Word: nickelodeon
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...Martha Scott, and by a smooth directorial touch that irons out many of the rough spots, though too many are still left. Some of its scenes are superbly handled: the minister's effort to show his son the evil of motion pictures by accompanying him to a Wild West Nickelodeon, for example, is a brilliantly carried out piece of work. And there are a number of others equally well done...
...were talking about. Mary, the petite and pretty Irish girl who dispenses the drinks up there, can hold her own with any of the so-called wits who hang around the club. They don't come smart enough to phase her. For those who like to dance there is nickelodeon with one of those newfangled telephone attachments. The dancing space is not very large, but it serves its purpose. Every once in a while a good boogie-woogie player drops in out of the cold and throws out a hot bit from the dumpy little piano over in the corner...
Raffles (United Artists). Ernest William Hornung did not know, when he wrote The Amateur Cracksman in 1899, that his story would become a perennial movie renamed for its hero. The current Raffles is a fourth remake of the original nickelodeon thriller. It is also Producer Sam Goldwyn's second remake of the same film and his last picture for United Artists. He is now looking for a new distributor...
...Says Authority McGuire: "jook as noun means a rather ordinary roadhouse outside the city limits . . . where beer is for sale, and where there is a coin phonograph, or nickelodeon, and space for dancing...
Campus "jelly joints" cater to this nickel trade from breakfast time to closing hours. Loud music from the nickelodeon, the smell of frying hamburgers, the ever-present nickel machines, and trays full of cigarette butts characterize these gathering places...