Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main difference is that while Frederic Wakeman had a Message, and to the detriment of his novel, spelled it out in overly large letters for Book-of-the-Month Club buyers, the moviemakers have felt impelled almost to club his point home to any cretin who wanders into the theater. Despite this fact, you will find yourself in sympathy with the bright young man who makes his way in the "game" with a front compounded of sincere ties and a fetching spiel. You will find it not at all difficult to share his disgust on realizing that his life...
...Silver Theater (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS). Leave It to Ethel, with Ethel Merman...
...evil-smelling darkness of the Victory Theater on Washington Street, a well-balanced program is being shown these days. While one picture demonstrates graphically the dangers of Ceylon rural life, the other is equally disenchanting about our own urban civilization. But for the man who does not give a hang for the sociological view, and merely wants to be entertained, both features are the nuts...
...rest of San Antonio's citizens. One who did not ignore them was short (5 ft. 6 in.), good-natured Gaetano Anthony Lucchese, 50, son of a Sicilian immigrant. When Tano Lucchese was 17, his father* sent him to the West Side to manage the old Zaragoza theater. Lucchese liked the movie business; he also liked and understood Mexicans. They liked him too. The adults used the lobby as a meeting place; children were allowed to romp through the aisles during shows...
Lucchese's idea of the best was a four-story, $1,250,000 foreign-trade center in San Antonio, called Casa de Mexico. In the center he planned a 2,500-seat movie theater, a penthouse with bar and lounge and, in the wings, offices for firms engaged in U.S.-Mexican trade...