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Editorial on Bachelors<br />
Promotes 'Tender Trap'<br />
HARTFORD — Under the heading of<br />
"Bachelor's Life," the Herald, afternoon daily<br />
in neighboring New Britain, commented,<br />
editorially:<br />
•The life of a single gentleman li.e.,<br />
bachelor) is a much maligned, much misunderstood<br />
existence. Unlike Hollywood, a<br />
bachelor's day is very prosaic, featuring such<br />
sterling things as work, three squares and<br />
visiting relatives. Typical in a bachelor's life<br />
is the latter, when somebody like Aunt Clara<br />
bustles into the house with a friendly smile,<br />
a hello for mother, hello for father, hello for<br />
little sister, hello for little brother, and you<br />
sneer—why aren't you married yet?<br />
"Inevitably, there is a conversation exchange<br />
which goes something like this:<br />
" T have a wonderful girl for you to meet.'<br />
"Very non-committal: 'Oh.'<br />
" 'Yes, she is very attractive, has lots of<br />
personality and is extremely talented.'<br />
" 'So, why i.sn't she married?'<br />
"Hollywood, if our advisers are correct, does<br />
not take the same cynical view of a<br />
bachelor's life. In films such as 'The Tender<br />
Trap,' now making the rounds of picture<br />
palaces, the life of a bachelor is one of<br />
continual women, wine, women and reckless,<br />
gay adventures.<br />
"But maybe we're being unfair about Hollywood's<br />
views. There was the film about that<br />
bachelor chap, 'Marty,' for instance."<br />
HARTFORD<br />
IJernie Menschell of Menschell-Calvocoressci<br />
Theatres got the first Connecticut booking<br />
of "Guys and Dolls" into the Parsons here,<br />
marking the second occasion this year that a<br />
non-Loew's house has been used for the<br />
downtown opening of a major MGM attraction.<br />
The Parsons recently played "SvengaJi"<br />
Fitzsimmons of the MGM exploitation<br />
department was here conferring with<br />
Bernie Menschell and John Calvocoressci . . .<br />
Doug Amos of Lockwood & Gordon Theatres<br />
was in town seeing Arthur O'Brien, Webb,<br />
and Bill Howard, Plaza . Daly of the<br />
Blue Hills Drive-In expects to be Boca Raton.<br />
Fla. -bound within a matter of weeks.<br />
Pat Buchieri of the Hartford Theatre circuit<br />
hosted George Smith, retiring circuit<br />
maintenance chief, at a farewell party held<br />
backstage at the HTC flagship, the Colonial,<br />
following performance time the other night.<br />
Numerous representatives of the circuit and<br />
the trade attended. Smith did not disclose<br />
future plans. He had been with HTC for ten<br />
years and with other theatre circuits for ten<br />
years prior to that . . . Owen Holmes of the<br />
Court Square Theatre, Springfield, some 25<br />
miles north, has started using Hartford newspapers<br />
to advertise his Saturday-Sunday<br />
vaudeville shows.<br />
Charles Bowden, formerly a partner in the<br />
Parsons, and Richard Barr have joined forces<br />
with H. Ridgely Bullock jr. in a new Broadway<br />
production venture ... A $3,000,000 center<br />
is being planned for a 20-acre lot off Route<br />
I in New London. No theatre is on the<br />
blueprint, however . . . Max Cohen closed the<br />
Starlite Drive-In, Stamford, for the season.<br />
E. M. Loew accomplished a similar chore at<br />
the Hartford Drive-In in suburban Newington.<br />
.<br />
. .<br />
George E. Landers was a Boston business<br />
visitor Women," controversial<br />
film concerning abortion, was booked<br />
into the independent fSpivack) State, New<br />
Britain . The Alhambra, Waterbury, played<br />
an all-Italian show, consisting of "Escapade<br />
in Rome" and "Hello, Elephant."<br />
Bob Schwartz has installed an automatic recording<br />
providing complete theatre information<br />
when the house is not open at his Ville,<br />
Waterbury . Park, Thomaston, started<br />
a new dinnerware set ... In a switch from<br />
normal booking policy, Roger Mahan played<br />
"Ti-ial" day-and-date at his Tower and Carroll<br />
theatres in Waterbury.<br />
Martin H. Kelleher has added this line to<br />
his daily newspaper ads for the Princess:<br />
"Cartoons for the Kiddies!"<br />
N. Canaan Airer Closes<br />
NORTH CANAAN. CONN.—The Canaan<br />
Drive-In here has been closed for the winter.<br />
It is scheduled for reopening in April.<br />
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