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'Beyond the Door' 435;<br />
'S.O.S.'al420inNY<br />
NEW YORK.—-BcNond llu- Door.' iIk<br />
Italian exorcist thriller, kept its first place<br />
Enough." "Bite the Bullet" and the Disney<br />
bill. "Herbie Rides Again" and "Robin<br />
Hood."<br />
:Average Is 100)<br />
Baronet—-Noshville (Para), 8th wk 275<br />
Beekman—Love and Deoth (UA), 7th wk 200<br />
Cinema The Doy of fhe Locust (Para),<br />
13th wk 235<br />
Cinema II— Noshville (Para), 8th wk 385<br />
Cinerama—Cooley High (AlP), 6th wk 240<br />
Coronet The Fortune (Col), 1 1 th wk 180<br />
Criterion Cleopatra Jones and the Casino<br />
of Gold :WB), 3rd wk 100<br />
East 59th Street 2 Cooley High (AlP), 4th wk. . . 95<br />
86th Street East—S. O. S. (Milky Tone News) ..420<br />
Guild— Bcnii (Mulberry Square), 6th wk 285<br />
Notional Beyond the Door (Film Ventures Int'l),<br />
2nd wk 450<br />
Paramount Love and Death (UA), 8th wk 150<br />
Paris CharloHe (Gamma III), 6th wk 180<br />
Radio City Music Holl Hennessy (AlP) 120<br />
Rialto II Intimate Teenagers .Mishkin),<br />
14th wk 270<br />
RKO 86th Street Twin I Cooley High (AlP),<br />
6th wk 205<br />
68th Street Playhouse Kamourasica (New Line<br />
Cinemo), 3rd wk 90<br />
Sutton Love and Death (UA), 8th wk 280<br />
Trans-Lux East Beyond the Door<br />
(Film Ventures Int'l), 2nd wk 420<br />
World Naked Come the Stranger<br />
(Catalyst Films), 1 1th wk 345<br />
Ziegfcid— Rollerboll (UA), 6th wk 1 50<br />
"RoUerbair Rocks Baltimore<br />
At 545; "Panther' Is Hot 435<br />
BALTIMORE — "Rollcrball" rocked to<br />
the top with 545 in a third fast week at Cinema<br />
II. "The Return of the Pink Panther"<br />
turned in a nice 435 in a sixth week at two<br />
houses while "Jaws" gripped three theatres<br />
with a slashing 245 in a seventh outing.<br />
Cinema I, Liberty II The Return of the<br />
Pink Panther !UA), 6th wk 435<br />
Cinemo II— Rollerboll (UA), 3rd wk 545<br />
Playhouse Molizia (Para), 3rd wk 160<br />
Three theatres— Jaws (Univ), 7th wk 245<br />
Towson, Westview IV— Monty Python and the<br />
Holy Grail 'SR), 3rd wk 205<br />
Westview Nashville (Poro), 2nd wk 135<br />
Westview III Jacqueline Susann's Once<br />
NORTH JERSEY<br />
genji" recently opened an exclusive engagement<br />
at General Cinema's Brunswick<br />
Twin Cinema One in Brunswick and, in its<br />
third week, was reporting good grosses there.<br />
position by conjuring up a 435 average in<br />
second round the National (450) and<br />
its at<br />
Trans-Lux East (420). "S.O.S.." a new porno<br />
John Scher'.s Capitol in Passaic ha.s begun<br />
new policy of presenting strippers on<br />
a<br />
from Screw Magazine, debuted at the<br />
stage during midweek, in addition to its<br />
S6th Street East with a second place 420.<br />
regular policy of showing three X-rated<br />
•'Naked Came the Stranger" moved down<br />
films. The Capitol normally presents live<br />
one step to third place. .345 for the 11th<br />
rock concerts on weekends. .Scher began the<br />
round at the World.<br />
stripper policy recently by announcing the<br />
"Nashville" remained in fourth place,<br />
appearance of Liz Renay, billed as "The<br />
averaging 330 for the eighth week at the<br />
Queen of the Strippers." According to Capitol<br />
Baronet (275) and Cinema II (385). "Benji"<br />
ads. a new show will be presented every<br />
moved down two notches to fifth place,<br />
Monday.<br />
doing 285 business at the tiny but wellattended<br />
Guild for the sixth week. Down RKO-SW"s Branford in Newark, managed<br />
one position was "Intimate Teenagers." 270 by Leo Goldman, had John Daniels, star<br />
and the long run champ in the 14th installment<br />
of the new film "Candy Tangerine Man"<br />
at Rialto II.<br />
New York's heat wave, with temperatures<br />
make in-person appearances at the theatre<br />
during the recont engagement of that film<br />
hovering at 100 degees. didn't do anything there. Daniels was on hand to greet patrons<br />
in<br />
to diminish business for "Jaws": the sihowcase<br />
the lobby and to sign autographs.<br />
winner took in $1 million in its seventh<br />
week at air-conditioned houses. Following<br />
this were "Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not<br />
Richard Feinstein, area fikn booker who<br />
res'des in Fair Lawn, recently celebrated<br />
his 40th birthday at a party given by his<br />
many friends. Highlight of the event was<br />
the presentation of a blown-up portrait of<br />
Feinstein's face superimposed over a picture<br />
of Xaviera Hollander's body, with the caption<br />
reading "Richard Feinstein, the Happy<br />
Booker!"<br />
Roland Hassanein, who operates the Verona<br />
in Verona and Cinema 23 in Cedar<br />
Grove, recently returned from a two-week<br />
vacation . . . Also back from a two-week<br />
holiday spent at the South Jersey shore is<br />
Jack Smith. North Jersey/ Rockland County,<br />
N.Y., division manager of UA Theatres.<br />
Movie production continues to flourish in<br />
Paterson, where Robert Sudol, Wallington,<br />
is directing the shwning of a feature-length<br />
film titled "Cwir's Keep." Described by<br />
Sudol as a Gothic horror-fantasy, the picture<br />
is being lensed on location at Palerson's<br />
famed Lambert's Castle, high atop Garrett<br />
Mountain. Being familiar with the area,<br />
Sudol said he felt Lambert's Castle and the<br />
surroundiing paths and greenery would provide<br />
an ideal backdrop for a horror tale. In<br />
addition to Sudol. Paterson director Alfred<br />
Sole also is in the process of shooting a fibn,<br />
"Communion." in the area.<br />
Elwood in Atlantic City<br />
Alters Operating Policy<br />
NEWARK.. N.J.—The Elwood Theatre<br />
here, operated by Jim Gilette, is now open<br />
Friday through Sunday only, featuring regular-run<br />
American films. Previously, the<br />
theatre had been in operation full time presenting<br />
Spanish films.<br />
In addition to the new operating hours<br />
and film policy, Gilette has begun a new<br />
price policy of $1 for all seats at all times.<br />
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Norbury Theatre Reopens<br />
EI.LENVILI E. N.Y. — The Norbury<br />
Theatre, shuttered since November 1974,<br />
was reopened recently through the efforts<br />
of the members of the Pioneer Engine Company.<br />
The firefighters plan to use any profits<br />
from the venture to augment their company's<br />
building<br />
fund.<br />
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