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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, May 1, 1948

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 01, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Coulson b. Click holding Monkey a modern Noah uses Airliner to trans port $75, of animals from Jungles of Siam India . Airborne zoo photographs by Dave Cicero. S. Naturalist uses a trans Pacific Airliner. " to ship Jungle animals to american zoos flight Horn Bangkok. Siam to Ontario California 52 hours Long involved 200 shrieking monkeys 1100 squawking Birds two leopards several  plane landed one baby elephant walked had to be dragged Only casualty on the flight was death of one elephant from pneumonia. A Leeds in the Mezzanine ". Hollywood those movie fans who find it hard to preserve their serenity As sounds of crunching pop Corn reach  the Back Row of seats have yet to learn the meaning of a real ordeal Rig tit now the Rapovie Colony Iff preparing new kind of torment for them and soon they will be  Teeth to the sounds of the fizzle and squelch of sodas and milkshakes and the munching of sandwiches. The. Popcorn Nicandy concessions found in the lobbies of Heaters Are today Only the beginning and it will not be surprising to find soon that a theater is just an auditorium in front of a restaurant. At any rate this is the pre diction made by James Nasser Yho r with his Brothers Heads the James Nasser productions inc. The Nasser own 135 Heaters i Northern California and they think a paying business can remade of providing the Trade with refreshments of All sorts during the shows. In line with this idea they have planned a new scheme for installing refreshment facilities on the premises of their Thea ters All Over the state. Things. Nasser says All plans for new Heaters include elaborate facilities for Selling food including the installation of soda fountains. However a hate of Hope i sounded for those sensitive souls who squirm in their seats at the -. Sound of Popcorn bags being banged  ears Orother types of practical jokes which youngsters might be tempted to " indulge in. The theater Propri tors have arranged to have Little As  " " 1 Tel to because building materials Are hard to come by in these House shortage Days the scheme will suffer some delay. But As soon As building materials Are available,.the Nasser expect to erect soda fountains in their movie . They Sare  fat it so anyone can buy one of those bubbling malts or Crunchy Ham on Rye All rigged up in paper Cartons to take to his seat. � ? Why not he  been tried. The state theater in new Bedford Connecticut re. Be ritzy installed several conces Sions. Not Only Are there counter for Popcorn peanuts Coke and gum but a Complete Candy store. And Large modern soda fountain.". That anybody should consider his idea unusual came As a Shock to or. Nasser who insists that there is nothing very original and certainly. Nothing undignified1 about this plan. Alter All he Points out glibly these titbits Are eaten Riar the Best of Homes Ball Parks on streetcars and on Park benches. I  to the objection that some people like. Listening. To their movies in silence he claims forever ? straight Placer who objects to food with films a Hundred think tit a Fine idea. Thanks the them the installation of Popcorn machines in lobbies is booming wherever if has been inaugurated. What the Public does not real ize Nasser says plaintively is. That a Large percentage. Of the profits Heaters Are making today comes from the Sale of food. Why some theater owners would be willing to present their Heaters As gifts to. Anybody turning Over to them the profits from the pop Corn  j Ait is whispered m Hollywood that exhibitors who know a Gold mine when they see one have set their ambitions on even bigger1 holes punched into the Popcorn bags before they Are filled and put on Sale preventing any  this a gentleman with Bright ideas Back in san Tran 4-Cisco has gone one better wih another invention. He has discovered How to make a new crinkle. Proof crackle proof Popcorn bag makes less noise he ays and is just As Strong and solid As any dither kind of paper  is no wonder people Are saying in Hollywood thaw the food with movies idea has great possibilities. Some folks even. Think the publicity departments will soon be at work thinking up hew gags for instance the Auto suggestive Type. After All it is argued fhe minute an actor on the screen lights a cig Aret does not one reach for the cig Aret Case in one s pocket then Why should Jib film producers insert special eating scenes in their productions to. Stimulate the audience s Appe Tite a Patron watches Bill Powell. Munch a cheese on Rye in life with father he i rushes to the _., lobby to get the same meal it Isas simple As. That Hollywood psychologists would have it. Expanding the idea studios might Start gastronomical depart ments to keep the scripts on a i1s of at. Well balanced diet and then of course exhibitors would probably give up the Star  Bill movie on the strength of its menu. One Hollywood  drawn up a prospective marquee Billing april showers with onion soup lox and Cream cheese also to Jack  he goes on to show the effect it might have upon movie review the leading lady failed to deliver the critic might write but the Fried calves brains inthe third reel were  the ultimate of course will be the Day when smell following belatedly the Advent of sound t makes it possible for the Aroma. Of succulent dishes being prepared-1oh the screen to reach the Audi ence. Watch out though or you May be trampled in the Rush for the theater snack counter. Aline Mosby of we Uckno to  week Pritim Prmt How. Conny. Tor the ii. 3. Occupation orca under the in Leei of troop  of a Ducton service. Eunok. U. A array. Apo is. Volume m. .  by War oboe a Only u. Spec tvs prior penal Lon huge rated by the editor of Utke my therul ii 001 Rem Rietema by a a  re�4u  
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