The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 22

22Tho VANCOUVER SUN': Wed. Jan. 19m WEST VAN'S PARK ROYAL S)ircial Arlrcrtisiwi Frrttum neatres Open have a choice right on the spot. Tickets are available ai a single box-office and then buyers can go left or right, depending on which picture they've come to see. And should they have to wait a distinct possibility, Famous Players' people hope because i The theatres will be opened officially at an invitational scieening, p.

seeded by a brief ceremony and followed by a reception. Nine-year-old West Vancouver twins Susan and Janice Carroll have been selected to present twin keys to West Van Reeve Alex Forst. Dick Letts is being replaced at The Strand by Ted Bielhy. Now that West Vancouver is h'is place of business Letts is contemplating moving to that side too. Modern, Functional, Beautiful His assistant manager, Bob Elliott, is a NoiJh Vancouverite by binh.

His cashier, who m6ves from The Stiand, and doorman coming from Tre Orpheum, also live on the North Shore. The other-eight members of the staff have been recruited from there as well. Letts joined Famous Players in 1931 at the Kerrisdaie; managed Rossland-Trail from 1946 to 1951; came back to Vancouver as manager of the International Cinema for a year before going to The Sti and. He feels architect Koss Ritchie of Townley, Matheson and Associates, has given him the most modern, functional and beautiful theatre in Canada. Letts knows he's going to be kept busy in West Vancouver's newest showplace, and it has nothing to do with the tact that his boss, Maynard Joiner, just happens to live up on the hill overlooking The Park Royal and The Cinema from where he can almost count heads and hear the tinkle of cash turning over at the box-office.

Bv LKS WKDMAX Sun Movie Critic Dick Lrtts was the logical choice when iWaynard Joiner was casting the role of manager of Famous Players' two new theatres, The Park Royal and The Cinema. Letts, who's been at The Strand Theatre since 1952, managed two theatres at the same time once before The Strand in Trail and The Capitol in Rossland. Biggest difference now is that his new theatres aren't six miles apart like the Rossland Trai! setup but are under a single roof on the fringe of West Vancouver's Park Royal shopping centre. First B.C. Twin Theatres The Park Royal and The Cinema, built for just under $1 million, are the first "twin" theatres In B.C.

and the first new ones built by Famous Players here since the '40's. The twins open to the public Thursday but they won't be identical twins. The Park Royal, with 760 seats, will be showing Never Too Late, first-run Warner Bros, comedy starring Paul Ford and Maureen O'Sullivan. The smaller Cinema, with 441 seats, will screen La Boheme, the filmed Puccini opera, getting its initial theatrical run at regular prices. And this is the way The Park Royal and The Cinema will continue to operate one will feature general-run high-quality commercial entertainment; the other will adopt an "art house" policy with films aimed at a more specialized audience.

Beauty of the twin idea is that moviegoers they'll be drawing attendance from both West and North Vancouver and also from the West End they can do so in absolute comfort in the largest foyer and lounge of any movie theatre in these parts. Famous Players' also have ensured adequate parking by incorporating a 230-car lot on the three-acre site acquired as a sub-lease of a 99-year lease by the Department of Indian Affairs. The Park Royal and Cinema have with British screens, Italian, Japanese and Canadian projection equip cT I- i rW! DICK LETTS ment. II a mcly decorated and elegantly designed with teak, the foyer's centrepiece is a large metal sculpture by Vancouver artist Hi Melendy. Suggested and appropriate name for the work of art is Encore.

Liroige Dmck Photo TWIN KEYS will be presented by twins Susan (left) and Janice Carroll, aged 9, of West Vancouver, to Reeve Alex Forst at tonight's ceremony at Park Royal's twin theatres. They will feature differing types of entertainment. mBssm puna may, jaratamv YOU'LL ENJOY YOUR VISIT TO VANCOUVER'S MOST POPULAR "OSIMSrt i 7 rJ A A i i p-T pr-1' I I I ill 4f' Ja WiW FAMOUS PLAYERS BRINGS TO (f)ltZ i'vAT. VANCOUVER ITS FIRST TWIN I AUDITORIUM THEATRE 1 I i i nn i ru nn I BE II mEiii? i torpp (-nun? itoinccB PARK ROYAL THEATRE 2nd PARK ROYAL CINEMA TWO COMPLETE BY SIDE UNDER ONE YOU TOMORROW'S DESIGN, COMFORT AND EACH BRINGING YOU A DIFFERENT ENTERTAINMENT. PARK ROYAL CINEMA 1 Droadway'i bounclnai( i mroMANC( onit AT I tS P.M.

PARK ROYAL THEATRE DOORS 2 PtorOKMANCIJ 7.00 r.M. Motner is gorg to have a baby? Father i5 Stunned! the screen! (SAM to get into the act f-. For the first time, the full dimension of opera on film! The highest quality ever achieved AN ACTUAL PERFORMANCE INTECHNICGLQR OPDBfl COOPillT presenting Puccini's immortal pese that any th.rg A necancoretrjet: TECHNICOLOR8 wcci fk wi-ki -4 ADUIT tMTtTINMMT OMIT MAUREN HUTTDN PAUL FORD CONNIE STEVENS from WARNER BROS..