in charge of production, left here on a twoweek 

trip to Europe where he will visit the 

London location sites of various 20th-Fox 

attractions currently filming, as well as meet 

with overseas production executives. 

Zanuck will cover the shooting of .seven 

20th-Fox motion pictures now before the 

cameras in Europe or about to start there. 

8 BOXOFFICE :: August 28, 1967

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dend 

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standing 

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BOXOFFICE 

NGC 39-Week Net Drops, 

But Has 13 Weeks' Gain 

LOS ANGELES — National General 

Corp. reported its operating results for the 

39 weeks ended June 27. Gross income 

was $50,645,219. Net operating income 

was $1,668,933, or 48 cents a share on 3,- 

476,077 outstanding shares. A year earlier, 

gross income was $49,463,035. and net operating 

income was $2,501,286. or 72 cents 

a common share on 3,459,424 shares outstanding. 

For the 13 weeks ended June 27, gross 

income was $16,692,715, against $15,884,- 

844, recorded in the like period last year. 

Third quarter net operating income per 

share was 20 cents, equal to the same 

amount the previous year. 

According to Eugene V. Klein, president. 

in the 13 weeks ended June 27, theatre circuit 

income began to pick up and this has 

continued quite strongly into the current 

fourth quarter. Klein said, "The results of 

the summer so far are encouraging, giving 

rise to our optimism about longer-term prospects, 

based not only on our current operations, 

but also on some new aspects of National 

General's activities." 

National General last week announced its 

entrance into television production and distribution 

with the acquisition of Banner 

Productions of Los Angeles, Banner Films 

and affiliated companies from Sy Weintraub 

of Los Angeles. 

According to Klein, this acquisition will 

add, on a pooling-of-interest basis, approximately 

ten million dollars to this year's 

gross income, and should make a significant 

contribution to our 1966-67 year earnings. 

B&K-Great States Doubles 

Will Rogers Drive Quota 

NEW YORK — The Balaban & Katz- 

Great States Circuit has become the first 

organization to produce a 100 per cent increase 

over last year in audience collections 

for the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital. 

Ned E. Depinet, Will Rogers president, 

acknowledged the achievement as "concrete 

evidence that the '100 Per Cent Increase" 

theme in the current Breath of Life campaign 

is taking hold." He said, "We are particularly 

thankful that a major circuit of the 

scope of Balaban & Katz-Great States 

has made such a 

substantial contribution to 

the Will Rogers' support. They doubled last 

year ... I hope all circuits will follow 

B & K and keep their collections in force 

until 

everyone develops a '100 Per Cent In- 

MCA Votes Two Dividends 

HOLLYWOOD—The board of directors 

of MCA. Inc., declared a 37V2-cent dividend 

per share on outstanding convertible preferred 

stock to preferred stockholders of 

record on September 15, payable September 

' 

30. The MCA board also declared a divi- 

common stock to common stock- 

of record on September 20, payable 

October 10. 

Malamed Says Paris Bank Stock Buy 

Is 

Being Discussed by 'Severe/' 

Dan S. Terrell Is Elected 

Vice-President of MGM 

NEW YORK—Dan S. Terrell has been 

elected vice-president of Metro-Goldwyn- 

Mayer. The announcement came after the 

August 23 board of directors meeting. Terrell 

has been executive director of advertising 

and publicity for the corporation since 

1963. 

He joined MGM in 1950 as exploitation 

director under Howard Dietz and subsequently 

was made publicity director. In 

1945 he came to New York from Washington 

to be an assistant to Ernest Emerling in 

the advertising department of Loew's Theatres. 

A graduate of The American University, 

he was a staff member of the Washington 

Times Herald in the 1930s and during 

World War II served on the SHAEF staff 

in the European theatre of operations. 

Senate Committee Okays 

Medal Honoring Disney 

NEW YORK — Sen. George Murphy's 

bill pushing the issuance of a posthumous 

gold medal to Walt Disney in recognition of 

his services to the government and the nation, 

co-sponsored by 51 senators, was 

unanimously approved by the Senate Banking 

and Currency Committee. In a statement 

Murphy praised Disney's work during 

World War II when he turned over 95 per 

cent of his studio's operations to the production 

of military training films. He also 

hailed the assistance given by Disney as adviser 

on inter-American affairs, and the contribution 

of his technical knowledge to 

world fairs and expositions. 

The bill authorizes $3,000 to pay for the 

striking of the medal and up to 100,000 

bronze duplicate medals are to be paid for 

by the California Institute of the Arts, a 

four-year school endowed by Disney, to 

used in a fund-raising effort for the school. 

Oscar Awards Presentation 

To Be Held April 8, 1968 

HOLLYWOOD—The 40th annual Oscar 

Awards Presentation of the Academy of 

Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been 

scheduled for Monday, April 8, 1968, 

Academy president Gregory Peck announced. 

The national telecast 

be 

and broadcast again 

will originate from the Santa Monica Civic 

Auditorium, site of the annual presentation 

since 1960. Peck said that a Monday night 

was selected in deference to theatre owners. 

The presentation will be carried live over 

the combined television and radio facilities 

of the American Broadcasting Co., and in 

Canada by the Canadian Broadcasting Co. 

It again will be televised in color. 

NEW YORK—Purchase of the Banque 

de Paris et des Pays-Bas of Paris' 35.8 per 

cent interest in Columbia Pictures Corp. is 

being discussed by "several unrelated persons," 

according to a Wall Street Journal 

interview last week with S. H. Malamed, 

Columbia vice-president and treasurer, who, 

while refusing to identify the principals asserted 

that all are "acceptable" to the film 

company management. 

Such a purchase would come in the wake 

of Columbia's action last month in obtaining 

from the bank the right to buy or have its 

designees buy the 744.318 common shares 

the bank owns, at $46 per share. That option 

expires August 31. but according to the 

Malamed interview, if a purchase is not 

completed by then, the option period probably 

will be extended. 

Malamed said neither Columbia, nor its 

officers or directors, who currently own 

about 5 per cent of the outstanding common 

stock, intends to buy a substantial number 

of the bank's shares. 

Malamed estimated record earnings for 

Columbia, between $2.40 and $2.50 per 

common share, for the fiscal year ended 

June 30, up from the $1.05 per share during 

fiscal 1966, and he said the film company 

has been looking for "acquisitions that have 

some relation to our present activities," 

through exploratory talks with firms which 

he failed to name. He did cite publishing as 

one field that could be considered related 

to Columbia's movie and TV production 

and distribution activities and its broadcastmg. 

music and records fields. 

Malamed mentioned two new releases as 

contributing heavily to the better financial 

position of the company, "To Sir, With 

Love" and "Divorce AMERICAN Style." 

as well as earlier successes "A Man for All 

Seasons," "The Taming of the Shrew" and 

"Casino Royale." Malamed said that "A 

Man for All Seasons" is expected to bring 

in more U.S. revenue than the company's 

record-holder, "The Bridge on the River 

Kwai." 

He also held out optimistic views on three 

major films to be released by the end of 

December, "How to Save Your Marriage 

and Ruin Your Life," "In Cold Blood" and 

"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." 

Joe Solomon Plans Sequel 

To 'Hells Angels on Wheels' 

HOLLYWOOD—Joe Solomon, president 

of U.S. Films and producer of "Hells 

Angels on Wheels," will film a sequel to the 

highly successful picture, which will be shot 

in San Francisco in November and will be 

released May 15, 1968, he has announced. 

Adam Roarke and John Garwood again 

have been signed to play the leads, and a 

writer has been assigned to the screenplay. 

The Hells Angels of Northern California 

again will appear in the film. 

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$64,623,000 INVESTED IN 173 NEW THEATRES 

133 Four-Wall Houses and 40 Drive-Ins During First Half of 1967 

KANSAS CITY—Exhibitors continued 

to invest heavily in new theatrical properties 

during the first six months of 1967, with 

133 new four-wall houses, costing an estimated 

$4S,897,0()(), and 40 new drive-ins, at 

$15,726,000. either opened, placed under 

construction or announced. With the shopping 

center theatre continuing for the fifth 

consecutive year to dominate the indoor 

construction picture, another new trend also 

was being noticed, as exhibitors turned to 

multi-auditorium houses — expansions of 

twin theatres into three and even four auditoriums, 

and the initial construction, usually 

in suburban shopping centers, of the multifaceted 

houses. 

Of the total number of four-wall theatres, 

38 were opened during the first half of the 

year and the remaining 95 were placed 

under construction or announced. Sixteen 

drive-ins opened and 24 were started or announced. 

For the same period a year ago, 

drive-in construction also stood at 40 theatres, 

but there was a slightly higher pace 

in four-wall building, with 142 such projects 

opened, announced or placed under construction. 

American Broadcasting Companies, National 

General Corp., Loew's Theatres and 

the Glen Alden Corp. (parent company of 

RKO Theatres), continued major acquisitions 

of new theatre properties all across the 

country, and all subject to federal court 

approval. Projects tabulated in the Box- 

OFFicE-Modern Theatre continuing construction-remodeling 

survey for these companies 

are only those for which federal 

approval has been given. 

Other circuits and independents continued 

to join in the construction of new houses. 

Only in the last few weeks, Walter Reade 

jr., president of the Walter Reade Organization, 

reported that his chain had opened 

eight theatres during the first six months of 

the year. Two others were opened in August, 

in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and two 

more are under construction in New Jersey 

for the circuit. 

The growth rate of even the smaller circuits 

is well illustrated by that of Esquire 

Theatres of America, which headquarters in 

New England and which in only four years 

has grown to be one of the largest circuits 

in that area. 

Commonwealth Theatres, 

headquartering 

in Kansas City. Mo., also made further 

strides in theatre construction in recent 

weeks, opening its new Metcalf in the 

Metcalf Shopping Center in surburban 

Overland Park, Kas., following the earlierin-the-year 

bow of its Antioch in the Kansas 

City North Antioch Shopping Center. The 

circuit also has theatres under construction 

in the Ruskin Heights Shopping Center in 

southeast Kansas City and in the Ranch 

Mart Shopping Center, also in the Overland 

Park-Leawood, Kas., suburban area. 

On the West Coast, Pacific Drive-In 

Theatres broke ground late in June for a $1 

million Lakewood Center Theatre in the 

Long Beach area, termed a Cinerama "theatre 

of elegance," and in July and August 

opened two million dollar drive-ins, 

Following are state-by-state reports of 

new theatres for the first six months of 

1967. Those marked with an asterisk (*) 

were opened during this period. Fifty-seven 

of the so-marked indoor theatres and two of 

the drive-ins, although opened during early 

1967, were started and tabulated as 1966 

construction projects and were not recounted 

in the 1967 tally. 

INDOOR THEATRES 

ALABAMA 

Mobile— Bel Air, 1,000 seots, in Bel Air Shopping 

Center, Giddens & Rester Theatres. 

ARIZONA 

Phoenix— Fox Chris-Town, 1,000 seats, in Chris-Town 

Shopping Center, National General Corp.* 

Tucson—Buena Vista, 802 seats. National General 

Corp.* 

Tucson—Arizono Paramount, 800 seats, Arizona 

Paramount Corp.* 

ARKANSAS 

Foyetteville— 600-seat theatre, 

Maico Theatres. 

Foyetteville—New theatre neor University of Arkansas 

campus, MaIco Theatres. 

Jonesboro— 600-seat theatre, MaIco Theatres. 

CALIFORNIA 

Concord—New theatre. General Cinema Corp. 

Fremont— Fox Fremont, 850 seats, in Hub Shopping 

Center, National General Corp. 

Hollywood— New theatre in Calabasas Shopping 

Center. 

Montclair—Montclair, 1,300 seats, Californio Sterling 

Theatres.* 

Palm Springs—Camelot, 700 seats, in Palm Springs 

Shopping Center, Metropolitan Theatres.* 

Son Francisco— Northpoint Paramount, 982 seats, 

American Broadcasting Companies. 

Son Jose—Century 23, 832 seats, Syufy Enterprises.* 

Santo Barbara— Fairview, 750 seats, in Fairview 

Shopping Center, Metropolitan Theatres.* 

Stockton— Star, 500 seats, replacement far old Star 

Theatre, Emil Palarmo 

COLORADO 

Boulder— Village 70, 800 seats, in Arapahoe Village 

Shopping Center, hlighland Theatres.* 

Colorado Springs—Ute 70, 890 seats, Cooper Foundation 

Theatres.* 

Denver— 800-seat theatre in Montbello Shopping 

Center, American Broadcasting Companies. 

Denver—Cherry Creek Cinema, 1,151 seats, in Cherry 

Creek Shopping Center, General Cinema Corp.* 

Denver— 1,180-seat theatre in Englewood Shopping 

Center, General Cinema Corp. 

Denver— 848-seat theatre in North Valley Shopping 


Denver—Westland Cinema, 848 seats, in Westland 

Shopping Center, General Cinema Corp.* 

Denver— Northglenn, 1,200 seats, in Northglenn 

Shopping Center, Loew's Theotres.* 

Hideaway Park—Ski Ranch, 50 seats, Paul Allmeyer.* 

CONNECTICUT 

Bloomfield— 800-seat theatre in midtown redevelopment 

project, Beckenstein Bros, of Hertford, 

developers. 

East Hartford—Twin theatre in Independence Plaza 

Shopping Mall, Oak Ridge Development Co. 

Enfield— 800-seat theatre in shopping center. Suburban 

Development Co, 

Farmington—Theatre in $16 million apartment- officemotel-shops 

complex near University of Connecticut's 

new schools of medicine and dentistry, Talcott 

Pork Development Co. 

Hartford—Cinema I, II, III, IV, 3000 seats, in Webster 

Shopping Center, Interstate Development 

Corp. and Outdoor Theatre Corp. 

Rocky Hill— 800-seat theatre in Ninety-One Shopping 


Westport— 400-seat theatre. Nutmeg Theatre Circuit. 

DELAWARE 

Dover— 700-seat theotre in Blue Hen Shopping Mall, 

George M. Schwartz Theatres. 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

Washington— 

1 

,200-5eat theatre in Wheoton Plaza, 

Ira Sichelman and Lou Neon. 

FLORIDA 

Fort Lauderdale— Lauderhill, 1,000 seats, in Lauderhill 

Shopping Center, Lcew's Theatres.* 

Fort Myers—Mall, 843 seats, in Edison Mall Shopping 

Center, Florida State Theatres.* 

Jacksonville— 1,265-seat theatre in Regency Square 

Shopping Center, Florida State Theatres. 

Key West—Cinema, 850 seats, Key West Theatres* 

Miami — Roxy, 550 seats, Leroy Griffith. 

Miami— Plaza Art, 300 seats, Brandt Theatres.* 

Miami— Theotre I, Theatre II, 1,000 and 500 seats, 

in Dadeland Shopping Center, Wometco Theatres.* 

Miami—Loew's Westchester, 1,500 seats, in Westchester 

Shopping Center, Loew's Theatres.* 

Punta Gordo— Harbor Cinema, 600 seats, in Punta 

Gorda Moll Shopping Center, Gulf States The 

atres.' 

St. Petersburg— Plazo I, Plaza II, 555 and 715 seats, 

in Central Plaza Shopping Center, Florida State 

Theatres.' 

Tampa— 1,100-seat theatre on Hillsboro Avenue, 

American Broadcasting Companies. 

GEORGIA 

Atlanta—Coronet, 700 seats, Meiselman Theatres. 

Atlanta—Miracle, 800 seats, in Miracle City Shopping 

Center, Meiselman Theatres.' 

Atlanta—North Gate, 700 seats, in suburban Sandy 

Springs, Martin Theatres. 

Atlanta— 850-seat theatre in Phipps Plaza Shopping 


Morietta—Cobb, 800 seats, Meiselman Theatres.* 

HAWAII 

Honolulu— Hilton Hawaiian Village, 600 seats, Royal 

Theatres. 

ILLINOIS 

Calumet City— 

1 

,200-seat theatre in River Oaks Shopping 


Champaign—Co-Ed No. 2, Kerasotes Theatres.' 

Champaign—County Fair, 850 seats, in County Fair 

Shopping Center, National General Corp.* 

Chicago—Cinema, 1,500 seats, in Harlem-Cermak 

P aza, General Cinema Corp.* 

Chicago— Hillcrest, 1,200 seats, in Hillcrest Shopping 

Center, Balaban & Katz.* 

Kankakee—Meadow View, 900 seats, in Meadow 

View Shopping Center, L&M Management.* 

Rockford— 950-seat theatre, National General Corp 


I heoTres. 

and 

1 Cinema, 

INDIANA 

Clarksville— 

1 ,000-seat theatre in Green Tree Mall, 

Trans-Lux Theatres. 

IOWA 

Boone— 500-seat theatre, Boone Theatre Corp. 

Cedar Rapids— Plaza, 700 seats, in Lindale Shopping 

Center, Tn-States Theatre Corp.' 

KANSAS 

Overland Park—Metcalf, 900 seats, in Metcalf Shopping 

Center, Commonwealth Theatres." 

Topeka— Fox White Loke, 874 sects, in White Lake 

chopping Center, Notional General Corp., 

LOUISIANA 

Alexondria— 700-seat theatre. Gulf States Theatres. 

Lafayette—Cinema, in Ogden's Center, 720 seats. 

New Orleans—Twin Panorama, 1,000 seats, Joy's 

* 

New Orleans—Sena Moll Cinema, 600 seats, in Sena 

Moll, Gulf States Theatres." 

New Orleans— 1,200 seat theatre, Loew's Theatres. 

MAINE 

Brewer—Twin theatre, 600 and 1,000 seats, in Brewer 

Shopping Center, Graphic Theatre Circuit. 

Lewiston—Cinema, 950 seats, in Northwood Park 

Shopping Center, General Cinema Corp.* 

Portland—Cinema 3, in Bradlee Plaza Shopping 

Center as third unit to previous twin theatres. Esquire 

Theatres of America." 

Westbrook—Cinema III, third auditorium in Westbrook 

Shopping Center twin theatres. Esquire Theatres 

of America. 

MARYLAND 

Baltimore—Tower, 600 seats, in Charles Center, JF 

Theatres. 

Baltimore—York Rood Cinema, 1,018 seats, in York 

Road Shopping Center, General Cinema Corp.* 

Corrollton-— New Carrol Iton, 1,000 seats, in Beltway 

Plaza Shopping Center, Wineland Theatres." 

MASSACHUSETTS 

Boston—Charles, in Charles River Plaza, Walter 

Reade Organization.' 

Boston—Chen III, 600 seats, addition to Cheri I and 

Chen II, Sack Theatres.* 

Boston— Kenmore Square Cinema, in upstairs portion 

of Kenmore Square Theatres, Esquire Theatres of 

America. 

Brockton—Colonial Twin, new theatre in existing 

Colonial Theatre, Esquire Theatres of America.* 

Dartmouth—Twin theatre. Esquire Theatres of America. 

Fitchburg—Twin theatre, 600 and 600 seats, in John 

Hitch Plaza Shopping Center, Esquire Theatres of 

America. 

Hingham—Cinema I Cinemo II, Phil Scott. 

Springtield^Fox, 1,200 seats. National General Corp. 

Stoncham—Cinema, in Redstone Shopping Center, 

General Cinema Corp." 

MICHIGAN 

Ann Arbor— Fox Village, 950 seats, in Maple Village 

Shopping Center, National General Corp." 

Detroit—Americana, 1,700 seats, Nicholas George 

Theatres." 

Fullerton— Tital, 1,000 seats.* 

Lansing— Spartan I, Spartan II, 1,700 seats, in Frandor 

Shopping Center, National General Corp." 

Fort Huron—McMorron Auditorium Theatre, 1,169 

seats, Henry McMorron Foundation.* 

MISSISSIPPI 

Hattiesburg—Cinema I, 750 seats, Gulf States Theatres. 

MINNESOTA 

Minneapolis— 

1 

,000-seat theatre in Brookdale Shopping 


MISSOURI 

Columbia— Forum, 750 seats, in Forum Shopping 

Center, Dickinson Theatres.' 

Ferguson—Crown, Wehrenberg Theatres.* 

Kansas City— Empire I, 1,005 seats, in balcony of 

existing Empire Theatre, Durwood Theatres.* 

Kansas City— Ruskin I, Ruskin II, 364 and 380 seats, 

in Ruskin Heights Shopping Center, Commonwealth 

Theatres. 

Kansos City North—Antioch, 910 seats, in Antioch 

Shopping Center, Commonwealth Theatres.* 

St. Louis—Stadium Cinema, 452 seats, Arthur Enterprises." 

St. Louis^l,200-seat theatre. National General Corp. 

MONTANA 

Great Falls— 900-seat theatre. National General Corp. 

NEBRASKA 

Lincoln—Cooper-Lincoln, 800 seats. Cooper Foundation 

Theatres.* 

Omaha—Cinema Center, 810 seats, Douglas Theatre 

Co. 

West Omoha— New theatre. National General Corp. 

NEVADA 

Las Vegas— 850-seat theatre in shopping complex. 

National General Corp. 

NEW HAMPSHIRE 

Bedford—Twin Cinema, In Bedford Plaza, Interstate 

Theatres. 

Concord—Cinema 93, 450 seats, in Kings Shopping 

Center, Esquire Theatres of America.* 

NEW JERSEY 

Cherry Hill— 800-seat theatre. Glen Alden Corp. 

Fairview— Fairview Cinema, 616 seats, Spyros Lenas* 

Jersey City— New Theatre, General Cinema Corp. 

$6,212,800 in Remodeling 255 Houses 

Kansas City—Renewed interest 

was 

sliown by exhibition during the first 

half of 1967 in indoor theatre renovations, 

as 217 houses, a considerable rise 

over 177 projects for the same period 

last year, underwent extensive remodeling. 

Investments in the remodeled fourwall 

theatres totaled an estimated $5,- 

642,300, while another $570,500 was 

expended in renovating 38 drive-ins, 

down two from the 1966 period. 

Seating installations continued to 

Parsippony—New theatre in Morris Hill Shopping 


Tom's River— 

1 

,000-seat theatre in shopping center, 

Walter Reade Sterling.* 

Watchung— 

, 

1 500-seat theatre, Loew's Theatres. 

NEW YORK 

Albany— 

1 

,000-seat theatre, in Colonie Shopping 


Brooklyn—Pennway, Harold Forma and Saul Horing.* 

Buffalo— Palace, 750 seats, Dewey Michaels. 

Buffolo— 1,100-seat theatre in Clarence Shopping 


IrondequoJt— Stutson, 732 sects, in Stutson Bridge 

Plaza, Jo-Mor Theatres.* 

Ithaca—Cinema, 900 seats, Harry Berinstein.* 

Kingston—Mayfair, 1,000 seats, in Kingston Plaza 

Shopping Center, Walter Reade Organization.* 

Merrick—Cinema, in Merrick Mall Shopping Center, 

Sidney Dreier. 

New York—86th Street East, 600 seats. Town & 

Country Theatres.* 

New York— 

1 

,000-seat theatre in Bronx, RKO Theatres. 

South Glens Falls—Twin theatre, 750 and 750 seats, 

in MIdtown Shopping Center, Panther Theatre 

Corp. 

Staten Island—Richmond, 750 seats, in Korvette City 

Shopping Center, Century Theatres.* 

Syracuse—West hi 1 900 seats, in shopping 

center, Slotnick Theatres.* 

Syracuse—Twin theatre, 1,200 ond 500 seats, in 

Community Plaza, Kallet Theatres. 

Westbury—Raceway Cinema, 1 ,850 sects, B. S. Moss 

Enterprises. 

NORTH CAROLINA 

Asheville— Parkway Terrace, 800 seats, near Tunnel 

Rood Shopping Center, Wilby-Kmcey Service Corp.* 

Greensboro— BOO-sect theatre in Four Seasons Shopping 

Center, Consolidated Theatres of Charlotte. 

Greensboro—Golden Gate, in Friendly Shopping Center, 

North Carolina Theatres." 

High Point—Tower, 750 seats, in K-Mart Shopping 

Center, Schneider-Merl Corp. 

Roleigh—Cardinal, 800 sects, in North Hills Shopping 

Center, Wilby-Kincey Service Corp.' 

OHIO 

Cincinnati— Kenwood Mall, 1,100 seats, in Kenwood 

Mall Shopping Center, Stanley Warner Theatres.* 

Cleveland— New theatre in Village Square Shopping 

Center, Community Circuit Theatres. 

Youngstown— 800-seat theatre in Eastwood Mall 

Shopping Center, Robbins Theatres. 

OKLAHOMA 

Bartlesville— Eastland Twin, 750 and 550 sects, in 

Eastland Shopping Center, Snyder-Ashley Theatres. 

Bartlesville—Penn, 700 seats, in Pennington Hills 

Plaza Shopping Center, Video Independent Theatres.* 

Guymon—Suburban, 320 seats, L. E. Mchaney.* 

Oklahoma City—Edmond Plcza, 700 seats, in Edmond 

Plaza Shopping Center, Ferns Enterprises. 

Oklahoma City—Twin theatres, 1 ,000 and 1 ,000 

sects, and shopping mall in service building at rear 

of Riviera Drive-ln, George Sam Caporcl. 

Oklahoma City—New Villa, replacement for present 

Villa, Ferris Enterprises. 

Tulsa—Cinema, 1,200 seats, in Southrocds Mall Shopping 


OREGON 

Beaverton Westgate Twin, 1,200 and 500 seats. 

Moyer Theatres 

Portland— Valley, n Raleigh Hills area, Portland 

Paramount Corp. 

PENNSYLVANIA 

Ardmore— Eric, 400 seats, in Wynmore Shopping 

Center. 

Doylestown—Barn Cinema, Budco Theatres.* 

Loncaster— 

1 ,200-seat theatre in Park City Shopping 

Center, Century Theatres. 

Langhorne— Fox, 1,200 seats, in Country Club Shopping 

Center, Melvin Fox Theatres.* 

Philadelphia— Regency, 1,200 seats, William Goldman 

Theatres.* 

Pittsburgh— Fiesta, 600 seats, in downtown Golden 

Triangle, Associated Theatres.* 

dominate the renovation pattern, with 

42.7 per cent of the houses installing 

all new seats. Carpeting ranked second, 

at 40.2 per cent; screens, third, at 30.8 

per cent; marquees and fronts, 28.2 per 

cent; projection and sound, 24.8 per 

cent, and concessions and drapery installations, 

21.4 per cent each. 

Among the remodeled drive-ins, concessions 

installations were made in 

35.0 per cent of the houses; projection 

equipment in 30.0 per cent and new 

screens and towers in 30.0 per cent 

State College—Twin theatre, 650 and 450 seats, near 

Pennsylvania State University campus. Associated 

Theatres of Pittsburgh. 

RHODE ISLAND 

Cronston—Cinema, 1,000 seats, in Garden City 

Shopping Center, General Cinema Corp. 

Providence—Cinema 3 of Four Seasons Theatre, Esquire 

Theatres of America.* 

SOUTH CAROLINA 

Columbia—Coronet, Meiselman Theatres. 

Rock Hill—Cinema, Stewart & Everett Theatres.' 

Sumter—Wesmark Cinema, 657 seats in Wesmcrk 

Plaza Shopping Center, Foster McKissick.* 

SOUTH DAKOTA 

Sioux Falls-^l ,200-seat theatre in Lansing Moll 

Shopping Center, American Broadcasting Companies. 

Sioux Falls— 700-seat theatre in Western Mall Shopping 


TENNESSEE 

Dyersburg—Martin, in Green Village Shopping Center, 

Martin Theatres." 

Jackson—Mall, 600 seats, in shopping center, Maico 

Theatres.* 

TEXAS 

Angleton— 630-seat theatre, Angleton Theatre, 

Austin— 

Inc. 

Fox, 1 ,000 sects. National General Corp, 

Austin— Southwood, 1 ,000 seats, in Southwood Shopping 

Center, Trans-Texas Theatres.* 

Clear Lake— New theatre, Interstate Theatres.* 

Corpus Christi—Wood lawn, in Woodlawn Shopping 

Center, Corpus Christi Theatres.* 

Dallas— ,200-seat theatre, in downtown theatremotel 

complex, Loew's Theatres. 

1 

Dallos—Cine, 150, 1,000 sects. United Artists Theatres. 

£1 Paso^950-seat theatre. National General Corp. 

Fort Worth—Wedgwood, 900 seats, in Wedgwood 

Village Shopping Center, Interstate Theatres.' 

Houston^— Northshore, 900 seats, in Northshore Village 

Shopping Center, Interstate Theatres.* 

Irving— New theatre in Northgcte Plczc Shopping 

Village. 

Longview— 1,400-seat theatre in shopping center, 

East Texas Theatres.* 

Odessa—Scott No. 2, adjacent to present Scott Theatre, 

Oliver E. Scott. 

Odessa— 1,000-sect theatre in Grcndview Shopping 

Center, H&H Theatres. 

Port Arthur—Theatre in Jefferson City Shopping Center, 

Jefferson Amusement Co.* 

UTAH 

Provo-— Fox, 796 sects. National General Corp.* 

Salt Lake City— 

1 

,000-seat dome theatre in Prudential 

Plaza, Century 21 Corp. 

South Ogden— 800-seat theatre in Main Point Shopping 


VERMONT 

Burlington— New Theatre, Esquire Theatres of 

America. 

Pittsfield—Twin theatre in shopping center. Esquire 

Theatres of America. 

Alexandria— 

VIRGINIA 

1,000-seat theatre in Tyson Plaza, Wineland 

Theatres. 

Annondale—Americano, 550 sects, in Heritage Mall 

Shopping Center, Roth Theatres.' 

Danville— 1,400-seat theatre in Danville Shopping 


Petersburg—Walnut Mall, 800 sects, in Walnut Plaza 

Shopping Center, Neighborhood Theatres.* 

Roanoke—Terrace, Wilby-Kincey Service Corp.* 

WASHINGTON 

Seattle—New theatre in South Shopping Center, 

Pacific Drive-ln Theatres. 

Seattle-^Crossroads, 830 sects, in Crossroads Shopping 


Seattle— Northgcte, National General Corp. 

Tacoma— 1,000-seat theatre in Tacoma Mall Shopping 

Center, United Theatres. 

Tukwila^l ,200-5ect theatre in South Center Shopping 

Center, Pacific Service Co. 

(Continued on page 16) 

BOXOFFICE :: August 28, 1967 13

WARNER RROS.-SEVEN ARTS 

IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE 

AN UNUSUALLY LONG-TERM 

TENANCY AT RADIO CITY 

MUSIC HALL, N.Y.

CTION 

j^^^

$64,623,000 Invested 

In 173 New Theatres 

(Continued from page 13) 

WYOMING 

Gillette— Pronghorn, 188 seats, Bill Semple.* 

DRIVE-IN THEATRES 

CALIFORNIA 

Fountain Volley^— Fountain Volley, 1,800 cars, Pacific 

Drive-In Theatres.* 

Loncaster— Lancaster No. 2, 600 cars, twin addition 

to existing Lancaster Drive- In, Griffith-Grossman 

Enterprises.* 

Newbury Pork—Thousand Oaks, 1,200 cars, Pacific 

Drive-In Theatres.' 

COLORADO 

Boulder— 850-cor drive-in, Highland Theatres. 

Denver—West Colfax, 1,000 cars. Highland Theatres.* 

Denver—Nor-West, 600 cars, in Broomfield section, 

Leonard Steele and Stanley Somers.* 

Loveland—Pines, 700 cars, Evergreen Theatres of 

Colorodo.* 

CONNECTICUT 

Donielson— Davidson-Putnam Twin, 900 cars, E. L. 

Realty Corp. of Norwich.* 

DELAWARE 

Wilmington—New drive-in, Budco Theatres. 

FLORIDA 

Tompo— 

1 

,000-car drive-in, Tampa Bay Theatres. 

Morietto—Marbo, 750 cars, 

GEORGIA 

Martin Theatres. 

ILLINOIS 

Addison- -1,400-car twin-screen drive-in. Louis R, 

Jelinek. 

INDIANA 

Hommond— New drive-in at Columbia Plaza Shopping 


IOWA 

Boone— Boone, William Arts of Carroll.* 

Cedor Rapids—Collins Rood* 

LOUISIANA 

Alexandria—Showtown U.S.A. twin, 1 ,200 cars, Gulf 

States Theatres.* 

New Orleans—Algiers South, twin addition to existing 

Algiers Drive-In, Gulf Stotes Theatres.* 

Baltimore 

MARYLAND 

-1,1 75-car drive-in, Vogel Theatres. 

MASSACHUSETTS 

Leicester— Leicester, 400 cars, Hanno J. Joseph. 

North Dartmouth—Twin, Esquire Theatres of America. 

MICHIGAN 

Grand Rapids— Eostgote, 1,000 cors, Jock Loeks. 

MISSISSIPPI 

Jackson—Twin drive-in. Gulf States Theatres. 

NORTH CAROLINA 

Jacksonville— 613-car drive-in, Stewart & Everett 

Theatres. 

OHIO 

Cincinnati—Jolly Rogers, 1,700 cars. Levin Bros, of 

Dayton. 

Columbus— 1,200-cor drive-in. Selected Theatres 

of Cleveland. 

Youngstown— 

Medina— 42nd Drive-ln, 600 cars.* 

1 ,800-car drive-in, Wellman Bros. 

OKLAHOMA 

Oklahoma City— Riviera Drive-ln, 1,000 cars, port of 

three-theatre-shopping center complex, George Sam 

Coporol. 

SOUTH CAROLINA 

Charleston—Two new drive-ins. Consolidated Theatres, 

TENNESSEE 

Memphis—Whitehoven Twin, 1,100 cars, Maico Theatres,* 

TEXAS 

Austin—New drive-in, John Floche. 

Folturrios—New drive-in, Pedro G. Zamoro jr. 

Houston—Twin Telephone Road, 700 and 800 cars, 

Stanley Warner of Texos.* 

Sequin— Dixie, 500 cars, H. A. Daniels.* 

UTAH 

Ogden— Fox, 860 cars. Notional Generol Corp. 

Solt Lake City— Fox Olympus, 1 , 1 56 cars, National 

Generol Corp.* 

WASHINGTON 

Everett—New drive-in. Sterling Theatres. 

Seattle— 700-cor drive-in, Commonweolth Investors 

Group. 

WEST VIRGINIA 

Wheeling—Downs, Manos Theatres. 

WISCONSIN 

Milwaukee—Highway 59, Standard Theatres.* 

Waukesha—Waukesha, Standord Theatres.* 

Broadcasting Code Blocks 

Using 'Trip' Nude Scene 

NEW YORK— More than 

396 television 

stations have been strongly advised not to 

use a commercial which includes two brief 

nude scenes for the American International 

Pictures release, "The Trip." The advice 

was issued by the National Ass'n of Broadcasters 

to its member stations, representing 

60 per cent of the nation's total stations and 

including the three major networks. While 

most stations follow NAB's advice, they are 

not necessarily bound to do so. 

The memorandum came from the 

Association's 

code authority and deplored the 

television-radio promotion for "The Trip" 

as an affront to "good taste, community attitudes 

and responsibility to children." It 

cited the code restriction on commercial 

treatment of hallucinogenic drugs that 

would "glamorize or excite interest in the 

subject." 

The code also expressed a growing concern 

generally with widespread, questionable 

material advertising new movies via television, 

with increasing inquiries and complaints 

coming in from subscribers as well 

as independent station operators. 

According to an AIP spokesman, the original 

commercials for "The Trip" had been 

shown in six cities, with some deletions on 

a few stations following complaints from 

viewers. No New York station had accepted 

the commercials, even before the NAB 

warning. A second set has now been sent 

to the Association, deleting the nude swimming 

scene, another of a nude couple embracing 

under pyschedelic lights and all language 

referring to the hallucinatory effects 

of LSD. 

ABC Consolidated to Court 

In U.S. Divestiture Suit 

NEW YORK—The federal government 

is seeking an injunction in district court in 

Brooklyn to compel ABC Consolidated 

Corp. to divest itself of its theatre concessions 

business in the New York and Philadelphia 

area. 

The government is asking that ABC be 

required to pay a $300,000 penalty for 

ignoring an anti-monopoly agreement. The 

Federal Trade Commission originally accused 

the company of monopoly, and the 

government now is seeking the penalty because 

ABC allegedly failed to abide by the 

agreement to divest itself of the movie concessions 

in the special territory. 

A. R. Barron Promoted 

NEW YORK — Arthur R. Barron has 

been promoted to director of financial administrator 

for Paramount Television, it was 

announced last week by Paramount Television 

president John T. Reynolds. Barron, 

formerly with Lybrand Ross Brothers and 

Montgomery, joined Desilu Productions in 

July 1963 as assistant controller and was 

named assistant general manager of Desilu 

sales in 1966. 

Trans-Beacon's Sales, 

Net Up in Six Mos. 

NEW YORK—Trans-Beacon Corp. sales 

increased during the six months ended June 

30 while, at the same time, its earnings 

moved into the profit column from a loss 

situation in the similar period last year, it 

was reported by Sheldon Smerling, president. 

During the six months this year, the company 

had gross revenues of $4,319,114 and 

earnings of $206,400, or 13 cents a share. 

In the comparable period ended June 30, 

1966. the company had gross revenues of 

$3,999,161 and a loss of $65,808. For comparative 

purposes, the loss for the period 

last year amounted to four cents a share. 

Smerling noted that an agreement in 

principle had been reached for Trans-Beacon 

to acquire for 300,000 shares of common 

stock all of the outstanding shares of 

Weston Merchandising Corp. Weston is one 

of the nation's largest merchandise licensing 

organizations and conducts a highly successful 

product development division— primarily 

in the toy industry. 

"This acquisition," Smerling said, "when 

consummated, will further diversify Trans- 

Beacon in the entertainment industry and 

we fully expect it will have a beneficial effect 

on profits in the future." 

Trans-Beacon operates motion picture 

theatres throughout the United States and 

Canada. In addition, its divisions operate 

theatre refreshment concessions, are active 

m television distribution and film theatrical 

distribution. 

Sen. Pell of R.I. Praises 

American Film Institute 

WASHINGTON — Sen. 

Claiborne Pell, 

Democrat of Rhode Island, last week on the 

floor of the Senate praised the new American 

Film Institute as "a great step in recognizing 

a truly American art form." 

He also told the Senate that of the major 

filmmaking nations, the U.S. is the only one 

which does not have a national body to preserve, 

study and nurture the art of films. He 

added his hope that the new endeavor will 

now fill 

the gap. 

He complimented the National Foundation 

for the Arts chairman Roger L. Stevens 

for establishing the Institute, and for the 

selection of Gregory Peck as chairman and 

of George Stevens jr., as director. "Knowing 

and admiring each of these men ... as I 

do, I am sure this venture is going to be a 

most successful and fruitful one," Pell 

added. 

Ben Goffstein Dies 

LAS VEGAS — Services were held here 

Friday (18) for Ben Goffstein, well-known 

Las Vegas hotel and casino operator, who 

died of cancer at age 65. Active in 

Variety Clubs, Goffstein was past chief 

barker of the Albany and Las Vegas tent. 

He leaves his wife Dorothy and three 

daughters. 


Reade Calls Price-Fix 

Suit a 'Nuisance' 

NEW YORK—The price-fixing suit 

filed 

last week by Sack Theatres against The 

Walter Reade Organization in regard to the 

distribution of "Ulysses" at the Saxon Theatre 

in Boston was described by Walter 

Reade jr., president, as "a nuisance suit, 

nothing more than an emotional response 

to a recent court defeat suffered by Ben 

Sack when he tried to set his own policy 

on "Ulysses.' " 

The Sack suit, filed in Federal District 

Court, charges that the Reade Organization's 

distribution subsidiary. Continental, 

compelled Ben Sack, president of Sack Theatres, 

to charge $5.50 for evening performances 

and $4.00 for matinees during the 

current engagement of "Ulysses" at Sack's 

Saxon Theatre while other houses in other 

cities were charging lower prices. 

Reade noted that Sack originally exhibited 

the film at those prices for a three-day 

run at the Music Hall Theatre and after 

experiencing a huge gross, immediately 

sought an extended run of the picture. According 

to Reade, Sack bought the film then 

for his Saxon Theatre by paying a $25,000 

net guarantee versus percentage terms and 

signed a contract with the standard "Ulysses" 

terms including, among them the $5.50 

and $4.00 admission prices. "Prior to the 

reopening, he complained about the admission 

prices," Reade said, "and we offered 

to let him out of the contract and return 

the advance. Sack declined." 

Reade revealed that shortly after the film 

reopened, however. Sack changed the policy 

without consulting Continental, 

offering the 

film to the public in advertisements that 

violated the contract terms. "We took him 

to court and obtained an injunction against 

his exhibiting the film on any terms other 

than those specified," Reade said. The injunction 

was granted on July 21, 1967 by 

the Superior Court in Massachusetts. 

"Ulysses" is continuing in its run at the 

Saxon with the $5.50 and $4.00 at the present 

time. 

Ogden Corp. to Acquire 

ABC Consolidated 

NEW YORK—Ogden Corp., a diversified 

company with interests ranging from 

food processing to ship-building, will acquire 

ABC Consolidated, the food and refreshment 

service organization with widespread 

representation in theatres. 

The transaction, which was announced 

last week, involves issuance to ABC Consolidated 

shareholders of one-fifth of a share 

of new $3.75 cumulative convertible preferred 

stock, convertible into 3.0833 shares 

of Ogden common, and one-third of a share 

of Ogden common for each share of ABC 

Consolidated common. 

ABC would operate as an Ogden subsidiary, 

with its present management expected 

to remain. The agreement is subject to approval 

by the boards and stockholders of 

both companies. 

Marines Honor Bob Hope, 

Lee Marvin, Other Stars 

KANSAS CITY — The 44th annual 

Marine Corps League convention held in 

Kansas City Wednesday through Sunday 

( 16-20) brought to the area four film stars, 

who were presented awards for their work 

on behalf of marines around the world. 

Honored were Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Lee 

Marvin and John Russell, and Life photographer 

Larry Burrows. 

Marvin and Russell received the first 

annual Iron Mike awards for their efforts 

on behalf of the Marine Corps Reserve Civic 

Action Fund for Vietnam and Marine Recruiting. 

Both men are former marines. 

Marvin, who received the Purple Heart in 

World War II, earlier had hosted two benefit 

screenings of "The Dirty Dozen" at Durwood's 

Roxy Theatre, with proceeds going 

to the league's civic action program in Vietnam. 

Hope received the Iron Mike for his annual 

Christmas trips to Vietnam, and Miss 

Raye was the first recipient of the "Dickie" 

Chappell award, also for her outstanding 

service to marines in Vietnam. The award 

is named in honor of the famed war correspondent 

killed in Vietnam. Burrows received 

an award for his photographic essays 

on the war. 

SMPTE to Honor Bedford 

With Sarnoff Award 

NEW YORK—The Society of Motion 

Picture and Television Engineers has named 

Alda V. Bedford, a fellow of the David 

Sarnoff Research Center, in Princeton, N.J., 

as the recipient of the 1967 David Sarnoff 

Gold Medal Award. Bedford retired last 

June after completing nearly 42 years with 

RCA and its predecessor companies. 

The award will be presented to him on 

September 18 at a special awards program 

session to be held in conjunction with the 

Society's 102nd technical conference at the 

Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. 

The award is given in recognition of outstanding 

contributions in the development of 

new techniques or equipment which have 

contributed to the improvement of the engineering 

phases of television. Bedford holds 

more than 120 U.S. patents and is best 

known for his contributions to the principle 

of mixed highs, a keystone in the development 

of color television. 

Bogarde, Hartman, Holm 

Cast in MGM's 'Fixer' 

NEW YORK—Dirk Bogarde, Elizabeth 

Hartman and Ian Holm have been signed 

for the major roles in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 

production of Bernard Malamud's 

novel, "The Fixer," which Edward Lewis is 

producing and John Frankenheimer directing. 

Alan Bates had previously been signed for 

the title role in the film, which begins production 

in Budapest October 9. This will be 

the first American film to be shot entirely 

on locations in Hungary. Oscar-winning 

screenwriter Dalton Trumbo has adapted the 

book for the screen. 

Family of Filmmakers 

Sets First 3 Projects 

NEW YORK—Three film projects will 

go into production this fall and winter as 

co-production deals by members of the Family 

of Filmmakers (EOF), a loose association 

of some 18 production-distribution 

companies and eight studios throughout the 

world. FOF's members and their facilities 

are located in Europe, Israel, Japan and 

Turkey. Marion Gering, executive producer 

and spokesman for Gering Productions and 

the Family of Filmmakers Productions, Inc. 

(FOFP) of New York, both members of 

EOF, will serve as the executive producer on 

all co-productions made by the member 

companies. 

The first three film projects are "Encounter 

With Eros," "The Lisbon Episode," 

and "The Whim." "Eros" will begin filming 

in November with a nine-month shooting 

schedule covering Italy, Greece, France, 

England, Germany, Denmark, Finland and 

the U.S. Made in color, the feature will have 

two important stars from each country 

named and will be co-produced by FOFP, 

Inc., Gering Productions, Thilo Theilen Co. 

(Munich), Franstudio (Paris), Forum International 

(Rome). Hellas Film (Athens) 

and Laterna Studio (Copenhagen). 

"Episode" to be directed by George 

Freedland, in color January, 1968 will be 

shot in Portugal and Spain. Co-producers 

are Tobias Prouguesa (Lisbon), Balcazar 

Studio (Spain), FOFP, Inc., Gering Productions, 

Franstudio and Filmstudio (Rome). 

"The Whim" will begin production next 

April in color in Israel. Co-producers are 

Geva Films (Tel Aviv), Franstudio, Gering 

Productions, Thilo Theilen and FOFP, Inc. 

Seven other projects are being prepared 

for 1968 production. Other EOF members 

include OMNIA (Munich), Dear Film 

Productions (Rome), Daiei Ltd. and Toei 

Co. Ltd. (Tokyo), Benito Perojo (Madrid), 

Alfa Studio (Athens), Cinexport (Paris) 

and Fitas (Istanbul). 

Lester Linsk to Produce 

The Plot' for 20th-Fox 

HOLLYWOOD—Lester Linsk will produce 

one of 20th Century-Fox's most important 

new properties, Irving Wallace's 

best-selling novel, "The Plot," to be directed 

by Mark Robson, it was announced by 

Richard D. Zanuck, executive vice-president 

in charge of production. 

Now in its second printing, "The Plot," 

to be filmed as a Mark Robson production, 

starting in the spring, hit the national bestseller 

lists after less than two months in 

distribution. It is a Book-of-the-Month Club 

selection. 

Linsk joined 20th-Fox as a producer last 

spring after heading his own literary and 

talent agency for many years. He also is 

preparing the film version of the Martin 

Woodhouse novel, "Tree Frog," for 20th- 

Fox release. Woodhouse currently is writing 

the screenplay, which is slated to go before 

the cameras later this year with locations in 

London, Vienna and Africa. 


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MGM Acquires Film Rights 

To The Bushbabies' Novel 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayet has acquired motion 

picture rights to "The Bushbahies," a 

novel by William Stevenson published by 

Houghton-Mifflin in 1965. The film, set in 

Kenya following its independence from 

Britain, will be produced by Robert Maxwell 

and John Trent. Author Stevenson is currently 

writing the screenplay concerning a 

British teenage girl who follows her pet 

monkey (bushbaby) into the jungles while 

leaving for England. She is subsequently 

guided across Africa by her father's former 

plantation foreman, a native . . . "Evil 

Gun," MGM western starring Glenn Ford, 

Arthur Kennedy and Dean Jagger. began 

production in the mountain area near 

Durango. Mexico. Producer-director Jerry 

Thorpe will film here on location 

through August, before moving to Torreon. 

120 miles to the north. During the 

two-month shooting schedule, highlight sequences 

will include a massive Indian attack, 

the burning of a plague-ridden town and 

a showdown gun battle. The western adventure 

drama concerns the adventures of 

two rivals who join forces to rescue one of 

their wives following her kidnaping by the 

Comanches. Mexican actress Pilar Pellicer 

has the leading feminine role. Eric Bercovici 

and Charles Marquis Warren wrote the 

screenplay. 

George Schaefer Purchases 

Novel by Shirley Jackson 

Marking his entry into feature motion 

picture production, George Schaefer. multiple 

Emmy winner and long one of TV's 

most prestigious producer-directors, has purchased 

Shirley Jackson's novel. "We Have 

Always Lived in the Castle." for his Compass 

Productions. Schaefer has signed Irene 

and Louis Kamp to adapt the suspense 

drama for the screen. He plans to begin filming 

in March 1968 in two Massachusetts locales, 

Cambridge and Marblehead . . . Writer-producer-director 

Melville Shavelson, currently 

directing Lucille Ball. Henry Fonda 

and Van Johnson in "His, Hers and Theirs" 

for Desilu-Walden Productions, purchased 

the screen rights to Stanley Lovell's novel. 

"Of Spies and Stratagems." which he will 

develop as both a motion picture and television 

vehicle. Shavelson is currently collaborating 

on the screenplay with Jay Dratler 

. . . A screen original by Ernest Lehman. 

"A Man Against Himself." is being 

developed by producer Robert Enders for 

early production under his multiple-picture 

pact with MGM. John T. Kelly has been 

assigned to write the screenplay. Among 

Lehman's scripts were such successes as 

"West Side Story," "Sound of Music" and 

"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" . . . 

With the completion of the final draft by 

Cecelia Holland, producer Robert Arthur 

•By SYD CASSYD 

has scheduled the start of "The Crusades." 

for next spring for Universal release. The 

film will be a remake of Cecil B. DeMille's 

1935 feature, but will cover events of the 

First Crusade. 1095-1098. DeMille's concerned 

the Third Crusade. 100 years later. 

The film will be shot on location in Europe. 

No casting has been announced. 

John Boorman Will Direct 

MGM's 'Streamlined Baby' 

John Boorman, young English director, 

has been signed to direct MGM's "The 

Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamlined 

Baby," based on Tom Wolfe's collection 

of essays on the contemporary scene. 

The film, to be produced by Irwin Winkler 

and Robert Chartoff, is scheduled to begin 

production late this year. Boorman made 

his 

American directorial debut with MGM's 

recently completed "Point Blank," starring 

Lee Marvin and Angle Dickinson. His prior 

credits include "Having a Wild Weekend," 

starring the Dave Clark Five, and many 

acclaimed British TV programs . . . James 

Clavell. who will direct and co-produce with 

Richard Attenborough "The 31st Floor" for 

Paramount, set Tom Keyes to do the screenplay 

for the drama, to be filmed in Sweden 

sometime next year. Clavell, who is currently 

doing the screenplay of "Tai-Pan" 

from his own best-selling novel for MGM 

and producer Martin Ransohoff, currently 

has in release "To Sir, With Love," boxoffice 

hit for Columbia, which he wrote, 

produced and directed . . . John Beck, who 

produced the United Artists release, "Private 

Navy of Sergeant O'Farrell" in Puerto 

Rico, has returned and reports that conditions 

there are ideal for filmmaking. The 

film is the first to be shot entirely on the 

island, and was made there at the suggestion 

of the Defense Department due to the 

crowded conditions in Hawaii, producer's 

original choice of location. Harry Sukman 

has been signed to score. 

Edwards, Harrington Prepare 

The Guests' for Universal 

Universal exercised its option on the 

young producer-director team of George 

Edwards and Curtis Harrington, who recently 

completed "Games." for the studio. They 

are now preparing "The Guests." an original 

screenplay by Joseph Stefano. as their next 

Peter Matz, currently musical 

project . . . 

director for Yorkshire Productions' Kraft 

Music Hall series, makes his feature picture 

musical debut with the composing and conducting 

of the score for "Bye Bye Braverman," 

the Seven Arts-Sidney Lumet production. 

Lumet directed the film, which 

stars Alan King, Phyllis Newman, Godfrey 

Cambridge, George Segal, Jack Warden 

and Jessica Walter. Dwight Hemion and 

Gary Smith, Yorkshire toppers, are working 

out their scoring schedule to accommodate 

Matz' timetable . . . Producer Walter Seltzer 

planed to New York to confer with National 

Football League officials on plans for "Pro," 

professional football story to be produced by 

Seltzer and directed by Tom Gries, starring 

Charlton Heston in an original Leslie 

Stevens story, for United Artists release. 

Seltzer will then go to Athens for meetings 

with Heston on an untitled melodrama, with 

a European setting, which is on their future 

production program. 

Schell-Reade's The Castle' 

To Be Filmed in Color 

Maximilian Schell and Walter Reade jr., 

whose respective German and American 

firms are partnered in the projected film 

version of Franz Kafka's "The Castle," 

announced 

that the picture will be made in 

color, the first time a Kafka drama has been 

shot other than in black and white. Schell 

will produce and star in the drama 

Michael Morgotta, a member of 

. . . 

Screen 

Gem's new talent department and on loan 

from the television company, makes his 

motion picture debut in American International's 

"Wild in the Streets," for producers 

James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff 

Lynde and Wally Cox were set for 

"Silent Treatment," Ralph Andrews' independent 

film which stars Marty Ingels. 

Cameos are being done by Milton Berle, 

George Raft, Gene Autry, Maureen Arthur 

and Rowan and Martin . . . Bob Lussier, 

from the legitimate George Gobel production 

of "The Odd Couple," makes his Hollywood 

screen debut in "TTie Legend of Lylah 

Clare," an Associates and Aldrich production 

for MGM, starring Kim Novak, Peter 

Finch, Ernest Borgnine and Rossella Falk. 

Castings Include James Fox, 

Patrick Wayne, Tony Perkins 

James Fox, who last week was set for 

a major role in "Duffy," producer Martin 

Manulis" film shooting in Spain, will co-star 

with Jason Robards and Vanessa Redgrave 

in Universal's "Isadora," the story of famed 

dancer Isadora Duncan, which goes before 

the cameras in September. Robert Hakim 

will produce the Panavision film for Universal 

Pictures, Ltd., and Karel Reisz will 

direct. British actor Fox is currently being 

seen on the screens in Ross Hunter's production 

of "Thoroughly Modern Millie" . . . 

Another Wayne joins the motion picture entertainment 

supplied by the John Wayne 

family. Patrick, who was a star of last season's 

"The Rounders" television series, will 

co-star with his famous father in "The Green 

Berets," a Batjac production for Warner 

Bros. -Seven Arts, which the senior Wayne 

is co-directing with Ray Kellogg and his 

other son, Michael Wayne, is producing. 

Also starring in the film is David Janssen 

and Jim Hutton . . . Tony Perkins is being 

starred opposite Tuesday Weld in the Lawrence 

Turman production, "She Let Him 

Continue," which is currently being lensed in 

Great Barrington, Mass. Marshall Backlar 

and Noel Black are co-producers with Turman 

as executive producer. Black is also 

handling the directorial chores for the 20th- 

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

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

are reported, ratings are added and averages 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 ratings i.bove or below that mark. (Asterisk * denotes combination bills.) 

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George C. Scott Receives 

Award at Premiere 

NEW YORK~-The presentation of the 

first "Celia and Mom Award" to George C. 

Scott, one of the flim-flammed stars of 20th 

Century-Fox's "The Flim-Flam Man," was 

one of the many unique events taking place 

at the world premiere for press agents and 

public relations experts on Tuesday night 

( 22 ) at the Warner Theatre. 

The Mother and Daughter team are internationally 

known as 

the foremost seekers of 

celebrity autographs, and Celia, in spite of 

fierce competition, bears the title of "Queen 

of the Autograph Collectors." 

The scroll was presented in the theatre 

lobby prior to the premiere by popular ABC 

personality Fred Robbins. who served as 

master of ceremonies for the entire evening. 

Intensive lobby activity flowing out onto 

the street featured such authentic "con" experts 

as famed sleight-of-hand master Frank 

Garcia, a female sword swallower. an oldtime 

"Carney barker;" the Flim-Flam "Boy" 

of the Year, voluptuous Gina Martin from 

the Gaslight Club; two "put-on" girls 

plastered with tattoos giving out flim-flam 

scrolls to the more than 1.000 invited 

"flacks." 

Popular ABC personality Fred Robbins 

served as the master of ceremonies for the 

events, and presented the award in the form 

of a scroll. 

Following the premiere, "The Flim-Flam 

Man" also began a run at the Plaza Theatre 

the next day. 

Walsh in Honorary Post 

For Laboratories Salute 

NEW YORK—Richard F. Walsh, president 

of lATSE, will serve as honorary chairman 

of the Motion Picture and Television 

Industries Tribute to the Laboratory Technicians. 

The announcement was made by 

G. Carleton Hunt, president of DeLuxe 

Laboratories, and C. W. Vitello, president 

of Motion Picture Lab Technicians, Local 

702, lATSE, who are co-chairmen. 

The salute will pay honor to laboratory 

technicians for their contributions to the 

film industry and will culminate in a gala 

affair at the New York Hilton on May 18. 

1968. Donald P. Haggerty, business rep of 

Local 683, lATSE Lab Technicians in 

Hollywood, 

is 

serving as co-chairman. 

Du Art Labs Reports Net 

Up 14% for Half Year 

NEW YORK—Du Art Film Laboratories. 

Inc. reported sales of $3,267,832 and a net 

income of $99,772 for the first six months 

of 1967, ended June 30, which marks an 

increase of 14 per cent over the same period 

in 1966. Sales in 1966 were $2,864,255 and 

net income $88,146. 

According to Irwin Young, Du Art president, 

the steady growth of the company is 

due to its continuing expansion of plant 

facilities in both the New York office and in 

its Canadian laboratory subsidiary. Associated 

Screen Industries of Montreal. 

Lesser Opens 6th Unit 

Al Peekskill, N.Y. 

PEEKSKILL, N.Y.—Lesser Emerprises, 

headed by Howard Lesser, opened its 600- 

seat Beach Theatre here Tuesday (8) in the 

Beach Shopping Center as the sixth house 

in the circuit. The ultra-modern house has 

a first-run policy. 

Harold Tomkins, acting Peekskill mayor, 

officiated at ceremonies opening the house, 

which has free parking space available for 

2,000 cars. Also taking part in the filmclipping 

ceremonies were Louis E. McFadden, 

shopping center owner. Lesser and 

company officials 

RE-ELECTED 

Ed Linder, vice-president; 

PRESroENTS—Sidney 

J. Cohen, left, recently was re-elect- 

Ronald Lesser, secretary-treasurer, and Gerald 

Savoie, manager. State Sen. Bernard G. 

ed president of NATO of New York, 

Gordon also was on hand. 

and Howard Herman, right, was reelected 

head of the New Jersey Ass'n 

The new house features free coffee each 

evening in the lounge. 

of Theatre Owners at the recent annual 

convention of both organizations at the 

Concord, Kiamesha Lake. 

Jim Katz to New UA Post 

In European Publicity 

NEW YORK—Jim Katz has been appointed 

to a newly created European pro- 

'Festival' Chosen As Entry 

For Venice Film Fair 

duction publicity post, it was announced 

by Fred Goldberg, 

NEW YORK—"Festival," an independent 

American film produced, directed and 

vice-president. Katz 

will be involved in all 

photographed by Murray Lerner, has been 

areas of production 

selected as an American entry to the Venice 

publicity in Europe 

Film Festival now in progress. The fulllength 

feature film will be in a non-competi- 

under the supervision 

of David Chasman, 

tive category. 

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United Artists head of 

Photographed at the Newport Folk Festival, 

the film features most of the top 

lî ^1^^^' production in the 

folk 

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singers prominent 

^^^^^^^ United Kingdom, and 

today, including Joan 

Baez, Theodore Bikel, Judy Collins, Bob ^^^ ^HHh Saul Cooper, United 

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Dylan, Donovan, Odetta, Peter, Paul and Jim Katz 

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production publicity 

Mary, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Pete Seeger. 

for the United Kingdom and Continental 

"Festival" will be shown the evening of 

Europe. Katz will be based in London. 

August 31 and Lerner will attend the 

A member of the UA publicity department 

since 1961, Katz has served succes- 

showing. 

sively as a staff writer, syndicate and radiotelevision 

contact. He then worked in Eng- 

Drive-In Projectionists 

land and Egypt as publicity coordinator on 

Extend Contracts a Year 

Julian Blaustein's Cinerama production of 

BUFFALO—Ten of the 11 area drive-ins "Khartoum." a UA release. Katz, a graduate 

of Ohio State University, was named 

and Local 233 of the Motion Picture Machine 

Operators have agreed to extend their UA publicity director in July 1966. 

contracts for an additional year, according 

to Kenneth J. Kavanagh, business representative 

of the local. During that time wages, 

Loew's Theatres Planning 

employment conditions and manpower requirements 

will remain unchanged. NEW YORK — Loew's Theatres and 

To Move Headquarters 

Kavanagh said the 1-290 Drive-In at Hotels will leave its own building in the 

Tonawanda is not involved, since its contract 

does not expire until September. 

to three floors of space in the Tishman 

Times Square area next spring and move 

BIdg.. at 666 Fifth Ave. 

Two 

MGM, which was affiliated with Loew's 

Join New York ITO 

prior to divorcement, moved out of the 

NEW YORK—The Cinema Theatre in Loew's Bldg. last year when its own new 

Brooklyn, operated by Meyer Ackerman skyscraper on Sixth Avenue was completed. 

and Alan Pinsker, and the Beach Theatre in Loew's has taken a 20-year lease on space 

Peekskill. N. Y., operated by Howard and presently occupied by the Benton & Bowles 

Ronald Lesser, have joined the Independent Advertising Agency in the Fifth Avenue 

Theatre Owners of New York. The Beach, building, which also houses offices for WB-7 

located in the Beach Shopping Center, opened 

Wednesday (9). The Cinema, on the 

Arts. Loew's will lease the entire building. 

Kings Highway site of the burned-out Jewel 

Theatre, opened Wednesday (23). 

Universal's "House of Cards" will be 

filmed entirely in Europe. 

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Tumble fo Vp the Down Staircase 

NEW YORK — Unseasonably cool Street Playhouse, did 190 in its first stanza, 

weather prevails for August and theatremen "Taming of the Shrew" followed its first 

seem to be reaping the rewards of the lack week's solid gross with a 180 in its second 

of sunshine and the abundance of rain. New week at the Baronet. And "Doctor Zhiva- 

Yorkers and the muhitiide of tourists are go," which has played off in all markets in 

spending more time than ever going to the the metropolitan area, did 195 in its second 

movies in place of their favorite seashore week on a return date at the Guild, 

resorts and camping areas this summer. A very special case was the big grosses 

A large portion of New York moviegoers registered by "To Sir, With Love" at the 

headed for Radio City Music Hail, where Cinema 57 Rendezous, in its third week, 

"Up the Down Staircase" finally opened af- playing against saturation bookings around 

ter the record 12-week run of "Barefoot in the city. The picture at this art spot was hitthe 

Park." The film did great business, al- ing as good grosses as ever seen by the vetthough 

it has played most of its major eran theatre. 

first-run engagements around the nation. "The Birds, the Bees and the Italians" 

This had been a cause of concern since the was still drawing strongly at the Tower East 

tourist trade is an important part of the in its second week. Long lines on weekends 

Music Hall business. But worries vanished were seen at this small art theatre, 

when "Staircase" broke the all-time opening (Average is loo) 

Ht., rp^,-,rH thpn fnlln\A;pH hv «mfi>;hino the Beekman The family Woy (WB-7A), 8th wk. ..175 

day record, tnen toiiowea oy smasnmg me 

capitoi— in the Heat o* the Night (UA), 3rd wk. 225 

all-time weekday record and finally topped cinema 1— Enter Laughing (Coi), 3rd wk I80 

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nonhollday Saturday and nonholl- 

Cinema II Accident (Cinema V), 17th wk 175 

Cmema 57 Rendezvous—To Sir, With Love (Col), 

day Sunday highs to chalk up the best openco?onet-Luv(coi);4th 

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ins during a nonholiday period. The film Criterion—Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

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was ahead of boxottice business tor trie oeMiiie—Bom Losers (Aip) ISO 

Music Hall at this time last year. 

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The other really impressive boxoffice Fine Arts a Man tor am Seasons (Col), 37th wk. 

story came from the Capitol and 86th Street Fomm^Bonnie' ond ciyde (WB-7a') ".'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.225 

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East, where "In the Heat of the Night" in Lin^ln A^rt—Woman Times Seven (Embassy), 

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its third week was doing fantastic business. Little Carnegie Jhe whisperers (ijA), 3rd wk. ..165 

1 ^ u- .u J . j,.,„„ fU^ Loew's state—The Bible (20th-Fox), 47th wk. 

nearly matching the records set during the ^^ two-a-day 1 75 

initial two weeks. Not far behind was the LoeWs Tower East—The Birds, the Bees and the 

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Itolions (Cloridge), 

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2nd wk 190 

success of Bonnie and Clyde, a film which Murray Hill— Bonnie and Clyde (WB-7A), 8th wk. 225 

came into the city on an avalanche of con- ''Tth^";''k''"'":'^^^^°"""'.'^''^'!^^:^^' I80 

troversv stirred up by the New York Times Pans—a Man and a Woman (AA), 58th wk 190 

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and Time magazine comments about its be- (wb-7A) 350 

ing a poor choice for the U.S. entry at the 

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Montreal Film Festival. However, the film Sutton—Privilege (Umv), 4th wk 175 

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34th street East Ski on the Wild Side (Sigma III), 

3rd wk I60 

genuine audience attraction. Returns for its 

^rans-Lux East-Beach^ Red_^,UA,,^3rd^wk.. ..... 150 

first week at the Forum and Murray Hill Trans-Lux 85th street— Ulysses (Cont'i), 22nd wk. 175 

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Victoria 

The Love-Ins (Col) 155 

indicated a lengthy run. Warner—The St. Valentine's Day Massacre 

(20th-Fox), 

The other new entry was "Born Losers," 

4th wk 130 

replacing "Luv" at the big DeMille Theatre. 

Business was good but will probably be bet- 'Fathom' Bows in at 120 

ter in the neighborhood and general market At Buffalo Century Theatre 

playoff. BUFFALO — "Fathom" was the only 

Three roadshow attractions showed lots newcomer to downtown Buffalo and manof 

boxoffice pull back on regular runs. "Ha- aged a 120 in its dual engagement at the 

waii," daydating at the Astor and 68th Century Theatre and the Buffalo Drive-In. 

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"Hawaii" in its 18th week at the Granada 

hit 130. "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and 

"Taming of the Shrew" also had 130 in their 

fifth week at the Colvin and Shea's Teck 

respectively. 

Buttalo The Way West (UA), 2nd wk 100 

Century Fathom (20th-Fox) 120 

Cinema, Amherst Barefoot in the Pork (Para), 

6th wk 125 

Colvin Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 5th wk. 130 

Granoda Hawaii (UA), 18th wk 130 

Teck The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 5th wk. . .130 

"Dirty Dozen,' To Sir, With Love' 

250 in Long Baltimore Runs 

BALTIMORE—"The Dirty Dozen" and 

"To Sir, With Love" were still rocking merrily 

along in their second month and grossing 

at a 250 rate. Right on their heels came 

"I, a Woman," double average in a 14th 

week at the Little Theatre; everything else 

on a Baltimore screen rated in the 125-180 

range. 

Charles—A Man for All Seasons (Col), 25th wk. . . 1 70 

Crest A Guide for the Married Man (20th-Fox), 

4th wk 125 

Edmondson Village Thoroughly Modern Millie 

(Univ), 11th wk 170 

Five West Mode in Italy (Royal) 1 50 

Little I, a Woman (Audubon), 1 4th wk 200 

Mayfair The Family Way (WB-7A), 2nd wk. ...175 

New—The Trip (AIP) 150 

Northwood The Naked Runner (WB-7A), 

3rd wk 150 

Playhouse To Sir, 

Reisterstown Plaza 

With Love (Col), 5th wk 

Divorce AMERICAN Style 

250 

(Col), 6th wk 180 

Senator Up the Down Staircase (WB-7A), 

6th wk 150 

Seven East Mandragola (SR), 3rd wk 150 

Town Grond Prix (MGM), 1 3th wk 160 

Westview Cinema, York Road Cinema The Dirty 

Dozen (MGM), 7th wk 250 

Warhol's 'L a Man' Bows 

At NYC Hudson Theatre 

NEW YORK— "I, a Man," Andy Warhol's 

new feature film, had its world premiere 

Thursday (24) at the Hudson Theatre. 

Like all Warhol films, it was written, directed, 

photographed and produced by the versatile 

pop artist. 

The picture stars Tom Baker and a cast 

whose names alone have become synonymous 

with the Warhol movement: Ingrid 

Superstar, Bettina Coffin and Valerie 

Solanis. "I, a Man" is described as a comedy 

detailing today's youth and its attitudes to 

sex and toward one another on the life of 

one man." 

James Brennan Retires; 

Stanley Warner Official 

NEW YORK—James M. Brennan, assistant 

treasurer and assistant secretary of 

Stanley Warner Theatres, retired last week 

after 54 years of continuous service. 

Brennan started in Philadelphia in 1912 

with the Mastbaum Bros, and F. Fleisher in 

their real estate firm. In 1914. he joined the 

Stanley Co. of America, staying with that 

organization through its many changes until 

the current Stanley Warner Corp. had 

evolved. A brief hiatus for service in World 

was Brcnnan's only departure. 

War I 

Smithers Joins M&R 

CHERRY HILL, N.J.—Stanley Smithers, 

formerly of Milgram Theatres based in 

Philadelphia, has been appointed general 

manager of Marshal & Roed Theatres, with 

headquarters here, announced Carl Marshall 

of the circuit. 

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For NY Film Festival 

NEW YORK—The first selections for the 

Fifth New York Film Festival at Lincoln 

Center were announced last week by program 

director Richard Roud who heads the 

program committee composed of Arthur 

Knight, Andrew Sarris. Susan Sontag and 

Amos Vogel. the festival's director. 

To be held this year September 20-30 in 

Philharmonic Hall, the festival will show 25 

features and numerous shorts. Roud named 

the following as the first group of selected 

films: from France — Roberto Rossellini's 

AT 'TRIP' SCREENING — Shown 

in the lobby of the Rivoli Theatre in 

New York, a fevf minutes before the 

start of a special all-media screening 

of American Intemationars "The 

Trip," which opened at the Rivoli and 

72d Street Playhouse on Wednesday 

(23), are Ralph Donnely, general manager 

of Associated Independent Theatres; 

John Endress, managing director 

of the Rivoli Theatre, and Howard 

Mahler, division manager, Trans-Beacon 

(AIP Buffalo-New York-Albany 

franchise). "The Trip," which stars 

Peter Fonda and Susan Strasberg, was 

produced and directed by Roger Gorman. 

corporations for its replenishment. 

Philip Carey Co. Elevates 

Humphrey, Tennesson 

NEW YORK—John W. Humphrey and 

Charles E. Tennesson jr., have been elected 

chairman of the board and president and 

'Wizard of Oz' to NBC-TV chief executive officer, respectively, of the 

For Next Five Years 

Philip Carey Mfg. Co., subsidiary of Glen 

Alden Corp., effective September 1 

NATIONAL—The National Broadcasting 

Co. has won the television rights to 

Humphrey came to Carey as executive 

vice-president in 1948 and was elected president 

in 1949. Tennesson, vice-president of 

MGM's "The Wizard of Oz" by agreeing to 

pay $800,000 per showing each year for a 

Glen Alden, and since June assistant to the 

five-year contract period. NBC's competitor, 

president of Carey, was formerly president 

the Columbia Broadcasting System, controlled 

the TV rights to the film for the past 

and general manager of Aetna Portland Cement 

Co., Bay City, Mich., and also president 

of Capitol Cement Co., Washington, 

decade, but did not meet the renewal figure 

when their contract expired. CBS had been 

D.C. 

paying $200,000 each year per annual TV 

airing of the classic. 

Made in 1939 and starring Judy Garland Martin Heller Quits 20th-Fox 

in the role for which she is most famous, 

To Join Law Corporation 

"The Wizard of Oz" is believed to be one of 

the most popular films ever shown 

NEW YORK— 

on 

Martin Heller announced 

the 

his resignation from 

small screen with 

20th Century-Fox. effective 

estimated home viewing 

of upwards from 

September 5 to 

15,700,000 homes 

become a partner in 

last 

the law firm of 

year. While some 

Regan, Goldfarb, Powell 

films have & 

received higher 

Quinn, where he will specialize as counsel 

prices on the TV market place, no picture 

in the motion picture, entertainment 

has been 

and 

leased for such a lengthy period 

communications industries. 

for prime-time airing at such a top price. 

Heller joined 20th-Fox as a member of 

the legal department in 1963, and became 

the executive assistant to Seymour Poe, then 

ATTENTION 

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GETTING executive vice-president in 1965. Prior to 

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joining 20th-Fox from 1951 to 1963, Heller 

had been a member of the legal departments 

STRIPS of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the American 

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Broadcasting Co. and RKO Radio Pictures. 

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contributions by Godard, Resnais, Lelouch, 

Chris Market, et al; West Germany's "Yesterday 

Girl" directed by Alexander Kluge; 

Yugoslavia's "Affair of the Heart" directed 

by Dusan Makavejev; Sweden's "Puss & 

Kram" ("Hugs and Kisses") directed by 

Jonas Cornell; Russia's "A Mother's Heart" 

directed by Mark Donskoi; from Poland 

Jerzy Skolimowski's "Barrier" and "Le Depart" 

both international film festival prize 

winners from this young Polish filmmaker, 

and Hungary's "Father" directed by Istvan 

Szago and this year's grand prize winner at 

the Moscow Film Festival. 

The remainder of the program schedule 

will be announced in the next two weeks. 

The festival is underwritten by the Lincoln 

Center Fund which depends upon the contributions 

from individuals, foundations and 

Martin Ransohoff will produce "Castle 

Keep," starring Burt Lancaster, to be released 

through Columbia. 

Max, Richard Fleischer 

To Be Given Tribute 

NEW YORK—What is described as "the 

first father-son film festival in film history" 

was announced last week for the Gallery of 

Modern Art by film curator and program 

director Raymond Rohauer. Beginning November 

20 for two weeks, the Gallery will 

present "A Tribute to Max and Richard 

Fleischer." 

The retrospective tribute will include the 

best features and many of the shorts directed 

by Richard Fleischer, such as "Compulsion," 

"The Vikings," "20,000 Leagues Under the 

Sea," "The Narrow Margin," "The Happy 

Time," and "Violent Saturday." His father. 

Max Fleischer, the pioneer cartoonist best 

remembered for the "Popeye" and "Betty 

Boop" series, will be represented by a large 

selection of his widely known cartoons. Both 

father and son will appear in person on the 

opening night when a compilation film of 

scenes from their work will be shown. 

Richard Fleischer's next film to be released 

commercially is 20th-Fox's roadshow 

Christmas presentation, "Dr. Dolittle." He 

is currently working on the pre-production 

of "The Boston Strangler" and on "Tora, 

Tora, Tora," both 20th-Fox pictures. 

NSS Promotes Gurvey 

To New Orleans Mgr. 

NEW YORK—Leslie Gurvey, National 

Screen salesman in Cincinnati, has been promoted 

to the post of New Orleans branch 

manager effective October 2. He will succeed 

Stewart Harnell, who is being moved to 

the post of branch manager in the Atlanta 

office. 

Gurvey has been part of National Screen's 

training program and has served successively 

as an apprentice salesman in Chicago and 

as a salesman in Cincinnati, before his appointment 

to New Orleans. He is the fourth 

training program graduate to have achieved 

branch manager status during the past six 

months. 

Paul Baise Is Candidate 

For Ampa Presidency 

NEW YORK — Paul Baise has been 

nominated for the presidency of the Associated 

Motion Pictures Advertisers by a committee, 

which met to draw up a slate of 

officers and directors for the 1967-68 term. 

Candidates for officers and directors are: 

Vice-president, Bernard Serlin; treasurer, 

Hans Barnstyn; secretary, Ira Teller, and 

directors, Melvin L. Gold (chairman): Ted 

Arnow, Harry K. McWilliams, Sam Horwitz 

and Vincent Trotta. Trustees nominated are 

Ray Gallo (chairman), Dave Bader and 

Charles Powell. 

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^HE TWO likely candidates for the retrospective 

programs at the forthcoming 

fifth New York Film Festival are Rouben 

Mamoulian's masterpiece, "Applause," 

which features Helen Morgan in one of the 

great performances of all time, and Abel 

Gance"s complete, five-hour version of 

"Napoleon," courtesy of the Cinematheque 

Francaise. "Applause," by the way, would 

probably be a lost film if it were not for the 

dedicated efforts of one interested film historian 

who helped to resuscitate this littleknown 

but vitally impressive early sound 

film which Paramount originally released. 

For the "Here Today. Gone Tomorrow" 

deparlmeiu were the weekend ads (18,19) 

for A IP's "The Trip" which carried the 

Motion Picture Ass'n of America code symbol. 

The company's ad agency made the initial 

error that then went un-noticed. The 

irony is of course that AIP is not an MPAA 

member and that picture would undoubtedly 

liave problems with the code if AIP were. 

The National Catholic Office of Motion 

Pictures has given the picture a "condemned" 

rating. 

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For the "End of an Era," but a brief 

"Era," is the fast dismantling of the "You 

Only Live Twice" billboard over the Astor 

and Victoria theatres. Broadway observers 

are taking wagers on what goes up next. 

BoxoFFicE will put its money on 20th-Fox's 

"Doctor Dolittle." That company used the 

space for its "THE BIBLE ... In the Beginning" 

advertisement last winter. 

At least one of the four films for NATO 

Fall Film Fair will have a couple of love 

scenes the likes of which television viewers 

will never see on their home screens. The 

nude lovemaking between Angle Dickinson 

and Lee Marvin and between Angle Dickinson 

and John Vernon is strictly for the 

movies, that is, those recommended for mature 

audiences. The film is MGM's "Point 

Blank," which is the otily non-western 

among the NATO foursome. 

Director Gordon Douglas is in New York 

to scout locations for the latest film to be 

made in the city. Douglas will begin filming 

here October 9 on "The Detective," starring 

Frank Sinatra and his wife Mia Farrow and 

Lee Remick. Aaron Rosenberg is the producer, 

who should arrive in town next week. 

The producer and director recently completed 

Sinatra's "Tony Rome," and will be 

reteamed next year in its sequel "Lady in 

Cement." All three films are 20th-Fox releases. 

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Columbia Pictures explained that telephone 

jam-up Friday (IS) at its home office 

here was the residt of a highly successful 

phone-in contest run by station WPIX in 

behalf of the New York premiere of Sam 

Katzman's "The Love-Ins" at the Victoria. 


The first 50 to call Columbia were admitted 

free and all of New York tried to call in to 

see the film for nothing. 

A rather interesting case in criminal court 

last month brought a ruling from three 

judges that any person can shoot film, have 

it developed and printed of anything he 

desires so long as he does not intend it to 

be viewed publicly. Many of the so-called 

"underground" filmmakers whose stock-intrade 

is exploiting the sexual side of life in 

their home-movies can now shoot whatever 

footage they want and no lab can call the 

cops as was the case against experimental 

filmmaker Andy Noren, whose case brought 

the important judgment from the court. For 

the filmmaker, he will be able to expand his 

footage to get results once legally unobtainable 

because of censor restrictions on what 

can and cannot be developed. 

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On the magazine covers this month. 20th- 

Fox's "Valley of the Dolls" has captured the 

current issue of Look with the likes of 

Sharon Tate, Patty Duke and Barbara 

Parkins. Vanessa Redgrave makes a stunning 

covergirl on the September McCall's, 

while inside is Brigitte Bardot in the upcoming 

Paramount release "Two Weeks in September." 

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Harold J. Mirisch and his wife have returned 

to the U.S. after an extended visit to 

Europe . . . Ruth Pologe, AIP's eastern 

advertising and publicity director, is off to 

the West Coast for a week of conferences 

on the upcoming release "Wild in the 

Streets," which stars Shelley Winters, Diane 

Varsi and Hal Holbrook . . . Sharon Tate, 

one of the dolls from 20th-Fox's "Valley of 

the . . 

." is in town to ballyhoo the fall 

release . . . Joseph Hardy, head of Basil 

Productions, has returned from Copenhagen 

where his company is producing "Dr. Glas," 

under the direction of Mai Zetterling. 

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Danny Kaye last week made a public 

report at the USO headquarters here on 

his itMuguration trip to the new USO Pacific 

Hospital circuit in southeast Asia. The 

new circuit has been organized to arrange 

for entertaining and for celebrities to visit 

the wounded evacuated from Vietnam. Several 

days earlier Joan Crawford was at Kennedy 

International Airport to see off a 

group of American beauties headed for 

Vietnam to entertain service men. This 

group was sponsored by USO Shows in association 

with the Pepsi-Cola Co., of which 

Miss Crawford is a board member. Miss 

America Jane Anne Jayroe of Laverne, 

Okla., was one of the girls going on the tour. 

• 

The National Society of Film Critics is 

issuing releases recommending current films 

in the New York area. Its two most recent 

choices are UA's "In the Heat of the Night" 

and Altura Films" "The Exterminating 

Angel," the controversial Luis Bunuel picture. 

The society is made up of a dozen leading 

magazine critics 

from New York. 

• 

AIP has sent out a couple of interesting 

items: Actor Mike Blodgett, who appears 

as Susan Strasberg's secret lover in "The 

Trip," was a member of the U.S. Olympic 

swimming team in 1956 and AIP's property 

master Karl Brainard was the set director on 

Henry Fonda's first film, 20th-Fox's "The 

Fanner Takes a Wife" in 1935. He now 

has moved into another generation, working 

with Peter Fonda, Henry's son, on "The 

Trip." 

• 

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon R. Weaver jr. have 

announced the birth of a son Matthew Scott, 

born Sunday (20) in New Brunswick, N.J. 

Weaver is a member of the MGM home office 

publicity team. The Weavers have a 

2-year-old daughter Melanie. And Sal Billitteri, 

AIP's East Coast production head, is 

the grandfather of a girl Elizabeth Margaret, 

born to Dr. and Mrs. John F. Lundie of 

New York. 

• 

Robert S. Benjamin has been elected a 

trustee of Brandeis University at Waltham, 

Mass. Benjamin, chairman of the board of 

United Artists, president of the J. Arthur 

Rank Organization, and a partner in the law 

firm of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin & Kriin, 

assumes his board duties immediately. A 

Brandeis fellow prior to his election as a 

trustee, he is a member of the University's 

board of overseers for theatre arts and has 

advised the university in the production of 

motion pictures. 

Kaufman to BV 

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NEW YORK — Jacob J. Kaufman has 

been appointed Cleveland exchange sales 

representative under east central district 

manager Pat Halloran for Buena Visita. 

Prior to joining the Disney distribution 

subsidiary, Kaufman was booker and buyer 

for the Washington Theatre Circuit in 

Cleveland. He also served as sales manager 

for Universal Film exchanges in New York, 

and as theatre supervisor and booker for 

S&S Amusement Co. in Cincinnati. 

Lara Lindsay will have a featured role 

in 20th Century-Fox's "The Sweet Ride." 

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glR CHARLES EVANS, vice-president of 

the Film Production Ass'n, has indicated 

he would be leaving the association 

now that the task of uniting all producers 

into one organization in this country has 

been completed. Sir Charles at one time was 

the director-general of the British Film Producers 

Ass'n which amalgamated some nine 

months ago with the Federation of Filmmakers. 

Surrounded by a galaxy of organized 

and administrative talent from both 

producer bodies. Sir Charles still possessed 

the gift of making the British contribution 

to the various world film festivals something 

unique and splendid. The former vice-admiral 

to NATO came from the same training 

school as Lord Louis Mounlbatten and possessed 

the similar charm and panache in 

tackling the various problems facing the 

BFPA on a worldwide basis. His contacts in 

the ambassadorial and diplomatic field were 

both immense and impressive. 

There are few countries in Europe or Asia 

which are without men of distinction that 

Sir Charles can call on for the occasional 

favor or grand gesture. Although he is 

leaving 

the FPA as its 

vice-president, the association 

will still use his services for special 

international functions and it is understood 

that he will also be working in an important 

capacity in the film industry. 

The early establishment of a national 

film school which would be set up and 

equipped at public expense was recommended 

in a report published under the chairmanship 

of Professor Lord Lloyd of Hampstead. 

The committee responsible for the report 

was appointed in 1965 by the government 

to consider the need for such a school. No 

government decision has been taken on it 

but Miss Jennie Lee, the minister responsible 

for the arts, writes in the foreword that 

early publication had been arranged so that 

those interested in its recommendations may 

express their views before any decision is 

made. The report sets out arguments against 

the establishment of a school: That creative 

talent cannot be conferred by training; that 

working one's way up is a more effective 

training and that a film school could be too 

easily academic. But the report also concludes 

that there is a real need for a national 

film school from which the national culture, 

the film industry and the economy would all 

benefit. 

The report recommends that the national 

school should be established as soon as possible 

in the London area to provide full time 

professional training in the creative aspects 

of filmmaking for those showing outstanding 

promise. 

* * * 

News in brief: The latest Elizabeth Taylor 

and Richard Burton picture, directed by 

Joseph Losey, began production last week 

on location in Alghero, Sardinia. The most 

ambitious project undertaken by Universal 

Pictures, Ltd., to date, it is from an original 

By ANTHONY GRUNER 

screenplay by Tennessee Williams and is 

titled "Sunburst," based on his short story, 

"Man, Bring This Up Road." Also starring 

in the film will be Noel Coward, who plays 

the part of "the witch." This part was originally 

written for an actress and has now been 

revised by Williams to conform with the casting. 

John Heyman, whose initial effort for 

Universal Pictures, Ltd., was "Privilege," is 

the producer. Formerly an agent, Heyman 

once represented the Burtons . . . "The 

Touchables" a modernistic comedy, is to be 

produced by John Bryan for 20th-Fox. 

The film will be directed by Bob Freeman, 

who also wrote the script. Freeman is well 

known as a photographer and a director of 

documentaries. This will be his first feature 

picture. "The Touchables," described by 

Freeman as a "time-slice happening," is a 

fast-paced story about four girls who become 

involved with a young entertainer 

whom they eventually keep as their prisoner. 

The picture, to be filmed in color, goes into 

production September 4. It will be made in 

London and on location in the Lake region. 

Michael S. Laughlin is producing and 

Mike Same directing "Joanna," a pointed 

modern comedy, for 20th Century-Fox. This 

will be made for 20th-Fox by Laughlin 

Films, Ltd., in color and Panavision. Same, 

well-known former pop singer, gained attention 

with his short subject, "The Road to St. 

Tropez." "Joanna," the story of a provincial 

girl who gets entangled in the confused morality 

of today's London—marks his first effort 

as a director of feature films. "Joanna" 

will be made mostly on locations in London 

and the comedy will have a good deal of 

music integrated in its story . . . United 

Artists' "Twist of Sand" is scheduled to 

transfer to the south of Spain for three 

weeks, after five weeks of location shooting 

on the island of Malta. The Christina production, 

produced by Fred Engel and directed 

by Don Chaffey, stars Richard Johnson, 

Honor Blackman, Jeremy Kemp, Roy 

Dotrice, Peter Vaughan and Clifford Evans. 

The contemporary adventure story set in the 

Mediterranean and the southwest coast of 

Jenkins. 

Back at 

MGM's Boreham Wood studios 

Africa, was scripted by Marvin H. Albert 

and Eric Bercovici from the novel of Geoffrey 

after two weeks of location shooting in Scotland, 

Mirisch-United Artists "Submarine 

X-l" stars James Caan and features David 

Sumner, Norman Bowler, Brian Grellis, 

Paul Young, William Dysart and Kenneth 

Farrington. The World War II drama is 

produced by John C. Champion, with Irving 

Temaner as executive producer, while William 

Graham directs from a screenplay by 

Donald S. Sanford and Guy Elmes . . . 

The publicity departments of Rank Film 

Distributors is to be re-formed. The new 

arrangements are designed to give more 

publicity support to 

the growing number of 

British, American and foreign films handled 

by the Rank Organization in many parts of 

the world. The specialized activities of the 

overseas division department, to be headed 

by Lawrence A. Bellew, will be expanded to 

include the appointment of a head office 

executive who will be based in Paris and 

who will have special responsibilities to assist 

with the coordination of publicity of 

continental films in the many countries 

where the Rank Organization distributes 

them. 

British KRS Is Seeking 

End of Film Quota 

LONDON—Following the earlier move 

taken by the Cinematograph Exhibitors 

Ass'n in recommending to the Board of 

Trade that the British film quota system be 

held in abeyance a year at a time, the Kinematograph 

Renters Society has declared its 

intention to press for the abolition and suspension 

of the film quota machinery. 

In its recommendations to the Board on 

"future film legislation," the Renters stated: 

"Quota is no longer necessary. It is not and 

should not be a reason for making films. 

Producers now enjoy the substantial financial 

benefits of the levy, in addition to 

substantial overseas markets and important 

TV residuals, whereas none of these advantages 

was available when quota was first 

introduced. Nor was there financial assistance 

through the National Film Finance 

Corp." 

The Film Production Ass'n of Great 

Britain, however, wants to maintain the 

quota "because this is a safety net which 

deters exhibitors from seeking foreign 

films 

at lower prices in preference to British 

films." 

KRS said, "Quota achievements clearly indicate 

that British films are now played on 

their commercial merits and that exhibitors 

are no longer influenced by the existence of 

quota." 

500 India Theatres to Close 

In Protest of Tax Hike 

BOMBAY—Approximately 500 theatres 

in Maharashtra will close indefinitely, beginning 

September I, in protest over an increase 

in the entertainment tax by the state 

government. Levies of from 75 per cent to 

155 per cent on the admission price may 

be imposed by municipalities, plus a 25 per 

cent levy on the admission price for trailers 

and advertising slides. The decision to shut 

down the theatres in protest against the tax 

hike, "which would ruin the industry," was 

made jointly by the IMPPA, Producers' 

Guild, IMPDA, CEAI, TOA and KRS, Ltd., 

together with the Employees' Ass'n. 

Dimitri to AI-TV in Paris 

NEW YORK— Michele Dimitri 

has been 

named European representative for American 

International-TV. Prior to her appointment, 

she was a representative for TV Cinema 

in Paris, where she will he headquartered 

in 

her new post. 

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ALBANY 

T ocal industryites were saddened at the 

death of Benny Goffstein, 59, Las 

Vegas, Nov., motel operator, who at one 

time was an active Albany Variety Club 

member while serving as circulation manager 

for the Times-Union. After moving to 

Las Vegas, he helped organize the tent there 

and served as chief barker . . . Esquire Theatres 

reportedly will reopen the Players 

Theatre, New Hartford, in October following 

renovations, which included removal of 

the stage and addition of several hundred 

seats. In recent years the house has been 

used for Civic Players stage productions. 

Seen at the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts twin 

preview of "Wait Until Dark" and "Firecreek" 

in the Cinema Delaware: Ben Resnik, 

Mendel Shulman, Ray Smith, Howard 

Goldstein, Sid Sommer, Irene Econome, Bill 

Barrington, Joe Stowell, John Kennedy. Bill 

Moran, Herb Gaines, Bob Adler, Robert 

Krieger and Martin P. Kelley . . . M. Fred 

Rosenblatt, brother and partner of Samuel 

E. Rosenblatt, Acme Theatres, Inc., president, 

recently returned from a flying trip to 

Israel. Among the places he visited was 

Natanya, where Ben Resnik of Cobleskill 

still has a partnership in the Guild and 

Studio theatres. Natanya, ten miles from the 

border, was the bombing target for Arab 

planes, and a bomb fell near a Resnik theatre, 

but caused no damage to the house. 

Paramount Pictures' suit for recovery of 

$98,401 paid in license charges under the 

invalidated New York motion picture licensing 

law is on the court of claims calendar 

for September 6 . . . Dick Deacey. Columbia 

salesman, is back on the job tanned 

and rugged after two weeks training with 

the Marine Corps Reserve at Little Creek, 

Va. . . . Gene Lowe, Westebbe salesman, 

celebrated a birthday August 19. He began 

his film distribution career in Buffalo in 

May, 1919, and has been a resident of 

Schenectady for years . . . Twentieth Century-Fox 

sneak previewed "The Flim-Flam 

Man" at the Stanley Warner Strand August 

18. Arrangements were made by 20th-Fox 

sales representative Jack Keegan with SW 

zone manager Joe Stowell and Strand Manager 

John F. Kennedy. 

Mrs. Jane Baker of the Howard Goldstein 

Glen Drive-In, Glens Falls, is believed 

to be the only woman managing a drive-in 

Walter Terping has taken over the 

in this exchange territory. Mrs. Baker formerly 

headed Tri-State"s concession stand 

there. Lou Jefford manages the Lake 

George Drive-In for Goldstein, and Ken 

Mosher handles the Dix. The Fort Warren 

Drive-In at Castleton, Vt., will switch to 

weekend operations after Labor Day, when 

Manager Herb Goldstein resumes his teaching 

position in the Troy public school system. 

Capitol 

in Richfield Springs and is being assisted 

by his wife . . . Max Westebbe, distributor 

of independent product in the Albany- 

Buffalo territories, was discharged from Albany 

Medical Center after a ten-day stay . . . 

Jack McGrath. president of Albany Theatre 

Supply Co., faced an additional eye 

operation at Child's Hospital . . . Rose Norcus 

has resigned as 20th-Fox booker . . . 

The father of Alan V. Iselin, Iselin Enterprises, 

is planning a visit here from his home 

in Hollywood, Fla. 

Jonathan Demme Returns 

To P-C Publicity Post 

NEW YORK—Jonathan Demme has returned 

to his former position of publicity 

director for Pathe Contemporary Films. 

Demme was formerly a member of Embassy 

Pictures' publicity department and has 

served as film critic for the Coral Gables 

Time-Guide in Florida. 

Pathe Contemporary's "The War Game," 

which has been doing strong business in 

selected locations this summer, will enter 

widespread national release this fall with a 

first wave of over 30 locations already set. 

Also on P-C's slate are the American 

premieres of four as yet unannounced features, 

as well as Thomas Mann's "Tonio 

Kroger," which stars Nadja Tiller, Gert 

Frobe and Jean-Claude Brialy. 

Universal Names Connell 

To Literary Division 

NEW YORK — Richard Connell, who 

joined Universal Pictures in New York six 

months ago, has been named executive head 

of the company's literary division here. He 

will be in charge of acquiring motion picture 

rights to literary and stage properties and 

also will initiate the development of original 

screen stories by working directly with eastern-based 

novelists, writers and playwrights. 

Prior to joining Universal, Connell was 

with the Beverly Hills office of MCA 

Artists, Ltd. and the Ashley-Famous Agency 

for eight years. 

Ross Signed for 'Ski Bum' 

NEW YORK—Katharine Ross, who just 

completed her role in the Mike Nichols- 

Lawrence Turman production of "The 

Graduate" for Joseph E. Levine's Embassy 

Pictures, has been signed to play opposite 

Peter O'Toole in "The Ski Bum." Embassy 

will begin filming on the Martin Poll production 

directed by Anatole Litvak in early fall 

in Switzerland. Embassy's executive vicepresident, 

Leonard Lightstone, is serving as 

executive producer. 

Frank Babich Is Dead 

AVELLA, PA.—Frank Babich, 50, of 

the Avella Theatre died July 29 of a heart 

attack. He leaves his wife Thresa and four 

children. 

BUFFALO 

lyTannie A. Brown Associates has purchased 

the Home Drive-In at Home 

from William Shaw and has taken over its 

operation. 

Chester L. Beatty has been appointed 

manager of Panther's Palace Theatre in 

Lockport. succeeding William D. Walsh 

who died in an auto crash. Beatty was with 

the former Schine circuit three years before 

it was taken over by Panther. His last assignment 

was in Piqua, Ohio. 

Albert J. Petrella, former Tent 7 chief 

barker, was honored guest at a party given 

by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Malczewski 

Saturday evening (19) in Stan and Ed's 

Restaurant in connection with Petrella's 

candidacy for city council president. 

Three elephants were featured Friday 

(18) when Tent 7's Children's Foundation 

and the Erie County Fair held a show for 

75 handicapped children at the Rehabilitation 

Center. 

Ken Renter, United Artists branch manager, 

tradescreened "Marat/ Sade" Tuesday 

evening (22) in the Operators screening 

room. 

Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, is adding 

40,000 square feet to its instrument manufacturing 

plant at Pittsford . . . William W. 

Voelckers, assistant manager of the Kodak 

processing plant at Findlay, Ohio, has been 

transferred to Kodak Park in Rochester as 

assistant superintendent of the film processing 

division. And Robert N. Ferry has been 

appointed technical coordinator for the 

newly formed customer equipment service 

division. 

A subrun of "A Man for All Seasons" 

followed "Hawaii" into Panther's Granada 

here. "Hawaii" played 19 weeks at the theatre 

managed by Joseph P. Garvey. 

A ten-day film festival of pictures based 

on children's books will end Thursday (31) 

at the west side branch of the Buffalo and 

Erie County Library. 

Dennis Carey, assistant manager at Shea's 

Buffalo, believes American film critics give 

foreign films "too many raves." He says 

there seems to be a general contention 

among critics that anything made overseas 

"is great." Although many foreign films are 

good, "most of them released in this country 

are primitive in production." 

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BALTIMORE 

\A7illiani I>. Hewitt ol ihc Rex Theatre has 

appealed the decision of the Maryhind 

Censor Board, which refused to allow the ex- 

^^^fand pearleicent, onti-jtaflc screen ^^ been promoted to branch manager in St. 

Wheeler to Handle CIP 

Product in Washington 

WA.SHINGTON — Wheeler Film Co., 

headed by Samuel and Ross Wheeler, has 

been appointed the Crown International 

Pictures distributor for the Washington exchange 

area, it was announced by Newton 

hibition of "Sex Is a Game People Play." 

The film is to be reviewed by a circuit judge P. Jacobs, president. 

. . . Elbert Quinn, head of the censor unit, "The Wild Rebels," "Catalina Caper," 

said he has learned that many films are being "Hell on Wheels," "Road to Nashville" 

shown without a state seal. This is in violation 

and "Mondo Balordo" are among the 

of the Maryland statute governing cen- 

Crown features Wheeler will be handling. 

sorship, he said, and "action will be taken 

to the full extent of the law." 

C. Elmer Nolle, president of NATO of 

Maryland and head of the Durkee circuit, is 

PITTSBURGH 

recovering from a heart attack, which confined 

him to a hospital. 

The Wilkinsburg Promotional Corp. has 

started a drive to have the Sundaymovie 

Gerald Kelly, manager of the Lord Baltimore 

question on the ballot for the Novem- 

Theatre, also will manage the newly ber 7 municipal election. The issue has been 

remodeled Irvington-Cinema, which is to defeated about four times previously. The 

open Friday (Sept. 1). The house's seating community's only theatre, the Rowland, has 

was reduced to 500, and a new enclosed been closed several years. The promotional 

lounge was built at the rear. 

group feels the situation may be improved 

John Wright, manager of Durkee's Waverly 

with elimination of the ban. This may enant 

Theatre, has been transferred as assistcourage 

an exhibitor to open a theatre here. 

manager of the circuit's Senator 

Susan Rodnok, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 

Theatre. 

Stephen Rodnok jr., Oakmont and New 

Jerome N. Carter, part owner and manager 

Kensington theatre owners, is a graduate 

of the Plaza Theatre more than 40 of Bethany College. Another daughter 

years before his retirement three years ago, Betsy is a junior at Westminster College. 

died Saturday (19). 

Paul Simindinger, supervising manager of 

Alex Schimel, Washington branch manager 

Associated Theatres' downtown units Fulton 

for Universal, was in town calling on and Gateway, also is head of the circuit's 

accounts . . . Fred Herman, owner of the new Fiesta. 

Stanton Art Theatre in Washington, also 

was a visitor . . . Tony Martin, manager of Ken Winograd, former Rochester and 

the Plaza, has returned from a business trip Beaver Falls exhibitor, has enrolled in 

to Boston. 

Northeastern University to seek his master's 

degree . . . Orlando "Slam" Boyle, veteran 

Herbert Thompson, Associated Pictures 

booker with 20th Century-Fox, plans to 

general manager, has recovered from injuries 

suffered in an auto accident and is 

retire Thursday (31). Rhea Aaronson, assist- 

back on the job ... Ed Lynn, owner of the 

Tri-State Drive-ln at Hancock, is home 

from a hospital recuperating from a heart 

attack. 

Dick Harrison, JF Theatres publicity director, 

Columbia Pictures will move its exchange 

had a successful stunt for "Barefoot to the Fulton Bldg. by the end of September. 

in the Park" at the Town Theatre. The 

house was packed Wednesday morning 

Redevelopment has removed the Cameraphone 

Theatre in East Liberty, one of the 

(23J 

at 5 o'clock with people in bare feet. 

oldest continuous theatre operations in the 

Dorothy Rudicker, cashier at the Lord nation, opening in 1905. In recent years it 

Baltimore, was on duty when two armed was an exploitation film and burlesque 

men entered the ticket booth, grabbed $135 house. Now the Casino, the operation was 

and fled. 

shifted to the old Novelty Theatre. 

Burt Mustin, 83, motion picture character 

actor from Pittsburgh, will sing in Elvis 

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MGM canceled the tradescreening of 

"Point Blank" Thursday (24) in the WAMO 

Bldg. and substituted "Jack of Diamonds." 

Louis, succeeding the late Alfred Rothschild. 

His appointment will be effective September 

11. A product of NSS's training program, 

Levine joined the company two-and-onehalf 

years ago in the New York office. 

WASHINGTON 

QLeorgetown will have another motion 

picture theatre September 16 with the 

opening of the Biograph in a former auto 

showroom at 2819 M Street NW. Jean-Luc 

Godard's "Masculine Feminine" is to be 

the opening film. The theatre policy is to be 

the showing of first-run foreign films, revivals 

and specials, from Shakespeare to 

experimental pictures. 

Don Murray was a visitor, lunching with 

film critics to discuss his lastest production 

"Tale of the Cock," in which he stars, wrote 

and produced . . . Nina Wayne was here 

Friday (18) to promote "Luv," in which she 

co-stars, but was kept in the Shoreham 

Hotel by a virus, according to Columbia 

publicist 

Sid Zins. 

Lee Marvin, whose "The Dirty Dozen" 

was playing King's Town Theatre, was a 

White House guest at the state dinner for 

German Chancellor and Mrs. Kurt G. Kiesinger. 

Richard Chamberlain had a few weeks' 

break in the filming of "Petulia" with Julie 

Christie, so he appeared here in "West Side 

Story" at the Shady Grove Music Fair . . . 

Composer Henry Mancini was another who 

brought Hollywood to Washington. While 

appearing at the Carter Barren Amphitheatre, 

he said writing music for the movies 

will continue to be his "main concern." 

UA-Mu-isch's "In the Heat of the Night" 

was sneaked at the Keith's Friday evening 

(25), where Jerry Baker is manager. The 

film will follow "You Only Live Twice" as 

the next attraction. 

Mort McGill, Buena Visita Philadelphiabased 

district manager, visited the local exchange, 

and was accompanied by branch 

manager Joe Brecheen to Richmond to call 

on Sam Bendheim III of Neighborhood 

Theatres . . . BV salesman Harry Howar is 

back from an Ocean City, Md., and Virginia 

Beach vacation. 

The K/B MacArthur, playing "A Man for 

All Seasons," had a sneak preview of Columbia's 

"Enter Laughing" Tuesday (22) . . . 

Jack Valenti, MPAA president, sponsored 

the invitational premiere of "Thoroughly 

Modern Millie" Wednesday (23) at the 

K/B Ontario. 

Jack Howe, Paramount head booker and 

office manager, went to Wilmington on 

company business . . . Dan Houlihan, Paramount 

exchange manager, has transferred 

his Variety Club membership from Tent 7 

in Buffalo to Tent 11 here. 

Ruth Becker, manager of Wineland's 

Marlow Theatre at Marlow Heights, Md., is 

on vacation. 

Gloria Chamot is the new "hello girl" at 

BV . . . Jay Carmody, the Washington Star's 

retired drama critic, has been named to the 

advisory council of the Council on Nontheatrical 

Events, whose main objective is 

seeing that U.S. short subjects are screened 

at international festivals. 


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Heston Is Nominated 

To Third SAG Term 

HOLLYWOOD—The nominating committee 

of the Screen Actors Guild has nominated 

Charlton Heston for a third one-year 

term as president of the organization. He 

joined the guild board in 1960 and was first 

elected president in 1965 after having served 

four years as a vice-president. 

Others nominated are Whit Bissell, Macdonald 

Carey and Ricardo Montalban, vicepresidents; 

Marie Windsor, recording secretary, 

and Gilbert Perkins, treasurer. 

To serve three-year terms as directors, the 

committee nominated Leon Ames. Gene 

Barry, Lyle Bettger, Don DeFore, Bradford 

Dillman, Don Dubbins, Frank Ferguson, 

Dorothy Green, James McCallion, Harry 

Morgan, Greg Morris, Telly Savalas, James 

Westerfield and Alan Young. Susan Seaforth 

was nominated for a one-year term. 

If elected, Dillman, Miss Green, McCallion 

and Morris will be newcomers to the board. 

The guild's 1967 nominating committee 

was composed of Chick Chandler, chairman; 

John Dehner and Ann Doran, for the board 

of directors, with Don Randolph and Guy 

Stockwell as alternates: Peter Brown, Douglas 

Fowley. William Marshall, Raymond 

Massey, Robert Reed, Roy Thinnes, Pat 

Wayne, Rhoda Williams and Buck Young, 

for the general membership, with Russ Conway, 

Bob Hastings and Jan Shepard as alternates. 

Leonard Freeman Named 

Producers Guild V-P 

HOLLYWOOD— Directors of the Producers 

Guild of America has named 

Leonard Freeman as vice-president to fill 

the unexpired term of David Dortort, new 

president of the organization. 

Two directors also were named to fill 

vacancies left by Freeman and the death of 

David Weisbart. They are Howard W. Koch 

and Robert S. Finkel, who will continue in 

the capacity until the next PGA general 

election next May. 

Richard Graff to NY 

LOS ANGELES — Richard B. Graff, 

vice-president and general sales manager of 

National General Pictures, left Friday (25) 

for production distribution meetings in New 

York. 

'What Price Glory' Cast 

Honored for Fund-Raiser 

HOLLYWOOD — Eighteen years after 

the group toured California in "What Price 

Glory" to raise funds for the organization, 

the Military Order of the Purple Heart has 

given official recognition to Maureen 

O'Hara. only actress in the cast, and others 

identified with the production. 

They were honored at a dinner at the organization's 

35th annual convention in the 

Lafayette Hotel. Long Beach. Director John 

Ford, a retired reserve rear admiral, received 

the Medal of Merit for his efforts 

obtaining talent for the production which included 

the late Ralph Murphy, who directed. 

Others identified with the money-raising 

play, staged in 1949, were Gregory Peck. 

John Wayne. Pat O'Brien. Ward Bond. 

George O'Brien, Bill Lundigan and Ed Begley. 

MGM 50th Birthday 

To Honor 'Oldtimers' 

HOLLYWOOD — Industry 

in 

names associated 

with MGM since its inception will 

be honorary guest speakers at Culver City's 

50th Anniversary Film Festival in the Culver 

Theatre beginning Tuesday (29). Clark 

Ramsay, MGM vice-president of the studio, 

will address the first-night audience following 

the showing of "Grand Hotel." 

King Vidor, director of "The Big Parade," 

is scheduled to speak September 5 when 

"The Great Ziegfeld" will be screened. William 

Tuttle, head of MGM's makeup department 

and also associated with the "Ziegfeld" 

film, is slated for an appearance that 

evening. 

Norman Taurog, who directed MGM's 

"Boys Town." as well as several Elvis Presley 

films for MGM, will speak prior to the 

screening of the Spencer Tracy-Mickey 

Rooney film on September 12. 

James A. Fitzpatrick, producer-narrator 

of more than 200 Traveltalks during his 

MGM affiliation, appears September 19 

when his "Mexican Police on Parade" will 

be screened with "National Velvet." Clarence 

Brown, director of "National Velvet." 

also will be present. 

Academy Award-winner Arthur Freed, 

producer of "Gigi." as well as 40 other 

MGM releases, will speak September 26. 

following "An American in Paris." This will 

mark the festival finale. 

20th-Fox Executives 

Return to World Posts 

HOLLYWOOD—Followmg a week-long 

series of conferences, screenings and individual 

meetings at 

the 20th Century-Fox international 

convention, the company's sales 

and publicity executives left here for the 

four corners of the world. 

International executives returning to New 

York include David Raphel, vice-president 

who chaired the conclave, and Joseph Bellfort, 

manager. Other home office executives 

scheduled to fly back were Harry J. Mc- 

Intyre. vice-president, administration; David 

Brown, vice-president, director of story operations; 

Jonas Rosenfield jr., vice-president 

and director of advertising, publicity and exploitation; 

Joseph M. Sugar, vice-president 

of domestic sales; Arthur Manson, executive 

assistant to Rosenfield; Dick Brooks, national 

publicity director, and Joel Coler. newly 

appointed international advertising and publicity 

manager. 

Production executives returning to Europe 

were Andre Hakim, managing director, 

20th-Fox Productions, Ltd., London, and 

Edward Leggewie, head of the Paris production 

office. 

Heading the sales contingent returning 

overseas were: Julian Berman, Continental 

European manager; Roger Berry, managing 

director. Great Britain, and Francisco Rodriguez, 

Latin American supervisor, as well 

as George Pilzer, continental European 

sales manager. 

Heading the international publicity contingent 

en route to their overseas offices 

were Emile Buyse, director of advertising 

and publicity, Europe and the Middle East; 

Barney Flatow, Latin America director of 

publicity, and Kaoru Ogimi, Far East publicity 

supervisor. 

Special guests from the company's farflung 

theatre operations who attended the 

convention were Royce J. Moodabel, chief 

officer. Amalgamated Theatres, New Zealand, 

and Dale Turnbull, managing director, 

Hoyts Theatres. Australia. 

Kim Novak Files Injury Suit 

HOLLYWOOD — Actress 

Kim Novak 

filed a $1 million personal injury suit 

against Sons and Wynns Tire Co.. alleging 

negligence in replacement of a wheel on a 

car. which went out of control and caused 

injuries to the star, last year. 

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Lurking in bacit of the $140.()()() study by 

Father John M. Culkin's project to promote 

the study of films in public schools 

throughout the nation is the apathy of teachers 

to take on new ideas—the objections of 

the o.d line teachers' training schools to use 

modern communications devices, other than 

g.ving "lip-service" to audio-visual courses 

and the overvvhe'ming lack of knowledge in 

educational circles about film evaluation and 

criticism. 

.Strangely enough, lack of 16mm sound 

projectors is not the problem, as it was in 

1942 when the Sloan Foundation granted 

New York University the money to "promote 

the use of films in education." Today 

almost all of the nation's public schools, the 

high schools and colleges and universities 

have at least one projector, with 200,000 in 

use in these institutions. 

In his remarks to the opening session of 

350 teachers at the Academy of Motion 

Picture Arts and Sciences, which cooperated 

in the project by allowing use of the facilities 

at a four-day session Wednesday (16), 

Father Culkin, head of Fordham University's 

center for communications, faced the 

issue squarely, pointing to "present school 

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through" with new ideas. As happened in 

the 50 years of the role of films as an art 

and in education, the priest noted that 

teachers jeopardize their jobs, in some cases, 

by using films. 

Such refusal and roadblocks in this modern 

world where the average student sees 

a reported 15,000 hours of films, on television 

and in the theatre during his school 

days. Father Culkin views in the light of 

"tedium in the classroom is the message, 

not the medium." The kids entering the 

school with its written words, and emphasis 

on printed media, find a different world 

than found in off-school hours where he sees 

visual and sound pictures constantly. 

"In many cases," said Father Culkin, 

"the average drop-out has a higher IQ than 

the "stay-in." Many could be called "pushouts," 

he said. 

In calling for the wider use of films as 

an art. especially in elementary schools. 

Father Culkin said "film is one art that is 

wanted" by the students for it not only 

answers many questions for information, 

"but also the kids love it." He wants 

greater appreciation taught not only for its 

educational impact but because great films 

of art on a high level "connect the kids with 

productions done with competence and 

relevance." 

The design for the seminars called for a 

result which will help the teachers to enable 

the children to express themselves through 

film study. Of the teachers attending the 

first session, high schools and college educators 

dominated with only one elementary 

teacher present, a typical problem. 

Due to the present scheduling of 45- 

minute class sessions, the much-maligned 

"economically deprived" short film has the 

monumental task of providing the bulk of 

film fare for the nation's 30 million students. 

Father Culkin discussed the people in 

charge of the care and feeding of the "now" 

generation with the "then" generation as the 

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catalysts and teachers. He said these traditional 

mediators of culture, like the family, 

church and school, "just aren't moving at 

jet-age speeds." He warned, "They would be 

well advised to learn because much of the 

momentum for what is happening and is 

judged as relevant have already passed from 

their hands." 

Discussing the impetus of children going 

to movies and saying it is hard to say whether 

they are attending more frequently. Father 

Culkin said they do considerable thinking 

about the film both before and after seeing 

it. 

Universal's "To Kill a Mockingbird" 

was discussed by Gregory Peck, president of 

the Academy and the National Council of 

the Arts American Film Institute, along with 

Robert Mulligan, who directed him in it, 

Alan Pakula, who produced and Horton 

Foote who wrote it. 

Record Sales and Earnings 

By Ampex First Quarter 

REDWOOD CITY. CALIF. — Record 

sales and earnings for the first quarter were 

achieved by Ampex Corp. in the three 

months ended July 29, it was announced by 

William E. Roberts, president and chief 

executive officer. 

Sales for the first quarter of fiscal 1968 

totaled $52,749,000, up 14 per cent from 

$46,212,000 in the comparable period a 

year ago. Net earnings after taxes were $2,- 

072,000, or 22 cents per share on 9,537.368 

average shares outstanding, up 10 per cent 

from $1,880,000, or 20 cents per share on 

9,463,795 average shares. 

Backlog of product orders at the end of 

the quarter was $50,150,000, approximately 

the level of a year earlier. 

Roberts said the quarter represents a very 

satisfactory start for the new year. "These 

results are in line with our plan for the year, 

and the outlook for the balance of the fiscal 

year continues to be favorable." 

ACE Luncheon Salutes 

Editor Tony WoUner 

HOLLYWOOD—The 

American Cinema 

Editors, organization of film cutters, held a 

luncheon in honor of Tony Wollner, film 

editor and editor of the Ace publication the 

Cinemeditor Wednesday (23) in the Beverly 

Hilton 

Hotel. 

Virtually the entire organization turned 

out to honor Wollner. who has been editor 

six years. He has built the magazine from a 

periodical of local interest to a publication 

with a circulation of thousands, which is 

read around the world. Wollner has donated 

all of his services. 

Gertrude Simmons Is Dead 

LOS ANGELES — Funeral services 

for 

Gertrude Simmons, 69, mother of Margaret 

Hunter, personnel director for National 

General Corp.. were held Friday (25) at the 

Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, North 

Hollywood. Mrs. Simmons who died Tuesday 

(22) also leaves her husband Glenn, a 

son Kenneth and four grandchildren. 

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LA to Open 4 MGM Films 

Within Two Weeks' Time 

LOS ANGELES — Metro-Goldwyn- 

Mayer will premiere four major pictures, including 

two hard-ticket attractions, here during 

the tuo-week period of October 1 1 to 

No\ ember \. At that time the company will 

have a total of seven features on view, largest 

number of simultaneous bookings in this 

cit\ in MGM history. 

With the 70mm version of "Gone With 

the Wind" bowing at the Carthay Circle October 

1 1 and "Far From the Madding 

Crowd" also opening on a reserved-seat 

basis at the Fox Wilshire October 19. for 

the first time one major company will have 

three hard-ticket features on Los Angeles 

screens at the same time. "Grand Prix." now 

in its 33rd week at the Cinerama Dome 

Theatre, shows little sign of tapering off. 

The other two pictures are "Point Blank." 

following "The Dirty Dozen" into the Holl\- 

wood Paramount October 18, and "The 

Comedians," which begins its run November 

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at the Fox Beverly. 

In addition, "Blow-Up" is expected to 

continue at the Lido and "Doctor Zhivago," 

which has established record grosses in five 

weeks of its local multiple engagement, may 

still be in the area. 

Pacific Drive-In Circuit 

Ncnnes Charles Helm 

LOS ANGELES—Charles R. Helm, veteran 

Los Angeles theatreman, has been 

named head of Pacific Drive-In Theatres 

purchasing department by Don Guttman, 

general manager. 

Helm has just returned from Hawaii 

where he lived two years while vice-president 

and assistant general manager of Consolidated 

Amusement Co. 

Since the late 1940s. Helm has been associated 

in varying capacities with many 

southern California companies including 

Fox West Coast, United Artists Theatres 

(where he introduced stage shows in the 

downtown theatre), and the Fanchon and 

Marco circuit, in which he acquired an interest. 

He later operated his own circuit of 

eight theatres until 1962, at vshich time he 

joined Pacific. 

In returning to Pacific, Helm succeeds 

James Barka, former Pacific purchasing 

head, who left the company to enter business 

on his own. Phil Shimmin has been acting 

manager of purchasing in the interim. 

October 'Gone With Wind' 

In Record Ticket Sale 

HOLLYWOOD — The Auxiliary of the 

Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center 

reports a record sale of tickets for its benefit 

premiere of "Gone With the Wind." 

scheduled October 1 1 at the Carthay Circle 

Theatre. The premiere will mark the first 

release of the classic film by MGM in 

70mm and stereophonic sound. Proceeds of 

the benefit will go toward providing funds 

for a Coronary Care Unit at the hospital. 

The premiere will be preceded by a champagne 

supper. 

Sydney Pollack Believes Individual 

Control Would Improve Many Films 

HOLLYWOOD—"Alone among all the 

arts, theatrical drama stands as a symbol of 

attempted creativity through channels." director 

Sydney Pollack said. "The conscience 

of the committee plants its indelible stamp 

upon almost every motion picture, television 

show and legitimate production brought 

forth. Thus, it stands to reason that individuality 

is wrapped in a muddy convolution 

of confusion and discontent, resulting 

in the inability of critics and public alike to 

determine where the fault lies or to whom 

the praise belongs." 

In dealing with the making of films today, 

Po'lack said, the collaboratise effort 

seems as stolid and immutable as the Berlin 

Wall. 

"It hovers over us as a reminder that a 

point-of-view, which is so necessary for the 

artistic success of most films, is almost unattainable. 

Paeans of praise are sung about 

this m.ethod of operation all the time. "It's 

really a collaborative medium. What >'ou 

cant do. someone else can do.' " 

'Castle Keep' Next Film 

Pollack, who just finished "The Scalphunters" 

for UA and next directs "Castle 

Keep" for Columbia, admits that a person 

who functions in total control can make certain 

mistakes that a group of people working 

together can avoid. 

"And in a system where millions of dollars 

are involved, ifs very difficult to trust 

one person with the all-encompassing job of 

controlling every aspect of a film. But. when 

you get into what could or might be called 

art. you're in dangerous territory when the 

committee method is employed. 

"It can be, and is, detrimental in many 

ways. I don't propose to say that this Hollywood 

system can be changed. It has 

evolved into what it is. I surmise, out of 

necessity. But I would like to present a 

negative side to this mode of procedure. 

"If you're working as we are often, on a 

mass media product, where every picture 

made is geared to touch every housewife at 

every spot in the United States, then I 

would agree that it is possible to take an 

idea and blunt it so by the inclusion of so 

many other points-of-view as to make it a 

palatable commodity to sell or to market on 

an overall basis. And. if that is the staple of 

the industrs'. then it has to be that way." 

Other Views Frustrating 

Po'lack. nevertheless, says it is frustrating 

for any filmmaker with a strong point-ofview 

about a picture to have to contend with 

the several divergent concepts which usually 

pour into the committee room before, during 

and after the making of a film. 

"Remember, the committee may be completely 

right—or they may merely have another 

point-of-view. And what emerges is 

the realization that there isn't any one absolute 

concept for a given movie." 

Pollack pointed out, "Who can tell whose 

approach will succeed and will aid a motion 

picture toward becoming a big money-maker? 

My own way of doing the movie or the 

committee's'? This brings us around to the 

subject of the special picture. Here the air 

is so rarefied that there is only a certain 

amoLmt of creative oxygen to go around and 

thus it remains for one man—usually the 

director— to take over complete charge. 

"From rehearsal on, the solid stamp of 

one man's idea taking shape. The film is 

lorn of one man's love and/ or hate. Then 

it is up for grabs. Critics can say without recourse 

by the creator, that 'I don't like that 

point-of-view.' Oka>'. that's great. That's 

how it should be. But when unlimited numbers 

of people collaborate on a project, what 

comes forth is usually goulash. And as a 

result, there is no objective way of ascertaining 

where the praise or condemnation 

belongs. One finds oneself accepting kudos 

that are undeserved, as well as slings and 

arrows. 

"Commission a painting titled "The Essence 

of Tranquility.' and let seven painters 

each paint a section. The result would be 

absurd. Interesting, but absurd." 

He added, "This is a bit like a whisper in 

a hurricane, but I would strongly urge more 

confidence in individual control in the making 

of motion pictures. The solution lies in 

the producer with overall objectivity, who 

can pick a director who looks at life in the 

same way he does. Control, not censorship, 

must be the approach." 

Exhibitor B. V. Sturdivant 

Heads Yuma, Ariz., CofC 

YUMA, ARIZ.—-Veteran exhibitor B. V. 

Sturdivant has assumed the presidency of 

the Yuma County Chamber of Commerce. 

He is owner of Silver Crest Enterprises and 

president of Sturdivant, Inc. 

Well known in entertainment circles, 

Sturdivant was national director of the 

Fourth War Loan Campaign for the motion 

picture industry during World War II and 

conducted the Army at War Art Exhibition 

for the U.S. War and Treasury departments. 

He also introduced Latin American capitals 

to their first large ice shows. 

Formerly a top executive of Fox West 

Coast and National Theatres for many 

years, he now is active nationally with 

NATO, presently being on the public affairs. 

Fall Film Fair and small town theatre 

committees. 

Babb's Pilot to GAC 

ALLENTOWN. PA. — Veteran pilot 

Wayne Black, who has flown for showman 

Kroger Babb. Hollywood, since 1947, has 

been hired by General Acceptance Corp. 

here as the company's chief pilot. Black will 

supervise six other company pilots and fly 

GAC's new $1 million executive Falcon jet. 

Back has flown showman Babb over two 

million safe air miles. 


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Crest Theatre Reaps Bountiful 730 

As 'The Family Way Starts LA Run 

LOS ANGELES — First-run theatres 

scored a satisfactory week, led by powerful 

newcomer "The Family Way," which ran 

up 730 per cent at the 750-seat Statewide 

Theatres" Crest. Scoring above average 

grosses were "Barefoot in 

the Park." with a 

lofty 330, and "A Man and a Woman," with 

310 in its 34th session. 

(Averoge Is 100) 

Beverly The Bible (20th-Fox), 46fh wk 115 

Beverly-Canon Ulysses (Cont'l), 5th wk 150 

bru.n Two tor fhe Rood (20th-Fox), 13th wk. ..225 

Chnee— You Only Live Twice (UA), 10th wk. ..165 

Cinerama Grond Prix (MGM), 35th wk 250 

Crest—The Family Woy (WB-7A) 730 

Egyptian Hawaii (UA), 45th wk 110 

Fine Arts The Jokers (Univ), 3rd wk 180 

Four Star The Endless Summer (Cinema V), 

18th wk 110 

Granada King of Heorts (Lopert) 100 

Hollywood-Paramount The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 

8th wk 255 

Picwood The Gnome-Mobile (BV), 2nd wk. 185 

Iris, 

Lido Blow Up (Premier), 35th wk 

Musx Ha'l A Man for Ail Seasons (Col), 

1 25 

36th wk 280 

Pontages The Happiest Millionaire (BV), 

9th wk 175 

Pix, State Hells Angels on Wheels (USF) 150 

Plaza— Barefoot in the Park (Para), 8th wk 330 

Rerent— A Mon and o Woman (AA), 34th wk. . .310 

Village Divorce AMERICAN Style (Col), 

9th wk 

Vogue Woman Times Seven (Embassy), 8th wk. 

1 90 

85 

Warner Beverly The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 

22nd wk 65 

Warner Hollywood Thoroughly Modern Millie 

(Univ), 19th wk 240 

Wilshire The Sond Pebbles (20th-Fox), 35th wk. 130 

Wiltern, Warren—The Bobo (WB-7A) 125 

'Don't Look Back' Tall 400 

In Denver Vogue Opening 

DENVER—The bulk of 

the 

first-run 

business ranged between 100 and 150 for 

the week but two newcomers and one holdover 

flashed boxoffice power. "Don't Look 

Back" came in with a highly pleasing 400 

at the Vogue, "To Sir, With Love" gave the 

Villa Italia Theatre a sound 220 fourth 

week and "The Family Way" doubled average 

in its first seven days at the Towne. 

Aladdin The Sand Pebbles (20th-Fox), 14th wk. 100 

Bluebird Young Aphrodites (SR) Not Available 

Century 21 Caprice (20th-Fox), 3rd wk 100 

Centre Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

13th wk 150 

Cherry Creek, Northglenn, Westland The Noked 

Runner (WB-7A) 80 

Cooper Grand Prix (MGM), 30th wk 150 

Crest The Toming of the Shrew (Col), 18th wk. 150 

Denham Woman Times Seven (Embassy), 2nd wk. 80 

Denver—The Way West (UA), 3rd wk 120 

Esquire A Guide for the Married Man (20th-Fox), 

4th wk 150 

International 70, Monaco, Wadsworth, Evans 

Born Losers (AlP) 1 50 

Paramount The Bobo (WB-7A) 95 

Towne The Family Woy (WB-7A) 200 

Villa Italia To Sir, With Love (Col), 4th wk. ...220 

Vogue Don't Look Back (SR) 400 

'Barefoot' Quadruples Average 

Sixth Week in Portland 

PORTLAND—"Barefoot in the Park" remained 

a boxoffice leader here with a steady 

buildup in attendance, despite prolonged 

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torrid weather. Esquire Manager Inger Jensen 

estimated 400 per cent. 

Bagdad A Man for All Seasons (Col), 19th wk. 145 

Broadway Don't Make Waves (MGM) 150 

Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

Eostgote 

1th wk 165 

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Eastgate The Noked Runner (WB-7A), 

II 

Viscount (WB-7A) 1 50 

Esquire— Barefoot in the Pork (WB-7A), 6th wk. 400 

Fox The Sond Pebbles (20th-Fox), 8th wk 200 

Guild The Family Way (WB-7A), 6th wk 200 

Hollywood Grand Prix (MGM), 29th wk 165 

Music Box In the Heot of the Night (UA), 

2nd wk 150 

Off Broadway The Endless Summer (Cinema V) 155 

Orpheum You Only Live Twice (UA), 7th wk. .150 

Village The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 

1 4th wk 150 

LOS ANGELES 

gill Scholl and Pete Emmet of United Artists 

engineered one of the most extensive 

screening programs in five years for 

the opening of "In the Heat of the Night" 

at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Twenty 

different organizations were represented 

in the word-of-mouth campaign. 

Ernest VVansbone of Amalgamated Theatres, 

Ltd.. Auckland. New Zealand, was in 

town climaxing a six-week theatre tour of 

the United States. He found of particular 

local interest the D-150 installation in the 

Northgate Theatre, the three side-by-side 

dome theatres in San Jose and the local supply 

houses where he stocked up on supplies 

that are hard to get "down under." He was 

the guest of Robert Gaskin of the Tiburon 

Playhouse at Tiburon. 

Harry Stem, Manhattan Films, was in 

San Francisco on business. Upon his return. 

Jack Sherriff, branch manager, went to 

Denver and Salt Lake City. 

Madeline Wallace, secretary to Harold 

Citron, Metropolitan Theatres, was married 

to Robin Pater Sunday (20). The couple will 

live in Virginia in the Blue Ridge Mountains. 

Sal Billitteri, American International Pictures' 

East Coast production head, having 

completed two weeks of conferences with 

AIP board chairman Samuel Z. Arkoff and 

president James H. Nicholson, returned to 

his New York office. 

Norman Taurog, King Vidor, James A. 

FitzPatrick and Arthur Freed, industry 

names associated with MGM at various 

times since its inception, will be honorary 

guest speakers at Culver City's 50th Anniversary 

Film Festival at the Culver Theatre, 

following the kick-off ceremonies Tuesday 

(29), when MGM studio head Clark Ramsay 

appears with "Grand Hotel." 

Milton R. Rackmil, Universal president, 

arrived for conferences with studio executives. 

John Hanunell was appointed head of 

Paramount Studio's music department, according 

to Bernard Donnenfeld, vice-president 

of production administration and studio 

operations. At the same time, Douglas 

Bridges, former assistant to William R. Stinson, 

has been appointed business manager 

of the department. 

"Hells Angels on Wheels" U.S. Films, 

opened Wednesday (16) citywide to the largest 

opening day gross of the year. 

The soundtrack album for Arthur P. Jacobs" 

production of "Doctor Dolittle" has 

won a golden record, even though it is not 

available to the public yet. The 20th-Fox 

Records reports a virtual sell-out of its initial 

pressing order of 500,000 albums. The 

public will be able to purchase the album 

later this month, although the film will not 

be premiered until December. 

The Lee Marvin-Angie Dickinson starrer 

MGM's "Point Blank," selected for the nationwide 

Fall Film Fair sponsored by the 

National Ass'n of Theatre Owners, will follow 

"The Dirty Dozen" into the Hollywood 

Paramount Theatre October 18. Preceding 

the Los Angeles engagement, the picture 

will be given a prerelease premiere by MGM 

Wednesday (30) at the Northpoint Theatre 

in San Francisco. Howard Herty, West 

Coast exploitation head for MGM, left for 

the Bay City on advance arrangements for 

the 

premiere. 

Pete Latsis, publicist for National General 

Corp., is back at his desk recovered from 

surgery. 

Lyles' First Non-Western 

In Four Years Slated 

HOLLYWOOD—Producer A. C. Lyles' 

first assignment under his ten-year contract 

with Paramount gives him a property of 

broad scope and strongly advances his position 

among filmmakers, says Robert Evans, 

vice-president of production. 

"Rogue's Gallery," which marks Lyles' 

departure for the first time in four years 

from producing westerns, will go before the 

cameras late this month. The murder mystery 

is an original screenplay by Steve 

Fisher. 

Roger Smith, returning to feature films 

for the first time in six years, and Paramount's 

exclusive contract star Greta Baldwin, 

young German beauty, will 

Leonard Horn will direct the film. 

be starred. 

'Happiest Millionaire' 

Music Hall's Xmas Film 

From Eastern Edition 

NEW YORK — Walt Disney's last 

personal 

production. "The Happiest Millionaire," 

will be the 1967 Christmas attraction 

at the Radio City Music Hall. 

The musical comedy is currently in its 

ninth week as a roadshow attraction at the 

Pacific Pantages in Los Angeles and will be 

opening this fall in a number of major 

metropolitan hard-ticket engagements. 

For the Music Hall booking, it is rumored 

that the 159-minutes running time will be 

reduced by probably 20 minutes. The Music 

Hall's annual "Nativity" pageant and holiday 

stage spectacle will be presented with 

"Millionaire." 

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SAN FRANCISCO 

Târtin Foster, owner of the Piedmont Cinema 

in Oakland, had the largest opening 

day gross in the history of the city when 

he presented a benefit performance of "The 

Dirty Dozen" for the Israel Emergency 

Fund. Tickets were priced to $15 and $6,- 

200 was raised. All expenses for the evening 

were covered by the Piedmont Cinema. The 

Jewish national fund hosted a champagne 

party prior to the film. 

Jack Lucy, manager of the Fox Warfield 

Theatre had a sneak preview of the 20th 

Century-Fox"s "The .St. Valentine's Day 

Massacre." The film will be handled locally 

by Fox branch manager Dick Stafford. 

Walt Von Hauffe, head booker at General 

Theatrical Co., was in an auto accident 

Scottish Rite Temple 

New Blumenfeld Unit 

SAN FRANCISCO—Plans for modernization 

of the Scottish Rite Temple auditorium 

as the newest unit of Blumenfeld Enterprises 

was announced by Joseph Blumenfeld, 

president. The showplace is the first 

of the circuit's San Francisco operations in 

20 years. It also is the first of three new 

units set in the circuit's wide expansion 

planning. 

Named the "Regency," the house is expected 

to open in November. The policy is 

to be exclusive first run. Equipment will include 

advanced projection, six-track stereophonic 

sound and a capacity of 850 push 

back-type seats. The decor will follow an 

authentic Regency style of architecture. 

The Regency, 30th unit of the circuit, 

marks the Blumenfeld return to the San 

Francisco theatre scene. Previously, the 

showmen operated the Orpheum, United 

Artists, Esquire and the former Tivoli. The 

opening of the theatre will coincide with the 

circuit's 50th anniversary. 

Hells Angels in Headlines 

At Oakland Film Opening 

SAN FRANCISCO—"Hells Angels on 

Wheels," filmed in the Bay area, received 

widespread publicity from an incident that 

could have been taken from a Hollywood 

publicist's manual. The picture opened here 

last week at two theatres and a drive-in 

without incident, with some of the stars 

and the San Francisco Hells Angels group 

on hand. 

But in nearby Oakland, where the film 

played three hardtops and three airers, it 

was a different story. The Oakland Hells 

Angels, whose president Sonny Barger 

served as technical adviser for the film, 

made appearances at the picture's openings. 

Afterward, police were called to an Oakland 

bar upon a complaint and attempted 

to arrest a noisy patron, police reported. A 

on the Coast Highway. He was en route 

home when his car was hit from the rear by 

another auto. His station wagon was damaged 

badly and he spent a few days resting 

at his home in Half Moon Bay. 

The Toho Rio Theatre is in its last presentation 

of the Samurai Festival. The theatre 

was featuring "The Sword of Doom," a 

costume-action thriller based on a novel by 

Kaizan Nakasato. 

Robert Naify's four children, three 

friends and a housekeeper escaped injury 

when an $80,000 fire swept through a Belvedere 

mansion the Naifys were occupying 

for the summer. The fire was in the 12-room 

home of David Allen, a partner in the Belvedere 

Land Co. The house was a total loss. 

riot ensued, ten policemen were injured and 

13 members of the motorcycle group were 

arrested. The fracas was headlined in area 

newspapers and widely mentioned on radio 

and TV. 

Three Circuits Book Film 

SAN FRANCISCO — The K. Gordon 

Murray production "Shanty Tramp" has 

been booked by three circuits here for September-October 

playdates. Kroger Babb of 

Hollywood, western distributor for the film, 

closed the deals with Lippert, Mann and 

Syufy circuits. Ten drive-ins with a total capacity 

of 12,000 cars were linked for the 

Bay area multiple. The film was given 28 

weeks of playing time in 30 drive-ins in 

northern California. 

Joan Crawford was present at the invitational 

preview of Columbia's "Berserk." 

SAN FRANCISCO HOST — Dick 

Stafford, 20th Century-Fox branch 

manager in San Francisco, played host 

to Raquel Welch upon her arrival in 

the city to promote her latest picture 

"Fathom," featured at the Fox Warfield 

Theatre, 

ABC, Selmur Executives 

Meet in Hollywood 

HOLL'VWOOD—American 

Broadcasting 

Companies' executives from New York and 

Hollywood held a three-day meeting here to 

discuss national advertising promotion and 

distribution campaigns of forthcoming theatrical 

motion pictures of the ABC production 

subsidiary, Selmur Productions, Monday 

through Wednesday (21-23). 

Leonard H. Goldenson, ABC president; 

Simon B. Siegel, executive vice-president; 

Samuel H. Clark, group vice-president, motion 

picture division, and Selig J. Seligman, 

president of Selmur Productions, attended. 

Also attending were executives of ABC's 

theatre circuits throughout the country including 

Balaban & Katz, Interstate Circuit, 

Paramount Gulf Theatres, Florida State 

Theatres, and Wilby-Kincey Service, as well 

as West Coast and New York advertising 

and promotion directors. 

Meetings focused special attention on 

"Stranger in the House" starring James Mason, 

Geraldine Chaplin and Bobby Darin, 

which Selmur Productions produced in association 

with De Grunwald Productions 

and the Rank Organization. 

Other Selmur pictures discussed were 

"The Rover" starring Anthony Quinn, Rosanna 

Schiaffino, Rita Hayworth and Richard 

Johnson; "Smashing Time" starring Lynn 

Redgrave and Rita Tushingham; "The Prodigal 

Gun," starring Alex Cord, Arthur Kennedy 

and Robert Ryan; "Charly," starring 

Cliff Robertson and Anne Heywood; and 

"Hell in the Pacific," starring Lee Marvin 

and Toshiro Mifune. 

Helen Strauss Directing 

WB-7 Arts Story Dept. 


NEW YORK—Helen Strauss has been 

named vice-president in charge of literary 

operations of WB-7 Arts. She has resigned 

her post as executive head of the literary 

department of the William Morris Agency 

to accept her new position. 

Headquartered in New York, Miss Strauss 

will be involved in developing new properties 

and authors for WB-7 Arts' film and TV 

divisions, 

as well as acquiring film rights of 

material from other media. 

Miss Strauss, who was with the William 

Morris Agency for 23 years, is credited with 

making the deal with United Artists to film 

James A. Michener's "Hawaii" for the highest 

price ever paid for motion picture rights 

to a novel. 

Sisterville, W. Va„ House 

Reopens After Remodeling 

SISTERVILLE, W. VA. — The Paramount 

Theatre, closed since March 10, has 

been reopened by Harry Peters after extensive 

remodeling. The house is open Friday 

through Monday. 

Peters purchased the house from his 

father S. A. Peters in 1962. Improvements 

include a new stage and widescreen, acoustical 

ceiling, projection equipment, curtains 

and reupholstering of the seats. Bill Azar is 

the projectionist and manager. 


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Ethics. Where have they gone? 

Ethics, says the dictionary, is 

"the science 

o'i 

human duty; moral science." 

In today's world, so complicated with 

gadgetry and machines that we often 

lose sight of others and of our own best 

selves, it isn't always easy to keep "human 

duty" in mind. 

As life gets rnore complicated, men lose 

their sense of identity, value and purpose. 

Life, in a sense, becomes "cheap" and 

"unimportant." And with that, it becomes 

ever easier to take the easy way, 

to ignore the principles of right—and 

our human duty to others. 

The one place where human values are 

kept in proper focus is where you worship. 

Nowhere is the individual more 

valued. And if you care, the place where 

you worship can become, with your 

help, a rallying point for lifting all 

the deteriorating values you see 

around you. Worship. this week ' 

—and put your faith to work 

all week. 

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20th-Fox Division Head 

In Denver Press Tour 

DENVER — C. F. "Mike" Powers jr., 

20th Century-Fox western division manager, 

was in Denver Wednesday and Tiiursduy 

C. F. "Mike" Puwers jr., second 

from left, western division manager of 

20th Century-Fox, arrives in Denver 

on a promotion junket. Greeting him 

are, left to right, John Meinardi, Fox- 

Intermountain district manager; Mark 

Sheridan, 20th-Fox branch manager, 

and Allen White, 20th-Fox regional advertising 

and promotion manager. 

(16 and 17) and made radio and press appearances, 

speaking on the vitality being 

shown in the film industry. He also discussed 

his company's upcoming product. 

Upon his arrival. Powers was met at the 

airport by Fox-Inlermountain Theatres' district 

manager John Meinardi, who presented 

him the traditional spoon of welcome from 

the city. Also on hand were branch manager 

Mark Sheridan and regional advertisingpublicity 

manager Allen White. 

Powers in his interviews said the public is 

again making an event out of going to the 

movies. Contributing to this, he said, are the 

successful acceptance of the reserved-seat 

pictures, such as "The Sound of Music" and 

"The Sand Pebbles." He said he also believes 

the high standards now evident in the 

decor and service of the theatres has been 

a "most important factor in the rise of movie 

attendance." 

This month, 20th-Fox will have six films 

playing in Denver: "Sand Pebbles," "Music," 

"Caprice," "A Guide for the Married Man," 

"Two for the Road" and "The St. Valentine's 

Day Massacre." 

Dame Edith Evans has been signed for a 

major role in 20th Century-Fox's comedy, 

"Prudence and the Pill." 

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Wolfberg Names Dunning 

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DENVER—Roger Dunning has been appointed 

manager of the Valley Drive-In, 

succeeding Richard Graham, who moved to 

the Wadsworth Drive-In, announced Tom 

Smiley, general manager of Wolfberg Theatres. 

Dunning returned here from Belmont, 

Calif., where he was connected with the 

Belart Twin Theatre. Before that he spent 

a year on the stage with Hyatt Musical 

Theatre in Burlingame, Calif. In 1951 he 

worked in Denver at the Broadway and 

Paramount, both Wolfberg houses. 

DENVER 

pormer Denverite Dick Stafford, now district 

manager for 20th Century-Fox, 

was in town conferring with branch manager 

Mark Sheridan. Stafford also visited 

many of his Denver friends he met while 

employed as office manager for Universal 

Pictures here 

15 years ago. 

Tony Luna has resigned from Dollison 

Theatres in Santa Fe, N.M., to take a position 

as deputy vehicle commissioner for 

New Mexico. 

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American International Pictures screened 

"The Trip" and "TTie Spree" in the Century 

screening room . H. L. Binford, manager 

of the Sinclair Theatre, Sinclair, Wyo., hosted 

a cocktail party and dinner in the Golden 

Spike in Rawlins, Wyo., to celebrate the 

grand opening of the new theatre. 

Visiting Filmrow were Don Swales, 

Wheeler Opera House, Aspen; Don Monson, 

Ute Theatre, Rifle; Wanna McCarthy, 

Lincoln Theatre, Limon; Howard Campbell, 

Westland Theatres, Colorado Springs; Russ 

Berry, Highland Theatres, Boulder; Carl 

Hallberg, Cooper Theatres, in from Lincoln 

Neb., George McCormick, Skyline Theatre, 

Canon City; Charles Allum, Fox Lakeridge 

Theatre, Denver, and Mitch Kelloff, Uptown 

Theatre, Pueblo. 

Strand Amusement Co. 

Buys Theatre Complex 

From North Central Edition 

HASTINGS, NEB.—Frank D. Rubel, 

president of the Strand Amusement Co. 

here, announced the purchase of the Rivoli 

Theatre BIdg., stores and hotel in Hastings 

from Tri-States Theatre Corp., a subsidiary 

of American Broadcasting Companies. 

Transfer of the property was completed 

Tuesday (1), and management of the theatre 

has been assumed by Fred Teller jr., general 

manager of the amusement company. Plans 

are being made to improve all of the theatre 

facilities, and a prominent decorator and 

architect are being engaged to prepare plans 

for redecorating and modernizing. 

In addition to the Rivoli, Strand Amusement 

operates the Strand and the Drive-In 

here. 

PORTLAND 

Qlint Ritchie, one of the co-stars in 20th 

Century-Fox's "St. Valentine's Day 

Massacre," which opened Wednesday (23) 

at the Orphcum and Sandy Boulevard 

Drive-In, made a personal appearance here 

prior to the picture's bow. He was introduced 

at a cocktail party in the Roaring '20s 

of the Hoyt Hotel. A telephone interview 

with Ritchie appeared in the Oregon Journal 

prior to his arrival. 

Journal entertainment editor Arnold 

Marks was on Warner Bros.-? Arts' "Finian's 

Rainbow" set—Tuesday (22) for interviews 

with producer Joe Landon and members 

of the cast. Members of the press have 

been on the lot for similar sessions. 

Jim Callas, Oregon Theatre owner-manager, 

has started an all-family double feature 

policy, opening with "Double Trouble." 

He'll follow with Walt Disney's "The 

Gnome-Mobile" and "Africa—Texas Style!" 

Catchy double-feature at the Family 

Drive-In: "In the Heat of the Night" and 

"Shot in the Dark." At the 104th St. Drive- 

In: "The War Wagon" and "The Young 

Warriors." 

Theatre With Space Motif 

Will Open in November 


GREENVILLE, S.C. — Construction of 

the 700-seat Astro Theatre featuring a 

space-age theme is expected to be completed 

tor a Thanksgiving Day opening. Star Theatres, 

which owns and operates the Plaza 

Theatre here and the Clemson in Clemson, 

announced plans for the $350,000 house. 

Featuring D-150 projection, the Astro is 

being built on a vacant lot beside Star Lanes 

Bowling Center on By-Pass Highway 291 at 

the Cleveland Street Extension. C. Heyward 

Morgan is head of Star Theatres and the 

bowling center. 

Joseph W. Hiller, architect, said the 

space-age theme will be carried throughout 

the theatre. "In addition to reclining seats, 

the huge screen and tremendous sound, we 

will have a twinkling star-like effect and 

floating-cloud effect overhead to give the 

illusion of a space voyage," he said. 

Other interior features will include an 

inside ticket booth, a de luxe lobby and an 

ultra-modern concession stand. A children's 

nursery is planned for the added convenience 

of patrons. "We have had the finest 

success with this idea in our bowling center 

and we plan to bring it into the movie house, 

where it will be the first of its kind," Morgan 

said. 

Milton Schwartz Named 

Moss Circuit Gen. Mgr. 


NEW YORK—Milton Schwartz, formerly 

managing director of the Criterion Theatre, 

has been appointed general manager of 

theatre operations for B. S. Moss Enterprises. 

Joe Frieberg has been named manager 

of the Criterion. 


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n check for $2,100 was presented in behalf 

of the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital 

at the benefit showing of "Young Americans" 

at the Fox Plaza Theatre Monday 

night (21). Fred Souttar, area supervisor 

for Fox Midwest Theatres, presented the 

gift to Russell Borg, Warner Bros.-? Arts 

branch, who is head of the Rogers drive in 

the Kansas City area. In conjunction with 

the showing of the film, donated by Columbia, 

the 36 Young Americans appeared in 

person on the stage and entertained with 

songs and dances. Bob Dudley, manager of 

the Isis 

Theatre, introduced the show. Souttar, 

during the presentation, thanked the 

young singers, projectionists and musicians' 

unions and others for contributing their 

talent and time. Fox Midwest donated the 

use of the theatre. The benefit was sponsored 

by the United Motion Picture Ass'n. 

Reservations and tickets were handled by 

Chuc Barnes, UMPA executive secretary, 

and Phii Blakey, president of the Motion 

Picture Ass'n of Greater Kansas City. 

Among others credited with help were Joe 

Ruddick, Fox Midwest district manager; 

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Doc Dean, United Artists salesman, has 

been released from Will Rogers Hospital 

and reported doing fine . . Dick Wiles of 

is . 

the Heart Drive-In is reported in good condition 

after an appendectomy in Research 

Hospital. He suffered appendicitis while en 

route from New York to Kansas City in his 

private 

airplane. 

Chuck Neff is the new manager of Commonwealth's 

Antioch Theatre in Kansas 

City North, succeeding Larry Ross, who 

was transferred to Shenandoah, Iowa, as 

manager of the Page Theatre and Iowa 

Drive-In. Neff had been in Columbia, Mo., 

for the 

circuit. 

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The Ellinwood Theatre in Ellinwood, 

Kas., has been acquired by Randall W. Roth 

from Mrs. Eugene Moos . Robert Shackelford 

has taken over the operation of the 

Ruble Drive-In at Mount Vernon, Mo., 

from Jess Ruble and his sons. 

The Eureka (Kas.) Drive-ln closed for 

the season Sunday (27). Manager Gary 

Smith entered the military service. 

Arthur McManus of Embassy Pictures in 

St. Louis was here on business . . . Betty 

Smythe, Commonwealth concession employe 

and past president of WOMPI, attended 

the Pilot Club convention in New Orleans. 

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meeting in the Commonwealth screening 

room, reports were given by the committee 

chairmen and the convention in New Orleans 

next month was discussed . . Myrtle 

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Cain took over as chairman of the finance 

committee . . . The club said it needs items 

and plenty of baked goods for the October 

6 Blue Ridge Mall Fair ... A Wadsworth 

bingo party is scheduled September 25. and 

the next meeting will be September 26. 

Condolences to George Crandal, National 

Screen Service shipper, on the death of his 

brother Ray in Warrensburg July 30 of a 

heart attack. 

Phyllis Ancona of 20th Century-Fox 

spent her week's vacation in Florida, and 

Marilyn Schmidt, general clerk at the exchange, 

went to New Orleans for her holiday. 

Joe Bondank. 20th-Fox booker, plans 

to spend his vacation in Colorado . . . June 

Yates of Commonwealth is visiting friends 

Tennessee. 

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Vera Becker of the Granada Theatre in 

Independence underwent surgery Wednesday 

(16) in the Independence Sanitarium. 

She is reported in good condition. Her room 

number is 322. 

Voight "Bud" Trent, who was with MGM 

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were held in St. PauTs Episcopal Church 

there Saturday afternoon (19). Burial was 

in Des Moines. Trent had been a patient at 

the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, Saranac 

Lake. N.Y.. about five years for treatment 

of emphysema and asthma. He leaves his 

wife Millicent and son Tom. The family 

suggests contributions to the Will Rogers 

Hospital. 

Weddings—Sylvia Ruth Dillon, daughter 

of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Dillon, who operate 

the National Theatre in Kansas City, was 

married Thursday (18) to William J. Haggarty 

in the Visitation Catholic Church. The 

couple is honeymooning in Puerto Rico . . . 

Helen Nothnagel. formerly of Fox Midwest 

Theatres, was married Thursday evening 

(24) to Theodore Sinclair in Our Lady of 

Good Counsel Church. Her matron of 

honor was Beverly Marroguin, also formerly 

of Fox Midwest. 

Ruth Ann Rummans, secretary to M.B. 

Smith at Commonwealth Theatres, plans to 

wed James Nail September 9 in the Avondale 

Church in North Kansas City. They 

plan to leave September 1 1 for California 

where he works at Vandenberg Air Force 

Base in an IBM operation. 

John E. Lightner, second son of Doug 

Lightner, vice-president and general manager 

of Commonwealth Theatres, is to be 

married to Cynthia Dale Hensen September 

2 in St. Ann's Catholic Church in Prairie 

Village. The couple plans to honeymoon in 

Colorado. Young Lightner works for Exhibitors 

Film Delivery here and is a student 

at Kansas State Teachers College. 

Out-of-town exhibitors seen on Filmrow: 

From Missouri—Ed Harris, Neosho; Mr. 

and Mrs. A. E. Jarboe. Cameron; Bill Bradfield. 

Carthage; Ed Beaman. Trenton; Bob 

Walter. Columbia; Scotty Fleener, Gravois 

Mills. Also visiting was Oscar Johnson of 

Falls City. Neb. 

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Great River" Tuesday (29) at 10:30 a.m. 

and "Waterhole No. 3" Wednesday (30) at 

10:30 a.m. Both will be shown at Commonwealth 

. Artists scheduled "The 

Hills Run Red" Thursday (31) at Commonwealth, 

starting at 1:30 p.m. 

MGM screened these three films last 

week at Commonwealth: "The Last Challenge" 

Tuesday afternoon (22). "Jack of 

Diamonds" Wednesday afternoon (23) and 

"Point Blank" Thursday afternoon (24). 

The Paramount Theatre, which was 

closed indefinitely Tuesday (1) after 48 

years of operation, was the subject of a 

feature story in the Kansas City Star Saturday 

(19). Arthur Cole of Paramount Pictures 

and dean of Kansas City's Filmrow. 

was mentioned in the article for recalling 

the warm June evening in 1919 when the 

theatre (then known as the Newman) opened 

its doors with "The Roaring Crowd." a 

silent motion picture starring Wallace Reid. 

George Baker, owner of the Claco Drive-In, 

also was mentioned in the article in recalling 

events in the halcyon days of the theatre 

when he was manager during the late '20s 

and early '30s. He remembered Leo F. 

Forbstein as director of the theatre's symphony 

orchestra and when Victor Herbert 

was a guest conductor in 1923. Forbstein 

later became musical director at Warner 

Bros, 

studios. 

Elizabeth James, star of "Born Losers," 

American International film, which opened 

with a saturation first-run showing at six 

drive-ins and two indoor theatres last week, 

appeared in person at three theatres Thursday 

night (24) in conjunction with the AIP 

film. She was at the Isis Theatre, the Heart 

and Twin drive-ins autographing photos. 

The film, in color, which also stars Tom 

Laughlin and Jeremy Slate, also is playing 

at the Boulevard, Crest, Lakeside and 

Riverside drive-ins. as well as the Granada 

in Kansas City, Kas. 

Raleigh Sets Up 5% Gross 

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RALEIGH, N.C.—An ordinance levying 

a 5 per cent tax on the gross receipts of 

Southeastern Cablevision Co. has been 

adopted by the city council. The tax will 

apply to income received by the company 

from monthly rates charged subscribers. 

Excluded from the tax are fees on installation 

of equipment which the company says 

it will perform at cost. 

Southeastern was granted a CATV franchise 

here after voters had given their approval 

in a referendum last spring. 

Southeastern will bring into the area television 

programs from stations outside of 

normal reception range. From a community 

antenna, the company will string lines on 

existing utility poles to the homes of customers. 

The city's CATV ordinance puts a $20 

limit on the installation fee and a $6 limit 

on the monthly rate to be charged by the 

firm. City tax rates on CATV systems vary 

throughout North Carolina. Charlotte has a 

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and live other favorites grossed at a dazzling 

pace, each of the six rating 275 or better. 

The Sidney Poitier starrer gave the Brookside 

another 600 round in its fourth week as 

"Thoroughly Modern Millie." in the ninth 

week at the Midland Theatre, came up 

v\iih 425. the week's second-best gross percentage. 

"Divorce AMERICAN Style." 

third week at the Plaza and Avenue, ranked 

third at 350, while a pair of 300s went to 

"Barefoot in the Park" and "Taming of the 

Shrew." both long-time runs. Rounding out 

the elite top six was "The Dirty Dozen." 

which earned 275 in the eighth week at the 

Rox> Theatre. 

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Anticch, Metcalf The Gnome-Mobile (BV), 

3rd wk 125 

Boulevard, Crest, Heart, Lakeside, Riverside 

The Trip (AlP); asserted co features 125 

Brockside— To Sir, With Love (Col), 4th wk 600 

Capri Hawaii (UA), 26th wk 100 

Embassy 1, 2 A Guide for the Married Man 

(20th-Fox), 9th wk 150 

Empire 1 The Sand Pebbles (20th-Fox), 23rd wk. 100 

Empire 2 Grand Prix (MGM), 27th wk 100 

Fine Arts Barefoot in the Park (Para), 8th wk. 300 

Glenwood The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 

18th wk 300 

Hillcrest, Hiway 40, Lake Twin, State II, Twin I, 

Shawnee, Granada (Indep.), Overland, Metro 2 

The Naked Runner (WB-7A); 

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Kimo The Jokers (Univ), 3rd wk 1 50 

Mid'and Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

9th wk 425 

Plaza, Avenue Divorce AMERICAN Style (Col), 

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Roxy The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 8th wk 275 

Uptown, Electric The Way West (UA), 2nd wk 120 

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Theatre. Holdovers in most instances had 

grosses in the upper brackets, namely "El 

Dorado" in the fourth week at the Roosevelt 

and "The Dirty Dozen" in the fifth week at 

the State 

Lake. 

Bismarck Hawaii (UA), 41st wk 135 

Chicago Barefoot in the Pork (Para) 275 

Cinema A Man and a Womon (AA), 35th wk. . . 1 75 

Cinestoge The Sand Pebbles (20-Fox), 6th wk. ..275 

Esquire A Man for All Seasons (Col), 25th wk. . . 175 

Loop The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 18th wk. .155 

Michael Todd The Bible (20th-Fox), 33rd wk 150 

Oriental In the Heat of the Night (UA) 250 

Playboy Loves of a Blonde (Prominent) 175 

Roosevelt El Dorado (Para), 4th wk 225 

State Lake The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 5th wk. ..250 

United Artists Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

2nd wk 375 

Woods Hells Angels on Wheels (USF), 5th wk. . .200 

World Pla>'house I, a Woman (Audubon), 

7th wk 185 

Las Cruces May Become 

Western Film Center 

HOLLYWOOD—If 

YOUR REPORT OF THE PICTURE YOU 

HAVE JUST PLAYED FOR THE 

GUIDANCE OF FELLOW EXHIBITORS. 

Mo. G4124 

the men of Los Cinquentas. 

economic development group from 

Las Cruces, N. Mex., can make it happen, 

the frontier trek westward will be reversed 

and motion picture producers from Hollywood 

will do their western location filming 

in the nearby state of New Mexico (east of 

California). 

Three hardtops, the Rio Grande, State 

and Plaza and two drive-ins, the Aggie and 

Fiesta, will lend their screening facilities for 

the "dailies," the developed film from the 

laboratories shown to the producers each 

day. One of these might be used for the 

world premiere of the latest feature, the 

United Artists release "Hang 'Em High" if 

the Leonard Freeman-produced epic western 

now being completed at Metro-Goldwyn- 

Mayer here gets the green light. 

What makes a town of 57,000 people, 

Company.. 

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Theatre 

— Right Now 

three hours from Hollywood (air-time), take 

on the competition of the good locations 

covering every horizon in the other 13 western 

states? How does the town succeed in 

getting into the consciousness of the average 

director or producer here? What can they 

offer: financing? western street? sound 

stages? 

The manner of approach used by Chad 

Wymer, Chamber of Commerce director; 

William Grindell, president of the CofC; 

Gene and Joe Priestley, publishers of the 

Las Cruces Sun; Walter Rubens, owner of 

the radio station, and Tommy Thomson 

and Robert Garrett, inn owners, was to take 

the American Room of the Brown Derby on 

Vine Street and give a luncheon for the 

tradepress. With Leonard Freeman as host, 

telling how the Ted Post-directed feature 

received the red-carpet treatment in the 

town 30 miles from El Paso, the die was 

cast. 

Financing wasn't in sight yet for independent 

producers, but the other residuals, 

which delight the production manager, were 

in the package. Wymer, liaison man for 

the town, which already collected $300,000 

this year from the film company visit, offered 

this continued cooperation. Wymer 

said to send him the script and he'd scout 

the locations, obtain horses, cattle, wagons, 

props, etc. The town receives the benefit 

of tourists, too. All it takes is convincing 

the unions and guilds and the producers that 

these things add up to money. 

Audrey Hepburn, WB-7 Arts 

At Music Hall 3 Times 

NEW YORK— It will be a triple-header 

for both Audrey Hepburn and Warner Bros.- 

7 Arts at the famed Radio City Music Hall 

when "Wait Until Dark" opens there this 

fall at a date to be announced. 

The suspense drama, produced by Mel 

Ferrer and directed by Terence Young, will 

be the third consecutive WB-7 Arts film to 

play the New York showplace. It follows the 

Peter Seller's starrer, "The Bobo," which 

follows the current WB-7 Arts engagement 

of "Up the Down Staircase." 

As for Miss Hepburn, her last two films 

also played the Music Hall; last summer's 

smash hit, "How to Steal a Million" and 

last spring's "Two for the Road," both 20th- 

Fox releases. 

Maryland Court of Appeals 

Seeks Obscenity Test Case 

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Appeals 

Court has asked police, prosecutors and 

criminal courts for a test case to clarify the 

term "contemporary community standards 

relating to the description ... of sexual 

matters" as used by the U.S. Supreme Court 

in obscenity cases. 

The court said it's not clear whether 

"community standards" concern local, national 

or some other connotation. 

Pointing out the Supreme Court nor the 

Maryland Court of Appeals has attempted 

to define the meaning of the term, the 

court expressed its willingness to do so once 

the question "is 

squarely before us." 

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CHICAGO 

Col Gordon, who heads pubHcity here for 

20th Century-Fox, hosted a series of 

mini scene showings from "Doctor DoHttle" 

at the Michael Todd Theatre for educators, 

hbrarians and community leaders. 

Ruth Roman arrived from the West Coast 

to appear in "Beekman Place" at the Ivanhoe 

Theatre. Brigid Bazlen, formerly of Chicago 

and once under contract to MGM, will 

co-star with Miss Roman. Miss Bazlen's 

husband is Jean Paul Vignon, who just completed 

his first American film "Devil's Brigade." 

Independent Theatres, headed by Harry 

Nepo, has new offices at 54 W. Randolph 

St. 

Sophie Janus, secretary in the MGM publicity 

department, is vacationing in Colorado. 

Subbing for her is Kellie Thaneuf. formerly 

of MGM's Dallas office, now a resident 

of Wilmington, Del. Mrs. Thaneuf 

came to Chicago for a vacation, but agreed 

to take care of secretarial duties for Phil 

Brochstein and Rik Newman. 

Charles Lauritzen has joined National 

Screen Service as Chicago salesman . . . 

Barbara Regan of Regan Film Distributors 

and Muriel Kohner of NSS were elected 

delegates to represent Chicago WOMPI at 

the convention in New Orleans next month. 

Ray Smertz, branch manager at 20th 

Century-Fox, is spending his holiday in Las 

Vegas. 

in 

Jack Eckhardt, head of 20th Century-Fox 

Milwaukee, was accompanied by a group 

of Variety Club members from that city attending 

the Tent 26 golf outing at Elmhurst 

Country Club Friday (25). In the group were 

Fred Koontz of Prudential Theatres and 

Harry Mintz of the Stanley Warner organization. 

George Regan organized a 9 o'clock 

tee-off time for eight foursomes. 

Dan Goldberg, who has gone into the restaurant 

business in addition to operating 

movie houses, has just opened Shanghai 

Kil's featuring Oriental cooking and entertainment. 

He also has Chatterley's Restaurant. 

Nat Nathanson, who joined the 20th-Fox 

here as division manager, was in New York 

where he was honored by the Variety Club 

of that city . . . Eileen Walters, secretary to 

Universal publicist Ben Katz, is vacationing. 

James Toal was a Filmrow visitor. He 


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was lining up bookings for Hainline Associated 

Theatres, including two houses in Macomb, 

the Rivoli in Monmouth and the 

Apollo in Belvidere. 

Hannah Eiseman of Teitel Film Corp. 

will vacation in Canada and visit Expo 67. 

She will investigate new art films which are 

current festival features at the world's fair. 

Jack Kelvie, a newcomer to the Chicago 

area, has joined Alliance Amusement Co. 

as assistant to Pete Panagos. Kelvie came 

here from Minneapolis, and was most recently 

associated with 20th Century-Fox. 

Michael Kutz jr. hosted "A Grand Night 

for the Film Festival" in connection with 

the third International Film Festival, which 

will be held in November. The advanced 

event was held Saturday (26) in the Highlands 

Estate, with reservations at $10 a couple. 

Three movies were shown continuously, 

"Gold Diggers of 1933," "The Maltese Falcon" 

and "Citizen Kane." 

third 

Donald Young Associates scheduled the 

annual seminar of film techniques October 

4 to December 4. The cost of the series 

is $17. A pamphlet announcing the series is 

titled, "You Don't Need Hollywood Budget 

and Bustlines—to Produce an Effective 

Film." Robert B. Konikow, back for his 

third year as host for the seminar, has solid 

background in films as a member of the prefestival 

judging committee of the American 

Film Festival. He has a weekly program on 

Channel 32 dealing with films. 

'ARD' Mystery Is Solved 

At Universal in Detroit 

From Mideast Edition 

DETROIT—The mystery of Universal 

exchange's ARD acronym has been solved. 

A sign at the rear door of the structure, 

often used by exhibitors, reads, "Headquarters 

for ARD up front." 

People passing by on the street, the exchange 

has its own one-story building, probably 

wonder if the strange lettering had 

something to do with the riots. One man 

thought it may have "something to do with 

free food." 

Exhibitors learned the secret in a mailing 

piece. It pointed out, "ARD is in need of 

your help," and included a booking sheet. 

Copy disclosed ARD refers to Universal's 

new "Cartune Drive" just for bookers. The 

campaign will continue until the end of the 

year. 

A hinged piece on the mailer, asked: 

"Who's behind ARD? Lift tab." Underneath 

was a photo of Agnes Hardin and Rosalin 

Knight, bookers, and David Gonda, head 

booker-salesman, who set up the exploitation, 

using the first letter of each of their 

first names for ARD. 

Columbia has acquired distribution rights 

for virtually all major territories for "The 

Man From Stockholm." 

Renewed DST Fight 

Is Seen in Georgia 

From Souttieastern Edition 

ATLANTA—Proponents of daylight saving 

time face another fight when the assembly 

gathers for its 1968 session starting in 

January. 

Rep. Ward Edwards of Butler County has 

introduced a bill to exempt Georgia from 

the DST list and restore it to Eastern Standard 

Time. He was able to introduce his bill 

at this time because of a new legislative provision 

permitting Georgia lawmakers to introduce 

bills at any time during the year. 

His measure likely will be assigned to committee 

for study sometime this month. 

A similar move during the 1967 session 

of the legislature was the signal for a running 

controversy that lasted until the final 

days of the session with moves and countermoves 

by the both sides, with the "pros" 

having the edge that forced the "antis" to 

agree to a compromise bill that eventually 

led to the state going into the DST column. 

Georgia theatre owners and operators 

fought against the bill with all the resources 

at their command. In the final analysis, the 

standard time people had to agree on a 

compromise resolution putting Georgia on 

DST unless two of its five bordering states 

took action to exempt themselves. None did, 

so Georgia went on fast 

time along with all 

but two of the 50 states. 

Although Rep. Edwards' bill does not 

specify what he considers the merits of returning 

to standard time, the DST opposi- 

' 

tion is girding to help him get it passed. 

In the forefront are the legislators from 

the bucolic areas, including the farmers who 

contend that DST upsets their cows and 

chickens, causing them to give less milk 

and lay fewer eggs. It is contended, too, that 

school in rural areas children must stand 

in the dark in the mornings waiting for the 

school buses to pick them up. 

And the drive-in owners and operators 

can't start their shows in the summertime 

until 9:30 p.m., and they cite the fact that 

their only chance to make money is in the 

hot months, since the fall and winter seasons, 

with kids in school, are the periods 

when the best they can do is break even. 

Photo-Journalist Award 

Goes to Chorlene Holt 

From Western Edition 

HOLLYWOOD—Charlene Holt, who costarred 

with John Wayne and Robert 

Mitchum in "El Dorado," was awarded the 

International Photo-Journalists Ass'n award 

for her cooperation with local photographers 

during the year. The award was presented 

by Roy Cummings, assoociation president, 

in ceremonies Monday (14). 

of course. 

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'You're a Big Boy' 

375 in New Orleans 

NEW ORLEANS — Percentages 

still 

show better than average grosses. Leading 

off was "You're a Big Boy Now" at 375 in 

its first week at the Gentilly-Art Theatre. 

Close on its heels was the second week of 

"Dirty Dozen" at the Lakeside Cinema 1 at 

300. "Naked Runner" in its opening week 

at the Orpheum placed third at 250. 


Joy's Aereon The Game Is Over (Royal), 

3rd wk 200 

Gentilly-Art You're a Big Boy Now (WB-7A) ..375 

Lakeside—The Sond Pebbles (20th-Fox), 1 2th wk. 250 

Lakeside Cinema I —The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 

2nd wk 300 

Lakeside Cinema 2, Oak wood Cinema 1 The 

Gnome-Mobile (BV), 2nd wk 110 

Loew's Stote—You Only Live Twice (UA), 8th wk. 100 

Mortin's Cinerama—Grand Prix [MGM), 13th wk. 125 

Orpheum—The Naked Runner (WB-7A) 250 

Robert E. Lee—A Man for All Seasons (Col), 

18th wk 200 

"The Dirty Dozen' Runs First 

In Memphis With Lively 400 

MEMPHIS — "The Dirty Dozen" and 

"Barefoot in the Park" emerged as the top 

attractions at first runs during the week. 

Malco reported 400 per cent of average 

business with a seventh week of the 

"Dozen." The Park had 300 per cent with 

a third week of "Barefoot." 

Crosstown—The Sand Pebbles (Col), 16th wk. ...185 

Guild—Loves of a Blonde (Prominent) 110 

Malco—The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 7fh wk 400 

Memphian— The Taming of fhe Shrew (Col), 

2nd wk 300 

Poloce— In the Heat of the Night (UA) 175 

Park— Barefoot in the Park (Para), 3rd wk 300 

Plaza—Woman Times Seven (Embassy) 100 

State Fathom (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 100 

Studio— El Greco (20th-Fox) 65 

Warner—The St. Valentine's Day Massacre 

(20th-Fox) 140 

Whitehaven Cinema— Divorce AMERICAN Style 

(Col), 2nd wk 100 

James Corbett New MGM 

Atlanta Branch Manager 

ATLANTA — James Corbett. with the 

exchange here 16 years, has been moved up 

from assistant to MGM branch manager, 

succeeding Robert E. Capps, who resigned to 

become Florida booker for General Cinema 

Corp., with headquarters in Jacksonville. 

Capps had been here three months after being 

transferred from Jacksonville. 

Capps, 21 years with MGM, also had 

served as hooker and office manager in 

Jacksonville before being shifted to Boston 

in 1960 as assistant branch manager. In 

1961 he was transferred to Charlotte, N.C., 

as branch manager, then returned to Jacksonville 

a year later to head the exchange. 

In Atlanta he succeeded Woody Sherrill, 

who was promoted to southern division 

manager by MGM. 

WMT Circuit Remodeling 

Springfield Paramount 

SPRINGFIELD—Col. Samuel Goldstein, 

president of Western Massachusetts Theatres, 

has disclosed plans to reopen the longshuttered, 

downtown, 2,800-seat Paramount. 

Up until its shuttering several years ago, 

the first-run showcase was operated by New 

England Theatres. 

JACKSONVILLE 

ghirrel Rboades, the Florida Times-Union 

film writer, wrote one of the most perceptive 

and appreciative film reviews when 

he covered the opening of "The Naked Runner" 

at the downtown Florida. He pointed 

out. "The element which separates this motion 

picture from our current Zeitgeist for 

spy stories is realism. Cold, calculated realism. 

That is the cornerstone on which director 

Sidney J. Furie built "The Naked Runner." 

Shirrel devoted several paragraphs to 

the many authentic touches used to provide 

East German background and atmosphere. 

He also said the film "contains a rather 

terrifying accusation in its theme, that a 

government might single out one man and 

play him as a pawn in a game of assassination." 

Earl Turbyfill, local independent booker, 

has added Gerald Abrieu's San Carlos Theatre 

in Key West to his other accounts . . . 

John Lawson, who operates the Ritz Theatre 

in DeFuniak Springs, has acquired the H 

and R Drive-In Theatre at Hartford, Ala. 

. . . 

Ardene Pinson, Universal contract clerk, 

and her husband left here for three weeks 

of vacationing in Wisconsin 

Roberts, 

George 

who heads the Americana Amusement 

Corp. of Tampa, has acquired the 

local Roxy, a nudie house, from the former 

owner LeRoy Griffiths. Roberts also has 

similar operations in Knoxville, Tenn.; 

Richmond, Va., and Ybor City, the Latin 

section of Tampa. 

Ava Loudermiik, Oscar Cannington's secretary 

at the EST warehouse, attended a 

family reunion in Cullman, Ala. . . Martha 

. 

Scott, also of the EST warehouse, and her 

husband Douglas vacationed in Virginia and 

Kentucky with relatives there . . . Sandra 

Easley, WOMPI speakers' chairman, and 

her assistant Charlotte Green announced 

George Wachendorf, financial editor of the 

Florida Times-Union, would be guest 

speaker at the next general membership 

meeting of the club. 

Edwina Ray, WOMPI president, announced 

she and her advisory committee 

have named these committee chairmen: 

Community service, Philomena "Phil" Eckert; 

industry service. Thelma Claxton; Will 

Rogers Hospital. Jane Weeman; publicity, 

Mary Hart; social, Charlotte Green; bylaws, 

Betty Rook; finance and religious activities, 

Janet Mette; chaplain, Ava Loudermiik; 

yearbook, Mildred Land; ways-and-means. 

Jean Teague, and the monthly bulletin, reporting 

and art work. Lenore Kirkwood. 

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Anne Dillon of Jacksonville has been 

nominated by WOMPI International as 

president for the ensuing year and Kitty 

Dowell. also of this city, corresponding 

secretary. 

Wayne Spivey, a junior at the University 

of Florida, is now Bill Baskin's assistant at 

the Florida Theatres in Gainesville ... Ed 

McLaughlin, Columbia manager here, 

found himself so pleased with the laughgenerating 

power of "Who's Minding the 

Mint?" when Walt Meier presented it at the 

downtown Florida as a sneak preview that 

he hopefully remarked that maybe his company 

has another "Cat Ballou" which 

evoked similar reaction from a sneak preview 

crowd at the Florida a couple of years 

ago. 

George M. Green jr. has planned a September 

1 grand opening night for his new 

Sky-Vue Drive-ln in Brevard County, south 

of Rockledge on Barnes Boulevard. The outdoorer 

is equipped with 300 speakers. 

National Theatre Supply of Altanta is providing 

the projectors, sound system and 

concession equipment, and Selby Industries 

is insulating the 40x80 screen tower. Bookings 

are being handled by the Tomlinson Co. 

of this city. 

Jack King,' who has been serving as a 

booker under Jim Kirby in Floyd Theatres 

local booking office, is reported as moving 

to the booking department of Wometco Enterprises 

in Miami, succeeding Rex Norris, 

who has joined the booking staff at United 

Films in Miami . . . Mamie Newman, local 

Columbia booker, attended the graduation 

of her grandson from Florida State University 

in Tallahassee. 

Ernie Pellegrin, Columbia office manager, 

and his family spent their vacation on a 

tour of south Florida's scenic spots and 

Jackie Hess, also of Columbia, embarked on 

a home vacation with plans for lolling at 

beach. 

the 

Grimm . 

Receivers of WOMPI birthday greetings 

in August were Anne Dillon and Rex 

Ryan. Florida State Theatres 

newspaper ad writer, visited friends 

and relatives in Miami with Anne Dillon, 

who visited her daughter. Sister Anna 

Tops in 

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Bob Moscow, owner-operator of the 

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connection with forthcoming productions. 

Auditions for parts in the filmization of 

Carson McCullcrs' "The Heart Is a Lonely 

Hunter" proved fruitless here, despite an 

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Jam;s F. Ankrom of Wilby-Kincey's National 

Hills Theatre in Augusta and former 

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here, has been named manager of 

W-K's Eastgate Theatre in Chattanooga, 

succeeding Frank Smith. 

Perry Reavis, Meiselman district manager, 

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and is building another hardtop in a 

shopping center. 

Terry Kay, amusements editor of the Atlanta 

Constitution, before he left on vacation, 

wrote; "The three reserved-seat productions 

in preparation at 20th-Fox are 

•Hello. Dolly!" Tora, Tora' and 'Tom Swift." 

I must capitalize on this item to voice disapproval 

of Barbra Streisand as Dolly Levi 

m the film version of 'Dolly.' This, it seems. 

is carrying stardom to the brink of stardom." 

W. C. Gehring, southern division manager 

of 20th-Fox, returned from the West 

Coast meeting on the Darryl Zanuck sales 

drive, and set up a meeting (21) with branch 

managers to discuss the campaign. In attendance 

were Charles Jones. Memphis; Gerald 

Kennedy. New Orleans; Morris Yowell. 

Oklahoma City; Ed Chumley, Jacksonville; 

William B. Williams, Dallas; Lloyd Edwards, 

Charlotte, and Daniel M. Coursey, 

Atlanta. 

W. C. Haines, United Artists branch 

manager, sneaked Mirisch-UA's "In the 

Heat of the Night" on the same bill with 

"You Only Live Twice" Monday (14) at 

Georgia Theatres Lenox Square. 

Screenings at Columbia's Filmrow Playhouse 

included "The Hills Run Red" (UA). 

"She-Man" (Howco) and "Spree" (AIP). 

Virginia Clifton (Columbia booker) has 

been released from Georgia Baptist Hospital 

after surgery and is at home recuperating 

McChesney, 20th-Fox salesman, is 

on a two-week vacation . . . Charlie Jordan, 

head of the Howco exchange here before it 

was closed and he moved to Charlotte, was 

in the city on business and visited Filmrow 

friends. 

MONTAY 

"This Was Burlesque," starring Ann 

Corio and Jerry Lester, closed the Municipal 

Theatre's six-week season in the 5,500- 

seat Memorial Park Amphitheatre. 

The Fox Theatre had matinees three days 

for "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (kiddie 

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Other new bookings were the reissue of 

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Valentine's Day Massacre" at the Roxy 

replacing "The Gnome-Mobile"; "You're 

a Big Boy Now," Meiselman's Cherokee, 

and the Festival Cinema brought back 

"Zorba the Greek." 

New Warrensburg Theatre 

For Commonwealth Circuit 

Central Edition 

WARRENSBURG. MO. — Commonwealth 

Theatres of Kansas City will build 

an 810-seat theatre at 722 South McGuire 

St.. it was announced by Richard Orear, 

president of the circuit. 

Milton Costlow & Associates, a Kansas 

City firm specializing in theatre design and 

construction, has created plans for the new 

Warrensburg luxury theatre and Hans 

Teichert II, Chicago, has the contract for 

decorations, decor and general lighting fixtures. 

Roy Tucker, head of purchasing and 

construction for the circuit, will supervise 

plans and materials for the new cinema, 

while Charles Tryon, his assistant, will direct 

and supervise operations here. Construction 

will start soon for completion early 

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Plans for the theatre take advantage of 

space for the sake of comfort. Luxury seating, 

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equipment for year-round climate control 

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The theatre will possess an extensive 

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The boxoffice will be located in the 

lobby, which will have special side exits for 

easy access to parking areas. 

Charles Lester to Retire 

As NSS Division Head 

ATLANTA — Charles Lester, 70, National 

Screen Service division manager based 

here, who came out of retirement five years 

ago at the request of the company to assume 

the post, announced he plans to retire effective 

December 2. The division manager's 

position will be discontinued after his retirement. 

Stewart 

Harnell, New Orleans NSS manager, 

has been promoted to head the Atlanta 

branch. His new assignment is to commence 

September 5. He will work under Lester's 

supervision until Lester"s retirement. 

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and that makes it handy for delegates. 

Chauncey Barbour, manager of the 

Municipal Auditorium in Memphis, is the 

new chief barker of Tent 20. He was unanimously 

elected to succeed Alton Sims, 

whose work is taking him to another city. 

Barbour, first assistant chief, didn't have to 

be elected but the officer and board thought 

it would be a good idea. 

Sims and his wife Katherine were honored 

at a farewell party by Tent 20 and Barbour 

was installed at the same time. 

R. L. "Bob" Bostick, a vice-president of 

Variety International, presented the club 

with a check for $2,083 which it was awarded 

at the Mexico City convention for its 

outstanding Variety Week promotion. The 

funds are to go to the Variety's Children's 

Heart Institute. 

Exhibitors visited from five states. From 

Missouri came Elizabeth deGuire, Shannon, 

Portageville. From Louisiana was Frank 

Patterson, Mansfield, Mansfield. Arkansas 

exhibitors included Orris Collins, Capitoi, 

Paragould: Jack Noel, Maxie, Trumann and 

J. T. Hitt, accompanied by his son Travis 

Hitt, Plaza, Bentonville. Tennessee exhibitors: 

Louise Mask, Luez, Bolivar; Maurice 

Basse, Starlite Drive-In, Union City and 

Guy Amis, Laco, Lexington. 

Mississippi exhibitors in town included 

Mart Mounger, Mart, Calhoun City; Frank 

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

Houston, Houston, and Leon Rountree, 

Holly, 

Holly Springs. 

Memphis WOMPI held a rummage sale 

at Raleigh during the week, with Lois Boyd. 

Mai Carper, Mary Katherine Baker. Nancy 

Forsythe, Leon Cooper, Bonnie Steward, 

Marianna Bartlett and Peggy Hogan assisting. 

Proceeds went to buy clothing for 

needy children. 

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The Memphis Heart Ass'n was aided by 

WOMPI members who typed LOOO letters 

and envelopes for the campaign . 

garet Irby, who is recovering from an illness, 

was a visitor to Filmrow during the 

week. 

Stops Bright Train Lights 

On Drive-In Complaint 


SAN FRANCISCO—After a complaint 

by the Spartan Drive-In at San Jose, the 

Southern Pacific Railroad was ordered by 

the California Public Utilities Commission 

to eliminate the use of unnecessary bright 

lights on trains within 1,000 feet of the air&r. 

The drive-in, operated by Jess Levin, 

complained that lights from trains in the 

adjacent railroad switchyard were often 

so bright that the picture on the Spartan 

screen could not be seen. The CPUC order 

allows the use of bright lights only in the 

case of an emergency. 

367-Car Airer Opens 

In Waverly, Tenn. 

WAVERLY, TENN.—The Valley Drive- 

In, 4' 2 miles west of here on Highway 70, 

has been opened by Nathan and Deanie 

Flexer, and is being operated by their sons 

Mike and Gary, with their third son Lewis 

as the projectionist. 

The Flexers also own and operate the 

Mi-De-Ga Theatre in downtown Waverly. 

The 367-car airer covers about seven 

acres, and will be a year-around operation, 

Flexer said. 

Roy Rogers Chief Indian 

At Anadarko Exposition 

From Southwest Edition 

ANADARKO, OKLA.—A 

well-known 

cowboy had the role of the nation's Chief 

Indian when the 36th annual American Indian 

Exposition opened a six-day run here 

Monday (14). Roy Rogers, who is part 

Choctaw, had been named the outstanding 

American Indian for 1967 and was featured 

in the downtown parade officially opening 

the exposition. He was presented with a 

leather scroll. 

The exposition ran afternoon and evening 

performances daily, the evening programs 

on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday 

including a pageant, "A Scrap of Paper," 

commemorating the 100th anniversary 

of the Medicine Lodge Treaty under 

which the Plains Indians were to allow 

peaceful passage of white settlers. 

Tribal dance contests were held Tuesday 

night and individual contests Thursday and 

Friday. Top prize was $300 for the best 

performance in the senior men's division 

fancy war dance. 

Paul Stonum, who operates the Redskin 

and Miller theatres in Anadarko, long has 

been a factor in Indian activities in Oklahoma 

and is a member of the board of the 

Indian Hall of Fame. He was instrumental 

in getting Roy Rogers to participate in the 

exposition. 

Directors Guild Names 2 

Executive Officer Aides 


HOLLYWOOD—The Directors Guild of 

America has named Don L. Parker and 

Barret H. Wetherby as assistants to Joseph 

C. Youngerman, national executive secretary. 

Both are DGA members and will headquarter 

at guild offices here. Parker is a 

unit production manager who has worked 

in motion pictures since 1938. Wetherby, a 

TV associate director, started in the legitimate 

theatre in 1949. 

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NEW ORLEANS 

Farle Frisard, formerly with Film Inspection 

Service, is now connected with 

National Screen Service . . . Vacationists 

include Ellen Couvillion, teletype operator 

for MGM; Calvin Johnson and his wife 

Lillian, Film Inspection Service, off to Las 

Vegas; Marian Giierin. also of Film Inspection. 

Roland Hoffman, Warner Bros. -7 Arts, 

and his wife will spend part of their vacation 

in Florida and also plan to visit the 

Astrodome in Houston to take in a few 

baseball games. 

Stewart Hamell, who has been with 

National 

Screen Service in New Orleans, is 

being transferred to Atlanta as branch manager. 

Also, the Harnells are expecting a visit 

from the stork in the near future. 

WOMPI news — Jennie Vedros (ABC 

Mid-South Theatres) left Friday (18) to 

accept a position at the Arkansas Training 

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will succeed Jennie Vedros as recording 

secretary for the club. Audry Robin succeeds 

Agnes as extension chairman . . . The 

members hosted a game night at St. Anna's 

Thursday (17), and entertained at Charity 

Hospital Monday night (21). A closed meeting 

was scheduled Monday (28) in the Andrew 

Jackson Restaurant. Most important 

item on the agenda was to be final plans for 

the convention. WOMPIs on vacation are 

Doris Stevens and Catherine D'Alfonso of 

Warner Bros. -7 Arts. They and their families 

are planning to visit Atlanta. 

For the first time in several weeks, a 

number of new pictures opened here. "In 

the Heat of the Night" bowed at Loew's 

State; "Woman Times Seven" at the Joy; 

"A Guide for the Married Man" at the 

Saenger Theatre; "The Family Way," Martin 

Cinerama. The new twin theatre in town. 

Panorama I and II, opened with "Taming 

of the Shrew" and "Don't Make Waves." 

"The Defector" opened at the Plaza Art 

Theatre with "The Brig" and Andy Warhol's 

"Job" at the Underground Cinema 12. Multiple 

runs were the first run of "Hells Angels 

on Wheels" and the return of "El Dorado." 

Warner Bros. -Seven Arts' "The Valley 

Time Forgot" is being filmed in Almeria, 

Spain. 

Airer Attendance Drop 

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San Antonio—Drive-in owners report 

business down about 15 per cent 

as a result of Daylight Saving Time, 

which is being observed in Texas for 

the first time. 

"I'd say that we've had a 10 to 15 

per cent decline in attendance," said 

Frank Whisenant, manager of the 

Fredericksburg Road Drive-In, a Stanley 

Warner Theatres' unit. 

Owners and operators of drive-ins 

explain the reason for the decline in 

attendance is that the main feature 

can't be started until after 9 p.m. because 

of the late 

daylight. 

"And that means that people who 

stay for both features don't get home 

until 2:30 a.m.—and that's pretty late," 

said Jack Williams, manager of the San 

Pedro Twin Outdoor Theatre. 

Cisco Drive-In Damaged 


CISCO, TEX. — Damage estimated at 

$6,000 by Wesley Walker, owner of the Joy 

Drive-In, occurred at the outdoor motion 

picture theatre Wednesday afternoon (2) 

when the screen and part of the fence were 

destroyed by fire. 

Firemen from Cisco, Eastland and Olden 

fought the fire which also burned off 20 

acres of grassland near the drive-in, two 

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'Dr. Faustus' Premiere 

Set at Oxford, England 

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NEW YORK—The Richard Burton "Dr. 

Faustus," based on the Christopher Marlowe 

play and which will feature Elizabeth 

Taylor as "Helen of Troy," will have its 

world premiere at the ABC Cinema in Oxford, 

England, on October 15. Shortly after 

the world premiere, a benefit for The 

League of Friends of the Nuffield Orthopaedic 

Centre at Oxford University, the 

film will commence its regular engagement 

in London. Burton co-directed with Nevill 

Coghill, who also wrote the screen treatment 

of the 

16th century classic. 

JACKSONVILLE 

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Grace, a Catholic nun, who is hospitalized 

in Miami. 

Byron Adams, United Artists branch 

manager, has succeded Robert Farber, Stein 

Theatres executive, as chairman of the annual 

golf tournament scheduled each Veterans' 

Day, November 11, by the distributors, 

exhibitors. To be held at the Jacksonville 

Beach Golf and Country Club, it will be 

followed by a banquet in the club's dining 

room and by the presentation of prizes to 

participants in the tourney. Assisting Adams 

with arrangements are Dave Harris, Paramount 

booker, and Jennings Easley, MGM 

booker. 

Sunny Greenwood, former local Universal 

booker, who received a promotion to the 

company's print department in New York, 

has been accepted into membership by the 

New York WOMPI group. 

Evolution of a name: The former Twin 

Hills Drive-In here had its name changed to 

the Playboy-Twin Hills when Preston Henn 

acquired the outdoorer from Cecil Cohen. 

Now it is the Playboy Drive-In with an 

adults only policy. 

"The Sand Pebbles'" rolled into a strong 

fourth week at Kent's Plaza Rocking Chair 

and "Divorce AMERICAN Style" 

had its north Florida premiere at Meisel- 

. . . man's Town and Country The down- 

Florida had a successful sneak preview 

of "Don't Make Waves" during its run 

"Luv." 

Orris H. Young, an lATSE projectionist 

was forced to retire because of a 

chronic heart ailment, died while hospitalin 

Bethesda, Md. 

James Franciscus stars in Warner Bros.- 

Seven Arts" "The "Valley Time Forgot." 

MIAMI 

Qerald F. Whaley, director of public affairs 

of Wometco Enterprises, has been 

appointed chairman of the entertainment division 

of the Dade County United Fund fall 

campaign. 

November 9 has been confirmed as the 

world premiere of Frank Sinatra's "Tony 

Rome" here where the picture was made. 

The opening will be in a Wometco theatre. 

Sinatra is preparing for "The Detectives," 

and two weeks' filming will be in New York 

A sequel to 

before the "Tony Rome" affair. 

"Rome" also will be filmed in Miami, but 

is not expected to get under way until February 

or March. 

Richard Rossman of the Loew's 170th 

Street Theatre was struck on the head and 

robbed of $2,500 in receipts as he walked 

from his car to a bank for a night deposit 

Monday (14). 

Charles S. Ozburn, 62, former theatre 

manager and owner, died Monday (14). He 

had lived here 43 years. From 1932 to 

1941, he managed the State Theatre. From 

then until 1944, he managed the Rosetta 

and Grove theatres for Wometco. Later he 

owned and operated the Edison Theatre at 

Little River. For the last nine years he had 

been associated with the Morse National 

Car Rental Agency. He leaves a daughter, 

a sister and two grandsons. 

Although "Camelot" will not open at the 

Lincoln Theatre until November 7 and the 

70mm version of "Gone With the Wind" 

not until November 14 at the Beach Theatre, 

ticket requests are coming into the 

theatres. Sales of reserved seats for both 

films will not begin until mid-October, about 

three weeks before playdate, the managers 

said. 

Herb Kelly of the Miami News, pointing 

out "THE BIBLE ... In the Beginning" and 

"The Gospel According to St. Matthew" 

did not do as well here as expected, said the 

James Bonder "Casino Royale," Jane Fonda 

nudies and others stressing sex and violence 

are boxoffice whoppers." 

Former University of Miami students 

were much in the news last week. Michael 

Dunn, formerly Gary Miller, who earned 

an Academy Award nomination for his role 

as the philosophical dwarf in "Ship of 

Fools," is set to co-star with Elizabeth Taylor, 

Richard Burton and Noel Coward in 

"Boom," a Tennessee Williams screenplay 

from his own "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop 

Here Any More." Dunn will play a sadistic 

bodyguard to Miss Taylor, who portrays a 

retired beauty who lives on a Mediterranean 

island. 

Another UM alumnus Jerry Herman, 

writer of the current "Mame" and "Hello, 

Dolly!" reportedly turned down $2'/i million 

plus percentages for the screen rights 

to "Mame." And Anthony Eisley, whose 

first name was Bill when he attended UM 

and is perhaps best known for his "Hawaiian 

Eye" exposure on television, is playing 

a Gertrude Lawrence suitor in "Star!" 

in which Julie Andrews is top billed. 

G. S. Caporal Plans 

3-Theatre Complex 


OKLAHOMA CITY—The Riviera Drive- 

In, which George Sam Caporal is building 

in the Capitol Hill section, is only the first 

stage of a $2,000,000 master plan which 

includes two 1,000-seat theatres and a shopping 

mall for the Southwest 59 and Santa Fe 

site. 

This expansion of the construction project 

was revealed in an Oklahoma Journal story 

Wednesday (9) reporting that the airer is 

being readied for opening late this month. 

Caporal told the Journal that the concessions 

and service building at the rear of the 

ramp area of the 1,000-car drive-in is to be 

expanded to house two de luxe theatres and 

that a 30,000 square-foot shopping center 

will complete the project. 

"The placing of a single 

service and concessions 

building at the rear of the car lot 

will eliminate any disturbing lights or noise 

from the projection or concessions area 

coming between patrons and the screen." 

Lighted speaker posts and a lighted walkway 

will eliminate the necessity for patrons 

to dodge speaker cords when walking between 

cars to get to the service area, Caporal 

added. 

George Sam Caporal already operates the 

Yale Theatre in the Capitol Hill area. His 

father Sam and brothers Pete and Chris 

Caporal have the Cinema Mayflower and 

the Skyview Drive-In. 

Free Stagecoach Rides 

From New England Edition 

TORRINGTON, CONN. — Don Heilbrun, 

manager of the Lockwood & Gordon 

Torrington Drive-In, hosted free stagecoach 

rides "manned" by Annie Oakley, in 

conjunction with the northwestern Connecticut 

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Oklahoma City — For the first 

time ill several years, 20th Century- 

Fox has a film salesman working "on 

the road" out of its Oklahoma City 

exchange. 

M. E. "Hank" Yowell, the Company's 

OC branch manager, felt that 

with so many top-notch products, current 

and upcoming, there was definite 

need in this territory for a traveling 

salesman. 

Filling the assignment, as of Monday 

(21) is Chris Pardo, who came to 

the Oklahoma City exchange from the 

company's Atlanta office, where he had 

worked for several months as a salesman 

following his transfer from New 

York. Pardo began his association with 

the company as a student salesman in 

the New York exchange. 

Two-Screen Theatre 

For Porl Arthur Men 

PORT ARTHUR, TEX.—This Sabine 

area is going to be treated to a new design 

in motion picture theatre construction by 

Park Place Plaza Theatre, a company composed 

of Port Arthur businessmen. Featuring 

Spanish decor, a dual-auditorium complex 

is under construction on a site in the 

block on 36th Street for a February 1 

grand opening. 

Bonner Phares. company president who 

presided at the August 7 ground-breaking 

declared that the new facility 

be dedicated to providing family film 

in comfortable surroundings. 

One auditorium will seat 1,000 patrons: the 

other, 500. The two seating areas will be 

under one roof and will be served by a 

common lobby and concessions installation. 

parking will be available since the 

site consists of six acres. 

The dual-theatre is jointly financed by the 

Merchants National Bank, Port Arthur Savings 

& Loan Ass'n and the First National 

Other officers are Joe Hayes, Burt 

and C. Larry Fontana, vice-presidents; 

Hayes, secretary-treasurer, and Roy 

member of the board. Roy Hayes 

R. L. Scott are joint contractors for the 

! building. 

Gus Edwards is the local architect for the 

project. 

NS Appoints Bob Watson 

To Dallas Sales Post 

DALLAS—Bob Watson has been named 

sales representative in the National Screen 

office here. His appointment was announced 

in New York by Milton Feinberg, NS general 

sales manager. 

Watson returns to National Screen after 

an absence of one year and will work under 

James A. Prichard, Dallas branch manager. 

$800,000 Cargill in Longview, Tex., 

Being Built for Easf Texas Circuit 

LONGVIEW, TEX.—Ground was broken 

Monday (7) by Robert Cargill for an 

SS00,000 theatre which he will lease to East 

Texas Theatres, a subsidiary of the Jefferson 

Amusement Co. of Beaumont. To be known 

as the Cargill TTieatre. it is expected to be 

ready for its premiere presentation by December 

2 1 

"It will be the most beautiful and modern 

theatre in the East Texas area," Carl D. 

Levy, president of East Texas Theatres, 

declared at the ground-breaking ceremonies. 

"We intend to operate this theatre with the 

same sense of responsibility and the same 

attention to the public interest as we have 

operated all our theatres in this area, bringing 

to our patrons the finest in motion picture 

entertainment. 

In addition to Levy and Cargill, other 

ground-breaking program speakers were 

J. S. "Jim" Witt, mayor of Longview; Sam 

E. Tanner of Beaumont, vice-president of 

East Texas Theatres, and Johnny Cace, 

president of the Longview Chamber of 

Commerce. 

The Cargill will be under the supervision 

of Robert Lugenbuhl, circuit district manager, 

and will be managed by J. J. Gillham. 

city manager of Longview theatres. 

Covering 23,000 square feet of floor 

space, the single-level Cargill will be of steel, 

brick and concrete combined in contemporary 

style. The screen—92 feet wide, 32 feet 

six inches high — will have a 43-minute 

radius and provide 120-degree viewing, 

makina it the largest in East Texas. The 

CHATS WITH FILM STAR—BiU 

T. Bohling, El Paso manager for 

Trans-Texas Theatres, and Raquel 

Welch, star of "Fathom," exchange 

notes about the film's world premiere 

of the film at the Capri Theatre in Dallas. 

Bohling later held the southwest 

Texas premiere of the film at El Paso's 

Capri Theatre and praised Miss Welch 

for her cooperation in setting up the 

advertising and promotion for the El 

Paso showing. 

screen construction and material are planned 

to be suitable for any type of film or closedcircuit 

projection, including CinemaScope 

and 70mm pictures. 

The extra-large lobby is to be decorated 

in gold vinyl and will be fully carpeted, 

equipped with spacious mirrors installed at 

intervals for maximum effect, and feature 

an ultramodern Continental open counter. 

The fully draped auditorium will provide 

comfort seating installed on wide rows, with 

a capacity of 1,368 patrons. Interior dimmer 

systems will make possible light control for 

various types of pictures and effects. 

The theatre was designed by Allen & 

Quinn, Longview architects. L. C. Kyburz 

of Beaumont was consulting architect. The 

prime contractor is Temple & Associates, 

Longview, Drew Woods of Longview and 

Carthage is the air-conditioning subcontractor, 

while Wilson Henderson has the 

electrical subcontract. 

In addition to Levy and Tanner, other 

East Texas Theatres officials include E. D. 

Hayle, vice-president; M. L. Wertheim, 

secretary-treasurer; Richard M. Jack, director, 

and Kvburz. 

Fort Worth Scott Theatre 

Plans 2nd Film Series 

FORT WORTH — The second 

annual 

Fine Film Series will open September 1 1 at 

the Scott Theatre with a 50-year-old film 

classic, "A Day With Chaplin." 

The movie, which combines four of 

Chaplin's greatest works, is the first in a 

lineup of ten classics featuring foreign and 

domestic works. Admission to the series is 

by season subscription only. 

Other movies scheduled to be shown on 

Mondays during the season will include: 

"Oscar Wilde," story of a controversial 

writer at the height of his fame; "Easy 

Life," with Vittorio Gassman and Catherine 

Spaak; "The Shop on Main Street," a story 

that deals with two people in Czechoslovakia 

in the war years; Laurence Olivier's 

"Henry V"; "Seance on a Wet Afternoon"; 

Garbo's first comedy role," "Ninotchka"; a 

Polish film, "Knife in the Water"; "Blue 

Murder at St. Trinian's," a comedy, and 

"High Infidelity," a group of four Italian 

films. 

Marine Corps League Gives 

Award to Lee Marvin 

From Central Edition 

KANSAS CITY—Academy Award-winning 

actor Lee Marvin, World War II marine 

and Purple Heart winner, was presented 

the National Headquarters Marine Corps 

League's Iron Mike award here Saturday 

night (19) in ceremonies to close the league's 

three-day convention. 

Gen. Lew Walt, who just returned from 

Vietnam where he was commander of the 

Marine Corps forces, presented the award 

to Marvin. 

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Worate Clark, president ol the United Theiitie 

Owners of Oklahoma and the Pan- 

meeting 

handle of Texas, has called the first 

of the officers and board of directors for 

1967-1968. The conference will be held at 

noon Monday, September 11, in the Oklahoma 

Room of the Black Hotel. All officers 

and board members should take notice and 

Clark said that he would like to have as 

near 100 per cent attendance as possible. 

All exhibitors who are in town that day are 

invited to he guests at the luncheon. As 

•Sam Brunk, UTOO executive secretary, 

put it, "We might even pay for your lunch." 

Exhibitors visiting Filnirow recently were 

Virby Conley, Ellis and Ranger, Perryton, 

Tex.; R. O. "Dick" Thompson, Thompson 

theatres, Healdton, Lindsay and Walters; H. 

D. Cox, Caddo, Binger; R. M. Downing, 

Crown, Collinsville; Milan G. Steele, Buffalo 

and Lakeside, Pawnee; J. D. Oliver and 

his manager Bill Starr, AUred and Pryor 

theatres, Pryor; R. E. Fritts and daughter 

Cheryl, Alamo and Longhorn theatres. Marlow, 

accompanied by O. L. Smith, who recently 

transferred the Marlow theatres to 

Fritts; Mr. and Mrs. T. V. McDowell, Bison, 

Buffalo, conversing with buyer and booker 

Athel Boyter. 

By the time this column is being read in 

Oklahoma City and the trade territory, your 

correspondent will have attended the 42nd 

annual assembly of the descendants of 

James and Thomas Brunk. James was the 

great-grandfather of your correspondent 

and this reunion will be the first ever attended 

by any of our immediate family. The 

celebration is held at the Bloomfield Park in 

Bloomfield, Iowa, and several hundred persons 

regularly show up. 

It was a treat for your correspondent to 

see Dale Evans again, when she paid a surprise 

visit to the Oklahoma City school for 

mentally retarded children which bears her 

name. When this writer (Sam Brunk) was 

chief barker of Variety Tent 22 in 1954, 

Dale Evans and her famous husband Roy 

Rogers were here for the ground-breaking 

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for the school. As chief barker, 1 was privileged 

to be among those on the speakers' 

stand and to share in the ceremonies by 

turning a shovelful of earth. The visit this 

month marked the first time Dale Evans 

had seen the school since it was completed. 

She came into Oklahoma City while Roy 

was in Anadarko to take part in the Indian 

conclave. 

Carole Kay Slepka, daughter of Mr. 

and 

Mrs. Bill Slepka of Okemah, has gone to 

Germany to teach in 

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overseas teaching job, Carole told the Okemah 

Daily Leader "I have always wanted 

to do this since I was in college but the twoyear 

experience requirement had kept me 

from doing so until now. This seems like 

tion had been 

screened to find the 

a dream come true." She commented that 

while most of her time must be devoted to 

her teaching duties she intended to see as 

much of the country as possible during vacations 

and on weekends. She probably will 

return home next July. Her parents own 

and operate the Crystal Theatre and the 

Jewel Drive-In in Okemah. 

Thumbnail sketches of Bob Busch and 

Maurice Ferris, Oklahoma City exhibitors, 

appeared in the Oklahoma Journal Monday 

(14), together with photos of each man. For 

those who missed these interesting sketches, 

we'll quote them in 

full; 

Bob Busch, manager of the Villa Theatre, 

has been active in Oklahoma City theatre 

business since 1929. He started his city theatre 

involvement with Warner Bros, as assistant 

manager of the Midwest Theatre. He 

later served as suburban manager of the 

Ritz, Victoria and Plaza theatres. 

In 1941, Busch joined Charles Ferris to 

open the then new Uptown Theatre. During 

the years prior to joining Ferris, Busch 

handled special promotions for the theatre 

and served as treasurer of all monies for the 

full engagement of the first run of "Gone 

With the Wind," which opened in the Midwest 

and moved to the Tower. 

Ferris and Busch opened the Warner 

Theatre for special roadshows, which were 

booked for one-to-two-week engagements. 

Busch is considered by many to be a born 

merchandiser. He says that his greatest satisfaction 

comes from obtaining the biggest 

and best motion pictures and properly presenting 

them to thousands of Oklahoma 

moviegoers for their enjoyment. 

To present Hollywood's biggest and best 

motion pictures a new Villa Theatre is being 

planned. 

Maurice Ferris, whose father Charles 

founded the Villa, is present owner of the 

theatre. Born and reared in Oklahoma City, 

he graduated from Classen High School in 

1953 and received his BFA degree in design 

in 1957 from the University of Oklahoma. 

He spent three years at the Amarillo Air 

Force Base with the rank of captain. He is 

executive secretary of Ferris Enterprises, 

which operates the Cinema-70, Edmond 

Plaza, Hollywood, Uptown and Villa. His 

wife Barbara also is from Oklahoma City 

and a graduate of Classen High School and 

the University of Oklahoma. They have two 

boys—Mark, 7, and Brent, 4. 

Tulsa Art House Repairs 

Damage After Explosion 

TULSA — The Paris Art Theatre, 18 

South Main St., damaged in an explosion 

shortly after midnight Thursday (17) is being 

repaired and will reopen soon, according 

to an ad in the Sunday (20) Tulsa World. 

Fire chief Stanley Hawkins said that the 

explosive charge apparently was thrown 

upon the top of the ticket cage, just below 

the marquee. The resulting explosion blew 

upward and inward toward the projection 

room, hurling broken glass over a wide area, 

setting off burglar alarms in nearby business 

buildings and creating bedlam among people 

residing in neighborhood apartments. 

Jose A. Ramirez, a Cuban refugee, is 

manager of the theatre. 

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HARTFORD—An application by RKO 

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subscription television outlet here, from 555 

Asylum St., Hartford, to its three-acre 

transmitter site, Deercliff Road in suburban 

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planning and zoning commission. 

A commission spokesman said that RKO 

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Goodman examining stills from a western 

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first half of 1967 were announced here by 

J. Paul Austin, president, following a meeting 

of the board of directors. 

Net profit for the second quarter, the 

three months ending June 30, after provisions 

for reserves, income taxes and all other 

charges, was $27,112,920, as compared to 

$24,082,201 for the second quarter of 1966. 

Per share earnings for the second quarter 

were 95 cents as compared to $.84 per share 

for the second quarter of 

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Net profit for the first half of 1967 was 

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first half of 1966. Earnings per share for the 

first half were $1.65 as compared to $1.45 

per share for the first half of 1966, an 

increase of 14 per cent. 

Provision for income taxes for the second 

quarter was $27,505,000, and for the full 

six months. $44,625,000. 

The directors declared a quarterly dividend 

of 52Vi cents per share, payable on 

October 2, to stockholders of record at the 

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Censor Review Not Strict 

In Upcoming Film Festival 

From Canadian Edition 

VANCOUVER — Entries in the tenth 

Vancouver International Film Festival, 

which at one time were exempt from censorship, 

will be reviewed by the provincial 

film censor R. W. McDonald. 

Attorney general Robert Bonner said in 

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18. Included are "Lord of the Flies" 

(British); "The Pawnbrokers" (U.S.) with 

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Gene Tierney, former Hollywood film 

star, and her husband, oilman Howard Lee, 

have returned to their home in Houston following 

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the Alabama Theatre are standing and applauding 

at the end of each showing of "To 

Sir, With Love," the film in which Sidney 

Poitier portrays a young teacher from 

Guyana who subdues the hostile students 

in a tough East End school in London. 

"The Way West" opened Thursday (17) 

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and 1 1 drive-ins—in its exclusive first 

Houston showing . . . Houston will open a 

roadshow engagement of "The Happiest 

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11. The opening showing will be a benefit 

performance for the California Institute of 

the Arts, a project which was near to the 

heart of the late Walt Disney. 

Meyerland Plaza, one of the city's large 

shopping areas, sponsored a Meyerland 

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I and II. The film was "Houdini," 

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for his own ticket. The age limit was up to 

16, with 1,500 tickets available on a firstcome, 

first-served basis. 

The Sunday night film series of the 

Jewish Community Center will feature the 

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half-fantasy, "The Savage Eye" 

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world—the seamier side of life in Los Angeles—with 

philosophical allegories of a 

young divorcee, bruised by her recent experience, 

who is slowly coming to terms 

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MEXICO CITY—More evidence of the 

increasing interest in co-producing and filming 

in Mexico was the announcement that 

independent producer Filmex, Inc., of New 

York has reached an agreement with writerdirector-producer 

Jose Maria Fernandez Unsain 

for six films. 

Here on an exploratory visit, president 

Robert Bergmann of Filmex declared he 

was "excited by the prospects" and ready to 

start shooting the first picture "LSD" in New 

York September 20. It will be based on a 

screenplay by the Mexican writer who also 

will direct and function as co-producer. 

The picture will be produced in Spanish, 

for the Spanish-speaking market, with 

Ignacio Lopez Tarso, Jacqueline Andere, 

Fanny Cano and Miguel Angel Alvarez in 

the leading roles. 

Frank Marrero to Direct 

The second project, to be directed by 

Filmex" executive producer Frank Marrero, 

will be filmed immediately afterward. The 

other four pictures planned—including one 

which would star Jose Ferrer ("Requiem for 

an Assassin")—would be scheduled for next 

year. 

"This will be our first attempt in the feature-length 

movie field," said Bergmann. 

"We have our own studios in New York and 

Hollywood, but until now we've only gone in 

for commercial, industrial and educational 

films." He admitted that until Marrero (a 

Puerto Rican actor and director who had 

worked in Mexico) joined the company, 

Filmex had not planned on this kind of film 

expansion. 

Latin America Big Market 

"But Frank was so insistent on the 

Hispano-American potential, he finally convinced 

me. So, here we are. 

"There's a good market for better pictures 

in Latin America," Marrero said. 

"We're going to make low-budget films with 

modern themes. We'll use Mexican actors 

and technicians and don't expect to have 

any labor problems like we've been hearing 

about." 

Bergmann and 

Marrero commented that 

the publicized difficulties of Jorge Rivero, 

Luz Aguilar and Joaquin Cordero's 

working in the United States were legal and 

had no bearing on inter-union relationships. 

They see no reason why work permits could 

not be obtained. 

"Mayor Lindsay has been carrying on a 

campaign for bringing film production to 

New York," said Bergmann, "and he's succeeded 

in bringing some big pictures for 

shooting on the streets of the city with all 

kinds of concessions and assistance." 

Bergmann is a past president of the Film 

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board of directors. 

SAN 

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JJoUywood producer Lucien Hubbard, 

cameraman Harry Perry, assistant 

cameraman William Clothier, director William 

Wellman and stars Charles "Buddy" 

Rogers and Richard Arlen will return to 

San Antonio August 29 to mark the 40th 

anniversary of the filming here of the movie 

classic "Wings." The film will be re-premiered 

at the Aztec Theatre. The occasion 

is part of San Antonio's celebration of the 

50th anniversary of Kelly Air Force Base. 

Arrangements are being made for radio and 

television coverage, a street parade, music 

in front of the theatre, searchlights and all 

the other trimmings of a first-night showing. 

The film was given its premiere showing in 

San Antonio in 1927. "Wings" was filmed 

at 

Kelly and other local military bases. 

Escorted ladies are being admitted free 

to the downtown intimate Studio Theatre 

which features the showing of "adult only" 

motion pictures . . . Bargain matinees have 

been instituted at the Woodlawn Theatre, 

managed by Sid Shaenfield, and the Josephine, 

managed by David Stoffle. All seats 

at the Woodlawn are 50 cents, Monday 

through Friday, until 3 p.m. At the Josephine 

the special price is in effect until 2 

p.m. 

That movie patrons will come out for a 

being proved at the subur- 

well-acted film is 

ban Josephine Theatre where Sidney Poitier 

is playing in "To Sir, With Love." The film 

opened Thursday to capacity audiences at 

its first showing. Saturday (19) evening 

there were double lines at the Josephine 

despite intermittent showers, lines waiting to 

purchase tickets and another line waiting 

to enter the theatre. 

A trip for two to Mexico City and Jamaica, 

hotel accommodations and $500 in 

expense money make up the first prize, being 

offered in a script writing contest in connection 

with the showing of "Rough Night in 

schools or the Pasadena Playhouse. Russ 

Bernhardt, her new manager, was to meet 

her in Hollywood and begin her training for 

a lead role in the proposed Stephen F. Booth 

production. "The Change Is Coming." 

Booth, who produced "Brighty of the Grand 

Canyon," has announced plans to star in 

both "The Change Is Coming" and "Rainbow 

in the Rose." Miss Ihle said filming on 

"The Change Is Coming" is scheduled to 

start in January. 

Raymond Baez, manager of the Varsity 

Theatre, one of the Gulf State operations, 

wrote to Hot Line, a reader question-answer 

service of the San Antonio Evening News: 

"Recently in Hot Line I read that a lady 

said drive-in movie theatres are all for 

adults. Here at the Varsity Drive-ln we are 

promoting a whole week for children. Nothing 

but children, a cartoon carnival, and 

this is for children before they go back to 

school. We are honoring them by producing 

this cartoon carnival. So this is in regard to 

the lady who asked why they don't have 

movies for children." 

Wedding bells have rung for Shirley Watson, 

cashier at the Laurel Theatre, who married 

Cpl. Kenneth R. Wright, Saturday 

(26) in the Beacon Hill Presbyterian Church. 

Wright recently returned from service in 

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Jâlph Banghart, United Artists field man, 

was in town for tub-thumping on assorted 

upcoming releases . . . Two new faces 

at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer branch are 

Lee Campbell, head booker, and Jean Daniels, 

cashier, 

Judy Bushinger, Warner Bros. -7 Arts, 

spent a week on vacation in northern Minnesota 

with her parents, a respite from her 

secretarial chores for branch chief Mike Adcock 

, Lee, Embassy Pictures exchange 

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to headline the annual Variety Golf Tournament 

at Oak Ridge golf club September 8, 

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Diehl. BoxoFFiCE representative and motion 

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honeymoon. The bride is Helen Nelson, 

Minneapolis school teacher, 

Filmrow visitors: Don Buckley, Falls 

Theatre, Little Falls, Minn,: Robert Levy, 

Flying Cloud Drive-In, Eden Prairie; Freeman 

Parson, Main Street Theatre, Sauk 

Centre; Don Quincer, Cozy, Wadena; Sheldon 

Kliman, Palace, Spooner, Wis,; Ray 

Blakeslee, Avon, Medford, Wis,; Bixby 

Knight, Staples Theatre at Staples; Gene 

Grings, Hollywood Theatre, Eau Claire, 

Wis. 

MACO Sets Opening 

Of 700-Seat Plaza 

ST, PAUL—Another theatre will join the 

roster of show houses in this capital city 

with the opening of Minnesota Amusement 

Co,'s Plaza Wednesday (30) in suburban 

Maplewood. 

MACO president Charles W. Winchell 

scheduled an "open house preview" Monday 

and Tuesday (28 and 29), Following the 

same successful format the company used 

to launch its Norstar TTieatre in downtown 

St, Paul last fall, MACO has invited the 

public to visit the 700-seat Plaza during the 

two-day period, at which a special film will 

be shown hourly. 

Prizes will be awarded during the opening 

ceremonies. And on Monday the official 

Bonnie Lynch, Paramount branch, 

is away on vacation. She leaves a double 

void since she"s both office manager and 

booking manager , , . Happy reports continue 

from Ev Seibel's bedside. The Minnesota 

Amusement Co, officer is making 

steady progress from injuries suffered in a 

14-foot 

ladder tumble, 

"Eric Soya's 17" opened at George Granstrom's 

Grandview Fme Arts Theatre in St, 

Paul even stronger than "A Man and a 

Woman," which ran for 14 record-setting 

weeks. The new mark far and away surpassed 

any other St, Paul suburban theatre 

run. If any current pic will topple it, it looks 

like it'll be "IT." 

Ted Mann, circuit cnief and blossoming 

Hollywood producer, continues his Twin 

Cities-Hollywood air hopping at least every 

two weeks— and sometimes oftener-—keeping 

a close check out of both his Filmland 

and Minneapolis offices, Mann should be a 

sitting duck for any Lear Jet salesman! 

Forey Myers, Paramount branch head, is 

sounding a call for replacements in the Variety 

Club blood bank. At the present time, 

he warns, the Tent 12's ledger account at 

the blood bank is almost zero, 

Avron Rosen, Buena Vista branch manager, 

resigned and will live on the West 

Coast, Assuming the vacated post will be 

Irv Marks, former Allied Artists branch 

manager and recently salesman for 20th 

Century-Fox here. 

"christening" of the Plaza will be held. Officiating 

will be Mayor Louis P, Gilbert of 

Maplewood; Steven Head, Jaycee president; 

Melvin Roth, head of Shoppers City, Inc, 

and MACO representatives. The theatre is 

in the Shoppers City complex. 

Instead of the perennial ribbon cutting, 

Connie Nystrom as Miss Maplewood will 

snip a strand of film, 

Winchell, citing the nationwide trend toward 

shopping center theatres, stressed the 

convenience and accessibility of the Plaza, 

pointing to the vast parking area (spaces for 

1,200 cars) which surrounds the house. 

The new theatre has a sheltered area tor 

the pickup and discharge of passengers at 

its entrance. The Plaza is equipped with the 

latest 

between rows. Seats are staggered to provide 

patrons with an unobstructed view of the 

in seating, with more than ample space 

screen. Also high-fidelity stereophonic 

sound will be a feature, as will the most 

modern electronically controlled heat and 

air-conditioning systems. 

Paul A. Hasse, who has been manager 

of the circuit's Vali-Hi Drive-In between St. 

Paul and nearby Hudson, Wis., has been 

transferred here as manager. He had been 

assistant manager at MACO's State Theatre 

in 

downtown Minneapolis previously. 

Billy May will write the title song for 

20th Century-Fox's "Tony Rome." 

'Sir/ 'Dirty Dozen' 

Thrive as Holdovers 

MINNEAPOLIS — Holdovers ruled 

the 

motion picture roost with "To Sir, With 

Love" and "The Dirty Dozen" still pulling 

line-up crowds in their extended runs. The 

lone newcomer was "Gnome-Mobile," which 

bowed at Ted Mann's Orpheum theatre with 

130. An encore dual billing of "Darling" 

and "Dear John" whipped up considerable 

mterest, scoring with a 150. "Grand Prix" 

remained one of the most durably popular 

screen offerings in the entire region, grabbmg 

a 350 at the Cooper Cinerama theatre 

in Its 28th week. No slouch either was "A 

Man tor All Seasons," which upped its gross 

slightly ui its 19th week. 


Academy The Taming ot the Shrew (Col), 

Jrd wk 220 

Cooper Cinerama Grand Prix (MGM), 28th wk. 350 

tjopner To bir. With Love (col), 3rd wk 300 

Lyr.c Divorce AMERICAN Style (Col), 3rd wk. . .150 

Mann Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 2nd wk. 275 

Orpheum The lanome Mobile (BV) 130 

I- ark Cinerama A Man tor All Seasons (Col), 

19th wk 140 

State The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 4th wk 250 

Suburban World I, a Womon (Audubon), 

^tn wk 200 

W,.r,d— Baretoct in the Park (Para), 5th wk 160 

MILWAUKEE 

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"fair trial" to the change of policy at 

the Princess Theatre here has resulted 

in a decided downward trend at the boxoffice, 

according to Fred Koontz, general 

manager of the Prudential Management 

Corp., which operates the unit. The house 

formerly featured girlie movies, faced license 

renewal difficulties and was closed in 

order to comply with city building regulations. 

In renewing the theatre's license, the 

committee recommended the change in policy 

from adults-only films to action and 

family pictures, "There was an agreement 

between the aldermen and myself that we 

would give a fair trial to a change of policy," 

said Koontz, "but these action and 

family films have brought no response whatsoever, 

and after all, we are in business." He 

reported he did not think he would be in 

conflict with the aldermen, in the event he 

returned to the old film policy. 

How to get your patrons to leave the theatre 

"for a breath of fresh air" and get them 

to return in good spirits can best be told by 

veteran Manager Harry Boesel, who directs 

operations at the Palace here. About 30 firemen 

responded to an alarm when a malfunction 

in a basement air-conditioning unit 

sent smoke into the viewing area. About 

500 patrons left their seats and either drifted 

into the lobby or stepped outside for a halfhour, 

and then returned. Just like that—no 

fuss, no muss. All in a day , Strothers, 

who handles the buying for the Marcus circuit, 

is in New York reviewing stage plays 

for future possible presentations at the Palace 

here, 

Jane Powell was starring in "The Boy 

Friend" at the Melody Top Theatre during 

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DES MOINES 

Târvin Grajbeal has been named manager 

of the Paramount Theatre in Cedar 

Rapids by Tri-States Theatre Corp. He 

comes to the new post from the Kansas City 

Paramount Theatre. He previously was in 

Waterloo. Sioux City and Des Moines for 

Tri-States. 

Dave Gold, 2()th Century-Fox branch 

manager, and his family returned from a 

t.shing vacation in Minnesota. He reports 

they aren't growing fish as big as usual up 

there this year. Daughter Susan will enter 

the University of Oi^lahoma this fall. 

Some exhibitors around the state blame 

county fairs for a drop in business. They 

say the heifers and the Herefords draw better 

than the films. 

Vacationers include Bill Doebel. 20th 

Century-Fox salesman in Omaha; Dorothy 

Pobst, United Artists office manager and 

"WOMPI of the Year." At the Columbia 

exchange. Jack (The Shipper) Ricketts has 

returned from The Badlands and Black 

Hills; Delores Cox, secretary, is back from 

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vacation, Virgene Masolini, inspector, went 

to the Iowa lakes, while Dorothy Boudewyns 

filled in for her at Columbia . . . Another 

enjoying life on the beach was Maxine 

Hayden, bookkeeper at Iowa United Theatres 

. . . Universal branch manager Ralph 

Olson and Betty sojourned to Lake Okoboji. 

Exhibitors on the Row included S. J. 

Backer, Harlan; John Rentfle, Audubon; 

Roy and Idamae Metcalfe, Cedar Rapids; 

Mr. and Mrs. Tim Evans, Anamosa; Mr. 

and Mrs. Jim Watts, Osage; Harrison Wolcott, 

Eldora, and Glen Lambert, Monticello. 

Rube Jackter, Columbia executive, was 

in Des Moines . Artists auditor 

Harry Schochet here from N.Y. . . . 

was 

Phyllis Wadle, Columbia booker-steno, announced 

her engagement to Richard Little. 

Art Thiele at Des Moines Theatre Supply 

reports Dick Kuhl is installing some new 

Heywood Wakefield seats in the Grand at 

Greenfield . . . WOMPIs picnicked at Mac- 

Rae park. 

previous year. Unfavorable weather conditions 

and the processors' unwillingness to 

contract for more than 17,000 acres were 

Theatre owners in eight Nebraska counties blamed for the cutback. 

have a special interest in the U.S. 

The prenuptial festivities for 

Transportation Department meetings 

Cooper/ Lincoln 

in 

Washington to change time zone boundaries. 

Manager Al Schulter's fiancee Marulyn 

The counties are partially in Central and 

Smith included a shower Sunday (20) in 

Mountain Time zones. Gov. Norbert 

Washington, Kas., her former home. The 

Tiemann 

has recommended they be placed 

couple is to be married here September 2. 

in 

the Central Time zone. Counties affected Managers of the three theatres here of 

are Brown, Thomas, Blaine, McPherson, the Cooper Foundation circuit took part in 

Logan, Lincoln, Hayes and Hitchcock. 

the Friday and Saturday (18 and 19) doublespook 

show at the Nebraska Theatres, start- 

Charles Kroll, assistant theatre operations 

ing at 

manager for Cooper Foundation 

11:30 p.m. and ending at 2:05 a.m. 

units in 

Minnesota, Colorado and Nebraska, took 

The Cooper/ Lincoln, which opened 

a 

with 

week's vacation and spent it at home. Before 

"The Sound of Music" 14 weeks ago for an 

his family moved here from Colorado 

expected eight-week run, still is playing the 

Springs a month ago, he commuted back Academy Award winner with no end in 

sight. 

and forth . . . Iris Krumens, Cooper/ Lincoln 

concessions' employe, is vacationing in 

California. 

Visitors to Lincoln included Bob Herz, MILWAUKEE 

Warner Bros. -7 Arts representative from 

Omaha, and Larry Starsmore, president of 

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Westland Theatres of Colorado and of Nebraska 

Theatres, which operates two hard- 

the rioting. Forrest Tucker is to star in "On 

a Clear Day," also at the Melody Top. 

tops here. He also is head of Theatres, Inc., 

While in Wisconsin, Tucker visited the 

in Oklahoma. 

Sulie & Pearl Harand Camp of the Theatre 

The state popcorn crop is expected to be Arts in Elkhart Lake, where he took part in 

smaller this year with an estimated 10,000- the activities. He is a patron of the camp, as 

acre output, down 7,000 acres from the is Art Linkletter. Aside from appearing at 

the Wisconsin State Fair, Linkletter was at 

ÂTTENTION GETTING the Boston Store autographing his new book, 

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"Ooops! Or Life's Awful Moments." 

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Ben Marcus, president of the Marcus Theatres, 

was at the fair bidding for the grand 

champion steer "Mr. Terrific." James Windham, 

president of the Pabst Brewing Co., 

was awarded the steer with a bid of $4.75 

a pound. It had been raised by a 13-year-old 

boy. 

Midcontinent Circuit 

Plans Two Theaires 

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Midcontinent 

Theatres of South Dakota has announced 

plans for two suburban hardtops here. Al 

Prevost, newly named general manager, said 

the circuit has an option on property opposite 

the planned Western Mall Shopping 

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Center, 41st Street and Lyndale Avenue, 

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Construction is expected to begin there September 

1, providing building of the shopping 

center is under way. 

He said if the shopping center construction 

is not begun by then, Midcontinent will 

build Sioux Falls" first suburban theatre on 

property it owns at 37th Street and Minnesota 

Avenue, where plans already have been 

announced for the K-Cinema, adjacent to 

the K-Mart center. 

The circuit, headed by Joe Floyd, also 

owns the Hollywood, Cinema and Starlite 

units here. 

Mrs. Robert Hyde Learns 

Booth Work From Husband 

WATERLOO, IOWA—As yet, there are 

no potted red geraniums and white Priscilla 

curtains fussing up the projection booth at 

the Waterloo Theatre, but there is evidence 

of a feminine touch: the projectors get a 

daily dusting. 

And the reason is that one of the Waterloo 

projectionists is Mrs. Robert Hyde. Another 

projectionist is her husband. Actually 

it was because he was a projectionist, a veteran 

of some 18 years in the business, that 

his wife became interested in the job. 

But males do not make news because they 

are projectionists. Females do because they 

are few. The bug bit Mrs. Hyde when her 

husband was reeling off the films in Oskaloosa, 

before they moved here seven years 

ago. 

"He would come home and tell us about 

the details of his work," she explains, "and 

I became fascinated and wanted to know 

more about it." 

That she did, with the help of a professional 

tutor—her husband. She worked parttime 

in theatres at Oskaloosa and Waterloo 

until March, when she became a full-time 

projectionist at the Waterloo Theatre. 

It was in a genuine effort to increase communications 

bonds with her husband that 

Mrs. Hyde became interested in his work 

that she took it up herself, and soon became 

proficient in such technicalities as accurate 

adjustment of positive and negative carbons, 

splicing films, watching for the blink, signals 

that tell when it's time to switch from 

one projector to another. 

"I think if a wife is going to be able to 

talk to her husband, she's got to know what 

he's talking about," says the female projectionist, 

the mother of two teenage sons. 

So at the Hydes the head of the house 

and the heart of the home can intelligently 

share experiences of the day, like what went 

on at the office with the arc lights. 


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Two for Ihe Road' 

600 in Cincinnati 

CINCINNATI — "Two for the Road" 

opened at the Ambassador with a strong 600 

to lead the parade of products at first-run 

theatres. Also adding interest were "Gnome- 

Mobile" 250 at the Grand and "Luv" with 

a 175 at the Princeton Cinema. 


A'bee The Naked Runner (WB-7A), 2nd wk. ..110 

Ambassador Two tor the Rood (20th-Fox) 600 

Esquire The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 8th wk. 225 

Grand—The Gnome-Mobile (BV) 250 

Kenwood Cinema Barefoot in the Pork (Para), 

7th wk 240 

Princeton Cinema Luv (Col) 1 75 

Times Towne Cinema You Only Live Twice 

(UA), 8fh wk 350 

Valley Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

12th wk 225 

Detroit Percentages Remain 

Below Accustomed Levels 

DETROIT—The grosses of long runs in 

Detroit theatres, after slipping during the 

riots, have not recovered since. Top place 

among the first runs was earned by "I, a 

Woman" with a 300 score at the Trans-Lux 

Krim in its eighth week. "El Dorado" and 

"Africa—Texas Style!" earned second spot 

in their opening at the Grand Circus with 

260, followed by "The Dirty Dozen," back 

to 250 in its sixth at the Adams and then a 

three-way tie at 200 for "The Jokers," opening 

at the Studio 8; "Thoroughly Modern 

Millie," in the 13th week at the Northland, 

and "A Man for All Seasons," in its 21st 

at the Studio-New Center. 

Adoms The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 6th wk 250 

Americana A Guide for the Morried Man 

(20th-Fox), 7th wk 100 

Fox—The Weird World of LSD (SR); Chamber of 

Horrors (WB-7A), 2nd wk 1 75 

Grand Circus El Oorodo (Para); Africa-^—Texas 

Style! (Para) 260 

Madison The Bible (20th-Fox), 27th wk 145 

Mai Kai Two for the Rood (20th-Fox), 2nd wk. 170 

Northland Thoroughly Modern Millie (Col), 

13fh wk 200 

Radio City Up the Down Staircase (WB-7A) ... .190 

Redford, Royol Ook The Naked Runner 

(WB-7A) 120 

Studio-8 The Jokers (Univ) 200 

Studio-New Center A Man for All Seasons (Col), 

21st wk 200 

Studio-North Georgy Girl (Col), 33rd wk 100 

Trans-Lux Krim 

I, o Woman (Audubon), 8th wk. 300 

20th-Fox Names Bill Twig 

Manager in Ceveand 

Twig, Warner Bros. 

manager until its merger with 7 

has been named manager of the 20th 

Century-Fox exchange here, succeeding Abe 

Weiner who resigned. 

will make his headquarters at 2219 

Ave. until next month, when 20this 

scheduled to move into its new quar- 

ters in the Film Exchange BIdg. He entered 

industry in 1929 with Paramount Pic- 

tures, and later became sales manager for 

the company in Cleveland. 

Delphos Theatre Reopening 

OHIO—T. J. Epps, owner of 

the Capitol Theatre, announced he plans to 

the house September 15. Remodeling" 

is being completed, including new tile 

for the lobby floor, painting and general 

of the lo.bby and restrooms and 

carpeting. "A Man for All Seasons" is 

as the reopening picture. 

Free Press Calls 'Adults Only Tag 

'Handy Device to Silence Censors 

DETROIT—The classification of films 

for "adults only" is a "handy device to silence 

film censors." according to James H. 

Dygert. entertainment editor of the Free 

Pre^s in the latest of a series of articles on 

censorship being featured on the paper's 

front pages. He concludes that "It's a way 

for society to have its cake and eat it too 

protection for young innocence yet more 

freedom for adults." 

However, a new source of difficulty is 

suggested: "No one has yet ventured a 

court challenge on the basis 

of age." 

Ross Caccavale. general manager of the 

Studio circuit, is cited at length that "censorship 

is far more repugnant to me than 

having to turn away 15- and 16-year-olds," 

explaining the general policy of local exhibitors 

in going along with this working 

rule for certain types of pictures in cooperation 

with police departments. "The reason 

for this rule is there are parents who object, 

people who think movies can corrupt and 

public officials, who would demand censorship 

of films that minors might see," Caccavale 

said. 

The Studio management has made only 

three known exceptions in admitting those 

under 18, two to two jirls who wanted to 

see "Georgy Girl." This pair wrote the 

theatre. "It's an insult to our intellect that 

we are allowed to see the loud, fake Hollywood 

movies that are totally unrealistic and 

harmful," yet were denied admission to 

foreign films that "are very realistic, truthful 

and on the whole of great value to us." 

Exhibitors Archie Rose and Robert Vick- 

COLUMBIA FINALISTS — Lynn 

Forberg of Cincinnati and Mary Jo 

Begley of Kettering, Ohio, were the 

finalists among 800 entrants in southern 

Ohio in Columbia Pictures' talent 

search for its new picture "Where Angels 

Go . . . Trouble Follows!" Miss 

Begley later was chosen in Cleveland to 

represent Ohio in the picture. 

rey are also cited as following the 18-orover 

admission policy, resulting in general 

public satisfaction, as protests "dwindle to 

almost nothing once the community is assured 

that no one under 18 will be allowed 

to see the 'art' films." 

Dygert points out the Supreme Court 

indicated that obscenity cannot be judged 

on the basis of what would offend just one 

part of society, such as those under 18, but 

only the general community. He notes there 

is pressure in the background—the Michigan 

obscenity law—making it a serious 

crime to show "obscene, lewd, etc.," films to 

anyone under 18. 

The police, Dygert says of Detroit's 

surviving censorship, give a film permit with 

the qualification "recommended for adult 

patronage." but basically are "relying on the 

voluntary cooperation of the theatre owner." 

Broumas Constructing 

Ultramodern Theatre 

SAGINAW, MICH.—Construction is expected 

to be completed in October for Broumas 

Theatres' 1,000-seat Fort Saginaw in 

the shopping center with the same name, announced 

John Broumas, head of the Silver 

Spring (Md.)-based circuit. 

The theatre will be equipped to present 

70mm productions, as well as CinemaScope 

and conventional 35mm features. The auditorium 

will be surrounded by 28 stereophonic 

speakers, which will utilize six channels 

and give the patron optimum stereo 

sound. Staggered arrangements of the livingroom-style 

seats will give each patron an 

unobtructed view of the screen. 

The decor of the theatre has been custom 

designed in soft hues to be relaxing 

to the patrons, and the lobby was designed 

to accommodate more than 300 persons to 

eliminate long lines. Broumas said. The Fort 

Saginaw also will have an all-climate control, 

triple-filtered heating and air-conditioning 

system. 

A feature of the house will be a private 

viewing room on the upper floor, which will 

serve double duty as a VIP lounge and cry 

room. 

The theatre. Broumas pointed out, will include 

such innovations as a coffee server 

for all patrons, a novel paging system for 

professional people and a baby-sittingservice 

available to parents who leave their 

children in the theatre while they shop in 

the center. 

Also, there will be 4,500 parking spaces 

available in the shopping center, being developed 

by William M. Cafaro & Associates. 

Luxor Theatre Converted 


UNIONVILLE, CONN.—The one-time 

Joe Faith Theatres' Luxor has been converted 

to a retail carpet outlet. 

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DETROIT 

Thomas McGuire, who has held responsible 

Filmrow and circuit posts for many 

years, is working with government agencies 

on rehabilitation projects . . . Andrew Jensen, 

former Sturgis Drive-In operator, now 

makes his retirement home in Florida. 

Theatre change reports—The Shelby Theatre 

at Shelby, operated by Robert Oberlin 

and Frank Makin jr., has been dismantled 

Theatre Co. is operating William 

Wetsman's new acquisition the Pix at 

Lapeer. Wetsman also is taking over the 

Hills Theatre at Rochester, formerly operated 

by John D. "Bud" Taylor . M. 

McGrath has reopened the Lee Theatre at 

Three Oaks. 

Condolences to Lloyd A. Turel on the 

death of his sister Vera Turel, who was with 

the Fred Sanders Co. 40 years. Turel has 

been installing equipment in the new Towne 

Theatre. 

Manager Dale Killeen Young of the Norwest 

Theatre has been vacationing around 

Detroit two weeks . . . Bill Ahrens, manager 

of the Universal City in Warren, is a 

commissioner of that community. 

The roadshow run of "THE BIBLE . . . 

In the Beginning," which opened at United 

Detroit's Madison Theatre February 1, 

closed Tuesday (22) after 29 weeks. A 

popular-price engagement of "The Taming 

of the Shrew" followed the film. "Shrew" 

played a hard-ticket run at the Mercury 

earlier. 

A psychedelic fashion show, believed to be 

one of the first, was featured at the opening 

near- 

of the new first-run Towne Theatre in 

by Oak Park by Suburban Detroit Theatres. 

The promotion was handled by the Woodrow 

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êlta Sigma Theta, international sorority 

of Negro college women, presented Columbia 

Pictures with an award for "To Sir, 

With Love" at a special screening in the Albee, 

(15). Ambassador E. R. Braithwaite, 

head of the Permanent Mission of Guyana 

to the United Nations, and author of the 

book upon which the film is based, accepted 

the award for Columbia. 

Tent 3's annual golf tournament at Summit 

Hills Country Club drew a group of 

theatremen and guests. Among the exhibitors 

present were J. C. Weddle. Lawrenceburg, 

Ind.; Dick Johnson, Lexington, Ky.; Dan 

Krueger, Stanford, Ky.; Ohioans Henry 

Davidson, Lynchburg; Harley Bennett, Circleviile; 

James Hewitt, Bethel; Jack and 

John Needham, Columbus; Bob Keyes, 

Charles McCartney, Dayton; Mike Chakeres. 

Jack Frazee, Walley Allen and Wes Wilner, 

Springfield. 

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Herbert Gillis, Paramount central division 

sales manager, visited Filmrow, as did 

Mr. and Mrs. William Powers, Pendleton, 

Ky., and Robert Knostman, who is to reopen 

his house at Minster September 15. 

Zebe Epstin, MGM group sales manager, 

and Bruce Berlo. publicist, were here to 

confer with Esther Nemo, local group sales 

manager for "Gone With the Wind," which 

is set to open at the Valley November 1. 

Condolences to Phil Fox, Columbia 

branch manager, upon the death of his brother 

Meyer at Brighton, Mass., and to Florence 

Hermann, MGM cashier, upon the 

death of her mother. 

Charles Behlan, long-time exhibitor, died 

Sunday (13) at Nichlosville, Ky., after a 

long illness. 

Grant Frazee, assistant general manager 

of Chakeres Theatres, and Rosemary Burkhart, 

WB-7 Arts assistant cashier, are on vacation 

. . . Ollie Nicklas, State Theatre manager 

at Springfield, has returned from a vacation, 

as have Leah Frank and Marcella 

Swearington, Chakeres' office staffers. 

Mid-States Theatres has appointed two 

Kentucky district managers: Cliff Beuchel to 

supervise the Mary Anderson Cinema and 

Bard Theatre in Louisville and the Chevy 

Chase Cinema at Lexington, and Irvin Kash 

to supervise the Paramount and Capitol theatres 

at Ashland, Ky., and the Tri-State 

Drive-In, Chesapeake, Ohio. The company 

also appointed James Cotterman as district 

manager in the Dayton area, which includes 

the Dabel Cinema and Salem Mall 

Cinema. 

David DeSantis is new manager for 

Chakeres' Park Lane 69 Drive-In at New 

Carlisle, Ohio, and William Dean for Piqua 

36 Drive-In at Piqua. 

Chakeres is sponsoring a managers' contest 

for the largest gross increase during 

July-September. The winner is to receive an 

all-expenses-paid trip for two to Miami 

Beach, including the NATO convention. 

"Back-to-school" matinees with prizes are 

to be held at a number of Chakeres theatres 

September 1 and 2. 

Maritime Exhibitors Ass'n 

To Meet September 12. 13 

HALIFAX—The Maritime Motion Picture 

Exhibitors Ass'n will hold its annual 

meeting September 12 and 13 in the Lord 

Nelson Hotel here. In charge of arrangements 

and the sessions are the president 

Archie Mason, Les E. Mitchell and Fred 

Leavens. 

The Maritimes Canadian Picture Pioneers 

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North Adams Walden 

Completing Updating 

NORTH ADAMS. MASS. — Esquire 

Theatres of America hopes to have its recently 

acquired Walden Theatre on Spring 

Street ready for operation by Labor Day 

after a $75,000 remodeling. The circuit has 

a long-term lease on the building from 

Clarence A. King of Hamel Avenue. 

Renovation of the theatre has been under 

the direction of Louis Chiaramonte, 

architect for the circuit. A new shadow box 

.screen, new marquee and entrance and improvements 

to the interior are included. 

Chiaramonte said that the Walden will 

be reopened under the new name of College 

Cinema and will have a first-run policy. The 

Walden, which was closed in June for the 

summer, had been operated by King since 

1932, except for three years when he leased 

it to other operators. King began his film 

industry career in Putnam, Conn., at 16. 

The Esquire circuit recently took over 

and renovated the Tanglewood Cinema in 

Lenox and also plans to remodel the Union 

Square Theatre in Pittsfield, another recent 

acquirement. 

Central Falls Lafayette 

Opens Under New Lessees 

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. 

— The former 

Lafayette, under the new name of Holiday 

Cinema, was reopened Saturday (12) by Andre 

Papineau and Donald Rocheleau, new- 

comers to motion picture exhibition. 

Papineau and Rocheleau installed a new 

marquee, remodeled and redecorated the in- 

terior and carried out needed repair jobs 

prior to reopening the theatre with "Hotel." 

They will play second run, seven days after 

Providence. Gerry Goven will continue to 

book for the theatre. 

Simon Rabizon Purchases 

Winsted Strand Theatre 

WINSTED, CONN. — The 658-seat 

Strand has been sold at auction to Simon S. 

Rabizon of Middlebury for $28,500. plus 

$9,700 in back taxes. 

Rabizon, speech and drama instructor in 

Waterbury high schools, intends to continue 

motion picture operations and also expects 

to establish a summer theatre school. He is 

director of the Waterbury Civic Theatre. 

Author Esther Forbes 

WORCESTER—Esther Forbes, 76, Pulitzer 

prize-winning author, died at Memorial 

hospital. Her works included "Johnny 

Tremain; A Novel for Young and Old," 

which was adapted for the screen. 

Springfield Poli Razed 

SPRINGFIELD — The downtown Poli 

Theatre, for many years a western Massachusetts 

showcase, has been demolished and 

plans are under way for parking facilities in 

the immediate future. 

Sherrill Corwin Speech 

TONE-NAC Main Event 

BRETTON WOODS, N.H.—Sherrill C. 

Corwin, president of the National Ass'n of 

Theatre Owners, 

headlines an outstanding 

four-day joint convention 

of Theatre 

Owners of New England 

and the Northeastern 

Regional Conference 

of the Nattional 

Ass'n of Concessionaires 

which 

opens here Monday 

(28). With headquarters 

at Mount Wash- 

Sherrill Corwin 

ington Hotel, the joint convention will continue 

through Thursday (31). 

Preconvention registration for the event 

indicates that a record attendance will be 

on hand for the programs of the two organizations, 

according to Carl Goldman, 

TONE executive secretary and coordinator 

for the convention. 

Edward S. Redstone is general chairman 

of the TONE committee on arrangements, 

while Jack O'Brien of New England Theatres 

heads the NAC committee. Serving 

with O'Brien are Nat Buchman, Theatre 

Merchandising Corp., Boston; Irving Shapiro, 

Concession Enterprises, Boston, and 

David Traister, Sack Theatres, Boston. 

The occasion marks the 36th convention 

for Theatre Owners of New England and the 

fourth successive joint TONE-NAC convention. 

'In the Heat of the Night' Scores 

400 in Boston Music Hall Debut 

BOSTON — The inclement weather on 

weekends has boosted exhibition grosses to 

new heights this summer and the weekend 

included in this report was no exception. "In 

the Heat of the Night," "Luv" and "Privilege" 

took advantage of the ideal weather 

conditions on the weekend to build big first 

week gross percentages and several holdovers 

returned plump figures. Far in front 

of all competition, of course, was the 400 

four times average—compiled by "In the 

Heat of the Night" at the Music Hall. "St. 

Valentine's Day Massacre" rode high in 

second place by scoring 300 in a second 

week at the Savoy and "To Sir, With Love" 

grossed 280 per cent in an eighth week at 

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Astor Luv (Col) 160 

Beacon Hill Two for the Rood (20th-Fox), 

6th wk 140 

Boston Grond Prix (MGM), 35th wk 100 

Charles Privilege (Univ) 140 

Chen 1 A Mon for All Seasons (Col), 30th wk. 150 

Chen 2 To Sir, With Love (Col), 8th wk 280 

Cheri 3 A Guide for the Married Man 

(20th-Fox), 6th wk 1 50 

Circle Cinema Thoroughly Modern Millie 

(Univ), 21st wk 150 

Exeter The Jokers (Univ), 5th wk 125 

Gary Sand The Pebbles (20th-Fox), 16th wk. ..135 

Music Hall In the Heat of the Night (UA) . . .400 

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Paramount The Bobo (WB-7A), 2nd wk 145 

Pans Cinema The Family Way (WB-7A), 

4th wk 140 

Savoy 

St. The Volentine's Doy Massacre 

(20th-Fox), 2nd wk 300 

West End Cinema Eric Soya's 17 (P-W), 5th wk. 120 

"Bareioot in the Park' 300 

Second Week in Hartford 

HARTFORD — The 

Keppner-Tarentul 

Burnside, de luxe first-run showcase, came 

up with something rather unique, a rerun of 

"I, a Woman," which has played extensively 

in the territory. 

"The Taming of the Shrew" 

soared to a whopping 400 in its sixth Perakos 

Cinema One week, and Paramount's 

"Barefoot in the Park" demonstrated strong 

pulling power. 

Allyn, Meriden, UA Theatre East, Middletown, 

Southington Barefoot in the Park (Para); 

various co-features, 2nd wk 

Central, New Britain, Strand, Portland The 

300 

Naked Runner (WB-7A) 125 

Cine Webb, East Windsor, Manchester, Pike, 

Plainville A Guide for the Married Man 

(20th-Fox), 6th wk 100 

Cinerama Grand Prix (MGM), 27th wk 75 

Cinema One The Toming of the Shrew (Col), 

6th wk 400 

E. M. Loew's, New Britain Palace, Meadows 

The Way West (UA); various co-features ....175 

East Hartford, Hartford, Monsfield, Webster 

The Trip (AlP); various co-features 175 

Newington Divorce AMERICAN Style (Col), 

4th wk 100 

Rivoli My Sister, My Love (Sigma III) 200 

Strand Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

9th wk 100 

'Taming of the Shrew' 400 

In New Haven First Week 

NEW HAVEN—A benefit 

(proceeds going 

to a local fresh-air fund) of "The Taming 

of the Shrew" got its southern Connecticut 

bow off to a strong start at the Bailey 

Whalley Theatre. "Barefoot in the Park," 

after hefty boxoffice response in a multipletheatre 

extended run, moved over to the 

Nutmeg circuit's first-run, downtown Lincoln. 

And "To Sir, With Love" hit a brisk 

350 opening week, day-and-date in six theatres. 

Bowl, Milford, New Haven, Milford Cinema, 

Westville, Whitney To Sir, With Love (Col) ..350 

Crown—The Fomily Way (WB-7A), 4th wk 70 

Loew's College, Summit In the Heat of the 

Night (UA), 2nd wk 250 

Post, SW Roger Sherman The Big Mouth (Col); 

various co-features - 100 

SW Cinemart The Sand Pebbles (20th-Fox), 

15th wk 90 

Whalley The Taming of the Shrew (Col) 400 

Wendell Hayes has started preparation on 

Columbia's ""The Ferguson Affair," which 

he will write. 

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^Jirisch Productions finished filming 

"Crown Caper" and left Monday (14) 

praising the city, the mayor, the police, local 

husincssmcn and residents for cooperation 

rendered while filmini; was carried out on 

90 locations aroimd town. Howard Joslin, 

unit manager, said he and Norman Jewison, 

director, never before had encoimtered as 

much teamwork between a production company 

and local residents. While unusually 

bad weather slowed the shooting schedule, 

the company is more than willing to come 

here to film other productions. 

Funerul services were held Sunday (13) 

for Myer Fox, retired Columbia salesman, 

who died after a long illness. 

Jack Markell, Columbia's publicity man, 

is expected back in mid-September from a 

European vacation . . . Like father, like 

daughter—a pretty new attraction has been 

added to the MGM booking staff. Barbara 

Pearlstrig is at work in the same office 

where some years ago her father worked as 

cashier . . . Ralph Nelson, director, and 

Hank Spitz, production manager, were here 

scouting location sites for shooting "Charly," 

with Cliff Robertson, for ABC-TV and 

20th Century-Fox. Filming is due to start in 

.September. 

A sonic boom smashed windows all over 

the city Tuesday afternoon (15). Eddie 

Comi, Massachusetts Theatre Equipment, 

said his plate-glass windows buckled out like 

billowing sheets, then resumed their normal 

positions unbroken . . . Alan Friedberg, 

executive vice-president of Sack Theatres, 

and his wife are vacationing in Europe for 

two weeks . Vlamos, Symphony 

Cinema I and II, is leaving for Greece to 

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visit his parents. He will return late next 

month . Otto Preminger's new production 

focusing on LSD may use a New England 

college campus for location shooting. Dartmouth 

is one of the strong contenders. 

James Beckerly, projectionist at the Paramount 

Theatre, Needham, and a student at 

Boston University, was married August 19 

in Buffalo, N.Y., to Suzan Ulrich, a buyer 

for Jordan Marsh, Boston. They are honeymooning 

in the Virgin Isles . . . Sy Evans, 

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director of public relations for General Cinema 

Corp., and his wife are in Madrid for 

a ten-day vacation The twin cinema 

being built by Graphic Theatres in Brewer, 

Me., is due to open this autumn and will 

bring to 

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Newall Kurzon's daughter Jane was 

married July 30 to Bill Russell, a Harvard 

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in the Bahamas. 

Gforjje RoberLs, Rifkin Theatres, is program 

and entertainment chairman for the 

Boston Rotary baked bean supper Wednesday 

(30) on Boston Common, with 25,000 

persons expected! That's not a misprint 

25,000 guests are expected, and if they all 

show up that should make the Rotary event 

the largest supper ever. All proceeds will be 

donated to the Freedom Trail Foundation. 

Bob Viano, Viano Theatres, will have a 

Saturday matinee party during September 

for the West Arlington Little League All- 

Stars at the Capitol Theatre in Arlington. 

They are coached by Bill Murphy, manager 

of the theatre, and are the New England 

champions. All players will appear in uniform 

on stage and will be treated to popcorn, 

ice cream, candy and other favors. 

The nine-month run of "Grand Prix" will 

end ;:t the Boston Cinerama Theatre the 

first week in September, according to Manager 

Gerry Servant, and then the house will 

go dark for eight weeks before reopening 

the MGM's "Far From the Madding 

Crowd." During the interval, Gerry and his 

wife plan a vacation at Expo 67 in Montreal; 

then he will return to carry out extensive 

promotion for the next film. Gerry said that 

the Ford Corp. has rented the theatre September 

12 for a filmed showing to more 

than 500 dealers of the company's 1968 line 

of cars. 

The Boston Redevelopment Authority is 

demolishing two large hotels in preparing 

for its projected mall on Washington Street 

and one of these hotels is next to the State 

Theatre. George Lemos, State manager, reports 

that while the wrecking crew is good 

at its job, several times the noise of falling 

bricks and timbers was so alarming that 

some State patrons rushed up the aisles and 

out-of-doors in the belief that the house was 

collapsing. 

Record Is Forecast 

For Jimmy Campaign 

BOSTON—The Jimmy Fund, with its 

campaign beyond the half-way mark, has 

done exceptionally well. Bill Koster, Variety 

Club secretary and executive director of the 

Jimmy Fimd, said that the size of early 

collections at theatres indicates that this will 

be a record year for the fund to aid the 

Children's Cancer Research and Hospital 

program. 

The next big public activity in behalf of 

the fund will occur Monday (28) when Red 

Sox left fielder Carl Yastrzemski will be 

honored with a special day and will donate 

all the money he receives to the Jimmy 

Fund. Koster will be a speaker at the pregame 

luncheon that day. 

Among events already held to build the 

Jimmy Fund was a band concert Monday 

morning (14) at Braintree, where police had 

rigged up a Rube Goldberg machine on 

which lights lit up, fire bells clanged and 

police sirens whined whenever money donations 

were tossed into the contraption. Some 

ol the Boston Celtics were on hand along 

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with the town fathers for this event. 

Monday night (21), local radio-TV personalities 

played a benefit baseball game for 

the Jimmy campaign and Jimmy's Harbourside 

Restaurant, Boston, had its annual employes 

outing the preceding day, donating 

nearly $1,000 to the fund. 

Warren Trying to Solve 

Shortage of Boothmen 

BOSTON — Ernie Warren of the Paramount 

Theatre in Needham has gone into 

action to try to do something about the 

shortage of projectionists. 

A few weeks ago he placed an ad in eight 

suburban newspapers asking, "Are you a 

just-married man or a student working your 

way through college and need additional income? 

Be a projectionist in your spare 

time." 

Thus far he has received more than a 

half dozen answers and has started training 

two applicants under a permit license. Although 

automatic projectors are to be discussed 

this week at the TONE convention, 

Ernie feels that these are a long way in the 

future, especially for the independent theatre 

owner, and the need for operators has 

become acute NOW. 

Ralph Eraser, head of the Boston local 

operators union, declared that perhaps one 

reason for the shortage is the difficulty of 

attracting young people into theatre work, 

not only as operators, but on a managerial 

level as well, is the absence in many instances 

of pension plans and fringe benefits. 

Although it's nearly impossible for an independent 

theatre owner—or an owner with 

two or three theatres—to have a pension 

plan for his employes, Ernie believes an independent 

theatre owners pool may be the 

answer to the problem. 

At any rate, Operation Projectionist or 

Ernie's other name for it. Project Operator, 

is under way. 

Norwich Expands Parking 

NORWICH, CONN.—The chamber of 

commerce has agreed to meet any costs over 

$50,000 for a new downtown parking space 

land acquisition. 

Lovfe Family Returns 

SPRINGFIELD—John P. 

Lowe, western 

New England division manager for Redstone 

Theatres, and his family returned from a 

week's holiday in Bermuda. 

Paul McCartney of The Beatles wrote the 

musical score for Warner Bros.' "The Family 

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ROUNDABOUT 

JJew Britain, Conn., which fondly labels 

itself 

the Hardware City of the World, 

is typical of the medium-size New England 

city at the crossroads as far as motion picture 

exhibition promise and performance 

are concerned. 

The city, ten miles southwest of Hartford, 

has a population of 100,000. A generation 

ago. New Britain had seven theatres, all 

flourishing. They included the then-Warner 

Bros. Capitol, Strand and Embassy, the 

Perakos Palace, the Pat McMahon State, the 

Kounaris Roxy and the Glackin-LeWitt 

Arch Street. 

Only two remain on a full-time, permanent 

basis—the now-Stanley Warner Strand 

and the Perakos Palace. 

The Roxy, now the Falcon, is operated 

only for ethnic groups and on weekends. It 

is owned by the Falcon Club of New Britain. 

The Arch Street has been converted to 

commercial use (a bakery). Its partners, 

George LeWitt and John S. P. Glackin, are 

dead. Their other theatre, the Strand in 

Sound View, has long been closed and the 

LeWitt Strand, Plainville, has gone the way 

of local-level redevelopment. 

The Capitol has been converted to office 

building use and the Embassy is part of an 

expanded department store. The State is now 

a curtain shop. 

Randy Mailer, who managed the Strand, 

and Joe Borenstein, who had a similar capacity 

at the Embassy, for Warner Bros, are 

dead. So is Henry L. Needles, long Hartford 

district manager for Warner Bros., and, for 

many years, a familiar face in downtown 

New Britain. 

The interim has seen an expanding drivein 

theatre complex in the outer periphery 

the Perakos Plainville Drive-In, the LeWittbuilt 

and now operated by Esquire Theatres 

of America Berlin Drive-In, the Menschell 

Pike Drive-In, the Perakos Southington 

Drive-In and the E. M. Loew-Hartford 

Drive-In. 

Some months ago, the Plainville zoning 

board of appeals rejected an application by 

Perakos Theatre Associates for a $1,000,- 

000 shopping center, to include a motion 

picture theatre. 

Both the Strand and the Palace, of 

course, are first run, playing a week after 

downtown Hartford or, on occasion, participating 

in a day-and-date saturation premiere 

encompassing upwards of half a 

dozen and even more Hartford county 

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showcases. 

And while what's left of New Britain exhibition 

is traditionally reticent as regards 

wcek-after-week hoxoffice response, it's an 

open secret that only the big-scale blockbusters, 

the pronounced "'hiis,'" are causing 

much stir in either hardtop. 

What irks observers of remaining elements 

of New Britain hardtop exhibition is 

that the public itself doesn't seem particularly 

perplexed over the dwindling quantity 

of theatrical outlets. It is argued—and with 

considerable justification—that the automotive 

age has enabled a resident of any city 

to reach another city within minutes and 

that the once-evident loyalty, per se, to local 

business has given way to accessibility. 

Parking Space Adequate 

Parking, uniquely enough, is no problem 

for either the Strand or the Palace. Afterdark 

street space in the general periphery is 

more than ample for present and foreseeable 

audience needs. For good measure, the 

Palace has a Perakos lot in the rear and 

customers are encouraged to park there, the 

area supervised by uniformed Perakos personnel. 

What New Britain exhibition—and its 

counterpart in similar-sized communities 

across the six-state New England region 

is concerned with is the obvious lack of 

local-level excitement for the theatrical film 

itself. 

The Perakos interests—seven hardtops 

and two drive-ins—are based in the Palace 

Theatre Building. It's here where industry 

pioneer Peter G. Perakos sr. began a stillactive 

career around the turn of the century. 

Joe Miklos, SW district manager, is headquartered 

at the Strand. 

Regional Film Center 

Hence, New Britain is more than just a 

side-stop, so to speak, for circuit executives. 

It's a gathering point for regional managerial 

meetings, for conclaves affecting exhibition 

in a sizeable portion of the state. 

Yet, New Britain isn't considered a prime 

target for new theatre construction. The automobile, 

with its ability to take someone 

elsewhere in a hurry, and the not-yet-halted 

exodus of city dwellers to suburban areas 

have focused attention on the need for new 

facilities in towns on the periphery—hence 

the ill-fated effort by Perakos to build a 

shopping center and theatre in Plainville, 

just over the city line. 

At the same time. New England exhibition 

got stature, significance and substance 

from cities the size of New Britain and even 

smaller a generation ago. New Britain's impact 

was felt, most strongly, 25 years ago. 

Now its exhibition future is clouded with 

doubt and deliberations. 

Both Sperie P. Perakos, vice-president 

and general manager of Perakos Theatre 

Associates, and the aforementioned Miklos 

are considered pace-setters in Connecticut 

exhibition. If there's a trend to bring more 

dollars into the boxoffice, they're quick to 

adapt, to adopt, to act. They're willing to 

host "names" and they're willing to contact .; 

business sources for theatre rentals, children's 

parties and the like. 

Moreover, Sperie's younger brother Peter 

G. jr., PTA office manager, is city treasurer 

of New Britain, an elective office, and has 

proceeded to save money and prudently invest 

city funds for unprecedented levels of 

municipal income. 

The Perakos name is readily recognized 

by the man-in-the-street of New Britain for 

vigorous participation in Rotary and Kiwanis 

activity. 

In effect, what's left of New Britain exhibition 

isn't exactly sitting back and won- j 

dcring what's happening; it's in the main 

swing of business activity and, significantly, 

desirous of doing even more to bring greater 

attention to theatrical exhibition in the 

Hardware City of the World! 

New Haven Art House 

For Perakos Circuit 

NEW HAVEN—Sperie P. Perakos, vicepresident 

and general manager of Perakos 

Theatre Associates, has announced plans for 

constructing an 800-seat art film theatre in 

downtown New Haven. 

Perakos said the New Haven project represents 

a major step in the circuit's expansion 

program in Connecticut, where it already 

operates seven hardtops and two 

drive-ins. 

HARTFORD 

'VA/'illiam Decker, advertising and publicity 

director for Stanley Warner in New 

England and the upstate New York zone, 

visited Hartford resident manager Bob 

Carney . . . Murray Lipson, Central, was a 

New York business visitor. 

Perakos' Cinema One, East Hartford, distributed 

free tickets to "The Taming of the 

Shrew" to customers of Balch Pontiac-Buick 

to take demonstration rides in new models. 

The testimonial dinner honoring actress 

Melina Mercouri, slated for August 27 at 

the Hartford Hilton, has been postponed. 

A new date will be announced. Miss Mercouri, 

starring in Broadway's "llya Darling," 

requested the postponement because of the 

recent death of her father. 

Chet Stoddard, president of New England 

Theatres, met with Ray McNamara and 

James Darby, resident managers for Hartford 

and New Haven, respectively. 

Harold Call Retiring 

PORTLAND—Harold L. Call is retiring 

as amusements editor of the Portland Newspapers 

after 43 years with the Guy Gannett 

dailies. 

Audrey Hepburn portrays a blind woman 

in Warner Bros. -Seven Arts' "Wait Until 

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Of 6 Canadian Films 

TORONTO— During the past six montins, 

encouraged by the Canadian Film Development 

Corp. loan fund which still must attain 

Parliament approval, Paramount has 

launched two of six feature films it promised 

to make in this country. 

Last spring, an all-Canadian production 

titled "Isabel.'" written and directed by Paul 

Almond of Toronto and starring his French- 

Canadian wife Genevieve Bujold, was 

filmed along the Gaspe peninsula and is 

now being screened in its rough-cut stage. 

Meanwhile, another crew working out of 

Paramount's British office to meet the requirements 

of the Eady Plan financing, has 

been filming in Toronto and the eastern 

townships of Quebec a Robert Radnitz production 

"My Side of the Mountain" and 

produced by James Clark. 

Both of those productions have been having 

union difficulties, due to protests raised 

by the Toronto-based lATSE Local 644-C 

against the use of non-IATSE personnel. 

Bill Cole, business representative for this 

local, takes objection to the importation of 

more than 20 British technicians for "My 

Side of the Mountain." Radnitz, on the other 

hand, argues that the production is bound 

by British government regulations, to qualify 

for the financing. 

The budget for this film is set at just 

under $1 million and is set for release next 

summer. Meanwhile, on a worldwide scale, 

production program 

Paramount's revitalized 

reached an all-time high with 13 films 

shooting and 11 projects on which 

principal photography has been completed, 

another nine feature projects scheduled 

winter. The action encompasses maproductions 

in England, France, Spain 

and Ireland, as well as the U.S. and Canada. 

NFB Film Wins Labor 

Film Festival in Montreal 

MONTREAL—The grand prize, awarded 

by the International Labor Film Festival, 

was presented here to the National Film 

Board for its production "Do Not Fold, 

Staple, Spindle or Mutilate." This drama 

about modern union management starring 

Oscar-winner Ed Begley, also won an award 

as the best film in the education category. 

"Steeltown," a half-hour film on a community 

built around heavy industry, took 

second prize in the social information category. 

The festival also presented the NFB 

with a certificate in recognition of its "pioneering 

and excellence in the production 

of labor films over the last decade." 

The delegates to the festival were addressed 

by H. Pateet, executive secretary of 

the Confederation of International Free 

Trade Unions, and by Fred Terselius, general 

manager of Nordisk Tonefilm in Stockholm, 

Sweden, who acted as chairman of 

the jurv. 

John Williams has been signed to co-star 

in 20th Century-Fox's "A Flea in Her Ear." 

Jack Valenti's Address 

To Open CMPI Conclave 

Jack J. 

Valenti 

TORONTO — Jack Valenti, president 

of the Motion Picture Ass'n of America, 

will be the opening 

speaker of the Canadian 

Motion Picture 

Industry Convention 

and Tradeshow in the 

Queen Elizabeth BIdg. 

at exhibition Park 

here September 25 to 

27. 

Jack Fitzgibbons, 

convention chairman, 

said many top executives 

in the motion 

picture industry from Canada and the 

United States will participate in the convention 

and tradeshow, including some Hollywood 

stars. 

The convention and tradeshow is sponsored 

by the Motion Picture Theatres Ass'n 

of Canada, the National Ass'n of Concessionaires 

and the Canadian Motion Picture 

Distributors Ass'n. 

Booth Space Going Fast 

Equipment manufacturers and suppliers 

to the motion picture industry already have 

booked two-thirds of the exhibit space. The 

1.346-scat Queen Elizabeth Theatre in the 

building will be used for screening production 

reels of new films scheduled for release 

late this year and in 1968. 

Valenti, who served as a special assistant 

to United States President Lyndon Johnson 

from Nov. 22, 1963 to May 16, 1966, attended 

the Moscow Film Festival where he 

noticed the 12 U.S. entries drew more than 

half of the festival's attendance. 

He was elected president of the MPAA 

May 11, 1966, the Motion Picture Export 

Ass'n of America, June 7, 1966, and the 

Ass'n of Motion Picture and Television Producers 

on June 28, 1966, in Hollywood. 

Prior to joining President Johnson's staff, 

Valenti organized and co-founded Weekly 

& Valenti Advertising Agency in Houston, 

Tex., in 1952. Four years later, he was selected 

as "outstanding young man of Houston." 

Graduate of Houston 

Valenti graduated from the University of 

Houston with a BS degree in 1946. His education 

was interrupted for two years' service 

in the Army Air Corps in World War II. 

He flew 5 1 combat missions and was awarded 

the Distinguished Flying Cross and the 

Air Medal with four clusters. 

He attended the Harvard Graduate 

School of Business Administration, graduating 

with a master of business administration 

degree in 1948. 

Among Valenti's other achievements are a 

book of collected columns written for the 

Houston Post, gathered under the title of 

Ten Heroes and Two Heroines," and the 

honor of becoming the first alumnus of the 

University of Houston to be named to the 

University board of regents. 

The Canadian Motion Picture Industry 

Convention and Tradeshow will be Valenti's 

first official appearance in Canada as 

MPAA president. 

lATSE to Have Booth 

At Canadian Conclave 

TORONTO—Believed to be the first for 

any national or international tradeshow, the 

International Alliance of Theatrical Stage 

Employes and Moving Picture Machine 

Operators of the U.S. and Canada will have 

a booth at the Canadian Tradeshow and 

Convention, September 25-27 in the Queen 

Elizabeth Bldg. 

Booth space already is at a premium, 

says Jack Fitzgibbons, general chairman. 

He said those planning to come to Toronto 

for the event should make their travel reservations 

immediately. Flights are booked 

solidly and trains are almost as bad, with deluxe 

trains, such as the Rapido from Montreal, 

having waiting lists. 

Tent 28 Receives $40,000 

From Charity Grid Game 

TORONTO — Tent 28's annual benefit 

football game in Varsity Stadium here was 

an overwhelming success, bringing in more 

than $40,000 for the tent. More than 11,000 

tickets for the event were sold, and between 

the Variety Club share of the ticket sales 

and its annual program revenue, this 

amount will go to Variety Village, the club's 

vocational guidance school for handicapped 

boys. 

Showers early in the evening did keep the 

attendance down. This exhibition game between 

the Montreal Beavers and Toronto 

Rifles was won by the Rifles, 24 to 20. 

Barker Doug Wells produced the halftime 

show, featuring the Ambassadors. Alex 

Stewart was responsible for the program ad 

sales. Harry Sherkin handled ticket sales 

and the prizes and sale of programs at the 

game were in the hands of Joe Bermack, 

Jack Chisholm and David Freeman. Sherkin 

was assisted by Harold Meyers, and Stewart 

got production help from artist John Longdon. 

One of the prizes—a chaise lounge— -was 

won by John Mandell, a grandson of David 

Mandell, manager of Inter-Theatre Services. 

John was on a visit from Winnipeg, and is 

himself handicapped and on crutches due to 

polio. 

Tent 28's series of fall-to-spring celebrity 

luncheons start September 13 in the Park 

Plaza Hotel with a tribute to perhaps the 

greatest Canadian showman of them all, 

Patty 

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MONTREAL—The directors of an English-language 

documentary film and a whimsical 

narrative, in French, were awarded the 

"grand prix ex-aequo" for the best feature 

film in competition at the fifth Festival of 

Canadian Films, held in Expo Theatre during 

the eighth Montreal International Film 

Festival. 

The winning films were "Warrendale," directed 

by .'Man King of Toronto, and "11 ne 

Faut Pas Mourir Pour Ca." directed by Jean 

Pierre Lefebvre of Montreal. The award for 

"Warrendale" was given for "its profound 

humanity and love and respect for the disturbed 

children it presented" and the 

French-language film was chosen for its "direction 

and the acting of the principals, including 

Marc Sabourin and Suzanne Grossman." 

The prize-winning directors immediately 

announced, each in his own language, that 

"without contesting the jury's decision and 

without disrespect for its decision but out 

of respect for each other's work," they 

would divide the $5,000 prize money with 

the directors of the other two feature-length 

films presented at the competition, as well 

as with Larry Kent. "We had come to this 

decision between ourselves well before the 

announcement of the awards," they said. 

The other two feature films are "Le 

Regne du Jour," directed by Pierre Perrault, 

a documentary on a French-Canadian family, 

and "Entre la Mer et I'Eau Douce," directed 

by Michel Brault and starring Genevieve 

Bujold and Claude Gauthier. 

Kent's entry "High," which had been 

scheduled as the fifth film in competition, 

had been barred by the Quebec censors. In 

connection with this, France's Jean Renoir, 

president of the festival film jury, declared: 

"We are all extremely against censorship. We 

consider censorship an outdated, barbarous 

institution that should not exist. However, it 

has one advantage. When a film which has 

been condemned is finally shown, it has that 

much more success." 

Members of the jury with Renoir included 

Christopher Chapman, Beryl Fox and 

Richard Lacrois of Canada, Glauber Rocha 

of Brazil, Monte Hellman of the U.S.A. 

and Bruno Bouzzetto of Italy. 

The Grand Prize of $1,000 for the best 

medium-length film went to Jacques Leduc 

of Montreal for "Chantal: En Vrac," a 

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youth. Pierre Hebert's "On Hop," a 

series of eye-popping animated abstractions, 

won the $1,000 grand prize for the best 

short film. 

Four other productions received mention: 

Derek May's "Angel" a poetic evocation of 

emotion through photographic techniques; 

"Rouli-Roulant" by Claude Jutra, which 

examined with style and elegance the world 

of the skate-boarders; Tanya Ballantyne's 

study of human defeat in daily life "The 

World I Cannot Change" and Michel 

Brault's "Entre la Mer et I'Eau Douce" 

showing the loves and early career of a 

chansonnier from St. Irenee. 

The choice of the controversial "Warrendale" 

was largely commended. However, 

there was considerable dissatisfaction 

among the public with the jury's choice of 

the grand prize winners for shorter films. 

MONTREAL 

ârl Lochman, formerly with the National 

Film Board, now a top aide to Canada's 

state secretary Judy LaMarsh, is reported 

being considered to head the Canadian 

Film Development Corp., the crownowned 

corporation which has been established 

to give a shot-in-the-arm for the Canadian 

motion picture industry. 

United Amusement Corp. for Famous 

Players opened its new twin cinema in 

Greenfield Park, a south shore municipality, 

with the theatre featuring "Casino Royale." 

The provincial government's information 

and publicity office has commissioned the 

assembly of a documentary film in color of 

the visit of Charles de Gaulle of France. Production 

of the short film which will cost between 

$35,000 and $40,000, will be carried 

out by Jean-Claude Labreque, a Montreal 

film producer. 

Montreal motion picture industry people 

point out that despite Quebec's new law allowing 

the operation of drive-ins, there has 

been no noticeable stampede to get into the 

business. It is felt the legislation is hedged 

with so many "ifs" and "buts," plus restrictions 

on the type of motion pictures which 

may be shown, that it is doubtful if there 

will ever be such a stampede. 

Copies Exist of Pictures 

Lost in Kirkland Fire 

MONTREAL—Grant McLean, assistant 

commissioner of the National Film Board, 

said the full extent of the losses suffered by 

the board in the July 23 fire at its film storage 

building at Kirkland, 10 miles from 

Montreal, probably won't be known for 

some time. 

Housed in the structure are films, lighting 

and sound recording equipment and a 

supply 

of film cans and reels. Also in the building 

were films of the Canadian Film Instiinte 

and la Cinematheque Canadienne. 

Although the storage building and its contents 

are a total loss, McLean said this didn't 

mean all the materials were lost to posterity. 

He explained that for 6'/2 years the NEB 

had been working on a ten-year program to 

transfer Canadian film material of historical 

and archival value from original nitrate 

film stock to acetate-base safety film. 

Four employes have been working the 

year around on the project, and each summer 

two students are added to the staff to 

accelerate the program. The transferred film 

is kept in the NFB's vaults at its premises 

in St. Laurent. 

Stored in the Kirkland building were 

films made by the NEB from its inception 

in 1939 until 1952. These were in the form 

of negatives, fine-grain positives, soundtracks 

and positive prints, all on 35mm nitrate-base 

film. 

Copies of some of the films 

exist at the board's Cote de Liesse vaults and 

other 35mm films may be located from 

various sources. 

In that connection, Guy Cote, president 

la Cinematheque Canadienne, said his organization, 

through its affiliation with the 

30-member International Federation of 

Film Archives, already has volunteered to 

assist the NEB is procuring copies of the 

destroyed films wherever they might exist 

throughout the world. 

Also lost in the blaze was a considerable 

amount of footage shot by Canadian military 

forces' cameramen during World War 

II. However, almost all of those films had 

been reviewed some years ago when the 

NFB produced its 13-film series "Canada 

at War." At that time more than 15 million 

feet of film was reviewed and the best of it 

transferred to safety stock and is now preserved 

in the NEB vaults. 

McLean said he also had been advised 

that none of Cote's organization's losses 

were of historical or archival value. 

OTTAWA 

The first 

attempted robbery of a theatre in 

the Ottawa area this year took place in 

nearby Hull, when a man wearing dark 

glasses appeared at the Vendome in the Cartier 

Shopping Center only to be foiled by 

quick-thinking Lise Chretien. The would-be 

robber handed a note to Miss Chretien on 

which was written: "This is a hold-up. Give 

me all your bills." Although frightened the 

cashier told him the night's receipts had 

been removed from the boxoffice and the 

man took to his heels as she gave the alarm. 

In the belief that similar incidents would 

follow, local exhibitors have adopted increased 

precautions. 

Frank Berlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris 

Berlin of Ottawa, has registered for further 

studies at McMaster University at Hamilton, 

Ont., following graduation with distinction 

at Babson Institute in Massachusetts 

where he obtained his bachelor of business 

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in Ottawa and a former director of the 

Motion Picture Theatres Ass'n of Ontario. 

\îth expansion of the system of the 

Ottawa Cablevision Co., plans are afoot for 

the use of its facilities in primary classrooms, 

according to a statement by William 

T. MacSkimming, superintendent of the 

Ottawa school board. However, at present 

the programs of two companies are available 

in parts of the city, thus causing a 

delay in the decision. 

Beatrice McElligott, secretary of the big 

Ottawa Capitol, has been given special 

honor by the Famous Players 25-Year Club, 

the members of which are granted an extra 

week for their annual vacation and other 

recognitions. Already a club member, she 

has received tribute again for having completed 

40 years of service and is still proficient. 

Ottawa theatres have survived much 

competition, what with the ten-day Central 

Canada Exhibition with its numerous entertainment 

features, a military tattoo for four 

nights which was a sell-out, a series of 

RCMP outdoor musical rides attended by 

big crowds, free performances on Parliament 

Hill and many band concerts, also 

free. But theatre attendance has been augmented 

by countless tourists mainly from 

the U. S. 

"Barefoot in the Park" was transferred 

from the Capitol to the Regent for a sixth 

week in Ottawa, while "The Taming of the 

Shrew" won a third week as a roadshow at 

the Elmdale. "The War Wagon" held for a 

second stanza at the Somerset and Queensway. 

"The Sand Pebbles," which bowed in 

at the Nelson for a roadshow engagement, 

looks good for a long run. 

For the extended summer engagements 

of "Doctor Zhivago" the admission is $2 for 

adults at the independent Starlite Drive-In 

at Cornwall, but the price at the Odeon 

at Kingston, Ont., is $1.50 . . . The 

advertising has been combined 

for the Port Theatre in Cornwall and the 

opened Curry Hill Drive-In in that 

'Spoiled Rotten' in the Fall 


YORK—"Spoiled Rotten," a drama 

swingers in Greece's "now generation," 

will be released this fall by Chancellor Films 

with an American premiere in New York. 

The film stars Zoe Laskari, a former Miss 

Greece in the Miss Universe contest. Her 

costar Nikos Kourkoulos is currently playing 

in "Ilya Darling" on Broadway with 

Greece's famous actress, Melina Mercouri. 

Censors 'Restrict' 4 Films 

OTTAWA—The censor board has classified 

four pictures for Restricted Attendance. 

They are "Accident," "Cloportes," 

"Cul de Sac" and "Hells Angels on Wheels." 

"Bandolero!" is the new title for 20th 

Century-Fox's "Mace." 

'Guide for Married Man' Excellent' 

2nd Week in Toronto; luv' 'Good' 

TORONTO — Warm summer weather 

kept receipts down, although a few bookings 

continued strong. "Wild, Wild Planet" and 

"Welcome to Hard Times" did quite well 

in a week's run at the Downtown and seven 

other Twinex houses and "A Guide for the 

Married Man" continued to do good business 

at the Imperial and other locations. 

"Divorce AMERICAN Style" continued to 

do excellent in its second week at the Carlton 

and "Luv" had a very good opening at 

the Danforth. "Two for the Road" held up 

well in its ninth week at the Hollywood's 

South Cinema, and "You Only Live Twice" 

continued to hold up well in its eighth week, 

now at the Coronet and four other Odeon 

theatres. 

Capitol F.ne Art The Sand Pebbles (20th-Fox), 

25th wk Good 

Capri Uninhibited (IFD), 2nd wk. Fair 

Cai,tcn— Divcrce AMERICAN Style (Col), 

2nd wk Excellent 

Coronet, four others You Only Live Twice (UA), 

8th wk Excellent 

Crest A Mon ond a Woman (IFD), 41st wk. . .Good 

Danforth Luv (Col) Very Good 

Downtown, =even others Wild, Wild Planet 

(MGM); Wetcome to Hard Times (MGM) Very Good 

Eglintcn The Sound of Music (20th-Fox), 

127th wk Good 

Fairlown—A Man tcr AM Seasons (Col), 

35th wk Excellent 

Glendale Cinerama Grand Prix (MGM), 

29th wk Good 

Ho'lywood (North) Up the Down Staircase 

(WB-7A), 7th wk Good 

Hollywood (South) Two tor the Road (20th-Fox), 

9th wk Very Good 

Number, four others The Deadly Affair (Col); 

The Game Is Over (Col) Good 

Hyland To Sir, With Love (Col), 5th wk. ..Excellent 

Imperial group A Guide for the Married Mon 

(20th-Fox), 3rd wk Good 

International Cinema The Sailor From Gibraltar 

(UA) 

Fair 

Doctor wk. 

Sister, 

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Towne Cinema 

Zhivago 

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My Love 

44th ...Good 


University Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

1 0th wk Very Good 

Attendance, Grosses in Upturn 

At Montreal First-Run Houses 

MONTREAL—With the intensive interest 

shown in Montreal as a result of the 

many activities of the eighth Montreal International 

Film Festival held mainly at Expo 

Theatre, the local leading motion picture 

houses of Montreal were better attended in 

the week under review than in recent past 

weeks. The programs offered at 

the various 

theatres were of good quality and proved of 

fairly good interest to many film fans. 

Alouette Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

18th wk Good 

Atwater In the Heat of the Night (UA) Good 

Avenue Accident (IFD), 6th wk Good 

Capitol The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 2nd wk. Excellent 

Cinema Festival My Sister, My Love (IFD), 

3rd wk Good 

F'eur de Lys Tant Qu'on la Sonte (SR), 4th wk. Good 

Imperial Grand Prix (MGM), I 3th wk Good 

Kent The Family Way (WB-7A), 4th wk Good 

Lcew's Barefoot in the Park (Para), 8th wk. ..Good 

Palace You Only Live Twice (UA), 7th wk. . . . .Good 

Ponsien Les Poupees (SR), 3rd wk Good 

Van Home Up the Down Staircase {WB-7A), 

4th wk Good 

Vendome— Russian Film Festival Good 

Westmount To Sir, With Love (Col), 7th wk. . .Good 

'The Gnome-Mobile' Outstanding 

In Mixed Vancouver Week 

VANCOUVER — The boxoffice picture 

in most downtown theatres was this: Thursday 

opening, good; Friday, soft; Saturday, 

good; Sunday through Wednesday, temperatures 

in the 80s, business—blah. Even "To 

Sir, With Love" couldn't buck it Sunday, 

posting the lowest day of the run. "The 

Gnome-Mobile" was surprisingly good in 

the Strand as the family trade, surfeited with 

eight weeks of beach weather, decided on a 

cool theatre as a change. 

. Capitol Barefoot in the Park (Para), 4th wk. 

Coronet The War Wagon (Univ), 2nd wk 

Downtown Two for the Road (20th-Fox), 

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Fair 

8th wk 

Hyland A Man for All Seasons (Col), 25th wk. 

Slow 

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Odeon To Sir, With Love 

Orpheum The Dirty Dozen 

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Fork Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

7th wk Above Average 

Ridge The Sond Pebbles (20th-Fox), 13th wk. ..Fair 

Stanley The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 

9th wk Average 

Strand The Gnome- Mobile (BV) Good 

Studio Onibaba (IFD), 4th wk 

Vogue A Guide for the Morried Man 

Poor 

(20th-Fox) 

Above Average 

"To Sir, With Love' Shows 

Staying Power in Winnipeg 

WINNIPEG—Grosses were off about 10 

per cent from the previous week (and about 

the same as the similar week last year). The 

reduction was due to a dip in most of the 

long-run situations. However, still showing 

strength and topping the list was "To Sir, 

With Love." Strong, but down from previous 

highs, were "Barefoot in the Park," 

"Thoroughly Modern Millie," "The Dirty 

Dozen" and "The Family Way." "Luv" had 

a satisfactory one-week run and "The Sand 

Pebbles" continued strong, ending its second 

month. 

Capitol Barefoot in the Pork (Poro), 


Gaiety The wk. . .Good 

Sand Pebbles (20th-Fox), 8th 

Garrick To Sir, With Love (Col), 4th wk. . .Excellent 

Kings Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 


Lyceum Africa—Texos Style! (Paro); The Busy 

Body (Para) Good 

Metropolitan The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 


Odeon Luv (Col) Good 

Park The Family Way {WB-7A), 5th wk. Very Good 

Towne Up the Down Stoircase (WB-7A), 

4th wk Average 

SAINT JOHN 

Qeorge Koppleman of Montreal, Maritime 

salesman for Allied Artists and International 

Film Distributors, called on exhibitors 

here at the local office, where Kay 

Ryan is in charge. He reports "Dear John" 

has been "great." 

July, weatherwise, was a record-breaking 

month for fog. There were only a few days 

of sunshine, with virtually every night 

fogged in. Drive-ins were affected greatly. 

Centennial projects in larger cities also have 

taken their toll at the boxoffice, with free 

outdoor movies and innumerable indoor and 

outdoor free attractions. 

Les E. Mitchell of Halifax, Maritime district 

manager of Famous Players, was in 

town conferring with Helmet Dach, manager 

of the Paramount, and Jim Mitchell, 

Plaza manager. He also called on exchange 

managers. 

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\7isiting Filmrow and the circuit head offices 

was 20th Century-Fox Canadian 

general sales manager Peter Myers, who 

conferred with local branch manager Dawson 

Exiey on plans for the upcoming season. 

Joining the holiday exodus were Larry 

and Joe Strick of Columbia who motored 

to Calgary to visit Larry's father and renew 

acquaintances with old friends on Calgary 

Filmrow . . . Also off to Alberta was West 

Coast Theatre's Vi Hosford . . . Booker Vi 

Yates of Empire Films also went holidaying 

in the hinterland, as did Odeon Girl Friday 

Gay Carl. 

Ross Dower of Victoria Shopping service 

left upon the return of head shipper George 

Hislop and is spending his holiday as chief 

projectionist for the Pacific National Exhibition, 

which opened a 14-day stand Saturday 

(19). 

A visitor from Australia, where he now 

operates hotels, was Ben Chechik, brother 

of Max of the Chechik circuit. Ben says he 

is having his second summer this year, as it 

was just ending when he left Australia. 

It was a good week for the Chechiks all 

round as the combo of "Irma La Douce" 

and "Tom Jones" went into its second week 

at the Delta Drive-In, and the revival of 

"Carmen Jones" at the Bay, timed to coincide 

with the live appearance of Harry Belafonte 

at 

the Queen Elizabeth, which played 

to capacity, gave the west end hardtop a 

good week. 

One of the most successful tie-ups ever 

entered into here by an independent was the 

one engineered by the Chechik circuit for 

the Delta Drive-In at Richmond, Bay in 

Vancouver and Tillicum Drive-In, Victoria, 

for the showing of "Those Magnificent Men 

in Their Flying Machines" on a day-anddate 

engagement. Two tickets for a trip to 

San Francisco were promoted from Canadian 

Pacific Airlines. To keep interest alive 

the prize drawing was held two weeks later. 

The winners were Mr. and Mrs. J. Callison 

of Richmond. All theatres reported good 

business on award night. 

Odeon brought back "A Man and a 

Woman" for day-and-date showing in the 

Dunbar and Odeon, West Vancouver. After 

a successful week, it moved into the Totem, 

North Vancouver, Haida, Vancouver. 

Active in the Tent 47-sponsored picnic 

for retarded children Sunday (6) at the 

Bear Creek Park in Surrey was barker 

Lionel Courchine of the Surrey Drive-in. 

Threatening skies held down attendance. 

Surprise visitors to the Columbia office 

were Mr. and Mrs. Dick Kahn of the Columbia 

New York head office. Mrs. Kahn, 

who lived here during her youth, was surprised 

by the tremendous growth of the city. 

While locally produced movies, particularly 

those about the province, are seldom 

seen at home, they are getting plenty of 

playing time below the border. B. C. scenery 

was shown 8,000 times on U.S. movie 

screens and on more than 70 million TV 

screens during the first three months of 

1967, said travel minister Ken Kiernansaid. 

He said motion pictures produced in the 

province were seen by more than 450,000 

people in non-theatrical audiences in the 

U.S. in that period. There were 63 television 

showings, 25 per cent of which were in 

color. 

TORONTO 

XX/illiam S. Moon has acquired the 320- 

seat Avon, the only house in Campbellford, 

Ont., from George Vice. 

It is reported that "The Sound of Music" 

has grossed $90 million from its worldwide 

bookings. Locally it is well into its second 

year at the Eglinton, with at least another 

six months to go. 

The Imperial here plans a "Turn On" 

Sunday midnight, September 3. It will be 

complete with rock 'n' roll bands, and will 

last six hours. Dancing will be permitted in 

the aisles and foyer. Tickets at $3 per person 

went on sale Friday (25). If the show 

is successful. Famous Players plans to try 

it in some of its larger houses across the 

coimtry. 

About 700 expectant mothers were guests 

of Famous Players and radio station CHUM 

at a morning showing of Warner Bros.-? 

Arts' "The Family Way." Storkland, a local 

chain of nursery equipment stores, donated 

a complete nursery as a door prize, and 

each guest was given a bag full of nursery 

items. 

There were several new bookings at local 

houses. "The Bobo" opened Wednesday at 

the Towne Cinema. "The Love-Ins" and 

"The Mystery of Thug Island" opened a 

multiple run at the Downtown, Metro, 

Beach and other Twinex houses, and 

"Woman Times Seven" moved from the 

Yorkdale into a multiple run at the Alhambra. 

Park, Kingsway, and the two Twinex 

drive-ins. "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" 

also opened a multiple run at the Coronet, 

Humber, Elaine and five other Odeon 

locations. "The Family Way" started at the 

Hollywood. The Capitol in New Toronto 

joined the Imperial, Yorkdale and other 

FP houses in screening "Triple Cross." 

Producer Martin Rackin was a visitor 

here to promote Universal's "Rough Night 

in Jericho," which opened Thursday (24) at 

the Odeon's Carlton. Rackin made several 

pLiblicity 

appearances. 

Schorr to Leave Universal's 

Publicity Department 


NEW YORK — Jose Schorr, national 

magazine representative for Universal Pictures, 

resigned from the company's publicity 

department effective this month after six 

years with the firm. He is making plans for 

publicity, advertising and promotion services 

in the industry. Formerly, Schorr was publicity 

contact and advertising writer for 20th- 

Fox, Columbia and the Donahue & Coe advertising 

agency. 

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of films for the fifth annual festival Septem- 

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Ontario Restricts 4 Films 

TORONTO—Ontario has classified four 

films as "restricted." They are "Embracers," 

Peerless; "Night Games" and "Uninhibited," 

IFD, and "Warrendale," King. 

Coluinbia's "Berserk" had an invitational 

preview in Petersburg, Va. 

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Fast-Paced Ballyhoo Leads El Dorado' 

Into Trans-Texas Fort Worth Hollywood 

A fast gun, a pretty gal, nearly always 

stereotyped in westerns to lead the bulletpaced 

action, were used effectively in Fort 

Worth to point up "El Dorado" at the Trans- 

Texas Hollywood Theatre, managed by 

showman Harry Gaines. 

The picture drew rave notices in both 

Fort Worth dailies, especially from Elston 

Brooks, Star-Telegram columnist, who devoted 

practically all of his morning column 

(10 inches, double column) to the film on 

the day it opened. Jack Gordon in the Press, 

the day after the opening, invited readers 

to see the picture "for tops in sagebrush entertainment." 

Both papers contributed much 

art, including single and double-column cuts. 

For Gaines's playdate, Cecil Pearson, 

KXOL-Radio account executive, and Dick 

Empey, advertising head and theatre operations 

director for the Trans-Texas circuit, 

stepped-off the well-paced campaign. Highlighted 

were model Julie Smith, who was 

driven around Fort Worth to shopping centers 

and high-traffic spots, where she distributed 

heralds with bags of "gold nuggets" 

(gold-painted gravel), and a "fast-gun" contest. 

Don Cox and Charles Wooten of the local 

Fast Gun Club put on the match in front of 

the Hollywood. A special roped-off area was 

provided by the city, with a policeman standing 

by. Also, a fast-gun-draw contest was 

held among the KXOL disc jockeys, with 

John Maye winning a .38-caliber revolver 

provided by the theatre. 

A contest also was held for KXOL listeners 

in connection with the contest among 

the deejays. Persons sent in the name of the 

disc jockey whom they thought would be 

the fastest gun. Those guessing correctly received 

two guest passes to the Hollywood to 

see the picture. This resulted in extra publicity 

for the playdate—all free. 

Luskey's Western Wear store set up a 

large window display tying in the film and 

provided the model's western attire for the 

street promotion. Three weeks in advance of 

opening, Gaines placed a set piece in the 

lobby, featuring color stills. And the cashiers, 

ushers and doorman wore western attire 

and badges advertising the picture. 

Above the inner-doors in the lobby, an attention-getting 

24-sheet was hung. 

Pretty Julie Smith, as a stunt for "El 

Dorado" at the Hollywood Theatre in 

Fort Worth, managed by Harry Gaines, 

was driven about town and through 

shopping centers distributing heralds 

with bags of gold nuggets (gold-painted 

rocks) attached. Her cowgirl garb was 

furnished by Luskey's Western Wear. 

In another attentiongetter 

for "El Dorado," 

a fast-draw 

gun exhibition was 

held in front of the 

Hollywood by two 

members of the Fort 

Worth Fast-Draw 

Club. Here a crowd 

gathers for the demonstration. 

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Harvard Students Aid 

'Massacre' in Boston 

Hasty Pudding Theatricals, made up of 

Harvard University students, had a feature 

role in "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" 

opening ballyhoo at Sack's Savoy Theatre 

in Boston. 

Set up by the circuit's general manager 

Alan Friedberg, the promotion featured a 

parade by the students, replete with costumes 

of the '20s, vintage automobiles and 

"gun molls," portrayed by the students from 

Radcliffe College. 

With the Harvard men dressed in widelapel 

"gangster" suits of pin stripes and 

checks and pearl-gray hats and the Radcliffe 

women in "flapper" dresses, armed with 

mock machine guns and rifles, the parade 

roared down Boston streets to the delight of 

the crowds. 

Friedberg also set up a tie-up with the 

Red Cross. The theme was: "Give blood instead 

of spilling it." The 100 blood donors 

received an invitation to the 20th-Fox picture 

opening. 

The entire promotion reflected a spirit of 

cooperation between the students and Sack 

Theatres, said Friedberg. 

Hasty Pudding Theatricals hold a musical 

comedy each year, and one of their latest 

ones was a satire of the gangster era. Men's 

clothing (circa 1929) has become "in" attire 

for Harvard students, and second-hand 

shops in Boston's south end have been all 

but cleaned out of the vintage clothes.

Concentrated Louisville Promotion Brings 

Attention to 

Barefoot in Park' Playdate 

This 1903 Oldsmobile was a feature in 

a Louisville (Ky.) parade in connection 

with the opening of "Barefoot in the 

Park" at Mid-States Theatres' Mary 

Anderson Towne Cinema. The march 

included a 50-piece band and dancing 

girls. 

One of the most all-embracing campaigns 

ever put behind a picture in Louisville, Ky., 

was staged for the opening of Paramount's 

"Barefoot in the Park" at the Mary Anderson 

Towne Cinema. The campaign was conceived 

and executed by C. R. Buechel, managing 

director, and Roy White, president 

of Mid-States Theatres, owner of the house. 

Every avenue of attention-getting was 

brought into play, climaxed by premiere activities 

which included a parade with a 50- 

piece marching band, dancing girls and a 

35-foot float carrying the "Barefoot in the 

Park" queen and her court. 

In a tie-up with radio station WAKY, a 

contest was held to select the best-looking 

"Barefoot Couples," the judging held in 

four of the city's large parks. The two selected 

couples were given a night on the 

town, dinner at an exclusive restaurant and 

guest tickets to see "Barefoot." Other prizes 

were a transistor radio, pen and pencil set, 

etc. The station gave 50 promotion spots 

to the stunt. 

Eight weeks in advance of playdates, stencil 

cut-outs of bare feet were displayed in 

the downtown area, on walls, parking lots, 

vacant stores, etc. Later, dates were stenciled 

for the current engagement. 

Thousands of "Barefoot in the Park" buttons 

and albums were given away by the 

radio station to those who telephoned and 

picked them up. Several grosses of Surfer 

Shirts were distributed to swim club teams, 

the shirts having barefoot imprints. 

The Mode Shop and other department 

stores displayed wearing apparel in their 

windows, similar to those worn by Jane 

Fonda in the picture. 

Fifty thousand imprinted matches were 

distributed to eating places, hotels, motels 

and night spots. About 4,500 table tents 

were given to dining places. 

In the premiere parade, a 1903 Oldsmobile 

was a feature, with a driver and girl 

in formal attire and cards reading "We 

Were Caught Barefoot in the Park." Theatre 

usherettes marched in their uniforms 

carrying signs stating "We're on Our Way 

to Barefoot in the Park." Twenty girls with 

Surfer Shirts marched barefooted in the 

parade. 

A prominent dance studio provided a 

dance routine in front of the theatre before 

the premiere and a mode fashion show was 

staged. It featured a paper dress made from 

a "Barefoot in the Park" 3-sheet. This was 

picked up by the ABC-TV station, which 

also shot other pre-premiere activities. 

After the premiere, a champagne party 

was held. WAVE-TV presented 15 minutes 

of the fashion show on its regular one-hour 

variety show. 

The campaign continues to be a topic of 

conversation in Louisville. 

Buffalo Theatres, Stores 

Cooperate in Free Films 

In a continuing effort to lure shoppers 

to downtown Buffalo, merchants are cooperating 

with Courier-Express in offering 

free motion pictures on the four Wednesdays 

in September at Shea's Buffalo and Center 

theatres. 

Newspaper readers are asked to fill out a 

coupon published in the paper and enclose 

a self-addressed envelope for the tickets, 

limited to four. 

The pictures scheduled are "The Singing 

For the opening of Warren Miller's 

"Ski on the Wild Side" at New York's 

Guild and 34th Street East theatres, the 

distributor Sigma III and the theatres 

offered free admission to the first 100 

persons appearing in ski clothes. The 

stunt provided some offbeat exploitation 

during the summer heat. Here two 

arrive in "ski clothes." (Yes, the girl is 

a model, hired for the stunt.) 

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 

Nun," "Gigi," "Fanny" and "Goodbye Charlie." 

Frank Arena, Loew's city manager, who 

oversees the Buffalo, and Carl Schaner, Century 

manager, believe the plan is an excellent 

promotion for the theatres, as well as the 

merchants. 

A half-page ad in the Courier-Express, 

featuring scenes from the four movies, pointed 

up the promotion. The ad explained, "See 

a top feature movie at a favorite downtown 

theatre—and it doesn't cost you a penny . . . 

Just another attraction for your pleasure and 

satisfaction when you come downtown. Enjoy 

a morning movie (starting time 10 o'- 

clock), stay downtown for lunch, then do 

your shopping." 

sSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 

M. R. Yankovich, managing director of Redstone Theatres' Cinema I and II in 

Louisville, Ky., set up this lobby showcase for "Thoroughly Modern Millie." He 

used manikins to avoid the usual flat-surfaced display, with the dresses supplied by 

a local shop. Music from the soundtrack highlighted the exhibit, which received 

favorable comment from Universal executives in Indianapolis. 

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ALTHOUGH "Africa — Texas Style!" 

(Para) soon forged ahead of other film 

titles listed on the July Blue Ribbon ballot, 

an unusual number received enough votes to 

be given Honorable Mention. They are, in 

the order of the number of votes received, 

"Barefoot in the Park" (Para), "The Dirty 

Dozen" (MGM), "Divorce AMERICAN 

Style" (Col), "You Only Live Twice" 

(UA), "Tammy and the Millionaire" 

(Univ) and "El Dorado" (Para). This 

seems to have been a Paramount month, 

since the winner and two of the ones receiving 

Honorable Mention were Paramount 

pictures. Selected comments about the winner 

and other pictures listed on the ballot 

unique forum of opinion each 

make up this 

month by National Screen Council members 

who pick the Award winner: 

"Africa—Texas Style!" 

"Africa—Texas Style!" has action and 

excitement; beautiful color, good acting and 

entertainment for the whole family.—Mrs. 

Shirley H. Gunnels, G.F.W.C, Fowler, 

Ind. . . . An information film, enhanced by 

splendid scenes and bright tribal costumes. 

—Mrs. Wayne F. Shaw, U.S.D. of 1812, 

Lawrence, Kas. . Dirty Dozen" is 

best but too violent for family trade. "You 

Only Live Twice" is too sexy, so that leaves 

"Africa — Texas Style!" — George Burke, 

Miami Herald. 

This is a dreadful list but I will go with 

"Africa—Texas Style!" for the photography. 

— Joan Vadeboncoeur, Syracuse Herald- 

Journal-American ... It doesn't fulfill all 

its potential, but it's better than the rest of 

the list as family entertainment. Viva Ivan 

Tors!—Bill Donaldson, Tulsa Tribune . . . 

Very good except the hokum in the jungle 

python, crocodile AND rhino! — Hettie 

Dyhrenfurth, Youth Films Foundation, 

. . 

Hollywood. 

"The Dirty Dozen" was far the best of a 

good group but my vote for a family picture 

will have to go to "Africa—Texas Style!" 

Brainard Piatt, Dayton Journal Herald . 

It's good edge-of-the-seat entertainment, 

colorfully told and photographed. Just 

enough excitement to hold audiences of all 

ages. It is well acted, including the animals! 

—Mrs. Irvin J. Haus. president Fed. MFC. 

Milwaukee. 

For those who like westerns, at least the 

background is different. "Africa — Texas 

Style!" the best choice for family entertainment.—Mrs. 

Frank J. Baldus, G.F.W.C, 

Independence, Mo. . . . An excellent western 

with a new twist and very different 

locale. It has a good cast with lots of excitement 

and most beautiful scenes of the African 

countryside.— Mrs. Henry F. McGill, 

PTA, La Canada, Calif. 

Some of these are not suitable—others 

suitable but only fair entertainment, so I 

select "Africa—Texas Style!" It has enough 

action, color and interesting shots to entertain 

most.—Mrs. C. M. Stewart, Lincoln 

(Neb.) Films Forum . . . An informative 

and entertaining film. The outstanding animal 

shots and bright tribal costumes are 

exciting assets for this adventurous plot. 

Mrs. Kenneth C. Wilson, San Francisco 

MP & TV Council. 

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"Barefoot in the Park" 

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"Barefoot in the Park" has everything 

delightful honeymooners. witty, clever dialog, 

excellent character portrayals, hilarious 

comedy situations, and scenes of warm 

sentimentality interspersed with pathos. 

Eileen Kandyba. Legion of Mary. Kansas 

City . . . I'm getting fonder and fonder of 

Jane. — Stephen Werbel, psychologist, 

W. Mo. Mental Health Center, Kansas 

City . . . Hollywood puts Neil Simon's best 

foot forward in this movie version of the 

lyfy kids loved "Good Times," I 

thought "The Dirty Dozen" was a 

smasher. So what do you do? Compromise 

on "Africa—Texas Style!"—Dave 

Mclntyre, San Diego Tribune . . . 

"Barefoot in the Park" is a better picture, 

but not for the family circle. 

Harry Evans, Family Circle Magazine, 

New York . . . "You Only Live Twice" 

is the best Bond picture yet.—M. B. 

Smith, Commonwealth Theatres, Kansas 

City. 

"The Dirty Dozen" has too much 

senseless violence and "You Only Live 

Twice" has too much everything. "Divorce 

AMERICAN Style," with its bittersweet 

comedy, is the top family film 

AND the best movie on the list.—Don 

Braunagel, Pontiac Press . . . "El Dorado" 

Is a good western that knows Its 

place and fills It and Is still good for 

the whole family.—Grant Marshall, 

Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-Eye. 

"Barefoot In the Park" was a very 

good picture but strictly adult, so my 

vote goes to "Tammy and the Millionaire," 

a good, entertaining family picture.—Mrs. 

Paul Gebhart, Cleveland 

Cinema . . . "The Dirty Dozen?" Are 

you kidding?—John L. Wasserman, San 

Francisco Chronicle. (No—Just letting 

you make the choice.—V.W.S.) 

Hard choice, but I'll pick "Divorce 

AMERICAN Style" because It is warm, 

funny, significant, and should teach 

more families personally and precipitate 

more family thought and discussion 

than the others.—Dr. James K. Loutzenhiser, 

film chairman. Mo. Council 

on Arts, Kansas City. 

stage hit but Mildred Natwick rates an early 

Oscar nomination for supporting role. 

Wayne Allen, Springfield (111.) State 

Journal-Register. 

"Barefoot in the Park" is the best and 

fine for the whole family—a top-notch 

comedy in a summer of good ones.—Bob 

Freund, Fort Lauderdale News ... A very 

clever play, witty, fast lines. I question for 

the young—more for mature audiences. 

Rosemary Beymer, art director, Kansas City 

(Mo.) public schools . . . Best 

lot.—Archer Winsten, New York 

of a terrible 

Post . . . 

The very, very young won't he interested, 

but it's a fine comedy.—Virgil Miers. Dallas 

Times Herald. 

Not a family film but a happy film—and 

"The Dirty Dozen" is also excellent.—Jackie 

C. Reid. Orlando Sentinel-Star . . . Enter- 

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taining from beginning to end and well done. 

— Mrs. Jack Windheim, Larchmont-Mamaroneck 

MPC . . . Just Great.—Joanne 

Seguin, WBEN-TV, Buffalo ... Not as 

good as the play but a funny show.—Bob 

Sokoisky, Buffalo Courier-Express . . . First 

good batch of laughs a movie has given me 

in months—a real gem.—James F. Schrader, 

Buffalo Courier-Express. 

"Barefoot in the Park" came off on the 

screen equally as well if not better than on 

the stage—a good, rollicking comedy, well 

cast and acted, recommended for adults and 

mature young adults.—Virginia M. Beard, 

Cleveland public library ... A lively 

comedy. — Alan Branigan, Newark News. 

"The Dirty Dozen" 

The members who reviewed "The Dirty 

Dozen" gave a very good report and enjoyed 

it very much.— Mrs. Fred Hire, Fort Wayne 

Indorsers of Photoplays . . . Though not 

entirely a family film, this is superb entertainment. 

One of the best action films in 

years of which MGM can be proud.—Robert 

Spatafore, San Francisco teacher . . . 

The best from a loaded list of strong films. 

—John P. Recher. NATO of Md., Baltimore. 

It won't hurt the kids to see how 

discipline can make a man! And it's fun! 

Dick Osgood, WXYZ Radio, Detroit . . . 

"The Dirty Dozen" gives a different twist 

to a World War II story.—Jeannette Mazurki, 

Glendale (Calif.) News Press ... A 

great show—not too rough for the kids, 

either.—Ernest O. Thompson, Ada (Okla.) 

Evening News. 

Yes, "The Dirty Dozen" is violent and 

bloody, but it seems to be a great favorite 

with families who go to the movies together. 

It is rich in humor and insight into the 

human condition, is acted with thorough 

professionalism and so well written and 

directed that there isn't a dull moment in it. 

I think it tops everything on the list this 

month. — James L. Limbacher, Dearborn 

Press . . . Probably the best I've seen 

two or three years—excellent taste in 

in 

what 

could have been fantastically gory and 

bloody scenes.—Kathy Lacey, Bloomington 

Daily Pantagraph. 

"Divorce AMERICAN Style" 

"Divorce AMERICAN Style" is 

the best 

of a second-rate group. — Paine Knickerbocker, 

San Francisco Chronicle . . . Well, 

what d'ya know? Debbie Reynolds is 

finally being allowed to be her age. Film 

not for kids, exactly, but they are the ones 

who are usually able to sift 

through divorce 

gaff—oh, contradictions everywhere! Anyway, 

worth seeing.—Donna McClure, free 

lance writer, Goldsboro, N.C. . . . Mature, 

witty approach to a difficult theme.—Norman 

Dresser, Toledo Blade ... It seems 

exaggerated but "Divorce AMERICAN 

Style" is quite true to present-day life.—Len 

Massell, Stamford Advocate. 

"You Only Live Twice" 

"You Only Live Twice" is the slickest 

production yet in the James Bond/Sean 

Connery series—W. A. Payne, Dallas 

News . . . This should end the Bond 

escapades, so why not a Blue Ribbon? 

Nathan P. Street, WKSR. Giles Free Press, 

Pulaski, Tenn. ... Of course my kids still 

love James Bond and this moved along with 

lots of action.—Betty McCleery, WCTU- 

TV, Erie, Pa. . . . 007 is still the greatest 

spy of them all.—Nevart Apikian, Syracuse 

Post-Standard . . . James Bond has become 

a household fixture.—Tom Peck, Charleston 

News & Courier . . . Best James Bond yet, 

nice use of gimmicks, exciting 

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show. 

Howard Pearson, Deseret News.

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lABOUT 

"S- 

PICTURES' 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 

Million Eyes of Su-Muru, The (AIP) 

Irankic Avalon, George Nader, Shirley 

Eaton. Good show of its type but oversold 

in my situation due to newness of playdate. 

Buy it right and you should do okay. I possibly 

played on wrong date myself. Played 

Sun., Mon. Weather: Clear and cool. 

Terry Axley, New Theatre, England, Ark. 

BUENA VISTA 

Absent-Minded Professor, The (BV) 

Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Tommy 

Kirk. Played with "The Shaggy Dog." An 

excellent double-bill reissue. Did okay business. 

These are in black and white. Color 

is important, but in this case, it was not 

missed. Let's have more Disney double-bill 

reissues. Played Thurs., Fri., Sat.—S. T. 

Jackson, Jackson Theatre. Flomaton, Ala. 

COLUMBIA 

Alvarez Kelly (Col) — William Holden, 

Richard Widmark, Janice Rule. A very 

good action picture with nice color and 

scenery. We booked it with a qualm or two 

but were well pleased afterwards. You can't 

go wrong on this.—Russell and Evelyn 

Burgess, Valley Drive-In Theatre, Velva, 

N.D. 

Born Free (Col)—Virginia McKenna, Bill 

Travers, Geoffrey Keen. An excellent picture 

that will appeal to just about anyone. 

There is a good story and it contains plenty 

of terrific shots of wild animals. It is definitely 

worth playing. Played Sat., Sun. 

Weather: Cloudy and warm.—John Heberle, 

Capitol Theatre, Rochester, N.Y. Pop. 

330,000. 

Man Called Flintstone, The (Col)—Animated 

feature. An okay cartoon feature. 

Played Fri., Sat.—Arthur K. Dame, Scenic 

Theatre, Pittsfield, N.H. Pop. 2,300. 

Teenagers Liked Spy 

Film on Single Bill 

"Come Spy With Me" was a pretty 

good little program picture. Tvpentieth 

Century-Fox sold it right. Teenagers 

liked it. I got by with this on a single 

bill. 

Showed a profit. 

Jackson Theatre 

Flomaton, Ala. 

S. T. JACKSON 

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER 

Doctor Zhivago (MGM) — Omar Sharif, 

Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay. This picture 

was truly a masterpiece. It is no wonder the 

film won so many awards, but it just goes 

to show that you make a good picture, let it 

win awards, and watch the people come in. 

Played two weeks. Weather: Good.—Peter 

A. Silloway, Star Theatre, St. Johnsbury, Vt. 

Son of a Gunfighter (MGM)—Russ Tamblyn, 

Kieron Moore, James Philbrook. A 

good western to fill the double bill. There 

is nothing really outstanding, but overall 

there is nothing to complain about. It has 

some action and a fair story. Played Sat., 

Sun. Weather: Clear and mild. — John 

Heberle, Capitol Theatre, Rochester, N.Y. 

PARAMOUNT 

Beach BaU (Para)—Edd Byrnes, Chris 

Noel, Aron Kincaid. Did okay on this one 

as a repeat. Still enjoyed by my teenage customers. 

Played Thurs., Fri., Sat.—S. T. 

Jackson, Jackson Theatre, Flomaton, Ala. 

Pop. 1,480. 

Last of the Secret Agents? (Para)—Marty 

Allen, Steve Rossi, Nancy Sinatra. Had run 

this one in another town so we knew we 

wouldn't do anything but lay them in the 

Additional Piomoiion Is Needed to Fill Theatres 

I wholeheartedly "disagree" with 

Leon Kldwell, Allen, Oklahoma, who 

says that these comments in "E.H.H.S." 

sometimes mean the difference between 

an empty house and a full house. 

It's my belief, after 10 years in exhibition, 

Butterfield Theatres in Michigan, 

Fox West Coast, that almost any 

film can be a winner if properly promoted, 

in advance of the playdate. 

I'm tired of exhibitors stating, it's a 

good picture but "no" business. Did 

these exhibitors do anything more than 

put the posters out front and title on 

the marquee? Did they use radio 

promotion to get the "teen" attention? 

Newspaper ads, alone, no longer work. 

There has to be creative, imagination 

and inner, sincere, drive that motivates 

a "true" Showman. This is what many 

theatre circuits lack. Most managers 

like to be known as "the" manager of 

such and such a theatre, passing out 

"free" passes to influence people and 

then stand in the theatre lobby, during 

busy periods, in a flashy tuxedo or new 

suit. 

Too many exhibitors are successful 

on one picture and feel they've done 

their duty, forgetting future attractions. 

With these attitudes, their assistants, if 

they have any, will develop the same 

type of lazy attitude towards promotion, 

with the results, more "empty" houses 

in the future. 

Too bad there are not training 

schools to train the exhibitor of tomorrow. 

Thanks! 

Jackson, Mich. 

WILLIAM KERN JR. 

aisle. Good slapstick comedy is what my customers 

want. Played Thurs. Weather: Good. 

—Leon Kidwell, Main Theatre, Stonewall, 

Okla. 

20TH CENTURY-FOX 

Fantastic Voyage (20th-Fox)—This story 

was "fantastic!" One of the best shows I 

have seen in a long time. Great job, 20th 

Century-Fox! Played Fri., Sat., Sun., Mon. 

Weather: Warm.—Jim Townley, Oshkosh 

Drive-In, Oshkosh, Neb. Pop. 1100. 

In Like Flint (20th-Fox)—James Coburn, 

Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale. I enjoyed this show 

very much. But I feel "Flint" is just a little 

bit too much of a super man to be taken 

very serious. After "In Like Flint," what 

will he do for an encore? Played Thurs., 

Fri., Sat.—W. S. Funk, East Main Drive-In 

Theatre, Lake City, S. C. Pop. 4000. 

UNITED ARTISTS 

Eight on the Lam (UA) — Bob Hope, 

Jonathan Winters. Bob Hope 

Phyllis Diller, 

and Phyllis Diller are good boxoffice and 

the picture is good, but we brought back 

John Wayne in "McLintock" to play with 

"Eight on the Lam" and guess which picture 

they called all week for— "McLintock!" UA 

should release this again on a regular release 

with all new advertising. This funny western 

has made good boxoffice for us again. Grab 

this again, fellas. Played Thurs., Sun. 

Weather: Hot.—Dick Hendrick, Cass Theatre, 

Cass City, Mich. Pop. 2000. 

Fortune Cookie, The (UA)—Jack Lemmon, 

Walter Matthau. Entertaining entry 

but pull was not as good as some previous 

Lemmon pictures.—C. A. Swiercinsky, Major 

Theatre, Washington, Kas. 

Return of the Seven (UA)—Yul Brynner, 

Robert Fuller. Did fine. Maybe the customers 

wanted a good outdoor film.—C.A. 

Swiercinsky, Major Theatre, Washington, 

Kas. 

UNIVERSAL 

Countess From Hong Kong, A (Univ) 

Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sidney 

Chaplin. Stay away from this one—high 

terms and low gross make this one of the 

year's poorest. Played Sun., Mon., Tues. 

Weather: Fair and cool.—Capitol Theatre, 

Huntsville, Ont. Pop. 3,000. 

Wild, wad Winter (Univ)—Gary Clarke, 

Chris Noel, Don Edmonds. If teenagers 

would flock to the beaches as they did in 

this picture and enjoy life, maybe they 

wouldn't be rioting or rumbling as they have 

been here the past week. It was an entertaining 

picture for everyone. We doubled this 

one with "Tennessee Beat" for a good family 

double bill. Played Fri. Sat. Weather: 

Hot and humid.—Kenn Spaulding, Morrisville 

Drive-In, Morrisville, Vt. 3,500. 

WARNER BROS. 

Great Race, The (WB)—Jack 

Lemmon, 

Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood. Everyone who 

came liked this and we think it will go over 

in any situation. The percentage is high but 

you can still make it. Some of the slapstick 

could have been left out. — Russell and 

Evelyn Burgess, Valley Drive-In Theatre, 

Velva, N.D. 

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An Interpretive analysis of loy and tradepress reviews. Running time is in parentheses The plus ond 

minus signs Indkote degree of merit. Listings cover current reviews, updated regularly. This deportmenr 

olso serves as an ALPHABETICAL INDEX to feature releases. :& is for CincmaScope; V VistoVision. 

® Ponoviiion; f Technirama; ^) Other anamorphic processes. Symbol ii denotes 60X0FFICE Blue Ribbon 

Award; ® Color Photography. National Catholic Office (NCO) ratings: A1— Unobiectionable for Generol 

Patronoge; A2— Unobjectionable for Adults or Adolescents; A3— Unobjectionable tor Adults; A'l— Morally 

Unobjectlonoble for Adults, with Reservations; B—Objectionable in Port for All; C—Condemned. For 

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

iÊVIEW DIGEST 

AND ALPHABETICAL INDEX 

++ Very Gjod; r Gocd; Fail Poor; — Very Poor. In (he summary ^ is rated 2 pluses, — as 2 minuses. 

4016QAccident (105) D Cinema V 

Adolescents. The (80) 

D Pathe Contemcorary 

4001 ©Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin. 

The (110) W Com BV 

3095©Africa Addio (125) s> Doc Rizzoli 

4022 ©Africa—Texas Style! (105) 

Ad 

Para 

4017 ©After You. Comrade (S4) C Continental 

Age of Illusion (97) D Brandon 

4010 Agony of Love, The (S3) 

Psych. Melo Boxoffice Infl 

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4036 ©Banning (102) s> D Univ 

402S ©Barefoot in the Park (106) C....Para 

4041 ©Beach Red (107) f) War D UA 

4035 ©Big Mouth. The (107) C Col 

4019 ©Bikini Paradise (89) C AA 

Birds, the Bees and the Italians, The 

(115) C WB-7 Arts 

Black God and White Devil 

(100) Melo Rocha Films 

402S©Bobo, The (105) p CD ...WB-7 Arts 

4046 ©Bonnie and Clyde (111) 

C D WB-7 Arts 

4037 ©Born Losers (113) Motorcycle D. AlP 

Boudu Saved From Drowning 

(84) Satiie - -Pathe 

Contemporary 

4011 ©Brighty of the Grand Canyon (89) 

Animal Ad Feature Film Corp. 

—C— 

4025 ©Caper of the Golden Bulls, The 

(104) Ad Embassy 

4023 ©Caprice (98) iSi Spy C Ad ..20th-Fox 

4018 Carry On Cabby (89) C Governor 

4020 ©Casino Royale (130) Spy C Col 

Cat in the Sack 

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— E 

(74) D Pathe Contemporary 

Chafed Elbows (63) Novelty Satire 

(Part Color) Film-Makers' Dist. Center 

Chelsea Girls. The (210) Avant-Garde 

(Part Color) Film-Makers' Dist. Center 

4015©Chuka (105) Outdoor Ad Para 

4005©C'mon, Let's Live a Little! 

(85) I D with Mus Para 

4027 ©Cool Hand Luke (129) (£1 D WB-7 Arts 

3097 ©Cool Ones, The (95) 

® Mus C WB-7 Arts 

3098 ©Corrupt Ones, The (92) :|5 

Ac Melo WB-7 Arts 

4044©Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers (92) C 

Farce Southeastern Pictures 

4010 ©Countess From Hong Kong. A 

(108) C Rom Univ 

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4013 ©Devil's Angels (90) (g Melo AlP 

4021 Diabolical Dr. Z, The (S3) Ho U.S. Films 

4033 Diary of a Swinger 

(75) Melo Boxoffice Int'l 

Diamonds of the Night 

(75) Melo Impact Films 

4034 ©Dirty Dozen, The (149) ® 

War D MGM 

4032 ©Divorce AMERICAN Style 

(109) C Satire Col 

4002 Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! 

(94) C MGM 

4033 ©Don't Make Waves (97) ® C MGM 

4011 ©Double Trouble (90) ®) 

C with Mus MGM 

Drifter, The (74) 

D Film-Maker's Dist. Center 

4025 ©Drums of Tabu, The (91) 

Ac Melo Producers Releasing 

4008 ©Easy Come, Easy Go (95) Rom Ad Para 

Echoes of Silence (74) 

D Film-Makers' Dist. Center 

4017 tS ©Eight on the Lam (106) 'S.UA 

4031 ©El Dorado (126) W Para 

4042©Enter Laughing (112) C Col 

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is rated 2 pluses. - as 2 minuses. 

Le Petit Solilat (S8) D West End Films 

4044 OLove-lns, The (91) D Col 

4012 Love Now ... Pay Later 

(82) Melo Mishkin 

4042 ©Luv (91) (J: C Col 

—M— 

©Made in Italy (101) Omnibus . Royal 

Mahanaoar (The Big City) (125) 

D Edward Harrison 

3095 ©Marat/Sade (115) D UA 

4022 ©Midsummer Night's Dream. A 

(93) Ballet Col 

4002 ©Mikado. 

The (125) Comic Operetta WB-7 Arts 

4024 ©Million Eyes of Su-Muru, The 

(71) s Spy AlP 

Mondo Hollywood (91) 

Doc Hollywood Infl 

4029 ©Mondo Mod (89) AC 

Doc Timely M.P., Inc. 

4011 Moonlighting Wives 

(S3) Melo Craddock Films 

4044 Monster of London City. The (87) Terror- 

My .Producers Releasing Organization 

4013 ©Mummy's Shroud, 

The (90) Ho 20th-Fox 

—N 

Naked Among the Wolves 

(100) War D Loperl 

4037 ©Naked Runner. The (104) 

s Soy WB-7 Arts 

4001 ©Naked Witch, 

The (SO) Melo Mishkin 

3096 ©Night of the Generals. 

The (148) ,p War Sus D Col 

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4009 Offering, The (80) 

Melo Secter Film Prods 

3097 Oh Dad. Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You 

in the Closet . , . 

(86) Farce-Fantasy Para 

Olive Trees of Justice, The 

(81) D Pathe Contemporary 

4004 ©Once Before I Die 

(97) War D Goldstone 

4001 ©One Million Years B.C. 

(91) Ad Thriller 20th-Fox 

—PQ— 

4036 ©Palaces of a Queen (SO) Doc Univ 

Persona (81) D Lopert 

4023 ©Perils of Pauline, The (99) C ..Univ 

4042 Phantom of Soho. The (92) Terror- 

My Producers Releasing Organization 

4040 ©Privilege (103) D Univ 

. . , 

4C27 ©Psycho-Circus (65) Murder My AlP 

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Raven's End (100) Melo Europa Films 

4022 ©Ride to Hangman's Tree, The 

(90) Cr Univ 

©Rose for Everyone, A (107) 

C Royal Infl 

4045 ©Rough Night in Jericho (104) W.Univ 

4039 ©Round Trip (86) Rom D Cont'l 

4003 QRun Like a Thief (95) (|) 

Ac Ad Feature Film Corp. 

Rush to Judgment (116) 

Doc Impact Films 

4017 Sailor From Gibraltar, The 

(89) D Lopert 

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (50) 

D Anouchka Films, Paris 

4038 ©Sea Pirate, The 

(83) ;|: Pirate Ad Para 

©Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 

(100) Melo Artkino 

She and He (110) Melo Brandon 

Silence Has No Wings (103) Doc Toho 

4045 Sound of Horror (85) li 

Ho D Europix-Consol 

4039 ©Spirit Is Willing, The (100) My C Para 

4029 ©Sting of Death (76) Ho 

Melo Thunderbird Infl

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Date 

ALLIED ARTISTS 

Belle Oe Jour 

Catherine Deneuvc, Generteve Page 

Olsland of the Doomed 

Cameron Mitchell 

N ghtmare Castle 

Barbara Steele 

Ho. 

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AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 

©Beach Boy (g D. 

(cast to be announced) 

©The End D Ad. . 

Pet«r Fonda 

©The Marquis De Sade D . 


©Miniskirt (g Teenaje D.. 


©Mondo Amour ....Doc on Love.. 

©The Oblong Box Edgar Allan 

Poe Classic 

Fernando Lamas, Susan Strasberg, 

Vincent Price 

©Pilstop 

Racing.. 

Fabian, Mlmsy Parmer. Yvonne 

Craig 

BUENA VISTA 

©Jungle Book. Animated 

Feature (75) 

Voices of Phil Harris, Louis Prima. 

Sterling Holloway. Sebastian Cabot. 

Oeorge Sanders 

COLUMBIA 

©The Ambushers Spy C. 

Pfan Martin. Janice Rule, Albert 

Salmi 

©Berserk Sus Thriller. 

Juan Crawford, Ty Hardin. Diana 

\Utnt 

©Guess Who's Coming 

to Dinner CD. 

Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poltier. 

Katharine Hepburn. Katharine 

Houghton 

©How to Save a Marriage—and 

Ruin Your Life 

llcan Martin, Stella Stevens. El 

WalLice. Anne Jackson. Betty Field 

In Cold Blood Murder D . 

.Inhn Forsjihe. Rolirit Bl.ikr, Scott 

Wilson 

. 

©Mackenna's Gold ... .Super 

P and Cinerama Ad 

CifKnry Peek, Omar Sharif, Telly 

.Sinal.a.s, Cajrilla Span- 

©The Swimmer Contem. D 

Burt Lancast«r, Janice Itule 

EMBASSY 

©The Graduate (g C Satire. 

Anne Bancroft. Dustin Hoffman. 

Katharine Ro.ss 

©1 Married for Fun C. 

Monica Villi. Giorgio Albertazzl, 

Maria Grazia Buccella 

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER 

. 

©The Comedians Ad. 

Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, 

Alec Guinness, Peter Ustlnow, Paul 

Fo d. Lillian Glsh 

©The Guns of San Sebastian 

'?> 

Rom Ad 

Anthony (luinn. Anjanette Comer, 

Charle? Bronson 

©The Scorpio Letters D . 

Ales Cord. Shirley Eaton 

PARAMOUNT 

©Daring Game Ad 

Lloyd Bridges. Joan Blackman 

©Gentle Giant Animal Ad 

llennis Weaver, Vera Miles 

©Hostile Guns 

George Montgomery, Yvonne De 

Carlo 

©Marco 7 D 

Gene Barry, lasa Martlnelll 


©Deadfall Sus D. 

Michael Caine. Giovanna Ralli. 

Nanette Newman 

©Doctor Ool.ttle 

70mm Mus Roadshow. 

Rex Harrison. Samantha Eggar, 

Anthony Nevvley, Richard 

Attenborough 

©Star! 

. Mus Biog. 

Julie .Vndreu,s, Richard Cretina, 

Michael Craig 


W 

©Billion Dollar Brain Ad 

Michael Calne, Francolse Dorleac. 

Karl Maiden 

©Charge of the Light Brigade 

® Ad.. 

Trevor Howard. Vanessea Redgra\e, 

John Glelgud, David Hemmlngs 

©Fitzwilly c. 

nick Van Dyke, Barbara Feldon. 

Edith aans 

©The Good, the Bad, and the 

Ugly 

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Clint Eastwood. Lee Van Cleef, 

Eli Wallach 

©The Wicked Dreams of Paula 

Schultj C. . 

Kike Summer. Bob Crane, Maureen 

Arthur 

UNIVERSAL 

©The Ballad of Josie W. 

Dnris Day. Peter Graves 

©Charlie Bubbles D. . 

Albert Finney. Colin Blakely. Liza 

Minnclli 

©Counterpoint World War II D . 

I.eslle Nielsen. Charlton Heston. 

Maximilian Schell. Kalhryn Hays 

©don't just STAND there C. . 

Robert Wagner. Mary Tyler .Moor?, 

Babara Rhoades 

©New Face in HcH ,.,. Sus D.. 

George Peppard. Raymond Burr. 

Uajle Hunnicutt 

©Nobody's Perfect C. . 

ri'iiig McClure, Nancy Kwan, James 

Whitmore 

WARNER BROS. 

©Ass gnmcnt to Kill . . 

Spy D. 

Patrick O'Neal. Sir John Glelgud 

©Countdown (g) D . 

.lames Caan, Joanna Moore 

©The Devil in Love CD. . 

Vitt^>rio Gassman, Mickey Rooney. 

Claîdine Auger 

©The Double Man Sus D. - 

Yul Brj-nner, Brltt ai.ind, CUve 

Rei-ill 

©Firecreek

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Mar 

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Nov 

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BUENA VISTA 

(All in color) 

FEATURETTE SPECIALS 

150 Yellowstone Cubs (4S) 

152 Disneyland After Dark (48) .. 

155 Arizona Sheepdog 

(re-release) (22) 

170 Golden Horseslioe Re»ue (48) .. 

171 Tattooed Police Horse (48) . 

175 A Country Coyote Goes 

Hollywood (37) 

(Technicolor Reissues) 

68601 Hapry Tot's Expedition 

(7) Jul 67 

68602 Land of Fun (7) ... .Aug 67 

68603 Peaceful Neighbors 

(8!/2) Oct 67 

68604 Foolish Bunny (8) ..Dec 67 

LOOPY dc LOOP 

(Color Reissues) 

68701 Catch Meow (61/3) ..Aug 67 

68702 Kooky Loopy (7) Sep 67 

68703 Loony's Hare Do (7).. Oct 67 

68705 Beef Fore and After 

(7) Dec 67 

MISCELLANEOUS 

The Last Mohican 

(12) C Dialogue Oct 66 

Alan Arkin, Anthony Holland 

MR. MAGOO REISSUES 

(Technicolor) 

68751 Magoo Goes West (6) Jul 67 

68752 Captain's Outrageous 

(7) Sep 67 

68753 Magoc's Canine Mutiny 

(6!/2) Nov 67 

ONE-REEL COLOR SPECIALS 

68651 Montreal on a Summer 

Day (I21/2) Aug 67 

6S652 Chuck Wagon (10) ..Oct 67 

68653 The Animal Movie (10) Dec 67 

ONE-REEL BLACK AND WHITE 

67652 The Fisherman (41/2) Oct 66 

SPECIAL COLOR FEATURETTES 

67442 Wonderful Austria 

(19%) Sep 66 

67446 Take It From the Top 

(191/2) Aand of Montefeltro (11) Mar 66 

3Morocco's Rif (11) ....Mar 66 

The Boudoir (9) May 6' 

©Monaco (8) Jun 66 

©Round the World for 

Fun (8) Jun 66 

©Sherry Fiesta (9) Jun 66 

TWO-REEL SUBJECTS 

©Bologna-Firenze (20) ...Jan 66 

©North Slope Alaska (15) ..Feb 66 

©London Theme (15) Mar 66 

. ©In the Beginning (15) 66 

©Lure of the Mountain (20) Jun 66 

It's Not Just You 

Murray (17) Aug 66 

THREE-REEL SUBJECTS 

Dial Double One (23) Jun 66 

The Magnetic North (27) ..Aug 66 


MOVIETONE CINEMASCOPES 

(Color, unless specified) 

TERRYTOON 2-D's 

All Ratios— Color 

5603 Dr. Ha Ha (7V2) Feb 66 

5603 Messed Up Movie 

Makers (6) Mar 66 

5604 Champion Chump (6) ..Apr 66 

5605 Haunted House 

Cleaning (6) May 66 

5606 Scuba Duba Do (6) ..Jun 66 

7601 Invitation to Paradise 

(20) Mar 66 

7602 Wagon Wheels (7) May 66 

°-z 

oco 

5607 The Monster Master ( . ) Jul 66 

5608 The Cowardly 

. 

Watchdog 

( . . ) Aug 66 

5609 Rain Drain (. .) Sep 66 

5510 Watch the Butterfly 

( .) Oct 66 

5611 Dreamnapping (..) ..Nov 66 

5612 The Phantom Skyscraper 

( - ) Dec 66 


PINK PANTHER SERIES 

(Color) 

6656 Pink Blueprint Jun 66 

6657 Pink-A-Boo Jul 66 

6658 Pink. Plunk. Pink Aug 66 

6659 Genie With the Light 

Pink Fur Oct 66 

6660 Super Pink Oct 66 

6661 Pinknic Oct 66 

6662 Rock-A-Bye Pinky Dec 66 

6663 Pink Panic Jan 67 

6751 In the Pink Feb 67 

6752 Jet Pink Mar 67 

6753 Pink Posies Apr 67 

6754 Pink of Litter May 67 

6755 Pink Paradise Jun 67 

5756 Pinto Pink Jul 67 

6757 Congratulations! 

It's Pink Aug 67 

6758 The Hand Is Pinker 

Than the Eye Sep 67 

THE INSPECTOR SERIES 

(Color) 

6674 Unsafe and Seine Oct 66 

6675 That's No Lady, That's 

Notre Dame Nov 66 

176 Flash, the Teenaoe Otter (48) . 

189 Run. Appaloosa. Run! (48) 

REISSUE CARTOONS 

31401 Boat Builder (7) 

31402 Brave Little Tailor (7) 

31403 Olympic Champ (7) 

31404 Two Week's Vacation (7) . 

31405 Man's Best Friend (7) 

31406 Pluto's Sweater (7) 

31407 Bubble Bee (7) 

3140S Blame It on the Samba (7) 

31409 Hook, Lion and Sinker (7) . . 

31410 Strainht Shooters (7) 

31411 A Good Time for a Dime (7) 

31412 The Lone Chipmunks (7) . . 

SINGLE-REEL CARTOONS 

123 The Litterbuo (7) 

CARTOON SPECIALS 

139 A Symposium on Popular 

Songs (20) 

)79 Freewayphobia (16) 

ISO Goofy's Freeway Troubles (141 HONEY HALFWITCH 

181 Johnny Anpleseed (19) (reissue) 

(Single Reel-Color) 

183 Winnie the Pooh (26) 

C25-2 Batjgin' the Dragon. Feb 66 

Scroooe McDuck and 

C25-3 From Nags to Witchcr Mar 66 

Mo"ev (17) 

C25-4 Trick or Cheat Mar 66 

THREE-REEL LIVE ACTION C25-5 Potions and Notions ..Mar 66 

6676 Toulouse La Trick .... Dec 66 

SPECIALS 

C25-6 The Defiant Giant .Jun 66 

6677 Sacre Bleu Cross . . . Jan 67 

105 Islands of the Sea (28) 

C25-7 Throne for a Loss . 1966 

6765 Le Quiet Squad Feb 67 

142 Nature's Half Acre (33) 

NUDNIK 

6766 Bomb Voyage Mar 67 

162 Beaver Valley (32) 

(Single Reel-Color) 

6767 Le Escape Goat Apr 67 

191 Prowlers of the Everglades (32) N25-3 Home Sweet Nudnik Mar 66 

6768 Le Pig-AI Patrol May 67 

0099 Eyes in Outer Space (26) . . 

N25-4 Welcome Nudnik ...Apr 66 

6769 Le Bowser Bagger . . . .Jun 67 

THREE-REEL CINEMASCOPE N25-5 Nudnik on the Roof . 

66 

6770 Le Cop on Le Rocks ... .Jul 67 

0071 Wales (24) 

N25-6 From Nudnik With 

6771 Crow De Guerre Aug 6"' 

0072 Scotland (25) 

Love Jun 

6772 Tour 

66 

De Farce Sep 67 

NOVELTOONS 

UNIVERSAL 

(Technicolor) 

COLUMBIA 

WALTER LANTZ CARTUNES 

P25-3 Sick Transit COLOR FAVORITES 

Feb 66 

P25-4 Space Kid Apr 66 

MODFRN MADCAPS 

4618 Polar Fright Apr 66 

4619 The Big Bite Apr 66 

4620 Astronut Woody Apr 66 

4621 Teeny Weeny Meany ..Hay 66 

4622 Practical Yoke May 66 

4623 Monster of Ceremo nies May 66 

WARNER BROT 

HIT PARADE 

BLUE RIBBON 

(Technicolor Reissues—7 min.) 

4306 Gift Wrapped Feb 67 

5301 Backwoods Bunny Sep 66 

5302 Hare-less Wolf Oct 66 

5303 To Hare Is Human . . . . Dec 66 

Hare . . Feb 67 

5304 Wild and Wooly 

5305 Pre-hysterical Hare Apr-May 67 

5306 Hare-abian Nights Apr-May 67 

5307 Rabbit Romeo Jul 67 

MERRIE MELODIES 

LOONEY TUNES 

(Technicolor—7 min.) 

5701 Swing Ding Amigo .... Sep 66 

5702 Sugar and Spies Nov 66 

5703 A Taste of Catnip .... Dec 66 

5704 Daffy's Diner Jan 67 

5705 The Quacker 

Tracker Apr-May 67 

5706 The Music 

Mice-Tro Apr-May 67 

5707 The Spy Swatter Jun 67 

. .Jul 67 

5708 Speedy Ghost to Town 

5709 Rodent to Stardom 67 

WORLD-WIDE 

. 

ADVENTURE 

SPECIALS 

(TWO-REEL) 

(Color) 

5001 Bolivia, 

The Last Frontier Oct 66 

5002 Blue Danube Feb 67 

5003 Beauty and the 

Bull 

Apr-May-67 

5004 Pearls of the Pacific ,.Aug67 

ONE-REEL 

4850 The Land Wc Love 

(21) Jan 67 

Fore\\ord by Vice-President Hui»- 

phrey: Narrated by Raymond Ma.ssey 

5501 The Fastest Automobile in 

the World Mar 67 

. 5502 Where in the World? 66 

5503 Holiday Afloat Feb 67 

5504 Tales of the Black 

Forest Apr-May 67 

5505 Alpine Glory Jun 67 

5506 Off to the Races Jul 67 

5850 Hollywood Star Spangled 

Revue Sep 67 

INDEPENDENTS 

The Bus (62) (Harrison) 

Comedy Tale of Fanny Hill, 

A (9) (Pebble) 

Demo Derby (28) (Ruff) 

Help! My Snowman Is Burning 

Down (10) (PC) 

Place in the Country, 

A (19) (Gluck) 

©33 Fathoms Deep (17) 

(Ellsworth Prods.) Jul 67 

FOREIGN LANGUAGE 

FEATURE 

Tender Scoundrel 

REVIEWS 

Ratio: 

2.35-1 

Comedy Romance 

^1 © 

Embassy (708) 94 Minutes Rel. Aug. '67 

The most surprising thing about "TencJer ScoundreV 

is that it has taken fwo years to reach American 

shores. Thanks to Joseph E. Levine, this big 

French hit is now in distribution stateside via 

Embassy Pictures. A slight but amusing tale of a 

?igolo with more brawn than brains, the title role 

is an ideal one for vigorous and virile Jean-Paul 

Belmondo. Ci'Uising around Paris with his chauffeur-cabbie, 

Belmondo manages to end up in the 

bed of Mylene Demongeot where he passes himself 

off as her cousin when discovered by her "benefactor," 

Philippe Noiret. Noiret promptly calls upon 

him to escort Miss Demongeot to a mountain retreat, 

thinking to better his own interests, but Belmondo 

has some fun along the way, too! After this 

escapade, our hero fleeing from guise after guise 

and lady after lady, begins to grow a bit weary with 

the hijinks, and decides to return to a life of dull 

but safe routine. The popular international performer 

is lover to a dish of continental desserts in 

this film: Mylene Demongeot, Stefania Sandrelli, 

Michelle Girad'on, Nadja Tiller and Genevieve Page, 

the latter playing with more style than all of the 

rest of the cast thrown together. Albert Simonin's 

screenplay runs worldwide from Switzerland to 

Tahiti. Under young Jean Becker's slick direction 

the film takes a little time to wai-m up, but once the 

anchor is cast off Miss Tiller's yacht, there is a lot 

of fun in store for the art house audiences. Produced 

by P. W. Decharme in Eastman Color and 

Techniscope, this entry has good subtitles and 

should be a pleasing patron feature in the dubbed 

version too. Michel Legrand did the music and Edmond 

Sechan the photography. 

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Robert Morley, Jean- 

Pierre Marielle. Genevieve Page. 

The Fiith Horsemcm Is Fear 

Ratio: 

1.85-1 

Melodrama 

Sigma III 96 Minutes Rel. July '67 

This Barrandov Studio (Prague) production is a 

pronouncedly expressionist drama of betrayal and 

heroism in a totalitarian state not unlike Nazi 

Germany of World War II. Director Zbynek Brynch 

has poignantly captiu'ed the hopelessness, the inevitability 

of life amid overwhelming forces. A 

Jewish doctor is confronted with an unexpectedly 

frightening choice In a time and in a place that 

could be applied to any totalitarian regime. Significantly, 

the oppressors are in civilian garb, in effect 

conveying the universality of the theme. Jan Kalis' 

photography is graphic, gripping. English titles 

accompany. 

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Opinions on Current Productions ÊATURE REVIEWS 

Symbol Q denotes color; © CineniaScope; (g Ponovbien; ® TMhnlrania; (S> other onamorphic processes. For story synopsis on each picture, see revecM sMe. 

The Tiger and the Pussycat ^^Z 

Comedy- Drama 

© 

Embassy (707) 105 Minutes Rel. Aug. '67 

This Italian-American co-production of Fair Film and 

Joseph E. Levine is a sophisticated handling of the old 

triangle about a middle-aged family man trying to recaptui-e 

his youth with a bitchy young girl. Since the man 

' 

is the suavely handsome Vittorio Gassman and the young 

girl is attractive Ann-Margret, the story is almost plausible—except 

that Ami-Margret is too wholesome appearing 

to play that kind of role. Eleanor Parker as the 

wronged but miderstanding wife gives an appealing performance, 

as do other members of Gassman's family in 

the cast. The original screenplay by Age and Scrapelli 

was dii'ected by Dino Risi, who also helped with the 

screenplay. Mario Cecchi Gori produced it in English and 

some Italian was later dubbed in. The dialog and bedroom 

scenes are racy, but comparatively tamer than 

many now on the screen. Gassman is the typical male, 

wanting to eat his cake and have it too, for he does not 

want to give up his position and family for Ann-Margret, 

preferring a sub-rosa relationship. When she insists on 

all or nothing, he chickens out and is welcomed back by 

his family with sympathy and tolerance. Eastman Color 

helps the luxurious scenes that give a parlor-di'ama effect 

to the film. 

Vittorio Gassman, Ann-Margret, Eleanor Parker, 

Fiorenzo Fiorentini, Antonello Steni, Luigi Vannucchi. 

The Christmas Kid 

Producers Rel, Org. 

Ratio: 

1.S51 

Western 

90 Minutes Rel, Fall '67 

"The Christmas Kid" would be a topnotch programer 

for a double-feature playoff any season of the year. This 

PRO release from the prolific producer-director Sidney 

Pink follows that veteran filmmaker's simple but effective 

formula for keeping the general market going with 

a solid second-string product based on lots of action and 

colorful production values. This pictm-e, however, is one 

of his more sophisticated in the sense that a realistic 

motivation is provided for the title character, making 

"The Christmas Kid" both interesting and believable. As 

played by likable and capable Jeffrey Hunter, whose 

second Pink film this is < the other, "Witch Without a 

Broom" 

I 

leading character will be one easily identifiable 

to the mass moviegoing public as they follow the 

trials and tribulations of "Ihe Christmas Kid." Louis 

Hayward, always a dependable acting talent, plays the 

slick and slimy gambler villain with relish and style, 

Perla Cristal is attractive and the rest of the predominately 

Spanish cast, all fairly well-dubbed, furnish good 

support to the leads and the story. This color release is 

decidedly one of Pink's best efforts to date. 

Jeffrey Hunter, Louis Hayward, Gustavo Rojo, Perla 

Cristal, Luis Prendes, Reginald Gilliam.

Carita 

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FEATURE REVIEWS Story Synopsis; 

Exploifips; Adiines for Newspapers and Programs 

THE STORY: 

"The Viking Queen" (20th-Fox) 

During the Roman occupation of ancient Britain, King 

Priam (Wilfred Lawsom of the Iceni tribe, names his 

i 

daughter Salina i as his successor since he feels 

she has more of the qualities of her mother, a Viking 

queen. Although she tries to cooperate with the Roman 

occupation forces, headed by Justinian iDon Murray* to 

keep the peace, the Druid priests urge her to rebel. She UNi' 

'' 

and Justinian fall in love and wish to marry, but the '^^ 

Druids oppose it so a plot is hatched that sends Justinian 

away on a false mission to enable his second-in-command, 

Octavian (Andrew KeuM, to take over. Arresting Salina, 

he has her flogged, rapes her younger sister and when 

they escape, Salina joins her tax-burdened people and 

the Druids to battle the Romans. She dies in the retui-ned 

Justinian's arms after a brave but futile battle against 

him and his superior forces. 

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CATCHLINES: 

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Wooden Cages . Terrible Druids and Their Occult 

Terrors ... A Queen in Love With Her Conqueror.

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advancement. Must be 

c rienced in all phases of theatre 

DQtion. BOXOFFICE 1562. 

)1P£RI£NCED men or women for man- 

; lai positions now with ABC Mid-South 

I'ltres, Inc. Annual vacation, good 

i!ry, hospitalization, pension plan. Send 

:\ 

photo and resume, including starting 

ijry you will consider. Application will 

5,:onfidential, Send to: ABC Mid-South 

litres, Inc. , Saenger Theatre Build- 

STUDIO SNEAK PREVIEW AUDIENCES AGREE! 

"TONY ROME-SINATRA'S BEST ROU 

SINCE VON RYAN'S EXPRESS... 

Box office potential 

powerful... should be 

one of the big grossers 

of the fall-winter 

season! Swingers 

and would-be 

swingers, young and 

old will 

turn on for 

Tony Rome'!" 

Film Bulletin 

Pre-Search 

August 7, 1967 

World Premiere 

Miami Beach 

Carib Theatre 

November 10 

Co-starring JILL ST JOHN RICHARD CONTL GENA ROWLANDS • • • 

SIMON OAKLAND 

JEFFREY LYNN-LLOYD BOCHNERandSUE LYON as Diana -Produced by Aaron Rosenbi 

Directed by Gordon Douglas -Screenplay by Richard Breen 

Based on me No»ei Miami Maytiem b» Maruin H Albert PANAVISION' COLOR Br DE LUXE An Areola MiiltieM Prorfudions Pidur 

Hear Nancy Sinatra 

sing the title song! 

Available For Thanksgiving From 20th

Boxoffice-August.28.1967

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