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Show f phl.Phillipr P MOVIE S-Df-THE-SLOT Are the movies going "back where they came from": the nickelodian, the nicolet and the peepshow? News from Hollywood so indicates. indi-cates. Dozens of promoters are getting get-ting in on a gold rush they think will come with the introduction of movies by slot machines in taverns, barrooms, luncheonettes, ice-cream parlors and poolrooms all over the country. You drop a nickel in the slot and get a movie show with music. The idea is to flood the country with "movie cabinets" through which a customer may get a movie with his beer, cake, strawberry sundae, three-decker sandwich or hotdog. Tyrone Power and Deanna Dur-bin Dur-bin will be presented with a short ale and an onion. Mae West, Eddie Cantor and E. G. Robinson may be obtainable with a cup of java and a plate of beans. Errol Flynn and Kay Francis through the mere deposit de-posit of a nickel will become inseparable insep-arable from a cocktail and a hand of rummy. You may even get Raymond Mas-sey Mas-sey in a new Lincoln drama at the Seaside Grill. The new device brings Radio City to Hogan's Elite Cafe, transfers Roxy's to Finnegan's Bar and makes Greta Garbo, bock beer, Mickey Rooney, Gary Cooper, and a game of Kelly pool allied products. It isn't hard to imagine a fellow rolling into a tavern, pulling out a handful of change and demanding "The Garden of Allah," a sardine sandwich, a rye highball and a couple cou-ple of short newsreels with ginger-ale. ginger-ale. Jimmy Roosevelt is getting some of the blame. He was among the first to leap into the new idea with both feet. Since that time scores of movie figures are aboard and it is reported that some of the major producers have money in it Tremendous returns are predicted, predict-ed, especially if Will Hays doesn't stop such screen revivals as "Fun in a Turkish Bath," "The Bathing Beauties' Ball," "The Boudoir Burglar" Bur-glar" and "Parisian Nights." The whole idea will cheapen pictures, pic-tures, topple the movie industry from the penthouse level to the underground un-derground rathskeller and probably throw another rock at the legitimate picture houses. But it's coming. The pictures are to be limited to three minutes, which is the only good thing that can be said in their favor. Maybe "Gone With the Wind" is to blame. It may be just a normal nor-mal reaction against four-hour films. An armored buUet-proof baby carriage is now being manufactured. manufac-tured. And we caU man higher than the animals! RECIPE Early to bed. Early to rise. Leaving more to your heirs Than you would otherwise. SECRETARY LA GTJARDIA Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York has been mentioned as an assistant as-sistant secretary of war or for some other place in Mr. Roosevelt's emergency emer-gency cabinet. The very idea is staggering. Fiorello might or might not keep us out of this war, but he would start so many others that we would forget all about the present pres-ent crisis. We can see him now, assistant secretary of the navy, attired at-tired in fire helmet rubber boots and naval blouse, carrying a fire hose in one hand and a pair of binoculars in the other, ready for all comers. Mayor LaGuardia is the only man in America who could plan a navai battle, dedicate a viaduct open a new school, issue an ultimatum to Germany, deliver a talk on kitchen economics, put through an aviation program, throw out a first baseball, base-ball, denounce the press and lead a tank attack, all in one afternoon. QUIZ LAUGH "What general who headed the American forces in 1776, crossed the Delaware in an open boat and chopped down the cherry tree is the George Washington bridge named after?" the quiz man asked Jimmy Durante in a recent radio burlesque of the question and answer craze. "How much time do I get on that one?" demanded Jimmy. NOW The headlines Are dreadlines. |