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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1957)
Page 6 Section 1 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, April 6, 1957 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL JohnBalaban Real Pioneer For Theaters Showman Dies at 62 But Fans Recall His Influence CHICAGO W Movie pioneer INSIDE HOLLYWOOD By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD to The awards cason is over at last thank heaves! No longer will the TV viewer be subjected to an endless procession of excited and grateful winners who are not loo excited lo express (heir gratitude lo everyone from their kindergarten teachers on up. No longer will critics he forced to point out the lack of entertain ment values of such shows. Not until next year, anyway. That's the trouble Willi crit ics always carping and never offering constructive advice. 1 shall reverse the trend. Awards chows CAN lie entertaining. Here are some helpful suggestions on how lo make them so: 1. How ahout a ballet number? Margo Champion could bo pointed gold lo symbolize Emmy and Cow er could portray n golden Oscar. The gimmick is Hint Ihcy arc in conflict through most of the num ber, but end in each other's arms at the finish. 2. Put the awards on a competi tive basis. Make the stars fight each other on an intellectual lev el, answering such questions as, "Who shot Lincoln?" (Questions may have lo bo easier than this, i The quit winner gels the award, "his" and "her" swimming pools and Art Linkletler. 3. Make the winners lake a lic deteclor test when they receive the statuettes. If they flunk, they lose the award. Thus they won't be able to lhank everyone in sight but will be torccd to say, "I must confess I played this role against the advice o' my agent, with a no-talent director and a lat-head- ed coslar." 4. How a b o u t an Academy Award losers show? The (our los ers in each category would he giv en equal lime with the winner In expose their feelings in the mat ter. I can imagine such lively comments as: "It was big studio politics that licked me:" "Who wonts lo win an award and be conic a has-been?" and "We was robbed." Perhaps the motion picture and TV accVemict will disregard these suggestions as undignilied. Acad cniics are great ones for dignity, as many a bored TV viewer can tell you. Anyway, I tried. Antarctic Iccbreukcr Arrives in Seattle SEATTLE W The Navy ice breaker Alka, one of two Seattle- based ships which have been fight ing the Antarctic Ice for months arrived here Friday morning. The Alka returnrd from five months in the Antarctic where it l'd been engaged In Operation Deepfreeze. The expedition estab lished bases for the International Geophysical Year studies. , John Balaban s death recalls to , film fans his big role with his brothers in moving motion pic tures from the shocbox theater to palatial halls. Balaban, who died yesterday at the age of 62, was regarded as the "showman" of the seven Ba laban brothers who pioneered in the motion picture field. The brothers, sons of a Russian immigrant who operated a West Side grocery, leased their first ' theater in 1908. The (healer had 104 folding camp chairs. 'Give What They Want' They parlayed a sense of show manship and a "give the public what it wants" policy into a na tionwide motion picture-making and exhibiting organization. At his death, Balaban was prcs ident of the Balaban &. Katz Corp., operator of nearly 100 the aters, including 40 in Chicago, a director of the American Broad casting Co. and Paramount Pic tures, Inc. An older brother, Bar ney of New York, is president of Paramount. Three other broth ers arc dead and two own an in dependent motion picture house chain operating in the Chicago area. The brothers were credited with building the first deluxe movie house in 1917, the first in the na tion to have mechanical air con ditioning. John and Barney got the idea of air cooling the theater from watching coal dust being cooiea ana watered down at a coal yard where they had worked as youths, Set Precedents Then followed a series of luxuri ous theaters which set the prece dent . for other movie houses throughout the United States. At the same time John brought In acts, which previously could be een only in vaudeville or on the legitimate stage. In the 1920s and early 30s the Balaban shows were packaged and toured the country. The band era came and Balaban hired the big names, like Fred Waring and Tommy Dorscy, who had In his band a singer named Frank Sinatra, Hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Balaban offered the U. S. government the facilities of Chica go's first television station to train radar technicians. 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