Variety (Feb 1938)

"Wednesday* February 9* 19311 VARIETY ^5 ;,-<-y^' '">V^>V .^';lVv^- NEW YORK -I ' < . Sattirdar. ilanURry 29, 1938 Owned imbMsa*4 4»Uy by New-Yorlc Tribune Inc^ • New Torlt cortiorMlon. Ogden Held. PresWenf, Helen ItAtters Reld. vice^Pr«ddent: Howard Davis. Second Vtea*. PresldentHsUaley: D. Browo^SecretMy:il(*ert Cresswcu, Treasurer. Address 230 West Pgrty- flrst St.. New Vorfc City. It Wouldn't Work As hare-brained an idea as has struck Broadway in many weeks Is the movement, reported1)y "Variety," our sprightly neighbor, to have a 9:30 or 10 o'clock curtain In the theaters in. order to accommodate those who like to linger long over their dinners and who find it difficult to get to a theater in time for an 4:40 or even an 8 :30 curtain. It is a well knowii fact that virtually all of jbhese late- comers could, with: the use of a little ingenu- ity, get to the theater: on time and still not starve. Other pepple can do it with little hardship^ Most of the ..late arrivals are^ that way, not because of' chance but by design. Half the pleasure of going to the theater, to these people^ is to arrive laie. bother as many other customer'^ as posEii:'.e, and in general make a show of themselves. A 10 o'clock cur- tain would not! solve the problem. The late arrivals would be as late as ever, and before the performance was ended many commuters would be hurrying out to catch trains. It will take more than that to solve the baffling prob- lem of the dawdlrrrs and the show-offs. ■• •• ^ /■ s ^ *■ ;j:::|;|; <.:.:A:.:.»x.>»v.:;;'?:>;'^;«:i; ' ■• "5 \:S? ^X'*.v^ pi NEWS. FRIDAr> JANUARY ^$; iO;!:^ Trademark Refliitered tJ. S. Patent Offlet Entered as 3d clasa matter Nov. 21,1919, at Hie Po.^t Ottlce. New Tork, N. T.. iinder tli9 act ot ftlarch 3, 1879. - Tdephono MOtray Hill B-1234 TUMIsllMdtllyeTaeiitaaixtaybrNfirt lirndlrtteCo., Inc.. S2IB. l2dAl.;1lemniii«rMinlMitin, rfewTork. K; T. D«llriaiitllub«crloitonriite> U.S..|li.0O:C«iwd«. |lS:Ma v«aB, FMUi«Otll7MdStiud*irNe-.vi. V. H.. ItOiW Dir rctr;Cana4«, tl4.ua: Prfiidcnt, J. M.: Pattemn; tMitntr, It. ArMcCormlrk: lerand tIm piesi* dMt aod gvparal oaaa-iet, Bor C Uollluilerretaty. Jeha W Ba(iihirt.ail pt tSA lfi.4!id Ui.iN«» Ytfk.N..T. MEMHKK OF TUt: AHSUCIATED FRESa The Allsoc13ted^P^e!t• is exoltisivelf entitled to ibe Ufs for repub1l«itl6n'6t' alt newt diapatcbea crttditetl to it or tool othorwise credited In thia paper and also the local new* pulflishodherein. All rislK.") of rcpublic.-itiorrot special dispatches herein also are reserved. FROM "VARIETY" S Detroit^ Jan. 25.—No relief in siglityet as grosses, conttaue to wallow around in the depthsi Only spots doing anything at all are the 10 and IdTcenters .: . After two months of sagging grosses on'tilted prices, the niajor downtown film spots will - drop the scale about 1570 to the former 65c top effective this Friday (28). , -r^Ffoyn Variehj, theatrienl trade paper, Jan. S6. Washington, Jan. 27;—President Roosevelt . . will hear the Workers' side of it ( the automobile slumpr^Ed.) ait 10 A, M. Tuesday M .♦ will meet with . . union leaders . Their statistics, they said, disclosed that all but 5,000 of Chrj'sler's regular force -^f 60,000 have boen laid off, and the Ford IVIotor Company has cut its force to about 10,000 men. Th^y claimed that General Motors has cut personnel even below the figure reached' when President William, Knudsen laid off 50.000 at the end of the year. K. T/Keller, president or Chrysler, claimed that : 50,000 men still were on the. payroll, but said that empioyment was limited to two days a week;; , -^United PrcM^dispatph. The above quoted diapatch from Washingto^a the above QUoteireport. from Variety on movie theatre bu si- ness in Detroit, >^ . When automobile orders slaclt o^^^^^ DetrQlt troit is hit where it livesi It vvas the saddest^ Hard Hit most run-down big town in the country dur- ing The Bepression. It was the stoi^ri eentcr of the bank-failure cyclone. What radicals Gall i revolu- tionary situation was building up among Detroit's thQiisands of public park dwellers and sleepers when the Roosevelt Ad- ministration started Government dollars rolling into direct relief of the jobless. ' With the bad:old days creeplag back to Detroit; alm^ everybody has a rem^y to o^mKmc theji^imij crashing dmvns of , J ', ,4, 'f'W:W>\ ' " 1 r , ' , "I