Cadillac Palace Theatre

Boy Kisses Girl, Then Kills Her

‘Sealed Lips’ on Screen As Youth Chooses Theater for Shooting

CHICAGO. Feb 25, 1942 â€"APâ€" A 17- year-old former high school student was seized in surburban Berwyn today and confessed, Coroner A. L. Brodie announced, that he kissed pretty Dorothy Broz, his 16-year-old companion, and then shot her to death while they sat in the downtown Palace Theater.
The youth, Clarence McDonald, a railroad employee, was seized on information supplied by the victim’s friend, Miss Elaine Mastney, 17, a senior in the Morton High School.
She told authorities that Dorothy said Clarence was inordinately
jealous, and had said: “If I can’t have you, nobody else will.”

‘IT JUST HAPPENED’

Some 12 hours after the shooting late yesterday in the theater balcony where “Hellzapoppin” and “Sealed Lips” were being shown,
the youth made a statement to the attorney Leslie Curtis. “I don’t know — it just happened,“ he was quoted as saying. "Was there any conversation before you shot her?” the boy was asked. “No,” he replied, “I was kissing her.”

GOING TOGETHER

Young McDonald said he had been going with Dorothy for about two years, that they had talked of marriage, but later decided “to wait four years “until she was a little older.“ He admitted the officials said, that on a former occasion he had drawn a pistol on the girl while they were in an ice cream parlor, but that he was just "fooling."
Prior to making the statement, the youth told the coroner that he and his victim had quarreled about trivial things — baseball, football and school affairs.
The clue was obtained shortly after the identification of Dorothy's
body in the morgue where it had lain among the unknown dead for almost 11 hours after the shooting.
Identification was made by an uncle who said Dorothy, also of Berwyn,
was the daughter of a real estate man and that she had finished high school this month.
Police had obtained only a vague description of the youth who stepped across Dorothy’s bleeding body, sprinted up an aisle and escaped in the dark and confusion of the theater.
Noisy with pistol shots and girlish screams, “Hellzapoppin' had finished and a companion picture, "Sealed Lips.” had started building its mystery plot.
In the nearly empty balcony, Dorothy was sitting with a young man. Suddenly she cried “Help, oh help me! He’s got a gun!” Those nearby heard her but associated her cry with the antics in the picture just ended. A scene in the crime feature, a fight in a prison mess hall, had the sound of amplified roaring as a perfect cover for the shot that followed by a few seconds. “Oh, get that man! I’m shot, I’m shot!” Dorothy screamed, then collapsed in an aisle, a bullet beneath her heart.

Chicago’s CINERAMA Theaters

Palace

Opera House

McVickers

Cinestage

Edens

The McVickers was a different theatre that did show Cinerama, including How The West Was Won

I’m looking at a June 3rd, 1965 Chicago Daily News that lists it’s name as only the “Palace Theatre, Randolph at LaSalle”. “My Fair Lady” is the film.So maybe “Palace” should be added as one of it’s former names.

View link – 1975 Night

That was me not the computer with the TORO! instead of TORA!. I guess I didn’t spend enough time in Japan.

Let’s try http://cinematreasures.org/news/20357_0_1_20_C/ and see if that works any better.

Maybe the computer was trying to correct the typo of Cinerama film number eleven.
Which should read “Tora! Tora! Tora!”.

Otherwise CINERAMA would have had quite a task in 1970, showcasing lawnmowers or Oldsmobiles.

Well I know it’s a good list, but I sure didn’t think it was so great it needed to be repeated three times. I’ve got some real computer problems, I hope Santa reads this.

Here’s a list of SOME of the Roadshows “THAT PLAYED THE PALACE”. It includes all of the 3-strip CINERAMA films that showed at the Palace and some 70mm. The list IS NOT complete and MAY have errors, but it’s still a pretty good list that I’ve come up with (I had a lot of help from Michael Coate). Please feel free to add any flicks or make corrections. Reruns are not listed. An AFTER before a date means that this was the movies release date. Notice how many weeks some films played next to how long a film lasts in a theater now days! Hope it brings back some memories, let’s hear about them.

THIS IS CINERAMA, 7/29/53, 98 weeks, 3-strip CINERAMA

CINERAMA HOLIDAY, 6/15/55, 78 weeks, 3-strip CINERAMA

SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD, 12/12/56, 70 weeks, 3-strip CINERAMA

SEARCH FOR PARADISE, 4/16/58, 22 weeks, 3 strip CINERAMA

SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE, 9/18/58, 59 weeks, 3 strip CINERAMA

CAN-CAN, 4/19/60, Todd-AO

THE ALAMO, 10/26/60, Todd-AO

THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN, 6/24/64, Panavision 70mm Blow Up, NON Roadshow

MY FAIR LADY, 10/23/64, Super Panavision 70

CAMELOT, after 10/25/67, Panavision 70mm Blow Up

TORO! TORO! TORO!, after 9/24/70, Panavision 70mm Blow Up

NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, 1973, Panavision 70mm Blow Up

For some extensive lists of possible movies that could have “PLAYED THE PALACE” that you might want to add to this list go to http://cinematreasures.org/news/20357-0-1-0-C/

“Ladies and Gentlemen, This is CINERAMA!” Lowell Thomas, September 30, 1952

Thanks for the info, Leslie Michael Bender and CWalczak.

Also believe that the theater name was the RKO Palace when the first Cinerama production played in 1952. Think after Hughes sold RKO, it became Eitel’s Palace. This because I remember both names, being that there were few non Balaban & Katz venues in the fifties. Whatever the owner’s name, it was a magnificent ‘road show’ theater.

That is a nice picture, one I had not seen before.

However the accompanying text is incorrect as regards the Cinerama projection booths at the Palace, As noted above, they were suspended from the balcony overhang, in front of the loge boxes, not attached to the auditorium floor.

The accompanying diagram (which appeared in a number of Cinerama programs and in other places) also suggests that most Cinerama installations had the booths at the top of a balcony. Except for a few purpose-built installations (such as the Martin and Cooper Cinerama theaters – where the booths were archtecturally blended into the side walls),the booths were on the main floor in order to to achieve the necessary straight-ahead projection of the images and alignment of the panels.