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...Horn & Hardart is a bit of Americana, isn't it? I suppose anyone who ever visited New York City wanted to go to Horn & Hardart to put nickels, dimes and more lately quarters in the Automat windows...
...Broadway and 46th Street Automat, an aging ex-vaudevillian named Edna Thayer belts out tunes like Don't Dunk a Doughnut Unless You Know How to Dunk...
...movies and still not have seen them all. Francis Thompson's We Are Young at the Canadian Pacific pavilion drew 2,500,000 viewers. Mixing live actors and film, the Czech pavilion's small, 150-seat theater managed to pack in 67,000 to see its Kino-automat, and almost 20,000 viewers fainted or grew queasy at Meditheater's visceral show. Live performers also did well. World Festival troupes played to an audience of 2,136,400. In all, fairgoers watched 1,035 different individual entertainers and groups put on a grand total...
Cubist Eyes. Without question, one of the most popular features of Expo is Czechoslovakia's Kino-Automat, which is as much an audience-participation show as is a happening. At the film, each member of the audience functions as a separate Caesar, deciding electronically which way the Tongue-in-Czech story should progress (TIME, May 5). The film itself is little more than an oddball triangle carried to a screwball extreme, but Director Josef Svoboda demonstrates his flair for Sennett-style comedy in a rousing custard-pie and fire-engine finale...
...attractions-as expected-have been the U.S. and the So- viet pavilions. Yet some surprising dark horses are running to the fore. The British pavilion, with its mix of mod and traditional, has pulled almost as many visitors as the Big Two. And the Kino-automat, where viewers vote on how the movie should progress, has made the Czech pavilion a hit with both critics and crowds...