International projectionist (Jan 1963-June 1965)

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Neighborhood Theatre Draws From 50,000 in Suburb of Charlotte, N. C. CHARLOTTE, N. C. — Out on Independence Boulevard near the k-Mart. Charles Trexler has put one creek in a pipe and nudged another one over with a great mass of concrete. On this spot he has filled in gullies and put up a 995-seat motion picture theatre — Charlottes newest. This is to be the new Capri Theater of the Stewart & Everett chain of which Charles B. Trexler. a younglooking, slim, intense man of 48. is president. First show in this big structure of grayish-yellow brick with an 80-foot glassed-in lobby will be "Kisses For My President." starring Fred MacMurray and Polly Bergen, a comedy about the first lady President, the first male "first lady." and their inevitable complications. With two acres of lighted asphalt for parking, this is a nice spot for a theater. Right up the hill is the turnoff toward Albemarle. The theater is almost on the intersection of Eastway Drive with the boulevard, where the much-disputed belt road is due to cut across. Besides the prestige of being on the boulevard, the theater has closein accessibility to 50.000 people who might consider this their neighborhood showhouse. Trexler says. Discussed over the last eight years, in the planning stage for two years, the Capri had its ground-breaking in May. Ryt Suez, now at the Manor, will be the Capri's managing director. Trexler likes to stress that right down the line this is an all-Carolinas production. Architect is Charlottean Charles H. Wheatley. Laxton Construction Co. is doing the work. I A native of Anson county. Trexler came to Charlotte in 1937. fresh out of the University of North Carolina with a B.S. degree. In 1942 he married the former Miss Isabel White of Greenwood. S.C. Members of Covenant Presbyterian Church, they have (five children and live at 2101 Bucknell Ave. Sixty-nine Stewart & Everett theaters stretch from Vireinia to the Georgia line. Tn the Carolinas they extend from Mount Airy to Morehead Citv to Aiken, products of a corporate enterprise first organized in Charlotte in 1037. There are three entrances from the boulevard to the new Capri Theater parking areas. Automobiles that circle behind the theater will be driving over one of Trexler's rerouted creeks. A 100-foot steel canopy roofs the lobby. Supporting pillars thrust steel fingers up in an inverted-umbrella effect that will give a feeling of lightness to the lobbv when it is covered with concrete. Lighting will emphasize each angular effect. Twenty-Foot Marquee Two marquee signs above the canopy are seven feet high and 20 feet long. Circling the back of the auditorium is a walled-in "standee." where folks can circulate and congregate without disturbing the audience. The auditorium is 104 feet wide at the rear. It is 115 feet long and 71 feet wide at the front end supporting the 50-foot (or wider) screen. Five sound speakers will be on the stage and 10 more are recessed in the walls around the auditorium for stereophonic films. The Capri is set up for four-track magnetic sound, six-track magnetic sound, and optical sound. 35 and 70mm. The screen will rise above a conventional stage with a performance area eight feet deep, from which a speaker or a small group of singers could hold forth. Thrown in for theatrical mood will be an Austrian curtain that moves up and down. There will also be conventional screen curtains that open to each side. The Capri auditorium will have five aisles, including aisles along each side wall. A smoking area of 98 seats will be in the center rear, with an air duct above drawing cigarette smoke away from the audience. The new Stewart & Everett theater will be going into competition with the 900-seat Park Terrace theater of the Wilby-Kincey chain, which opened last Mav at the Park Road shopping center, and with Cinema I and II, which have 1,500 seats between them, open since last November at Charlottetown Mall. iP PROJECTOR CARBONS Better Light! Lower Costs! RINGSDORFF CARBON CORP. East McKeesport. Pa Projectionists who like quality always use the best ,tar Film Cement Sold by Supply Dealers Send for FREE Sample ACE CHEMICAL CO. . (Division of the Ace Electric Mfg. Co.) 1923 Bay Road Miami Beach, Florida ASHCRAFT CORE-LITE SUPER CINEX CINEX SPECIAL PROJECTION LAMPS And HIGH REACTANCE MULTI-PHASE RECTIFIERS World's Standard of Projection Excellence International Projectionist November. 1964 11 I