Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1961)

'Return/ 'Homicidal' Are Mill City Hits MINNEAPOLIS — “For Members Only,” a back-to-nature film, did the best business this past week with a big 250 per cent. The picture opened at the neighborhood Avalon Theatre. Other new attractions which did top business were “Return to Peyton Place” at the Mann with a rating of 220 per cent and “Homicidal” at the Orpheum with a rating of 200 per cent. (Average Is 100) Academy — Exodus (UA), 20th wk 90 Avalon — For Members Only (Union) 250 Campus — Private Property (Citation); The Savage Eye (Trans-Lux), 2nd wk 125 Gopher — The Secret Ways (U-l) 80 Lyric — One-Eyed Jacks (Para), 4th wk 90 Mann — Return to Peyton Place (20th-Fox) ....220 Orpheum — Homicidal (Col) 200 St. Louis Park — General della Rovere (Cont'l)... 90 State — The Last Sunset (U-l) 100 Suburban World — The Cousins (F-A-W) 90 Uptown — Tiger Bay (Cont'l) 90 World — The Last Time I Saw Archie (Col) 175 'Spartacus' Continues to Draw Packed Houses in Omaha OMAHA — The Dundee Theatre continued with packed performances the third week of “Spartacus.” Other first-runs varied, with most showing less strength as outdoor activities and the Ak-Sar-Ben races, high school commencements and other attractions cut into the gate. Cooper — This Is Cinerama (Cinerama), 16th wk. . .125 Dundee — Spartacus (U-l), 3rd wk 400 Omaha— The Secret Ways (U-l); Posse From Hell (U-l) 80 Orpheum — A Raisin in the Sun (Col) 95 State — The Absent-Minded Professor (BV), 3rd wk 175 Scores Slide Downhill In Slower Milwaukee MILWAUKEE — Business wasn’t exactly up to par here, although Cinerama’s “Seven Wonders of the World” and “Exodus’ were holding up well. The neighborhoods, however, were still showing good grosses with their holdovers. Downer — Tunes of Glory (Lopert), 2nd wk 125 Palace — Seven Wonders of the World (Cinerama), 7th wk 200 Riverside — One-Eyed Jacks (Para), 2nd wk 125 Strand — Exodus (UA), 10th wk 175 Tower — Return to Peyton Place (20th-Fox), 2nd wk 150 Times — Upstairs and Downstairs (20th-Fox) ....150 Towne — Angel Baby (AA) 135 Uptown — Gone With the Wind (MGM), reissue, 7th wk 150 Warner — Kongo ( A I P ) ; Sword of Sherwood Forest (Col) 80 Wisconsin — The Young Savages (UA); Operation Bottleneck (UA), 2nd wk 100 Honors for Schine Man GLOVERSVILLE, N.Y.— Chris D. Pope, Schine Circuit booker for the Washington and Buffalo territories, has been elected to a three -year term on the Gloversville Chamber of Commerce. Pope, who joined the Schine chain in 1941, has been a resident of Gloversville since 1945, except for a four-year period when he supervised the Buffalo territory bookings from that city. Century Promotes Grant NEW YORK— Allen Grant, Brooklyn district manager for Century Theatres, has been named assistant to Martin H. Newman, treasurer of the company, by Leslie R. Schwartz, president. Melvin Aaronson, manager of Century’s Kingsway Theatre, will take over Grant's former post in Brooklyn. Theatres in Two Cities Profit From TV Spots SPRINGFIELD — Recent experimental cooperative advertising on two Dayton television stations was termed very successful in attracting audiences to houses in both Dayton and Springfield for screenings of Buena Vista’s “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” and “The Absent-Minded Professor.” The experiment was conducted by Robert Keyes, operator of the Victory in nearby Dayton, and the Chakeres theatres of this city, with the films being shown at the Regent here. The cooperative advertising will be repeated in July during the screening at both houses of Buena Vista’s “The Parent Trap.” Blakely Adventure Series Contracted by Jack Zide DETROIT — Jack Zide of Allied Film Exchange has signed contracts to distribute the Gene Blakely Productions’ “World of Adventure” series of two reel shorts in color through Zide’s two offices, Allied of Detroit and Imperial Pictures Corp. of Cleveland. The initial release is “Conquest of Izalco,” the story of a man who climbs a live volcano in El Salvador and photographs the eruption of the volcano from the beginning. The second short will deal with the trip by fibreglass boat over the rapids of the Colorado river in Arizona. Harold Hecht’s “The Young Savages,” a UA release, stars Burt Lancaster. Milwaukee Council Cites Louis Orlove MILWAUKEE — More than 200 members of the Better Films Council of Milwaukee County attended the recent 30th anniversary luncheon at the Elks Club. 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