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Exhibitors Herald, Chicago, May 18, 1918.
Sanders (before Marathon) Theatre, exterior by day,
marquee HELENE COSTELLO in
„BROKEN BARRIERS,“ Brooklyn, New York, late 1920s
„The crowd stormed the box office“
Editorial content. „,It‘s a Dog‘s Life,‘ Says One Exhibitor,
,Showing Chaplin‘s.‘
There is one exhibitor in Greater New York who has
sworn off playing any more of the new Chaplin
comedies. He is Rudolpho Sanders, proprietor of the Marathon
Theatre at 188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and the reason he has requested Carey Wilson to erase his name
from the booking sheet of the First National Exhibitors‘
Exchange is because he has been fined by the fire department
for breaking the law regulating attendance at the house.
On the evenings of April 29 and 30, fire inspectors found
the patrons of the Marathon Theatre present in such
overwhelming numbers to welcome Charlie Chaplin‘s return
to the screen in A Dog‘s Life, that they closed up the
house and led Sanders away to court on the charge of violating
several important provisions of the revised statuses
relating to the prevention of fire and panic.
,The crowd stormed the box office, and crowded
through the doors so fast that my ushers could not handle
them,‘ Sanders told the magistrate. ,I took Chaplin‘s
pictures out of the lobby, but still they came. I hear it‘s a great
picture, but I never go to see it myself, being too
busy trying to keep the people from breaking my doors
down. I wouldn‘t handle another of the comedies
on a bet. It‘s a dog‘s life, They‘re too much of a good thing.‘“
Marathon Theatre, 188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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