Word: rialto
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...balance the ledger, this past winter also witnessed one of the brighter events in Scollay Square's recent history. The Rialto Theatre, which had been closed and out of repair for a year recently reopened as the only all-night movie house in Greater Boston. If you're lonesome, you'd be surprised how much of an old friend "Rocky" Lane can be toward...
...Compete with Rialto...
...American people have had plenty of opportunities to support [good] pictures and almost invariably have failed to do so. Although I have helped to import many of the finest pictures ever brought into this country, I was able to ... only because I was simultaneously operating [Manhattan's] Rialto Theater, which consistently showed the worst. The profits on the bad pictures enabled me to stand the losses on the good ones. Most of the critics of the industry are optimists, because they only write and speak about the demand for superior films. I am a pessimist, because I have invested...
Roundup. In London, when things began to get out of hand at the regular showings of wild west movies, Manager Ross Hancock of the Rialto Theater sternly ruled that henceforth all children must check their cap pistols and knives at the box office...
Crossed Fingers. There were some drawbacks to the fine weather. German floodwaters had put the Neckar, Weser and Ruhr canals out of business and closed the Rhine's Düsseldorf bridge. In Venice, the Adriatic had risen to cover St. Mark's Square and the Rialto. Torrential rains and melting snow in the mountains of France had sent Nancy, Epinal and Metz their worst floods in more than a century. In the Vosges 33 bridges were washed out. And with a month of winter still to come, there was always the chance of late frosts that might...