Paramount World (May 1958 - July 1962)

6 Paramount World PICTURES AND NEWS FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN BRANCHES... You can never plan the future by the past. -Ecknund Bxrke Juliet Prowse , Elvis Presley and an adorable baby make wonderful music and romance in one of the many charming scenes of "G. I. Blues." — vnp | Congratulations are in order for _tW TUKK) £sther Epstein, who has been appointed cashier. She succeeds Steve Baronek, resigned. Congratuations also to Miss Grace Ganguzza who succeeds Miss Epstein as secretary to Nat Stern, sales manager. With "Psycho," "Bat Race" & "Bellboy" racking up record grosses and our new short subjects meeting with oomplete exhibitor approval, good days certainly are here again. The boys and girls in the sales and booking department, sparked by Myron Sattler, branch manager, have their sleeves rolled up and are going all out to reap the harvest. — Gene Newman oACKSONV I LLE Everyone in this branch is thrilled over the three record-breaking, blockbuster pictures now playing in our area — "Bellboy", "The Rat Race" and "Psycho." Ihe grosses on these three, pictures have been outstanding, and we ere proud that the Paramount trademark is on each. "Psycho" is playing the St. Johns Theatre here and people are continuously lined up for two or three blocks, in the rain, at every showing to see this picture. It gives one a wonderful feeling to look at the release sheets and see a line-up of product such as "Visit to a Small Planet," "Rat Race," "Bellboy," "Psycho," "Tarzan the Magnificent," "The World of Susie Wong," "It Dallas Previews "6.1. Blues" Hal Wallis' Elvis Presley production, "G. I. Blues," was sneak previewed at the Majestic Theatre, Dallas, the evening of August 12th. Paramount Division Manager Tom Bridge reports that the event "certainly was a huge success." He added that "Raymond Willie went all out to make this a real Hollywood sneak preview " After describing the event, the massive capacity audience, the overwhelming enthusiasm, Tom sximmed the event up in these words: "...I have never seen an audience respond to a picture like they did to G. I. BLUES. Not only was there great applause at the beginning and end of the picture, but the audience applauded the specialty numbers throughout the film. It*was not altogether an audience of youngsters; there were many, many older people in the audienwe. The comment cards that I saw were all marked 'excellent' and the writers' remarks about the picture were all highly complimentary This is not a 'rock and roll' picture. This is the new Presley I predict that G. I. BLUES will be the biggest Presley picture that it has been our privilege to handle " The preview (which Hal Wallis himself attended) was covered by William A. Payne, Amusements Editor of The Dallas Morning News, who gave the event a three-column story. His opening words were: "....If there are any Thomases doubting whether Elvis Presley's popularity could survive a 2-year hitch in the Army, they should have been around the Majestic Theatre Friday night Long before G. I. BLUES came on the screen, the theatre was packed with all seats occupied and as many standees as fire regulations allow. Hundreds more were turned away." THE LAMP IS INSTALLED At left is the scene in the Paramount Studio when the April sales convention was climaxed by the presentation of an old-fashioned lamp to World Sales Manager George Weltner. Jerry Pickman made the presentation on behalf of all of the delegates. At right the lamp installed at the entrance to Mr. Weltner' s beautiful home in Stamford, Connecticut. Started in Naples," "Under Ten Flags," "Blood and Roses," "Pleasure of his Company," "CinderFella," "One-Eyed Jacks," and last, but not least, the greatest motion picture ever made, Cecil B. DeMille's immortal "The Ten Commandments." Mr. Hugh Owen visited our branch recently holding a very important meeting with our booking and selling staff. It certainly was an inspiring and interesting meeting, as Mr. Owen went over the product coming up and the pictures that will be going into production in the near future. Ve are certain of one thing after hearing Mr. Owen's talk, Paramount will always be a challenging competitor to all motion picture distributors. Paramount will never play second fiddle to any distributor, because we are a proud organization and a proud organization never lets up, until the goal of ^1 is achieved. We are very happy to welcome to our Jacksonville branch, Glorenia Whit chard and Sharolyn McLeod. — fray Chambers NEW 0RLEANS| Everyone in this branch has suddenly gone "P-s-y-c-h-o". That is, we are all whipped up in the exhibitor excitement over this massive Paramount attraction. Which once again proves that "If It's a Paramount Picture, It's the Best Show in Town I" Vacationing this month are Mrs. Irma Rogers, booker-, and Edgar Shinn, salesman. Mrs. Rogers plans spending some time with friends in Wave land. Miss,, while Mr. Shinn plans to drive along the coast with nd definite plans. We sure hope you both enjoy your trips. Bill Chauvin, booker's assistant, and Dave Richoux, booker, spent a few days in Memphis, Term., visiting with our old friends, Howard Nicholson, Travis Carr and Eddie Kaf fenberger. They are now back at their desks. Also back is salesman Eddie Richard, and already on the road. It is our pleasure to introduce three new Paramounteers Clayton Casbergue, booker. Lea Collins, booker's assistant and former PRX operator with us; and Marsha Gutierrez, booker' s assistant. We hope you three will be with us for a long time to come. All here are working hard to better our position in "Paramount's I960 Salute to George (Continued on Page 18)