What's New? (May 1969)

___ the manager when it would be cleaned © One morning a few weeks ago Jeff INVENIEMUS VIAM AUT FACIEMUS On entering the campus of the University of Pennsylvania one must pass through a very imposing, wrought iron set of gates, the university's memorial gate, surmounted by the above inscription. To the uninitiated it is nothing but a mumbo-jumbo of meaningless hieroglyphics dreamed up by some obscure scholar to further confuse the already confused flock of new freshmen who make their initial appearance in the fall of each year. As they pursue their educational careers, year after year the words take on new meaning, become engraved on their minds and ae into the realm of sentiment and tradition. “Inveniemus Viam Aut Faciemus” WE SHALL FIND A WAY OR WE SHALL MAKE ONE. The full impact of this message can only be felt if one has a genuine desire to avoid the pitfalls of voluntary Steanation to train his sights on the distant horizon ... to keep groping and searching... . to carve for himself, with his two hands and the brains he was born with the kind of a ‘stare he had visualized and dreamed about in the years long gone when he first planted one foot firmly on the ladder of endeavour and began his long, oft-times tortuous climb to accomplishment and success. We who are in this business of catering to public tastes and whims, and entirely dependent on public approbation of our efforts for our livelihood and business success MUST find a way ... or failing that, we MUST MAKE A WAY to assure the perpetuity of our business and our own future as a very personal Ber of that business. We must seek . . . we must search . we must continually exert every effort to that end. We must never allow ourselves to stagnate, to stand still, for that is simply the beginning of an unhappy ending. INVENIEMUS VIAM AUT FACIEMUS — WE SHALL FIND A WAY OR WE SHALL MAKE ONE. What a wonderful slogan to carry through life. D. E KS : Mo ote. Mo ote cto ote cvcctectcctncinctnctanct, % .% 2% 0 8 @ 2. 2. o. .@. 4, @ 2, 2 2% mee, e508 1o” Me? Mg? M9 Mat %,9 %,0 0,0 0,9 9,0 9,0 0,9 0.0 0,0 020 020 00 00 00 OL0 a0 she ofe oe aoe oe 0°. 68% 0 On 2 @, mse oge ee ete ok CAN THIS BE YOUR THEATRE | know how difficult it is to keep some years later, with a buck t to sp | visited a theatre one recent Saturday an auditorium clean in a continuous the debt was cleared. afternoon, smack in the middle of a operation, but there is simply no _ It's kind of nice to come across special ‘kids’ show. About six hundred excuse for a situation such as this something like this. youngsters were in attendance ... the where we have separate afternoon and hungriest, thirstiest mob | had everevening performances. There is plenty seen. The confection counter did a of time between showings to clean the YOUR DAY OFF ? e roaring business, and popcorn boxes, theatre. ONE MANAGER AT A hee cae : cups and candy wrappers ... about So fellows, if this applies to you we half a ton of the stuff... were strewn hope you get the message. We expect In some multiple theatre. situati all over the auditorium floor. That's just as clean a theatre at seven o clock has been noted that both our fine, and we certainly welcome this as at opening time. The mechanics of are off on the same day ea business, but the aftermath proved a working this out are up to you, and it little disconcerting to say the least. really isn't that involved. So ... don’t The performance ended, the house you get caught in that trap ... and was cleared, and the manager prepared _ don't say we didn’t warn you. to lock up until the evening showing. The auditorium was a mess, and as | ‘ 9 ererdeney may occur and i waded knee deep in garbage | asked CONSCIENCE MONEY | be necessary to chase all trying to locate someone i ' Also, as has been previous! _and for obvious reasons, up. Jeffrey manager of our Capitol theatre _ The answer | received .. . and it did in Sudbury opened his mail and found shock me somewhat ... was that the —a one dollar bill with a brief note Stat a policy was to leave everything the way ing that this was to compensate the _ it was until the following morning theatre for having cheated it out of a ~_when the cleaners came in. Well...it | buck as a kid... It was signed with didn’t finish quite that way. | hadhim _ only ‘I am sorry.’ | ~ grab his doorman and an usher and go This merely proves again that most . Nobody is trying to Sten right through the house restoring at people are patently honest individuals, to time off, but let’ s be sensible ab least a semblance of cleanliness and Perhaps he or she simply didn’t have orderliness, and thats the way it's the price of admission and sneaked in going to be fromnowon. | a back door to see the show, and now, sense, n’ ‘est ce pas? een demonetated ry 1 ‘past.