Word: exhibitors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told the Customs man and two of his superiors what I thought. I insisted the posters were superior art by a great painter whose work is displayed by all the major museums of the world." After two days of negotiation with the dogged man of Customs, dogged Exhibitor Perls marched happily back to his shop, posters under his arm, duty free. "It's the principle of the thing," he said...
...premiere Aug. i. Six days earner, Producer Lou Bunin's French-made puppet & live-action Alice in Wonderland (released through Souvaine Selective Pictures) is slated for its U.S. opening in two of Exhibitor Harry Brandt's Manhattan movie houses. Last week, after months of ominous rumbling, Disney and Souvaine entered into battle. Claimed Disney: Bunin's "inferior" Alice would deceive the public into going to see the wrong picture, thus spoiling his nice new Alice's box-office take. In good Tweedledee fashion, Souvaine retorted: Contrariwise...
...biggest U.S. movie exhibitor, United Paramount Theatres, Inc. has been hard hit by television. Unable to lick the enemy, United Paramount's 45-year-old President Leonard H. Goldenson last week decided to join it. He made a $25 million stock-swapping deal to buy American Broadcasting Co., third biggest television-radio network. Only two weeks before, Edward J. Noble, ABC's biggest stockholder (58%), had stated firmly that he would not sell. But Paramount had upped its offer enough to change his mind...
Goldenson is keeping mum about future plans,but his deal has some obvious possibilities. He is already installing big-screen TV facilities in 27 Paramount theaters, could tie them in with ABC programs. With his potent bargaining force as the country's biggest exhibitor, he might also break the movie-producing industry's blockade against new films for TV. A likely solution: use TV for "second-run" showings of new pictures after first-run showings at Paramount theaters...
...answer in towns deprived of the real article. The two versions of International Burlesque-the "cold" one for strict towns, the "hot" or "farm" one for wide-open spots-have already played to audiences in some 350 U.S. theaters, have been exported to several distributors abroad. Said one Washington exhibitor: "It was better than sensational. It was dynamic. There were lots of celebrities who came around, too. You'd be surprised...