Boxoffice-September.25.1967

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE EDITION • SEPTEMBER 25, 1967 

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The Motion Picture Ass'n of America and Sctiolastic Roto magazine announced the second annual 

High School Film Review writing competition, jointly sponsored by the MPAA and the magazine. A 

representative group of high school students received good luck wishes from Richard A. Feldon, left, 

publisher of Scholastic Roto, and Jack Volenti, second from right, president of the MPAA. The students 

from left: Ben Lieber, editor of the Tide, Long Beach High School; Ellen Feiner, editor of Smoke 

Signals, Ossining High School, and Elliot Landowne, film critic for the Tide, Long Beach High School.

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NATO and MPAA Tell 

FCC of Pay TV Evils 

WASHINGTON—The National 

Ass'n of 

Theatre Owners, the Joint Committee 

Against Toll TV and the Motion Picture 

Ass'n of America, plus other interested 

groups, filed briefs here Friday (18) protesting 

the recent Federal Communications 

Commission recommendation calling for establishment 

of a nationwide subscription 

television 

service. 

NATO and the Joint 

Committee charged 

that there is "no public demand or pressure 

tor pay TV," and asserted that the audience 

potential for such a medium "totally excludes 

all of the families m the lower onethird 

economic level of the U.S." The two 

groups told the FCC that the sole benefit 

would be that some motion pictures could 

be rushed to the public more quickly than 

on free TV and that some sports events, not 

by free TV, could be offered. 

now telecast 

The MPAA brief termed "arbitrary and 

crude" the recommended restriction which 

would bar showing of a feature picture on 

pay TV that had been in general theatrical 

release more than two years. The organization 

pointed out that motion picture owners 

would be the principal victims, arguing, "It 

is their pictures which are said to be of importance 

to conventional TV programs and 

are expected to be the major part of STV 

programs. A motion picture distributor desiring 

to exhibit his pictures on STV stations 

will have to make certain that he arranges 

a playdate for the pictures on STV within 

two years of the anniversary of the exhibition 

of the picture or general release any- 

Amusement Receipts Rise 

13 Per Cent During July 

Washington—Motion picture, amusement 

and recreation boxoffice receipts 

increased by 13 per cent in July compared 

with the month of June receipts, 

according to adjusted figures released 

by the Department of Commerce. The 

receipts were 8 per cent higher than 

they were in July. 1966. 

Adjusted data showed the July receipts 

for the film industry, amusement 

and recreation business at $672 million, 

compared with $597 million for 

June and the $623 million received in 

July 1966. 

The adjusted figures take account of 

seasonal variations and trading day differences. 

The others are the raw figures. 

Receipts had been lagging through 

the first half of this year, but with the 

July resurgence, the first seven months 

of 1967 came to within 1 per cent of 

the same months last year, both adjusted 

and unadjusted. 

where in the nation." MPAA asserted that 

"free bargaining will be impaired," to the 

detriment of the film owner. 

Columbia Broadcasting System joined 

NATO and the Joint Committee in protesting, 

with CBS asserting that pay TV would 

"divide the nation's audience along economic 

lines." It agreed with NATO and the 

Committee, charging that the FCC lacks authority 

to adopt rules for pay TV and it contended 

that the proposed rules restricting 

the types of programs to be carried by pay 

TV stations would violate the First Amendment 

and Section 326 of the Communications 

Act. 

American Broadcasting Co. contended 

that establishment of pay TV should be determined 

by Congress and it charged that 

its development could come only at the expense 

of free TV, since it would have to acquire 

the very programs that now command 

the largest 

audiences on free television. 

AFL-CIO Executive Council Files 

FCC Briefs Backing Pay TV 

WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO executive 

council, in a departure from the position 

taken by the organization in its 1957 convention, 

filed briefs before the Federal Communications 

Commission supporting nationwide 

subscription television, subject to 

those restrictions recommended by the FCC 

pay TV committee. 

The council told the FCC that while a 

subscription TV system might have an adverse 

effect on employment in some fields, 

it could have a beneficial effect on employment 

in others, and that the development 

of new programing resources "would be in 

the interest of the viewing public." 

Managements Okay Terms 

For ABC-Ogden Merger 

NEW YORK—The terms of agreement 

for the acquisition of ABC Consolidated 

Corp. by Ogden Corp. have been accepted 

by the company managements. The original 

agreement in principle was announced 

August 17. 

ABC Consolidated shareholders will receive 

two-fifths of a share of a new $1,875 

cumulative convertible preferred stock convertible 

into 1.5417 shares of Ogden common 

for each share of ABC common. The 

board of directors of both companies are 

expected to meet and approve the terms 

within the next ten days. Shareholders will 

vote at meetings set for November. 

Ogden Corp. is a multimanagement operating 

company with offices and facilities 

throughout the world. ABC Consolidated is 

engaged principally in the operation of 

restaurants, cafeterias, snack bars, candy 

counters and refreshment stands as well as 

vending machine operations. 

ITOA Head Sees Change 

Small Theatres Enter 

New Era, Says Brandt 

NEW YORK—The former art and specialty 

theatres, with limited seating capacities, 

are emerging as a formidable challenge 

to the bigger theatres, in the opinion of 

Harry Brandt, president of Independent 

Theatre Owners Ass'n of New York, who 

predicted that the film companies will begin 

giving extra consideration to small theatre 

playdates for mass audience films which 

require "word-of-mouth" and lengthy runs 

to 

achieve maximum boxoffice results. 

"In previous years, smaller theatres were 

treated like stepchildren," Brandt said, "and 

were not afforded the opportunity to compete 

freely 

for major product. Their choice, 

for the most part, was to confine themselves 

to playing either art or foreign product, or 

be relegated to the position of subsequent 

run or last run to large neighborhood theatres 

playing mass audience films." 

This sales attitude persisted, he said, 

despite the fact that many of the small theatres 

were physically attractive, conducive 

to intimate type showings, boasted the finest 

equipment and appointments and catered to 

a selected clientele at high admissions. 

Brandt said the limited seating capacity was 

regarded as the basic drawback. 

Smaller theatres proved their effectiveness 

in building long-run business through playing 

art and foreign product and, according 

to Brandt, some of the theatres in the 600- 

seat category that grossed $100,000 to 

$150,000 annually in past years now have 

the same potential within a month's playing 

time. In today's market, he said, $30,000 to 

even $40,000 weekly grosses, while extraordinary, 

are occurring with greater frequency 

as the smaller theatres achieve greater product 

acceptance. 

"The small theatre," Brandt said, "is good 

for the exhibition of good pictures that require 

time to catch on and that is equally 

true of what we call 

the mass audience pictures 

as well as art 

or foreign product." 

Columbia Plans to Offer 

An Exchange of Stock 

NEW YORK—Columbia president Abe 

Schneider last week announced that Columbia 

intends to offer an exchange of the company's 

common stock to holders of its $4.25 

cumulative preferred stock. 

Schneider stated that $110 in market 

value of common stock, but not to exceed 

2.4 shares of the common stock, based on 

the price of the stock on the New York 

Stock Exchange on the date the exchange 

offer expires will be offered for each share 

of preferred stock. The offer will be made 

after the receipt of necessary New York 

Stock Exchange clearances and will be open 

for approximately two weeks. 

There are 

15,793 shares of Columbia preferred 

stock currently outstanding. 

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Columbia Selects 20 College Towns 

For Cine Cum Laude Experiment 

NEW YORK—Columbia Pictures has 

named 20 college communities as locations 

in which local commercial theatres are to 

be invited to cooperate with the company's 

controversial Cine Cum Laude subscription 

plan. The company had announced previously 

that the results of these test engagements 

in theatres will be studied carefully 

with a view to determining future policy. 

The 20 towns are Tucson, Ariz.; 

Fresno, 

Calif.; San Diego, Calif.; Coral Gables, Fla.; 

Bloomington. Ind.; Champaign. III.; Manhattan. 

Kas.; Lexington, Ky.; Baton Rouge. 

La.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Kalamazoo. Mich.: 

Ithaca, N.Y.; Dayton. Ohio; Corvalis. Ore.; 

Providence, R.I.; Austin, Tex.; Lubbock, 

Tex., Knoxville, Tenn.; Pullman, Wash., 

and Madison, Wis. 

The current issue of the NATO Newsletter 

calls for cooperation by exhibitors 

eligible to participate in this test. 

"If the theatres 

in these selected college towns do not 

cooperate in Columbia's test of this pilot 

project," the Newsletter states, "Columbia 

will book the series of pictures into college 

auditoriums, as originally planned." 

Sherrill C. Corwin, NATO president, who 

orginally objected strongly to the Cine Cum 

Laude plan, made the request for theatre 

cooperation. 

As originally intended, Columbia planned 

to sell subscriptions of $6 for four films to 

be shown in college auditoriums with admission 

restricted to students and faculty without 

off-campus advertising. The subscription 

price was higher than that of most commercial 

theatres in college communities. The 

films would include "A Man for All Seasons," 

"The Taming of the Shrew," "Doctor 

Faustus" and either "Sleeping Beauty" 

or "La Traviata." The company's objective 

was to gain larger audiences for films of a 

classic stature which frequently are not well 

patronized or promoted in commercial 

houses. 

Howard Mahler ApDointed 

AIP Eastern Sales Head 

LOS ANGELES — Leon P. Blender, 

senior vice-president in charge of sales and 

distribution 

for American International Pictures, 

has announced the appointment of 

Howard Mahler as eastern division sales 

manager, effective October 2. 

Prior to his association with American 

International, Mahler was with Pam World 

Films, AIP franchise in New York, Buffalo 

and Albany, serving as district manager. 

Earlier, he was with Columbia Pictures. 

United Artists and MGM-TV in both home 

office and exchange capacities. 

Mahler attended the City College of New 

York and started in the motion picture 

business in 1947, working for the Quigley 

Publishing Co. 

Two Divisional Meetings 

Conducted by NGC 

LOS ANGELES — National General 

Corp. held divisional managers meetings in 

Los Angeles and Denver last week, with 

Eugene V. Klein, president, keynoting the 

Pacific Coast session at the Century Plaza 

Hotel here Thursday (21). More than 180 

theatre managers, district managers, bookers 

and home office executives attended the 

local session. 

In Denver, William H. Thedford, vicepresident 

and director of theatre operations 

for the circuit, headed the contingent of 

speakers from the home office who met with 

Fox Mountain-Midwest managers and district 

managers at the Brown Palace Hotel 

on Tuesday (19). 

Other speakers at the Los Angeles session 

were Irving H. Levin, executive vicepresident; 

Samuel Schulman, senior vicepresident; 

Thedford and John Klee, Pacific 

Coast division manager. 

Also attending the Denver session were 

Ernest Sturm, division manager; John W. 

Wilson, concessions head; Joseph V. VIeck, 

advertising-publicity director; Fred Friedman, 

film buyer, and Robert Cottom, promotional 

sales director. 

Theatre operations, bookings, promotion 

campaigns, advertising and concessions were 

among the topics covered at each of the 

meetings. 

Katz Named VP-Director 

Of WB-7A International 

NEW YORK—Warner Bros. -Seven 

Arts 

International Corp. is the new name for 

Warner Bros. Pictures International Corp. 

The announcement was made Wednesday 

(20) by Eliot Hyman and Benj. Kalmenson. 

chairman of the board and president, respectively, 

of WB-7 Arts Inc., and Wolfe 

Cohen, president of the international company. 

Cohen also announced that Norman B. 

Katz has been elected executive vice-president 

and a director of the international 

company. Katz. who has been executive 

vice-president of Seven Arts Productions 

International, has made his headquarters in 

London for the past seven years but will 

now move to the new company's head office 

at 666 Fifth Ave. here. 

Katz entered the film industry after 

World War II, where he served as an intelligence 

officer with the first allied airborne 

army. Before joining Seven Arts, he 

was executive vice-president of Discina International 

Films, director of foreign operations 

of Associated Artists Productions 

and director of foreign operations of United 

Artists Associated Corp. 

MPAA Again Sponsors 

Film Review Contest 

NEW YORK—The MPAA in cooperation 

with Scholastic Roto will sponsor for 

the second year a nationwide high school 

film review awards competition, "designed 

to stimulate excellence in the writing of 

critical motion picture reviews by high 

school students on the staff of school newspapers." 

According to 

MPAA president Jack Valenti, 

"Last year's outstanding results encouraged 

us to renew our underwriting and 

sponsorship of this program. I am happy to 

announce that last year over 400 reviews 

were submitted by high school film reviewers 

over a four-month period. This success 

has encouraged us to extend the awards contest 

to seven months." 

First prize is a $250 cash scholarship, 

plus a four-day, all-expense-paid visit to 

Hollywood for a student and escort. Second 

prize is $100 cash scholarship, and third, a 

$50 cash prize. During the seven months 

of the contest, authors of the three best reviews 

submitted each month will be awarded 

a certificate of merit and a cash prize. 

Valenti also announced a new feature of 

this second competition: "We are especially 

pleased that through the cooperation of 

NATO, leading exhibitors throughout the 

nation have agreed to participate in this 

worthy project. To encourage their participation, 

accredited high school reviewers will 

receive a free pass for two to their local 

theatre for each review submitted." 

Richard A. Feldon. publisher of Scholastic 

Roto, a monthly publication distributed 

to 2,300 high school publications with 

a readership of more than 3,000,000, said, 

"Scholastic Roto hopes that it 

(the competition) 

will encourage a high standard of 

journalism and reportage in high school 

newspapers." 

Para, to Release 6 Shorts 

During Next Two Months 

NEW YORK—Six special, live-action 

short subjects will be released by Paramount 

in the next two months, the company announced 

this week. 

They include "Calypso Au Go Go," a 

voyage through the Caribbean; "Winter 

Sports—Italian Style," a tour of northern 

Italy's ski country; "Jamaica," filmed from 

the viewpoint of its natives; "The Silent 

Screamer," showing the entry of the Turbocar 

in the Indianapolis 500; "Please, Not 

While I'm Putting," a comic examination of 

the sport of golf, and "The King of Madison 

Avenue," a spoof on the advertising industry 

involving the predicaments of some young 

ladies and a stuffed lion. 

Michael Ruden Dies 

NEW YORK—Michael Ruden, formerly 

of Rapf & Ruden, who had been a partner 

with Arthur M. Rapf for over 30 years, 

died after a short illness in Florida Tuesday 

(19). 


MGM Raises Dividend, 

Votes 5% Stock Hike 

NEW YORK — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

board of directors voted to increase the 

company's cash dividend payments by 20 per 

cent, raising the quarterly dividend payment 

from 25 cents to 30 cents per share, and 

simultaneously the board declared an extra 

dividend payment of 5 per cent in stock for 

the current quarter. The increased cash 

dividend will apply to the shares issued as 

the extra stock dividend. 

Both the increased quarterly dividend and 

the 5 per cent extra in stock will be paid on 

October 16 to stockholders of record on 

September 29. 

MGM president Robert H. O'Brien said 

the board action had been taken because 

of the progressive and continuing improvement 

in the company's operations and earnings. 

"We expect the current fiscal year 

which started September 1, 1967, to be the 

most successful in MGM history," O'Brien 

added. 

Among the major releases scheduled for 

fall release from MGM are two reservedseat 

attractions, "Gone With the Wind" and 

"Far From the Madding Crowd"; "The 

Comedians," with the Burtons; "More Than 

a Miracle," with Sophia Loren; "Our 

Mother's House." and "The Fearless Vampire 

Killers, or Your Teeth in My Neck." 

A third reserved-seat attraction, Stanley 

Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 

Cinerama will be premiered after the first of 

the year. 

Michael F. Mayer Resigns 

As IFIDA Exec. Director 

NEW YORK—Michael F. Mayer, leading 

New York film industry figure, has 

resigned as executive director of the Independent 

Film Importers & Distributors of 

America, Inc. Mayer, who for the past eight 

years has acted as IFIDA executive director 

and general counsel, is joining a New York 

law firm. 

A special IFIDA committee is 

now seeking 

out and interviewing qualified candidates 

to fill the position of executive director 

of the organization. Heading the sub-committee 

are veteran importer Irvin Shapiro, 

president of Films Around the World, Inc., 

with members including Eugene Picker. 

Trans-Lux Distributing Corp.; Munio Podhorzer. 

Casino Films; Leonard Gruenberg, 

Sigma III president; David Emanuel, Governor 

Films, and Sidney Ginsberg, Trans-Lux 

Distributing. 

Also announced last week by IFIDA was 

the re-election of Ginsberg as treasurer and 

Sanford Weiner as secretary for the organization's 

fiscal year 1967-68. Ginsberg is 

sales manager of Trans-Lux Distributing 

and Weiner, president of Art Cinema 

Booking Service. 

The IFIDA board announced that Mayer 

had been named an honorary member of the 

organization for life. 

Minnesota Theatre Cashier 

To Be 100 October 16 

GLENCOE, MINN.—Kate A. Gould is 

remarkable woman. She is 

a 

doing something 

that rarely a theatre woman or man or 

anyone, as a matter-of-fact, ever does—she's 

still very much active at 100. (At least she 

will reach that age October 16.) 

Mrs. Gould's vocation is cashier at the 

New Crystal Theatre, where all four of her 

sons have managed the operation at one time 

or another and where son George is manager 

today. And during the 59 years' existence 

of the house, Mrs. Gould has been the ticket 

seller. 

As her avocation she bakes cookies and 

cans pickles and tomatoes in her 12-room 

house, where she lives by herself. Mrs. Gould 

is very alert and wears glasses only to sign 

her social security checks. 

As a mother, Mrs. Gould could boast 

proudly—even exaggerate—and not one listener 

would blink an eye in disbelief. Besides 

George, she has sons Howard, Jay and William, 

all active in the theatre, and two daughters 

Anne, a retired schoolteacher, and Delia 

Gould Emmons, a renowned author, whose 

"The Far Horizons" novel was made into a 

film in 1955 by Paramount, starring Charlton 

Heston and Fred MacMurray. Mrs. 

Gould also has 21 grandchildren, 43 greatgrandchildren 

and 51 great-great-grandchildren. 

Business Week Spotlights 

Producer Arthur Jacobs 

NEW YORK—Business Week magazine, 

normally devoted to the world of finance, 

in its September 16 issue turned its attention 

to film producer Arthur P. Jacobs and 

his APJAC Productions, calling him "one 

of the hottest independents in U.S. movies." 

Jacobs, producer of the forthcoming 

roadshow musical, "Doctor Dolittle," to be 

released at Christmastime by 20th Century- 

Fox, was given four pages and pictures in 

the publication. 

"His trademark." Business Week said, "is 

showmanship in the old Hollywood tradition—big 

stars, costly sets, colossal budgets." 

The attention devoted to Jacobs in the magazine 

is indicative of the increased interest 

along Wall Street in motion pictures in recent 

years, especially with the higher grosses 

enjoyed by successful films. Twentieth-Fox 

is predicting a worldwide gross for "Doctor 

Dolittle" comparable with that of "The 

Sound of Music." 

More than $11 million in merchandising 

tie-ins already have been set, as reported 

in BoxoFFiCE last week. Retail value of the 

tie-ins approximates $100 million. 

Filmex Appoints Mather 

NEW YORK—George Mather has been 

appointed vice-president in charge of Filmex 

West (Hollywood), it was announced 

last week by Filmex president Robert I. 

Bergmann. Mather has been associated with 

the company as a producer-director. 

Bell & Howell Enters 

Feature Film Field 

CHICAGO—Plans for production of 12 

full-length color motion pictures for domestic 

and foreign theatrical and television distribution 

were jointly announced here Tuesday 

(19) by Bell & Howell Co. and Second 

City Productions. Inc., both of Chicago, and 

Harold Goldman Associates of Hollywood. 

Under terms of an agreement between the 

companies, three pictures will be produced 

each year for four years. Principal photography 

on the first film will begin later this 

year. 

Bell & Howell will be involved both financially 

and through its recently acquired subsidiary. 

Wilding, Inc., local communications 

agency which has been primarily engaged in 

making industrial and institutional films and 

television commercials. Wilding's facilities 

cover two and one-half acres with more than 

100,000 square feet of floor space. 

Second City Productions, which operates 

two theatres in Chicago and has produced 

more than 30 stage and television shows 

since its formation in 1960, will provide 

scripts and talent for the picture. 

Harold Goldman's Feature Film Corp. of 

America will distribute the pictures. Since 

the formation of his company two years ago, 

Goldman has co-produced more than 15 feature 

films. The company distributes to U.S. 

theatres, then dubs in foreign dialog for further 

distribution throughout the world. 

General Cinema Earnings 

Rise in Third Quarter 

NEW YORK—General Cinema Corp. 

reported fiscal nine-months' revenues, ended 

July 31, of $30,018,894, representing a 23 

per cent gain over the $24,382,300 in sales 

for the same period last 

year. 

"Increase in profit was substantial enough 

to almost compensate for the decline in the 

first six months," according to a statement 

by General Cinema president Richard A. 

Smith. For the nine months ended July 31 

earnings after taxes amounted to $1,352,085 

versus last year's $1,356,234. Earnings per 

.share amounted to $1.05 on 1.290,437 

shares outstanding as compared with $1.07 

a year ago on 1.269.854 shares outstanding. 

"Encouraged by our third quarter performance 

and by the continuing uptrend in 

business to date in this final fiscal quarter." 

Smith said, "we have become more optimistic 

concerning year end results. We now 

anticipate that sales will be over $41,000.- 

000 and that, barring unforeseen circumstances, 

net income for this year could exceed 

last year's $1.59 per share by a comfortable 

margin." 

Smith stated that "Theatre revenues increased 

considerably this past summer in 

response to the unusual number of popular 

pictures available. Our newer shopping 

center theatre units—those less than two 

years old—and even those that have just 

opened, performed above expectations during 

the third quarter." 


Greenfield to Head 

Sales for Cinerama 

NEW YORK—Cinerama president Seymour 

Poe Monday (18) announced the 

appointment of Leo Greenfield as general 

sales manager of Cinerama Releasing Corp.. 

Leo Greenfield 

the domestic distributing 

organization recently 

formed by the 

company. 

Greenfield joins 

Cinerama Releasing 

from Columbia, 

where he was supervisor 

of sales for 

roadshow attractions. 

He entered the film 

industry in 1947 as a 

member of the Universal 

sales staff. Moving to Buena Vista in 

1954, Greenfield held the positions of district 

sales manager, assistant eastern division 

manager, western division manager, and 

in 1965 became that company's domestic 

sales manager. He was appointed a Buena 

Vista vice-president in 1966. 

Under Greenfield, Cinerama Releasing 

will be opening exchanges throughout the 

U.S. to handle distribution of both Cinerama 

process films and 35mm releases. 

Gallery of Modern Art Sets 

Huntington Hartford Films 

NEW YORK— The Gallery of Modern 

Arts film department has scheduled a program 

of two films produced by Huntington 

Hartford, the A&P heir who founded the 

museum five years ago, for a week's showing 

September 26 to October 1. 

The films are "Face to Face," a Hartford 

production released in 1952 by RKO, and 

"Hello Out There," an unreleased Hartford 

production made in 1949 and directed by 

James Whale, the famous English director 

who made "Frankenstein" and "The Invisible 

Man." 

Both films feature Marjorie Steele, the 

artist-painter, who was married to Hartford 

at the time the productions were filmed. 

Also, the Gallery is showing the films of 

Albert Lewin on October 3 to October 8 as 

a tribute to the director whose first novel is 

now being published. The compilation features 

selections from "The Moon and Sixpence," 

"The Picture of Dorian Gray," 

"Pandora and the Flying Dutchman," "The 

Living Idol" and "The Private Affairs of 

Bel Ami," all Levin productions. His new 

book is entitled "The Unaltered Cat," and is 

published by Charles Scribner's Sons. 

Shelley Winters on Tour 

HOLLYWOOD — Shelley Winters will 

make a ten-city cross country personal appearance 

tour to publicize Levy-Gardner- 

Laven's "The Scalphunters," a United Artists 

release, when the film premieres in 

March. The film also stars Burt Lancaster, 

Telly Savalas and Ossie Davis. The actress 

is scheduled to leave for Italy for "Nuono 

Sera Mrs. Campbell." 

Speed, Ltd., to Production 

With Three Films Slated 

NEW YORK — Speed, Lid., the entertainment 

company of Louisville, Ky., and 

Los Angeles, is entering the film production 

field, according to company president William 

Girdler. Until now a major booking 

agency for recording artists and operating 

as a business management concern in this 

area. Speed, Ltd., will begin production 

around the first of 1968 on "Two Lives for 

the Price of One." 

"Two Lives" will be the first of three 

films scheduled by the company during 

1968. The other films will be "The Only 

Way to Live," and "The Great War." the 

latter an "epic Civil War drama." All three 

films will be shot in color with major casts 

and production crews. According to Girdler, 

son of well-known Los Angeles film figure, 

Walter Girdler, his company is currently 

exploring co-production and distribution 

deals for future movies. 

"Two Lives" will be budgeted at over half 

a million dollars. It is a science-fiction, futuristic 

spy adventure and will be filmed in 

Hollywood, hopefully with two important 

boxoffice names. Girdler. who has written 

the original story and will act as executive 

producer on the production, said that his 

expand into a major film 

company plans to 

producing outfit with as many as six to ten 

releases each year. Pat Kelley is the business 

manager for Speed, Ltd. 

'Madding' London Premiere 

For Charities Sold Out 

LONDON—Nat Cohen, chairman of the 

Variety Club committee organizing the 

royal world premiere of "Far From the 

Madding Crowd," has announced that all 

seats for the charity performance at the 

Odeon, Marble Arch, on October 16 have 

been sold. The total value of the house is 

more than 11,000 pounds and Variety 

Club has established a record in completely 

selling the theatre more than four weeks in 

advance of the first night. H.R.H. Princess 

Margaret is to be guest of honor at the 

benefit for the Dockland Settlements, the 

Chaseres, which supports the Bellingham 

Boys' Club, and Variety's heart fund for 

underprivileged and sick children. 

Joseph Levine of Embassy 

Profiled in New Yorker 

NEW YORK—Joseph E. Levine, president 

of Embassy Pictures Corp., was the 

subject of a 46-page "Profile" in the September 

16 issue of the New Yorker magazine. 

The article, entitled "The Very Rich Hours 

of Joe Levine," presented a month-bymonth 

account of the film executive's many 

dealings with producers, directors and stars 

both in the U.S. and abroad. 

The article also gives a vivid account of 

Levine's rise from his childhood in the Boston 

slums to his present position of eminence 

in the film industry. 

20th-Fox Authorizes 

2-for-l Stock Split 

NEW YORK — Twentieth Century-Fox 

president Darryl F. Zanuck announced 

Thursday (21) that the board of directors 

authorized a 2-for-l split of the common 

stock for the corporation. 

A special meeting of stockholders will be 

held November 6 to approve the stock split 

and it is anticipated that distribution of additional 

shares will be made on or about 

November 24 to stockholders of record on 

November 6, according to the statement issued 

by 20th-Fox. 

Twentieth-Fox will have outstanding prior 

to the split. 3.520,143 of an authorized 

5,000,000 shares, assuming full conversion 

of the convertible debentures, which have 

been called for redemption October 2. 

Stockholders also will be asked to increase 

the authorized common stock to 15 million 

shares, after giving effect to the split. 

"The stock split is but one step in our 

recently announced financing program, and 

will result in a broader distribution of our 

common stock," Zanuck said. "It will make 

ownership in 20th-Fox more easily accessible 

to the smaller investor. This is highly 

desirable from a business as well as a financial 

viewpoint," he added. 

The 20th-Fox board also approved an 

offer to stockholders of rights to purchase 

a new issue of convertible subordinated 

debentures in an amount not to exceed $30 

million, and these debentures are expected 

to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. 

The sale of up to $30 million additional 

of convertible debentures to foreign 

investors for Eurodollars was also endorsed 

by the board. 

"Our purpose in selling a debenture issue 

abroad," Zanuck said, "is to provide 

European funds to finance our extensive 

overseas operations and to give an opportunity 

to our friends abroad to invest in an 

American company whose products are so 

widely distributed throughout the free 

world." 

Also on the agenda of the November 6 

stockholders' meeting will be an authorization 

to create a new class of preferred stock 

without par value in the amount of 2 million 

shares, issuable in series. "No immediate 

use is in prospect for this new security, 

but its authorization will establish a reserve 

equity instrument available to management 

for issuance in the future, in connection 

with the financing of future acquisitions 

and for other capital requirements." 

'Comedians' Debut to Aid 

People of South Pacific 

NEW YORK— Mayor John V. Lindsay 

has accepted the honorary chairmanship for 

the gala benefit premiere of MGM's "The 

Comedians" to be held October 31 at the 

Coronet Theatre here for the Foundation 

of the Peoples of the South Pacific. Senator 

Jacob K. Javits is honorary sponsor and 

Sophia Loren is honorary chairwoman. 

Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star. 

8 BOXOFFICE :: September 25, 1967

'Funny Girl' Premiere Set 

In Criterion Sept. 11, '68 

NEW YORK—In a joint announcement 

last week. Mo Rothman, Columbia vicepresident, 

and Charles B. Moss, president of 

B. S. Moss Enterprises, revealed that the 

William Wyler-Ray Stark production of 

"Funny Girl" will have its world premiere 

at Broadway's Criterion Theatre on Sept. 

11, 1968. 

According to Rothman. signing of the 

playdate agreement almost one year to the 

day in advance of the reserved-seat opening 

"is a major step in allowing Columbia to 

formulate its plans to launch this extremely 

important and highly anticipated production 

deserves." Moss noted that 

in the manner it 

"We are confident that 'Funny Girl" will be 

one of the most successful and longest-running 

attractions ever to play the Criterion." 

"Funny Girl" is currently before the 

cameras at the Columbia Studios with Barbra 

Streisand and Omar Sharif heading the 

cast which includes Walter Pidgeon, Anne 

Francis and Kay Medford. Shooting on the 

hard-ticket attraction, which marks Miss 

Streisand's film debut, will continue through 

mid-November. 

To Salute Robert Aldrich 

At Frisco Film Festival 

SAN FRANCISCO — Producer-director 

Robert Aldrich, observing his silver anniversary 

in the motion picture industry this 

year, will be honored at a special program 

at the San Francisco Film Festival here October 

20-29. Aldrich. whose films have 

received awards at two other international 

festivals, will be saluted at a retrospective 

program on Saturday afternoon. October 

21. 

The salute will include showings of highlights 

from major Aldrich films and a brief 

question-and-answer session between the 

producer-director and the festival audience. 

This will be one of five retrospective programs 

scheduled at the festival. 

Among Aldrich's film successes of recent 

years were "What Ever Happened to Baby 

Jane?" "Hush . . . Hush Sweet Charlotte." 

"The Flight of the Phoenix" and the current 

"The Dirty Dozen." He currently is 

winding up production on "The Legend of 

Lyiah Clare" and. following it, will produce 

and direct "The Killing of Sister George." 

Anne Dillon Elected WOMPI Presidenf; 

New Orleans Club Wins 3 Awards 

NEW ORLEANS — The Women of the 

Motion Picture International concluded its 

14th annual convention at the Jung Hotel 

here September 15-17 with the installation 

of new officers and the presentation of the 

annual awards to winning clubs. 

New officers elected were Anne Dillon. 

Jacksonville, president; Elsie Parrish. Dallas, 

vice-president; Kitty Dowell, Jacksonville, 

corresponding secretary; Phyllis Seward, 

Kansas City, treasurer, and Catherine Murphy. 

Washington, D.C., recording secretary. 

Dorothy Reeves of New York is immediate 

past president. 

Highlight of the convention came on Saturday 

night with the awards banquet and the 

installation of officers. Mary Hayslip, Kansas 

City, presented a check for $2,000 to the 

Will Rogers Hospital to support the WOMPI 

room for 1968, and another check, for $1,- 

700, also was presented to Gene Goodman, 

United Artists branch manager here, representing 

the hospital, for the Montague Library, 

another WOMPI project. 

With some 300 members in attendance, 

WOMPI clubs received awards citing them 

for their activities over the past year. The 

New Orleans club, winner of three awards, 

took top honors, receiving the Lorraine Cass 

cup for humanitarian service, the yearbook 

creativity award and the Verlin Osborne 

publicity trophy. The Jacksonville club won 

the R. J. O'Donnell award for industry service 

and the New York club took the Mable 

Guinan convention attendance award. The 

Canada award for membership went to the 

Hollywood-Los Angeles club, and the Will 

Rogers statuette award, initiated to salute the 

club that comes nearest its quota in the 

Dimes From Dames drive for Will Rogers 

Hospital, went to the Charlotte club which 

exceeded its quota. 

Preconvention activities started on 

Wednesday with an international board 

meeting, the president's dinner at Corinne 

Dunbar's, sponsored by the Jacksonville 

club. Then on Thursday a breakfast sponsored 

by the Dallas and Memphis clubs was 

followed by a joint meeting of the international 

board, club presidents and international 

committee chairmen. An international 

officers dinner was sponsored that night by 

the Kansas City club, followed by a reception 

hosted by the Charlotte club. 

At the official opening of the convention 

Friday, Frank Bertuccie, aide to the mayor, 

welcomed the WOMPI, as did Marie Berglund. 

convention chairman. Reports were received 

from international officers, followed 

by a trip through the city to the Vista Shores 

Country Club for a luau and Hawaiian evening. 

U.S. Rep. F. Edward Hebert spoke at the 

Gateway of the Americas luncheon on Saturday 

at which C. Clare Woods, president of 

United Theatres, Inc.. New Orleans, was 

master of ceremonies. Earlier that day, the 

Atlanta, Des Moines and Los Angeles clubs 

hosted a pre-meeting breakfast. 

Following the Saturday night awards banquet 

a local Mardi Gras carnival krewe 

staged its ball, and both outgoing president 

Dorothy Reeves and new president Anne 

Dillon were presented to the king and queen 

of the krewe. James E. Fitzmorris, assistant 

to the president of Kansas City Southern 

Railway's southern division narrated the ball. 

On Sunday morning a "bayou" breakfast 

to honor club presidents was followed by the 

presentation of "perfect attendance" ribbons 

to the club presidents to be taken home and 

presented to members. A "Till We Meet 

Again" brunch was sponsored by the Indianapolis, 

New York and Washington clubs 

following the closing session at noon, and 

the newly elected international officers held 

a post-convention meeting on Sunday afternoon. 

Next year's convention will be held in Atlanta. 

Film Title Changes 

"A Man Called Gannon" is the new title 

for Universal's western previously titled 

"Barbed Wire." Tony Franciosa and Michael 

Sarrazin star in the Technicolor picture 

scheduled to start the end of this month with 

James Goldstone directing for producer 

Howard Christie. 

"Thomas Crown and Company" has been 

set as the final title for the Steve McQueen- 

Faye Dunaway starrer, formerly titled "The 

Crown Caper." Norman Jewison is producing 

and directing the Mirisch-Simkoe-Solar 

production for United Artists release. 

Newly elected officers of W omen of the Motion Picture International are 

shown following installation ceremonies at the i4th annual convention in New 

Orleans. From left: Catherine Murphy, Washington, D.C., recording secretary; 

Phyllis Seward, Kansas City, treasurer; Anne Dillon, Jacksonville, president; Dorothy 

Reeves, New York, immediate past president; Elsie Parrish, Dallas, vice-president, 

and Kitty Dowell, Jacksonville, corresponding secretary. 


Carreras Outlines Hammer Films 

For Distribution 

NEW YORK—James M. Carreras, 

managing 

director of Hammer Films Productions, 

Ltd., was in New York last week lor 

what he referred to as "his every two-year 

business visit," and was the guest at a luncheon 

at "21" hosted by 20th-Fox vice-president 

in charge of advertising, exploitation 

and publicity Jonas Rosenfield jr. 

The British film executive, who described 

his highly successful Hammer productions 

as characterized by competence, skill and 

excitement, said that 20th-Fox will distribute 

seven upcoming Hammer productions, 

five of which are completed and 

two more currently before the cameras. He 

explained that 20th-Fox provided 75 per 

cent of the financing in exchange for worldwide 

rights exclusive of the United Kingdom. 

Associated Cinema in Great Britain 

puts up the remaining 25 per cent and the 

old Seven Arts is a "sleeping partner" with 

the Hammer organization. 

Twentieth-Fox has released 1 1 Hammer 

films in this country in the past two years 

and "almost all are in the black and look 

to be lucrative," according to Carreras. He 

stated that seven productions are planned 

for 1968 and six for 1969. 

Rosenfield praised Hammer films as 

seeking out the best of the commercial exploitation 

trade, placing priority on "style 

and showmanship." Rosenfield said that a 

film like "One Million Years B.C.," the 

organization's most successful release to 

date, has "imperishable style," not dating at 

all so that reissue value is tremendous. He 

Glen Alden Corp. Declares 

Usual 17y2-Cent Dividend 

NEW YORK—Glen Alden Corp. has 

declared the regular quarterly dividend of 

$.175 per share on the common stock payable 

Oct. 31, 1967, to holders of record 

October 20. 

The regular quarterly dividend of $.7875 

per share on the $3.15 cumulative convertible 

preferred stock payable October 31 to 

holders of record October 20 was also declared 

as well as the regular quarterly dividend 

of $.5625 per share on the $2,25 senior 

cumulative convertible preferred stock payable 

Dec. 15, 1967, to holders of record 

December 3. 

Sigma III Appoints Four 

To Regional Sales Posts 

NEW YORK — Leonard S. Gruenberg, 

president of Sigma III, a wholly owned 

subsidiary of Filmways, Inc., announced a 

series of appointments for the sales staff 

last week. 

Kermit Russell has joined the company as 

head of the midwest division, with headquarters 

at 54 West Randolph St. in Chicago. 

Frank Yablans, who covered the mid- 

by 20th-Fox 

also pointed out that this was the 21st anniversary 

for Hammer and that every indication 

was that the next 21 years would be 

just as successful. 

Carreras explained that Hammer's "first 

really serious film" was "The Nanny," 

which 20th-Fox released two years ago. 

While this Bette Davis film did only about 

a million dollar gross in this country, worldwide 

receipts were enormous, which has 

been the case with many Hammer films. 

Now with another Davis film, "TTie Anniversary," 

based on a London stage hit, the 

company is again going out into "a different 

type of film," Carreras said, adding "it's 

quite shocking in what the characters say 

to one another." 

But for the most part. Hammer will stay 

with the exploitation market, combining a 

cover girl, sexpot newcomer with a classic 

sort of horror and monster tale. "Today 

there is a public all over the world who accepts 

this exploitation fare," the executive 

explained. 

The first of the seven Hammer-Seven 

Arts attractions to be followed by 20th-Fox 

will be "Five Million Years to Earth" 

combined with "The Viking Queen," in 

November. "The Anniversary" will be a 

February release. For Easter, there is "The 

Vengeance of SHE," starring Olinka Berova. 

whom the Hammer people think is 

another Ursula Andress or Raquel Welch. 

For next summer is "The Lost Continent." 

"A Challenge for Robin Hood" and "The 

Devil Rides Out" are also set for Easter 

release. 

west area, moves to New York to head the 

eastern division. Louis E. Goldhammer 

heads the southern division and Leonard S. 

Gruenberg jr., has been named to head the 

western division. 

NFB Color Subject Shown 

NEW YORK—The National Film Board 

of Canada color short, "What on Earth," 

which was shown on opening night Wednesday 

(20) at the Fifth New York Film 

Festival, will be released in the U.S. by 

Columbia Pictures. The satirical cameo 

projects a Martian-eye view of our planet, 

and from this viewpoint it appears that the 

auto has inherited the earth. Kaj Pindal 

created the story and design and collaborated 

with Les Drew on the direction 

and animation. Don Douglas composed the 

original 

score. 

UA Special Cash Dividend 

NEW YORK—The board of directors of 

United Artists at a meeting Thursday (14) 

voted a special cash dividend of 25 cents 

per share on its common stock, payable 

October 20, to stockholders of record at 

the close of business on October 10. 

Thomas Dunn Is Chicago 

Manager for Universal 

CHICAGO—Thomas E. Dunn jr., formerly 

Universal Pictures branch manager in 

St. Louis, who has 

been handling the Indianapolis 

500-Mile 

Race theatre television 

sales for MCA 

during three years, 

has been named 

branch manager for 

Universal in Chicago, 

effective 

Monday 

(25), it was announced 

by Henry H. "Hi" 

Thomas Dunn jr. 

Martin, vice-president 

and general sales manager. 

Dunn succeeds Herb Martinez, who has 

resigned as branch manager. Dunn started 

with Universal in April 1945 as a salesman 

in New Orleans. He was promoted to manager 

of the St. Louis exchange in October 

1956, holding the post until he transferred 

to the MCA Indianapolis 500, first in November 

1964 through June 1965, then from 

August 1965. Martinez has been branch 

manager in Chicago since 1964. 

Wometco Earnings in Rise 

Of 5% for Third Quarter 

NEW YORK—Wometco Enterprises had 

about a 5 per cent increase in earnings in 

the third quarter ended September 9 over 

$948,213 earned in the corresponding period 

last year. Revenue increased about 10 

per cent from the year earlier figure of 

$12,241,555. 

The company operates 41 theatres but 

the biggest contributor to its earnings is the 

four television stations it owns, Mitchell 

Wolfson, president, stated last week. Soft 

drink bottling is the company's second biggest 

earner. 

Goldstone Acquires Rights 

To Distribute Two Films 

NEW YORK—Goldstone Film Enterprises 

has acquired the U.S. distribution 

rights for two new pictures, it was announced 

by GEE president Harry Goldstone. 

"Catch Me If You Can" stars Dina Merrill, 

Gilbert Roland and Greta Thyssen. 

November 15 is the scheduled release date. 

"The Daffodil Killer," slated for mid- 

December release, has Christopher Lee, 

Marius Goring and Penelope Horner in the 

leading 

roles. 

AIP to Handle 'Cobra' 

HOLLYWOOD—American International 

has concluded arrangements with Italian 

International for distribution of the recently 

completed feature production, "Cobra," 

starring Anita Ekberg and Dana Andrews, 

it was announced by AIP heads Samuel Z. 

Arkoff and James H. Nicholson. 

Filmed in color and scope, the picture 

has been scheduled for release by AIP early 

next 

year. 

10 BOXOFFICE :: September 25, 1967

. . and 

To Show Berlin Winner 

At Frisco Film Festival 

SAN FRANCISCO — Two Berlin Film 

Festival winners, "Le Depart," grand prize 

winner, and "Nayak," Unicrit Award winner, 

have been selected for showing at the 

upcoming San Francisco International Film 

Festival, it was announced by Stanley Mosk, 

general chairman. 

"Le Depart" is a French language film 

made in Belgium and directed by Poland's 

Jerry Skolimowski. The screenplay, co-authored 

by the director, concerns a young 

male hairdresser's mania for auto racing and 

illustrates the link between his craze for 

speed and his sexual frustrations. Jean- 

Pierre Leaud portrays the young hero and 

Catherine Duport has the leading feminine 

role. 

"Nayak," made by India's famed Satyajit 

Ray. concerns the life and thoughts of an 

Indian film star as he travels by train to 

collect a prize in Delhi. The film reveals the 

amours, ambitions and monetary success of 

the actor through a series of flashbacks interspersed 

with cameos of incidents on the 

train trip itself. 

Nineteen feature films will be screened 

during the ten-day festival. October 20-29. 

and with the addition of the Berlin Festival 

winner, nine thus far have been selected. 

Other films already chosen are "Elvira Madigan," 

Sweden: "Three Days and a Child" 

Israel; "The Round-Up, " Hungary; "The 

Private Right" Greece; "The Old Man and 

the Child" and "Naked Hearts," both 

France, and "The Rover," an American- 

Italian co-production starring Anthony 

Quinn and Rita Hayworth and adapted from 

a Joseph Conrad novel, which will world 

premiere on the opening night of the festival. 

Radnitz in Multiple Pact 

With CBS Films Unit 

HOLLYWOOD — Producer Robert B. 

Radnitz has signed a multiple-picture agreement 

with the CBS Theatrical Films Division, 

it was announced by Gordon Stulberg, 

president of the division. 

The initial property to be readied for 

production will be "The Voyage of H.M.S. 

Beagle," the story of Charles Darwin's fiveyear 

cruise (1831-36) to South America and 

Australia. It was during this voyage he developed 

his convictions on the theory about 

evolution. 

A second property will be placed in active 

preparation in the near future. Entitled "The 

Little Arks" and taken from the story by Jan 

de Hartog, it is an account of the adventures 

of two Dutch youngsters and their animals 

during the disastrous Holland floods of 

1953. 

Radnitz is currently producing "My Side 

of the Mountain" on location in Canada and 

will start work soon on "Leatherstocking 

Saga" for United Artists and the Carl Foreman-Columbia 

Pictures film "Mistress 

Masham's Repose." 

Technicolor Buys Interest 

In Insurance Company 

SEATTLE—Thomas J. 

Welch, chairman 

of Technicolor, Inc.; James W. Howard, 

chairman of Growth International, Inc., and 

Thomas J. Welsh, chairman of Technicolor, 

Inc., announced the joint purchase by Eversharp 

and Technicolor of Growth International's 

99.5 per cent interest in the Associated 

Employers Insurance Co. of Fort 

Worth, Texas. 

The purchase, which involves an aggregate 

consideration of over $11,000,000, has 

been approved by the boards of all three 

companies, and no stockholder action or 

governmental approval will be required. 

The insurance company and its subsidiaries 

write fire, 

casualty and other types of 

general insurance in 29 states and the District 

of Columbia. 

T. F. Wood will remain as president of 

the Associated Employers Insurance Co. 

under the new ownership. 

Technicolor Dividend 

SEATTLE—The board of directors of 

Technicolor, Inc. at a meeting here Thursday 

(14) declared a dividend of 10 cents per 

share on the company's common stock, payable 

November 24 to shareholders of record 

November 6. 

Katharine Hepburn to Star 

In Commonwealth Film 

NEW YORK — Katharine Hepburn will 

star in the title role of "The Madwoman 

of Chaillot." in the film version of the Jean 

Giraudoux classic which John Huston will 

for Commonwealth United Entertain- 

direct 

ment, formerly the Landau/ Unger Company. 

The film, a contemporary version of the 

original play, will be produced entirely in 

Paris from a screenplay by Edward Anhalt. 

beginning January 15. The Panavision and 

color film is budgeted at $3,000,000 with a 

12-week shooting schedule. Other major 

casting will be announced shortly. 

Miss Hepburn and director Huston 

worked together in "The African Queen" in 

1951 for which the actress was nominated 

for an Oscar. Miss Hepburn also appeared 

in the film version of Eugene O'Neill's 

"Long Day's Journey Into Night" for Ely A. 

Landau, president of Commonwealth United 

Entertainment. 

Harold Bobbins Completes 

'Adventures' Screenplay 

HOLLYWOOD — Author Harold Robbins, 

who is scheduled to arrive in Hollywood 

from his home in Cannes, France, the 

end of this month for meetings with Selmur 

Productions' Leon Mirrell and ABC toppers 

regarding his new hour television series, has 

completed the screenplay of "The Adventurers," 

based on his best-selling novel, 

and turned the script over to producer-director 

Lewis Gilbert, in England, where he 

is preparing the Paramount production. The 

film is scheduled for a late spring start. 

Columbia Sets 'Biggest' 

Merchandising Meet 

NEW YORK—Columbia Pictures has 

announced plans for a national merchandising 

meeting keyed to the slogan "Columbia 

.Shoots the Works in 1967-68," to be held at 

the company's home offices in New York on 

Tuesday (26). The biggest merchandising 

session ever organized by Columbia, the 

meeting will involve a discussion of the allout 

promotional campaigns to be set in 

motion for the company's heavy schedule of 

product for release through the next 24 

months. 

Arriving in New York for the merchandising 

session will be Columbia's entire staff 

of sales division managers and field exploitation 

representatives from throughout 

the U. S. and Canada. 

Among the campaigns to be discussed will 

be those for the Richard Brooks production 

of "In Cold Blood," Irving Allen's latest 

Matt Helm adventure, "The Ambushers," 

Stanley Kramer's "Guess Who's Coming to 

Dinner?" "The Tiger Makes Out," produced 

by George Justin, Norman Maurer's "Who's 

Minding the Mint?," the Robert Cohn 

presentation of "Young Americans," Harry 

Joe Brown's "The Long Ride Home" and 

"Up the MacGregors," produced by Dario 

Sabatello. 

Also Stanley Shapiro's "How to Save a 

Marriage . Ruin Your Life," the 

Burtons' production of "Dr. Faustus," "Assignment 

K," produced by Ben Arbeid and 

Maurice Foster, the Horizon presentation of 

"The Swimmer," Anthony Mann's "A 

Dandy in Aspic," Walter Shenson's "Don't 

Raise the Bridge, Lower the River," Sam 

Katzman's "For Singles Only," "Berserk," 

produced by Herman Cohen and the Max 

J. Rosenberg production of "Torture 

Garden." 

Other films in production include William 

Frye's "Where Angels Go . . . Trouble 

Follows!," the Dino De Laurentiis production 

of "Anzio," the William Wyler-Ray 

Stark production of "Funny Girl," "Interlude," 

produced by David Deutsch, the Carl 

Foreman productions of "Mackenna's Gold" 

and "Monsieur Lecoq," Martin Manulis' 

"Duffy," Irving Allen's "Hammerhead" and 

the John Woolf production of "Oliver!" 

Becker and May Acquire 

'I, a Marquis' Rights 

NEW YORK—Vernon Becker and Mel 

May of the Polara Organization have 

acquired the American and Canadian distribution 

rights to "I, a Marquis," written by 

Peer Guldbrandsen and directed by Mac 

Ahlberg, the same team who made "I, a 

Woman." The film, a Swedish-Danish coproduction 

made in association with the Polara 

Organization, is described as a "tonguein-cheek 

satire of Scandinavian sex mores 

as depicted in many of the Scandinavian 

films." Becker and May report that a major 

distribution announcement will be made 

within 30 days. 

BOXOFFICE :: September 25, 1967 II

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Two Independent Producers 

Increase 1968 Schedules 

Independent production companies continued 

to enlarge their 1968 schedules as 

producer Sandy Howard announced the addition 

of a fourth film to his lineup and 

L-G-L, the Jules Levy, Arthur Gardner, Arnold 

Laven production company, announced 

purchase of its fourth original screenplay. 

Howard said he would film "Days of Courage" 

on location in southern Spain starting 

next spring. He is expected here in October 

to begin castings. Already on the producer's 

1968 agenda are "Camerone," a big-budget 

adventure to be filmed either in Spain or 

Mexico; "Impossible Mission," a World 

War II yarn and "The Mercenaries," based 

on an original by Howard concerning a 

group of mercenaries in Latin America in 

1934. Meantime. L-G-L purchased "Nitro" 

from William Norton and simultaneously 

picked up its option on the writer's services 

two months in advance of expiration of the 

original contract. Morton sold his initial 

screenplay, "The Scalphunters," to L-G-L 

ten months ago and it has been filmed with 

a cast headed by Burt Lancaster, Shelley 

Winters, Telly Savalas and Ossie Davis for 

United Artists release. The other L-G-L 

properties are "The Renegades" and "Lions, 

Tigers and Bears" . . . G. D. Spradlin, multimillionaire 

Oklahoma oilman recently turned 

actor in Paramount's "Will Penny," has 

formed Rouge Productions to acquire new 

properties for motion pictures, television and 

the legitimate theatre. His first property is 

"Beyond the Sunset," an original story and 

screenplay by Gheeds O'Tilbury with a Bahamas 

locale . . . Bill Colleran and Lee 

Remick have formed Kate Productions and 

purchased "Montmartre." original modern 

musical which Colleran will direct, starring 

Miss Remick. The story, by Henri Souvenier, 

is set in France where it will be filmed. The 

actress currently is co-starring with Rod 

Steiger in Paramount's "No Way to Treat a 

Lady," which will be followed by "The Detective," 

starring Frank Sinatra, at 20th- 

Fox. After that, Miss Remick has a commitment 

to do producer Arthur Jacobs' 

"Goodbye, Mr. Chips" at MGM. 

AIP and Tony Tenser to Film 

'Conqueror Worm' in England 

American International Pictures and 

Tony Tenser of Tigon-Global Film Productions 

of England have concluded a deal 

for 

the filming of "The Conqueror Worm," a 

feature based on a famous Edgar Allan Poe 

classic, it was announced by AIP toppers 

James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff. 

Simultaneously, it was announced that Vincent 

Price will star in the picture, to be 

made in England from a screenplay by Tom 

Baker and Michael Reeves. Price leaves for 

England this week so that production can 

begin immediately . . . Peer Oppenheimer 

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Productions announced the first in a series 

of co-production deals with Parnaws Films 

of Germany. The film is titled "Commissar 

X" and is based on the fictional character 

created by Burt Island, now selling in book 

form throughout Europe. Tony Randall and 

Brad Harris were signed for two of the 

. . Abner 

leading roles in the film. A January start is 

planned on location in Thailand . 

Greshler, president of Diamond Artists, Ltd.. 

is arranging a U.S. financing-distribution 

deal for an international musical film to 

star French singer Gilbert Becaud. Greshler, 

who just concluded arrangements for 

the project in Paris, expects the film to be 

shot in France, England and Italy, featuring 

top recording artists of each country. 

Highroad Signs Julie 

To Multiple-Picture Pact 

Newmar 

Julie Newmar, now co-starring in Carl 

Foreman's "Mackenna's Gold," filming in 

Hollywood for Columbia, has been signed 

to a multiple-picture deal by Highroad Productions, 

it was announced by Carl Foreman, 

Highroad executive producer. Her first 

picture under the new pact will be as feminine 

co-star in "Monsieur Le Cocq," opposite 

Zero Mostel, who will play the title role in 

the comedy. The film went before the cameras 

in mid-September in the south of 

France with Adrian Scott producing and 

Seth Holt directing. Miss Newmar will fly 

to London after completing "Mackenna's 

Gold" to begin work in the new comedy 

early in October . . . Tony Bill, currently appearing 

in "Ice Station Zebra" for Filmways. 

has signed a five-picture, non-exclusive contract 

with the company, calling for a pic- 

ON FUNNY GIRL' SET—Columbia 

Pictures vice-president Robert S. 

Ferguson chats with producer Ray 

Stark on the "Funny Girl" set during a 

recent visit to the company's Hollywood 

studios, while technicians and 

actors in the background prepare for 

being directed 

shooting on an elaborate production 

number featuring the Ziegfeld girls. 

"Funny Girl," starring Barbra Streisand 

and Omar Sharif, is 

by William Wyler for release in September 

1968. 

ture a year through 1971. Bill also is negotiating 

with Vittorio DeSica to co-star 

with Catherine Spaak in DeSica's "The 

Swallow's Song," which starts in Paris next 

spring . . . Michael Dante, star of ABC-TV's 

new "Custer" series, was signed to a fivepicture, 

non-exclusive contract by 20th-Fox 

. . . Paris model Penny Williams also was 

signed by 20th-Fox to an exclusive sevenyear 

contract for both motion pictures and 

television . . . Will Geer goes into an important 

supporting role in 20th-Fox's "Bandolero!" 

which producer Robert L. Jacks will 

put 

before the cameras with James Stewart, 

Dean Martin and Raquel Welch co-starred. 

An action-adventure drama set in post-Civil 

War Texas and Mexico, the picture will be 

directed by Andrew V. McLaglen from a 

James Lee Barrett screenplay and a Stanley 

Hough original story. Shooting will be done 

on locations in Page, Ariz., and Brackettville, 

Tex. 

British 

Cover Girl-Actress 

In 'House of Cards' 

Rosemarie Dexter, young British actress 

and cover girl, has been signed by producer 

Dick Berg for a pivotal role of a sexy Italian 

delinquent in Universal's "House of Cards." 

The George Peppard-Inger Stevens starrer 

is before the Technicolor cameras on location 

in Rome, with John Guillermin directing. 

Miss Dexter previously appeared in 

"Casanova '70" . . . Radio and television announcers 

Kenneth Banghart and Paul Napier 

have been signed to portray themselves in 

American International's "Wild in the 

Streets" by producers James H. Nicholson 

and Samuel Z. Arkoff. Directed by Barry 

Shear, the color production stars Shelley 

Winters, Christopher Jones, Diana Varsi, 

Hal Holbrook, Millie Perkins, Richard Pryor 

and special guest star Ed Begley . . . Lana 

Wood has been signed by producer Sam 

Katzman for a starring role in his upcoming 

Four Leaf production for Columbia, "For 

Singles Only." Miss Wood, who co-starred 

in TV's "Peyton Place," will make her screen 

debut in the film in which she will portray 

a girl who falls in love with a married man. 

The story is set in one of California's new, 

for-young-marrieds-only apartment house 

complexes. Directed by Arthur Dreifuss 

from a script by Dreifuss and Hal Collins, 

the film also stars John Saxon, Mary Ann 

Mobley, Mark Richman and Marty Ingels. 

Everett Freeman Prepares 

Second Feature for MGM 

Producer-writer Everett Freeman started 

active preparations on "How Do I Love 

You?" adapted from the best-selling novel 

by Peter de Vries, "Let Me Count the 

Ways," as the second feature on his current 

MGM schedule. First draft screenplay has 

been completed by Freeman and Karl Tunberg. 

The picture is planned to follow 

"Where Were You When the Lights Went 

Out?" which Freeman now is co-producing 

with Martin Melcher . . . Producer Samuel 

Goldwyn jr. acquired Don Berry's western 

suspense novel, "To Build a Ship," for feature 

films production early next year. 


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Sameric Circuit Ready 

To Open 2 Theatres 

PHILADELPHIA — Sameric 

Theatres, 

headed hy Samuel and Merton Shapiro. 

have announced the pending completion of 

two units to their already-expanding circuit. 

The Eric Rittenhouse Square in the famed 

Rittenhouse Square midtown section is to 

open by the end of the month. An official 

date has not been determined. The Eric 

Fairless Hills on Route 1 North also is expected 

to be open late this month or in 

early October. 

The circuit has eight theatres, mostly in 

the greater Philadelphia area. James Mc- 

Hugh is general manager. The theatre 

managers are; 

John Schmidt, Fairless Hills; John Dagget, 

Eric Pennsauken (N.J.); Del Jones, 

Eric Whitehorse Park Drive-In; Art Smith, 

Eric Blackhorse Park Drive-In; Bill Assaris. 

Eric Wynnewood; Joe Forte, Eric Terminal. 

Upper Darby, Pa.; Richard LaRoche, King. 

Valley Forge. Pa., and Mickey Bernstein, 

Eric Harrisburg. 

Pa. Jury Indicts Manager, 

Boothman on Film Counts 

DOYLE.STOWN. PA.— Manager Joseph 

R. Weed of the Roosevelt Drive-In at Levittown 

and projectionist Samuel Mormando 

have been indicted by the Bucks County 

Grand Jury on charges of exhibiting an obscene 

film ("Take Me Naked"), tending to 

corrupt the morals of children and two 

counts of conspiracy. 

The distributor, American Film Distributors, 

and the two men, as the result of the 

raid on the drive-in in March, have filed 

$100,000 suits each in Federal Court against 

the district attorney, an assistant, a county 

detective and the county itself. 

Because of the raid, Middletown Township, 

in which the airer is located, has passed 

an ordinance prohibiting anyone under 

18 from seeing a film which the preview 

board has found objectionable. 

'No Way to Treat a Lady' 

Completes N.Y. Filming 

NEW YORK—Principal 

photography on 

'No Way to Treat a Lady," a Sol C. Siegel 

production for Paramount Pictures, has 

been completed in New York City. Tlie 

film, which stars Rod Steiger, Lee Remick. 

George Segal and Eileen Heckart, was directed 

by Jack Smight. 

A total of 48 Metropolitan area locations 

were utilized for the film including Lincoln 

Center. Sardi's. the Belasco Theatre and the 

city room of the New York Daily News. 

For scenes photographed on the city streets, 

more than 1 ,000 extras were used. 

The story of a psychotic strangler who 

terrorizes New York and baffles the police, 

"No Way to Treat a Lady" was filmed from 

a screenplay by John Gay. based on William 

Goldman's novel. 

AT AA MERCHANDISING SEMINAR—In attendance at a merchandising 

seminar conducted by Jack Goldstein, advertising and publicity director, Allied 

Artists Pictures, to plan a campaign for the October 11 first showcase run on "A 

Man and a Woman" are: Gus Birnbaum, F. & A. Theatres; Charles Call, Century 

Theatres; Jack Goldstein, Allied Artists; Al Glazer, Brandt Theatres; Lee Willis, 

United Artists Theatres, and Wilfrid Dodd, vice-president, AA International. Also 

present at the seminar, not shown in photo, were: Morris Hutoff, General Cinema 

Corp., Ben Gladstone and Harold Guyett of National General (Fox Eastern 

Theatres). 

Senate Okays Commission 

For Study of Obscenity 

WASHINGTON—The Senate passed by 

a voice vote Wednesday (20) a revised bill 

to set up a presidential commission to study 

obscenity and pornography, following an 

earlier legislative action by the House. The 

Senate measure contained six amendments 

to the House-passed version. 

The Senate bill raised from 16 to 18 the 

number of members for the commission and 

amended the bill to allow the President 

discretion to select the members from 

among persons with special competence or 

experience with pornography laws and protection 

of juveniles. The House had stipulated 

members be chosen from lists submitted 

by the speaker of the House and the 

president of the Senate, including a provision 

that members be chosen from among 

sociologists 

and psychologists. 

The Senate bill's other amendments 

stressed the responsibility of state and local 

governments in dealing with pornography 

and provided that the commission have a 

quorum of ten for its meetings. 

The House must now consider the Senate-passed 

bill in view of the six amendments. 

Studio City, Inc., Opens 

Branch Offices in N.Y. 

NEW YORK — Studio City, Inc., of 

North Miami, has opened branch offices 

at 1585 Broadway here, under the direction 

of Paul L. Jacobson, recently appointeil 

executive vice-president. 

The New York office will be engaged in 

marketing and production liaison with film 

producers and exhibitors as related to pending 

and in-production films at the Florida 

facilities. Studio City is the largest complex 

for filmmaking on the East Coast. 

Rockettes, Other Performers 

On Strike at Music Hall 

NEW YORK—The Radio City Music 

Hall for the first time in its 35-year history 

was hit by a strike of the famous Rockettes 

and members of the Corps de Ballet last 

week (16). At Boxoffice presstime, negotiations 

for settling the strike had brought 

no solution to the walkout. 

Some 49 members of the Rockettes, 

whose dance-line has 36 performing members 

in a show performance, 32 ballet dancers 

and 20 members of the Hall's choral 

group spent the week marching in front of 

the theatre rather than performing on the 

stage. Their demand for better pay called 

for about a 40 per cent increase over the 

present scale of $99 per week with raises 

to $126.50 after three years. They have refused 

an offer of a 15 per cent increase. 

All the strikers are members of the 

American Guild of Variety Artists. Other 

unions, mcluding the lATSE and American 

Federation of Musicians, were not on 

strike. A 30-minute orchestral program was 

substituted for the regular stage show last 

week and boxoffice receipts were down 

only slightly. The drop could also be credited 

to the fact that the tourist season has 

ended, weather was not favorable over the 

first weekend of the strike and that the 

film, WB-7 Arts' "Up the Down Staircase," 

had entered its last two weeks. The Music 

Hall is the only theatre on Broadway still 

offering both a film and stage prc-entation. 

Its top admission price is considerably lower 

than many first-run Broadway movie houses. 

'Bobo' to Open Sept. 28 

NEW YORK — "The Bobo," the new 

Peter Sellers comedy from WB-7 Arts, will 

open here at the Radio City Music Hall on 

September 28. The film co-stars Sellers' 

wife. Britt Ekiand. and Rossano Brazzi. 

Robert Parrish directed in Spain and Italy. 

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In Heat of Night/ 'Dont Look Back 

And 'Games Double Average in NY 

NEW YORK — Broadway 

boxoffices 

were holding their own against the onslaught 

ol the fast-arriving fall, the exodus of tourists 

from the hig city and the fact that most 

theatres have long-run engagements in their 

last weeks of play-off. The New York teachers 

strike had very little influence on overall 

business but at the Radio City Music 

Hall history of sorts was made when the 

world-famous Rockettes walked off their 

jobs and began picketing the theatre Saturday 

(16). It is difficult to assess the strike's 

influence on the Music Hall boxoffice gross 

since "Up the Down Staircase" is entering 

its sixth and final week when business would 

quite normally fall off. 

Two new entries did excellent business, 

both getting good receptions in the press and 

from audiences. "Games" opened at the Sutton 

and topped any opening day figure at 

that art house for some time. "The Climax" 

at the Festival also fared very well. This 

Italian comedy-drama adds another success 

to the long list of those of its director, Pietro 

Germi, who currently is represented by "The 

Birds, the Bees and the Italians." The latter 

still pulled in strong business in its sixth 

week at Loew's Tower East. 

In all other houses, business was down, 

ranging from poor showings at the Rivoli, 

where "The Trip" was in its fourth week, 

and at the Warner with "The Flim-Flam 

Man" in its fourth week to mild at the Astor, 

where the regular run of "Hawaii" 

scored 110 in its fifth week, and "Beach 

Red" in its seventh week at the Trans-Lux 

West. 

Two engagements were doing very well. 

"Doctor Zhivago" in its sixth week at the 

Guild went ahead of its fifth week's gross 

with a 160 and "Don't Look Back" was 

matching its opening week's smash business 

at the 34th Street East. 

Roadshows were off, as were the rest of 

the city's first-run west and east side houses. 

Only two long-runs were doing good boxoffice. 

"In the Heat of the Night," in its 

seventh week at 

the Capitol and 86th Street 

East and "Bonnie and Clyde" in its fifth 

week at the Forum and Murray Hill. 

(Average Is 100) 

Capitol In the Heat of the Night (UA), 

7th wk 180 

Carnegie Hall Cinema The Exterminoting Angel 

(Altura), 4th wk 180 

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Cinema I Laughing (Col), 7th wk 150 

Cinema II Accident (Cinema V), 22nd wk 150 

Cinema 57 Rendezvous To Sir, With Love (Col), 

7th wk 170 

Criterion Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

26th wk, of two-a-day 180 

86th Street Eost In the Heot of the Night (UA), 

7th wk 200 

Festivol The Climax (Lopert) 190 

Fine Arts A Man for All Seasons (Col), 

4th wk. of two-a-day 1 80 

Forum Bonnie and Clyde (WB-7A), 5th wk 190 

Loew's State The Bible (20th-Fox), 51st wk. 

of two-o-doy 180 

Loew's Tower East The Birds, the Bees and the 

Italians (Cloridge), 6th wk 185 

Murray Hill Bonnie and Clyde (WB-7A), 

12th wk 165 

New Embassy The Family Way (WB-7A), 

12th wk 165 

Par, 5— A Man and a Woman (AA), 62nd wk 190 

Radio City Music Hall Up the Down Staircase 

(WB-7A), 5th wk 1 65 

Rivoh— The Trip (AlP), 4th wk 

140 

Sutton Games (Univ) 

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34th Street East Don't Look Back (LP), 2nd wk 200 

Trans-Lux West Beach Red (UA), 7th wk .150 

Trans-Lux 85th Street— Ulysses (Cont'l), 26th wk 180 

Warner The Flim-Flam Man (20th-Fox), 

4th wk 

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"Thoroughly Modem Millie' 

Ahead in Buffalo With 140 

BUFFALO— "Banning" was the only 

newcomer on the first-run scene, scoring 

1 10 in its dual engagement at the downtown 

Cinema and Amherst theatres. 

"In the Heat 

of the Night" was still fairly strong at Shea's 

Buffalo, with 120 in its fourth week. 

"Thoroughly Modern Millie" held up well 

at the Colvin. The reserved-seat attraction 

registered 140 in its ninth week. 

Buffalo In the Heat of the Night (UA), 4th wk. 120 

Cinema, Amherst Banning (Univ) 110 

Colvin Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 9th wk. 140 

Baltimore Grosses Falter 

As Hurricane Flags Fly 

BALTIMORE—The threat of a hurricane 

striking the area held would-be patrons 

away from motion picture theatres for several 

days and evenings, accounting for a 

drop in percentages of the several long-run 

reliables. "To Sir, With Love" and "Barefoot 

in the Park" held on to top positions 

on the grossing ladder, "In the Heat of the 

Night" was third and "The Honey Pot" 

fourth. All others were below 200. 

Boulevard, Pike's Luv (Col), 3rd wk 170 

Charles The Honey Pot (UA), 3rd wk 200 

Edmondson Village Thoroughly Modern Millie 

(Univ), 15th wk 150 

Five West King of Hearts (Lopert), 2nd wk 170 

Hippodrome In the Heat of the Night (UA), 

5th wk 225 

Little I, a Woman (Audubon), 1 8th wk 100 

Mayfair The Family Woy (WB-7A), 5th wk 175 

Playhouse To Sir, With Love (Col), 9th wk 250 

Reisterstown Plaza, Town Barefoot in the Park 

(Para), 4th wk 250 

Seven East King and Country (AlP), 3rd wk. ... 1 50 

Westview Cinema, York Road Cinema The Dirty 

Dozen (MGM), 1 th wk 1 175 

'Mother's House' to Debut 

At Baronet October 9 

NEW YORK — Jack Clayton's film of 

'Our Mother's House," a Filmways presentation 

for MGM release, will open in its 

American premiere engagement October 9 

at the Baronet Theatre here. Starring Dirk 

Bogarde, the drama is based on the Julian 

Gloag novel and was the official British 

entry at the recent Venice Film Festival. 

Martin Ransohoff is executive producer and 

Clayton both produced and directed. 

Gala Benefit Premiere 

For 'Cool Hand Luke' 

NEW YORK—Senators Jacob K. Javits 

and Robert F. Kennedy and Mayor John V. 

Lindsay will serve as honorary chairmen of 

the premiere of "Cool Hand Luke," the 

WB-7 Arts picture starring Paul Newman, 

at Loew's State Theatre here November 1 

for the benefit of the Actors Studio. 

Following the premiere, a supper party 

will be held in the Americana Hotel to 

honor Jack J. Valenti, president of the Motion 

Picture Ass'n of America. Spyros P. 

Skouras will be chairman of the event, with 

Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard as co-chairman. 

Vice-chairmen include Barney Balaban, 

Robert S. Benjamin, Claude A. Giroux, 

Samuel Goldwyn, Eliot Hyman, Benjamin 

Kalmenson, Joseph E. Levine, Robert H. 

O'Brien, Milton R. Rackmil, A. Schneider, 

Laurence Tisch and Adolph Zukor. 

'Samurai' in Three Parts 

To Open Sept. 29 in N.Y. 

NEW YORK — "Samurai," a Japaneseproduced 

film trilogy whose first part won 

an Oscar as the best foreign film of 1956, 

will be presented in its entirety in three 

separate installments at the 55th Street 

Playhouse beginning Friday (29). 

The first part will play for two weeks, 

followed by parts II and III, each playing 

for two weeks. The three installments have 

an aggregate running time of five hours. 

The trilogy stars Toshiro Mifune. It was 

produced by Kazuo Takimura and directed 

by Hiroshi Inagaki and is a Toho International 

release in Eastman Color. Part I was 

co-edited by William Holden, the actor, 

who is said to have "discovered" the production 

for American audiences and acted as 

a sponsor. The two sequels have not been 

seen in this country. 

'GWTW Benefit Premiere 

At N.Y. Rivoli Oct. 10 

NEW YORK—The opening of MGM's 

"Gone With the Wind" in 70mm and stereophonic 

sound at UA's Rivoli Theatre October 

10 will be held for the benefit of 

United Cerebral Palsy of New York. 

Proceeds of ticket sales will aid the 

organization's 1967-68 fund-raising campaign. 

Chairman of the evening is Jane 

Pickens Langley and a number of prominent 

figures from society, government, entertainment 

and the art worlds are expected 

to 

attend. 

'The Fear' to Premiere 

At Two N.Y. Theatres 

NEW YORK—"The Fear," the official 

Greek entry at the 1966 Cannes and Berlin 

film festivals, will open its American premiere 

engagement at the Trans-Lux 85th 

Street and Cinema Studio theatres October 

9. The film is the work of 34-year-old writer 

and director Costas Manoussakis. Trans-Lux 

Distributing Corp. will release the production 

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NEW YORK—Fifty industry leaders met 

in the New York Hilton Hotel Thursday 

(14) to plan the November 3 luncheon of the 

Anti-Defamation League at which James 

F. Gould, president of Radio City Music 

Hall, will receive the ADL's Human Relations 

award. The turnout was the largest 

the history of the ADL organizational 

luncheons. 

Mort Simshine, executive director of the 

Independent Theatre Owners" Ass'n and 

publisher-editor of the Independent Film 

Journal, was presented with the special 

Torch of Liberty plaque by Harry Brandt, 

honorary chairman of the ADL committee. 

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The principal speaker was Lester J. Waldman, 

national director of organization and 

planning for the ADL. Sunshine was given 

the plaque for his "distinguished service and 

inspiring leadership in preserving liberty, 

counteracting bigotry, and advancing the 

cause of human rights, dignity and equal 

opportunity." 

In the photo, left to right, are Adolf 

Schimel, treasurer of the motion picture and 

amusement division; Martin Levine, honorary 

chairman; Spyros Skouras, honorary 

chairman; Brandt, .Sunshine; Jerome Edwards, 

general chairman, and Benjamin 

Melniker, honorary chairman. 

BROADWA"^ 

JÛSTIN HOFFMAN, the young actor 

who won the coveted title role in 

Joseph E. Levine's forthcoming release, 

"The Graduate," surprised most trade ob- 

Paris. Also, it does seem an unnecessary 

repetition when so many other directors, 

particularly American ones, deserve a festival 

nod in the retrospective area— Ford, 

Borzage, the American films of Murnau, 

and so forth. 

• 

servers by turning up first in a small role 

Katharine Hepburn's services are back in 

in Columbia's "The Tiger Makes Out" last 

demand, as they should always be, but 

week. Hoffman, who is starred with Anne 

trade talkers are wondering how she will 

Bancroft in the Mike Nichol's film for Embassy, 

didn't receive screen credit in 

make the schedule lineup for her next two 

film projects. Miss Hepburn is supposedly 

"Tiger." 

going to begin shooting "The Lion in Winter" 

for Embassy in Dublin November 1 for 

a period 

The fifth New York 

of 12 weeks. 

Film And 

Festival is the 

Ely Landau has 

leading topic of conversation this week. A 

announced that the actress will star as "The 

number of film huffs were wondering aloud 

Madwoman of Chaillot" for Commonwealth 

why this year's festival included the Abel 

United at the first of the year in 

Paris. 

Gance retrospective. The Museum of Modern 

Art jumped the gun on the festival last 

• 

November 1966. by having their own Those enterprising 20th-Fo.x filmmakers, 

Gance retrospective, although some of the known locally as The CineDrama Production 

Division of the company's Family Club, 

prints were less than complete compared 

with the immaculate Cinematheque Francaise 

ones sent to Lincolti Center from filming of the party scene from their first 

invited industry friends to take part in the 

production, "A Very Simple Art." A cast 

and press party followed last week (24). 

This is the film project being made by the 

20th-Fox employes of the publicity, sales 

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Street grind circuit: "The Mummy's 

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'//)( nu>sl provocative movie ad in agesis 

turning up on the subway system in New 

York. It is the "leave the children at home" 

sign for WB-7 Arts' "Reflections in a Golden 

Eye." which shows Elizabeth Taylor and 

Marlon Brando in distorted closeups with 

a long shot of a male nude on a horse. 

• 

New Yorkers have their choice of reading 

the excerpted memoirs of Stalin's daughter 

in both the New York Times and Life 

Magazine. It is interesting to find so many 

references to films. The names most often 

popping out of this fascinating history are 

Greta Garbo (in "Queen Christina"), Walt 

Disney and Charlie Chaplin. 

• 

One of the handsomest hooks of the season 

is the new Harper's Bazaar "100 Years 

of American Women" and film fans will 

find plenty of beautiful movie stars, past 

and present, filling the pictorial pages. 

• 

One of the ugliest covers of the season is 

the October issue of "Ramparts," which 

features a colored shot of bleeding John 

Lennon (of the Beatles) in UA's forthcoming 

"How I Won the War." Inside is an 

article, "John Lennon, please don't die while 

there is still hope!" by Stephen Schneck. 

• 

The star of the gala invitational world 

premiere of Columbia's "The Tiger Makes 

Out" was a real tiger. The caged animal in 

front of Cinema I last week drew as big an 

audience as the celebrities going into the 

film .showing. 

• 

You can always rely on the tiny television 

screen's choice of movies to reflect the current 

show business scene. This week the 

1958 "Bonnie Parker Story" was shown, 

cashing in on the current WB-7 Arts' "Bonnie 

and Clyde" popularity. That American 

International film stars petulant Dorothy 

Provine as Bonnie and she looked amazingly 

like Faye Dunaway in the current success. 

Also "The Little Foxes," one of Sam 

Goldwyn and William Wyler's best films, 

was aired just before the city's newspapers 

were filled with advertisements for the 

Lincoln Center all-star revival with Anne 

Bancroft, Margaret Leighton and Geraldine 

Chaplin. Those actresses will be filling the 

roles played so magnificently on the screen 

by Bette Davis, Patricia CoUinge and Teresa 

Wright (in her movie debut), respectively. 

• 

Joseph Ende, United Artists vice-president, 

became a grandfather for the third 

time with the birth of a daughter Carolyn 

Margo to his son and daughter-in-law 

Howard and Norma Ende, on September 

13. The new arrival has two brothers, Douglas, 

5. and Adam. 14 months. 

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Arthur Schultheiss has been set as technical 

adviser for 20th-Fox's forthcoming drama, 

"The Detective," to be filmed here beginning 

October 10. Gordon Douglas will be 

directing the Frank Sinatra starrer. 

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JAMES M. BRENNAN HONORED—James M. Brennan, assistant 

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and assistant secretary of Stanley Warner Theatres, was tendered a testimonial dinner 

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ALBANY 

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The second source thought openings could 

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on the screens in different directions for 

Esquire's Tri-City, and Twin Drive-in at 

Menands. 

Relighting by the Esquire of the former 

Players Theatre at New Hartford, a Utica 

suburb, is by October 15 or earlier . . . 

Tri-City Drive-In, Menands, shifted from 

full-time to weekend operation, after Sunday 

(17), 

"The Sound of Music" will be at the 

Strand Theatre at Ogdensburg during the 

house's 50th anniversary. Manager Dale 

Butler said the 20th Century-Fox musical 

will open Wednesday (27). The celebration 

will include other features. The Strand, long 

a Schine house, is now operated by Herbert 

Nitke's Panther Corp. 

Stanley Warner's Madison closed Sunday 

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August. The closing had been set earlier, but 

a holdover of "Doctor Zhivago" and other 

factors delayed the date. 

The Town Theatre at Chateaugay ran 

large advertisements in Malone on a "Giant 

Battle of the Bands" held Sunday afternoon 

(17), with Chuck Hunter of a radio station 

as host. "Good Times" was the screen attraction. 

"Blow-Up" was the feature at night . . . 

Harold de Graw dated "A Man for All Seasons" 

at the Oneonta at Oneonta. 

Walter Reade jr. shifted the 9-W Drive-In 

at Kingston to a weekend schedule and locked 

the gates of the Sunset Drive-In, also at 

Kingston, until spring . . . Charles A. Smakwitz, 

Stanley Warner director of publicity 

and public relations, during a second trip 

here from New York within two days, said 

current business is "pretty good." 

Pat Simmons, daytime employe of the 

Times-Union, is now on the night-weekend 

staff of the Strand Theatre . . . Chuck 

Tryon, back from Navy Reserve service, is 

the assistant manager. He started as an usher 

at the Hellman. 

James V. Fisher Is Dead; 

Albany Area Exhibitor 

ALBANY—James V. Fisher, 52, owner 

of Hollywood Drive-In at Averill Park, died 

in a trainer plane crash at nearby Poestenkill 

Airport. Fisher, who built the airer in 

1953 and installed the intricate wiring for 

its electric heaters, had been taking flying 

lessons. 

Services were held in the Mancini Funeral 

Home at Troy and a requiem mass 

was held in St. Anthony's Catholic Church. 

Fisher leaves his wife Beatrice, cashier at 

the Hollywood, a 21 -year-old son serving 

with the Army in Carolina and a daughter. 

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BUFF ALO 

prank Bassett, manager of Panther's Monroe 

Theatre in Rochester, has resigned, 

and Linn Smeal, Riviera manager, has been 

placed in charge of both houses . . . Walter 

Schloss of Wescot Theatres in Syracuse has 

written New York State NATO president 

Sidney J. Cohen complaining that Syracuse 

University is opening its fall film season 

with "The Russians Are Coming the Russians 

Are Coming" and a lineup of top 

pictures are to follow. Cohen promised to 

see what can be done about the "unfair 

competition." 

Ike Ehrlichman, Universal branch manager, 

tradescreened "Counterpoint" Monday 

evening (18), and Ken Reuter, United Artists 

exchange manager, tradescreened "Track of 

Thunder" Tuesday afternoon (19) in the 

Operators screening room. 

Marcia George, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 

Gerald R. George, plans to be married to 

James F. Dworak of Tonawanda May 25. 

George is branch manager of National Theatre 

Supply here. George has another reason 

to be happy— he received a $360,000 

order for Alexander Smith carpets and pads 

from the Rochester Institute of Technology. 

Bob King, second assistant chief barker 

of Tent 7, who won $300 in the Variety 

Clubs International awards plan for the 

communications media, will be honored at 

a luncheon Monday (25) in the club's headquarters, 

and will accept a plaque awarded 

to WKBW-TV. Robert R. Hall of Toronto, 

VCI veep will make the presentation. 

James J. Hayes, managing director of the 

Cinema Theatre and Wehrle Drive-In, again 

has been appointed Tent 7's chairman of 

the Sir Billy Butlin incentive plan committee. 

In the two years of the plan's existence, 

the Buffalo tent tied for first place 

and ended in a tie for third last year. 

Chief Barker Peter G. Becker announced 

monies from the telethon will be presented 

to Tent 7's Children's Foundation October 

16 at a dinner in the club . Berman, 

assistant chief barker, has been reappointed 

chairman of the permanent telethon 

committee of the Variety Club . . . Brian 

Byrnes, account executive of WGR-TV; 

Richard Frank, MGM salesman, and 

Michael J. Radice, restaurateur, are new 

members of Tent 7 . . . Barker Marc Lippman 

has become the father of a daughter. 

Lee Artoe Says 'No Price 

Increase on Carbons Now' 

CHICAGO — Lee Artoe of Lee Artoe 

Carbon Co., which has headquarters here, 

said there will be no price increase on Lee 

Artoe Roman carbons at the present time. 

"We have always been against using 

minor cost increases to boost the final price 

to the theatre manyfold," declared Artoe, 

president of the company. "Unless the cost 

of taking our money to the bank is increased 

substantially, we shall hold our low prices 

as 

long as possible." 


. . Two 

600-Seaf Cinema VII 

To Rise Near Albany 

ALBANY—Howard J. Goldstein announced 

he will build a 600-seat theatre in 

Colonie"s Village Square Shopping Center, 

now under construction on the Troy-Schenectady 

Road, next to Jamaica Inn. 

Expected to open in March 1968, the 

Cinema VII Theatre will feature the latest 

projection and sound equipment that will 

in 

make possible all modern techniques of 

film presentation. The house will be equipped 

with air-conditioning and climate control. 

Unlimited parking will be available 

adjacent to the house. 

Goldstein, a Schenectady resident, operates 

four drive-ins at Glens Falls, Lake 

George Village and Castleton, Vt. He also 

has a film buying-booking service. 

'Fish Came Out' to NY Plaza 

After First of October 

NEW YORK—The American premiere 

engagement of International Classics' "The 

Day the Fish Came Out" will open at the 

Plaza Theatre here following the current run 

of 20th-Fox"s "The Flim-Flam Man" after 

the first of October. 

Written, produced and directed by 

Michael Cacoyannis, "The Day the Fish 

Came Out" stars Tom Courtenay, Candice 

Bergen and Sam Wanamaker. It is the filmmaker's 

first film in color. The score was 

written by Mikis Theodorakis, who also 

wrote the music for Cacoyannis' "Zorba the 

Greek," which 20th-Fox released. 

Palomar to Start Filming 

'For Love of Ivy' in N.Y. 

NEW YORK—"For Love of Ivy," the 

Sidney Poitier comedy drama, will begin 

production in New York in October, according 

to Edgar J. Scherick and Jay 

Weston, producers for the Palomar Pictures 

International, Inc., film which Daniel Mann 

will direct. The film is based on an original 

story by Poitier written for the screen by 

Robert Alan Aurthur. This is the first feature 

production from Palomar, newly formed 

film subsidiary of the American Broadcasting 

Companies. Cinerama Releasing 

Corp. will distribute "For Love of Ivy" 

theatrically. 

N.Y. B'nai B'rith Lodge 

To Fete Entertainers 

NEW YORK — New York's 

Cinema 

Lodge of B'nai B'rith will pay tribute to 

Joe Glaser, president of Associated Booking 

Corp., and a group of performers who have 

been participating in the shows organized by 

the lodge and being given at local veterans 

hospitals. 

Special scrolls will be awarded to Glaser 

and performers, who include comedian Lou 

Saxon, soprano Miriam Scott, baritone Allen 

Peck and pianist John Koch, at the lodge's 

first open luncheon meeting of the fall in 

the Hotel Warwick Thursday (28). 

PHILADELPHIA 

Ctanley Smithers, formerly with Milgram 

Theatres, has been appointed general 

manager of the Marshall & Roed Theatres, 

headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J. 

Stanton Theatre Manager Bill Kanefsky 

vacationed not far from the celluloid and 

sound production—in sunny California. He 

returned Thursday (21). 

A Philadelphia independent movie producer 

Barney Sackett reportedly has bought 

the screen rights to the novel "Possessor," 

penned by local businessman and patron of 

the arts S. Beryl Lush. The book is centered 

on prerevolutionary Russia and Philadelphia 

in 

the '20s. 

Steve Shipps, long-time Filmrow figure, 

has terminated his association with the midtown 

Fox Theatre. He expects to remain in 

the Philadelphia area. 

Julie Christie and Terence Stamp are 

teamed in MGM's "Far From the Madding 

Crowd" scheduled to open a Philadelphia 

engagement November 1 at the Midtown 

Theatre. 

Arcadia Theatres has leased store space 

at its center city location to Barton's Candy 

Co. The lease transaction was announced 

by Ben Shapiro, manager of the newly remodeled 

Arcadia. 

Willie Goldberg of the Studio Theatre 

reports that assistant manager Lee Miller, 

who has been ill several weeks, is expected 

to resume his duties soon. If any of his 

friends wish to drop him a card during the 

remainder of his convalescence, send it to: 

6741 Linmore Ave., Phila., Pa. 19142. 

The Academy Award-winning "A Man 

and a Woman" is the solidest draw of the 

season at the new Theatre 1812 in midtown 

Philadelphia. The movie previously ran 45 

weeks at the Lane Theatre and other suburban 

houses before the present engagement. 

Milt Young, president of the local Motion 

Picture Ass'n and representative for 

Columbia Pictures, is expected to announce 

plans for MPA's annual charity affair within 

the next two weeks. The organization 

conducts its charity work quietly and without 

publicity. However, once a year an affair 

is held for additional funds and contributions. 

Young, incidentally, was on tour here 

with Jose Ferrer, starring in Columbia's 

"Enter Laughing," which goes into national 

release next month. Amid shopping, sightseeing 

and picture taking, Ferrer and four 

of his brood, plus housekeeper, left from 

Penn Station minus one Polaroid camera. 

Young traced it to the baggage room and 

quickly forwarded it to the Ferrer family, 

already searching for the camera in Washington. 

Buena Vista's "The Happiest Millionaire" 

will have its East Coast premiere October 

20 at the Bovd Theatre . new Sidney 

Poitier pictures have been running neckand-neck 

at the boxoffice here in early opening 

reports. "To Sir, With Love," which 

started its fifth week at the Arcadia, was a 

record grosser in the first three weeks, and 

still is drawing a peak volume of moviegoers 

and breaking every record in sight at the 

theatre. At the Stanton, Poitier's "In the 

Heat of the Night " smashed boxoffice records. 

According to Ben Shapiro of the 

Arcadia and Larry Leopold of the Stanton 

both pictures have been "toe-to-toe" all the 

way. 

MGM's "Gone With the Wind," this time 

in 70mm and stereophonic sound, is scheduled 

to open October 18 at the Randolph 

Theatre on a roadshow policy . . . Warner 

Bros. -7 Art's "Camelot" is slated to open at 

the Stanley Theatre on a reserved-seat basis, 

said Stanley Warner Theatres representative 

Roy Robbins. A definite date has not been 

set 

yet. 

Garvey Is Buffalo-Area 

Fall Film Fair Chairman 

BUFFALO—Joseph P. Garvey, managing 

director of Panther's Granada Theatre, 

has been named exhibitor chairman for 

NATO's Fall Film 

Fair in the Buffalo 

Joseph P. Garvey 

area. The appointment 

was made at a 

meeting of New York 

State NATO, headed 

by Sidney J. Cohen. 

Local publicity and 

advertising co-chairmen 

for the October 

nationwide event are 

Jerry Westergren of 

the Dipson circuit and 

Eddie Meade of the Meade Advertising 

Agency. 

Exhibitors have been invited to a meeting 

Wednesday (27) in the state NATO headquarters 

here, when plans will be made 

for the Fall Film Fair campaign. News 

media representatives also will be on hand. 

A luncheon will follow in the Old Spain Restaurant. 

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glatt Bros. Theatres' original unit at East 

Brady has been acquired by Max 

Summerville jr.. Paramount salesman, who 

is having it remodeled and updated. It will 

be named the Community Theatre. The 

modernization will continue from six to 

eight more weeks. Restrooms will be all 

new, and a new marquee with changeable 

letters will add to an attractive front. A 

widescreen will be installed, with lens, draperies, 

etc.. being furnished by Atlas Theatre 

Supply. 

Two former local Penn Theatre managers 

have been heard from: Fred Kunkel now is 

buyer-booker for the southern division of 

Lippert Theatres and Bill Elder has joined 

his brother-in-law in the Hamden (Conn.) 

vending business. 

The Sunday movie question will be an 

issue in the November 7 municipal election 

at Wilkinsburg, which has not had a theatre 

for about three years. 

More than two dozen drive-ins have cut 

back to weekend-only operations . . Jake 

. 

Pulkowski, veteran service department manager 

at National Screen, was on vacation 

last week. He has been on the job more than 

40 years, starting with T.P. Miller in early 

1927. 

Columbia Pictures will move from 1623 

Boulevard of the Allies Friday (29), and will 

be in its new exchange offices in the Fulton 

BIdg. October 2. 

The Regent Square Theatre will screen 

Columbia's "Young Americans" Tuesday 

(26) at 1 p.m. . . . Joe Bugala, Manos Theatres 

general manager, is vacationing. 

New widescreens have been installed at 

the Majestic, Ellwood City, and the State at 

Kittanning by Atlas Theatre Supply. 

Jimmy Lay, formerly here with Universal 

and lately with the local Paramount office, 

has joined the Universal sales staff at Philadelphia. 

Mrs. Albert P. Way, whose late husband 

was an exhibitor before the turn of the 

century and in the theatre business in Clearfield 

County more than 60 years, is dead. 

He also had been a legislator of DuBois, Pa. 

She leaves two sons Marlin and Albert P. 

jr.. 

several grandchildren and a great-grandchild. 

Bob Prentiss and Bob Wolcott wrote, 

produced, directed and filmed "Ah Sweet 

Mystery of Life—at Last," which they describe 

as "psychedelight opera." It was presented 

four weekends at Kramer's Restaurant. 

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AT PRESS RECEPTION — Mrs. 

Harry R. Christopher, general chairman 

of the Maryland Federation of 

Women's Clubs' sponsorship of the 

benefit premiere performance of "The 

Happiest Millionaire," greets Malcolm 

Barber, national publicity director of 

Buena Vista Distributors, and Jack 

Fruchtman, president of JF Theatres, 

at a press reception held at the home of 

Harry L. Gladding in Baltimore. The 

benefit premiere is scheduled to be held 

October 25 at the Town Theatre in 

Baltimore. 

Citizenship Group Cites 

Col.'s 'Young Americans' 

WASHINGTON — Columbia's "Young 

Americans" was honored with a special citation 

for "its great entertainment value for 

audiences of all ages" at the 22nd National 

Conference on Citizenship Tuesday evening 

(19) during banquet ceremonies in the 

Mayflower Hotel. This marked the first 

time in the history of the organization that 

a film has been so honored. 

The picture, which was shown to delegates 

earlier in the day at the DePont Theatre, 

also is the first film ever to be selected 

for showing at a meeting of the group. The 

award was accepted by producer Robert 

Cohn from Associate Justice Tom C. Clark, 

president of the National Conference. 

Also honored at the banquet was Milton 

C. Anderson, founder and director of the 

Young Americans, who star in the color 

film, which will have its world premiere in 

Charlotte, N.C., next month. 

Univ. Foreign Sales Force 

Begins Salute to Aboaf 

NEW YORK—The annual Universal 

International 

October Aboaf Month begins 

Monday (25) and runs through October 28. 

This is the annual overseas sales force 

salute to Americo Aboaf, vice-president and 

foreign general manager. 

With Aboaf's retirement set for the first 

of 1968. the current sales effort will be the 

last of the October Aboaf Months for the 

company. It will also represent a final opportunity 

for Universal's overseas personnel 

to honor their sales chief. Aboaf has been 

the foreign general manager for the company 

since 1950. 

The films scheduled for release overseas 

include "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "The 

War Wagon," "Rough Night in Jericho" 

and "Games." 

BALTIMORE 

J^bcl Caplan, manager of the Westway 

Theatre, was pleased with the results 

of his back-to-school show Saturday (16), 

featuring four films and free popcorn. He 

said there were boxoffice lines a block long. 

Jerry Sandy, Washington branch manager 

of AIP, was in town on business . . . Jack 

Fruchtman, president of JF Theatres, and 

Aaron Seidler. buyer-booker for the circuit, 

flew to New York Tuesday (19) on business. 

. . . Cliff Jarrett, 

Perk Parkhurst has discontinued weekday 

matinees at his Randallstown Plaza 

Theatre . 

Meyers reports he will 

close his Pocomoke Drive-ln for the season 

at the end of October 

owner of the Capitol Theatre and Shore 

Drive-In at Ocean City, said his units had 

little damage from the hurricane that struck 

there. 

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Edward Kimpel, Rome Theatres buyerbooker, 

returned from a business trip to 

Albany . . Louis Crossett, assistant manager 

of the Randallstown Plaza, has resigned, 

and Maurice Block was named to 

succeed him, announced Eric Ledbetter, JF 

Theatres general manager. 

Daniel Sattler, general manager of the 

Hiway Theatre and Edgewater Shopping 

Center, has been named vice-president of 

the Baltimore Travel Bureau . . . John Broumas, 

head of Broumas Theatres, was in town 

and had luncheon with T. Hank Vogel, 

president of the Maryland Theatre Owners 

Ass'n, and George Brehm. general manager 

of the Westview Cinema. 

Nine Directors at Festival 

For Their Film Showings 

NEW YORK—Nine directors from all 

over the world arrived in New York last 

week to be present at the showings of their 

films at the fifth New York Film Festival 

at Philharmonic Hall. The directors are not 

only appearing at the afternoon press screenings 

but at the public evening performances. 

A number of press conferences and interviews 

are also taking place through the close 

of the activities on September 30. 

Gillo Pontecorvo. director of "The Battle 

of Algiers," attended the premiere festivities 

after his film opened the fifth annual film 

event. Other directors present include 

Sweden's Bo Widerherg, director of "Elvira 

Madigan"; Rene Allio and his wife, Malka 

Ribovska, director and star respectively of 

the French entry, "The Other One"; Istvan 

Szabo, Hungarian director of "Father"; 

Dusan Makavejec. Yugoslav director of 

"An Affair of the Heart"; Peter Whitehead, 

British director of the two films comprising 

the "The London Scene" program; John 

Korty, the American director of "Funnyman" 

and Jerzy Skolimowski. the Polish director 

of "Bariera" and "Le Depart." 

Henri Langlois, curator of the Cinematheque 

Francaise in Paris which supplied 

the films for the Abel Gance retrospective, 

is also attending the festival. 


NEWS AND VIEWS OF THE PRODUCTIOr^ CEN-TER 

Top AIP Executives 

In London for Talks 

LONDON—American International Pictures 

heads Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. 

Nicholson arrived here Wednesday (20) for 

preproduction conferences with Tony Tenser 

of Tigon-Global Film on their upcoming 

co-production "The Conqueror Worm," 

color and scope feature based on the Edgar 

Allan Poe classic. 

Vincent Price will star in the picture 

which begins shooting this month from a 

screenplay by Tom Baker and Michael 

Reeves. 

Nicholson and Arkoff have concluded coproduction 

and distribution meetings with 

Constantine Films executives in Munich and 

participated in activities attendant to the 

premiere opening of AlP's "Devil's Angels" 

on the Champs Elysee in Paris. 

NGC's Eugene Klein Hosts 

Israeli Gen. Weizmann 

HOLLYWOOD — Eugene Klein, 

(Hollywood Office—1714 Ivor St., Room 205. Phone: HO 5-1186) 

president 

of National General Corp., and his wife 

hosted Gen. Ezer Weizmann, chief of operations 

of the Israeli armed forces and 

founder of that nation's air force, at a cocktail 

party Monday evening (18). 

Actor James Stewart, a brigadier general 

in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, was on hand, 

as were members of the press and Victor 

Carter, Harold Lipton, Abe Lastfogel, Richard 

Graff, Daniel Poller, Barbara Rush, Mr. 

and Mrs. Carl Foreman, Alfred Hart, Leon 

Kaplan, Joe Schoenfeld, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene 

Wyman, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Weitman, 

Bobby Darin, Edward G. Robinson 

and Michael Blankfort. 

Health & Welfare Plan 

Has 20,452 Participating 

HOLLYWOOD — The Motion Picture 

Health and Welfare Fund now has 20,452 

active participants, the highest number since 

the fund was established in 1953, according 

to Albert Erickson, fund chairman. 

The figure does not include dependents 

of participants, who also receive complete 

health coverage or 3.100 retirees under the 

Motion Picture Pension Plan, who with their 

qualified dependents also receive full health 

and welfare benefits. 

When the plan was inaugurated, 11,100 

members of the industry were covered. 

'Movies and You' Winners 

Are Guests in Hollywood 

HOLLYWOOD— Mrs. William Malatestinic 

and Mrs. John Oakley, winners of the 

Motion Picture Ass'n of America-General 

Federation of Women's Clubs second annual 

Movies and You contest, were here last 

week with their husbands for a week-long 

tour of Hollywood as guests of the MPAA. 

They represented the Highland (Ind.) Junior 

Women's Club and also were accompanied 

by Rosemarie Markgraf, MPAA 

community relations 

department staffer. 

Besides visits to the studios of Universal, 

MGM, 20th-Fox and Paramount, the group 

was guest of Columbia at the opening of 

"Young Americans" at the Greek Theatre, 

had luncheon with NATO president Sherrill 

C. Corwin and exhibitor Robert Selig and a 

tour of Disneyland. 

The Highland club's winning program, of 

which Mrs. Malatestinic and Mrs. Oakley 

were co-chairmen, was one in which they 

enlisted the local theatre owner, the PTA, 

school board and the city's merchants in a 

series of Saturday matinees for young people. 

In the process of supplying family entertainment, 

the club also raised $900, which 

was distributed to the area's six elementary 

schools. 

Schell Gets Spain Awards 

MADRID—Maximilian Schell was guest 

of honor at the annual awards banquet of 

Spain's Circle of Movie Writers. Schell, starring 

here with Barbara Werle in William R. 

Forman's Cinerama production of "East of 

Java," was presented the group's best actor 

awards voted to him in past years for "Judgment 

at Nuremberg" and "The Reluctant 

Saint." 

New Director for 'Heart' 

HOLLYWOOD—Robert Ellis 

Miller has 

taken over as director of Warner Bros.-? 

Arts "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." succeeding 

Joseph Strick who withdrew because 

of reported difference of "artistic temperament," 

the studio announced Wednesday 

(20). Alan Arkin stars in the picture 

being produced in Selma, Ala. 

Welles in 'House of Cards' 

HOLLYWOOD — Orson Welles was 

signed in Rome by producer Dick Berg to 

co-star with George Peppard and Inger 

Stevens in Universal Picture's "House of 

Cards." 

Worldwide Convention 

Under Way at MGM 

LOS ANGELES—In an unprecedented 

gathering of motion picture officials from 

throughout the world, planes arrived here 

Sunday (24) from every continent, bringing 

200 members of MGM's sales, promotion 

and merchandising departments for this 

week's "Worldwide Lionpower" convention 

at the studios. 

Delegates met Sunday evening in the Beverly 

Wilshire Hotel for an informal dinner, 

with convention business scheduled Monday 

morning (25), when president Robert H. 

O'Brien is to deliver an official welcoming 

address in the MGM Studio Theatre. 

In addition to the domestic contingent, 

representatives arrived from Argentina, 

Australia. Austria, Belgium. Brazil, Chile, 

Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, 

Great Britain, Holland, Hong Kong, 

Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, 

Philippine Islands, Portugal, Puerto 

Rico, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan 

and Venezuela. 

It marks the first time in MGM's 42-year 

history that 

a combined domestic and international 

conference is 

being conducted. 

Preminger Back in N.Y. 

After Reading New Film 

NEW YORK—Otto Preminger returned 

to his office here Wednesday (20) after 

spending three months in Hollywood in 

preparation for the film version of John 

Hersey's novel "Too Far to Walk," scheduled 

to go before the cameras early next 

year for Paramount release. 

While in Hollywood, Preminger tested a 

number of young players for roles in the 

film in which there are two male principals. 

Arrives in Hollywood 

HOLLYWOOD—Vasa Stojkobic, editor 

of Vecernje Novosti, the leading newspaper 

in Yugoslavia, arrived in Hollywood for 

meetings with the executive committee of 

the 15th annual Deb Star Ball on his country's 

participation in the international portion 

of the contest. He told the committee 

he already has been guaranteed cooperation 

from the three leading film studios in Yugoslavia—Avala 

in Belgrad, Jadran in Zagreb 

and Vesna in Ljubljana. 

Joseph Strick has been signed to direct 

20th Century-Fox's "Justine." 

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WOLLYWOOD'S demand on live theatre 

for new ideas and successful plays was 

made primarily in New York or London 

where the action took place. The lineup 

starting with "West Side Story," "My Fair 

Lady," "Barefoot in the Park" and many 

on the boards, including "Finian"s Rainbow." 

are in the musical category. Due to 

the new stature of theatre in Los Angeles, 

with Gordon Davidson's Mark Taper Center 

Theatre Group and James Doolittle's 

Huntington Hartford Theatre, the trend is 

being reversed. 

The film colony has seen the theatre 

move out of the roadshow category to professional, 

worldwide, cosmopolitan sophisticated 

standards. Instead of tired old revivals 

playing in the worn old Biltmore Theatre 

in Los Angeles, or the religious Philharmonic 

Auditorium. Davidson and Doolittle's 

stages are witnesses to the change in audience 

tastes. It hasn't been easy for Davidson 

to choose his plays because the Music 

Center is a county enterprise. Censorship 

was facing him from the start. 

Motion pictures have broken the ranks 

of the material which can be presented in 

adult form. They are proving that the theatre 

of black comedy and the theatre of the 

absurd are good boxoffice. Davidson made 

his point with a lineup of seldom-seen sophistication 

demanding intelligent searching 

of audiences into content. In the form of 

his modified central-staging in the $21 million 

Music Center complex, he produced 

"The Devils," "Sorrows of Frederic" and 

his latest "The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi," 

sometimes called Friedrich Duerrenmatt's 

"outrageous comedy." 

The film industry benefits tremendously 

from this shot-in-the-arm of new, live theatre. 

How important is it to the art and in- 

Tors' Wild Animal Ranch 

To Become Public Park 

HOLLYWOOD — Ivan Tors plans to 

open his Africa, U.S.A., wild animal ranch 

as a public park next summer. To be known 

as Animal Kingdom, it will be the first of 

two amusement parks (the other in Florida) 

planned by the producer at a total cost of 

$15 million. 

Jack T. Collis, film art director and designer, 

has been engaged as designer. 

Africa, U.S.A., in Soledad Canyon, about 

50 miles from Los Angeles, is owned by 

Tors in partnership with Ralph Heifer, the 

wild animal expert. It is the pioneer center 

for affection training for animals, with the 

present census exceeding 600 wild and rare 

animals, among them Clarence the Cross- 

Eyed Lion and Judy the Chimp of television 

fame. It also is the site of all filming, other 

than Africa, for Tors' TV series "Daktari" 

and "Cowboy in Africa." The ranch furnishes 

90 per cent of all animals used by 

other producers in 

the Los Angeles area. 

Said Tors, "We want to give the public 

WITH SYD CASSYD^ 

dustry? It depends on what aspect of filmmaking 

is affected most. Some of the plays 

won't be used as film material, but the use 

of new directors and testing talent, away 

from the small off-Hollywood Boulevard 

theatres in front of sophisticated expensiveticket 

audiences, brings out the tops. Instead 

of television providing the new blood, Davidson 

and the APA-Phoenix of Doolittle 

will do its share. 

With "Pantagleize" and the premiere of 

lonesco's "The King Dies," one of the truly 

great pieces of acting and production takes 

place in Hollywood. John Houseman and 

Ellis Rabb directed "Pantagleize" and it was 

reminiscent of the great Theatre Guild staging 

in New York when it was in its heyday. 

Rabb's acting in "Pantagleize," along with 

his staging, and the outstanding performance 

of earth-shaking stature of Richard 

Easton in the lonesco play are events rarely 

witnessed in the theatre. Hollywood has a 

chance to get both of these men to replace 

some of the greats who have passed, such 

as Paul Muni, Spencer Tracy, the Barrymores 

and others who came from the theatre. 

While these plays are not always boxoffice 

and don't dent the long-run, hardticket 

film audiences, their effect on the film 

industry will grow at the production level. 

Gregory Peck is a vice-president of the 

Music Center and heads the Center Theatre 

Group board, while Joe Barbera does the 

same for the Huntington Hartford Theatre. 

Many other top names from the film colony 

dominate the lists. 

If the cultural revolution, started under 

government encouragement, has worked 

anywhere, that place can be noted as Hollywood. 

Roger Stevens and his National Foundation 

for the Arts and Humanities has a 

good example to follow. 

a park which closely approximates one of 

Africa's own game preserves with unspoiled 

beauty and exotic animals living in their natural 

state . . . Before we open to the public 

we hope to double the present animal population, 

which now is virtually representative 

of all the wild life in Africa." 

He said there will be regularly scheduled 

demonstrations of affection training, plus a 

nursery for young animals, which will be 

on view of visitors through a one-way glass. 

To make the transformation of the 260 

acres into the unique public park. Tors said 

the acreage will be increased to enable the 

continuation of motion pictures and TV 

productions and servicing. 

A nucleus of about 100 animals already 

has been established in Florida for a second 

animal kingdom projected by Tors. 

Dita Nicole Is Signed 

HOLLYWOOD— Dita Nicole from Vienna 

has been signed by producer Sam Katzman 

for her debut in "For Singles Only," 

a Columbia release. 

Emphasis on U.S. Scenes 

Called for by Abby Mann 

HOLLYWOOD—Writer-producer Abby 

concerned about the fact that there 

Mann is 

are few American writers today who are 

able to capture this nation in its truest sense 

—whether it he in the form of literature or 

on film. 

Mann, who just finished writing "The Detective" 

for 20th-Fox and will next write 

and produce the film version of Arthur 

Miller's "After the Fall" for Paramount, 

feels that not since the 1930's has a really 

definite look at the American scene been 

delineated in the communicative fictional 

arts. 

"We don't know really today what America 

looks like on film," Mann said. "I mean, 

the French do, they show French towns. 

And the Italians do. They show Italian 

towns. They have an idea of what they are 

like. But we don't know what American 

towns are like. I'd like to live in a small 

town for a while just to know what is happening 

in America. 

"I don't know. I know what is happening 

in Los Angeles, somewhat, and I know 

what is happening in New York. And I can 

tell you it is pretty sterile. But I don't know 

what is happening in the rest of America. 

Somebody should do things about America 

today." 

Mann believes the reason there aren't 

movies about America is because "I think 

we have become too lazy. I think we have 

become too conscious of our image. I think 

we have become too conscious of security. 

Everybody wants to hold on to something. 

Everybody says, 'If I put my neck out, I 

may get it chopped off.' " 

Directing Principles to Be 

Studied in UCLA Classes 

HOLLYWOOD—Film and theatre pro 

duction techniques for directors will be the 

focus of three new UCLA classes in the fall 

offered by the University of California extension. 

Scheduled on Mondays through December 

1 I from 7-10 p.m., "The Technical and 

Scientific Film" will cover the making of 

films for business and industry. Physicist 

Gerard Pick, member of the technical staff 

at Hughes Aircraft Co., will lead the discussions. 

James Kerans. associate professor of theatre 

arts at UCLA, will head the "Directors 

Workshop" on Tuesdays (26) through December 

12, 7:30-10 p.m. Various campus 

productions in rehearsal and acting classes 

will provide participants the opportunity to 

study principles of directing and observe 

some of the problems. 

Today's foreign and English-speaking 

films and the work of its directors are the 

subjects of a lecture-discussion course, "New 

Directions in the Film: Realism and Beyond." 

Santa Monica City College associate 

professor of English Alan Casty will conduct 

the class on Wednesdays (27) through 

December 13. 7:30-10 p.m. 

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Tîirk Tenser, vice-president of Crown International 

Pictures, set up a 30-theatre 

multiple run of two CIP pictures, "Wild 

Rebels" and "Hell on Wheels," starting October 

2. Tenser set another 30-theatre multiple 

run for "Love the Italian Way" for an 

October 4 opening. 

Jeff Lewis of the 99-Drive-In, Terrace 

Drive-In and South Chester, all in the Bakersfield 

area, was in conferring with Syd 

Lehman and Harry Rackin of Exhibitors 

Service. 

Betty Tracy, executive secretary to Jack 

Berwick, Columbia Pictures exchange ad 

head, is on vacation, while Harry Colburn, 

Columbia salesman, just returned from his 

holiday . . . The 

women employes of Favorite 

Films hosted Lucia Jimenez on her 

birthday with a luncheon at Andrea's in 

Beverly Hills. 

. . . Lou 

. . 

Andrew M. Heederick jr. has been named 

division manager of Buena Vista 

Vega of the Cornele Theatre, Burbank, was 

in Showmanship Art Service picking up 

some show cards . Helen York. 20th-Fox 

exchange ad head, left on a seven-day, ninecity 

European jaunt, after completing home 

office conferences in New York. 

Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Syd Lehman 

(Exhibitors Service) on their 4()th 

wedding 

anniversary. 

Tlie WOIVIPI club has extended invitations 

to families, friends and associates to 

attend a special screening of "The Cal-Arts 

Story" in the Walt Disney Studios Tuesday 

(26). Cal-Arts was Disney's dream city for 

tomorrow's artists to dwell, study and develop 

their talents. For this purpose Disney 

donated 38 acres of the Disney Studio's 

Golden Acre Ranch near Newhall. 

Llniversal's "Privilege" opened an exclusive 

extended engagement at the newly 

opened Granada Theatre. Peter Watkins, 

British director who made this feature film, 

participated in the promotional campaign 

and attended the opening. 

Stanley E. Dudelson, first vice-president 

of American International Television, arrived 

in Hollywood for a week's business 

trip. 

MGM's early 1968 release schedule will 

be highlighted by the world premiere of 

Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." 

Three other releases were announced as 

opening in New York, between September 

18 and the end of the year. According to 

Morris E. Lefko, MGM vice-president and 

general sales manager, they are "Our Mother's 

House," opening in October; "More 

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release, and "The Fearless Vampire 

Killers," also set for a November opening. 

John Dexter, English stage director, arrived 

in Hollywood from London for meetings 

with Carl Foreman, to discuss the possibility 

of making his debut as a film director 

on "The Virgin Soldiers," upcoming 

Highroad Production. 

Anjanette Comer won the International 

Photo-Journalists' award as its distinguished 

young actress for 1967. The presentation 

will be made at a dinner to be scheduled on 

her return to Hollywood at the end of this 

month, after she returns from Mexico, where 

she is co-starring with Anthony Quinn's 

MGM film, "Guns of San Sebastian." 

Robert L. Lippert engaged Crown Construction 

Co. for his enterprise in Burlingame. 

The producer-theatre owner is contemplating 

producing commercial and documentary 

films under the supervision of his 

son. Robert jr. 

American International Pictures president 

James H. Nicholson and vice-president and 

national ad-publicity director Milton Moritz 

were in San Francisco to promote "The 

Trip," opening at the Alexandria Theatre. 

Afterward, they went to Chicago for the 

mid-year meeting of Variety Clubs International, 

Producer Lesser Starts 

use Seminar Series 

HOLLYWOOD — Sol 

Lesser added the 

title of "professor" to his list of credits Monday 

(18) when he launched a series of 15 

seminars at the University of Southern California. 

The veteran motion picture producer 

has been signed on as an adjunct professor 

with the university's department of cinema. 

The seminar is limited to 12 graduate students 

and is listed in the curriculum catalog 

as "The Motion Picture Producer . . . His 

Organization and Responsibilities." A prominent 

guest from the Hollywood motion picture 

world will share the podium with Lesser 

for many of the lectures. 

Lesser quipped, "This is the first time I 

have been on a payroll in the past 15 years." 

He is entitled to a total salary of not quite ~ 

$450 for the entire weekly lecture series, 

which ends January 15. He soon will be 78, 

a fact belied by his dapper appearance and 

mental agility. 

James FitzPatrick Speaks 

AT MGM Film Festival 

HOLLYWOOD—James A. FitzPatrick, 

producer-narrator of 200 travel talks during 

his 20-year association with MGM, was the 

guest speaker Tuesday (19) at the Culver 

Theatre in Culver City in connection with 

the MGM Film Festival. His "Mexican Police 

on Parade" was on the program, which 

featured "National Velvet," co-starring Elizabeth 

Taylor and Mickey Rooney. Director 

Clarence Brown also made an appearance. 

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LOS ANGELES — Theatre grosses responded 

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Grenada King of Hearts (Lopert), 5th wk 65 

Hollywood-Paramount The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 

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SAN FRANCISCO — Grosses ranged 

over a wide field limited by 60 per cent on 

the down side and 250 on the up side. 

'Thoroughly Modern Millie" carried off the 

250, earning it with a 17th week at the Orpheum. 

Also in the elite 200 class were 

"Grand Prix," 32nd week at the Golden 

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Golden Gate Grand Prix (MGM), 32nd wk 220 

Lorkin The Endless Summer (Cinemo V), 11th wk. 60 

Metro The Toming of the Shrew (Col), 25th wk. 70 

Music Hall— Ulysses (Confl), 10th wk 60 

Metro The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 25th wk. 70 

Music Hon— Ulysses (Cont'l), 10th wk 60 

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Orpheum Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

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Parkside The Jokers (Univ), 5th wk 70 

Presidio The Chelsea Girls (5R), 2nd wk 180 

Stage Door A Man for All Seasons (Col), 

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St, Francis, Geneva Africa Addio (Rizzoli) 180 

Vogue A Man and a Womon (AA), 48th wk . 60 

Warfield The St. Valentine's Doy Massacre 

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'Loving Couples' Stands Out 

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DENVER — "Loving Couples" brought 

the Vogue Theatre a 300 per cent reading 

in the film's opening week, this turning out 

to be the really only sizable percentage in 

Denver for the report period. Next in line 

were 165 for the initial week of "The Trip," 

playing at the Paramount, and 150 for the 

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Aladdin The Sand Pebbles (20th-Fox), 18th wk. 100 

Centre Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

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Century 21 Two for the Road (20th-Fox), 

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Cherry Creek, Northglenn, Westland Barefoot 

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Cooper Grand Prix (MGM), 34th wk 125 

Crest The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 22nd wk. 150 

Denver In the Heot of the Night (UA), 4th wk. 140 

Esquire A Guide for the Married Man 

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Paramount The Trip (AlP) 1 65 

Towne The Family Way (WB-7A), 5th wk 130 

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Villa Italia To Sir, With Love (Col), 8th wk. 1 

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Thirteenth Week Good One 

For 'Pebbles' in Seattle 

SEATTLE—A post-Labor Day spell of 

beautiful weather kept people away from 

the downtown houses, causing ratings to 

sag, with only a few top attractions managing 

to do average or slightly better business. 

The popular "Sand Pebbles" wound 

up a 13th week at the Paramount with 

125. 

Fitth Avenue—The Bible (20th-Fox), 12th wk. .. 90 

Music Box—The Family Way (WB-7A), 4th wk. . . 50 

Paramount The Sond Pebbles (20th-Fox), 

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Seattle 7th Avenue In the Heot of the Night 

(UA), 3rd wk 100 

Town The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 11th wk 100 

Uptown- Barefoot in the Park (Para), 9th wk. ..100 

Governor Says Arizona 

Will Fight DST in '68 

YUMA, ARIZ.—While here last week. 

Gov. Jack Williams expressed the opinion 

that Arizona will repudiate daylight saving 

time at the next meeting of the state legislature 

in January. 

"I went through it once before when it 

was called War Time," he said. "The people 

of Arizona repudiated it then. They were 

upset about it: getting up in the dark during 

October and the latter part of September, 

sending their children to school in the dark 

and having dinner guests at 9 o'clock at 

night when it is still light. 

"1 have a feeling that the impact has been 

so great that legislators who supported the 

present daylight saving time will return us 

standard time." 

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Exhibitor B. V. Sturdivant, president of 

the Yuma County Chamber of Commerce, 

is on the governor's advisory board. He 

hosted his directors and committee chairmen 

at a special dinner in honor of the 

state's 

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John Higgins Heads 

Coca-Cola Canners 

ATLANTA—John F. Higgins jr., formerly 

president and general manager of the 

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of California, has 

John F. Higgins 

Charles Holmes 

been elected president and general manager 

of Canners for Coca-Cola Bottlers. Charles 

K. Holmes has been elected to succeed Higgins. 

Holmes was formerly product manager 

for Fanta and Fresco brands, carbonated 

beverages division, the Coca-Cola Co. Both 

elections by respective boards of directors 

of the subsidiaries were announced by Morton 

S. Hodgson jr., chairman of the board of 

Coca-Cola's domestic bottling and canning 

subsidiaries. 

A 27-year veteran in 

the Coca-Cola business, 

Higgins has held management posts in 

Pennsylvania, Illinois and Michigan bottling 

operations. He was vice-president and general 

manager of the Michigan division of 

La Salle Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and, in 

1961, was elected a vice-president of Midwest 

Coca-Cola Bottling Co.. later renamed 

the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Michigan. He 

was elected president and general manager 

of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of California 

at San Francisco in 1962. In his new position, 

Higgins will be in charge of domestic 

canning subsidiaries in the United States, 

headquartering in Atlanta. 

Higgins is a native of Youngstown, Ohio, 

and a graduate of Ohio University. 

As product manager for Fanta and 

Fresca, headquartered at Atlanta, Holmes 

has been responsible for the development of 

total marketing and advertising programs 

for the two products. Prior to his appointment 

in 1965, Holmes was manager of 

special markets development for bottler 

sales. 

A native of Minneapolis, Holmes received 

a degree from Massachusetts Institute 

of Technology and attended Columbia 

University. Before joining Coca-Cola in 

1963, he held positions as senior account 

executive of McCann-Erickson, and manager 

of marketing services for the Coca- 

Cola Bottling Co. of New York. 

The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of California, 

of which Holmes will be president 

and general manager, operates bottling 

plants at San Francisco and Oakland with 

warehouses in Concord and Hayward. It 

also operates bottling facilities in San Rafael 

and Santa Rosa, and canning plants in Hayward 

and San Leandro. 

BOXOFTICE :: September 25, 1967 

SAN FRANCISCO 

ôn Fuller, Buena Vista branch manager, 

reported "The Happiest Millionaire" 

will open October 10 at the United Artists 

Theatre, managed by Bob Broadbent, in a 

benefit for the Kidney Foundation of northern 

California. The opening also will provide 

a scholarship to 

a local student for the 

California Institute of the Arts, a professional 

school of the performing arts established 

by Walt Disney. 

Jack Lucy, manager of the Fox Warfield, 

sneaked 20th-Fox's "The Flim-Flam Man." 

The film will be handled locally by Fox district 

manager Dick Stafford. Lucy closed his 

house Tuesday (12) for "Ford Night at the 

Movies," when the auto manufacturer 

screened its 1968 models and showed "The 

Valentine's Day Massacre." 

St. 

Robert Lippert, operator of 55 theatres 

in the West, believes the new trend is to 

small-town roadshow theatres. He already 

opened the 520-seat Briggsmore Theatre in 

Modesto and is building a 400-seater in 

Redding. 

The Variety Club will hold its annual golf 

tournament (blind bogey) at the Lake 

Merced Golf and Country Club Thursday 

Las Vegas Drive-In Sets 

Record Budget for Film 

LAS VEGAS—The Syufy circuit's new 

million-dollar Las Vegas Drive-In will spend 

a record $1,200 on its "Shanty Tramp" campaign. 

Gene Nelson, the theatre's manager, 

reported. Nelson is developing the campaign 

with the guidance of Terry Branson, advance 

man for Kroger Babb & Associates, 

western distributor. 

Nelson announced plans for a record 126- 

inches of newspaper space, 300 radio spots 

involving three stations here and citywide 

coverage of Heralds. 

Santa Barbara Theatremen 

Charged in Film Showing 

SAN FRANCISCO—Santa Barbara district 

attorney's deputies seized the 35-minute 

underground film "Change of Heart" 

from the Magic Lantern Theatre and 

charged Manager James Babb and operator 

William Hess with publicly showing an obscene 

film. 

This was the first time that such an obscenity 

charge had been made in Santa 

Barbara County. The theatre is near the 

University of California at Santa Barbara. 

Lewis Honorary Chairman 

HOLLYWOOD—Jerry Lewis will serve 

as honorary chairman for the world premiere 

performance of Gower Champion's 

new musical, "The Happy Time," at the 

Ahmanson Theatre October 31. The premiere 

will benefit the Los Angeles County 

Muscular Dystrophy Ass'n. Lewis has 

served as MDAA's national chairman for 

more than 15 years. 

(2S). A buffet luncheon will be served from 

noon until 2 p.m. A banquet will be held 

at 7 p.m. Fred Dixon is chairman of the 

2 1st tourney. 

NATO of Northern California held its 

quarterly directors' meeting in the Tent 32 

conference room. The directors are Irving 

Ackerman, Abe Blumenfeld. David Bolton. 

Robert Broadbent, Arnold Childhouse, Roy 

Cooper, William David, Martin Foster, 

Rotus Harvey, Ben and Irving Levin, Earl 

Long, Charles Maestri, Thomas Malloy, 

Richard Mann, Henry Nasser, L. G. Tavoliira 

and Homer Tegtmeier. 

Market Street, which has 20 motion pic- 

Uire houses on or just off the main stem, 

was without street cars Saturday and Sunday 

(16 and 17) because temporary tracks were 

being installed in the Powell Street rapid 

transit station area. Buses handled the service 

until Monday morning (18). 

Pat Patterson is handling the local rerelease 

of "God's Little Acre." The film will 

be shown here at the Coliseum, Crown, 

Granada and Mission Drive-In and at 41 

other theatres in the Bay area, Sacramento, 

Fresno and Stockton. 

Reopen Sierra Theatre 

In Chowchilla, Calif. 

CHOWCHILLA. CALIF.—The 474-seat 

Sierra Theatre has been leased by Gerald 

Drew and reopened here after remodeling. 

Drew, operating the house in partnership 

with Earl Lepper, leased the property from 

Frank Hughes, who operates the Circle-H 

Enterprises out of Cloverdale. 

Two front-page articles in the Chowchilla 

News heralded the reopening of the Sierra 

and pointed to the renovation program that 

has been put into effect by Drew and Lepper. 

Improvements to the house include the 

repainting of the theatre front, lobby, restrooms 

and the auditorium and the overhaul 

of the sound and projection equipment and 

improvement of the air-conditioning system. 

Upcoming projects are to include re-covering 

and replacement of bad seats, painting of 

all seat backs and standards and the auditorium 

floor and a new roof. 

Hughes will handle the booking and buying 

for the theatre. Frank Bohn, projectionist, 

is in charge of general maintenance. The 

Sierra has a policy of two changes a week. 

Drew said a firm set of rules governing 

teenagers and children's conduct have been 

established and "will be strictly enforced." 

Univ. Signs Sylva Koscina 

HOLLYWOOD—Universal Pictures has 

signed Sylva Koscina to a nonexclusive multiple-picture 

contract. She has appeared in 

the company's "The Secret War of Harry 

Frigg." "Deadlier Than the Male" and "A 

Lovely Way to Die." 

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This is the architectural sketch of Western Amusement Co.'s 1,000-seat 

Cinema, which is being built in the Oaliway Shopping Center in Eugene, Ore. Completion 

of the ultramodern theatre is planned about Thanksgiving. 

EUGENE, ORE. — Construction has 

started on a 1,000-seat theatre in the Oakway 

Shopping Center. Western Amusement 

Co. of Los Angeles, operator of the Heilig 

and Mayflower theatres here 20 years, will 

operate the Cinema. 

The house will be equipped for 35-70mm 

films, American seats and the most modern 

projection and sound equipment. Completion 

is planned for opening sometime near 

SEATTLE 

TJn'ted Artists will hold a sales meeting in 

Houston four days starting Monday 

(25) which will be attended by Jack Partin, 

Seattle branch manager; Butch Leonard, 

salesman, and Bud Hamilton, Portland salesman. 

. . . 

Kay Clunts, Buena Vista booker, is vacationing 

for three weeks in New York and 

Nassau . . . Mary Carey (20th-Fox office) 

Wayne 

has completed her vacation 

Schwartzkopf, booker at United Artists, returned 

from a California, Portland, Ore., vacation. 

Plans are being finalized for Sterling Theatre's 

Yarrow Bay recreational complex that 

will occupy 18 acres near Northeast 38th 

Place and 108th Avenue Northeast in 

Houghton, reported Ralph H. Anderson, 

theatre-property manager, who has been go- 

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Thanksgiving. This will be the first new theatre 

to be built in this area in 20 years. 

Ted Jones, president of Western Amusement, 

said other planned projects for this 

company include the recent acquisition of 

20 acres of land in Victorville, Calif., for a 

drive-in. The company now operates one 

hardtop and a drive-in at Victorville. Also, 

the company is considering a location for 

a theatre in Vista, Calif., where it now operates 

a hardtop and a drive-in. 

ing over final plans with James Harper, 

president of the North Coast Construction 

Co. The complex will include a 750-car 

drive-in, daytime municipal park with a miniature 

golf course, covered community kitchen, 

restrooms, tennis courts, children's playground 

and wading pool. All of the facilities 

will be open for public use when not in 

operation by Sterling. 

Wedding bells have rung for Jim Ryan, 

booker at United Artists, and Judy Swanson, 

formerly with UA. They were married 

in the Chelan Methodist Church at Chelan 

Bench, manager of the Town 

Theatre, announced a Silents were Golden 

film series of midnight showings to run Friday 

and Saturday nights. The silent productions 

re-create the film programs of the '20s 

with a period newsreel, a serial and a comedy 

featurette for each showing. The series 

opened with Lon Chaney's "The Hunchback 

of Notre Dame" made in 1924. Playing 

last weekend (22 and 23) was Elmo Lincoln 

in the original role of "Tarzan." Next weekend 

(29-30) Lon Chaney completes the 

series in "Shadows," made back in 1926. 

Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops and bathing 

beauties are included in all four programs. 

Out-of-town Filmrow visitors included 

Morrie Nimmer, over from Spokane; and 

Glen Spencer and Sid Dean, up from Tacoma. 

MGM's "The Fixer" revolves around the 

plight of a man accused of ritual murder 

during the Czarist period. 

McCall's Will Underwrite 

'Dream' to Aid Symphonies 

From Eastern Edition 

NEW YORK—A program designed to 

aid symphony orchestras has been established 

by Show Corp. of America and Mc- 

Call's magazine in which the latter will underwrite 

public showings of the New York 

City Ballet Co. feature "A Midsummer 

Night's Dream" in 28 U.S. cities. 

Arthur B. Murphy jr., president and ehief 

operating officer of the McCall Corp., said 

the plan could raise $1 million and eventually 

exceed $2 million. In each city the symphony 

orchestra will aid in promotion of 

the film, which will be shown in evening 

performances, as well as in special showmgs 

!or grade and high school students, with 

student tickets at nominal costs. 

Murphy expressed hopes that this plan 

would serve as a pattern for other major 

business concerns that want to support the 

arts, cultural institutions and motion pictures. 

The first film benefit will be in November 

in Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National 

Symphony. This will be followed by 

performances in Atlanta. Baltimore, Boston, 

Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, 

Dayton, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, 

Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, 

New Orleans, Portland, Ore., St. Louis, San 

Francisco, Seattle and Wilmington. Another 

42 U.S. cities also are optioned by Mc- 

Calls. 

MPAA 'Movie City' Display 

Set Up at Visitors Center 


NEW YORK—"New York Is a Movie 

City" is the theme of the Motion Picture 

Ass'n of America display unveiled last week 

at the New York Convention and Visitors 

Bureau on 42nd Street across from Grand 

Central. 

Material making up the display was originally 

included in the Times Square Information 

Center exhibit, "Salute to Movie- 

Making in New York." It has been updated 

and refurbished and follows a new format. 

In addition to the 2x5-foot panels featuring 

films made in New York City forming the 

backdrop, a number of mounted color enlargements 

of current product either playing 

or soon to open in New York are set 

up on individual easels in the foreground. 

Well-known New York artist Dong Kingman 

has contributed a number of color 

sketches of pictures in production on various 

New York locations. 

Observed at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday (12) just 

after the display was installed, some 15 to 

20 passersby had stopped and were examining 

the "New York Is a Movie City" display. 

This industry project was developed by 

the MPAA advertising and publicity directors 

committee, chairman Jonas Rosenfield 

jr.; together with the exploitation subcommittee, 

Al Fisher chairman; and the publicity 

subcommittee, Dick Brooks, chairman. 

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KANSAS CITY—Tribute was paid to 

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in the Kansas state legislature, for 

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his untiring efforts in 

behalf of the industry 

at a luncheon Tuesday 

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work in spearheading the campaign against 

daylight saving time. He also waged a strong 

fight in supporting the tax exemptions on 

the use tax on motion picture film rentals. 

Richard H. Orear. president of Commonwealth 

Theatres, and a vice-president of the 

National Ass'n of Theatre Owners, presented 

Strowig an engraved pen and pencil set 

as a token of appreciation from both 

UMPA and MPA. Orear not only lauded 

Strowig for his active legislative and theatrical 

work, but praised him for his civic endeavors 

as president of the Rotary Club six 

years, a member of the Chamber of Commerce 

board of directors, being on the 

United Funds board and affiliated with 

many other 

organizations. 

"We are immensely proud of Calvin," 

Orear said, "and I know that if his father 

Homer were alive, he too, would be most 

proud to know that Cal is following in his 

footsteps. Homer was a good friend to many 

of us in this room and it hardly seems possible 

that 18 years have passed since he was 

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"Cal and his brother Robert took over the 

operation of the family theatrical interests 

in Abilene and other theatres they owned in 

Oklahoma and Iowa immediately after 

Homer's death. And I might add that they 

have done a magnificent job in operating 

these theatres." 

Jay VVooten, exhibitor from Hutchinson, 

Kas., and past president of UMPA, who 

worked with Strowig on the campaign to 

protest daylight saving time and other industry 

bugaboos, commended Strowig and 

said he should be boosted as a candidate for 

the 

governorship. 

Strowig, in accepting the gift, said he 

noticed an apathy in politics by exhibitors 

and that more should take an active part to 

protect their business. He also expressed 

thanks to brother Robert for looking after 

the theatre properties and making it possible 

to be away on legislative duties. 

Abbott J. Sher, UMPA president, was the 

master of ceremonies. Howard Thomas gave 

the invocation. Leon Hoofnagle was chairman 

of the luncheon with Dick Durwood 

and Paul Kelly as co-chairmen. Tickets were 

handled by Morton "Bud" Truog and 

Eugene Snitz. 

On the dais, in addition to Strowig, Orear, 

Sher, Wooten, Hoofnagle and Thomas, were 

Glen Dickinson jr., Jim Cook, Dick Durwood, 

Phil Blakey, Chuc Barnes and Ben 

Shlyen. Out-of-town exhibitors included 

Elmer Bills sr. and jr. of Moberly, Mo., and 

Hank B. Doering of Garnett, Kas. 

Executives and manager from Fox Midwest 

were absent because of an annual divisional 

meeting held in Denver that day. 

KANSAS CITY 

^ÔMPI convention notes: 

Kansas Citians 

in New Orleans were Judy Helton, 

president, delegate; Betty Smythe, delegate; 

Gladys Melson, alternate; Ruby Schultz, 

alternate; Bernice Powell, Mary Heueisen 

Hayslip, Hazel LeNoir, Myrtle Taylor, Bessie 

Buchhorn, Myrtle Cain, Alna Nece, 

Billie Mistele, Carolyn Fleming, Jean Miller, 

Pat Pierstroff, Phyllis Seward, Goldie 

Woerner; Co-WOMPI Ted Haylip and 

guests Blanche Hickam of Lockwood, Calif., 

formerly with MGM here, and Sylvia Pierce, 

Carolyn Flemings' sister, Berwyn, III. . . . 

Phyllis Seward, cashier for the Warner 

Bros.-? Arts exchange, was elected to serve 

a second term as treasurer of WOMPI International 

at the convention. The new officers 

were installed at the Saturday (16) banquet 

in the Imperial Salon of the Jung Hotel . . . 

The Kansas City Club sponsored a dinner 

for the International officers and convention 

co-chairmen Thursday (14) in the Andrew 

Jackson in the French Quarters. A Kansas 

City souvenir plate was given to each officer 

and co-chairmen as a gift . . . Hazel LeNoir, 

First American Corp. of Kansas City, International 

historian, held a yearbook workshop 

discussion Saturday (16) . . . Mary 

Heuei.sen Hayslip, Thomas Distributing Co. 

of Kansas City, International Will Rogers 

chairman, gave a report on contributions 

from WOMPI for the 1966-1967 year. She 

also held a Will Rogers Memorial Workshop 

on Saturday (16). 

Adeline Rosewicz, secretary to Ray Mc- 

Kitrick, branch manager at Universal, took 

her vacation last week to prepare for the 

Plaza Art Fair held on the Country Club 

Plaza, Friday through Sunday (22-24). She 

and her sister have contributed to the fair 

for several years with their paintings. 

T. R. "Tommy" Taylor, former Universal 

salesman, has been in Research Hospital 

three weeks. He underwent surgery for a 

bleeding ulcer Wednesday (20). He now will 

intensive care. Cards and letters would 

be in 

be appreciated. 

Fred Souttar, Fox Midwest Theatres area 

supervisor, is in Europe with his wife on a 

Chamber of Commerce-sponsored tour from 

Tuesday (12) to October 3. Visits will include 

Vienna, Budapest, Rome, Barcelona, 

Madrid and Paris. 

Fox Midwest Theatres managers from the 

area were in Denver Tuesday (19) for the 

annual divisional meeting of Fox Mountain- 

Midwest managers and district managers. 

Attending from the Kansas City office were 

Harold Hume, Dick Conley, Joe Ruddick, 

Don and Jerry Ireland, Darrell Shelton and 

Dick Stump. 

Screenings at Commonwealth: United 

Artists' "Matchless" Monday afternoon (18) 

and scheduled "Clambake" for Monday 

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afternoon (15) and "The Ballad of Josie" 

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"Counterpoint" Thursday (28), 1:30 p.m. 

Don Walker, Warner Bros, area exploiteer, 

was in Denton, Tex., Wednesday (13) 

for the southwestern premiere of "Bonnie 

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Stars Warren Beatty, Faye Dunnaway and 

Michael J. Pollard made personal appearances. 

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CHICAGO 

The New Carnegie Theatre will open 

October 11 (if construction proceeds 

according to schedule) with a benefit performance 

of "The Family Way," sponsored 

by the Leukemia Research Foundation. Oscar 

Brotman and Leonard Sherman are 

owners of the 500-seat house. The Carnegie, 

located at Rush and Oak, was gutted by fire 

a year ago. 

George Sarathain, general manager of the 

Capri Theatre and the Creative Arts Center, 

died. He had been associated with the Capri 

three years. Prior to that he managed a 

number of Chicago theatres, including the 

Cinema, Lamar, Irving and Essaness properties. 

He leaves his wife Olive and a son 

Sheldon. 

Warner Bros.-7 Arts booker Florence 

Cohen is making a good recovery at Passavant 

Hospital following a gall bladder 

operation. 

Dave Schatz, president of the Chicago 

Used Chair Mart, returned from Ames, 

Iowa, where his men reseated the Ames 

Theatre, a Central States house. Schatz' 

company also completed a reseating job at 

Mid-American's Beverly Theatre in St. 

Louis. 

"The War Game" opens at the World 

Playhouse in a regular run Friday (29). 

Charles Teitel, owner of the house, said he 

would go along with educational groups by 

scheduling morning showings for students. 

. . . "I, a Woman," which has done capacity 

business throughout its initial showing at the 

World, is to go into .30 Chicago neighborhood 

theatres Friday (29). . . . Ethel Pastor, 

manager of the World, is taking a short holiday 

visiting historical spots along the Mississippi 

River. 

Allied Artists is closing Chicago operations. 

Helen Coppersmith, who has been 

with the exchange for a number of years, 

joined Universal Pictures as a general clerk. 

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H. C". Rhvan, head of Rhyan Theatres, 

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Currently Rhyan operates the Family Outdoor 

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Liberty, 111.; the McHenry, McHenry, 111., 

and the Antioch at Antioch, III. Harry Nepo, 

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'Millie Leads' KC 

With 225 8th Week 

KANSAS CITY—Seven of the area's 

dozen first-run pictures scored at a betterthan-average 

rate, the other five grossing 

exactly 100. The top percentage was 225, 

representing the gross earned by "Thoroughly 

Modern Millie" in its 13th week at the 

Midland Theatre, followed by "To Sir, With 

Love," 200 in the eighth week at the Brookside, 

and by "The Family Way," 200 for a 

third week at the Fine Arts Theatre. "The 

St. Valentine's Day Massacre," the only new 

film in the Kansas City report area, came 

in at exactly 100 at five theatres. 


Brockside To Sir, With Love (Col), 8th wk 200 

Capri Hawaii (UA), 30th wk 100 

Centre, Isis, Grcnoda (KCK), Metro 3, Waldo 

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (20th-Fox); 

assorted co-features 100 

Embassy 1, 2 Two for the Road (20th-Fox), 

3rd wk too 

Empire 1 The Sand Pebbles (20tli-Fox), 27th wk. 125 

F,ne Arts The Fomily Way (WB), 3rd wk 200 

Gienwocd The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 

22nd wk 150 

Kimo- King of Heorts (Lopert), 2nd wk 100 

M.dand Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

13th wk 225 

Flaa, Avenue In the Heat of the Night (UA), 

4fh wk 175 

Pcckhill—Lyric Theatre Opera series, 

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Roxy The Dirty Doien (MGM), 12th wk 100 

Uptcwn Luv (Col), 4th wk 125 

To Sir, With Love' High 300 

As Chicago Films Flourish 

CHICAGO— Friday, Saturday and Sunday 

business was generally reported to be 

the strength behind the high grosses chalked 

up by the sturdy holdovers in the Loop theatres. 

Neighborhood houses also reported 

good business with "Up the Down Staircase," 

"The Trip" and "Divorce AMERI- 

CAN Style." 

Chicago Barefoot in the Pork (Para), 5th wk. . .250 

Cinema A Man and o Womon (AA), 39th wk. . . 1 75 

Cinestage The Sand Pebbles (20th-Fox), 

10th wk 275 

E'âuire Luv (Col), 3rd wk 1 65 

Loop The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 22nd wk. 135 

M,chael Todd -The Bible (20th-Fox), 37th wk. ..125 

Oriental In the Heat of the Night (UA), 

5th wk 250 

Playboy My Sister, My Love (Sigmo III), 2nd wk. 200 

Roosevelt To Sir, With Love (Col), 4th wk 300 

State Lake The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 9th wk. . 

. .250 

United Artistr Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

6th wk 275 

Wood- The Naked Runner (WB-7A), 3rd wk. ...150 

World Plavhouse I, o Womon (Audubon), 

1 1th wk 150 

ST. LOUIS 

n n extensive 

campaign has been launched 

heralding the October 20 opening of 

the reserved-seat engagement of Walt Disney's 

"The Happiest Millionaire," which will 

be premiered the preceding evening at 

Jablonows' Mid-America Esquire Theatre. 

The benefit showing proceeds will serve the 

Providence Inter-City Camp at Glencoe, 

Mo. Nightly performances have been scheduled, 

with matinees Wednesdays, Saturdays, 

Sundays and holidays. Lorraine Klasek is 

handling group sales. 

Fine Arts Theatre is the new name chosen 

by the Mid-America circuit for the Beverly 

Art, which was acquired from Harry Wald, 

Donna Potts, WOMPI president, and 

Myra Manning, delegates to the WOMPI 

convention in New Orleans, reported at the 

Wednesday (20) meeting at Fox Theatre 

screening room on events covered at the 

conclave. The St. Louis club was honored 

for exceeding its established quota in the 

Will Rogers collections. At the meeting, 

members explored various methods of stepping 

up their charitable activities program 

for the ensuing year . . . Marcella DeVinney, 

Buena Vista, is spending an "at home" 

vacation this week. 

George Cohn, BV manager, was in 

Taylorville, 111., last week meeting with, 

executives of the Frisina circuit . . . Herman 

Gorelick, Crest Films manager, after several 

days in Kansas City, spent most of last week 

calling on exhibitors in eastern Missouri. 

Marjorie Jecmen has been appointed sales 

representative in the St. Louis area for the 

Loew's Hotels, whose office is located in 

Loew's Theatre, downtown, managed by 

Russell Bovim. 

Judy Garland will make a single appearance 

here Wednesday (27) in Kiel Opera 

House. Film stars who will appear in the 

forthcoming American Theatre season include 

Ginger Rogers, in "Hello, Dolly!" 

Celeste Holm in "Mame," and Eddie 

Bracken in "You Know I Can't Hear You 

When the Water's Running." 

Walter Pollard, property master, has been 

named by Chief Barker Ed Dorsey to head 

Tent 4's tribute fund. Memorial and congratulatory 

contributions to the fund have 

' 

admirably served the needs of underprivileged 

children supported by the tent. 

Women of Variety met at the Colony 

Motor Hotel at noon Wednesday (13) to 

meet new officers and to study and vote on 

proposed changes in the constitution, Sonya 

Gross Wolff heads the tribute fund for the 

women's group. 

Bob and Ruth Lurie arc busy gathering 

details for barkers and wives who are planning 

ahead to attend the May 1968 Variety 

convention in Hawaii and will soon provide 

convention and post-convention tour detaiK. 

"A Man Called Gannon" is the new title 

lor Universal's "Barbed Wire." 

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metropolis is poing to have a new 800-seat 

"rocking chair" theatre, the Terrace, and 

Jim Demos, city manager tor Wiiby-Kincey 

Theatres (Lucas & Avon) put on quite a 

demonstration to draw attention to the 

ground-breaking ceremonies Wednesday (13) 

in the Victory Mall Shopping Center development 

at the intersection of Victory Drive 

and Skidaway Road. 

First, Demos invited shopping center executives, 

city and county officials and news 

media representatives to be his guests at a 

luncheon and told them of the plans for the 

theatre, using color slides of other de luxe 

playhouses previously constructed for the 

Wilby-Kincey organization. 

Afterward, Demos transported his guests 

to the site of the new Terrace and the first 

spade of dirt was turned by the mayor of 

Savannah. 

In addition to the "form fit" Heywood- 

Wakefield Rocking Chairs, the Terrace will 

be equipped with Ultra-Vision, the latest innovation 

of screen presentation—a curved 

screen wall-to-wall with a projection system 

engineered to match all basic components of 

motion picture projection. 

Those attending the ground breaking were 

intrigued by Demos" touches—a simulated 

skelton theatre entrance, a screen and real 

rocking chairs occupied by the Savannah 

mayor and his family prior to the spadework. 

Popcorn, candy and soft drinks were 

served to set the atmosphere for a true 

movie theatre. 

Wiggins & Co. of Atlanta is developing 

the center, and the Terrace Theatre construction 

is under the supervision of Wil-Kin 

Theatre Supply Co. 

Tornado-Raked Drive-In 

Reopens at Tampa, Fla. 

TAMPA, FLA. — J. S. Carscallen, who 

operated the Skyway Drive-In here 17 years 

until his entire operation was leveled by a 

tornado in April 1966, is back in business 

at the same location. 

The Skyway reopened August 24 as the 

independent outdoor theatre in the 

Tampa area. It has a new tornado-proof 

steel screen, 32x64 feet in size; 300 RCA 

speakers in the viewing area of 6Vi acres 

and the projectors are equipped with Ashcraft 

water-cooled lamps. 

concessions equipment and projection 

room are housed in one centrally lo- 

building, which is decorated in a motif 

of blue and white coloring. 

Carscallen, a veteran of 55 years in distribution 

and exhibition of motion pictures, 

said his supplies and equipment were mainh' 

obtained through the Roy Smith Co. of 

Jacksonville and the National Theatre Sup- 

Co. in Atlanta. 

Tlim-Flam Man Carolinas Premiere 

Features Visit by Book's Author 

RALEIGH, N.C. — "I haven't seen this 

remarks to the au- 

film," Guy Owen said in 

dience at the Carolinas premiere of "The 

Flim-Flam Man" in the Cardinal Theatre, 

"so we may all get flimflammed." 

As it turned out, the N.C. State University 

English professor was generally pleased 

with the 20th Century-Fox version of his 

comic novel "The Ballad of the Flim-Flam 

Man." Area viewers were mostly entranced, 

and the lines are lengthening at the boxoffice 

of the theatre in the North Hills Shopping 

Center. 

In the lobby of the Cardinal following the 

screening, Owen was showered with compliments 

and congratulations by the firstnighters, 

including about 75 friends from his 

native Bladen County. He told them "without 

any false modesty" that he thought the 

William Rose script "improved on the 

book." 

And the next day, in an interview with a 

reporter, he elaborated on the statement. He 

said he thought Rose and director Irvin 

Kershner improved the pace. "The tempo is 

better in the film. By cutting one or two 

episodes, they were able to give the movie 

a kind of unity that is really not in the 

book." 

Now writer in residence at Appalachian 

State University, Owen said he was sorry 

that so much of the southern flavor of the 

speech was given up in the film version. But 

he "was delighted they didn't add a single 

character." 

The casting of Canadian actor Michael 

Sarrazin in the role of Curley, the AWOL 

soldier who becomes the Flim-Flam Man's 

shill, impressed the author. He confessed he 

"fell in love with Slim Pickens and Harry 

Morgan, but was jarred by George C. Scott" 

(as Mordecai Jones, the title character). He 

thought the make-up job on Scott was "simply 

terrible . . . and I thought Kershner gave 

him too many mannerisms." However, 

he thought his acting was fine. "Scott made 

the movie in three months, and I've worked 

with the character for years. I had to get 

used to Scott, but that probably would have 

been true no matter who played the role." 

While it is set in North Carolina, the 

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Atlanta — In June Dixie Theatres, 

operator of drive-ins in Florida, 

Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, 

finalized the sale of its two Atlanta 

airers the Piedmont and Stewart as sites 

for two department stores. 

Dixie leased the Piedmont from its 

new owner and operated it until Tuesday 

(5). Sunday (10) would have 

marked the 20th birthday of the airer, 

but lettering on the roadside marquee 

told this story: 

"Special Feature: Wrecking by Continental." 

movie was shot in the bluegrass country 

around Lexington, Ky., where its national 

premiere occurred last spring. The Tar Heel 

author, along with many other members of 

the opening-night audience, did catch one 

technical flaw in the film. 

"You could tell they filmed it in Kentucky," 

he said, "because of the tobacco. In 

Bladen County they pull the leaves from the 

stalk. In the film, the field hands cut from 

the stalk, which is the custom in harvesting 

hurley tobacco." 

Before the local, Southwide premiere, a 

cocktail party was held in Owen's honor in 

the Velvet Cloak Motor Lodge. Approximately 

100 theatre, state and city officials 

and the press attended the party, mixing 

flimflamming with hors d'oeuvres. 

Frank Gracia, a gambling investigator 

whose hands appear (for Scott's) in the cardplaying 

sequences of the film, was on hand 

to demonstrate some of the sly tricks pulled 

by flim-flam men. He held forth at a corner 

table, transfixing partygoers with his deftness. 

Owen said he had completed the manuscript 

of a sequel to "Flim-Flam Man," 

which is now in the hands of a New York 

publisher. 

New Atlanta Art Theatre 

Sets AU-Night Policy 

ATLANTA—Coincidental with the opening 

of the 10th Street Art Theatre Atlanta 

became, ipso facto, a city with its first allnight 

theatre. 

Announcement that the addition to Atlanta's 

string of first-run locations, with an 

art film policy as the name implies, would 

remain open until long (4 a.m.) after the 

late, late shows have faded from the "tube," 

came as a surprise. 

The 300-seat "rocking chair" house plans 

to book first-run art films, mostly European, 

leaning heavily toward festival-award winners, 

backed up with high-quality American 

productions. The theatre is owned and operated 

by the 1026 Peachtree Art Corp., of 

which Walter Adams is president. 

Adams believes the late-hour policy will 

be one of the main attractions of the new 

theatre. The first show will begin daily at 

1 1 a.m. 

Threaten to Picket Theatre 

Unless Film Is Reshown 

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — One of the few 

cities not the subject of major demonstrations 

and picketing in the last few years, 

narrowly averted its first pickets last week 

when Starlite Drive-In Manager E. M. Harrell 

rebooked AlP's "Born Losers." Townspeople 

who had been turned away during 

the first ten days, during which the highest 

grosses in the theatre's ten-year history were 

recorded, threatened to picket the theatre 

unless the film was brought back. 

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Crowds of fans gather around the gates of 

their Graceland mansion every afternoon 

and wait, hoping to get a look at Presley as 

he comes and goes. 

Fifteen Memphians attended the WOMPI 

International convention in New Orleans. 

They are Lois Boyd, Film Transit; Mary 

Katharine Baker, United Artists; Katharine 

Keifer, Howco; Bonnie Steward, Co- 

WOMPIs Joe Keifer and Harry Steward; 

Virginia Hunt, Variety Club; June Wiley, 

Martha Sappington, Columbia; Lois Evans, 

Film Transit; Peggy Hogan, 20th-Fox; Lurlene 

Carothers. United Artists; Betty Bell, 

Film Transit; Ruth Slaton and Genevieve 

Lovell, Exhibitors Services. 

Mrs. Granville Miller has contracted with 

Film Transit to pick up and deliver film to 

the Plaza Theatre, Helena, Ark. . . . The 

Gem Theatre, Little Rock, also has started 

film pickup and deliveries by the Memphis 

company. 

R. L. "Bob" Bostick, National Theatre 

Supply Co., attended a Variety meeting in 

Chicago. 

L. F. Haven jr., Imperial, Forest City; 

Ann Hutchins, State, Corning, and Orris 

Collins, Capitol, Paragould, were among visiting 

Arkansas exhibitors. Maurice Basse, 

Starlite, Union City, and Louise Mask, Luez, 

Bolivar, were in town from Tennessee. From 

Mississippi came Mart Mounger, Mart, Calhoun 

City; Frank Heard, Lee Drive-In, Tupelo, 

and R. M. Reedy, Joy, Pontotoc. 

Maggie Smith will play the title role in 

20th Century-Fox's "The Prime of Miss 

Jean Brodie." 

'Shrew/ 'Grand Prix' 

Leaders in Memphis 

MEMPHIS—A sixth week of "The Taming 

of the Shrew" at the Memphian and a 

third week of "Grand Prix" at the Crosstown 

tied for top honors with 250 per cent. 


Crosstown Grand Prix (MGM), 3rd wk 250 

Guild You're a Big Boy Now (WB-7A), 2nd wk. 110 

Maico Two tor the Road (20th-Fox), 2nd wk. 100 

Memphian The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 

6th wk 250 

Paramount Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

14th wk 150 

Palace The Honey Pot (UA) 100 

Park—Barefoot in the Park (Pore), 7th wk 175 

Plaza To Sir, With Love (Col), 3rd wk 75 

Start of Schools, Colleges 

Hurls New Orleans' Grosses 

NEW ORLEANS— Practically all of the 

grosses showed a decline due to the opening 

of school and the football season getting 

underway. 

Gentilly You're a Big Boy Now (WB-7A), 

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Joy's Aereon The Game Is Over (Royal), 7th wk. 200 

Lakeside The Sand Pebbles (20fh Fox), 16th wk. 200 

Loke'îde Cinema I Dirty Dozen (MGM), 

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Loews State In the Heot of the Night (UA), 

4th wk 100 

Martin's Cinerama The Family Woy (WB-7A), 

4th wk 200 

Orpheum Two for the Read (20th-Fox), 3rd wk. 200 

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

22nd wk 150 

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unprecedented 80 prints for 300 dates within 

a three-week period. Dr. Guy Owen, English 

professor at N.C. State, makes his home 

in Raleigh and wrote "The Ballad of the 

Flim-Flam Man," from which the picture 

was made. 

Howard Pearl, United Artists fieldman, 

visited eight cities in his territory setting up 

a dozen dates for "Track of Thunder." . . . 

Helen MaGahee of the Columbia exchange 

attended the wedding of her son Steve to 

Jane Rodgers Saturday (23) in Greenwood, 

S.C. 

Tuesday (19) was Ford night at Wilby- 

Kincey's 4,000-seat Fox, when two groups 

of guests appeared at separate performances 

to get a preview of Ford's new cars. After 

the previews, the company presented MGM's 

"The Last Challenge," starring Glenn Ford, 

booked to open at the Fox Friday (29). 

Screenings at Columbia's Filmrow Playhouse 

were "Jack of Diamonds" (MGM), 

"Albert Peckinpaw's Revenge" and "A 

Maiden for a Prince" (Col), "The Long 

Duel" (Para) and "The Violent Ones" 

(Jaco). 

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A. L. Royal jr., who lives at Lanett, Ala., 

where he has theatres, managed the Towne 

Cinema in nearby Avondale Estates, while 

Manager Leslie Hagood was on vacation. 

A. L. Royal sr. heads the circuit. 

Filmrow visitors included Mr. and Mrs. 

J. S. Cardwell, Oldham, Sparta, Tenn.; Bob 

Dunn, Dunn at Camilla; Jack Heffelman, 

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Fairfax at Fairfax, Ala., and Golden 

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Diane Tliomas, entertainment editor of 

the Atlanta Constitution, has been granted 

a two-year leave of absence to work for 

her master of arts degree in theatre history 

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"Ode to an Uncertain Tomorrow," a film 

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Jean Cook, chairman of the local Arthritic 

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Verona Mathews, cashier at the Southside 

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Christ Died." Bishop left here Friday (15) 

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firm Royal Productions, Inc. The project is 

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special, tentatively titled. "A Critical Look 

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Christopher Lofting, son of Hugh Lofting, 

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to discuss the 20th-Fox film version of his 

father's writings, 

Mel Karl, executive secretary of the state 

unit of the Screen Actors Guild, has been 

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The public library and its branches, the 

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Miami producer-director William Grefe 

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the Orpheum. "Grand Prix," which played 

at the Martin Cinerama, opened at the Lakeside 

Cinema II and Oakwood Cinema L 

"Doctor Zhivago" also returned at the Joy's 

Panorama L "The Love-ins" opened at a 

Tlie Fred T. McLendon Theatres is 

multiple run of five hardtops and six driveins. 

holding 

an operator's school in Brewton, Ala., 

on Saturday mornings—not to train beginners 

but to better enlighten the company's 

present operators. All phases of the booth 

will be taken up. including repair, maintenance, 

cleanliness, preventive maintenance, 

film damage, equipment upkeep, etc. The 

school will be instructed by David Biggs, 

McLendon Theatres' booth maintenance 

man, who also is manager of the two theatres 

in Brewton. 

Rosemarie Dexter will 

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Universal's "House of Cards." 

Golden Cinema Buys 

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for the Golden Cinema Corp. The units are 

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Geronimo drive-ins and the Sierra Vista and 

Lyric theatres all in Douglas. 

McGattigan was with Paramount Pictures 

in New York 15 years, coming to Los 

Angeles two years ago. 

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WICHIIA. KAS.—Alter hearing arguments 

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1 iilsa and Pay TV antitrust suit against a 

group of theatres, fihii distributors and individuals, 

the Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 

has taken the matter under advisement. 

The appeal hearing was heard here Saturday 

(16) before Judges David T. Lewis, Jean 

S. Breitenstein and Delmas C. Hill, with 

Bradley Ryan. Boston attorney, representing 

the appellants and Edward E. Soulc of 

Tulsa representing the defendants. 

The suit was filed Aug. 7, 1964, the plaintiffs 

asking S.S, 000.000 in damages as the result 

of alleged discrimination in distribution 

of films. Defendants were the Paramount 

Film Distributing Corp., MGM, Warner 

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Film Corp., Columbia Pictures Corp., Universal 

Film Exchanges and United Artists 

Pictures, along with these Tulsa defendants 

— Video Independent Theatres; Admiral 

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B. "Hank" Robb jr.; Delman Theatres Corp.; 

Modern Theatres; Family Theatres and the 

14 East Corp. 

The hearing before the Tenth U.S. Circuit 

Court represents an appeal from U.S. 

District Court in Tulsa, where Judge Luther 

Bohanon dismissed the suit January 9. 

The hearing focused on whether the Mc- 

Ginnis firm legally exists. The trial briefs 

stated that the McGinnis charter, granted 

by Oklahoma in 1958 for 50 years, was revoked 

in 1963 after failure to pay franchise 

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UTOO Seeks Tie-Up 

For Area Drive-ins 

OKLAHOMA CITY—A tie-up for area 

drive-ins, similar to the one with Morton's 

Foods, was discussed by officers and directors 

of the United Theatre Owners of 

Oklahoma and the Panhandle of Texas at 

their first 1967-1968 meeting Monday (11). 

The session was a noon luncheon in the Oklahoma 

Room at the Black Hotel. 

Director Johnny Jones introduced George 

Eckert and Julian Mitchell of Motion Picture 

Advertising. An informal discussion of 

various possibilities for drive-in promotions 

followed with these advertising men, the 

result being that Eckert was asked to give 

thought to the problem and present his suggestions 

at a future meeting. 

J. C. McKenna of Tulsa was chosen as 

the organization's representative to the National 

Ass'n of Theatre Owners, with which 

UTOO is 

affiliated. 

President Clark announced that he would 

delay appointment of committees until he 

could talk to board members regarding their 

wishes to serve with certain groups. Among 

the first committee he will appoint will be 

one to suggest places for the next UTOO 

convention. March 10, 11 were selected as 

tentative dates for the 1968 conclave. 

The next UTOO board meeting will be 

held Monday, October 9, at the same room 

in the Black Hotel. All exhibitors in Oklahoma 

City that day are invited to dine with 

UTOO and make suggestions for the 1968 

convention. 

In addition to Clark and Jones, those present 

included Woodie Sylvester, chairman of 

the board; Webb Newcomb, vice-president; 

J. O. McKenna, secretary; William B. Turk, 

treasurer; Sam Brunk, executive secretary; 

directors Homer C. Jones, G. R. Grumpier, 

John Thompson, Fred Brewer, Maurice Ferris, 

Louise Wesson and Bill Slepka; honorary 

life member H. D. Cox and visitors R. O. 

Thompson and Ray Hughes. 

OKLAHOMA CITY 

. . . 

Paul Stonuni, one of the UTOO directors, 

was unable to attend the Monday (11) 

board meeting since he was busy renovating 

:ind recarpeting his Redskin Theatre 

Anyone wanting a 1968 pocket-size dalehook 

may write to Sam Brunk, 3416 North 

Virginia, Oklahoma City, Okla. 73118. 

These books cost SI. 25 each, plus 10 cents 

postage. The check should be made out to 

Sam—and it's first come, first served. 

When we visited Earth, Tex., on a recent 

trip we found E. T. Borum, who operates 

the Earth Theatre and Sunset Drive-In, was 

on a trip that day to Lubbock to get material 

to repair the airer's lower, which was blown 

down in a 100-mile wind September 3. The 

day we were in Earth, the wind was blowing 

so hard that work on the tower would have 

been dangerous—so Borum took advantage 

of the situation to go after needed materials. 

Burglars were busy at Volney Hamm's 

Mount Scott and Hankins drive-ins in Lawton. 

At the Hankins, the intruders made off 

with pickles, sausages, peanuts and popcorn 

and messed up the concessions generally. 

The Mount Scott suffered about the same 

sort of invasion, except that an intercom 

system also was stolen from the boxoffice. 

Gary Barnhill, Clarendon, Tex., who has 

been operating his Sandell Theatre fulltime 

and the Mulkey Drive-In on Saturday and 

Sunday, will reverse this order starting October 

1. After going to weekend operations 

with the drive-in, Barnhill will keep it on 

that basis until the weather becomes too 

cold for outdoor shows. 

In Quanah, Tex., we had a nice visit with 

Amos Page, who owns the Derby Drive-In 

at McLean. Page and his family live in 

Quanah, where he owns and operates the 

Quanah television system. He also owns 

three other TV systems— in a town in Nebraska, 

at Canadian in Texas and Marietta, 

Okla. His mother has been operating the 

McLean drive-in on a Friday-Saturday-Sunday 

basis but Amos says that if business 

doesn't pick up, the airer will have to be 

Mariet- 

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ta. Okla.. Canadian in Texas and a Nebraska 

town. 

Filmrow visitors: Virby Conley, Ellis and 

Ranger, Perrytown, Tex.; Ray Hughes. Tower, 

Poteau, and Liberty. Heavener; Rhoda 

Gates, Tower, Selling; O. K. Kemp, Victory, 

Poteau; J. O. McKenna, Circle, Tulsa; 

Homer C. Jones, Rialto and Alva Drive-ln, 

Alva; Dick Grumpier, Gentry and 69 Drive- 

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Twin Pines. Turner reports that the Apache, 

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Pilot Point, where Warren Beatty used an 

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observed Wednesday (13) as "Bonnie 

and Clyde Day" to celebrate opening of the 

Beatty picture in nearby Denton. Joe Spratt, 

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whose money is spared by Clyde Barrow 

during a bank holdup, received $100 

a day for two days plus $12.50 for the use 

of two of his cows in the film. About 24 

other Pilot Point citizens earned $12 a day 

as extras. J. L. Ginnings, who owned the 

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to find his father in the actual screening. 

The filming in Pilot Point took three days 

and Robert Henzler, president of the chamber 

of commerce, said what the town needs 

is a few more bank robberies like the one 

planned by the Beatty outfit. 

HOUSTON 

Tim Elbourne, assistant to the late Walt 

Disney, was in for a meeting about the 

Cenacle Retreat House benefit showing of 

"The Happiest Millionaire" at the Gaylynn 

Theatre October II. Actress Greer Garson, 

who makes her home in Dallas, is scheduled 

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to come here for the premiere of the film 

The Sacred Heart Dominican College 

has formed a Fine Arts Film Club to show 

art 

films. 

. . Jeff Millar, columnist 

Hollywood's Mary Wickes is scheduled to 

appear in Houston in conjunction with the 

premiere showing of "Where the Angels Go 

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in the Houston Chronicle, is conduct- 

ing a poll to determine the ten movies you'd 

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Millionaire," 

The City of Hope will benefit from the 

opening performance of "Camelot," which 

opens a roadshow engagement November 8 

at the Tower , first two nights of 

"Gone With the Wind" have been sold as a 

benefit for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 

The film opens a roadshow engagement November 

8 at the Alabama Theatre. 

SAN ANTONIO 

JÎI Cinema Art theatres have a 

new policy 

this fall, according to Tom Powers, 

city manager of the circuit. Matinee performances 

are now scheduled at the downtown 

Texas, suburban Josephine. Laurel and 

Woodiawn. Monday-through-Saturday admission 

until 2 p.m. is 50 cents at the Woodiawn, 

Laurel and Josephine while the Texas 

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"The Sound of Music" has returned for 

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Ottr Lady of the Lake College opened its 

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With Cinema" is planned, with discussions 

and selected films depicting cinema 

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The fall 

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in Reinbolt Hall with a British comedy, 

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seminar will remain unchanged, director 

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MINNEAPOLIS Exhibitors in the 

noiih central states have been urged to 

join their counterparts nationwide in contributing 

$10 a theatre to assist the light 

against 

pay-TV. 

In making the plea. NATO of North 

Central States stated that if toll television 

becomes a reality, its schedules will be composed 

of about 90 per cent current motion 

piclme product. 2 per cent of top past product 

('Bridge on the River Kwai," etc.) and 

8 per cent of sports events. "The money is 

very necessary," declared a bulletin to member 

exhibitors. "Be sure to rush your payments." 

Funds contributed will be used to help defray 

the expense of litigation involved. 

Friday (15) NATO lawyers filed a notice of 

appearance in opposition to the Federal 

Communications Commission's report and 

order recommending the establishment of 

an over-the-air pay-TV service. Checks, 

exhibitors were told, are to be made out to 

Committee Against Toll TV, and they 

Joint 

should be mailed to Philip H. Harling. 

chairman. 1585 Broadway. New York City, 

10036. 

MINNEAPOLIS 

H local exhibitor with a tin ear called the 

Warner Bros, exchange, then spread the 

word that "Warners and 7-Up are sharing 

the same building!" It turned out that he got 

only half the message when the switchboard 

operator answered with the exchange's new 

identification: "Warner Bros.-? Arts." 

Branch manager Mike Adcock wants to assure 

both coast offices that everything's 

hunky-dory at "the bottling plant!" 

Robert Smith, assistant to Charles Winchell, 

president of Minnesota Amusement 

Co.. is off on a Canadian vacation, during 

which he'll check out Expo 67 . . . 

George 

M. Aurelius, who'll succeed Winchell when 

the latter retires his MACO post January 1, 

was in town to meet all MACO managers in 

a circuit-wide huddle in the home offices 

here. Winchell presided at the session, which 

was capped off by a dinner for the group, 

the later event also including all Filmrow 

branch managers. 

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two hats: He's also joined 20th Century-Fox 

as a salesman . . . Avron Rosen, former 

Buena Vista branch manager, has assumed 

his new post as salesman at United Artists, 

and Irving Marks has taken over as branch 

manager at Buena Vista. 

Chuck Newman, branch manager for 

American International Pictures in Los Angeles, 

made the Filmrow scene to visit his 

daughter, Harriet Newman, booker at the 

Warner Bros.-? Arts exchange here, and to 

renew old friendships during his vacation . . . 

Jerry Gruenberg, 20th Century-Fox central 

district manager, was here (19) for branch 

office huddles. 

Filmrow visitors: Jim Frazer, Auditorium, 

Red Wing, Minn.; Ray T. Vonderhaar, Tentelino 

Enterprises, Alexandria, Minn.; Sid 

Heath, Flame, Wells, Minn.; Pete DeFea, 

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The Glen Theatre in Glenwood City, Wis., 

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MINNEAPOLIS—A pair of newcomers 

helped effect some marquee changes and 

also helped boost the over-all boxoffice figure. 

But the king-sized coin-catcher remained 

"To Sir, With Love." tacking up another 

solid 200 in its seventh frame at Ben 

Berger's Gopher. "The .«Naked Runner" 

bowed at the State with IfO while "Two for 

the Road" set up shop at the World with a 

brisk 220. This area loves "A Man for All 

Seasons" and the Park Cinerama run shows 

no sign of sagging. Another winner in extra 

innings was "I. a Woman," not taking a 

back seat for anyone as it continued to rack 

'em and stack 'em with a torrid 200 in its 

eighth frame. 


Academy Tlie Toming of the Shrew (Col), 

7th wk 190 

Cooper Cinerama Grand Prix (MGM), 32nd wk. 160 

Gopher—To Sir, With Love (Col), 7th wk 300 

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Mann— Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 6th wk. 200 

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World Two for the Rood (20th-Fox) 220 

"Bom Losers' High at 225 

As Omaha Grosses Dip 

OMAHA—Grosses took a nose dive in 

Omaha, in contrast to the previous week 

when five offerings ranged from 200 to 350 

per cent. However. "Born Losers" held up 

well in its third big week at the Admiral 

Theatre, doubling regular figures, and "To 

Sir. With Love." had a third big week at the 

State. 

Admiral Born Losers (AlP), 3rd wk 225 

Cooper The Sand Pebbles (20th-Fox), 10th wk. 110 

Dundee Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

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Indion Hills Grond Prix (MGM), 1 1 th wk 160 

Omaha Banning (Univ), 2nd wk 80 

State To Sir, With Love (Col), 3rd wk 1 5Q 

Vonderhaar Cites Unit 

Need in 'Film Fair' 

MINNEAPOLIS — Americans would be 

left "breathless in the wake of a new movie 

consciousness" if the nation's exhibitors 

all would embrace a promotion called 

"NATO's Fall Film 

Fair." In making this 

statement, Ray Vonderhaar. 

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small theatre "especially 

is in need of 

boxoffice volume and 

counteraction to the 

new TV season." 

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planning completed and all details so fully 

worked out that we need only fit it into our 

individual situations. A little refining of the 

'edges' in 

adjusting to our specific communities 

and we have a promotion which, if carried 

out by every theatre in these United 

States, can leave America breathless in the 

wake of a new movie consciousness. 

"Because the four releases to receive special 

attention during the October promotion 

will not be available to the majority of our 

Midwest houses, I am going to suggest that 

we build our own October bookings into 

our own Fall Film Fairs. It's an intriguing 

slogan, timely and capable of attracting 

considerable attention for the theatre 

product. 

"The world 'fair' might be defined as an 

exposition of craftsmen's products, and it 

is in this sense that I see our Film Fairs. 

Taking a cue from the county fair where 

there is something to interest everyone, let's 

build our motion picture exposition to include 

a favorite production of Grandma and 

Grandpa, and another appealing to the 

grandchildren. 

"In between, we'll have films for the 

teenager, the classic-minded, the intellectual 

and those who seek comedy, music or a 

combination of both. Tied in with the Fall 

Film Fair label, we will have an impressive 

package lending itself to extensive promotion 

through separate attractions or 

through a 'season ticket' approach," Vonderhaar 

concluded. 

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Theatres to NATO Rolls 

MINNEAPOLIS—David Deutsch. Hibbing. 

Minn., has enrolled his Maco and 

Granada theatres with NATO of North Central 

States. Citing this addition to the area's 

NATO roster. Ray Vonderhaar, president of 

the theatre owners' group, said: "The continuing 

expansion of the exhibitor organization 

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LINCOLN 

Tndustry members here are on the move 

these September days: Dick Petri, 

Cooper Foundation's relief manager for the 

three Lina>ln houses, spent a weekend in 

Chicago with best man duties at a wedding 

there; Cooper's assistant vice-president, 

Charles Kroll, returned from a trip to the 

circuit's Colorado theatres and Al Schulter, 

Cooper/ Lincoln Theatre manager, is back in 

Lincoln with his bride, the former Marilyn 

Smith, after a honeymoon in the East. 

Making a quick trip to Omaha Tuesday 

(19) were Herman Hallberg, Cooper Foundation 

vice-president of theatre operations; 

Walt Jancke, Nebraska Theatres Corp. city 

manager, and his assistant. Varsity Manager 

Pete Durham. Destination: Columbia's big 

session to discuss promotion plans for Nebraska 

runs of "Young Americans" in November. 

Cooper's showing will be in one of 

its Omaha theatres, Lincoln's, at the Varsity. 

Jancke and Durham just finished up some 

similar heavy promotion for "Bonnie and 

Clyde," which opened Tuesday (19) at the 

Varsity. This included downtown store window 

displays on the '30s to coincide with the 

film, plus special news media coverage. 

Veteran industry member Clarence Frasier 

was hospitalized Saturday (16) after suffering 

a coronary attack in his Havelock 

home. Bryan Memorial Hospital reports indicate 

the Joyo Theatre owner and manager 

has improved over his admission-day condition. 

Walt Jancke's latest phone communication 

with son, Ed, came from Provincetown, 

Mass., where the younger Jancke, his wife 

Connie and Walt's former dog Holly were 

touring New England. Walt learned that 

Holly, a Doberman pinscher, enjoyed the 

Atlantic ocean more than the rest of the 

family, who decided the water was too cold 

for a September dip—but not Holly. 

The Nebraska Theatre remodeling, accomplished 

on a morning-hours-only schedule, 

is practically completed, reports Cooper 

city manager Mike Gaughan. After three 

weeks' successful run at the Nebraska, "Doctor 

Zhivago" was moved Thursday (21) to 

east Lincoln to Cooper's new suburban Lincoln 

house for what is expected to be another 

substantial stay. A foreign film "The 

Jokers," in cooperation with the University 

of Nebraska Film Society, opened Thursday 

(21) at the Nebraska. 

Some extras, mostly in cooperation with 

community sponsors, are lined up for the 

Cooper Stuart in the days ahead: the Lincoln 

General Hospital Auxiliary's better-eachyear 

benefit fashion show Monday and Tuesday 

afternoons and evenings (25 and 26), at 

which Skitch Henderson will be a highlight; 

the film on the "Bolshoi Ballet" Wednesday 

and Thursday (27-28). and the local Broadway 

Theatre League's opening 1967-68 production, 

"The Roar of Greasepaint, Smell of 

the Crowd" on October 25. 

Many of the current compliments coming 

to State Theatre Manager Gene Buhrdorf 

are from Lincoln and outstate-Nebraska 

teachers. The current film, now in its third 

week, is "To Sir, With Love," with Sidney 

Poitier as a teacher. 

It was another Kansas City weekend for 

Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Dubinsky, this time to 

attend the Saturday (16) wedding in which 

their daughter Bonnie was a bridal attendant. 

She's a November bride-elect. Dubinsky 

and his son Sarge report gradual closing of 

some of the drive-ins in their chain, in Iowa, 

Illinois, North Dakota, Missouri and Nebraska, 

is getting under way. Some early closings 

are prompted more by less patronage as 

school classes get established than by weather. 

Some early closers in the current or 

immediate weeks ahead are the 7T7 in South 

Sioux City, Neb., the Riverlane in Rockford, 

III., and the West O here. 

OMAHA 

H number of exhibitors in this territory 

think that any time of the year—not 

just spring— is a good time for a thorough 

house-cleaning. Ira Grain has just completed 

remodeling the Bonham at Fairbury, Neb. 

He gave his theatre the works, including new 

glass door for the rebuilt lobby and extensive 

improvements to the marquee and signs. Said 

a film salesman who viewed the results: "It's 

beautiful!" 

Byron Hopkins, Glenwood (Iowa) exhibitor, 

who has the Roxy at Bellevue, Neb., is 

remodeling the house and adding glass doors 

. . George Monroe is planning further improvements 

at the Fort in Kearney, Neb. On 

the agenda are new seats and carpeting. 

Joella Cohen reported she is well pleased 

with the progress of the extensive remodeling 

program at the new Crest in South Sioux 

City. She expects to reopen by October 15. 

Bill Lyons, veteran of the film industry in 

this territory, has become associated with 

Ken Claypool and Bill Barker in the Co-Op 

Theatre Service. Lyons formerly was a booker 

with Warner Bros, and Allied Artists here 

before joining Columbia, where he served as 

booker and office manager. Later he went 

with United Artists as a salesman, then with 

MGM in the same capacity. He resigned 

from MGM to join Co-Op. 

Joe Jacobs, who has been associated with 

the late Sol Francis in the Francis distribution 

company here, resigned effective Satur- 

day (16). He said his plans for the future 

would be announced at a later date. 

Jay Gorton, who has the Tecumseh Theatre, 

has added to his extensive enterprises at 

Tecumseh, Neb., a hydroponic tomato plant. 

He also has the Gorton Motel, a car wash 

and men's and women's clothing stores . . . 

Bill Barker of Co-Op Theatre Service has 

as his guest his sister-in-law Rosalee Barker 

from Portland, Ore. 

Wally Kemp, one of the top showmen in 

Nebraska, has done an outstanding job in 

planning his new concessions stand. He has 

all new fixtures and lighting effects at the 

Grand in Grand Island. 

Sam Stern, father of Variety Club official 

Arnold Stern and brother of American International 

Pictures' Myer Stern here, is 

opening one of the most elaborate night 

clubs in this area. He has remodeled the 40 

Bowl, and has called it the Carousel, with 

a huge carousel over the dance area as a feature. 

A large number of exhibitors were in town 

for the screening of Columbia's "Young 

Americans" at the Center Theatre. Among 

those here were Nebraskans Harold Struve, 

Beatrice and Hebron; Ira Grain, Fairbury; 

Clarence Frasier, Havelock; Earl Nancel, 

Bellevue; Leola Schuler and son Bunch, 

Humboldt; Mr. and Mrs. Guy Griffin, 

Plattsmouth; Richard Smith, David City, and 

Bill Zedicker and family from Osceola; 

lowans John Rentfle, Audubon; AI Haals 

and S. J. Backer, Harlan; Byron Hopkins, 

Glenwood, and Arnold Johnson, Onawa, and 

South Dakotan Eskel Lund, Viborg. 

Lutheran Film Study Group 

Seeks to Widen Program 

MINNEAPOLIS—Unusual experiences 

with films for which the American Lutheran 

Church has prepared study guides are being 

sought by the Rev. Robert G. Konzelman, 

director of the church's adult education arm. 

"Perhaps we could do a feature story for 

use in magazines that would encourage other 

theatre owners to make use of the resources 

that are available for better exploitation and 

educational use of the films," Rev. Konzelman 

said. 

The study guides are prepared for selected 

films in the ALC's new "Dialog Thrust" in 

adult education. Adults are encouraged to 

see these motion pictures, and later meet in 

small groups to discuss the issues as outlined 

in the study guide. 

To date, films in the ALC program have 

been "The Greatest Story Ever Told," "A 

Patch of Blue," "Shenandoah," "Up the 

Down Staircase" and "In the Heat of the 

Night." 

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States and English Canada. The film stars 

Mireille Dare and Hardy Kruger of "Sundays 

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Fall Start Seen on New 

Detroit Film Building 

DETROIT—Zoning of land has been 

completed for the planned new office complex 

in suburban Southfield, designed to 

provide a new center for the motion picture 

industry by developer Eugene Sloan 

of Sloan & Co. Construction for the office 

development is to start this fall, with the 

first building scheduled for completion by 

summer. 

The first unit will include a fully equipped 

screening room, together with an adjoining 

multipurpose assembly room with 

kitchen and accessory facilities. 

Sloan is one of the principal owners of 

Suburban Detroit Theatres, the city's largest 

circuits. 

General Cinema's Detroit 

Twins Asset in Bookings 

DETROIT—General Cinema Corp. is 

using the flexibility provided by its twin theatres 

to play a variation of the "numbers' 

game." "In the Heat of the Night" opened 

in two of its Cinema I units, Livonia Mall 

and Macomb Mall, as part of a multiple-run 

booking. 

As the run progressed, the film was shifted 

to Cinema II at Macomb Mall. Then, with 

the picture going into its sixth week, it was 

moved to Cinema II at Livonia, while new 

pictures played the other units. The availability 

of both twins gives the circuit the 

opportunity to shift product to suit bookings 

and conditions. 

Pierre Cardin has designed the wardrobe 

for Jeanne Moreau in Lopert's "The Bride 

Wore Black." 

DETROIT 

ITerman Cohen, independent producer, who 

also is a principal owner of the 5,000- 

seat Fox Theatre, apparently has decided 

that if he doesn't make 'em, he'll buy 'em. 

His early reputation in production was 

based in part, on a series of pictures, like 

"I Was a Teenage Werewolf." He hasn't 

turned out any of these lately, but he has 

opened Creative Film Enterprises' "The 

Teenage Strangler" at the Fox. 

Joe Valinski of National Film Service has 

returned from a visit with his father-in-law 

in Florida . . . Joe Busic, supervisor of the 

Nicholas George circuit, plans to spend his 

vacation at Virginia Beach "to enjoy the 

lobsters and oysters." 

General Cinema notes—Ben Sugamaila, 

assistant at the Dearborn Drive-In concessions, 

was transferred to the Warren Cinema 

in the same capacity . . . John Sexton, 

chief of service at the Livonia, has been 

promoted to student assistant manager . . . 

Linda Lear has been upped to assistant 

manager at the West Side Drive-In. 

Terry Kelly, supervisor of the Studio 

. . Milton Herman, supervisor 

circuit, is back from a business-pleasure trip 

to New York . 

of Detroit Theatre Enterprises, has 

returned from a fishing trip at Tazen Lake, 

just below the Arctic Circle. 

Walter Goryl, who was with RKO many 

years and head booker until the exchange 

was closed, will join Mitchel Theatre Serv- 

as booker, succeeding Jack Susami, who 

ice 

is retiring. Goryl also has been associated 

with Universal and Clark Theatre Service. 

The Lancaster Theatre in River Rouge, 

long operated by the Lancaster family, now 

houses a law office . . . Jack Upward, 

formerly of the downtown Summit Theatre, 

is manager of the new Towne in Southfield. 

Harold Marensfein, assistant sales manager 

of Rizzoli Films, and Eugene Tunick, 

United Artists eastern and Canadian division 

manager, were Detroit visitors. 

Manager Charles Kittridge of the Trans- 

Lux Krim said the house is virtually assured 

of having its biggest year at the boxoffice. 

The Krim started the year with the final 

weeks of its "Alfie" run, and followed with 

"Blow-Up" in February to break all house 

records. Currently, "I, a Woman" is in its 

fourth month. 

MGM Names Ralph Blasi 

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NEW YORK—Ralph Blasi has been appointed 

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Meyer Adienian, .States Film Services" 

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d strict manager, were Filmrow visitors. 

Also visiting the Row were exhibitors Jim 

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Parkersburg, W. Va., and Harry Wheeler, 

Galipolis, Ohio. Kentuckians Howard .Shelton, 

Vanceburg: Mr. and Mrs. Fred May, 

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at the Times Towne Cinema for the Golden 

Agers. 

Bruce Berlo, MGM publicist, was in to 

set up promotions for "Point Blank" which 

opens at the Grand October 11. 

Frank Schreiber, 

returned from a short vacation. 

Universal salesman, has 

The Jolly Roger, 1.600-car drive-in 

owned by the Levin Bros, of Dayton, 

opened "Barefoot in the Park" Friday (15) 

as part of the picture's multiple subrun bow 

in the city. The airer's concession area is 

named "the Captain's Galley." 

learned to sail. From Mount Greylock they 

could see parts of New York, New Hampshire 

and Vermont. 

Jack Armstrong's Paramount at 

Fremont 

is being remodeled, including new seats 

and carpeting from National Theatre Service. 

Julian Knopp is manager of the house. 

Bruce Steinhoff of Imperial Pictures 

drove his new car to Scarsdale, N.Y., in a 

visit with his parents. 

Bill Anderhalter of United Artists is leaving 

Ohio and moving to Buffalo . . . 

Susan Jean Bailey, whose father is a booker 

at United Artists, started her freshman year 

at Kent State University. She plans to major 

in education. 

Arthur Ritari, a lawyer, who with his 

sister, brother-in-law and niece operate the 

Lyric Theatre in Fairport Harbor, was a 

Film Bldg. visitor. 

George Poppas Resigns 

COLUMBIANA, OHIO — George Pappas, 

for years manager of the Manos Theatre 

here and other units in the circuit, has 

resigned from the company. He said he 

plans to affiliate with an enterprise in one 

of the larger cities of the country at a future 

date. 

Remodeled Theatre Opens 


TONOPAH, NEV.—The Butler 

Theatre 

reopened here after being renovated. Bill 

Meyer and Monte Barrett are the owners. 

Dudley Moore will write the musical score 

for 20th Century-Fox's "Bedazzled." 

Long Delay Seen for CATV 

Copyright Waiver Bids 


NEW YORK—A long delay is predicted 

by Federal Communications Commission 

sources for the bid of 14 film companies to 

inject a copyright issue in applications of 

CATV systems for waiver of FCC rules. The 

companies selected as a test case some 30 

Philadelphia CATV bids for waiver of the 

FCC ban on importation of programs from 

distant stations. 

The FCC's new CATV division is 

swamped with CATV applications for waiver 

of the rules and the Philadelphia bids are 

not high up on the priority list. The companies 

involved are Allied Artists, Danny 

Thomas, Desilu, Embassy, Independent-TV, 

MGM, Paramount, Wolper, Screen Gems, 

20th-Fox, UA-TV, Universal, Walt Disney 

and WB-7 Arts, all of whom have asked the 

FCC to consolidate all the Philadelphia 

CATV bids for permission to carry New 

York stations and to permit their intervention. 

They contend that to permit CATV 

systems to import program would be to put 

the FCC stamp of approval on unauthorized 

use of copyrighted material. 

Also cited by the companies was disruption 

of program and film distribution 

because of unauthorized showings in a community 

preventing copyright owners from 

regular licensing. 

Six Philadelphia CATV systems have 

claimed that the film industry's move to 

intervene was prompted solely by fear of 

economic injury from infringement of copyright 

and that the FCC has no authority to 

act in this field, citing congressional and 

court action. The International Equity Corp. 

said the film companies are acting only from 

self-interest and therefore could not be of 

any help to the FCC in determining the issues 

involved. The company said the film 

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remedy from the Commission for a private 

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CHICAGO — Lee Artoe of Lee Artoe 

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BOSTON—Area distributors and exhibitors 

pledged support to the National Ass'n 

of Theatre Owners" Fall Film Fair at a special 

Theatre Owners of New England planning 

session Wednesday (13) at the Variety 

Club of New England. 

The distributors pledged cooperation in 

securing expanded advertising for NATO's 

four special fall films and exhibitors pledged 

to furnish playdates and selling efforts. The 

four films which will get this special industry 

treatment are Paramount's "Waterhole 

No. 3," United Artists' "Hour of the Gun," 

MGM's "Point Blank" and Universal's 

"Rough Night in Jericho." 

Carl Goldman, TONE executive director, 

called upon all thcatremen to get behind the 

N.'\TO fall program as he opened the session, 

outlining NATO thinking back of 

choosing the four special films for promotion 

as Film Fair projects until mid-October. 

SPRINGFIELD 

Qol. Samuel Goldstein, president of Western 

Massachusetts Theatres, is working 

on extensive remodeling and redecorating of 

the 2,800-seat downtown Paramount, preparatory 

to its reopening as a first-run theatre. 

New England Theatres, last operator of 

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The Memorial Avenue Drive-In, West 

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concession area, distributing free lollipops 

and balloons. 

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BROOKLINE, MASS.—Jack & Marion's 

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distribution at a Coolidge Corner Theatre 

kiddies show. "Gulliver's Travels Beyond 

the Moon" was on screen and Dick Waite, 

magician, performed on stage. Admission 

was 65 cents. 

Clown Distributes Candy 

BLOOMFIELD, CONN. — "Dopey the 

Clown" distributed free candy to all young 

patrons attending showings of "Snow White 

and the Seven Dwarfs" at General Cinema 

Corp.'s Blue Hills Drive-In. 

At the conclusion of the session, Goldman 

said. "If our members will inform 

TONE of their playdates and cooperative 

advertising requests, we will bend every effort, 

through the weight of numbers, to get 

additional advertising help. It is only through 

tangible exhibitor support that we can make 

the 1967 Film Fair a success." 

All TONE exhibitors will receive letters 

with more detailed information, according 

to Goldman. 

Malcolm Green was chairman at the 

planning session and exhibitor committeemen 

were Jim Mahoney and Joe Bean, Interstate 

Theatres; Sy Evans and Nick Lavidor. 

General Cinema Corp.; Jack O'Brien, 

Lou Kearney and Leo Lajoie, New England 

Theatres; Al Lourie, Lourie Theatres; Julian 

Rifkin, Rifkin Theatres, and Sumner Myerson, 

E. M. Loew. Johnny Moore and Paul 

Levi, Paramount Pictures; Mike Weiss, Universal 

Pictures; Karl Fassick, MGM, and Joe 

Rossi, National Screen, were the film company 

representatives. 

Each Automated Theatre 

DOES Have Projectionist 

BOSTON—Paul Voudouris of EPRAD, 

Inc., has called the attention of Boxofficf. 

to 

an error which appeared in the report of 

Al Boudouris's speech on theatre automation 

at the Joint Theatre Owners of New 

England-National Ass'n of Concessionaires 

regional meeting in New Bretton, N.H., August 

28-31. 

The error, Voudouris pointed out, was in 

this statement: "In Europe, Boudouris reported, 

exhibitors will have one man, working 

an eight-hour day, who has charge of 

about ten theatres, going to each of them 

daily to check the projection equipment and 

rewind the film." 

have one SERVICEMAN working 

The statement should have read "... exhibitors 

an eight-hour day, who has charge of about 

ten theatres, going to them daily to check 

the equipment as a preventative maintenance 

function," Voudouris said. "Every 

theatre Al visited HAD an operator." 

"In other words," Voudouris continued, 

"the article creates the impression that automation 

does away with the projectionist. 

This is not true, and we firmly believe that 

an operator is a vital cog in the operation 

of the theatre." 

Leis to 200 Women 

TORRINGTON, CONN. — The Lockwood 

& Gordon Torrington Drive-In gave 

free Hawaiian leis to the first 200 women 

attending the opening performance of "Hawaii." 

In addition the same evening featured 

a concessions area appearance by dancers. 

Harry R. Handel Dies 

SPRINGFIELD, MASS. — Harry R. 

Handel, 72, veteran Western Massachusetts 

theatre musician, is 

dead. 

Utica Three-Thealre 

Complex Under Way 

BOSTON—With all permits issued and 

given full city approval. Esquire Theatres of 

America, which has its home offices here, 

has started construction of a three-theatre 

complex in downtown Utica, N.Y. To be J 

known as the 258 Theatre, the new Esquire l 

unit will have the same type building as the 

Boston Park Square and should be ready 

, 

by Christmas. A large concession operation I 

is planned, the Drive-In Concessions of Massachusetts 

supplying the 

goodies. 

Meanwhile, the second screen at the 

Schulyer Tri-Screen Drive-In at Utica is just 

about ready for service. When these projects 

are completed, the Esquire circuit will have 

seven theatres in the Utica area. 

Another Esquire development, the Dudley 

Twin Cinema in Dudley, will open 

Thanksgiving on a first-run policy. Parking 

for 1,100 cars will be available, while the 

luxurious theatre is to be equipped with 

rocking-chair seats. The Dudley manager 

has been announced as Clem Desmaris, who 

has been overseeing the Rustic Drive-In. 

The new theatre is less than a half-mile 

from Nichols College, which has an enrollment 

of 2,000 students. 

New Type of Film-Stage 

Shows at Boston Savoy 

BOSTON — The Savoy, formerly B. F. 

Keith's Memorial, has gone back to stage 

shows—not the vaudeville type Keith's was 

famous for in the old days but as a psychedelic 

light show with a rock 'n' roll group, 

"The Velvet Underground," on stage and 

"The Happening" on the screen. 

The film-stage show combination opened 

Thursday (21) at the Savoy with a showing 

for winners in a WRKO-Radio promotion, 

which drew 3,340 letters in its first day on 

the air. The new Savoy programing was 

backed by a radio and television campaign 

engineered by Alan Friedberg, general manager 

of Sack Theatres. 

Harry Collier in Charge 

Of 'Millionaire' Sales 

BOSTON — Harry Collier, well-known I 

New England showman, has been appointed 

group sales director for "The Happiest Millionaire," 

which will open a reserved-seat 

engagement October 25 at the Redstone Circle 

Cinema at Cleveland Circle. 

Collier, who has handled group sales for 1 

several big films in Boston and sporting 

events, is campaigning for organizations and 

[ 

schools interested in securing dates for theatre 

parties and will maintain an office at I 

Circle Cinema to 

handle theatre parties. 

Stages Live Kiddies Show 

FAIRFIELD, CONN.—The Community 

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"Snow White and Sleeping Beauty." at al 

recent Sunday matinee, charging 75 cents 

admission. 

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Red Sox in and out 

BOSTON—With the 

of first place in the American League and 

the whole New England area hanging on 

every pitch, theatre boxoffices naturally 

slumped when there were night games at 

Fenway Park or on the road. Gross percentage 

readings were at the lowest in months 

the highest reported being a pair of 150s for 

"In the Heat of the Night" and "To Sir, 

With Love." 

Along with the public absorption in fortunes 

of the Red Sox. there was competition 

for the motion picture theatres from the 

three legitimate houses. Three new films 

came in during the week. "The Tiger and 

the Pussycat" making the best showing by 

grossing 125 at the Charles; "The Last Challenge" 

scored 110 at the Center and the 

third new film failed to reach the average 

line. 


Astor Luv (Col), 5fh wk 90 

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

9th wk "5 

Center The Lost Challenge (MGM) 110 

Charles The Tiger and the Pussycot (Embassy) .125 

Cheri 1— A Man for All Seosons (Col), 34th wk. 120 

Cheri 2 To Sir, With Love (Col), 12th wk 150 

Cheri 3 A Guide for the Married Man 

(20th-Fox), 1 0th wk 115 

Circle Cinemo Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

25th wk 125 

Exeter The Jokers (Univ), 9th wk 110 

Gory The Sond Pebbles (20th-Fox), 20th wk. ..120 

Music Hall In the Heat of the Night (UA), 

5th wk 150 

Orpheum Africa—Tcxos Style! (Para) 70 

Paris Cinema The Family Woy (WB-7A), 8th wk. 135 

Savoy Beach Red (UA), 3rd wk 105 

Saxon Ulysses (Cont'l), 9th wk 130 

•To Sir, With Love' 125 

3rd Week in New Haven 

NEW HAVEN — "To Sir, 

With Love" 

was about the only film showing here able 

to beat the September doldrums—and its 

efforts resulted in a mild 125 third week at 

the Westville and Whitney theatres. Only 

"The Taming of the Shrew" rose above the 

average grossing percentage mark of 100 

among other screen products available. 

Bowl Paramount The Last Challenge (MGM) . 90 

Crown Chafed Elbows (SR); Scorpio Rising (SR) 100 

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Kansas City, Mo. 64124 

Theatre Grosses 

Lincoln The Hunt (Trans-Lux) 100 

Loew's College In the Heat of the Night (UA), 

5th wk 50 

Post Frankenstein Creoted Woman (20th-Fox), 

The Mummy's Shroud (20th-Fox) 90 

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

19th wk 70 

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

3rd wk 125 

Wholley The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 5th wk. 115 

The Family Way' Scores 

Twice Average in Hartford 

HARTFORD—The week's three plump 

percentages went to holdover films as newcomers 

had difficulty reaching the average 

grossing mark. Doubling average and leading 

the list was "The Family Way," fourth week 

at the Central Theatre. "The Taming of the 

Shrew" was next in line with 180 for its 

the Cinema One and "To Sir, 

tenth week at 

With Love" continued merrily at the Allyn 

and Burnside at a 150 grossing clip. 

Allyn, Burnside To Sir, With Love (Col), 3rd wk. 

Berlin Meadows, New Britain Palace Wild 

Rebels (Crown); Catalina Caper (5R) 

Central—The Family Way (WB-7A), 4th wk. ... 

Cine Webb Woman Times Seven (Embassy) 

. 

Cinerama Grand Prix (MGM), 31st wk 

Cinema One— The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 

10th wk 

Elm The Sand Pebbles (20th-Fox), 33rd wk. ... 

E M Loew's, UA Theatre East In the Heot of 

the Night (UA), 4th wk 

East Hartford, Hartford, Plainville, Portland, 

New Britain Strand The Last Challenge 

(MGM); various co-features 

Manchester Pike Frankenstein Created Woman 

(20th-Fox); The Mummy's Shroud (20th-Fox) 

. 

Rivoli The Jokers (Univ), 2nd wk 

Strand Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

13th wk 

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180 

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pick Waite, 20th Century-Fox booker, is 

touring the B&Q circuit with his "Wonderful 

World of Magic" act for theatres' 

back-to-school matinees. Dick also has been 

seen on the Ed Sullivan TV show . . . E. M. 

Loew's soon-to-be-opened Palace Theatre in 

West Springfield is equipped with the latest 

70/ 35mm projection and transistor sound 

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system supplied by the Massachusetts Theatre 

Equipment Co. 

Fred Mayer, New England representative 

for Continental Films, visited here several 

days . . . William Fucillo, Fucillo Film 

Transportation, was in the Massachusetts 

General Hospital for a short time. 

The Lebanon Opera House, Lebanon, 

N. H., installed a Tcchnikote jet white screen 

in preparation for the opening of "Doctor 

Zhivago" Wednesday (20). "The Sound of 

Music" also is scheduled for this fall at the 

theatre. 

The well-known bronze plaques, each 

bearing the image of the famous lion, were 

stolen recently from MGM's entrance. The 

robbers, who apparently used a crowbar, 

have not been caught. Wherever they are 

hiding, the place must be heavily soundproofed 

as not even the faintest roar has 

reached the ears of the Boston police. 

James Hendel, general sales manager for 

Cinema V. was here on his tour of southern 

New England, arranging distribution details 

for new films . . . Boston's Astor Theatre, 

which will open "Reflections in a Golden 

Eye" October 11, brought back "Doctor 

Zhivago" to the city Wednesday (20). 

Eddie, son of Mel Green of Interstate 

Theatres, is a freshman at the University of 

California, Berkeley . . . David Bridgham of 

Bridgham Theatres, Dover, N. H., was in 

Boston on booking business. 

Bill Koster, executive secretary of the Variety 

Club of New England and executive 

director of the Jimmy Fund, was seen at 

Fenway Park working for the fund and 

cheering on the Boston Red Sox, who have 

become known as "The Cardiac Kids" by 

rallying so often in late innings to win 

games in the terrific American League pennant 

race. 

NEW HAVEN 

Uerman M. Levy, National Ass'n of Theatre 

Owners of Connecticut executive 

secretary, sent a colonial lectern to Sherrill 

Corwin, president of the National Ass'n of 

Theatre Owners, in appreciation of the latter's 

participation in the recent state convention 

at the Grassy Hill Country Club. 

Franklin E. Ferguson, general manager of 

Bailey Theatres, turned over a $250 check 

from a benefit showing of "The Taming of 

the Shrew" at the Whalley to the New 

Haven Register's Fresh Air Fund. 


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Raoul Auerbach, 63, Dies; 

Co-Founder of Twinex 

TORONTO—Raoul Auerbach, 63, vicepresident 

of buying and booking and cofounder 

of Twinex Century Theatres, died 

during the Labor Day weekend. 

The Montreal native was with an advertising 

agency in New York before returning 

to Canada, where he worked for several distributors. 

With N. A. Taylor in 1935, he 

formed the Exhibitors Booking Ass'n. Six 

years later the two formed Twinex, with 

Taylor as president and Auerback vicepresident, 

a position he held until his death. 

Auerback, active in industrial and social 

affairs, was a director of Mt. Sinai Hospital 

and a member of the Variety Club of 

Ontario, Canadian Picture Pioneers, the 

Primrose Club and Oakdale Golf Club. He 

leaves his wife Esther, two daughters Nancy 

and Julie, his mother Therese Englander 

and a granddaughter. 

'Helicopter Canada' Wins 

Award From Tourist Ass'n 

SAINT JOHN, N.B.—"Helicopter 

Canada," 

the centennial commission travelog, 

which won the Academy Award nomination, 

has been presented the Canuck award for 

the best 35mm film at the Canadian Tourist 

Ass'n convention. The Maple Leaf award 

for the best 16mm picture went to the Nova 

Scotia Information Service for its "Orison," 

a documentary on churches in the Atlantic 

provinces. 

Record Industry Turnout 

For Toronto Convention 

By J. 

W. AGNEW 

TORONTO—With all the excitement ol 

a world premiere and the pomp and planning 

of a coronation, the second annual Canadian 

Motion Picture Industry Convention 

and Tradeshow will open here today 

(25) in the Queen Elizabeth Bldg. 

More than 500 delegates were preregistered 

for the three-day event, which is expected 

to attract industry leaders from the 

United States as well as Canada. 

Jack Valenti, president of the Motion 

Picture Ass'n of America, will keynote the 

conclave opening day, and Sherrill C. Corwin, 

head of the National Ass'n of Theatre 

Owners, will be featured speaker at the 

luncheon tomorrow (26). 

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. 

A number of Hollywood personalities will 

attend the convention and will be introduced 

to exhibitors and delegates at the 

noon luncheon on the final day (Wednesday), 

when Canadian-born Michael Sarrazin, 

co-starred in 20th Century-Fox's "The 

Sherrill C. Corwin 

Jack J. Valenti 

Flim-Flam Man," will receive the Star of 

Tomorrow Award, based on a cross-country 

poll of exhibitors. 

Also expected is Henry H. "Hi" Martin, 

vice-president and general sales manager 

of Universal Pictures and president of the 

American Picture Pioneers; Toronto Mayor 

William Dennison and James Auld, provincial 

minister for tourism and information. 

J. J. Fitzgibbons jr., president and general 

manager of Theatre Confections, Ltd., 

is 

general convention chairman. He pointed 

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More Than 500 Delegates Expected 

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out, "The whole purpose of this convention 

and tradeshow is to give those associated 

in the industry an opportunity to exchange 

ideas, and to formulate plans on promoting 

the multi-million-doliar productions to be 

presented on their screens across Canada 

during 1968." 

The 1,346-seat Queen Elizabeth Theatre 

in the convention building will be used for 

screening production reels, including a 

Welcome 

to 

special showing of the upcoming "Doctor 

Dolittle." 

As part of the convention activities, the 

Canadian Pictures Pioneers' annual ball will 

be held tonight (25) in the Seaway Towers 

Hotel. The black-tie affair will honor Harold 

Pfaff, manager of Independent Theatre 

Services, Toronto, as Pioneer of the Year 

and Pioneers across Canada who have been 

in the industry 50 years or more. Len 

Bishop, president of the Pioneers, said there 

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by several regional delegates." 

Highlighting business sessions, "Snack 

Bar Preparation of Hot Foods" will be presented 

tomorrow afternoon (26) by George 

Pettigrew of Singer Foods, Ltd., Toronto. 

Wednesday morning Nat Buchman of Theatre 

Merchandising Corp., Boston, Mass., 

will speak on "How to Plan and Build a 

Concession Stand for Maximum Efficiency 

and Profit." Also, Clare Poehlman of Manley, 

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Other firms taking part in business programs 

will include Coca-Cola, Ltd., Crush 

Beverages, Ltd., Pepsi-Cola Canada, 7-Up, 

Ltd., and Canada Dry, Ltd. 

Drawings for prizes will be held every 30 

minutes during the three-day convention, 

with the grand prize a 1968 Snow Cruiser 

complete with trailer. Three prizes have been 

arranged for best-in-show trade booths. Last 

year's single award went to Astral Films. 

$500 TCL Dsplay Contest 

For Toronto British Week 

TORONTO—Theatre Confections, Ltd., 

headed by J. J. Fitzgibbons jr., will hold a 

$500 display contest to promote British confections 

during British Week here October 

12-21. 

The first prize is $100; second, $75; four 

prizes of $50 each and five prizes of $25 

each. 

The TCL contest will get under way 

with the week ending Saturday (30) and 

close the week ending October 21. Exhibitors 

participating were asked to send a 

photo depicting their displays to promote 

merchandise and sell British confections. 

All entries are to be postmarked by October 

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TORONTO—Here are 112 booths and 

their numbers in the tradeshow of the 

second annual Canadian Motion Picture Industry 

Convention: 

Adfilms 704 

Arco Automatic Retail Co 312—313 

Astral Films 201—301 

Associated Advertising 103 

Bardcau 408 

Booth-Glitscli 412 

Boxoffice Magazine 216 

Brown (H. A.) 517—518 

Buena Vista—Empire Films .... 703 

Bunn-Omatic Corp. of Canada. . 106 

Canada Cup 311 

Canada Dry 411 

Canadian Pakette 210 

Canadian Picture Pioneers 616—617 

Canadian Pizza Crust Co 107 

Canadian Seating Co 613 

Cinepix 609 

Coca-Cola 401—501 

Columbia Pictures of Canada .... 708 

Concessions Equipment Co 101—102 

Consolidated Theatre Services . . 606 

Continental Can Co. of Canada 203 

Cornelius Mfg. Co 417—418 

Cretors (C.) & Co.—Blevins 

Popcorn Co 105 

Crown Steel Products 414 

Crush Beverages 

Dixie Cup Co. (Canada) 

207—307 

316—317 

Dr Pepper Co 512 

Ducharme (O.) & Fils 717—718 

Film Canada Presentations .... 712 

Frito-Lay 406 

Fry-Cadbury 407 

Garland Commercial Ranges .... 217 

General Sound & Theatre Equip. 614—615 

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Gilchrist Vending 510—511 

Hershcy Chocolate of Canada 

Heintzman & Co 

508 

413 

Hostess Food Products 213 

Humpty Dumpty Potato Chips . . 205 

Ideal Food Service Equipment. . 310 

International Alliance of Theatrical 

Stage Employes & Moving 

Picture Machine Operators . . 618 

International Film Distributors. . 604 

Jet Spray of Canada 211 

Kerr Bros 304 

Life Savers 206 

Lily Cups 506—507 

London & Petrolia Barrel Co. . . 514 

Lowney (Walter M.) & Co 208 

Manley 403—404 

Maple Leaf Potato Chips 209 

MGM of Canada 608 

Moirs 306 

Momar (Canada) 313—314 

Mother Parker's Tea & Coffee . . 416 

Moyer & Diebel Metalcrafts .... 513 

McCain Foods 318 

National Ass'n of Concessionaires 213 

National Film Board of Canada 709 

National Licorice Co 505 

Navend Industries 409^-410 

Ncilson (Wm.) 215 

Nestles (Canada) 212 

Paramount Pictures 601—701 

Pepsi-Cola Canada 713—714—715 

Polychemical Industries 308 

Projected Sound 605 

Radio Speaker of Canada 710 

Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada. . 716 

Rowntree Co 504 

Sainthill (D. S.) & Co 405 

Salada Foods 302 

Seven Up (Ontario) 218 

Shopsy's Foods 415 

Silverwood Dairies 204 

Singer's Foods 509 

Smiles 'n' Chuckles 104 

Somerville Plastics 711 

Standard Brands 303 

Theatre Confections 502—503 

Toronto Carton Co 202 

20th Century-Fox Corp 602—603 

Uncle Ben's 402 

Union Carbide Canada 612 

United Artists Corp 610—611 

Universal Films 705—706 

Ven Par Vending Equip. Sales. .515—516 

Walt Disney Music Canada .... 702 

Warner Bros.-7 Arts Dist. Co.. .607—707 

Willard Chocolate Co 305 

Wyandot Popcorn 309 

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The lobby to Odeon Theatres Atwater Theatre in Montreal, a 1,095-seat house 

located on the ground floor of a three-story-high covered concourse at the heart of 

the Alexis Nihon Shopping Center. 

TORONTO — Canadian exhibition 

continued 

to invest heavily in new theatre properties 

over the past four years, expending 

some $19,839,000 in 61 major new projects. 

Of this number, 41 new theatres were 

opened and the remaining 20 houses were 

announced or placed under construction 

since the beginning of the current year. 

As in the States, much of the new construction 

is in suburban shopping centers, 

with 33 indoor projects located in shopping 

marts. Ten of the projects listed were new 

drive-in theatres. 

Further acceleration of theatre construction 

in the Dominion also was foreseen for 

1968 and beyond, as three major circuits 

enlarged their planning. 

NGC Cinemas, new Canadian company 

formed by National General Corp. and 

North American Cinema Centers early this 

year, announced that it planned to build 50 

new theatres in Canada in the next two 

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on the ground floor in the development of 

new theatres were the nation's oldest and 

largest circuits. Famous Players Canadian 

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project and a third in the Richmond Square 

Shopping Center. Earlier in the year, Odeon- 

Morton, with the opening of its Centre Theatre 

in Regina, Sask., revealed that the 

house was the circuit's 11th in Regina and 

the ninth to be built or acquired by the 

chain in the last four years. 

The twin auditorium theatre, also, has become 

a factor in new construction in Canada, 

typified by FPC's Pen Centre Cinema in - 

the Pen Centre Shopping Center in St. Cath- I 

erines, Ont. This theatre also illustrates the 

luxurious features of new construction in 

the Dominion, with its richly carpeted entrance 

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From there, patrons enter the theatres by 

a staircase leading to a lower level spacious 

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and carpeted and leading into the respective 

theatres. 

Another unusual aspect of the 

new theatres 

built in Canada in the last couple ofj 

years is the Odeon Atwater at Montreal am 

the Odeon Place du Canada, both at Montreal, 

and both so-called "internal" theatres, 

located inside a covered concourse in a related 

business complex. The Atwater is on 

the first floor of an unusual three-story covered 

concourse at the heart of the Alexis 

Nihon Centre and the Place du Canada is 

located on a ground-level shopping area extending 

from the main lobby level of the 

Hotel Chateau Champlain and passing beneath 

a 20-story office block. Both theatres 

have subway access and extensive auto parking 

facilities. J 

While drive-in construction in the last 1 

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was expected following the legalizing 

of open-airers in the province of Quebec, 

where drive-ins previously had been outlawed. 

Although there was no immediate 

rush by the major circuits to enter the Quebec 

drive-in field, it was presumed that some 

such construction would follow. 

Additionally, Canadian exhibitors over 

the same four-year period invested $8,611,- 

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more than 10 per cent of the total 

operating houses in the Dominion. Of this 

number, some two dozen were drive-ins, primarily 

installing in-car heaters. In the renovation 

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Canadian New Theatre Investments 

Near $20 Million for 61 Projects 

(Continued from page K-6) 

projection and sound equipmeni in 43.8 per 

cent; screens in 39.1 and marquees and 

fronts in 32.8 per cent. 

Following is a listing of major theatre 

construction projects. Asterisk (*) indicates 

opened theatres. All other listings are projects 

announced or placed under construction 

from January 1 through August 30, 

1967. 

ALBERTA 

Calgory— Chinook, in Chinook Shopping Center, Famous 

Players Canadion.* 

Calgory—Twin theatre, 900 and 600 seats, in North 

Hills Shopping Center, NGC Cinemas. 

Calgary-—Towne Cinema." 

Colgory—Centennial Twin, 500 and 900 seats, Monol 

Properties, 

Red Deer—New theatre in Plaza Shopping Center, 

600 seats. Famous Players Canadian. 

BRITISH COLUMBIA 

Burnoby— Dolphin Cinema, 750 seats, Regan Holdings.* 

Campbell River—Miracle Beach Drive-ln, 300 cars, 

Gunner Tzinney.* 

Courtenay— New drive-in, Ed Bickle. 

Mile House— Don Mor 1 6mm drive-in, 200 cars, Don 

Palasty." 

Surrey— North American Cinema, in Guildford Shopping 

Center, North American Cinema Centers.* 

Vancouver—Twin theatre in Brentwood Shopping 

Center, Famous Players Canadian. 

Vancouver—Twin theatre as part of Denmon Street 

project. Famous Players Canadian, 

Vancouver—Twin theatre in Richmond Square Shopping 


West Voncouver— Park Royal, 760 and 444 seats, at 

Park Royal Shopping Center, Famous Players Canadian.* 

MANITOBA 

Winnipeg— 650-seat theatre to form dual theatre 

complex with present Garrick, Odeon-Morton Theatres. 

Winnipeg—Twin theatre in downtown hotel-office 

complex on site of present Lyceum, Western Theatres. 

NEW BRUNSWICK 

Saint John^Plaza, 700 seats, in K-Mart Shopping 

Center, Famous Players Canadian* 

Soint John— New theatre in Sobey Shopping Center, 

Famous Players Canadion, 

Sussex—Sussex Drive-ln, 300 cars, Donald G. DeLong 

ond Gerald C, Alexander* 

NEWFOUNDLAND 

St. Johns—New theatre in Avalon Mall Shopping 


The entrance to the Cinemas 1 and 

2 in the Pen Centre Shopping Center at 

St. Catharines, Ont. The dual auditorium 

house, with entrance directly off 

the landscaped shopping mall, is a 

Famous Players Canadian installation. 

NOVA SCOTIA 

Antigonish— Capitol, replacement for fire-destroyed 

Capital, B&L.* 

Holifox— New theatre in Scotia Square Center, Famous 

Players Canadian. 

ONTARIO 

Bainsville^—^Border Drive-ln, 500 cars, Mr, and Mrs. 

W. B. Szijorto.* 

Cornwoli—New theatre in shopping center. East Court 

Developments. 

Cornwall — Curry Hill Drive-In, 600 cars, Tempo 

Films.* 

Don Mills— Don Mills, 850 seots, Barry Theatres.* 

Dufferin—Yorkdole Cinema, 460 and 740 seats, in 

Yorkdale Shopping Center, United Century Theatres.* 

Hull—Vendome, 900 seats, in Cortier Shopping Center, 

Michel Costom Enterprises.* 

Kingston—66 Drive-In, 750 cars, General Theatres.* 

Kitchener— Fairview, 800 seats, National Generol 

Corp. Cinemas.* 

London—Converted old B.F. Goodrich building into art 

film house, Philip Frangoo, George Koumountsipis 

and Peter Rosgoves.* 

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Oakville—Plaza, 745 seats, in Oaktown Shopping Center, 

North American Cinema Theatres.* 

Ottawa—Triple auditorium theatre, 800, 650 and 350 

seats, in Lincoln Fields Center, 20th Century Theatres. 

Ottawa— New theatre in shopping center on Baseline 

Road, Odeon Theatres. 

Ottawa—Twin theatre in St. Laurent Shopping Center, 

Odeon Theatres. 

St. Cotharines—Cinema I Cinema II, 760 and 

470 seats, in Pen Centre Shopping Center, Famous 

Players Canadian.* 

Toronto—Albion, 850 seats, in Albion Shopping Center, 

Odeon Theotres.* 

Toronto— 850-seat theatre, in Cedorbroe Shopping 

Center, National Generol Corp. 

Toronto—Cinecity, in old postoffice building. Film 

Canodo.* 

Toronto— Elone, 750 seats, in Elane Shopping Plaza, 


Toronto—Twin theotre in Dominion Center, Famous 

Players Canadion. 

Toronto—Odeon Parkway Drive-ln, 860 cars, Odeon 

Theatres,* 

Toronto—Loew's 7 & 27 Drive-In, 1,200 cars, Loew's 

Theotres.* 

Windsor—Twin Drtve-ln, 1,500 cars. United Century 

Theatres.* 

Windsor—Cinema, 627 seats, in Canada Squore Development, 


QUEBEC 

Greenfield Park—Twin theatre in Greenfield Pork 

Shopping Center, Fomous Ployers Conodion. 

Montreal— Atwoter, 1,095 seats, in Alexis Nihon Ploza, 

Odeon Theatres,' 

Montreal—Cinema Bonoventure, 800 seots, in Place 

Bonaventure, Notional General Corp.* 

Montreal—Cinema Festival, 300 seots, art house, 

Michel Costom Enterprises.* 

Montreal— Place du Canada, 800 seats, in Place du 

Canada hotel ond office complex, Odeon Theotres* 

Montreal—Cinema Vendome, 550 seots, in Place Victoria 

complex, Elysee Cinemo.* 

Montreal— Fleur de Lys, 700 seats, Michel Costom 

Enterprises.* 

Montreal—Jeon-Talon Cinemo, Michel Costom Enterprises* 

Montreal—Two-decker theatre, Maisonneuve, 1 ,300 

seats, and Port Royal, 800 seats.* 

Montreal—Versailles twin, 750 and 750 seats, in 

shopping center, United Amusement Corp.* 

Montreal— 700-seot theotre, in Westmount Square, 

Fomous Ployers Conodion. 

Pointe Claire— Fairview Cinemas twin, in Fairview 

Shopping Center, Famous Players Canadian- United 

Amusement Corp.* 

Quebec City— Place Charest, 1,250 seats and 700 

seats, Odeon Theatres.* 

St. Romauld—Cinemo, 600 seats, Lionel Longlois.* 

TimJskaming— 400-seat theatre, Benoit and Voillant.* 

Wabush Mines— 600-seat theatre, Wobush Iron Co.* 

SASKATCHEWAN 

Regina—Centre, 704 seats, in Regina Shopping Cen 

ter, Odeon-Morton Theotres,* 

Toronto Tent 28 Honors 

Showman Patty Conklin 

TORONTO—In its opening fall meeting 

the Variety Club of Ontario paid tribute to 

75-year-old Patty Conklin, showman and 

carnival king of Canada more than 60 years, 

Jim McHugh, editor of the Amusement 

Business Magazine, Chicago, commented, 

"There's no man who has contributed mori 

to the industry or is held in higher regard 

than Patty Conklin, We in the United States, 

as in Canada, consider him a national asset." 

Among other head table guests were W. 

H, "Hank" Evans, president of the Canadian 

National Exhibition; William Dennison, 

Toronto mayor; Sen. Ross MacDott 

aid of Brantford; Hank Shelby, secretary 

of the Showmen's League of America, Chicago; 

Douglas Welden, past governor of thi 

board of Western University, London, Ont.; 

George Bell, retired superintendent of Toronto 

parks, and Hiram McCallum, formal 

president of the Canadian National Exhibition. 

Tent 28 Chief Barker Jack Bernsteir 

presided, 

with sportswriter Jim Coleman ai 

ringmaster. 

Conklin was presented a framed cartoor 

of himself, entitled: "Patty, King of the Midway," 

Anna Karina will play an airline hostess 

in 20th Century-Fox's "the god game," 

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'Born Losers/ 'Massacre/ 'Fathom' 

Enjoy Profitable Week in Toronto 

TORONTO—Boxoffice receipts remained 

very good, even though there were only a 

few new boolcings. "Born Losers" had a 

strong week at the Downtown and other 

Twinex houses and "Persona" did fairly 

well in its opening week at the Towne Cinema. 

"Fathom" did good business in a week's 

run at the Imperial, Runnymede, Golden 

Mile and other Famous players locations. 

Most Odeon bookings were very strong, 

with "Hawaii" grossing well in its second 

week of a multiple run at the Coronet and 

eight other theatres. The combination of 

"Von Ryan's Express" and "The St. Valentine's 

Day Massacre" also did well in its 

first week at the Danforth. 

Capitol Fine Art The Sand Pebbles (20th-Fox), 

29th wk Good 

Capri The Bobo (WB-7A) Fair 

Caritcn Rough Night in Jericho (Univ), 3rd wk. Good 

Danforth The Sf. Valentine's Day Massacre 

(20th-Fox) 

Excellent 

Downtown Group Born Losers (Astral) ....Excellent 

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

1 32nd wk Very Good 

FairlQwn—A Man for All Seasons (Col), 

39th wk Excellent 

Glendale Cinerama Grond Prix (MGM), 

33rd wk Good 

Hollywood (North), Birchcliff Two for fhe Rood 

(20th Fox), I 3th wk Excellent 

Hollywood (South), Westwood The Family Way 

(WB-7A), 4th wk Strong 

Hyiand To Sir, With Love (Col), 9th wk. ..Excellent 

Imperial Group- Fofhom (20th-Fox) Good 

International Cinema Young Aphrodites (SR), 

4th wk 

Good 

Nortown Doctor ZlTivogo (MGM), 48th wk Good 

Towne Cinema Persono (UA) Very Good 

University Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

14th wk Excellent 

Yorkdole A Guide for the Married Man 

(20th-Fox), 5th wk Very Good 

Two Sidney Poitier Pictures 

Rate "Excellent' in Vancouver 

VANCOUVER — One star still dominated 

the mainstem as Sidney Poitier's two 

long run hits, "To Sir, With Love" at the 

Odeon and "In the Heat of the Night" at the 

Coronet, were well out in front of the rest. 

Capitol Hurry Sundown (Pore), 2nd wk Good 

Coronet In the Heat of the Night (UA), 

4th wk 

. E)«cellent 

Downtown The Family Way (WB-7A), 

4th wk Above 

Odeon To wk. . 

Sir, With Love (Col), 11th 

Orpheum The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 5th wk. 

Park Thoroughly Modern Millie (UA), 

nth wk 

Ridge The Sand Pebbles (20th-Fox), 16th wk 

Average 

Excellent 

Average 

Average 

Foir 

Stanley The Taming of the Shrew (Col), 

1 3th wk 

. Fair 

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

2nd wk 

Above Average 

Vogue Luv (Col), 2nd wk Average 

Winnipeg Grosses Running 

Ahead of '67 Grosses 

WINNIPEG — Boxoffice returns were 

firm—above the previous week's attendance 

by a shade, and at least 15 per cent over the 

same week last year. Continuing strength 

was attributable, as in previous weeks, to the 

holdovers. "To Sir, With Love" was still 

showing amazing grosses going into its third 

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ing its first month. In addition, "Thoroughly 

Modern Millie," "Divorce AMERICAN 

Style" and "In the Heat of the Night," 

all holdovers, were far above average. "The 

Sand Pebbles" was good enough for a 13th 

week. "Marat/Sade" had a strong one-week 

special booking and "Up the Down Staircase" 

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Capitol Divorce AMERICAN Style (Col), 

2nd wk Very Good 

Gaiety The Sand Pebbles (20tti-Fox), 12th wk. Good 

Carnck To Sir, With Lore (Col), 8th wk. 

Hyiand Morof/Sodc (UA) 

.Excellent 

Very Good 

Kings Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

1 1 th wk Very Good 

Lyceum The Cool Ones (WB-7A); First to Fight 

(WB-7A) 

Average 

Metropolitan El Dorado (Para), 3rd wk. ...Excellent 

Odeon In the Heat of the Night (UA), 

2nd wk Very Good 

Park The Family Woy (WB-7A), 9th wk Good 

Theatres Gradually Win Back 

Patrons From World's Fair 

MONTREAL—Grosses at the various 

leading motion picture theatres of Montreal 

picked up slightly as a greater number of 

Montrealers attended the movies rather than 

go to Expo 67. It was still very attractive 

to crowds ranging up to 350,000 on some 

days. Expo 67 as of September 14 (140 days 

of operation) had drawn 40,260,346 through 

its gates. 

Alouette Thoroughly Modern Millie (Univ), 

22nd wk Good 

Atwater In the Heot of the Night (UA), 5th wk. Good 

Avenue The Bobo (WB-7A), 2nd wk Good 

Capitol The Dirty Dozen (MGM), 5th wk Good 

Cinema Festival My Sister, My Love (IFD), 

7th wk Good 

Cinema Place Ville Marie Persono (UA), 

2nd wk Good 

Dauphin The Game Is Over (Col), 3rd wk Good 

Empire The Night of the Generals (Col) Good 

Fleur de Lys Tant Qu'on a lo Sante (SR), 

8th wk Good 

Imperial Grand Prix (MGM), 17th wk Good 

Kent The Family Way (WB-7A), 8th wk Good 

Loew's Barefoot in the Park (Para), 12th wk. . .Good 

Palace You Only Live Twice (UA), 11th wk. ..Good 

Parisien Marcher ou Mourir (SR) Good 

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

8th wk Good 

Westmount To Sir, With Love (Col), 1 1th wk. . .Good 

TORONTO 

Len Bishop, manager of the Hollywood, 

played host to royalty. With little advance 

warning, he was told that Queen Anne- 

Marie of Greece and her escort would visit 

his theatre on a Saturday evening. Len had 

a full house, but by giving complimentary 

tickets to two young people in a preferred 

location, he was able to accommodate the 

royal guests with little extra preparation or 

fanfare. 

Bennet Fode of the New Yorker has extended 

by 12 days his three-week festival of 

distinctive films which began August 25. 

The series now runs to Tuesday (26). 

An advance press reception to introduce 

the officials and directors of the Canadian 

Motion picture Industry Convention and 

Tradeshow was held Wednesday afternoon 

(20) in the Variety Club here. 

Odeon notes: Bob Gardner of the advertising 

department has resigned after 25 years 

with the company. The fourth media screening 

was held Tuesday (12) at the head 

office, when "Privilege" was shown. The 

film opens in mid-October at the Carlton. 


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Jôbert Jucksoii, director of public relations 

at Disne>land, toured Expo 67 and he 

visited especially the motion picture aspect 

of the fair. Mr. Jackson took the opportunity 

of speaking of the "Disneyworld" project 

which is about to be set up near Orlando, 

Florida. He said it will consist of an ultramodern 

city of some 25,000 population and 

25 years ahead of the times and benefitting 

from a vast amusement park of Disneyland 

type. The first phase of the project will be 

completed in 1971. 

Bing Crosby, his wife Kathryn Grant and 

members of the family were noted visitors 

at Expo 67. They spent several days visiting 

the various corners of the fair. 

The National Film Board's films featured 

in the various Montreal and district movies 

included "Canadians Can Dance" at Place 

du Canada Cinema. "The Big Swim" at the 

Westmount, "La Terre Est Habitee" at the 

Dauphin, "A I'Eau" at the Francais, "Les 

Animaux en March" at the Papineau and 

"Perce on the Rocks" at the Rivoli. 

Two men and a teenaged boy, who in 

series of robberies are alleged to have participated 

in two robberies at the Festival 

Theatre, have been arrested. The Theatre 

Festival was first hit to the extent of $450 

and the second time some days later to the 

extent of $50. 

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Bell Telephone Co. of Canada, Montreal, 

once again made news with the production 

of a film presented for the first time at the 

Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto. 

The film is entitled "Come Here: I Want 

You." It runs 14 minutes. Like the Circle 

Vision 360 degrees featured at Montreal's 

Expo 67 Telephone Pavilion, the company's 

new film makes effective use of the latest 

film techniques, featuring split-screen projection 

which utilizes a large center screen 

employing film, flanked by two smaller vertical 

screens employing slides. 

VANCOUVER 

^he campaign for the 1967 Variety Club 

telethon was launched with a cocktail 

party for local newspaper, radio and television 

representatives in the Terminal City 

Club. Hosts were Harry Howard, chairman, 

and Archie Hanna, first assistant chief 

barker. They announced the stars expected 

to take part in the October 7 and 8 affair, 

including Agnes Moorehead, Sir Laurence 

Olivier, Barry Morse, the Supremes and 

Louis Armstrong. Barker Sam Shaw, who is 

leaving the CBC to live in California, was 

presented a Heart Award from the tent. 

Catching the last 

of the summer weather 

for holidays were Diane Overbow, Warner 

Bros.-? Arts secretary, who went back to 

Edmonton for a visit; MGM booker Jim 

Patterson; Victoria Shipping's Margaret 

Morrison, who took in some dog shows with 

her champion Samoyeds, and 20th-Fox secretary 

Margaret Holt, who planed to Manchester, 

England, for a visit with her folks. 

OTTAWA 

^he giveaway, after 

a lapse of some years, 

has made a fresh appearance in Ottawa. 

Casey Swedlove's Linden, 640 seats, has 

introduced the free offer of a pair of nylon 

hose to every woman who buys an evening 

admission on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 

each week. The long-established Linden 

also is one of three theatres participating in 

the weekly Foto-Nite offer on the same 

days, the latest combined awards totaling 

$3,300. 

Doug Pinder, manager of the Rideau 

Theatre, in addition to winning $100 from 

the NAC for fourth runner-up in the CIMY 

contest, received an additional $110 from 

Theatre Confections, Ltd., 

for third prize in 

its contest, held in conjunction with the 

NAC event, and an all-expense-paid trip to 

Toronto for the industrywide convention, 

which opens today (25). 

Michael Sarrazin has been signed to 

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in Universal's "A Man Called Gannon." 

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Atlanta Showman Ties In Daring Divorce 

Stunt as Promotional Aid for Playdate 

Buren A. Eidson has a natural flair for 

showmanship and he calls it into play on 

the slightest provocation and the net result 

has been to stimulate boxoffice activity at 

Martin's Rialto Theatre, where he has been 

managing director since transferring from 

his job as Martin city manager in Nashville 

in June 1965. 

Eidson stands well over six feet and 

weighs close to 300 pounds, and he is known 

as "Tiny" to his wide circle of friends. 

His latest 

Stunt for Playdate 

attention-getting promotion had 

to do with Columbia's "Divorce AMERI- 

CAN Style" and involved a prize contest 

with "A Free Divorce" for the winner, including 

legal representation and an all-expense-paid 

weekend for one in Reno after 

granting of the divorce. 

Eidson gave himself an out in the contest 

in the event it was won by someone who 

was not interested in discarding his (or her) 

mate by offering an alternate prize of "A 

Second Honeymoon" via an all-expense paid 

weekend for two at Pete Fountain's French 

Quarter Inn on swinging Bourbon Street in 

New Orleans. This included transportation, 

hotel accommodations and food. 

Entries Go Fast 

Within a week after announcement of the 

contest Eidson's supply of 5,000 registration 

slips, kept handy in the lobby of the Rialto, 

were exhausted and he sent a rush-print 

order for twice that many more that barely 

lasted until the closing day of the contest. 

It was a fortuitous thing that Eidson provided 

the alternate prize since the winner 

Mrs. Donald Naylor of nearby Decatur is 

well-satisfied with her husband and registered 

for the honeymoon prize on August 

7, their 30th wedding anniversary. 

New Orleans Trip 

It really was a second honeymoon for 

them because they traveled to New Orleans 

on their first honeymoon 30 years ago. 

Eidson stirred up quite a storm when he 

ran a contest giving away "A Free Funeral" 

in connection with the James Garner starrer 

"A Man Could Get Killed." He thought he 

was home free when he checked with three 

ministers of different denominations and 

Buren A. "Tiny" Eidson, managing 

director of Martin's Rialto in Atlanta, 

presents tickets for an all-expense-paid 

trip to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Naylor, 

winners in a contest in connection with 

-Divorce AMERICAN Style." The 

contest offered a free divorce or a 

second honeymoon. Mrs. Naylor, the 

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This attention-getting poster in the 

Rialto Theatre lobby helped bring 

15,000 entries for the free-divorce 

contest. The poster has a photo of 

Pete Fountain, clarinet virtuoso and 

owner of the Frencli Quarter Inn, 

where the winners went on their 

second honeymoon, instead of Reno 

for divorce. 

they "saw nothing wrong with the idea." Eidson 

promoted the use of an expensive casket, 

got a (male) manikin from a haberdashery, 

complete with a multi-colored sports jacket. 

a yellow ascot, blue shirt and laid "him" out 

in the casket in the Rialto lobby with appropriate 

floral pieces. Firms loaning these 

"props" were properly credited with signs 

for their assistance. Complaints began to be 

heard about the "gruesome" display. The 

ministers urged Eidson to scrap the whole 

thing. He refused and when the casket owner 

demanded its return Eidson made his theatre 

prop man work all night and build a 

fake one. 

Promotion Sells Date 

Eidson carried through with his promotion 

and the picture mopped up with the 

help of the publicity. 

"We were lucky," he said. "I had placed 

a time limit on the 'free funeral' offer and 

the winner lived and couldn't collect," Eidson 

said. 

(This promotion, despite the fact that 

some thought it on the macabre side, got 

Eidson and the Rialto considerable publicity. 

The news wire services carried the story and 

the Wall Street Journal gave it a front page 

play, including pictures. Boxoffice chipped 

in 

with a Showmandiser Citation, which occupies 

a prominent place in Eidson's office.) 

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Showman Wally Levin, owner of the 

Hub Theatre in San Francisco, had a 

"real" hippie to parade the downtown 

area with the sign to call attention to 

his "The Weird World of LSD' playdate. 

The sign asked: "Taking a trip? 

Don't go LSD, but see (film title)." 

During the run of the film. Levin advertised: 

"Hippies will he admitted free 

if they are accompanied by their parents." 

BOXOFFICE Showmandiser :: Sept. 25, 1967 —145—

St. Valentine's Massacre Singing Group 

Aids Georgia Exhibitor With Playdate 

The engagement of 20th Century-Fox's 

"The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" was 

given a healthy boost prior to and during its 

showing in Savannah at the downtown Weis 

Theatre with a promotion gimmick, the cost 

of which was negligible. 

Constance E. Linglc, publicity director 

for the circuit, which is headed by Albert 

Weis, son of the founder, happened to hear 

a radio commercial plugging a function 

where the music was to be provided by a 

combo calling itself "The St. Valentine's 

Day Massacre." 

Adopts Name Earlier 

Investigation revealed this group had 

adopted the name some months ago when 

they learned that 20th-Fox was making the 

picture. They had become quite popular and 

were much in demand in and around Savannah. 

Miss Lingle caught the combo in action 

and was struck with their appearance (in 

appropriate gangster days' costumes) as well 

as their talent. They were hired to play outside 

the theatre the Saturday prior to opening 

of "Massacre" and also paraded down 

Savannah's main street, attracting a great 

deal 

of attention. 

Outside Promotional Aid 

In addition, they promoted the movie at 

all of the functions and dance engagements 

where they appeared. They also plugged the 

picture in radio spots they planned ahead 

of their engagements. 

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Two employes of the Delft & Nordic 

Theatres in Marquette, Mich., carry 

signs around the city to promote "The 

Dirty Dozen." Tom Mollis jr., manager, 

.says much interest was created in 

the city of 20,000 hy the ballyhoo. A 

promotion of this type has not been attempted 

in tile city in a number of 

years, he says. 

Prior to playdate some bullet-riddled autos 

were parked in front of the Weis amid 

"Massacre" posters, attracting more attention. 

Heralds were printed and distributed 

for a week before the picture opened. 

Since the band was getting good publicity 

out of the tie-up, the theatre made a deal 

with the group—a compromise between 

their union rate and the extra cost to the 

theatre. 

When all was said and done, the promotion, 

including making the special posters 

and printing the heralds, cost only $75! 

This promotion is proof positive that a 

little imagination, mixed with some work 

of cash can go a long way toward 

and a bit 

helping a picture at 

the boxoffice. 

Portland Exhibitor's Bally 

Pays Off on 'Family Way' 

With Warner Bros.-? Arts' "The Family 

Way" now in its 13th week at the Guild 

Theatre in Portland, manager Dick Rose has 

had time to assess promotional activities that 

got the adult comedy drama off to a nearrecord 

start in his downtown house. 

The manager and Jack Wodell of San 

Francisco, WB-7 Arts' representative, arranged 

for a series of invitational screenings 

at the star screening room. 

In addition to press reviewers, radio personalities 

were invited. An advertising campaign 

included a series of teasers in the daily 

newspapers—the letters "T-F-W" and the 

circle sex symbols were used. These ran for 

five days and several hundred stickers were 

distributed, as well as 100 buttons bearing 

the same insignia. These were given to waitresses 

and teenagers. 

Rose also decorated his windows and lobby 

appropriately. The promotions, in addition 

to publicity received in daily newspapers, 

resulted, said Rose, in a tremendous 

opening week, which he estimated at 375 

per cent. 

Beauty Queen Greeters 

At Minnesota Theatre 

A "royal welcome" is being given patrons 

of the Hollywood Theatre in Montevideo, 

Minn., these days. The show house has two 

queenly girls to greet the public. 

Cathy Marienau, cashier at the theatre, 

was crowned the new Miss Montevideo and 

will represent that community in the 1968 

Miss Minnesota pageant. She will be attending 

the University of Minnesota this fall. 

Theatre owner Ron Olson believes in 

promoting early—and so he's also utilizing 

the beauty and services of Miss Nancy Blom, 

Montevideo's "Queen of Hearts," on the 

Hollywood theatre float which appears in 

many of the area's parades. Nancy will give 

up her title next Valentine's day. 

Queen Nancy appeared in the Fiesta Parade. 

Montevideo's most important annual 

celebration. 

—146— 

As a stunt for "Barefoot in the Park," 

the JF circuit's Town Theatre in Baltimore, 

in conjunction with WFBR- 

Radio, admitted everyone free who attended 

the first-night showing in hare 

feet. More tlum 500 persons took advantage 

of the offer. Here some of the 

barefooted guests hold a sign pointing 

up the offer. Jack Fruchtman. head of 

the circuit, greeted the guests and presented 

each one a pair of paper shoes 

as a souvenir. 

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'Man Called Flintstone' 

Contest Winners Named 

Ellen Wendt. a 13-year-old theatre patron 

from North Tonawanda, N.Y., and Joseph 

Zebrun, manager of 

the Dipson Abbott 

Theatre in Lackawanna, 

N.Y., have been 

named w i n n e r s of >, 

"The Man Called 

Flintstone" National 

Sweepstakes Contest, 

has been announced 

it 

by Columbia Pictures, 

distributor of the Hanna-Barbera 

produc- 

^ 2;ebrun 

tion. 

As winners of the year-long national contest, 

Miss Wendt and Zebrun will be given 

duplicate prizes of a complete all-expensespaid 

trip for two to Holland that includes a 

visit to Bedrock City, the famous fun park 

in Schevenigen, and a sight-seeing trip 

through Amsterdam. 

"The Man Called Flintstone" contest was 

conducted in every situation where the film 

was played and was promoted through local 

tie-ins with merchants, newspapers and radio 

and television stations. Miss Wendt was selected 

via a drawing from among thousands 

of contest entries throughout the country, 

while Zebrun was selected on the basis of 

his excellent promotional efforts and the 

unusually large number of contest entries 

that were generated by his campaign. 

No Shoes. Free Admission 

Ernest Mezey, manager of Skouras' 

Palace Theatre in Bergenfield, N.J., as a 

stunt for "Barefoot in the Park," admitted 

all women free Thursday evening (14), if 

they came to the theatre barefooted. 

BOXOFFICE Showmandiser ;: Sept. 25, 1967 

)lks.

. . Fine 

. . 

. . Light 

. . Although 

— 

NATIONA 

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COUNCI^COMMENT^l 

SCREEN 

jÛGUST WAS ONE of those months 

when National Screen Council members 

had several outstanding films suitable 

for family audiences from which to choose 

the Blue Rjbbon Award winner. "Up the 

Down Staircase" (WB-7 Arts) won by a 

comfortable margin but "The Gnome- 

Mobile" (BV) was a runnerup and both 

"To Sir, With Love" (Col) and "The Family 

Way" (WB-7 Arts) polled enough votes to 

be given Honorable Mention. Comments on 

the winner and others included these, other 

than those printed on the Blue Ribbon page 

announcing the winner: 

"Up the Down Staircase" 

This is almost a documentary film of the 

teacher's problems in our overcrowded, 

changing urban high schools. Teenagers and 

parents should see this film. It's not funny. 

—Rosemary Beymer, director art education, 

Kansas City (Mo.) public schools ... I have 

previewed this picture three times and like 

it better each time. Excellent acting from 

some who had never acted before. Good 

moral identification in it.— Mrs. L. M. Callaghan. 

Greater Pittsburgh BF & TV Council 

.. . Sensitively directed and acted— it 

moved me deeply.—Stephen Werbel, psychologist. 

W. Mo. Mental Health Center, 

Kansas City. 

"Up the Down Staircase" is a comedy 

with a lot of good lessons for the youngsters. 

1 hope many see it.—Mrs. Claude Franklin, 

Indianapolis NSC Group ... A picture of 

interest to adults as well as teenagers and a 

fine lesson for all.— Mrs. Mildred W. Miller, 

East Bay MP & TV Council, Oakland . . . 

Not for young children but a fairly good 

movie for older students and adults.—Mrs. 

Kenneth Shiner. Kansas City (Mo.) PTA. 

A fine movie showing challenges that our 

young schoolteachers have today. Extremely 

good acting on the part of the pupils, unknowns 

to the movie world.—Mrs. John A. 

Smith, Greater Pittsburg BF & TV Council 

... A truly remarkable film because it has 

many stories to tell—Marvin A. Brock, 

Texas Tech Alumnus, Midwest City, Okla. 

... As people come out, there's plenty of 

comment—for and against.—May Williams 

Ward, Wellington (Kas.) author and book 

reviewer. 

"Up the Down Staircase" is another 

"Asphalt Jungle."—Len Massell, Stamford 

Advocate ... A most interesting picture. 

Mrs. Leslie T. Barco, St. Louis BFC . . . 

An excellent picture, but "The Gnome- 

Mobile" might be better for children.—Mrs. 

John B. Pew, Kansas City (Mo.) clubs . 

Odd, but interesting.—Mrs. E. M. Godfrey 

jr., Knoxville BFC. 

When it's 

"The Gnome-Mobile" 

. . . 

. . . 

Disney, the family need look no 

further.—Kap Monahan, Pittsburgh Press 

"The Gnome-Mobile" is a comedyfantasy 

for all ages, with beautiful photography, 

adventure and catchy music.—Mrs. 

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

Another light, airy, family-fun film. 

Nathan P. Street, Paluski (Tenn.) Giles Free 

Press . . . Delightful entertainment and 

excellent family fare.—Myrtle D. Parker, 

Charlotte WOMPI . family fare.— 

Arlie Crites, Texas Drive-In TOA, Dallas. 

A delightful movie—the car-chase scene 

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is worth the price of the movie. My children 

were delighted with the gnomes.—Elaync 

Bybee, Radio KID, Idaho t alls . . . Amusmg 

and entertaining for the young and notso-young. 

Sprightly adventure with the little 

"^he Gnome-Mobile" one of the most 

delightful motion picture experiences 

in years, just as appealing to 

adults (who have not lost their capacity 

to enjoy fantasy) as children. Camera 

techniques are fantastic and the color 

terrific. Walter Brennan is great and 

that 

chase scene about the wildest yet. 

Much faster-paced than most Disney 

pictures and I left the theatre completely 

purged, not thirdting of Vietnam, 

race riots or how to pay next month's 

rent. Escapism? Yep—but a helluva lot 

of funu—Ernest O. Thompson, Ada 

(Okla.) Evening News. 

"To Sir, With Love" worth seeing 

twice, for content and Poitier. "Up the 

Down Staircase" ditto twice, but more 

to appreciate Dennis, who lifts the 

script 

— 

considerably.—Donna McClure, 

free lance writer, Goldsboro, N.C. . . . 

"To Sir, With Love" and "Up the Down 

Staircase" for teachers, but I'm voting 

for children ("The Gnome-Mobile") 

this time.—Elisabeth Murray, Long 

Beach PTA Ass'n . . . "To Sir, With 

Love" shows what kindness, love and 

tolerance can do for the underprivilaged 

teenagers of today.—Mrs. Paul Gebhart, 

Cleveland Cinema Club. 

The two schoolteacher films are inferior 

to "The Family Way" but have 

better themes. My vote goes to the most 

realistic— "Up the Down Staircase." 

Don Braunagel, Pontiac Press ... A 

very difficult choice between "Up the 

Down Staircase" and "The Family 

Way."—James K. Loutzenhiser, film 

chairman Mo. Council on Arts, Kansas 

City. 

men of the forest keeps things going.— Mrs. 

Harold E. Kerwin, New Bedford BFC . 

. . 

This is delightful family fare and apparently 

sadly underrated.—Tom Sullivan, Havensack 

Record & Call. 

I hope there will always be a Disney in 

theatre business. You can't go wrong here. 

— W. E. Fletcher. Fletcher & Sons Theatres, 

Seward, Alaska . . . "The Gnome-Mobile" 

has beautifully done "effects" with a 

message on conservation, too.—Nevart Apikian, 

Syracuse Post-Standard . . . How can 

you go wrong with this Disney?—Brainard 

Piatt, Dayton Journal Herald . . . Interesting 

Walt Disney fantasy.—Alice B. Sutcliffe, 

MPC for Brooklyn . . . My family casts my 

vote this month. This is their type of picture. 

—Bob Battle, Nashville Banner. 

Even though this isn't usual top Disney 

fare, it's still the best choice. I wonder if 

this film was made after Disney's death. If 

so, I hope it is no indication of Disney 

future films.—Al Shea, WDSU-TV, New 

Orleans ... A fantasy-comedy, entertaining 

BOXOFFICE Showmandiser :: Sept. 25, 1967 —147— 

— 

for the whole family.—Mrs. Elmo A. Lampton, 

Independence (Mo.) PTA . . . Disneystyle 

entertainment stays in a class by itself. 

—A. B. Covey, NATO of Ala,, Montgomery 

. but bright for kids for 

summer.— George Stump, Radio KCMO- 

FM, Kansas City. 

Walter Brennan is terrific, as always 

definitely family fare.—Grant Marshall, 

Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-Eye ... A fine 

film in keeping with the Disney tradition. 

Joseph W. Snell, Kas. State Hist. Soc, 

Topeka . my choice aimed at 

children, I had quite a chuckle from some 

of the antics pulled off by trick photography.—Angelo 

J. Mangialetta, WAGA-TV, 

Atlanta. 

"To Sir, With Love" 

An excellent film that makes one feel 

good—and glad he spent his time in the theatre.—Mrs. 

Henry F. McGill, La Canada 

(Calif.) PTA . . . Handled with a great deal 

of sensitivity.—Pat Barrett, New Haven Redevelopment 

Agency . . . Sydney Poitier is 

magnificent, as always.—Kim E. Larsen, 

Denver Register . . . Sydney Poitier is magnificent 

in his portrayal of a novice schoolteacher 

in London's slum district who by 

word and example brings courage and hope 

to otherwise hopeless teenagers.—Aileen 

Kandyba, Kansas City Legion of Mary. 

A fine film— probably Poitier's best. — 

. . Having 

Nancy Sparks, Wichita Beacon . 

been a teacher, I especially enjoyed this 

splendid production.—Mrs. Carl M. Sauer, 

Indianapolis NSC Group . . . Audience 

response proves vulgarity not necessary for 

successful movies. Many bursts of applause 

from teenagers were as uplifting as the 

movie itself.—Mrs. George W. Shell, Atlanta 

BFC ... A beautiful movie, with 

warmth and reality.—Laura E. Ray, Indianapolis 

NSC Group. 

A terrific picture and one that should not 

be missed.—Mrs. Arthur B. Davis, Springfield 

MPC ... A great dramatic achievement.—John 

Recher, NATO of Md., 

Baltimore . . . The best and most timely 

film on the list.—Virginia M. Beard, Cleveland 

Public Library . . . An eloquent perlormance 

by Sidney Poitier keeps the film 

from being overly sentimental.—Earl J. 

Dias, New Bedford Standard-Times . . . 

"The Family Way" is a better film, but for 

adults only. "Up the Down Staircase" would 

rate the honor in another month. "To Sir, 

With Love" is the best of the lot for all the 

family.—Bill Donaldson, Tulsa Tribune. 

"The Family Way" 

"The Family Way" is educational, though 

differing from those two other worthy rivals, 

"To Sir, With Love" and "Up the Down 

Staircase." This is the week to go back to 

school in all respects.—Archer Winsten, 

New York Post . . . Tasteful, intelligent 

treatment of a delicate topic.—Nathan Fain. 

Shreveport Times . . . Haley Mills is a fullfledged 

adult actress now.—Tom Peck, 

Charleston Evening Post ... A superb film 

—far and away the best on the ballot list. 

Bob Sokolsky, Buffalo Courier-Express . . . 

A story for all to enjoy, with superb acting. 

The joys and troubles of members of both 

families so human.—Julie B. Steiner, New 

York City MPC. 

Miscellaneous 

"The Trap" is such a wonderful family 

film, though few will see it. The distributor 

doesn't know what to do with it: it has an 

unfortunate title, and chances are it will slip 

in on the bottom half of a double bill to give 

it a quick play-off. Theatre people should 

see that this doesn't happen to this film. 

James L. Limbacher, Dearborn Press.

THE ^^^^^^^ 

Exhibitor has his say 

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL 

Thunder Alley (AIP)—Annette Funicello, 

Fabian. Diane McBain. With race tracks all 

around me this only did fair but it is a good 

picture of its type. We have three car racing 

tracks within a 35-mile radius so you figure 

it out. Business fair. Played Sun., Mon. 

Weather; Warm and rainy.—Terry Axley, 

New Theatre. England, Ark. Pop. 2,136. 

Trunk to Cairo (AIP)—Audie Murphy, 

George Sanders, Marianne Koch. Audie is 

one of my favorites. This barely got by. 

Why not Audie in a Vietnam war picture? 

He made a comedy a few years ago for 

Universal with Sandra Dee which was good 

also. Played Fri., Sat. Weather: Mild. 

Charles Burton, Tri-Cities Drive-In, Lockwood, 

Mo. Pop. 852. 

BUENA VISTA 

Follow Me, Boys! (BV)—Fred MacMurray. 

Vera Miles, Charlie Ruggles. I played 

this late and it had been "drained dry" by 

cities, but it's a pleasure to see and run such 

a picture as this in our modern affluent 

society. Normal business. Played Thurs., 

Fri., Sat. Weather; Clear and cool.—Terry 

Axley, New Theatre, England, Ark. Pop. 

2,136. 

COLUMBIA 

Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (Col) 

—Michael Connors, Dorothy Provine, Raf 

Vallone. This was just another spy movie, 

nothing to really rave about. The crowds 

were small—all in all, just another picture 

for us. Is there nothing but spy movies 

now? Played Sun., Mon., Tues. Weather; 

Good.—Peter A. Silloway, Star Theatre, St. 

Johnsbury, Vt. Pop. 6,800. 

Professionals, The (Col)—Burt Lancaster, 

Lee Marvin, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Palance. 

Very good action picture, but some 

of the words are too rough and not necessary. 

I bought this at 60 per cent, but to me, 

not worth it. Hope I can get a reduction. It's 

smarter to buy 'em right in the first place! 

I'm not that smart. Played Sun., Mon.—S. 

T. Jackson, Jackson Theatre, Flomaton, Ala. 

Pop. 1,480. 

EMBASSY 

Darling (Embassy) — Laurence Harvey, 

Dirk Bogarde, Julie Christie. This is entertaining. 

Played Sun., Mon. — Arthur K. 

Dame, Scenic Theatre, Pittsfield, N.H. Pop. 

2,300. 

Tony Curtis Comedy 

Has Drawing Power 

A good comedy like "Not With MY 

Wife, You Don't" from WB-7A always 

brings them in. Tony Curtis and 

Virna Lisi are pretty good. 

Trail Theatre, 

New Town, N.D. 

B. BERGLUND 

Foreign Spy Spoof Movie 

Could Have Better Title 

We play all foreign films. "Fantomas" 

from Lopert is in English and 

can easily be used in a commercial 

house. A spoof on Batman and James 

Bond. Plenty of color and action. Bad 

title 

but perhaps could be worked into 

an action show. 

Alray Theatre, 

Houston, Tex. 

RAY M. BORISKI 

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER 

Double Trouble (MGM)—Elvis Presley, 

Annette Day, John Williams. We are always 

glad to see "Elvis" in anything. But 1 sure 

hope he will be given better roles. Am still 

waiting for more like "Blue Hawaii" and 

"Viva Las Vegas." Played Wed., Thurs., 

Sat.—W. S. Funk, East Main Drive-In 

Theatre, Lake City, S. C. Pop. 4,000. 

Son of a Gunfighter (MGM) — Russ 

Tamblyn, Kieron Moore, James Philbrook. 

Good western yarn with color and scope. 

Russ Tamblyn performed very well and 

does a fine job in outdoor pictures. A good 

filler. Played Wed. Weather; Warm.—Harry 

Hawkinson, Orpheum Theatre, Marietta, 

Minn. Pop. 340. 

PARAMOUNT 

Girls on the Beach (Para)—Lesley Gore, 

Martin West, Noreen Corcoran. This is my 

first season as a drive-in operator, so I am 

learning. Beach pictures are on the ebb. 

Teens want "Mondo" type or "Wild Angels" 

and hard action. This was a repeat. Businesswise, 

better than "Oh Dad, Poor Dad." 

Played Fri., Sat. Weather: Mild.—Charles 

Burton, Tri-Cities Drive-In, Lockwood, Mo. 

Pop. 852. 

Night of the Grizzly, The (Para)—Clint 

Walker, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn. A 

wonderful family picture that was enjoyed 

by all. This one has good color and Cinema- 

Scope and is the type of picture you are 

proud to play. Although a little old now, 

we did very well with it. Played Sat., Sun. 

Weather; Cool. — Harry Hawkinson, 

Orpheum Theatre, Marietta, Minn. Pop. 

340. 

20TH CENTURY-FOX 

Goodbye, Charlie (20th-Fox) — Debbie 

Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Pat Boone. Comments 

varied quite a bit on this old 20th-Fox 

picture. I thought it was good and a little out 

of the ordinary. Business was good on it, so 

no gripe in that department. Small towns 

should probably see it before they exhibit. 

The cast is tops which helps. Played Sat., 

Sun. Weather: Warm.—Harry Hawkinson, 

Orpheum Theatre, Marietta, Minn. Pop. 

340. 

Hombre (20th-Fox) — Paul Newman, 

Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Ci- 

Icnto. Paul Newman does it again. This 

time he had a fine story and plenty of help 

from Fredric March. More like "Hombre" 

any time. Played Wed., Thurs., Fri., Sat. 

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

Lake City, S. C. Pop. 4,000. 

UNITED ARTISTS 

Fistful of Dollars, A (UA)—Clint Eastwood. 

We have seen this in two of our 

houses and the comments were, "Never saw 

so many get killed in one picture," and 

"It's great." It's doing business, we all know 

that, (where there is business). Played 

Thurs., Sat., Weather; Good.—Leon Kidwell, 

Majestic Theatre, Allen, Okla. Pop. 

1,000. 

Khartoum (UA)—Charlton Heston, Laurence 

Olivier, Richard Johnson. Try and get 

this title across to your patrons over the 

phone. They seem to think you said, "cartoon." 

At times thrilling. Played Fri., Sat. 

—Arthur K. Dame, Scenic Theatre, Pittsfield, 

N.H. Pop. 2,300. 

UNIVERSAL 

Incident at Phantom Hill ( Univ)—Dan 

Duryea, Robert Fuller, Jocelyn Lane. This 

was a good little action picture. It will please 

your action fans. It seems that my people 

like action pictures. — John M. Bailey, 

Opera House, Miltonvale, Kas. Pop. 911. 

Munster, Go Home (Univ) — Fred 

Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis. This 

is one I passed up due to over-exposure on 

TV for awhile, but picked up and it did excellent 

business. Very good, I would say, for 

small towns. Played Thurs., Fri., Sat. Weather; 

Fair and warmer.— -Terry Axley, New 

Theatre, England, Ark. Pop. 2,136. 

WARNER BR0S.-7 ARTS 

Naked Runner, The (WB-7A) — Frank 

Sinatra, Peter Vaughan, Derren Nesbitt. 

Previewed in Springfield. Absorbing spy 

picture. This comes close to "Citizen Kane" 

in camera techniques. Sharpest color and 

scope I ever saw. Sinatra will make this 

picture at the boxoffice. Weather: Mild. 

Charles Burton, Tri-Cities Drive-In, Lockwood, 

Mo. Pop. 852. 

MISCELLANEOUS 

Weird World of LSD, The (AEA)—Terry 

Tessem, Yolanda Morino, Ann Lindsay. 

This picture was a trip to weirdsville—many 

who came said they were trying to find out 

about LSD. 1 hope it will keep some from 

taking the trip. Played Wed., Thurs., Fri. 

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

Lake City, S. C. Pop. 4,000. 

'Tobruk' Well-Made 

War Picture 

"Tobruk" from Universal is a very 

well-made war picture. In numerous 

places, sound is very low compared to 

the high sound in 

Opera House, 

Coaticook, Que. 

the war scenes. 

HAROLD E. BELL 

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

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Rel. 

Date 

FOREIGN 

LANGUAGE 

AMERICAN ART FILMS 

The Playpen (86) Jul 67 

AMERICANA ENTERTAINMENT 

ASSOCIATION 

The Weird World of LSD 

(72) Melo-Fantasy. .May 67 

Terry Tessem, Yolanda Morlno, Ann 

Lindsay, Robert Jackson, Ray 

Becker, Cliff Anderson 

AUDUBON 

I, a Woman (90) ..Sex D..Mar 67 

Elssy Persson 

Frustrations (S8) ..Sex D.Mar 67 

Magali Noel. Paul Guers 

©Carmen, Baby (93) ..D.Aug 67 

Uta Levka, Carl Mohner 

BOXOFFICE INT'L 

The Agony of Love 

(S3) Sus Melo. Apr 67 

Pat Banington, Sam Taylor. 

Parker Garvey 

Girl With the Hungry Eyes 

(85) Sus Melo. Apr 67 

Cathy CrovTfoot, Vickie Dee. 

Sh.innon Carse, Scott Avery 

Cool It Baby (75) Sex D ..May 67 

Beverly BatiTii, Joe Marzano 

Story of Artist Studio Secrets 

(78) Melo., May 67 

Percy Green, Hortense 

The Wonderful World of Girls 

(72) C Snoof. May 67 

Rita Atlanta, Grift Hansen, Cole 

Frank, Brandy Smith, Barbara 

Norton, Sheila French 

Venus in Furs 

(75) Sex D. .Jun 67 

"Klnore," Shep Wild, Stephanie 

Smythe 

Diary of a Swinger 

(75) Expl D.. Jul 67 

Joanna ftinningham. Rose Ontl 

Kitten In a Cage 

(72) ....Expl Ac Melo.. May 67 

Jliriam Hiot, John Dunham, June 

Morgan 

CAMBIST FILMS, 

INC. 

The Female Seventy Times 

Seven (93) Sex Melo.. 

Isabelle Sarll 

Aroused 

(78) Adult Murder My.. Mar 67 

Janine Lenan, Steve Hollister 

©The Pink Pussy Cat Where Sin 

Lives (80) ..Adult Melo.. Sep 67 

Libertad Leblance. Nestor Zavarce, 

Joe Zorda, Eva Moreno 

C.D.A. INC. 

©Girl Game (90) Sex C with Mus. . 

.Sylva Koscuia. Walter Chiari, Mylene 

Demongeot, (Jloria Paul, Claude 

Rich 

CINEMA V 

The Hours of Love (89) 

Ugo Tognazzl, EInmianuele Rlva, 

Barbara Steele 

©Accident (105) D . . Apr 67 

Dirk Eogarde, Stanley Baker, Vivien 

Merchant 

COMET 

©Savage Pampas (97) Ac D. Apr 67 

Robert Taylor, Ty Hardin, Marc 

Lawrence. Ron RandeU 

©The Gentle Rain 

(UO) Rom D. Sep 67 

Christopher George, Lynda Day 

CROWN INT'L 

Mondo Balordo 

(S6) Shock Doc. Mar 67 

Narrated by Boris Karloft 

Catalina Caper (87) Outdoor 

Sus C Apr 67 

Tommy Kirk, Del Moore, Peter 

Dnryea 

Hell on Wheels 

(D Racing Spec. May 67 

Marty Bobbins, (Jigi Perreau, John 

Ashley 

.^tars 

©Aphrodisia (..) . .Sex C. Jul 67 

(The Fountain of Love) 

©Wild Rebels 

(..) ...Motorcycle D.Jul 67 

Steve Alalmo, Willie Pastrano, 

John Vella 

EUROPIX CONSOLIDATED 

©Kill Baby Kill 

(S3) Ho Melo.. May 67 

n. Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc, Max 

Lawrence, Ciana Vivaldi 

Sound of Horror (85) .. Ho. , May 67 

.lames Ptiilhrnok. Arturo Fernandez, 

Solcdad Miranda, Ingrid Pitt 

FEATURE FILM CORP. OF 

AMERICA 

Ricliard Egan, Michael Ansara, 

Joan Blackmjm. David Biian 

©The Destructors (98) ....Sep 67 

©Run Like a Tliief (94) Sep 67 

Kieron Moore. Keenan Wynn, Ina 

Balin, Fernando Rey 

©Brighty of the Grand Canyon 

(89) Animal Ad.. Sum 67 

Joseph Cotten, Dick Foran, Pat 

Conway 

©Ten Billion Dollar Caper 

(..) Ad. .Oct 67 

John Ei-Icson, Lola Albright. 

Nt'liemiah Persoff, Leslie Parrish, 

I Inn Rickle.s. Kent Smith 

©Panic in the City 

(..) Ad.0ct67 

Howard Duff, Linda Crista], Anne 

Jeffries. Nehemiah Persoff, Stephen 

McNaily 

©The Violent Ones 

(. .) Ad. .r(ov67 

Aldo Ray, Fernando Lamas, David 

Carradine, Tommy Sands 

FILM-MAKERS' DIST. CENTER 

Chafed Elbows (63) part 

color Novelty Satire. . Feb 67 

George Morgan. Elsie Dov('ney 

The Chelsea Girls (210) black 

and white and 

color Avant. Garde. . Feb 67 

Gerald Malangs. Nico, Edle 

Sedgwick. Superstar 

Echoes of Silence 

(74) D. .Spring 67 

Miguel (^lacour. VlraJ Amnnsln. 

Jean-Francois (jobbl. Stasia Gelber 

The Drifter (74) D. .Jun 67 

John Tracy, Sadla Marr, Michael 

Fair 

GOLDSTONE 

. . Catch Me if You Can (..) Nov 67 

Dina .Meriill. Gilbert Roland. Greta 

Thyssen 

The Daffodil Killer (..) Dec 67 

Christopher Lee. Marlus Goring, 

Penelope Horner 

HOFFBERG PRODUCTIONS, INC. 

The Eagle (77) Ad D. .Nov 66 

Rudolf Valentino. Vilma Banky 

©Frontier of Hell (SO) W. Sep 67 

Herbert Sotlto. Leonard Plcchl, 

Aurora Duarte 

©Beauty and the Bullfighter 

(70) Sep 67 

Zs.i-Zsa Gabor, Daniel Gelln 

IMPACT FILMS 

Rush to Judgment 

(116) Doc. .Summer 67 

(From the book by attorney Mark 

I.Ane n'Mch presents arguments 

against Uie Warren Report as the 

final word on the assassination of 

John F. Kennedy) 

LOPERT FILMS 

©King of Hearts (102) . 

.C. .Jun 67 

Alnn Bates. Genevieve Bujold 

Persona (81) D. Mar 67 

Bilil Andersson. Llv Ullmann 

Naked Among the 

Wolves (100) D . . Apr 67 

Brwin Gcschonneck, Fred Delmare 

The Sailor From Gibraltar 

(S9) D.. Apr 67 

Jeanne Mnreau, Ian Bam>en, 

Vanessa Redgrave 

The Whisperers (105) Aug 67 

Dame Edith Evans, Eric Portman. 

Nanette Newman 

©The Thief of Paris (119) D. .Sep 67 

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Genevieve 

Bujold 

The Climax ( . 

. ) Sep 67 

Ugo Tognazzi. Stefania Sandrelli 

©Maiden for a Prince, A 

(92) Fall 67 

©The Hostage 

(82) Shock Sus. .Jun 67 

Don O'Kelly, Danny Marthis, John OLYMPIC INT'L 

Carradine. Dean Stanton 

Forbidden ©Road (66) Doc. May 67 

to Nashville 

Marty Bobbins, 60 country music Little Girls (70) D. .May 67 

Yvonne. Michelle. Ondine. Pascal 

Adolescents {66) D.. Jun 67 

Love Robots D . . Oct 67 

A Touch of Leather . . . . D . . Nov 67 

Village of Love D.. Dec 67 

PIKE PRODUCTIONS 

Fcelin' Good (85) Mus D. Mar 67 

Travis Pike. Juili Uvnt- 

PRODUCERS RELEASING 

ORGANIZATION 

©The Fickle Finger of 

Fate (. .) My C. .Mar 67 

Tab Hunter, Gustavo Rojo 

BOXOFFICE BookinGuide :: Sept. 25, 1967 

The Phantom of 

Soho (92) Ho My. .May 67 

Barbara Rutting, Dieter Borsche 

in combination with 

The Monster of London 

City (..) Ho My. .Mar 67 

Maiianne Koch, Jorg Felny 

©Tire Treasure of 

Makuba (84) Ac Ad. .Apr 67 

Cameron Mitchell. Mara Cruz 

©You've Got to Be 

Smart (..) Mus.. Apr 67 

Mamie Van Doren, Preston Foster, 

Roger Peiry 

Flame Over Vietnam 

War D (. .) Apr 67 

Elena Barrios. Jose Nieto, Maria 

Martta 

©A Witch Without a 

Broom (. .) C. May 67 

.leffrey Hunter. Maria Perschy 

©The Vengeance of Pancho 

Villa (. .) W..Aug67 

John Ericson, James Philbrook 

. . .Jul 67 

©The Drums of Tabu 

(91) Ad..May67 

.lames Philbrook. Seyna Sein 

©The Christmas Kid (90) 

Jeffrey Hunter, Louis Hay\vard, 

Perla Ciistal 

©Girl of the Nile (..) Aug 67 

Rory Calhoun, Mara Cruz 

The Serpent (..) Sep 67 

Christina Schollin. Harriet 

Anderssnn. Hans Emback 

©Fata Morgana (..) Oct 67 

Marianne Benet. Teiesa Glmpera, 

Antonio Ferrandis 

RIZZOLI 

A Very Handy Man 

(95) CD. .Jan 67 

Ugo Tognazzl, (Jlovanna Ralli, 

Pierre Brasseur. Anouk Aimee 

67 

©Africa Addio (125) ® Doc 

. 

ROYAL FILMS INT'L 

©The Game Is Over 

(98) (g D.. Jan 67 

Jane Fonda, Peter McEnery, 

Michel Piccoli. Tina Marquand 

La Vie de Chateau 

(92) C Rom. Mar 67 

Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Nolret, 

Pierre Brasseur 

Michael Oalg 

(Rnyal) ..Vittorlo Gassman, Vlma 

Lisi. Philippe LeRoy 

SHAW FILM DISTRIBUTORS 

Anna, My Darling (86) Oct 67 

Bente Dessau. Bob Asklof. Herman 

Ahlsell. Margit C^rlquist. Vlveka 

Dahlen 

©Search for Peace 

(84) Semi Doc ..Oct 67 

From the Netherlands and Without 

Dialog. 

SOUTHEASTERN PICTURES 

CORP. 

Cottonpickin' 

Chickenpickers 

(91) ..Country Music C. May 67 

Dei Reeves. Hugh X. Lewis, Sonny 

'i'nfts. Ula Lee. Slapsy Maxle 

Rnspnbloom 

She Man (74) ..Psychol. D.. Jul 67 

D. Wayne, Leslie Marlowe, Wendy 

Roberts. Hans Crj'stal, Diane 

O'Donnell 

THUNDERBIRD INT'L 

©Sting of Death 

(76) Ho Melo. Jun 67 

Joe Morrison. Valerie Hawkins, John 

Vella. Jack Nagle. Sandy Lee Kane, 

Deanna Lund 

©Death Curse of Tartu 

(87) Scope Ho., Jun 67 

Fred Pinero. Doug Hobart, Babettc 

Sherrili 

TIMELY MOTION 

PICTURES, INC. 

©Mondo Mod (89) Ac Doc—Jan 67 

TRANS AMERICAN FILMS—AlP 

Hallucination 

(90) ...Exploitation Dr. .. Dec 66 

George Montgomery, Danny Stone 

©It's a Bikini World 

(86) Mus C. Apr 67 

Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley. 

The Animals 

Teenage Rebellion 

(81) Shock Doc Apr 67 

©Sadismo (..).. Shock Doc. Sep 67 

U.S. 

FILMS 

I Crossed the Color Line 

(88' Mar 67 

Rich.ird (Jilden, Harry Lovejoy, Rlma 

Kutner 

WOOLNER 

©Lightning Bolt (91) Apr 67 

Anthony Eisley, Foico Lulll. Sophia 

CANADIAN 

Rev. 

Date 

Cat in the Sack (74) 7-3-67 

(i'athe Contemporary) no cast given 

CZECHOSLOVAKIAN 

©Do You Keep a Lion at 

Home? (81) 1-16-67 

(liiandon) ..Ladislav Ocenasek, 

Josef Filip 

111) . -No cast 

Fifth Horseman Is Fear 

(96) 8-2S-67 

(Sit;nia given 

DANISH 

©Eric Soya's '17' (87) 2-6-67 

(T'eppercorn-Wormser) ..Ole Saltoft. 

Ghita Norby. Lily Broberg, 

Snsanne Heinrich 

FRENCH 

. .Micaela 

Adolescents. The (80) 5-1-67 

(I'athe Contemporary) 

Esdra. Genevieve Bujold. Marie 

France de Chabaneix, Veronique 

Diival 

All the Other Girls Do (90) 1-23-67 

(Harlequin Int'l) ..Jacques Perrln, 

Kosemarie Dexter. Foico Lulll 

. .Michel 

Boudu Saved From Drowning 

(84) 3-6-67 

(I'athe Contemporary) 

Simon, Charles Grandval, Marcelle 

Iluinla. Jean Daste 

Fever Heat (86) 4-3-67 

(.Mishkin) Isabel Orey, Roger 

UiicliL'sne, Guy Decomble, Gerard 

Bnhr, Uanlel Cauchy, Claude 

Cei val 

©Game Is Over, 

The (98) ® 2.20-67 

(Royal ..Jane Fonda, Peter 

McEnery. Michel Piceoli. Tina 

Marquand, Jacques Monod 

Heat of Midnight (79) 5-1-67 

(Olympic) ..Jean Vlncl, Claudlne 

Coster 

Immoral Moment, The 

(105) 4-24-67 

(.lerand) ..Maurice Ronet. 

Francolse Brlon, Nicole Berger, 

Jean-Claude Darval, Sacha Pltoeff 

©King of Hearts (102) 6-5-67 

(Lopert) ..Alan Bates, Jean-Claude 

Brialy. Pierre Brasseur, Genevieve 

Bujold. Adolfo Cell 

La Guerre Est Finie (120) ..2-6-67 

(Brandon ..Yves Montand, Ingrid 

Thulin, Genevieve Bujold, Dominique 

Roz;in, Juan-Francois Reml 

La Vie de Chateau (92) 4-3-67 

(Royal) ..Catherine Deneuve. 

Philippe Noiret, Pierre Brasseur, 

Mary Marquet, Henri Garcin 

(Clover) ..Jean Claude Drouot. 

Marie France Boyer 

Les Carabiniers (SO) 1-30-67 

(Les Films Marceau) No cast given 

Le Petit Soldat (88) 5-22-67 

(West End F'ilms) ..Michel Subor, 

Anna Karina. Henri- Jacques Huet. 

Laszio Szabo 

Olive Trees of Justice (81) 5-15-67 

(Pathe-Contemporary) 

Santa Glaus Has Blue Eyes 

(50) 3-13-67 

(Anouchka Films. Paris) . .Jean- 

Pierre Leaud. Gerald Zimmerman, 

Henri Martinez, Rene (5ilson 

SlTender Scoundrel (92) © 

. 

.8-28-67 

(Embassy) ..Jean-Paul Belmondo, 

Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Marielle, 

Genevieve Page. 

OThief of Paris, The 

(119) S-14-67 

(Lopert) ..Jean-Paul Belmondo. 

Genevieve Bujold, Marie DuBois, 

Charles Denncr, Pierre Etaix 

To Be a Crook (93) 3-6-67 

(Comet) ..Jean-Pierre Kalton, 

Amidou, Pierre Barouh, Janine 

Magnan, Yane Berry. Jacques 

Portet 

Marl 

GREEK 

©Red Dragon 

Young Aphrodites (89) ....1-16-67 

(90) Ac D. .Apt 67 

. Takis Emmanoiiel, EHenl 

Rteuart Granger. Rosanna Sclllafflnn 

(Janus) 

Prokopiou 

©Hillbillys in a Haunted House 

Fear. The (102) Sep 67 

(91) M^ ' 

Basil Rathbone. Lon Chaney. John (Ti;tn'^ldmlIa Maxlmova 

SOUTH AMERICAN 

Games Men Play, The (92) ..8-7-67 

(Joseph Brenner) ..Maria Antlnea. 

Amelia Bruce. Elsa Daniel, Martha 

Legrand, Jose Cibrian. Angel Magana 

SPANISH 

Hunt, The (93) 6-5-67 

(Trans-Lux) Ismael Merlo, Alfredo 

Mayo, Jose Maria Prada, Elmlllo 

Caba 

SWEDISH 

My Sister, My Love (96) ...3-6-67 

(Sigma III) ..Blbl Andersson, Per 

Oscarsson. Jarl Kulle, (imnnar 

Bjomstrand 

Persona (81) 3-13-67 

(Lopert) .-BibI Andersson, Llv 

Ullmann. Gunnar Bjornstrand, 

Margaretha Krook 

YUGOSLAVIAN 

Three (79) 7-3-67 

(Impact) - -Velimlr-Bata ZlvoJInoirlc, 

All Raner. Voja MMc

. . 

. . 

. 

.May 

Dec 

, 

Dec 

. . . Mar 

. May 

Shorts chart 

a.z 

tea 

BUENA VISTA 

(All in color) 

FEATURETTE SPECIALS 

150 Yellowstone Cubs (4S) 

152 Disneyland After Dark (48) . 

155 Arizona Sheepdofi 

(re-release) (22) 

170 Golden Horseshoe Revue (48) . 

Hollywood (37) 

176 Flash, the Teenage Otter (48) . 

(Live-action) 

200 Legend of the Boy and 

Eagle (22) 

SINGLE-REEL CARTOONS 

123 The Litterhug (7) 

SPECIALS 

. 

CARTOON 

139 A Symposium on Popular 

Songs (20) 

179 Freewayphohia (16) 

180 Goofy's Freeway Troubles (14) 

181 Johnny Appleseed (19) (reissue) 

183 Winnie the Pooh (26) 

194 Scrooge McDuck and 

Money (17) 

SINGLE REEL REISSUE CARTOONS 

42501 Sky Trooper 

42502 A Gentleman's Gentleman 

. 

, 

42503 No Smoking 

42504 Lion Around 

42505 Cat Nap Pluto 

42506 Chips Ahoy 

42507 Let's Stick Together 

42508 Mail Dog 

42509 For Whom the Bulls Toil . . . 

42510 Donald's Ostrich 

42511 Pluto and the Armad.llo 

42512 Alpine Climbers 

THREE-REEL LIVE ACTION 

SPECIALS 

142 Nature's Half Acre (33) 

162 Beaver Valley (32) 

191 Prowlers of the Everglades (32) 

0099 Eyes in Outer Space (26) . . 

131 Water Birds (31) (reissue) . . 

. 

127 Bear Country (33) (reissue) 

THREE-REEL 

0071 Wales (24) 

0072 Scotland (25) 

CINEMASCOPE 

COLUMBIA 

COLOR FAVORITES 

(Technicolor Reissues) 

68601 Happy Tot's Expedition 

(7) Jul 67 

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

6S603 Peaceful Neighbors 

(SI/2) Oct 67 

Dec 67 

68604 Foolish Bunny (8) . . 

LOOPY de LOOP 

(Color Reissues) 

68701 Catch Meow (61/2) ..Aug 67 

68702 Kooky Loopy (7) Sep 67 

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

68705 Beef Fore and After 

(7) Dec 67 

MR. MAGOO REISSUES 

(Technicolor) 

68751 Magoo Goes West (6) Jul 67 

68752 Captain's Outrageous 

(7) Sep 67 

68753 Magoo's Canine Mutiny 

(6I/2) t«o» 67 

ONE-REEL COLOR SPECIALS 

6S651 Montreal on a Summer 

Day (I21/2) Aug 67 

68652 Chuck Wagon (10) ..Oct 67 

68653 The Animal Movie (10) Dec 67 

SPECIAL COLOR FEATURETTES 

67446 Take It From the Top 

(I91/2) ® Mar 67 

68441 Wonderful Caribbean 

(20) Jul 67 

68442 Alpine Summer (19) Sep 67 

68443 Wonderful Sicily 

(ISI/2) Nov 67 

THE THREE STOOGES 

(Black and White Reissues) 

68401 Doney Dicks (151/2) .Jul S7 

68402 Self Made Maids (16) Aug 67 

68403 Fuelin Around (16).. Oct 67 

68404 Hokus Pokus (16) ..Nov 67 

68405 Who Done It (I6V2) Dec 67 

WORLD OF SPORTS 

(One-Reel Color) 

68501 Sports Carnival (10) ..Jul 67 

(Two-Reel Color) 

68502 60 Cycles a&A) .Sep 67 

(Winner of Pork Irfl PUm Festival 

and Silver Medal at Moscow Film 

Festival) 

MANSON DIST. CORP. 

©1547 Wild Wings (35) ..May 67 

©1548 Katie's Lot (IS) ...Oct. 67 

.l>'iiny Heclit. Dian.i Wetjster. 

Ccorge Linjeris. P. Barney Goodman 

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER 

GOLD MEDAL REPRINTS 

6761.W Puss 'N Toots (7) 

6762-W Polka Dot Puss (8) 

6763.W Heavenly Puss (8) 

6764.W Jerry's Diary (7) 

6765-W Tennis Champs (7) 

6766-W Saturday Evening Puss (7) 

6767-W Texas Tom (7) 

6768W The Framed Cat (7) 

6769-W Casanova Cat (7) 

6770-W Sleepy-Time (7) 

6771-W His Mouse Friday (7) 

6772-W Smitten Kitten (8) 

TOM AND JERRY CARTOONS 

(All New—All Color) 

4581 Is There a Doctor in the 

Mouse 

4582 Ah Sweet Mouse Story of Life 

4583 Haunted House 

4584 Of Feline Bondage 

45S5 Tom Thump 

4586 I'm Just Wild About Jerry . . 

(ONE-REEL SPECIAL) 

6750 © The Dot and the 

Line (7) 

PARAMOUNT 

HONEY HALFWITCH 

(Single Reel-Color) 

C25-6 The Defiant Giant . Jun 66 

C25-7 Throne for a Loss ...1966 

NUDNIK 

(Single Reel-Color-) 

N25-5 Nudnik on the Roof . 

66 

N25-6 From Nudnik With 

Love Jun 66 

NOVELTOONS 

(Technicolor) 

P25-3 Sick Transit Feb 66 

P25-4 Space Kid Apr 66 

MODERN MADCAPS 

(Technicolor) 

M25-5 A Balmy Knight . . . .Jun 66 

M25-6 The Wedding Knight . 

66 

M25.7 Black Sheep Blacksmith Jan 67 

SPECIALS 

(Two Reel-Color) 

B25-4 Smoky Mountain Magic May 66 

SPORTS IN ACTION 

U25-2 Sulkies and Silks ....May 66 

D25-3 Deep Sea Hunt Aug 66 

D25-4 1966 Indianapolis 

500 Sep 66 

D25-5 Chop Chop (8) Sep 66 

D25-6 The Winning Strain ..Sep 66 

TRAVEL ADVENTURE 

(Single Reel) 

T25-6 Of Sea and Ships ... Jun 66 

PATHE CONTEMPORARY 

Chxkamauga (35) Mar 67 

Overture (10) Mar 67 

LESTER A. SCHOENTELD 

FEATURETTES 

ONE-REEL SUBJECTS 

©Cartagena of the Indies 

(10) Jan 67 

©Condor One (9) Jan 67 

©Moto Gaz (10) Jan 67 

©Armchair Alps (8) Feb 67 

. . ©The Mersey Sound (8) . . Feb 67 

©A New Look at London (7) Feb 67 

(^Springtime for Samantha 

(7) Mar 67 

©The Big Drive (9) Mar 67 

©Goodbye to the Circus (8) Mar 67 

The Ust Man (12) Slack and 

White Apr 67 

©Italian Symphony No. 2 

(11) Apr 67 

©Sumnver on the Adriatic 

(10) May 67 

©The Puffed Up Dragon (10) Jun 67 

©Heart of the Mediterranean 

(12) Jul 67 

©La Vie Parisienne (S) ...Aug 67 

©Api:ointinent in Spring 

(12) Scope Sep 67 

©Ireland: Tradition on the Move 

(8) Sep 67 

©Denmark (8) Oct 67 

©Parma: The Golden City 

(12) Nov 67 

©Land of Our Ancestors (12) Nov 67 

©Free Fall Parachuting (9) . Dec 67 

. 

TWO-REEL SUBJECTS 

August on Seventh Street (18) Jan 67 

Happy Birthday to Me (16) Jan 67 

©Poppycock! (15) Feb 67 

©Railway with a Heart of Gold 

(15) Feb 67 

©Tangiers (15) Mar 67 

©Turkey the Bridge (18) ..Mar 67 

©Goodbye (16) Apr 67 

©Surf Beach (17) Apr 67 

©Lure of Ravenna (19) .... May 67 

©Take Six (16) Jun 67 

©Italian Symphony No. 1 

(14) Jun 67 

©Two Laps of Honor (15) ..Jul 67 

i?!Naples: Haven of the Sun 

(18) Aug 67 

©In Search of Glamour 

(17) Aug 67 

©Business and Pleasure (21) Sep 67 

©Fusion (15) Sep 67 

©E: Chico Torero (15) . 

67 

THREE-REEL SUBJECTS 

©140 Days Under the World 

(38) Feb 67 

©Swing Aboard the Mary (30) Apr 67 

. ©A Place for Gold (35) 

©Stars of a Summer 

. . May 67 

Night 

(25) Jan 67 

©The Right Line (27) Jul 67 

Short subjects, listed by company, in order 

of release. Running time follows title. 

Dote is national release month. Color ond 

process as specified. 

20TH CENTURY-FOX 

MOVIETONE CINEMASCOPES 

(Color, unless specified) 

TERRYTOON 2-D's 

ALL Ratios—Color 

Feb 67 

5702 Mr. WinLucky (8) 

. . . 

5703 It's for the Birds (8) Mar 67 

5704 The Heat's Off (7Vj) Apr 67 

5705 Traffic Trouble (8) May 67 

. . 

5706 Bugged by a Bug (8) Jun 67 

5707 Fancy Plants (8) Jul 67 

5708 Give Me L berty (8) .Aug 67 

5709 Which Is Witch (8) . . . Sep 67 

5710 Dr. Rhinestone's Theory 

(8) Oct 67 

5711 Frozen Sparklers (8) 

. . Nov 67 

5712 Baron Von Go-Go (8) Dec 67 

. 

UNITED ARTISTS 

PINK PANTHER SERIES 

(Color) 

6751 In the Pink Feb 67 

6752 Jet Pink Mar 67 

6753 Pink Posies Apr 6' 

6754 Pink of Litter May 67 

6755 Pink Paradise Jun 67 

6756 Pinto Pink Jul 67 

6757 Congratulations! 

It's Pink Aug 67 

6758 The Hand Is Pinker 

Than tlie Eye Sep 67 

THE INSPECTOR SERIES 

(Color) 

6765 Lc Quiet Squad Feb 67 

6766 Bomb Voyage Mar 67 

6767 Le Escape Goat Apr 67 

6768 Le Pig-AI Patrol May 67 

6769 Le Bowser Bagger . . .Jun 67 

6770 Le Cop on Lc Rocks . . . Jul 67 

6771 Crow De Guerre Aug 6"^ 

6772 Tour De Farce Sep 67 

UNIVERSAL 

WALTER LANTZ CARTUNES 

4714 Vicious Viking Feb 67 

4715 Have Gun—Can't Travel Feb 67 

4716 The Nautical Nut Mar 67 

4717 Hot Time on Ice Mar 67 

4718 Hot Diggity Dog . 

67 

4719 Mouse in the House ..Apr67 

4720 Horse Play Apr 67 

4721 Chilly and the 

Woodchopper May 67 

4722 Secret Agent Woody . 

67 

4723 Chilly "Chums Jun 67 

COLOR ADVENTURES 

(One-Reel) 

4773 Turkey Au Go-Go ... Feb 67 

4774 It's a Birds Life Feb 67 

4775 Get in the Swim Mar 67 

4776 Bulls of Pamplona .... Mar 67 

SPECIALS 

(Two-Reel Color) 

4701 The White House—An 

American Heritage Jan 67 

4702 A Salute to the Tall 

Ships Jan 67 

(One-Reel Black and White) 

4703 Football Highlights of 

1966 Dec 66 

(One-Reel Color) 

4704 Funny Is Funny Jan 67 

4705 The Shooting of 

Dan McGrew Feb 67 

WARNER BROS. 

HIT PARADE 

. . Feb 

BLUE RIBBON 

(Technicolor Reissues—7 min.) 

4306 Gift Wrapped Feb 67 

5304 Wild and Wooly Hare 

5305 Pre-hysterical 

67 

Hare Apr-May 67 

5306 Hare-abian Nights Apr-May 67 

5307 Rabbit Romeo Jul 67 

MERRIE MELODIES 

LOONEY TUNES 

(Technicolor—7 min.) 

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 

.Aug 67 

5709 Rodent to Stardom . . . 

WORLD-WIDE ADVENTURE 

SPECIALS 

(TWO-REEL) 

(Color) 

5002 Blue Danube Feb 67 

5003 Beauty and the 

Bull 

Apr-May-67 

5004 Pearls of the Pacific ..Aug 67 

ONE-REEL 

5501 The Fastest Automobile in 

the World Mar 67 

. 5502 Where in the World? 

5503 Holiday Afloat Feb 67 

5504 Talcs 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 

Place in the Country, 

A (19) (Gluck) 

©33 Fathoms Deep (17) 

(Ellsworth Prods.) Jul 67 

. Nov 66 

Writi 

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Symbol ® denotes color; (^ CinemaScope; ^ Ponovision; $ Technômo; ® other onamorphic processes. For story synopsis on each picture, see reverse side. 

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FEATURE REVIEWS Story Synopsis; Exploitips; Adiines for Newspapers and Programs 

THE STORY: 

"The Tiger Makes Out" (Col) 

Frustrated and 42 years old. mailman Eli Wallach lives 

in a ratty basement apartment in Greenwich Village, 

paying rent to the wrong person iRuth White). When 

Bibi Osterwald's leg comes through his ceiling, he tries to 

get the proper authorities to take care of the situation. He 

is thwarted every step of the way and finally seeks a substitute 

outlet by trying to rape girls. Subm-ban housewife 

Anne Jackson is frustrated with her husband. Bob Dishy, 

her kids and her lack of education. She goes to New York 

to enroll in college but is turned down. In a rainstorm 

the paths of Wallach and Miss Jackson accidently cross. 

He kicnaps her by mistake, but they find a common talking 

ground, then a spark of romance and finally go to 

bed. She goes home. Wallach follows and another mix-up 

occurs. He runs back to Ruth's apartment. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

Use billboard girls advertising the movie and wearing 

long tiger tails a la the Playboy bunnies costumes. In the 

larger cities secure a real tiger from a local zoo for an 

opening day lobby attraction. 

CATCHLINES: 

Put a Tiger in Yom- Life, See "The Tiger Makes Out" 

a Few Tips From A Guy Who Knows, See "The 

Tiger Makes Out" ... A New Kind of Tiger, One for 

Laughs, See Him in "The Tiger Makes Out" . . . Tired, 

Run-Down, "The Tiger Makes Out" Will Change All That 

for You. 

/(oca 

fcncy 

/IS) 

THE STORY: "Who's Minding the Mint?" (Col) 

Jim Hutton works at the U.S. Mint and accidentally 

scoops up $50,000 into a sack of unedible fudge Dorothy 

Provine has given him at work. At home he is distracted 

by a sexy gal and flushes the money down his garbage 

Qisposal. When he oiscovers his loss, he is frantic because 

his high stanaard of living already has one of the department 

head saaists suspiciously eyeing him. Hutton asks 

Dorothy and an old friend, Walter Brennan, help him get 

into the Mint at night to print up the $50,000 loss. But he 

finds he needs more expert help, too, and rounds up Joey 

Bishop. Milton Berle, Victor Buono, Jack Gilford and Bob 

Denver as colleagues, but with complications. The amount 

is raised to $7,000,000 with each person, incluciing Hutton, 

receiving a million dollars. Using a sewer passage they 

manage to get into the Mint where complications begin. 

After almost getting caught they manage to get out again 

with the money. While celebrating, Bishop's Italian cousin, 

Jamie Farr, is left in charge of the money and lets the 

garbage men pick it up, and the chase is on to save it. 

Just enough is recovered to pay off Hutton's big mistake. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

Columbia is printing and circulating "funny money" as 

advertising handouts. They plan comic book tie-ins and 

suggest nimiismatic clubs and banks for tie-in promotion. 

CATCHLINES: 

"Who's Minding the Mint?" Is the Big "Money" Motion 

Picture . . . It's Hysterically Funny. 

THE STORY: 

"The She Man" (Southeastern) 

U.S. Army deserter Dorian Wayne becomes a female 

impersonator to avoid detection. The masquerade quickly 

catches Wayne's fancy; he feels that as a sadistic woman 

with wealth and few scruples he could control others' 

lives. Using the name of Dominita. he builds up a lucrative 

confidence and extortion ring. His former lieutenant. 

Leslie Marlow, and the latter's father are drawn into the 

malicious scheme. Marlow, succumbing to female hormone 

pills, becomes an efficient personal maid for 

Wayne. Tlie shock of their former colonel's complete lack 

of recognition of Wayne leads Marlow to 

plamiing with 

Wendy Roberts, Wayne's secretary, for unmasking the 

impersonator. Marlow and Wendy photograph a (iozing 

Wayne, snapping pictures of an incriminating scar on the 

impersonator's leg. He is exposed as a deserter. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

Use lobby paste-ups of newspaper commentary on fixation, 

female impersonators. This has been the subject of 

considerable space by syndicated writers. 

CATCHLINES: 

This Is a Story You're Not Gong to Forget in a Hui-ry 

Yet It Happened! . She Man's 

Past Unmasked! As Realistic As Today's Headlines! 

it in 

Mis P 

THE STORY: 

"The Frozen Dead" (WB-7 Arts) 

Ex-Nazi scientist Dana Andrews works on scientific 

experiments with reviving frozen organisms. Aided by 

Alan Tilvern in an English castle. Andrews has not found 

all the answers to successfully bringing back life to the 

frozen human. Something always goes wrong and he has 

a room full of Nazis to prove his failm-e. 

When his niece, 

Anna Palk, arrives from America, the situation gets 

worse. Her friend, Kathleen Hreck, disappears. Nazi general 

Karel Stepanek also comes to visit Andrews and tells 

him that there are 1,500 Nazis frozen and he must now 

bring them to life again. Andrews is horrified, thinking 

that only a dozen were actually put in deep freeze. Tilvern 

kills Breck and her head is used as an experiment. 

Breck gets help from Philip Gilbert, an American doctor. 

Together they discover the truth and Breck finds her 

father, Edward Pox, still a young man since he was 

frozen, demented in Andrews' lab. Stepanek and Andrews 

are strangled as they try to captm-e Breck. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

Use fake ice cubes with the film title in the center as 

throw-away promotions. Use tie-ins with freezerrefrigeration 

companies and Good Humor concessions. 

CATCHLINES: 

For Chilling Excitement, See "The Frozen Dead" . . . 

Out of the Deep Freeze Comes "The Frozen Dead" to 

Send Chills Up Youi- Spine . . . Out of the Past Comes 

"The Frozen Dead" As a Very Modern Menace. 

THE STORY: "Mini-Skirt Love" (Boxoffice Infl) 

Fifteen-year-old Donny Lee, with predilection for 

photography, accidentally finds his mother, Bella Donna, 

in bed with her lover, Nick Harrison, and takes some revealing 

poses. That same evening, hubby Guy Sinclair is 

shown the photos by his son and in an ensuing quarrel, 

Bella kills Sinclair. She is committed to a mental institution. 

Bella's sister, Mercedes Je Morcef, who arrives to 

supervise the boy's life, eventually seduces him. Bella 

retui-ns five years later to confront the incestuous situation. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

Invite social workers and welfare case supervisors to 

attend an invitational .screening, their comments to be 

used for regional communications exposm-e. 

CATCHLINES: 

A Shocking Glimpse Into the Warped Morals of the 

Mod World! . the Brutality of Human Emotions 

Stripped Bare! 

"Mod" Model! 

Witness the Seductive Beauty of a 

. . . 

Jine t 

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THE STORY: "It" (WB-7 Arts) 

Roddy McDowall, a musemn assistant, has stolen a 

famous diamond for his dead mother's skelton. Dm-ing a 

blitz fire, a man is found dead at the foot of the Golem 

statue and the museum curator's head is crushed by the 

Golem, too. When McDowall is not promoted, he seeks 

revenge. He also replaces the diamond after a workman 

is killed. Jill Haworth, the daughter of the dead curator, 

comes to clear away her father's papers. McDowall tries 

to convince her that the Golem killed both men. She 

thinks he is nutty and loves Paul Maxwell anyway. 

McDowall learns the secret about placing the old scroll 

in the Golem's mouth and begins a power-mad drive to 

win everything he wants with the Golem's help. Terrorizing 

is the order of the day and even London Bridge is 

destroyed. Haworth is kidnapped. An army miit is called 

in and bombs the Golem. He survives but walks into the 

ocean. McDowall is killed in the explosion. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

Use a replica of the famous Golem as a lobby display. 

Have a contest suggesting names for "It." Hold a costume 

party for Mr. and Mrs. Golem. 

CATCHLINES: 

"It" Was Too Horrible to Have a Name . . . "It" Terrorized 

London, Now Like "It" Terrorizes You . . . For Hundreds 

of Centuries Dead. Now "It" Comes Alive Never to 

Die Again. 

BOXOFFICE BookinGuide :: .Sept. 25, 1967

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PROMOTIONAL 

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ASSISTANT 

' 

ARCHITECT-CO-ORDINATOR 

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EXPERIENCED 

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ment 

please 

Detroit, 

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bonus, 

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1540 

Milwaukee, 

541 

All 

ATES: 20c per word, minimum $2.00, cash with copy. Four consecutive insertions for price ol 

iree. When using a Boxoifice No., figure 2 additional words and include 50c additional, to cover 

3St of handling replies. Display Classified. S20.00 per Column Inch. CLOSING DATE: Monday 

oon preceding publication date. Send copy • and answers to Box Numbers to BOXOFTICE, 

25 Van Brunt Blvd.. Kansas City, Mo. 64124. • 

CLfeRine 

HOUSE 

HELP WANTED POSITIONS WANTED CONT'D THEATRES FOR SALE THEATRE SEATING 

THEATRE MANAGERS and assistant 

lanagers: We can help you find- the job 

Iju want in the area you want and mayb 

the salary you want. Send resume, 

jilory, photo and $5.00, (total placement 

bst $60.00)—registration fee. Cinema 

.acement Service. 110 SuUivan Drive, San 

intonio, Texas 78213. 

SALESMAN 

WANTED 

to represent firm selling outdoor advertising 

in conjunction with Theatre display 

frame service. Opportunity to build 

for the future. Exclusive territory avoilioble. 

Contact 

ROMAR VIDE 

Chetek, Wis. 54728 

Company 

THEATRES AND THEATRE cucuits; List 

>ur management personnel needs with 

J. Wili arrange interview at no cost and 

) obligation. Cinema Placement Service, 

Sullivan Drive, San Antonio, Texas 

213. 

WANTED—YOUNG energetic man who 

presently working as an assistant manner, 

but who feels qualified to take over 

manager's position. Excellent pay, insurice 

benefits plus the chance for rapid 

ivancpment Call collect: AC 609 662 

..nj expenses arranged. 

'2? '-' - 

AND ADVERTISING- 

INDED MAN v/anted to sell motion picre 

advertising. Liberal commission paid. 

ot unusual to earn over $500.00 weekly. 

>r details, write BOXOFFICE 1579. 

WANTED—EXPERIENCED MALE monjers, 

over 50 ior San Antonio, El Paso, 

xas Art Houses. Send resume to P. O. 

Dx 18584, Dallas, Texas 7521S. 

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS — Experienced 

onagers and assistants, with progressive 

entury Theatres, New York. Extensive 

inual vacation, good salary, major mediil, 

profit sharing, insurance. Opportunf 

for advancement- Send photo, resume 

Mel Aronson, Century Theatres, 15 

erbena Ave., Floral Park, New York. 

PROJECTIONIST WANTED for downtown 

3use. Good pay, excellent working contions. 

Write: John Detrick, 809 South 

urora Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. 

EXPERIENCED MAN for managerial 

isi'ion, both indoor and dnve-in, Omaha, 

rz-::^. ka. Age 25 -45. BOXOFFICE 1592. 

THEATRE MANAGERS experienced in 

, 

indoor or drive-ins. Circuit offers 

health and accident insur- 

":nd retirement benefits. Year-round 

(or qualified persons. In 

F I y give experience and referic-.-., 

and send photo, if possible. Write: 

OV-)FFICE 1591. 

EXPERIENCED BURLESK THEATRE man- 

1t: Please include m your resume, 

note and salary expected to: El-Mar There 

Management, 1700 First National 

, 

,dg Michigan 48226. 

MANAGERS — Manager 

'3inees. Top Company, Good starting 

!;-:--.- 

plus many fringe benefits. Ex- 

- " 

chance for advancement. Experiin 

d-rive-in and indoor prefer red . 

-:. . complete resume to: General Cinema 

iorporation Box 285, Florissant, Missouri. 

: Graduate 

-ct with degree minimum 4-5 years 

.--nee with some theatre background 

York office to work vdth archicts 

builders and decorators, supervise 

' anning and construction for company's 

kpansion, renovation and theatre developlent 

program. Permanent position for 

ght man. Exceptional benefits. Send reime: 

Construction Department, Loew's 

leatres, Inc 

, 

Broadway, New York. 

POSITIONS WANTED 

I 

SEASONED 

lill. advertising—exploitation. 

MANAGER available 

Excellent 

Ex- 

Inferences. BOXOFTICE 1554. 

SOUND & PROJECTION service engineer, 

.quipment, sales, proposals, estimates. 

vailable 30 days. BOXOFFICE 1566. 

iGENERAL MANAGER—twenty years adjinistrative 

experience, film buyer, con- 

;5ssionaire, advertising. Age 45, employed 

I A. area. Family, salary $12,000. BOX- 

IFFICE 1571. 

COUPLE in all phases 

theatre operation, buying, exploitation 

l^d projection—wonts one or more theitres 

to menage. Available now! BOXjFFlCE 

1575 

[OPERATOR, MANAGER, Service man, 

ectncian, carpenter, plumber, refrigerapn,^ 

in one giant economy package 

{coking for drive-in in warm dry climate, 

r'ith present employer 30 years. BOX- 

,FFICE 1590. 

MANAGER—HUSBAND, WIFE, completely 

experienced. Small town preferred. Sid 

Gibbs, Box 284, Bastrop, Texas. 

DISTRIBUTORS WANTED 

FOR COMPLETE LINE vending machines 

ior service stations, coinops, car washes, 

restaurants, taverns. Sell candy, cigarettes, 

pastry vendors and newest hottest 

popcorn machine on the market. 100% 

sanitary, no bags, drops an 18 ounce cup 

and fills same automatically. No loss bags 

Be first to tie up your area with the hot 

line. Send full resume first letter. Federal 

Machine Corp., P. O. Box 1713BO, Des 

Moines, Iowa 50306. 

EQUIPMENT WANTED 

Projection equipment wanted. Highest 

prices paid. Lou Walters Sales & Service 

Co 4207 Lawnview Ave. , Dallas, Texas 

75227. 

ORGAN MEMORABIUA wanted. Clippings, 

photos, posters, parts, etc. Box 483, 

Belmont, Cahfornia 94002. 

PRIVATE PARTY NEEDS used drive-in 

speakers with junction boxes. State make, 

quantity and price. BOXOFFICE 1572- 

TOP PRICES PAID for soundheads, 

lamphouses, rectifiers, projectors, lenses 

cfnd portable projectors. What have you? 

STAR CINEMA SUPPLY, 621 West 55th 

Street, New York 10019. 

1000 WATT SLIDE projector. State Tlieatre, 

Port Jervis, New York 12771. 

WANTED: 4 PAIR large 3D upper and 

lower magazines for 20, 50-minute reels, 

300 good 4" speakers, 2 pair CinemaScope 

lenses. Phil Cory, Box 1460, Ri vert on, 

Wyoming. Phone: 307 856-2517. 

EQUIPMENT FOR SALE 

DEIBLER TRACKLESS TRAINS, 914 Claflin 

Road. Phone: Area Code 913-PR 8-5480, 

Manhattan, Kansas. 

SIMPLEX. XL BOOTH, Century CC. 

R-5 sound heads. Mighty 90 lamps, rectifiers, 

Japanese lens, used equipment all 

makes, models. Theatre Equipment Company, 

1220 East 7th Street., Charlotte. N.C. 

COMPLETE BOOTH, Century C, H.D. 

bases, RCA sound, 3 EF & scope lenses. 

First $1,200.00. Richard DeToto, 550 South 

Salina Street, Syracuse, New York. 

HOLMES PORTABLE amplifier, built-in 

exciter supplies and change-over, 25 watt, 

$75 00. BOXOFTICE 1561. 

SUDE PROJECTORS— (2) booth type 

with 1000 watt lamps—$35.00 each. BOX- 

OFFICE 1583 

HOLMES PORTABLE projectors, model 

8- Constant speed motors, (4) magazines, 

babv Strong arc lamps, rectifiers. Holmes 

amplifier with speaker, case and cable, 

(2) projection stands, wide screen lenses 

—$850 00- BOXOFFICE 1584. 

COMPLETE BOOTH, Ballantyne projection 

heads, Synchrofilm front motor 

sound heads, 2 stands, Kollmorgen lenses, 

wall mount ompUIier, 4 magazines. Strong 

low intensity arcs and rectifiers, rewinds. 

All in aood workina condition—$300.00. 

BOXOFFICE 1535. 

SIMPLEX STANDARD rear shutter projection 

heads. Pair $100.00—BOXOFFICE 

1582, 

FOR SALE: New 10" red plastic letters, 

RCA MI 9030, Ml 9050 soundheads, Magnarc. 

Strong 135 lamps, new 60-135 amp 

rectifiers, XL sound system Mag-Opfical, 

Super Simplex BX60-80-100 projectors, 

lenses all size. New eauipment guarantee. 

700 push-back 290 Heywood Wakefield 

seats Harry Melcher, 3238 West Fond du 

Lcc Ave , Wisconsin. A/C 

414 442-5020- 

MAJESTIC REFRIGERATED beverage 

dispenser. Counter top model No. AC, excellent 

condition—$100.00. BOXOFFICE 

1580 

FILMS 

FOR SALE 

16MM CLASSICS. Catalog, Manbeck 

Pictures, 3621B Wakonda Drive, Des 

Moines, Iowa 50321. 

POPCORN MACHINES 

Brand ne^v counter model, all electric- 

Capacity, hundred portions per hour, 

$235.00. Replacement kettles all machines. 

120 S. Halsted, Chicago 6, 111. 

350 CAR DRIVE-IN theatre. Excellent 

business that snows consistent increase. 

New steel tower. New marquee. Remodeled 

concession stand. North Central 

Oklahoma. BOXOFFICE 1514. 

COMMERCIAL BUILDING in Long Beach, 

Mississippi. Includes 500 seat theaire, 4 

commercial rentals, 4 apartments, equipment 

working. Approximate income — 

$500.00, excluding theatre. Population, 

13,000. Write: P. O. Box 384, Long Beach. 

Mississippi 39560, or phone: 363 2582. 

FOR SALE OR LEASE: Two Eastern 

Kentucky theatres. First run, no opposition. 

Both theatres well maintained, air conditioned, 

recently decorated. One theatre 

in county seat, the other in largest city 

in county. Real opportunity for a live wire 

showman. BOXOFFICE 1576. 

325 SEAT THEATRE in small town close 

to best hunting and fishinq in Idaho. Includes 

snack bar, 4 rental apartments, 

plus 1 commercial rental . recently 

remodeled- Full price—$60,000. Tcfrghee 

Enterprises, Ashton, Idaho^ 

282 CAR DRIVE-IN Theaire— 168 chair, 

heated auditorium. Projection equipment 

in new condition. Industrial payroll. Located 

on state's oldest most beautiful 

lakes, on fringe of giant expanding industrial 

center of North Central Texas. 

$20,000. BOXOFFICE 1577. 

300 CAR DRIVE-IN, room for home and 

expansion In the hedrt of Oregon's hunting 

and fishing. New irrigation project 

almost complete. Perfect for family or 

semi-retired. BOXOFFICE 1587. 

LEASE OR SELL: Oklahoma indoor. 

County seat Small investment required. 

Ray Townsend, Palace Theatre, Burkburnett, 

Texas '76354, 

THEATRES WANTED 

THEATRE WANTED—indoor or outdoor. 

Operating and making money. Central, 

South Florida or Arizona. Up to $200,000 to 

invest. BOXOFFICE 1557. 

Wanted to Buy or Leaê: Indoor theatre 

in metropolitan areas, population at 

least 75,000 Contact William Berger, Metropole 

Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio 

WILL RENT OR LEASE: Indoor theatre, 

metropolitan areas in any state with population 

at least 100,000. Contact: Americana 

Entertainment Association, 929 E. 

139th Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33612^ 

WOULD LIKE TO buy or lease indoor or 

outdoor theatre in Northwest Kansas, 

Southwest Nebraska or Eastern Colorado, 

BOXOFFICE 1570. 

EXPERIENCED COUPLE wish to lease 

theatre with option to buy. BOXOFFICE 

1574. 

EXPERIENCED EXHIBITOR would like to 

rent or lease one or more theatres cTs general 

manager and working partner, BOX- 

OFFICE 1588. 

WANT TO BUY or lease medium size 

drive-in theatres in California 500 cars 

and up. Prefer San Francisco area and 

south 200 miles. Exiserienced drive-in exhibitor. 

Write: BOXOFFICE 1589. 

WANTED TO BUY or lease indoor, outdoor; 

metropolitan area. Contact: Griffith 

Enterprises, Roxy Theatre Building, 152? 

"Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida 

33139. 

THEATRES FOR LEASE 

400 CAR DRIVE-IN theatre Only drive-in 

theatre in California town of 7,000 people. 

Phone: Area Code 209 935-1656. 

REPAIR 

SERVICE 

THEATRE EQUIPMENT REPAIR SERVICE 

BY EXPERTS, all makes projectors, lamps, 

sound, rectifiers, you name it—reasonable 

Call or write us, FA 1-3981, Shreve Theatre 

Equipment Co , 

"itv Kansas 

ADMISSION SIGNS 

BOXOFFICE admission signs. 

Ann St., Kansas 

Free catalog. 

Seton Corporation, New Haven, Connecticut 

06505 

DRIVE-IN 

SPEAKERS 

Drive-In speakers reconed 90c each. All 

weather resistant material. Write for free 

sample C & M RECONE COMPANY, Alexander 

Road, Princeton, N.J. Phone: (609) 

"24-1964 

BUY OR TRADE 

THEATRE EQUIPMENT: Will trade for 

safety motion picture films. BOXOFFICE 

1586. 

— 

WE BUY — SELL — REBUILD THEATRE 

CHAIRS anywhere—finest material low 

prices SEAT COVERS made to order. 

CHICAGO USED CHAIR MART— 1320 S. 

Wabash — Phone: 939-4518—Chicago, 111. 

o0605 

CHAIRS REBUILT ANYWHERE! EXPERT 

workmanship, personal service, finest materials, 

Arthur Judge, 2100 E, Nevrton Ave., 

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

SPECIALISTS IN REBUILDING CHAIRS. 

Best workmanship. Reasonable prices. 

Rebuilt theatre chairs for sale, Heywood, 

Ideal. American, Also staggering, respacing. 

We travel anywhere. Seating Corpoloiion 

of New York (Neva Burn), 247 

Water Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201. Tel: 

212-875-5433. (Reverse charges). 

700 AMERICAN, 750 plywood cushion 

chairs. Also leatherette. LONE STAR 

SEATING, Box 1734 Dallas 

SNO-CONE MACHINES 

ICE SHAVING MACHINES for making 

Sno-Cones and Sno-Balls takes up only 

one square foot ot space. Make 8c profit 

on every 10c sale. Machines now available 

on a rental basis tor only $75.00 per year. 

SNO-MASTER MFG. CO., 124 X Hopkins 

PI , Baltimore, Maryland 21212, 

SOUND PROJECTION 

MAINTENANCE MANUAL & 

MONTHLY SERVICE BULLETINS 

EXHIBITORS, PROJECTIONISTS, REPAIR- 

MEN: YOU NEED THIS SERVICE MANUAL. 

A practical "LOOSE-LEAF" Theatre Manual 

on REPAIRING NEW AND OLD 

MODELS PROJECTORS. New 35/70mm 

projectors Data "How To Service Theatre 

Sound Systems." — Vacuum Tube and 

Transistor amplifiers. Magnetic Sound 

Reproduction; speakers. "Easy Course on 

Electronics" You Need to Know! Electricity. 

Schematics on amplifiers. Maintenance 

data on Arc Lamps and new Xenon 

Lamps: Rectifiers, Generators "Questions 

and Answers on Projection and Sound." 

MORE: New repair bulletins every month 

for ONE (1) Year lor Your Manual. Authentic 

and Reliable Data. Written by a 

practical engineer, (The Only Service 

Book now published.) The price is only 

J7.95. plus 50c postage. (Canada: $9.50— 

Foreign Countries $15,00) CASH, P. O. 

Order or Cashiers' Check, please (No 

C.O.D.'s) "WESLEY TROUT, Editor-pubUsher, 

Bass Bldg.. P. O. Box 575, Enid, Oklahoma 

73701. 

THEATRE TICKETS 

Drive-In—Indoor: Roll, folded machine, 

flat, strips, reserved seats, coupon books. 

Best grade ticket Bristol. Prompt service, 

low prices. Send for samples and price 

list KANSAS CITY TICKET COMPANY, 

109 West 18th St Kansas City, Mo. 64108. 

BUSINESS 

STIMULATORS 

BINGO. MORE ACTION. $4.50 M cards. 

Other games available, on, off screen. 

Novelty Games Corp., 1263 Prospect Ave., 

Brooklyn, N.Y. Phone: 212-871-1460. 

Build attendance with real Hawaiian 

orchids. Few cents each. Write Flowers of 

Hawaii, 670 S. Lafayette Place, Los Angeles 

5, Calif. 

Bingo Cards. Die cut 1, 75-500 combinations, 

1, 100-200 combination. Can be used 

for KENO, $4.50 per M. Premium Products, 

339 West 44th St., New York 36, N.Y. 

MISCELLANEOUS 

ANNOUNCING A NEW SERVICE FOR 

THEATRE OWNERS AND MANAGERS—Are 

you interested in knowing how to bring 

more people into your theatre? Are you 

interested in reducing your operating 

costs? Are you interested in increasing 

your yearly profits up to 60yo more? If 

your answer is Yes, you need our help. 

After filling out our questionnaire concerning 

your theatre and town, we will be 

able to advise and guide you pertaining 

to your own operation. This is what you 

get advice on: (1) Which pictures you 

should book lor greater profits. (2) How 

to cut operating costs. (3) Short-cuts for 

more concession profits. (4) How to make 

money in your theatre during off hours. 

(5) Buying techniques. One month's service 

cost is $40.00. If you are not completely 

satisfied after one month's service, 

costs you no more. To receive your 

it 

questionnaire and increase your profits 

now, send your check or money order to: 

CLIFFSIDE THEATRE SERVICE, P, O, Box 

830, Laurens, South Carolina 29350

N OVS/ ! 

DIRECT FROM ITS ROADSHOW ENGAGEMENT 

SPECIAL POPULAR PRICES • SPECIAL SCHEDULED PERFORMANCES 

"Adventure on the grand scale. Earns a place 

beside 'The Bridge On The River Kwaii 

'Doctor Zhivagol 

-LOS ANGELES TIMES 

The New Wave 

Of Boxoffice 

Excitement 

Begins In 

New York 

September 27... 

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The Country 

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