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Sign Multi-Film Pact 

BURBANK—Columbia Pictures and International 

Cinemedia Center. Ltd.. have 

entered into an exclusive multiple-picture 

agreement, it was announced jointly by 

David Begelman. president of Columbia 

Pictures, and John Kemeny, head of the 

Montreal-based production company. 

Kemeny most recently produced the current 

Columbia boxoffice success. '"White 

Line Fever." and previously had produced 

the award-winning "The Apprenticeship of 

Duddy Kravitz." which won prizes at the 

Berlin. Atlanta and Sorrento festivals and 

nominations for a Golden Globe and an 

Academy Award. 

Under his new agreement with Columbia 

Pictures. Kemeny will develop and produce 

an open-end slate of diversified projects to 

be filmed in both the U.S. and Canada with 

emphasis on a number of properties utilizing 

Canadian story themes and locales. 

Among the projects now in various stages 

of preparation are a French Foreign Legion 

action-adventure currently in the writing 

stage; a historical romantic adventure for 

which Kemeny is seeking a major screenwriter: 

an early prohibition story depicting 

the rise of a bootlegging czar: a contemporary 

version of "Gilda," with a top female 

star for the Rita Hayworth starring role in 

Columbia's 1946 boxoffice hit: "Davie and 

the Last Day of Summer." a screenplay by 

Canadian Len McColl on the life span of a 

tum-of-the-century bank robber to the 

1950s, and a proposed screen biography of 

Dr. Norman Bethume. eminent Canadian 

surgeon and pioneer in socialized medicine, 

who participated in the Spanish Civil War 

and died while performing battlefield surgery 

in China. 

NITE Slates Sept. 23-24 

Confab in Kansas City 

HOLLYWOOD—The first organizational 

meeting of the proposed National Independent 

Theatre Exhibitors Ass'n is slated 

to be held September 23-24 in the Crown 

Center Hotel in Kansas City. At least one 

delegate from each state or various regions 

in the U.S. is expected to participate in 

the sessions, according to Gayle Essary, Los 

Angeles management consultant who is 

coordinating 

the organizational effort. 

NITE is not intended as a competitor 

to NATO, according to Harvey Dunn of 

Encino, Calif., who headed an organizational 

meeting of Southern California exhibitors 

Thursday (7), but is designed to supplement 

the work done by the larger association, 

as related to small exhibitors. 

Spearheading the NITE drive is Tom 

Patterson, president of the Southern Independent 

Theatre Exhibitors Ass'n. Interest 

in the national movement was spurred, 

Essary said, by reports of the organizational 

meeting of the Southern group. 

NITE is envisioned as an organization to 

which the smaller exhibitor can turn with 

problems, such as inability to obtain product, 

Essary stated. 

BOXOmCE :: August 11, 1975 

Omni Capital Corp. Forms Affiliate, 

Cinema Shares Int'l 

NEW YORK—Omni Capital Corp., 

privately owned investment banking firm 

specializing in 

real estate and related investments, 

has announced the formation of 

Cinema Shares International Distribution 

Corp. (CSID), wholly owned affiliate which 

will produce and distribute feature films 

in the domestic and international markets. 

Richard Friedberg, president and chief 

operating officer of Omni and chairman 

of the board of the new company, expert 

in both the financial and entertainment 

fields, was vice-president of a major member 

firm of the New York and American 

Stock exchanges four years ago prior to 

founding Omni. 

David Blake Is President 

The CSID management team includes 

David Blake, president; Mel Maron, executive 

vice-president for domestic sales, and 

Barry Minsky, vice-president and secretarytreasurer. 

Minsky, son of veteran film producer 

Howard Minsky, also is a vice-president 

of the parent company. 

Blake, most recently in a major executive 

post with Worldvision, for many years 

was U.S. representative for British Lion: 

Maron most recently was sales manager for 

Group 1 Films, and Minsky, before joining 

Omni Capital, was a financial planning 

consultant with Investors Economic Systems 

and previously was with the Bank of 

America. 

Friedberg, in discussing production plans 

for CSID, stated, "The first project will be 

'The Ultra Secret,' based on the current 

Ernest Tidyman, who wrote the 

best-seller. 

screenplay for 'The French Connection," 

is working on his first draft for us and we 

are talking to major directors and stars 

about a start early next year. The project 

will be completely financed by Omni 

Capital." 

Added Friedberg, "We are investigating 

a number of projects of this stature. All we 

require is 

that the deal make sense financially-" 

Now Releasing 34 Films 

CSID currently is releasing 34 films, 

including "Ripped Off," with Robert Blake 

and Ernest Borgnine: "No Way Out," with 

Alain Delon; "Crime Boss." with Telly 

Savalas, and "Mark the Cop," with Lee J. 

Cobb. 

Set for fall release in New York is the 

film biography of Muhammcd Ali, "Ali 

the Man/ Ali the Fighter." a CinAmerica 

production. 

CSID has five features for foreign distribution, 

including "The Legend of Boggy 

Creek," "Where the Red Fern Grows." 

"Seven Alone" and "The Bootleggers." Foreign 

sales will be conducted through the 

New York office and through representatives 

in London and Los Angeles. The company 

also has the TV rights in the U.S. 

Distribution 

for all its domestic product and worldwide 

TV rights for its foreign releases. 

Blake, who headed the CSID sales contingent 

at the recent Cannes Film Festival, 

said that deals were made by way of 

minimum guarantees and outright sales 

overseas in excess of $400,000. This included 

a deal for "Bootleggers" and "Red 

Fern" in England with EMI for a TV 

saturation Christmas release. 

Observed Blake, "Although we are a 

relatively small independent today, we are 

in the unusual position of having direct 

access to extensive financial support through 

our parent company, both for operating 

needs and for acquisition and production. 

We have the machinery here to handle all 

aspects of this business from the financing 

to the domestic, foreign and TV sales." 

Warners Names Semel 

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HOLLYWOOD — Warner Bros, has 

named Terry S. Semel as vice-president 

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Semel comes to his new position from 

Buena Vista Distribution Co. where he 

was vice-president and general sales manager 

for Walt Disney Productions. 

He began his film career in 1966 in 

the sales department of Warners in New 

York, later transferring to Cleveland. After 

returning to New York in 1967 as a salesman, 

Semel was appointed Cleveland branch 

manager and then was transferred to Los 

Angeles as WB branch manager in 1969. 

In 1971 he became domestic sales manager 

for Cinema Center Filnis, based in 

Hollywood. When that company was dissolved. 

Semel joined Buena Vista. 

New World's 'Crazy Mama' 

Set by Edinburgh Fest 

HOLLYWOOD—"Crazy Mama" has become 

New World Pictures' second current 

release to be invited for a screening at the 

Edinburgh International Film Festival Sunday 

(24) through September 6. The first 

was Paul Barters "Death Race 2000." 

Produced by Julie Corman and directed 

by Jonathan Demme. "Crazy Mama" stars 

Cloris Leachman. Stuart Whitman. Ann 

Sothern and Jim Backus.

MCA Earnings for '75 2nd Quarter 

Are Highest Ever, Excluding Jaws 

UNIVERSAL CITY—Lew R. Wasserman, 

chairman of the board of MCA, Inc.. 

announced July 28 that earnings for the 

first six months and the second quarter of 

1975 were the highest semi-annual and 

quarterly earnings ever achieved by the 

company. 

Net income for the first six months ended 

June 30, 1975, amounted to $34,660,000 

compared to $25,287,000 for the same 

period in 1974, an increase of 37 per cent. 

Earnings per share were $4.09 compared to 

$3.01 for the first half of 1974. Revenues 

increased 7 per cent to $328,431,000 from 

the revenues of $305,652,000 for the 

period a year earlier. 

For the three months ended June 30, 

1975, net income was $19,649,000, an increase 

of 32 per cent over net incomes of 

$14,926,000 for the second quarter last 

year. Earnings per share were $2.32 compared 

to $1.77 for the three months ended 

June 30, 1974. Revenues for the 1975 

second quarter were up 3 per cent to 

$158,609,000 from $154,150,000 for the 

same period of 1974. 

Wasserman said the motion picture 

"Jaws," which opened in the U.S. and 

Canada June 20, has met with the greatest 

audience response ever experienced and it 

appears to be on its way to becoming the 

all-time domestic boxoffice champion. Only 

one week's revenues from "Jaws" are included 

in the second quarter; the major 

its portion of domestic revenues will be 

recorded in the third quarter. Several other 

films in current release, principally "Earthquake," 

contributed importantly to the 

record earnings. 

Other divisions of the company which 

had excellent second quarter results are 

records and music publishing, Spencer Gifts 

and recreation services, according to Wasserman. 

He also stated the company has now paid 

off the remaining balance of $10 million 

of loans under its principal bank loan 

agreement for a total reduction of $100 

million in bank debt since Jan. 1, 1974. 

Wasserman concluded by saying, "While 

the second quarter was the highest in the 

company's history, it will be exceeded by 

the upcoming third quarter. Revenues and 

net income for 1975 will be substantially 

higher than those for the year 1974 which 

will make it the fourth consecutive year 

of record earnings." 

'Dolemite' Gross Exceeds 

$6 Million in 14 Weeks 

HOI LYWOOO— in its lirst 14 weeks of 

'Jaws' Now Ranking 

In AU-Time Top Ten 

UNIVERSAL CITY—Universal's "Jaws," 

after its first five weeks of theatrical exhibition, 

already ranks among the top ten 

most successful domestic films of all time. 

Additionally, the Zanuck/ Brown production 

directed by Steven Spielberg and starring 

Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard 

Dreyfuss, based on Peter Benchley's 

best-seller, already has had a greater impact 

on the public consciousness than any motion 

picture in history, according to Universal. 

"Jaws" fever is sweeping the national 

culture as these facts will attest: 

• Thirty-five cartoons, mostly political, 

have utilized the "Jaws" advertising logo to 

make potent and comic points. 

• Comedians across the country have 

used the film as a basis for new routines; 

e.g., Johnny Carson recently interviewed a 

"talking shark" on "The Tonight Show" 

on NBC-TV. 

• A Georgia shark fisherman switched 

from selling shark fins to Chinese restaurants 

at 15 cents a pound to selling shark 

jawbones to collectors at $50 a set. 

• A New Jersey ice cream stand renamed 

its flavors "sharklitt," "finilla" and 

"jawberry." 

• T-shirts, beach towels, cups, shark'stooth 

pendants, record albums, paperback 

books, posters and other items already have 

been licensed by the studio, with other merchandise 

set to follow (Universal says 

there's no license yet for "Jaws" toothpaste). 

• Several of the nation's leading psychologists 

have contributed to discussions 

on the reasons for such instant and widespread 

receptivity to the film. Some theories: 

"The killer shark substitutes for audience 

aggressions"; "The shark and the sea 

are primal fears of man"; "Getting engrossed 

in the film relieves the audience 

from its own problems"; "Lifts routine 

lives into those of intense feeling and living"; 

"Gives moviegoers a feeling of conquering 

fear—good triumphs"; "The real 

terror is happening to someone else," and 

"You in the audience survive and you can 

face your real problems better." 

• Peter Benchley's novel, on which the 

film is based, enjoyed a rebirth of interest 

with the advent of the film. More than 

8,000,000 paperback editions already have 

rolled off the presses and the end is nowhere 

release, playing only 31 cities. Dimension 

in sight. 

Pictures' black feature "Dolemite" has 

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racked up a gross of more than $6,100,000, A "Jaws" discotheque has opened in 

according to Lawrence H. Woolner, president 

of Dimension. The feature stars Rudy • An oyster bar in Cape Cod has added 

the Hampton area of New York. 

Ray Moore and D'Urville Martin. 

broiled shark to its menu for $5.25, ehiiniing 

it "tastes like swordfish." 

Dimension has 135 prints of film working 

to date. 

• In all coastal areas, newspapers and 

other media have presented shark news 

about real and false sightings, history of 

attacks, habits and frequency in local waters 

—always asking "can it happen here?" 

• One month after the release of "Jaws," 

a great white shark (12 feet, 8 inches long 

and weighing 1,400 pounds) was caught by 

Larry Mansur off Santa Catalina Island in 

Southern California. Two days earlier, a 

scuba diver was attacked in 20 feet of 

water by a white shark at nearby Santa 

Barbara. In July, "Jaws" author Peter 

Benchley narrowly missed an attack by a 

smaller but vicious white-tip shark off the 

Bahama Islands during the filming of a TV 

special. 

• A real estate developer in the Poconos 

is promoting a natural lake, stating: "No 

'Jaws' here." Another in Southern California 

shows the open-mouthed shark and adver- 

"Bite Now and Satisfy Your Appetite." 

tises 

• A Brooklyn college advertised diploma 

education by showing an open-mouthed 

shark and advising readers "Don't Get 

Swallowed Up." 

• Women's Wear Daily displayed 

sketches of new bathing suits near an openmouthed 

shark. 

• Carl Gottlieb, who co-authored the 

screenplay with novelist Benchley, has 

struck a new rich vein with the paperback 

"Jaws Log," detailing the making of the 

film. It's on its way to becoming another 

best-seller. 

'Devil's Rain' Grosses Up 

In SF and Detroit Areas 

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.—"The Devil's 

Rain," the Sandy Howard/ Bryanston 

production in its first 30 days of release 

continues to be the biggest grossing picture 

in the two-year history of Bryanston Distributors. 

The occult thriller starring Ernest Borgnine, 

Ida Lupino, Eddie Albert, Keenan 

Wynn and William Shatner, racked up an 

impressive $452,366 in a 68 theatre San 

Francisco area break for one week. A 96- 

theatre multiple in the Detroit area earned 

the company $464,822 for one week's time 

as well. 

"The Devil's Rain" was produced by 

James V. Cullen and Michael S. Glick with 

Robert Fuest directing the Gabe Essoe, 

James Ashton and Gerald Hopman screenplay 

for Sandy Howard Productions under 

the Bryanston release banner. 

UA Film Title Changed 

HOLLYWOOD — "Undercovers Hero" 

is the new title of Peter Sellers comedy in 

which he plays a half dozen different characters 

in the Boulting Bros, production. 

The film earlier had been titled "Soft Beds 

and Hard Battles." It co-stars Lila Kedrova, 

Curt Jurgens, and Beatrice Romand. 

Roy Boulting directed from a story and 

screenplay he wrote with Leo Marks. John 

Boulting was producer for the Lion International 

Film presentation for United Artists 

Love and Death" has gros,sed $741,128 

16 situations. 

August 11, 1975

20th-Fox to Release 

3 Brut Productions 

HOLLYWOOD—Twentieth 

Ccniury-Fox 

Film Corp. and Brut Productions have 

entered into an agreement whereby the 

studio initially will release three Brut features, 

it was announced jointly by David 

Raphel, 20th-Fox's senior vice-president ol 

worldwide marketing, and George Barrie, 

president of Brut. 

Negotiating for the studio was William 

Immerman, senior vice-president of administration 

and worldwide business affairs. 

The first feature to be released this 

October will be the contemporary comedy, 

"Whiffs," starring Elliot Gould, Eddie Albert, 

Harry Guardino, Godfrey Cambridge 

and Jennifer O'Neill. Ted Post directed the 

Panavision and Technicolor production 

from an original screenplay by Malcolm 

Marmorstein. George Barrie produced. 

The second release will be a featurelength 

animated musical entitled "Hugo the 

Hippo," featuring the singing voices of 

Donny and Marie Osmond and the voices 

of Burl Ives, Robert Morley and Paul 

Lynde. 

The third property in the initial agreement 

between the two companies is another 

George Barrie production, "I Will, I Will 

. . . for Now," starring Elliot Gould, Diane 

Keaton, Paul Sorvino, Victoria Principal 

and Candy Clark. Norman Panama directed 

from a screenplay he co-authored with 

Albert E. Lewin. 

Raphe! said the studio was delighted to 

join forces with an independent producer 

of Barrie's stature, adding that he hoped 

the three-picture pact would be the beginning 

of "a long and fruitful partnership." 

Barrie's company produced the highl>successful 

film, "A Touch of Class," which 

was distributed in many parts of the world 

by 20th-Fox. The film received five Academy 

Award nominations, resulting in Glenda 

Jackson winning the "best actress" Oscar. 

Said Barrie, "It is a great pleasure to be 

able to release our product through a studio 

with the marketing finesse and worldwide 

reputation of 20th Century-Fox." 

James, Cruikshcmk Form 

Production Company 

NEW YORK— Hilary James, former 

head of the Warner Bros, magazine department 

in New York, has formed an independent 

film production company. Oak Productions 

Corp., in association with H. T. 

Cruikshank. The latter is a prominent London 

businessman and chairman of the board 

of trustees, American School in London. 

The company's first scheduled project is 

a suspense drama tentatively titled "In Another 

Time," now being written by Stephen 

Coulter, noted English novelist who lives 

Paris. 

Before joining Warner Bros., Ms. James 

had been associated with a number of major 

French-American co-productions in Paris. 

Her new company has offices at 331 East 

50th St.. New York, and at 71 Park St., 

London. 

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'Against a Crooked Sky' Is Completed 

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Renegade Indian.s capture Richard Boone, center, who plays the role of Russian, 

and Stewart Petersen, who plays Sam Sutter, as the latter attempts to rescue 

his kidnaped sister in Doty-Dayton Productions' new family feature, "Against a 

Crooked Sky." The film, which recently completed shooting on locations near 

Moab, Utah, is scheduled for release in December. 

HOLL"YWOOD—The scenic countryside 

of Moab, Utah, was turned into a Hollywood 

film setting as production was com- 

direction of Earl Bellamy. 

The film marks the return to Hollywood 

production for Richard Boone, who achieved 

stardom on TV in "Medic," "Have Gun, 

Will Travel." "Richard Boone Anthology" 

and "Hec Ramsey," while it is the third 

starring role for 15-year-oId Stewart Petersen 

from Cokeville, Wyo. 

"Against a Crooked Sky," based on a 

short story by Eleanor Lamb, is the saga of 

a frontier boy's daring search for his sister 

who has been kidnaped by a band of marauding 

Indians. 

residents were hired for parts in this independent 

production. 

Veteran actor Henrv Wilcoxon, who has 

made 70 major motion pictures, has his most 

challenging role in the film as he "acts" 

through the picture using pantomime and 

Indian sign language. Many other experienced 

actors were cast in the Doty-Dayton 

film, among them Clint Ritchie, Shannon 

pleted on the newest Doty-Dayton Productions 

family film, "Against a Crooked Sky." 

A cast of 26 actors including stars Richard 

Boone, Stewart Petersen and Henry Wilcoxon 

was backed by a 48-member filmmaking frey Land. Gordon Hanson, Vincent St. 

Famon, Jewel Blanch, Brenda Venus. Geof- 

crew and more than 800 extras under the Cyr, Rich Wheeler and Margaret Willey. 

Doty-Dayton Productions, which specializes 

in family features, earlier released 

its "Where the Red Fern Grows," shot in 

the Oklahoma settings of the original book, 

and more recently "Seven Alone," shot 

along the Oregon Trail settings of the story's 

locale. 

"Against a Crooked Sky" was adapted 

for the screen by Douglas C. Stewart and 

Eleanor Lamb. Stewart, a BYU graduate, 

has written numerous plays and co-authored 

both "Where the Red Fern Grows" and 

"Seven Alone" with Mrs. Lamb, who has 

In addition to the mountain and wilderness 

areas around Moab. Doty-Dayton did 

written several short stories, a novel and a 

musical screen story. Director Bellamy has 

location shooting at Arches National Monument, 

Dead TV 

Horse Point State Park and 

numerous major Hollywood screen and 

credits. 

Castle Valley, Utah. More than 60 Navajos 

from the Blanding, Utah, reservation were "Against a Crooked Sky" is the latest motion 

picture to be produced by Lyman Day- 

transported to the Moab locale daily to play 

roles in the film, while a number of Moab ton, president of Doty-Dayton Productions, 

20th-Fox Plans to Appeal 

Superior Court Ruling 

HOLLYWOOD—Twentieth 

Century-Fox 

who has received several awards from school 

and film groups for his first movie. "Where 

the Red Fern Grows." 

has announced it will appeal a Los Angeles 

Superior Court jury award of $2,000,000 

to the estate of Jacqueline Susann and 

Sujac Productions, which the writer had 

formed with her husband Irving Mansfield. 

Miss Susann had sued the film corporation 

prior to her death charging that 

20th-Fox engaged in "unfair competition" 

in its 1970 release of the film "Beyond 

the Valley of the Dolls," which was not 

based upon Miss Susann's book "Valley 

of the Dolls." 

The suit charged that use of the title by 

20th-Fox "caused public confusion" and 

"hurt the sales" of her subsequent bestseller. 

"The I ove Machine." 

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Major Expansion Will 

Involve Three Cities 

LINCOLN. NEB.—Theatre construction 

projects slated to start in Minneapolis. Denver 

and Cheyenne in time for late-fall and 

holiday openings have been announced 

jointly by Marshall Smith of Cheyenne and 

E, N, "Jack" Thompson of Lincoln. 

No price tag was placed on the three 

projects, which include a 300-seat rectangular 

addition to Cooper's round theatre in 

Minneapolis, a 300-seat rectangular addition 

to Cooper's round theatre in Denver and a 

twin theatre in Cheyenne. The 300-seat additions 

in Minneapolis and Denver will be 

built by the Cooper Foundation, headed by 

Thompson. 

Cooper Foundation continues to own the 

former Cooper Theatres Co. property, leasing 

it to Highland Theatres of Cheyenne, 

which operates the circuit under the name of 

Cooper-Highland. Marshall Smith is executive 

vice-president of Highland and Cooper- 

Highland and his father Carlin Smith is president. 

The Cheyenne duo. seat capacity yet to 

be announced, will be built and operated by 

Wesco Co. of Cheyenne, sister corporation 

of Highland. It will be the circuit's first 

theatre in Cheyenne, where Highland's 

corporate headquarters are located. Operating 

headquarters is in Denver. 

The strong possibility that the additions 

to the round theatres would be forthcoming 

soon was indicated at the time that the 

Smiths acquired the Cooper circuit operating 

interests. 

Marshall Smith and Thompson said the 

record-breaking grosses currently being generated 

by "Jaws" and the high gross per 

capita year-round for these round theatres 

underscored the need for additional seats. 

"There are no bad seats in any of our 

round movie houses," said the two industry 

leaders. "It's a beautiful, luxurious type of 

theatre." 

Mel Glatz & Associates of Denver, which 

did the original round theatres in Denver 

and Minneapolis as well as the Indian Hills 

in Omaha. Neb., is designing the current 

three projects. 

The additions will give the Highland/ 

Cooper-Highland circuits a total of 61 

VCI APPOIMMKNT — .Monty 

Hall, left, president of ^'aîety Clubs 

International, and Charles O. Glenn, 

right, director of publicity of the show 

business organization dedicated to helping 

underprivileged and handicapped 

children, are shown at a luncheon in 

New York at which Glenn's appointment 

was announced. Glenn is vicepresident/ 

marketing for Paramount 

Pictures Corp. 

Thornsley Firm Acquires 

Seven Gottschalk Houses 

STURGIS, S. 

D. — Chugach Entertainment 

Co., former Alaskan enterprise, has 

announced the acquisition of Gottschalk 

Theatre Enterprises from E. C. Gottschalk. 

Theatres involved in the transaction include 

the 653-seat Dakota Theatre, Sturgis, S.D.; 

Arcade Theatre, Newell, S.D.; Lakota Theatre, 

Dupree, S.D.; Sioux Theatre, Eagle 

Butte, S.D.; Dakota Theatre, Timber Lake, 

S.D.; Strand, Hettinger, N.D., and State, 

New England, N.D. 

Chugach Entertainment Co. is headed by 

Randall G. Thornsley, previously with 

Fletcher's Theatres of Alaska holding a 

managerial position at the circuit's Kambe 

Theatre in Kcnai, Ak. Now beginning his 

eighth year in the theatre business, Thornsley, 

21, started with the Harry L. Nace 

Theatre Co. and Rawlings Theatre Co. in 

Arizona at the age of 14. 

Other Chugach Entertainment ventures 

include distribution of all Larry Brayton 

productions through North Star Enterprises, 

a releasing service. 

'Lady Cocoa' Is New Title 

For Moonstone Film 

HOLLYWOOD—"Lady Cocoa' is the 

screens in four states— Minnesota, Colorado, 

Wyoming and Nebraska. 

The round theatre in Minneapolis is managed 

by Dean Ziettlow. the Indian Hills in 

Omaha by Don Shane and the Denver round new title for Moonstone Productions' 

theatre by Jack Marshall. 

The Minneapolis and Omaha round hardtops 

previously named, "Pop Goes the Weasel," 

an action-suspense murder mystery picture, 

are under the supervision of Charles 

starring Lola Falana, a Tony Award nominee 

last season on Broadway. Also starred 

Kroll, Lincoln-based Eastern division manager 

for Highland and Cooper-Highland. are Alex Dreicr, 

Gene 

Millie Perkins and pro 

football stars Washington (San Francisco 

49ers) and Pittsburgh Steclcr "Mean" 

Holland Attendance Up 

Joe Greene. Matt Cimber produced and 

AM.STERDAM— Motion picture theatres directed. The script is by George Theakos. 

Ward Pennington, Moonstone Releasing 

in the Netherlands brought out 28 million 

people in 1974. a 5.9 per cent increiisc over Co.'s vice-president and general sales manager, 

1973, according to the Federation of Cinema 

said "Lady Cocoa" will begin playdates 

Proprietors. At the same time, boxoffice in late August in Dallas-Ft. Worth, Pensacola, 

receipts increased 14.5 per cent, the association 

Memphis. Indianapolis and Winston- 

said. 

Salem. 

MPAA Trailer Code May Be 

Pondered by Nat'l NATO 

HOLLYWOOD—The trailer code of the 

Motion Picture Ass'n of America may get 

a re-examination at the National NATO 

convention in New Orleans in October. 

At that 

time the West Coast ad-publicity 

committee of the MPAA will confer with 

MPAA staff members on a proposal to 

change the green and red band method of 

grading trailers. Also on the table will be 

the possibility that at least one company. 

Universal, is thinking about eliminating all 

trailers when G films are being shown. 

The West Coast committee decided on 

the NATO conference after Jack Valenti. 

MPAA president, rejected a proposal to 

ease restrictions made by committee chairman 

Jonas Rosenfield jr., advertising-publicity 

vice-president for 20th Century-Fox. 

Rosenfield had suggested changing the 

red and green band system to allow a 

trailer on R or PG films to be shown during 

G programs. He said he has found 

some trailers "severely mangled" by the 

rating board which sought to eliminate violence 

in order to meet G picture standards. 

Valenti said in a letter to 

Rosenfield that 

"it would not be prudent or practical" to 

make a change at this time. 

He added that the public and exhibitors 

understand the present system and that it 

would "require a complete re-education 

process" if a three-tier system was adopted 

as suggested by Rosenfield. "Let's not confuse 

the exhibitors more by giving them 

an additional decision," Valenti said. 

Committee member G. Clark Ramsay. 

Universal's advertising-publicity vice-president, 

told the committee during its July 9 

meeting that his company is considering 

withdrawing all trailers on G programs. The 

committee agreed that Ramsay's alternative 

is a good one, if the only option is to stick 

with the present trailer 

system. 

Marenstein Joins Group 1 

As ODomestic Sales Chief 

LOS .ANGELES—Harold Marenstein has 

joined Group 1 Films as domestic general 

sales manager, it was 

announced by Brandon 

Chase, president 

of Group 1. Marenstein 

will headquarter 

at the firm's new 

West Coast headquar- 

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Trcme-Wiederhorn Lensing 

'Death Corps' in Florida 

NEW YORK.—Death Corps." a tilm by 

Reuben Tranc and Ken Wiederhorn, who 

won the 1973 Acadimy Award for Best 

Dramatic Student Film, is being made in 

Miami. Fla.. with a cast headed by John 

Carradine and Peter Gushing. The story of 

a shipload of experimental mutant soldiers 

on the rampage in a Caribbean island and 

an old SS officer who attempts to control 

them, the film is being .shot in 16mm for 

blow up to 35mm. ."Mso featured are Brooke 

.-^dams and Don Stout. 

Trane. who has his own production company 

in Coral Gables and teaches filmmaking 

at Florida International University, is 

producer and photographer of "Death 

Corps." Wiederhorn. who has written 

scripts for Francis Thompson, Inc.. a leading 

producer of industrial and documentary 

films, is writer and director. The film is 

being shot entirely in Dade County. Fla., 

although the action takes place in and 

around the Grand Cayman Islands. 

Wiederhorn and Trane won an Oscar for 

"Manhattan Melody," made while they 

were students at Colimibia University. A 

SO-minute comedy concerning a runaway 

drum majorette from New Jersey and an 

inept young bicycle thief, the film has won 

numerous awards. The late Rod Serling 

described it as the best short film he ever 

saw. 

"Death Corps." which marks a return to 

America for Cushing. a horror sp>ecialist 

who was active in Hollywood in the late 

'30s and early '40s. will continue filming 

for several more weeks. Norman Gay, of 

"The E.xorcist" fame, will edit. The film is 

expected to be completed in January 1976, 

at which time it will be ready for release. 

'Strutters' Will Premiere 

August 13 in Cleveland 

HOLLYWOOD— -Darktown 

Strutters." 

New World Pictures' black music-comedy 

fantasy, will be premiered Wednesday (13) 

in Cleveland with three of its stars participating. 

Key engagements will follow in Chicago, 

Detroit, Indianapolis. Cincinnati, St. 

Louis, Baltimore, Washington and other 

areas, with Trina Parks, Shirley Washington 

and Bettye Sweet taking part in the 

ballyhoo planned along the route. 

William Witney directed the PG feature 

in which the Dramatics sing their hit single, 

"What You See Is What You Get." 

Jean Yarbrough Dies at 74; 

Was Producer-Director 

HOLLYWOOD—Jean Yarbrough, 74, 

director-producer, died Saturday (2) at the 

Motion Picture Country Home & Hospital 

after a brief illness. He first entered the 

film industry in 1922 as a property man 

with Hal Roach. His pictures include "Brute 

Man," "The Creeper," "Abbott and Costello 

Lost in Alaska," "Women of Pitcairn 

Island" and "Jack and the Beanstalk. 

Survivors are his wife, daughter and 

son. There were no services. 

LOOK-ALIKES—Which one is the 

title, Benji. With him are his trainer 

Frank Inn, left; a stuffed toy Benji Dog 

(availahle in three other sizes), and the 

man who heads the licensing effort by 

ABC Merchandising on behalf of 

"Benji," Lou Weinberg. 

MP's 'Cooley High' Gets 

Impressive Report Card 

HOLLYWOOD— .American 

star of one of the most successful family 

entertainment films of the summer? 

The scruffy little pooch on the right 

is—and his name is. like the movie's 

International's 

"Cooley High" continues to rack up 

impressive grosses, with the Chicago Theatre 

in the Windy City's Loop reporting over 

$441,000 in 35 days. In two New York 

City houses, Cinerama and RKO 86th 

Street 1 , "Cooley" has scored a heavy $294,- 

586 in the same period. 

Playing 13 days at the Town and the 

Lincoln in Washington, D.C., the picture 

has amassed a total gross of $82,168, while 

in four weeks at Baltimore's Hippodrome 

and Charles, the boxoffice figure is $120,- 

673. 

Two underskyers in the Los Angeles area, 

the Century Drive-In and the Compton 

Drive-In. after a one-week engagement, 

reported a total gross of $58,053. 

"Cooley High" has attracted comparable 

business in Houston. Philadelphia and St. 

Louis 

playdates. 

Prestige Acquires Rights 

To Distribute 2 Features 

HOLLYWOOD—Prestige Pictures Releasing 

Corp. has acquired distribution rights 

for "The Night of the Assassins" for the 

U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom and 

rights for "Running Wild" in the U.S. 

Both films were produced and directed 

by Robert McCahon. who now is preparing 

another feature, "What of Terry 

Conniston," from a novel by Brian Garfield, 

who will co-produce with MeCahon. 

Jerome Levy Is President 

Of First Nat'l MP Dist. 

NLW YORK—Jerome K. Levy has been 

named president of First National Motion 

Picture Distributors. The firm, headquartered 

in the MGM Building here at 1350 

Avenue of the Americas, is involved in 

many phases of the motion picture industry, 

including distribution, production and 

financing. 

Previously executive vice-president of the 

Gloria Group, one of the largest film distributors 

in Europe, Levy will oversee distribution 

and exploitation of foreign and 

American films in the U.S. and Canada. 

Levy last year co-produced "The Klansman," 

starring Richard Burton and Lee 

Marvin, and was instrumental in "Emmanuelle" 

negotiations. 

"I will continue to work closely with producers 

who have not yet reached the point 

of complete financing of their films," Levy 

stated. "And I will be involved in bringing 

in limited partnerships to coop>eratc in that 

area." 

Velde Has Ad Accessories 

For 'Harry' Promotion 

HOLLYWOOD—Hal Marshall, director 

of advertising and publicity for Los Angelesbased 

Theatre Television Corp., has announced 

the availability of numerous advertising 

accessories for the promotion of 

Bill Sargent's TheatroVision presentation of 

"Give 'em Hell, Harryl", which stars James 

Whitmore. 

Technicolor trailers, one sheets, pressbooks, 

etc., may be purchased from Donald 

L. 'Velde, New York City, according to 

Marshall, who lists 15 diverse accessories 

to publicize the picture which opens next 

month in hard-ticket, limited engagements. 

Marshall additionally has prepared a 15- 

part press kit for the use of exhibitors in 

publicizing "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" dates. 

'The Ark of Noah' Scores 

High Gross in Denver 

HOLLYWOOD—"The Ark of Noah," a 

documentary feature from Barjac Productions, 

opened a seven-day, four-wall engagement 

at Phipps Auditoriimi in Denver 

and grossed $17,000. Seats sold at $3 each. 

Michael B. Druxman and .'\ssociates of 

Hollywood are distributing the film. 

The film opens on a similar basis Wednesday 

(13) in Abilene, Tex., at the Convention 

Center, and Saturday (16) in 

Oklahoma City at the Music Hall. A Salt 

Lake City date for opening in September is 

being negotiated. 

CORRECTION ON FILM REVIEW 

In the review of "Russian Roulette" 

(Avco Embassy) appearing in the August 4 

issue, two lines were trionsposcd by the 

printer in the comment part. The corrected 

lines should read: "This story will remind 

some of "The Day of the Jackal,' which 

dealt with an a.ssassination plot against 

President DeGaulle of France. Lou Lombardo. 

a former film editor on many major 

films, makes his directorial debut." 

BOXOFHCE :: August 11, 1975

Mutual Assistance Pacts 

Signed by VI Festival 

VIRGIN ISLANDS—Mutual assistance 

pacts to facilitate the exchange of films 

and informatioH have been signed by the 

Virgin Islands International Film Festival 

with the Moscow Film Festival, the Berlin 

Film Festival and the Alexandria Film 

Festival, it was announced by J. Hunter 

Todd, president of the Virgin Islands festival. 

Similar pacts were signed earlier with 

the Teheran Film Festival and the Zagreb 

Film Festival. 

"T am happy about each of these agreements 

but especially proud of the Moscow 

pact," Todd said. "This is the first time 

the Russians have signed such an agreement 

with a Western festival." 

The Virgin Islands International Film 

Festival, held in Georgia seven seasons as 

the Atlanta Film Festival, will take place 

November 7-16 on the three U.S. Virgin 

Islands, with headquarters on St. Thomas. 

It will be known as "The Festival of the 

Americas." 

According to Todd, the request for entry 

information on the 1975 festival "is up 

300 per cent over this time last year. Moreover, 

we've run only one ad and this has 

been in response to that ad." The 1974 

Atlanta festival, also directed by Todd, was 

the world's largest in terms of the number 

of entries and feature films premiered. 

Todd leaves immediately to promote the 

Virgin Islands International Film Festival 

in South and Central America for a fortnight. 

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Program Book Is Prepared 

For 'Shout at the Devil' 

LONDON—Producer Michael Klinger 

has prepared a special exhibitor program 

book with production notes and color art 

for promotion of his "Shout at the Devil," 

$7,000,000-budgeted production directed by 

Peter Hunt on African locations and on the 

island of Malta. Lee Marvin, Roger Moore 

and Barbara Parkins star in the film. 

Paul Kijzer, Klinger's Madrid-based sales 

representative, disclosed that distribution 

rights to "Shout at the Devil" have been 

sold all over the world, except for the U.S.- 

Canadian market, Australia-New Zealand 

and Japan. However, after Kijzer's recent 

two-week visit to New York and Hollywood, 

he said he expected a major U.S. deal to 

be finalized. 

Golden Globe Awards Will 

Be Aired Via Metromedia 

HOLLYWOOD—The Hollywood Foreign 

Press Ass'n's presentation of its annual 

Golden Globe Awards will be telecast via 

Metromedia Jan. 24, 1976, from the Beverly 

Hilton Hotel. President Roy Cummings 

said the awards program once again will 

be produced by the FimCo Corp. and it 

will be seen around the world via satellite. 

December 23 is the closing date for 

entries for motion pictures and TV shows 

for the HFPA's 33rd annual awards, according 

to Cummings.

Seaberg Setting Premiere 

Dates for 'Lucky Pierre' 

BEVERLY HILLS—Seaberg Film Distributing, 

Beverly Hills-based distributor, is 

setting American premiere engagements for 

Claude Zidi's English-speaking comedy, 

"Lucky Pierre," it was announced by 

George Roth, executive vice-president and 

sales 

chief. The fourth highest grossing film 

in France in the past year and a major hit 

elsewhere in Europe, it will be dated in 

at least SOO theatres and probably more 

in September. The comedy stars Pierre 

Richard, who won raves for "The Tall 

Blonde Man With One Black Shoe," and 

Jane Birkin and is about a young math 

teacher who finds himself publicized as a 

famous movie star's official lover. 

Another Seaberg release, Rauni Mollberg's 

"The Earth Is a Sinful Song," is 

breaking all records at San Francisco's 294- 

seat Lumiere art house in its American premiere 

engagement. The English-dubbed 

Finnish film deals with Laplanders and will 

play dates in August at the Elmwood, 

Two From Galilee' Slated 

For Shooting in April 76 

BALTIMORE — In 1965 Marjorie 

Holmes of Manassas. Va., completed a 

book titled "Two From Galilee" after a 

four-year effort and succeeded in having it 

published in 1972 after 60 publishers had 

turned it down. Fleming H. Revell Co., an 

obscure religious publishing house, decided 

to gamble on the work. 

The book sold a half-million hardcover 

copies, made the New York Times bestseller 

list and now it is to be made into 

a major film. It could end up as a Broadway 

musical, according to some sources. 

American Video Cinema is making the 

film and, according to producer Cal Habern, 

shooting is expected to start next April on 

location in Israel. 

"The film," says Ms. Holmes, "will be a 

full-length feature that will be shown in 

regular theatres to regular theatregoers, 

not specialized religious groups." 

Suspend Importing Rights 

Of Film Firm in Brazil 

BRASILIA—Brazil's National Cinema 

Institute has suspended the importing rights 

of 1 1 film distributors, including the subsidiaries 

of some foreign companies. 

The suspension, which will be for an indefinite 

period, was ordered because the 

companies didn't comply with a requirement 

that at least 80 per cent of the copies of 

foreign films be made in Brazil, according 

to spokesmen for the institute. Among the 

companies affected are Columbia Pictures 

do Basil, a Columbia Pictures Industries 

subsidiary; Fox Film do Brasil, a unit of 

20th Century-Fox, and Warner Bros. South, 

a unit of Warner Communications. 

Bill Sargent Seeks Presley 

For Stage and Film Role 

LOS ANGELES— Elvis 

Presley has been 

offered a record-breaking $2.5 million b\ 

Bill Sargent, the flamboyant, special-event, 

producer-cntrcpeneur, to star on stage for 

four weeks at the Radio City Music Hall 

in the American adaptation of the Italian 

hit musical "Ciao Rudy," the story of 

Rudolph Valentino. This marks the first 

time in its 42-year history that the Music 

Hall would play a legitimate theatre attraction 

exclusively. 

Sargent's current TheatroVision presentation, 

"Give 'Em Hell, Harry!", starring 

James Whitmore as President Harry S Truman, 

opens in 1,500 theatres throughout 

the country for a three-day engagement 

September 24-26. 

"Ciao Rudy," which opened on the stage 

in Rome starring Marcello Mastroianni, was 

a runaway hit for several years. 

The $2.5 million figure is the largest 

ever offered an entertainer for a combination 

of a four-week stage performance and 

Berkeley, Calif.; Broadview H, Atlanta, Ga.; film appearance. If Presley accepts the 

Stage Door, Madison, Wis., and Downer, offer, it is contemplated that the production 

Milwaukee. It will be booked nationwide would go into rehearsal shortly after the 

of the year with the limited run scheduled 

first 

in key cities in September. 

to begin Feb. 1, 1976 for eight per- 

formances a week. 

At the Music Hall, the production would 

be shot in front of a live, paid audience and 

would subsequently be released to 3,000 

theatres worldwide following the release 

pattern set by "Give "Em Hell, Harry!" 

Producers Garinei and Giovannini coauthored 

the script which was written by 

Magni. Trovaioli wrote the music. 

William Tennant Is V-P, 

Production, for Columbia 

HOLLYWOOD—William Tennant has 

joined Columbia Pictures in the capacity of 

vice-president-production, it was announced 

by Peter Guber, executive vice-president in 

charge of worldwide production of Columbia 

Pictures. He will be headquartered 

at the Burbank Studios. 

Most recently, Tennant produced "Cleopatra 

Jones" for Warner Bros, and followed 

that with his writing and producing of the 

sequel, "Cleopatra and the Casino of Gold." 

Tennant was formerly a partner in the 

literary agency of Ziegler, Ross, and Tennant. 

Among his clients were Roman Polanski, 

William Goldman, John Schlesinger. 

Robert Towne, Alan Arkin, Ray Bradbury 

and Ira Levin. 

Universal's 'Sunshine' Is 

Lofty Grosser in Japan 

UNIVERSAL CllY— Llnivcrsals "Sunshine" 

has opened powerfully in Japan, 

reports Cinema International Corp., overseas 

distributor of Universal Pictures, grossing 

an excellent $.37,747 in its first week 

and a strong $28,817 in its second stanza 

at Tokyo's new 600-seat Togeky Theatre 

and a healthy $28,234 in two theatres in 

Osaka. 

Christina Raines, Cliff De Young. Meg 

Foster and Brenda Vaccaro star in the film. 

Bicentennial Festival 

Is Set by Hemisfilm 

SAN ANKJNIO — Hcmislilm 76, the 

tenth annual international film festival to 

be held in the bicentennial city of San Antonio, 

is scheduled to be held Feb. 9-11, 

1976, with awards to film entries in seven 

classes: best feature film, best short film, 

best animation, best cinematography, best 

director, best actor and best actress. 

The competition is open to filmmakers 

from around the world and selected films 

submitted to the '76 festival will be screened 

for the general public in the campus auditorium 

of St. Mary's University during the 

three-day event. 

Sponsored jointly by the International 

Fine Arts Center of the Southwest (IFACS) 

and St. Mary's University, Hemisfilm has 

been held in San Antonio since 1967. 

A panel of judges will be announced at 

a later date, according to the Rev. Louis 

Reile, S.M., founder of Hemisfilm and director 

of fine arts at the university. 

Entry forms, rules and regulations, as well 

as other pertinent information may be obtained 

from IFACS, 2700 Cincinnati Ave., 

San Antonio, Tex. 78284. 

'Eiger Sanction' Strong 

In Overseas Openings 

NEW YORK -Universal's "The Eiger 

Sanction," starring Clint Eastwood, is scoring 

strongly in first openings abroad, with 

a standout $16,303 first-week gross at the 

950-seat Barclay Theatre in Melbourne, 

Australia, despite a crippling transport 

strike, and an excellent $131,035 (40,000 

admissions) for the same period at 15 

situations in Paris, France, reports Cinema 

International Corp., distributor of Universal 

product overseas. 

The Malpaso Co. film was produced by 

Robert Daley and directed by Clint Eastwood 

in Technicolor and Panavision, with 

Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown as 

executive producers. Co-starred in the 

screenplay by Hal Dresner, Warren B. 

Murphy and Rod Whitaker, based on Trevanian's 

best-seller, are George Kennedy, 

Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Heidi Bruhl. 

Thayer David and Gregory Walcott. 

European Locales Scouted 

For 'Seven-Per-Cent' 

NEW YORK—European location sites 

for Universal's forthcoming "The Seven- 

Per-Cent Solution" is being scouted, with 

an initial survey of proposed British backgrounds, 

by producer-director Herbert Ross, 

and Nicholas Me>er, who wrote the screenplay 

from his number one best seller that 

continues the adventures of Sherlock 

Holmes. 

The Herbert Ross production is scheduled 

to begin overseas filming October 2 

with an international all-stellar cast headed 

by Nicol Williamson, .Man Arkin. Laurence 

Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, 

Samantha Eggar, Georgia Brown and 

Rcgine. 

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Filmmakers listed ten productions going 

before the cameras in August, a gain of 

five over the previous month. August 1974 

looked brighter with 15 scheduled for filming. 

The current month shows seven features 

lined up by the majors and three are starting 

by independents. 

COLUMBIA 

Harry and Walter Go to New York. 

A turn-of-the-century comedy escapade 

about two fading vaudevillians who are 

down on their luck and turn to safecracking. 

Stars James Caan and Michael Caine. 

Produced by Don Devlin and Harry Gittes, 

a Mark Rydell film directed by Rydell, 

with Tony Bill the executive producer. 

Screenplay by Robert Kaufman and John 

Byrum, based on an original story by 

Byrum and Devlin. Shooting at the end 

of the month on locations in the East and 

the Burbank Studios. 

METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER 

The All-American Girl. A contemporary 

comedy-drama about a free-spirited 

girl who has developed her talent for stealing 

cars into a fun and fine art. Stars 

Stockard Channing and Sam Waterston. 

Shooting begins Monday (11) in Tacoma, 

Wash., with Jerry Schatzberg directing and 

producing. The screenplay was written by 

B. J. Perla. 

PARAMOUNT 

The Bad News Bears. Shooting began 

Friday (1) at the studio and Los Angeles 

locations on this contemporary comedy 

written by Bill Lancaster, about a group of 

young neighborhood misfits who are molded 

into a winning little league-type baseball 

team. Waiter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal 

are starred with a cast of youthful newcomers 

directed by Michael Ritchie. Produced 

by Stanley Jaffe. 

Won Ton Ton, The Dog Who Saved 

Hollywood. This farce-comedy tells the 

story of a superstar movie dog and his 

friends who saved a studio from bankruptcy 

in the silent flicker days. David V. Picker 

is producer and Michael Winner is director. 

Stars are Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, 

Shecky Greene and Ron Liebman. Shooting 

starts Monday (25) at the studio. 

UNITED ARTISTS 

Bound for Glory. The biography of 

bailadccr Woody Guthrie with David Carradinc 

in the Guthrie role. Shooting starts 

Monday (18) on the screenplay by Robert 

Getcheli, with Hal Ashby directing. Producers 

arc Robert Blumofe and Harold 

Leventhal. 

Burnt Offerings. Deals with the terrifying 

experiences faced by a family with 

a young son and an aunt who go away on 

a summer vacation. Shooting began Monday 

(4) in Oakland, Calif., with a cast 

headed by Karen Black, Oliver Reed, 

Burgess Meredith, Bette Davis, Eileen 

Heckart and Lee Montgomery. Produced 

and directed by Dan Curtis with Robert 

Singer as associate producer. Screenplay 

by William F. Nolan. 

WARNER BROS. 

Bogart Slept Here. Shooting starts 

late 

this month on this original comedy written 

by Neil Simon about an off-Broadway 

actor who hits it lucky and becomes a 

Hollywood star. Robert DeNiro and Marsha 

Mason star. Mike Nichols will produce and 

direct with Howard W. Koch jr. as executive 

producer. 

INDEPENDENTS 

Hikmar Productions 

Race With Death. Formerly titled "The 

Young Merchants," the story deals with a 

young woman narcotics agent who infiltrates 

a drug-smuggling gang. Shooting 

commences Monday (25). Producer-director 

is Hikmet Avedis and executive producer 

is Marlene Schmidt. 

Max Baer Productions 

Ode to Billy Joe. Based on the song 

by Bobbie Gentry, with a cast of unknowns, 

to be produced and directed by Max Baer. 

Shooting began Wednesday (6) in Greenwood, 

Miss., with a screenplay by Herman 

Rancher ("Summer of '42"). 

Steckler Enterprises 

Le Jour. Shooting started Thursday (7) 

in Nevada with a cast consisting of Art 

Bourdon, Carolyn Brandt, Corrine Broskette. 

Herb Eden, Hitch Huber, Susan Jackson, 

Liberty Jones, Will Long, Ed Sher and 

Suzanne Vegas. Producer-director is Ray 

Dennis Steckler: associate producer is Jerry 

O'Farrell. 

Universal Film Production 

Reaches Industry High 

Film production at Universal Studios has 

reached an industry high with 24 production 

units simultaneously at work, represented 

by 19 television shows and five 

theatrical motion pictures, it was announced 

by Sid Sheinberg, president and 

chief operating officer of MCA, Inc., parent 

company of Universal Studios. At the same 

time the company projects a new record 

total of 442 film shooting days for July, 

which compares to the studio's previous 

high of 400 shooting days reached October 

1974. Employment at Universal has also 

peaked with 7,000 employees on the payroll. 

The studio's 34 stages are at capacity 

production. In addition. Universal has 121 

show units at work in various stages of post 

production. Never before in the 63-year 

history of Universal Studios has there been 

such a level of film production and employment. 

Represented in the five theatrical 

motion pictures at work are "Family Plot," 

"Midway," "Lombard and Gable." "W. C. 

I'iclds and Me" and "The Bingo Long 

Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings' 

(filming in Georgia but with daily film 

production activity involved from the 

studio). 

Use Ship Built at $1.5 Million 

For 'S'washbuckler' Scenes 

Universal Studios has taken a two-month's 

rental on the Golden Hinde, the 102-foot 

replica of Sir Francis Drake's ship, as a 

location for seagoing sequences of "Swashbuckler." 

The ship, built in England at a 

cost of $1.5 million, is now berthed in San 

Francisco after a five-month voyage from 

England through the Panama Canal. Universal 

will alter and refit the Golden Hinde 

to conform to the appearance of early 18th 

Century buccaneer vessels. Plans call for 

two weeks of sea filming aboard the ship 

on a North American west coastline location. 

Additional shooting also will take 

place at a berth still to be selected. 

James Goldstone is directing the costume 

adventure drama set in 1718 against backgrounds 

of Kingston, Jamaica and the 

Caribbean. Elliott Kastner is the producer 

and Jennings Lang is executive producer. 

Burton Miller has been signed to design the 

lavish period costumes. 

Frankovich and Self Start 

'From Noon Till Three' 

"From Noon Till Three," starring Charles 

Bronson and Jill Ireland, is being produced 

by M.J. Frankovich and William Self for 

United Artists release. Filming is now under 

way in California. Pulitzer Prize-winner 

author Frank D. Gilroy is directing from 

his original screenplay. Gilroy is the author 

of "The Subject Was Roses," which won 

the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for drama. "From 

Noon Till Three," a western with an unusual 

twist, is the second successive film for UA 

by Bronson and his actress wife Jill Ireland. 

They recently completed "Breakheart 

Pass," on which Elliott Kastner was the 

executive producer and Jerry Gershwin the 

producer . . . James Clavel has been set to 

write, produce and direct two full-length features, 

"Richard Sahib" to be filmed in India, 

and "Naked Country," based on the novel 

by Morris West, to be filmed in Australia. 

Eileen Brerman, Jas. Murtaugh, 

David Arkin Among Castings 

Eileen Brennan has been cast in "Murder 

by Death," produced by Ray Stark for 

Columbia and starring Peter Falk and David 

Niven . . . James Murtaugh will portray the 

Library of Congress librarian: John Randolph 

will be former U. S. Atty. Gen. John 

Mitchell, and Richard Herd will play James 

McCord, security officer for the Committee 

to Re-elect the President, in Warners' "All 

the President's Men." David Arkin has been 

signed to portray Washington Post police 

reporter Eugene Bachinski—Cara Duff-Mc- 

Cormick has been assigned to the role of 

Jane Monahan . . . Casting for principal 

roles in the Reader's Digest production of 

"Sarah," which will star Glenda Jackson as 

Sarah Bernhardt, is under way in London 

with producer Helen Strauss participating. 

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COUNCI.Comment iv 

T ess than five votes stood between June's 

Blue Ribbon Award winner "The Return 

of the Pink Panther" (UA) and its 

runncrup. "Jaws" (Univ). No entry qualified 

for honorable mention. 

"The Return of the Pink Panther" 

Sellers is at home doing the kind of role 

he does best.—R.J. Spatafore, teacher. San 

Francisco . . . Since when has a G-rated 

comedy scored at the boxoffice? When you 

have Peter Sellers as comedy superstar and 

Blake Edwards as director, you can't miss. 

Emmctt Weaver. Birmingham Post-Herald 

husband and I really enjoyed it. It's 

iôod to laugh again at a movie.—Mrs. 

James A. McKay jr.. San Antonio MPC . 

A ladv sitting behind me laughed so hard 

that her false "teeth fell out.—Mrs. Paul Gebhart. 

Cleveland WOMPI. 

"Jaws" 

Fascinating adventure and stark drama 

an excellent film.—Ralph L. Smith. Examiner-Enterprise. 

Bartlesville. Okla. ... No 

contest! This is the picture of the year and 

one of the top ten in the history of .Ajnerican 

film.—Brian A. Higgins. WSMU-TV, 

Worcester . . . Destined to be one of the 

all-time big grossers. A smash everywhere. 

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

. . . Brilliant, terrifying; a must-see 

for 1975.—James L. Limbacher. Henry 

Ford Centennial Library. Dearborn . 

Dynamite.—Olga Pottker, Waukegan News- 

Sun . . . Best picture I've seen in many 

months. Must say under-ten children might 

be too affected, however.—Betty McCleery, 

WICU-TV. Erie . . . Gripping suspense. You 

are on the edge of your seat for two hours 

and four minutes. Excellent.—Harry M. 

Curl. NATO of Ala., Birmingham. 

There is much more to "Jaws" than meets 

the eye. The theme of a black hole of evil in 

existence began in "Duel." continued through 

"Sugarland Express" and emerges concretely 

to devour its victims in "Jaws." This is 

not just a hyped-up thriller, but an allegorical 

warning about the temper of our times. 

Steven Spielberg has gotten the pulse all the 

others missed and there is no question but 

that he should be rewarded for his intelligence.—Joe 

A. Ortega. Bank of Calif.. Seattle 

. . . Technically brilliant; all the better 

—more mesmerizing— for its stark reality. 

A soundtrack that strikes terror in itself. The 

best thriller in years.—Geoffrey Chapman. 

Bennington Banner . good, did not 

exactly make me yearn for fish and chips. 

George Stump, KCEZ Radio. Kansas City. 

"Jaws" has to be a wide-open winner! 

Nothing com/pares with it in the history of 

film.—Jack Kelvie. Viking Films. Hopkins, 

Minn. . . . Beautifully directed, but not for 

young children.—Mrs. Leslie T. Barco. 

Greater St. Ixiuis BFC ... No doubt about 

this month's winner: "Jaws," by word-ofmouth. 

Surprisingly, it's as good as all the 

fuss about it.—Jerry Krupnick. Newark 

Star-I>edger . . . "Jaws" is already showing 

promise of breaking boxoffice records everywhere. 

It received fine reviews, was highly 

exploited by the press and broadcasting 

media and a fine job of promotion was done 

by the studio t

60X0FFICE BAROMETER 

This chart records the perf( current ottractions in the opening week of their first runs 

the key net As new runs 

20 checked. Pictures with fewer than five engagements ai 

listed. 

cities 

are reported ore is 

ratings added and overages revised. Computation terms of percentage in 

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

enotes combination bills.) 

the figures the gross ratings or show above belov that mork. (Asterisk 

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13 Film, Book Tie-ins Museum Tie-in Nets 'Jaws Display 

Set by United Artists 

United Artists has one of the 

most extensive 

book tie-in programs in its history, involving 

13 major films now in release, recently 

completed, currently in production 

and on the planning boards. 

The properties include best sellers, paperback 

novelizations of screenplays and books 

that have been registering steady sales over 

a number of years. Several of the tie-ups 

were set by MGM for its United .'Krtists 

release. 

Following is a rundown of the properties 

and productions: 

"The Wind and the Lion." Award Books 

novelization of the John Milius screenplay 

of the MGM presentation produced by 

Herb Jaffe. The book also includes background 

material on the production, the cast 

and movie-makers. The film is currently 

in general release. 

'Rollerball." a Warner Books paperback 

of William Harrison's prize-winning short 

stories, including Roller Ball Murder on 

which Harrison based his screenplay for 

seller in the New American Library paperback 

(1,800,000 copies in print), will be 

filmed for UA by David Merrick. 

"Logan's Run." Bantam Books will 

print approximately 250,000 copies of the 

movie edition of this novel by William (-. 

A popular tie-in anionic exhibitors for "Jaws" has been to display actual shark 

jawbones. Here, Greg Hague, manager of AMC's Midland 3 theatres in Kansas 

City, stands ne.xt to a display he set up. Working with the Kansas City Museum 

the Norman Jewison film. The picture is 

now in release. 

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.' 

of History & Science. Hogue secured shark jaws and exhibited them in the display 

a American Library edition of the Ken 

New 

case along with other publicity material, including a poster he made using 

front covers from the issue of Time Magazine that spotlighted the film. 

Kesey best-seller on which producers Saul 

Zaentz and Michael Douglas have based 

their upcoming UA film. 

Nolan and George Clayton Johnson. The 

"The Wilby Conspiracy" a Popular Books MGM film is being produced by Saul David 

paperback of Peter Driscoll's and directed by Michael .Anderson from a 

novel which 

Stagecoach Stuffing 

served as the basis for the Martin Baum- screenplay by David Zelag Goodman. 

Helmut Dantine production. 

"Bound for Glory." the Woody Guthrie 

"Hearts of the West," to be novelized autobiography, has been published by New 

Primes 'Hard Ride' 

for Bantam and based on the Rob Thompson 

screenplay of the Tony Bill— Howard duced by Robert F. Blumofe and Harold Guinness Book of World Records. 20th 

.American Library. The film will be pro- 

With no entry of a similar nature in the 

Zieff production, an MGM presentation. 

1 eventhal with Hal .Ashby directing. 

Century-Fo.\ decided to initiate the world's 

"The Killer Elite," a Dell book by Robert "The Dog Soldiers. " Robert Stone's National 

Stagecoach Stuffing Championship in con- 

Rostand, is now being filmed by Martin 

Book Award winning novel, will be junction with its "Take a Hard Ride" re- 

Baum and Arthur Lewis with Sam Peckinpah 

issued in paperback by Ballantine in Octolease 

in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. 

directing. 

ber. The film will be produced by Herb Radio stations KNUS in Dallas and 

"Breakheart Pass," published by Fawcett, Jaffe and Gabriel Katzka with Karel Reis/ KFJZ in Fort Worth were asked to cooperate 

was written by Alistair MacLean. who also 

by having their listening audiences 

as director. 

wrote the screenplay for the Jerry Gershwin- "From Noon Till Three." will be published 

challenge one another. The KNUS audience 

Elliott Kastner film. Over 800,000 copies 

by .Avon from the screenplay by won. .39 to 35. 

are in 

Frank D. Gilroy, who also will direct the 

print. 

Participants in the unique event, which 

"Semi Tough, " which continues as a best- 

motion picture. The Charles Bronson film was held simultaneously at the Valley View 

will be produced by M. J. Frankovich and 

William .Self. 

•Alive." the Piers Paul Read best-seller. 

is now an Avon paperback. The film will 

be pnxluced by Edgar Scherick under the 

Ixiuner of Palomar Pictures. 

shopping center in Dallas and the Seminary 

South shopping center in Fort Worth, were 

awarded guests passes to see the film. Once 

the official record was set, everyone was 

invited to "take hard rides" in the stagecoaches 

around the centers. 

BOXOFHCE Showmandiser :: .\ugus 1975 44

Gail Stricklands Elephant Ride Part 

Of Cincy Zoo, 'Drowning Pool' Tie-in 

Actress Gail Strickland has in 

Cincinnati recently to ride 

Susie, one of the star performers 

at the Cincinnati Zoo. 

in conjunction with a threeway 

tie-in involving the zoo. 

the Warner Bros.' release and 

Mid-States Theatres' new Tri- 

Coiinty Cinemas 1-2-3. Ms. 

Strickland appears in the film 

opposite Paid Newman and 

Joanne Woodward. The tie-in 

was centered around a special 

benefit screening of the film, 

ill which proceeds were earmarked 

for the zoo. In addition 

to publicity appearances 

with Susie and other animals 

at the zoo, Ms. Strickland 

taped an interview there with 

WLW-T television personality 

Rosemary Kelly and also appeared 

on the station's Bob 

Braun 50/50 Club to promote 

the film and benefit. 

Interview 

Regarding 

Panthers 

Return' 

Perry's Charles Cinemas in Lake Charles. 

Clayton Courville. manager of Ogden- 

La., heralded "The Return of the Pink 

Panther" with a radio tie-in using two Pink 

Panthers from the theatre. 

One week prior to the opening, Phyllis 

German and Mary McBeth, dressed in costumes 

designed by cashiers Karl Copeland 

and Marilyn Fontenot, visited two different 

locations in the area. At each one they 

would call radio KLOU where they would 

be interviewed live. The station would then 

announce that the Pink Panther had returned 

and could be seen handing out free 

passes at such and such a location. 

The young ladies also circulated throughout 

the lobbies during the engagement of 

the 

film. 

Fox Congratulations 

On Inferno' Bally 

Promotional campaigns are most successful 

where exhibitors have given careful 

thought and much hard work to their planning 

and execution. Such is the case in 

Fairmont, Minn., population 12,000, where 

Don Oechsle manages the Cinema Theatre, 

a part of the Brookings, S.D.-based 

State Theatre circuit. 

Upon learning when "The Towering Inferno" 

would be coming into his theatre, 

Oechsle began planning his campaign that 

An "iS"' engulfed in flames was part 

of the promotional message painted 

on the front door of the Cinema Theatre 

in Fairmont, Minn., alerting patrons 

to the number of Academy Award 

nominations "The Towering Inferno" 

had received. 

would eventually bring him a letter from 

David Forbes, director of special projects 

at Twentieth Century-Fox. "Your effort 

was certainly proved to be valuable by your 

extended engagement (six weeks)," Forbes 

wrote. "You should be proud of this fine 

campaign." 

Oechsle began his campaign, which cost 

less than $35 to mount, with a tie-in at a 

local bookstore. Setting up a display there, 

which featured a movie poster and paperback 

editions of the two books used in the 

screenplay, he next arranged to have the 

store donate a number of the books to be 

given away by a radio station during spots 

in which the bookstore, film and theatre 

were mentioned. 

For his theatre displays, Oechsle obtained 

a toy fire truck and an old-fashioned, 

horse-drawn fire wagon for the interior of 

the candy case. Above the refreshment 

counter, he suspended antique fire hose 

nozzles that the fire department had loaned 

him. In the lobby he fashioned his own 

Towering Inferno made with plastic panels, 

amber-colored lights and red cellophane. 

He used a fan to agitate the cellophane, 

obtaining a flickering sensation. Suspended 

above the miniature tower was a toy helicopter 

holding a glass elevator booth. A 

large movie poster, several action stills from 

the film and pictures of local fires supplied 

by the newspaper formed a backdrop for 

the display. In the mall area in front of the 

shopping center theatre was a 1914 American-LaFrance 

fire truck, compliments of 

the Fairmont fire department. 

For a special premiere showing of the 

film, Oechsle invited members from 25 

area lire departments as well as city officials 

and members of the press as guests. More 

Ihaii (0(1 people allended Ihe screening. 

One of two Charles Cinemas panthers 

is shown here with friends she made 

while heralding "The Return of the 

Pink Panther." 

Live, Film Music Concert 

Breaks Ozoner Records 

I he recent "July 3" celebration at Midvva\' 

Drive-In is something manager Stephen 

Duniont and area patrons around Littleton, 

N. H., will be talking about for some 

time to come: Dimiont because of the 

phenomenal boxoffice and patrons because 

of the good time. 

Billed as a movie concert, the event was 

the first of its kind for the New England 

ozoner, combining as it did Fox, a fourmember 

rock group, with "Gimme Shelter" 

and "Pink Floyd." The group opened thj 

concert, performing on the roof of the projection 

and concessions building. 

"We established the biggest boxoffice 

gross and concessions sale for a single night 

since the drive-in opened over 18 years 

ago," Dumont said. He noted further thai 

("inemette circuit, which owns the Midway, 

is considering movie concerts at a iiumboi 

ol Ms olher theatres. 

45 BOXOFFICE Showmandiser

$1 Admission Policy Now 

Is Widespread in Philly 

PHll.ADEl.PHIA—With the 'SI Admission 

for All Seats" policy having caught 

on big at a dozen or more motion picture 

theatres in the area, the trade now finds a 

number of houses have adopted the bargain 

rate policy, charging $1 for some performances 

and regular admission for others. 

"We charge $1, depending on the picture, 

its age and the play it has had in the 

area," explained Mitchell Goldman, film 

buyer for Budco Quality Theatres. Goldman 

added: "We do it for an old picture 

because we feel we can come out with 

more dollars in the end than we do charging 

$2.50." 

fast has helped considerably to attract 

patronage at Cinema 5"s Cinema 19 Theatre, 

the only $l-at-all-times theatre in center 

city. In recent weeks, Cinema 19 has been 

offering films such as "Lenny" and "Young 

Frankenstein." 

Bob Moran, manager of Cinema 19, 

points out that if the picture is right it 

brings in the people and the 1,000-seat 

house has been sold out a number of times 

during the year and a half it has been 

charging $1. "It takes quite a while to 

build up a boxoffice for a dollar," Moran 

said. "This theatre is just beginning to 

show a profit." 

'Clinkers' 

Don't Draw 

The Leo Twin theatres in the Bustleton 

section of the city, a Posel Theatres operation, 

is another house that charges $1 

admission on an occasional basis. However, 

assistant general manager Murray 

Issadore points out that the picture and not 

the price is the important factor. "If you 

have a clinker of a movie," Issadore said, 

"it doesn't matter if you charge a quarter. 

The people won't come." 

The theatres that charge $1 at all times 

usually are in the neighborhoods. The 

cheaper admission policy was adopted generally 

to compete with nearby circuit theatres 

offering first-run features. By charging 

$1 for good, second-run films, many 

of the neighborhood houses have been 

able to attract patrons from all parts of 

the city. 

"We're getting people who have never 

been here before," said John Rager, manager 

of the Roxy Theatre in the Roxborough 

section of the city, where the $1 policy 

has been in effect for almost three years. 

"People are calling up from all over hi 

ask how to 

get here." 

In spite of the occasional $1 admission 

practice, it is not likely that the policy 

will spread to first-run houses because of 

the economics of the industry. "You can't 

pay the rent on Chestnut Street (center city) 

for a dollar," remarked a film buyer for one 

of the circuits operating in center city. 

Besides, he pointed out, audiences seem 

more than willing to pay $.^.50 to sec a big 

tirsi-run movie. 

I hat the picture and not the price is 

important is seen from the observation of 

the manager of a suburban theatre where 

the $1 admission is occasional. With two 

screens, he noted recently that in one theatre 

where the charge was $1 for an afternoon 

matinee, there were only about a halfdozen 

people in the auditorium. In the 

other theatre, however, 289 people had 

paid the regular admission price to see 

"Jaws." 

The $1 theatres actually started here back 

in 1971 at the Yeadon Theatre in suburban 

Yeadon, although it did not advertise the 

fact and still doesn't. Rhea Friedman, who 

has operated the house for the past 21 

Recent Films Offered 

years, refused years ago to follow other 

theatres when they increased their admission 

The "old" pictures are not classics but 

to more than $1. "We cater to the 

features on subsequent runs so that the bargain 

average person," Mrs. Friedman said. "I 

admission can get the fullest advantage 

don't think it should be more than a dollar." 

of the picture's advertising and word-ofmouth 

publicity. The ability to get pictures 

Dist. Atty. Is Continuing 

Sunday Movie Crusade 

HARRISBURG, PA.—Dist. Atty. Harold 

E. Shecly of Cumberland Cîunty is determined 

to bring a halt to Sunday movies at 

theatres in suburban Lxjwer Allen Township 

although lawyer's for Carrols Development 

Corp. were successful in having a district 

justice dismiss the July 6 charges 

against the Capital City Mall cinemas, a 

twin in Capital City Mali. 

The manager, projectionist and ticket 

seller were arrested for showing Sunday 

movies on charges of violating a 1935 

statute that prohibits such exhibitions unless 

a 

municipality's voters approve them. 

In addition to the Capital City Mali cinemas, 

which has faced citations each Sunday 

since the initial arrest, the district attorney's 

office has called on three other 

theatres in the county to stop Sunday showings. 

The three are Cumberland Drive-In, 

Penn Township; Silver Spring Drive-In, 

Silver Spring Township, and the College 

Cinema in Shippensburg, a college town. 

Sheely said he lost the initial case because 

of a technical flaw in evidence as presented 

iby his office. The theatre company's 

lawyers said they were about to iêquest another 

hearing to contest the chargers filed 

July 13 against six theatre employees—the 

manager, projectionist, ticket seller, an 

usher and two refreshment stand workers. 

The lawyers said they are challenging the 

Sunday movie law on constitutional grounds. 

At the same time, they are preparing to 

circulate a petition to get the i.ssue on the 

township's ballot November 4. The theatre 

management has expressed its intent to keep 

the two cinemas open on Sundays until the 

voters or court resolve the matter. The district 

attorney said that he has asked the 

police not to enter any citations against the 

refreshment stand employees again because 

it wa-s questionable whether they c

BRO AD\N Ay 

RADIO CITY MUSIC HALLS current 

attraction, the American International 

release of "Hennessy." is pari of WNBC 

Radio's $66,000 contest. Listeners to the 

station are asked to call in at certain intervals, 

selected callers being named as winners. 

Each winner receives four tickets to 

the film and stageshow. WNBC will give 

away 100 sets of tickets over a two-week 

period. 

"Hennessy" stars Rod Steiger and Lee 

Remick in a thriller directed by Don Sharp 

and produced by Peter Snell. The screenplay 

by John Gay is based on an original 

story by Richard Johnson, who also costars 

in the film with Trevor Howard. 

On the Music Hall stage is "Star Spangled 

Rhythm." produced by Peter Gennaro. 

• 

The Shipstad and Johnson "Ice Follies" 

will open Friday. September 19. at Radio 

City Music Hall, rather than the previously 

announced September 17. Peggy Fleming, 

ice-skating champion and America's Gold 

Medalist in the 1968 Olympics, will star 

in a spectacidar new production. The 

extravaganza will feature Richard Dwyer, 

the precision Ice Folliettes and a special 

children's number including all the characters 

from public TV's the Electric Company. 

Twenty-six performances are scheduled 

between September 19 and October 5. including 

some matinees and late-morning 

shows. Evening performances will be held 

at 7:30 p.m., except Monday. Tickets are 

on .sale now at the Hall and at Ticketron 

outlets. 

This will be the first attraction in the 

theatre's 1975 Fall Special Presentation 

period. The regidar stage and screen policy 

will be resumed November 6, when the 

Christmas show begins. 

• 

Film Fan Monthly, a movie buff publication 

for 14 years, was phased out with 

its June 1975 issue. Leonard Maltin, editor 

and publisher for the last nine years, blamed 

economic reasons and the pressure of other 

work for the demise. A constant source of 

delight and information for film fans, the 

magazine will be greatly missed. Even the 

respected Films in Review didn't have the 

same appeal to those devoted to comedy 

shorts, B pictures and serials, which FFM 

often 

covered. 

• 

Speaking of Films in Review, its August- 

September issue offers an ironic tribute to 

the FFM concept with Stephen E. Bowles' 

article on the Three Stooges, containing; 

many references to ten Maltin's research 

into the group's work. Also included in 

this issue are Alvin H. Marill's career 

article on Red Skelton. an examination of 

Marie Dre.t.sler by Zan Turner and. for noncomedy 

buffs, a look at Henry Mancini's 

film mii.sic by Page Cook. 

• 

"Jaws" has a firm grip on the country 

this summer but its power to shock was 

fully rcali/cd when :i Queens man suffered 

a fatal heart attack during a showing of 

the release. Universal Henning Thomsen, 

43, of Maspeth, was in the United Artists 

Theatre in Forest Hills with his wife when 

he suffered the attack during the last few 

minutes of the film. Some 375 customers 

sat in silence as the film was interrupted 

and attempts to revive Thomsen failed. 

• 

"Coonskin." controversial Bryanston Pictures 

release which combines live action and 

animation, will open Wednesday (20) at the 

Trans-Lux East and Bryan West theatres. 

Barry White. Charles Gordone, Scat Man 

Crothers and Philip Thomas are among the 

live participaus in the film, produced by 

Albert S. Ruddy and written and directed 

by Ralph Baks'hi. This is the first Bakshi 

film to be R-rated initially, his animated 

"Fritz the Cat" and animated-and-live 

"Heavy Traffic" both having been given 

an X. 

• 

In town: Dick Richards, director of the 

Robert Mitchum film "Farewell My Lovely," 

which opens Wednesday (13) at Loews' 

State 1 and Tower East theatres. Jan- 

Michael Vincent arrives Monday (18) for 

three days of interviews in conjunction with 

the opening of "White Line Fever," Columbia 

release in which he stars. 

"Farewell My Lovely," an Avco Embassy 

Pictures release, also stars Charlotte Rampling. 

Kay Lenz co-stars in "White Line 

Fever," an International Cinemedia Center 

production, produced by John Kemeny and 

directed 

by Jonathan Kaplan. 

• 

Town Hall will remain open for at least 

two more years, fund-raising campaigns 

having succeeded in putting off the threatened 

closing this month. New York University, 

which operates the building, has 

received contributions including a $125,000 

donation from the Shubert Foundation. 

Concerts, children's shows, travel films, 

lectures and John Springer's series of 

"Legendary Ladies of the Screen" have 

been among the fare presented at Town 

Hall in recent years. 

• 

Bryanston Pictures" "Texas Chainsaw 

Massacre," described as a horror classic in 

the same vein as "Night of the Living 

Dead," has become a revival item around 

town. It was presented as part of the Museum 

of Modern Art's "ReView" series of 

recent films, it has been playing at the 

West Theatre with "Return of the Dragon" 

and now the film is being shown at midnight, 

Simday through Thursday, at the 

Cinema Village. 

• 

Showcases for Wednesday ((>) saw the 

arrival of just one new double hill. Bryaiiston's 

horror and science-fiction show. "The 

Devil's Rain" and "Dark Star." The Disn.v 

festival program consisted of the fir.\t-run 

"One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing" and the 

revival of "Pinocchio" (1940). Only other 

new film was the X-raled "Keep On Triick- 

WRO Assigns Little Neck 

Lease to Cineck Theatres 

NEW YORK—The Little 

Neck Theatre, 

located on Northern Boulevard in Little 

Neck, Queens, is now operated by Cineck 

Theatres, it was announced by Sheldon 

Gunsberg, president of the Walter Reade 

Organiza'tion, and Jay and Gary Fuchs 

who operate theatres throughout the five 

boroughs of New York City. The theatre 

has been part of the Reade circuit for the 

past 12 years. 

Gunsberg stated that the assignment ot 

the Little Neck Theatre lease, effective July 

30, was a continuation of his company's 

previously announced plan to divest itself 

of properties in smaller suburban areas 

while at the same time expanding its theatre 

holdings in major cities throughout the 

country. 

AFI Catalog's 2nd Volume 

To Be Published in 1976 

WASHINGTON — The American 

Film 

Institute Catalog's second volume, "Feature 

Films 1961-1970," a listing of approximately 

5,800 features, will be published in 

early 1976, according to Richard Carlton, 

AFI deputy director. 

The first volume covered "Feature Films 

1921-1930" and a planned third volume 

in the series will be "Feature Films 1911- 

1920." 

The second volume's listing of foreign 

films, 

which received commercial exhibition 

in the U.S., will make up approximately 

40 per cent of the issue. 

Richard Krafsur is editor of "Feature 

Films 1961-1970." 

Free EPA Film Available 

WASHINGTON — The 

Environmental 

Protection Agency has made available free 

to theatres a ten-minute, 35 mm sound and 

color short, "Does It Have to Be This 

Way'.'", featuring TV comedian Tim Conway. 

Audiences become amused at the 

hilarious situations which confront Conway 

on his way to work. Requests for freeloan 

playdates for the film—a timely 

message in the guise of comedy—should be 

sent to Modern Talking Picture Service. 

2323 New Hyde Park Rd.. New Hyde Park. 

N.Y. 20040.' 

Wendell Exits Industry 

CHATHAM. N.J.—Edward Wendell. 

;inagcr of the Chatham Cinema in Chatham 

for the past three years, recently resigned 

that post and left the industry. Prior 

to managing the Chatham house. Wendell 

has been assistant manager at RKO-SW's 

Regent in Elizabeth for several years. The 

Chatham Cinema is owned by Andy Sullivan. 

Fire Destroys Grand Theatre 

SCRANTON, PA.—The long-shuitered 

Grand Theatre. 406 Main St.. was destroyed 

by fire recently. The structure, which had 

been occupied bv a dress company, was 

owned by Richard Cawley. 

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'Beyond the Door' 435; 

'S.O.S.'al420inNY 

NEW YORK.—-BcNond llu- Door.' iIk 

Italian exorcist thriller, kept its first place 

Enough." "Bite the Bullet" and the Disney 

bill. "Herbie Rides Again" and "Robin 

Hood." 

:Average Is 100) 

Baronet—-Noshville (Para), 8th wk 275 

Beekman—Love and Deoth (UA), 7th wk 200 

Cinema The Doy of fhe Locust (Para), 

13th wk 235 

Cinema II— Noshville (Para), 8th wk 385 

Cinerama—Cooley High (AlP), 6th wk 240 

Coronet The Fortune (Col), 1 1 th wk 180 

Criterion Cleopatra Jones and the Casino 

of Gold :WB), 3rd wk 100 

East 59th Street 2 Cooley High (AlP), 4th wk. . . 95 

86th Street East—S. O. S. (Milky Tone News) ..420 

Guild— Bcnii (Mulberry Square), 6th wk 285 

Notional Beyond the Door (Film Ventures Int'l), 

2nd wk 450 

Paramount Love and Death (UA), 8th wk 150 

Paris CharloHe (Gamma III), 6th wk 180 

Radio City Music Holl Hennessy (AlP) 120 

Rialto II Intimate Teenagers .Mishkin), 

14th wk 270 

RKO 86th Street Twin I Cooley High (AlP), 

6th wk 205 

68th Street Playhouse Kamourasica (New Line 

Cinemo), 3rd wk 90 

Sutton Love and Death (UA), 8th wk 280 

Trans-Lux East Beyond the Door 

(Film Ventures Int'l), 2nd wk 420 

World Naked Come the Stranger 

(Catalyst Films), 1 1th wk 345 

Ziegfcid— Rollerboll (UA), 6th wk 1 50 

"RoUerbair Rocks Baltimore 

At 545; "Panther' Is Hot 435 

BALTIMORE — "Rollcrball" rocked to 

the top with 545 in a third fast week at Cinema 

II. "The Return of the Pink Panther" 

turned in a nice 435 in a sixth week at two 

houses while "Jaws" gripped three theatres 

with a slashing 245 in a seventh outing. 

Cinema I, Liberty II The Return of the 

Pink Panther !UA), 6th wk 435 

Cinemo II— Rollerboll (UA), 3rd wk 545 

Playhouse Molizia (Para), 3rd wk 160 

Three theatres— Jaws (Univ), 7th wk 245 

Towson, Westview IV— Monty Python and the 

Holy Grail 'SR), 3rd wk 205 

Westview Nashville (Poro), 2nd wk 135 

Westview III Jacqueline Susann's Once 

NORTH JERSEY 

genji" recently opened an exclusive engagement 

at General Cinema's Brunswick 

Twin Cinema One in Brunswick and, in its 

third week, was reporting good grosses there. 

position by conjuring up a 435 average in 

second round the National (450) and 

its at 

Trans-Lux East (420). "S.O.S.." a new porno 

John Scher'.s Capitol in Passaic ha.s begun 

new policy of presenting strippers on 

a 

from Screw Magazine, debuted at the 

stage during midweek, in addition to its 

S6th Street East with a second place 420. 

regular policy of showing three X-rated 

•'Naked Came the Stranger" moved down 

films. The Capitol normally presents live 

one step to third place. .345 for the 11th 

rock concerts on weekends. .Scher began the 

round at the World. 

stripper policy recently by announcing the 

"Nashville" remained in fourth place, 

appearance of Liz Renay, billed as "The 

averaging 330 for the eighth week at the 

Queen of the Strippers." According to Capitol 

Baronet (275) and Cinema II (385). "Benji" 

ads. a new show will be presented every 

moved down two notches to fifth place, 

Monday. 

doing 285 business at the tiny but wellattended 

Guild for the sixth week. Down RKO-SW"s Branford in Newark, managed 

one position was "Intimate Teenagers." 270 by Leo Goldman, had John Daniels, star 

and the long run champ in the 14th installment 

of the new film "Candy Tangerine Man" 

at Rialto II. 

New York's heat wave, with temperatures 

make in-person appearances at the theatre 

during the recont engagement of that film 

hovering at 100 degees. didn't do anything there. Daniels was on hand to greet patrons 

in 

to diminish business for "Jaws": the sihowcase 

the lobby and to sign autographs. 

winner took in $1 million in its seventh 

week at air-conditioned houses. Following 

this were "Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not 

Richard Feinstein, area fikn booker who 

res'des in Fair Lawn, recently celebrated 

his 40th birthday at a party given by his 

many friends. Highlight of the event was 

the presentation of a blown-up portrait of 

Feinstein's face superimposed over a picture 

of Xaviera Hollander's body, with the caption 

reading "Richard Feinstein, the Happy 

Booker!" 

Roland Hassanein, who operates the Verona 

in Verona and Cinema 23 in Cedar 

Grove, recently returned from a two-week 

vacation . . . Also back from a two-week 

holiday spent at the South Jersey shore is 

Jack Smith. North Jersey/ Rockland County, 

N.Y., division manager of UA Theatres. 

Movie production continues to flourish in 

Paterson, where Robert Sudol, Wallington, 

is directing the shwning of a feature-length 

film titled "Cwir's Keep." Described by 

Sudol as a Gothic horror-fantasy, the picture 

is being lensed on location at Palerson's 

famed Lambert's Castle, high atop Garrett 

Mountain. Being familiar with the area, 

Sudol said he felt Lambert's Castle and the 

surroundiing paths and greenery would provide 

an ideal backdrop for a horror tale. In 

addition to Sudol. Paterson director Alfred 

Sole also is in the process of shooting a fibn, 

"Communion." in the area. 

Elwood in Atlantic City 

Alters Operating Policy 

NEWARK.. N.J.—The Elwood Theatre 

here, operated by Jim Gilette, is now open 

Friday through Sunday only, featuring regular-run 

American films. Previously, the 

theatre had been in operation full time presenting 

Spanish films. 

In addition to the new operating hours 

and film policy, Gilette has begun a new 

price policy of $1 for all seats at all times. 

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Norbury Theatre Reopens 

EI.LENVILI E. N.Y. — The Norbury 

Theatre, shuttered since November 1974, 

was reopened recently through the efforts 

of the members of the Pioneer Engine Company. 

The firefighters plan to use any profits 

from the venture to augment their company's 

building 

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J^l Anscombe, president of Amherst Cabls- 

Vision. has applied to the Federal 

Communications Commission for permission 

to carry the CATV signals in Tonawanda 

and Kenmore (which the company now 

services) of WGR-TV. WBEN-TV. WKBW- 

TV. WUTV and WNED-TV. all of this 

city, as well as several stations in Toronto. 

Canada . . . While his boss Daniel Lesniak 

of WADV-FM is on vacation, account 

executive Jerry Edelstein is taking over at 

the location atop the Rand Building. Both 

are members of Variety Club Tent 7. 

The corporation that owns and operates 

this city's Allendale Theatre, 203 Allen St., 

has been fined $5,000 in city court after 

pleading guilty to a charge of exhibiting an 

obscene film. City Court Judge Samuel L. 

Green levied the fine after the attorney for 

the theatre firm entered a plea of guilty. 

Judge Green ordered the fine paid within 

30 days and said he would dismiss another 

obscenity charge pending against the theatre 

if payment was made within that time. 

Dick Atlas, a former chief barker of Tent 

7 and present manager of the Broadway 

Drive-In, now is press guy of Variety Club 

Tent 7. This added job will keep him busy 

when the fall season begi.ns. 

Sidney J. Cohen, president of NATO of 

New York State, and exhibitors and distributors 

gathered in the Concord on Lake 

Kiamesha Sunday (3) through Thursday (7) 

to enjoy the association's annual fumrin-thesun 

convention. 

"Give yourself a great time with these 

genuine film-music classics on United Artists 

reco-rds," said John Dwyer in the Evening 

News the other day. "They are new 

performances, with classy engineering, of 

the original scores. He mentioned "King 

Kong." "A Star Is Born." "Prisoner of 

Zenda" and a few others . Canadian 

National Exhibition opens Wednesday (13) 

in Toronto. Ont.. and many Buffalonians 

are motoring to the .spot to enjoy the many 

attractions, especially the Big Band Pavilion, 

where the shows arc free every night. 

Gary Meyers, head projectionist at Che 

Transit Drive-In on Transit Road near Lockport, 

will marry Deborah Allen Saturday 

(16). Deborah is employed at the Niagara 

Falls Airport. .She is a graduate of a Syracuse 

college. 

A letter from the Rev. James Connelly 

published in the Evening News said: "Having 

enjoyed a hit play at the Studio Arena 

Theatre and hearing murmurings that soon 

they will be in need of a larger theatre. I 

suggest looking across Main Street to the 

former Shea's Buffalo. Some of us fortunate 

enough to have exiperionced the 

Michael Shea era feel that this building 

could be adapted to fill a need for continued 

and growing good theatre in this city; also, 

think what this would mean towards renovation 

of the downtown area." 

Hoh'day Theatres general manager Joseph 

P. Garvey urged in his ad for the Holiday 

4. Cheektowaga. "to avoid being disappointed, 

see "Jaws" at 12 noon at only 

$1.25." The film is doing tumaway business 

here, just as it is in other cities . . . WGR 

Radio in this city and WXRL Radio in 

Lancaster have had their licenses renewed 

by the FCC in Washington. D.C. 

Michael L. McCarthy, councilman-atlarge. 

has asked the common council to 

question executives of Courier-Cable Co. 

about reports that residents of our town 

can't get C./\TV service installed in their 

homes. The common council has called a 

meeting, when questions about reports that 

installations can't be made are to be 

answered Curran. Evening News 

columnist, has received the American 

Legion national commander's public relations 

citation "in recognition of outstanding 

writing in his column." 

The Lockport Drive-In on Route 3 I near 

Gasport is attracting crowds with "Race 

With the Devil" and "M*A*S*H" as a 

second feature. Excellent weather is helping 

at 

the boxoffice. 

David Cohen is helping his dad Macey 

Cohen, operator of the Transit Drive-In. 

while home for the summer from the University 

of Miami in Florida . . . Residents 

of Orleans County have been instructed to 

enjoy themselves and ipartake of nostalgia 

or face "Keystone Cops" and "Kangaroo 

Courts." The orders were issued at Albion 

on the occasion of the county's 159th anniversary. 

Screenings and discussions by prominent 

filmmakers were planned by the Summer 

Institute on the Making and Undertaking of 

Films and Media at the State University of 

Buffalo. The institute started Wednesday 

(6) and continues through Wednesday (20). 

Jim Lavorato of National Theatre Supply, 

496 Pearl St.. and formerly head of the 

same company's film service office at the 

same address, is one busy man these days 

as he hops about western New York visiting 

exhibitors to learn about their theatre needs. 

Jake Stefanon of the Silver Lake Drive- 

In at Perry is enjoying a busy .season this 

summer as he entertains thousands of patrons 

at his popular ozoner, which he has 

modernized tihroiighout. 

Fire Destroys Closed Theatre 

ATLANTIC CITY. N.J. — The vacant 

Townc Cinema here was destroyed rccenlly 

in a general-alarm fire that officials believe 

was set by an arsonist. No one was injured 

in the blaze which firefighters managed to 

prevent from spreading to .several adjacent 

factories. Shuttered many months, the 

Towne during the past several years had 

been o|x-raled by a number of exhibitors. 

"Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger" is 

being lilnied on locations in 

Spain. 

Pa. Legislative Actions 

Observed by Industry 

PITTSBURGH—The 159th session of the 

Pennsylvania General Assembly is keeping 

the film industry alert with the many and 

varied proposals before the legislative body, 

nearly all adverse to business practices and 

logic. Probably foremost is the bill which, 

if approved, would create censorship and 

regulate the industry's personnel. 

HBI243, entered by Rep. Frank A. Salvatore 

and nine others, would register all persons 

"showing films" and create a State 

Board of Motion Picture Control, imposing 

certain political powers and duties and making 

an appropriation of a large sum of the 

taxpayers' money. This bill is before the 

professional licensure committee of the 

House. 

Among a dozen or more local political 

subdivision tax-enabling proposals is one to 

permit local communities—city, borough, 

township and school district) to enact and 

collect an amusement admission tax 

(HB732). Another proposal would remove 

the ten-year-old act which gives the city of 

Pittsburgh the exclusive power (in this state) 

to enact and collect an "emergency" amusement 

admission tax via legislation of the 

General Assembly. this "terminating" 

measure being HB959. 

Pennsylvania consolidated statutes regarding 

crimes and offenses would be an amendment 

to Title 18 under terms of HB1270. 

"clarifying the offense" of obscenity in 

motion pictures and holding liable not only 

exhibitors but film producers and distributors 

of so-called obscene films. Other bills 

which would prohibit obscenity, not defined 

by federal or commonwealth law. include 

HB353, providing for injunctions, and 

HB823 and HB833. and proposals to shield 

drive-in screens from the eyes of those outside 

the ozoner (HB629. HB831 and 

HB1006). These proposals now are outlawed 

by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on 

airer nudity. 

Also in the legislative hoppers are 

measures to legalize bingo, regulate C.\TV 

systems, permit Sunday sales and trade via 

dropping of the ancient blue laws, various 

attempts to legalize lotteries other than the 

commonwealth's, new harness-horse-dogdrag 

racing bills, minimum wage measures 

and exemptions, prohibition of X-rated 

films at drive-ins, a plan to permit liquor 

sales on Sunday at Philadelphia art museums 

and one to approve liquor sales at 

Pittsburgh's Heinz Hall. 

Via legislative action, minors 16 to IS 

years of age are denied employment in 

restaurants, bars and lounges in capacities 

other than or in serving or dispensing alcoholic 

beverages in the defeat of HB.3b7. 

Greenwood Theatre Reopened 

TRENTON, N.J.— Heywood Burch. nc« 

owner of the Greenwood Theatre, locakJ 

at the corner of Greenwood and Cusler 

avenues, announced the reopening of ilv 

showhousc. Inaugural attractions \\ei\- 

"Cornbread. Earl and Me" and "Johnny 

lough," with admission $1 for chiklren 

and $2 for adults. 

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PHILADELPHIA 

^1 iMalnifelt, owner of the TLA Cinema, 

has opened an old-fashioned ice cream 

parlor next door to his theatre. Inspired by 

an old Jean Peters movie and with the theatre 

located on South Street, he named the 

place Pickup on South Street. 

"Safari Madness," a $25-per-person party 

scheduled for Saturday (30). will be held by 

Arlene Samschick at her home in Loveladies 

Harbor on Long Beach Island. N.J.. 

for the benefit of Variety Club Tent 13's 

Variety Heart & Lung Institute at Hahnemann 

Hospital. The party is limited to "250 

bwanas and memsahibs." 

Richard Markovitz. who joined the local 

office of Columbia Pictures to coordinate 

promotions for feature films, formerly was 

account executive at Spiro & Associates, 

one of the larger advertising agencies here 

. . . Irving Blumberg, Warner Bros, promotion 

chief, arranged a preview screening at 

the Top of the Fox screening room for 

"Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold," 

the invitational showing for film critics and 

media representatives. The feature opens 

Wednesday (13) at the Milgram Theatre in 

midtown. 

Academy Screening Room, intimate midtown 

theatre on the repertory circuit, has 

scheduled a number of seldom-seen films 

for the remaining summer weeks, starting 

with "Jazz on a Summer's Day," a film 

account of the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival. 

convicted of lewdness and conspiracy. 

Telesystems, the only C.-KTV firm now 

operating within the city limits, is now 

offering for the first time the Home Box 

Office pay-cable .service, with recent film 

features, extra sport events and special 

programs. Subscribers are called upon to 

pay an extra $8.50 a month for the service, 

with films like "The Sling" and "Harry & 

Ton to" offered. 

A children's film series, including animated 

films, documentaries, abstract art and 

nonverbal films appealing to children ages 

four to ten. is to be shown at the Pennsylvania 

State University Capitol Campus in 

Harri.sburg as part of a children's literature 

course taught at the college. The film showings 

open to the public are free . . . The 

Community Organization for Mental Health 

& Retardation is initiating a .series of six 

film showings coordinated with trips to various 

sections of the city. Starting with "Shotgun 

Joe," with "Titicut Follies" and "Growing 

Older" among the selected features, all 

of the films are highly entertaining and 

touch on areas of mental health and retarda- 

Theatre in Planned Development 

PRINCETON. N.J.— Briar Hill Development 

Corp. has announced plans for a 

$1.S million shopping center which would 

include a motion picture theatre. The complex, 

to be named Woods Tavern Plaza, 

would occupy 9.7 acres off Route 206 

opposite Partridge Run. 

Pa. Pr.ison rv{ôvie Prograni 

Is Popular With Inmates 

ALLENTOWN, PA.—To break the 

tion. 

monotony 

of confinement and offer entertainment 

for the inmates, first-run motion pictures 

have been .shown regularly at the 

Montgomery Courbty Prison here. Warden 

Lawrence V. Roth said "the success of the 

film program has raised morale noticeably 

among the inmates and they look forward 

to the resumption of the film showings in 

.September after the summer months." 

Money for the rental of the films has 

come from the prison welfare fund, which 

is derived from sales at the prison commissary. 

Among the 

films which have been shown 

to the inmates were "High Plains Drifter," 

"Buck and the Preacher" and "Slaughterhouse-Five." 

Bookstore Clerk Fined $3,000 

PHILLIPSBURG. N.J. — Bobby Ray 

Howell, former clerk in a local adult Ixwksitore, 

was fined $3,000 for selling two motion 

pictures and a magazine in violation of 

the slate's anti-obscenity law. Warren County 

Judge Bry Nildsen jr. imposed a maximum 

fine of $1,000 on each of the three 

counts on which a petit jury had found he 

had violated the state statute. Howell wa-s 

acquitted by the jury on six other counts 

which also involved films and other material 

purchased by slate investigators at the Memorial 

Parkway Adult Bookstore. 

Joe Griffin, manager of the Berkshire 

Mall Theatre, UAT house in Reading, reports 

that "Jaws," now starting its second 

month, has set a record at the theatre. He 

also reports a lot of youngsters are going to 

see "Jaws." "Not the real young ones," he 

explained, "but kids about 12 on utp are 

coming with their parents and they seem to 

enjoy it, maybe more than the adults" . . . 

WFIL Radio has linked a major promotion 

to "Jaws" by offering listeners shark-repelling 

T-shirts. WFIL, which enjoys the 

largest youth following in local radio, has 

printed special T-shirts portraying the great 

white shark and saying: "Listen to WFIL 

and I'll Lxave You Alone." Every hour during 

the broadcast day, WFIL deejays draw 

names at random from entries received to 

award the T-shirLs to listeners who merely 

have to send in their names. With the station 

going all out for the promotion, it also 

helps sastain continued interest in 

the film. 

Anthony Battista, operating the Lane 

Theatre, which has been the target of continuing 

protests from the Oak Lane community 

since it adopted its X-rated film 

policy last February, was convicted in common 

pleas court on charges of permitting 

nude women to dance at an advertised 

iburle,sque .show. The burlesque shows were 

added recently to stimulate sagging theatre 

attendance. Battista was convicted of conspiracy 

and liability for the conduct of the 

women. He was placed on six years' probation 

by Judge Benjamin W. Schwartz. The 

fenKiie dancers who were arrested also 

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prank Jay "Bud" Thomas and his wife 

Helen, on a short vacation, visited 

former West Virginia exhibitors Charles 

ind Dale Warner, residing on Easy Street 

n Bridgeport, near Clarksburg. They are 

in good health and still interested in the 

movie business. 

in most of the Garden features. He got the 

billing for "Beyond Fulfillment" with "A 

Norman Fleishman told us that brother 

Sam is on the job regularly at the Regent 

Square Theatre, with two days out for spe- 

of a minimum of 23 to attend the national 

NATO convention October 1-4 in New 

Orleans. 

Abe Beter books the same films for his 

Lamp, Irwin, and Penn, Mount Pleasant, 

and advertises the theatres and attractions 

together in newspapers, including the 

Greensiburg publications . . . Although there 

has hecn no report, no doubt Variety Club 

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IN WAIKIKI: REFF REEF TOWERS EDOEWATlJt 

Tent I's 49th banquet is being prepared. 

It's usually held on a Sunday evening in 

late October . Bruss handles "Man- 

Eater" for this territory. 

Mort Magill and Turner Magill represent 

Scotia American Films, now offering "The 

Night They Robbed Big Bertha's." out of 

Philadelphia for western Pennsylvania . . . 

Max Shabason of Perilman Films here attended 

the recent CinAmerica sales meeting 

in New York . . . John Currie, vice-presi- 

Sid Dickler, "ye olde tyme music man." 

is the new editor of the weekly East Suburban 

Shopper, which is making a "new 

look" appearance after 48 years. He writes 

an entertainment column and other features dent of the Theatre Equipment Ass'n. who 

. . . Mrs. Kathy Meyer is handling group started in the business here as an NTS salesman 

and became general sales manager of 

discount sales for attractions at Heinz Hall 

... A "Nashville" truck with characters that firm, was in Toronto for the recent 

was iparked in front of the Warner Theatre TEA sessions . . . The Post Gazette, in its 

for the opening of "Nashville." with balloon first issue in over a month July 28. because 

decorations, etc. . . . Big John Holmes stars of a walkout, favored via editorial the continuation 

of the city's 10 per cent amasement 

admission tax. 

Ryain. eighth vice-president. Burtonsville. 

Md.). These officials, except for Bordonaro. 

then [proceeded to the international conven- 

library of more than 5.000 older slicks. 

Noah says this is the largest invenitinuous 

hours of entertainment, while 

mounted frontiersmen, Indians. Paul Revere, 

NSS, had to go to Poland to get run iresentative, enjoyed recent lA meetings, in- 

down by an automoibile. Now home from cluding one in Ha^risburg. this being the colonial ladies and gentlemen and clowns 

her vacation in Europe and in fair shape, 

were in the crowds and Home's. Kaufmann's 

District 4 session of which veteran Philip 

Cele was injured when run down in Warsaw. 

"Blackie" Bordonaro. Tarentum. is secre- 

and Gimbels also staged free shows, exhib- 

She also was plea,sed with visits in tary (also present were Walter F. Diehl, in- 

etc. The only movie we saw being adverits, 

England and Denmark and particularly enjoyed 

a number of opera preformances. general secretary-treasurer, and John J. 

ternational president; Harold F. Cheswick. tised was a limited distribution of a 12-page 

color booklet on "Bite the Bullet." an interesting 

giveaway on horses. 

State House Bill 1270 "clarifies offenses" 

of obscene matter in film and responsibility 

tion held at Hot Springs, .'Krk.. which lasted 

cial hosipitalization and treatment . . . Ernie 

for selling, lending, distributing, exhibiting, 

two weeks. Torreano has been in projection 

Sihepherd of old NSS has been assisting 

giving away or .showing such to a person 

and active In the union 46 years. His son 

Kay Grotto at the Paramount office under age 17 includes not only the film exhibitor 

but the film producer and film dis- 

. . . 

Marty jr. continues busy as manager-projectionist 

at Cinemette South, twin unit on 

NATO of Western Penimsylvania. in addition 

to its two telephones, used two tributor. 

additional 

This measure would amend Title 

Greentree Road. 

telephones during the city newspaper blackout 

to inform the public regarding films 

18 (crimes and offenses) of the commonwealth 

consolidated statutes and is in the 

Movie Ads, an operation of Emil Noah, 

showing hereabouts . . . Rocco Serrao of 

hands of the House Judiciary Committee. 

is supplying 8!/2xl 1-inch slicks containing 

Ford City hopes to make up a charter The flight 

profw.sal to create a censor boaxd, 

ads for new movies, in many cases ahead 

HB1243, is before the House professional 

of press sheets, plus institutional ads and a 

licensure committee. 

Giveaways at Adult Theatre 

PHILADELPHI.A—While it hardly heralds 

the return to the days of di,shes, it is 

significant to note that a midtown theatre is 

resorting to giveaways to stimulate attendance 

for its X-rated film programs. For the 

return engagement of "Deep Throat" and 

"The Devil in Miss Jones." the Studio 

Theatre is offering a "free gift" to those 

bringing the newspaper ad to the boxoffice. 

The free gift also is of the "adult" variety. 

Cinemas to Be Sold at Auction 

COLONIE. N.Y.—The Circle Twin cinemas. 

625 Watervliet-Shaker Road, were 

scheduled to be sold at public auction at the 

Albany Coimlv Courthouse recently, the 

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Baltimorean Sells Closed 

Theatres for 'Recycling' 

BALTIMORE—FoUowing the sale ot 

the 

Rome circuit's Harlem Theatre and its conversion 

to a church, a story appeared about 

the facility in the July 19 Morning Sun. 

The article by-lined by Antero Pietila 

in said part: "West Baltimore's Harlem 

Theatre, which originally was built as a 

house of worship, has become a church 

again. The Rev. Raymond Kelly jr.. who 

bought the 1.500-.seat theatre for S70,000, 

sees unlimited opportunities there for his 

75-member Harlem Park Community Baptist 

Church. Tm not interested in the most 

beautiful church." he says. 'I'm interested 

in a church that has outreach to the community, 

because we need it." 

|t may seem incredible that a 75-membjr 

congregation that used to meet in Kelly's 

home was able to raise $24,000 toward a 

church building in just 15 months but Kelly 

promises the surprises won't end there . . . 

Repair and refurbishing is continuing and 

Kelly already is planning a series of concerts. 

He has kept the stage and the movie 

projector so that the church can be locale 

of occasional stage and movie shows. 

"Around the turn of the century, the 

structure was built as a Methodist church 

and subsequently it was occupied by other 

congregations before being turned into a 

'I theatre. want to project five years ahead 

in my thinking,' the Rev. Kelly says. 

"That explains why he, a former assistant 

pastor at Douglas Memorial Community 

Church, rejected the idea of buying a storefront—^the 

traditional starting point for a 

budding black congregation. Instead, he got 

in touch with Sol Klein, an East Baltimore 

real estate man who has made turning old 

theatres into religious places his specialty. 

"Klein, a founding member of Beth 

Jacob Congregation, has a picture of Pope 

Pius XII in his office for the benefit of his 

Catholic customers. His philosophy is to do 

anything 'as long as I make a dollar and 

everybody is happy.' 

"He had been trying to sell the Harlem 

Theatre, once a mecca of the big bands, for 

nine months when Kelly made his first inquiries 

with just $4,000 in cash. The pastor 

was told to raise more money. When Kelly's 

congregation moved in, it began a thorough 

refurbishing job. The pastor and a dozen 

other members can be seen working in the 

church for hours every day and one of their 

first—and most difficult tasks—was to remove 

from the floor layers of chewing gum 

generations of moviegoers had left there. 

"Although he is about to repaint it. Kelly 

eventually also plans to take down the marquee 

of the theatre ... As for Klein, he is 

complaining that there are not enough old 

movie theatres available to be converted into 

churches. "I have four or five ministers on 

my waiting list but not a single theatre for 

sale.' he said. "It seems they all are makimg 

mcuiey (he.se days.' " 

City to Consider Theatre Permit 

HAMMONTON, N.J.— An application 

for clearance to build a walk-in movie theatre 

was slated to be considered at a recent 

mjeting of the city planning board. 

BALTIMORE 

Jrviiig (;ldber};, lor the p;ist year office 

manager of Allied Theatre Equipment 

Co. here, left the organization July 2.5. He 

originally came to this city from the firm's 

Philadelphia branch. .According to David 

Hall of Allied here. Goldberg makes his 

home in Philadelphia with Mrs. Cioldberg 

and their two children. 

Bob Nethcn, president of Claude Neon 

Signs, Mrs. Nethen and three of their six 

children—Mark, Jennifer and Jeffrey—are 

spending a week in Ocean City at a condominium 

named "Irene" . . . Alan Nethen, 

vice-president, Claude Neon Signs, and Mrs. 

Nethen returned July 28 from a one-week 

holiday in Ocean City. Their two children 

Heather and Alison accompanied them on 

the 

vacation. 

Harry Connolly, owner of Litsingcr Sign 

Co. and for many years with Wagner Sign 

Service as East Coast representative here, 

was one of the co-chairmen of th^^ Sign 

Contractors Ass'n of Maryland crab feast, 

held Saturday (9) at Bud's' Cafe, 3919 East 

Lombard St. Assistant co-chairman of the 

stag affair was Elmer Jefferson, a Claude 

Neon Signs tube bender. 

William Paul Sherak, weighing six pounds 

and 1 1 ounces, was born to Madeleine 

Sherak, wife of R/C booker Tom Sherak. 

July 14 at the Greater Baltimore Medical 

Center. This is the couple's first son and 

third child, two daughters having preceded 

William. You can be sure Tom was in the 

delivery room during the birth, beaming 

with joy. He commented: "After wrapping 

the infant, the nurse walked over to hand 

him to me. My remark was, "Bring him 

back when he's four years old." The entire 

delivery room staff broke out in laughter."" 

The bris was held Tuesday, July 22, at the 

Sherak household, with many local dignitaries 

attending. Among exhibitors on hand 

for the festivities were: Irwin R. Cohen. 

head of R/C Theatres: Aaron Seidlei. 

executive vice-president, R/C Theatres; Boh 

Rappapiort, Rappaport Theatres, and Jack 

Fruchtman of JF Theatres. 

Sareba Maslow, executive-secretary to 

Irwin R. Cohen, head of R/C Theatres, 

celebrated her birthday July 31. What made 

it a doubly haippy day was that she lost t\\\: 

more pounds, according to a usually reliable 

and highly authoritative source! 

Phil Glazer, chief of Associated Pictures, 

reported that he"s breaking Indcpendcm 

Internationars "Blazing Stewardesses" in 

this city September 3 at several hardlo|is 

and drive-ins. At the same time in Washington, 

D.C., William Mishkin's "Intimate 

Teenagers" will be breaking in five area 

theatres . . . Phil and Mrs. Glazer returncil 

July 28 from Scranton, Pa., where they 

visited their son Charles at camp. 

Mrs. Alice Banik, formerly cashier ami 

in charge of the candy department ,it the 

Boulevard Theatre lor the p:ist eight years. 

recently was made manager of this Durkce 

house . 13 Donald Miller, business 

agent for lATSE Local 181, spent the day in 

Harri.sburg. Pa., attending a meeting of the 

I,ATSE"s fourth district, which includes 

Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, District 

of Columbia and Virginia. 

Roland Bruscup, president of lATSE 

Local 181. and .Mrs. Bruscup July 21 returned 

from a 16-day vacation. They visited 

Bush Gardens Old Country in Virginia for 

several days, then went on to Williamsburg, 

Jamestown and Newport News, all in Virginia. 

They also were in Maryland"s Eastern 

Shore area and later sipent a week in Ocean 

City with Mrs. Audrey Hawkins, Roland"s 

sister. They ran into some rain but that did 

not deter Roland from getting in some fishing 

.. . lATSE officers Donald Miller (business 

agent of Local 181) and Roland Bruscup. 

local president, went fishing recently 

on the Chesapeake Bay on Roland"s boat, 

the Pelican. "Donald wound up taking home 

a basket of tomatoes from my garden—but 

no fish." chuckled Roland. 

Lou Cedrone, Evening Sim film critic, 

discussing Claude Leiouch's "And Now My 

Love," said: "The directness and simiple romanticism 

of this Lelouch movie are enough 

to recommend it." 

"Part 2 Walking Tall" opened Wedr.esday 

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the Cloris Lêachman starrer, "Crazy Mama"" 

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WASHINGTON 

ter, to assume his newly appointed post as 

American Film Institute national director of 

publications and editor of a new monthly 

magazine to be published by AFI. American 

Film. October has been set for the publication 

date of American Film (which is subtitled 

"Journal of the Film and Television 

Arts"). AFl's local headquarters in the Kennedy 

Center will be the publication site and 

its staffers include AFI's Steve Zito as 

senior editor. The new ongoing magazine 

have a minimum of 80 pages and will 

will 

be published ten times a year, merging its 

December-January and July-August issues. 

American Film will draw on the talents 

of such AFI staffers as Mel Konekoff, 

newsletter editor and public information officer, 

.Sam Grogg. education editor; Nancy 

fjollis Alpert, who has been film critic for 

the Saturday Review (he reviewed "Rollerbail" 

Wells, advertising director, and John Beveridge, 

Larry McMurtry, author 

art director. 

in the Saturday (9) issue), has 

moved to our town, near the Kennedy Cen- 

of "The Last Picture Show"' and a 

book reviewer for the Post, as well as operator 

of a local bookstore, will be a resident 

contributor. Among other writers considered 

for early issues of American Film are 

Arthur Schlesinscr. Bud Schulberg and 

Walter Kerr. 

David Vassar, National Park Service 

audio-visual specialist who directed the 

filming of the Festival of American Folklife 

on the Mall here (see Boxoffice. July 

28), is thi. 24-year-old son of Mrs. Elena 

Vassar of Hollywood. Mrs. Vassar, a past 

president of the Hollywood/ Los Angeles 

WOMPI Club, is secretary to Lionel Newman, 

head of the music department at 20th 

Century-Fox. Young Vassar has been de- 

tailed to the Smith.sonian Institution sound 

film unit for processing the 34.000 feet of 

film which he shot of the festival. Karon 

Loveland, who will be credited as executive 

producer of the 16mm documentary, is director 

of the sound film unit. Vassar expressed 

excitement about the film, making 

evident his dedication to filmmaking. 

Don King, president of the Town Theatre 

Group, authored an article on "Theatres 

of Boston. From Museum to Multicinema" 

which was published in the American Theatre 

Historical Society's quarterly, Marquee. 

King has completed (ready for publication) 

two articles. They are "Theatres of 1776 or 

God Bless the British" and "Keith and 

Albee or From Circus to Cinema." King 

said he is writing for publication "Theatre 

Fires and Disasters or When Horror Was 

Not Part of the Show." The objectives of 

the ATHS, of which King is a member, 

are the preservation and/or documentation 

of all theatres and memorabilia. Steve Levin 

is president and B. Andrew Corsena. Notre 

Dame, edits the quarterly. 

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TORONTO—^Frank Drea, parliamentary 

assistant for consumer and commercial relations, 

recently charged that Harry 

Moheny of Lansing, Mich., was "the king" 

of Toronto's Yonge Street strip and the 

pornographic film business there. Drea told 

the provincial legislature that "virtually 

every piece of sexually oriented film" on 

Yonge Street originates with Harry Moheny 

(who, he said, also is known as Harry Klein) 

and his "organized crime connections even 

though the U.S. citizen never has entered 

Canada." 

The Ontario government official contended 

that Moheny, "who likes to boast of being 

more than a self-made millionaire, reports 

to organized crime families through 

one Robert D. Columbo, chief policy maker 

and field officer for the Columbo family 

and protector of pornography operations in 

the U.S." 

Drea alleged that Moheny also is a prime 

agent for the Calvalconte family of New 

Jersey which he said specializes in pornography, 

"particularly in the eastern U.S. 

and eastern Canada." 

Declared Drea, "There is no question 

that another six months of flourishing operations, 

particularly in the film field on 

Yonge Street, would mean the spread of 

this style of entertainment into virtually 

every community in Ontario." 

The allegations were made in connection 

with legislative action on an amendment to 

Ontario's Theatre Act, which would bring 

Smm film and videotape under the control 

of the government censor. 

The proposal received its third reading 

last month and now needs only the formality 

of royal assent to become law. The 

legislature simultaneously gave third reading 

to a bill allowing municipalities to license 

and restrict massage parlors. 

David Niven and Mvrna I.ov will star in 

Coliinibia's "Murder bv Dc.ith.'" 

E-8 .August

'Jaws' Impact Is Positive 

Says Utah Psychologist 

S.\LT LAKE CITY—"Jaws" may tcnits 

you but the immensely popular shark movie 

won't cause any permanent psychological 

damage, according to a leading critic ot 

'exploitive violence" in the mass media. 

'Although quite explicit, the violence is 

natural—man against nature." says Dr. Victor 

B. Clinc, a 

University of Utah psychologist. 

Dr. Clinc has gained national prominence 

in recent months for e.xfverimcnts he conducted 

showing that p>eople learn antisocial 

behavior from depictions in movies and on 

TV. 

"The total impact of 'Jaws' is positive." 

he says, "because ordinary people are shown 

coming together to overcome a terrible obstacle 

in a noble fashion." 

The psychologist classifies "Jaws " in the 

same category as such recent films as "The 

Towering Inferno" and "Earthquake." 

""The violence is not prurient or sick and 

it satisfies a natural yearning in everyone 

to experience great emotional adventures 

without taking any risks," he says. 

Dr. Cline qualifies his assessment of 

"Jaws" by stating that it might be ""too intense" 

for young children ""but any negative 

effects won't be long-lasting." 

Commenting on reports that some people 

have developed fears about swimming near 

shark-inhabited beaches as a result of the 

movie. Dr. Cline believes this "is a passing 

phenomenon which will wane sharply as 

soon as they see that a shark attack is an 

extremely rare occurrence." 

"Jaws" and other adventure films contrast 

sharply with such movies as "Rollerball" 

and ""Magnum Force" which exploit 

violence for violence's sake, says the Utah 

psychologist. "These films encourage people 

to get their "kicks' from watching other 

people as they are roasted, tortured, beaten, 

raped or otherwise hurt," he pointed out. 

Deanna Wilcox Appointed 

MGM Marketing Director 

CULVER CITY—Deanna Rae Wilcox 

has been named director of marketing management 

services for MGM. it was announced 

by Richard Kahn. vice-president in 

charge of worldwide advertising, publicity 

and exploitation. 

In her new position, Ms. Wilcox will 

coordinate advertising departmental operations, 

budgets and forecasts. She also will 

liaise with MGM's theatrical film distributors. 

United Artists in the U.S. and Canada, 

and the Cinema International Corp.. in 

overseas territories, on advertising estimates 

and control procedures. 

Ms. Wilcox, whose appointment becomes 

effective immediately, holds a master's degree 

in business administration in the field 

of management studies from UCLA. 

AIP Post to Sue Edwards 

HOLLYWOOD— Sue Edwards. 

Houston. 

has been appointed Southwest advertising 

and publicity manager for .American International, 

Milton Moritz. senior vice-president 

of AIP. announced. 

SCREENING GUESTS — Actor 

Dennis Cole greets the Ladies of Variety 

Tent 25, who recently screened 

"Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not 

Enough" in Westwood, Calif. Attending 

the showing were (standing, left to 

right) Maryellen Aspell, Davhid Powere, 

Dennis Cole and Vincent Miranda. 

Seated, left to right, are Gale Lane and 

Idelle Sundqui.st. 

150 Cats Make Film Debut 

In MGM's 'Logan's Run' 

HOLLYWOOD—More than l.SO cats of 

every color, size and descriiption are making 

their movie debuts at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 

in scenes for Saul David's production of 

"Logan's Run." The felines were brought to 

the studio from the Cat Care Shelter in West 

Los Angeles to work before the cameras 

with Peter Ustinov, Michael York and 

Jenny Agutter. 

In the story of life in the 23rd century. 

Ustinov plays the last man alive in Washington. 

D.C., living in the U.S. Senate 

chambers with only his cats as company. 

Hetty Kram. operator of the home for 

stray cats which is maintained solely via 

private donations, agreed to provide "Logan's 

Run" with the felines for two reasons. 

"We are grateful for the donation that 

MGM will provide in return for the use of 

our homeless animals." she said, "'but most 

important we hope the movie appearances 

will help us find homes for them. Who can 

resist a free offer of a cat who has been 

featured in a multimillion-dollar motion 

picture?" 

Mrs. Kram, a Social Security pensioner, 

has been operating the Cat Care Shelter at 

2240 Barrie Ave. since I960 as a nonprofit 

venture. She takes in an estimated .500 

stray cats annually and manages to place 

.'^.'JO of them in homes each year. 

MPIPP Moves to New Site 

HOLLYWOOD—The Motion Picture 

Industry 

Pension Plan has opened new^ administrative 

offices in North Hollywood, moving 

from the Beverly-Fairfax area of Los .Angeles. 

The relocation resulted from studies 

that showed more than 50 per cent of those 

covered by the plan reside in the San Fernando 

Valley. 

'Harry' Well Received 

Ai Preview in Denver 

1)1WER— Bill Sargent brought his 

I heatroVision film "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" 

to Denver, where it was unreeled one night 

recently at the University Hills Theatre. He 

also told the press that he has more than 

1.500 bookings for the picture. 

A small portion of an article by Denver 

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Hollywood 

Happenings 

pREDDlE FIELDS has activated his Fields 

Co. and moved to the Paramount 

Studios. He had planned to leave ICM 

September 30 to go into independent film 

production under his deal with Paramount 

but. since ail changeovers at the agency 

had been completed, he decided to exit 

of Motion Picture & Television Producers. 

• 

Floyd Mutrux, director of "Aloha, Bobby 

and Rose," back on the road promoting the 

Columbia Pictures release, was in San 

Francisco. Denver, Miami and in New 

Orleans to ballyhoo the film. 

• 

Marlene Schmidt has been named execu- 

Britain for the 1975 Tehran International 

Film Festival. 

• 

Ted Rossman has retired as executive 

kx;ation manager for Universal, completing 

a 45-year career in the motion picture industry. 

He started in 1930 at MGM as a 

production manager and later was an assistant 

to the executive vice-president before 

leaving there in 1959. 

• 

Paramount Pictures' "Phase IV," an ecological 

suspense .story about a biological 

imbalance that occurs in the Arizona desert, 

has been awarded the Grand Prix at the 

International Festival of Science-Fiction 

Films in Trieste. Italy. 

\ts0^ SCREENS«>âE»^ 

^ IMMEDIATE DELIVERY ^ 

Max Youngstein. president of Youngstein 

Enterprises, has been named to the 

board of trustees of the National Asthma 

Center in Denver. 

• 

Noreen S. Jenney. executive vice-president 

of Shaw Enterprises, has bought controlling 

interest in the public relations and 

earlier and begin work on the first of his 

1 1 projects, "Locking for Mr. Goodbar." advertising firm. She succeeds Edward S. 

• 

Shaw as president. Shaw will remain on the 

Post-production work has begun at MGM 

on "High Velocity," starring Ben Gazzara. 

Paul Winfield and Britt Ekland and produced 

by First Asian Films of California, 

with Remi Kramer directing for executive 

producer Joseph Wolf. 

• 

John J. McMahon, vice-president of West 

orchestra. 

Coast TV programing for the National 

* 

Broadcasting Co., has been named chairman 

of the 1976 

Dale C. Olson has been 

fund-raising drive of the Permanent 

Charities Committee 

named .senior 

vice-president of the Rogers 

of 

& Cowan public 

relations 

the Entertainment 

agency. 

Industries. He He will supervise the 

succeeds Billy H. 

Hunt, 

campaigns of the 

executive 

motion 

vice-president 

picture and 

of the Ass'n 

TV 

production companies represented by the 

agency as well as working with other clients 

board, serving as a consultant. 

• 

Composer-musician Quincy Jones, who 

composed music scores for more than 25 

motion pictures over the past ten years, 

opens a one-week engagement Monday (11) 

at the Greek Theatre with his 28-member 

of the firm. 

* 

Viacom has acquired worldwide TV 

rights to "Running Wild," feature film produced 

and directed by Robert McCahon 

and starring Lloyd Bridges, Dina Merrill 

and Gilbert Roland. 

tive producer on "Race With Death" for 

Hickmar Productions. Barbra Streisand's "A Star Is Born" has 

• 

'been set for a January 2 starting date by 

Motion picture star Lola Falana has First Artists and Warner Bros. Frank R. 

signed a $1 million product promotion Pierson has been named writer-director for 

campaign with Faberge to serve as spokeswoman 

the film. 

for Faberge's long established fra- 

• 

grance. "Tigress." 

• 

Crown International Pictures has acquired 

worldwide distribution rights to "The 

The Rogers & Cowan public relations Death Machine" and president Mark Tenser 

lirm has been named to direct the public says the film, now in postnproduction, is 

planned for an early 1976 release. 

relations campaign in the U.S. and Great 

• 

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"Killers of the Wild" will be the final 

title for the Cine Artists International film 

previously titled "Myths of Nature." 

George Pal was presented with the Ink 

Pot Award for his achievement in cinematic 

arts at the National Comic Magazine convention 

Tuesday (5) in San Diego. 

Berkowitz Joins Litto As 

V-P of Administration 

HOLLYWOOD ^- Howard Betkowitz. 

loriiicr head of Paramount Pictures' communication 

division, has been named vicepresident 

of administration for George Litto 

Productions. His first assignment will be in 

connection with the release of "Obsession," 

formerly titled "Double Ransom." starring 

Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold. 

Before joining Paramount. Berkowitz had 

been a producer and executive production 

manager of the UCIF division of Universal 

Studios. 

.MARKETING 

HUDDLE — Jack 

Scanlan. at microphone, publicitj-promotion 

coordinator of "A Boy and His 

Dog" and a member of the Jack 

Wodell Associates staff, is shown talking 

about his first-hand evperience on 

the fihn during its test engagements 

during the sales-marketing and advertising-publicity-promotion 

seminar held 

recently in the JWA screening room in 

San Francisco. looking on are Jack 

Wodell and Jim Prichard, right of 

Stariine Pictures of Dallas. LQ/Jaf Production 

Co. hosted the seminar for 

•nbdistribulors across the country. 

LOS ANGELES 

Jris Ro.ss of 20th-century Fox has been 

named finance chairman of the Ho/L.A 

WOMPI Club. She succeeds Helen Wood, 

resigned . Hoffman has been 

elected as a delegate to the WOMPI International 

convention to be held in Chicago. 

United Artists Corp. has moved to new 

offices in Suite 605 at 116 North Robertson 

Blvd.. Los .Angeles, The telephone number 

is (213) 657-7000. 

Charles A. Moses, publicist-writer-producer, 

was discharged from Los Angeles 

New Hospital after two weeks of tests. He 

again will be working out of his Beverly Hills 

rather than from Manhattan. He will 

office, 

announce an expansion of his company's 

worldwide activities within the next few 

weeks. 

Leon P. Blender, .American International 

Pictures' executive vice-president in charge 

of sales and distribution, returned from 

Seattle, where he set meetings with Northwest 

exhibitors. 

Cinema in SC Expansion 

PALO ALTO. CALIF.—A movie theatre 

is included in plans for an upgrading and 

expansion of the existing Stanford Shoppinu 

Center. Presently 1,050,000 square feet, the 

complex will be adding 200,000 square feet, 

with tenant lease negotiations to be completed 

late this year. Upgrading and new 

construction is scheduled to heain in March 

1 976. 

Students Pay 99c at Cheshire 

CHlSHIRi;, CONN. -The .Sam Hadel 

man Cheshire Cinema is now charging students 

W cents admission at all limes. 

BOXOFTICE August 11, 1975

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'Jaws' Denver Champ 

With 500 in Seventh 

DENVER—-Jaw,,- was ihc undisputed 

boxoffice champ with 500 in a flashy seventh 

week at the Cooper. "Winterhawk.'" 

Howco International's latest release, tied at 

200 with "Nashville" in a second week at 

Cherry Creek. -Rollerball" timed in with 

ISO in a fifth outing at Century 21 and 

"Torso" bowed at six theatres with 175. 

Aloddin—Tommy XdI), 15th wk 140 

(SR) 

One theatre— Love and Death 

Not 

UA), 5th wk 

Available 

100 

Paramount—^The Wind and the Lion (UA), 

6th wk 

Six theatres—One 

75 

of Our Dinosaurs Is 

Missing (BV), 4th wk 

Six theatres—Torso ,SR: 

10 theatres—Superbug AA) 

100 

175 

150 

Three theatres— A Boy and His Dog (SR), 

100 

2nd wk 

Three theatres—Winterhowk SR), 3rd wk, 

Two theatres—Jocqucline Susonn's Once 

,200 

Is Not Enough -"aral, 4th wk 

University Hills—The Other Side of the Mountain 

90 

(Univ), 2l5t wi

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PHOENIX 

Rickey Rooney, star of "Three Goats and 

a Blanket." recently playing at the 

Windmill Dinner Theatre, has been frequenting 

the Cine Capri Theatre of late. 

Apparently Rooney has been in the audience 

several times to view the Paramount release 

"The Day of the Locust." 

The Harkins circuit will 

be adding another 

screen. Construction is under way for 

twinning at the Tower Plaza Theatre. 

Larrj' Weatherman, manager of the UA 

Christown 6. has announced a record-breaking 

showing of "Jaws" at the si.xplex here. 

The new mark was set on a Saturday and 

just slightly overshadowed weekday grosses, 

which still are remarkably high . . . "Rollerball" 

began an exclusive engagement July 

.^0 at Mann's Christown Theatre. 

A going-away dinner was held Tuesday. 

July 29, at Smugglers' Inn for Paul Martin, 

departing manager of the Cine Capri Theatre. 

Martin is heading north to the Sacramento 

area, where he takes over duties at 

a new Plitt Theatres twin. 

Trial in Obscenity Case 

Continued Until Sept. 4 

SALT LAKE CITY—Trial for a theatre 

owner charged with "exhibiting an obscene 

motion picture" ("Deep Throat") was continued 

July 31 in Salt Lake City Court until 

September 4. Lee Harper, iproprietor of the 

Palace Theatre, 65 East Broadway, previously 

had pleaded innocent to the charges 

and his attorneys requested a jury trial. 

Harper was served with a summons June 

12 which said that the film "Deep Throat" 

was "obscene and co.nitrary to the laws of 

Reports that the Westdale theatres, recently 

acquired by the Century Cinema Circuit, 

are in financial trouble can be dispyelled. 

District manager Marshall Stone reports 

healthy grosses from the quadplex 

and says the financial situation is clearly 

in the black. 

Herschell McManus, longtime movie industryite 

and good friend of this correspondent, 

will be leaving his post as manager of 

the Metro Center cinemas to retire. .'Ml in 

the 

theatre business here extend him thanks 

for all his many contributions during the 

years. Herschell and his wife Hazel will 

continue to live in their Sun Citj' home 

and will take full advantage of this wonderful 

desert climate. 

The Cricket Theatre will have a new 

name from this point on.. Recently purchased 

by Nevada interests, the theatre under 

the managership of Wayne Pertle now 

will be known as the Crest Twin. Retiring 

Bob Stevens soon will announce his plans 

for the future. 

the state of Utah and ordinanc 

Lake City." 

Getzler, Rosenthal Named 

To Hanna-Barbera Posts 

HOLLYWOOD — Roberta Getzler has 

been named executive story editor of Hanna-Barbera 

Productions and will option 

properties that can be the basis of theatrical 

movies and TV specials and series. 

Hanna-Barbera also has named Daniel 

B. Rosenthal director of business affairs. 

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NY Variety Club Completes 

'Weigh-Out' Campaign 

NEW YORK—The Variety Club of New 

York has completed its first annual "Weigh- 

Out" campaign with the final weigh-in taking 

place in the Regency Foyer of the Hotel 

.'\mericana preceding a special Tent 35 

luncheon in honor of Morton Sunshine. 

Twenty-five participants pledged their efforts 

to lose excess weight over a seven-week 

period with pledges on the total poundage 

lost going to the various heart projects of 

the Variety Club Foundation. 

SALT LAKE CITY 

poy Roper, head of Interstate Amusement, 

headquartered in Twin Falls. Ida., was 

in town on business. 

Mike Place, general manager of Trolley 

Theatres, Inc.. and his wife Kathy are the 

proud parents of a girl, born at the LD.S 

Hospital Friday (1) at 1:45 p.m. 

Fîve motion picture representatives met 

with Fay Hamblin, local film promoter, to 

make preparations for an upcoming twoand-one-half-hour 

TV special titled "How 

the 'West Was Won." Bill Owens, production 

manager, said shooting will begin immediately 

and continue for two weeks in the 

Kanab area. The special, a pilot for a new 

TV .series, will star James Arness and Eva 

Marie Saint and will be made by MGM for 

ABC. Producer is John Mantley and the 

director is Bernie McEveety. Both have 

worked on many pictures in the Kanab 

area. During the two-week shooting schedule, 

the company will use the old fort six 

miles west of the town, the Johnson Canyon 

movie street, Tom's Canyon northeast of 

Kanab and parts of the .Arizona Strip. A 

crew of 60 and cast of ten will fly to Kanab 

for the production, according to Owens. 

Hamblin has been working for some time 

on the sets and arranging local housing. 

Several weeks ago progress was reported 

regarding the renovation of the Rialto Theatre 

and the fact that the house will have a 

motif similar to Trolley theatres. The name, 

however, was omitted inadvertently. The 

theatre will be named Midtown Trolley 

Theatre and it will be owned by Trolley 

Theatres, Inc., headed by Mike Place. 

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'Love & Death' 505 

KANSAS CITY — -Jaws- unc up the 

competition with 5S5 in a sixth week at 

Midland I. "Love and Death" scored with 

505 at two theatres in its debut. "Nashville" 

rang out with a brassy 400 in its opening 

at the Glcnwood 1 and "The Rjlurn of the 

Pink Panther" pulled 390. 

(Average Is 100) 

Blue Ridge 4, Ronchrr -Love and Death 

Cameo Revolt of the Dragon ;SR) 

15 theatres Race With the Devil (20th-Fox) 

Four theatres—The Wind and the Lion (UA), 

5th wk 

ladstone 1, Independence 3 Return to 

Macon County ;AIP), 2nd wk 

lenwood 1— Noshvillc ;Para) 

lenwood 2 Jacqueline Susonn's Once Is 

Not Enough (Para), 5th wk 

eart, Metro 3 Cornbread, Earl and Me 

2nd wk 165 

School Teochers {SR) 150 

Metcalf—Bite the Bullet (Col), 4th wk 125 

Midlond 1—Jows (Univ), 6th wk 585 

Park Cinema—And Now My Love (Emb) 75 

Plaza The Fortune (Col), 5th wk 70 

Six theatres The Apple Dumpling Gong 

(BV), 3rd wk 385 

13 theotres The Happy Hooker (SR) 250 

Three theatres The Drowning Pool (WB), 

5th wk 100 

Three theatres The Return of the Pink Panther 

(UA), 7th wk 390 

Valley View 1 The Other Side of the Mountain 

(Univ), 10th wk 340 

Wotrs Mill 3—A Boy and His Dog (SR), 6th wk. 100 

"Cooley High,' "Nashville' at 400; 

'laws' Has 350 in Chicago Gth 

CHICAGO—"Cooky High" at the Chicago 

and "Nashville" at the Esquire tied 

with 400 in holdover weeks. "Jaws" gripped 

the city with 350 at two theatres in a sixth 

week. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" 

captured 275 in an eighth week at the Carnegie. 

"Bucktown" bowed with a sassy 250 

at the Roosevelt. 

Carnegie Monty Python and the Holy Grail 

(SR), 8th wk 275 

Chicago Cooley High (AlP), 5th wk 400 

Edens 2 The Wind and the Lion (UA), 5th wk. . .200 

Esquire Nashville (Paro), 4th wk 400 

Evonston, Starlite Russian Roulette (Emb) ....225 

Four theotres Love and Death (UA) 245 

Gateway, United Artists Jaws (Univ), 6th wk, . .350 

Loop Love in 3-D (SR), 2nd wk 175 

McClurg Court Rollerboll (UA), 5th wk. ... .225 

Mercury, River Oaks 2 The Fortune (Col) . 

Oriental, Portage Sisters SR) 

River Oaks 3 The Drowning Pool (WB), 3rd v 

Roosevelt Bucktown (AlP) 

State Lake Cleopatra Jones and the Casino ol 

Gold (WB), 4th wk 

Will Rogers One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing 

(BV), 2nd wk 

Wo^dficld Jacqueline Susonn's Once Is Not 

Enough 'Pore:, 4th wk. 

Illinois Attorney Acting 

On Parents' Complaint 

CHICAGO — A Chicago-area couple 

registered a complaint with the state attorney's 

office about nudity in a film allegedly 

shown at the 53 Drive-In. located near 

suburban Palatine. III. The parents said they 

were accompanied by their elementary 

school-age children when they drove past the 

ozoner and claimed they could see nude persons 

engaged in sexual acts on the screen. 

As a result of the complaint. State Atty. 

Bernard Cary sent an investigator to the 

airer. He viewed the film "The Hardy Girls" 

from outside the theatre and now Cary has 

filed suit in circuit court seeking an injunction 

to bar the underskycr from exhibiting 

films "depicting performances which can hi; 

interpreted as objectionable." 

CHECK lOR ( Mil DRKN—The 

children's churities of Variety represented 

a high point at the Tent 26 

"King for a Day" hincheon salute to 

past chief barker Vic Bernstein, held 

in Chicago. Current chief barker Jack 

Greenberg. right, presents a $15,000 

check for the Karyn Kupcinet Special 

Care Center at Little Citj' Jo Sherni 

Abrams, president of the board of affiliates 

of Little City, faciUt> in Palatine, 

III., for mentally retarded children. 

The money was derived from the eighth 

annual Varietj Club Celebrity Ball. 

David Elliott Selects 14 

Films for Columbia Class 

CHICAGO—David Elliott, 

former movie 

critic of the Chicago Daily News, is teaching 

a special film class at Columbia College during 

the fall term, which begins the week of 

September 29. Designating the course as 

"Neglected Films: A Critical Choice," Elliott 

has selected 14 motion pictures, all 

chosen "as personal favorites and as neglected 

milestones in the history of movies." 

The complete listing of films in the order 

in which they will be shown follows: "Love 

Me Tonight" (1932), directed by Rouben 

Mamouiian: "Fires Were Started" (1943), 

directed by Humphrey Jennings; "Family 

Portrait" (1951). directed by Humphrey 

Jennings; "Monsieur Vincent" (1947), directed 

by Maurice Cloche; "In a Lonely 

Place" (1950). directed by Nicholas Ray; 

•Intruder in the Dust" (1949), directed by 

Clarence Brown; "A Man Escaped" (1956), 

directed by Robert Bresson; "The Wages of 

Fear" (1953), directed by Henri-George 

Clouzer; "Princess Yang Kwei Fei" (1955), 

directed by Kenji Mizoguchi; "The Ladykillers" 

(1956). directed by Alexander Mac- 

Kendrick; "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960). 

directed by .'Vkira Kurosawa; "The Music 

Room" (1959), directed by Satyajit Ray; 

"The Trial" (1962), directed by Orson 

Welles, and "Memories of Underdevelopment" 

(1968), directed bv Tomas Gutierrez 

Alea, 

Weekly classes will be held from 2 to 5 

p.m. on Fridays beginning October 3. 

Persons interested in registration and fee 

information should contact the admissions 

office either by writing Columbia College. 

.540 North Lake Shore Dr., Chicago 60611. 

or bv phoning 467-0300. 

LETTERS 

lo HOXOLFICE: 

li .lint easy" after all these 16'/2 years, 

htii I have finally made an irrevocable deci- 

^l,l^ to leave this business called "show 

I've enclosed a tear sheet from a Columbia. 

Mo., paper (Missourian) giving a few 

of the details, but the real purpose of my 

letter lo you is to tell you Boxofficf. has 

meant so very much to me for so very 

many years. 

Six of my proudest pos,sessions are my 

six Showmandiser Citations from Boxofficf. 

My best memories are the literally 

dozens of young men I have had the privilege 

of training in this great business. I take 

with me a lifetime of experiences I wouldn't 

trade for anything. 

Nevertheless, personal considerations 

dictate decisions and this is no exception. 

I do look forward to a new challenge and 

I do plan to keep in touch. 

Many thanks for past favors and weekly 

hvpo! 

BOB WALTER 

Columbia. Mo. 

Bob Walter to New Post; 

Exits C'wealth Circuit 

COLUMBIA. MO.—Bob Walter, 

managing 

director of the Commonwealth Columbia 

a t r e s, has been 

med transportation 

superintendent for Columbia 

effective Monday 

(18). 

Walter, 54, has been 

with Commonwealth 

Theatres since 1939 

and has managed the 

Columbia theatres 

since 1966. The opportunity 

for "a new 

challenge" and a desire 

to "serve the community" influenced 

Walter's decision to go to work for the city 

in the $13,572-per-year post. He has had no 

experience in the managememt of transit 

systems. 

Bob Walter 

Public Works Director Ray Beck said 

Walter was the unanimous choice for the 

position even though he has no experience 

with bus operations. 

"Frankly, there was some emphasis on a 

person who had management and promotion 

experience," Beck said. "We also wanted a 

community-oriented person who could work 

wiDh people . 

Walter fits that description." 

Mid-October Debut Set 

MISHAWAKA, IND.—October 13 is 

the target date for the opening of the Town 

and Country 2 here. The new auditorium 

will accommodate 650 viewers, whereas 

Town and Country 1 has 1,100 seats. 

"Rollerball" was produced and cirected 

bv Norman Jewi.son from a screenplay bv 

William Harrison. 

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United Artists' Love and Death." with 

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, opened 

in eight of Chicagoland's top theatres 

the Edens. Northbrook: Bremen. Tinley 

Park: Golf Mill. Niles; UA Marine, Marina 

City; UA Cinema. Oakbrook: Lake. Oak 

Park; Crossroads Cinema. Merrillville. 

and the Willow Creek. Palatine. 

Ind.. 

Elliott Slutzky, Allied Artisits Pictures 

Corp. branch manager, returned from the 

Indianapolis area where he set up a saturation 

break of "Superbug."' 

Ever since distributors started to move 

away from the old Filmrow area on South 

Wabash, migration to other locations has 

been taking place. The latest address change 

involves Columbia Pictures. Effective immediately. 

Columbia operations are at 8550 

West Bryn Mawr. Chicago. 111. 60631, telephone 

693-.350O. 

a holiday. This is the greatest vacation spot 

in the world any time but especially now, 

when temperatures consistently hover 

around the 90s . Lou Considine 

of Warner Bros, is having a Hawaiian vacation. 

"The Exorcist" returned Friday (8) for 

ajiother round and Friday (15) Warner Bros. 

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"Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze," opens 

saturation in this city and throughout the 

state of Illinois. 

Cassandra Pear of Avco Embassy is 

spending her vacation attending the American 

Handwriting Analysts convention . . . 

Judy Jones of Avco Embassy became Mrs. 

in 

the fall. 

Sincere good wishes to Paramount's Sandy 

Songaiio. who is recuperating from surgery 

at Holy Cross Hospital. Oak Lawn. 

Sam Seplowin's friends are pleased to 

notice that his retirement isn't keeping him 

too far away from a business in which he 

was involved for some 50 years. He now 

and then drops in at the S-K Film Co. 

offices and Sid Kaplan says he picks up 

With "The Groove Tube" still turning out 

substantial grosses. Levitt-Pickman is opening 

one of the company's newest attractions 

in Milwaukee territory drive-ins. The film many a tip even, though he is a veteran m 

is titled "Blazer Girls" and initial bookings his own right. 

came from the Mescop circuit headed by 

Fred Florence. The movie Ann Schultz has joined Buena Vista as 

is a fun-filled 

romping story about secretary to branch manager Virgil Jones. 

five finishing-sohool 

girls in a quest for romance. 

With Howco International's new release 

Warner Bros, branch manager Floyd 

"Winterhawk" breaking records in its Omaha 

and Denver showings, it is now set 

Brethour took his family to Switzerland for 

for 

a four-theatre presentation in Milwaukee 

starting Wednesday (20). Participating in 

this Midwest premiere are the Marcus circuit's 

Skyway and Esquire, as well as Capitol 

Services" Mill Road and Spring Mall 

theatres. S-K Film Co.. which represents 

Howco in the local and Milwaukee territories, 

is now working on October multiple 

openings and has enthusiastic support from 

major area circuits here. "Winterhawk" is 

a tale about a legendary Indian who inhabited 

the West many years before the first 

cowboy became a western symbol. 

Moe Dudelson. head of Dudelson Film 

Distributors, has started the ground work 

for uipcoming openings of "Return of the 

Street Fighter," a brand new karate movie 

Now for Something Completely 

Different," a Monty Python comedy, is 

having a test run at four area theatres—the 

Wilmette, Devon, Lake Shore and Hvde 

Park. 

During the month of July 1975 the censor 

board reviewed 31 films. There were no 

rejections. Ten Mexican movies made up 

the majority of foreign pictures. There also 

was a single Hindu-Indian, one Chinese 

and one Greek movie. 

Milton Levins, Avco Embassy branch 

manager, has two new films set for August 

openings— "Rassian Roulette," wiith George 

Segal, a detective story which has to do 

with Ihe slopping of an assassination, and 

"laicwcll. My Lovely," which also carries 

a ileteclive Iheme, with Ravmond Ch;indler 

Used Chair Mart, headed by 

Dave Schatz. is doing some chair work in 

a number of Brotman & Sherman theatres. 

Stuart Swanson, general manager of the 

McVickers Theatre in the Loop, announced 

that vaudeville acts once again will take 

place on the theatre's stage. The McVickers 

program will include one movie and six 

vaudeville acts with black talent. There will 

be three shows per day, with an extra midnight 

program Saturdays. The new format 

features Joe Simon, a rock singer, plus five 

Zazzetti. 

other acts, and started Friday (1). All seats 

will be priced at $4.50 for adults and $2.50 

Allan Drake told Tribune columnist Maggie 

Daly that he is delighted with Stirling 

for children . . . Wally Zajac, who has 

been associated with the McVickers managerial 

staff for many years, is off on a new 

Silliphant's movie script for "Winchell and 

Runyon," which is to go into preproduction 

venture—he joined the Schaumberg Village 

Fire Department. 

Suddenly and without any specific 

effort 

insofar as can be determined, there's an 

awareness here that women are in "high 

places" in the movie industry. A specific 

instance is Irene Litinsky of Cinefix. US.^. 

distributor of "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS," 

which has been a hit in Canada. Ms. Litinsky, 

who was named general sales manager, 

made a first trip here in this capacity. She 

conferred with Charles Teitel and Haywood 

Mitchusson about distribution of Cinepix 

product. .According to their deductions, her 

ability could result in top-ranking appointments 

for the ladies in other production 

companies. In fact, there is advance word 

that Cinema 5 is following suit with the 

appointments of Francis Spielman. 

AIP division manager Vic Bernstein and 

publicist Ed Russell have set up a multiple 

break of "Hennessy." with Rod Steiger and 

Lee Remick. There is an interesting aspect 

to this new AIP movie; some of the film 

footage, by happenstance only, shows Queen 

Elizabeth of England. It is said that the 

movie is being banned in England by order 

of the queen's legal counsel. AIP also will 

be launching another new movie for a statewide 

break starting Friday (29)— "Part 2 

Walking Tall." 

"Payday" is having a series of .screenings 

here at the Art Institute. The film was first 

released in 1973 but never has had wide 

release. The Film Center at the Art Institute 

procured a print for its summer festival. The 

film story tells of a dissipated singing star 

and it is described as a "movie that gives an 

inside look at the backstage life of a country-western 

singer." It also is said that the 

stor\' bears some tics to the life and death 

of Hank Williams. 

Albena Tetlianno, 20th Century-Fox biller, 

has been vacationing in Las Vegas . . . 

There is luck afloat among members of the 

movie industry. Bill Kenney. Plilt Theatres 

electrician, has $1..500 in the palm of his 

hand as a result of the Illinois lottery drawing. 

He is now eligible for $1 million in an 

upcoming grand drawing . . . Gloria De- 

Haven, starring in "George Washington 

Slept Here" at Pheasant Run Playhouse, was 

feled in honor of her 50th birthday . . . 

20lh Century-Fox hosled a special screening 

of "Lake a Hard Ride." an ouldoor action 

film chissified as a "classic weslcrn." 1 

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. . George 

. . "When 

was filmed in the Canary Islands and stars 

Jim Brown. Lee Van Cieef. Fred Williamson, 

Catherine Spaak. Jim Kelly. Barry Sullivan 

and Dana Andrews. 

Mitzie Haber, financial officer for Teitel 

Amusement Co., is recuperating at Edgewater 

Hospital following a heart attack. 

Reports on her recovery indicate that she 

will be able to resume her activities within 

a few weeks . . . Mrs. Esther Teitel set aside 

her wood-carving activities so she could 

carry on for Miss Haber. And another member 

of the Teitel family is taking a leave 

from her established routine: Diane, who 

has been teaching in Boston, is going to assist 

in the final editing of 'Between the 

Sheets." Roberta Teitel will be assisting from 

the sidelines but a new post with the Leo 

Burnett .Advertising Agency creative department 

will require some concentration. 

Monroe Theatre owner Eddie Jovan continues 

deep-sea fishing, one of his many 

hobbies. On his last expedition in Florida 

waters, he went after and caught some 

really big ones. 

Richard Stem of the Wilmette Theatre 

has been vacationing in upper Wisconsin. 

Richard's father Henry, an industry veteran 

who was supposed to have started retirement 

after operating the Cinema for many years, 

is still on the scene and is very active on the 

golf courses. Those who have seen him 

swing his clubs at Columbus Park say he 

looks 55 instead of 78 years of age. 

Bob Stockmar of United Artists is back 

from a vacation spent in the Wisconsin 

Dells . . . Loretta Wiorski of United Artists 

and her sister Pat Wie&newski. .American 

International Pictures, left .Sunday 00) for 

a week in Las Vegas. 

Russ Hutcheon of Plitt Theatres has been 

given the added responsibility of booking 

for the circuit's downstate Illinois theatres. 

Ed Gulberg, formerly manager of ihc 

Coronet TTieatre. has joined the booking 

department at Plitt Theatres. 

A number of exhibitors are awaiting 

Paramount's big fall film. "Three Days of 

the Condor." with Robert Redford and 

Fayc Dunaway. It will bow in theatres here 

in October. The film deals with CIA espi- 

. 

onage. Meanwhile. Paramount staffers are 

meeting heavy demands for two of the summer's 

top grosscrs, "Jacqueline Susann's 

Once Is Not Enough" and "The Day of 

. . the Ix)cust" Terri Porter was welcomed 

at Paramount Pictures as Milwaukee cash- 

The Varsity Theatre is advertising an adlission 

of SI at all times. 

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ST . 

LOUIS 

gev Miller of Mercury Films. Kansas City, 

has -set a saturation booking for "State 

Line Motel" in this territory starting 

Wednesday (20). Mercury's "The Happy 

Hooker" still is doing good business at 

4 Seasons. Paddock and South City 1. 

"The Drowning Pool" opened Wednesday 

(6) at the Crcstwood. Village and Manchester. 

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, 

stars of the film, were recipients of the annual 

tribute of the Film Society of Lincoln 

Center at Avery Hall, New York City. Only 

Charlie Chaplin. Fred Astaire and Alfred 

Hitchcock have been similarly honored. An 

audience of 2.700 viewed a specially produced 

film highlighting scenes from motion 

pictures in which Newman and Miss Woodward 

have starred, from their earliest features 

to this latest release . . . Gail Strickland, 

who shares the "drowning pool" sequence 

with Newman, was in town on a 

promotion tour and revealed that she 

stripped to a bikini to get her role in the 

film. She said that Paul Newman wants 

everyone to have a good time on the set, 

so when the scene was over. "I was shriveled 

but happily shriveled." The picture marks 

Miss Strickland's film debut. Her previous 

experience has been in TV soap operas, 

commercials and on Broadway and off- 

Broadway stages. 

"The Fortune," starring Warren Beatty 

and Jack Nicholson, is current at Cross 

Keys, Northland, Sunset Hills and Westport 

Cine. Stockard Channing. who co-stars 

in the film, met producer Mike Nichols for 

the first time when she read for the part 

with the two male stars. She has received 

good reviews as a new comedienne and has 

been signed to play the title role in Metro- 

Goldwyn-Mayer's upcoming "The All-American 

Girl." 

Earlier days in this city are recalled in a 

scries being screened at 2 p.m. Tuesdays in 

the Compton Branch Library, 1624 Locust 

St. Two hundred years of St. Louis history 

will be scanned Tuesday (12) in "1764- 

1974." "A Missouri Calendar" Tuesday (19) 

will present Missouri attractions through 

four seasons, along with "A St. Louis Masterpiece: 

The Cathedral Mosaics." Three 

movies Tuesday (26) will provide views of 

Missouri state parks . 

Television 

Was Live," a series featuring film clips belonging 

to narrators Peter Lind Hayes and 

his wife Mary Healy. will be telecast at 

7 p.m. Tuesday (12) and each Tuesday night 

thereafter. Personalities of the '50s are featured. 

"Billy Jack" and "The Trial of Billy Jack" 

arc coupled in a multiple at 1 1 area theatres 

. . . "Bucktown." with Fred Williamson 

ind Pam Grier. is doing good business at the 

Arthur's Fox and U City Cinema . . . "Funny 

Lady" has moved to Shady Oak where it 

follows a six-week run of "The Day of the 

I Dcust" . Segal stars In "Russian 

Koulcllc." Avco Embassy release, at Cypress 

Village, Des Pere 4, Jamestown Mall and 

Lewis & Clark. 

July 21 the wife of Roger Chinnici, district 

manager of Mid-America Theatres, 

gave birth to daughter Jennifer Rose. In a 

switch, a shower was given for Chinnici by 

the entire office crew at the 9900 Page Blvd. 

headquarters. Helen Brown, who originated 

the idea, was assisted by Millie Zais, Dorothy 

Belew, Joanne Druley, Doris Mattli, 

Jackie Lotz, Denise McDonald, Linda Polizzi, 

Linda Janssen and supervisor Robert 

Stanze. Cake and ice cream were served 

while the proud father opened his 

gifts. 

A film on assertive training for women, 

"Back to School—Back to Work." produced 

by public TV station KETC-TV (Channel 9) 

will receive the top award in the 1975 competition 

sponsored by the National Council 

on Family Relations of Minneapolis at the 

annual convention of the council at Salt 

Lake City Thursday (21). Producer-director 

Peter Breta. in charge of production on the 

winning film, won a blue ribbon at the 1974 

American Film Festival for his "Someone 

Special." 

Dick Ford, of KSD-TV. Channel 5, 

paid 

tribute to Joe Schirmer. St. Louis' "King of 

the Banjo," who suffered a fatal stroke on 

stage as he played a medley of ragtime music 

for an appreciative audience aboard ship in 

the Caribbean June 29. Schirmer. 59, played 

for years at the Steeplechase Lounge in the 

Chase-Park Plaza Hotel and was signed by 

Arthur Godfrey to appear on his "Spectacular 

Minstrel Show" on TV in 1958. He 

had worked for the Royal Caribbean Cruise 

Line for the last three years. In addition 

to his wife Ethel Mae. he is survived by his 

son Perry and a daughter. Mrs. Sharon Watson 

of Chesterfield. 

Stash's, new nighter>' at Stan Musial & 

Biggie's Airport Hilton Inn, is showing films 

every day, 5 to 8 p.m., highlighting 50 

years of baseball, including specials on All- 

Star Games and the World Series. 

MGlVTs toveable "Tom and Jerry" cartoons, 

which have been out of production 

1 8 years, will be coming back soon on TV, 

Hanna-Barbera will make 48 new episodes 

of their adventures for ABC. 

Norman Delaney, who recently became 

director of special projects for 20th Century- 

Fox in New York, began his industry career 

here in 1959 as manager of the now defunct 

Norside Theatre. Three years later he joined 

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HAWAII TOO. 

When you come to W.îkik 

Uij^wji don't miss the famous 

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yhe Women of Variety Tent 8 arc now camp out with their children Ted and Lisa. 

selling tickets for their first gala affair, 

Gaye reported she was looking forward to 

a picnic, which will take place Sunday peace, quiet and the wind in the pines. 

(17) at Comanche Park in Overland Park, 

Jerry Jones, American International 

Kas. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2.50 

booker, returned from a weekend triip to 

for children. All proceeds will be going to 

the Crippled Children's Nursery School. 

The picnic will begin at 12:30 p.m. and 

run until 5 with games and prizes. Catered 

refreshments, including ham. beef, assorted 

cold cuts, cheeses, breads and beverages, 

will be provided. To reserve your tickets for 

the whole family, call Melanie at 474-6150 

or contact your local Variety girl. 

The WOMPI Club has selected 

the delegates 

and alternates who will attend the 

WOMPI International convention in Chicago 

in September. Chosen are: JoAnn 

Weaver (Warner Bros.) and Fran Frame 

(AMC), delegates; Nadine Evans (AMC), 

first alternate, and Ruby Shultz (Commonwealth), 

second alternate. 

Twentieth Century-Fox moved into its 

new offices in the renovated VFW Building 

Thursday (7), thus marking the passing of 

another major film office from Kan.sas 

City's downtown Filmrow. New address of 

20th-Fox is: 406 West 34th St.. Kansas City, 

Mo. The new telephone number is: (816) 

531-6211, 6212 or 6213. John Catanzaro. 

20th-Fox division manager beadquartered 

in Los Angeles, was in Kansas City to visit 

the 

office. 

Chris Lynch, manager of the Dickiimson 

circuit's Park Cinema in Overland Park, 

Kas., and assistant to Kent Dickinson, is on 

vacation in Colorado with his wife. Vern 

.Schaliehn, head of the Dickinson accounting 

department, also is in Colorado taking 

it easy with wife Nancy and their two children. 

Rex Hansen of Hansen & Associates, 

headquartered in Princeton, 111., was m Kansas 

City last week to meet with Steve Durb:n, 

president of United National Films, 

and to discuss his newest release, "Satan's 

Children." 

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Colorado Rocky Mountain National Park. 

Jerry, his brother Joe and two others made 

their annual ascent of Long's Peak, the 

highest mountain in the Park. Jerry reports 

the weather was surprisingly clear, with 

that 

none of the usual "surprise" afternoon 

storms. The group—none of whom are 

under six feet tall—made the trip in a 

Plymouth sport Trans Am. Jerry says they 

had one or two "tight" situations. 

Carol Alt, secretary to Richard Durwood, 

American Multi Cinema senior vice-president, 

reports that she has had a further 

misadventure following the "towering tornado" 

affair earlier this summer. On a quiet 

Suinday, July 6, Carol and her nine-year-old 

son Greg were heading downtown in her 

1971 Fiat when their car was struck by a 

lady running a red light. Fortunately no 

one was seriously hurt but Carol's car was 

a total loss (and, she relates ruefully, she 

had just purchased four brand new tires). 

The story has a happy ending, for Carol 

now can be seen driving about in a Triumph 

Spitfire. 

G.W. "Nick" Carter, manager of the 

Cooper circuit's Dodge Theatre, Dodge 

City, Kas., had the honor of serving as 

parade marshal for the Dodge City Days 

celebration July 17. He is very adept at 

rope twirling and rope tricks and was recently 

asked by Monte Montana to come 

to the Calgary festivities to perform with 

such celebrities as Gene Autry, Rex Allen 

and other western stars. Unfortunately he 

was unable to attend. Carter has been in the 

theatre business 50 years, working for the 

National General and Mann circuits before 

joining Cooper Theatres. 

Bev Miller, Mercury Film, reports that 

he has a new associate in his office. Her 

name is "Mabel" and Miller is forced to 

admit that she is a plastic sort of person: 

Doug IJghtner, vice-president and general 

manager of Commonwealth Theatres, 

wife Mary and son^ Dave were on a 17-day 

trip to Los Angeles, Phoenix, Albuquerque 

and Las Vegas. They visited Doug jr., wife 

,nul two daughters in Carlsbad, where he is 

cily manager for Conmionweallh. Visits 

;ilso mkIikIciI liisnevlaiKl ami OklaluMn.i 

City to see relatives. 

Ruby Shultz, Lightner's 

secretary, returned last week with her husband 

from a vacation at Pomme de Terre. 

Screenings at Commonwealth: "Undercovers 

Hero" (UA), Tuesday afternoon 

(5); "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" 

(Dimsnsion), distributed by Mercury Film. 

Thursday afternoon (7); "Coonskin" (Bryanston), 

Friday afternoon (8) . . . At Guy- 

Con: "Brother. Can You Spare a Dime? 

(Dimension), Monday evening (4). 

Warner Bros, held a luncheon, followed 

by a screening of "Dog Day Afternoon," 

starring Al Pacino, Wednesday (6) at the 

Fine Arts Theatre. 

Tom Edwards, former owner and operator 

of the Corral Drive-In and Ozark Theatre 

in Eldon, dropped by the Universal 

branch and had lunch with branch manager 

Ray McKitrick, Bob Johns, St. Louis 

manager, and Rube Finkelstein, veteran exhibitor. 

Edwards is now retired from the 

business and living in Florida. 

Linda Amacher, daughter of Ralph 

Amacher of United National Films, has 

joined the Dickinson Theatres booking department. 

The Dickinson circuit reports it is quite 

pleased with the healthy grosses so far 

shown by Paramount's "Nashville," which 

currently is playing at the Glenwood Theatre. 

John King, Universal shipper, was fishing 

in Kansas last week . Pictures 

has a new employee. She is Rose Marie 

Cutting, a general clerk, who formerly was 

with 

Columbia Pictures. 

Bob Maddex, Garnett. Kas., was among 

Filmrow visitors. 

ST. 

LOUIS 

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in this area and in 1965 was transferred 

to San Francisco. In 1968 he became 

assistant to Marvin Levy, Cinerama Re- 

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Earl Perry Sr. Is 

Tent 45 Chief Barker 

NEW ORIJiANS— luirl l'crr> sr.. president 

of Oydcn-Pcrrv Theatres, h.is hcjii 

elected chief barker of Tent 45. Variety 

Club.s 

International. 

His election follows the recent death of 

past chief barker Eugene T. Calongne. The 

election took place July 29 at club headquarters 

in the Andrew Jack.son Restaurant, 

which was owned by Calongne. 

Perry had served as proiperty master before 

his nomination to the club's highest 

position. Tent 45 ha,s been involved in providing 

funds for the Bright School for the 

Deaf, the Burn Center at Charity Hospital 

and other children's charities. 

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Record 2nd-Quarter Sales, 

Earnings for Wometco 

MIAMI — Wometco Enterprises announced 

per-share earnings, net income and 

sales rose to record highs in the second 

quarter and first fiscal half of 1975, ended 

June 14. 

Primary per-share earnings in the latest 

quarter climbed 45 per cent to a record 

52.7 cents, compared to 36.3 cents last 

year, while net income rose 40 per cent 

to a record $3,039,000 from $2,173,000 

a year ago. 

Wometco president Mitchell Wolfson 

noted, however, that net income and earnings 

per-share figures include an after-tax 

gain of $414,000, or 7.2 cents per share, 

resulting principally from the sale of Channel 

12 of Jacksonville, Inc. "Even without 

this gain, second-quarter per-share earnings 

would have reached a new high of 45.4 

cents, a 25 per cent increase, and net income 

would have been up 21 per cent to 

$2,625,000," he said. 

Sales in the quarter rose 10 per cent to 

$40,177,000 from $36,645,000 registered in 

the similar 1974 period. 

In the fiscal half-year or 24-week period, 

primary per-share earnings moved up 35 

per cent to a record 82.8 cents from 61.2 

cents last year, while net income rose 30 

per cent to $4,782,000 against $3,675,000 

in 1974. 

Sales in the fiscal half-year reached $76,- 

545,000 from $69,709,000 last year, a 10 

per cent increase. 

Motion picture boxoffice receipts in the 

company's Florida and Caribbean markets 

remained about even with last year's record 

level. 

Primary per-share earnings are based on 

5,775,000, the average number of shares 

outstanding during the period, and 6,009.- 

000, the average number of shares for the 

comparable period of 1974. 

Wayne Visits Illinois 

From Central Edition 

SPRINGFIELD, ILL,—John Wayne and 

six 

business associates recently visited southern 

Illinois coal fields seeking a site for a 

coal gasification plant they intend to operate 

as a private enterprise.

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ATLANTA 

Jt's a little early for Oscar talk, but Atlantans, 

after seeing "Nashville."' arc talking 

about the performance of Lily Tomlin, 

making what must be considered her 

motion picture debut, and Barbara Harris, 

who has all manner of awards for her sitage 

work. She has not made too many movies, 

but was nominated for an Oscar as best 

supporting actress in "Harry Kellerman." 

Atlantans are very much interested in 

the 

casting for "Lombard and Gable." Latest 

signing involved Morgan Brittany, a model 

chosen to play Vivien Leigh in the picture. 

It is a cameo role and her big scene is one 

in which Clark Gable (James Brolin) escorts 

her to the Coconut Grove night club during 

the filming of "Gone With the Wind." 

"Franny and Zooey," a play scheduled ai 

the Trinity Presbyterian Church for July 24, 

was canceled when the representatives of 

J.D. Salinger, author of the story upon 

which the play was based, "closed the door" 

on the production, according to Jim Peck, 

the play's director. Salinger does not grant 

rights for adaiptations of his work. Peck and 

Kent Stephens, who wrote the script, had 

hoped the small, nonprofit production 

would not be noticed. Turns out they were 

wrong. 

Georgia's Board of Natural Resources has 

issued a list of some 35 (out of 85) stateowned 

parks and historic sites that are to be 

closed as the result of slumping state revenues. 

This was an economy move aimed at 

saving $454,000 and eliminating 28 jobs. 

The bulk of these to be closed are "substandard, 

marginal" parks and sites 

the state 

should give up in order to save money. It 

is hoped that these locally oriented areas 

will be picked up and operated by local 

governments. 

Shirley Jones was in Atlanta recently. 

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Starring in a revival of "On a Clear Day 

You Can See Forever," a tour which followed 

her dramatic tperformancc in the title 

role of "The Lives of Jennie Dolan." the 

vehicle which marks producer Ross Hunter's 

initial venture into TV. This two-hour special 

was so special that both Paramount and 

the National Broadcasting Co. network 

withheld it from the end of the season runof-the-mill 

fare and reruns in order to spotlight 

it as one of its prestige fall film offer- 

WXIA-TV, Combined Communications 

Corp.'s Atlanta ABC-TV outlet, staged its 

"Blast Off" fall presentation to 400 guests 

at the Royal Coach Motor Hotel im. the 

Castle Ballroom last month and put plenty 

of stress on the film fare they will offer 

during the season, along with other goodies 

they will schedule. Their Sunday Night 

Movie slot will include "The Sound of Music." 

"Cabaret," "The Last Detail." "Five 

Easy Pieces." "What's Up. Doc?" "You 

Only Live Twice" and others. The Friday 9 

O'clock Movie will offer "Down Hill Racer," 

"Bullitt," "Bonnie and Clyde." "Cool 

Hand Luke." "Number One" and others. 

Showing on the Saturday 11:30 p.m. Late 

Movie will be "The Organization." "Welcome 

to Hard Times." "The Brotherhood." 

"Five Card Stud." "Villa Rides." "Will 

Penny" and others. The network's Prize 

Movie, with its weekly prize format, moves 

to the 10 a.m. slot Monday/Friday and 

brings a new package of films, such as 

Susan Hayward Week, Mystery-Sus(pen,se 

Week, Romance Week and Musical Comedy 

Week. And. last, hut not least, the Sunday 

Matinee offers exciting features such 

as "Those Daring Young Men in Their 

Jaunty Jalopies." "Call Me Bwana," "Love 

Is a Ball," "Can Can," and "Up the Down 

Staircase." 

This year 1975 marks the 20th anniversary 

of Kirk Douglas' film company, Bryna 

Productions, which he organized so he could 

keep more creative control over his films. 

(Bryna was named after his Russian mother.) 

Douglas claims he has always been interested 

in the creative side of filmmaking 

from inception to completion. It was not 

until he made "Scalawag" that he got around 

to directing, although he spent a lot of lime 

peering over directors' shoulders. In town 

to promote his latest film "Posse," in which 

he stars, directs and produces, he told how 

he long wanted to film a "different" version 

of a western. He found what he was after 

in "Posse," which had been languishing on 

the "abandoned" shelf at Paramount Pictures. 

He doesn't think "Pos.se" could have 

shal he plays. With more than 50 films to 

his credit, Douglas has run the acting gamut 

from hero to villain and just about every 

shade in between. What's he going to do 

after "Posse" is on the road? "I'm going to 

take about six months off and do absolutely 

nothing." 

'Godfather' Combo for TV 

Upsets Theatre Reviewer 

ATLANTA—Scott Cain, movie reviewer 

for the Atlanta Journal and writer for the 

Sunday Journal, is highly indignant over 

Francis Ford Coppola's plani to merge "The 

Godfather" and "The Godfather, Part 11" 

into a new film. 

Cain, writing in the Journal, said he has 

no quarrel, per se, with the project but he is 

infuriated over the fact that Coppola is 

doing it directly for TV. 

"This has to be one of the worst insults 

to moviegoers, who made the first 'Godfather' 

the biggest boxoffice movie of all 

time and put 'The Godfather, Part 11' among 

the highest in coinage . . . It's also turning 

the back on the movie industry, which rewarded 

both "Godfather' movies with Oscars 

as the best of their years, the first time 

Hollywood has bestowed its top prize on 

both an original film and a sequel," he 

said. 

" "The Godfather' was created as a motion 

picture work. If Coppola wants to continue 

tinkering with his already notable achievement, 

that's entirely his prerogative. CertaiiOily 

there's plenty of money to do anything 

his heart desires. Everybody connected 

with 'The Godfather' has made {Wts 

and pans," added Cain, "but if Coppola is 

bringing forth a substantially different film, 

the moviegoing public is owed a first look." 

This creation of a mammoth Corleone 

story, using footage not incorporated into 

is the originals, the fulfillment of a dream 

that Coppola has mentioned a number of 

times. Cain noted, but "unfortunately he is 

doing it directly for TV for one of those 

multi-million dollar deals . . . not even a 

test engagement in theatres. No prestigious 

show dates in key cities. Just sitraight to the 

lube, perhaps as early as next year." 

Apollo Theatre Raided 

SPRINCiDAl.H. ARK..—Two men were 

chargL-il late last month with exhibiting an 

cbscene film here at the ,\pollo Theatre, 

Authorities viewed the film and then raided 

the theatres, arresting owner J.T. Hitt. Bentcinville. 

and projectionist Boyd Strickland. 

Both were released on $2,500 bond after 

pleading innocent to the charges rvlated to 

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'SuperVixens' Billboards 

CHARLOTTE. N.C.— Billboards promoting 

the Russ Meyer movie "SuperVixens" 

which show a bosomy woman have 

been defaced by a pair of anonymous feminists. 

Four of the 20 billboards around town 

were painted over with "This offends 

women" by two women who said the signs 

are "sexist" and depict women solely as 

sex objects. 

"We did it because we feel that those 

signs are blatantly sexist and exploiting 

women and offending women," said one of 

the women, who refused to identify herself. 

"People are going to make money off 

that movie, off those billboards. Ifs the 

height of making woman a sex object and 

we felt it can"t go unchallenged." 

The signs show a grinining. pigtailed 

\oung woman with a healthy portion of 

cleavage. The signs read "SuperVi.xens . 

too much for one movie." 

When the billboards appeared in Raleigh 

early this summer. Lamar Dean Outdoor 

Advertising Co. received such an outpouring 

of complaints from persons who were 

offended by the woman's picture, that they 

were removed almost immediately. 

The women defaced the Charlotte billboards 

by using spray paint. They said they 

used stepladders to reach the signs they 

could, but complained that many of them 

were out of reach. 

Painting over the signs was "a political 

act ... I wasn't reveling iin vandalism." 

said one of the women. 

Richard Troy, general manager of the 

company which put up the signs, said "It's 

the work of someone with complete disregard 

for property." He said the defaced 

signs would be replaced. 

CHARLOTTE 

John R. McClure and family, Charlotte 

Booking, are vacationing at JeckyI Island. 

Milt Lindner, National Screen, made 

a swing through the mountains of North 

Carolina, including Ashevillc, Wayncsvillc, 

Hcndersonville. Brevard, and Spartanburg, 

S.C. 

New films were "Nashville" at Charlottelown 

Mall; "Janis" at Visualite; "Rolicrball" 

at Park Terrace; and "Love and Death" at 

the Manor. 

Top grosses of the week: "Jaws." the 

leader, followed by "The Return of the Pink 

Panther." "The Apple Dumpling Gang," and 

Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough." 

.4nslej' Mays, International Amusement 

Co., and her husband spent the weekend 

at Hilton Head Island, S.C. . . . Vacationing 

from 20th Century-Fox is Doris Ducker 

who is enjoying a trip to Colorado . . . 

Wedding bells will be ringing at the Charles 

Jones home on Lake Norman the last week 

in .'\ugust. Our best wishes to Louann and 

her fiance Rick High. 

Recent 20th Century-Fox screenings at 

EiLslem Federal screening room are "The 

Dragon Flies" and "Take a Hard Ride" 

. . . Exhibitors visiting on Filmrow included: 

Jack Fuller of Columbia, S.C; Harry 

Osteen of Easley. S.C; Rudy Howell, Howell 

Theatres, Inc.. of Smithfield; Phil Nance 

of Raleigh; and Bill Hendrix of Reidsville 

. . . Joe Johnson, Consolidated Theatres, 

underwent back surgery July 17. Best wishes 

for a speedy recovery, Joe. 

Sympathy is extended to Ronnie Goldstein 

of Eastern Federal Theatres on the recent 

death of his father. 

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"Seven Alone" has attracted a 60-40 ratio 

of adults and children in grossing $5.'>5,617 

in a three-week run in North and South 

Carolina market areas. 

Dick Nash, vice-president of Doty-Dayton 

Distribution, said the audience breakdown 

was provided by John Huff, vice-president 

and general manager of ABC Southeastern 

Theatres. Charlotte division. Huff reported 

that "Seven Alone" is considered "an excellent 

project picture" for his company. It is 

"drawing good crowds, good-to-excellent 

house grosses and has a positive moral 

aspect." 

William Goldman wrote the screenplay 

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Earl Owensby Determined to Expand 

Filmmaking Industry in 

SHELBY, N.C.—The roar of the race 

track, the smell of the grease paint— those 

are the images guiding Earl Owensby's 

senses as a moviemaker here. 

For Owensby, an industrialist-tumed-filmmaker, 

is determined to put North Carolina 

on the map as a place to make films, with 

his product in the foreground. To do that 

he has turned to racecar driving, a dangerous 

occupation for those not acquainted 

with 70 mph leaps off ramps or stunt 

crashes into burning buildings. 

Owensby is determined, however, to 

.prove that filmmaking can be a big industry 

here, as a Charlotte Observer reporter 

discovered recently during an interview with 

the young, forward-looking producer and 

star. 

Parts of the interview by Wayne Nicholas 

follow; 

Earl Owensby. an industrialist-turnedmoviemaker, 

likes to retell Russell Conwell's 

lecture, entitled "Acres of Diamonds." in 

which a man sold his farm, left his family, 

and went on a futile search around the 

world for diamonds. 

Finally, the man, finding nothing, committed 

suicide. But the man who bought his 

farm simply walked out to the fountain in 

the back yard and spotted a fabulous diamond. 

Later he found out the whole farm 

was sitting on top of one of the world's 

greatest diamond mines. 

"That's what I hope to do," Owensby, the 

soft-spoken multimillianaire. says. 

The Diamond in Owensby's 44-acre back 

yard—a sparkling new movie studio complex—has 

its own kind of glitter. The swank 

complex includes a blue-carpeted office 

building, a two-story, A-frame house that 

serves as a combination guesthouse, screening 

room and modern studio. 

Owensby hopes it's just the beginning. 

The 39-year-old moviemaker spent his 

schoolboy days living with his adoptive 

parents in the Rutherford County mill village 

of Cliffside, where his afternoon and 

Carolinas 

evening hours were spent running the projector, 

popping corn, taking tickets and 

cleaning up at the local theatre. 

Then one morning a little over two years 

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Ivan Tors Finishes Film 

About Endangered Nomads 

MIAMI— Is it possible to film a true 

tried. So far the producer-director's picture 

"March of the Desert" hasn't been sold to 

a distributor or network. 

Tors, producer of 30 feature lilms and 

720 TV episodes, including "Flipper" and 

"Gentle Ben" in Miami, suspects audiences 

are more sympathetic to endangered animals 

than people. 

"March of the Desert" is about an endangered 

people: the nomadic Gabras. Tors 

spent seven months traveling with them on 

the southern border of the brutal Sahara 

Desert. 

"The southern Sahara is so unknown most 

civilizations know nothing of the Gabras 

and other tribes. The Gabras them.selvcs 

don"t even know what continent they are 

on . . . they live from day to day . . . not 

thinking about tomorrow. For me it was 

an e.Niperiment in filmmaking," Tors explained. 

An international cast, including two 

Americans, arc featured in the simple screenplay 

involving a group of people hopi.ng to 

bring a new way of life to the Gabras. They 

build a windmill to persuade the nomadic 

tribe to stay in one place. 

However, the search for water was continuous, 

with the tribe covering as much as 

30 miles a day. 

"We couldn't have lasted half a day without 

our own water supply. We had to drink 

liquids every half hour to combat dehydration. 

The Gabras could go all day if they 

had to." Tors said. 

The Gabras are truly a free and independent 

people. Tors said, who will never 

stop their nomadic ways for one strange 

reason—women's lib. 

"Women of the tribe are equal in every 

way to the men. If they settle down and 

build a mosque, then they will lose their 

freedom and be forced to accept Purdah, 

abiding by Moslem religiou.s law. Very restrictive 

to women." 

Though Tors knows an audience would 

rather watch screen comedies, he believes 

his movie is important. "Perhaps the Gabras 

can be .saved." 

Storer Plans Public Sale 

Of Warrants for Airline 

ATLANTA — Storer Broadcasting Co., 

which owns CATV and radio interests, has 

plans to offer publicly warrants to purchase 

-•iOCOOO shares of Delta Air Lines common 

at 

$48 each. 

Storer acquired the Delta warrant in 1972 

and it earlier this year sold about 450,000 established his know-how a long time ago 

shares of Delta common stock at an average in mastering great iprojects," remarks Paul 

price of about $32 a share. The stock had Bruun in a recent Suni Reporter column. 

been entered on Storer's books in 1972 at "It is to Miami's credit that a man like 

S4I a share. 

Colonel Wolfson has been designated for 

Lehman Brothers has been named to this great civic enterprise as he knows best 

handle the sale, expected in early .Septem- 

what the entertainment business in Florida 

ber, the Wall Street Journal reported. 

MIAMI 

Qvemight, reports in the papers indicate, 

story about a life-or death struggle for 

human survival and come np with an entertaining 

fictional movie? 

changed from Black Thursday to Miracle 

the Miami filmmaking industry 

Former Miami resident Ivan Tors has Friday. Everything had gone badly at a 

Miami City Commission meeting Thursday. 

July 31. when "Black Sunday" producer 

Bob Rosen attempted to explain his film 

project to the city leaders. City Manager 

Paul Andrews, a mo.st emphatic opponent, 

did everything but haul the filmmakers off 

to the pokey. Then, something crazy hapipened. 

Friday (1) when Ro.scn returned to 

see Andrews and Police Chief Garland 

Watkins. a quick huddle ensued and out 

popped Rosen, smiling. "We're getting complete 

cooperation." Andrews also emerged, 

siniling and saying, "We've been given permission 

to proceed . . . it's going to be a 

good film ... the city will do everything it 

can to make sure this is a complete success." 

Rosen had been hours away from choosing 

New York (where the president of the 

Jets was pressuring him to come) or New 

Orleans (which thought it had the film in 

hand). But why all the fuss in the first 

iplace? Well, it seems the city commissioners 

were worried that someone might "get the 

wrong idea" about a movie on Arab terrorists 

in Miami. Fortunately, that misplaced 

fear seems to have been dispelled. 

Floyd Mutrux, writer-director of ""Aloha. 

Bobby and Rose." arrived in town, emotionally 

limp and miserable. It seems advance 

p.r. reps scheduled ads for his film 

one week after it opened in New Orleans. 

not in advance . . . Mutrux describes his 

modest hit of a film as a ""non-linear movie." 

then adds, ""No! I made a McDonald's 

poem, one for the McDonald's crowd!" 

Miamians Sonja and Harry Zuckerman 

are injecting plenty of dough into ""Vigilante 

Force." which should hit screens early 

in 1975. The Zuckermans were guests at a 

gala dinner party given for them and the 

film crew recently at the Bistro by Mimi 

Harris. Mrs. Harris, who owned the old 

Beverly Hills Club and is in on the film 

also, was guest of the Zuckermans here 

during her stay at the Jockey Club last winter. 

Also attending the society event were 

stars Kris Kristoffenson. wife Rita Collidge. 

Mrs. Robert Prescott, Bo Svenson of '"Part 

2 Walking Tall." financier-industrialist Al 

Lapin jr. and wife, and 20th Century-Fox 

executive vice-president Bill Immcrman. 

Gusnian Hall, the gift of Maurice Gusman, 

is attracting plenty of attention to the 

city. Mayor Maurice Ferre and Col. Mitchell 

Wolfson, head of Wometco and the 

Miami Off-Strcet Parking Authority, promise 

it will be well used. ""Colonel Wolfson 

is ;ill about." 

Film slar Anthony Quinn. cooling off in 

a Key West hotel after the abortive pre- 

Broadway tryout of "The Red Devil Battery 

Sign," confided to a reporter that the Tennessee 

Will'ams play still might see action 

this year in New York despite publicized 

disputes. Quinn was staying on the island 

while the author worked on a new draft 

of his play. 

"Deep Throat" really scorched .some 

ground here last month as several copies of 

the Linda Lovelace film went up in smoke. 

.Also burned by the state's pro.secutors were 

eight or nine ca.ses of the magazine ""Hell's 

Bedroom." The films and magazines had 

been seized over the last two years in raids 

on adult bookstores. The state arranged for 

a mass disposition of 117 cases, with most 

of those arrested agreeing to plead guihy to 

misdemeanors. 

David Vassar Film Slated 

For General Distribution 

W.'\SHINGTON—The Festival of American 

Folklife. co-presented by the Smithsonian 

Institution and the National Park 

Service, has become an annual event on 

the mall here co-spwnsored by .American 

and Genera! Foods Corp. The most 

.Airlines 

recent presentation was photographed in 

16mm and is being made into a 30-minute 

documentary. 

The motion picture, photographed in 

color and .sound, was directed by David 

Vassar of the National Park Service with 

a crew of 15. according to Smithsonian division 

of performing arts public relations 

director Susanne Roschwalb. Vassar. whose 

film '"Replenish the Earth" was a prize winner 

at the 1974 Chicago International Film 

Festival, is the son of Elena Vassar of 20th 

Century-Fox. 

Upon completion, the documentary will 

be available free of charge for screenings 

throughout the U.S. to interest American 

Bicentennial visitors in the nation's capital 

city. 

A. S. Caaky. local young filmmaker, assisted 

in the cinematic project. 

'White Line Fever' Scores 

SAN FRANCISCO—'White Line Fever." 

from Columbia Pictures, is off and 

rolling in its premiere engagements in northern 

California. The new action drama 

grossed a blockbuster $31,867 in its opening 

day at 41 theatres in the San Francisco area. 

Jane .Seymour will co-star in "Sinbad and 

the Eye of the Tiger." 

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JACKSONVILLE 

Jacksonville's Filmrow gives its Salute of 

the Week to Marvin Doris of Atlanta 

who retired as manager of the Clark Film 

Releasing Co.'s busy branch office August 

(1) after 43 years serving the film industry 

in Atlanta. His retirement was prompted by 

health problems encountered by his wife 

and other family members. Previously. Marvin 

had been Atlanta branch manager for 

20th Century-Fox and also an e.\hibitor 

executive with Georgia theatres. Belton 

Clark, Clark's home office manager in Jacksonville, 

said, "We feel Marvin Doris is irraplaceable 

because of his ability and great 

experience in the industry. We will miss him 

for a long, long time." The Atlanta Clark 

office presently is run by staff members 

Kim Petree and Doris Lewis. 

Ernie Pelegrin, Columbia office manager 

and head booker, and Mrs. Pelegrin, vacationed 

with friends and relatives in their 

old hometown of New Orleans . . . Mary 

Hart. WOMPl leader at ABC Florida State 

Theatres, and husband John Hart, returned 

from a 25-day European tour where they 

visited their son-in-law and daughter, Sgt. 

James Brock and Pat. and their two grandchildren 

Chris and Mary Beth at Stuttgart, 

West Germany. The Harts also took an 

auto tour through Heidelburg, Salzburg, 

Vienna, Monaco, Switzerland and Italy. 

Keith iVIiller, Jacksonville's newest motion 

picture exhibitor who opened the Village 

Cinema I Theatre in suburban Orange 

Park a few months ago, has opened its companion 

Village Cinema II Theatre. This 

gives him two screens for product 

first-run 

and a total seating capacity of 550. Despite 

loss of advertising benefits (when his theatres 

have been omitted from co-operative 

newspaper ads). Keith said his patronage 

has firmed up since opening. He is generally 

pleased with cooperation from the exhibitors 

and distributors of Jacksonville's Filmrow 

to an industry newcomer. He surmised his 

present first-run policies may be forced to 

change when at Eastertime '76 .-American 

Multi Cinema opens an expected complex 

of five theatre .screens in a new Orange 

Park shopping center. Plus there is the possibility 

ABC FST may build a deluxe dualer 

for a piece of the fast-growing Orange Park 

market. 

Dick Bussard, Jacksonville Journal city 

editor, is a devoted old-movie buff. He exceled 

in a recent issue with a lengthy biographical 

sketch covering the many-faceted 

career of Merien C. Cooper of Jacksonville, 

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in World War II. The thrust of Bussard's 

article, however, was describing Cooper's 

creation of the classic gorilla monster in the 

movie "King Kong." which he produced 

for David Selznick of RKO. Another Cooper 

accomplishment was the development of 

Cinerama with writer Lowell Thomas. 

Wendy's, an eatery chain with several 

local restaurants, jumped into the rriovie 

business by promoting a Saturday morning 

Children's Theatre at three units of Kent 

Theatres: the Neptune, St. Johns and Plaza 

theatres. The time-honored standby "Chitty 

Chitty Bang Bang" was featured with plenty 

of footage for concession breaks. Wendy's 

personnel handed out free tickets to all kids. 

Art Castner, ABC FST Edgewood Theatre 

manager, found himself up to his ears 

in Disney films; he had an early evening 

sneak preview of "Treasure Island" and 

"Dr. Syn, Alias 'The Scarecrow' " during his 

run of "The Apple Dumpling Gang." 

The recent Jacksonville marriage of 

Ralph Puckhaber, local ABC FST home 

office advertising e.xeeutive. to Madeline 

White was elevated from social to news 

status by Miami newspapers. His advertising 

career was Miami-based before his Jacksonville 

promotion several years ago. He was 

well known to theatre people and the South 

Florida metropolis. Ralph was a widower 

with five children. Madeline has two grown 

sons by a former marriage. 

Bender A. "Dock" Cawthon ran "Blood 

for Dracula," a Bryanston release, as the 

only advance weekly screening scheduled 

for the ABC FST Pj-eview Theatre by Vivian 

Ganos. 

The Jacksonville free public library system 

has begun ipublication of a monthly 

bulletin giving resumes of main and branch 

libraries' classic screen attractions . . . 

Sheldon Mandeli, co-owner of the Five 

Points Theatre, has jumped into the swim 

with his opposition by offering patrons a 

reduced $1.25 ticket for the first summer 

weekday matinee performances. 

Following in the "free publicity" footsteps 

of "Jaws." "Rollerball" picked up speed 

here with a provocative story by Dave Harrison, 

Florida Times-Union sportswritcr. 

Both blockbusters are exclusive North 

Florida attractions at ABC FST's Regency 

I and Regency II theatres. 

The hustling saleswomen of WOMPl. 

who began their annual ticket sale for a 

Basket of Cheer raffle in mid-July, recently 

announced a drawing for the prize ba.skct 

will be held at the Filmrow Golf Tournament, 

October 10, at the Bay meadows 

Country Club. Proceeds go to the Will 

Rogers Memorial Hospital and other industry 

and community .service projects initiated 

by local WOMPl members. 

i.ociil WOMPl dclegalcs who will renivsent 

this city at the group's international 

convention (Drake Hotel, Chicago), September 

10-14. are Marsha Weaver, president, 

and Frances Conner, yearbook chairman 

and co-chairman of the industry service 

and humanitarian service committees. 

Filmrow vacationers include Sandy Kilpatrick 

of 20th Century-Fox who spent a 

week of swimming and sunning at Jacksonville 

beaches; Fay Weaver of Paramount 

and husband Ralph who relaxed at Femandina 

Beach; and George Byrd. Universal 

manager, who took time off from the firm's 

blockbusters for a week-long Florida tour, 

including Busch Gardens at Tampa and 

ABC's Weeki Wachee Spring. 

The fanciest boxoffice figure in Jacksonville 

history was chalked up. August (2), 

when Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones 

magnetized more than 75,000 rabid fans at 

the Gator Bowl. Tickets sold for $12 and 

some scalpers charged $50. The Stones' 

share was reported to be a half-million dollars 

with total receipts nearly twice that 

amount. Police repwrted a surprisingly orderly 

crowd of young people. Only 45 persons 

required first-aid treatment for injuries. 

Hope Enthusiastic About 

Upcoming Film Projects 

DENVER—Barry Morrison of the Denver 

Post staff revealed in a recent story that 

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby again would be 

starred together in a film which is scheduled 

for production this year. 

A portion of the Denver Post story follows: 

"For the many filmgoers who grew 

up on a diet of Bing Crosby-Bob Hope 

movies, here is some good news. They are 

going to do it again. 

"The word came from Hope in a telephone 

interview from Hollywood. 'It's true," 

Hope said. "They finally came up with a 

story we both like and they're beginning to 

work on it now. But the way things are, we 

probably won't be able to get started on it 

before next year, possibly in the spring.' 

"He was more interested in a film he 

plans to begin this fall. It is a drama based 

on the life of the late, famous Walter 

Winchcll. 'I knew the man for years. We 

were good friends.' Hope said. 'It will have 

all the elements in it that made Walter so 

famous—Broadway, show business, the 

crime figures—things like that. It's going to 

be a hot copy.' " 

Mark IV Acquires Theatre 

HARRI.SON. OHIO—Mark IV Cinema. 

Ltd., has acquired the former Studio Theatre 

on State Street and the showhouse has 

been renamed the Crossroads Cinema. Mark 

Sicgel of Cincinnati owns the Mark IV 

group. 

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'Jaws' Tops Memphis 

Af 900; 'Pool' 425 

MEMPHIS—-Jawj," swam lo a strong 

lead with 900 in a fourth week at the Park, 

outdistancing all competitors. "The Drowning 

Pool" recorded a splashy 42.5 at two 

houses in a second week while "The Apple 

Dumpling Gang" repwrted a marvelous .175 

in its bow at three theatres. "The Return of 

the Pink Panther" presented ."ÔS at three 

boxoffices and "Jacqueline .Susann's Once 

Is Not Enough" pulled .'ÔO at Plaza 1. 


Crosstown— Port 2 Walking Tall (AlP), 3rd wk. . .100 

MalCQ Cooley High lAlP), 2nd wk 50 

Maico Quartet 3, Southbrook 2 The Drowning 

Pool (WB), 2nd wk 425 

MaIco Quartet 4, Southbrook 1 The Wind ond 

the Lion (UA), 3rd wk 235 

Paramount French Connection II (20tti-Fox), 

3rd wk 50 

Pork Jews (Univ), 4th wk 900 

Loew'5 Palace— Nigger Lover ISR), 2nd wk 75 

Plaza Jacqueline Susonn's Once Is Not 

1 

Enough iPara), 2nd wk 300 

Plaza 2—Bite the Bullet (Col), 3rd wk 125 

Three theatres The Return of the Pink Panther 

UA), 3rd wk 305 

Three theatres The Apple Dumpling Gong (BV) .375 

"Bucktown' Hits 800 in Second; 

Jaws' 750 in New Orleans 6th 

NEW ORLE.'XNS—In its second week at 

the Orpheum Theatre. "Bucktown" was still 

leading at 800. "Nashville," in its opening 

week at the Robert E. Lee, turned in a 

strong 700 to follow "Jaws." scoring 750 at 

the Joy Theatre. 

Joy—Jaws (Univ), 6th wk 750 

cktown (AlP), 2nd wk 800 

700 

Onetime Theatre Pianist 

Says Silents Were 'Fun' 

From Ccntrol Edition 

INDEPENDENCE, MO.—Nell Atkinson, 

now Mrs. Nell Atkinson Kelley, who 

has lived in this Midwestern city since 

1930. was a well-known pianist who accompanied 

silent movies in a number of 

Chicago theatres in the early 1900s. During 

that time she also played newly published 

music at several Windy City department 

stores. 

Mrs. Kelley says that admission to theatres 

then was only five cents but admits she 

doesn't remember much about the films that 

were screened. She recalls, however, that 

"they were a lot of fun." The pianist can 

still perform many of the ragtime tunes that 

provided background for such stars as 

Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow, Fatty Arbuckle, 

Charlie Chaplin, Andy Clyde, Buster 

Keaton and the Keystone Kops. Included in 

her repertoire are "Paddy Irish," "Peculiar 

Rag," "Calico Rag" and "Wild Cherry." 

Mrs. Kelley's collection of musical memorabilia 

features some of the original professional 

sheet music used during silent film 

days. 

With a degree in piano and voice, augmented 

by extensive post-graduate work, 

Mrs. Kelley, now 89. continues active in 

the entertainment world. Formerly a vocalist 

at a local church, she now performs largely 

in programs for senior citizens. She has been 

a member of the independence Music Club 

.35 years and has served as the club's president. 

NEW ORLEANS 

Jri'iie Mexic, Star .Advertising, is .setting up 

an advertisimg campaign for Dimension's 

"Brother. Can You Spare a Dime'.'" 

-scheduled to dpcn at General Cinema outlets 

later this month. Plans are being made 

for a style show by D.H. Holmes, featuring 

styles of the '30s, and an exhibition of old 

Tom Baldrid}>c, AlP. met with Irene 

Mexic to co-ordinate publicity rounds for 

Lindsay Bloom, star of "Six Pack Annie." 

Ms. Bloom was scheduled to meet the press 

Monday (4) at a breakfast in the Court of 

Two Sisters and later to have interviews 

with media representatives. She left New 

Orleans bound for Baton Rouge late Monday 

(4). Irene presented her with a dozen 

roses at the airport here and escorted her 

around the Crescent City. 

News from Gulf State Theatres: T.G. 

Solomon, president, lunched with Lt, Gov. 

Fitzmorris and talked about a new film to 

be shot in New Orleans during thi.s month 

Barkemeycr. publicity, began her 

vacation by joining in her brother's wedding 

ceremony Friday (1) and then departed for 

Hawaii to visit her aunt . . . Ted Solomon 

made a trip to .'\tlanta and Jack Dobbs and 

Billy Gray traveled to Beaumont, Tex. . . . 

Welcome to Donna Boos, new in the booking 

C. Clare Woods, formerly 

with Gulf States and United Theatres, 

was in town to visit his son Don on his 

birthday birthdays also to A.J. 

Hernandez and Becky Landry and congratulations 

to .'\nn Balencie on her 24th wedding 

anniversary Nicaud. booking 

department, is on vacation, relaxing and 

visiting family in Covington. 

Carole Roussell, Blue Ribbon Pictures, is 

might\' proud of her 10-year-old son Phil, 

who made the All-Star baseball team in the 

playground league. And congratulations to 

Carole and her husband Phil on their 12th 

wedding anniversary July 27. It is also 

birthday month at the Roussell household. 

Carole celebrated Thursday (7) and son Phil 

Monday (II). 

The Pabsts of Blue Ribbon Pictures had 

a family reunion the weekend of Friday (I) 

at the Rowntowner Motel. Biloxi. Miss., 

with a barbecue cookout. 

The Airline Drive-In in conjunction with 

radio station WTIX had a summer jam 

session Sunday (3) with four live hands 

participating. 

Joe Leydon^ award-winning film critic for 

the East Orleans Guide, has been informed 

that much of the material in the Columbia 

press book on the new Charles Bronson 

thriller "Hard Times" was material he had 

written on the movie set here. I-eydon won 

a New Orleans Press Club award for the 

best criticism for his review of "The Great 

Gatsby." "Hard Times" is slated by Columbia 

for release this fall. 

Live entertainment is taking over at the 

Energy Theatre where a wacky parody of 

the Bulkk-g Drummcn thrillers of the 1930s, 

'Bull-hoi Crummond." will open Friday 

(22). Ticket information is available at the 

theatre. 

Drawing rave reviews here was 'Nashville," 

Paramounl's epic of country-western 

life directed and produced by Robert Altman. 

A] Shea of the East Orleans Guide 

says its "sassy satire" and "million memorable 

moments" clearly spell Academy 

Awards in the future. And he comments, 

"Nashville is rated R—for Remarkable. See 

it (from the very beginning, please) at the 

Robert E. l.ee Theatre." 

.A^nd Frank Gagnard, writing in the Picayune-Times, 

says "Nashville" is dividing 

audiences, predictably, into two categories: 

hucksters and haters. Theatre manager Jay 

Cooper was quoted as saying. "We've had 

sell-out performances but we've never had to 

turn anyone away." Admittedly a convert 

to the picture only after seeing it several 

times, Coof>er now professes to be sold on 

"Nashville." "I watch every performance," 

he swears. A few have asked for their 

money back. Cooper says, but the lively 

lobby debates over the film's merits make 

up for that. 

Gagnard warns his readers, "Don't go expecting 

"Barn Dance U.S.A.' or a singlestrand, 

'linear' dramatic narrative." The 

multi-level, intermingling plots are one of 

Altman's trademarks and this film "is nothing 

if not creative." Gagnard adds. 

Fillet of Shark Offered 

At Restaurant in Dayton 

From Mideastern Edition 

DAYTON, OHIO—With "Jaws" playing 

to capacity audiences at the 350-seal 

Dayton Mall Cinema, operated by Chakeres 

Theatres, a neighboring establishment 

in the shopping center, the Commodore 

Restaurant, of>erated by Vic Cassano (known 

nationally as the "Pizza King"), has started 

offering patrons fillet of shark. The lowcholesterol 

delicacy is flown in fresh from 

New Orleans via Delta Airlines and is either 

sand shark or bull shark. 

Patrons who order it are given a shark's 

tooth as a souvenir. 

Cassano said he would keep shark on the 

menu as long as the film stayed at the Mall 

Cinema. The manager of the theatre said 

that could be quite a 

long time. 

AIP's 'McCullochs' Shows 

Power in Mideast Area 

CLEVELAND— American 

International 

Pictures' -The Wild McCullochs" exhibited 

good grossing power in Mideastern openings. 

In five days at the Southland 75 Drive- 

In. Dayton; Melody 49 Drive-In. Dayton, 

and the Park Lane. New Carlisle. Ohio, the 

film racked up a resounding $27,618. 

A lofty six-day gross for "The Wild Mc- 

Cullochs" also was reported at the Southlai:d 

Drive-In in Lexington, Ky. 

AIP's "The Wild McCullochs" will open 

throughout the U.S. and Canada this month. 

BOXOFFICE :: August ')15 SE-7

MEMPHIS 

yhe Memphis Film and Nostalgia 

Festival 

"75 took place at the Albert Pick Hotel 

this week. Some of the guest stars of the 

"SOs were Leigh Snowden, Jim Bannon, 

Kirby Grant and Foy Willing. 

Filmrow visitors were exhibitors, Louis 

Haven of Forrest City. Ark.. Wayne Beard, 

Newport. Ark.. Jack Braunagel. Hot Springs, 

Ark., Mart Mounger. Calhoun City, Miss., 

and Bill Kendall and Maurice Basse of 

Memphis. 

WOMPI's July meeting took place July 

28 in the recreation center of Town House 

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Apartments on Central. A delicious dinner 

was prepared and served by June Moody 

and Lurlene Carothers. The main topic of 

the business meeting was the annual International 

Convention in Chicago in September. 

Lois Boyd of Film Transit was beginning 

her vacation and will finish it with 

a weekend at Frank Heard's '"Holly Bush" 

lakefront home with 

12 other WOMPIs who 

left Friday (1) for Tupelo. Miss . . . 

WOMPI Leone Cooper's husband Jesse is 

ill and in the Baptist Hospital, Room 627, 

Madison East, Memphis. Tenn. 

Lightning Destroys Airer 

Screen Tower, Boxoffice 

CINCINNATI — Holiday 

Amusement's 

Woodlawn Drive-In on Springfield Pike was 

hit by lightning at appro.ximately 3 a.m. 

July 3, the thunderbolt completely destroying 

the screen tower and the boxoffice. The 

concession stand escaped damage. 

Circuit officials expressed .the belief that 

a new screen tower and boxoffice could be 

erected within a week or ten days. 

While many towers have been damaged 

by lightning during the years, this is the 

first 

instance of complete destruction. 

Rollerball" was filmed on locations 

Munich and London. 

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Miami, Fla.. Theatre Owner 

Offers Neighborly Prices 

MIAMI—Most theatres have a set format 

— first run movies, children's films, Spanish 

films, or some other specialty. 

The Miller Road-93rd Avenue Cinenu 

is in the process of evolving a format and 

owner Wilson Elliot is trying several approaches. 

"I try to play something I would enjoy." 

Elliot said. "1 listen to what my kids, m\ 

manager, my customers say and watch what 

happens with the gross." The audience response 

to a film, indicated by the receipts 

at the boxoffice, is an important measuring 

stick. 

The Miller Road Cinema in its past ha-, 

been both a Spanish-language theatre and 

an X-rated theatre. Elliot is using primarih 

R and PG rated films with an occasional \ 

("but not pornography, just things like 

"Flesh Gordon' ") or G. 

Elliot started his experimental test run of 

films about five weeks ago with "Gone 

With the Wind" for $1 a ticket, an introductory 

offer. 

"It only did fair the first week," he said, 

'but I had 1,400 people the second week." 

Then he tried a rotation between "Shampoo" 

and "Breakout," two newer films 

Again, "the second week did abetter." 

The theatre tried "California Split" on a 

rotation for a while and recently opened 

"Six Pack Annie," its first first-run film. 

Elliot said ticket prices at the Miller 

Road won't go above $1.50 to $2 in keeping 

with its personality as a neighborhood theatre. 

"I hope to keep first-runs going," Elliot 

said. "Right now I'm experimenting a lot. 

I may bring in "Dr. Zhivago' or '2001: A 

Space Odyssey.' " 

Elliot says the important thing is to 

"gauge the audience." He intends to bring 

back good entertainment and some oldfashioned 

gimmicks like women's day and 

children's matinees. 

"I am sticking to what people want to see, 

sticking to whatever the reaction is from the 

people in the theatre," he said. 

Adult Entertainment Zone 

Considered in Fort Wayne 

FORT WAYNE. IND.~The city council 

is considering an "adult entertainment zone" 

to limit the area where adult bookstores and 

X-rated film houses, as well as massage 

parlors, can operate. Gary Baeten, land use 

administrator for the city department of 

community planning, said the proposed district 

would not interfere with present zoning 

but merely show where future enterprises of 

this nature may locate. He said that requests 

for the establishment of such enterprises in 

other parts of the city would have to be 

approved by the board of zoning appeals. 

Existing adult bookstores and film houses 

would remain as legal nonconforming uses. 

.'\ recent attempt to open an adult bookstore 

in the west central residential iirca 

touched off immediate action by the city 

council, which unanimously passed an ordinance 

banning new adult bookstores for one 

August

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Tercar Is Twinning 

Drive-In in Baytown 

BAYTOWN, THX.—Tercar Theatre Co. 

ol Houston plans to twin the Decker Drive- 

In 

here. 

President Robert H. Park said a new 

steel-towered 50 x 100 screen with the linest 

reflective surface available will be added. 

Cemtury projectors with Ashcraft high 

intensity lamps will give the best projection 

and light for the screen. Bausch and Lomb 

lens 

will be used as well as a 200-watt Altec 

power amplifier with RCA sound heads. 

Park said a white Formica and stainless 

steel concessions department is planned. A 

Ihanksgiving opening has been set for the 

second screen. 

Psychic Thriller 'Pyramid' 

Lensing at Dallas Sites 

DALLAS — "Pyramid." a movie scheduled 

for release in December. ha.s been 

filming quietly at a number of Dallas sites 

for four weeks. 

Two of the film's most spectacular sequences—a 

bus crash and a party scene— 

were shot last weekend. The bus crash was 

filmed at Park Lane and Webb Chapel Road 

and the party sequence was shot at the 

North Dallas home of Sam and Jane Ventura 

on Jourdan Way. 

The film, which deals with psychic phenomena 

and mind-consciousness, stars Ira 

Hawkins. C. W. Brown and Toni Barrett. 

Captain Edgar Mitchell, a former astronaut, 

assisted with the scientific facts. 

The film is produced and directed by 

Gary Kent and co-produced by Lou Bludworth. 

Aside from the Ventura estate. Dallas 

locations include the City Hall basement. 

Faces Nightclub. Riverchon and White 

Rock Parks, a pig farm in Irving and Selectman 

Hall at SMU. 

Two weeks remain on the Dallas schedule 

before the final scenes of 'Pyramid"' are 

shot in Hollywood. 

Hugo House Operators 

Happy Hunt Is Over 

Hugo, Okla.—What could be worse 

for an exhibitor in a small town than 

a traveling circu-s? 

Well, ask theatre operators Jack and 

Linda Boucher, and they'll tell you it's 

a pair of wandering circus elephants 

who gamer the lion's share of attention 

in 

the media. The Bouchers know, bccaase 

a pair of elephants were finally 

captured here last week after a massive 

hunt. 

Now, say the Bouchers, they hope 

the townspeople will forget about the 

pachyderms and start concentrating 

again on the other "circus" in town 

the Circus l)rive-ln—which they own. 

The Bouchers also run the Erie Theatre. 

BOXOFFICE :: August ,975 

Puppet Film Show Set 

For USA Festival Event 

DALLAS—The Children's Film Circus, 

s|-Kinsored by the USA Film Festival, has 

aimounced that the Burger King Royal 

Puppet Theatre will be featured opening 

night Friday (29). 

The Burger King Royal Puppet Theatre. 

a traveling puppet show from Mark Wilson 

Productions in Los Angeles, will present 

The Three Wishes." The story revolves 

around the king's birthday and three wishes 

he makes on a magic lantern to make all 

pollution disappear. Merlin Che Magician, 

who is a caricature of Groucho Mar.\, the 

Court Jester with his Joke Machine, and 

the queen round out the puppet cast. 

.After the film show is comipleted, the 

audience will be included in a demonstration, 

question-answer period for the purpose 

of explaining how the show operates. The 

entire one-man operation will run approximately 

45 minutes in length. 

The performance of the puppet show is 

scheduled for 6 p.m. in the lobby of the 

Bob Hope Theater at SMU Friday (29). It 

is free to the public. 

In order to be sm-e of getting tickets for 

the 800-seat event, interested persons may 

now purchase advance sale tickets. A book 

of evening tickets for Friday (29)-Sunday 

(31) is $5. and matinee ticket books for 

Saturday (30) and Sunday (31) are $3. All 

single admission tickets are $2 and will not 

be sold in advance, only at the door. 

Champions Cinema Adds 

Extra Shows for 'Jaws' 

more than 

HOU.STON— -Jaws" attracted 

3.500 fans here in its first weekend at the 

Champions Cinema here and to avoid turning 

away numbers of patrons, the theatre 

slated an unannounced midnight screening. 

The midnight screening has enabled 

several hundred more people to see the 

movie." explained John Coles, president of 

Entertainment Projects Inc., owners of the 

house. "We were surprised by the public 

reaction in the area to 'Jaws.' " 

Coles said as crowds gather during the 

weekends, more midnight screenings will be 

added to the regular schedule. Champions 

Cinema is the sister theatre to the recently 

opened Theatre Deauville where "White 

Line Fever" is setting attendance records. 

Universal's "Jaws" has topped all previous 

records at Champions Cinema .set by 

"The Sting" and "The E,xorcist" last year. 

During the first weekend there were nine 

straight 

sell-outs. 

Rogers Film Under Way 

DICKENS, TEX.—Shooting has begun 

here on •Mackintosh and T.J.." featuring 

Roy Rogers, king of the cowboys. This is 

his first film in 23 years. Rogers explained 

that he is tired of seeing excessive sex and 

violence on the screen. He will be driving 

a battered old pickup truck in the movie 

in which he portrays a cowboy widower 

who gets a job breaking horses on a ranch 

and nicvls a young runawa\ boy. 

$3.50-$4 Admission 

Predicted in Dallas 

DALLAS— I 

he S4 niovie ticket may be 

just around the corner, according to one 

Filmrow observer. 

"And in another five years, it will probably 

be S5 per person," predicted the exhi'biior. 

who works for one of the country's 

leading theatre circuits. 

"That may sound exorbitant. 

But look at 

it this way: In 1965. the very lop price for 

Dallas movie tickets was S2." he added. 

Another Filmrow veteran is more optimistic. 

"I think it will level off at S3. 50 for 

a while. The customers might revolt if it 

went any higher." he said. But after a moment 

he pondered, "Of course no one 

thought it would go up to $2.50 either." 

Both customers and exhibitors have reason 

to long for the "gotxi old days." A 

dozen years ago not only were the prices 

lower—but exhibition was much simpler on 

the Dallas scene. Most first-run theatres 

were then owned by the Interstate circuit 

and were centered downtown. With the suburban 

construction boom, additional circuits 

—âmong them General Cinema Corp.. 

American Multi Cinema. Rowley-United 

Artists and McLendon—have joined ABC- 

Interstate in the fierce bidding for first runs. 

.\s Dallas develops into one of the Top 

Ten moviegoing markets in the nation, distributors 

appear more eager for early Dallas 

playdates. 

No longer do local moviegoers have to 

wait several weeks for prominent films to 

play Dallas after national releases; movies 

open concurrent or even before their New 

York-Los Angeles engagements. 

The result, say exhibitors, is that they 

must often give large guaraintees and assure 

lengthy runs to films with unproven boxoffice 

power. 

For some films (usually surefire hits like 

"The Towering Inferno" and "Jaws") exhibitors 

here promise distributors up to 90 

per cent of the first week's gross and depend 

on the concession stands to turn a 

large profit. .Some guarantees for entire rims 

amount to several thousand dollars. However, 

theatre owners point out the terms 

guaranteed the distributor almost never influence 

the structure of ticket admission. 

The whole exhibition problem remains 

part of an endless economic circle. Even 

with higher prices, movies remain the cheapest 

form of mass entertainment available. 

Prices of maintaining a theatre and stocking 

a concession stand have risen drastically 

in the last 10 years, exhibitors point out. 

So have the prices of coffee, drycleaning, 

newspaper advertising—and, yes, of course, 

going to the movies. 

Harold King Takes Reins 

CRESTON, IOWA — Managing the 

Strand Theatre here is Harold King, former 

manager of the Fine .\rts Theatre in Fairway, 

Kas., a suburb of Kansas City, Mo. 

King succeeds Joe Matthews, who has become 

manager of Commonwealth circuit 

in properties Sedalia, Mo. 

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John Santikos of San Antonio has been 

selected 

to serve as a director on the 

board of NATO of Texas for the balance of 

this fiscal year. He owns the Santikos circuit 

there. 

Sympathy is extended Jim and Judy 

Fritz in the loss of their infant son Frederick 

July 16. Fritz recently returned to 

Dallas to work in the booking department of 

United Artists Theatres. 

Willard Cunningham of Paramount is enjoying 

a wonderful cross country tour via 

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Mealer of Paramount took off 

on vacation Saturday (2) and spent much 

of her lime working in her yard and shopiping. 

Olera Foster has been hospitalized with a 

bad case of asthma. She had called and 

asked this correspondent to check on a film 

missing at the State Theatre, Atlanta, because 

she was supposed to be in the hos- 

Jim and Mary Crump moved into their 

new home at 6545 Lange Circle this week 

pital getting treatment. Olera had asked the 

and friends are calling to say Congrats at 

doctors to dismiss her temporarily so she 

821-9811 . . . Birthday greetings are extended 

to W.J. "Dutch" Cammer, retired 

could attend to theatre proiblems. 

American International film salesman. 

Screen openings this month include Walt 

"Dutch" celebrates a birthday Wednesday 

Disney's "One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing," 

starring Helen Hayes and Peter Usti- 

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nov, on a double bill with "Cinderella" at 

several theatres. "Mitchell" debuted with a 

multiple run also . . . Holdovers included 

"Jaws" im a seventh week at ABC Interstate's 

Inwood and Promenade 1 and "Rollerball" 

in a fifth week exclusively at the 

Medallion. "Monty Python and the Holy 

Grail" finished a fifth week as did "The 

Drowning Pool." starring Paul Newman and 

Joanne Woodward. 

Robert Summers, son of Temple Summers, 

former Glen Rose theatre owner, has 

won a prestigious state honor. July 5 he 

was named officially the Texas Bicentenn-ial 

Artist. Making the presentation on 

behalf of the state was Rep. Jim Neugent, 

Kerrville. Bob is a self-taught young artist 

whose natural talents have brought him 

national recognition in painting and sculpture. 

He has won the acrylic division of 

the 1972 American Artists Professional 

League Grand National, New York, and 

was also one of ten Gold Medal winners 

in the Franklin Mint's fine arts field in 

1973. Bob also has the distinction of founding 

and serving as the first president of the 

Texas Ass'n of Professional Artists. His 

sculptures and paintings are in collections 

across the nation, including former Tex. 

Gov. .Allan Shivers and present Gov. Dolph 

Briscoe. All of us in the industry join in 

congratulations to Bob and his parents. 

Exhibilurs in this slate received a packet 

of forms recently from the NATO of Texas 

offices explaining how to protest admission 

tax payments to the Comptroller. The theatre 

owners were advi.sed to send in the tax 

payment with a completed form, iprepared 

by NATO of Texas legal counsel, indicating 

that the owner believed the tax was unfair 

and "unconstitutional." There is a possibility 

that exhibitors can recover all admission 

ta.xes paid during the past seven years if a 

suit is filed and approved in court. Forms 

may be obtained from the NATO of Texas 

offices. Suite 206, 1710 Jackson, here. 

Appearing more frequently on mailed 

items these days is a new stamp signifyint! 

the start of filmmaking in America. Pictured 

is famed early moviemaker D.W. 

Griffith and an old-fashioned piece of 

equipment. The stamps were unveiled in a 

special ceremony earlier this year in Holhwood. 

One tragedy has dampened the spirits of 

those attending "Jaws" at the Inwocd Theatre 

here. At one evening performance recently 

a 48-year-old man with a history of 

heart trouble collapsed and died, apparently 

after a heart attack. Other than that incident, 

reports Don Furman, city manager of 

ABC Interstate Theatres, the crowd reaction 

has not been freaky. "This picture is not 

The Exorcist,' and it is as much an adventure 

film as it is a scare film," he explains. 

"There are screams but not the physical 

reaction of 'Exorcist.' There is not the 

same disgust involved." 

He adds. "Everybody comes out in a good 

mood after this film ... In this picture the 

villain gets his in the end. There isn't an 

audience that doesn't like that." Furman 

says the best time to see the blockbuster is 

at mealtimes (for people, not sharks). 12:30 

p.m. and 5 p.m. Hot dogs at the concession 

stands are being billed as Shark Dogs and 

are being snapped up like life preservers on 

a lifeboat. 

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pommy Aileii. longtime .ABC-Interstate 

veteran, has left his Mansfield Drivein 

post to replace retiring Bill White at 

Leon Theatre's South Side Twin. Benny 

McCormack is the new Mansfield boss. 

Fort Worth Star- Telegram's Perry 

Stewart gave two cheers to the Bowie Theatre 

for (1) reviving "Murder on the Orient 

E.\ipress," which opened July 18, and (2) 

for knocking the admission price down to 

$1 per person at all showings . . . Meanwhile 

cinemas in the area made their children's 

admission applicable to teens up to 

age 16 on the same day. 

"Go Modem... For All Your Theatre Needs" 

Wealthy Cunningham is the new assistant 

manager at the Bowie while Bruce Earlv 

has replaced the late Ed Durham at the 

nearby 7th Street. Ms. Cunningham is a 

Southwest High graduate and former University 

of Arkansas student, and Early is a 

Dallas emigre who was brought over from 

ABC Interstatc's Medallion Theatre. 

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TEMPI-E. TEX.—Showcase International, 

owners ol Temple's Showtime III Dri\e- 

In. are negotiating to purchase the downun\!\ 

Arcadia Theatre. Gary Gibbs, Show- 

r»;s. 

Mrs. H.K. Harlan of Temple, building 

owner, also said July 18 she was unaware of 

the negotiations. 

Gibbs said all that remains for completion 

of the lease arrangement is the signature of 

Gene Palmer of Temple, half-owner of 

Showcase Internaticral. who is on vacation, 

l-cr.n Mitchell of Ennis is the other owner. 

HOUSTON 

phere is a possibilitj Holl>uood film great 

Lillian Gish may come to Houston to 

appear at the Westbury Little Theatre. She 

has been contacted by Brian Pinette. head 

of the theatre, and confirmed she would 

like to appear sometime around September 

sixth week of the .'Vlley Theatre's 

-Seventh Summer Film Festival was themed 

manager lor Temple, said. 

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Tillman Bond. 40-year manager of the 

Arcadia Theatre, said he knew nothing 

about the decision. The theatre has been 

operated by .\BC Interstate Theatres since 

"Love and Cinema." The three films scheduled 

included a Houston premiere of "Les 

Violons Du Bal." Tuesday and Wednesday 

(5-6): "Closely Watched trains." Thursday 

and Friday (7-8) and "Gilda." Saturday and 

Sunday (9-10). The Friday Midnight Sleaze 

Series Friday (8) will present "Vampyr." 

"The Third Man" with Orson Welles will 

be shown in Kaplan Theatre as part of the 

Jewish Community Center Series. Two newfilms 

will have multiple openings in Houston 

this week: "Mitchell" with Joe Don 

Baker and "Take a Hard Ride" with Jim 

Brown. Lee Van Cleef. Fred Williamson 

and Jim Kelly . . . Actress-vocalist Sally 

Kellerman. who was scheduled to appear 

with the Smothers Brothers at the Houston 

Music Theatre, canceled over the past weekend. 

Ms. Kellerman was to appear as a 

vocalist. She began her jazz singing career 

before starring in films . . . Gwen Welles. 

Keith Carradine and Timothy Brown, who 

are seen in Paramount's "Nashville." appeared 

at Foley's "17. the Big Number." a 

fashion musical review at the Miller. "Nashville" 

is exclusively engaged at the .Alabama 

. . . TTie original version of "Deep Throat." 

in its 77th week at the Screening Room, is 

on the same bill with "The Devil and Miss 

Jones." 

Denholm Elliott has been signed to costar 

in Columbia's "Robin and Marian." 

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ârjjot Kidder was here promoting her 

latest film "Sisters." in which she plays 

Siamese twins. The film is at the Century 

South 6. the Texas Bandera Road Drive-In 

and the Trail Drive-In . . . "Animals Arc 

Beautiful People" will play one week at the 

.Aztec 3. Olmos. Century South 6. Universal 

City. San Pedro, Town Twin. Valley Hi 

and Mission. The Warner Bros. film, four 

years in the making, also will be seen at the 

Holiday I in San Marcos, the .Arcadia in 

Kerrville and the Rialto in Kenedy. 

Commissioners Court granted conditional 

approval to Chicano Arts Film Enterprises 

to use courthouse facilities in their movie 

about a young man's journey to the state 

penitentiary. The true story requires filming 

in a jail cell and courtroom. Commissioners 

agreed to provide both settings after a noliability 

contract with the county is prepared. 

The filmmakers said it would take 

four or more hours of filming for a three 

and a half minute segment in the dramatized 

documentary. Jail cell scenes will be 

shot in the courthouse detention area. The 

courtroom scene has not been arranged with 

Tex. Stu(dents Plan Film 

Boasting All Female Crew 

DENTON. TEX.—Rory Butler and Clarisse 

-Molad say they"re not radical. ""The 

women's movement has influenced the lives 

of many women who would hardly consider 

themselves "liberated", "radical' or "feminist," 

"' they stress. 

The two want to make a film jwrtraying 

this philosophy. They are students at North 

Texas State University. Ms. Butler is a 

senior, majoring in art with specialization 

in filmmaking and still photography. Ms. 

Molad is a graduate student majorina in 

film and TV. 

"We want to emphasize women don't 

have to be sexy or career women to benefit 

from the feminist movement." says Ms. 

Butler. "You can have a family and still be 

liberated." 

The fledgling filmmakers have had their 

share of problems. One is money. The other 

is what they consider prejudice against females 

in the filmmaking business. The 

field, they say. is mainly populated by men. 

and women are generally viewed as incompetents. 

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a justice of the peace court in a dcx;- 

imicntary about a fiesty female judge. Two 

years ago. makers of "The Sugarland Express" 

used the 166th District Court for a 

segment. 

The only film opening this week is the 

return engagement of "Earthquake" at the 

Woodlawn and Century South 6 . . . Matirce 

showings at local theatres will end soon 

with the Monday (18) opening of school 

. . . Holdovers include "The Return of the 

Pink Panther"" in its eighth week at the New 

Laurel; '"Jaws" at the Broadway and Century 

South 6; Beyond the Door" at the 

Capitan; "The Fortune"" at the North Star 

Cinema: "SuperVixens"" at the Olmos: "The 

Apple Dumpling Gang"' at the Century 

-South 6 and North Star Cinema; "Jacqueline 

Susann's Once Is Not Enough" at Fox 

Central Park II and "Bite the Bullet"' at 

Fox Central Park III . . Walt Disney films 

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the double bill of "One of Our Dinosaurs 

Is Missing"" and "Cinderella"" at the 

McCreless Cinema and Fox Central Park I 

and at the Perrin Plaza. "The Bears and I"" 

plus One Little 

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using NTSU equipment, is scheduled for 

the coming fall. The women plan to make 

it available to ""anyone who needs it. women's 

groups, schools and anyone it might help." 

To help encourage their female classmates, 

the two plan to hire only women for 

their crew. "That's discriminatory, but we 

want to give them a chance they might not 

have otherwise." savs Ms. Butler. 

Original Film Prints Are 

Stored in Kas. Salt Mine 

HUTCHINSON, KAS.—The priceless 

original prints of over 1,800 motion pictures 

are literally "salted away" in a 650- 

foot-deep salt mine near here, according to 

Mike Gingerich, manager of Underground 

Vaults & Storage Co. Carefully preserved 

are films of Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, 

Jimmy Stewart, John Barrymore, Wallace 

Beery and other screen greats. 

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Qharley Hudgens, Starline Pictures, and 

and wife Annie are back from a vacation 

to Hawaii where Charley confides they 

had a "great time." In the future, he says. 

he'U travel without so much luggage and 

next on the horizon is a voyage in the Caribbean. 

A downtown fire in Vinita. which damaged 

some buildings, left smoke and fire 

damage i.n the Center Theatre. It appears 

the fire began in a cafe's electrical wiring 

and spread. 

Funeral services were conducted July 29 

for Mrs. Eunice Pierce, mother-in-law of 

Jack Wheliban, American International. 

Condolences to daughter Gladys, son Tom 

and other survivors. 

The thought of going on vacation must 

have upset United Artists head booker Peggy 

Dillard because she was taken ill with 

indigestion just before starting another week 

off from the office. 

The Cowboy Hall of Fame here is proudly 

sihowing off its collection of Walter Brennan 

memorabilia. Brennan. who played a 

cowpoke in many film westerns as well as 

starring in TV series years ago, used to 

visit the hall often. The collection was presented 

by Brennan's widow Ruth. 

In to do film chores: Mike Brewer, Royal 

and Brewer's Drive-In, Pauls Valley: 

Charles Smith, buyer for Grand Theatre, 

Canton, and Corral Drive-In, Wynnewood; 

Charles "The Nowata Flash" Townsend, 

Res and Skyview Drive-In, Nowata. Townsend 

reports he is having a very good year 

at the boxoffice. 

Visiting the United Artists office last 

week was Robert Daetsch. auditor. 

Marquee changes: "Six Pack Annie." 

May, Sooner Twin, South Park, Hillcrest 

and Cinema 70 Drive-In; "Rollerball," Continental 

Theatre: "Silent Night. Evil Night," 

Shepherd Twin; "Gone in 60 Seconds." 

Northpark: and "Tidal Wave," MacArthur 

Park, Southpark, Reding 4. Northwest Highway, 

Riviera and Skyview: and "Pippi Goes 

on Board." May and Reding 4. 

Tulsa marquee changes: "Piippi Goes on 

Board." Will Rogers and Fontana: "The 

Silent Stranger," Village. Admiral and Bellaire 

Drive-In; "Rollerball," Continental; 

"Framed," Plaza 3, Spectrum Twin, and 

Admiral Twin Drive-In. 

MGM Announces Fire Will 

Not Delay 'Logan's Run' 

CULVER CITY—There wiU be no delay 

in production of Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr's 

"Logan's Run" because of the predawn fire 

Monday morning, July 28, which destroyed 

two long-standing sets on L-ot Two close to 

where certain exterior and interior filming 

currently is taking place on the new Saul 

David production, it was announced by 

MGM. 

The sets destroyed included a girls' school 

built for "Forty Little Mothers" in 1940, 

used subsequently in several Andy Hardy 

films, and a formal stable area first seen 

in 1939 in "Stand Up and Fight" and the 

following year in "The Philadelphia Story." 

Both sets have been used on numerous 

films during the ensuing years and. most 

recently, just two weeks ago, on "Logan's 

Run." 

Lot Two was sold by MGM in 1974 to 

Mr. and Mrs. Ching C. Lin but still is being 

used on occasion by MGM and others. 

"Rollerball" has gro,ssed $208,087 in fi 

cities. 

Deserted Okla. Movie Set 

Converted to Youth Camp 

CAN.\DI.\N, OKLA.—A one horse town 

built on false hopes and bad checks is being 

used as a summer youth camp at this 

Pittsburgh County community near Lake 

Eufaula. 

Destined for the silver screen, the "Canadian 

Pioneer Town" never quite made it. 

Instead it wound up at an auction where 

.VIr. and Mrs. Max Winters bid their way 

into the camp business. 

Mrs. Winters says the movie folks pieced 

the town together in 1972, stayed about six 

months, before financial problems set in and 

"left owing thousands and thousands of 

dollars." 

They left behind 13 old-timey looking 

buildings, the genuine Canadian town jail 

and what was left of a general store. Nobody, 

says Mrs. Winters, has heard from 

them since. 

'50s Return to Paris, Ark., 

As Zeilers Mark 25th Year 

PARIS. ARK.—Many oldtimers as well 

as young film buffs were present last month 

to help Mr. and Mrs. Emil Zeiler celebrate 

25 years as operators of the Paris Drive-In 

here. 

The Zeilers treated their neighbors and 

friends, many of them young children, to 

prices remindscent of the grand opening 

June 5. 1950. .Admission was only 50 cents: 

popcorn and soft drinks sold for 10 cents. 

The two period films shown were both 

westerns, "Jesse James," starring Tyrone 

Power and Henry Fonda, and "Riders of the 

Whistling Pines." with Gene Autry and Patricia 

White. 

The crowd, said the Zeilers. reminded 

them of the old days when "buck night" 

was the major attraction and whole families 

attended movies each week. 

Emile de Antonio to Make 

Documentary on CIA 

NEW YORK—"Inside the Company." an 

expose of the CIA by former agent Phillip 

Agee. will be made into a feature film by 

Emile de Antonio, heretofore known for his 

documentaries. In the filmmaker's view, the 

book "really gives a bird's eye view of CI.A 

mentality, of how people are programed to 

act out fantasies of the cold war and to commit 

acts of murder, aggression, torture and 

to overthrow governments, along the lines 

of the cold war." 

De Antonio, the subject of a retrospective 

at New York's Museum of Modern Art, was 

interviewed recently by Marc N. Weiss for 

the July-August issue of Marble Film News 

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MINNEAPOLIS— For the sixth week. 

"Jaws" continued ferociously at the Gopher 

with a towering 685. while "Beyond the 

Door" bowed to a lusty 430 at the Skyway 

III. "Nashville" twanged out a hefty 420 in 

its opening week at the Cooper Theatre 

and checked into town with both popular 

public response and critical acclaim. "Love 

and Death." World Theatre, sizzled at 320. 

(Average U 100) 

Academy Monty Python and the Holy Grail 

(SR), 2nd wk 140 

BrooKdole, Southdate The Return of the Pink 

wk Panther ,UA), 5th 275 

Cooper—Noshville (Para) 420 

14 theotres— The Land That Time Forgot (AlP) 70 

80 

Five theatres—Smile (UA) 

Gopher Jaws (Univ), 6th wk 685 

Mann The Fortune (Col), 5th wk 90 

Orpheum Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not 

Enough Pora;, 5th wk 100 

Skyway I— Bite the Bullet (Col), 3rd wk 95 

Skywoy II—The Drowning Pool (WB), 3rd 

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Skyway Beyond the Door (SR) 

Stote— The Wind and the Lion (UA), 95 

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Terrace— Rollerboll :UA\ 3rd wk 135 

Three theatres-Crazy Momo (SR) 160 

World Love ond Death UA), 3rd wk 320 

Omaha Pussycat Found 

Guilty by All-Woman Jury 

LINCOLN—Âmsrican Theatre Corp.'s 

Pussycat Theatre in Omaha made the news 

twice during the week ending July 26. An 

all-woman jury July 25 took about 30 minutes 

to find the Pussycat owners guilty of 

distributing obscene material. This is the 

firm's third obscenity conviction here this 

summer. 

Only one count was charged against ATC. 

since the two movies, "Eye Spy" and "Love 

Riders," were shown as a double feature. 

Jury members viewed both films before 

going into deliberations. The prints were 

seized by Omaha police after being shown 

May 14, 1975. 

Richard Epstein, assistant city prosecutor 

for Omaha, urged jury members to judge 

the movies by the standards of the average 

person in Omaha, not "the fringe group." 

He said: 

• If the movies were not held obscene, 

ihey could have been shown any place in 

the city to any age group, not just adults. 

• The films have no redeeming artistic, 

political or scientific merit (they were described 

as having scenes showing various 

types of homosexual and heterosexual acts. 

as well as rape). 

In presenting the defense, attorney Gordon 

Hauptman claims the films were restricted 

to adults and potential customers 

knew what they would be seeing. He also 

asserted he personally does not care for 

such movies but feels adults who do enjoy 

them should have the right to see them. 

Hauptman also pointed out that the Omaha 

community tolerates many activities not 

ipleasing to some residents—liqour sales, for 

example. 

Municipal Court Judge Fred Montag, 

hearing the third Pussycat case this year, 

deferred sentencing. 

In a continuation of the Gary Bucchino- 

James Cole comments relating to Pussycat 

obscenity matters, it was disclosed that Uni- 

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Harry Boesel Recoils Showmanship 

Used During Half-Century Career 

By W.M.I.Y I.. MEYER 

.MILWAUKEE—Veteran showman Harry 

G. Boesel has retired in his 50th year of 

show business. He had managed the Palace 

Theatre at 6th and Wisconsin until its closing 

more than a year ago. after which he 

supervised the advertising department of the 

Marcus circuit. 

During the recent Marcus Theatres spring 

convention and seminar in Milwaukee, attended 

by that organization's managerial 

staff representing nearly 60 hardtops and 

drive-ins, Harry was given a testimonial and 

a Bulova Accuquartz wristwatch by Ben 

Marcus, president of the Marcus Corp. 

Peddled Show Bills 

As a young schoolboy in his hometown 

of Sheboygan, some 50 miles from Milwaukee, 

Harry began his career as a house-tohouse 

peddler of show bills for the .'\urora 

Theatre. After high school he rose from 

usher to assistant manager at the .Sheboygan 

Theatre, then transferred to the Appleton 

Theatre in Appleton. This movie house was 

shuttered during the bank moratorium of 

the early 1930s and. because work was 

scarce, the young showman went on the 

road with Ed Benjii as they toured the state 

peddling the film "Red .Ace of Germany— 

Richthovcn." 

Meanwhile. Harry had made contact with 

Thomas Saxe, then operating a string of 

theatres in the state. One of them, the 

Orpheum in Kenosha, was closed due to the 

economic depression and Saxe hired Harry 

to 

help reopen it. 

Vaudeville 'Queen' Recalled 

He recalls: "It was necessary to get funds 

from the local merchants for the necessary 

electricity deposit before we could open. 

Our first movie was "No Bed of Roses.' 

starring Constance Bennett. There was a 

scarcity of films and it became a necessary 

move to book vaudeville shows to keep the 

theatre operating. Our first stageshow 

starred Gilda Grey— the Milwaukee shimmy 

queen.' " 

The Saxe interests eventually were sold 

to Fox Theatres and Boesel was transferred 

to Milwaukee where he m;in:iged the beautiful 

new uptown Garfield Theatre. Others he 

managed, in turn, included the National. 

Mirth, Tivoli, Downer, Varsity. Strand, 

Wisconsin (now Cinema I and II) and. 

finally, 

the Palace. He was promoted to district 

manager for this circuit. 

Success in show business becomes easier 

with a know-how of showmanship and Harry 

Boesel knows showmanship! During the 

engagement of the origimal "Frankenstein." 

starring Boris Karloff. he had an open coffin 

placed on display in the theatre lobh\ 

Under cover of night he managed to have 

it spirited away to a spot behind a barn on 

a farm located om the edge of town. Boesel 

then called the police department the following 

morning to report a "stolen" coffin. 

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Boothman Geo. Homer 

Began Career in '13 

MANKATO. MINN.—How many thea- 

Jôger and Ruth Dietz of the Rapids and feels he has plenty to be excited about as h^views 

the UA lineup. "Singin' in the Rain" 

Rialto theatres. Grand Rapids, have 

purchased a lakeshore home there and report has been set for the latter part of August tres can list an employee whose service began 

in 1913 and who still is an active mem- 

they're "extremely happy." Dietz. formerly at the Park Theatre here. "Last Tango in 

Columbia branch chief here, and his wife Paris." now rerated R. will hit September ber of the staff? That surely small list includes 

the Grand Theatre here, part of the 

have done extensive theatrical remodeling, 19. "The Passenger" gets its citywide break 

including draperies and a change in decor, September 26. "92 in the Shade." starring 

Plitt North Central Theatres circuit. Projectionist 

George Homer has been the subject 

and they say that business has improved Peter Fonda, springs the first week in October. 

"Hearts of the West." with Jeff 

markedly. 

of several newspaper articles in this southern 

Bridges toplined. goes October 15. "Undercovers 

Hero." starring Peter Sellers in five 

Minnesota city which have taken note of his 

Joe Carriere, Grand Theatre, Hallock. 

unique period of service. 

reported that floods in that northwestern 

different roles, comes up October 29. And Homer began his lengthy tenure at the 

Minnesota area have cost the region virtually 

all of its crops. The 

for Christmas, bubbles Doebel. there are Grand (then called the Unique Theatre) in 

outlook for the 

"Killer Elite," starring James Caan. and 

economy 

1913— at the age of 16—as a curtain man 

in that part of the state is. for the 

"The Sunshine Boys" toplining Walter Matthau 

and George Burns. 

after, he began working in the projection 

for the house's vaudeville acts. Shortly there- 

time being at least, decidedly downbeat. 

Forrie Myers, Paramount branch manager, 

and Jack Kelvie, Theatre Associates. 

There's plenty of hustle and bustle at the booth and has been there since. He's been 

Paramount branch, too. Forrie Myers, a memmber of lATSE Local 684 since it 

were two top prize-winners at the second 

branch head, points to the lusty launch of was organized in 1929. This Mankato local 

annual Midwest Entertainment golf tourney 

"Nashville" at the Cooper Theatre. "Nashville" 

also bowed Friday (8) at five key out- 

lATSE Local 416. 

recently merged with Rochester, Minn., 

July 21 . . . Add to those previously attending 

the NATO convention in Chicago 

state situations. Set for an October 15 bow Homer easily recalls "the ancient times 

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Vonderhaar. Tentilino 

is "Three Days of the Condor." starring ... the silent days." Cameras then were 

Enterprises. Alexandria, and Mr. and Mrs. 

Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway. with hand-cranked for showing single ten-minute 

Al Bergman. Bay Theatre. Ashland. Wis. 

openings at the Mann Theatre here and the reels of westerns, high-society dramas and 

The Lake Theatre, Heron Lake, closed Har-Mar I in St. Paul. "Mahogany," starring even early newsreels. Over the decades. 

the past two years, reopened Friday (1). It Diana Ross, also opens in October. And Homer has seen motion pictures begin and 

is being run. weekends only for the present, "Hustle," with Burt Reynolds, is the Christmias 

treat. Meanwhile. "Bug" is due to hit was the western," he recalls. "Then the Al 

abandon a series of "phases." "First, there 

by Mary Hasara . Beacon Theatre, 

Superior. Wis., closed for three years, has here Wednesday (20) on a multiple. 

Capone gangster-type movies. Today, it's the 

sex angle." 

been taken over by Dave Pallas and will 

reopen He takes it all in stride. 

Friday 

Often asked. "Do 

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Omaha's lATSE Local 343 you watch all the movies you project?", he 

Birger Ronning, former AlP branch salesman, 

has joined Midwest Entertainment, 

Requests Clarification 

replies: "I usually just check the window to 

OMAHA—In connection with an item 

see if the film is in focus and running right. 

the Jim Payne operation . . . Meanwhile. 

which appeared in the Lincoln column of 

Otherwise. I just read detective stories." 

AIP's "Part 2 Walking Tall" bowed Friday 

BoxoFFJCE July 28 concerning the withdrawal 

of pickets from the Center Theatre. 

While he feels that the movies of today 

(8) with 13 Twin Cities dates . . . Filmrow 

are much better both artistically and technically 

than those of the past, he frequently 

visitors: Paul Berg, State Theatre. Winona; lATSE Lyocal 343 has requested the publication 

of a clarification of the matter which voices his regrets at the lack of comedians. 

Jim Fraser, Red Wing, and Dan Peterson, 

Peterson circuit, Brookings, S.D. 

involves the Omaha Junior Theatre. Inc. 

"In the old days, we had more comedies 

Dick Maiek, Warner Bros, branch chief, A statement issued Friday (1) by Local 

Chaplin. Lloyd and the Three Stooges; 

grabbed a two-week vacation and tucked 343 follows: "The longtime 

people 

projectionist 

used to laugh and laugh. You don't 

at 

himself away in a cabin in Minnesota's cool the 

get 

Center Theatre was dismissed 

the comedians 

July 

today. But movies still 

1. 

northwoods country . . . Bill Diehl, entertainment 

editor for the .St. Paul Dispatch fact that the projectionist's work is now good' movies. I don't see why they shouldn't 

1975. We feel a lockout exists due to the 

arc your best entertainment—or make that 

and Pioneer Press and Boxoffice correspondent 

here, and his wife Helen left Sunets 

were established to advertise 

being done by a (part-time moonlighter. Pick- 

go on forever. I don't know what could replace 

them." 

this fact. 

It 

day (3) on a two-week trip to the West whereupon the Junior Theatre obtained would a 

seem that Homer himself might 

Coast which will include eight days in Hollywood 

scanning the sound .sets. 

343, after which pickets were removed takes the 

temporary restraining order against Local go on forever but the shadow of the end 

in 

form of a wrecker's steelball. It's 

in compliance with this order. However, upon the cards that the Grand must be demolished 

eventually as part of an urban 

A northern Minne.sota honeymoon was hearing in district court July 16, the judge 

decided upon by Karen Pcrpich. Warner vacated the tempcirary restraining order and renewal program. When? "Who knows." 

Bros, branch secretary, and Brian Swing, denied the theatre's request for an injunction. 

Pickets are being in 

Homer says, "maybe in six months, maybe 

following their Saturday (9) nuptials. She 

re-established at the 

a couple of years." 

will continue at the WB branch . . . "Jaws" theatre. A legal dispute exists with the theatre 

and is being pursued accordingly." 

at the same old stand." He works a seven- 

Meanwhile. Homer is "still doing business 

bowed at five outslate situations July 25 

and several house records were shattered. 

day. 38-hour week. Grins the veteran projectionist: 

"It 

Bill Doebel, United Artists branch boss. Airer Eliminates 

cuts Speakers 

deep into my family life 

but I tell 

WEST 

my wife that's 'show biz 

POINT, life.' 

NEB.—Eugene Mueller, 

owner of the Y-Not Drive-ln here, believes 

his is the 


only underskyer in the state Buster Keaton Film Screened 

equipped to transmit the film soundtrack 


HAR IFORD — The Summer Cinema 

through car radios, thereby eliminating Series at Trinity College, a 

HAWAII 

continuing program 

of vintage attractions 

TOO. 

speakers and posts. As described by Mueller. 

When you come to Waikiki, 

screened in the 

bjjjtfjujv^' don't miss the famous 

[haWaVi] Show. . 

. at 

portedly can be received only on solid-state "Battling Butler," in which loading man 

[ J Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel. 

IN WAIKIKI: REEF . REEF TOWERS EOGEWATER radios (installed in autos made since 1962). Buster Keaton directed him.sclf. The showing 

was accompanied by "live" piano music. 

- which cause only minimal battery drain. 

the signals are transmitted via a cable which Life Sciences Center with $1 admission for 

runs under a theatre ramp. The sound re- 

all patrons, .screened a 1926 silent release, 

NC-2 BOXOFFICE August 1975

. . The 

Dubinsky Staffers Attend 

Kluthe-Recker Wedding 

LINCOLN—The state highway being 

followed Saturday, July 26. by a number of 

the Dubinsky circuit headquarters staff 

members here led to tiny Howells. Neb., 

where Patricia Kluthe became the bride of 

Michael Recker. Patricia, secretary to Dubinsky 

Theatres president Irwin Dubinsky 

the past 18 months, and Michael come from 

the Howells area. 

Their parents are Mr. and Mrs. Francis 

Kluthe and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Recker. 

After a wedding trip, the couple will establish 

their home in Lincoln, where the 

bridegroom is a student. 

Patricia came to Lincoln after completing 

business college studies in Grand Island, 

Neb., and went to work for Irwin Dubinsky, 

who commented July 27 that "Pat not only 

is a very good secretary but she was a 

pretty bride, too." 

Going to Howells was a first for Irwin 

and his wife Rosalind Dubinsky, he says, 

adding that the scenic rural farm settings in 

northern Nebraska were well worth the hot 

summer trip. 

The 2 p.m. wedding took place in St. 

Peter and St. Paul Catholic Church and was 

followed by a reception in the town's St. 

John's Church. The latter also was the setting 

for a 7:30 p.m. dinner preceding an 

8:30 p.m. wedding dance in the Howells 

Ballroom. 

The senior Dubinskys left for home after 

the reception but their son-in-law James 

Rodenberg remained in Howells for the rest 

of the festivities. So did Dubinsky office 

friends of the bride, including: Mary Crump 

and her husband Keith; Cleo Hoback; Lynnc 

Goodding, and Christy Walentine. Mrs. Joy 

(Dubinsky) Rodenberg couldn't accompany 

her family, since she played in a Lincoln 

tennis tournament that afternoon. Her husband 

met his competition that morning. 

Omaha Pusscat Found 

Guilty By All-Woman Jury 

(Continued from page NC-1) 

versify of Nebraska psychologist Cole (of 

Lincoln) had been a paid witness for ATC 

at a May 1972 trial in Omaha. 

Cole said this earlier testimony had 

nothing to do with his criticism of City 

Prosecutor Bucchino's role in the earlier 

1975 Pussycat trial. He believes the 1972 

testimony does not prevent him from criticizing 

Bucchino for using Omhah city stationery 

in a letter to Creighton University. 

Cole's letter commended Creighton's action 

in not firing psychologist Charlene Erskine 

because of her recent testimony. Cole, 

writing 

to Omaha Mayor Ed Zorinsky, said 

Bucchino's letter to Creighton protesting the 

Erskine testimony and asking for her resignation 

was a "chilling and gross attack" on 

a 

defense witness. 

Cole stated he did not cite the 1972 witness 

role which he filled in his current letter 

to Zorinsky because it was written as president 

of the Nebraska Civil Liberties Union, 

a post which he holds this year. 

MILWAUKEE 

Qoosted as "Mid- America's Award-Winning 

Drive-ins," both the 59th Outdoor and 

Giant 41 Twin (south screen) had a "special 

gift free for every lady driver" during the 

run of "Shampoo." The offer in the newspaper 

ad read: "We can't arrange a shampoo 

for you but we can give a free sample of 

the very latest exotic Faberge perfume" 

. . . Starlite and Ciiant 24 ozoncrs here have 

installed xenon lamps. 

Two local veteran showmen who were 

honored here recently, between them, had 

accumulated 109 years in show business. 

They were Ed Gavin and Harry Mintz. Ed 

had a career in film distribution that began 

in 1920 when he started to work for the 

American Film Co.'s home office in Chicago. 

He told Boxoffice: "1 was sent to 

Kansas City, Omaha, Des Moines, St. Louis, 

Buffalo and Albany. The company went out 

of business April I, 1921, and I then returned 

to Milwaukee." Ed next was connected 

with Pathe Films and later with 

Universal, Goldwyn, Film Classics, Fox 

Films and Paramount. He opened the local 

branch office for American. International 

Pictures in July 1958 and served as branch 

manager until his retirement early this year. 

Ed and his wife Peggie live at 1600 East 

Providence Ave. Mintz retired as manager 

of the Capitol Court Theatre a few months 

ago. He's a past chief barker of Variety 

Club Tent 14 (1960). Both men were honored 

at a dinner hosted by the Variety Club 

recently at the Marc Plaza Hotel. 

Jim Jankowski of Wisconsin NATO has 

been appointed by 20th Century-Fox, Chicago, 

to handle the forthcoming personal 

appearances of Jim Kelly, who stars in 

"Take a Hard Ride." The film opened 

Wednesday (6) at Cinema 2 downtown. Mill 

Road, Southridge Movies and the Skyway 

Cinema. 

Gary Adelman, manager of the Villa 

Theatre, 36th and Villard, was a tennis pro 

in Chicago for a half-dozen years before he 

moved to this city. Here he has .served as 

tennis coach and also taught a cla.ss in 

physical education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 

Gary joined the Marcus 

circuit about six months ago to manage the 

Times at 60th and Vliet. 

A Bogart Film Festival opened Saturday, 

July 26, at the Performing Arts Center with 

"The Treasure of Sierra Madre." Bogart 

festivals are not new and this, according to 

the Journal, is "really what makes them 

news. They won^'t quit." As the film critic 

put it: "Bogart may be a little passe but he 

has ipicked up viewers from among moms 

and dads, young couples and the teenagers 

who have glimpsed him on TV." A riverfront 

party on the PAC grounds followeil 

the movie. Admission to the film was $1 

anil 

the party was $1 extra. Altogether, 14 

Bogart pictures will be presented in the lestival. 

nearby Lake Geneva Playboy Resort during 

July. He recently made a movie with Sidney 

Poiticr and also appeared in a cameo role on 

TV's "Sanford and Son." 

The Giant 41 Twin (north screen) has 

noted in its newspaper advertising: "You 

are probably aware that some ozoners 

charge as much its $1 for children. We are 

proud to siiy children under 12 are always 

films— -"W. W. and the Dixie Dancekings," 

free." On the screen were three PG-rated 

"Return to Macon County" and "The Legend 

of Hell House" . Rosa Theatre 

in Waupaca has moved into its summer 

schedule of two shows nightly, at 7 and 9 

p.m. ... In Newberry Fred Dunkill has 

restyled and restored the old 1927 theatre 

once known as State and renamed it Tahqua 

Land Theatre. 

A Wisconsin youth who is participating in 

a summer program at Warner Bros. Studio 

in Burbank, Calif., is Tony Charles of Green 

Bay. Tony left June 23 for the eight-week 

program to learn more about filmmaking by 

observing skilled craftsmen in the performance 

of their specialties. Each of five scholarship 

recipients will be routed through various 

phases of filmmaking to get a broad 

understanding of the total industry. After 

graduating from high school in Green Bay, 

the young man entered UW-Stevens Point 

where he specialized in filmmaking as a 

communications major. He currently also is 

a member of the news staff of Channel 5, 

where news and the special features he has 

filmed are seen regularly. 

Patti Page, who had a lot of early connections 

with this city (in the 1940s and 1950s) 

when she sang during live stageshows at the 

Riverside Theatre "between Dean Martin 

and Jerry Lewis movies," was back here to 

star at the Playboy Club at Lake Geneva 

the last week in July. Jack Rael, her longtime 

manager, is from our town. 

DES MOINES 

fTniversal's "Jaws" is setting house and concession 

records at the Fleur Four theatres 

. . . The Plaza Theatre also was setting 

records with "Bambi," the biggest Disney 

picture at the house in some months. 

Doormen Michael O'Malley, from the 

Plaza, and Quint Guillaume, from the River 

Hills, were transferred to the Fleur Four . . . 

Diane Can field of the Fleur Four has been 

busy with artwork in conjunction with 

Dubinsky Theatres' new "Courtesy Campaign," 

&îimmmM\ 

lP/."-13Vi"-14"D,AME 

16"-I6'/2"d.amitir 

$41.00 

$67.00 

Singer Billy Kckstiiie w; atured at the -y..^".*^!"! .... ',»i'il=r" '.'T^ .7/ 

BOXOFFICE August 11, 1975 NC-3

— 

LINCOLN 

gruce Harmon, manager of the Cooper- 

Highland's Plaza, finds he will have to 

hire another assistant manager this month 

after all. Alan Shaw, one of Bruce's assistants, 

has decided to attend the University 

of Kansas at Lawrence. Kas.. rather than 

stay here at the University of Nebraska. 

Alan was hired as successor to Doug Briggs. 

who graduated from NU this summer and 

has taken other employment. 

Sarge Dublnsky made a one-day trip to 

Des Moines to attend a special Warner Bros. 

screening. That cut the Dubinsky vice-president's 

golf^playing hours some for the week, 

although weather has been cooperative after 

a slow spring start. The spring was marked 

by lots of rain; however, lan extraordinarily 

hot summer has been noted for too little 

rain. 

Mayor Helen Boosalis inadvertently has 

ended up with a special law officer on her 

second police chief selection committee 

Pierce R. Brooks of Lakewood, Ohio. This 

is the group which will whittle 22 police 

chief candidate names down to ten in the 

weeks ahead. Mayor Boosalis will make her 

choice by mid-September re a new police 

chief for the city. Brooks, formerly on the 

Los Angeles Police Department staff, w-as 

technical adviser to the TV shows "Dragnet" 

and "Adam- 12." He now is public safety 

director for Lakewood. He's throwing in 

his expertise free, with the city only picking 

up his travel expenses. 

The new Air Wisconsin flight schedules 

between this city and Minneapolis couldn't 

be better for Chuck Kroll, Eastern division 

manager for Cooper-Highland Theatres, 

especially from now until the preholiday 

weeks as the 400-seat addition to the cir- 

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houses in Iowa, the circuit head reports. 

Both attribute the ^popularity to a desire to 

see "Bambi" again or to attend with patron's 

wish to attend with their own. if young, fam- 

Blackhawk Films of Davenport. Iowa, 

has been purchased by Lee Enterprises of 

the same city, it was learned by the local 

industry. One of Lee's Midwest and Northwest 

city newsjjapers is the local morning 

publication, the Star. Lee acquired Eastin- 

Phelan Corp.. which operates Blackhawk 

Films. Lee president Lloyd Schermer did not 

disclose the purchase price. Blackhawk employs 

about 85 persons in producing and 

distributing 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm silent 

and sound films in the home entertainment 

field and plays a major role in the film mail 

order industry. The firm was founded in 

1927. Among its 2,000 titles marketed here 

and abroad are Charlie Chaplin film. Laurel 

and Hardy comedies, Biograph Studio films. 

Hal Roach films. Major Motion Picture 

Classias and documentaries prepared from 

Movietone News and other libraries. 

Russell Brehm, president of NATO of 

Nebraska and Douglas Theatre Co., is back 

on the job several hours each day after being 

hospitalized for about a week at St. 

Elizabeth Community Health Center for 

surgery. Russell was among local industry 

members going to Des Moines Wednesday 

(6) for WB's special "Dog Day Afternoon" 

screening. He returned Friday (8). 

Bruce Draney, assistant manager at Cinema 

1 and 2. returned here Saturday (9) 

after spending the week in Minnesota with 

his parents on a camping trip. His counterpart, 

Mark Feldman. will start an outdoor 

Fellow Nebraskans caught up on some 

more of native Nebraskan Henry Fonda's 

70 years of life through a Focus article in 

the Sunday (3) newspaper on the film "Midway." 

The article was based on the personal 

military life of Fonda, Glenn Ford and 

Robert Mitchum, who portray naval brass 

conducting the sea battle that turned the 

lido against the Japanese during World War 

II. It seems I'onda served imdcr Chester W. 

Nunitz, fleet commander, whom he portrays 

in "Midway," when he was aide to 

Adm. John Hoover. Fonda, who was a Navy 

lieutenant, particularly recalls Hoover's thing 

about tennis: "He left a string of tennis 

courts on bases all the way across the Pacific." 

Fonda not only had his hair whitened 

to play Nimitz but tried to conceal a finger 

whenever it showed in the "Midway" filming. 

It seems Fonda's reading on Nimitz 

turned up the fact that he lost a finger in 

an accident. "So. whenever that finger is 

showing in the film, I folded it back. Probably 

only his aides and his family will 

notice." observed Nebraskan Fonda. 

Speaking of oldies, the University of Nebraska 

Sheldon Gallery Film Theatre's offerings 

as of Saturday (9) were Roy Rogers 

in "Heart of the Rockies" and Gene .ûtry 

in "Trail to San Antonio" . . . Meanwhile, 

south down 13th Street at Cinema 1 and 2. 

two very, very modern new films opened 

Wednesday (6)—^"The Happy Hooker" and 

"The Fortune." 

Acting is a lie, so you've got to learn to 

do it est time in the world to run 

Dumpling Gang." Bruce is of the opinion across what seemed to be a spotty shortage Omaha's packing house area, knows the 

that the rereleased "Bambi" will outdo "The of Coke syrup recently, reports Charles 

riding 

"no." 

manager. In recent days, that shortage seems says he discovered Shakespeare and "it discovered 

me in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 

with "One of Dinosiaurs Is Missing." to have been alleviated. Syrup providers 

"The Apple Dumpling Gang" has been released 

but hasn't yet been booked in this city. sufficient five-gallon containers in which to 

told theatre circuits the problem was finding 

in 1939." 

According to Bruce, "Bambi" is pulling place the sweet stuff so it could be delivered Renovation and remodeling? Yes! New 

in the crowds at the Pluza. That's also true to movie house customers; in other words, construction'.' Little, if any! The only Nebraska 

exception currently scheduled will be 

where it is playing at several Dubinsky return of the empty cans was slow, too. 

the Douglas Theatre Co. houses slated for 

Omaha sites not yet disclosed. Construction 

woes of the depression, family illness, 

Apple Dumpling Gang" but Dubinsky says Kroll, Cooper-Highland Ea.stern division 

a cattle train caboose to Boston, etc. He 

He won't disagree on the comparison 

My 

costs are too high, says circuit head Irwin 

Dubinsky, but an even bigger reason is lack 

of good product, even if there were more 

theatres. People won't spvnd money for 

films if they're not worth the price, ho in- 

Marlon Brando will star in "VV< 

Knee" for Coknnbia release. 

NC-4 August 11

— 

5th 

DISCUSSING 'JAWS'—Un a promotional 

visit to Cincinnati, "Jaws" 

producers Richard Zanuck. left, and 

David Brown, right, were interviewed 

by WLW-T's Rosemary Kelly. The 

record-breaking film which has touched 

off a wave of "sharkoniania" across 

the country is a Zanuck/ Brown production 

released bv Universal Pictures. 

'Jaws' 800, 'Nashville' 

700 in Cincinnati 

CINCINNATI — -Jaws" continued to 

scare patrons at four theatres with a big 

800 reported at boxoffices. "Nashville" rang 

out with 700 in its bow at Showcase 1 while 

•Rollerball" scored a bright 600 in its third 

frame at the Valley. "The Return of the 

Pink Panther" held onto fourth place with 

500 in a 10th outing at Times Towne. 

[Average Is 100) 

Carousel 1 The Other Side of the Mountain 

(Univ), loth wk 375 

Carousel 2, Skywolk—The Fortune (Col), 2nd wk. 150 

Four theatres Jaws (Univ), 6th wk 800 

Four theatres Bite the Bullet (Col), 4th wk. . . .175 

Four theatres The Apple Dumpling Gang (BV), 

3rd wk 300 

Northgate The Happy Hooker (SR), 6th wk. ..100 

Showcase 1 Nashville (Para) 700 

Showcase 2 Jocqueline Susann's Once Is 

Not Enough (Para), 5th wk 375 

Showcase 3— Funny Lody (Col), 20th wk 275 

Showcase A—Mondingo (Para), 10th wk 250 

Showcase 5 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 

(SR), 4th wk 300 

Times Towne The Return of the Pink Panther 

(UA), 10th wk 500 

Tri-County The Drowning 1 

Pool (WB), 2nd wk. 300 

Tri-County 2 W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings 

(20th-Fox), 2nd wk 400 

Volley— Rollerball UA), 3rd wk 600 

'laws' Attracts 480 in Detroit; 

'Nashville' Scores 375 in 3rd 

DETROIT — "Jaws" attracted a strong 

gross of 480 in a fifth week at seven theatres 

here. "Nashville" at Radio City rang 

out a hefty 375 in its third week. "One of 

Our Dinosaurs Is Missing" found 350 in a 

second week at 1 1 situations. "Rollerball" 

rated 290 in a second outing at the Northland. 

Americana Tommy (Col), 1 7th wk 145 

Eight theatres Jacqueline Susann's Once Is 

Not Enough (Para), 4th wk 150 

I 1 theotre^ One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing 

(BV), 2nd wk 350 

Four theatres W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings 

(20th-Fox), 2nd wk 80 

14 theotres Aloha, Bobby and Rose (Col), 

2nd wk 65 

Northland— Rollerball (UA), 2nd wk 290 

Radio City— Nashville Parol, 3rd wk 375 

Seven theatres- Jaws Umv , wk 480 

Seven theatre;— Love ond Death UA), 4th wk. . .150 

Seven theatres— Bite the Bullet iCol), 3rd wk. . . 85 

Six theatres—The Wind and the Lion (UA), 

4th wk 120 

Six theatres The Fortune (Col), 4th wk 90 

Six theatres The Drowning Pool (Col), 4th wk. . . 90 

27 theatres—The Devil's Rain (SR) 115 

Two theotres Cooley High (AlP), 4th wk 125 

Two theatres Bucktown (AlP), 3rd wk 150 

Two theotres Bug (Para), 2nd wk 70 

BOXOFHCE .Xugust 1975 

World's Largest Indoor Screen 

Uses Impressive INIAX System 

.SANDUSK.Y. OHIO—The S2 million 

( cdar 

June 

Point Cinema 

and which 

which 

features 

opened last 

the I MAX system, 

projecting film images on the world's 

largest indoor motion picture screen, was 

the subject of an entire feature article by 

Cleveland Plain Dealer movie critic Emerson 

Batdorff. His comments about the cinema 

follow: 

"Sheer bigness is impressive. What is 

hilled as the world's largest indoor movie 

screen, new at Cedar Point, is so big it 

swallows you. It engulfs you. It washes over 

you. It is overpowering. 

Bigness Scares Viewers 

"It drags you along, willy-nilly, in an airplane 

making what appears to 

be a suicidal 

trip through the Grand Canyon and in a 

car being driven by an insane hot-rodder 

through crowded city streets. 

"In such situations it is even more upsetting 

than Cinerama was. Cinerama being 

just a kid in comparison. The big screen is 

about three times as large as Cinerama. If 

this were only an example of motion picture 

technical trickery the result would be impressive 

but the picture showing this summer 

is impressive artistically, making this 

perhaps the best of all possible worlds. 

"On the giant screen f66 feet high—as 

high as a seven-story building—and 88 feet 

wide) is "Man Belongs to the Earth.' This 

is a 22-minute effort to reconcile man with 

his living quarters. 

Film Not 'Gummed Up' 

"Do not be discouraged by the fact that 

it is an offering of the U.S. Department of 

Commerce. A man's initial reaction to this 

word is that government gums up everything 

else and most movies are gummed up anyhow, 

so the two together would be fairly unwatchable. 

"Somehow, the Department of Commerce 

realized this and got someone eke to make 

the movie. It is splendid. It was made for 

the U.S. Pavilion at the E.xpo in Spokane 

last year by. oddly enough, a group of Cana- 

after having been built at a cost of $2 million 

in a space of 80 days. Ferguson found 

things going well, somewhat to his surprise. 

It may not be hard to spend $2 million in 

80 days but to spend it productively is difficult. 

"Ferguson is part of IMAX, a Canadian 

organization with headquarters in southern 

Ontario. He's an artistic-looking duck with 

sprawling iron-gray hair and horn-rimmed 

glas.ses but dres-ses as a businessman . . none 

of the typical movie director's patched blue 

jeans and love beads for him. I think I endeared 

myself to Ferguson early in the game 

by asking if IMAX didn't stand for maximum 

image. He beamed and said it did. 

"At this point it is perhaps best to separate 

the picture from its system of projection. 

First, a discassion of the artistic 

merits; later, a di.scu,ssion of the new technology. 

'The first thing I found about the 

government policy on ecology was that every 

department had a different one. There was 

no fixed policy." Ferguson said. 'Obviously 

the picture would have to be general. But 

we didn't want it bland. What we needed 

was a father-figure who.se word could not 

be doubted.' 

"It was an inspiration of genius to settle 

on Chief Dan George, star of "Little Big 

Man' and a man of impressive if approachable 

dignity, to do this job. 'We figured the 

chief would have .some ideas about ecology, 

so we sent a researcher out to talk with him,' 

Ferguson explained. 

Chiefs Ecology Message 

".'Vs it turned out. Chief Dan George was 

a mine of information about ecology. Out 

of a three-day talk, which was taped, came 

all the words that the chief says on the 

screen. We didn't add anything,' said Ferguson. 

"That story he tells about his father 

catching him gaffing fish for the fun of it 

was exactly as he told it.' 

"What the chief's father said to him was, 

"Never destroy fish for the fun of it. It is 

not 

right with the Great Spirit.' 

"Chief Dan George showed up for the 

filming in 

his blue jeans and fringed leather 

jacket and perhaps 20 or 30 finger rings, 

his usual number. 'What he showed up in, 

he wore,' said Ferguson. 'You don't tinker 

with an authentic father-figure.' 

Rare, Impressive Images 

-The chief is only part of the movie. It 

also shows rare whooping cranes, an alligator 

lurking in the Everglades, a charming 

sea otter floating on its back while eating 

an abalone and also less desirable images. 

Suddenly the vast screen is full of ants. No, 

they aren't ants—they are motorcycles 

jouncing across a vast plain, cycles by the 

thousands, teeming, squirming and defacing. 

'We were hoping for something big 

for a climax,' said Ferguson. 'Finally we got 

dians. 

word that there was an oil well fire. Fortunately 

for us. it happened, although unfort- 

"Graeme Ferguson, the director and 

photographer, showed up at Cedar Point to 

unately for the ecology.' An oil well fire 

.see how the new theatre was working out 

being extinguished by dynamite is impressive. 

"Ferguson is a pioneer in working with 

IMAX. a screen system so big that you really 

can't in good conscience dolly in for a 

closeup. as is possible on other screens. The 

very idea of someone's teeth being shown 

.seven stories high is daunting and as for the 

camera concentrating on an actor's left 

nostril— well, the idea is just impossible. 

"You have to direct people's attention to 

your center of interest in other ways.' said 

Ferguson. 'The eye is free to roam, because 

the screen is so big.' 

"IMAX was developed following Expo 

"67 in Montreal, where many motion pic- 

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page)

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DETROIT 

^he annual meeting of th*; Youth Film 

Forum, project of the Greater Detroit 

Motion Picture and Television Council, was 

held at 10 a.m. Wednesday (6) at the home 

of Wilma Naimark. YFF chairman, in 

Southfield. Luncheon followed the business 

session. Edna Green is president of the 

Greater Detroit Motion Picture and Television 

Council. 

The "Sound Off column of the Free 

Press recently conducted a survey of moviegoers, 

asking for response to the question: 

"The scare movie "Jaws" will probably become 

the biggest boxoffice draw of all time. 

Do you pay to see a movie simply to be 

frightened?" A whopping 62.1 per cent 

voted "no" and some of the comments from 

this segment were: "Those movies aren't 

frightening. They're just plain disgusting" 

. . . "If I want to be frightened. I can walk 

'the streets of Detroit for free" ... "I saw it 

because I heard it was a good movie" . 

"After seeing 'Jaws' I'll never go in the 

ocean, again" . 

enough to be 

afraid of in daily living." 

Of those who responded. 37.9 f«r cent 

voted "yes," commenting as follows: "I love 

'being scared out of my wits" . . . "For the 

cost of movies I want either sex or violence 

in the story" . . . "It beats getting mugged" 

. 

not hung up on being frightened 

"A good horror 

but it's iinteresting" . . 

movie will take my mind completely off of 

work, bills and other worries. 

. 

"The Happy Hooker" (Cannon) opened 

saturation engagement in area hardtops 

a 

and underskyers Pictures" 

"The 7lh Voyage of Sinbad" in Dynarama 

opened in a number of walk-in theatres and 

in the Fort George, Jolly Roger and Pontiac 

drive-ins . . . MGM's "The Wind and the 

Lion," released by United Artists, was held 

over at the Quo Vadis, Showcase. Dearborn 

and Tel-Ex cinemas . . . "Rollerball." 

Norman Jewison film released by UA, is 

playing an exclusive engagement at the 

Northland. 

"Deliver Us From Evil" is on the screen 

at the Adams and Mercury, with "Johnny 

Tough!" as the co-feature. 

GCC Sets 'Meal 'n' Movie' 

Tie-in With Ramada Inn 

ST. LOUIS—General Cinema Corp.. in 

a tie-in with Ramada Inn, is featuring "A 

Meal 'n' Movie." 

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ture exhibits used multiple cameras and multiple 

projectors to achieve vastness. Cinerama 

(not shown at E.xpo "67) initially used 

three cameras and three projectors. Some 

projection systems used as many as a dozen 

cameras, all carefully synchronized. "Our 

idea was to use one camera.' said Bill Shaw 

of IMAX, who does the technical end and 

helps out with the inventing. He. too, was 

at Cedar Point for the inaugural. 

"The system uses 70mm film running 

across, rather than up and down, as the 

normal motion picture film does. The literature 

says the 70mm system has a picture 

ten times as large as the usual 35mm film. 

""There are only three or four IMAX 

cameras in existence and only five IM.^X 

projection systems. The projector at Cedar 

Point has an 8.000-watt xenon bulb. The 

hoses carrying cooling water to the lamp 

and away from it are about as big as the 

wires carrying 

the electricity. 

""Each frame is 2x2 Vi inches, about the 

size of a picture postcard. The projector is 

designed to accommodate two films of the 

same program. While one is running, the 

other is being rewound. 

tape are synchronized before the projection 

starts and synchronization is maintained by 

selsyn motors, meaning in essence that one 

motor drives the other. 

"So far there are five films in 

IMAX and 

a couple others are being made, one for 

Philadelphia's observance of America's 

200th anniversary. The film demands a special 

theatre, the one at Cedar Point being 

larger than any previous theatres. 

"Ferguson said the screen may well be 

the largest anywhere in the world, including 

outdoor screens, which by implication are 

excluded from the screen's billing as "the 

largest indoor screen in the world.' But he 

didn't know of any place where he could 

conveniently check on outsize outdoor 

screens, so he omitted them from the comparison. 

A cautious fellow, Ferguson." 

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Classic Pictures Offered 

In Bicentennial Salute 

YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO — A special 

series of classic films screened during the 

month of July kicked off the Youngstown- 

Mahoining County Public Library bicentennial 

salute to "'Movies of .America." Library 

director Davd W. Griffith said outstanding 

motion pictures will be shown each month 

at 

area libraries. 

Films offered las! month at various 

branches included "C'iti/en Kane," classic 

picture starring Orson Welles; "Intermezzo,"" 

starring Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman; 

Kirk Douglas in '"Champion,"" Ring Lardner 

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Ticket Prices Changing 

At Neighborhood Houses 

CLEVELAND—There are some movie 

theatres in this city where the prices of popcorn 

and pop axe higher than the admission 

fee tout in a recent Plain Dealer feature 

Mark N. Dcdosh commented that the days 

of the SI houses appear to be numbered. 

More than half the local cinemas which 

charged $1 admission at the start of the 

year have raised thjir prices, he said. 

Dodosh's article. headlined "Dollar 

Movies Here Find Audiences Will Come 

Even If Price Ls $L50;' follows: "Eugene 

R. Frank, manager of the Mapletown Theatre 

in Maple Heights, said a price cut to $1 

two years ago only increased his attendance 

slightly, so he raised his price to $L50 in 

November 1974. Mapletown is near Southgate 

cinemas 1 and IL Frank said he occasionally 

charges $1 for second releases but 

added that attendance 'all depends on the 

picture.' 

Certain 

Films Attract 

"Andrew P. Zuby. manager of the Variety 

Theatre in Cleveland, agreed with 

Frank. 'The people in this neighborhood are 

attracted to certain movies, mostly R-rated. 

and they'll come out no matter what you 

charge,' Zuby said . . . While Zuby goes 

for an adult audience, other cut-rate theatres 

are going for the family turnout. 'If 

the bigger families just wait a couple of 

months, they can see the same film at $1 

that they'd pay $3 to see at the mall.' explained 

David E. Phillips, assistant manager 

of the National Theatre in North Olmsted. 

" 'We weren't doing the business at 

$2.50 but this year has really been going 

well.' Phillips said in exiplaining why National 

lowered its price to $1 more than a 

year ago. Phillips conceded that the Great 

Northern Theatre draws customers away 

from the National, since it is a first-run 

house. 'But we ran, "Murder on the Orient 

Express" about two or three months behind 

Great Northern and we drew people like 

flies,' he said. 

Consumer Attitudes 

Noted 

"Joseph Rembrandt, owner of the Center 

Mayfield Theatre in Cleveland Heights, attributes 

the good attendance at his $1 movie 

house to 'the economy and the intelligence 

of the consumer.' 

"Rembrandt, president of the Cleveland 

Motion Picture Exhibitors Ass'n. said that 

despite competition from the shopping mall 

and circuit-owned theatre groups, he refuses 

to play distasteful films to attract customers. 

'I try to get the family turnout.' he said, 

adding that there are few events families in 

his area can go to together. 

"Arnold F. Porozynski, manager of the 

Willow Theatre in Independence, said attendance 

at his theatre has not changed 

since he increased his price SL.SO from 

to 

$1 this year. He said he raised it to get 

films more quickly from the distributors. 

Theatres bid for films from distributors. 

The distributors consider the percentage of 

gross profit offered by the theatre, .is well 

CLEVELAND 

ânin Yankees," hit musical by George 

Abbott which was made into a motion 

is picture, the attraction through Saturday 

(23) at Cain Park Theatre. Cleveland 

Heights, the nation's oldest municipally 

owned theatre. Located at Lee and Superior 

roads in Cleveland Heights, Cain Park has 

been named as Greater Cleveland's Bicentennial 

Heritage Theatre. Admission is $2 

tor adults and $1 for students and the reservations 

phone number is 371-3000. 

A 64-page booklet titled "Playhouse 

Square" was published recently which recounts 

the history of this city's theatres 

from the first performance of a traveling 

touring company at Mowry's Tavern near 

Public Square in 1820 to the renovation and 

restoration of the beautiful old movie 

houses on Playhouse Square today. The 

booklet chronicles the building of the theatres 

that made our town famous on the 

B. F. Keith circuit—and vice versa. For 

instance, when the Hippodrome was opened 

in 1908. its auditorium was among the 

world's greatest. It was taken over by Keith 

about a year later and was one of the first 

theatres to exhibit silent films. Still open 

today, the Hippodrome ranks among the 

world's greatest theatres, according to the 

publication, which was written and designed 

by Kathleen Kennedy, publications editor of 

the Playhouse Square Ass'n. The building of 

legitimate and movie theatres in the city 

reached its zenith in the 1920s. The State 

and Ohio theatres opened in February 1921 

and two months later the Allen opened. The 

Hanna was unveiled in March 1921, while 

as the ticket prices and capacity of the 

theatre, 

before accepting a bid. 

"Porozynski said isolated independent 

AKRON—^James Freeman and 174 South 

theatres cannot 

convenient 

with reduced 

draw 

shopping 

ticket prices 

audiences as well as 

Main St.. Inc.. an adult theatre in the downtown 

area, have filed suit seeking $50,000 

center theatres, even 

. . . This is why 

in damages from three Akron policemen 

the Willow and other independent theatres 

for allegedly violating the plaintiffs' civil 

no longer are first-run theatres, he added. 

rights. 

"James D. Calafat, owner of the Beach- 

Filed in federal district court, the suit 

cliff, Lake, Parma and Shore theatres, said 

that "all shopping center theatres are very 

competitive with the independent." Although 

all of Calafat's theatres except the Lake 

have reduced ticket prices, he said it is 

difficult to increase their attendance beyond 

a certain point, no matter what the ticket 

price 

is." 

Renaissance Property Is 

To Be Sold August 15 

lOLHDO, OHIO— Ihe Renaissance 

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CINCINNATI 

Interstate Theatre Services is booking and 

buying for Cinema South. Aubon 

Theatre and Cinema 21, Charleston, W. Va.. 

and the Columbia cinemas, Portsmouth, for 

owner Walter Dills. 

Cincinnati Theatres has moved its office 

from 1600 Central Pkwy. to the Regency 

Building. 2444 Madison Rd. Jack Haynes is 

the manager. 

Debbie Ruff of C. J. 

Ruff Film Distribution 

has returned from a Canadian vacation 

. . . Also returning from vacations are 

Tina VonBokern and Stephanie Marchino. 

Mid States office staff. 

Roy White, president of Mid States, 

COLUMBUS 

Joseph Madonna, newly appointed executive 

director of the Capitol Square 

South redevelopment area in the heart of 

the downtown area, hopes that construction 

will start by mid- 1977. He believes the Ohio 

Theatre should be the nucleus for cultural 

activities in the three-block area. Madonna 

hopes that land acquisition can begin by 

spring 1976. Retail shops, a parking 

hotel, 

garages and other structures are expected 

to be erected. 

Eastland Mall held a free 

morning showing 

of "The Great Waltz" Tuesday "(.S) . . . 

Gene Gerrard. writing a column in the 

Citizen-Journal, reported that the Ohio Theatre's 

summer film series racked up S.SO.OOO 

in advance sales. 

Properties in Fort Wayne 

Expect Historical Status 

FORT WAYNE, IND.—Approval was 

expected July 28 by the city planning commission 

on a proposal to grant historical 

district status for the Embassy Theatre and 

Indiana Hotel. The Embassy Foundation, 

which recently went ahead with plans to 

purchase the theatre and hotel, applied for 

the favored status last May. 

This move was to prohibit the owners 

from defacing the structures without the 

approval of several city boards and commissions 

and was sought last spring as a method 

of stalling possible razing of the structure, 

had its fund-raising campaign not been 

successful. 

Now that the purchase of the 2.875-seat 

theatre is assured, directors have decided to 

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We can handle all your 

theatre equipment needs 

and repairs. 

MOORE THEATRE EQUIPMENT CO. 

p. O. Box 782 213 Delaware Ave. 

Charleston, W. Va. 25323 

Telephone (304) 344-4413 

celebrated 

his birthday Wednesday, July 30 . 

Cindy Barsman is a new Mid States office 

staffer and Bill Waynberg is the new salesman 

for United Artists. 

Mary Kitts, a member of Mid Stales' 

accounting department, is the proud mother 

of Matthew Dale, bom Thursday. July 24. 

Irene Firestone, Mid States publicist, has 

returned from a recent theatregoing weekend 

in New York City. The highlight of 

the trip was the opportunity to see George 

C. Scott star in, a revival of "The Death of 

a .Salesman." 

Jeannine Ebel, Mid States staffer, and 

Ray Marsh were married recently. 

employ a volunteer booker until it can support 

a professional. The theatre will begin 

booking its 1976-77 season this fall and the 

1975-76 season will ibe filled with smaller 

and more local productions. However, the 

Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra has 

decided to move its concert series next season 

from the 2,100-seat Scottish Rite Auditorium 

to the Embassy because of size and 

better acoustics. 

The directors of the Embassy Foundation 

decided that for the first year the price of 

all rentals would be the same, whether for 

profit or nonprofit performances. Basic 

rental fee, including one rehearsal the day 

of the performance, with user paying for 

stagehands, ushers and other personnel, will 

be $600. A second show the same evening 

will cost $250. 

88 Filmites Participate 

In Annual Golf Classic 

CINCINNATI — Eighty-eight 

golfers 

from the film colony and their guests had 

a great time at the fifth annual Greater 

Cincinnati Film Golf Classic held this year 

at Pleasant Run Country Club, Fairfield, 

Ohio, July 29. 

Low net winner was Larry Dinnerman of 

Dinnerman & Co.. advertising firm. Low 

gross winner was Tom Kellison. popular 

downtown traffic officer. 

Don Womack of Holiday Amusement Co. 

was chairman of the successful event, while 

trophies were donated by B&R Theatres. 

Among the out-of-town golfers were Ray 

Russo, 20th Century-Fox division manager, 

and exhibitors Jerry Knight, Columbus; 

Paul Vogcl, Wellsville. Ohio; Willie Worrell 

and Tom Goodman of Tri-Statc of Indiana. 

and Ed O'Brien and Don Perkins. Sun 

Classics, Detroit. 

Mid States Begins Work 

On Montclair Quadplex 

CINCINNATI—Mid States Theatres has 

announced that construction of its eastern 

Cincinnati complex, Montclair cinemas 

1-2-3-4, has begun. The quad is locL\lcd ;ii 

Exit 57 off 1-275 and Route 58. 

The Montclair cinemas will soon be visible 

lo those traveling 1-275. 

Ohio Suit Charges Bingo 

For Charity Is Ripoff 

TOLEDO. OHIO—After estimating that 

a gross of nearly $5 million a year brought 

only $160,000 to local charities, a suit has 

been filed against one Toledo charity bingo 

operator, while the operators of 41 other 

charity bingo games were threatened with 

court action if they do not comply with 

financial accounting requirements of Ohio's 

charitable solicitation laws. 

The Ohio attorney general's office filed 

suit against Louise Corthell, Toledo, who 

allegedly grossed $524,000 in 1974 in bingo 

games but turned over only $17,500, about 

3 per cent of the gross, to the Toledo Deaf 

Club. The state is seeking voluntary compliance 

with the registration and accounting 

provisions of the charity solicitations law, 

saying that none of the bingo operators in 

Toledo and its suburbs complied. 

The suit against Mrs. Corthell said she 

misrepresented the bingo games as charity 

bingo and is perpetuating a fraud, since 

"such an unreasonable percentage of the 

funds raised . . . have been retained." 

Police Capt. Norbert DeClercq, head of 

the city morals squad, said operators seldom 

keep complete records (one used a single 

file card, while another had only a torn 

page from a spiral notebook) but estimates 

were that some 16 professionally run games 

averaged a $300,000 yeariy gross, paying 

back less than $10,000 each to the charity 

for which the game was run. He said bingo 

players spend between $7 and $10 a night. 

Theatremen say they can't compete with 

the lure of big-money prizes. 

Adult Entertainment Zone 

Issue Is Alive in Toledo 

DAYTON. OHIO—Adult entertainment 

zoning districts still may be a possibility in 

this city's future. The city planning board 

asked its staff to study the idea last January 

but not much has been heard since then. 

Planning Board Director Anthony B. 

Char said, however, that a report is expected 

by fall on whether the city's adult bookstores, 

movie houses, body painting outlets 

and photography studios should be restricted 

to specific areas. 

"We've got it on our agenda but it's not 

a high priority." Char commented. 

Grandview Cinema Patrons 

View Shark in Lobby Tank 

ST. LOUIS—^Grandview Cinema manager 

Mike Beatty, in connection with the theatre's 

record-setting showing of "Jaws," is 

providing patrons with a view of a less 

alarming genus. 

A foot-long blow shark, courtesy of the 

Aquarium Beautiful Co., was placed in a 

tank in the lobby. Beatty found that unlike 

others, this shark does not swim continually 

but rests about half the day. He comes up 

snapping for food, however, and subsists on 

shrimp and beef blood. 

Beau Bridges and Susan Sarandon have 

l>een signed for roles in "Dragonfly," ;u 

AIP relea.se. 

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Facts of Filmmaking 

Explained by Writer 

HARTFORD— Ihcrc is more liclion ih.in 

fact printed about film producticin. Allen \1 

Widem. Boxoffice regional correspondent, 

told a Charter Oak Lions Club luncheon 

meeting at Vallo's Steak House. 

To a man. producers reflect instinct, not 

indecision." Widem said. "Regardless o! 

how much the print and broadcast media 

may write and talk about helter-skelter 

planning and attendant escalating costs, most 

producers, with an unwavering eye and oar 

on marketing capability of the project involved, 

hope to provide entertainment of a 

quality perhaps emulated but never fully 

achieved in necessarily more abbreviated 

filming schedules accorded even the 

television 

productions. 

biggest 

"It is not fair, and never has been fair, 

for writers and commentators who should 

know better, to single out minor inconsistencies 

in story-line, for example, when the 

overall intent, essentially, is to provide engrossing 

entertainment. Nobody starts out to 

make a "bad" picture. Unfortunately, many 

factors simply do not work out. 

"The entertainment industry—and most 

especially motion pictures—has traditionally 

contained legends. Through the years. 

legends are. urderstandably enough, develop)ed 

to a point where fact is secondary to 

fiction, and the public, which seems to dote 

more on what-might-have-been than whatdid-happen, 

prefers the fiction, in something 

akin to appreciation of a never-never land 

in which everybody lives happily ever after. 

"But in the harsh realism of the nowaday 

world, not everybody lives happily every 

day. Hollywood has been scored for its sheer 

escapism, with some critics scoffingly saying, 

"Life should be more like the movies," and 

when a flock of escapist films can be said to 

do more than satisfactory business at the 

boxoffice. these same critics are quick to 

contend. "See, I told you so!' 

"In the '30s, with story accent on social 

concern—as witness the Warner Bros, output—critics 

commended the intent. Enter 

the '70s. with an enormously changed life 

style, escapism is accompanied by reflections 

of life style, and still the critics carp. Ergo. 

you can't please everybody every time." 

"The greatest gesture to be accorded the 

.'Xmerican film production community." 

Widem said, "is boxoffice respon.se for motion 

pictures of merit. This, in itself, will 

serve to encourage even greater effort, even 

more conscientious endeavor to reflect 

American mores, manners and meaningful- 

'Funny Lady' at Discount 

PROVIDENCE — The Midland \I:ilI 

Cinema opened a "special engagement" of 

ness." 

Columbia's "Funny Lady." charging .$1 admission 

for all seats to 2 p.m. 

$1 Policy Swampscott Surf 

SWAMPSCOTT. MASS.—The Surf Cinema 

has a new policv of $1 admission in 

effect tor all seals at "all limes. 

CELKBRATING IN BROOKLINE—Offitials (»1 Patriot ( inciiias pose with 

Hearthstone Plaza officials during recent opcninj; of the cirinil's ( inema-Brookline 

in the shopping center. Left to right: Steven .\vitable. V\c.vnu>iith. resident manager; 

Philip E. Rudnick, Hearthstone Plaza building manager; Leonard Ritter, 

Newtown, vice-president of Combined Insurance Co., landlord; Philip J. Scott, 

Hingham, president of Patriot Cinemas; and David A. Kiolbasa, Weymouth, general 

manager of Patriot Cinemas. 

'Nashville Tops Boston With 625; 

'Casino of Gold; 'Jaws' Tie at 600 

BOSTON — Weekend business zoomed 

here after a heat wave and exhibitors cited 

the bicentennial flood of tourists as an 

asset. "Nashville" topped the list of contenders 

with 625 a fourth week at Cheri 

in 

One. "Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of 

Gold" opened to a smashing 600 at the 

Savoy, tieing with "Jaws" at the Charles. 


Beocon Hill—The Wind and the Lion (UA), 

5th wk 180 

Charles Jows (Univ.), 6th wk 600 

Cheri One^Nashville (Para), 4th wk 625 

Cheri Two—The Fortune (Col!, 4th wk 125 

Cheri Three Love and Deoth UA), 7th wk 400 

Cinema 57 One- French Connection II (20th-Fox), 

10th wk, 130 

Cinema 57 Two— Rolicrboi! UA), 3rd wk 400 

Is Circle Jacqueline Susonn's Once Not Enough 

(Paro), 5th wk 180 

r-arv—Cooley Hiqh (AlP), 3rd wk 200 

That's the Way of the World 

Music Hall 

(UA). 2nd wk 200 

Paris Erotic Dreams (SR), 2nd wk 135 

Tommy Col!, 18th wk 125 

Pi Alle-' 

Sovov One One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing 

Savoy Two 'd try to take 

you right off it." He said he went over 

the side of the ship with 83 men. By 

the time rescue vessels arrived four 

days lattr, there «ere only 23 left. Altogether, 

880 crewmen were lost or 

eaten by sharks. 

BOXOFFICE August 11. 1975 NE-1

BOSTON 

Jnterstate Theatres' general manager Chris 

Joyce reports that John DcrderLan, formerly 

manager at the Milford complex, has 

been named district manager in charge of 

the western Massachusetts and Connecticut 

theatres. He wUl headquarter at Milford. 

Carl Goldman, executive secretary for 

Theatre Owners of New England, drove up 

to Wentworth-by-the-Sea. Portsmouth, N.H., 

to check out details for the TONE convention 

Monday (25) through Wednesday (27). 

Carl said reservations were coming in fast 

and a large crowd was expected. 

The 14th annual Foxboro "Night at the 

Races" takes place Wednesday (13). sponsored 

by Communications-Cinema Lodge 

B'nai B'rith, and Boston's Filmrow will be 

well represented. The yearly event, offered 

through the courtesy of E.M. Loew and the 

Bay State Raceway, is a major attraction of 

the season. George Roberts of Theatre Management 

will do the handicapping. Alan 

Hockberg is treasurer and advises it is best 

to make reservations as soon as possible because 

the maximum is 100 gue&ts. 

The Pikers Club boys were at lunch as 

usual one day recently and Harold Levin 

sat down with a bowl of chowder and six 

packs of crackers. He turned away for a 

moment and discovered three ipacks were 

missing. Harold got excited and everyone 

present denied seeing anything so he got up 

and picked up another batch for his 

chowder. All things considered, we recall 

Marty Zide was sitting beside him and 

was having crackers with his coffee. 

There was plenty of excitement around 

the film district on Broadway near Piedmont 

and Winchester streets. The Boston Licensing 

Board has ordered two gay-oriented 

bars, Jacque's and The Other Side, to relocate 

after complaints from Bay Village 

neighbors. If the bars do not move, they 

face .suspension of their liquor licenses. The 

residents claimed a criminal element has 

been drawn into the area. 

Sack's Pi Alley Cinema is finishing an 

18th week with "Tommy," the rock opera 

. . . "Jaws," in a seventh week at the 

Charles and at Framingham. Burlington, 

Danvers and Dedham cinemas, will open at 

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J^l Schwartz, manager of the Mahaiwe Theatre, 

Great Barrington. part of the 40- 

unit Interstate Theatres of New England 

circuit, is dramatically demonstrating the 

economic viability of a smalltown cinema's 

outlook by staging ""live" entertainment as 

supplement to continuing motion picture 

programs. The theatre was built in 1905. 

dropped its regular stage productions in 

1935. "What we need are more Al 

Schwartzes," muses circuit spokesman Chris 

Joyce, who has given the youthful Schwartz 

a free hand to revive "live" shows as part 

of regular operating policy. 

Premieres: 20th Century-Fox's "Race with 

the Devil." Academy of Music. Northampton; 

Agawam Twin, Agawam; Albano family's 

Allen & Cooley Cinemas II, Springfield: 

Springfield Twins, Springfield: and Airline 

Drive-In, Chicopee (latter on a triple bill 

with same distributor's "99 and 44% Dead" 

and "M*A*S*H," both reprise booT

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HARTFORD 

Qarmen J. Meile. managing director of 

Redstone Theatres" Showcase Cinemas 

IV. East Hartford, and Beverly Allen, with 

Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Division. United 

Technologies Corp. (formerly United Aircraft 

Corp.). were married and left on a 

honeymoon trip to Bermuda. 

James Parker, assistant manager, same 

Redstone complex, was on the job. showman-plus, 

despite a neckbrace. the result of 

a beach mishap . carried a July 

22 repeat airing on "Let's Switch!" comedy 

co-authored by Ruth Brooks Flippen. cashier 

at E.M. Loew's Theatre. Hartford, many 

years ago. Barbara Eden and Barbara 

Feldon co-starred in the Universal-TV production, 

initially seen last January . . . The 

Mansfield Drive-In, Mansfield, had "Thumper 

the Rabbit" at its boxoffice in conjunction 

with repeat showings of Buena Vista's 

"Bambi." on a double bill with same distributor's 

"Superdad." The Thumper character 

appears in the vintage animated cartoon. 

The Mansfield underskyer has a flea 

market Sundays. 

Gil Gerard, star of NBC-TVs "The Doctors." 

weekday soap opera, was in town, 

recording TV commercials for the Southern 

New England Telephone Co. He told newspaper 

interviewers that he was also working 

in "The Taxicab Driver." co-starring Cybill 

Shepherd and Robert DeNiro. on New York 

locations for director Martin Scorcese and 

Columbia Pictures. "I hope this will prove 

the turning point as far as motion pictures 

are concerned for me." Gerard continued. 

"I've done half a dozen, none of them 

despite producer intentions—of any distinction." 

The Roger's Comer Drive-In, Pleasant 

Valley, joined the ever-increasing number of 

underskyers charging 99 cents admission 

Mondays and Tuesdays . access 

cable TV will be available in Torrington by 

. 

October, according to a spokesman for 

Laurel Cablevision Midtown, Norwich, 

ran a four-feature Beatles vintage program 

("Help!" "A Hard Day's Night." "Let 

It Be" and "Yellow Submarine") on two 

recent weekend evenings, beginning at midnight 

and charging 99 cents for all patrons. 

For good measure, the same cinema scheduled 

reprise showings of Columbia's "Let 

Ihe Good Times Roll." at weekend matinees, 

w'th same admission tab in effect. 

The UA Grolun Cinema, Groton. captioning 

holdover ads for Univcrsal's "Jaws" 

with the words "The Film That Is Making 



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[HOTELS) Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel. 

Lifeguards' Job A Breeze." offered patrons 

their own "Jaws" plastic soda cup with a 

choice of soft drinks. The theatre also put 

on sale a limited quantity of "Jaws" T- 

shirts. The words ""Going Swimming?" were 

used adjacent to the cinema's logo in daily 

newspaper ads. 

Paul Newman (he and actress wife Joanne 

Woodward maintain residence in downstate 

Westport) placed second in the B-sedan race 

at Lime Rock over a recent weekend. 

The Ferguson-Paul Cinema, Kensington, 

and Plaza, Windsor, are on a 99 cents policy 

at all times, with advertising asserting, 

"Every Big Picture Will Play Here For 

Only 99 cents! Wait and Save!"' 

NEW BRITAIN 

^^r. and Mrs. John Jiles Pierce, son-in-law 

and daughter of Capt. (ret) and Mrs. 

Herman E. Miller left Houston, Tex., with 

their family to live in their new home at 

17022 Tibet St., Friendswood, Tex. Mrs. 

Miller is a member of the Perakos family, 

owners and operators of the Perakos exhibition 

interests here. 

The William Brown Centre Mall Cinemas 

II. Bristol, out a new 99 cents admission 

policy into effect for Mondays and Tuesdays. 

The twin complex has a "'new look" 

in daily newspaper ad logo, with greater 

emrhasis on the identity. Cinema I & II, 

and location, downtown Bristol. 

Berlin's Peck IVIeniorial Library offered 

a free film program, containing vintage footage 

of "name" screen comedians, the other 

afternoon at 3:30 p.m.. with the public invited. 

Mrs. Urania Perakos of the Perakos exhibition 

family is serving on the board of 

directors of New Britain General Hospital: 

she holds title of president, hospital auxiliary. 

Rothman to New Post 

.STAMFORD. CONN,—Steve 

Rothman, 

formerly director of public relations. Stage 

West, the West Springfield, Mass.. professional 

repertory theatre, has been named director 

of audience development and communications 

at the newly-established Hartman 

Theatre Co.. professional theatre company 

situated in the former Palace Theatre 

here. Previously, Rothman was assistant 

managing director, Asolo State Theatre Co., 

Sarasota, Fla. 

'Aloha' Playdates in NH 

MAN(Hi:SIHR. N.H. -Columbia booked 

"Aloha, Bobby and Rose" day-and-date 

into the Casino, Hampton Beach: I.atchis, 

Newport: Tri-City Cinema, Salem: and 

Norlhriclil Drive-In. Winchester, backed b\ 

New Britain Suburban Law 

Requires Fenced Drive-Ins 

NEW BRITAIN—The recent U.S. Supreme 

Court ruling that it is unconstitutio'al 

for a city to impose a blanket prohibition 

against the showing of films with 

nude scenes at drive-ins prompted an 

analysis, on page one in the New Britain 

Herald, recalling the suburban Berlin drivein 

ordinance. 

The latter required outdoor theatres to 

fence screens if showing X or R-rated attractions 

or films advertised "for adults 

only." 

Berlin Mayor Arthur B. Powers, it was 

noted, spearheaded an extensive effort to 

establish the ordinance, forcing the Berlin 

Drive-In to fence its screen in compliance. 

John Perakos, assistant general manager 

of the New Britain-headquartered Perakos 

Theatres Associates, one of Connecticut's 

largest independent circuits, was quoted, 

too, in the New Britain Herald following 

the nation's high court action. 

'The Perakos Theatres," he was quoted 

as saying, "constructed the large fence surroimding 

their Plainville Drive-ln (to the 

west of New Britain and not too many miles 

from Berlin) solely for the viewing enjoyment 

of their patrons. 

"Traffic and other road lights," John 

Perakos continued, "are a distraction to 

enjoyable viewing in an outdoor movie. 

"It has always been the policy to showacceptable 

family entertainment at the 

Perakos drive-in theatres, as it is believed 

that the very nature of a drive-in theatre 

is for family viewing," he was quoted as 

saying. 

Hartford Ponders Renewal 

Project to Contain Cinemas 

HARTFORD—A projected $25-million 

urban renewal development, to include film 

theatres, came under close scrutiny at a 

Hartford Redevelopment Agency public 

hearing. 

The development would be situated in the 

Asylum-TrumbuU-Main Streets aiiea of 

downtown Hartford: the tract at one time 

contained the now-demoli.shed 1900-.seat 

ABC Allyn, E.M. Loew's 1500-seat E.M. 

Loew's and Harold Konover's 1300-seat 

Strand. 

The agency staff, under questioning from 

merchants and property-owners, admitted 

there was no specific projection for what 

tax benefits the city would receive from the 

proposed development. 

But redevelopment planner David Mann 

countered with the remark that a study of 

the area under di.scussion over the past 10 

years indicated property values bad stagnated, 

then declined— pointing to the obvious 

need for something to be done. 

The tract is across the .street from the 

$.30..S-million Hartford Civic Center, which 

became operational January 9. 

The development is subject to City Council 

approval. 

And what interests would operate the 

cinemas—number as vet undisclosed 

would h.ivc [o be dclcrn'iined b\ the llarliord 

Kedevelopnieiil AuencN. 

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Tops in Toronto 4lh 

roKONIO — -lAnc AuA Dcalh" remained 

on lop with the only 'exeellent" in 

its fourth week at Uptown 1. Rated "very 

good" were "The Return of the Pink 

Panther," "Jaws." "Nashville" and "Rollerball," 

all in hokkn,-r weeks. 

Coronet Black Sox ,Danl> ni, Score (Danton) . . Poor 

Eglinton The Wind ond the Lion (UA), 

2nd wk 

Good 

Hollyiwood North The Drowning Pool |V/B), 

3rd wk 

Fair 

Hollywood South The Return of the Pink Panther 

(UA), 8fh -wk Very Good 

Hylond 2, Humber— Bite the Bullet (Col), 

4th wk 

Good 

Imperial Six— French Connection II (BVFD), 

7th wk Good 

In^perial 2 Jacqueline Susonn's Once Is Not 

Enough (Paro), 3rd wk Good 

Imperiol 3—Mondingo ;Para), 9th wk Fair 

Imperial 4 One of Our Dinosours Is Missing 

(BV) 

Fair 

Imperial 5 Bug (Poro), 2nd wk Good 

Seven theatres Jaws ;Univ), 5th wk Very Good 

Towne^Noshville ;Para!. 3rd wk Very Good 

University^Rolierbai! (UA), 3rd wk Very Good 

Uptown Love and Death (UA), 4th wk. 1 

. .Excellent 

Uptown 2 Port 2 Walking Toll (AFD), 2nd wk. Good 

Uptown 3 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 

(AFD), 8th wk Good 

York I—The Fortune (Col), 4th wk Fair 

"Rollerbair Ranks "Excellent' 

In Bow at Vancouver House 

VANCOUVER — "Rollerball" gave the 

Stanley its biggest business of the year, pulling 

in an "e.\cellent" first week. "Jaws" was 

still strong in a fourth week at the Vogue 

as was "French Connection IT' in a third 

week at the Park. 

Bav Monty Python and the Holy Groil (AFD), 

5th wk Very Good 

Coronet— Bite the Bullet Col 3rd wk. ..Very Good 

Denmon-Ploce The Return of the Pink Panther 

(UA), 8th wk Very Good 

Downtown Jacqueline Susonn's Once Is 

Not Enough iPoro), 3rd wk Good 

Lougheed Moll The Hoppy Hooker (AFD), 

2nd «/k 

Average 

Odeon The Fortune ;Col), 3rd wk Good 

Orpheum Capone 'BVFD( Average 

Park French Connection II BVFD), 

wk 3rd Excellent 

Park Roval— The Wind and the Lion (UA), 

3rd wk Good 

Stanley 

Vorsity 

Vogue 

^Rollerball (UA) Excellent 

Tommy (Col), 1 8th wk Very Good 

Jows (Univ), 4th wk Excellent 

'Bug' 'Excellent' in Winnipeg; 

"laws,' 'Funny Lady' Are Leaders 

WINNIPEG—"Jaws" and "Funny Lady" 

contiinued as big gros.sers here, pulling in 

boxoffice action in holdover frames. Also 

hot were "French Connection 11" at the 

Metropolitan, "The Return of the Pink 

Panther" at NorthStar I, "Jacqueline Susann's 

Once Is Not Enough" at NorthStar 

II and "Bug"" in a bow at Starlite Drive-In. 

Capitol Jows (Univ). 5th wk Excellent 

Downtown— llso. She Wolf of the SS (IFD); 

Man-Slaves of the Amazon (IFD), 4th wk . . .Good 

Garrick The Fortune (Col), 4th wk Fair 

Garrick 11 Tommy (Col), 4th wk Very Good 

Kings— Funny Lady (Col), 4th wk Excellent 

Metropolitan French Connection II (BVFD), 

3rd wk Excellent 

NorthStar The Return of the Pink Panther 

(UA), 4th wk Excellent 

NorthStor li — Jacqueline Susonn's Once Is 

Not Enough (Poro), 4th wk Excellent 

Odeon The Four Musketeers (EVFD), 

4th wk Very Good 

Pork- Hearts ond Minds (iWB) Good 

Polo Park—The Drowning Pool (WB), 

2nd wk 

Very Good 

Starlite— Bug 'Poro) Excellent 

"Bite the Bullet' "Excellent' 

In Opening at Calgary Houses 

CAI.GARY—Five films rated "excellent" 

here, including "Bite the Bullet" which had 

a snappy opening at two houses. "Jaws" 

remained tte, Leon Savard, Marcel Venne, Marcel 

Labbe, Gerry Chernoff, Jacques Auger, 

Roland .Smith, Marc Paul, Louis Roy, Andre 

Monette and Henri Masse. 

Following cocktails, members and guests 

accompanied by their wives attended the 

dinner at which the association honored a 

distinguished French Canadian personality, 

the most popular Miss Dominique Michel 

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August II, 1975 K-1

CALGARY 

"M^ Candel of Consolidated Thoatro Services, 

Don Mills, Ont.. was in town in mid- 

July and while here announced that Louis 

Litchinsky would be taking over the management 

of the local operation for his company. 

Louis, formerly of Canadian Theatres, 

is well-known in the film industry, 

having been in distribution for about 30 

years. 

The second annual Canfilm barbecue was 

held Saturday night, July 19. in the ski lodge 

at Happy Valley, a short drive out on the 

wes.t side of town. The weather was ideal, 

the company convivial, the food delicious 

and the music just right—all of the necessary 

ingredients for a festive evening. About 

40 people from various levels of the industry 

met and enjoyed themselves. Congratulations 

and a big vote of thanks go to those 

many people responsible for organizing the 

outing. 

After more than 20 years in the film industry, 

all spent in the shipping department 

with Paramount Films Service, John Fay 

has decided to go into another line of work, 

July 25 was Johns last day with the shipping 

sheets and glue pot and Monday, July 

28, he started his new career as a bank messenger. 

John will be missed by his co-workers 

and we all wish him the very best in his 

new job. 

the crew (Bryan McBean. your correspondent's 

son) took time out for an ocean 

dive. The local adventurers hope to make 

this an annual outing and even now are "at 

the drawing board" busy on a new "craft." 

Mike is involved in his own underwater 

photography and salvage company in this 

city. Better luck next year, fellows! 

Word has been received of the permanent 

closing of another theatre, the Pastime in 

Lastend, Sask., another victim of rising costs 

and the vicious battle for the entertainment 

dollar. 



HAWAII TOO. ^«r 

When you come to Waikiki, 

Bi!5e!3»UA 

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ji Don Ho Show. . . at 

Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel. 

m WAIKIKI RfEr RKFFTOWKRS FDGFWATIR 

A former employee of Empire Universal 

Films, Walter Petrigo, has added another 

honor to his steadily growing list of accomplishments. 

Waiter's photograph of {he 

"Wild Horse Race" at a previous Calgary 

Stampede was chosen to adorn a stamp issued 

by the federal government to honor 

Calgary's 100th birthday. This is the first 

time a stamp has honored any city other 

than a provincial capital, so Calgary and 

Walter can feel justly proud. 

Bert Cooper, formerly of Warner Bros., 

dropped into the exchange building to say 

"hello" to those still toiling there. He is 

happily employed with a housing development 

corporation and it certainly must 

agree with him. He is looking very well. 

In spite of the pain, misery and inconvenience 

of his broken elbow, Verne Haraldson, 

branch manager of United Artists 

Corp., is as happy as anyone can be under 

the circumstances. The reason for his happiness 

is the stand-in-line business that "The 

Return of the Pink Panther" is doing at 

Calgary Place Cinema 2. The very good 

grosses at the Chinook on "The Wind and 

the Lion" are an added cause for joy. 

Even though there has not been much 

publicity about it, the big news is that Paul 

Newman is in our very own town, right 

here amongst us mortal people! The reason, 

Mike Quinn, former underwater photographer, 

animal trainer and handler for Walt shot in this area . . . The lure of Elvis Pres- 

of course, is his new movie which is being 

Disney Productions in Hollywood, took time ley never seems to dim nor wane and the 

off from his regular job to join in the fun latest "blurb" for Elvis is a travel tour promotion 

called "Elvis Presley Special" to Las 

and adventure of the annual Nanaimo to 

Vancouver Bathtub Race. Three co-workers Vegas. This is a package trip including air 

went along with Mike on this first try at fare from our town to Las Vegas and return, 

this novel event and all reported a fantastic four nights' accommodation at a new hotel 

time. There were over 200 boats—tubs, that along the strip, meals, lounge show and 

is—entered in the race and although this cocktails, a guided tour and the big drawing 

city's entry came in 104th, Mike was wellpleased 

with the effort. As he pointed out, of this sells for just over 

card, tickets to the Elvis Presley show. All 

$250.00! 

this was their first try and even some of the 

Holiday time, with people traveling back 

experienced crews (about 27) didn't even 

and forth across the country, always brings 

make it out of the harbor. Mike and one of 

ipleasant surprises and the nicest, happiest 

surprise came recently when former Calgarian 

Mike Brager called to say "hello." 

Mike, with Universal Films, now makes his 

home in Toronto and was back here for one 

.short week. Accompanying Mike was his 

youngest daughter Miriam, who had her first 

look at the places where the Brager family 

lived and worked. Miriam was too young to 

remember much of this city when the family 

moved east and Mike thoroughly enjoyed 

showing Miriam around. Mike's many 

friends in western Canada will be pica.sed 

to know that all is well with the Brager 

family. 

That genial gentleman from the North. 

Norman Lowe of Fort Nelson, was in town 

for several days and dropped into the exchange 

to take care of some dates for his 

theatres. 

The month of June saw the 

Alberta Motion 

Picture Censor Board classify a total 

of .VS features. Three of these were passed 

as "familv." five were rated "adull." Ion 

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drew an "adult—not suitable for children" 

classification and almost half of the total 

17—were given a rating of "restricted 

adult." There were eight British films, three 

German (English dubbed) and one Italian 

(English dubbed). 

VANCOUVER 


the location that they already have made a 

reservation for a holiday there next year. It 

is to be hoped it will be in late May, so they 

can continue their trek to catch the rhododendrons 

at their peak on the Pacific Coa.st. 

The two top volley ball teams in the 

world, the champion Japanese and the Russians, 

played a series in this city, which 

prompted Dolphin manager Frank Marshall. 

who is a veteran trainer of top sports figures 

in British Columbia, to remark: "TTie game 

sure has come a long way. It only has been 

15 years since it was known as the 'mating 

game' of the Y set." 

The Golden Harvest Theatre in Chinatown 

celebrated the second anniversary of 

Bruce Lee's death with a "Bruce Lee Week" 

July 17-23. Featured were "The Big Boss." 

"Fists of Fury." "The Way of the Dragon" 

and "Enter the Dragon," a double bill of 

two everyday at $2 admission. 

Enjoying our Pacific summer, sightseeing 

and shopping was veteran star Joel McCrea. 

who had just finished a picture in Calgary 

and elsewhere in Alberta titled "Mustang 

Country." 

Quebec Cinema Owners 

Confer at Quebec City 


(who has over a dozen successful Quebecmade 

films to her credit). She was presented 

a beautiful ceramic, created by French artist 

Huguette Bouchard Bonct. for her contribution 

to the development of French 

Canadian productions. 

Special guests were: Miss Dominique 

Michel: Claude Trudel, representing Minister 

of Cultural Affairs Denis Hardy: Gratien 

Gelinas, president of the Development 

of Canadian Cinematography; Labbe Berube, 

office of .social communications: 

Rock Demers, president, Ass'n of Quebec 

Film Distributors; Claude Chenc, president 

of the Montreal Film Board; Romeo Goudreau, 

Quebec Motion Picture "Pioneer of 

the Year"; Raymond-Marie Legcr, director 

of L'Office du Film du Quebec; Maurice 

Phaneuf, president of the Quebec Motion 

Picture Pioneers and executive vice-president 

of United Theatres; Paul Gendron. 

president of the Quebec Ass'n of Theatre 

Owners, and Andre Gourd, Secretaire 

Particulier Adjoint du Mini.stre. 

Due to the limited exhibit space this year, 

the association was unable to accommodate 

ihe many requests from companies who were 

most interested in participating. Administrators 

now are making plans to expand its 

services next year in order to permit all who 

ilcsire lo parlicipale. 

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TORONTO 

J^lex Barris, ex-Toronlonian, columnisi ;uhI 

writer, was back in the cily to attend 

the weddings of his son and daughter. Interviewed 

by Betty Kennedy on her top-rated 

CFRD Radio show, Barris spoke of his latest 

Hollywood-inspired book and others soon 

to come out. Barris discussed the many facets 

of show business and stated that, unlike 

the 1930s and "405, the public now has many 

more ways to spend entertainment dollars, 

rather than principally at 

theatre. 

the motion picture 

Star staff writer Elaine Carey contributed 

an item titled "Drive-Ins—The Passion Pit 

Goes Legit" to the weekend edition. The 

story covered several aspects of operating 

ozoners, particularly in this area, and quoted 

local executives on these details. It is interesting 

to note that the Northeast Drivein 

here was the first Canadian underskyer, 

opening in 1947, 

Universal's "Earthquake" currently is in 

its fourth moveover locally, at the Don MilLs 

and the Weston, and is marking its 35th 

week of strong business in this city. Likewise, 

the same company's "The Other Side 

of the Mountain" is in its third local moveover, 

at the York Two, for a total of nine 

substantially good weeLs in 

this area. 

The Ontario Censor Board has rejected 

part of a newspaper ad for "Hennessy," 

having its North American premiere at the 

Hollywood here. The portion of the ad referred 

to a personal ruling of Queen Elizabeth 

II, The board twice had rejected the 

entire ad but finally passed it after this 

reference to the crown had been removed. 

This American International Pictures feature 

has Canadian distribution through Astral 

Films. 

Stratford Festival 

Slated Sept. 13-20 

TORONTO—The llth annual Stratford 

Film Festival will be held September 13-20. 

Scheduled thus far are the North American 

premieres of Richard Lester's "Royal 

Flash," with Malcolm McDowell and Alan 

Bates; John Frankenheimer's "Impossible 

Object," again with Alan Bates; Karel Zeman's 

"The Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor," 

and Peter Smith's "A Private Enterprise," 

Canadian films will include "Lions for 

Selected .shorts: A Summer Film Festival 

has started at Varsity 1, while Columbia's 

"Tammy" went into its 1 8th week at Varsity 

2 ... A preview showing of "It Seemed 

Like a Good Idea" was held at the Yorkdale 

Cinema . "all new" New Yorker 

on Yonge Street paired "The Texas 

Chainsaw Massacre" with "Andy Warhol's 

Frankenstein" , . . "AJfie Darling" had a 

three-house opening at the Capitol Fine 

Art and at the Dominion and Westwood 

cinemas . . . "Race With the Devil" had a 

multiple opening at the Imperial Six, Bramalea, 

Westwood and Willow. 

Residents in the Yonge-St. Clair area are 

complaining of so-caUed "hellish" living 

conditions due, largely, to the two twin 

cinemas in the vicinity, the Hollywood and 

the Hyland. The problems cited are said to 

have increased because of the success of 

"Jaws" at the Hyland. They include illegal 

parking, disrespect for property and undue 

late-night noise. It is reported that the theatres 

are going to be lasked to reschedule 

their showings for earlier closings, 

Universal's "Jaws" continues to set 

astounding boxoffice records, grossing $3.8 

million in Canadian theatres at the threeweek 

mark. "We've never had a picture 

that the public wanted to see as much," 

Robert Myers, director of buying and booking 

for Odeon Theatres, told the press here. 

"They're breaking down the doors." George 

Destounis, president of Famous Players, 

reported, 

"There's nothing to compare it 

against. It's doing remarkably better in its 

first 

released," 

few weeks than any other movie ever 

Breakfast," "Gina," "The Vultures," "Lcs 

Males" and a premiere of "Me?" 

This festival again is being organized toy 

Gerald Pratley. who expects that no less 

than 30 major films will be screened during 

the event, 

John Russell Taylor will be the critic-inrcsidence 

and a tenth anniversary tribute is 

planned for Quebec distributor Rock Demers 

and his Faroun Films, via a ten-film 

retrospective of the international favorites he 

has brought here. 

A day with Canadian filmmakers is set 

for .September 15. 

Shark Display Enjoying Boom 

AURORA, OHIO—More visitors than 

usual to the shark display at Sea Worid of 

Ohio, a commercial attraction here, apparently 

have been drawn to the exhibit by 

the popular film "Jaws" and the book of 

the same title, James S. Kepley, curator of 

fish in the Triquarium which houses the 

carnivores, said they have three varieties 

of sharks on display. All are attracting biggcr-than-usual 

crowds. 

Columbia Pictures is planning a film 

.•rsion of ihc play, "Herzl," 

Toronto Star Plugs Quota 

And Suggests Further Aid 

TORONTO— "Let's get the movie indus- 

Iry moving," suggested a recent editorial in 

the Toronto Star. It continued: "Featurelength 

movies, made by Canadians for Canadians, 

are one of the few ways people in 

this vast land can share their culture. That's 

why it's important that Ontario's effort to 

help the film industry, by .setting out how 

many weeks of Canadian films theatres 

must show each year, be made to work. 

"The quota system is a good first step 

towards establishing the national distribution 

network the film industry needs if it 

is to succeed. But it won't work by itself. 

It needs other measures so that part of the 

boxoffice profits from all films shown in 

Canada—American and foreign films as 

well as Canadians — go back into production 

of Canadian films. 

"Movies are an important way of letting 

Canadians see themselves, thus building a 

common identity. We lack national publications. 

Our TV networks are threatened by 

the distractions of American channels. And 

our movie industry, despite years of government 

funding through the Canadian Film 

Development Corp., still has not matured. 

"One problem has been the lack of national 

distribution once a film is made. The 

quota system can help provide that exposure 

—and Canada is the only industrialized 

country that doesn't protect its movie industry 

with quotas. 

"But by itself a quota system will put few 

dollars into the hands of Canadian film 

producers. Under the Ontario plan, producers 

will get 20 per cent of boxoffice revenues 

from the showing of their films. This 

formula may simply result in all the money 

going to a few producers becau.se theatre 

managers, rather than take a chance on a 

new film, will simply rerun those already 

proved to be a success. 

"But if part of the boxoffice revenues 

from all films were pumped back into Canadian 

production, it could provide the 

money needed. Instead of yearly grants, 

producers could be given credits, which they 

could draw on when they were producing 

new fihns, 

"Ontario filmmakers have supported this 

proposal. It should be considered by the 

Ontario government when it sets up quotas, 

as it is now empowered to do under the 

Theatres Act .Amendment." 

Fashions, Model-T Used 

To Ballyhoo Tunny Lady' 

BURLINGTON, VT. — Eye - 

catching 

fashions and a model-T Ford highlighted 

street ballyhoo tied to a benefit showing on 

a recent midweek night of Columbia's "Funny 

Lady" at the Merrill Jarvis circuit's 

downtown Flynn Theatre, 

The showing was sponsored by the 

Friends of the Baird Children's Center, proceeds 

going to a camp scholarship fund. 

The sptmsoring organization provided a 

theatre party atmosphere, the Burlington 

Concert Band offering pre-show time entertainment. 

Champagne punch and refreshments 

were served after the screening. 

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CINEMA NATIONAL CORP. 

'^Foreplty (86) C. Jan 75 

ECallan (106) 75 

The Secret (100) ...Melo June 75 

CINEMA-VU 

©Kiss of the Tarantula Ju 

. 

Eric Mason, Suzanne Ling 

COLISEUM FILMS 

Virility (95) Sex C Sept 75 

(83) 

the 

firiisli.lrlinr 

The Money (92) 

unfed World 

-Sept 75 

,?Sus.(;,.Sept 75 

MANUEL S. CONDE 

©The All-American 

Woman D Aug 75 

©The Dicktator C Sept 75 

©Affair in Cannes D 75 

75 

Between the Sheets C 

©Ondine & Neptune Melo ,, 75 

37 Sins on 6th Street Ac Dec 75 

CARL DENKER FILMS 

©Fear the Night ...Ho. June 75 

in 

Judy Uecaon, Juan Collins 

©Demons of the Mind . . Ho. June 75 

©Because of the Cats ..Ho. June 75 

Spider Baby (80) b&w Ho. June 75 

Lon CliMicv jr.. Carol Ohmart 

©Made (85) D.. July 75 

©Straight onto Morning .0.. July 75 

©Our Miss Fred (90) ..C. July 75 

©Up the Chastity Belt ..C. July 75 

Earthi Kltt. Krankle Howerd 

.'lis Pity She's a Whore Aug 75 

MISCELLANEOUS 

(BRachel Greer (83) ..Sex. Aug 75 

niane St. Claire. Rene Bond 

©The California Connection 

(90) Sex.. Aug 75 

Rick Ca.ssidy. Barbara Boiirbnn 

©The Candy-Shoppe . .Sex. Sept 75 

'The Realist (81) ... .Sex. Oct 75 

gTime Out of Mind .Sex D . 75 

~:Up Your 

Badlands Sex W Nov 75 

^Transylvania. Flight No. 1 . 75 

3The Resurrection of 

Vivian Blaine (97) ..My, , 76 

DOTY-DAYTON 

©Seven Alone (97) . . . . Hi. . Apr 75 

©Against a Crooked Sky 

(100) OD. Dec 75 

Iticharri Boone. Henry Wllcoxon 

©Baker's Hawk (100) ..0D..Feb76 

ELLMAN FILM ENT 

OYessongs May 75 

'^Friijhtmare (88) . . . . Ho . 75 

'^The London Rock and Roll 

Show June 75 

-^Captive Female (93) D. 

ENTERTAINMENT PYRAMID 

"jSolomon King (90) Ac Jj,n 75 

^Sool Food Ac Sent 75 

EO CORP. 

Frank Challenge— Manhunter 

(96) AC-D.. Sept 75 

Challenge (96) Melo.. Oct 75 

The True Story of Rex Randolph 

Death Driver (96) ,C-D.,Nov 75 

He Also Is Flesh 

(96) Melo.. Jan 76 

FANFARE 

©Run. Angel. Run 

FILM VENTURES INT'L 

©The Female Butcher .Ho.. Feb 75 

©Sting of the West ,C-W, Mar 75 

©The Factory (88) , Apr 75 

©Mafia Confidential . . , . 

Cr , 75 

©Beyond the Door ... Ho.. May 75 

©The X Rated Girl . Sex C. July 75 

GENERAL FILM CORP 

for President (109) C Feb 75 

^Country Blue . . . . Cr-Melo . 75 

©A Woman for All Men ...Apr 75 

GOLDSTONE FILM ENT. 

©Love Me Strangely (96) D Mar 75 

©The Makinrj of a Lady 

(93) t-. . . C-D 

©Se) the 

Part 

Mar 75 

. 

JOSEPH GREEN 

. ©Counselor at Crime .Ac-D. Jan 75 

50rder to Kill (94) Ac-D Jan 75 

IJhe Cat (85) D Jan 75 

REX HANSEN FILMS 

©3 on a Waterbfd .. ..Sex.. Feb 75 

Campus Confidential ... C. May 75 

©Satan's Children . . . . Ho. 

. 

75 

HEMISPHERE PICTURES 

"Camnus Pussycats ... Sex Feb 75 

'Swingin' Swappers ..Sex, Feb 75 

©Teenarie Playmates Mar 75 

-iKick Fronr the Foot of the 

©Sudden Death 

HUDSON VALLEY FILMS 

©The Private Afternoons of 

Pamela Mann (83) Sex C, J; 

INDEPENDENT INT'l 

©In Search of Dracula 

(86) Ho-Doc..May75 

©Terror in Tokyo . . 75 

rRlazmn Stewardesses 

(85) Sex W-C, June 75 

Blood in the Streets . , ,D Aug 75 

©Hard Women 

©Girls' Hotel . , 

©Females for Hire 

Ac-Ad.. Sept 75 

INT'L CINE FILM 

OMcssiah of Evil (91) Ho, Mar 75 

Evil Eye (86) Ho-D, , 75 

©Gone With the West 

,I:irrrrs' C.rrr), Stefanle Pnuers 

LANIR RELEASING 

©Linda 

\Amhi Komay, Jacqueline Laurent 

©The Corruption of 

Ho. 

Chris Miller D. 

Jean Scbere. Marlsol Stokes 

, 

©Alpha Beta D 

.Mliert Finney, Rachel Rnberts 

©The Return of the Tall Blond 

Man With One Black Shoe . 

MIn 

C 

LIBERT FILMS, INrL 

©Willie & Scratch (88) W Jan 75 

^Stevie. Samson & Delilah 

(86) OD .Feb75 

-^Treasure Emerald Cave 

of the 

. (90) 00 Feb 75 

Aor 75 

mt\e Devil's Triangle (52) 

©The AC/DC Caper .. .C-D. .Apr 75 

©Death Is Not the End 

(82) Doc May 75 

'"Êncounter With the Unknown 

(90) D..May75 

'So Sad About Gloria 

(90) My-D..May75 

"And Baby Makes 

Three 

Melo..June75 

©Charlie Rich—The Silver Fox 

in Concert (82) M June 75 

©Never Too Young Rock to 

(90) ... .M-C, July 75 

LIMA PRODUCTIONS 

^Father's Nitht 

(96) Sex D, , 

75 

L-T FILMS 

©Bogard 

Feb 75 

'^The Ultimate Thrill Mar 75 

©Dr. Shagetz Ho, Apr 75 

©The Counselor May 75 

©Handful of Hours June 75 

O Bogard II Sept 75 

HOWARD MAHLER 

©Force Four 

MANSON DISTRIBUTING 

©Jessi's Girls (86) .. W 

MAYFAIR FILM GROUP 

WILLIAM MISHKIN 

©Bad Girls (86) 

DTeenaoe Intimacies (80) 

^The Intimate Teenagers 

-^nirls of 42nd St. (88) 

MONARCH 

©Young Divorcees (9i 

Feb 75 

-jThe Novices (90) 

^Blue Summer (70) Mar 75 

©Happy Housewives (85) .. May 75 

Apr 7"; 

. 

MOONSTONE FILMS 

©Candy Tangerine Mar. 

©Lady Cocoa C-D June 75 

piA Gemini Affair June 75 

©Alias Big Cherry Aug 75 

-^The Witch Who Came Out of 

the Sea Sent 75 

NEW YORKER FILMS 

'Âitur Rubinstein: 

Love of Life (91) Doc Feb 75 

-^Don't Cry With Your 

Mouth Full (116) C- Apr 75 

^'Slory of a Love Affair May 75 

OMNI PICTURES 

©Motel Wives . 

Posse From Heaven Oct 75 

Fame Foxo 

©Swinging 

Barmaids 

SEABERG FILMS 

:.:iThe Earth is a Si 

Song 

©The Case of the Si 

Stiffs 

SUN CLASSICS 

©The Outer Space 

Jan 75 

Feb 75 

Connection (94) ,. Doc. Feb 75 

"When the North Wind 

Blows Mar 75 

SUNSET INT'L 

©The Making of a Lady D.. Mar 75 

OLove Me Strangely (96) D. 75 

WESTAMERICA 

I ) Invasion From Inner Earth 

(100) SF..Feb75 

©Poor Pretty Eddie 

(89) Ac-Sui..Apr75 

iFirst Nudie Musical M-C. Aug 75 

Ramblin' Man , , 

75 

COMING RELEASES 

ALLIED ARTISTS 

- 

The Man Who Would Be 

King Ad. Dec 75 

Diamond Mercenaries 

i.-llv Saiala*. Peter Fonda. 

0, .1. Simi.snn. Jack Palal 

Dragonfly 

The Way to 

Dusty Death Ac-Si 

Sharon Farrcll 

Killer Force 

.Irrlir- .Adams. Jim Hiitton 

Oct 75 

Kiehard Kmindtrec 

Shatter Oct 75 

Oct 75 

Oct 75 

.\rMhriny Noivley, David HcmminBS 

Diamonds Nov 75 

R.rhe-f Sh.w. Richard Rnimdtree. 

Shelley Winters. Barbara Seagull 

The Loves and Times of 

Scaramouche Dec 75 

BRYANSTON 

©Echoes of a Summer ...D.. Oct 75 

T!lr'hard narris, Lois .Netilelon. 

Jo.lie Foster 

OThe Human Factor Oct 75 

fêorce Kennedv, Jnhn Mills 

©The Great Scout and Cathouse 

Thursday 

BUENA VISTA 

©The Best of Wall Disney's 

True-Life Adventures Oct 75 

Treasure Island Nov 75 

Or, Syn. Alias The 

Scarecrow' Nov 75 

CINEMATION 

©Abduction 

DecTS 

D.. 

Jrjdith Bergon. Leif Erickson 

COLUMBIA 

©Hard Times (89) ..Ac-Ad .Oct 75 

Charles Bronson. James Coburn 

©The Last of the Mohicans . 76 

©Aaron Loves Angela D . 

Kevin ITooks. Irene Cara 

©Starlight Parade C. . 

Rirrt Kr'uiiil.l.s. Rvan O'Neal 

©Harry and Walter Go to 

New York 

latnes Caan 

©The Front C. 

Wondy .Mien. Zero Mostcl 

©Chu Chu and the Philly Flash 

liohert Pe Nlr'o, Cylilil i5hephVr(i" 

CROWN INT'L 

©Pom-Pom Girl Oct 75 

©Las Vegas Lady Oct 75 

Stella Stevens. Stuart 

DIMENSION 

©Never on Friday .... 

Lawrence Ca.sey 

©Carhops 

SKinfolk 

©Do You Kill Him or [ 

Wall to Wall Confusion 

GROUP 1 

©Hot Wheels 

(107) *c-D..0rt75 

Kevin Bruum, Andrea Crow 

©The Eyes of Dr. Chaney 

(100) Ho. Oct 75 

Bruce Sestnn. Eve Cartwrleht 

©The Meatcleaver Massacre 

(103) Sus..Nin75 

Uritt Anders. Sheila Wilson 

'Draculas Dog (100) Sus..0ec75 

lr:ri)k Has. Ch.irles Band 

NEW LINE 

Soldier in Skirts (90) Oct 75 

Clendii .laekson, Oliver liced 

The Shadowman Sus-C..0ct7! 

Ca.vie Iliinnleut. (!ert Frrrbe 

©School for Swingers 

NEW WORLD 

©The Cars That Ate People 

. Oct 75 

...D 

'^Dynamite Jones Ac-D. 

,^:).,uirrriev Into Fear 

PARAMOUNT 

Falk. 

Shuffle (101) 

M'rody, David Soul 

©Marathon Man 

>Vm Hoffman 

lands in the Stream . 

i.rse C. firott 

liail Caine, Natalie 

ty Billy Floyd 

Fighting Mad 

Royal Flash 

Down the Ancient Stairs C Nov 75 

©Autograph Hound ..C-D Nov 75 

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' 

Smarter Brother C. . Dec 75 

lene Wilder. Madeline Kahn 

©Lucky Lady Ac-Ad. Dec 75 

Liza Jlinnelll, Burt Reynolds 

Cene Hackman 

©Sky Riders Ac-Ad . . Dec 75 

©The Day the World 

Ended 

.Ad. Dec 75 

©The Blue Bird 

©The Judge and His 

Executioner My-Sus. . 

.Ion Voight. Jacqnelinc BIsset 

©The Rocky Horror 

Show 

Tim Curry. Barry Rostvvick 

M-C- 

UNITED ARTISTS 

92 in the Shade Oct 75 

\l:rr-r.t Kidilcr. Elizahcth .Ashley 

1 Hearts of the West 

(MGM) Oct 75 

Icff Bridges. Alan .Arkin 

©The Sunshine Boys 

(MGM) C. Dec 75 

Tfalter Matthau. Oeorje Burns. 

©The Killer Elite Dec 75 

.Inme.s Caan, Rnbert Durall 

©nne Flew Over the Cuckoo's 

Nest Dec 75 

.laek Mehnlsnn. l>oulse Fletcher 

©Breaiiheart Pass 

Chr.l.s Bronson. Jill Ireland, 

Richar I Crenna 

- 

"SThe Voyage 

Sonhia I,oren. itichard Bii'ton 

, 

©Logan's Run (MGM) SF, 

Miehael York. Peter Ustteof 

©Stay Hungry 

".left Brid-es. Sally Fields 

©That's Entertainment, Tool 

(MG* 

lire. Gene Kelly 

^Ti'e Manchu Eagle Murder 

Caner Mystery 

Oeer, 

Patter 

UNIVERSAL 

©The Hindenburg 

Oeorge C. Scott, 

©Nick the Greek . 

Telly Savalas 

©Mahogany 

Il|an,i Boss 

^Midway 

Charlton Hesin Robert 

Henry Fonda 

©W.C. Fields and Me 

Rod Slelger. Valerie Perrlne 

©Lombard and Gable 

James Brolln, Jill Claybureh 

©Rooster Cogburn 

'^The Bingo Long Traveling 

All-Stars and Motor Kings 

Mltchnra. 

nilly I'ee Williams, .lames Earl . 

WARNER BROS. 

Kv.rn ll'Nr'al Mivka Br'rrrrs, 

'•^Bruce Lee/His Life and 

Legend 

©All the President's Men . 

R.ihert Bedford, Dustln Hon 

©The Kickback 

nirk Riifardc, \m Gardner 

©Let's Do It Again 

Itler, Rill Cosby 

Out 

Tellv 

:^Dori Day Afternoon 

©A Star Is Born 

l;a;lrr;, SI ri'lsand 

©The Sellout 

iillver Reed, Richard Wlrtmi 

nCalherine and Co 

lane lilrkln, Patrick Powaei 

Hey Good Lookin' 

BOXOFFICE BookinGuide

illed 

Opinions on Current Productions 

Feature reviews 

CincmoScopc; p Pona 

i 

That's the ff ayof the fTorht Pf^ 

^ Tc: 

United Artists 17508) 100 Minutes Rel. Oct. '75 

Corruption rules the music industry, as revealed in the 

original story and screenplay by ex-New York Times 

writer Robert Lipsyte for this Sis Shore film. Leading 

actor Harvey Keitel as the dedicated record producer is Asir 

virtually the only character with any integrity and he 

uses underhanded means in obtaining his own ends. 

First half of the film is so stilted it borders on parody, 

but a sequence at a rollerdome featm-ing rock combos 

gives the picture a big boost and the latter half becomes 

a sharp and entertaining put down of the recording 

world. Maui-ice White and his group Earth, Wind and 

Fire provide the original score and title theme and perform 

onscreen. Cast against type are Bert Parks, known 

for his "Miss America" broadcasts, and fonner child 

singer Jimmy Boyd. They and newcomer Cynthia Bostick 

play a trio w-hose family image is in direct contrast to 

their real selves. Disk jockeys Muiray "The K" Kaufman 

and Frankie Ci-ocker are in for authenticity, the Roller 

Rockers perform in the Rollerdome scene, Dick Stewart 

does a hilarious takeoff on a TV variety show host and 

Shore himself contributes a neat cameo as the ex-head 

as Mike Richards i. In 

of the record company 

Panavision and Color by Movielab. 

Harvey Keitel, Ed Nelson. Cynthia Bostick, Bert Parks. 

Jimmy Boyd. Earth, Wind and Fire. Michael Dante.

. . 

. . . The 

. . Fi-om 

. . Pitted 

! 

. . 

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

THE STORY: "The Dragon Flies" i20th-Fox) 

Hong Kong police inspector Jimmy Wang Yu is summoned 

to Australia to arrange for a drug pusher's extradition 

to China. Pursuaded by Wang Yu's kung fu skills, 

the pusher names George Lazenby, kingpin of the Sydney 

underworld, as his Australian drug contact. When the 

prisoner is killed by a sniper en route to the courthouse. 

Wang Yu sets out to find evidence against Lazenby. 

despite objections to his interference in the case by 

Australian police officials Roger Ward and Hugh Keays- 

Byrne. Wang Yu breaks into Lazenby's kung fu studio 

one night and unexpectedly encounters students who almost 

kill him. He escapes by climbing onto a passing 

van, driven by Rebecca Gilling. They become romantically 

involved while he recovers at her country home. As she 

drives him back to Sydney, a bomb explodes inside the 

van and Gilling is killed. Wang Yu borrows friend Ros 

Spiers' hang glider to reach Lazenby's tightly protected 

penthouse by aii-. He escapes the building with a forced 

written confession by Lazenby and drug evidence, just 

before an explosion rocks the penthouse. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

Tie in with local martial arts schools and offer free 

lessans to lucky-number ticket holders. 

CATCHLINES: 

The Dragon! He's the Ultimate Weapon in the Ultimate 

Adventui'e! The Dragon Flies . . . The Dragon Stings . 

The Dragon Kills Like No Man Alive! 

THE STORY: "Fugitive Killer" (Boxoffice Infl) 

In prison 12 years for killing his wife and her lover, 

Neil Patrick finally manages to escape, stealing a car in 

the process, killing its owner and heading into remote 

countryside, pursued by state police. Hiding out on farm 

property, Patrick rapes Karen Hansen, 18-year-old 

daughter of the faiin family, and later kills a boy picnicking 

with his girl friend (Cheryl Patton). After enjoying 

sex with Cheryl, Patrick decides to head for what he 

hopes will be eventual freedom, using a canoe and supplies 

provided by John-Scott Schroeder, Karen's tenyear-old 

brother whom he has befriended. A water mishap 

leads to Patrick's fateful decision to save the boy and 

in the process, lose his own life. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

Steven Arnold has provided two original tunes, "Travelin' 

Blues" and "I Must Go Home." Teaser ads run-ofpaper 

and intriguingly-worded lines under the "Personal" 

category of classified advertising pages should prove beneficial, 

boxoffice-wise. 

CATCHLINES: 

Once He Started—He Couldn't Stop ... If He Stopped 

Running—They Would Kill Him! ... If He Didn't Rape 

You—He Killed You! . . . Wife Killer! Rapist! And a 

Whole Countryside Terrorized! 

TO BOXOmCE: 

"We receive your magazine every week and 

find it 

very helpful in the operation of our theatres. 

We have been in business for 

50 years, 

so that is a lot of BOXOFFICE publications." 

Liberty Amusement Co., Inc., 

Eunice, La. 70535 

Mrs. Sam Herrod 

THE STORY: "That's the Way of the World" (UA) 

A-Kord Records in New York decides to push a family 

group consisting of Bert Parks and step-childi-en Jimmy 

Boyd and Cynthia Bostick. President Ed Nelson assigns 

record producer Harvey Keitel the job of promoting the 

trio into stars and producing their albimi. Keitel, a man 

""*' of integrity, has to neglect black group Maurice White 

and Earth, Wind and Fire, whom he believes in and is 

trying to push. From ex-company head Sig Shore, Keitel 

learns that syndicate man Fred "Versacci controls A-Kord 

thi-ough his nephew Michael Dante, who is Nelson's 

assistant, and Nelson. Going about his job, Keitel finds 

that Parks is a lecherous man. Boyd a drug addict and 

Bostick a promiscuous drunk. After the trio is set to do 

Dick Stewart's TV show, Keitel persuades Bostick to be 

married by a black minister, Charles MacGregor. With 

Bostick's contract in his hand, Keitel forces Versacci to 

surrender his contract and that of White and his group. 

MacGregor proves to be a janitor. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

The soundtrack album is available through Coliunbia 

Records. Play up the popular Earth, Wind and Fire, 

whose title album is a hit. Contact local disk jockeys 

for tie-ins. 

CATCHLLXES: 

Pavola, Flyola, Drugola—That's the Way of the Record 

World . the Same Wonderful Folks Who Gave 

You Watergate. 

THE STORY: 'Run, Rabbit, Run" (Horizon Fihns) 

Anthony Steel, ranking music conductor, is prime attraction 

of an international music festival in an Italian 

town. He is accompanied by Francoise Prevost, in her 

30s, and the latter's teenage daughter, Helga Anders. 

And while Francoise is his mistress of the moment, he 

develops an increasing interest in Helga. The situation 

gets even more sensitive with arrival of young artist 

Raymond Lovelock, who becomes attached to Helga. At 

the festival's concluding big reception, Helga feels as 

lonely as her pet rabbit. During an unguarded moment. 

the rabbit dashes av.ay. Ihe party guests, intoxicated 

and in festive mood, get frightened. Dogs are turned 

loose and tear the small animal to pieces. Helga finds 

solace in Lovelock's arms. The next morning. Steel and 

Francoise leave. Helga and Lovelock stay behind. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

Use lobby and inner teaser display boards featm-ing 

newspaper clippings of major music festivals around the 

world. 

CATCHLINES: 

How Far Dees a Woman Go to Hold on to Her Man? 

Maestro, the Mistress—and the Other Man! . 

A Festival of Music—and Unending Lust! 

THE STORY: "Death Knocks Twice" (Horizon) 

Murder of an American official's wife on a fashionable 

European beach after a loving party sparks investigation 

by private detectives Dean Reed and Fabio Testi. helped 

by Helen Chanel, subsequent queries leading to Leon 

Askin and Ini Assmamr, who are apparent links to a 

multi-nation crime syndicate headed, it is learned, by 

Anita Ekberg. As the persistent investigators get close 

to proba'ole fact-of-the matter, Assmann kills Anita, and, 

in tuin, is shot down himself, Askin is assassinated and 

a mysterious individual known only as the Professor 

lAdolfo Cell I moves to kill Reed. Reed unmasks the 

killer, a painter with an unending lust for beautiful 

women. 

EXPLOITIPS: 

Get the more cooperative colimniists (print media) and 

commentators 'broadcast media) to come up with sentin.i-ntal 

"remember when" approach, particularly as regards 

Anita Ekberg. 

. 

. . . 

CATCHLINES: 

A Dead Woman on the Beach—and a Killer on the 

„3^ Loose! Against the Most Vicious Crime Syndi- 

Kill or Be Killed! That Was the 

'Mar catc in History! 

Vicious Warning in the Night! 

BOXOFFICE BookinGuide :: August 11, 1975

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TWO PEERLESS Magnarc lomphouses 

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CNE COMPLETE projection booth without 

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COO IN-CAR propane 

COMPLETE theatre equipment package. 

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Southeast. Boxoffice, 3495. 

PROJECTORS, pair of 35/70 Simplex 

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Authentic. Edited the by writer with 35 

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TOR. Box 575, Enid. Oklahoma 73701. 

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THEATRES FOR SALE 

WORLD'S LARGEST THEATRE hrok. 

:>:- Dallas 75231, Phor, 

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LUDLOW. VERMONT—Attractive cinema. 

Firs: Class ail the way. No competition. 

Business and real estate. $120,000. Ellis, 

(802) 885-3131. 

SALE OR LEASE, 850 seats, firmly estabshed 

Northwest Chicago, one floor, low 

verhead. Steady operation 35 years. Euene 

Schi'.ler, 2600 W. Roosevelt, Chicago, 

11. 60608. (312) 722-2300. 

COLLEGE TOWN. Indoor and drive-in. 

lo competition. About 15,000 in trade teritory 

in southwest. Great potential. Minilum 

of $15,000,00 down. Boxoffice, 3484. 

700 SEATS, 4 stores, densest population. 

Universities, most affluent counties. (314) 

363-5318. 

CENTRAL KANSAS—400 seat hardtop, 

400 car drive-in. 12,000 population, no 

competilion. Great family opportunity. Box- 

NEW YORK STATE FIRST RUN CIRCUIT 

for sale - four theatres - Six hundred 

thousand dollars. Firm 29% cash down. 

Principles. Boxoffice, 3491. 

THEATRES FOR LEASE 

THEATRES WANTED 

THEATRES, groups of theatres, or de 

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FILMS WANTED 

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16mm FILMS. Postcard brings barga 

list. Ingo Films, P.O. Box 143, Scranto 

Pa. 18504. 

16nun FAMOUS CLASSICS. Illustrate 

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onda Drive, Des Moines. Iowa 50321 

MARQUEES, SIGNS 

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SPECIALISTS m REBUILDING CHAIRS, 

New and rebuilt theatre ctiairs for sale 

We buy and sell old cna.rs Travel anywhere 

Sea-ing Corporation ot New 'fork 

247 Wg.er St-eet B-ooklyn >^ Y . 11201 

Tel (212) 875-5433 (Severs, c-.arg-!'. 

THEATRE SEATING UPHOLSTERING and 

ebuilding. Anywhere in U.S.A. $4.90 per 

:ushion installed. Includes stripping, maenal, 

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UNIVERSAL SEATING & CONST. CO. 

INC. Reconditioned used chairs. On-location 

refurbishing, installation and staggering 

Sewn seat covers, all makes. We buy 

used seating anywhere. Entire theatre 

equipment available. Call (517) 442-3830- 

3831. 1245 Adorns St., Boston. Moss. 02124. 

WE NEED GOOD USED CHAIRS. 

17 FIRST CLASS : 

se:up. All for' $300 cash. Erme Warre: 

Colgate Road. Needhom, Mass. 02192. 

POPCORN MACHINES 

ALL MAKES OF POPPERS, caramel corn 

equipment, floss machines, sno-ball machines. 

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Boxoffice-August.11.1975

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