Paramount World (May 1958 - July 1962)

18 Paramount World GERALDINE PAGE If Tennessee Williams had never existed, Geraldine Page, who stars in his film version of "Summer and Smoke," wonders where her Broadway and Hollywood acting career might be. Miss Page, who played in the revival of "Summer and Smoke" at Circle in the Square in 1952, has also starred in the summer circuit versions of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "The Glass Menagerie" as well as the recent Broadway hit, "Sweet Bird of Youth." "Tennessee is my guiding force," she claims. "I came out of complete obscurity in the theatre in 'Sumner and Smoke' and the very next season went to Broadway, where I saw my name at last in marquee lights." BOSTON Effective "Blue Hawaii" tie-up with ? Supreme supermarkets in reater Boston. First 100 customers purchasing Food Club Pineapple Juice received guest tickets and leis to see the film at the Metropolitan Theatre. Additionally, 3,000 leis were given to Juice purchasers, compliments of Elvis Presley. The cruelest lies are often told in silence. -Robert Louis Stevenson "A WELL-STOCKED SANTA TAKES THE ROAD AGAIN” This was the banner headline on the cover of November 1st Motion Picture Herald. Inside was a 2-page article, this time with the headline: "A Hardy Perennial Hits the Exhibition Trail Once Again." It all referred to the superb showmanship campaign with which "White Christmas" has been re-released and has proven to be an ace revenue-maker for both exhibitor and distributor. Three illustrations (all of which have appeared in Paramount World), one advertisement, and four columns of text comprised the Motion Picture Herald's feature. CHARLOTTE NEWS (from Page 6) its kind in this part of the South. The Cax>]4» Theatre, Charlotte, N. C. will be completely remodeled into the Cinerama. The Carolina theatre was built in 1927 and is located downtown. We are proud to have in our office the first lacty of WOMPI Mrs. Myrtle Parker, wh6 is secretary to our Branch Manager, Lawrence Terrell. She is President of the Association of the Women of the Motion Picture Industry. Congratulations, Myrtle and best wishes for a good year of progress for WCMPIl Good News I The operation was a success. That's v*iat the doctor said today about the eye LlV/NO STEREO ; rca Victor presents" to ORIGINAL SOUND TRACI AIMS l 14 GREAT SONGS ELVIS’ LATEST! 14 GREAT SONGS FROM THE ORIGINAL BLUE HAWAII SOUNDTRACK A HAL WALLIS PRODUCTION, A PARAMOUNT PICTURES RELEASE. it BLUE HAWAII it ALMOST ALWAYS TRUE it ALOHA OE ☆ NO MORE I * CANT HELP FALLING IN LOVE ☆ ROCK A HULA BABY i £ MOONLIGHT SWIM LSP/LPM-2426 IN Limn STf PtG UNO MONAUPAI HI fl ORDER NOW! @ lU A\i<T(.)H@ The mo*' trusted name <n sound it KU U I-PO it fFO EATS it SLICIN' SAND it HAWAIIAN SUNSET it BEACH BOY BLUES ☆ ISLAND OF LOVE it HAWAIIAN WEDDING SONG NEW YORK This is the type of full-page advertising that the RCA-Victor L/P album on Hal Wallis' "Blue Hawaii" is receiving in the music trade publications* This ad was in the November 11th Billboard Music Week* Goss i p That f,s T rue Not one of the four young actors Frank Atienza, Jose De Varga, Ralph Henalie and Lani Kai who play native beach boys in Hal Wallis' "Blue Hawaii." starring Elvis Presley, had ever been to Hawaii until they went there for filming of the Paramount musical comedy John Wayne': famous old battered hat, now virtually his trad mark, will not be seen in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." The stetson, trampled, torn and worn through many Western fights and desert chases, has finally reached a point where it can no longer hold together. It is now reposing in Wayne's trophy room, while a new one is being made and properly aged to match it. The stars of "Liberty Valance" — James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Hiies, Lee Marvin and Edmond O'Brien — have been joined by a grand group rf the great stars of yesterday. Eva Novak, Stuart Holmes, Dorothy Phillips, Gertrude Astor, Helen Gibson and Bill Henry are some of those that Jolt Ford signed for appearances in his production.. And by the way, Mr. Ford calls his picture an "intimate Western," thus creating a new categor to describe his important production. \1 JOHN WAYNE Martin Rackin, head of Paramount production, is back in the studio from his European Journey undertaken in the company of Vice president George Weltner. In England he had joined produc er Hugh French in a series of meetings with Sir Winston Churchill on Paramount's forthcoming filming of "The Churchill Story." And again the great elder statesman had said: "I only wish Errol Flynn were alive so he could play igypert.1 Aed Taylor, who recently completed the scree play on Alistair MacLean's "Night Without End," William Perlberg-George Seaton production, has taken leave from film production to revise a ne novel scheduled for publication next year. operation on Salesman Joe Cutrell's eye three weeks ago. It will be a few more weeks until Joe returns. His co-workers and exhibitors have missed him and thought of him constantly during his absence and look forward to his return. Booker Yates Pryor is busy booking pictures after an absence of two weeks, having been hospitalized for surgery. We missed you, too, Tates. Tommy Lambert's father is doing nicely after a serious back operation in Durham recently. Eleanor Helms, booking stenographer, and her husband, Jerry, have moved into a new home in Clanton Park. The November Luncheon of the Charlotte WOMPI Club will present a silent movie, Iff. C. Fields in "Hurry, Hurry", a comedy. The music for the film will be done by a former silent movie pianist, Mrs. Gertrude Pearce who played for the silents from 1906 to 1927 (21 years) when the talkies put her out of a job. -Mildred Hoover Now that "Summer and Smoke" has been released and reviewed the ’Oscar' -look in Hal Wallis' eyes ( see Page 6) has grown even more intent.