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THE NATIONAL FILM WEEKLY
Published In Nine Sectional Editions
BEN SHLYEN
Editor-m-Chief and Publisher
JESSE SHLYEN Managing Editor
MORRIS SCHLOZMAN ....Business Mgr.
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GARY KABRICK Equipment Editor
RALPH KAMINSKY ....Western Editor
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AUGUST
Vol. 107
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No. 20
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CITES UPTREND IN NEWSPAPER COOPERATION
To BoxoFFicE
READ with interest your editorial
of July 28, with respect
to the relationship between the motion
picture in(3ustry and the newspaper industry.
There liave been a lot of developments
in the last two or three years
with which we would like to make you
familiar.
In March 1973, Don Baker of Loews,
advertising chairman of NATO, and
Ed Seigenfeld of Allied Artists, for the
studios, addressed the plans committee
of the Newspaper Advertising Bureau
(over 40 of the major newspaper advertising
directors in the country), with
respect to problems that they were
then encountering. In July 1973. Roy
White, then president of NATO, talked
to the International Newspaper Advertising
Executives (INAE) at their summer
convention in Halifax.
Since then, the newspaper industry,
through ourselves or INAE
1. Conducted a major survey of
the demographic and psychographic
characteristics of moviegoers
and frequent moviegoers.
2. Did a pilot study of moviegoer
responses to current movie ads.
3. Set up a special subcommittee
of the INAE, consisting of 15 advertising
directors from cities
designated by NATO and the
MPAA, to work with the movie industry
to try to solve any problems
that may exist or eventuate.
4. Conducted a survey of the 107
major papers in the top 75 cities
to establish amusement rate policy
with respect to six questions specified
by Don Baker and Jonas Rosenfield
jr., for the studios (see below).
5. Hosted a three-hour workshop
on newspaper advertising technology
and creativity in Los Angeles.
6. Participated in the NATO programs
in San Francisco and Atlanta.
7. Hosted marketing workshops
with luncheons, brunches or cocktail
receptions for NATO executives
and distributor field men in
over 30 cities.
8. Invited Rosenfield to talk to the
full INAE winter convention in
Florida last January and gave currency
and publicity to his remarks.
9. Held three summit meetings
with studio ad-pub chiefs, both
East and West, and with representatives
of theatres in Los Angeles,
New York and Kansas City.
10. Arranged an exchange of guest
editorials in the INAE and NATO
newsletters.
11. Exchanged state-by-state INAE
and NATO officers' lists to facilitate
more dialog at the local level.
12. Cooperated in a pilot survey of
media mix effectiveness in
matched markets with a new release
from a major studio.
With respect to the survey asked for
by Messrs. Baker and Rosenfield, the
results from the 107 papers involved
reflect the closer cooperation between
our two industries. Of all 107 papers,
12 charged a higher rate for amusement
advertising than for general advertising
and 39 charged a higher rate
than they charged their major retailers.
Editorial staffs of newspapers have
not been blind to the upsurge of interest
in movies on the part of the American
public. The amount of editorial
support given to movies has increased
by leaps and bounds.
On balance, most of the movies
which receive public acclaim get favorable
reviews from most reviewers. Unfortunately,
it is had reviews that tend
to be remembered by the industry.
It is our view that our credibility
with the public is our strongest asset
as a medium. If we started printing
only glowing reviews and the public
came to believe that our editorial columns
also were for sale, our credibility
would be destroyed. In that event, our
utility as a medium for your advertising
would be seriously "hurt. We assume
that BoxoFFicE agrees with us on
this score.
Thank you for this opportunity to
discuss the strides we are making to
be more responsive to the interests of
the movie industry, which is one of our
most important client categories.
CHARLES M. KINSOLVING JR.
Vice-President, Marketing
Newspaper Advertising Bureau
485 Lexington Ave.
New York, N.Y. 10017

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Remember those Saturday afternoon Westerns?
Tom Mix, Tim McCoy and Hoot Gibson riding off
into the sunset? They kissed the horse— but never
the girl!
Here's a funny movie about those movies— about
cranking out Westerns down in Gower Gulch, about
cowboy stars who washed dishes between pictures,
about Lewis Tater, the Iowa farm boy who went West.
500 miles too far and 50 years too late.
For a brief moment, he almost made it.
'Hearts of the West'— MGM's Comedy Surprise.
Coming in October from United Artists.

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Home Box Office Signs
With TelePrompTer
NEW YORK.— Home Box Office, a unit
of Time, Inc., has signed a definitive agreement
with TelePrompTer for HBO to offer
pay TV programing to approximately 800.-
000 TelePrompTer subscribers nationally,
was announced Tuesday (19). An agreement
it
in principle reportedly had been
reached in May. Terms of the pact were
not disclosed.
TelePrompTer also announced it had concluded
an agreement for the acquisition of
24 earth stations from Scientific-Atlanta,
Inc. These facilities will be used to receive
HBO's pay TV programing, which will be
distributed by domestic satellite. Terms ol
the transaction \Nere not disclosed.
Scientific-Atlanta reported that it had received
a contract from U.A-Columbia Cablevision
for a satellite earth terminal to be
installed in Fort Pierce, Fla. Subject to Federal
Communications Commission approval,
the system will mark the nation's
first distribution of pay TV programing by
satellite.
Home Box Office reportedly plans to
distribute
major motion pictures and sports
events via satellite throughout the U.S. via
a network that is to be inaugurated with
this
project.
Redstone Theatres Going
Into Pittsburgh Area
PITTSBURGH—Boston's National Amusements,
Inc., signed a lease-purchase
agreement covering 14 vacant acres along
Route 22 in Wilkins Township, opposite
Penn Center, where it will construct a fourtheatre
complex. Sumner Redstone announced.
Construction of Showcase Cinemas will
be started within a month and will be ready
or opened by the end of 1975 or early 1976.
On-site parking is part of the arrangement
for the Redstone luxury theatres with total
seating capacity of between 2,500 and 3.000.
Transfer of the land will be made from
Western Pennsylvania, Ltd., the principles
including Ted McWilliams and Howard
Christner.
National Amusements, which operates
130 theatres in eastern states, through the
major theatre executive, states that no other
commercial buildings are planned at ihrlocal
site.
Centcmr Rel. Changes Name
To Dandrea Releasing
HOLLYWOOD—C e n t a u r Releasmg
Corp., national distribution company with
offices in New York and Hollywood, has
changed its name to Dandrea Releasing
Corp. to eliminate any further confusion
with a company with a similar name.
Centaur officials said they want no further
confusion with Centaur Films which
is not connected to the releasing firm.
Centaur Releasing owners are Irv Dorfman
and Frank Moreno.
Truman Capote will make his motion
picture acting debut in "Murder by Death."
$100,375,045 for ^Jaws'
In
954 Houses, 59 Days
LNIVERSAL CI lY — I nlvcrsaPs
"Jaws" in only 59 days, playing in 954
theatres throughout the L .S. and Canada,
had grossed $100,375,045 through
Sunday (17).
The figure represents record-topping
business in virtually every situation,
with the production surpassing boxoffice
champions "The Sting" and "The
Exorcist" in total U.S. and Canadian
film rentals and moving in fa.st to overtake
"The Godfather," "The Sound of
Music" and "(Jonc With the Wind"
to reach the No. 1 position as the alltime
boxoffice champion. As of mid-
August, "Jaws" was in the No. 4
position.
Ihe sea terror drama, starring Roy
Scheider. Robert Shaw and Richard
Dreyfuss and co-starring Lorraine
Gary, was produced by Richard D.
Zanuck and David Brown. Steven Spielberg
directed the Technicolor and
Panavision film.
Ben Marcus, Frederic Danz
Head VCI Wills, Trust Fund
NEW YORK—Ben Marcus, president ol
the Marcus Corp., and Frederic Danz, president
of Sterling Recreatio.T Organization,
have agreed to serve as co-chairmen of the
wills and trust fund committee of Variety
Clubs International, according to an announcement
by Monty Hall, president ol
the global show business organization.
Marcus is an international ambassador
and former chief barker of Tent 14. Variety
Club of Milwaukee. Danz is an International
vice-president and a former chid'
barker of Tent 45, Variety Club of th
Pacific Northwest.
The aim of this committee will be 'o
encourage the granting of bequests and the
allocation of trust funds by individuals and
foundations to further the programs of th-
International Heart of Variety in behalf
of underprivileged and handicapped chi
dren all over the world.
'Part 2 Walking Tall' Scores
Record in Initial Runs
HOI LYWOOD— Oulgrossing its predecessor
by a substantial margin, in its initi;''
playdates, "Part 2 Walking Tall" has racked
up more than $8,000,000 its first six weeks
of release, according to Charles A. Pratt,
president of BCP.
First week's gross in 120 theatres in the
Pittsburgh and Cleveland areas was
$660,000.
Among other major cities where the picture
opens multiple dates on August 27 are
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia.
Chicago, Seattle, Portland and San Diego.
"Part 2 Walking Tall" is distributed bv
Cinerama/ American International.
TV Used for 'Harry!'
Marketing Session
LOS ANOLI.KS— Bill Sargent held the
first closed-circuit TV marketing presentation
for exhibitors in the history of the motion
picture industry for his ThcatroVision
presentation of "Give 'Em Hell, Harry!"
Wednesday (20) in the top 27 U.S. markets.
I he two and one-half hour presentation took
place at network affiliate and independent
TV stations in each market and included a
screening of "Give 'Em Hell, Harry!", starring
James Whitmore as President Harry S
Truman. Each studio had an average seating
capacity of 60 and more than 1,600 exhibitors
attended the presentation.
Prior to the screening, Sargent began the
marketing program by introducing Whitmore
and director Steve Binder. He then
is outlined the sales strategy that being employed
for the 1,500 day-and-date engagements.
Hal Marshall, advertising-publicity director,
unveiled the total promotion package,
including newspaper ads, TV spots,
network radio buy, one sheets and promotion
tie-ins from Truman canes and "Give
"Em Hell, Harry!" campaign buttons to
T-shirts and posters.
"It's about time motion picture marketing
entered the 20th century," Sargent stated.
"We're in the business of communicating
and we're not using the basic tools that are
available to us. The most efficient way of
communicating is TV. There's no reason
why a marketing program can't be laid out
over a network. We tell our story one time
and its gets across the way we want it
not with the variations imposed by 32 different,
well-meaning branch managers."
Comparing the video presentation with
traditional distribution overhead and exchange
maintenance expense, Sargent disclosed
that reaching 27 markets had cos!
him a total of $21.700— $803.70 per market.
"Traveling a dog and pony show to
each of those same markets ten years ago
cost me over $130,000. The cost would be
out of sight today. Our organization has an
overhead consisting of six men. including
myself. We put our mone\' into selling." he
emphasized.
Sargent requested that no reviews be
written from the closed-circuit showinc of
Ciive 'Em Hell.
Harry!"
Avco Names Dan Ponticelle
Sales Analysis Overseer
NEW YORK— Dan I'onlieelle has been
named supervisor of .Xveo Embassy Pictures'
sales analysis department, it was announced
by Phil Isaacs, the company's vicepresident
and general sales manager. Ponticelle
is headquartered at the Avco Embassv
Los Angeles office.
Formerly assistant to Isaacs at GSF Productions
in New York. Ponticelle previously
was a booker and buyer for Brandt Theatres.
He also has held ke> sales posts with
other major enlertainment companies.
BOXOFFICE :: August 25, 1975

'Exorcist Part 11' Faces
Cameras in January
HOLLYWOOD— The Exorcist Part II"
with Linda Blair starring again as Regan,
the demonically possessed youngster, is
scheduled to begin production in January,
it was announced by Guy McElwaine, senior
executive vice-president of worldwide
production for Warner Bros.
Miss Blair was 14 when she appeared as
Regan in the original William Peter Blatty
production of "The Exorcist." It turned
out to be one of the most widely publicized
film roles in recent times. She now will be
seen as a 17-year-old high school senior
in the new film. Blatty's "Exorcist" has
grossed more than $100 million worldwide,
McElwaine said.
The continuing story of the 1973 film
will be directed by Sam O'Steen from a
script by William Goodhart. It will be filmed
at the Burbank Studios and on location
in Italy, Africa, New York City and Georgetown,
Md.
McElwaine also revealed that in addition
to her assignment in the new film Miss
Blair also has been signed by Warners for
three more pictures.
"We are very fortunate to have Linda
Blair back at Warners, and in a role that
surely made some kind of film history,"
McElwaine declared. "Linda probably has
received more fan mail these past two years
than any other person appearing on the
screen," he added.
Barry Goldberg to Assume
More Management Duties
NEW YORK— Barry Goldberg, vicepresident
of business affairs for Management
III, Ltd., will assume additional responsibilities,
it has been announced by
company president Norman Weiss. Goldberg,
previously based in the New York
office, will become actively engaged in acquiring
film and television properties while
dividing his time between the firm's New
York and Beverly Hills offices.
Recently, Goldberg completed negotiations
for film rights to two novels, which
he is now developing into major theatrical
productions. An announcement on these
projects will be made shortly.
Charles Bronson to Star
In 'Lost Score' for WB
BURBANK, CALIF.—Charles
will star in "The Last Score," it was announced
by Guy McElwaine, senior executive
vice-president of worldwide production
for Warner Bros. The adventure murder
mystery begins production October 27.
"The Last Score" will be co-produced by
Stan Canter and Pancho Kohner, and was
adapted for the screen by Barry Beckerman
from Oliver Bleeks novel "The Procane
Chronicle." No director has been set
as yet.
Bronson is currently filming "From Noon
Till Three" for United Artists release.
William iennanl is the new viee-presi
.nt iif priKluction at Columbia Pictures.
Dimension Finalizes Deal
For 'Hyde' Distribution
Writer producer Charles Walker and
Larry Woolner. right, president of
Dimension Pictures, finalize pact for
the distribution of Hyde Production
Co.'s "Hyde" by Dimension. Release
has been set for Christmas Day.
HOLLYWOOD— Screenwriter Charles
Walker has formed Hyde Prodtiction Co.
to shoot his first film, "Hyde" which will
be distributed by Dimension Pictures.
Larry Woolner. president of Dimension,
and Walker signed contracts for their distribution
agreement at a press party at Dimension
headquarters. Walker's most recent
screenplay was the Fred Williamson
production of "Peace Is Hell," which is to
he released soon.
Production on "Hyde" is scheduled to
begin September 15 on locations in the Los
.Angeles area. Release date has been set for
Christmas Day.
NFB's 'Why Rock the Boat?'
Bows in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON—The National Film
Board of Canada's "Why Rock the Boat?"
opened at the Key Theatre here Wednesday
(20). A romantic comedy about the newspaper
business in Montreal in the 1940s,
"Why Rock the Boat?" won a Bronze Hugo
as the best film feature at last year's Chicago
Film Festival.
The feature motion picture has been sold
in England, the Netherlands, Finland and
Norway, according to the NFB. Based on
William Weintraub's novel of the same
'Fat Chance' Now 'Peeper'
NEW YORK—"Fat Chance," an Irwin
Winkler-Robert Chartoff production to be
released by 20th Century-Fox, has been
changed to "Peeper." Starring Michael
Cainc and Natalie Wood, the film is directed
by Peter Hyams from a screenplay
by W. D. Kichtcr. ba.sed on the novel,
"Deadfall." hv Keilh 1 aunici.
Frank Pierson to Direct
'Star Is Born' for WB
NEW YORK—Producer Jon Peters ha^
signed two-time Academy Award nominee
Frank R. Pierson to direct the musical "A
Star Is Born" starring Barbra Streisand.
Pierson, who has extensive motion picture
and television writing credits, also will adapt
ihe final screenplay from the script by Joan
Didion and John Dunne.
Pierson's Oscar nominations were for hi^
screenplays of "Cat Ballou" and "Cool
Hand Luke." He wrote, among other screenplays,
"The Anderson Tapes" and the forthcoming
Warner Bros, release "Dog Da\
Afternoon," starring Al Pacino. "A Star is
Born" marks his musical directorial debut.
He is best known as a director for the Emm\
Award winning feature "The Neon Ceiling,"
made for television and later given
theatrical
release.
Peters was originally set by First Artists
and Warner Bros, to direct "Star," but the
demand of production commitments led to
the signing of Pierson. The recently formed
Jon Peters Enterprises will be Peters' production
banner for "Star" and for "Eyes,"
an original screenplay by John Carpenter
for Columbia Pictures. Peters has acquired
five properties, including the book rights
to a major best seller.
A. J. Bauer & Co. Formed
For Film Distribution
NEW YORK— A. J. Bauer & Co., Inc.
a film distribution outlet dealing with independent
and specialized films for theatrical
and nontheatrical markets, has been formed
here, it was announced by Ray Blanco.
Publisher and editor of White Arrow, the
underground journal, Blanco is director of
the Independent Film Critics Ass'n, which
held its awards ceremonies earlier this year
at the Regency Theatre.
Blanco states, "Major distributors have
one goal in mind, which is profit without
regard to the filmmaker's feelings. It is
time that distributors measure a film's success
through its artistry rather than its boxoffice.
We hope to join the very few who
do justice to the filmmaker's feelings and
the film. We intend to make quality motion
pictures indispensable to the industry
through personal care of our films."
name, "Why Rock the Boat?" was directed A. J. Bauer & Co., located at 2095 Broadway,
New York City, will have Nancy Ne-
by John
Bronson
Howe and stars Stuart Gillard, Tiiu
Leek and Ken James.
well as assistant to the administrator and
Two other Canadian films, the NFB's in charge of bookings, Ken Edwards as
"Mon Oncle Antoine" and Claude Jutra's finance director and Joe Del Castillo in
"Kamouraska," recently ended successful charge of public relations.
eight-week and 12-week, respectively, engagements
in Washington.
American Int'l Moving
New York City Offices
HOLLYWOOD- New address in New
York of American International Pictures,
Inc., effective Saturday (2.^), will be 515
Madison Ave., New York City 10022. Telephone
number becomes 1-212-752-4700.
Home offices of AIP are in the American
International Pictures BIdg., 90.V^ Wilshire
Blvd., He\erl\ llilK. Calif. 9021 1.
1975

Variety Clubs Int'l to Fete
Mountbatten October 14
NEW YORK.— V;iricly Clubs Intcrn.itional
will be honoring Admiral of the
Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. K.O.
with a dinner in the Grand Ballroom ol
the Waldorf-Astoria in New York Cit;.
Tuesday evening, October 14, it was announced
by Monty Hall, president of the
global show business organization, and
Norman Weitman, president of the Variety
Club of New York, Tent 35.
Lord Mountbatten is being honored for
his work in behalf of underprivileged and
handicapped children. He has served as
the international chairman of Variety Clubs
International Life Patron Committee since
its inception. Lord Mountbatten is also the
president of the International Council of
United World Colleges which supports disadvantaged
youngsters with scholarships in
colleges affiliated with this movement in
various parts of the world.
Agreeing to serve as honorary chairmen
for the dinner thus far are Nelson A. Rockefeller,
Walter Annenberg, Mrs. Henry
Ford, and Mrs. W. Averell Harriman.
Agreeing to serve as general chairmen
thus far are Cary Grant, Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas Fairbanks, Angier Biddle Duke.
Mrs, Sharman Douglas Hay and Mrs.
Walter N. Rothschild.
Proceeds from the dinner will be allocated
to the Variety Clubs Foundation of
New York and the United World Colleges.
Name Thomas Campanella
As Para. Ad Executive
NEW YORK.— rhomas J. Campanella
has been named director of administrationadvertising
and publicity for Paramount
Pictures Corp., it was announced by Charles
O, Glenn, vice-president, marketing. For
the past year Campanella has been business
manager-advertising and publicity for Para
mount Television.
Joining Paramount Pictures in 1968 a'
assistant business manager, Campanella
since that time has worked for the firm as
assistant manager/general accounting, staff
financial analyst and assistant to the director
of business administration-advertisirg
and publicity.
The appointment is effective immediately.
THEY ARE HAPPY OVER
'LAS VEGAS LADY'
Hoppy
'Winterhawk' Is Soaring
In Wisconsin Playdates
CHICAGO—Howco Internationals new
picture, "Winterhawk," has been launched
as a popular bit of entertainment, according
to glowing gross reports from Wisconsin
theatres presenting the film.
Sidney Kaplan, head of S-K Film Co.,
appointed distributor in this area, received
excellent reports from four Milwaukee theatres
and also from movie houses in the adjoining
locations of Oconomowoc and Waukesha.
Capitol Service now has booked
"Winterhawk" into the Capitol Theatre in
Racine, Wis.
One of the most extensive campaigns in
the history of Wisconsin theatres preceded
the
opening.

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'Same Time, Next Year' Set
By Mirisch for Universal
The Mirisch Corp. has purchased motion
picture rights to Bernard Slade's Broadway
hit comedy, "Same Time, Next Year," to
be produced for Universal release. Walter
Mirisch will produce, with Morton Gottlieb,
producer of the stage show, co-producing.
The comedy chronicles marriage and the
once yearly clandestine and adulterous outof-town
hotel get-together of married lovers
. . . Herb Jaffe Productions will film
"Demon Seed," Dean Koontz" novel of sensual
terror, for MGM. Daniel Melnick,
senior vice-president and worldwide head of
production, said search is now under way
for an actress to play the key role of Susan
in the film in which the story will be a
computer age retelling of the classic Gothic
tale of beauty and the beast. A late 1975
start for the film is scheduled. Robert Jaffe
adapted the novel for the screen . . . Paramount
Pictures has acquired screen rights
to "The Chicken Chronicles," a first novel
by Paul Diamond, son of screenwriter-producer
I.A.L. Diamond. Ned Wynn, son of
actor Keenan Wynn, has been signed to
write the screenplay of the book which recounts
the way it all was at Beverly Hills
High School during the senior year of
1975 . . "Revenge," novel by Noel Hynd
. a
has been acquired by Frank Yablans Presentations
to be shot on location in Asia,
the U.S. and Europe . . . Newport Productions
has acquired "Primal Therapy," a
screenplay by Chris Bunch and Allan Cole
. . . Steven Spielberg will follow up his success
with "Jaws" by writing and directing
"Close Encounter of the Third Kind." as
a Michael and Julia Phillips production for
Columbia. The film will be a science-fiction
thriller based on an original story b>
Spielberg. It is scheduled for a late fall
beginning.
Albert S. Ruddy to Produce
'Crash of 79' for Para.
Albert S. Ruddy will produce "The
Crash of '79" for Paramount Pictures,
with S. Lee Pogostin signed to write the
screenplay from a novel by Paul Erdman,
it was announced by Richard Sylbert, Paramount
vice-president for production. Simon
and Schuster will publish Erdman's novel
in the spring of 1976. The film will be a
black comedy about the manipulation of
economic and military power by the Shah
of Mid-America Entertainment, have signed
J. Patrick Kelly III to write the screenpla>
from his novel "The Conspiracy." Sheldon
will produce and Girdler will direct the film
set to roll early next year . . . Jeff Schechtman
and his Terrapin Productions will begin
filming later this year on "Piranha,"
with a screenplay by Wilyam Eledge about
a crazed ichthyologist who puts hundreds
of piranha fish in Los Angeles area swimming
pools to avenge the death of his twin
brother.
The Last Hard Man' Charted
For Cameras at 20th-Fox
"The Last Hard Man." a western-adventure
film, will go before the cameras
October 20 in Arizona for 20th Century-
Fox release with Charlton Heston starring,
it has been announced by Alan Ladd jr.,
senior vice-president of worldwide production.
The Seltzer/Thacher/Belasco production
will be produced by Walter Seltzer and
Russell Thacher with William Belasco serving
as the executive producer. "The Last
Hard Man" is an adaptation of Brian
Garfield's novel. "Gun-Down," from a
screenplay by Guerdon Trueblood. Garfield
is also the author of the novel. "Death
Wish." which became a major motion picture.
Seltzer and Thacher served as producers
of MGM's "Soylent Green," which
also starred Heston. Belasco was producer
of last year's MGM production, "The Super
Cops." "The Last Hard Man" marks the
seventh film association between Heston
and Seltzer. A director will be set shortly.
James Earl Jones Gets Lead
In Avco Embassy Feature
James Earl Jones has been signed to star
in "Troubled Times" produced by Thomas
McGrath for Avco-Embassy release . . .
Peter Boyle will co-star in Universal's adventure
drama, "Swashbuckler," scheduled
to begin principal photography September
29 . . . Diane Keaton has been set in the
role of a social reformer working for a political
newspaper in "Harry and Walter Go
to New York," a Columbia release of the
Mark Rydell film . . . Juliet Prowse has
been cast by producer Steven Estcrkin to
star in "Defense." an original screenplay by
Kenneth Hodge, with production set for
January on locations in Nevada and Texas
Piazza will play a major feature
role in "The Bad News Bears," being produced
by Stanley Jaffe for Paramount.
Alfred W. Lutter and Jackie Earl Haley
of Iran resulting in a global atomic holocaust.
Ruddy was the producer of "The
Godfather" and "The Longest Yard," starring
Burt Reynolds, both Paramount re-
is the director . . . Federico Fellini has
also have featured roles. Michael Ritchie
leases . . . Ken Shapiro has been signed by signed Margaret Clementi and Claretta
Paramount Pictures to produce and direct Algranta for co-starring roles with Donald
"Ma Bell," an original screenplay by Eric Sutherland in "Casanova" now being filmed
Roth about a young man who broke the in Rome . . . Tim Thoerson and Franklyn
telephone company's computer code to gain Ajayc will have roles in Jerry Schat/berg's
$50,000 worth of equipment every week . production of "All-Amcrican Girl" now
David Sheldon and William Girdler, heads shooting in Seattle for MGM . . . Kathleen
Lloyd is making her film debut in the lead!
ing feminine role opposite Marlon Brandol
and Jack Nicholson in "The Missouri'
Breaks," an Elliott Kastner presentation otl
an Arthur Penn film. Robert M. Sherman
is producing the western drama for release
by LInited
Artists.
'
John Carradine, Peter Gushing
Starring in 'Death Corps'
John Carradine and Peter Cushing are]
starring in "Death Corps," with Reubenl
Trane producing and photographing and
Ken Wiederhorn writing and directing. The
film is being shot in the Miami area and
deals with a shipload of experimental
mutant soldiers who go on a rampage onl
an island in the Caribbean . . . Emmett L.I
Ashford, first black umpire in major league'
baseball, has been signed for a role in
Stars and Motor Kings." Sam Laws and
Brooks Clift also have been signed for roles
in the film . . . Lara Lindsay who gd\c up
acting in 1970 to work in motion picture
production and now is assistant to the
producer of "Logan's Run." will lea\c her
job temporarily to take a role in the tihn,
portraying a woman in the 23rd century
who tries to avoid an edict that nobod\ is
allowed to live beyond the age of 30 . . .
Ann Wedgeworth, young Broadway and tilm
Universal's "The Bingo Long Traveling All-
actress, has joined Beau Bridges, Susan
Sarandon and Mildred Dunnock in American
International's "Dragonfly." which Gilbert
Cates is directing and producing entirely
on location in Connecticut. Christopher
Lloyd and Linda Miller also have been
added to the cast.
Randy Quaid, George Jessel,
Sandy Kevin Are Cast
Randy Quaid has been added to the cast
of Elliott Kastner's "The Missouri Breaks,"
to portray Little Tod. a member of a gang
of rustlers headed by Jack Nicholson .
George Jessel has been signed for a role
in Paramount's "Won Ton Ton. the Dog
Who Saved Hollywood." . . . French filmi
star Marthe Keller has been signed for the
co-starring role as contact between Dustin:
Hoffman and Sir Laurence Olivier in a life
and death struggle with international forces
in "Marathon Man" being co-produced by
Robert Evans and Sidney Beckerman for
Paramount . . Sandy Kevin has been cast
as the father in "Ode to Billy Joe." the Max
Baer Productions film now shooting in
Mississippi for Warner Bros. Baer is producing
and directing.
Jacques Tali to Be Starred
In La'vish U.S. Feature
Nev\ly formed Norlh-1 cvinson Productions
will bring French comedian Jacques
Tati to America for his first English-speaking
film, "Confusion," budgeted at $1.6
million. Tati will write and direct the film,
with some of the shooting to be done in
Hollywood. David Frost and his Paradine
Productions are lining up some of the financing,
and Frost will serve as executive !
producer. Producer Steven North and publicist
Bob Levinson arc partners in the new
company and will be producers.
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BOXOFFICE August 25, 1975

)
I I NINGRAD,
Budd Rogers, Continental
Gen'l Sales Mgr.. Dies
NEW YORK—Biidd Rogers, 84, veteran
motion picture executive, died \Vednesda\
Hospital in New York
Budd Rogers
n a daily basis until he
took ill several weeks
ago. Rogers, for the
past
several years,
served as general sales
manager of Continental
Distributing, the
motion picture division
of the Walter
Reade Organization.
Born in Boston
June 24. 1891, in his
early business career
^^ became an automobile
sales executive. He entered the
motion picture industry in 1924 as vicepresident
of Lumas Film Corp., and subsequently
became vice-president of World-
Wide Pictures, and president of Interworld
Production of New York City. In 1933, he
organized Liberty Pictures, Rogers was appointed
vice-president and general sales
manager.
Rogers was elected a director of Universal
Film Corp. and subsidiary companies
in 1936. He became associated with actor
Charles Laughton in 1938 and they produced
several pictures together. In 1943,
Rogers opened offices in New York City
and served as Eastern representative to a
number of Hollywood producers. He was
appointed vice-president and general sales
manager of Realart Pictures in 1947, ard
in 1949 he organized his own film distribution
company, Rogers and Linger Associates.
From May 1954 to October 1955, Rogers
was general sales manager of Selznick Releasing
Organization. In 1958, he was appointed
executive vice-president of Embassy
Pictures. In 1962 he organized Ultra Pictures
and served as its
president prior to his
association with the Walter Reade Organization.
Survivors include a son. Richard, two
sisters, Julia Eschner of Santa Monica,
Calif., and Anne Mendelson of New Bedford,
Mass., two brothers, Abraham Rogers
of Hollywood, Fla., and Walter Rogers of
Boston, and five granchildren. His late
brother Charles was a film producer.
Morgan Kaufman. 92, Dies;
William Fox Attorney
PHILADELPHIA—Morgan S. Kaufman,
92, who was disbarred from the practice of
law in 1943 by the U.S. District Court here
in the handling of the legal affairs of the
late William Fox, one-time film producer
who headed 20th Century-Fox, died August
10 at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital
here.
In 1959, at the age of 75, Kaufman was
readmitted to the practice of law in the
federal courts. Kaufman was charged with
but never convicted of obstructing justice
and dctraudini; the uovernnienl in the bank-
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have been reviewed and rated by the
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Title Distributor Roting
Call Him Mr. Shatter (Aveo Embassy) \r\
The First Nudie Musical
(First Musical Co.
The Master Gunfighter
(Taylor-Laughlin)
m
PG
Petersen (Avco Embassy) \h\
Swept Away by an Unusual
Destiny in the Blue Sea
of August (Cinema 5)
ruptcy of the one-time millionaire movie
producer. Fox had made damaging statements
in testifying against him. He also
served as attorney in earlier 1930s for some
of the motion picture industry's most prominent
celebrities and motion picture pioneers.
Kaufman, among many associations,
was also a member of the Philadelphia
Variety Club. He is survived by a sister.
'The Jolson Story' Is Back
With New Stereo Sound
NEW YORK—"The Jolson Story," a
musical cavalcade of entertainer Al Jolson
\r\
is being re-released by Columbia Pictures
in new stereophonic sound on widescreen
70mm color in an exclusive engagement at
the Ziegfeld Theatre beginning Friday (22).
The film also will open at the Beverly Theatre
in Beverly Hills Thursday (28).
The story of one of America's greatest
entertainers is tunefully accompanied with
such great melodies as '"California Here I
Come," "Swanee," "Mammy," "You Made
Me Love You," "Waiting for the Robert
E. Lee," "April Showers," "Rainbow Round
My Shoulder," "'Liza," ""Rockabye Yoiu-
Baby," "By the Light of the Silvery Moon,"
""I'm Sitting on Top of the World," "Toot
Toot Tootsie" and many others.
"The Jolson Story" was produced by Sidney
Skolsky and directed by Alfred E.
Green from a screenplay by Stephen Longstreet.
Avco Embassy Names Sabo
St. Louis Branch Mgr.
NEW YORK—James Sabo was appointed
St. Louis branch manager of Avco Embassy
Pictures Corp., effective Monday
(18), it was announced by Phil Isaacs, vicepresident
and general sales manager of the
distribution company. Sabo, who previously
held sales posts with Buena Vista, anti
MGM, succeeds Ralph ll.icker.
Jane Fonda in Leningrad
For 'Blue Bird' Scenes
U.S.S.R.—Actress Jane
onda returned to this city Tuesday (19)
I
from Los Angeles to complete her co-starring
role in "The Blue Bird," the first joint
Soviet-American motion picture in history.
She will re-shoot scenes filmed of her earlier
this year due to the replacement of one
of her co-stars, James Coco, who withdrew
from the cast because of illness.
Director George Cukor is scheduled to
finish filming at the Lenfilm Studios in this
city by August 30. Elizabeth Taylor wound
up her starring role in ""The Blue Bird"
Monday (11) after nearly six months in
Leningrad and flew to Switzerland. Others
starring in the film version of the classic
Maurice Maeterlinck fantasy, in addition to
Misses Taylor and Fonda, are an international
cast headed by Ava Gardner, Cicely
ryson, Robert Morley, Harry Andrews,
Will Geer, Mona Washbourne, George Cole
(who replaced Coco), Richard Pearson,
Todd Lookinland and Patsy Kensit.
The Soviet cast includes 19-year-old
dancing sensation Nadia Pavlova, George
Vitzin, Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Popov,
Leonid Nevedomsky, Valentina Ganibalova
and Eugene Tscherbakov.
Twentieth Century-Fox is distributing
""The Blue Bird" throughout most of the
world, with Sovexportfilm distributing in
the remaining portion. The producers are
Alexander Arshansky (for the USSR) and
Paul Maslansky (for the U.S.). The screenplay
is by Hugh Whitemore and Alexei
Kapler, based on Maeterlinck's masterpiece.
Libert Acquires Global
Rights to Documentary
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.—A featurelength
documentary produced by Elroy
Schwartz is to be released worldwide by
Libert Films International. The film, reports
Libert, is aimed at "the 55 per cent
of Americans who, according to the latest
polls, believe in reincarnation."
Wanda Sue Parrott, star of the picture
which is described as "one of the most
frightening documentaries filmed," under
hypnosis is proved to have led previous
lives. Later in the film, she is taken forward
to a period in time 40 years from now to
describe a "'terrifying existence after the
dcciclcnl."
Locarno Festival Award
Won by 'Ancient Stairs'
Lucis-
LOCARNO, ITALY—The Fulvio
ano production, "Down the
Ancient Stairs,"
was awarded the Prix Special du Jury
award following its presentation here Monday
(18) at the Locarno Film Festival.
An Italian-French co-production for Fox-
Europa, the film by Mauro Bolognini was
directed by Mario Monicelli from an ad
aptation of a novel by Mario Tobino. Marcello
Mastroianni, Francoise Fabian, Marthe
Keller, Barbara Bouchet, Pierre Blaise,
I ucia Bose and Adriana .Asti star in the
BOXOFFICE :; August 1975

The classic line of the Lucky
Lady at sea is silhouetted
against the horizon.
As Kibby, Gene Hackman sometimes vies
for, sometimes shares the affections of
Liza Minnelli as Claii-e Dolthe.
LUCKY
LADY
For millions of Americans prohibition
muzzled the exuberant roar of the Roaring
'20s, and when the Great Depression set
in, life would have become more desperate
were it not for the good work of those
modern-day buccaneers— the rum-runners.
They staked their lives and fortunes
against overwhelming adversaries. At the
vanguard of their fleet was a most unlikely
threesome. Kibby, iGene Hackman i, on
the run from both sides of the law; Claire,
(Liza Minnelli), the undisputed queen of
the team, and Walker (Burt Reynolds),
desperately handsome but no hero.
"Lucky Lady," a very unusual movie with
a very special message, is the 20th Century-Pox
release for Oiristmas 1975.
Burt Reynolds as
Walker goes>
where the action
is, and there's
plenty of it to be
found aboard the
Lucky Lady.
Bobby Benson, Bmt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli and Gene Hackman share a spirited
camaraderie as they test their luck and take their chances aboard the Lucky Lady.
Gene, Liza and Burt live it up after they
strike it rich with their rum-running activities
aboard the Lucky Lady.
BOXOFFICE :: .August 25, 1975

Howard Goldfarb to Head
CIC 16 and 8mm Product
LONDON—Cinema International Corp.
has announced from its headquarters in
Amsterdam that Howard Goldfarb has been
appointed to head the distribution of CIC's
16mm and Super-Smm product as well as
TV casetles. Goldfarb. headquartered in
London, reports directly to CIC's co-chairmen
Arthur Abelcs and Henri Michaud.
Before his new appointment, Goldfarb
headed his own New York-based company,
H. G. Entertainment, Ltd./ Salt Water Releasing
Co., Inc. He was previously vicepresident
in charge of marketing, Latin
America, for Buena Vista International
(Disney), following which he was foreign
sales manager for Cannon Releasing Corp.
The announcement reflects CIC's recognition
of the importance of non-35mm and
70mm distribution and its determination to
develop its potential.
Bobbie Gentry Meets Baer
To Discuss 'Billy Joe'
GREENWOOD. MLSS.— Bobbie Gentry,
whose song "Ode to Billy Joe" made country-western
history eight years ago, came
here (her home territory) to consult with
Max Baer on the movie he is making for
Warner Bros, from her song narrative.
Miss Gentry will sing "Billy Joe" for the
film and it soon will become the basis of a
new Gentry album derived from music in
the film.
Her role in the film, which Baer is producing
and directing, is played by Glynnis
O'Connor, while Robby Benson plays Billy
Joe. Miss Gentry also will be the focal point
of a featurette which Warner Bros, is making
on the
film.
MIPS Has Available Free
New Environmental Film
NEW YORK—A timely message, in the
guise of comedy, is offered in the new
35mm-sound and color motion picture tenminute
short, "Does It Have to Be This
Way?" Presented by the Environmental Protection
Agency, the film shows without
words, how car costs, the demand for
energy, and the ulcer rate can be cut. Above
all, it is a plea for clean air.
Requests for free loan playdates for
"Does It Have to Be This Way?" should he
sent to Modern Talking Picture Service,
2323 New Hyde Park Road, New Hyde
Park, N.Y. 11040.
'Love and Death' Grossing
High in U.S. and Canada
NEW YORK—"Love and Death."
Woody Allen comedy, has grossed a total
of $5,500,000 in some 60 situations in the
United States and Canada for a period ranging
from one to eight weeks, it was announced
by James R. Velde, United Artists
senior vice-president. The UA sales chief
also noted that the film is showing tremendous
strength in new situations and continues
as a long-run pace-setter in many of
the established engagements.
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BOXOFFICE :: August 25. 1975

• ADLINES & EXPLOITIPS
• ALPHABETICAL INDEX
• EXHIBITOR HAS HIS SAY
• FEATURE RELEASE CHART
• FEATURE REVIEW DIGEST
• SHORTS RELEASE CHART
• SHORT SUBJECT REVIEWS
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THE GUIDE TO BETTER BOOKING AND B U S I N E S S - B U I L D I N G
Hobo Vends 'Dime'
Pinball Marathon, Costume Premiere
With Apple Cart Introduce 'Tommy to Santa Barbara
Seeking a novel approach to promoting
Dimension Pictures' "Brother. Can You
Spare a Dime?" for the engagement in Westwood
and Hollywood. Calif., Gary Persell,
advertising director for Crest Film Distributors,
Inc., came up with a tie-in involving
an old-time apple vendor, complete with
cart.
Persell decorated an old push cart with
one sheets and S.xlO glossies of scenes from
the film and equipped it with a stereo sound
system so that the film soundtrack could
be played. Filling the cart with apples and
flyers. Persell then had his company's own
"hobo" push the cart along Hollywood
Boulevard, through Westwood and in and
out of shopping centers, distributing his
wares.
The to-do aroused a lot of interest, Persell
said.
A 79-hour pinhall marathon, held in an
attempt to break the Guinness Book of
World Records time and also win for the
victor a pinball machine, and a glitter costume
premiere were talk-of-the-town events
Terry Boyle, director of advertising for
Metropolitan Theatres, organized for the
Santa Barbara, Calif., opening of "Tommy."
Participating in the to-do with more than
a thousand promotion spots were stations
KTMS AM & FM and Golf "n Stuff, which
supplied the pinball machines in a trade-out
for radio time and lobby displays in the
Granada Theatre.
Contestants for the marathon were
chosen by drawing names from cards KTMS
listeners over 18 years old had submitted.
Three men and one woman were chosen.
Boyle explained the four were not competing
for scores or skill, simply endurance.
The marathon began on the day before
the Wednesday premiere for "Tommy" and
lasted until 12:00 a.m. Saturday when time
was called in order that the healih of the two
remaining pla>crs not be jeopardized. The
two winners Peggy Turner and Manny
Novoa lasted 79 hours, while the first contestant
dropped out after 30 and the second,
after 56. Ms. Turner and Novoa each received
a pinball machine and had their
names submitted to the Guinness people.
E.\citement over the marathon was keen,
according to Boyle, with station KEYT-TV
on hand to film the start of the marathon
for two newscast playbacks, KTMS doing
a remote and hundreds of well-wishers stopping
by the theatre to witness the event in
person.
The second aspect of the promotion was
billed as the KTMS "Tommy" Glitter Costume
Party and was held on the opening
night in the lobby of the Granada. KTMS
had encouraged listeners to attend the festivities
in costume. It was not a judging contest.
Boyle pointed out. merely a night of fun.
The stations provided hundreds of albums,
including soundtrack albums, along with
tickets to various sporting and entertainment
attractions. And there was. of course, the
half-hour live broadcast from the lobby,
where everyone was interviewed—the pinball
players, revelers and regular patrons.
Jaws'mobile Drives Message Home
The 1930s-.slylc apple vendor and can
devised hy Crest Film Dislrihitlors to
draw attention to the opening of
"Brother. Can You Spare a Dime?"
at theatres in IVestwood and Hollywood.
Calif., proved to he quite an
eve-catcher.
Advertise Free Parking Space
Since 42 per cent of the country's population
moves every 18 months, a government
study reveals, it would behoove showmen
to alert newcomers to the area about
free parking facilities through media advcrtisinc.
Alerting Cincinnatians to the
arrival of "Jaws" was the
Jawsmohile. a creation of Don
H'irtz, promotion director for
Mid States Theatres. The
venerable convertible this time
was painted blue and featured
a giant, home-made shark
rearing up from the back seat.
In the .shark's gaping jaws wa.s
a blond mannequin. The ciii
was driven to various piii:\
in Cincinnati where flyers mi
nouncing the film's openini:
also were handed out. Backing
up the promotion was a heavy
radio, television and newspaper
campaign.
BOXOFFICE Showmandii August 25, 1975

Novel Poster Display Features
10-Minute Scene From 'Sinbad
Shopping center patrons passing the
mail area in front of AMC's Indian
Springs 4 theatres in Kansas City.
Kas.. were surprised to see a 40x60
"poster," left, for "The 7th Voyage of
Sinbad" offer a ten-minute filmed
scene from the movie. Designed by
manager Ryland Kozad, above left,
shown with assistant manager Phil
Singleton,
the unusual display featured
a super 8 sound projector and mirror.
Theatre's Pink Panther Ups Return' Gross
UA Cinemas manager Steve Strieker in
Fresno, Calif., primed his engagement of
"The Return of the Pink Panther" with
lobby displays of pink panther and Inspector
Clouseau cutouts together with toy
pink panther giveaways, the latter thanks
to a tie-in with a next-door toy store. But
it wasn't until the third week that he discovered
what can generate even more boxoffice
jingle.
CITATIONS
Two weeks after the opening, Strieker arranged
another tie-in, this time with KPHD
radio. The station ran spots announcing
that the theatre's own pink panther would
make a personal appearance and pose for
pictures with adults and children alike.
Strieker said
the response was very enthusiastic,
as evidenced by the third week gross
being better than either the first or second
week's.
FOR MARCH AND APRIL
JoANN Hallett, manager of the Aladdin Theatre in Denver, for her "Earthquake"
campaign which included dressing her staff in Red Cross uniforms as a means
of psyching up the patrons. She carried the tie-in further still by renaming her
concessions counter the "Thirst Aid Station."
• * •
Jack Mitchell, director of advertising and promotion for Wometco Theatres, for his
successful efforts in obtaining wide exposure for the circuit's Miami-area premiere
of "Shampoo," The focal point of the campaign was a shampoo contest tie-in
with Alberto Culver Co, that attracted an audience of more than 2,000 university
students and prompted coverage by TV, radio, newspapers and the
Associated Press wire service,
• • •
Carter Boehm and Ruth Marie Porter, manager of the Springfield Cinema in
Springfield, Va., and theatre employee, respectively, for their promotion of "The
Strongest Man in the World," It centered about an idea Ms. Porter came up with
to break the Guinness record for lying on a bed of nails. Through Boehm's
efforts, the press, including local NBC and ABC TV affiliates and the Washington
Post, was on hand to witness Ms. Porter's new record. The promotion even
attracted
the attention of a Canadian TV station.
Friday the 13th Tie-in
For Door' Opening
June's Friday the 13th provided manager
Bill Burnett with just the atmosphere
he wanted for a campaign to prime the
engagement of "Beyond the Door" at
Mann's Century 21 theatre in Springfield,
Mo. So successful was his campaign, in
fact, that the Friday midnight show was
the largest ever at a Mann theatre in
Springfield, Burnett said.
Burnett and his staff began the campaign
two weeks before the premiere with
a radio station tie-in and lobby displays.
The tie-in with KICK, called for a mystery
car, which Burnett obtained and decorated
with banners publicizing the film. For two
hours every day of the stunt, the car would
be parked in different parts of the city,
KICK would then announce where the car
was located during those time periods, and
the first five listeners who went up to
the car and identified it were awarded a
free ticket to the movie, which was valid
either for Monday or Tuesday.
Lobby Displays
The lobby displays were adaptations of
scenes in the film. Again set up two weeks
before playdate, the displays included a
man being hurled out of a door and a
scene with a mother, child and topsy-turvy
bedroom. Burnett obtained the props for
the first from an old house that was being
demolished, while a local merchant offered
those for the second. The latter included
two mannequins, doll, bed and chest of
drawers.
The staff, meanwhile, worked on their
own contributions to the promotion. The
concessions girls made their own straitjackets,
donned them, put on eerie, grotesque
makeup and set out touring city
shopping areas to draw attention to the
film. Another employee constructed two
faces resembling the one employed in the
film advertising, using mesh wire, aluminum
wrapping and flood lamps. The faces, with
the flood lamps for eyes, measured 4x5-
feet and were used on the marquee and in
the
lobby.
Part of the promotion lor "Beyond
the Door" at the Century 21 theatre
in Springfield. Mo., included this
"scene" from tlie lilm.
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J^L JOLSON LIVED AGAIN when Columbia's
"The Jolson Story" began a
the Ziegfeld Theatre. The 1946 mus-
run at
Ziegfeld Tuesday morning (19), one of the
winners being a five-year-old boy. Thursday
evening (21) at 8:30, a gala invitational
premiere was held. Finally, the Friday
(22) opening featured a noontime
concert at which the contest winners performed
with a band in front of the theatre.
WOR-TVs Joe Franklin was master of
ceremonies.
•
AlP's "Hennessy" continues at Radio
City Music Hall, along with the slageshow.
"Star Spangled Rhythm." The Rod Steiger-
Lee Reinick starring thriller is accompanied
on screen by the short "Cypress Gardens."
produced and directed by Patrick Callan
and released by Florida Cypress Gardens'
Productions. The short shows, in addition
to the gardens, such tourist attractions as
Weeki Wachee, the Spring of the Live
Mermaids and Silver Springs with its glas.'ibottom
boats and the jungle cruise.
•
In the magazines: The current issue of
Dapper Magazine features Alfred K. Alan's
article on the "daring new" film themes,
covering such topics as incest, group sex
and interracial love affairs.
•
Lillian Miriam Films of Brooklyn has
acquired a complete library of Yiddishlanguage
films which have been stored in
vaults for some 30 years. Now available
for release, the films star such performers
as Moishe Oysher, Jennie Goldstein and
Leon Fuchs. There also are shorts featuring
cantors.
•
Columbia Pictures is offering New Yorkers
its own form of entertainment insurance
for the Labor Day weekend, a fivepart
policy to include "The Jolson Story,"
at the Ziegfeld; "The Fortune," at the Coronet
and at neighborhood theatres beginning
Wednesday (20); "Funny Lady" and
"Tommy," at showcase theatres, and "White
Line Fever," opening Wednesday (27) at
showcase houses.
The new arrival, "While Line Fever,"
stars Jan-Michael Vincent and Kay Lenz
in an action story of a young trucker who
fights corruption in the long-haul trucking
business. An International Cinemedia Center
production, produced by John Kcmcny and
directed and co-authored by Jonathan Kaplan,
the film also features Slim Pickens, L.
Q. Jones, Don Porter, Leigh French and
Sam Laws.
I'hc Regency Theatre, having had a succcssful
summer with a series of MGM
classics, will feature RKO ami Samuel
Goldwyn, films Sunday (31) through Oc-
starring Larry Parks with Jolson's singing
ical,
is
voice on the soundtrack, being pretober
25. First program. Sunday (31)
sented in 70mm widescreen, color and through September 2, is a Katharine Hepburn
stereophonic sound. Evelyn Keyes, William
Demarest and Bill Goodwin co-star in the
Sidney Skolsky production, directed by Alfred
bill, "Alice Adams" (1935). co-starring
Fred MacMurray. and "Mary of Scotland"
(J 936). with Fredric March.
E. Green.
•
Openings: Wednesday (20) saw the arrival
Festivities for the premiere included an
Jolson soundalikes, held the
of the controversial "Coonskin,"
audition for at
Bryanston Pictures release, produced by Albert
S. Ruddy and written and directed by
Ralph Bakshi. It had its world premiere at
the Bryan West and Trans-Lux East. Also
opening that day was "Russian Roulette"
at Loews' Astor Plaza. The Canadian filmed
Avco Embassy release, produced by
Jerry Bick and directed by Louis Lombardo,
stars George Segal as a Royal Canadian
Mounted Police operative who is determined
to prevent the assassination of Soviet
Premier Kosygin.
"Just Before Nightfall," which was scheduled
to begin its American premiere Friday
( I ) at the D. W. Griffith, now will open
September 10 at the Paris Theatre. The
Libra Films release of Claude Chabrol's
thriller stars Michel Bouquet, Stephanc
Audran and Francois Perier.
•
The Sutton Theatre, where Woody Allen's
"Love and Death" is playing, was the scene
of an attempted holdup Monday night (18).
Ralph Beezer. a Burns Security guard on
duty at the theatre, was seriously wounded
when he attempted to stop two men who
were fleeing empty handed after a robbery
attempt.
•
The Hudson Theatre, a porno house until
its recent closing, has been leased by the
Church of the Nazarene for a short term
to play religious features. The new policy
will commence October 21, when "The
Hiding Place," starring Julie Harris, pre-
At the Museum of Modern Art. a busy
schedule is in progress. Through October
30. a .\eries of documentary videotapes will
be presented at various limes in the auditorium.
Monday (25). a reception will be
held in honor of the 95th birthday of animator
John Randolph Bray, founder ol
Bray Studios. Some 24 early films by John
Ford will be shown from Thursday (21)
through September 28. Among the rarities
will be "The Shamrock Handica/>" (I92t>i.
with Janet Gay nor, September I and 2. and
"Up the River" (1930). with Humphrey
Bogart and Spencer Tracy. Sepleiid'er 7
and 9.
•
"The Little Rascals Show," a series ol
Our Gang comedy shorts produced by Hal
Roach, will open Wednesday (27) at the
Cinema Village. Michael G. King, executive
vice-president of King World, has owned
the rights to the films for I years
."i
and
anticipates a strong reaction. A recent
showing at the Mini Cinema in Long Island
was unexpectedly successful, all this in the
face of the shorts having been available on
local TV for more than 20 years.
•
Talent Four Artists held a cocktail parly
Monday (]8) at ihe Friars Club. Aniu>uncing
the new production slate for the company
were partners Harold Rand, e.xeciilivc
vice-president, and Bill Borchert. presideni.
Robert Thomsen. author of the novel "Bill
W.." spoke of the property, which is TaUni
Four's first to go into production, in early
spring of 1976 for release by the end a!
the year. Since "Bill W." is the biograpin
of Bill Wdson, a founder of A Icoholu \
Anonymous, another speaker at the gallic >-
ing was Walter Murphy of the National
Council on Alcoholism, which considers ih,
book and film of vital interest.
•
"The Dragon Flies," 20th Centur\-Fii\
action thriller starring Jimmy Wang \u.
opened Wednesday (20) at showcase hoLivc^
in place of the company's previously announced
'Take a Hard Ride." Yu, the Far
East's top martial arts film star, is pitted
against master villain George Lazenh\ (a
former James Bond). The tale of a Hong
Kong detective's efforts to smash the Australian
drug underworld was filmed in
Sydney and Hong Kong.
'Sound of Music' to Open
August 28 at Music Hall
NEW YORK— Rodgers and Hammerstein's
"The Sound of Music," one of the
most widely acclaimed films of all time,
will open Thursday (28) at Radio City
Music Hall for a special three-week engagement.
The winner of five Academy Awards
when it opened in 1965 (including "best
picture" and "best direction"), the film is
produced and directed by Robert Wise from
a screenplay by Ernest Lehman. The picture
is an adaptation of the famed stage musical
with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers
and Oscar Hammerstcin II from the book
of Howard Lindsay and Russell Crousc.
"The Sound of Music," one of the top
boxoffice attractions of all time, stars Julie
Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor
Parker, Richard Haydn and Peggy Wood.
'Flashpoint' Film Rights
Bought by First Artists
NEW YORK — "Flashpoint," a contemporary
action-drama novel, has been
added to First Artists' growing film production
schedule, Phil Feldman, FAP president,
announced. The novel is the second
one by George LaFountaine for which
screen rights have been .sold in ad\ance of
publication within one year.
"Flashpoint" is the third major properiv
acquisition in six months for FAP. I ukas
Heller currently is writing the screenpla\
based on Tony Kcnrick's novel. "Seven
Day Soldiers," to be produced and directed
by Robert Aldrich. Also in development
tor I'AP is Pat Johnson's original story,,
Give Us I his Day."
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PITTSBURGH
J^ick Lutz's "Touch Me" and "They Shall
Overcome" were Art Cinema features
and the new bill there is topped by "The
Last Bath." Upcoming at the Art Cinema
is "The S50.000 Climax Show." with J. P.
Paradine (of the "Our Gang" comedies of
years ago) . . . Press
graffiti had this line:
" 'Jaws' scared me out of my sharkskin
suit." J. M. Hammond in his Green Sheets
wrote this short "Jaws" review: "It certainly
beats prune juice" . . . War Cry for
Saturday (2). using a "The Hindenburg"
feature article, identified Herb Morrison,
who did the on-location eyewitness broadcast
of the disaster at Lakehurst. N.J.. 38
years ago. as a Chicago broadcaster. He
was a Pittsburgh newcaster . . . Carnegie
Cinema featured midnight showings of
Divine's "Pink Flamingos."
Bud Gilliam's new AIP feature is the
controversial "Hennessy" . . . Promoter
Lenny Litman's son David has stepped into
the concert promotion field here and is
directing the September 20 Maynard Ferguson
band show in Heinz Hall . . . Chatham
Cinema is offering "The Fortune."
Area theatres have been showing "Flesh
Gordon." "Linda Lovelace for President,"
"Centerfold Girls." "SuperVi.xens." "Part 2
Walking Tall." "China Girl," "White Line
Fever." "Rollerball." "Nashville." "Sharks'
Treasure." "Bite the Bullet." "The Day of
the Locust." "Cinderella," "One of Our
Dinosaurs Is Missing" and "The Apple
Dumpling Gang."
George Tice, president of NATO of
Western Pennsylvania, was in New York
Tuesday (12) attending a meeting of the
NATO pay-cable committee, of which Martin
Newman is general chairman
. . . Pennsylvania
Ass'n of Boroughs is on record
urging the legislature to pass the enablingact
measure which would give political subdivisions
of the commonwealth the privilege
to enact and collect amusement admission
taxes. Now is the time for exhibitors to contact
their legislative representatives in the
House and Senate.
After 169 years, the papers of Robert
Morris are being published by the University
of Pittsburgh Press and will be available
from the Hillman Library. Financier of the
American Revolution, Robert Morris (1734-
1806) was one of only two who signed all
three of the nation's basic documents, the
Declaration of Independence, the Articles
of Confederation and the Constitution. He
is buried at Old Christ Church Cemetery.
Philadelphia, in the same grave with Benjamin
Franklin, elder statesman of the Revolution
and his great friend. Your correspondent.
Robert Franklin Klingensmith. is
a fifth great-grandson of Robert Morris and
is named for him and for Benjamin Franklin;
also this writer is a paternal fifth greatgrandson
of Philip Klingensmith. founder
of Fort Klingensmith. now the city of Jeannette,
in 1769 and massacred there with
about 30 others by renegade redmen in
1781. This BoxoFFiCE representative is busy
as bicentennial chairman for Descendants
of American Pioneers.
Edward A. Larson, longtime member of
lATSE Local 171. died Sunday (10) after
a long illness. Ed could handle any projection
equipment and he worked at a number
of theatres. Mass of Christian Burial was
conducted in Ascension Church. Ingram,
Thursday morning (14). Surviving are his
wife and several children.
Aglaia Z. and Thomas Zaimes, veterans
in exhibition, recently retired from the
restaurant business after 40 years, selling
the Blue Goose. Homestead. Owners-operators
of the long and well-established Monroeville
Drive-In, the Zaimes are proud
grandparents, a son weighing in at eight
pounds having been born June 9 to their
eldest son George and his wife Dena. The
baby is named after the exhibitor grandfather.
Tom George Zaimes. Son George is
Eddie Steinfeld of old Filmrow. who
a caterer and doing well; also, he operates
recently appeared as the rabbi in the twoweek
run of "Fiddler on the Roof" in Heinz
a window-cleaning business. Sons Emmanuel
is in the construction of homes and Dean is
Hall, again will play a rabbi, as well as
in the harness horse field, being a licensed
direct "Tenth Man" at the White Barn,
trainer and driver with his own stable at
Irwin. Some years ago he starred at the
the Meadows Race Track.
Pittsburgh Playhouse in the all-time recordbreaker
there. "Tevye and His Daughters"
Penthouse 2 showed "Youthful Love" and
. . . Attend the theatre management program
at Duquesne University and receive
"Heat" . featured "69 Sunset
Strip" and "Beat the Watch" . . . Liberty
a certificate of completion on the basis of
offered "Date Night" and "Dirty Stories"
attendance.
go-go gals on stage, L'Amoure had
onscreen "Up in J. J.'s Place" and "Satisfaction
Guaranteed" . . . Helen Hayes was
here appearing on a TV talk show . . . Hank
Stohl (Zakowski) and Anita M. Heh were
joined in marriage. A former local TV
personality. Hank resides in Hollywood and
appears and writes for radio and TV.
Theatres in the area have been featuring
"Naked Came the Stranger." "The Morning
After." "The Moonrunners." "Moonshine
War." "The Happy Hooker." "Supcrchick,"
"Swinging Pussycats," "Screams of a Demon
Lover," "The Abductors," "Torso," "Terror
in the Wax Museum," "Mixed Company,"
"Creatures the World Forgot," "House That
Vanished," "The Eiger Sanction," "Benji,"
"Bug," "Stanley," "Thunder Road," "High
Rise." "White Line Fever." "The Wind and
ihe Lion." "Brannigan." "The Terrorists,"
"Yoimg Frankenstein," "Frankenstein, Monster
From Hell," "Part 2 Walking Tall" and
"The Other Side of the Mountain."
Posing as city detectives, two men robbed
;
the Warner of S4.075 after midnight Tuesday
(12). A cleaning lady directed them to
the manager. They met assistant manager
John Molnar. 17. flashed a badge and he
took them to the mezzanine office, where
a gun was pulled. Molnar was tied to a chair
and the robbers emptied the office safe and ,
hurried out of the theatre. Freeing himself
later, the young theatre employee called
police.
The Garden showed "Danish Pastries"
and a second adult feature . . . Local newspaper
prints winning lottery numbers from
1 1 states . . . Federally mandated half-fares '
for the handicapped is a continuing bus
program with Port Authority Transit, ID
cards now being issued, the half-fare for
disabled persons good in the nonpeak hours
and all day on weekends and holidays .
In a recent item printed here. Fort Pitt
'
came out three times as Fort Plitt, the type- '
setter somehow thinking of the Plitt The-
'
atres in the Central states and not the gateway
fort of America.
;
Theatre management program at Duquesne
University is the first such educa-
tional project in this field ever attempted
here. Novices in the business, those break- ,
ing in, as well as veteran e.xperienced the-
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atre personnel may enroll and are en-
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couraged to do so, the program being
planned and executed in cooperation with
NATO of Western Pennsylvania. There will
be no distractions, only the presentation of
the entire scope of exhibition of motion
,
pictures by experts, the program being
i
coordinated by Dr. Blair Kalas, Department
of Continuing Education. Duquesne Unij
versity, and George Tice. president of \
NATO of Western Pennsylvania. The program
is designed for the general public,
cinema buffs, theatre managers and theatregoers,
starting September 4. 1 to 4 p.m.,
and every Thursday thereafter to November
20. Registration fee is only $40.
Workers at the old Colonial, Wilkinsburg,
formerly Isaly's Store, found theatre backdrops,
a catwalk and a portion of the top
of the stage walls, plus hidden washrooms
for the actors of vaudeville, stained-glass
windows, etc. The old theatre, long out of
service, was the site of your correspondent's
family's Star Theatre and. adjoining the
ten-year-closed Rowland, they may be demolished
together. A start was made on the
Rowland but only the marquee came down.
For some reason, the work of removing
the fine building then was stopped.
Out-of-Court Settlement
PmSBURGH— A suit filed by Pete De-
Fazio, Dormont, Pa., film distributor, several
months ago against Cinemctte Corp
of America, in which he alleged daniayi.s
in connection with his prior affiliation with
the circuit, has been settled out of court.
Attorneys for DeFazio and Cinemctte
reached an aureenieni, obviatin.u proloniieJ
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Conviction of Employees
Is Appealed by Carrols
HARRISBURG, PA,—Attorneys for Carrols
Development Corp.. Syracuse. N.Y.,
owners of the Capital City Mall cinemas in
suburban Lower Allen Township, have appealed
to Cumberland County Court lo
overturn the convictions of the theatre manager
and projectionist for illegally showing
Sunday movies. Theatre manager James
Phetterplace and projectionist John Flanagan
were fined $50 each by District Justice
Esther Cohick for showing Sunday movies.
It is expected that the case may be argued
later in the month in the county court. The
lawyers have indicated they will base their
appeal on grounds that the township law is
unconstitutional. At the same time. Carrolls'
attorneys also are circulating a petition
to get the Sunday movie question on the
November 4 ballot.
In a related matter, three other Cumberland
County theatres which have been operating
on Sundays were advised by County
Dist. Atty. Harold E. Sheely they will face
prosecution for violation of the law. Sheely
gave notice to the Cumberland Drive-In in
Penn Township, Silver Spring Drive-In in
Silver Spring and the College Cinema in
Shtppenburg. to discontinue Sunday movies.
Sheely said that while he likes movies and
doesn't like to be considered a "spoil sport,"
he nevertheless must enforce a local township
ordinance from 1939 which prohibits
movies from being shown on Sundays. "I
enjoy a good movie as much as anybody."
he said, '"but the law's the law and I have
to uphold it whether I agree or not."
Most townships have approved Sunday
movies when state law lifted the ban on
Sunday movies, subject to the approval of
individual municipalities. But the voters
never got around to the question in Lower
Allen Township. Sheeley said he received at
least three complaints from irate residents
who complained about the Sunday showings
at the new shopping center's cinemas.
"It's kind of strange." Sheeley admitted.
"I've never had complaints about the kind
of movies or anything like that. They show
some real nice pictures, you know, movies
about dogs and things like that."
Rites for Gerald Savoie;
Veteran Theatre Manager
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. — Funeral services
were held Saturday (9) for Gerald Savoie,
who died Thursday morning (7) at Peekskill
Community Hospital after a short illness.
He was 65.
Savoie had managed the Triangle Theatre
in Yorktown Heights and later Beach Cinema
1 and 2 in Peekskill for Kisco Cinema,
Inc. He had lived in this area the past
eight
years.
Before relocating in Peekskill. Savoie
worked as manager at theatres in Ossining:
Battleboro. Vt., and North Adams, Mass.
He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Laura DeVual
of Westwood, Mass.. and Mrs. Bertha Morin
of Springfield, Mass.; two brothers, Maurice
Savoie, Springfield, Mass., and Albert
Savoie, .South Wellflcel, Mass.; nieces, and
several nephews.
NORTH JERSEY
parewell. My Lovely" opened an exclusive
area engagement at Reade's Woodbridge
in Woodbridge and the following
week at UA's Cinema 46 in Totowa, This
followed the completion of exclusive showings
of "Tommy" at both locations.
Other exclusive engagements include
"Benji." now in its third week at General
Cinema's Totowa Twin in Totowa, where
it is reporting good business following a
successful five-week run at that circuit's
Brunswick Mall in Brunswick. Also making
its exclusive debut in North Jersey was Russ
Meyers' "SupcrVixens," rated X, which
opened at the independent Cinema .35 in
Paramus and Eastern's Morris Plains Drive-
In in Morris Plains.
"Rollerball" entered its sixth week at
UA's Bellevue in Upper Montclair and, at
the same time, opened at numerous neighborhood
locations in the area . . . Reporting
excellent figures at nearly all of its morethan-a-dozen
indoor and outdoor locations
Herbert Robinson Is Named
Avco Eastern Sales Mgr.
NEW YORK.— Herbert L. Robinson has
been appointed Eastern division sales manager
of Avco Embassy
Pictures, effective
August 18, it was
announced by Phil
Isaacs, vice-president
and general sales
manager of the distribution
company. He
succeeds Joe Wt>lf, industry
veteran, who
^^^^^^ resigned.
Robinson will make
Herbert Robinson
his headquarters in
New York and also supervise the company's
sales offices in Boston, Philadelphia
and Washinaton, D.C.
Walter Reade Prexy Seeks
Settlement of Old Suit
NEW YORK—Sheldon Gunsbcrg. presidt-nl
of the Walter Reade Organization, has
proposed to the company's stockholders
approval of a settlement of a long-pending
action brought by stockholder Michael
Weiss. The complaint by Weiss, filed in the
Delaware courts, challenged the fairness of
the terms of the merger between WRO and
the Mayfair Atlantic Corp. in 1972. MAC
is a wholly owned company of the laic
Walter Reade jr.
Involved in Ihc seltlonient is the transfer
of 125,000 shares of Waller Reade slock
from the late Reade's estate back lo the
company. Also. Weiss' attorneys. Morris &
Rosenthal. Silverman & Harncs and Bennell
E. Frankel would be paid $20,000 hy
WRO.
The sellleiiienl nuisl iic approved b> the
Delaware Cmirl of Chancery.
throughout North Jersey was "Monty Python
and the Holy Grail." as it entered its
second week at these theatres . . . The Walt
Disney Summer Film Festival continues to
roll up solid grosses in its numerous North
Jersey locations as it enters its ninth week,
currently featuring a double bill of "Fantasia"
plus "Alice in Wonderland."
UA area relief manager Kathy Fields
r.-lurned from a three-week vacation visiting
with friends in -Sorrento, Italy, just in time
lo substitute for Louise Brengaard in United
Artists' Bergenfield office. Louise and her
husband Lou currently are enjoying a twoweek
vacation at Island Beach on the South
Jersey shore . . . Just back from a week
spent touring Pennsylvania and Washington.
D.C.. are Bob Bateson, manager of UA's
Colonial in Pompton Lakes and Wayne in
Wayne, and his wife . returning
from a one-week holiday is May Boyd,
manager of UA's Colony in Livingston. Subbing
for May during her absence was relief
manager John Reynolds.
Tent 19 Is Offering
Ocean City Weekend
BALTIMORE—Variety Club Tent 19 has
announced its "fabulous and inexpensive
weekend at Ocean City. Md." The event is
to be held Friday, September 19 through
Sunday, .September 21.
A $75 fee includes transjKirtation to and
from Ocean City on an air-conditioned bus.
with open bar aboard; three days and two
nights at the Spinnaker Motel; full-course
brunch or breakfast all three days; dinner
at Phillips Crab House Friday night. September
19; Saturday night (September 20)
meal at the Embers, and open bar and hors
d'oeuvres in the Variety Club hospitality
room all three days. The motel accommodations
included in the fee are for double
occupancy.
The bus will depart from Stewart's Reislerslown
Plaza September 19 at 10 a.m.
A check for $75 per person must accompany
reservations. Mail to Variety Club of
Baltimore. 708 Silver Creek Rd.. Baltimore,
Md. 21208. Information mav he obtained
by calling 484-2947.
No cancellations will he accepted after
.September 10.
Movielab Settles Suit
Against Technicolor
NEW YORK.— Movielab. Inc.
has settled
its federal antitrust suit against lechnicolor.
Inc. for an imdisclosed amount of
money and other considerations, it has been
announced by Movielab's vice-president and
treasurer, Arnold P. Diamond.
Ihe original action was filed in March
1974 against Technicolor and sought dam-
;igcs and injunctive relief for violation of
ledcial antitrust laws.
BOXOFFICE :: August 25, 1975
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PHILADELPHIA
Jt was a homecoming for Melanie Mayron
and Don J. Scioli. Ms. Mayron, who
played a major female role in the film
"Harry & Tonto," is visiting her parents in
suburban Whitpain Township. Her father
David Mayron is a research pharmacist
with the Smith-Kline Corp. here. Scioli,
who lives in suburban Havertown. was the
production coordinator of UFO sequences
in "The Outer Space Connection" and came
in to help promote the film playing at area
theatres. A graduate of St. Joseph's College
here in 1971, he said he was now seeking
money to produce a film he is writing about
professional wrestling at the turn of the
century. Scioli hopes to film it in this area.
With "Coonskin" opening an exclusive
engagement at Budco's Midtown Theatre,
Ralph Bakshi, who created the animated
ilm, and Albert S. Ruddy, the producer,
came to town to meet with the press and
the film critics ... A film series will be
included in the new concept of a new
"regional arts center" being developed by
the board of directors of the famed Bucks
County Playhouse, 500-seat theatre in New
Hope.
Video Test Production Co. advertising in
the local newspapers, with only a telephone
number location, offered screen tests for
talents Friday through Sunday (22-24). The
ads promised that the "film footage will be
submitted to casting directors of nationally
known studios for viewing and consideration."
Oak Hill Drive-ln in Wilkes-Barre, with
a "strictly for adults" policy, is making "50
cents off with this ad" offerings in its newspaper
advertising. The ad copy also points
out that the drive-in screen cannot h
viewed from any highway.
Barney Morris, news personalit\ o
WCAU-TV, was the guest speaker at ih
Variety Club's annual camp visitation day
The Variety Club Camp for Handicappci
Children in suburban Worcester has o\c
300 children with handicaps from through
out the area attending the summer cam]
each year.
Lyric Theatre in Allentown is being up
dated. A demolition crew began remo\ int
the ugly old marque—shabby, leaking anc
faded-red—as the first step of a SSO.OQC
exterior facelifting
project.
The new stage season at the Forrest The
atre opens September 29 with Dustin Hoffman
directing "All Over Town," conicd>
starring Ron O'Neal, with Katharine Hepburn
coming in October 25 to star in the
pre-Broadway engagement for Enid I
nold's play, "A Matter of Gravity."
Duquesne-NATOSet
Management Course
PITTSBURGH — Theatre personalities
here arc joining the faculty of the Duquesne
University for the informative and interesting
theatre management program Thursday
afternoons, 1 to 4 p.m.. September 4
through November 20.
The course is a noncrcdit one and a certificate
of completion will be awarded to
all
those enrolled on the basis of attendance
for the 12 afternoon programs. The entire
course fee is only $40. Checks should be
made payable to NATO of Western Pennsylvania,
sponsor. Registrations are coming
in but more are needed before the start
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"Function of Management" introduces
the course, with Prof. Stanley Seymour
lecturing; the second discussion is "Motiva-
tion," by Dr. John Sauth, September 11;
Prof. John Timko handles "Marketing"
September 18, and Prof. Edward Gregory
lectures on "Psychology of the Audience" i
September 25.
Familiar local industry personalities take
over October 2 when George Pappas talks
on "The Indoor Theatre"; Jack and Paul
Vogcl look out for "The Outdoor Theatre"
October 9; George Stern, Frank Lewis and
Joseph Bugala discuss "Film Buying and
Booking" October 16; Knute Boyle and Ray
Olmo bring concessions operations to the
fore October 23; Jacques Kahn takes over
for the October 30 and November 6 sessions,
"Merchandising the Movie" and
"Discussing the Film Critic; Friend or
Foe?": "Technical Advances" are the subjects
of Joseph Fornelli and James Biggart
November 13, this being a field trip to Jim
Baker's amazing South Hills Theatre, an
eye-opener for newcomers or old-timers in
exhibition, and the program clo.scs November
20, when George Tice, president of
NATO of Western Pennsylvania, will discuss
"['inding New Audiences lor Indoor
and Outdoor Iheatres."
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Farewell, My Lovely'
Has 525 in NY Bow
NEW ^ORK— Robert Mitchum lor Dcectivc
Philip Marlowe) was the most popuar
private eye in town when "Farewell,
^ly Lovely" opened at the State I (360) and
Power East (690) for a combintxl average
>£ 525. In second place was another new
irrival. the French comedy "A Pain in the
\ - -." registering 470 in the first week at
}8th Stree"t Playhouse. "Beyond the Door."
)revioiis winner for three weeks, was third
vith a toiirih week average of ^-iO at the
Mational (410) and Trans-Lux East (270).
"Nashville" moved down one spot to
ourth place, a 330 average in the tenth
•ound at the Baronet (295) and Cinema II
365). "Anita. Swedish Nymphet." a new
jorno. debuted at the Rialto I to take fifth
x)sition with its 285 opening. Back on the
ist in sixth place was "Bcnji." 280 in the
:ighth week at the Guild.
"Jaws" continued to dominate the showcase
runs, followed by the Disney bill of
"Mary Poppins" and "Lady and the
rramp." "Tommy" and "The Wind and the
Lion."
Jaronet—Nashville (Para). 10th wk. 295
Seekman—Love and Death (UA), 9th wk -...150
~inema 1—The Day of the Locust (Para),
15lh
3mema II—Nashville (Para), 10th wk
Jineroma—Cooley High (AIP). 8th v.-k ..._.
I^jronel—The Foriune (Col), 13th wk
[Criterion—Cleopatra Jones and the Casino
oi Gold (WB), 5th wk _ -
J6th Street East-S. O. S. (Milkytone News
3rd wk _ - - - „-
luild-
fJalional-
4th
Paramount- Love and Death '.-' 10th wk.
Paris—Chailolle ;
Plaza—Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
(Dimensi:;. ; •, ; ,, : -..
Radio C;ty ;
. : Hi . (AIP), 3rd
Rialto I—Anita, Swedish Nymphet Cambist)
Rialt(
nage
Cooley High (AIP),
8th
B8th Street Playhouse—A Pain the A - -
(Corwin-Mahler)
Slate 1—Farewell, My Lovely (Emb)
Sutton—Love and Death (UA), lOlh wk. ....
Tower East—Farewell. My Lovely (Emb) .
Trans-Lux East—Beyond the Door
(F.lm Ve:
1), 4th
Victoria—S, O. S. (Milkytone Ne
Zieg!'':d—Roll
BALTIMORE
"Love and Death' Captures 530,
Rollerbair 350 in Baltimore
BALTIMORE—"Love and Death" pulled
in a hot 530 in a second week at two houses.
"Rollerball" rang up 350 in a fifth week
while "Bug" debuted with a fast 250 at
the Northwood. "The French Way" had a
nice 225 in a second week at the Playhouse.
Uberty II—Love and Death (UA),
^ 530
:: -Rollerball (UA), 5th wk _ 350
:—Bug (Para) .250
/-,J wk. 95
ru.i.j ::-:. Part 2 Walking Tall '.".'riPlay.'.iu..
The French Way 225
Three th-.r laws ,190
|Towson— Monty Python and the- Holy Gr
(SR) 150
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WASHINGTON
Lloyd Wineland jr., president of Wineland
Theatres, is among America's first
theatre owners to install in his drive-ins
xenon iamphouses manufactured by Optical
Radiation Corp. Wineland has expressed
satisfaction with the new equipment's bright
picture (no flickering) on the giant screen.
Furthermore. Wineland believes the optimum
performance of the xenon lamphouse
will prove to be an economically sound
investment. Three of the circuit's underskyers
are operating with the new lamphouses.
Wineland's ABC Drivc-In in Oxon Hill.
Md.. where the circuit's treasurer. Maryland
Secretary of State Fred L. Wineland. resides,
doubles during the summer as a church on
Sunday mornings. The Rev. C. Gordon
Clews speaks from the roof of the concession
stand to the listeners scattered about
in cars (with drive-in speaker hanging from
a window). The concession stand roof also
provides space for an organ, organist and
songleader. Large popcorn boxes are passed
around the ozoner to collect the offering.
The Rev. Clews is quoted as saying. "Secretary
Wineland has been great. Not only has
he allowed us to use the facility but he has
someone clean up the Saturday night mess
for us, all free of charge."
"Give 'Em Hell, Harry!", Bill Sargent's
TheatroVision film presenting James Whitmore
as President Harry S Truman, will
premiere at Loews' Palace Tuesday evening.
September 23. Sen. Stuart Symington of
Missouri is sponsoring the invitational gala.
returned from a vacation. Finch also is business
agent for the Film Exchange Employees
Local CE-13.
Murry Baker, Cinemation division (Cincinnati,
Indianapolis and Washington) manager,
has set Burt Reynolds' "Man-Eater"
in a multiple saturation. The picture will be
unreeled here in 25 theatres and in Baltimore
in 1.5 houses September 10 . . . Kenneth
Clark, MPAA executive vice-president,
returned to his office Monday (18) after
vacationing.
Slated for screening Monday (25) at the
Hall of the Americas, Pan American Union,
is "Torres-Garcia and Universal Constnjctivism."
Permanent Representative of Uruguay
to the Organization of American
States Mateo Marques Sere and the Ambassador
of Uruguay and Mrs. Perez Caidas
had an invitational premiere of the film
in commemoration of the scsquicentcnnial
of the independence of the Republica
Oriental of Uruguay. The film wa.s produced
by the visual arts unit of the OAS, of which
Jose Gomez-Sicre is chief . . . Renato
Danese, formerly of the Baltimore Museum
of Art. has been named assistant director of
the National Endowment for the Arts'
visual arts program, according to an announcement
by Nancy Hanks, chairman of
the endowment.
The Star's Sunday (17) column, "The
Ear." had the following item on "Battle of
the Belles." "Ear hears that Women's Wear
Daily. Bible of the Trend-Crazed, is declaring
a war. A big spread is coming up spotlighting
red-hot rivalry for the heart of the
capital between Page L^e Hufty. who once
played a set of tennis with Teddy Kennedy,
and Carol Goldman, the movie house mogul's
(Marvin Goldman, partner in K-B
Theatres) daughter, who didn't play a set
of tennis with Hie Nastase (Romanian
tennis
star)."
Dick Richards, director of the Avco
Embassy release. "Farewell. My Lovely,"
stopped off Wednesday (13) on his promotional
tour for the Robert Mitchum feature
based on the Raymond Chandler classic.
Richards had high praise for his star, stating
that Mitchum was "a joy to work with—
real professional—the best Marlowe ever."
and added, "Life is complicated enough
when you're in Washington this morning,
Boston this afternoon and New York Thursday."
"Farewell. My Lovely" opened at four
K-B Theatres Wednesday (20).
Jerry Sandy, American International Pictures
branch manager, sneaked "Hennessy"
Alex Schimel, Universal branch chief,
at the Neighborhood Theatres' house in
tradescreened "Story of a Teenager" Monday
(18) at MPAA ... Sid
Annadale, Md., and the K-B Silver, Silver
Spring,
Zins, Columbia's
Md., Friday (15). The suspense
thriller, formerly titled "The 5th of November,"
publicity representative, invited the elec-
and
opened Wednesday (20) at five area
tronic tradepress to a screening of
"Aloha, Bobby and Rose" at MPAA Friday
theatres.
(22). He said he is continuing to work on
"Tommy" in some spots. Branch manager James R. Velde Appointed
Fred Sapperstein made a swing down to
Councilor
Richmond, at Brandeis
Va., and U.
staffer G«rtrude Finch
WALTHAM, MASS.—James R. Velde
of Greenwich, Conn., senior vice-president
and general sales manager for United Artists
Corp. in New York and also a member
John Cooper Offers Films
For Exhibitors of W. Va.
CLARKSBURG. W. VA.—Two sciencefiction
features are now available as a
double-feature package exclusively for exhibitors
in the state of West Virgiimia, it
was announced by John Cooper of JRC
Community Movies. Clarksburg.
"The Navy vs. the Night Monsters," starring
Mamie Van Doren. Anthony Eisley,
Pamela Mason and Bobby Van. plus "Womeni
of the Prehistoric Planet." featuring
Wendell Corey. John Agar and Merr>'
Anders, both in DeLuxe Color, are now being
featured in a three-hour package special
for drive-in and walk-in dates.
A\[ dates and bookings are serviced out of
Clarksburg, in the center of the state, and
prints are shipp>ed from there, according
Cooper. He added that many times the
prints are delivered and picked up fiiee as
another service offered "to West Virginians
by a West Virginian."
A native of West Virginia with many
years' experience in radio and TV, a former
newspaper movie critic and former
booker for Warner Bros, in the District of
Columbia exchanges, as well as operator of
oeightxjrhood theatres throughout West
Virginia, Cooper is a memiber of NATO of
West Virginia.
He points out that these titles will be
only the first of many that he expects to
obtain and offer to exhibitors. He also plans
to include live stage presentations.
"The motion picture business is a great
business." says Cooper, "and G-rated product
such as this package has a great potential
for those customers that want more of
what Hollywood used to offer them— just
a few years ago—at rates the exhibitor
wants to pay."
'Films That Got Away' Set
Sept 2-8 at AFI Theatre
WASHINGTON — Ten underrated but
deserving American motion pictures, in a
series titled "The Films That Got Away,"
will be shown at the American Film Institute
Theater in the Kennedy Center here
.September 2-8. The program will focus on
the early achievements of directors who now
enjoy critical acclaim, including Francis
Ford Coppola. Martin Scorsese, Steven
of the UA board of directors, has been appointed
Spielberg and Robert Altman,
a member of the President's Coimcil Among the films
which
to be shown
was
will be
at Brandeis University.
Spielberg's "Duel," a big theatrical
Coimcilors are leading men and women
success in Europe but was seen only on
throughout the country whose skills and experience
are placed at the disposal of the
TV in the U.S.; Scorsese's "Italian-American."
an
affectionate fwrtrait of his parents,
and Bob Rafelson's "The King of Marvin
president of Brandeis University in areas
of their special competence.
Ciardens." which features extraordinar>' performances
Velde additionally is a vice-president and
director of the Will Rogers Memorial Fund. Burstyn.
by Jack Nichol.son and Ellen
holds a directorship in both Variety Clubs
International and the Foimdation of Motion
Picture Pioneers and a member of the
Other titles include Coppola's "The Rain
People" and "Finian's Rainbow"; Sam Peckinpah's
"Junior Bonner"; .Scorsese's "Bo.xcar
is
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bertha" and "Who's That Knocking at My
Door?"; which will be paired with a glimp.se
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NEW YORK—The Capri and the Quad and Altman's "That Cold Day in the Park,"
distributed free fortune cookies in conjunction
produced prior to "M*A''S*H."
with day-and-date world premieres of "Films That Got Away" is the first of a
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Hollywood
J^OBERT ALDRICH. producer and director
of '"Hustle/" has returned after two
weeks in Europe for meetings in London
regarding European distribution of the film.
He also went to Paris to screen the picture,
scouted locations in Germany for a future
film and discussed a property in Rome with
Anthony Quinn. Aldrich stopped off in Neiw
York on the return trip to discuss '"Hustle"
distribution and advertsing with Paramount.
*
Irv and Stan Ogner. auto import dealers,
have formed Ogner Productions with offices
in Woodland Hills to produce motion pictures
and TV projects.
•
Producer Martin Poll and director-screenwriter
Lewis John Carlino are scouting locations
in England, Scotland and the African
coast for "'The Sailor Who Fell From
Grace With the Sea,"" starring Sarah Miles
and Kris Kristofferson.
•
Richard Roach has been appointed executive
vice-president and chief operating
officer of Rogers & Cowan, public relations
firm. For the last two years Roach was
president and chief operating officer of
Kaufman & Broad Asset Management.
•
Tom Egan has formed Oradell Productions
to develop and produce feature films
and television properties.
•
Ed Bondy has joined the West Coast
motion picture department of the William
Morris Agency. He had been an executive
in the legitimate theatre and motion picture
dipartment in
the WMA New York office.
•
Character actor iEdgar Buchaman, 72, is
recuperating at home after undergoing brain
surgery two weeks ago.
•
First Asian Films of California has completed
principal photography on "High Velocity,"
starring Ben Gazzara, Paul Winfield
and riritt Ekland. Post-production work began
Monday (18) at MGM studios under
supervision of editor David Bretherton.
•
"The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox,"
a Melvin Frank production starring George
Segal and Gold.e Hawn, began principal
photography Monday (18) near Canoa City,
Colo., w.th Jack Rose and Barry Sandler.
•
John Huston has recorded all the narrations
lor trailers and TV and radio spots
for "Give 'Em Hell, Hurry!", the Bill Sargent
I heatroVision presentation starring
James Whitmore as President Harry S Truman.
More than 3,000 trailers have been
vhi,pped to theatres across the country. IV
and radio .spots will air in ma.ssive network
ai d local campagns begnning Labor Day
wj.kjrd.
*
The permanent Charities Commillee of
the Entertainment Industry will enhance its
Happenings
image and shorten its name as it heads into
its 1976 campaign to raise $1.6 million for
its work. Henceforth the PCC's working
title will be Entertainment Industries Charities.
Its work will be symbolized by a picture
of a yellow forget-me-not with heartshaped
petals. "TTie committee will keep its
corporate name and tradition,"" John J. Mc-
Mahon. campaign chairman, said, "but we'll
launch this next campaign with a bright new
identity."
*
Cinema International C-orp., headquartered
in London, has named Howard Goldfarb
Landia have been named vice-presidents of
to head the distribution of the com-
InterComm Public Relations Associates.
pany"s 16mm and Super 8 product and TV
•
cassettes. Goldfarb will work out of Lon-
Stan Rosenfield, executive vice-president
don, reporting to CrC"s co-chairmen Arthur
Abeles and Henri Michaud.
*
The "Theme From Rollenball." an adaptation
of Bach's Toccata in D Minor by Le-
Roy Holmes, has been recorded by Roger
Williams and will be released by MCA Records.
•
Jack Cassidy will be host-narrator of an
ecological documentary film on the ultimate
use of wilderness territories as exemplified
by the state of Idaho"s conservation program.
Shooting starts at once in Sun Valley
with Dick Barrymore producing. Cassidy
recently was appointed to the Id;Uio Film
Commission by Gov. Cecil Anders.
•
Production has been completed on 'The
Entertainer,"' starring Jack Lemmon. The
released theatrically in all other territories
around the world.
•
Intercom Public Relations Associates
has moved to its new headquarters, taking
over the entire eighth floor at 9255 Sunset
Blvd.
*
Post-^prod action is under way on American
International's "The Diamond Mercenaries,"
starring Telly Savalas. Peter Fondii,
Hugh O'Brian, O. J. Simpson and Christopher
Lee. The film was shot on location in
South Africa and deals with an assault on
a fortress-like diamond mine.
•
"Against a Crooked Sky," Doty-Dayton
Productions' feature, has completed location
shooting in the Moab, Utah. area. The film
is scheduled for Deccmiber release.
•
"Deep Jaws," formerly titled "Between
the Sheets," has begun shooting for MFI
Productions, with Perry Dell as director.
•
Warren Lanier Enterprises has been
sgned to handle the publicity for "Hyde,"
a new film to be made by Charles Waler
and his
Hyde Prcdiiction Co.
Jill Clayburgh. who is starred as Carole
Lombard in the upcoming Universal feature
"Lombard and Gable," has been signed for
the feminine lead opposite Peter Falk in
"Griffin and Phoenix." to be produced by
Danny Thomas Productions in association
with ABC Circle Films as a two-hour film
for ABC-TV.
*
Paramount Oxford Films, educational
and distribution subsidiary of Paramount
Pictures Corp., has named Burton Reinhardt
as executive vice-president to be responsible
for operations, production and accounting,
succeeding Victor Moss, who is leaving the
company.
•
Cliff Dektar, Jerry Franken and Mark
of Jay Bernstein Public Relations for the
past ten years, has resigned to form his own
public relations company, Stan Rosenfield
Associates, to be located at 9701 Wilshire
Blvd., Beverly Hills. Bert Ford has joined
the Bernstein agency as a vice-president in
the motion picture division.
•
James Stewart will be emcee November
21-22 when the Aviation Hall of Fame inducts
new honorees at its Dayton, Ohio,
headquarters.
*
"That's the Way of the World,"" bcMselling
LP album by Earth. Wind & Fire.
has won the 1975 Rock Music Award .iv
the best rhythm-and-blues album. "ThatN
the Way of the World" also is the title
of the new Sig Shore motion picture about
the pop music industry, which marks the
film was made by the Robert Stigwood Organization
film debut of the Chicago-based Earth.
in association with the Perskyfilm
Wind & Fire. The group not only stars and
Bright Organization. It will be shown on
performs in the United Artists release but
NBC-TV in the spring of 1976 and will be
also wrote the music for the picture which
takes the audience twhind the scenes of the
pop music business.
MPPAS 45th Annual Golf
Tourney Set for Sept. 13
HOLLYWOOD—The 45th annual golf
tournament of the Motion Picture Purchasing
Agents & Salesmen will be held September
13 at the DeBell Golf Course in
Burbank. Calif.
The annual event until recently was limited
to purchasing agents and salesmen who
call upon the studios but it now includes
all of the entertainment industr\"s buyers
and sellers, according to golf committee
chairman Carroll Jones, purchasing manager
at MGM.
Varied Fare in Dinuba
DINUBA, CALIF.—The downtown
State Theatre is now showing Spanishlanguage
movies Wednesday and first-run
features Thursday through Sunday. The
Midway Drive-In continues on a straight
first-run policy and the Maya Theatre remains
on a Spanish-films-onh policy.
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SMPTE Confab in LA
September 28-Oct. 3
SCARSDALE. N.Y.— Laboratorv practices,
theatre and projection practices, unconventional
image forming and holographic
techniques, pollution control systems,
print and tape piracy, sound sssu-ms,
motion picture production techniques and
photo-science, plant and industrial engineering,
news gathering for TV. TV practices
and lighting and photo-instrumentation
are among the sessions to be held at the
117th technical conference of the Society
of Motion Picture & Television Engineers
(SMPTE). The conference is set for the
Century Plaza Hotel in l.os Angeles September
28-October 3.
A 1 .^0-hooth exhibition of professional
motion picture and TV equipment will be
held in conjunction with the conference.
Doors to the exhibit open Monda\. September
29. at 5 p.m.
Conference
Registration
Conference registration begins at noon
Sunday, September 28, with the first technical
session starting Monday morning.
The schedule of sessions is as follov.s:
Monday, September 29: morning, laboratory
practices; afternoon, theatre and projection
practices and laboratory praclices.
Tuesday, September 30; morning, unconventional
image forming and holographic
techniques, as well as laboratory practices;
afternoon, pollution control systems and a
symposium on print and tape piracy; evening,
a "mini-conference" for students and
technicians.
The sessions Wednesday, October 1, are.
morning, motion picture production techniques
and photo-science and plant ani-1
industrial engineering; afternoon, motio i
picture production techniques and pholoscience
and sound.
Sessions on Video
Thursday, October 2, the sessions arc.
morning, news gathering for TV and lighting
and photo-instrumentation; afternoon.
news gathering for TV and TV practices;
evening, the second "mini-conference" session.
Friday's sessions are a "hands-on" motion
picture equipment demonstration at the Fo\
Studios behind the hotel, sponsored by the
PMPEA in the morning, and TV practices,
morning and afternoon at the hotel.
.Social activities associated with the conference
include a party sponsored by Rasl
man Kodak Sunday evening. .September
28; the SMPTE Get-Together Luncheon
Monday, when Jack Valenti will be the
guest speaker and the SMPTE awards presented;
Tuesday evening, an open house a!
the plant of Cinema Products Corp.; Wednesday
evening, the SMPTE cocktail partybanquet
and dance, with cocktails sponsored
by Bell & Howell Co., music sponsored I,
Treise Engineering, and enterlainment spun
sored by PSC Technology (formerh Pro
ducers .Service Corp.), and a full week ol
activities are plannetl lor spouses attending.
Luraschi Heads Production
For Paramount Abroad
NEW YORK—Luigi G. Luraschi has
been named vice-president-international of
Paramount Pictures, it was announced by
Barry Diller. chaiiman and chief executive
officer of Paramount.
In his new capacity, effective iniircdiately.
Luraschi will be responsible for the
coordination of Paramount's film production
activities in foreign territories and the
liaison between Paramount and Cinc'Tia International
Corp. (CIC), the overseas distributor
of Paramount's film releases.
Luraschi joined Paramount Pictures in
1929 at the company's film studio in Astoria.
N.Y., and subsequently moved to the
West Coast in 1933 to establish the company's
foreign publicity department. During
the next three decades, Luraschi not
only traveled extensively for Paramount,
handling public relations for foreign-based
activities, but also was director of foreign
and domestic censorship for the company.
It I960, Luraschi took a leave of ab-
.sence from Paramount to assist Dino de
Laurentiis. then based in Rome, in the production
of such films as "The Bible ... in
the Beginning," "Barabbas" and "Best of
Enemies." He returned to New York in
1965 as assistant to the president for production
activities. During the late I960
Luraschi moved to Rome where he was
in charge of organizing foreign production
for Paramount Pictures.
LOS ANGELES
{^ace With the Devil," an action thriller
from 20th C«ntury-Fox. will open
Wedne'^day (27) in theatres throughout
.Southern California. The fMm stars Peter
Fcrda. Warren Oates, Loretta Swit and
Lara Parker as vacat'oners .pursued by a
band of devil worshipers.
Hikniet Avedis has gone to Seattle and
Canada to scout locations for Hickmar Productions"
"Race With Death."
"Funny Lady," Coli:mib:a Pictures release
ot a Rastar presentation, opened in multiple
engagements throughcut the Southland
Wednesday (20). Barbra Streisand. James
Caan and Omar Sharif star in the film.
P'raiik G. Wells, co-chairman of the board
and chief executive officer of Warner Bros.,
has been named cha'rman cf the 12th annual
Humanitarian Awards di.nncr of the
National Conference of Christians and Jews.
L-nlertainment Industry Division, to be held
September 18 at the Century Plaza Hotel.
.lames Whitmore is making his final stage
appearance through 1976 as the star of
"Give 'Em Hell, Harry!", appearing at the
.Ahmanson Theatre through September 13.
Comedy Actor Siv Amo Dies
LOS ANGELES- Siv Arno. aelor i
character and conied\ roles in molii>n pic
lures and on the stage, died at the .Xetoi
Lund Hospital in suburban Woodland Hill
il was reported last week.
Twin Theatre Debuts
In Atascadero SC
ATASCADERO, CALIF.— Plaza Cinema
I and II is the newest addition to a rustic,
downtown shopping center here, bringinc
movies back to town after 15 years of no
theatre in this thriving Highway 101 community.
The town's only movie house, the
La Moda Theatre, closed its doors to become
a bowling alley 15 years ago.
A single boxoffice and snack bar sepa;
ates the lobby of the Plaza. A single projection
booth serves the side-by-side audi
toriums. Each theatre, however, has its ow
set
of restrooms.
Major Radio Promotion Is
Held for 'Casino of Gold'
LOS ANGELES—KGFJ Radio conducted
a week-long promotion for Warnci
Bros.' new release. "Cleopatra and the
Casino of Gold." Listeners calling the station
won four tickets each to the film',
opening Wednesday (27) at the State The
atre in downtown Los Angeles.
KGFJ ran spots mentioning the opening
night's "Golden Glitter Costume Part\.
sponsored by Metropolitan Theatres. The
atregoers arriving at the State Theatre
dressed in imusual and colorful costtmics
compete for prizes.
will
"Cleopatra Jones and the Casino ot
Gold" stars Tamara Dobson in her firs!
film role since her introduction in "Cleopatra
Jones." The new picture, directed h\
Chuck Bail, also stars Stella Stevens. 1'
was written and produced by William I on
nant.
The film also opens the same day at ih
Paramount in Hollywood and the Crest ic
Westwood.
Shakey's Tie-in Promotes
'lolson Story' Playdate
HOLLYWOOD—Shakey's pizza parlor^
are participating in a special promotional
tie-in with Columbia Pictures' rerelease o'
"The Jolson Story." in 70mm and stereo
phonic sound, set for the Beverly Theaiic
in Beverly Hills Thursday (28). The pv/.
chain's ragtime pianists will play songs mad
famous by Jolson and will plug the Beverl\
Theatre playdates.
Tickets will be given avsay to patron
twice nightly at all 45 Los Angeles are;i
Shakey's
parlors.
Cinema L II Unveiled
In Los Banos, Calif.
LOS BANOS, CAl.lL. I he new Cinema
I and II is open for business in this
San Joaquin Valley town. Located in a
large shopping center on the west side, the
lu\urv showcases aic offering first-run
fealiu'es.
Ihis brings the total of theatres in Los
Banos to three, the third being the recentiv
remodeled Crest in the downtown area.
lom Ciraff. C;irmel theatre owner, is a
partner iii Cinem.i I and II.
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. . . Bonnie
YWOOD
Pylhon' Happy 470,
Black Christmas' 355
LOS ANCiELES—-Monty Python ^inJ
[ows' Catches 450 in Denver 9th;
Beyond the Door' Opens to 300
DENVER— "Jaws" tcrriticd audiences at
be Cooper to catch 450 in a ninth outing
/hile -Beyond the Door" turned in spooky
ioxoffice action at the Centre with 300.
The .Apple Dumpling Gang" reported a
weet 250 in a second week at seven theatre
/hile reprise "The Hound of the Baskerilles"
did surprisingly good business.
laddin—Tommy (Col), 17th wit 115
:entre—Beyond the Door (SR) 300
lentury 21—Hollerball (UA), 7th wk 140
Iherry Creek— Nashville (Para), 4th wk .125
lolorado 1—Young Frankenstein (20th-Fox)
35th wk - 150
lolorado 2—The Story of a Teenager (Univ)
3rd wk -100
.
tentinental—The Fortune (Col), 5th wk 120
:ooper—Jaws (Univ), 9th wk 450
squire—The Man in the Gla'S Booth (AFT'
3rd 70
Johnny Firecloud (SR) 90
jromount. Ores!-Cleopatra Jones and the
Casino of Gold IWB) - .100
sven Ihea'r^s-The Apple DumpUng Gang (BV).
2nd wk 250
;ven theatrrs— Part 2 Walking Tall (AlP)
2nd wk
hree theatres—Winlerhawk (SR) 5th w
2 theatres—Bug (Para)
Imversitv Hills 2—The Other Side of the
Mountain (Univ) 23rd wk
Pevers to Helm 20th-Fox
Foreign Business Affairs
HOLLYWOOD— .Vlarc Pevers has been
elevated to director of business affairs,
foreign distribution, for 20th Century-Fox.
it is reported by William Immerman. senior
le Holy Grail" overwhelmed Plazii audinces
vice-president, administration and worldwide
with 470 in a third spectacular week. Black Christmas." on the heels of Canad'-
n success, gathered in a smart 355 at thrcj
ouses. "Love and Death" drew 350 in a
business affairs.
Pevers joined 20th-Fox in 1967 in New
York as an associated resident counsel.
Fox Renovates Civic
rheatre in Auckland
LOS ANGELES— Twentieth Century-Fox
-ilm Corp"s international theatre division
mnounced Monday (18) that its flagship
heatre in New Zealand has reopened after
5eing refurbished at a cost of $L500.000.
Stephen Roberts, vice-president, internaional
theatres, said that the 1.632 seat Civic
rheatre, located in Auckland, after being
:lo5ed for six months, has opened in "all
jf its original splendor."
One of 32 houses in Fox's Amalgamated
rheatre Circuit, the Civic originally was
;onstructed in
1929. During the refurbishing
grade its overseas theatres.
Later in the year, the Wintergarden Cinema,
which will seat 368, will be opened
in the same building.
Taiwan Jesuit Priest Now
Training at Para. Studio
HOLLYWOOD— Pat Ch Chi
a Jesuit priest from the Kuangchi Proyia.n
Service in Taipei, Taiwan, the Jesuit film
and TV studio located there, has checked
into Paramount Studio where he will spend
six months observing modern motion picture
production techniques and administration
systems.
Father Ch'en will follow, his Paramount
Iraining with an additional six months of
study with a still unselected TV station in
Los Angeles before returning to his native
land to assume a management position with
the Jesuit communications center there.
Father Ch'en has just obtained his Master's
degree in communication arts at Loyo'a
Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Ramirez, Pratt on Special
Team to Boost Tall' Bow
HOLLYWOOD—Gary Ramirez anJ.
Charles A. Pratt jr. have been named by
2 Walking Tall."
The BCP feature opens Wednesday (27.
ill the Los Angeles area and most other hi;.;
cities.
Ramirez and Pratt received iiitensiv._'
tiaining in
exploitation under Harold W\al'.
district manager for Mann Theatres.
Psychic Thriller 'Pyramid'
Lensing at Dallas Sites
DALLAS— •Pyramid." a mt)vic sched-
the Civic's ornate and unique plas-
process,
[cr works were fully restored, painted and uled for release in December, has been
filming quietly at a number of Dallas sites.
rcgildcd. In addition, several long-hidden
paintings by interior decorator Arnold Zimmerman
The film, which deals with psychic phe-
were restored and relighted, nomena and mind-con,sciousness, stars Ira
Roberts said that the Civic refurbishment Hawkins. C. W. Brown and Toni Barrett.
Captain Edgar Mitchell, a former astronaut,
is part of Fox's continuing program to up-
assisted with the scientific facts.
The film is produced and directed b\
Gary Kent and co-produced by Lou Blud
worth.
Independents to Form
New S. Calif. Ass'n
HOI 1
-All indjp.nder.t exhibitors
in Southern California have been urged
to attend the organizational meeting of the
California Theatre Exhibitors Ass'n to be
held Thursday, Scptcmiber 4 at the Odyssey
Restaurant. 15600 Midwood Dr.. Mission
inth outing while "Brother. Can You .Sparj Prior to his tenure with the studio, he served Hills.
Dime?" left no depression at two houses as an attorney with the Foreign Claims Harvey Dunn, operator of Ponderosa
nth a 345 debut.
Settlement Commission of the U.S. government.
made by calling or writing association sec-
Family Theatres, said reservations may be
(Average Is 100)
-- — V-T. Brother, Can You Spare a
Dimf' ' ^-15
- :
In his new post Pevers will report directly retary Judy Fritz at 16633 Ventura Blvd..
Rollerball
' "- k ^2?
Tho Private Aiternoons ol
to Immerman and to Lyman Gronemeycr, Suite 1425. Encino. Calif., phone number
Pamela Mann J;- 190
director of studio legal affairs, and work 986-4092.
OS Fpli:-The Invitation .-: ..:-, 130
ational-The Fortune 110 closely with Hans Gambaro, assistant vicepresident,
international operations and attend the session at which officers will be
At least 100 exhibitcrs are expected to
lusic Hall—The Middle ol the World l3R) 75
laza—Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(SR), 3rd wk 470 director of business affairs for foreign elected and other formal organizational
egent—Love and Death (UA) '^h wk 350
hree theatres—Black Christmas (WB) 355 acquisitions.
steps will be taken.
illage—Nashville (Para), 6th wk. -300
SAN FRANCISCO
That scuba diver in full gear seen at the
Merced Mall was Bob Pcnnal. assistant
to manager Robin Adams of the Cinema.
Merced. A licensed diver. Boh wore his
wet suit, flippers, tank and mask to pass
out flyers announcing the Friday (8) opening
of Universal's "Jaws."
Jan Steele, formerly with 20th-Fox. is
the new assistant cashier at Warner Bros.
Roth, formerly with Paramount,
is WB branch manager Frank
Rhodes' new secretary . . . Dee Morrison
has moved into the WB booking department
as a trainee.
Kx-Syufy staffer L'sa Livingstone is now
h.indling the grosses at Columbia, while
Cindie Beauohaimp. formerly with Universal,
has been namsd contract clerk.
A five-year lease has been taken out on
San Bruno's closed El Caniino Theatre by
,\rthur Manson, vice-president in charge
the Mitchell Brothers, San Francisco-ibascd
of sales and marketing for Bing Crosb\
Productions, as the West Coast members sexploitation film producers. Downtown
of a special field task force being organized San Bruno merchants are circulating a petition,
protesting that the lease would "degrade"
ior all-out advance exploitation of "Pan
the $500,000 downtown beautifica-
tion program.
Double Feature for $1
LOS ANGELES— Ihe Clinton Dollar
I heatre began a $1 admission price polic\
starting with the showing Friday (15) of
two Mel Brooks comedy films. "Young
Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles." both
starrinu Gene Wilder.
CINERAMA IS IN
SHOW BUSINESS IN
HAWAII TOO.
When you come toWaikiki.
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'^°^^ "^'^^ ^^^ famous
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HAWAII Don Ho Show. .
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at
HOTELS Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel.
August 25, 1975

. . . "On
. . . Filming
. . Ford
TUCSON
Two big new signs for two theatre changes:
at
the newly named Coronado. formerly
the Jerry Lewis Cinema, there's a roo.ftop
sign, yellow with red letters, while the
El Dorado 1 and the new El Dorado 2 have
a new all-white sign topped with red letters
Any Sunday." thrilling portrayal
of motorcycling, was held over for a second
week at the Prince Drive-In. Bruce Brown,
who also produced 'The Endless Summer."
was producer of the cycle film.
"Love and Death" began an exclusive engagement
Wednesday (13) at the Catalina
Theatre, with Woody Allen and Diane
Keaton starring. Woody wrote and directed
the
picture.
Micheline Keating, Daily Citizen movie
critic and entertainment writer, wrote an
exhaustive analysis of the film rating system
Thursday (14). She was critical of the process,
although she said "abolishing the rating
system at this point would solve nothing.
However, its service certainly could be
strengthened by some judicious rethinking
and a clearer definition of what each category
can or should not contain."
In referring to the fact that nudity draws
an R rating, she observed that "'recently
more of it has been slipping into the PG
category. Violence is judged, or so it seems
to the average moviegoer, without rhyme
or reason." She compared ratings given
"Jaws" with that for "Rollenball" and said.
" 'Jaws,' which shows a shark munching
upon human beings, was given a mild PG
rating, while 'Rollerball,' which is only a
little more violent than the real games of
hockey and roller derby from which it is
derived, got socked with an R rating. More
violence is exposed to young children in the
telecasting of live hockey games." Her comment
on Jack Valenti's explanation that a
fish (in "Jaws") as a menace was considered
to Ibe less of a suggestive influence for the
young than the rough and tumible manmanipulated
game was, "so be it."
The critic said Universal, the company
releasing "Jaws," was surprised by its mild
rating and in its newspaper ads "warned
that the movie might be too intense for
youngsters." Miss Keating went on to say
that the R rating for "Rollerball" stays, despite
two appeals to the ratings appeal
board. "The producers now must stick with
the R rating or cut the objectionable .scenes,
which would mean cutting the guts out of
the film. There has been some talk about
trying a revi.sed and expanded standard with
more graduations and more specific information,
similar, in fact, to the one already
iin use iby the Daily Citizen in its Saturday
'At the Movies' column, which adds specific
information to the CARA ratings, such as
excessive violence or profanity or explicit
sex." In fairness, Miss Keating observed
that "all things taken into consideration,
CARA has not done too badly. Out of 3,000
movies judged, probaibly no more than 1
per cent of its decisions has occasioned real
hullaibaloo."
The Hihon Hotel's Berrie Robbins and
Max Fogel have some wild tales to tell
about the Italian film company. Rafran
Cinematographica, filming a spaghetti western,
"Genie," in Monument Valley earlier
this summer. Bernie is president and Max
is vice-president of Western Mobile Food
Service, which fed the company on location.
Except for producer Franco Coduti. who
speaks a little English, the only people they
could talk to were the Indian extras. You
can imagine the communication problems
that developed with such things going on as
the mess tont fclowing away in a sand storm
on Buzz Feitshans Productions'
"Rolling Thunder," a contemporary feature
for Colimiibia Pictures about a Vietnam veteran,
which originally was scheduled to
start production here this month, has been
postponed until October.
Robert Shelton, president of Old Tucson,
while in New York for the past few weeks,
had discussions with Joel Douglas, who is
production manager for Elia Kazan's new
screenplay, "The Assassins." OT is trying
to make arrangements for the use of Davis
Monthan Air Force Base as a setting for the
film, which is to start in mid-October. Joel
is no stranger to this city, since he was here
last fall during most of the time his father
Kirk was filming "Posse" . . . Shelton
ibumped into Janet Leigh in the elevator of
New York's Park Lane Hotel and had a
ibrief chat. She had just arrived from the
West Coast and was on her way to do a
picture in Europe. She was at Old Tucson
a few years ago to film "Night of the Lepus"
(MGM) ... A location inquiry was received
from Stan Hough for his upcoming 20th
Century-Fox production. "Mrs. Sundance."
Paul Skidell of Bean-Kahn Films arrived
with a production crew Monday (25) to
film a Mercedes-Benz commercial at Old
Tucson. The park was of>en to the public
during the filming Tuesday and Wednesday
(26, 27) . Motor Co. is contributing
a specially equipped $100,000 trailer truck
to Columbia Pictures for use in promoting
"White Line Fever," the trucking film made
here last spring which stars Jan-Michael
Vincent and Kay Lenz. The rig is on a tour
of the U.S. showing a four-minute featurette
on the making of the film. Some 6,000
Ford dealers are involved in the promotion.
Rory Calhoun Is Planning
$1 Million Suit in Ariz.
PHOENIX—Film star Rory Calhoun
has announced plans to file a $1 million
lawsuit against Daniel Towers Corp., owner
of the Crystal Pistol Saloon in suburban
Scottsdale, which closed.
Calhoun alleges that the firm defaulted
on a financial arrangement to pay him
{70,000 to $90,000 a year in return for his
work in promoting the saloon and Arizona
City, a land development near Toltec between
Phoenix and Tucson. Calhoun also
stated he had resigned as a vice-president
of the corporation.
Tucson's Colorful Hotels
Are Popular With Stars
TUCSON—A suite in the Desert Inn
Motor Hotel, West Congress and I-IO, has
been dubbed "The Passion Pit" because of
the opulent elegance of its custom decor
j
(the work of a former owner). The inn is
one of several hostelries in Tucson which
are favorites of visiting stars on location in
"movietown in the sun."
Fittingly enough, Liberace once occupied
"The Passion Pit," vying with the shimmering
red metallic wallpaper, with blue geometric
designs, in the living room. Draperies
are red and the deep shag carpeting
a champagne shade. A huge chair and an
is
ottoman are red. A large, square, white
coffee table's base and a large, white sofa's
throw-pillows pick up the suite's predominating
reddish tint.
Lavish Bathrooms
The red color theme Is carried out in the
bedroom in grass cloth wallpaper. The divider
between bedroom and living room i^
of heavy white and red beads. Mounted on
the wall above a fuchsia-shade table is ui
abstract painting in purples, pinks and rctU
The bathroom is something else! Metallic
black, deep red, blue, purple and red wall
paper envelop the room's walls and ceiling
—and it glows in the dark.
The Hilton Inn. 1601 Miracle Mile, is
now known as "Little Hollywood" because
of its lavish suites custom-decorated to the
stars' tastes. Ava Gardner personally designed
the interior of her suite years ago.
It still is called "The Ava Gardner Suite"'
by Hilton personnel.
Bright Colors Used
—
"Hot Lipstick" colors dominate, even to
the ceiling stripes in the dressing room. The
same shades are picked up in flowered wallpaper
and floral draperies. Shag carpeting
in the living room is bright lipstick-red:
furnishings are in orange and tangerine,
and the bedroom is papered in red burlap.
The kitchen has lively colors in fruit-design
wallpaper.
When Kirk Douglas and his wife are in
Tucson, they come to their personal suite
reserved for them at the Hilton. Green and
blue combinations predominate throughout.
The Hilton staff is accustomed to and ready
to accommodate Mrs. Douglas' requests for
any additions to their suite when they arrive.
She had a portable fence installed
around their patio to ensure privacy from
the inn's adjacent pool section.
Decor in the Douglas suite consists o
blues and greens in living and bedrooms,
with blue shag carpeting and green-colored
furniture accented by a panel of flashy
floral wallpaper at the end of the bed. Ti:
bathroom ceiling is papered in flower-d
sign blue and green, the colors picked up
in striped blue, white and green wallpaper.
Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward's
swanky suite at the Hilton has variegated
shag carpeting in reddish tones. Furniture
is Spanish styled. Candy-striped draperies
and the bedspread feature the bedroom
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, negotiating
. . . United
. .Sherm
. . Spence
fherc two walls arc in pinkish-red.
Befitting the man. "The John Wayne
uite" at the Ramada Inn "in the heart of
nob Hollow" just off Granada Street i-
utfitled in he-man boots 'n' saddle decor.
Getting in the act is Max Fogel, operator
f Western Catering Mobile Kitchens, who
^eds the cast and crew on locations, also
Hiltonite.
His suite has blue carpeting and
panish-style furniture. Grass cloth wall
aper in the bedroom is highlighted b\
raperies in tones of orange and tangerine,
lending with a striking bed coverlet Fogel
ought in Spain. The bathroom and dressig
room have Spanish tile-type wallpaper.
HONOLULU
""isco Yu jr. has a two-theatre opening of
"The Life and Times of a Happy
looker"—the Waipahu I in rural Oahu and
.e.x 1001 in downtown Honolulu. He now
A record run has been racked up by Uniersal's
"Jaws" at the Consolidated's Kam
>rive-In. The picture is now moving into
s fifth week at the Kam ozoner and at
/aikiki 1 Theatre.
The world premiere of Charles E. Bird's
The Fiesta of the Flicks" was a successful
enture at the Theatre at King's Alley, an
nder-200-seat unit located on the third
!vel of the King's Alley complex in Waiiki.
The program included a revamped
South of Monterey." a Cisco Kid advenjre
and three episodes of "Zorro Rides
Lgain," which also was altered for today's
udiences.
Robert Altman's "Nashville" (Para), cursntly
at Royal Marina Theatre, received
rave notice in Tom Horton's HonolulTj
Advertiser column. The morning-with-coffee
'age 3 news-and-chatter column rarely reiews
movies.
Avant-garde filmmaker, artist and writer
4artin Chariot, with his brothers John and
'eter and their famous father Jean, mualist-artist-writer,
were special guests on a
5-minute "Hawaii Now" program on Hawaii
Educational TV. KHET, Channel 11.
)ne wished for 45 minutes more, as the contant
exchange of views and comments covred
family relationships, the general field
if art and tidbits of everyday existence that
;avc off sparks of gem-like radiance. Marin's
last film was titled "An Artist Commits
luicide," filmed during his residence in New
rork.
Doalinga's State Theatre
[s Closed Temporarily
COALINGA, CALIF.—The Stale Theitre
in Elm Street is closed temporarily,
fhe only theatre now operating in town
s the Coalinga Drive-In on Jayne Avenue.
The ozoner is owned by Connie Bell.
DENVER
gruce Young, district manager for Commonwealth
Theatres, and Dick Fulham.
booker, traveled to Kansas City for
meetings in the Commonwealth home office
Artists district manager John
Dobson took third place in the point-par
sweepstakes at Meadow Hills Country Club.
Don Foster, district manager for Favorite
F'ilms. was in town conferring with branch
manager Bates Farley and calling on the
circuit accounts . Wood and Greg
Albertini of Film Brokers hosted an open
hou.se at their new headquarters and celebrated
with an hors d'oeurves and cocktail
part)'.
In town to set bookings were Bob. Dolly
and Donna Heyl, Wyoming Theatre. Torrington.
Wyo.; Ron Montgomery, Windsor
Theatre, Windsor; Bob Spuhn, United Enterprises
in Denver, and Neal Lloyd and
for a special run following
Howard Canipbell of Westland Theatres,
lis engagement to accommodate the "other
Colorado Springs . Ryder flew in
loviegoers"—those who do not frequent
from Kalispell. Mont., to set datings for his
K so-called "pom circuit."
theatres in Kalispell and Columbia Falls.
Chicago Psychiatrist Not
Sure About Film Violence
DENVER—In a two-column article,
Rena Andrews, movie editor for the Denver
Post, told how fortunate Colorado is in
having no board of censors to decide what
movies are shown in the state. She also described
Chicago's problem in an interview
with a member of the Chicago Motion Pictures'
Appeal Board. Portions of the article
follow:
"Sometimes you can't realize how fortunate
you are until you hear of someone
else's problems. The case in point here is
that Denver and Colorado are lucky, indeed,
is in that there no censorship board
for
movies.
"With the exception of some XXXXrated
pictures that have been confiscated by
the police, legitimate X. R and general-audience
pictures simply play in Denver in a
peaceful, uncensored manner.
"Generally speaking, the Motion Picture
Ass'n of America ratings are reliable. Sometimes
a PG (parental guidance) rating is
questionable, particularly in areas of violence
in a film. But, in all, the prospective
viewer can get a general idea of a film'-,
content from the rating.
"The major purpose of the MPAA is to
keep censors, the government and others
out of the movie rating business. The organization
tries very hard to keep the industry
self-regulated and, so far. has been very
responsible and conscientious in its endeavor.
"To get an idea of what a censor board
can do, we spoke the other day with Ner
Littner, a distinguished Chicago psychiatrist,
who was in Denver to visit a friend.
Irv
Seidner.
Confusion is a mild word to describe the
change in the local Columbia exchange.
Branch manager Jerry Smith is being succeeded
by Jerry .Smith—another one. Jerry
Smith fthc bearded one) is leaving Columbia
and moving to Salt Lake City, where
he will enter the exhibition end of the busine.vs.
His post will be filled by Jerry Smith
(the red-headed one), who formerly was
with National Cieneral Pictures here and
most recently was with Westamerica distributors
until its closing. The Smith-for-
Smith change takes effect Monday (25).
Boyd Scott of Allen Theatres. Farmington.
N.M.. has circularized our area to alert
members of the industry to the fact that
the New Mexico Theatre Ass'n convention
will be held at the Hilton Inn in Albuquerque
Octo^ber 21-22. Details of the two-day
affair will be announced shortly . . . Morton
and Tony Dyksterhuis, two Denveritcs
who migrated to San Francisco, were back
in town renewing acquaintances with their
many friends in the industry.
"Dr. Littner is a member of Chicago's
Motion Pictures' Appeals Board, a fivemember
board which includes other leading
professionals.
"Chicago's censor board is. in essence,
an advisory committee to the police dcpariment,
he said. 'It is comprised of five ladies
who see all the films and are Chicago's real
rating system,' Dr. Littner said. 'It made
no sense that an adult needed protection
from seeing a movie. However, children
are entitled to be protected. I managed to
persuade the other members of the appeals
board and the city lawyer that only films
for general exhibition, films children coul
see, should be subject to viewing b\ the
board.'
"Dr. Littner succeeded in his efforts and
the change in Chicago's city ordinance is
historic. He said his new campaign is to
have 'the possibility of censoring movies on
the grounds of violence.'
"Dr. Littner says that "most of the research
on violence is meaningless because
there have not been any long-term followthroughs.
We need to study a couple of
generations to know.'
"However, he believes that the studies
have shown more than a suggestion thai
violence on film is unhealthy, particularly
for young people. In that respect,
oppose responsible censorship."
he doesn'i
Tercar Theatres Promotes
Officers, Adds 2 Directors
HOUSTON—RobcTt H. Park has been
named chairman of the board and chief
executive officer of Tercar Theatres by the
board of directors. Park formerly was president
of the Texas circuit.
.\lso apptiinted in a board session late
last month were Charles Paine, formerly
executive vice-president, to president; Foy
Myrick to executive vice-president; Mary
C. Yates to a.ssistant to the president; and
Horace Drive to .secretary-treasurer. Ms.
Yates and Driver were newly elected to the
board.
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SALT LAKE CITY
Charles Huggard of Plitt Intermountain
Theatres here reports that Pnr.imount's
"Nashville" premiered at the Acl;i Thciitre
in Boise. Ida., Wednesday (6).
.Actress Ronee Biakley. a native of Caldwell,
Ida., was in Boise for the premiere of
"Nashville." Miss Biakley is featured in the
film as a young popular country-western
singer who makes a triumphant comeback
following a serious accident. Her first
acting
role has been reviewed by flim critics everywhere
as "an extraordinary movie debut."
Miss Biakley was greeted at the Boise airport
by Plitt Intermountain Theatres district
manager Edward M. Plitt: .'Vda Theatre
manager Kent Petterborg; Midway Drive-In
manager Fred Soren.son, and memibers of
her family from Caldwell. Reporters from
Asian Cinema Center
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HONOLUl,U—The Asian Cinema Center,
a twin operation, opened in July with
Japanese-language films in one auditorium
and Chinese-language (Mandarin) in the
other. The 500-seat Nippon is managed b>
Satoshi Furuya and will be playing Shochiku
productions chiefly, its owners being
distributors of this company's releases in
Hawaii. The 400-plus-seat Golden Harvest,
with Albert Wong managing, is the island
showcase for Golden Harvest Co. of Hony
Kong.
Before the facelifting and considerable
interior changes, the Asian Cinema Center
was named the Nippon Theatre and wa--
operated by the Furuya Bros. OriginalK
the Palace Theatre, it was one of the Ro\al
circuit's houses from its opening in 1937
through 1964.
The Nippon's opening attraction, Torasan's
"Lullaby," was followed by other Shochiku
pictures, including "Someday, Somewhere,"
the film debut of popular youn^;
singer Noguchi Goro. The Golden Harves!
bowed with "The Tournament," a kung fu
actioner. The filmed-in-San Francisco "Ye'
low-Faced Tiger," co-starring Chuck Norri
(who was seen in Bruce Lee's pictures),
and "The Bedeviled," with an international
cast of players, followed.
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the opening of "Take a Hard
Ride," starring Lee Van Cleef and Jim
Brown, in 46 hardtops and drive-ins
Wednesday (13) in Utah, Idaho and Montana.
Openings were backed up by TV saturations
and outstanding business was reported.
Dave Hutchings of Warner Bros.. Denver,
was in town on business, as was Jeri\ Jdrgenson
of Universal Pictures.
Numerous 'Big' Releases
Scheduled for Year's End
DENVER — Approximately 40 motion
pictures, a dozen of which have been classified
as "boxoffice winners," were released
during the June-August period and about
50 features are slated for release between
Septemiber and year's end, according to
Denver Post movie editor Rena Andrews.
Besides discussing upcoming movies, however,
Ms. Andrews coniimented on the industry
in general as follows;
Current financial as well as artistic success
doesn't have the movie industry sitting
on its laurels. During a spring and summer
that even produced a phenomenal hit
•Jaws'—what else—^film companies have
been busily making more pictures with the
lull intention to strike while the iron is hot.
•A number of 'big' pictures will open
on the nation's screens during the all-imporlant
(it is very lucrative) Thanksgiving-
Christmas season. Some pictures will play
only in New York and Los Angeles so they
can qualify for the 1975 Academy Awards.
But, because scheduling isn't firm yet, there
is a question of which good films will became
available during Se~tem.ber. October
and early Novemiber."
Among important movies coming up, Ms.
Andrews said, are: "Stanley Kubrick's "Barry
Lyndon,' scheduled to open at Christmas.
It is based on a short novel by William
Makepeace Thackeray. Sidney Lumet, foestknown
for his realistic pictures, has finished
'Dog Day Afternoon.' He was working on
that film when 1 interviewed him recently.
He said he looked forward to returnirg to
reali'-m after the mythical splendors of directing
'Murder on the Orient Express.'
|.i?a Minnelli, Burt Reynolds and Gene
Hackman head the ca>.t in Stanley Donen's
'Lucky Lady,' a film of action-adventurercmance.
The film's title is derived from
the name of a rum-running boat during prohibition.
'
Richard Lester has a comedy-drama in
local TV ard radio stations were on hand
to interview Miss Biakley. Following the
store titled 'Royal Flash.' Alan Bates is an
premiere, the actress was the honored guest
by
important villain and Malcolm McDowell
at a reception in Caldwell given her parents
is a bully. Natalie Wood, in case you
Ronald and Carol Biakley.
missed her the past six years, returns to the
screen in "Peeper,' a detective mystery.
"Jack Nicholson tackles yet another challenging
role in his portrayal of a "free spirit'
in Milos Forman's 'One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest.' The film is based on a novel
by Ken Kesey, the writer often credited
with the hippie movement. George Segal is
Sam Spade in 'The Blackbird." subtitled The
Maltese Falcon Flies Again,' which gives a
very good idea it is a spoof of the Humphrey
Bogart classic.
"Charles Bronson, who never misses a
film season, is cranking out another picture,
Hard Times.' in which he plays a man in
the depression days. He has said in an interview
that this script of poverty is true to
his early life of rags.
"Robert Redford will be a CIA agent on
'Three Days of the Condor,' based on a
best-selling novel, and Faye Dunaway will
be his romantic interest. This picture will
open October 15 at the Cherry Creek Cinema
here. Elaine May has written and directed
"Mickey and Nickey,' which will not be
the expected satirical comedy and which
stars John Cassavetes, director-writer-actor,
and Peter Falk.
Robert Wise has directed his own disaster'
picture. It should be impressive. Titled
"The Hindenburg.' the film stars the ill-fated
dirigible and George C. Scott and Anne
Bancroft.
"Scheduled for early fall release is
Rooster Cogburn.' Whether the sequel to
'True Grit' is good or not is immaterial.
What is most important here is that the eostars
are Jobn Wayne and Katharine Hepburn—an
unlikely combination acting together
for the first time—and, maybe, for
the last
time."
Pa. Prison Movie Program
Is Popular With Inmates
ALLENTOWN, PA.—To break the monotony
of confinement and offer entertainment
for the inmates, first-run motion pictures
have been shown regularly at the
Montgomery County Pri.son here. Warden
Lawrence V. Roth .said ""the succc,s.s of the
film program has rai.sed 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 eommissarx.
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has 'been started for group sales in schools
for "Cooley High/" AIP"s big summer grosser.
Warner Bros, hosted an exhibitor luncheon
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exhibitor approval if post-screening
comments are a barometer.
A Buena Vista screening of 'Treasure
Island" and "Dr. Syn. Alias 'The Scarecrow"
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response. Currently. BVs "The Apple
Dumpling Gang" has brought great business
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Sidney Kaplan has been advised by Bllman
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Bene Stein, managing director of the Golf
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lamps in theatres 1 and 3; Abbott Theatre
Equipment Co. just completed installation
of xenon lamps. The Golf Mill movie houses
have had a steady run of top grossers. with
"Jaws" and "Love and Death" as the most
recent winners. Wednesday (20) brought
"Farewell, My Lovely," a new Avco-Embassy
film.
The Point theatres 1. 2 and 3 in Milwaukee
are back in the Kohlberg Circuit
fold after a short term as part of the Marcus
circuit . . . Essaness Theatres Management
hopes to start operating its new twin, the
Diana Plaza, in September.
Barbara Kalhea, secretary to John Pilniaier.
Buena Vista district manager, was
honored by several of her friends in the
industry at a birthday luncheon.
Vacationers during this hot and humid
August include: Gloria Green assistant to
Aaron Shlesman, head of Allied Theatres
Film Buying & Booking; Amanda Jones,
20th Century-Fox cashier, in Jamaica; Jerry
Jorgenson, branch manager for Universal
Pictures; Rita Murray. Universal Pictures,
and Phyllis Mack. Buena Vista's accounting
department.
ST.
LOUIS
Don Buhmiester met with Edward Montoro,
president of Film Ventures International,
to work out area campaigns for "Beyond
the Door," showing at the State Lake Theatre
JJerschell McManus, manager of the Metro
in the Loop. Don also is working with Center cinemas in Phoenix, Ariz., and
JMG Film Co. division manager David longtime industryite who is well known in
Levy with the launching of "Tidal Wave." this area, has announced that he is leaving
his post for retirement. Herschell and his
wife Hazel will continue to live in their
home at Sun City, Ariz., taking full advantage
of the wonderful desert climate.
Following a fabulous "pink summer" at
Mid-America's Esquire 2 and 3, "The Return
of the Pink Panther" will begin a
metropolitan area muUiple engagement
Wednesday (27) . . . "Rollerball" continues
to roll up good grosses at Esquire 1.
"Capone," true story of the gangster who
made the '20s roar, is current at Cypress
Village, Jamestown Mall. Des Peres 4 and
Lewis & Clark. The action film stars Ben
Gazzara. Harry Guardino, John Cassavetes
and Susan Blakely. The picture depicts major
incidents during Capone's reign as "King
of the Chicago Underworld," climaxing with
the St. Valentine Day's massacre in 1929.
"Take a Hard Ride," 20th Century-Fox
aciion-adventure drama rated PG, opened t,>
good business at Arthur's Fox, U-Cily Cinema
and St. Ann Drive-In. The cast includes
IcL- Van Cleef, Jim Brown, Fred William-
S41I1.
Ciiherine Spaak and Barry .Sullivan.
Three members of the dancing chorus ol
'"Fimny Lady," playing ai the .Shady Oak.
were in town recently on a promotional tour
anil said that more than 300 dancers showed
up tor the casting call when the film w.is
made. Inga Nielsen, one of the girls
on ilu
tour, had an advantage, as she also appe.itx\l
in "Funny Girl." Dee Gardner had oth.i
dancing and acting credits and also hokk _,
private investigator's license, while 1 i-
Parks, a model, made her film debut ii
"Funny Lady." All three had high praise
for stars Barbra Streisand and Ben Verccn
The girls were covering nine cities in 12 .
days but still managed to look lovely. livcK
and sexy.
Making its first local appearance in five
years (ten jserformances) at the Aren.i
September 3-7 is the Ringling Bros, and
Barnum & Bailey Circus . Du Quoin,
III., State Fair is being presented through
September 1 . . . Thursday (28) will be the
final concert of the season at Tilles Park.
Co-sponsored by the St. Louis Couni\
Water Co. and Musicians .Ass'n Local 2-
197, it will present an old-time band concern
in
the park.
Four Vintage Movies Set
By Indianapolis Library
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evening this month at the Southfxirt Br.rv
Library. 2630 East Stop 1 1 Rd. Kicking o
the series was Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane
The screen offering Wednesday (13) w.
Cary Grant in "Topper" and Wednesd.i
(20) featured Orson Welles in "The Thii
Man."
Marlene Dietrich in "The Blue Angel
the acclaimed actress' first motion pictun
will be shown Wednesday (27).
Stanley Wilkins Dies
INDIANAPOLIS—Stanley O. Wilkins.
64, an artist, cartoonist and animator ol
Hollywood films and TV filmstrips, died
July 31 in Indianapolis. He had been with
UPA Films, Burbank, Calif., on the "Mr,
Magoo" series and with Format Films.
North Hollywood, and RMAT Productions.
Studio City, Calif. In recent years he w.is
an animator of instructional films for ph\sicians
and students at Indiana University
Sahool of Medicine. He leaves his wife, a
son. a stepdaughter and a stepson.
'Panther' Press Plug Planted
INDIANAPOLIS — Harold Walton,
Loews Theatres, planted a quarter-page art
break on UA's "The Return of the Pink
Panther" in the Indianapolis Star.
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KANSAS CITY
'^omen of Variety Tent 8"s
family picnic,
h;ld Sunday afternoon (17) in Comanche
Park. Overland Park. Kas.. proved
to be not only a very enjoyable first fundraising
event for the newly formed organization
but also a highly successful one. With
approximately 80 perscns in attendance.
$350 was raised for the benefit of the Crippled
Children's Hospital. The picnic featured
a sumptuous catered luncheon, along
with various games and bingo, with prizes
going to winners. The afternoon's enjoyment
was heightened by having three children
from the hospital, with their families,
as guests. Sue Mullins, president of Women
of Variety Tent 8. says that another fundraising
picnic is being planned for 1976. on
a larger scale and with even greater attendance.
Sue wishes to thank all the comoanies
which donated cash or prizes to make the
Sunday (17) affair such a resounding success
and congratulates all the girls who
worked so very hard to organize and stage
the event.
Bud Truog, United Artists branch manager
and distributor chairman of the Will
Rogers Drawing, to be held October 4 at
the national NATO convention in New Orleans,
reports that sales are good locally for
the raffle tickets, proceeds of which benefit
the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital and
Research Center. Saranac Lake. N.Y. However,
in view of the fantastic prizes offered
in the annual fund-raising campaign—two
new automobiles and 40 other prizes—no
one will want to miss out on the drawing.
Single tickets are $1, wh-le a book of 22
ducats is priced at only $20. Either can be
purchased at the UA office here or from
any other film company. "We always want
to sell more tickets on behalf of the Will
Rogers Memorial Hospital." commented
Bud. who recalled that a Kansas exhibitor
won a car in last year's raffle.
The B&B Booking Co. will take up new
offices in Ida, Kas.. effective August 28.
Exhiibitors dealing with the booking agency
can contact it in care of the lola Theatre,
lola, Kas., 66749. As an additional customer
service, the agency now has a 24-hour telephone,
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a week on Kansas City's Filmrow.
The WOMPI Club will hold a board meeting
Tuesday evening (26) at the Elks Lodge
Center in North Kansas City. The meeting
will start at 5:30 p.m.. followed by dinner
at
6:30 p.m.
Tom and Gaye Fleming, L&L Supply Co.,
returned last week from an enjoyable Colorado
vacation in Rocky Mountain National
Park.
Stanley Dunvood, American Multi Cinema
president, and Ron Leslie, AMC vicepresident,
were in Los Angeles for conferences
with Western department heads.
Herbert L. "Chub" Golladay, who was
70. died in Kansas City Wednesday (13)
of a stroke. The veteran theatre manager
for Fox Midwest, later National General
Theatres, had managed theatres in Moberly,
Lexington, Kirksville, Marshall and St.
Joseph, but his longest span was at Fort
Madison. Iowa. He was manager of the
Uptown Theatre in Kansas City when he
retired in 1970. He leaves his wife and a
brother.
Forty years ago, according to the Kansas
City Times for Monday (18). Miriam Hopkins
starred in "Becky Sharp" with Frances
Dee and Cedric Hardwicke. Billie Burke
and Allison Skipworth at the Plaza Theatre.
Janet Gaynor had the lead in "The Farmer
Takes a Wife" with Henry Fonda and
Charles Bickford at the Uptown. "China
Seas" with Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and
Wallace Beery was on the Loew's Midland
screen. Mary Carlisle and Hardie .Albright
had the leads in "Champagne for Breakfast"
at the Tower.
Loy Kolman Exits Secialia
State Fair Twin Cinema
SEDALIA, MO.—Loy Holman, former
owner of the State Fair Twin Cinema, told
the press here in mid-July that he was resigning
as theatre manager because of the
X-rated films the new cinema owners
planned to exhibit. HBM Investment Co.,
formed by Holman three years ago, previously
had arranged a lea.se agreement with
producer Marty Greenwald of Movie Showcase.
Inc.. Las Vegas. Holman at that time
agreed to remain as manager of the cinema.
Robert S. Meyer Robbed
Of Over $4,000 by Thug
Sr. LCJUIS— Robert S. Meyer, manager
ol the Esquire Theatre, was pistol-whipped
and robbed of over $4,000 ;ls he was making
a night deposit at a Richmond Heights
bank shortly after midnight recently. The
roibber struck bini on the head with his
pistol, Meyer stated, after he handed over
the bag containing the theatre receipts. The
thug then drove off in Meyer's car.
The auto was foimd abandoned three
hours later at Haniplon mk] Park avenues.
'Rollerbair Rates 590,
'Jaws' 520 in KC8lh
KANSAS CITY—"Rollerball ranks No.
I here with film fans, marking 590 at the
Blue Ridge 1 and Ranchmart 1. "Jaws" continues
to exert a captive hold of 520 for the
eighth week at the .Midland 1. Four theatres
pulled 395 for the fifth week of "The Apple
Dumpling Gang."
(Average Is 100)
Blue Ridge Ranchmart 1—Rollerball (UA) I, 590
Blue Ridge 4, Ranchmart 4 Love ond Death
_ (UA), 3rd wk 310
Four theatres—The Apple Dumpling Gang
(BV), 5th wk _.._
Four theatres—Bucktown (AIP) _
Glenwood 1—Nashville (Para), 3rd wlc. _..
Gleriwood 2—Jacqueline Susonn's Once Is
Not Enough I'Para). 7th wk. .
Me-ci::-Bite the Bullet (Col), 6th wk
Metro 3— Cornbread. Eail ond Me (AIP), 4th wk 50
Midla/.d l—Iaws (Univ), 8th wk 520
Plaza—Monty Python ond the Holy Grail (SR),
Ranchmart 2- The Return of the"Knk"Pmrher
(UA), 9th v.- . _
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Seven thea::. .-.A)
10 theatres— Crazy Mama (SR)
Three thaetres—The Wind ond the Lion (OA),
7th wk _.._ „ 135
Valley View 1—The Other Side of the Mountain
(Univ), 12th wk _ 365
"Nashville' Has Bright 325,
'Jaws' 300 in Chicago 8th
CHICAGO—-Nashville" was the brightest
spot on BoxoFFiCE's Barometer here
with 325 in a sixth week at the Esquire.
"Jaws" finished an eighth gripping week at
two houses with 300. "The .Apple Dumpling
Gang" pleased six houses with 285 in its
bow.
Carnegie—Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(SR), 19th wk _ _
Chicago—Cooley High (AIP), 7th wk.
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Five theatres—Love and Death (UA), wk .235
3rd
Four theatres—White Une Fever (Col) .280
Edens 2—The Wind and the Lion (UA), 7th wk. 200
Esquire—Nashville (Para), 6th wk. _. J25
Gateway, United Artists—Jaws (Univ). wk 300
8th
McClurg Court-Rollerball (UA), 7th wk _ 200
Roosevelt—Bucktown (AIP), 3rd wk _ 225
Six theories—The Apple Dumpling Gong (BV) ....285
State Lake—Beyond the Door (SR) .275
Three theatres—The Devil's Rain (SR) .235
Projectionist Al Forney
Dies in Leavenworth, Kas.
FT. LEAVENWORTH. KAS.—Al Forney,
longtime industry figure in the Midwest,
died here in Veterans Hospital Wednesday
(6). He was projectionist at Lakeside
Theatre at the time of his death.
Forney was associated with Ballantyne,
Omaha, for a number of years as a design
engineer. He served as manager for Missouri
Theatre Supply Co., Kansas City. Mo., and
in a similar capacity with Quality Theatre
Supply. Omaha. He had been an official
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daughter.
"Royal Flash." starring Alan B.ites. will
be released by 20th-Fox in November.
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J^obert Shenvood, Universal's regional
supervisor in the Soufhcast, has been
busy of late
riding herd on developments in
the shooting of the Motown production of
"The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and
Motor Kings," in association with Pan-Arts
Productions, to be released by Universal.
Sherwood reported that an extra week had
to be spent in Macon due to thunder storms
that delayed the departure from the middle
Georgia city for Savannah on the Georgia
coast. Journalists from Miami and Washington,
D.C., as well as Atlanta, were visitors
on the Macon scene. Star Richard Pryor and
his son created quite a stir when they appeared
in a Weis theatre in Macon and the
audience spotted them. So did star James
Earl Jones when he appeared on outdoor
locations. Billy Dee Williams was kept busy
signing autographs every time he appeared
on Macon streets. Jim Whaley, host of
WETV, Atlamta, and Dainny Royal, producer
of the station's Cinema Showcase, taped
two programs with the stars in Macon. The
company planned to spend 10 days shooting
in Savannah, which was selected for its
"timeless elegance" and its historic downtown
area that fits in wiith the era portrayed
in ithe film, which deals wiith a team
of hlack baseball players who barnstormed
across the country in the 1930s.
Meanwhile, Sherwood is preparing for the
forthcoming release of "Rooster Cogburn,"
starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn,
which is scheduled for Oototoer 17.
Sherwood's first assignment for Universal
w,as "Jaws," which at last reports had
grossed $69,725,376, breaking all known
boxoffice records. Now in its eighth week
at ABC Southeastern 's Pbipps Plaza 2, Weis'
Arrowhead Cinema and Georgia Theatre
Co.'s Belmont, it has been seen by 239,528
Atlantans who have paid an estimated more
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the picture is racking up.
Tradepress screenings at 20th-Fox's Filmrow
screening room included "Farewell,
My Lovely." Avco Embassy; "Smile,"
United Artists; and "Vampire Happening,"
distributed by Mack Grimes Associates.
WOMPI Lynda Burnett, United Artists
cashier, took a week of her vacation to play
host to her house guests, George and Lois
Betty Bellamy, of New Market, a suburb,
of Toronto, Ont., Canada. The Bellamys
traveled via automobile and were accompanied
by two of their daughters, Lois and
Carol. Betty, who works for Warner Bros.
in Toroimto, has been a prominent member
of the Toronto chapter of the Women of
the Motion Picture Industry and served two
terms as president and was drafted for an
unprecedented third iterm by the chapter.
She has served as international chairman for
the Will Rogers Hospital and Research Center
and also was elected as international
vice-president. Her husband has been closely
identified with the Toronto Variety Club
in its charity endeavors. Atlantans have become
acquainted with the Bellamys at various
WOMPI conventions and the ties have
grown close. Gordon and Marilyn Craddock
(she has served two terms as president of
the .'Xtlanita
WOMPI Chapter) entertained at
a cocktail party for the Bellamys in the
headquarters of .'Ktlanta Tent 21, Variety
Cluib International. Esther Osley, also a
former WOMPI president, and her husband
Kelly hosted a dinner for the Canadians at
their lovely home in nearby Stone Mountain.
In addition to the two daughters, the
Bellamys have six more children. They are
Sherrill, who works for Famous Players in
Toronto, and Wendy, and four sons, John,
Gary, Grant and Barry.
Ralph Buring, 20th Century-Fox's Southern
advertising and promotion director, attended
a meeting in the home office on the
West Coast which involved a discussion of
ihj company's fall product and firming up
of promotional plans on "Lucky Lady," starring
Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds and Gene
Hackman. From Los Angeles Buring and
his wife Margarite spent a 10-day vacation
in Canada, visiting Vancouver, Jasper, Victoria
and Lake Louise. Upon returning
lo Atlanta. Buring traveled to Charlotte to
\Jt up the saturation booking, starting Friday
(15). of "Race With the Devil." starring
Peter Fonda, Loretta Swit and Warren
Oates, with distribution of 150 prints in the
two Caroiinas. In Charlotte he conferred
with publicists Danny Deaver, Eastern Federal
Corp., Eddie Marx, Stewart-Everett
Theatres, and Jack Jordan. ABC-Southcjstern
Theatres. Tuesday (12) the Bunngs
boarded a plane carrying a number of \ilantans
to Hawaii as the guests of WXl \-
TV on a one-week junket. Among others
making the trip were Michael Parver. head
of the ad-promo agency bearing his name,
and his assistant. Ms. Leslie New. who w.,s
accompanied by her husband.
Phipps Plaza, which opened in 1968. has
been purchased by the Wachovia Bank A:
Triist Co.. of Charlotte, from the Phipps
Land Co.. developer of the project. Included
in the purchase are three ABC Southeastern
Cinemas. Phipps Plaza 1 and 2 and Phipps
Penthouse. The deal was handled by Allan-
Grayson Realty Co., Atlanta-based subsidiary
of the nationwide Arthur Rubuloff ..V:
Co.
Bob Katz jr., who is associated with his
father in the film industry in Jacksonville,
was seen recently in various Filmrow oxchanges.
Dewey Bentley, United Artists salesman,
was granted a "reprieve" by his surgeon so
he is delaying an operation for a slipivJ
disc and is back on the job.
Louis Owens, formerly with C.L. .AiUtrNs
General Films agency, Monday (II) joinoti
the staff at Clark Film Releasing Co.s
Atlanta ibranch. replacing Marvin Dons.
who retired recently as booker and salesni.m
Kim Petree remains as his assistant. Harr\
Clark, president of the Jacksonville-basod
company, and his wife Esther recently made
one of their periodic visits to the brLuuh
here.
Nancy Roberson, who formerly worked
on Filmrow and won the title of Miss CLi\-
ton County Queen before she became an
Eastern Airlines flight attendant. reluriuJ
to Atlanta to crown her successor in coremonies
clima.xing the annual pwgeani m
Forest Park Saturdav' (9).
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Roberson and daughter
Robin have returned from Jacksonville,
where they visited her sister Mrs. 1 iiul.i
Drummond, a secretary in the Floyd Ihe.itres
Exchange, who recently underuoni
surgery and now is recuperating at the
home of another sister Mrs. Vivian Ganas ,i
booker in the ABC Florida State Thcir.s
headquarters.
Carol I). Stover, a clerk typist, has joineJ
the .staff of Martin Theatre Co.'s bu\in;j
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and booking Atlanta headquarters. She .
places .Shirley Kolwaski. who resigned
Atlantan Alan Sniirin, staff meinlvi i
Michael Parver .Associates, was one o\ ilu-
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JACK so NVILLE
aUen Morris of Tallahassee, former newsman
and clerk of the Florida House of
Representatives, and Mrs. Morris attended
a recent at afternoon tea the suburban
Springfield home of Mr. and Mrs. Bender
A. "Dock" Cawthon. It was highlighted by
Dock's presentaition of numerous reels of
film which catalogued the political career
of the laite Fuller Warren, who served as
Florida's governor in the 1948-52 period.
Morris accepted the historical films for inclusion
in the State of Florida archives at
Tallahassee and acknowledged Dock's official
role as visual communications director
for the state during Gov. Warren's term.
Dock was widely known as a friend, confidante
and collaborator of Gov. Warren in
compiling the visual record. The late governor's
younger brother Julian Warren, a
local attorney, assisted Dock in compi'ling
the motion picture documemtaries presented
to .Morris on behalf of the state. Guests
attending the tea at the Cawthon home were
served Mrs. Cawthon's Florida specialties of
summer lemonade and light chocolate cake.
Dock is widely known in Florida as motion
picture projection advisor to the home office
executives of .-XBC Florida State Thea-
Walt Disney World in the peninsular center
of Florida near Orlando may have to
backtrack on its claim to be the world's
leading tourist attraction for one million
plus visitors each month. Robert J. Dunphy
of the New York Times News Service reported
that Niagara Falls in western New
York State attracted 16 million tourists
last
year.
Summer doldrums becalmed activity at
ABC FST's Preview Theatre as Vivian
Ganas scheduled only two private even
screenings which could not be publici/'.
leaving exhibitors to mull over film produ.s
already on hand and available.
The Dobje Gillis of TV fame, who is
Dwayne Hickman in person, moved into an
actor's role at the local Alhambra Dinner
Theatre. He is playing opposite C\nJi
Wood, a former Playmate featured in foucenter-spreads
of Playboy magazine in 19" J
Both are clothed at the .'\lhambra for i
comedy. "Natalie Needs a Nightie. ' \
playful interview with Dwayne and C\no;
was measured in gay little paragraphs b\
Charles Brock, the Florida Times-Union cntertaiinment
editor and former editor of tlunow
defunct Times-Journal Sunday magazine.
New to marquees were "Bucktown" .a
ABC FST's downtown Center for an cnclusive
north Florida run. a film th.it
Charles Brock viewed as a revival of black
racist films which have declined, and 'Ycssongs."
another exclusive at Eastern Federal
Theatres' suburban Cedar Hills.
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After leaving MGM in 197.^ when UniicJ
.Artists began distributing MGM's picture^,
he worked for an ad service agency in 1 os
Angeles and an independenit producer distributor
until May, 1975.
.Additional information regarding thc
agency, its address, phone and an outline ot
the services it will offer will be announced
sotm upon his arrival in Jacksonville.
CAT"V Operators Are Charged
EDMONTON, ALTA.—Operators
Capital Cable TV have been arrested
"exposing obscene material to public vi>
by presenting "Do Me, Do Me" as an
traction on "Power Blue Theatre." The v
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five Atlantans Indicted
Dn Porno Film Charges
ATLANTA—A Federal Grand Jury
fuesday (5) indicted five men on charges
lonspiring to ship obscene materials. Named
:opies of the movie "The Stripper." 51
:opies of the film titled "Prima Donna"
ind 44 copies of the movie "Big John and
he Girl Scouts," the indictment said.
The grand jury called the films "obscene,
ascivious and filthy" and said their alleged
ransportation across state lines from Los
Angeles to Atlanta was a violation of intertate
commerce regulations regarding ohcenitv.
?IYC Federal Court Rules
Dn Bicentennial Picture
rom Eastern Edition
PHILADELPHIA—The bicentennial moion
picture "Independence." which director
ohn Huston filmed here in June, moved a
tep closer to completion when 20th Cenury-Fox
won a ruling in federal district
ourt in New York saying that the picture
an be completed without the services of
troducer Lloyd Ritter.
While the federal count ruled that Ritter
hould not be restored as the film's producr,
20th Century-Fox still faces a $1 million
lamage suit filed by Ritter. The case must
>e decided by a jury trial, for which no date
las been set as yet.
"Independence" is a 25-minute film staring
Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, recreatng
moments from the events that happened
n Independence Hall here from 1774 to
798. The film is .scheduled for an October
premiere here and is expected to be shown
or some 20 years thereafter at the theatre
leing built in the new National Park Servce
Visitor Center under construction here.
Leisner to Key Recreation
Post at Universal Studios
rom Western Edition
UNIVERSAL CITY—John B. R. Leisner
las been named to a key executive post with
^CA Recreation Services and will be headluarlercd
at Universal Studios, it was anlounccd
by Jay S. Stein. MCA, Inc., vice-
)residcnt and president of MCA Recreation
Jerviccs.
Leisner will
have varied areas of responsbility
ranging from executive supervision
)f the studio tour to involvement in various
>tther facets of the recreation division's acivilies
inchuling the Universal Aniphithea-
MIAMI
^ianii attorney and actor Buffy Dee will
have a major role in William Grefc's
newest film "Mako—The Jaws of Death."
Dec will be gang-slain and fed to the sharks
n the indictments were William Walter,
irrested and later acquitted on obscenity
;harges in a raid on Atlanta's Classic Theare
In the film, which is Icnsing here.
in 1971; Art Sanders jr.. convicted two
Libcrace is planning a scries of shows in
for shov\-
'ears ago on obscenity charges
l'^>7(i from Gusman Hall, formerly the
ng the motion picture "Deep Throat" at
Olympia Theatre, which Maurice Gu.sman
he Gay Paree Theatre here: Rodney Smith.
recently donated to the city . . . The night
the group,
David Bush and Richard Zane.
The indictment alleged that
the here,
before Super Bowl game CBS will
stage a special. "Super Night at the Super
iperating from a warehouse at 395 Bishop
N.W., as a corporation named TWA,
Bowl." with an array of talent from various
around
Jtreet.
sites the city.
nc. distributed copies of three films the
jury considered obscene.
Hugh O'Brian is back from filming "The
;rand
The five men allegedly distributed 5.^ Diamond Mercenaries" with Telly Savalas
and O.J. Simp.son in .\ifrica and Europe. He
is slaying at the Palm Bay club while in the
city . . . On a whim. Jackie Gleason went
to the wrestling matches here the other night
and impulsively climbed into the ring. As
the startled but delighted crowd howled, the
famous comic argued with the villains, extravagantly
threatening to throw them into
Broward County if they didn't start fighting
Bendett's companions handed over wallets
and jewelry at gunpoint but Dave refused,
telling the muggers "Go to Hell!" When one
of his friends asked if he was crazy and
wanted to get them killed. Bendett started
chasing the muggers down the street, ducking
shots. Hearing gunfire, police arrived
and rescued them, catching the thieves and
returning the loot.
That grand old man of Miami film. Sam
Ki'pnis. is now showing "Little Humpback
Horse" at his Colony in Miami Beach. There
Is one showing in the evening weekdays and
matinees on weekends.
Floyd Mutrux, who was here promoting
"Aloha. Bobby and Rose" earlier this month.
was exulting in the fact that the Columbia
film has already grossed more than $12
million. He disclaims the idea that only disaster
films can make big money in Hollywood
and iinstead points to the fact that his
film is intended to reflect a "lower-middlecla,ss
lifestyle." Mutrux also made "Freebie
and the Bean" and "Scarecrow."
When he's not climhlng into wrestling
rings, Jackie Gleason is contemplating show
biz. And spokesmen confirm that the Great
One Is considering a TV special celebrating
the 25th anniversary of "The Honeymooners."
featuring the original cast. The special
would air .sometime early next year and ma\
be filmed in Miami.
Mrs. Carling Dinker, owner of the Palm
Bay club here, gave a luncheon recently for
John Frankenheinicr and Bob Rosen, producer
and director for PanuiKuint's "Black
Sund.is." riic film iiiouuK will lie.Kk]u,irlci
at the club during the filming here. Mrs.
Dinkier invited some members to meet
them, including Bobbie Schecter of Womelco
Theatres. David Saglio. Omar and
Autumn Buttair. and Dorothea Barton.
Fort I^uderdale may become the swindle
capital of the U.S. when it comes to fake
film producers and talent scouts. Latest
rip-off has a so-called producer charging
$}5 for a video taping and then vanishing
. . . Pouf . . . Paramount executives didn't
mind actress Debra Raffin flying in to
Tampa to act in "Come Blow Your Horn"
at the Showboat Theatre. Studios, which
once jealously guarded their contract players
and stars, now consider the dinner theatre
circuit one of the few tra'ning grounds
left
for new talent.
One of the better-kept secrets of the summer
Is the fact thai Playboy Productions is
filming a TV movie here starring Fred Mac-
Murray. The film "Beyond This Place There
Be Dragons" wild finish filming here this
month under the direction of William
Graham and producer Ron Ross. Story is
another variation on the familiar Bermuda
Former Mianiian Dave Bcndctt made the
Triangle: this time a couple disappears on
news recently in Beverly Hills. .'X.ssociatcd
their honeynKx>n into the Caribbean area.
with the Agency for the Performing Arts in
Los Angeles. Bendett and two other men In addition to Jaws II." the sequel from
were assaulted by three thugs, guns in hand. Universal, there will be more watery gore
afloat next year in theatres. Scheduled are
"Crimson Blood." about a man who trains
sharks to bump off foes; "Alligator." proposed
United Artists feature; "Mako—The
Jaws of Death," by Miam'an William
Grefe; and "Piranha." about a nut who puts
hot-blooded piranhas In Beverly Hills swimming
pools. Also being rereleased. through
Cinematlon Industries, is Samuel Fuller's
"Shark." retitled as "Man-Eater."
In-Room Bicentennial Films
From Eastern Edition
PHILADELPHIA— Motion picture packages
for hotel guests coming here in 1976
for the city's bicentennial celebration have
been created by Cherry Hills. N.J.-based
Kinetics. Set up for closed-circuit telecasting
to hotel guests, one variety program offers
a bicentennial film and first-run features,
followed by a 30-mlnutc "calendar of
events." A second channel on the hotel TV
set will offer a single attraction, the musical
"1776." Kinetics also has leased a 200-seat
theatre in center city for bicentennial visitors
who would like to have the information
available from the "calendar" but who are
not staying in a hostelry equipped with the
firm's closed-circuit TV.
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25TH YEAR CELEBRA 1 1 I)— Siitii lalh. 28-year veteran of the industry,
helps cut ribbon at Airline l)ri\c-lii (luring its 25th anniversary celebration in
New Orleans. Tally has worked at the Airline since it opened in 1949 and was
pleased to reopen the remodeled Gulf States Theatres drive-in July 4. For the
occasion, a giant cake in the shape of a drive-in, complete with screen and lettering,
was baked and distributed to customers. Door prizes also were awarded.
'Jaws' Clenches 950
Srttvm^D^etr'
For 6th in Memphis
NASHvrLLE-P.ram„.n,'s -Na^.ilkr
was unreeled here m a special gala screen-
MEMPHIS—•Jaws" clenched an over- jng Friday (8) at the Martin 100 Oaks
whelming lead of 950 tor the 6th week at Theatre. Four of the film's stars attended,
the Park. "Nashville" crooned into second along with leading politicail and entertainplace
with the Plaza 2 reporting 380, while mep,; figures.
;The Return of the Pink Panther" sleuthed
^^^^^ ^^^^^ gj^^^,^ ^^.^^ Carradinc.
Its way to third with two theatres register-
Henry Gibson and Dave Peel attended the
premiere. Mayor-Elect Ridhard Fulton
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in
(Avera e Is 100)
Crosstown— Part 2 Walking Tall (A!P), 5th wk 75 his first official appearain-ce was present as
^°:r'dofa%"^%7t" '""'' ""' """ ''°'"°..., 75
Malco—Bucklown (AlP) 150
well as Mrs. Ray E. Blanton. First Lady o^f
Tpnnp>;i;pe
«-I]Iie6See.
Malco Quartet J-The Wind and the Lion iUA),
„ 5th wt
Param" i-- Rollt-rball
250
200
Celeibrated
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country
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and western
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stairs im-
Park-laws ^ 950 cluded Ronnie Milsap,
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Brenda Lee. Roy
iT/'""^""'""' °"" '' "°' '^^'"'^- Minnie Pearl. Melanie, Charlie Mc-
"''Enough'" 175
Piaza i-Nashviiie (yo-'^^'i ::::::;:;380 Coy, Dottie west. Webb Pierce, Jody Mil-
^Tnd'wT'^ """ 150 Icr. Carl Sm,ith and Jeanmie Pruitt.
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Three theatres—Love and Death lUA] 2ni wk 220 coverage, and after the screenopg. stars
Two theatres—The Return of the Pink Panther u j u
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(UA), 5th wk, gathered the E.xit Inn. featured 325 at in the
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"Nashville" was directed and produced by
"Aloha, Bobby and Rose" grossed $389.- Robert .Mtman from a screenplay toy Joan
032 in first week showings in New England. Tewkesbury.
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'Immoral' Gambling on TV
Harmful to Kids: Lawman
ATLANTA—Hinson McAuliffe. Fulu-n
County solicitor general, thinks game shines
on TV are teaching "immorality" and should
be restricted from using gambling devices,
McAuliffe. who has acquired a reputation
as Atlanta's No. 1 enemy of pornograpln,
admits he is stymied about the use of e\^T\
known gambling device on the shous
Gambling on TV does not violate state lau^
he e.xplained. because there is no consideration
involved.
"The main thing wrong with using dice,
roulette wheels, cards and other gambling
devices on giveaway shows is that it indoctrinates
and educates young people into hclieving
these forms of gambling are a u.i>
of life." he said. "What they are doing is
showing young people how to gamble. 1 he
harm is that it appears to be the accepted
thing in our society . . . and creates a desire
to acquire something without working
for it."
Long opposed to gambling, obscenity and
all forms of vice, the solicitor said TV networks
which offer the game shows ha\c
failed to recognize their responsibilities. He
blamed the networks for quietly letting
gambling infiltrate many of the major quiz
and game shows.
The solicitor general does have the right
to shut down bingo and other games of
chance played by area churches and vcierans'
clubs, he said.
Tallahatchie Bridge Is
Re-Created in WB Film
GREENWOOD, MI,S,S,—The real
T.ill.ihatehie
Bridge collap.sed with infirmits .ind
fell into the Tallahatchie River a few \e:irs
ago, and a shiny new concrete one has taken
its
place.
But that hasn't stopped Max Baer's fihii
company from finding a Tallaihatohie Bridge
and a creditable facsimile of the real thing
the place that Billy Joe McAllister jumped
off and where he and Bobbie Gentry threw
some mysterioius something into the river
According to local historians, the fani.M^
Bobbie Gentry song of 1967 could h,i\e
been written about several bridges in the
area—one of which collapsed, ainothcr w.is
torn down. But a third, on a gravel road oiii
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of Itla Bena. on t'he Chicka.saw Ridge, will
be the location for the tragic event in "Otle
to Billy Joe." which Bacr is making tor
Warner Bros. It tells the dramatic .stor\ ol
young love in Mississippi and is ba.sed on i
sad incident in Ms. Gentry's young years
The teenage lovers are played b\ Robb\
Benson and Glynnis O'Connor as Bi11> loe
and Boibbic. Ms. Gentry herself will sing the
title song for the film.
The picture was written for the screen
In Herman Rancher.
Neal to Manage Madison
NASHVILLE. TENN.— General manager
Orville Crouch of Loews Theatres has
anntiiinced promotion of John Neal from
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ATLANTA
(C'oiiiimicil lio mc SK-
;o-^irdinutors of the premiere of Par;iniounfs
•Nas.hville." staged in Niishvilie this
month at the 750-seat Martin 100 Oaks
Theatre. A galaxy of personalities from the
picture and the Nashville musical community
were on hand, including Henry Gibson.
Ronee Blakely. Keith Carradinc. Dottie
West. Minnie Pearl. Brenda Lee. Roy Acuff
md many others. Aho present was Tennessee
Gov. Roy Blanton. Mayor Richard
Fulton and other state, county and city offisials
and dignitaries. Johnn> Rosen, personil
representative of "Nashville" producer
Robert Altman. worked with Smirin on the
»ala affair.
Visitors to .Atlanta's Filmrow last week
included Charlie Crute. of the Lyric Amusenent
Co.. of Huntsville, .'Ma., and Norman
Barrett, of the Plaza Theatre. Dallas. Ga.
the Fernbank Simimer Film Scries, free
and open to the public al Fernbank Flemen
lary School. The films were about the environment.
Peaehlrec Library scheduled a
Monda\ Night Movie Potpourri and the
Senior Citizens Film Program for U-Rescue
Villa High Rise continues through Thursday
(28). Free films were viewed through
Thursday (21) at the Stewart Lakewood
Library. Vacation and travel films were
screened each Tuesday in August at the
Hapeville Library and free feature flicks
were the Thursdas offerings at Paces Ferr\
Library.
Young adults watched "'Wuthering
Heights" and "Of Human Bondage" at the
Ida Williams branch in Buckhead.
AIP's 'Hennessy' Clicks
In Toronto Engagement
from Canadian Edition
TORONTO—American International Pictures'
"Hennessy" has completed seven
days of its first Canadian showing here,
reporting an excellent gross at the Hollywood
North Theatre. The picture will be
held over indefinitels .
Classic Pictures Offered
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO — A special
scries of classic films screened during the
month of July kicked off the Youngstown-
Mahoning County Public Library bicentennial
salute to "Movies of America."
HAPPY DAYS AT THE BOX OFFICE
Marquee changes—Broadview, .Arrowfieiid.
Candler IL Sandy Springs and Cinema
75. Russ Meyer's "SuperVixens": Atlanta,
'Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold"
ind ".Super Fly"; Fine An. "Dr. Zhivago";
Loew's Grand and 12 Oaks. "Cooley High":
Loew's Tara. "The Man in the Glass
Booth"; Weis .Arrowhead II and Town &
Country. "MitcheH"; Phipps Penthouse.
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail"; Cherjkee
and Ben Hill. "Superbug"; Coronet,
"The Silent Stranger"; Perimeter Mall 1.
"Tommy"; Parkaire Twin and Westgate.
'Smile"; Westgate, Village. Strand and six
irive-ins. "The Devil's Rain."
Atlantans, Young & Old,
View Free Summer Films
.ATLANTA— .Attractions rating tops with
.idults and children during the summer here
included free movies, provided by area
and institutions.
iibraries
Among the films drawing crowds were
'Jazz on a Simimer's Day," a film of the
1958 Newport Jazz Festival, in the Hill
auditorium. Memorial Arts Center; "The
Mystery of Stonehenge" and "The Charles
Dickens Show," downtown library; "The
Lively Art of Picture Books." Scott Candler
library; "The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson,"
Fernbank Science Center; and "Of
Human Bondage," Ida Williams library.
For the yoimgsters the Sue Kellogg Library
at Stone Mountain screened movies
for children ages 5 to 11 Wednesdays at 10
of the
'HAPPY DAYS
audience
is couples under v^
The "CHANGE
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and I 1 a.m.. with films related to the library
that may be checked out. One to four
films are screened. Children's films for ages
8 and up are shown Fridays at .1:30 p.m.
in the Smith Memorial Library, in Alph
aretta. The schedule included "Phantom of
Opera."
the
Sandv Springs Regional Librar\s
Wednesday schedule is for .V\ ear-olds 'al
10 to 10:30 a.m.; Tuesday is set aside for
the 4 to 6-year-olds through August from
10:30 and 11:30 a.m.
General interest films were inchitlcd in
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OFF OF AMERICAN GRAFFITI! IT'S ALL BOBBY
SOCKS, '53 BUICKS AND BACK SEAT REPARTEE."
"A CLEVER COMBO OF ALL-OUT SEX AND NIFTY
NOSTALGIA. THE lOVIN', LAFFIN' AND SWINGIN' LIKE
WAS IN THE FLIPPY FiniES."
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"A CERTAIN PLAYFULNESS THAT ELIMINATES SEAMY
OVERTONES AHENDANT UPON SO MANY DOUR
HARDCORE OFFERINGS."
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"A SEXUAL 'AMERICAN GRAFIHI', HAPPY DAYS
CONTAINS MANY BELLY LAUGHS. WITHOUT THE
SEAMINESS OF MOST BLUE FILMS, THIS TRUE-LOVE
MAKE OUT MOVIE PROVES THAT IF MS. SPELVIN
CONTINUES. SHE COULD BECOME THE JULIE
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"A FUN-LOVING HARDCORE MEMORIAL TO THE
'SOS GEORGINA SPELVIN, THE HELEN HAYES OF
HARDCORE SEDUCES WITH ALL THE SINCERE GUSTO
AND SENSUOUSNESS WE'VE ALL COME TO EXPECT
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CHARLOTTE
Jack Kirby, Buena Vista, is recuperating
after surgery on his knee at Dulci? Hospital.
Durham . on the siek list is
Lee Collims. oflice manager at Variets
Films.
Jimmy Murphy. Variety, has returned
from a business trip through the eastern
part of the state, with stops in Greensteoro.
Durham. Wilson, Elizabeth City and Raleigh
. . . U.S.
Eaddy jr., Ex'hiibitors Service,
has iretuirned from a business trip to
Raleigh where he discussed ibookings and
future product with Phil Nance, Mission
Valley 1 and 2.
Top grosses of the week were turned in
Jaws," Nashville, Rollerball" and 'The
Apple Diimpiling Gang."
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Screenings at Eastern Federal included
"Liinda," by Variety; "The Terror of Sheba,"
a Fanfare piroduction.
Mrs. Marilyn Black, Ex!hibitors Service,
was vacationing at Myrtle Beaoh, S.C., as
were Sylvia and Lloyd Todd of Stewart and
Everett Theatres.
Rappaport Announces
Eastpoinl Quadplex
BALTIMORE—Rappaport Theatres of
Baltimore have announced that Eastpoint 4
cinemas, a 1500-seat fourplex, will be built
in the suburban Eastern Shopping Center.
Opening tentatively is set for early in 1976.
Strategically located to serve the eastern
suburbs of the city and Baltimore County,
the new $1 million complex is located directly
across from Eastpoint, an enclosed
shopping mall, and a short distance from
Golden Ring Mall, a three-department store
shopping complex.
Designed by Donald B. Ratcliffe, the quad
will utilize all the latest innovations in automation
and will have lighted parking for
over 2,000 cars.
Lambert Handles Brenner
Films in Charlotte Area
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New pictures opening here -were "Tidal
Wave" and "Mitchell" at Regency 1 and 2;
Take a Hard Ride" at Charlottetown Mall
Cinema 2: and The Hound of Baskervilles,"
a rerelease at Charlottotown Mall Cinema 2.
General Cinema's triplex in Eastland Mall
has opened.
Oak Hollow Lake, near High Point, was
the scene of filming for "Hell's Quarter
Mile," a film by United Fikns of Mobile,
Ala. Ervin Melton of Car-Mel Studios here
bandied production details while Darrell
Cathcart of Greensboro served as cinematographer.
The film about speed boat racing
is skiteu to be released ne.xt spring, president
Terrell Branson reported.
Pre-production work has begun on a film
titled "Lorie" to be shot in the Raleigh and
Durham areas by Videophonics, Raleighbased
company. Screenplay is by Richard
Allen Whitfield, who will direct, Larry
Gardner is executive producer. John Spain
is director of photography and Ervin Melton
of Car-Mel Studios will handle production
details.
Tots' Reactions to 'Bambi'
Debateci by Child Experts
MIAMI—A debate among psychologists
and psychiatrists over the reaction of children
to the animated classic "Bambi" has
been stirred up anew here.
A recent Sunday issue of the Miami
Herald focused on the debate and whether
parents should be warned to not send their
small children alone to theatres showing the
G-rated film.
A survey of child-raising experts found
views heavily interspersed with warnings
about the film, but significantly, none
specifically stated that the film is a distinct
emotional threat to children. No exhibitors
or filmmakers were questioned in
the survey, conducted by Knight Newspapers.
Critics contend some of the scenes in
"Bambi," now in its fourth massive nationwide
revival, have frightened children.
Those scenes include the forest fire, the
hunters stalking the defenseless animals, and
Bambi being wounded. Defenders, however,
bert Films will represent Joseph Brenner insist there is "more laughter and joy than
Associates, Inc. in the Charlotte exchange violence" in the film, and for every "five
area, it was annoimccd by Steven Brenner, minutes of terror," there are at least 10
vice-president and general sales manager. minutes of "idyllic, warm, happy and joyful"
scenes.
One of Lambert's first assignments is the
Dr. Mirta Mulhare, director of family
setting up of a drive-in saturation on "Torso,"
therapy at Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson
followed by a saturation booking on "Girl in Room 2A."
University, believes the alleged dangers of
the film are greatly overrated.
"Compare "Bambi' to what children are
seeing on TV—the violence of man toward
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(-•niotionally damaging to a child would
depend on the emotional makeup of the
ehiki, his or her relationship with the
parents, and whether the parents couli
deal constructively with the film's grie
situations.
""If parents don't think they can handle
the issues of death and man's relationship
to animals, don't go to see the film .
and I don't believe children under the
of 7 can intelligently discuss their fears
anxieties about this."
anc
Dr. Richard Crocco of Stratford, Pa., a
psychiatrist specializing in family therapy,
said, "I would not unqualifiedly say this
film is good for everyone ... I do have
some major questions about the abilits
children age 4-6 to experience this film and
integrate it emotionally without being
traumatized."
On the plus side, one well-known child
psychoanalyst (who prefers not to be quoted
by name) said the saving of Bambi's life
by his strong, determined father may provide
a healthy input that to some extent
counterbalances the negative portions of
the film.
A middle-of-the-road view was summed
up by another child specialist. Dr. James
Prescott of the federal National Institute
of Health:
Mothers do die. Fathers do die. But the
parent should be in the theatre to give the
kind of support necessary ... the child
needs someone there for support, totalis
apart from the fact that children that age
(imder 10) shouldn't be in the theatre
by themselves."
Did Dr. Prescott take his young children
to see "Bambi"?" Yes, both girls, ages 4 and
10, viewed the Disney film.
"My older daughter did cry, but this is
all part of life," he explained.
AIP'S 'Cooley High' Adds
Suburban Atlcmta Run
ATLANTA— "Cooley High," origin.illy
slated to play only at Loew's downtown
Grand, is doing so suip>erb that it has been
booked into Loew's 12 Oaks, a suburb.m
house.
American International's "Cooley High."
written by Eric Monte about boyhood reminiscences
in: a ChiiCiigo high .school, h,Ts been
called an "encouraging milestone in the history
of black films." But as Glynn Turman.
the film's central figure, points out, ""Cixiley
High" is a "movie for all people, not ju.st
blacks."
Turman, in Atlanta to promote the film,
revealed that he had been asked to work in
black exploitation films but turned down the
roles. "I am an artist with something to s;iy
to the human race," he explained, and he
wants to continue making films of Che quality
of ""Cooley High."
Turman s;tiid he is trying to raise funds
for a film he wrote and will ,ict in. entitled
""Two Tears in a Bucket."
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DALLAS—Old-time rock 'n
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struck Dallas recently with all its squealing,
crushing furv' as 1.500 young persons gath-
Ann-Margret congratulates Roger
Daltrey, her co-star in Columbia's
"Tommy." on his being named "New
Star of the Year" by ABC Interstate
Theatres in Texas. Daltrey is currently
in this country from his native England
on a promotion tour for the film.
cred at the Sound Town record store in
Valley View Mall to catch a glimpse of
Roger Daltrey. lead singer of the Who and
star of Columibia's "Tommy."
Daltrey was here on a promotional tour
for Ken Russell's film and for his new
MCA album -Ride a Rock Horse." Dallas
was only the second stop on the seven-city
tour.
Why d!d the rock star siibjeot himself to
the grueling, two-week schedule that included
personal appearances like the one at
Sound Town?
"If you don't follow through on things,
they're not worth doing." he said. "It makes
people aware of Tommy' as a film and
"Tommy" as music." And that will lead to
awareness of ""Tommy" on a more conceptual
level, where he represents all people.
As Daltrey pulled up in a handsome gold
limousine behird the back of the Valley
View store, he was met by a swarm of
young people eager to sec and touch him.
But their enthusiasm was more than
matched by the crowd gathered inside the
mall, separated from Daltrey only by locked
glass store front doors.
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took up residence on the front counter. The
squeals from the mall mounted.
.'\fter a few minutes, the glass doors were
cracked, the crowd burst forward, pushing
three doors off their roller tracks. Dallas
police officers were quick to catch the falling
doors and move them to a safe location.
Everyone pushed forward toward Daltrey,
who could not begin to cope with the autograph
and handshake requests. He retreated,
signing pictures by the piniball machine set
up for display as MCA Records employees
attempted to organize the crowd into some
semblance of a line.
The star of '"Tommy" resumed his
countertop seat when the crowd was under
control and responded to each individual
request as well as he co-uld with personal
attention.
Even though the Vhne had to be moved
through quickly, more than one young
woman came away with the touch of Daltrey's
kiss impressed upon her lips.
The hour-long appearance stretched to
two hours as the singer adamantly wanted
to meet all the young people.
"I make sure I meet all the kids," Daltrey
'"I said later. don't lock myself away.
They're the ones buying the records, you
know."
Though the young Englishman had to
recoup a bit in the car, he was back on
top of things when he reached Brennan's
downtown, the next stop on the schedule.
First he "caught" himself in a revolving
door and then he fell off his chair at lunch.
After a side trip to Fort Worth for a
KXAS-TV sipot. Daltrey returned to Dallas'
Old Warsaw Restaurant for an extravagant
fete where Joe S. Jackson, executive vicepresident
of .'KBC Interstate Theatres, presented
him with ABC Interstate Theatres"
1975 New Star of the Year Award. And
that's just a few hectic hours in the life of
a
rock opera star.
Rogers' Humor Relived
WAXAHACHIE. TEX.—Will Rogers
jr.. who has been seen in several movies.
will appear here perforniirg ""My Father's
Humor" September 20 at Waxahachie's
newly restored Chautauqua Auditorium as
part of that city's year-lcrg bicentennial
eel eihra lion. Will Rogers jr., through occasional
performances, such as be will give
here, keeps the great rope-twirling humor^
ist's showstyle and humor alive and vivid.
He will appear at both a matinee and evening
performance on the same stage where
Ivs father appeared in 1926. entertaining
folks from north Texas.
"The Towering Inferno" has netted $5,
600,-^40 in Japan in its first 16 days.
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HOUSTON
T indsay Bloom, a former Miss USA from
Omaha, was in Houston promoting
""Six Pack Annie." This is her second film
Ms. Bloom's first movie ""Cover Girl Models"
was shot in the Philippines and has net
been released yet. The AIP film was completed
the first week in May and released
in Tennessee and .Arkansas the first week in
July. The film has had nearly 500 bookings
right off: consequently, a sequel will be
filmed this fall. In the movie the actress
attempts to find money to save the diner
she and her mother operate.
Henry Gibson, scheduled to visit Houston
earlier, will attend the .Alley Theatre gala
September 27. His latest film "Nashville"
continues at the Alabama
Greene was forced to cancel his Houston
Music Theatre appearance Friday (15) and
Saturday fl6). The comedian also had to
cancel a September movie . film
stars Tony Aguilar and wife Flor Silvestrc
and their two sons Tonito and Pepito appeared
in the 1975 National Mexican Festival
and Rodeo at the Sam Houston Cohseimi
Saturday (16) and Sunday (17) . . .
"The Playmates" in Deep Vision 3-D opened
an engagement at the Village, an ABC
Interstate theatre. It won best picture awarJ
at
the San Francisco .Adult Film Festival.
In cooperation with J. Rich .Sports, four
winter ski trips will be prizes in a contosi
promoting 'The Other Side of the Moun
tain." The film is showing at the Almcda
4. Greenway 3, Northwest 4 and Town and
Country 6 . three Majestic theatres
—Majestic I, Majestic OST and Majestie
Metro—have a $1 admission pwlicy Monday
through Friday til 2 p.m. . . . Former
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer producer Doug Natter
was here with French novelist Girard de
Villiers. The two said they plan to .shoot .i
movie in Houston currently entitled "Embargo."
The story, written toy Stirling SiMiphant,
is about Texas and oil.
The Alley Theatre's Seventh Summer
Film Festival's eighth week was themed
"The Page and the Cinema." The theatre
presented "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" Tuesday
and Wednesday (19-20), ""The Fox"
Thursday and Friday (21-22) and "Flash
Gordon's Trip to Mars," starring Buster
Craibbe. Saturday and Sunday (23-24). The
Friday Midnight Sleaze Series featured
""Virdiana" Friday (15) . . . Only film to
open in Houston is ""Farewell, My Lovely"
at I.oew's Saks Center I and Loew's Town
and Country Village 3 . Drury
will star in ""Catch Me If You Can" at the
Windmill Dinner Theatre. He replaces Bob
Cummings who appeared in the stage production
of "The Marriace-Go-Round."
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SAN ANTONIO
T ocal Filmrow rumor is that it's a possibility
the downtown Majestic Theatre, in
the heart of the San Antonio business district,
may reopen soon under new management
and with a first run movie policy. For
many years the Majestic was the flagship of
the ABC Interstate Theatres Circuit. Inc.
It was taken over by Sam Chemoff of Dallas.
Chernoff operated the showplace for a
while, then closed it.
Comedian-actor Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez
is back in his home town to promote
his latest movie "Six Pack Annie." He plays
the role of a bar owner in the new film.
Gonzalez Gonzalez was discovered here
more than 20 years ago and has played in
many movies since then. The San Antonio
native made a number of personal appearances
and autographed pictures for his fans.
He was at the downtown Aztec 3, -the Capitan
Drive-In and the Fredericksburg Road
Drive-In. The film is also showing at the
Trail and Town Twin drive-ins. While in
town, he will do a benefit sihow for Beatrice
Nolontia, a 50-year show business veteran
who taught him a great deal.
Lindsay Bloom also paid a promotional
visit to the city. The star of "Six Pack
Annie" is a former Miss USA from Omaha.
She made her screen debut in "Cover Girl
Models" which has yet to be released, Ms.
Bloom said a sequel already is planned for
AIP's "Six Pack Annie" and is expected to
be filmed in the fall. It took some four
weeks to film the movie and eight weeks
to get it out and onto the screen.
It is estimated 219.158 San Antonians
have seen "Jaws" which is being held over
at the Broadway and Century South 6 theatres
, , , "The Return of the Pink Panther"
is being held over for a 10th week at the
New Laurel Theatre , . , "The Fortune" is
being held over for a fifth week at the North
Star Cinema , Century South 6, San
Pedro Triple Screen. Mission Twin a>nd
Bandera Road drive-ins are presenting threeand-a-half
hours of action by showing on
the same bill two great chase films. "Dirty
Mary Crazy Larry" and "Vanishing Point."
Returning for additional playing time is
"The Wind and the Lion" scheduled to open
at the Century South 6. Universal, San
Pedro and Aztec 3 . , , "Beyond the Door"
also will reopen at the San Pedro, Varsity,
Mission and Town Twin drive-ins.
Locally, Candice Bergen can be seen in
"Bite the Bullet" at the Universal City Twin.
Mission Twin, San Pedro Triple Screen and
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Homer Hernandez is the latest addition
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Lloyd B. Rust Is Dead;
Veteran of Film Industry
DALLAS—Funeral services were ^>>i
ducted Saturday (9) for Lloyd B. Rust, so
a veteran of the industry who died alter .
stroke Thursday (7).
Rust had started working in the indu-!r\
in 1918 with Consolidated Film Exchang:
which later became Universal. From then
he went to work for Dent Theatres, l.uei
bought by Te.xas Consolidated and now
known as ABC Interstate Theatres.
He left exhibition to go with UndcruooLi
and Ezell's independent exchange, xsheh
became Republic Pictures. Rust then ueni
into partnership with the late Ed Blumcnthal,
buying a Monogram Pictures franchise.
He also -became a partner with actor Gene
Autry in several theatres in the Oak Cliff
area of the city.
Rust served briefly with McLendon The.itres,
Leon Theatres and United Artists before
retiring in 1965 from General Fihns.
His career spanned a total of 47 years in
the film industry.
For the past several years he had K^en
active as an elder in the Urbandale Christian
Church.
Survivors include his widow Bessie. .iNo
a Filmrow veteran, and brother Irving, still
active in
the industry.
AIP Announces Changes
In Dallas Branch Staff
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United Artists and Allied Artists, is joining
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lark Avolio Uses Several
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ALBLgUhKQUE — Hiland Theatre
anager Mark Avolio manages to take adintage
of every chance he gets to promote
e 1.000-seat Albuquerque movie house,
uring a recent two-day sidewalk sale b\
erchants in the Hiland Shopping Center,
volio lined up a special kiddies matinee
musical version of Tom Sawyer."
He promoted it with special newspaper
Is and discount coupons (which admitted
itrons for 75 cents), distributed through
1 merchants in the center. Avolio also arnged
with his sign painter to do a special
le-sheet promoting the coupon discount
Imission tickets.
To tie in with his recent one-week bookg
of Robert Blake's film "Ripped Off,"
volio displayed a special board cross-
;ugging the fact that
Blake, star of the picire,
is seen weekly in the popular "Baretta
V series. The video show is ranked as the
lOst popular TV program in New Mexico
present time.
Avolio also made e.xtensive use in pubcity
material of the fact that "Ripped Off"
as filmed entireU on location in Albu-
Lierque.
The extended run of United Artists'
Rollerball" at the Hiland was plugged by
1 unusual marquee treatment. Avolio had
is signman design special marquee letters
selling out the title in computer-style forms,
5 used extensively in general advertising
n the film. The unique marquee attracted
luch attention from passersby.
naturally caused fires to burn unimpexied
in the nation's parks.
The somewhat controversial polic\ is designed
to achieve certain vegetative management
objectives in a more natural manner,
an NPS spokesman said.
The slide show, entitled "Natural Fires
in National Parks." can be borrowed by
any school, civic, environmental or industry
group. Interested parties should contact the
public affairs office for the Rocky Mountain
region of the National Park Service. 655
Parfet St., Lakewood. Colo. 80225, phone
234-3095.
Lori Bishop Is Assistant
Mgr. at Cooper/Lincoln
From North Central Edition
LINCOLN—The suburban Cooper/Lincoln
Theatre has its first female assistant
manager, i-ori Bishop. Manager Randy
Hartman said this will permit his other
assistant, John Slama, to cut back on hours.
Slama also is teaching at the .Southeast
Community College in Lincoln.
Lori, 20, is a student at the University
of Nebraska, majoring in history. She comes
from Ogallala. Neb., where she managed
a drive-in last summer.
HAPPY DAYS AT THE BOX OFFICE
iilinemas Southwest Adds
Ian Antonio Twin Unit
SAN ANTONIO—Cinemas Southwest,
ic. of Corpus Christi purchased the Perrin
laza Twin theatre and took over its opertion
Friday (15). The purchase was anounced
by Peggy F. Hopkins, city manger
of Cinemas Southwest's theatres here.
The Perrin Plaza Twin theatre was forlerly
operated by Steak-Out. Inc.. of Dalis.
The acquisition of the Perrin Plaza Twin
leatre brings the number of indoor screens
1 San .\ntonio operated by the Corpus
Jhristi-based circuit to a total of six.
Ms. Hopkins said that both the Callaghan
"win and the Westwood Twin operate on a
1 per scat any hour policy which has beome
very popular with San Antonio movieoers.
This policy is being extended to cover
le admission price at the Perrin Plaza Twin
leatre as well.
Recent screen attractions include Walt
>isney's "Bambi" on one screen and the
ouble bill of "Freebie and the Bean" and
The Towering Inferno" on the second
creen.
film on Forest Fires Can
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DENVER—The National Park Service,
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vailable to the public a 15-minute slideape
presentation on its
policy of permitting
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ANDREWS OF PORN."
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SWINGIN' LIKE
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A FUN-LOVING HARDCORE MEMORIAL TO THE
'50S. GEORGINA SPELVIN, THE HELEN HAYES OF
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OKLAHOMA CITY
gill and Virginia SIcpka, tornierly of the
Crystal and Jewel Drive-In, Okemah.
spent several days in Florida with Ray
Hughes and his wife. Ray was the former
owner of the Liberty Theatre. Heavener.
and the Tower Drive-In. Poteau. Bill advised
that Ray is doing fine after minor
surgery and is now living in Destin, Fla.,
32541. .Although Bill and Virginia are out
of the film business, they still get a big
kick out of running shows in Okemah when
the present owner Gene Banks needs help.
Thirteen is not always an unlucky number.
Lois Greggs. wife of Boxoffice correspondent
Eddie Greggs, was on her way
to a Bingo game Wednesday (13) when this
writer suggested she stay heme. She declined,
saying "I have several tickets en a
half of a Black Angus all ready to go in the
freezer." Well, as usual, she won the side of
beef at the Bingo match, just as she had
predicted before she left.
Denise Combs, United Artists staffer, is
on vacation . . . Charles Townsend. Rex and
'Logan's Run' Filming
In Tex. Pleases York
HOLLYWOOD—Officials of Texas who
are seeking to lure filmmakers to the Lone
Star State for on-location productions received
a hefty boost recently from actor
Michael York, who has been there for his
role in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Logan"s
Run."
York wrote Alexander Salkind, who produced
"The Three Musketeers," from Dallas
and suggested that the producer visit thai
city when he starts scouring the U.S. looking
for locations in which to shoot his
next film, a high-budget motion picture
titled "Superman." .Salkind reportedly spenl
$1 million for the rights to "Superman" and
wants a multi-starred cast, such as he had
in "Musketeers."
According to Dan Safran, writing in the
Dallas Times Herald, "York was very
much at home in Dallas . . . and seemed
very much at peace with the world .
While working here he and his wife lived
in a home they rented in Bluff View, east
of Inwood and south of Northwest Highway.
Along with the home came its pool
and a new Continental. There were a few
old friends that were living here, including
Sissy Wynne Thompson and the Yorks were
much at ease.
CINERAMA IS IN
SHOW BUSINESS IN
HAWAII TOO.
When you come to Waikiki,
don't miss the famous
Don Ho Show. . . at
Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel.
Skyvue Drive-In. Nowata, will take over the
Allred and Pryor Drive-In October 1 . . .
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stonum. Redskin and
Miller theatres, Anadarko, are back from
Lakewood, Colo., where they visited their
daughter and her family.
John Buffo, Liberty Theatre. Harishorne,
was in the city to book and buy.
He does not visit very often since his son
and family moved to Mem.phis . . . Mrs.
Roy Kendrick. Perry Theatre. Perry, called
to renew her subscription to Boxoffice
while here on film chores. She said they
needed it but it had expired.
Thirty years ago in the Tulsa World:
Tulsa cinemagoers were being entertained
with Gene Tierney. John Hodiak and William
Bendix in "A Bell for Adano" at the
Ritz. Eddie Bracken and Veronica Lake
starred in "Out of This World" at the
Orpheum and James Stewart and Paulette
Goddard in "Jimmy Steps Out" at the
Rialto.
"He managed to see 'Rollerball" one night
at the Medallion but the lines for 'Jaws"
kept him away from that one. One day during
a lunch in which we flipped a coin to
see who got the last remaining salad, he
said the main reason he went to see 'Rollerball'
was because it was a futuristic film
like 'Logan's Run.' '1
was surprised by the
look of that film,' he said. 'They made
little attempt to get a futuristic look—the
clothes seemed very contemporary. I think
we have gone out much more on a limb in
that respect but it is dangerous to make
comparisons."
"It was the same kind of research thai
sent York to the press box of the Cotton
Bowl one Sunday afternoon to see the Rolling
Stones. 'I was very much interested in
the crowd reaction,' he said. 'We have a
similar scene of renewal in our movie
the myth of reaching for a rainbow to win
a chance to live life over again. It is like
taking part in a Mass. That is what I was
hoping to find but the people were so
zapped out by the heat that it never happened.'
"The young English actor seems to go
from film to film with little time in between,
recently finishing 'Conduct Unbecoming'
for the director of 'Logan's Run,"
Michael Anderson, starring with Trevor
Howard, Richard Attenborough and Stacy
Keach. And immediately after 'Logan's Rim'
it is to Japan for a film with Lewis Gilbert.
"He says he loved 'Cabaret' but is the
first to agree that the film was not entireh
faithful to the spirit of Christopher Isherwood,
who had authorized use of 'The
Berlin Stories,' on which it was based. He
mentioned that when he went to a reunion
recently at Oxford where he had gone lo
school, he sat next to the poet Stephen
Spender, who said that he had been ver\
friendly with Isherwood during the Berlin
period and had some photos to send on lo
York that he had taken at the time.
"The photos were of Isherwood. who York
portrayed in the film, and of the real Salh
Bowles, played by Liza Minnelli. It i<
amazing how much of a resemblance there
was between Isherwood and me and the two
Sallys," he said.
"In 'Logan's Run.' York departs from
his passive, introspective early roles, pla
ing a policeman in a futuristic society. No
one lives beyond the age of 30 and it is
York's job as a policeman to apprehend
those who try not to accept the fact of
their death at that time. Then York hits
that same age and cannot face the fact of
his own fate. He bolts.
"The company spent some five weeks in
Dallas shooting in various locations and
now back in Hollywood finishing on the
soundstages at MGM, where a month of
work is left for the actors—but a good deal
more for the staff because of the complexity
of the project.
"What does York feel he has learned as
an actor? "Basically, I found that I had to
build certain instincts to serve my personality,"
he said. 'I had to learn to obey those
instincts. At first it was very hard to feel
this, going against people who had vast
experience. But it is a matter of self-preservation
and one has to speak his mind. In
"Lost Horizon"' I didn't speak my mind
enough.' "
Writer Wins $25,000 Suit
About Manville Screenpla"/
HOUSTON—A civil court jury has ruled
Candace Mossier Garrison owes writer
that
Anita Manville $25,000 for a screenplay
purchase based on the writer's book. "The
Lives and Wives of Tommy Manville."
The suit, filed by the writer in June
1973, charged that Garrison and Candace
Mossier Enterprises failed to perform their
contractual obligations by consummating the
purchase of the screen rights to the book.
The suit asked for $760,000 in damages for
the alleged breach of contract.
The jury in State Dist. Judge Paul Pressler's
court decided the contract included a
clause giving Ms. Garrison the right to reject
the screenplay.
However, the jury ruled she had a reasonable
amount of time to reject the screenplay
but did not, thereby entitling Ms. Man\illc
11 the money guaranteed her in the conlr.ict.
If production of a movie based on the
book does begin. Ms. Manville would receive
another $25,000 plus five percent of
the gro.ss proceeds from the movie.
Tommy Manville was married to 1 1 dilfeirent
women in 13 marriages. The writer
was his ninth wife.
Harry Homer will be production designer
for "Harry and Walter Go to New York.
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BOXOFFICE :: August 25, 1975
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MILWAUKEE
ly^alt Blaney, manager of the Cinema twins
(Marc 1 and Marc 2) in suburban
Menomonee Falls is elated with yet another
extension by the Kiwanis Club-sponsored
"Showtime for the Senior Citizen." Ifs for
an additional four months. September
through December 1975, and writes Walt:
"This is the third extension of the original
four-movie series which started in August
1974 and will result in 17 consecutive
months of movies for senior citizens." Walt,
who also is a Kiwanian, comments: "To the
best of our knowledge, the Menomonee Falls
Kiwaniis Club is the only club to have performed
a service for the senior citizen over
such a long period of time in keeping with
the Kiwanis theme for 1974-75— 'The
Greater Years."
The attendance for past performances has
averaged better than 400 per show. The
estimate is that more than 5.000 cups of
coffee and 6.000 donuts and at least 5.000
boxes of popcorn have 'been consumed by
senior citizens to date. This accounting does
not include the four remaining shows for
the month of August. When the state Kiwanis
convention for Wisconsin and Upper
Michigan was held in Green Bay Friday and
Saturday (15, 16), the Menomonee Falls
cluib was irequested to exhibit this very successful
project. Walt told Boxoffice: "This
is a natural for any theatre owner who hias
a Kiwanis Club in his area. And I'll be glad
Tickets have gone on sale for Che Bob
Hope-Frances Langford show to benefit St.
Mary's Hospital. It's slated for the Milwaukee
Auditoriiim September 26 and tickets
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for the 8 p.m. performance. Charlie Hanson,
local radio personality, will emcee.
Instead of autos and station wagons, only
bicycles were permitted entry to the Giant
24 Outdoor Theatre near Hales Corners
Tuesday evening (12) at that drive-in's second
annual "bike night." Most of those
attending were described as blue-jeaned
teens from the ages 13 to 18 who began
lining up at the boxoffice as early as six
o'clock. The tariff was 50 cents a bike load
and they drove up on ten spveeds. tandems
and wire-wheeled vehicles of every description.
At least 1.000 bikes had rolled into the
theatre by 9 p.m. One of them bore six teenagers
(about eight cents a head). There were
three sponsors. 7-Up, WQFM Radio and
Wheel & Sprocket Bicycle Shop, whose
owner Frank Tamei suggested and organized
the bike-in to drive-in owners last year. The
evening's fare included a double feature.
"Silent Running" and "The Raven."
Of the 15 operators ordered into the
city
attOTney's office recently for failure to obtain
a theatre permit, according to a report
in the Journal Tuesday (12). 11 had complied
and obtained the permit. According to
David Felger, head of the ordinance enforcement
division, the 1 5 permits had been
held up because of fire and health code
violations. He said that "four other theatres
are well on their way to complying."
to send details to anyone Who is interested."
His theatre address is: The Cinema Twins, United Artist's Tower (Art) Theatre has
N88 WI5377 Main St., Menomonee Falls,
ibeen closed and the building in which it is
Wis. 53051.
located at North 27th and West Wells is to
be repiLaced with an extension to the Family
Hospital (formerly Doctors Hospital). Meanwhile,
theatre manager Fred Coppo. veteran
showman, is on his vacation.
Dr Pepper's Funarama Kids Show was
arranged as a special Saturday morning (16)
matinee at the Brookfield Square Cinemas
(General Cinema). Each nipper was admitted
free with the presentation of eight
bottle caps. Feature attraction, whidi 'began
at 10 a.m., was "Tarzan and the Valley of
Gold." Incidentally, "Jaws," in its eighth
week in Cinema II, continues to draw big.
"Nashville" holds forth in Cinema I.
Arnle Kunz, chief barker of the local
Variety Club, wrote a letter. whiiCh was
printed on the Journal's editorial page, stating:
"Another big Drum and Bugle Corps
Invitational has come and gone but the
sp-rit lingers." His letter continued: "Our
thanks to A&G Enterprises for putting on
another corps spectacular. A&G each time
has seen fit
to make Variety Club Children's
Charities the recipient of a generous portion
of net proceeds, which helps Variety to
maintain its (pledge to help children in need.
In one phase of our ambitious program,
most of over 1,000 epileptics are relieved of
the fear of seizures. Our thanks to the young
folks (approximately 100 from caah of 10
units) from around the country who travel
thousands of miles by bus, sleep and eat
under less-than^ideal conditions and perform
with such spirit,
dedication and perfection.
"What an inspiration! What a thrill to;
see! Anyone having seen competition such
j
as the Big V can testify to that. And lastly,
to the thousands of fans who filled th;
stadium and all who contributed in some
manner to the success of the Big V. a tip
of Variet\'"s top hat."
Only the ads for theatrical enterprises
ordinarily are found on the entertainment
page in local newspapers. However, a shoe
chain. Bakers, had a clever twist in its display
ad which appeared on the entertainment
page in the Journal and read like a
"coming attraction." In bold letters was the
title which said, "The Wind and the Tie-
On." Additional information said that it
contained the hit tune "Leather Will Kcl'p
Us Together" and that the star was Cmdice
Crepsole. "Daily. 15.99. Now show rg
at the Bakers near you." was the ad's signjture.
The Isle Theatre in Cumberland recently
conducted a "Smile" contest. The winner, a
young miss named Karen Neby. was pictured
on the front page of the CumberlarJ
Advocate, weekly newspaper. The photo
caption added: "She won a one-year free
pass to the Isle and is now eKgible to enter
the contest in Minineapolis and compete for
the $250 first prize and $100 second prize "
New figures added to the Royal Wax
Museum on Broadway, showplace in W isccnsin
Dells, include Barbra Streisand, li/a
Minnelli, President Gerald Ford. charact:rs
from "The Wizard of Oz" and Henry Mil
and his six wives. Loel Lax. owner and
operator of the Dells Museum, explained
that show business favorites in wax sometimes
travel from one museum to another.
the facilities e.\changing figures so that local
people have the opportunity to see new personalities.
When certain subjects outli\c
their popularity, they are sent back to the
manufacturing plant in Victoria. B.C.. Cdnada.
where the wax is melted and recycled.
The Dells museum is affiliated with an international
firm which has 19 museums,
including five in foreign countries.
Art designer Norm Rollingson. who h.is
designed and built most of the existing U»
museums, stated that "show business personalities
. . .
rhe\
love to be done in wax
feel complimented." He pointed out that
some museums do not use wax for their
figures. "They use plastic, which is more
durable but loses a lot of realism," he said
"There is no substitute for wax whev >ou
are striving for realistic skin tones and. atier
all. the main object of our business is rc.ilism."
A photo in the Wisconsin Dells E\ciiis
caught Rollingson applying finishing touches
to Judy Gariand, standing between the figures
of the Cowardly Lion and the Straw
Man, all from "The Wizard of Oz."
A new boxoffice record was set by "The
Unsinkable Molly Brown" at the Milwaukee
Melody Top, one of the few remaining
tent theatres in the country. The show,
which opened July 22 and closed Sunday
night (3). grossed $144.290—$8,390 more
than "Annie Get Your Gun." the previous
record holder. Mimi Hincs and Peter Palmer
starred in "The Unsinkable Molly
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J^an'in Mann, exhibitor and partner with
Jim Payne in Midwest Entertainment.
was taken critically ill Monday (11) and
was rushed to a hospital. Hemorrhaging,
the immediate cause of which remained undetermined,
resulted in transfusions. Mann's
condition improved slightly, then stabilized
at midweek. His brother Ted Mann, head of
a 250-theatre circuit and now a Hollywoodbased
producer, flew in from the West Coast
Sunday (17) to visit Marvin—and then departed
with doctors' reassurances. Marvin
Mann owns and operates a local circuit with
screens in this city, St. Paul. Stillwater and in
Wisconsin.
Meanwhile, Bill Doeble, UA branch boss
here, .set a Wednesday (27) •'Rollcrball"
subsequent-run break with ten screens.
Don Palmer, 20th Century-Fox branch
"Singin' in the Rain," the Gene Kelly Bill Wood, head of the Columbia branch,
screen classic, opened at the Park Theatre reported "strong" outstate action for "Aloha.
Bobby and Ro.se." which was clickinig
'here and won accolades anew from iboth
the public and the press. Audiences are at 50 situations. Wood was expecting equally
lively action with "White Line Fever."
made up of all age brackets and the throngs
emerge from the consistently filled showhouse
praising "clean and happy entertain-
screens across the territory.
the truck aotion-drama breaking on 60
ment." All of this is happening while Hollywood
moviemakers insist a G rating is "The
"Dog Day Afternoon," forthcoming Al
Ki,ss of Death" (never mind "The Return
Pacino comedy, was screened for exhibitors
here.
of the Pink Panther" or "The Apple Dumiing
Gang" triumphs) and deliberately seek
The consensus seemed to be it is a
highly funny film for about two-thirds of its
130wminute running time. "The last part
"at least a PG."
seemed to drag a bit," was the usual report.
James Velde, senior vice-presidenit and With 130 mioutes to tinker with and with
generail sales manager of United Artists an October release date pegged, its makers
Corp., was here to visit his son Tom and would seem to have sufficient time to snip,
also to conduct some local business . clip, tighten and brighten the footage. Dick
Malek. Warner Bros, branch chief, is very
high on "Dog Day" and expects it to emerge
a winner.
Larry Bigelow, branch boss for American
International Pictures, wig-wags that •'Part
2 Walking Tall" is "simply great" in its nine
selected outstate engagements. Meanwhile.
Bigelow is working on "The Wild McCul-
office manager, and his wife Bee drove to lochs," which bows September 19 at the
Milwaukee to attend an outdoor picnic Skyway III Theatre here and at the Roseville.
gathering with other 20th-Fox folk from
Plaza and Cina in St. Paul. The fol-
the Chicago and Milwaukee branches lowing week, the picture will break statewide
Roy Smith, Lange branch manager, returned
with 60 to 75 prints working during a
from a three-day meeting in Beverly four-week period.
Hills, Calif., the huddles dealing with the
forthcoming Tom Laughlin picture, "The "Jaws" continues to dazzle one and all
Master Gunfighter." An October 3 nationwide
and the bo.xoffice marvel opened at IS addi-
break has been set.
tional outstate situations Friday (15). again
with the usual overpowering ticket-window
reaction. Universal branch boss Frank Zanotti
is calling it "a dream picture" (so
what's all this talk about it causing nightmares?).
The local Universal branch is now settled
in new and lovely quarters. Formerly located
at 1113 Currie Ave. North in this
city, the branch now is at 6800 Shingle
Creek Pkwy., Brooklyn Center (a suburb).
.'Knd the new phone number is 566-9620.
John Ayotte, son of Paul Ayotte. was
here from Newark, N.J., his visit part of a
vacation trip with his wife and son to the
near-Brainerd lake-and-woods area. John is
a sales representative for Optical Radiation
Corp. (ORC). Paul is branch manager of
National Screen Service and National Theatre
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Kent E. Welter is the new owner-operator
of the Cinema Theatre in Farmington. taking
over the situation from Jean Hagen .
Filmrow visitors: Bill Gordon, Grand Theatre,
Baudette; Paul Berg, State. Winona, and
Jane Pepper. Auditorium, St. Croix Falls.
Forrie Myers, Paramount branch manager,
journeyed to Sioux Falls, S.D.. to attend
the funeral there of a close friend and
—^at the same time—to visit his father
Mark, who will be 98 in January. Myers
says his father is "sharp as a tack and the
busiest man Tve ever seen." Mark Myers.
only 29 months from the century mark,
visited with Forrie for a couple of hours,
then broke off the chat with: "Well. I've
got
to get going . . . I've got a lot of things to
do and I can't sit around talking."
Joe Rosen, Paramount branch sale.sman.
went to WinnifKjg. Canada, on a vacation
trip—and while there. Rosen visited Bun
Segal. Paramount branch chief . . . Exhibitors,
with only a few exceptions, are voicing
concern aibout the continued lack of strong
product. One key film buyer-ibooker said:
"Things don't look good until Easier!"
De Luxe Erianger Closes
PHILADELPHIA—The Erhinger Theatre.
I.900-seat de luxe center-city theatre
which originally was opened in 1927 at a
cost of $2.5 million for presentation of pre-
Broadway musical stage presentations and
later became a first-run motion picture theatre,
has closed again.
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CAKE CAPER—Danny Simon and
his wife Carey, who hosted a tradescreening
of "The Fortune" recently
at the Centre screening room in Milwaukee,
appear to have a problem in
their midst. He is BOXOFFICE correspondent
Wally L. Meyer, who is about
to carve himself a generous slice of that
cake with the white lopping and bearing
the lettering: "Cohimbia Pictures
Presents." The second cake, positioned
in front of Mrs. Simon, reads "The
Fortune." Basket at the table's center
contains Chinese fortune cookies. Beverages—champagne
or coffee—also
were available. vSinicn is publicity director
for Columbia Pictures, Chicago.
(Photo by John C. Robl.)
iluby Isle Marquee Letter
Vlystery Finally Solved
MILWAUKEE—For a week or two, thj
ign-changing personnel at the Ruby Isle
'heatre in suburban Brookfield was dislayed
almost daily by the disappearance
f letters from the marquee. A few couid
e found lying around on the sidewalk
elow but others were completely gone,
he wind? No, it looked more like the
'ork of pranksters.
The local police department was notified
y the theatre management, who suspected
)cal college youths of being the culprits.
few more days passed during which more
:tters disappeared.
One day manager Dorean .Sherd, while
;anding in the lobby, was surprised to sec
man enter the theatre preceded by a small
oy carrying a mass of objects that appeared
)o large for him to transport. The objects
ppeared to be giant-sized letters—and they
'ere the missing ones from the marquee!
The boy's face reflected his crestfallen
:elings and, with eyes rounded in apprcension,
he confessed that he alone was
;sponsible for "taking all these letters."
It seems the boy's father has a con-
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OMAHA
peter Citron, writing in the World Herald,
roptirts that the Dundee Theatre has
just completed a major "fix-up/clean-up"
program which included new carpeting and
paneling in the lobby . . . When composer
Marvin Hamlisch. who did the music for
"TTic Sting" and other films, came to Nebraska
Monday (4) lor Ak-.Sar-Bcn. he
found the Robert Redford-Paul Newman
starrer playimg at the Dundee Theatre.
A photograph puiblished rccenitly in the
Grand Island Daily Independent showed a
sign company truck, with ladder, parked in
front of that city's Grand Theatre, with a
workman repainting the marquee. The film
A resident of this city, Mrs. Geri Stratman,
told the press that a fr'end had pT3-
poscd a plot for a new terror film wherein
a large, cougar-like cat would come out
the hills and begin devouring the townspeople.
When terror grips the survivors, a
campaign to kill the cat is organized and
there in a fimal. fc^ar-c razed, bloody confrontation
of epic proportiors. Mrs. Stralman's
friend proposed a tiitle for the movie:
"Paws."
Former Omahan Joan Mjklin Silver is
harvesting more acclaim for the film she
wrote and directed. "Hester Street." The
current Saturday Review ranks her with
Elaine May in "this country's sparsely populated
top rank of women directors." Reportedly,
a distributor has been found for the
motion ipicture, which won acclaim at the
Cannes Film Festival, and it will open al
theatres soon.
Alvin S. Noggs reportedly is heading a
company organized here to di.stribute feature-length
movies and short subjects for
TV viewing over closed-circuit systems in
motels, hotels, hospitals, condominiums and
apartment complexes. Cinema Systems ot
Nebraska is headquartered at 9001 Arbor
St. and the firm is affiliated with Cinema
Systems of America, Oklahoma City. Rob-
advertised thereon was "Jacqueine Susann's
Once Is Not Enough." Quipped the Daily ert Carey, president of the Oklahoma firm,
Independent. "The Grand Theatre marquee will serve as vice-president of operations for
seemed to be commenting en the durability the Omaha company.
of the paint this worker was applyiing."
A letter to the editor of the World-Herald,
struction company and the young fellou
had become determined that the S
Construction Co. should be proclaimed to
the world in big-time style. He had managed
to work loose the letters he wanted by
throwing stones. Of course, the wrong
letters occasionally fell to the ground but
these he shunned.
Nonetheless, the father, upon determining
from where his ambitious son had gathered
his loot, decided to teach him a lesson b>
insisting that he return them himself and
with his own apology.
Dorean admitted the letters did cost appro.ximately
$6 each as she thanked the
father and the boy, who appeared to be
about seven or eight years of age. The latter
promised never to "do such a thing again."
Charles Hudgens Helming
Bryanston Branch in SF
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has announced the opening of a branch
office in San Francisco at 988 Market St..
Suite -'04. zip code 94102. The telephone
number is (41.5) 928-1942. The new office
will service the San Francisco, Seattle.
Portland
and Salt Lake City territories.
The branch manager will be longtime industry
veteran Charles Hudgens, who will
be under the supervision of Richard
Zephro. The latter recently was appointed
Western division manager for the company.
written by Barbara Jo McCarthy, recently
was published. Said Ms. McCarthy: "The
World-Herald demonstrates typical, narrowminded
short-sightedness in its editorial
'Keep After the Pussycat.' To suggest that
more time and money be .spent in prosecuting
a theatre which obviously caters only to
a certain willing segment of the public does
not make economic sense. I resent this waste
of my money. It would seem practical to
give those who need this type of outlet a
specific place to congregate rather than
foisting them.selves on the general public.
Those who fimd this type of entertainment
repulsive or sad can just stay away."
Pussycat Owner Is Fined
$7,000 by Omaha Judge
LINCOLN—American Theatre Corp.,
owner of the Pussycat Theatre in Omaha,
has been fined $1,000 on each of seven
counts by Municipal Court Judge Fred
Montag. Appeal bond was .set at $1,500.
The total $7,000 fime levied against the
downtown Omaha Pussycat Theatre resulted
from two separate trials earlier this summer.
At that time, the theatre and its owners
were found guilty of distributing obscene
material on seven different counts.
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Leora McGrew, longtime worker with the
former Cooper TTieatre Co. and the
Cooper Foundation, left here Thursday (14)
to drive to her new home and place of
business—Cheyenne. Wyo. Leora was accomipanied
by her sister Viola, who is making
the trip her vacation. She plans to continue
to work in fhLs city, although she and
Leora have lived .together here for years.
In her new position at Highland Theatres'
corporate headquarters in Cheyenne. Miss
McGrew will direct the larger accounting
activities of both the Highland and Cooper-
Highland circuits. She believes there will be
momthly trips between Cheyenne and our
itown. She also will continue to handle
Cooper Foundation's accounting activities.
The foundation owns all Nebraska. Minnesota
and Colorado Cooper theatre buildings.
Highland acquired, all operation activities
early this year . Cooper-Highland
staff hare, plus Randy Hartman, Cooper/
Lincoln manager; Bruce Harmon. Cooper
Plaza manager, and longtime Plaza worker
Tina Steinkamp. gathered before Thursday
(14) to say "bye" to Leora at a luncheon.
Bruce Healey, Plaza doorman and also
on ithe First National Bank's American
Legion baseball team, has kept has fellow
workers and followers busy, as the local
team made it to regional finals in Omaha.
Earlier, the team won the city championship.
Irving Marks of Minneapolis. Buena Vista
representative, was in town Wednesday (13)
to visit with Sarge Dubinsky of the Dubinsky
circuit and Russell Brehm from Douglas
Theatres Co. While Sarge was pursuing his
favorite sport, golf, during the Saturday (16)
weekend. Chuck Kroll. Eastern division
mianager for Highland and Cooper-Highland,
and Bruce Harmon. Coop>er Plaza
manager, sat with some 43,000 other s.pectators
at the preseason Atlanta-Baltimore
professional football game in Memorial
Stadium. It was a 10-3 victory for Atlanta
under a hot Nebraska summer sky. Bruce
had a cooler Sunday night (17) when he
drove down to Brownsville on the Missouri
River to see "Harvey," the final performance
of the Nebraska Wesleyan Players for
the 1975 season. As a Wesleyan student,
Bruce .sipent a summer or two with other
Brownsville players in the converted churchtheatre
building. Bruce generated another
single but long-day trip Thursday (21) after
renting a big station wagon to take ten staff
members on a Dutch treat adventure ito
Kansias City's Worlds of Fun. Thore was a
5 a.m. departure, with the fun park and
CINERAMA IS IN
SHOW BUSINESS IN
HAWAII TOO.
When you come to Waikiki,
don't miss the famous
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IN WAIKIKI: REEF Rt£F TOWEHS EOGEWATfH
a baseball game on the busy schedule before
returning here Ln the wee early hours Friday
(22).
Young Michael Gaughan's friends here
won't start school until September 3 but his
father Mike tells Cooper-Highland friends
ithat theiir primary grader began Monday
(18) at Littleton. Colo., where the Gaughans
moved when Mike transferred permanently
to the Denver offices of Highland and
Cooper-Highland. It seems Jefferson County
(Littleton included) operates year-round
like this: four months of school, two off.
and four on, two off. That means young
Michael can accompany his parents to the
nearby ski slopes as ithe season gets under
way in October-November.
Local children may end up being the first
in the country to have a "Hot Dog Theatre"
—^a dinner theatre for children. The idea is
being explored by Theatre Arts for Youth
(TAFY). according to president Philip Kaye.
a Nebraska Wesleyan Universiity faculty
member. There may ibe three performances
of such productions as mime, puppet, theatre
troupes, etc.. presented in early fall, midwinter
and spring.
Three young Plaza Four staff members
have been promoted as cashiers from the
concession ranks: Sue Artt. Kelly Krachit
and Kathy Maier. Hired to succeed them in
the busy concession area are high school
part-time workers Suzy Elliott. Pat Stahly
and Lorri Fisher . . . This city's old federal
courthouse and office building may end up
becoming municipal rental space as officiails
and civic leaders discuss its feasibility. The
Lincoln Foundation has indicated it could
buy the old federal building downtown, then
lease space back on upper floors to crowded
city offices. The foundation's primary interest
is in seeing a city perfornv-ig arts
center eventually constructed on the first
two floors by the University of Nebraska.
Omaha's Orpheum, acquired by Omaba city
fathers several years ago, is that metrqpolitan
area's performing arts center now after
extensive renovation of the early diy v;uideville-movie
hotise.
"The Apple Dumpling Game,"
Disney's
latest, had an extra showing Friday (15)
when the Plaza Four and KOLN-TV cosponsored
a morning benefit for muscular
dystrophy. The regular run started that
night. Advance tickets obtained from Leta
Powell Drake and the Miss Linda special
KOLN shows made it possible for anycne to
attend the benefit for a quarter. Th's 25
cents and other benefit features resiihed in
some $200 more for muscular chsirophy.
which happens to be Plaza nuiiMgei' lirucc
Harmon's favorite off-work projecl. Most
staff members were on band early to helip
Bruce handle the young crowds, he reports
may be in recess but that
doesn't mean lazy days in Nebraska for
Congressman Charles Thone. The former
state NATO coimsel is trying to cover not
just the State Fair when it comes mp shortly entertainr
but all 25 county fairs in his district. The
longtime industry man figures this is one of
the best ways to find out problems faced,
by his neighbors or folks who put him into
office.
The record established by "American
Graffiti" may be broken if "Jaws" continues
its present pace. Even with the film occupying
two of the Plaza Four auditoriums,
manager Bruce Harmon says the higher total
gross receipts indicate it could run until the
Christmas season. University students are
returning and adding another new source,
he points out. "Graffiti" totaled 76.58
customers in one auditorium in 40 weeks,
while "Jaws" stood at 62.280 Sunday (17).
using two of the 300-seat auditoriums. Ha
mon said all eight night performances at
the Plaza Four were sold out Saturday (16).
probably due to an unusual number of outof-town,
out-of-state visitors.
Industry members are finding these familiar
voices on a number of radio stations
frequently before the Nebraska Centennial
gets into full swing in '76: actor Henry
Fonda plugging away for the great things to
be found in Nebraska and actor-singer Gordon
MacRae doing precisely the same thing.
With popcorn supplies on their minds,
film industry members should know that
Nebraska may end up being the nation's
leading popcorn producer for all time, primarily
because of irrigation practices. Agricultural
experts say this year's crop is being
grown on 50.000 Nebraska acres—or 10.000
more than in 1 974. when the state ended up
producing the No. 1 crop, surpassing Iowa
and Indiana, where dry weather trimmed
yields dramatically. Holt County Agent
Marshall Logan predicts yields will be
4.000 to 5.000 pounds an acre this year in
that county where 10.000 acres of irrigated
ipopcorn are growing. Nebraska popcorn
averaged 3.500 pounds per acre despite the
1974 drouth conditions. Popcorn has
brought $8 to $8,50 per 100 pounds commercially
the past two years. The grain
weighs approximately 60 pounds per bushel.
Walt Jancke, who had a birthday himself
July 24. wished his son Ed the same thing
Wednesday (6) in a telephone call to Philadelphia,
where Ed. Connie and their daughter
Lisa live. Walt had a busy Monday this
month as head judge for the Roller Skaters
Ass'n of America's annual queen's contest.
The task gets harder each year, says Walt,
who's been doing it ever since the skaters
started coming to Pershing Auditorium for
their annual competition. "The girls are
prettier, more intelligent, more mature."
observes Walt, who said Miss California
finally won out over Miss Colorado, in the
judges' opinion. Also assisting as judges
were Kathy Tiewald. Lincoln Tour & Travel;
Bob Johnson. KOLN-TV; Ceil Lang.
Sun. and John Miller. KFOR Radio.
Building X-Rated Theatre
KANSAS CITY—Construction is under
way for River Quay's first X-rated theatre
after a recent effort failed in the city council
to bar from the city-market area such
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nounced, publicly at least, what film policy
Mill City Hits Snag h« intended to institute at the Parkway if
he acquired it. "My hands are tied until I
get a license to operate," he remarked.
In License Holdout
However, he indicated to the press that his
MINNEAPOLIS—County Judge Crane attorney might initiate court action seeking
Winton ruled Friday (1) that only legal determinations
will decide whether or not the of a license.
damages caused by the delay in acquisition
city of Minneapolis mu&t issue a license to Following Judge Winton's ruling, it apipeared
that the city of Minneapolis would
a conitroversial. proposed theatre and that
environmental impact will play no role in ibe stuck with a research project which
the matter. Efforts of James Sparks of would not be valid in court. The judge, who
Omaha to open what was reported to be a said he sympathized with the anxiety of
sexploitation house in a residential neighborhood
had met with strong citizen oppomented
that "aesthetic considerations not
dissident neighbors of the Parkway, comsition.
A last-ditch effort to prevent the establishment
of the proposed theatre was in determining justification for the license.
related to law will not hang in the balance"
based on the alleged "pollution fallout"' of The city of Minneapolis was slated to appear
in court Tuesday (19) to show cause
Ix>rnographic motion pictures, with the contention
being that a license issuance could why it should not grant a license promptly
be denied based on "environmental factors." to Sparks.
In late July the city council voted 10-2 to
fund an environmental study om the effects
Gary Bucchino Letter Is
of film fare (estimated cost of the program
was $4,500). The council action came after Rapped by ACLU Leader
pres,sure bad been exerted by a citizens' LINCOLN — University of Nebraska
group, the 48th & Chicago Defense Fund, to Prof. James Cole of Lincoln lashed out at
use any means to block the sale of the Omaha City Prosecutor Gary Bucchino for
Parkway Theatre in South Milwaukee to writing a personal letter on official city stationery
to criticize C.'-:'ghton University
Sparks.
The neighborhood group had charged that action in an obscenity c:^se iii which Bucchino
is a key figure. Cole spoke as state
pornography would be a blight on the area,
resulting in falling property values.
president of the Nebraska Civil Liberties
Walter Rockenstein. alderman representing
the ;irea in which the Parkway is situ-
City Atty. Herb Fitle.
Union, addressing his comments to Omaha
ated, said that the survey's findings "could Fitle concurred, subsequently criticizing
be applicable" to other districts with neighborhood
movie theatres.
he praised the prosecutor for his "crusade"
Bucchino for his choice of stationery. But
"It is an issue of citywide importance," against continuing obscenity action in some
Alderman Rockenstein declared, "and it's Omaha theatre and book sales operations.
not out of line to s.pend city funds for it."
Fitle said the language of Bucchino's letter
"clearly indicates that it v/as written by
Joining in the dispute were numerous
other groups, including the Minnesota Civil him as an expression of his personal opinion
Liberties Union. Randy Tigue. legal counsel
for MCLU, warned the Minnesota En-
Bucchino's letter to Creighton president
and not as city prosecutor."
vironmental Quality Council that its intervention
couJd represent an infringement of father of a daughter going to Creighton . . .
Father Joseph Labaj stated he was "the
the exhibitor's First Amendment rights. Editorially,
the Minneapolis Tribune comment-
Catholic university."
and an alumnus of what I thought to be a
ed: "It doesn't seem right that a neighborhood
that doesn't want an X- rated movie and vehemently, the hiring and continued
The letter went on to protest, "formally
house has to be saddled with one . . .
tenure of a teacher at this Catholic university
who totally lacks moral value in the
Pornographic movies may be all right in
their place but the operator of a theatre counseling of the youthful minds that are
shooild recognize where they are otit of placed in her trust."
place."
The city prosecutor referred to Creighton's
refijsal to dismiss Dr. Charlotte
Sparks, whose option to buy was due to
expire Sunday (10) hut who said he thought Erskine, Creighton counseling psychologist.
he couM obtain an. extension, had not an- She testified at a recent Little .'Krts Theatre
trial that she sometimes recommends certain
forms of pornography to persons seeking
psychological help. Little Arts is an American
Theatre Corp. operation in Omaha.
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leader Ccle told Fitle that Bucchino
was using the city prosecutor's office
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to "harass and intimidate a defense witness
. . . This is not justice as defined by our
Constituition— this is tyranny."
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CLEVELAND
J^ight at the Races," a Variety Tent 6 benefit
for Ohio Boys Town, was held
Thursday (14) at Northfield Race Track.
Tom Gill and Leonard Mishkind co-sponsored
the event.
Masonic services were held Tuesday (12)
Bon voyage! Dick Landis. Mentor Mall
operator, and his wife Sylvia; Jack Lapine,
Cedar-Center projectionist, and his wife Selma,
ard Julie Berman, retired Ivocal 160
operator, and his wife Ruth leave Saturday
(30) for Rome. The couples will spend the
major part of their holiday cruising the
Med'terranean aboard a Greek liner . .
.
An ABC-TV film team was in the city the
week of Monday (11) filming interviews at
Metro General Hospital and the Cleveland
Clinic for an hour-long documentary on
women's health. The producer is foirmer
localite Marlene Sanders. The program is
scheduled to be aired in December.
Elliot Martin, New York producer, came
here Wednesday (13) to Playhouse Square
Cabaret to catch the original production of
"Conversations of an Irish Rascal" and reportedly
is making arrangements to offer
it as a New York production. Martin recently
produced the Broadway stage presentation
as well as the TV production of
O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten."
Other of Martin's hits include "Never Too
Late" and "The Owl and the Pussycat." The
cast featuring Gusti, the folksinger, and
David Fraizer will appear in the Edinburgh
Festival in Scotland September 4-13 at the
request of Brendan Behan's widow. The
play, written by the late Kathleen Kennedy
wth the help Oif Fraizer, is about Behan,
the colorful Irish playwright. Kathleen Kenredy,
28, known as the publicist at the Play
Houxe and later at Playhouse Square Ass'n,
recently had completed her play "Conversafcns
of an Irish Rascal" and staged it
with great success. Kathleen died July 26,
a week after her play opened to rave re-
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. . Wednesday
DETROIT
ghirlej Washington, this city's own former
Miss Black America, was home for a
visit with her family. She was interviewed
by TV and the print media regarding her
role in New World's "Darktown Strutters."
which opened Wednesday (20) in the Adams
and Mercury theatres.
JMG Film Co. reports that "Beyond the
Door" is doing "'fantastic business" around
NEW!
Avco Embassy's "Farewell. My Lovely"
opened Wednesday (20) in a number of
selected theatres. Judging by the good reviews
garnered by the film, it is to be expected
that the Robert Mitchum-Charlotte
Rampling starrer will be around for a while.
A large segment of Filmrow's managerial
personnel is away from the city enjoying a
part of the ohodce vacation time.
"White Line Fever," Columibia Pictures'
the country and the same results are expected
from the motion picture which
Jan-Michael Vincent-Kay Lenz starrer.
opened in this area in selected theatres
opened a saturation engagement in area
Wednesday (20).
hardtops and ozoners .
(6)
"Funny Lady." starring Barbra Streisand
and James Caan, moved over to the Aimericana,
Camelot, Eastland, Parkway. Pontiac
MaJil, Somerset Mall, Southgate and Ter-
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was
Che attraction at the Towne, while Paramount's
R-rated "Nashville" was playing at
Radio City. Woodward at 9 Mile . . . "Love
and Death" continued to delight Woody
Allen fans and was held over at La Parisien.
Somerset Mall. Beacon East, Macomb Mall
and Towne.
Ron Ely in "Doc Savage, the Man of
Bronze" opened Wednesday (6) at the
Bloomfield, Mini-Mount Clemens. North-
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: "Ladies"
. . Graceland
. .
.
Ohio Court Dismisses
Film Obscenity Case
HAION. OHIO -John Ho'okan, 52. op-
;rator of the Cinema 35 Drive-ln. who had
been charged with "pandering obscenit> "
connection with the showing of the films
in
'Deep Throat" and The Devil in Miss
lones." Wednesday (6) won his case on a
:echnicality.
Holokan was charged April 7. 1475. b\
Prehle County sheriffs deputies after traf-
"ic backed up on U.S. 35 while passing
Tiotorists watched the film from the high
vay. The two motion picture prints were
;onfiscated.
Sheriff Jan Spitler said he ordered the
irrest after he received numerous comjlaints
from residents of the nearby tovv;i
)f Glenwood that traffic was tied up and
ilso that their children could see the screen
rom their homes.
The charge of pandering was thrown out
n Eaton Municipal Court because the
udge who issued the search warrant had
lot viewed the film previous to that action.
Hearing the case was Acting Municipal
udge George J. Earley.
According to a court spokesman, the dis
nissal was prompted by a recent U.S. Su-
)reme Court ruling which requires, in obcenity
cases, that the judge view !hc alleged
(bscene film before issuing a search warrait
or its confiscation.
COLUMBUS
^raceland Cinema and the Gr.iccland
Shopping Center Business Ass'n started
Day at Graceland" series with
he Thursday (21) presentation of "Hello.
Jolly!" A fashion show and gift certificates
rom center merchants were featured.
.
Robert Orendorff has been named asistant
manager of the Graceland Twin
"inema Cinema and York
'laza Cinema are experimenting with a
eries of classic features during Ohio State
•air
week. Both theatres are offering a onerice
admission of $1.50. Pictures include
2001: A Space Odyssey." "'Young Franknstein.""
"The Twelve Chairs." "The Sound
f Music" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad. Mad
Vorld."
A complete remodeling program has been
tarted at Graceland Shopping Center by
he Don M. Caste Co.. owners. Slated to be
inished early in 1976. it will include new
fonts, sidewalks, improved traffic flow and
edesigning of the park'ng lot.
Mike Schlessinger, booker with Tri-Slato
Service, was a recent local visitor. He books
or Frank Marzetti's Studio 35 . . . Eddie
'isher. er.itertainment editor of the Dis-
satoh, is back at his desk after recovery
rojii a heart attack several weeks ago
itage. screen and TV star Cesar Romero
k'ill appear in "My Three Angels" at the
?ountrv Dinner Playhouse starting Tuesday
26).
Festive Bow for
.Mayor Raymond Norrish
.Sprinjjdale
and hi.s wife congratulate Marvin
White, right, on the opening of Mid
.States Theatres' Tri-Count\' cinemas
1-2-3.
The skydiver gathers his equipment
after a successful on-target landing in
front of the Mid States Theatres triplex,
while the delighted crowd looks
CINCINNATI—There always has been
an interest in the development of Cincinnati
on the part of Mid States Theatres. In keeping
with tradition, a celebration was held to
mark the opening of the Tri-County cinemas
1-2-3. The showhouses are located opposite
the Tri-County Shopping Center and across
from Cassinelli Square.
A parade of colorful characters, including
the Pink Panther with the Roger Bacon
Band, opened the festivities. Also partici-
Dadeland Twin Mgr., Guard
Robbed at Bank Depository
From Southeastern
Editron
MIAMI—The night manager of Wometco"s
Dadeland twin was robbed at
girnpoint.
along with a security guard, at the depository
of a Dadeland bank recently.
Gregory Possman, manager, and Alan
Wcrtz. the guard, told police they had left
the theatre and had pulled into the p.nking
lot of the bank to make a late night deposit.
A log was placed in the parking lot apparently
as a barrier to them.
Wertz said he fired two shots into the
dark when a voice called to them to "'freeze."'
A young man, wearing a red ski mask, pui
his head in the window of the car and
ordered Wcrtz to drop the gun. Wcrtz complied
and the two men were removed from
Tri-County Trio
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A Murnlur ot thi- (.ria-ii ( (Hint\
Sport Parachute Club is almost ready
to hit the ground in front of the Tri-
Countv cinemas 1-2-3.
Don Wirtz, left, and Marvin White,
right. Mid States Theatres executives,
listen as Mayor Raymond Norrish reads
a proclamation announcing "Mid States
Theatres Week" in the city of Springdale,
Ohio.
pating was Springdale Mayor Raymond
Norrish, followed by beauty queens from
Hamilton, Butler and Clermont counties. A
much-applauded feature of the parade was
the ""Sharkmobile," with a six-foot "shark."
A highlight of the event was provided by
the Green County Sport Parachute Club
from Xenia, Ohio. Jumps were made into
the roped-off area in front of the triplex
and the skydivers delighted the enthusiastic
crowd with their precision exhibition.
the security car.
The robber then slid into the driver's seat
and ordered the two men to start running
down the street. Taking off south on U.S. 1
the robber fled the area and was still at
large despite a police dragnet several hours
later.
Polce and Womctco did not indicate the
aiiiouni of receipts stolen.
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.
Henry Capogno One of Fading Breed
Who Brings Silver Screen to Life
career of publicist
DETROIT—The long and interesting'
Henry Capogna was described
in a recent Detroit Free Press article
by-lined by Jim Neubacher. Headlined "Th,
Man Behind the Marquee: Memories of j
Michigan Advance Man." the item follows:
To understand Henry Capogna, you have
to know about George Alabama Florida.
George took that name because he didn't
want anyone to forget him, or anything he
did. He was a publicity man for traveling
stageshows, an advance man for theatre
companies and later a rosy-cheeked old
Hollywood promoter.
George Alabama Florida was one of the
most colorful of that breed of usually anonymous
men who are "The Movies." They
are the men who tickle our fancies, inspire
our passions and provoke our colicclivc
curiosity until we are crowding around, lining
up under the marquee, begging someone
to take our money, thank you, the rexl
picture starts at eight.
The promoter, the advance man, the flack
and the publicist, the chauffeur, bodyguard
and valet is the genius who turns actors into
stars and movies into smash hits.
They are a fading breed. TV is replacing
them. No longer must they feverishly crisscross
the country, carrying the spark that
keeps the Hollywood dream burning irside
us.
But at one time, the flame would have
vanished without them. The silver screcii
would have tarnished without their constant
polishing. Those were the days of George
Alabama Florida, when an advance man
who knew his stuff could walk into ans
town on any morning and get a story about
his latest movie on the front page of Ih
paper that afternoon.
local
George Alabama Florida is gone now
but he left behind a legend and footsteps
for others to follow.
For the last 44 years, Henry Capogna has
followed, until today, at 58, he is the head
of all publicity, promotion and advertising
for Michigan's Butterfield Theatre circuit"
Let me tell you about him before an era
disappears altogether and he, too, is just
a legend.
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In 1926, when George Alabama Florida's
career was in full flight, Henry Capogna
was just beginning his love affair with moving
pictures. Henry was only 10 years old
then. He recalls events in his life by which
movie was playing at the time. (He left for
the Army when "Caught in the Draft" was
playing at his theatre.)
He still has dozens of photos showing
him with the greatest Hollywood stars. He's
the big handsome man dressed in
pinstripes,
a black mustache flashing across his face,
always at the side of one star or another.
He wears a Mickey Mouse watch— an expensive
one—that he won from Disney
Studios for naming a Disney picture "The
Bride Wore Blue Jeans." He's done every
job there is to do in a movie theatre from
polishing the chandeliers on Simdays,
(when Pennsylvania blue law forbade showing
pictures), to running the publicity campaigns
for Michigan's most prestigious circuit
of theatres, the Butterfields.
Living Catalog of Past
Today, still working, he's a living catalog
of a passing era. "In the '30s, we used to
have tab shows, traveling stageshows, before
the pictures. One day the manager called
me in and said: 'We're having a stageshow
and you're part of it.' It was rather risque.
"A girl came out, painted in gold. Remember
that James Bond picture? Well this
was the original. She had on a G-sliing and
pasties but she looked nude.
"I said, 'Well, what do I do'.''
"He said, 'You're going to get butter
knives and immediately afterwards scrape
her gold off.'
"I went home and told my parents. They
said 'You're certainly not going to do that!'
I said 'I certainly am.'
Peeling
Off 'Gold'
"Well that night came and we went upstairs
to the dressing room with butter knives.
We just peeled it off. She was in a bathtub
and we peeled it off like butter. She was a
beautiful, stunning girl. I told the guys at
school about it and they went wild. "
After high school the Capognas moved
to Johnstown, in upstate New York, where
Henry got a job cutting leather in a glove
factory. At night he worked for a small
theatre circuit called Smalley's.
Johnstown was a sleeper jump tiom New
York City to Chicago and the traveling
shows came through with regulaiity.
"One night we had Dave Rubino'i. He
was the bandleader for Eddie Cantor. He
was from Detroit. He was getting $1,.''00 a
night and this was during the depression.
He was there in connection with a picture
he was in called 'Thanks a Million' in \9?,5.
"He did his act, then came offstage and
said 'Hey sonny, is the balcony rilled?' It
was the first time I noticed actors alsi> were
businessmen."
In 1937, the lamily moved to Pontiac
;md Capogna look a lull-linie |oli with
Butterfield's State Theatre.
"One day the manager told us the president
of the circuit was bringing in this unknown
actress who had done a couple of
small films for RRO. The theatre manager
had seen her and said "I think this girl's got
it.'
"When she arrived, she was all in white.
She had beautiful red hair. We had a siagehand
named Jimmy Stravato. He said he
knew her, that he went to high school wi h
her. It was Lucille Ball.
Meeting Lucy
"They met and she remembered Jimmy.
I remember she said: 'We're both in tlie
movies Jimmy but you've got a regular job.'
"That night, the spotlight went out ar;d
we had to use house lights to light the stage.
The furnace went dead and it was cold. But
she went out there, danced and sang ard
told stories for 40 minutes, all for nothng
but the exposure."
After the war, Capogna returned to Michigan
and by 1950 he was handling so;rc
promotion for Butterfield.
"I remember Betty Hutton one time. 1
was seven weeks in front of her." The picture
was 'Let's Dance' with Fred Astaire,
and it was being circulated as the second
film on a bill with a John Wayne westerr.
Miss Hutton was coming for a promotional
tour and Capogna turned it into a
spectacular—a homecoming for Betty Hutton,
born in Battle Creek.
Homecoming for Betty
"I found her birthplace, at 14 Stone St.
in Battle Creek. I dug up a cousin of hers
who was a state trooper and got him assigned
to guard and escort duty for the
event. I found her mother. I had it all set
with the Battle Creek paper to give it top
billing on the front page."
The day of the homecoming the Eaton
Co. factory in Battle Creek was destroyed
in one of the biggest fires in the city's history.
Betty Hutton was shoved aside for the
news.
Capogna was undaunted. He had "homecomings"
arranged for her in Lansing and
Grand Rapids, both towns where she spent
part of her childhood.
At the Olds Hotel in Lansing, a dinner
in her honor was attended by numerous
dignitaries. It was followed by a parade
through Lansing with Miss Hutton and Go\
G. Mennen Williams sharing the front car.
"It was November, zero-degree weather,
but thousands of people turned out to watch.
Gov. "Kim" Sigler was great. He would declare
special days to help movie promotions.
But the most cooperative of all was Gov,
Williams," says Capogna.
Capogna didn't always have a big nairc
star and the governor to help attract crowds.
But he was usually able to combine luck
and ingenuity to get the publicity he needed
for the pictures Butterfield was showing.
"One time the old man sent us to Battl.-
Creek and told us he wanted something on
Page 1 the next day."
Warner Bros, was rereleasing two old
Bogart and Cagney films. Capogna didn't
know what to do.
(Continued on page ME-8)
Augu.st 25, 1975

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: :- ; Rollerball
'Love and Death' Has
600 in Cincy Bow
CINCINNATI — Love and Dc.iUi
grossed a happy 600 in ils bow at Carousel
2 and the Studio. "Part 2 Walking TaJl" tied
with "Jaws" in an eighth frame at 500 while
"Nashville" finished a third stanza at Showcase
I with 450. "The Other Side of the
Mountain" and "The Return of the Pink
Panther" drew 400 apiece.
(Average Is 100)
Carousel 1—The Other Side ol the Mountain
(Univ). 12th wk 400
Carousel 2 Studies—Love and Death (UA) 600
Four ,'Jr.;vl 5lh theatres-lows wk 500
Four theatres-The Apple Dumpling Gong (BV),
5th v.k 175
International "C— Cleopatra Jones and the
Casino of Gold (WB)
Northgate—The Fortune (Col), 4th wk -
150
— 100
_
Showcase 1— Nashville (Para), 3rd wk -450
Showcase .—Jacqueline Susann's Once Is
Not Enough F^n ":, v.k - 300
Showcase : -Part 2 Walking Tall (AlP), 2nd wk. ..500
Showcase ;-Bug Fa:j Und wk. - 250
Times Tov.-e— The Return of the Pink Panther
(UA), I2th wk 400
Three theatres—Russian Roulette (Emb) - ....150
Tri-County I—The Drowning Pool (WB), 4th wk. ..250
Valley—Rollerball (UA), 5th wk. 250
'laws' Champ With 805 in 6th;
'Rollerball' B70 in Cleveland
CLEVELAND— "Jaws" was still bo.xoffice
champion in a si.xth week with 805 re-
.ported by four theatres. "Rollerball" skated
to a fast 670 in a second week at the Village.
"Nashville" sarg a strong song of 350
in its three-theatre debut while "Emmanuelle"
blazed out 240 in
a third week.
Colony—Emmanuelle (Col), 3rd wk. 240
Five thea!res—The Drowning Pool (WB),
„ 2nd wk - - 125
Five theatres—The Fortune (Col) _ 90
...-
Five theatres—One of Our Dinosaurs tossing
Is
(BV). 3rd wk - 150
Four theatres—laws (Univ), 6th wk, ..._ _...805
_....220
Nine theatres—Return to Macon County (AIPJ
Six theatres-The Return of the Pink Panther
(UA). 6;h wk - - 135
Three theatres—Cleooatra Jones and the
Casino of Gold C.VB) 235
Three theatres—SuperVixens (SR) 205
Three theatres-Nashville (Para) 350
Three theatres—Jacqueline Susann's Once Is
Not Enough (Para), 5th wk _..- 125
Two theatres—The Other Side of the Mountain
(Univ), 10th wk 150
Village—Rollerball (UA), 2nd wk 670
'Jaws' Strong 380 in Detroit;
"Nashville' Pleasing at 350
DETROIT — "Jaws" continued its
grip on
business showing a strong 380 for a seventheatre
situation in a sixth week. A pleasant
note was struck by "Nashville." at Radio
City for the third week, belting out 350.
Northland, showing "Rollerball" for the
third week, enjoyed a 275. The only other
fciitirc to register in the 200-plu,s column
\v IS "One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing,"
ing 220 for 11 theatres.
:r,a 2—Tommy (Col), 18th wk 130
',-3—One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
•d v.-k _ 220
The Wind and the Lion (UA),
175
The Devil's Rain (SR), 2nd v/k 75
Superbug (AA) 85
(UA), 3rd vjk 275
Hadio City—Nashville (Para), 4th wk 350
Seven theatres—Jaws (Umv), 6th wk 3S0
5th 115
Seven theatres—Love and Death (UA), wk
Six theatres—The Drowning Pool (WB), 3rd wk, ,110
Three theatres— Bile the Bullet (Col), 4th wk 80
Is
Three tho^'r- - Jacqueline Susann's Once
: ; ='r Not Enough wk 85
Russian Roulette 90
12 theT^^ (Emb)
24 Ihea;:.,: The Happy Hooker (AIP) 95
Two theatr..- Deliver Us From Evil (SR)
Two theatres—Cleopatra Jones and the Casino
125
- - oi Gold (WB) 180
BOXOmCE :: August 25, 1975
HOT WHEELS—Randy Posorek.
manager of Gateway theatres 1 and 2
in Sterling Heights, Mich., just couldn't
let New World Pictures' "Death Race
2000" race by without a promotion.
Using an enlarged photo of a racing
grandstand as a backdrop, the Gatewa>
staff designed a racing car similar to
the one used in the film. Customers
were invited to bring their cameras and
take part in all the fun. The display
shown above ("driver" not identified)
could be seen by patrons attending
both cinemas.
Southtown Dualer Is
Opened by Chakeres
DAYTON. OHIO—Chakeres Theatres'
new Southtown Twin cinemas, located next
to the Dayton Mall in the Elder-Beerman
Southtown Shopping Center, opened in late
July,
Each auditorium contains 700 seats and
the long lobby was designed as a comfortable
waiting area for patrons in both summer
and winter.
There are two entrances— front and
side—with acres of lighted parking.
Russell McClanahan Sr.;
Veteran Ky. Exhibitor
LOUISVILLE—Russell McClanahan sr.
of Irvine, Ky., died in late June, it has just
been reported to BoxoFFiCE. In exhibition
since the 1930s, McClanahan was one of
the oldest theatre operators in the state of
Kentucky.
He was a member of the American Legion
and Irvine Lodge Local 137. AF&AM.
McClanahan also was a Kentucky Colonel.
He leaves his wife Estella True McClanahan;
two sons, Ralph E. McClanahan sr.
and Russell McClanahan jr., and a daughter.
Nanc> Robbins, all of Irvine.
.Since the McClanahans always have
worked together as a family unit. Ralph L.
McClanahan sr. has taken over coniplckoperation
of the theatre business,
Airer Expansion Planned
CANTON. OHIO—Charlie Truran. exhibitor,
is planning to convert his East 30
Drive-In into a three-screen operation. The
urderskyer recently was twinned.
Jane Russell Active
In Varied Projects
15> LOI.S l},\LMOEL
RAVENNA. OHIO — The actress who
\s as discovered by Howard Hughes, attained
instant stardom in "The Outlaw" and spent
a season in Cl^vjland. Ohio, as the wife of
Rams quarterback Bob Waterfield, is appearing
here at the Carousel Dinner Theatre
in the mystery-comedy "Catch Me If
You Can" through Sunday (31),
Jane Rus,sell presently is married to John
Pebbles and they make their home in Santa
Barbara when Jane is not traveling with a
show. The stalue.-.qu; brunette with tremendous
hazel eyes who sang "Buttons "n" Bows"
with Bob Hope in Palelace" and worked
with Clark Gable in "The Tall Men" also
appeared in "His Kird of Woman." "The
Las Vegas Story." "Macao." "Born Losers"
and many other motion pictures. But the
film in which Ms. Russell appeared that she
believes is clo.sest to becoming a classic is
the Howard Hawks-directed "Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes." It often is shown in New
York art theatres, she says.
The five-foot, seven-inch actress, who retains
her beauty, is involved with real estate.
She owns an 80-unit apartment building
which almost has paid for itself. She also
devotes many hours to W,MF, an organization
she helped establish for the placement
of orphaned children throughout the world.
Ms. Russell has three adopted children
she has reared since they were infants:
Thomas. 25; Tracy, 24. and Buck. 19.
Buck phoned while the actress was in
Ravenna to tell her of his wedding plans,
making him the first of her children to
marry. She adapted all three during her
23-year marriage to Bob Waterfield. In
1968 she married actor Richard Barrett,
who died three months later of a heart attack.
Ms. Russell still keeps in touch with director
Raoul Walsh and she disclosed that
she particularly enjoyed working with
aetors Richard Egan and Robert Mitchum.
Her mother Geraldire Jaccbi Russell,
now in her 80s. was a successful actress and
performed with George Arliss. She was responsible
for steering Jane into an acting
career.
The vivacious, good-humored actress
graciously introduced this repwrter to the
ent're cast of "Catch Me If You Can." One
of the leading men asked. "Did you catch
our show tonight?"
"No." replied Ms. Russell. "The Bo.x-
OFFicE reporter likes to do all her inter\'iews
at midnight!"
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Henry Capogna One of Fading Breed
Who Brings Silver Screen to Life
(Continued from page ME-6)
"The night before they were celebrating
something in Battle Creek and some youths
stole the brass railing from in front of the
theatre. It was the railing used to funnel
patrons to the boxoffice and it had been
in the terrazzo floor for 40 >ears.
"I bought some radio time and notified
the newspapers. I asked for the return of
the railing, no questions asked. And 1 offered
free passes to the culprits so they
could see the pictures. Both were crime pictures
and I said they could watch and see
what happens to criminals when they gel
caught.
"It caught on. The newspapers carried .1
and the wires picked it up. Back in Detroil,
the paper carried it as a small item on
Page I. I'll never forget the headline: Object
Lesson.' The boss was really impressed.
"The brass rail? We never saw it again.
But we had people coming down to look
it at the holes in the floor where had been
and of course they went in to see the picture."
More than one time luck played a role in
helping Capogna get publicity for his films.
"When I was managing a theatre in Lansing,
we had a huge searchlight rigged up to
some colored paper over the lens. It reflected
around the clouds and the newspaper
was flooded with calls about flying
saucers. Of course, they had to run an explanation
and mention the theatre and the
picture."
One time Capogna was on tour with
Blackstone the Magician.
"Part of my duties was to biiy six smal'
rabbits for the magic act in each town we
went into. We got to Adrian one day and I
looked all over but couldn't find any smal'
white rabbits, so I bought six Belgian hares.
"Trouble is, they're like big dogs. Blackstone
took one look and said that was ridiculous
and asked me what were we aoirni to
do.
"I'll tell you what we're going to do.
Capogna said. "We're going to get on Ihc
front page of the Jackson paper. You can
do two things with rabbits: eat them oi
keep them as pets."
He called the Jackson paper, which leaped
at the chance to cover Blackstone donating
his magic rabbits to the local boys'
home. "We got a quarter of the front page,"
Capogna chuckled.
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Animals are a professional hazard in an
advance man's life. Some are stars and thc^
go on tour just like human stars.
"Francis, the Talking Mule. I spent two
weeks on the road with that animal once to
promote a picture called 'Francis Goes to
West Point.'
"In 33 Michigan cities we had a parade
downtown. One of the old gags was to tr\
to register the animal at the local hotel. It
was always prearranged and the newspapers
and TV were always there. They had
flowers for the mule and he would alwa>s
try to eat them and knock the water al;
over the floor. It never failed."
Talking to a Mule
"One day in Jackson, we were putting the
mule in the van, when a lady came running
down the street toward us hollering. The
trainer said, 'Oh, oh. There's one in every
town.'
"The lady demanded wc get the mule out
of the van so she could talk to it. We had
a helluva time getting rid of her. I tried to
explain the mule really didn't talk. It was
the voice of Chill Wills. But she demanded.
We drew a crowd and they started shouting
at us, 'Let the lady talk to the mule.' Like
the trainer said, in every city there's some
nut ."
. .
But the mule was nothing compared to
the kangaroo.
"We had this picture called "The Sundowners.'
It was a helluva picture but it
wasn't drawing. We changed the ads a couple
of times but nothing worked. Finally
Warner Bros, bought this kangaroo.
On Kangaroo Tour
"So it was off on tour with this kangaroo,
until the day the animal decided to
make a break for it during a live TV interview
program in Lansing and knocked down
the entire set."
Then there was Bozo the Chimp and the
crowds of women chasing Sal Mineo and
Pat Boone and Fess Parker, better known as
Davy Crockett, who appeared with Gov.
George Romney the day Romney announced
for his second term in office. And the
parties, the starlets, the trips to Las Vegas
and Hollywood and the movies, the movies,
the movies!
Late at night, Henry Capogna sighs as he
looks up from his huge boxes of news clippings
and pictures of stars.
"What an era. Did they know how to do
it better then or is it just nostalgia?"
Today, he's a man of the TV age. "It's
a marriage," he says. "You can't match ,i
TV saturation campaign for publicity. The
demographics are right there."
Now Capogna coordinates all the publicity,
advertising and promotion for the Bui
lerfield circuit, constantly talking on the
phone to movie men in New York and California,
Dallas and Chicago. He gets out on
the road once in awhile bul says thai pari
of the job is fading in iniporlance. It's jusi
harder today to be a George Alabama Flor
ida.
"Newspapermen are more sophisticated
They have to be. And it used to be that thi
studios would train actors, groom them anc
put on publicity junkets and do it right. Ant
if they told the star to go, he went.
"Now you only see that if the star has
financial interest in
the picture."
But Capogna is still proud of his craf
proud to be the man behind the marquee.
"I don't think there's an\ such thing as t
hit. There are people who made it a hit anc
who are out there perpetuating it. Ever
when 'Gone with the Wind' was rereleased
they recreated the original Atlanta premiere
with all the stars who were still ali\t
Nothing happens unless you make it happen.
That's my motto."
CINCINNATI
J^
H. Chakeres, head oif Chakeres Theatres,
headquartered in Springfield, returned
from a two-week vacation at Myrtle Beach,
N.C., and other spots in the South.
.
Gail Kauffman, office manager of Holiday
Amusement Co., is back from a vacation
. . . John
at Mammoth Cave. Ky. Tabor, Chakeres district manager, and hi;
wife are vacationing in the South . . Rena
Schroeder, United Artists cashier, is
vacation on the West Coast.
Mrs. Barbara Horn has resigned from the
JMG Film Co. and has been succeeded as
Cincinnati territory booker toy Mrs. Mary
Ann Plasters, formerly personal secretary to
Jay M. Goldberg. Mrs. Plasters has been
with JMG Film Co. more than three years
and is well known to local exhibitors. New
secretary at JMG is Miss Janie Horner.
Thursday (7) WLW-T's "Bob Braun SO-
SO Club" had one of the city's best-known
movie personalities in the audience. Florence
Kipp was in attendance and she reminded
Bob that she was the one who started
his radio-TV career when she was manager
of the Paramount Theatre 20 years
ago. She is supposed to be retired but Florence
is very active in many projects . .
Roberta Peters, Metropolitan Opera st;i
was one of the guests for the day. appea
ing recently in Noel Coward's "Bitt
Sweet" with the Kenley Players in Da\ton.
Miss Peters has a large following here, ha
ing appeared a number of times in the
Opera at the Zoo and with the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra.
Another guest was the co-author of the
screen version of "Jaws." Carl Goiilicb.
"Jaws" is the film which has scared millions
of people throughout the nation. It hasn't
'been seen in Europe as yet. Gottlieb showed
clips from the film, funny incidents which
occurred during the shooting and were left
on the cutting room floor Braun
.
show is seen by millions within the Tri-Stale
area and it is one of the very few live shows
on TV screens. One of the charms of the
program is that il is unrehearsed and uses
no "idiol cards."
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BOSTON
gack Theatres' Beacon Hill Cinema is currently
showing Roger Vadim's production
Charlotte." featuring his new discover)'
Finnish model Serpa Lane. Vadim is confident
he has a protege that will follow in the
footsteps of Brigitte Bardot, a name he
brought to fame some 20 years ago.
Sack Theatres will have the New England
premiere of Avco Embassy's mystery-thrill-
Ray Anderson, booking manager at Cinema
Film Buying Service, and his wife vacationed
at the Cape, staying in Centerville.
One day was used for a boat ride to Nanitucket.
In Milton, Theatre Designers of America
announced .that Arthur Fiske. R.W. Baldwin
Co.. has joined the company to take charge
of the mail order department. The department
is being expanded to nationwide service.
Peter Levin, fast-moving assistant to Al
Stein, says he is desi>era,tely looking forward
to his vacation. The onJy negative is
the date hasn't been set and summer days
are running out.
Roger Lockwocd and Arthur Friedman,
disitributoirs for New World Pictures, had 99
prints of new release "Tidal Wave" working
in a saturation Wednesday (6). Booker Ray
Anderson had quite a day seeing that prints
were shipped out tbefo're opening day.
Joe Rossi, National Screen Service branch
manager, announced the retirement of a.ccounting
clerk Julia Canty. Friday (15).
Julia joined National Screen in 1941 and is
one of Filmrow's most popular personalities.
She is well known through the district for
her display of tropical plants and flowers
adding to the color and atmosphere of the
office. Incidentally, the office is staffed with
a bevy of beautiful women and Julia has
been allocating her collection of plants to
them. Not wanting to play favorites, Julia
made up number slips for the office staff to
draw. However, there was still plenty of
bantering and exchanging of plants.
Julia also was a member of Film Exchange
Local C3 which is affiliated with the
er. Farewell. My Lovely." Wednesday (27)
national lATSE. She served as treasurer for
at the Cinema 57 complex. The advance
the union for a number of years. The
publicity campaign included special newspaper
advertising and statewide TV and
Charlestown resident says she plans to just
relax, make visits in town and chat with old
radio trailers.
friends. Best wishes, Julia, we shall remember
you.
Harvey AppeU and Paul Peterson, NFB
Films, announced they have set up "an evening
of pure insanity" with double feature
The Twelve Chairs." starring Mel Brooks.
and Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the
Bronx" with Gene Wilder. The zany combination
is being lined up for an early September
saturation booking.
John Markle, Columbia publicity director,
set up the publicity for new release White
Line Fever" which started a saturation
Wednesday (13). More than 90 prints were
dated in the New England area with the
Boston showing at Esquire Theatres' Astor
oni Tremont Street. A large newspaper,
radio and TV advertising campaign was
planned. Markle also arranged for young
women to pass out a colorful herald in
Boston traffic lanes and several other cities.
Brightly-colored hangers, tied at traffic
crossings, were inscribed with "Walk on. the
green light." Stickers were pasted on every
available spot throughout the cities.
Albert Santerre, by special arrangement
with Les Films Mutuel of Montreal and the
American and Canadian French Cultural
Exchange Commission of Massachusetts,
presented in June the American premiere of
J'ai Mon Voyage." The hilarious comedy
Starred Montreal TV personality Dominiqi
Michel. The film was screened to a Lowell'
University audience during the annual
Franco-.\merican Festival and also at the
Victory Theatre in Holyoke. Loosely translated,
the Quebec comedv hit means "I've
Had It!
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Jn a throwback to exhibition era of 30 and
40 years ago, when many subsequentrun
theatres changed programs two and
three times a week, the downtown Palace.
in a first" for 1975. is offering a V.^ntemporary
repertory cinema" po: :
Double-feature shows open Sundays. T .
days and Fridays and prevailing price i-
cenits.
The theatre has installed a new screen
and sound system, refurbished its men's and
women's rooms and main lobby. Additionally,
uniformed attendants are stationed at
all times in restrooms.
Jack Major, Providence Journal-Bulletin
entertainment editor, in a tongue-in-cheek
kind of column recently, ccrducted a tolcMsion
viewing "quiz" of sorts, questions posed
including: 'Television finally shows the
movie, Gone With the Wind.' Vivien I cigh
tries in vain to prevent Clark Gable Ifimii
leaving her. Gable says, 'Frankly, Scarlett
'(A) I don't give a (bleep)!'
(B) And is interrupted hy a commercial.
"(C) Or is blocked out by the stati>Mi\
call
letters.
'Correct Answers: Probably all of
them."
Bruce DeSilva, coin columnist for the
Providence Journal-Bulletin Newspapers, reported
strong sentiment in Congress for the
striking of a 12.5-cent piece; the half-a-qiiarter
coin, say its proponents, could stop sharp
increases in vending machines. Instead ot
raising a price, for example, from 15 to 2U
cents, a vending machine operator could
raise the tab to 17.5-cents—half a qu.irter
and a nickel.
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EXETER, N.H.—Andre De La Vitrc's
American Bicentennial film "These States"
had its premiere showings Saturday (16)
through Monday (18) (7:30 p.m. nightly) ait
the Exeter Town Hall. Donations were $2
for adults and $1 for children under 15
years of age, with proceeds going to the
Seacoast Arts, Inc., whose purpose is to
promote the arts in the seacoast region. The
attraction is to be scheduled throuahoul the
U.S.
Twilighter' Policy at Quad
HADI.EY. MASS.—The Mountain Farms
cinemas IV have a 'Twiliier" policy in effect
on a daily basis, with reduced admission
between 5:30 and 6 p.m.. auditoriums
one and two: between 5:15 and 5:45. auditorium
three; and between 5:45 and 6:15,
auditorium four.
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1st week 10,848'
2nd week 9,152
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SPRINGFIELD
gryanston Pictures booked western Massachusetts
premiere of "The Devil's
Rain" day-and-date into the Allen & Cooley
Cinemas II. Springfield; and E.M. Loew's
Riverdale Drive-In, West Springfield. Companion
feature was the same distributor's
"Dark Star."
The Maim Theatres' Fox, Springfield, and
E.M. Loew's Palace. West Springfield,
shared in area bow of Warners' "Cleopatra
Jones and the Casino of Gold."
Another premiere was states rights: "Man-
Eater," at the Parkway Drive-In, North
Wilbraham; Memorial Drive-In, West
Springfield; and Cinema X, Springfield.
William Gibson's newest play "The Butterfingers
Angel, Etc." opened a tryout run
at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge.
Gibson's past credits include "The
Miracle Worker" and "Two for the Seesaw";
both properties were later adaipted for the
AIP's "The Land That Time Forgot" had
a saturation Western Massaahusetts premiere,
the seven-theatre booking backed by
WORCESTER
Universal's "Jaws," 1975 blockbuster attraction,
registered the ibiggest trade
in years for mid-Massachusetts. The holdover
engagement at Redstone Theatres'
Cinema I reflects the best local bo.xoffice
response in decades. Business has been so
strong the circuit increased schedules to
include midnight shows (a local rarity) for
Fridays and Saturdays.
BY premiered "One of Our Dinosaurs Is
Missing" day-and-date at E.M. Loew's West
Boylston and Auburn Drive-Ins, with the
underskyers advertising, "Adults, $1.75;
Children, 50 Cents, Walt Disney Productions
Only." The film also bowed at General
Cinema Corp.'s Worcester Center Cinemas
III. No prices were advertised for that
engagement. BV reissue "Cinderella" was
the hardtop supporting film, and BV rerun
"Superdad" was shown at the E.M. Ixiew
underskyer.
Implementalion of a $1
policy at the Lincoln
Plaza Cinema (now operated by Patriot
Cinemas of Hingham) reflects an increasing
exhibition awareness of mid-Bay State
moviegoer budget-consciousness. The same
policy has been in effect at the Worcester
Paris Cinemas 11. The Redstone Showcase
Cinema,s IV advertising special senior rates
at all majtinees. General Cinema Corp.
charges $1.25 to 2 p.m. at daily matinees,
Worcester Center Cinemas III.
John P. Lowe, Redstone Theatres division
manager, lined up unusually strong
press support for United Artists' "Rollerball,"
with one feature, tor example, a
considerable regional advertising. Participants
were the Mountains Farms cinemas
IV, Hadley; .Allen & Cooley cinemas II and
Plaza cinemas II, Springfield; Plaza cinemas
II, .Agawam; and the Red Rock. Southampton;
Hoosac, Adams; and Airline. Chicopee.
Another premiere was UA's "The Wilby
Conspiracy." at the Twin Cinemas. Springfield;
Twin Cinemas. Agawam; and Metro.
Palmer, and Riverdale. West Springfield
(latter two are underskyers) . . . Warners
slotted "Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze"
into the Mann Theatres' Fox. Springfield.
And Columbia had a Palace, West Springfield,
bow for "The Fortune" . . . Elsewhere,
'the Paris Cinema. West Spdngfield. and
Campus Cinemas. Hadley. hosted premiere
of Avco-Embassy's "The Four Deuces."
Holyoke Mayor William S. Taupier has
45 days in which to decide a rate increase
request for cable TV service in the Paper
Ciity. Video Eniterprises. Inc.. Hoiyoke's sole
C.ATV firm, is asking a monthly rate hike
from $6.50 to $7. The same comipany was
allowed an increase (from $4.95 to $6.50)
aibout a year ago. Video Enterprises has
cited projected operating loss in 1975 of
a
$36,000. An $8,000 profit was reported in
1974, however.
column by Worcester Evening Gazette fashion
editor Sharen M. Abbott on the Norman
Jewison film's costuming.
The Orford Twin Drive-In, North Oxford,
hosted a Sunday flea market on the
underskyer grounds . . . Columb'a booked
mid-Massachusetts premiere of Mike Nichols'
"The Fortune" into the RKO-Stanley
Warner White City Theatre . . . Twentieth
Century-Fox's "Race with the Devil" was
booked into the Edgemere Drive-In, Shrewsbury,
and Quaker Drive-In. Uxbridge. dayand-date.
with 20th-Fox rerun "Cinderella
Liberty" the Shrewsbury co-feature, and
same distributor's "The Seven-Ups." also a
rerun, on the program in Uxbridge.
Censorship Issue in NH
CONCORD, N.H.—A federal judge has
ruled that New Hampshire state officials
had the right to reject a federal grant to a
state literary magazine that had published a
controversial poem. Gov. Meldrim Thomson
and the State Executive Council refused to
approve a $750 grant to Granite Magazine
last May after it published a poem entitled.
"Castrating the Cat."
CATV Fee Prohibited
HARTFORD— Property owners can no
longer charge tenants a fee to hook up to
cable TV. under state legislation signed by
Gov. Ella T. Grasso.
Brassard Elected to Ad Post
PROVIDENCE—Alfred J. Bra.ssard jr.,
president, Promotioii Corp. of America, has
been eii-cted prwident of the Rhode Island
Advertising Club,
Springfield's Bijou Razed;
Downtown Houses Gone
By ALLEN M. WIDEM
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—Yet another tie
to yesteryear's western Massachusetts exhi-
has been eliminated.
bition
The Bijou on Worthington Street, just
down the block from the long-demolished
Loew's Poll, went und;r the wreckers' hammers
as part of urban renewal sp)earheaded
by thL- Springfield Central Business District.
Shuttering of the Bijou, long under the
Al Anders banner and more recently operated
by independent interests, brought to
an abrupt end the dwindling active downtown
Springfield exhibition.
Gone to urban renewal are Loew's Poli,
the Western Massachusetts Theatres. Inc.'s
Broadway. E.M. Loew's Court Square, Rifkin
Garden, Warner Bros." Capitol, and
Arcade, among others.
The Western Massachusetts Theatres'
2.700-seat Paramount, long the downtown
showcase, has been closed for many months.
A number of independent e.xhibitors have
tried to irun. with varying success, motion
pictures, legitimate theatre attractions, and
even rock shows, but lack of adequate parking
and the latter-day reliance on suburbia
and outlying area exhibition first runs have
meant a new brand of entertainment-thinking
on the part of metropolitan Springfield
moviegoers.
Redstone Theatres' handsomely opulent
Showcase cinemas VI. West Springfield
(largest complex in western Massachusetts);
E.M. Loew's Palace. West Springfield: the
Albano Allen & Cooley Ci-nemas. Springfield:
and Twin Cinemas, both in Springfield
and Agawam. have joined the regional
exhibition ranks in recent years, and. for
good measures, chalked up boxoffice
grosses that make sk'inpy by comparison the
best business generated by downtown Springfield's
Loew's Poli. Paramount, and Capitol
not so long ago.
In distances just beyond the immediate
Springf'eld periphery, the Mountain Farms
cinemas IV, Hadley, and Campus cinemas
II, Hadley, among others. ha\c demonstrated
boxoffice strength on a par likened to
the days when downtown Springfield movie
outlets flourished.
Prices, of course, are different.
Complex Containing Theatre
Set for Downtown Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.—A commercial
complex, containing a 350-room luxury
hotel, office and apartment tower, plus theatre,
has been announced for the Harrison-
Hillman block of Main Street in downtown
Springfield, marking the first theatre construction
project in the district in many
years.
Just what interest will operate the theatre
has yet to be disclosed by the Mondev Corp..
which, with a subsidiary of the Springfield
Institution for Savings, is the preferred developer
for the urban renewal pivrcel.
Radisson Hotels of Minneapolis. Minn.,
will operate the hotel, according to Mon-
a
dev spokesman.
BOXOFFICE .August 25, 1975

Downtown Hartford Needs
Film Houses: City Planner
HARTFORD—Sanford Parisky. direcior
of planning and urban design for the Downtown
Council, has urged immediate consideration
of development of at least two film
theatres in the multi-million dollar Constitution
Plaza, a prime component of dowmtown
urban renewal. The Plaza was built 13 years
ago.
"When it opened in 1962 after years of
planning and civic exertion." Parisky remarked,
"Constitution Plaza was hailed as
the savior of downtown Hartford. It would
keep jobs in the city and generate millions
in new tax revenue. It has done both those
things. But it didn't succeed in making
dowr.itown an alive place.
"People don't want to climb those sitairs
lio the Plaza's pedestrian level) unless there's
a
reason."
Conspicuously absent, he noted, "are the
kinds of stores that draw pedestrians to
ether retail areas—drug stores, card shops
—and newsstands, restaurants, movie theatres
and department stores."
The Plaza is comprised of multiple, highrise
office buildings, plus Hotel Sonesta.
underground parking garages, and WFSB-
TV, the post-Newsweek, Inc.. CBS affiliate,
and a scatterirg of retail outlets, in the main
specialty shops and local branches of national
"name" higher-price stores.
The Plaza is just down State Street from
the former sites of the then-Warner Bros.
Regal and Martin H. Kelleher Princess: both
ci.nemas were converted some years ago to
retail purpose during on-going urban renewal.
Downtown Hartford, per se, today has
nary a cinema outlet; not too many years
ago,
a dozen such situations flourished.
NEW BRITAIN
]y|idnight shows on Fridays and Saturdays
are becoming commonplace in
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the area,
but running such attractions in more than
one auditorium in a complex is something
different. The Cinemas II. Bristol, screened
Paramount's "Bug" in one auditorium and
AIP's "The Reincarnation of Peter Proud"
The Perakos Plainville Drive-In hosted
Miss America of 1975—Shirley Cothran
at recent informal worship services, sponsored
by the Bethany Covenant Church of
New Britain. She was among participants
that weekend in
the Greg Morris Children's
Charity Celebrity Golf Tournament at the
Tunxis Plantation Country Club. The New
Britain church .sponsors the Sunday .service
at 8:30 a.m. There is space for 1.000 cars
and outdoor seating for 1,000. Worshipers
have the option to remain in their cars or
sit outdoors. Other participants in the golf
tournament were Ed Asner (soon to be .seen
in Buena Vista's "Gus"): Sammy Davis jr..
Joe DiMaggio and David Hartman.
HARTFORD
Qarby I.lovd Rains, star of newly-completed
"Naked Came the Stranger."
participated in opening weekend promotion
for the states rights' attraction at the Manchester
Twin Cinema (formerly Jerry Lewis
Cinemas). Bob Terrell, one-time Lockwood
& Gordon executive now operating his own
advertising agency, was promotion consultant
for the premiere. Terrell garnered
considerable press breaks, including coverage
of the star's South Windsor Rotary Club
luncheon talk.
Redstone Theatres began an ad campaign
focusing on new "Bargain Matinees" plan.
charging $1.25 daily (to 2 p.m.) at the
.Showcase Cinemas IV.
Long-time restaurateur Jack Robbins said
he was planning to sell Robbins' Delicatessen
and get out of business on doctors'
orders. His late dad Harry Robbins operated
the then delicatessen across from the 4200-
seat State Theatre on Village Street—this
was back in the days when the late Harris
Bros. (Ted. Sam. Martin and Maurice) ran
combination motion picture-vaudeville, and
"names" dropped in after showtime for
sandwich and "schmoozing." Recently Jack
moved the business to other downtown locations.
The major unemployment compensation
bill of the Connecticut State Legislature
session is now in effect. Principal features
of the 37-page measure (Public Act 75-525):
1) increase in taxable wage base to $6,000:
2) increase in fund solvency tax to one per
cent: 3) a two-phase iprocess of benefit-ratio:
and 4) an extension of time to apply for
rehire credits. On the federal level a law
has been enacted that could give state employers
a three-year delay in repayment of
Connecticut's federal unemployment compensation
loans.
Katharine Houghton, niece of Hartford's
Katharine Hepburn, will tour this fall in
Samuel Taylor's "Sabrina Fair." Miss
Houghton, who appeared with her aunt in
Stanley Kramer/Columbia's "Guess Who's
Coming to Dinner," is the daughter of former
West Hartford Mayor and Mrs. Ellsworth
Grant.
in the other, charging 99 cents for all seats,
Cromwell-based PHA Productions, headed
by Padre Humberto Alazan. the one-
and, significantly, advertising, "Your Choice
of Films—For Our Late Nite Moviegoers!"
time Mexican actor who turned Catholic
priest, has announced plans for a major film
based on the life of Che leper priest. Damien
of Hawaii. The original script has been written
by Don Murray, who also will direct.
West Hartford's George L. Spoil, son-inlaw
of the late Robert M. Sternberg, who
was president of New England Theatres.
Inc. (ABC affiliate), has been named special
committee chairman on registered builders
of the National Ass'n of Home Buildings.
He is a life director and former area vicepresident
of the 74.000-nieni.her huiklinj;
trades
association.
Los Angeles businc.vsman Mike Ri/zo.
visiting family and friends, reported Frank
B. Ramsey, formerly with Warner Bros.'
Hartford Theatres, has resumed his niche
as Mann Theatres' Fine Arts Theatre manager,
Beverly Hills. Calif., after recovery
from a heart attack. Ramsey was assistant
to the late James F. McCarthy. Strand manager.
McCarthy later became Hartford district
manager for Warner exhibition propertics.
Ihe SBC Cine Enfield IV ran a combination
stagc-and-screen horror show in one
auditorium over a recent weekend, admission
$2 for adults and 99 cents for children
at matinee performances.
Former West Hartford Mayor Ellsworth
Grant—he is brother-in-law of Katharine
Hepburn—has announced plans to seek i^eelection
to the Town Council on the Republican
ticket. Grant had been previously
reported considering retiring from politics.
He is in busiiness here.
The Ferguson-Paul Palace. Middletown,
running A.-X's "A Brief Vacation." offered
the Italian-language version at 7:15 and the
EnglLsh-dubbed version at 9:15 on a nightly
basis: this is unusual, at least for Connecticut
bookings.
The North End branch of the West Hartford
Public Library has set up a display
rack of books which have been adapted to
the screen. The caption claims, "You can't
judge a book by its movie!"
William R. Jones, 77, who was orchestra
conductor at the then Poll's Capitol Theatre
—^back in the days of combination motion
picture-vaudeville programs—died July 31
at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in
Newington. A lifelong member of Local
400, Hartford Musicians' Union, .\merican
Federation of Musicians, he leaves his
widow Flora: a son. two daughters, two
sisters, and five grandchildren. Burial was
in Soldiers' Field, Fairview Cemetery. West
Hartford.
Ginger Rogers starred in the stage comedy
"Forty Carats" Tuesday (19) ithrough
Sunday (24) at Bushnell Memorial. Top
admission was $6.
Carmen J. Meile, managing director of
Redstone Showcase cinemas IV, East Hartford,
arranged a month-long art gallery display
of acrylics and oils by Dr. Armand
Affricano of Coventry. The exhibition got
considerable attention in the metropolitan
Hartford press.
CINERAMA IS IN
SHC)W BUSINESS IN
HAWAII TOO.
When you come to Waikiki,
Bii5e!i>i;ik;
don't miss the famous
Don Ho Show. . . at
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get for mid-August in the Chinook Theatre
here was Norman Jewison's most reccnit
production for United Artists release,
'"RoUerball." which stars James Caan, John
Houseman and Ralph Richardson. Famous
Players bucked up the engagement with a
major promotion in the newspapers and on
radio and TV.
It was nice lo welcome Willie Swiarthfigure,
Bellevue Films, back to work after
his enjoyaible family holiday. Willie -and
family "trailered" through southern Saskatchewan
and Alberta before spending a
final few days with wife Gloria's parents on
their ranch near Fort Miacleod.
July was "average" for members of the
Alberta Censor Board. It viewed and classified
a total of 33 feature films. Fouirteen
were from abroad, with the majority (five)
being British. Two were French, fhiree German,
one Swiss-French, one Greek land one
Italian (English-dubbed), as well as one Chinese
picture that was partially dubbed in
English. Four of the films were grouped -as
"family," four rated "adult," ten "adult—
not suitable for children" and the remaining
15 were in the "restricted adult" oaitego-ry.
Four features must be tagged with warnings
on aU advertising: "Death Race 2000"
(International Films), "frequent scenes of
brutal violence"; "RollerbaH" (UA), "violence
throughout"; "Capone" (Bellevue).
"brutal violence and coarse language
throughout," and "The Swinging Barmaids"
(Saguenay), "contains violent murders." It
is interesting to note that "Death Race
2000" was a reconstructed print that was
reclassified from "restricted adult." The
largest number of films submitted by one
distributing company was eight from Cinepix.
Gina Bossert, Paramount Films, really
was not around long enough for us to get
to know her well—^and now she is moving
on^—^to Stettler, to be exact. Filmrowites
wish Gina the 'best of luck ... It appears
that something is going to be done in the
area behind the Film Exchange Building.
Machines have been at work moving earth,
although no word has filtered out as ito the
nature of the hoped-for results. Someone
has suggested that Astral could be lucky.
that the machines will move the building,
too!
Three films are being shown in conjunction
with an exhibition of "Canadian Painting
in the "30s" at the Glen-bow Art Gallery
in the southwest section of the city. "The
World of David Milne" is a lively, exciting
experience of art from the words and paintings
of David Milne. The film shows many
of Milne's paintings, including a sequence
that allows -the viewer to observe the development
of his unique style. His letters
are read aloud as the film's commentary.
"Varley" portrays Canadian painter Fred-
erick Varley retuirning to his studio in Toronto
after a sketching trip. The camera
focuses on Varley working on a new painting
and shows a wonderful selection of his
finished works. The third film. "Lismer."
concerns the work of Arthur Lismer. one of
Canada's famous "Group of Seven." It goes
into great detail explaining his contribution
to art education and to contemporary Canadian
art. Footage also is shown of the
Montreal Art Centre, where children learn
the independence of creative self-expression
in art. Admission to the exhibition and fihn
showings was free.
Eaton's of Canada used one of its larger
windows (conveniently located at a multiple
bus stop) for an eye-catching display on
Astral's "Funny Lady." now showing at the
Westbrook Three and Uptown Two. Stills
from the movie have been arranged cleverly
as a strip of oversize film and, with a onesheet,
used as a background for a mannequin
dressed in 1920s style. Her gown is
floor length slinky-knit maroon, highlighted
by a long, figured scarf around the throat.
To complete the effect of the show's era. the
mannequin has a very "Streisand" hair-do.
The overall effect is very good ,and should
help promote the motion picture.
Back from holidays in Victoria is Albert
Gonaske, branch manager of Universal
Films. While Albert loves Victoria, it seems
that ithe rest of the province is best traversed
quickly, if you can't fly over it. Unfortunately,
just after his return here. Albert
oame down with a "bug" of some sort.
However, he's now fully recovered and back
at work.
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VANCOUVER
gefore leading for Grand Forks where the\'
are taking over the Gem Theatre from
Pete and Mary Abrosimoff. the Manzers
Ray and Vivienne—emptied their freezer of
fish which Ray had caught and gifted various
FiJmrow friends and Victoria Shipping.
The Starlite, Squamish. has been leased and,
at the present time, the plans of Pete and
Mary Abrosimoff have not been announced.
The first to leave on holidays after Victoria
Film Service got settled into new
premises was veteran inspector Carmel
Griffiths, who departed for a couple of
weeks of campimg in the country . . . Lou
Young, back at Victoria as 35mm shipper.
had a prior commitment to mind the store
at Universal while manager Bryan Rudston-
Brown holidayed. Consequently, he was
away from his new post while the Rudston-
Browns savored the delights of the countryside
. . . Alf Morris of Victoria was the
next to go and he will be back imi time
for the Labor Day rush which, if it equals
the British Columib'a Day hol'day, will be
something else! . . . Such was the rush at
Victoria Films that the absence of Helmer
Matson. who services the Famous Players
theatres, was not even ncit^ced until he returned.
The best "Jaws" story on the local scene
comes from the Vogue's Johnny Bernard,
who insists that a late-evening patron demanded
that he be seated in the "shallow
end" of the theatre'! (Editor's Note: Sou'nds
fishy.)
Odeon's drive-in screens were hosting
blockbusting first runs over the British Co"
lumibia Day holiday weekend and. a.s a consequence,
only Famous had dawn-to-dusk
shows. The Lougheed featured a four-picture
b!ll. an "all-night action program" of "Race
With the Devi,l." "The Terrorists." "Dirtv
Mary Crazy Larry" and "The Laughing
Policeman." The Delta had "horror" with
"The Devil's Bride." "Legend of Hell
House," "Countess Dracula" and "Vampire
Circus"
.
in the province,
every ozoncr had one and im^ some cases
two dusk-to-dawn shows.
Odeon Theatres (Canada) pla>cd three
pictures in no less than 14 theatres in this
city and the dower mai^nland. "Aloha, Bobby
land Rose" was in six—Coronet. Odeoin
West Vancouver 2. Eraser. Dolphin. Clova
and Westm'nstjr Drive-In—where it broke
the hc!u;c r3cord—and was tops everywhere
else. "Death Race 2000" in the Odeon.
Hyland. Totem, North Vancouver and Hillcrest
Drive-In was excellent in all four situations.
The amazing "Jaws," now in its
seventh week playing to patrons who watch
with bated breath, continued to fill all seats
at the Vogue. Odeon New Westminster.
Odeon West Vancouver 1 and Surrey Drive-
In. The engagement got a terrific hypo
when CBUT's "Hourglass," nightly primetime
show, had a half-hour special on the
subject of sharks and the movie in
pwrticular.
The program was aired from the local
aquarium with host Mike Winlaw interviewing
one of the scientists, Miss Demise Dunn,
who is kn authority on the piscatorial
pirates.
The following passage of witticisms hztween
Theo Ross of Hosford Theatres and
Ron Keillor of Odeon TTieatres bears repeating.
Theo: "Is there actually any difference
in the motion picture classification
of 'completely' concerned with sex and
totally' concerned with sex? Or is Classifier
Ray McDonald merely exercising a little
semantics?" Ron: "No. I would say that the
difference is not a matter of semantics but,
rather, one of 'some' antics."
Further talks about filmmaking took
place Saturday (2) at 3:30 p.m. in the Avon
Room of the Hotel Devonshire as part of the
agenda of Committee for an Independent
Canada. The panel members were allowed
ten minutes to expound and five minutes
of rebuttal. Panel consisted of Sandra
Gathacole. Council of Canadian Filmmakers:
Joseph Beaubien. Montreal legal counsel
of the Canadian Film Development
Corp.: Patricia Robertson of the BCFIA;
Famous Players' national public relations
director. Jim Cameron. Toronto, and Les
Wedman, Sun entertainment editor.
'Apple Dumplings' Popular
MCM Tie-in in Williston
Frcm Southeosfern Edition
WILLISTON, FLA.— Randall Walker,
manager of the local Arcade Theatre, a
imit of MCM Theatres, had a novel promotion
for Walt Disney's "The Apple
Dimnpling Gang" which was successful and
well-received by townspeople.
In an eye-catching cooperative newspaper
ad with three other merchants, homemade
apple dumplings were offered at bargain
prices by the Driftwood Restaurant,
Boyd's Ice Cream Parlor ran a special of
ice cream with apple dumplings and the
Homesteader Nursery had a contest providing
free apple trees to lucky winners.
Randall's supervisor Larry Cimibaa,
manager of the Plaza I and II theatres in
Si. Augustine, reported that "Randy is a
real go-getter who works that little town
for all it's worth in terms of promotions.
He even ran for town coimcil recently and
came close to winning— which is sayiny
scMHiihinu for a new 23-vear-okl rcsidcnl
Quebec Has Enacted
New Law for Airers
MONTREAL— Under a 1926 law. children
imder 16 years of age were not allowed
in any motion picture theatre in the province
of Quebec, the only place in the world
with such a restriction. But, Aug. 12, 1967,
the censor board was changed by statute
a Bureau de Surveillance du Cinema, with
the latter agency introducing three classification
categories: "For All," "14 years"
and "18 Years."
Prior to 1970, no permits were granted
for drive-ins (since children were not allowed).
Finally, ozoner permits were issued,
providing that the theatres showed
"For AH" films. Naturally such programs
were more for the entertainment of children
and held little interest for their parents.
After constant efforts by the Ass'n des
Proprietaires de Cinemas du Quebec, Law
2590-75 authorized the projection of "14
Years" films at underskyers in addition to
"For All" pictures. This law was adopted
by the lieutenant governor June 25. 1975.
Even with this new statute, children
under 14 cannot join parents for most films
and can only attend "For All" presentations.
However, drive-ins are reporting tremendous
adult business since this law became
effective.
'Impulse' Scores $200,000
Gross in Philly Multiple
From Eastern Edition
TAMPA, FLA.—Camelot Entertainment,
Tampa-based distributor, has announced
that its current release, "Impulse," has
grossed in excess of $200,000 in 40 situations
in the Philadelphia area. The suspense
drama of a psychopathic killer was produced
by Socrates Ballis and directed b\
William Grefe from a screenplay by Tony
Crechales. William Shatner, Ruth Roman,
Jennifer Bishop, Kim Nicholas and Harold
"Odd Job" Sakata head the cast.
"Impulse" opened Wednesday (13) in the
St. Louis market and will play in Alban\.
N.Y.. and surrounding areas this month.
Tail' Grosses Have Muscle
From Southeastern Edition
MUSCLE SHOALS, ALA.—American
International's "Part 2 Walking Tall," a
BCP production, is enjoying astonishing
grosses in the South. Theatre officials in
this city report the run is continuing after
four high-gross weeks at Cinema I. The
film is also playing in Atlanta, Memphis
and other Southern cities.
CINERAMA IS IN
SHOW BUSINESS IN
HAWAII TOO.
When you come to Waikiki
V
*^°"'* "^'ss the famous
Cinerama's Reef Towers Hotel.
BllSffinW
Don Ho Show.
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AMBASSADOR RELEASING
Funny Car Summer July 75
30n the Line (90) ..Doc. July 75
aTlireshold: The Blue Anjels
Experience (93) Sent 75
The Meal (92) D . 75
nina Merrill. C.irl Relz
©Swiss Bank Account (87) . .
AMERICAN FILMS LTD.
Feb 75
3The Second Gun (100) One. Apr 75
©The Prisoners (88) Anr 75
©Panama Red (87) D May 75
©The Day the Lord Busted
Got
(81) D May 75
©Slranoer at Home (95) D
©E.eryday (83) C .
AMERICAN FILM THEATRE
©The Man in the Glass
Booth (117) D Jan 75
3The Maids (95)
©In Celebratii (131) "
BILLY JACK ENT.
©The Trial of Billy Jack May 75
©The Master Gunfiphter July 75
©The Deadliest Sny Oct 75
©Billy Jack III Dec 75
©No Lanpuage But A Cry , 76
JOSEPH BRENNER
Torso (90)
Feb 75
Harry and the Hookers
(92) D.Aug
nilbcrt Wvnne. Cllly Soril Fnnrt Ac Sept 75
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Frank Challenge— Maiihiinter
(96) AC-D, Sept 75
Challenge (96) Oct 75
The True Story of Rex Randolph
Death Driver (96) C-D Nov 75
He Also Is Flesh
(96) Jan 76
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:^TIie Female Butcher Ho Feb 75
DStiirg of the West C-W. .Mar 75
,>The Factory (SS) Apr 75
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©Mafia Confidential
©Beyond the Door May 75
5The X Ral
Sex C, July 75
GENER
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for President (1091 c Feb 75
©Country Bine Cr-Melo, Apr 75
©A Woman for All Men 75
GOLDSTONE FILM ENT.
JOSEPH GREEIM
"Counselor at Crime .
©The Cat (85)
Jan 75
Hen Jan 75
D Jan 75
REX HANSEN FILMS
rbed , Feb 75
Camiius Confidential C ,
75
~iSatan'5 Children , June 75
HEMISPHERE PICTURES
Pussycats Sex Caminrs Feb 75
^r'Swingin' Swaniiers Sex Feh 75
©Teenane Playmates Mar 75
Foot the of
"Sudilen Death
INDEPENDENT INT'L
©In Search ol Dracula
(86) Ho-Doc,,May75
©Terror in Tokyo , , 75
©Blazing Stewardesses June 75
Blood in the Streets , Aug 75
©Hard Women Ac-Ad. .Sept 75
©Girls' Hotel
©Females for Hire
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liSDERCOVERS HERO R ^'"^'^
United Artists (75168) 95 Minutes Rel. Sept. '75
Peter Sellers has six faces in the World War II farce
formerly called "Soft Beds and Hard Battles." The hardworking
star portrays Hitler, a Japanese prince, an
elderly French general, British major, a German chief
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of the Gestapo and the Pi'esident of France. Co-starring
Cui-t Jurgens, Lila Kedrova and, as prostitutes, a nimiber
of young actresses many of whom were convent educated.
the comedy is only fitfully funny. Sellers provides most
of the laughs in his various guises, the situations as devised
by Leo Marks and Roy Boulting in their original
screenplay bordering on questionable taste. The United
Artists release bears a 1973 copyright and a narration
by a very President Nixon-like voice, something which
serves only to date the film. Produced by John Boulting
and directed by brother Roy for their Charter Film Productions.
Ltd.. "Hero" has some lush interiors designed
by art director John Howell. Considering that much of
the action takes place in a brothel, there is virtually no
sex and little nudity as seen onscreen. Since UA has a big
hit in "Retmn of the Pink Panther," it can be expected
that Sellers' name will carry added weight. Filmed at
Shepperton Studios, England, in Eastman Color, "Hero"
covers the war from 1940 to 1945.
Peter Sellers. Lila Kedrova, Curt Jurgens, Beatrice
Romand, Jenny Hanley, Rex Stallings.
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THE STORY: "Farewell, My Lovely" lAvco Embassy)
In 1941 Los Angeles, private detective Robert Mitchum
(as Philip Marlowe 1 is mainly concerned about Joe Di-
Maggio's batting average. Huge ex-convict Jack O'Halloran.
who participated iii a bank robbery, wants him to
find sweetheart Velma Valento. The weary Mitchum tells it cioi
all this to sympathetic police Lt. John Ii-eland after
several murders. Through ex-bandleader Walter McGinn,
now married to a Negro woman, and drunken Sylvia
Miles, widow of the club owner for whom Velma worked,
Mitchum tracks down an insane girl. She isn't Velma
and in short order, Mitchum is hired by gay John O'Leary
to retrieve a jade necklace. O'Leary is murdered and
Mitchmn questions elderly Judge Jim Thompson and
yomig and unfaithful wife Charlotte Rampling. Madame
Kate Murtagh has Mitchum kidnaped, he being given a
heroin injection and finding McGinn's body. Mm-tagh is
kiUed. as is Miles. Nightclub owner Anthony Zerbe is in
league with Rampling, actually Velma. O'Halloran is
killed by Rampling, whom Mitchum finishes.
EXPLOITIPS:
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previous versions, both made by RKO: "The Falcon
Takes Over" (1942) and "Mui'der, My Sweet" (1944.i.
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