The Exhibitor (1966)

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ALBANY The Whitehall Drive-In, Whitehall-Comi stock Road, reopened with “improved sound, : screen and refreshment stand,” according to j| newspaper copy. . . . Steve Minasian and Bob Barbasian announced that Esquire Theatres’ twin drive-ins at Menands, near the Watervliet city line, will be opened June 21 barring unexpected developments. . . . The bar mitzvah of Richard Miller, son of Sanford Miller, former Albany film salesman, and later asso¬ ciate of his father, Joe Miller, long-time Co¬ lumbia branch manager for Buffalo and Albany, in the old Menands, N.Y., Drive-In, I was celebrated at Temple Beth Emeth in the former city. . . . Peggy Wood, who was the Mother Abbess in “Sound Of Music,” was ■ appointed professor of dramatic arts at State University in Albany. BUFFALO Carl Schaner, managing director. Century, has launched “Ladies’ Day” every Wednesday i at his house, offering the fair sex a special price of 50 cents from 12 noon until 6 p.m. On the first “Ladies’ Day” of the series, put on in con¬ nection with the showing of “That Man in Istanbul,” about 400 ladies took advantage of the plan. . . . Eddie Meade, Meade Advertising Agency, aided Lou Lieser, manager, Buffalo i branch of Allied Artists, in some tub-thumping for “Lemonade Joe,” which opened at the Kensington and the Broadway and Young Street (Tonawanda) drive-ins. Arrangements were made to have two sirens dressed in eye-catch¬ ing western costumes distribute special bro¬ chures on the picture at the State University at Buffalo and the State Teachers College. The same duo were taken to Rochester, where they distributed the heralds at the University there. The picture is being shown in Kodak Town at the Empire, Central, and Starlite out-doorers. . . . Bernard Youngstein, United Artists exploiteer, was in Buffalo in advance of two beautiful performers from the cast of “Hawaii,” Eno Cole and Ramona Tong Young, both Hawaiian natives, who appeared on radio and tv and were interviewed by newspapers. Youngstein also placed publicity on UA pro¬ ductions “Khartoum” and “What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?” . . . Kathy Crosby has signed for the title role in “Mary Mary,” listed for June 20 through 25 at the Garden Center in Vineland, Ont. Theatre officials report that Mrs. Crosby’s husband, Bing, will be a play¬ house visitor during the show’s run. . . . The comedy team of Allen and Rossi will headline the annual Police Benevolent Association show at the Rochester War Memorial, June 25. The comedy team, who broke in their act in Roch¬ ester years ago at the now-defunct nightclub, the Triton, soon will appear in their first mo¬ tion picture, “The Last of the Secret Agents?” , . . The old State theatre building, Rochester, has been purchased by Mario Cerami, presi¬ dent, Cerami Associates. He also has pur¬ chased six adjacent houses. Workmen now are busy converting the theatre only into a modern three-story office building. Additional floors and an automatic elevator are being installed In the high-ceilinged theatre building. When the 1000-seat theatre was opened Jan. 29, 1927, it was outfitted with a two-manual, six rank Wurlitzer organ. Several well known Rochester organists gained experience there. Among the best known is Edward C. May, now frequently referred to as “Mr. Music of Miami Beach.” According to former asisstant manager Willard Millard, the theatre was closed in the early 1950’s, “mainly because of vandalism and rowdiness.” The theatre was purchased by the Schine circuit and reopened a short time later, operating briefly in 1958. But it closed again the same year and never opened again. . . . The lobby art gallery in Loew's new theatre at Oxon Hill, Md. All of the new Loew's Theatres under con¬ struction will feature displays of the works of local artists, with showings changed frequently. Peter D. Smith, Brighton, near Rochester, an Eastman Kodak employee since 1956, has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Eellowship in executive management at Massachusetts Insti¬ tute of Technology for 1966-67. Smith is one of 45 executives chosen for program. At Kodak, he most recently has been consumer markets division product planning associate for motion picture camera.s, projectors and acces¬ sories. CHICAGO Ivanhoe, a new $275,000 600-seat theatrein-the-round, will open June 1. . . . “Ghost in the Invisible Bikini,” plus co-feature, opened at theatres and drive-ins throughout this area on a first-run showing. Color newspaper ad¬ vertising appeared. . . . 10,000 school children, it is said, have been booked to see special per¬ formances of “J.F.K., Years of Lightning, Day of Drums.” The film is shown at Cinestage. . . . Marty Allen and Steve Rossi were here to do the press rounds in conjunction with the opening of “The Last of the Secret Agents?” at the Chicago on May 27. They will make stage appearances on opening day. . . . Art Institute of Chicago will add movie-mak¬ ing to its fall curriculum, as a new major for fine art students. Roger Gilmore, acting dean of the Institute’s schools, reports, “The new major is being started due to the many re¬ quests from students who wi.sh to work in motion picture as an art medium.” . . . NAC’s new members in this area include Joe L. Beebe, Beebe’s Millwood Farm, Cissna Park, Ill., and Robert H. Breither, vice-president, Seeburg Corp. . . . Officers and directors of NAC hold their midyear board meeting here on May 25 at the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel. . . . “Blindfold” opens at the State-Lake on May 27. Claudia Cardinale, co-star of the film, is expected to press-stop here in time for the film’s opening. . . . Phil Brochstein, MGM’s press agent here, left for Europe to view loca¬ tion shooting of “2001 -A Space Obyssey” in London. From there he will go to Monaco to see filming of “Grand Prix,” and then to Rome for MGM’s location shooting of “Three Bites of the Apple.” Don Elisburg, son of theatre owner Herb Elisbury, weds Nancy Meyers, Evanston school teacher, in June. . . . Brotman and Sherman theatres are accepting “oldsters” medicare identification cards for reduced admission prices to patrons. The circuit’s theatres here in¬ clude Carnegie, Loop, State, Met, Capitol, Avalon, Oakland Square, Rhodes, and five suburban houses. . . . Second Chicago Inter¬ national Film Festival is set for fall. 16 or 35mm films are eligible for awards totaling more than $3,000. Entry forms will be avail¬ able on June 1. Michael Kutza, Jr., is director of the festival. Four entry categories, due Aug. 15, are feature fims, which have never been entered in a film festival or shown to an Americarr audience (16 or 35 mm); short subjects, which run 30 minutes or less; art films; and general film category, 16 mm. films preferred. The 1966 festival will be held in the Playboy theatre, Nov. 5-11. . . . “Khartoum,” Cine¬ rama production, will open at McVickers Cinerama on June 22. . . . Closed circuit tele¬ cast of Memorial Day 500 mile race will be shown here on May 30 at eight movie houses. CINCINNATI A1 Kolkmeyer, Universal branch manager, and chief barker. Variety Tent Three, has been appointed a Kentucky Colonel by Gov. Ed¬ ward Breathitt. . . . A. H. Duren, Warners district manager, won a Zenith 21" color tv in a drawing at the Mother’s Day party spon¬ sored by Tent Three. . . . Dorothy Schuster, for many years secretary to the late Rube Shor, is ill at Holmes Hospital. . . . Rube Jackter, Golumbia vice-president, who is being honored by the current “Salute to Rube Jackter,” visited Gincinnati on behalf of the sales drive which ends June 23. . . . Variety Tent Three realized $2500 for its “Sunshine Goach” fund at a benefit performance of “A Thousand Glowns May 10 at Times Towne Cinema. Mid-States Theatres, owner of the Times, as¬ sumed all of the expenses. . . . The Will Rogers Memorial Hospital Drive in the Tri-State area, opened at a well attended distributors’ meeting with Milton Gurian, Allied Artists branch manager, and distributors’ chairman, presiding. Also present were three Golumbus,' O., men — Gharles Sugarman, owner. Cinema East, and this year’s exhibitors’ chairman; Ed McGlone, RKO Palace manager; and Ken Prickett, executive secretary. Independent Theatre Owners of Ohio. The highlight of the meeting was the talk by Prickett, who had just returned from a checkup at the hospital. Mc¬ Glone, who spent a long period at the hospital several years ago, also extolled the hospital’s benefits. COLaMBUS, o. “Harper” at RKO Palace leads off a lineup of five top Warner Brothers’ releases due at the Palace in late spring and early summer. Man¬ ager Ed McGlone announced that following bookings include “Stop The World, I Want To Get Off,” “A Big Hand For The Little Lady,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “A Fine Madness.” . . . “The Great Race” ended its extended run at the Palace after six big weeks. . . . Public hearing will be held at 8 p. m. Tuesday, May 31 in Reynoldsburg Gity Hall on proposal to grant a GATV franchise to Multi-Ghannel Gable Go. of Portsmouth, Ohio. Multi-Ghannel presently holds a GATV fran¬ chise from the adjacent suburb of Whitehall. . . Manager Sam Shubouf, Loew’s Ohio, ob¬ tained a proclamation from Mayor M. E. Sensebrenner, naming week of May 20 as Walt Disney Family Pictures’ Week in a tieup with the Ohio’s run of “The Ugly Dachshund.” Cinerama’s “Khartoum” will be the next at¬ traction at the Grand Ginerama. . . . Free Ghristian Drive-In has opened for the season. . . . Larry Crowley, operator of the new Auto Dnve-In, Parma in suburban Cleveland, is the newest member of the Independent Theatre Owners of Ohio, it was announced by Ken Prickett, ITOO executive secretar)'. DALLAS “The Ten Commandments” has opened a returned engagement at the Palace, where the May 25, 1966 MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR 15