Word: ballroomful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...control the five theaters. But McNeil-Naify easily outmaneuvered them. When the Goldwyn agents tried to get an option on the State Auditorium, officials refused because it was a public building and could not be rented to private enterprise for profit. Then the Goldwyn men leased the El Patio ballroom, alongside the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. Reno's Fire Chief, George M. Twaddle, regretfully informed them that their portable projection booth did not conform to Reno's fire laws. They tried to rent a parking lot, planning to surround it with a 10 ft. canvas fence and show...
Counterattack. In desperation, the Goldwyn forces finally built a platform outside the El Patio ballroom. They hoped to get around the fire laws by showing the movie through the window. McNeil-Naify promptly threatened to bring suit because the platform blocked the sidewalk, and took splashy newspaper ads to point out that Reno moviegoers must now suffer the indignity of "uncarpeted floors . . . the whistle of freight trains . . . static in the sound system...
High-strung Bill Sinek relaxes not only by playing polo ("golf is an old man's Came"). He also throws massive parties for his friends. At a dinner he gave for some railroad men in 1938, Sinek had two circus elephants brought into the grand ballroom of Chicago's Hotel Sherman to entertain the guests...
They transformed the ballroom of Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium into a scrupulous likeness of the 1912 Democratic convention hall at Baltimore. Hugest interior shot, the convention scene was "light-painted" for Technicolorists by enough electric power to service a city...
...this last weekend most of us have had a chance to locate in Boston what we think are the desirable places to spend a shore leave. From the Statler ballroom to the Raymore, Boston people have noticed a new element smoothly moving into their midst. Some had difficulty in identifying us. Warren Sheard was accosted with "Are you in the Army, young man?", at which it is said he pulled the string and got the car. Little wonder...