Special event for theater expansion
By Howard Pearson, News Theater Editor
Deseret News, 25 November 1974, page A17
A special celebration with five-cent drinks, popcorn and candy will mark the formal expansion of Salt Lake's Trolley Theaters into the North Salt Lake Bountiful area.
Although Trolley Square Theaters Inc. has been operating the Mark II Cinema in South Bountiful for several days, the formal takeover will not begin until Nov. 27. On that day, the prices will be dropped all day for all excepting the admission, which is controlled nationally. However, the girls at the box office will wear the same Keystone Cops outfits that those at the Trolley Square do, and the remodeling to reflect the decor of Trolley Square will be completed for the changeover.
A feature of the theater will be the paneling of old-type wood and the antique lighting panel in the lobby. Both the one at the Trolley Square in Salt Lake and the one in the Trolley Square in Bountiful were acquired from Salt Lake theaters.
The Trolley Theaters in Bountiful will present one subsequent run and one first-run picture, the latter of which will open simultaneously in the two cities. The subsequent-run picture, "The Sting," has been playing for a week.
The new film, a comedy, "The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder," starring Timothy Bottoms. This features Bottoms as a young former GI who moves into a tunnel built beneath Wilshire Boulevard. He sets himself up so he can get free water, electricity and other facilities, and he has some visitors with fun-filled idiosyncrasies.
The plot is one of the funniest to come along in some time. It's especially hilarious when the power company spends millions of dollars to find out what is happening to missing kilowatt hours that amount to a fraction of what they are serving.
The film has some touching moments, one involving a veteran of World War 1 who has a phonograph recording of "Over There," and it has some romantic moments. Most of the time it moves swiftly, but there are a couple of slow scenes.
The movie advances the already well-established career of Bottoms, who scored in "The Paper Chase" and earlier in "Johnny Got His Gun." The Film is just the thing to open the new Trolley Square enterprise.