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...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...
...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...
...Patrick notes in fine print that the racing fan need not enter the theater to play. But since the bettors want to see their horses run, they have been swarming past his box-office window, anyway. Recalling that Bank Nite netted its inventors more than $1,000,000, enterprising Exhibitor Patrick has already applied for a patent on his new gimmick, has received 100 applications from. Colorado theaters that want to lease his scheme, expects to set up a national leasing system within a few months...
Prize money depends on the number of dogs entered in the class, but it seldom covers the cost of transporting the animals from town to town. For that reason, dog shows are a rich man's affair, and the lot of the avid exhibitor, as well as that of his pots, is not an easy...
...Another exhibitor was Giorgio Morandi, considered by some Italian critics as Italy's best living painter. Morandi's specialty is bottles, preferably empty bottles. He has been arranging them on tables in his dusty Bologna studio for most of his 59 years, painting them as undramatically as he can, in pale, dry colors. The show contained examples of his endless variety: bottles grouped like ballet dancers, like factory chimneys, or just like bottles...