Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1956)

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING Fifteen cents per word, money-order or check with copy. Count initials, box number and address. Minimum insertion $1-50. Four insertions for price of three. Contract rates on application. No border or cuts. Forms close Mondays. Publisher reserves right to reject any copy. Film and trailer advertising not accepted. Classified advertising not subject to agency commission. Address copy and checks: MOTION PICTURE HERALD, Classified Dept., Rockefeller Center, New York (20) NEW EQUIPMENT INTERMITTENT MOVEMENTS — NEW SURplus for Simplex $69.50: DeVry $59.50 ; Holmes $24.50. Automatic enclosed rewinds $69.60. S. O. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP.. 602 W. 52nd St., New York 19. SEAT COVERS: SEWED COMBINATIONS, 95 <f □p : all colors. Send $1.50, old cover, will duplicate, best match. Vinyl leatherettes; all colors: 64 inches wide: $1.10 yd. up. Also precut 24x27; 2 dozen minimum order 44C up. Complete line upholstery materials, mystic tapes, mohairs, corduroys, velvet* : low prices : send for samples. MANKO FABRICS CO., INC., 156 W. 28th St.. N Y. USED EQUIPMENT ARCLAMPS GALORE! ALL GOOD CONDITION. Peerless Magnarcs $395 pr.; Strong Mogul, Brenkert Enarc $350: Forest U.T., Ashcraft E, Ballantyne $300. Available on time. S. O. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 602 W. 52nd St., New York 19. EXCELLENT COATED PROJECTION LENSES —many brand newl Wollensak, "Sunray” Series I: 3". 3%". 3%", 6", 6%", 6", 7%", $35 pr. Superlite Series III “C” coated 2%", 3", 3V'. $150 pr. Others available, tell us your needs. Trades taken. Wire or telephone order today. S. O. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 602 W. 62nd St., New York 19. BALLANTYNE SOUND SYSTEM, LATE TYPE, ( reconditioned $775; 50/100 ampere generators, complete, reconditioned, $295; splicers $1.95: Very best buys on all types of equipment, including screens and lenses: What do you need? STAR CINEMA SUPPLY, 621 West 55th St., New York 19. BOOKS ECONOMY — ECONOMY — ECONOMY. HUNdreds of practical, experience-tested, money-saving tips on economical theatre practices are yours in the “Master Guide to Theatre Maintenance” at only $5 for them all. Send for your copy Right Now. Quigley Bookshop, 1270 Sixth Avenue, New York 20, N. Y. THEATRES FOR SALE: RITZ THEATRE, 124 NORTH MAIN, Tipton, Indiana. CinemaScope 660 seats or will take in partner for one half of sale price. 500 CAR DRIVE-IN THEATRE TWO YEARS old. New Simplex XL equipment. CinemaScope screen 54'x90'. Concession 30'x46'. First class appearance. Growth in area. P. O. Box 56, Sheridan, Wyo. DRIVE-IN AND INDOOR THEATRE LOCATED in an industrial and agricultural area of 5,000-7,000 in Virginia. Nearest opposition 22 miles — earnings conservatively $10,000 per year if personally operated. Showing $500 average profit per month with absentee management since starting Sunday shows. Good leases — replacement cost $50,000 — will take $30,000. JOHN M. HERNDON, Box 102, Staunton, Va. AUCTION SALE, OCTOBER 17, 1956, 1:15 P.M. Coleman Theatre building and equipment, like new, Coleman, Wis. Located 40 miles North of Green Bay, Wis. on Highway 141. Sale conducted by CLINTONVILLE SALES CORP., Clintonville, Wis. A. R. Urnland, Phone 2289. DRIVE-IN EQUIPMENT IN-CAR SPEAKERS $4.25— YEAR WARRANTY! 4" unit, steel case, attractive blue-white finish. Set 2 speakers, junction box $12.25. S. O. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 602 W. 62nd St., New York 19. BUMPER STRIPS! IN BRILLIANT FLUOREScent colors! Write for rates and free literature >'ntitled: "A Great New Advertising Medium That Rides for You Free!” PEREL PROCESS PRINT CO., 1831 N. 77th St., Phila., 31, Pa. POSITIONS WANTED MANAGER OR CIRCUIT EXECUTIVE ASSISTant. Experienced, age 38, family man. Excellent civic and fraternal affiliations. Prefer South or Southwest, consider anywhere two weeks notice. BOX 2936, MOTION PICTURE HERALD. TOP GRADE MANAGER. EXCELS PUBLIC relations. Excellent references. BOX 2933, MOTION PICTURE HERALD. STUDIO EQUIPMENT MAURER 16MM STUDIO CAMERAS, $6000 VALue, $1995; Eyemo 35mm Newsreel Cameras, from $99.50; Mitchell 35mm Standard Tracking Camera, $995; Houston 16mm K-3 negative/positive/reveraal Automatic Film Processors, unused, $5,460 value, $2595; Moviolas from $196; Hallen synchronous magnetic 17%mm recorder, B22, $1950 value, $495 ; Neumade RK-102 Film Racks hold 102-1000' reels, originally $165, new $87.50; American Cinematographer’s Handbooks, % price, $2.60. S. O. S. CINEMA SUPPLY CORP., 602 W. 52nd St., New York 19. Legion Aproves 14 Of 20 New Films Of the 20 productions reviewed last week by the National Legion of Decency, seven have been put in Class A, Section I, morally unobjectionable for adults; seven in Class A, Section II, morally unobjectionable for adults; and six in Class B, morally objectionable in part for all. In Section I are: “The Best Things in Life Are Free,” “Canyon River,” “The Last Wagon,” “Mole People,” “Peacemaker,” “Yank Kwei Fei” and “Yaqui Drums.” In Class A, Section II, are “Chain of Evidence,” “Death of a Scoundrel,” “Hold Back the Night,” “Man from Del Rio,” “Operation Murder,” “Stagecoach to Fury” and “Tension at Table Rock.” In Class B are “Search for Bridey Murphy,” because of “undue emphasis on the power and effect of hypnotism as presented in this picture, without clearly establishing the necessary moral precautions, can lead to serious misrepresentation. Inferentially it tends to create belief in the erroneous doctrine of reincarnation”; “Tea and Sympathy” because “this film, based on a stage play of the same name which was highly controvertible because of theme and treatment, has been adapted to the screen with certain changes that repair in a limited manner the original moral offenses. However, the solution of the plot still tends to arouse undue sympathy for, and to condone, immoral actions. In addition it contains suggestive sequences”; “Cha Cha Cha Boom” because of “suggestive dancing and costuming”; “Fighting Trouble” because of “suggestive costuming and situations”; “Grand Maneuver” because of “light treatment of marriage; low moral tone” and “The Opposite Sex” because it “reflects the acceptability of divorce together with a light treatment of marriage; suggestive costuming, dialogue and situations.” Helen Russell, 56, Exhibitor, Dies AKRON, OHIO: Mrs. Helen Halter Smith Russell, 56, well known exhibitor, died here recently. She had been hospitalized for five weeks. She was the wife of Judge Roy Russell of Millersburg, theatre man and probate judge. After the death of her former husband, Wilfred Smith, Mrs. Russell continued to operate the former Majestic theatre in South Akron. She was a past president of the Akron Theatre Owners and Managers Association. James A. Beidler TOLEDO: James A. Beidler, Sr., 87, one of the country’s oldest exhibitors, died here recently. He was for many years associated with Martin Smith in the operation of several Toledo theatres. Condon Coordinator For New U.A. Film Richard Condon, European production publicity coordinator for United Artists from 1953 to this year, has been named campaign coordinator for Russ-Field’s “The King and Four Queens,” it is announced by Roger H. Lewis, U.A. national director of advertising, publicity and exploitation. Mr. Condon previously headed the advertising-publicity-exploitation department for RKO and handled special promotional assignments for Cecil B. DeMille and Walt Disney. He has just returned from Spain, where he supervised the international production publicity campaign for Stanley Kramer’s VistaVision Technicolor spectacle, “The Pride and Passion,” to be released by U.A. “The King and Four Queens,” also to be released by U.A., stars Clark Gable and Eleanor Parker. Art Siteman HOLLYWOOD: Art Siteman, 46, veteran Hollywood production manager, died suddenly October 2 in Kyoto, Japan, of a heart attack, according to information received by the RKO studio. He left in August as production and location manager for RKO to arrange the filming of “Escapade in Japan,” “Pakistan” and “Bangkok” in the Far East. 42 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, OCTOBER 6, 1956