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...Spare the Horses. Grandiose spectacles, and the sumptuous grandeur of its own size and trappings, have made the $4,600,000 Music Hall a show business nonpareil and a major tourist magnet. Last year, at prices from 80? to $2.40, it drew 16 times as many visitors as the Statue of Liberty. Of its 8,000,000 annual customers, half are out-of-towners...
...puerile idleness. But nothing could be further from the truth: the pinball machine is a metaphysical microcosm. It reflects, in miniature, the unchanging processes, the limitations which define man's Free Will as well as his victimization by circumstance. First of all, it demonstrates Necessity; there is a magnet, ever drawing the ball downward to let it finally rest in its groove, until it is again called upon to begin its course anew. There is Free Will when the movement of the ball fortuitously heads toward one of the flippers and is hurled back; or when the machine is skillfully...
...Connecticut blacksmith, Bing gets knocked on the head one stormy night at the turn of the century and wakes up in 528 A.D. at the point of an Arthurian lance. To save himself from the stake, he has only a pocketful of modern matches, a watch crystal, a hefty magnet and an almanac. This, of course, is where the fun should begin. But it doesn't. Bing riffles through his wonder-working stunts, jousts with Sir Launcelot (Henry Wilcox-son) and rescues King Arthur's beautiful niece (Rhonda Fleming) with his tongue conspicuously in his cheek. To underline...
...bills for the "blood"-stained clothes of some 20 customers. But it helped boost the week's receipts to $40,000-more than any show but Kiss Me, Kate and As the Girls Go grossed on Broadway last week. The Bronx's big-money playhouse is a magnet for one of New York's lowest-income groups-the growing city-within-a-city of 230,000 Puerto Ricans...
Last year, amid reams of newspaper ballyhoo, Davenport received the magnet for the machine--a magnet so strong that it could yank hammers out of people's hands and stop all the watches hear...