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CINCINNATI<br />
Interstate Theatre Services is booking and<br />
buying for Cinema South. Aubon<br />
Theatre and Cinema 21, Charleston, W. Va..<br />
and the Columbia cinemas, Portsmouth, for<br />
owner Walter Dills.<br />
Cincinnati Theatres has moved its office<br />
from 1600 Central Pkwy. to the Regency<br />
Building. 2444 Madison Rd. Jack Haynes is<br />
the manager.<br />
Debbie Ruff of C. J.<br />
Ruff Film Distribution<br />
has returned from a Canadian vacation<br />
. . . Also returning from vacations are<br />
Tina VonBokern and Stephanie Marchino.<br />
Mid States office staff.<br />
Roy White, president of Mid States,<br />
COLUMBUS<br />
Joseph Madonna, newly appointed executive<br />
director of the Capitol Square<br />
South redevelopment area in the heart of<br />
the downtown area, hopes that construction<br />
will start by mid- 1977. He believes the Ohio<br />
Theatre should be the nucleus for cultural<br />
activities in the three-block area. Madonna<br />
hopes that land acquisition can begin by<br />
spring 1976. Retail shops, a parking<br />
hotel,<br />
garages and other structures are expected<br />
to be erected.<br />
Eastland Mall held a free<br />
morning showing<br />
of "The Great Waltz" Tuesday "(.S) . . .<br />
Gene Gerrard. writing a column in the<br />
Citizen-Journal, reported that the Ohio Theatre's<br />
summer film series racked up S.SO.OOO<br />
in advance sales.<br />
Properties in Fort Wayne<br />
Expect Historical Status<br />
FORT WAYNE, IND.—Approval was<br />
expected July 28 by the city planning commission<br />
on a proposal to grant historical<br />
district status for the Embassy Theatre and<br />
Indiana Hotel. The Embassy Foundation,<br />
which recently went ahead with plans to<br />
purchase the theatre and hotel, applied for<br />
the favored status last May.<br />
This move was to prohibit the owners<br />
from defacing the structures without the<br />
approval of several city boards and commissions<br />
and was sought last spring as a method<br />
of stalling possible razing of the structure,<br />
had its fund-raising campaign not been<br />
successful.<br />
Now that the purchase of the 2.875-seat<br />
theatre is assured, directors have decided to<br />
^<br />
We can handle all your<br />
theatre equipment needs<br />
and repairs.<br />
MOORE THEATRE EQUIPMENT CO.<br />
p. O. Box 782 213 Delaware Ave.<br />
Charleston, W. Va. 25323<br />
Telephone (304) 344-4413<br />
celebrated<br />
his birthday Wednesday, July 30 .<br />
Cindy Barsman is a new Mid States office<br />
staffer and Bill Waynberg is the new salesman<br />
for United Artists.<br />
Mary Kitts, a member of Mid Stales'<br />
accounting department, is the proud mother<br />
of Matthew Dale, bom Thursday. July 24.<br />
Irene Firestone, Mid States publicist, has<br />
returned from a recent theatregoing weekend<br />
in New York City. The highlight of<br />
the trip was the opportunity to see George<br />
C. Scott star in, a revival of "The Death of<br />
a .Salesman."<br />
Jeannine Ebel, Mid States staffer, and<br />
Ray Marsh were married recently.<br />
employ a volunteer booker until it can support<br />
a professional. The theatre will begin<br />
booking its 1976-77 season this fall and the<br />
1975-76 season will ibe filled with smaller<br />
and more local productions. However, the<br />
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra has<br />
decided to move its concert series next season<br />
from the 2,100-seat Scottish Rite Auditorium<br />
to the Embassy because of size and<br />
better acoustics.<br />
The directors of the Embassy Foundation<br />
decided that for the first year the price of<br />
all rentals would be the same, whether for<br />
profit or nonprofit performances. Basic<br />
rental fee, including one rehearsal the day<br />
of the performance, with user paying for<br />
stagehands, ushers and other personnel, will<br />
be $600. A second show the same evening<br />
will cost $250.<br />
88 Filmites Participate<br />
In Annual Golf Classic<br />
CINCINNATI — Eighty-eight<br />
golfers<br />
from the film colony and their guests had<br />
a great time at the fifth annual Greater<br />
Cincinnati Film Golf Classic held this year<br />
at Pleasant Run Country Club, Fairfield,<br />
Ohio, July 29.<br />
Low net winner was Larry Dinnerman of<br />
Dinnerman & Co.. advertising firm. Low<br />
gross winner was Tom Kellison. popular<br />
downtown traffic officer.<br />
Don Womack of Holiday Amusement Co.<br />
was chairman of the successful event, while<br />
trophies were donated by B&R Theatres.<br />
Among the out-of-town golfers were Ray<br />
Russo, 20th Century-Fox division manager,<br />
and exhibitors Jerry Knight, Columbus;<br />
Paul Vogcl, Wellsville. Ohio; Willie Worrell<br />
and Tom Goodman of Tri-Statc of Indiana.<br />
and Ed O'Brien and Don Perkins. Sun<br />
Classics, Detroit.<br />
Mid States Begins Work<br />
On Montclair Quadplex<br />
CINCINNATI—Mid States Theatres has<br />
announced that construction of its eastern<br />
Cincinnati complex, Montclair cinemas<br />
1-2-3-4, has begun. The quad is locL\lcd ;ii<br />
Exit 57 off 1-275 and Route 58.<br />
The Montclair cinemas will soon be visible<br />
lo those traveling 1-275.<br />
Ohio Suit Charges Bingo<br />
For Charity Is Ripoff<br />
TOLEDO. OHIO—After estimating that<br />
a gross of nearly $5 million a year brought<br />
only $160,000 to local charities, a suit has<br />
been filed against one Toledo charity bingo<br />
operator, while the operators of 41 other<br />
charity bingo games were threatened with<br />
court action if they do not comply with<br />
financial accounting requirements of Ohio's<br />
charitable solicitation laws.<br />
The Ohio attorney general's office filed<br />
suit against Louise Corthell, Toledo, who<br />
allegedly grossed $524,000 in 1974 in bingo<br />
games but turned over only $17,500, about<br />
3 per cent of the gross, to the Toledo Deaf<br />
Club. The state is seeking voluntary compliance<br />
with the registration and accounting<br />
provisions of the charity solicitations law,<br />
saying that none of the bingo operators in<br />
Toledo and its suburbs complied.<br />
The suit against Mrs. Corthell said she<br />
misrepresented the bingo games as charity<br />
bingo and is perpetuating a fraud, since<br />
"such an unreasonable percentage of the<br />
funds raised . . . have been retained."<br />
Police Capt. Norbert DeClercq, head of<br />
the city morals squad, said operators seldom<br />
keep complete records (one used a single<br />
file card, while another had only a torn<br />
page from a spiral notebook) but estimates<br />
were that some 16 professionally run games<br />
averaged a $300,000 yeariy gross, paying<br />
back less than $10,000 each to the charity<br />
for which the game was run. He said bingo<br />
players spend between $7 and $10 a night.<br />
Theatremen say they can't compete with<br />
the lure of big-money prizes.<br />
Adult Entertainment Zone<br />
Issue Is Alive in Toledo<br />
DAYTON. OHIO—Adult entertainment<br />
zoning districts still may be a possibility in<br />
this city's future. The city planning board<br />
asked its staff to study the idea last January<br />
but not much has been heard since then.<br />
Planning Board Director Anthony B.<br />
Char said, however, that a report is expected<br />
by fall on whether the city's adult bookstores,<br />
movie houses, body painting outlets<br />
and photography studios should be restricted<br />
to specific areas.<br />
"We've got it on our agenda but it's not<br />
a high priority." Char commented.<br />
Grandview Cinema Patrons<br />
View Shark in Lobby Tank<br />
ST. LOUIS—^Grandview Cinema manager<br />
Mike Beatty, in connection with the theatre's<br />
record-setting showing of "Jaws," is<br />
providing patrons with a view of a less<br />
alarming genus.<br />
A foot-long blow shark, courtesy of the<br />
Aquarium Beautiful Co., was placed in a<br />
tank in the lobby. Beatty found that unlike<br />
others, this shark does not swim continually<br />
but rests about half the day. He comes up<br />
snapping for food, however, and subsists on<br />
shrimp and beef blood.<br />
Beau Bridges and Susan Sarandon have<br />
l>een signed for roles in "Dragonfly," ;u<br />
AIP relea.se.<br />
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