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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Movie Curtains
Message-ID: <1386@vax2.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 11:23:47 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 11:23:47 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 03:29:32 EDT
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Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA
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>Does anybody know why they close the curtains in a movie theatre after
>showing the "coming soons" and the main feature? They must stay closed for,
>oh, say, 3 second.
>
>
>					Rick Gillespie

This is a tradition, I believe, which is slowly dying out...

	    "Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown!"

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
					John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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