Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eighteen or nineteen year old Freshman, if he goes to a graduate school, may never complete his formal education until he is twenty-seven, old enough to be Vice President of a First National Bank. Dean Leighton, after proving beyond all argument that seventeen year olds do quite as well as their elders in the Freshman Class, suggests that the age level of graduates from preparatory schools, especially private schools, be lowered...
...Bank Night works simply. In his lobby a theatre owner places a large book. Persons who wish to do so may enter their names in the book opposite numbers corresponding to which the box office keeps a book of tickets. On Bank Night, usually Monday, when receipts are normally lowest, the tickets are placed in a drum on the stage. One number is drawn from the drum and announced. If the person whose name is entered for that number in the lobby book appears on the stage within a specified time, usually three minutes, he receives a cash prize...
...simplicity of Bank Night makes all the more remarkable the way in which it has functioned, not merely to the advantage of theatre owners, but also to that of its shrewd young promoters. Charles Urban Yaeger devised Bank Night when he was assistant to Frank Henry ("Rick") Ricketson, Rocky Mountain division manager of Fox Theatres, as a means of increasing patronage. It worked so much better than Amateur Night, free radios and the like, which cinema exhibitors have been foisting on their patrons ever since the industry began, that Promoter Yaeger soon resigned from Fox, copyrighted Bank Night and organized...
Major flaw in the scheme of Bank Night from the point of view of Affiliated Enterprises, Inc. is that the copyright is easy to infringe. Proprietors of drugstores, dance-halls, delicatessens are likely to be incredulous and indignant when warned that they are trespassing. A variation of Bank Night is currently popular at Manhattan's Stork Club, where patrons get free chances for substantial cash prizes. Imitations of Bank Night called "Dividend Night," "Buck Night," "Cash Night," "Screeno," are flourishing in cinema houses all over the U. S. Handing down his opinion in Des Moines. where Bank Night...
Suits to determine the legality of Bank Night are currently proceeding in New Hampshire, Texas, Massachusetts, and New York, where the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court last week found one Charles Cranides guilty of breaking the lottery law by spinning a wheel in his cinemansion to determine cash awards. In New Orleans the four major newspapers (Times-Picayune, States, Item and Tribune) recently discontinued theatre advertising containing mention of Bank Night...