Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week The Alchemist was given a lively airing-as the first bill in the New York City Center's spring theater program. Set smack in Jonson's lusty London, the play tells of three high-flying cheats, one of whom professes to be an alchemist, and of the brisk trade they drive. Dupes and sharpers alike are finally discomfited; but first the alchemist is sought out by every kind and condition of hopeful, from a modest lawyer's clerk who has an itch to gamble to the City knight, Sir Epicure Mammon, with his sumptuous...
Independent producers have long found it hard to peddle their pictures. The big studios preferred to put their own pictures in theater chains and they could do it; the big studios owned the chains. For the same reason, independent theater owners had found it almost as hard to book the big studios' best pictures, except on the big studios' own hard terms. Among the terms: "block booking," i.e., buying movies in blocks of five or more (often four poor movies for every good...
...Century-Fox to have block booking declared illegal. But in the labyrinth of deals and counter-deals in Hollywood, the antitrust division found that it had to go farther. The same suit named Columbia, United Artists and Universal. It buttressed its case with suits against Griffith Amusement Co. (with theaters in 85 towns in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico) and the Stanley Co. Also sued was Schine Theater Co. (150 theaters in six states), owned by J. Myer Schine (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946), a small-town boy who still lives at Gloversville, N.Y. (pop.: 23,000). (In his spare time...
...Ordered the theater-owning companies to stop "pooling" the receipts of two or more normally competitive theaters...
...Tough. One important point was not quite decided. The lower court had carefully sidestepped the antitrust division's principal demand: force the producing companies to sell their theater holdings and divorce themselves entirely from film distribution. Instead the lower court merely ordered the companies to 1) stop buying theaters and 2) give independents a chance at first crack at topflight pictures by auctioning them off through competitive bidding. That order, said the Supreme Court, failed to strike at the core of the present cases. It sent the decision back to the lower court for a tougher ruling. To many...