Boxoffice (Jan-Mar 1961)

of the population are Free Chinese and the remainder lives under Communism on the mainland. Story told through the eyes of a Chinese rice farmer, his wife and their three children. (CinemaScope) Twenty-Five Yeorgs Ago Today. . 4005 (1 7 Vi) Apr. 1 Americans gather at Madison Square Garden to denounce the first anniversary of Hitler's rise to power. Also shows the legalization of New York's racetrack betting, King Alexander's assassination, the Lindbergh kidnaping, a California gold rush, and end of Di-llinger's crime career. WALTER LANTZ CARTUNES (Technicolor) 4011.. Kiddie League.. (7) Nov. 3, '59 (Woody Woodpecker) 4012. . Mouse Trapped (7) Dec. 8, '59 (Hickory, Dickory and Doc) 401 3 . . Billion-Dollar Boner.. (7) Jan. 5 (Woody Woodpecker) 4014. Witty Kitty.. (7) Feb. 2 (Hickory, Dickory and Doc) /tni e n i . : _ ' \*/ i o (Woody Woodpecker) 4016.. Heap Big Hepcat .(7) Mar. 30 (Woody Woodpecker) 4017 . . Ballyhooey . . (7) Apr. 20 (Woody Woodpecker) 4018. How to Stuff a Woodpecker. (7) May 18 (Woody Woodpecker) 4019 . Bats in the Belfry . (7) June 15 (Woody Woodpecker) 4020 .. Woody's Ozark Lark.. (7) July 13 (Woody Woodpecker) 4021.. Fished Hooked . (7) Aug. 10 4022 . . Freeloading Feline . (7) Sept. 7 4023.. Hunger Strife.. (7) Oct. 5 WALTER LANTZ CARTUNES (Reissues) (Technicolor) 4031.. 50.co in Morocco.. (7) Nov. 10, '59 (Woody Woodpecker) 4032. Alley to Bali. .(7) Dec. 29, '59 (Woody Woodpecker) 4033.. Under the Counterspy .. (7) Jan. 26 (Woody Woodpecker) 4034. Hot Rod Huckster. (7) Feb. 23 (Woody Woodpecker) 4035.. Real Gone Woody.. (7) Mar. 23 (Woody Woodpecker) 4036 .. Convict Concerto .. (7) Apr. 27 (Woody Woodpecker) Warner Bros. BLUE RIBBON HIT PARADE (Technicolor Reissues) 7301.. Drip Along Daffy.. (7) Sept. 12, '59 7302 . Often an Orphan.. (7) Oct. 3, '59 7303. . Putty Tat Trouble . (7) Oct. 24, '59 7304 . Hot Cross Bunny.. (7) Nov. 21, '59 7305.. A Bear for Punishment .. (7) .... Dec. 12, '59 7306.. A Bone for a Bone.. (7) Jan. 2 7307.. The Prize Pest. .(7) Jan. 30 7308. .Tweety's S.O.S. ..(7) Feb. 20 7309 .. Lovelorn Leghorn.. (7) Mar. 12 7310.. 51.epy Time Possum.. (7) Apr. 9 7311.. Cheese Chasers.. (7) Apr. 30 7312. Who's Kitten Who.. (7) May 21 7313 . The Ducksters . . (7) June 18 7314.. Chow Hound . (7) July 9 7315.. French Rorebit..(7) Aug. 6 7316.. A Ham in a Role.. (7) Aug. 27 BUGS BUNNY SPECIALS (Technicolor) 7721 .. Bonanza Bunny.. (7) Sept. 5, '59 7722. .A Witch's Tangled Hare. (7). . . Oct. 31, '59 7723.. People Are Bunny.. (7) Dec. 19, '59 7724.. Horse Hare.. (7) Feb. 13 7725.. Person to Bunny.. (7) Apr. 2 7726 .. Rabbit's Feat.. (7) June 4 MERRIE MELODIES — LOONEY TUNES (Technicolor Cartoons) 7701. A Broken Leghorn.. (7) Sept. 26, '59 (Foghorn Leghorn) 7702.. Wild About Hurry.. (7) Oct. 10, '59 (Roadrunner and Coyote) 7703 .. Unnatural History.. (7) Nov. 14, '59 7704 . .Tweet Dreams . (7) Dec. 5, '59 (Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird) 7705 . . Fostest With the Mostest . .(7) Jan. 9 (Roadrunner and Coyote) 7706. .West of the Pesos. .(7) Jan. 23 (Speedy Gonzales) 7707 . Wild, Wild, World. (7) Feb. 27 7708. .Goldimouse and the Three Cats. .(7). .Mar. 19 7709 . Who Scent You . (7) Apr. 23 (Pepe Le Pew, the Skunk) 7710. Hyde and Go Tweet.. (7) Moy 14 (Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird) 771 1 . . Crockett-Doodle-Do . .(7) June 25 (Foghorn Leghorn) 7712 . Mouse and Garden.. (7) July 16 (Sylvester Cat) 7713. .Ready, Woolen and Able. .(7) July 30 (Sheep-dog and Wolf) 7714.. Mice Follies.. (7) Aug. 20 SPECIAL ©Israel. .7910. .(35) Feb. 20 Technicolor Documentary Featurette. A story of the birth of the state of Israel, with highlight scenes showing Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion in his home on the Negev desert. Narrator: Edward G. Robinson. Produced and written by Leon Uris, author of "Exodus." (CinemaScope.) WORLD-WIDE ADVENTURE SPECIALS (Color Reissues) (TWO REELS) 7001.. Jungle Terror.. (20) Sept. 19, 59 Secret rituals of savage head-hunters of French Guiana. 7002 . Danger Is My Business .. (1 8) Mar. 5 A wild animal-trapping expedition in the Florida Everglades with Ross Allen. 7003.. Snow Carnival .. (20) July 2 The skiing winter wonderland at Aspen, Colo. Narrator: Gary Cooper. (ONE REEL) 7501.. Royal Duck Shoot.. (10) Oct. 17, '59 Duck hunting with the Maharajah of Bharatpur. 7502 . . Daredevils on Wheels . (10) Nov. 28, '59 Motorcycle racing in the Briitsh Isles. 7503.. Happy Holidays .. (9) Feb. 6 A vacation in fabulous Acapulco. 7504. .Jungle Man Killers.. (9) Apr. 16 A man-eating Bengal tiger invades a native village, is tracked down and destroyed. 7505. .Hunting the Fox. .(10) May 28 A fox hunt through Virginia's picturesque countryside. 7506. . That's Bully. .(9) June 11 Bulls run wild through the streets in Pamplona, Spain, chasing would-be matadors into the bullring. Serials COLUMBIA King of the Congo ('The Mighty Thundo"). .4140 (15 chapters) June 30— Reissue Buster Crabbe, Gloria Dea, Leonard Penn, Jack Ingram. Directors: Spencer Bennet, Wallace A. Grissell. Lost Planet, The ("Conqueror of Outer Space") 4160.. (15 chapters) Feb. 11 — Reissue Judd Holdren, Vivian Mason, Ted Thorpe, Forrest Taylor. Director: Spencer Bennet. Pirates of the High Seas ("Phantom Raiders of the Deep") 4120 (15 chapters) Sept. 24, '59 — Reissue Buster Crabbe, Lois Hall, Tommy Farrell. Directors: Spencer Bennet, Thomas Carr. Miscellaneous An Echo From Appomattox. . (27>/j) West Wind Prods. Featurette. Created out of a collection of photographs from the Civil War -period, plus a look at 1861-65 battlefields today. ©Awakening, The.. (30) Lester A. Schoenfeld Color Travelog. A camera journey through Israel, with views of -rural life and of caves in which famous scrolls are being discovered, as well as the tremendous accomplishments backed by the energy of a virile people. Berlin. .(16) Casino Film Exch. Shows Berlin of yesteryear, then as it looked after the World War II bombings. Also shows the postwar dividing of the city into Eastern and Western sectors, and the efforts of the Western side to rebuild with U.S. aid. ©Black Cat, The. .(22) Cont'l Dist'b'g Eastman Color Animated Featurette. Edgar Allan Poe's classic horror tale of a man brought to the gallows by his nemesis, a black cat, is told through the weird and macabre paintings created by John Fenton. Narrator: Basil Rathbone. ©Ceylon Holiday .. (15) Lester A. Schoenfeld Color Travelog. British-made. A camera tour of Ceylon, taking in its cities and countryside, its tea making industry and harvesting. Children Who Draw.. (30) Brandon Films Featurette. (Japanese-made; English narration.) Filmed with hidden cameras, this is a study of human relations in a classroom for tiny tots, ond catches their expressions as they experiment with crayons and paints. Director: Susumi Hani. Iwanami Piets. Production. ©Dolly's Holiday .. (16) Cont'l Dist'b'g Color. (Italian-made; English-dubbed narration.) Narrated by Anne Sargent, as the voice of a dog who wanders off into the country while his master is away for the day, then invades a barnyard and gets back home to find his master has gone to bed. Director: Giorgio Ferroni. ©Glass.. (8) George K. Arthur, Go Piets. Technicolor. Filmed in the Netherlands, and shows the art of gloss making, in both ancient and modern methods. The rhythm of the hands at work is synchronized with jazz music. How Difficult to Be on Adult. (14). Casino Film Exch. Humorously presents the upheaval in the life of adults in a family after a new baby has orrived, and compares the rushing life of an adult with the slow, relaxing tempo of a child's life. Justice and Caryl Chessman (45) .... Bentley Films ond Sterling World Distrs. Documentary Featurette. Filmed inside San Quentin prison before California's most famous criminal made his final trip to the gas chamber after 1 1 V2 yeors of repeated postponements. Story covers those 1 1 V2 years through interviews with the police officer who nabbed him, the prosecutor who convicted him, and others connected with the case. Narrated by Quentin Reynolds. Terrence W. Cooney Production. (Bentley Films is releasing this in the New York area, while Sterling World Distributors is handling the Los Angeles area.) ©Latin Quarter, The . . (30) . Films-Around-the-World Technicolor Featurette. A visit to the artists colony of Paris known as the Montmartre section, with glim-pses of artists and their work, a masquerade ball, sculptors at work, pottery and tapestry making, et cetera. ©Look to the Sun..(8'/2) West Wind Prods. Eastman Color Featurette. A look into the future space age via the new Kitt Peak Observatory. Mischief Makers, The. .(27). Kingsley Int'l Featurette. (French-made; English narration.) A gang of mischievous boys spy on and persecute a pair of young lovers. The boys learn about lovemaking and sensuality before the tragic ending, in which the teenage lover dies and the girl is left desolate. Based on a novelette, "Virginales," by Maurice Pons. Stars: Gerard Blain, Bernadette Lafont. Director: Francois Truffaut. ©Moonbird . . (9) Edward Harrison Color Cartoon. Two small tots attempt to capture a bird in their garden by digging a hole and baiting the bird with food. Tiring of watching them, the bird finally walks right into the house with them. Produced by John Hubley for Storyboard, Inc. Overture .. (9) Kingsley-Union Features a background musical score by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and is a film record of the transformation of areas of the world. A United Notions film produced -by Thorold Dickinson and G. L. Polidoro. Patterson-Johansson Fight .. (21 ) United Artists . .July Shows the full five rounds, with slow-motion inserts, of the Floyd Patterson-lngemar Johansson heavyweight championship re-match held at the Polo Grounds in New York on June 20, 1960, in which Patterson knocked out Johansson. Narrator: Chris Schenkel. ©Petra — The Red Rose City. .(11). .Casino Film Exch. Color. (With narration.) Seen are the ruins, architectural wonders, et cetera, of the ancient city of Petra, located on the eastern side of the Dead Sea. Pull My Daisy.. (29) G-String Prods. Novelty Featurette. Deals with the complex world of the American Beatnik, as envisioned through the narration of the self-styled King of the Beatniks, Jack Kerouac. ©Rhapsody of Steel.. (23) Jam Handy Technicolor Animated Featurette. (Gratis to exhibitors.) Tells the story of steel, for which the background music was recorded -by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dimitri Tiomkin. Commentator: Gary Merrill. U.S. Steel Production. Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film, The (10) Kingsley-Union Comedy. British-made. A sort of silent days comedy, best described as "one person watching another in a field." Consists of prancing, bops on the head, pratfalls, etc., by grotesquely garbed men. The only sound heard is a series of bird calls. Stars Peter Sellers. Scribbling Kitten. .(14) Brandon Films Animated Cartoon. Japanese-made. Awarded first prize in 1957 at the Japanese International Film Festival. Skyscraper. .(20) Joseph Burstyn Traces the construction of a New York skyscraper from its initial planning stoge to its completion. ©Song of the Canaries .. (17) .. Lester A. Schoenfeld Color Travelog. A visit to the Canary Islands, with views of Las Palmas, its market places, et cetera, and a notive dance -performed by a youth and maiden. ©Staccato for Toy Trains (8) George K. Arthur, Go Piets. Color. Features a musical composition by Elmer Bernstein, built around the movement and sound of toy trains. ©Tickets Please . (20) Lester A. Schoenfeld Color Travelog. A train ride from Capetown in South Africa to the interior, with views of the countryside and unusual architecture, and stops at the famous Kimberley diamond mines, Johannesburg and Pretoria. The conductor doubles as a musician, to the delight of his passengers. ©When My Ship Came In. .(17). Lester A. Schoenfeld Color Travelog. A visit to the island of Majorca, famous for its artificial pearl and glass blowing industries, as well as a perennial sun, luxurious foliage, and picturesque windmills that provide water for the farms. ©Young Leaves .. (8) .... George K. Arthur, Go Piets. Color. A presentation of Japanese flower arrangements and paintings of flowers and leaves. BOXOFFICE 185