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...makes sure to run college favorites. He's run all of the Guinesses, several times. The un-American stuff at the Exeter, Kenmore and Beacon Hill, all makes its way to the local popcorn emporium, as long as it's in our native tongue...
...next time your little lady allows how attendance at the U.T. is non-U and not at all Ivy League, and she hopes you will falter her sensibilities by emptying your pockets for a single feature, just stuff her mouth full of popcorn and lead her to the first row of the downstairs reserve section. I'll be there...
These days, major films generally run well into the third hour, at great profit to the popcorn interests and at great cost to the patience of viewers, but this production, in only 103 minutes, includes everything important in Lawrence's 500-page novel. The most serious objection to the film is that it is inconclusive. But so is the novel: Lawrence chose to shut off his narrative after Mrs. Morel dies, but before Paul learns whether he has really been set free. If the ending lacks force, it is because it owes more to life than...
...money on company cafeterias. Machine makers are racing to perfect a complete in-plant feeding system for such operating companies as ABC Vending Corp. (1959 sales: $66 million) and Los Angeles' fast-growing Automatic Retailers Co. of America (est. 1960 sales: $35 million). ABC Vending, which began selling popcorn and candy in Manhattan movie houses, now has concessions in more than 2,750 theaters and 420 drive-in movies. It has taken advantage of the leisure-time boom, moved vending machines into sports arenas, bowling alleys and stock-car racetracks. At Squaw Valley's Olympic Games last winter...
...Tuskegee, Ala., birthplace of Tuskegee Institute (for Negroes), the Macon Theater had the last word in separate but equal cinema. The separate ticket offices, separate entrances, and separate concessions were old as midnight popcorn, but there was an added feature: a ceiling-to-floor partition, running down the middle of the auditorium. There were 324 seats on the white side and 336 seats on the colored side. Up front: two separate but equal silver screens...