Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reversing an action it took two weeks ago, the Cambridge Board of Licenses yesterday granted the Brattle Theatre a permit to show movies at midnight on Fridays and Saturdays...
...last time we voted on this I feel we were not fully informed," Leo Davenport, chief of Cambridge police and a member of the licensing board, said after a rehearing of the theater's application. "Since that time we have learned that three other Cambridge theaters show movies at midnight...
...three-member board rejected the theater's license application in late September, stating that permitting movies to be shown at midnight "would set a bad precedent" and would cause traffic congestion in Harvard Square. That decision forced Brattle Theatre to turn away 300 moviegoers from midnight showings of "Eraserhead" on the weekend of September...
...appears that the other theaters have been operating midnight shows due to an oversight. That will be discussed when the Brattle Theatre gets its rehearing next week...
Calnan said Cambridge's other theaters may be asked to submit applications for midnight film permits, but added she doubted that any effort would be made to block the moviehouses from showing their regular midnight shows this weekend. "I can't speculate on what the board will do," she said...