When your six-plex is down to 2 staff members for the entire day, I would worry less about mandatory meeting attendance and more about having an operating theater to hold the meeting in.
My guess is the layout artist added the coupon after the ad copy writer got mixed up over the ad wording, never called in to the ad department head to alert them, and the “large-drink-for-regular-large-drink-price” wording was sent on to the printers…
If you go to the online recollection link posted by Logan5, you will note the White City spelled Katharine Ross' name correctly on the marquee, but misspelled it on the makeshift one-sheet display lettering next to the entrance as “Katherine Ross.” Perhaps the assistant manager was in a tizzy over the studio finding out.
For completists: the fire was at approximately 3am on Friday, November 1, 1957 (the building was vacant). The newspaper’s front-page story made no mention of the building ever having been a movie theater. (“TV Studios Destroyed by Flames,” Arkansas Gazette, Saturday, November 2, 1957, pp. 1)
Wyandotte County Judge Leo Moroney ordered the seizure of the adult film THE RAMRODDER—which was being shown at the Lakeside following a normal double-feature—on Thursday, June 24, 1969, along with the films THE HEAD MISTRESS and EAT, DRINK AND MAKE MERRIE plus two coming attractions: STARLETT! (referred to in the court papers as THE STARLETT) and LILA. (“Judge Orders a Film Impounded,” Kansas City Star, pp.4).
In a tremendous legal gamble, the Lakeside’s owners COUNTER-SUED Wyandotte County in Federal court for a temporary restraining order before any seizure, naming DA Francis Menghini along with Wyandotte’s three judges (Moroney, O.Q. Claflin III, and Harry Miller), the owners claiming their First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were being violated (the first time in movie exhibition history such rights were claimed by a theater). (“A Film Obscenity Hearing in Topeka,” KCS, Thursday, July 3, 1969, pp. 4).
US District Court Judge George Templar decided he needed the weekend of Friday, July 11, 1969 to make a decision on the injunction along with perhaps combining the case with three similar local federal cases going on at the same time (the Kimo South Theater, now known as the Rio, was having its rights to show I AM CURIOUS YELLOW being deliberated in an extended trial), and that he could decide it instead of a 3-judge panel hearing it. (“Bid to Halt Film Seizure is Studied,” Kansas City Times, Saturday, July 12, 1969, pp. 4A)
Judge Templar punted on Monday, July 14, 1969, denying the owners' rights were being violated and refusing the injunction but then tossed the case to his colleague Arthur Stanley Jr, who was already forming his own 3-judge panel on a separate movie obscenity case. (“Denies Plea on Obscenity Law,” KCT, Tuesday, July 15, 1969, pp.3)
The Uptown actually opened on Friday, January 6, 1928 (I’m looking at the ad) for an 8:15pm reserved-seat premiere, although regular showings did begin on Saturday afternoon the 7th. [Kansas City Times]
Closed as an independent on Tuesday, January 14, 1969 for two weeks. The pp. 18 ad listed VALLEY OF THE DOLLS showing at “1:35 Only” and BANDOLERO at “9:35 Only” (a heck of an intermission). 1/15/69 Commonwealth banner ad, pp. 8A, stated: “CLOSED FOR REMODELING…WILL REOPEN JAN. 29TH."
Advance ad in the 1/28/69 Commonwealth Theaters bar, pp. 14: "TOMORROW! The REOPENING of the ELECTRIC THEATRE for your convenience and comfort! Gregory PECK in THE STALKING MOON. Watch tomorrows commonwealth (sic) ad for show times!” Re-opened as announced on Wednesday, January 29, 1969, with said feature.
Closed for good without explanation on Tuesday, May 13, 1969 with THE BIG BOUNCE from an unpublished Elmore Leonard book and THE SWEET BODY OF DEBORAH. Final ad wording: “Carroll Baker & Leigh Taylor Young Show…and Tell!”, pp. 10. [Kansas City Times/Star]
Opened by Mid-America Cinemas on Friday, February 1, 1977, with the original FREAKY FRIDAY, Robert De Niro in Elia Kazan’s film of THE LAST TYCOON, and a 1974 French production (with English subtitles), LA RIVALE aka MY HUSBAND, HIS MISTRESS AND I. It was specifically noted as being “in the former Sears building.”
Purchased by CCC Theatres later on and then Dickinson.
Quietly closed by Dickinson (after several AMC megaplexes had been opening in the area) on Thursday, January 15, 1998, with TOMORROW NEVER DIES, Robin Williams in Disney’s remake of FLUBBER, THE POSTMAN, SCREAM 2, and the voice of Meg Ryan in the animated ANASTASIA—and all in Dolby. [Kansas City Star]
Closed by Commonwealth while the 46th annual Academy Awards was occuring, Tuesday, April 2, 1974, showing in one auditorium Woody Allen’s SLEEPER, and in the other, Joe Don Baker in WALKING TALL [Kansas City Star]
Instead of an actual raid, Vice-President for the Old Chelsea Theatre, Robert Darby, was arrested on Thursday, August 9, 1973, for exhibiting the 1972 film DR. YES! (referred to in the court filings and the newspaper ad as simply DR. YES), and was convicted of showing an obscene film on the 23rd (Darby had been free on bond and told to pay $500 plus attend 120 days in jail). Appealing the decision to Jackson County Circuit Court, Darby lost his case on Thursday, February 28, 1974. [“Old Chelsea Theater Conviction Upheld,” Kansas City Times, Friday, March 1, 1974, pp. 3A]
Held up after a fierce battle with theater staff at approximately 8pm on Sunday, March 31, 1974, while showing Jack Nicholson in Hal Ashby’s film THE LAST DETAIL, in a scuffle against the perpetrator (who had become upset over the $2.25 admission fee) involving an 18-year old girl cashier, a 22-year old usher, and the 20-year old assistant manager. After leaping into the box office and grabbing some bills (and able to resist at least two solid blows from a 25-pound brass pole ordinarily used with ropes for crowd restraint) the robber fled in a light-green Cadillac with up to $300 in loot. [“Fights Way to Plaza Theater Cash,” Kansas City Times, Monday, April 1, 1974, pp.3]
Joe Vogel’s link appears to be broken. But the story was probably referring to 52-year-old owner Herman Hausman’s $26,878 fine for showing the film DEEP THROAT. Syracuse NY City Court Judge William J. Burke imposed the sentence on Friday, August 24, 1973, after Hausman rejected the offer of a discharge if the Franklin Art Theater stopped exhibiting X-rated films. [Associated Press bulletin via the Kansas City Times, Saturday, August 25, 1973, pp. 2A, “Theater Fined for ‘Deep Throat.’”]
Closed for good on Wednesday, June 29, 1955, with a double-feature of a ten-year old Yvonne De Carol oater, FRONTIER GAL, and a more recent Lippert Pictures procedural, 1954’s THE BIG CHASE starring soon-to-be the Amazing Colossal Man, Glenn Langan. [Kansas City Star]
KCB3Player’s recollection is correct, the Vista was indeed a “weekends only” theater in its final years. And the last ever newspaper listing for it was on Sunday, September 19, 1965, showing an almost year-old Audie Murphy western, APACHE RIFLES, and a two-year old drama, Robert Stack and Joan Crawford in THE CARETAKERS. [Kansas City Star]
Held-up around 6:30pm on Sunday, November 30, 1969, while beginning its evening triple-feature with the Ray Harryhausen effects-film THE VALLEY OF GWANGI, followed later by TRUE GRIT and THE DEVIL’S BRIDE. [“Isis Theater is Robbed/Two Cashiers at Troost Movie Say Youth Armed,” Kansas City Times, Monday, December 1, 1969, pp. 4A]
At approximately 10pm Monday, July 22, 1974—during a triple-feature of THE EXORCIST, SUPERFLY T.N.T., and ROSEMARY’S BABY—the assistant manager and another employee were robbed at the theater’s entrance booth, with the asst. mgr. shot & grazed in the left thigh and struck four times on the head (he was treated at Osteopathic Hospital), and the two locked in his car trunk (police removed the car’s back seat and freed the victims). A ‘Major Studio Sneak Tonite’ commenced normally the following evening however, John Berry’s film CLAUDINE. [“Drive-In Holdup Violence”, Kansas City Times, Wednesday, July 24, 1974, pp. 8A]
Closed for good on Monday, May 14, 1951, with John Drew Barrymore in HIGH LONESOME, John Dall and Peggy Cummins in the film noir classic GUN CRAZY, and the Bowery Boys in 1950’s BLUES BUSTERS (not to be confused with a similar-sounding 1944 film of theirs, BLOCK BUSTERS). [Kansas City Star]
It was “Adolphe” with an “e,” “Katharine” with an “a,” and “Heywood” with an “e” for those opera chairs…
When your six-plex is down to 2 staff members for the entire day, I would worry less about mandatory meeting attendance and more about having an operating theater to hold the meeting in.
Anyone who spelled Gina Lollobrigida correctly gets a free pass for misspelling Jayne Mansfield and Edmond O'Brien…
“Cheat-sheet” for posting at the concession window…
Other than the misspelling of “tattooed” on June 14 and actor Jeffrey Lynn’s name on the 21st that’s a pretty accurate list…
They could spell Chillicothe but they couldn’t spell “concession”?
In case the citizens of Ocala FL had forgotten what John Wayne’s Academy Award looked like before they headed to the Springs Theater to see CHISUM…
My guess is the layout artist added the coupon after the ad copy writer got mixed up over the ad wording, never called in to the ad department head to alert them, and the “large-drink-for-regular-large-drink-price” wording was sent on to the printers…
Guess the Sheridan’s marquee person thought two d’s in the name “Dandridge' were already enough…
If you go to the online recollection link posted by Logan5, you will note the White City spelled Katharine Ross' name correctly on the marquee, but misspelled it on the makeshift one-sheet display lettering next to the entrance as “Katherine Ross.” Perhaps the assistant manager was in a tizzy over the studio finding out.
The artist certainly captured the continual “waiting-in-the-lobby-until-the-show ends” malaise accurately…
For completists: the fire was at approximately 3am on Friday, November 1, 1957 (the building was vacant). The newspaper’s front-page story made no mention of the building ever having been a movie theater. (“TV Studios Destroyed by Flames,” Arkansas Gazette, Saturday, November 2, 1957, pp. 1)
Wyandotte County Judge Leo Moroney ordered the seizure of the adult film THE RAMRODDER—which was being shown at the Lakeside following a normal double-feature—on Thursday, June 24, 1969, along with the films THE HEAD MISTRESS and EAT, DRINK AND MAKE MERRIE plus two coming attractions: STARLETT! (referred to in the court papers as THE STARLETT) and LILA. (“Judge Orders a Film Impounded,” Kansas City Star, pp.4).
In a tremendous legal gamble, the Lakeside’s owners COUNTER-SUED Wyandotte County in Federal court for a temporary restraining order before any seizure, naming DA Francis Menghini along with Wyandotte’s three judges (Moroney, O.Q. Claflin III, and Harry Miller), the owners claiming their First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were being violated (the first time in movie exhibition history such rights were claimed by a theater). (“A Film Obscenity Hearing in Topeka,” KCS, Thursday, July 3, 1969, pp. 4).
US District Court Judge George Templar decided he needed the weekend of Friday, July 11, 1969 to make a decision on the injunction along with perhaps combining the case with three similar local federal cases going on at the same time (the Kimo South Theater, now known as the Rio, was having its rights to show I AM CURIOUS YELLOW being deliberated in an extended trial), and that he could decide it instead of a 3-judge panel hearing it. (“Bid to Halt Film Seizure is Studied,” Kansas City Times, Saturday, July 12, 1969, pp. 4A)
Judge Templar punted on Monday, July 14, 1969, denying the owners' rights were being violated and refusing the injunction but then tossed the case to his colleague Arthur Stanley Jr, who was already forming his own 3-judge panel on a separate movie obscenity case. (“Denies Plea on Obscenity Law,” KCT, Tuesday, July 15, 1969, pp.3)
The Uptown actually opened on Friday, January 6, 1928 (I’m looking at the ad) for an 8:15pm reserved-seat premiere, although regular showings did begin on Saturday afternoon the 7th. [Kansas City Times]
Closed as an independent on Tuesday, January 14, 1969 for two weeks. The pp. 18 ad listed VALLEY OF THE DOLLS showing at “1:35 Only” and BANDOLERO at “9:35 Only” (a heck of an intermission). 1/15/69 Commonwealth banner ad, pp. 8A, stated: “CLOSED FOR REMODELING…WILL REOPEN JAN. 29TH."
Advance ad in the 1/28/69 Commonwealth Theaters bar, pp. 14: "TOMORROW! The REOPENING of the ELECTRIC THEATRE for your convenience and comfort! Gregory PECK in THE STALKING MOON. Watch tomorrows commonwealth (sic) ad for show times!” Re-opened as announced on Wednesday, January 29, 1969, with said feature. Closed for good without explanation on Tuesday, May 13, 1969 with THE BIG BOUNCE from an unpublished Elmore Leonard book and THE SWEET BODY OF DEBORAH. Final ad wording: “Carroll Baker & Leigh Taylor Young Show…and Tell!”, pp. 10. [Kansas City Times/Star]
Opened by Mid-America Cinemas on Friday, February 1, 1977, with the original FREAKY FRIDAY, Robert De Niro in Elia Kazan’s film of THE LAST TYCOON, and a 1974 French production (with English subtitles), LA RIVALE aka MY HUSBAND, HIS MISTRESS AND I. It was specifically noted as being “in the former Sears building.”
Purchased by CCC Theatres later on and then Dickinson.
Quietly closed by Dickinson (after several AMC megaplexes had been opening in the area) on Thursday, January 15, 1998, with TOMORROW NEVER DIES, Robin Williams in Disney’s remake of FLUBBER, THE POSTMAN, SCREAM 2, and the voice of Meg Ryan in the animated ANASTASIA—and all in Dolby. [Kansas City Star]
Closed by Commonwealth while the 46th annual Academy Awards was occuring, Tuesday, April 2, 1974, showing in one auditorium Woody Allen’s SLEEPER, and in the other, Joe Don Baker in WALKING TALL [Kansas City Star]
Instead of an actual raid, Vice-President for the Old Chelsea Theatre, Robert Darby, was arrested on Thursday, August 9, 1973, for exhibiting the 1972 film DR. YES! (referred to in the court filings and the newspaper ad as simply DR. YES), and was convicted of showing an obscene film on the 23rd (Darby had been free on bond and told to pay $500 plus attend 120 days in jail). Appealing the decision to Jackson County Circuit Court, Darby lost his case on Thursday, February 28, 1974. [“Old Chelsea Theater Conviction Upheld,” Kansas City Times, Friday, March 1, 1974, pp. 3A]
Held up after a fierce battle with theater staff at approximately 8pm on Sunday, March 31, 1974, while showing Jack Nicholson in Hal Ashby’s film THE LAST DETAIL, in a scuffle against the perpetrator (who had become upset over the $2.25 admission fee) involving an 18-year old girl cashier, a 22-year old usher, and the 20-year old assistant manager. After leaping into the box office and grabbing some bills (and able to resist at least two solid blows from a 25-pound brass pole ordinarily used with ropes for crowd restraint) the robber fled in a light-green Cadillac with up to $300 in loot. [“Fights Way to Plaza Theater Cash,” Kansas City Times, Monday, April 1, 1974, pp.3]
Joe Vogel’s link appears to be broken. But the story was probably referring to 52-year-old owner Herman Hausman’s $26,878 fine for showing the film DEEP THROAT. Syracuse NY City Court Judge William J. Burke imposed the sentence on Friday, August 24, 1973, after Hausman rejected the offer of a discharge if the Franklin Art Theater stopped exhibiting X-rated films. [Associated Press bulletin via the Kansas City Times, Saturday, August 25, 1973, pp. 2A, “Theater Fined for ‘Deep Throat.’”]
Closed for good on Wednesday, June 29, 1955, with a double-feature of a ten-year old Yvonne De Carol oater, FRONTIER GAL, and a more recent Lippert Pictures procedural, 1954’s THE BIG CHASE starring soon-to-be the Amazing Colossal Man, Glenn Langan. [Kansas City Star]
KCB3Player’s recollection is correct, the Vista was indeed a “weekends only” theater in its final years. And the last ever newspaper listing for it was on Sunday, September 19, 1965, showing an almost year-old Audie Murphy western, APACHE RIFLES, and a two-year old drama, Robert Stack and Joan Crawford in THE CARETAKERS. [Kansas City Star]
Held-up around 6:30pm on Sunday, November 30, 1969, while beginning its evening triple-feature with the Ray Harryhausen effects-film THE VALLEY OF GWANGI, followed later by TRUE GRIT and THE DEVIL’S BRIDE. [“Isis Theater is Robbed/Two Cashiers at Troost Movie Say Youth Armed,” Kansas City Times, Monday, December 1, 1969, pp. 4A]
At approximately 10pm Monday, July 22, 1974—during a triple-feature of THE EXORCIST, SUPERFLY T.N.T., and ROSEMARY’S BABY—the assistant manager and another employee were robbed at the theater’s entrance booth, with the asst. mgr. shot & grazed in the left thigh and struck four times on the head (he was treated at Osteopathic Hospital), and the two locked in his car trunk (police removed the car’s back seat and freed the victims). A ‘Major Studio Sneak Tonite’ commenced normally the following evening however, John Berry’s film CLAUDINE. [“Drive-In Holdup Violence”, Kansas City Times, Wednesday, July 24, 1974, pp. 8A]
Closed for good on Monday, May 14, 1951, with John Drew Barrymore in HIGH LONESOME, John Dall and Peggy Cummins in the film noir classic GUN CRAZY, and the Bowery Boys in 1950’s BLUES BUSTERS (not to be confused with a similar-sounding 1944 film of theirs, BLOCK BUSTERS). [Kansas City Star]