Word: exhibitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought was hardly comforting to the British film industry. In London, an associate of J. Arthur Rank, Britain's foremost producer and largest exhibitor, admitted it was the first time he "had seen the boss really worried." A shortage of U.S. films could starve Rank's movie houses (the Odeon chain) and force them either to close down or run "classics" before dwindling audiences. (Of the 300 new pictures which British movie houses require each year, only about 80 could be produced at home...
...Manhattan, some 650 of the nation's top shoe manufacturers got together for the biggest National Shoe Fair ever held. They had come to show their wares and take orders for autumn delivery. But orders were so scarce that many an exhibitor packed his samples and disgustedly went home a day before the fair was officially ended...
...maddening set of twins, Olivia de Havilland does a neat job of keeping everyone, including the audience, properly baffled. Lew Ayres, who left Hollywood under a wartime cloud in 1942 when he registered as a conscientious objector, makes his first postwar screen appearance. Whether because of the fan and exhibitor furor about his C.O. status, or because of his 22 months Pacific service as a noncombatant Medical Corps sergeant and chaplain's assistant, the Ayres face and screen personality have undergone a startling change. With little remaining resemblance to the confused kid of All Quiet on the Western Front...
...have clearly been violating the Sherman Antitrust Act through a complex system of fixed admission prices, block-booking, pooling arrangements, and franchises. In general, said the court, these practices would have to go; in particular, block-booking would have to give way to the auction setup in which any exhibitor could freely bid for any new films. Moreover, the exhibitor would not have to buy in blocks-i.e., take three bad films to get one good one. But the court felt that forcing the producers to sell their theaters was too drastic, and would only "create...
...have been due to the coal and rail strikes. Or it may have been the record amusement-hungry crowds that jammed every race track and ballpark. Whatever the cause, there was a very slight slump at U.S. movie box offices during the month. But no exhibitor was either worried or feeling any pinch. So many people were still standing in line for movie seats that the trade described the slump as merely a drop "from super-sensational to mildly terrific" business...