COIN MACHINE REVIEW
Pdge108
June 1935
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By PAUL BLACKFORD
This department is given over to correspondence from operators. All contributions
must be signed. Opinions expressed in letters printed in this department do not re-
flect the policy of this publication but are expressions of opinion given by our readers.
Operators are invited to contribute. Please llmit letters to 800 words if possible.
FLITS HITHER AND YON
saN Diego, caliF.
Mister pAul Blackford ,
Mashine journal rEview,
lOs Angeles, cAUl".
mY Frien:
You my £rien i write you now, i leave fT
Brag;g . . not her feller say he start good mao
shine journal for Coin mashine boys, so i
no like Ft"? bragg no how, i pretty quick
leave all I he time, i let other It. Bragg man
start mashine paper, pretty sao he fix you
p·lenty. 1 come down here to start mashine
magash i ne for operatrs feHers they lika. me
plenty. i get on your toes plenty whn my
mashine paper gets printed. you no fLit
me with your henry, I no lika henry no
how, i give him plenty flit myself you no
care watch me quick. maybe i see you
some time then you give me flit, maybe i
poka henry in one big eye two times, i
strong man and plenty muscles, anyway i
won have plent coin mashine magashine
and i show you how flit goes no,
so lon~ my £rien
i 110 signa my name cause you no lika me
nohow. poo poo
Already i go quick from san DieGo to
braWley.
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Checkers With Lights
Latest Rabkin Model
NEW YORK- Bill Rabkin, of the In·
ternational Mlitoscope Reel Company, lnc.,
has presented a new model of the Checker
r.;ame called Checker-Lite. The game em-
hodies the same principles as the first mod-
el, hut enhances the appearance as well
as the play with a system of lights on the
board in the shape of a cross, which, it
is stated, has immediately won much ac-
claim Ior the game from jobbers and dis-
Iribs.
The nine lights on the board are so ar-
ranged that scores can be conducted by
their use. The operators here, who use
the five-ball poker game, will pay for five,
[our or three li/!hts. It is believed that
this action will oller a double inducement
10 the olayers and that the game is one
of the first that does not deviate from its
present play but adds to it by the u e of
thp. lights so incoroorated as to create a
much more beautiful impression on the
Illaying board itself.
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Busy in Dakota
Business is moving right along up in the
Dakota~. according to reoorts from Vern
Marshall of the Dakota Noveltv Company,
Sioux Falls, S. D.; R. C. Ki~g. Raoid City;
in the same state, and A. E. Oberg of
Wyndere, N. D.
EDITOR, THE REVIEW:
I want to take this occasion to compl i-
ment you on the excellent make-up and ap-
pearance of your magazine as well as the
excellen ce of the editorial matter.
H. B. JONES, Advertising Manager,
Bally Manufacturing Company.
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EDITOR, THE REVIEW:
. . . I want to say in closing that the
PACIFIC COIN MACHINE R EVIEW is the most
human and interesting journal of the lot
today, getting better every month.
Subscriber W. E. S.
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Coast Show
(Continued from Page 5)
al the oUldoor Palm Restaurant and palm
tree bar of the Ambassador Lido.
As for th e entertainment s id e of the
Coast Show, the committee already has
arrangcd for novel features that will sur-
pass even the memorable glori es of the
1934 event. The entire facilities of the
Ca fe de Paree have been reservd for the
closi ng ni ght, September 11th, so that
the delegates may have an evening of regal
.'ntertainment to th e exclus ion of the pub -
I ic. Two of the feature acts for the big
noor show already have been booked, prom·
ising revue numbers of a nature which will
stun even the most blase of Hollywood's
sophist icated ni ght life crowd.
Big Golf Tournament
"Something doing every minute" is the
"atchword of the show committee in ar-
ranging the entertainment program in keep-
ing with the elaborate display of new
amusement and 'service equipment at the
exposition. There will be personal ap-
pearances of film celebrities, a water car·
nival in which Olympic stars will partici-
pate in the Lido Plunge of the Ambassa-
dor, and the National Operators Golf
Championsh ip.
The I(olf tournament, for which THE
REVIEW has donated a huge peroetual sil-
ver trophy, will be staged at the Valley
Park Country Club's de luxe course
and will be open to all coin machine men
regardless; of th eir varying degrees of
skill. The variety of Drizes and the gaiety
of the competition will appeal equally to
those in the championship flight and to
. th osp who play golf "for amusement only."
So donI' forget to /!et out the old clubs
an" bring 'em along!
For th e benefit of exhibitors, of whom
more than 50 alreadv have made booth res·
ervations, a floor plan of the auditorium
pnd soace reservation blank appear else·
where in this issue.
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LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA
A SPEED LIMIT FOR GONDOLAS is
being strictly enforced on the Piccolino
set for the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musi-
ca l film "Top Hat" at the RKO studios.
With six gondolas and a motor boat oper-
ating on a canal system approximately 275
feet in length, "reckless driving" is apt
to result in disastrous collision and serious
traffic snarls.
DEVOUR ATE N . P 0 UN D BEEF
ROAST in one afternoon if you can. That's
what the cast of "Jalna" did last week.
Director John Cromwell had the members
of the cas t eat a light lunch and he ran
into plenty of embarrassment when a slight
change in schedule delayed the dinner scene
until 4:30 P.M.
NINE NEW WEAPONS OF WARFARE
have just been added to the total of the
world's armaments! Nine new engines of
destruction specially crea1ed for mortal
combat are now available to the armies
of the world. But it isn't quite as deadly
as it sounds. The inventors of these wea-
pons ar~'t militarists at all, but a staff
of arti~n Hollywood. The rea~on for their
creation was the filming of "She." Story
concern s a mythical kingdom where, ac-
cording to legend, "burns a flame of eternal
life." So, to take pictures in this unknown
country, called Kor, it was necessary to cre-
ate it, complete from language to climate.
A stand ing army was drafted and armed
with weapons disarmament conferences
never even heard of. The most deadly of
the weapons designed are spears. Made of
a special Korish wood, they have heads-
some eighteen inches long-{)f tempered
steel. The swords of the officers are as long
as fencing foils but heavier and less pliahle.
The enormous shields are offensive, as well
as defensive weapons, the outer face of
each of the three styl es being elabOl'ate
arrangements of steel points.
DIRECTOR RIel-lARD BOLESLA \V Kl
has a mother-in-law and a vacuum cleaner
both living in tbe same house with him.
Boleslawski's mother-in-law has been tak-
ing massages for her health and the other
day the vacuum cleaner went out of order.
On that day, as Boleslawski was leaving
the house, he ran into what he thought was
~he masseur co~e to ~assa,?e his. mothe~;
Ill-law, so he saId to him: How IS she?
"All she needs is a couple of screws and
bolts and a general overhauling!" said the
vacuum·repairer.
BEST DUAL BTLL TITLE OF TIlE
MONTH, as spotted on a theater marquee
in Los Angeles: THE WEDDING NIGHT,
BEHOLD MY WIFE.
NEWS ODDITY: Oscar, bright plumaged
parrot appearing in pictures, knows what
it means to speak out of turn. After hearin~
the director call "lock 'em up," the familiar
order to close stage doors, Oscar thought
it was time for him to give some instruc·
tions. Just as Kay Johnson and Ian Hunter
started a dinner table scene, Oscar cut into
the dialogue wit.h a strident "lock 'em up!"
ADoarently delighted with his own wit, he
followed the verbal broadside by hopping
into a platter of roast beef. "All right," said
the director grimlv, "lock him up!"
DID'JA NO: That Eric Blare, English
comedian, served at the front with the Ar-
tists' Rifles, the South Wales Borders and
the Royal Flying Corps during the World
War?
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