Word: theaters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read People, Milestones, Cinema, Radio & TV, Theater, National Affairs and Books in that order-much to my husband's disgust. He's a cover-to-cover reader...
...Milne's "The Man in the Bowler Hat" and Essex Dane's "Tuber Roses" are the two one-acters which will be presented in Aggasiz Theater Friday afternoon. Casts of both will be all-freshman...
Although the U.T. originally claimed the Liberal Union's selection of films was bringing them into competition, the management maintains that their only grievance is with the distributors. They say that the cancelled films were ones that were unobtainable to the Theater. The Theater fears a considerable loss of prestige when a non-profit organization of students pops up with a film they had been forced to tell their customers they could not get. Sixteen millimeter exhibitors are supposed to get films that are no longer desired by regular local theaters, and the U.T. considers these films still profitable...
...possible loss of prestige by the University Theater in repeating HLU films brings in the question of areas of competition. The U.T. regards all foreign language films as excellent material for the HLU but seems to resent all fairly recent English language movies. This attitude of the Theater ignores a basic distinction that exists today in all movies. Two categories have become evident-the Hollywood type and the literary type. The former is generally considered more lucrative, and the U.T. has found its widest regular audience with this kind of movie. Even the U.T.'s revival days have lately been...
...fact then remains that a local demand exists for a type of movie the U.T. does not generally supply. When distributors refuse those films to the HLU because, of competition with the University Theater, that theater must adopt a policy favorable to this type of movie. Without this change in policy, local moviegoers will be deprived of a chance to see the kind of movies they have demonstrated they want...