Trade Talk #7

What Trades Told: Paramounts on Parade, Frank Wants Back In, and Adults Only PleaseRe Broadway's legendary Paramount Theatre (interior above), how’s addressing sheer vast of the place, a closest millions came to entering a king’s palace, let alone as welcome guests, not sweeping ash but treated like royals manor born. I personally never stood in a so-called “movie palace,” crumbled remnants of a few, yes, a more sad than satisfying experience. Ever visit such ruins? They're like Pompeii after the eruption. In fact, preservationists are doing a better job keeping Pompeii intact these days. Once there was a collector’s show at a rundown Greensboro venue, promoter-in-part Don Key who used to publish the fabled Big Reel where we enthusiasts could buy 16mm. The onetime Paramount anchor now saw reels and old posters change hands in spacious common areas once pristine and filled with excited patronage. There was smell of decay about it, but what did we care so long as there was film and…