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...dreamlike calm finally broke. Delora Mae burst into tears after a jail, attendant discovered a legend she had scratched on her compact with the point of a bobby-pin, while sitting in her cell: "Delora Mae Campbell killed Donna Joyce Isbell Sat. nite...
Sumner has been with the UT ever since it was founded, back in the days when "Student Stage Smokers at Mid-Nite Saturday" were a regular part of the theatre's program. The smokers, which consisted mainly of rather ragged vaudeville acts, had to be discontinued after a while because of what were then termed "disturbances...
...crowing "disturbance" came in February, 1927, when 40 students were arrested after battling a vast assemblage of local policemen following a "Mid-Nite Smokers." One policeman told the court that some of the students had been taking their minds off the UT's performers by drinking "some of that awful modern liquor--stuff I wouldn't feed my own children...
Ever since "Bank Nite" shows began to run afoul of local anti-lottery laws, movie exhibitors have been looking for a new gimmick to pep up the tired box office. Last week in Denver, where Bank Nite itself was invented, a theater man named Robert Patrick thought he had the answer: horse races on the screen that pay off to the audience...
...keep everything legal, 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...