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you handle it where your little show can
compete with the screen? And wherever you handle it, do you make the patron 5orer with your own irritation?
All of the operations of your theatre will reflect your character as a business man. The good manager learns to smell out staff chicanery. The boy who distributes window cards — that is, distributes a few and junks the rest, handing out the passes to his friends. The good manager will get suspicious of him quickly. By checking, for one thing. But maybe the idea to check is suggested by something that sort of drifts in on him through his pores,
because he is wise to the business and has developed certain special senses.
One thing more in this talk about the good manager. He likes the business. He admits that the hours are terrible, that his wife's complaints about them are not funny, that handling the public would wear out the patience of a saint, that checking up on employes is a job never finished, that there is always something — a torn carpet, a leak in an oil line, missed projection cues, etc., etc. — to spoil an otherwise perfect day. But that's showbusiness, says he, and he likes it. The less he is able to explain that reaction, the more likely it is that he will develop more and more as a theatre executive.
MAINTENANCE MEMORANDUM
Here is how the In+erboro circuit tells its managers what is expected of them in the supervision of maintenance— in a memorandum of a few lines with much to be read between: Managers are expecfed to make a complete house Inspection from cellar to roof at least once a week. A written report of your findings should be on your desk at all times. ... A complete check of cleanliness, ventilation, seats, carpets, motors, boiler room, front, etc. Instruct your porters to be watchful of any deterioration of equipment ... to make repairs where necessary ... to watch the lights he burns while cleaning ... to keep his supplies In good order . . . and YOU see to it that he co-operates with you in keeping your theatre up to the standards of our operation. Your maintenance report is a comprehensive guide to efficient checkup. When you prepare your report, remember it Is your personal check. Do It on time, do It thoroughly.
If the condition is bad, mark it so. All the
better when you correct it. It's your house — take care of It.
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BETTER THEATRES, JUNE I, 1946