The Exhibitor (1966)

at the Pike D-I, Newington, and Manchester D-I, Bolton Notch. . . . The Rivoli, West Haven, is running matinees on Wednesdays and Saturdays. . . . Redstone Theatres’ deluxe Cinema Two, West Springfield, Mass., has a new youth price ($1.50 all shows) in effect for Warner Bros.’ “Battle of the Bulge. . . . Wil¬ liam Smith, Republican Town Chairman of suburban East Hartford, intends to oppose a second extension of the deadline for Oak Ridge Development Corporation, which is planning a multi-million dollar regional shop¬ ping center, including a twin motion picture theatre, in the town’s South Meadows District. Smith and other Republican leaders want the tract to be used for consruction of high-rise office buildings and research and development facilities. . . . The suburban Plainville, Conn., Zoning Board of Appeals has approved a Perakos Theatre Associates petition to build a 1200-seat motion picture theatre on a tract of land directly opposite the P-T-A Plainville Drive-In on Route 72. The site is approxi¬ mately 10 miles from downtown Hartford. . . . CLARK TRANSFER, INC. Terminals: • BOSTON, MASS. 100 Gibson Street, Dorchester 617-282-2099 • NEW YORK, N. Y. 610 W. 47th Street 212-246-0815 • NORFOLK, VA. 316 South Main Street 703-545-3832 • PHILADELPHIA, PA. (Executive Offices) 829 North 29th Street 215-232-3100 • RICHMOND, VA. 312 South 17th Street 703-648-6083 • TAMAQUA (Hometown), PA. RD #2 717-668-1727 • WASHINGTON, D. C. 3194 Bladensburg Road, N.E. 202-526-4800 PROGRESSIVE ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION CO. INC. 240 N. 13th St. • PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19107 35 Years of Theatre Construction and Maintenance BLUmBERG BROS., Inc. £o&uftliuuj, ^o* the „ . . , 1305-07 VINE STREET WALNUT 5-7240-41 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 19107 Mrs. Zena Ginsberg looks over her first prize in "The Glass Bottom Boat" contest sponsored for the MGM film by Baltimore, Md., radio station WFBR and the four theatres which played the Doris Day starrer. Ed Graham, WFBR disc jockey, who con¬ ducted the contest which resulted in over 5000 entries, looks on. Robert Tirrell, metropolitan Hartford district manager for Lockwood and Gordon Theatres for five years, has resigned. Pending announce¬ ment of a new affiliation, he is continuing on a part-time basis with the circuit as manager of the East Hartford Drive-In. . . . BroadcastPlaza, Inc., owner of downtown Hartford’s $100 million Constitution Plaza development, has disclosed plans for inclusion of a 500-seat motion picture theatre at the corner of Colum¬ bus boulevard and Kinsley street, with an over¬ head pedestrian walkway to the Plaza. Just what interests would operate the theatre is yet to be determined. An 800-seat theatre is in¬ cluded in blueprints for second-phase develop¬ ment of the $12 million Bushnell Plaza com¬ mercial-deluxe apartment complex several blocks to the southwest of Constitution Plaza. This, too, is yet to be leased to exhibition interests. . . . General Cinema Corporation, Boston, one of the country’s fastest-growing circuits, has leased the Blue Hills Drive-In, suburban Bloomfield, for 20 years from LeRoy Enterprises, Hartford, for an undisclosed sum. The 800-car capacity drive-in had been op¬ erated since the early 1950s by the father-andson team of Peter and Milton LeRoy. Alfred Alperin, for the past seven years manager of GCC’s Meadows, Hartford, largest drive-in in Connecticut, has been given newly-created responsibility as GCC city manager, supervis¬ ing the Meadows and the Blue Hills. NEW ORLEANS Winners of trophies in the golf tournament held in connection with the recent joint con¬ vention of the Mississippi Theatre Owners Association and Louisiana Association of The¬ atre Owners were W. A. Prewitt, Jr., Temple, Texas, and his son, W. A. Prewitt, McComb, Miss.; Bert Jordafi, Coca-Cola Company; Don White, National Carbon Company; Jim Ronsick, MGM Memphis branch manager; John Richards, Richards Center, New Orleans; Paul Hargett, Columbia Pictures’ Atlanta branch manager; Chester Briney, Manley Pop¬ corn representative in Memphis; Mrs. Jimmy Tringas, Tringas Theatres, Port Walton, Fla.; and Tom Owens, Blevins Popcorn regional supervisor of sales offices and warehouses. . . . The winding streets, courtyards, shops, and restaurants of old New Orleans circa 1850’s have taken a place in Disneyland, U.S.A. The unveiling of the New Orleans square took place in ceremonies presided over by Mayor Victor H. Schiro. Disney already has a key to the city presented to him some time ago when he visited New Orleans. . . . Eagle eyed Tommy Griffin, New Orleans States Item Re¬ porter, stated that Warners’ “Battle Of The Bulge” had found type billing at the neighbor¬ hood Tiger, which is situated between a pizza place on one side and a doughnut shop on the other. . . . Gulf States Theatres will keep the Teche, Ruston, La., inactive through August to mid-September. . . . Southern Amusement Company, Lake Charles, La., have taken over the operation of the Midway Drive-In, West Lake, La., owned by Ed Jenner and Marvin White. Jenner will devote all of his attention to other drive-ins he operates in Laurel, Miss., and the Marrero, La., drive-in. White will tend to his other business including the self invented, new type screen for outdoor exhibi¬ tion. . . . Pat McGee, recently promoted to the general sales managership of Cinema Dis¬ tributors of America, was in Los Angeles and San Francisco. . . . Della Jean Favre and her husband hosted the local WOMPI at a party at her home in honor of outgoing officers. . . . Vic Maurin, Park, is observing his 50th year in the industry. . . . Mrs. W. A. Prewitt, Temple, Texas, was in to see her mother, Mrs. O. J. Kay, who was bedded at a local hospital. Her grandson, W. A. Prewitt, head of Gulf States Theatres ad-publicity, reported his grandmother’s condition as satisfactory. PHILADELPHIA The Motion Picture Associates Foundation will hold a $100 per couple testimonial dinner in honor of Jack Beresin’s 75th birthday at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel on Sept. 17. Proceeds go to the welfare fund of the Foundation. . . . Paramount branch manager Don Hicks was in Woman’s Medical College Hospital. . . . Dave Milgram, TOP president and head of Milgram Theatres, underwent surgery at Einstein Medi¬ cal Center, Northern Division. . . . Charles Fogel, Budco’s purchasing and advertising de¬ partments, left for two years in the Army. . . . Mario Randolph is now managing the Nixon for Ellis Theatres. . . . The Paramount ex¬ change is in the midst of Shorts Festival. Exhibitor friends are asked to cooperate by giving dates during the period from August 3— September 6. John Daly says help will be par¬ ticularly appreciated by “Honey Halfwitch.” . . . Industry friends of ‘Miss Mac,’ United Artists’ Elizabeth V. Ziegler, retiring after 46 years, will tender her a dinner at the BellevueStratford Hotel. . . . Tom Zaffiro, the Vine Street barber, postcarded from Ireland, where he is honeymooning. . . . General Cinema Cor¬ poration holds today (Aug. 10) a viewing of the new Cinema Clifton Heights, Clifton Heights, Pa. . . . Sympathy is extended to Florence and Estelle Wiener whose mother passed away. SAN ANTONIO The Loop 13 D-I, closed for some time, has been reopened. The theatre was previously op¬ erated by Gulf State Theatres. . . . Radio sta¬ tion K-BAT, which sponsored two special showings of “Batman” at the Texas, had the Batboat used in the movie on display at the Texas. ... A kiddie show was presented at the Texas and Laurel with admission being six Pepsi or six Mountain Dew bottle caps. 18 MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR August 10, 1966