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BOXOFFICE BAROMETER
This chart records the performance of current attractions in the opening week of their first runs in the 20 key cities checked. Pictures with fewer than five engagements are not listed. As new runs are reported, ratings are added and averages revised. Computation is in terms of percentage in relation to normal grosses as determined by the theatre manogers. With 100 per cent as "normal," the figures show the gross rating above or below that mark. (Asterisk * denotes combination bills.)
ji Bachelor Flat (20th-Fox)
130
150
125
150
120
75
95
210
80
190
200
130
90
175
135
135
90
mf
If Beyond All Limits (Sutton)
100
135
100
95
80
100
90
100 1
|| Explosive Generation, The (UA)
80
115
100
150
100
90
120
65
90
90
160
105 f
George Raft Story, The (AA)
150
225
100
105
75
100
200
80
no
105
125
125 I
||l Happy Thieves, The (UA)
90
190
90
100
no
100
115
75
125
HI I
; Hey, Let's Twist! (Para)
215
100
110
65
70
200
145
100
135
100
125
90
80
118 |
H Innocents, The (20th-Fox)
150
190
150
170
95
125
125
185
125
200
180
150
154 |
If King of Kings (MGM)
180
275
200
230
200
110
240
450
395
200
250
120
195
200
300
236
H Madison Avenue (20th-Fox)
160
100
80
100
100
108 |
Man in the Moon (Trans-Lux)
165
90
75
no
100
150
135
no
190
150
225
136 |
l| Most Dangerous Man Alive (Col)
100
90
90
100
80
100
93 |
|l Murder She Said (MGM)
150
160
95
140
175
no
138 p
if Mysterious Island (Col)
150
125
150
175
115
225
240
70
300
250
125
no
175
170 \
|| No Love for Johnnie (Embassy)
85
170
125
95
165
128
11 One Plus One (Selected)
130
75
80
100
205
250
110
65
127
ill One, Two, Three (UA)
160
300
180
195
150
110
150
200
150
350
250
175
no
200
155
150
250
140
188
HI Operation Bottleneck (UA)
130
100
100
100
100
106
l| Paris Blues (UA)
130
250
120
215
150
125
200
135
180
135
100
150
130
195
135
125
250
200
163 |
||| Question 7 (de Rochemont)
150
145
90
105
10C
215
155
200
150
105
175
140
115
100
139
III Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, The (WB)
175
275
125
190
100
120
125
225
140
100
200
100
115
195
115
123
135
150 i
|| Sail a Crooked Ship (Col)
140
200
125
110
175
150
120
130
105
140
125
150
125
150
139 \
|§ Scream of Fear (Col)
110
150
80
195
100
80
100
no
90
115
65
70
90
no
105
85
135
90
130
106 |
|| Second Time Around, The (20th-Fox)
150
155
200
135
150
260
200
200
525
70
300
190
140
90
185
120
175
85
150
183 f
|§ Secrets of Women (Janus)
140
105
145
145
90
105
200
250
148 |
|l Season of Passion (UA)
100
90
no
100
100
75
80
96 |
H 7 Women From Hell (20th-Fox)
140
130
135
110
75
105
125
160
70
150
100
90
85
100
no
90
125
112 I
if Singer Not the Song, The (WB)
100
85
85
85
90
89 f
§f Sniper's Ridge (20th-Fox)
100
100
100
100
100
100 f
|| Steel Claw, The (WB)
100
100
100
90
95
100
100
70
94 l
| Stop Me Before I Kill (Col)
95
100
70
90
100
85
90
90 I
|f Susan Slade (WB)
140
175
175
120
100
180
120
200
210
205
200
150
125
no
135
195
200
175
162 1
Tender Is the Night (20th-Fox)
170
130
195
75
no
125
200
100
180
125
141 |
If Then There Were Three (Parade)
100
100
100
75
75
100
92 I
iff Too Late Blues (Para)
160
115
120
95
100
118 \
|f Trunk. The (Col)
100
100
100
100
90
65
85
100
93 \
iff Truth, The (Kingsley)
175
300
175
85
300
230
125
135
150
250
200
80
175
190
90
177 ^
f§ Twenty Plus Two (AA)
125
95
90
no
80
100
100
100
120
100
80
100
§f Underworld, U.S.A. (Col)
125
120
100
115
100
100
85
no
107
H Upstairs and Downstairs (20th-Fox)
180
90
65
100
150
90
90
125
111
H Valley of the Dragons (Col)
70
100
90
100
70
100
100
90
f§ Weekend With Lulu, A (Col)
165
175
95
135
125
145
100
150
100
100
100
126
p Wonders of Aladdin, The (MGM)
65
85
80
100
100
65
100
135
100
no
no
195
90
no
103
TOP HITS
OF
THE WEEK
Individual runs, not an awage. Listings are confined to opening week figures on new releases only.
1. Light in the Piazza (MGM)
San Francisco 350
Chicago 225
2. Majority of One, A (WB)
Chicago 225
3. Journey to the Seventh Planet (AIP)
Omaha 205
4. Innocents, The (20th-Fox)
Minneapolis 200
5. King of Kings (MGM)
Memphis 200
6. Tender Is the Night (20th-Fox)
Los Angeles 200