The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued

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offering, the Three Stooges shorts, the cartoons, the newsreel, and the coming attractions. But in this heat wave, on screen preferences became subservient to the cold comfort of contained cooling, with an elegant interior which included a modestly warmer balcony used by those desperately wanting to make out heavily in the relative privacy often referred to as “Dinge Heaven.” The voluntary setting apart seemed to be popular with all theater guests. If you took good care of your ticket stub you could stay there unmolested forever.

It must have been the theater ushers and usherettes who left the outside doors open during the newsreel. The wafts of cool air were flocked to by those typically apathetic to world affairs. This day the crowd could not have helped but heard, though they could not see what was going on, due to the eight foot wall between them and the paying guests. The ushers and usherettes must have thought; “Everyone has a right to be disgusted.”