Boxoffice (Oct-Dec 1962)

THE NATIONAL FILM WEEKLY f Published in Nine Sectional Editions ^ BENSHLYEN Editor-in-Chief and Publisher DONALD M. MERSEREAU, Associate Publisher & General Manager JESSE SHLYEN Managing Editor HUGH FRAZE Field Editor AL STEEN Eastern Editor CHRIS DUTRA Western Editor I. L. THATCHER ... Equipment Editor MORRIS SCHLOZMAN Business Mgr. Publication Offices: 825 Van Brunt Blvd. Kansas City 2i, Mo. Jesse Shlyen, Managing Editor; Morris Sclilozman, Business Manager; Hugh Froze, Field Editor; 1. L. Thatclier, Editor Itie Modern Theatre Section. Telephone CHestnut 1-7777. Editorial Offices: 1270 Sixth Ave., Rockefeller Center, New York 20, N. Y. Donald ,M. Mersereau, Associate Publisher & Ueneral Manager; A1 Steen, Eastern Editor. Telephone COlumbus 5-6370. Central Offices: Editorial — 920 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 11, Hi., Frances B. Clow, Telephone superior 7-3972. Advertising— 5809 North Lincoln, Louis Didier and Jack Broderick, Telephone LOngbeach 1-5284. 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DUpont 7-0892. < In Canada Montreal: Room 314, 625 Belmont St., Jules Larochelle. St. John: 43 Waterloo, Sam Babb. Toronto: 2675 Bayview Ave., VVillowdale, Ont. W. Gladlsh. / Vancouver: 411 Lyric Theatre Bldg. 751 Granville St., Jack Droy. Winnipeg: The Tribune, Jim Peters. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Second Class postage paid at Kansas City, '' Mo. Sectional Edition, $3.00 per year. National Edition, $7.50. NOVEMBER 19, 1962 ^ Guest Editorial This, / Say, Is Something to See! By NED E. DEPINET President, Will Rogers Hospital and O’Donnell Research Laboratories g wish every reader of BOXOFFICE could have stopped in at our industry’s Will Rogers Hospital at Saranac Lake, at any time during this past summer — or better yet, to have been with the directors on the annual pilgrimage and inspection tour. Wonderful things are being done there now, not only for the people of our industry, but also for all mankind. Many of you have seen it in time past — but now it’s all new! Here is a going concern of positive action ... a fast moving operation conducted by an all new team of dedicated doctors, scientists, and administrators. You’d see the gratifying results of a very intense year of work . . . new housing units, new medical facilities and personnel, new research team and laboratories, and a great new research-and-teaching project for medical college students, all of which are reflecting good public relations for our industry, and making us more productive in our healing mission. The new therapeutic department, headed by Medical Director L. Fred Ayvazian, is now treating more patients than ever before — and doing it more effectively. To see the step-up in treatment techniques would of itself be most gratifying to you, but, in addition to that, you would be doubly impressed to watch the Summer Seminar program and the new O’Donnell Research Laboratories in action directed by Dr. Martin FitzPatrick and Dr. Verne Hospelhorn. Here is a thorough-going permanent research program in continuous exploration, and here, also, is an educational program for recom mended medical college students of outstanding ability working through their summer vacations, without pay, for their better medical education. All summer long, they worked daily side-by-side with their mentors, who are professors and scientists from America’s medical schools, themselves doing extra work, also without remuneration, other than the opportunity to advance investigations of their own, and to help young people with their medical training. The students and mentors, together, attended weekly seminars addressed by guest doctors and scientists specializing in pulmonary-cardio diseases. If you’d been there, you would have become richly imbued with the spirit of serious determination and accomplishment. You’d be proud that, by association with the Entertainment Industry, you are a part of this movement. The results of all this work and research cannot fail to bless every man, everywhere. It is ironic that the Big Step into the public realm should gain traction and momentum almost coincident with the passing of an Abe Montague and R. J. “Bob” O’Donnell at the peak of their planning for this project. We are all saddened that these men, president and board chairman, respectively, could not have lived to see all the good they had created. We who worked so closely with them are dedicated and pledged to the fulfillment and expansion of their aims. Because so much good is being done for all men at Will Rogers, theatre operators everywhere should have no qualms about participating in the annual support-program — the Audience Collections. And every individual employe, too, should want to make his presence in the industry felt by contributing to the Christmas Salute. ... In fact, it’s their responsibility.