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...same category. If your child wants to go to the movies at one o'clock on Saturday and come out at six, having sat in the front row the whole time, that's fine. He may have a splitting headache and be sick from a lot of popcorn, but he has caused no harm to his eyes. He has benefited from using them. Eyes, like fingers, hands, arms, feet, legs, brains and lungs are to be used, and lack of use may do much greater harm than use. People who tell me they are 'saving' their...
...BEST REMAINING SEATS, by Ben Hall (266 pp.; Potter; $12.50), recalls the vanishing glories of the movie palaces of the 1920s and '30s. If you did not like the movie, you could soak up culture in the lobby looking at the statues. You could buy popcorn under a 40-ft. ceiling, or slump in a lounge that made the baths of Caracalla look like a bird-feeding station. The oldtime movie palaces were (and in some glorious cases still are) the grandest, most begilt structures-inside, at least-ever plastered together; here pictures and text combine for a properly...
...place where animals look at the people. Children, on the other hand, like to look at the animals-and. better yet, touch them if they can. Trouble is, many zoos are so arranged that the only things within a child's reach are balloons, peanuts, popcorn and restrooms. In Manhattan's Central Park last week, kids.flocked by the thousands into a brand-new zoo, built just for them...
...drinking a "nice cuppa." Suddenly, over a loudspeaker came the command, "Eyes down!" There was an instant of silence and adjusting of spectacles as everyone grabbed pencils and peered at an array of cards. On the spotlit stage, numbered pingpong balls in a glass case began to dance like popcorn in jets of air; as the balls fell one by one through a small chute, the announcer intoned "Dinkey-doo, 22" or "Clickety-click, 66," and the air grew violet with suspense...
Suitably enough, a big part of the Mirisch brothers' original fortune came from one of the world's largest popcorn concessions, which is owned by the Mirisches and operated in 850 theaters and driveins around the country, under the control of still another brother, Irving, 57. Sons of a New York tailor, the Mirisches all worked in the movie business from their teens on, starting as office boys and ushers, rising to be bookers. theater managers, producers (Brother Walter put out a dozen of the Bomba. the Jungle Boy films). When they decided to go independent, they "shook...