That’s How You Solve A Problem Like Maria
Three Line Conversations
“Is something on your mind, Sister Margaretta?”
“I was just admiring you, Reverend Mother. While I was trying to figure out how to hold a moonbeam in my hand, you found a handsome, widowed, retired naval sea captain for Maria to fall in love with.”
“Thank you. It was one of my favorite things.”
I remember going to the Wayside Theater in Ypsilanti, Michigan, to see The Sound Of Music when I was a kid—maybe eight years old. It was obviously a later run of the film since the movie came out in 1965, and the Wayside Theater didn’t open until 1968.
When the Wayside opened, it featured the largest indoor screen in the United States, measuring 56 feet wide by 24 feet tall. The theater had seating for 1,000 people. I saw lots of Disney movies there. Each one had a cartoon and a short nature film before the main attraction.
When the intermission came halfway through the Sound Of Music, I thought the movie was over (I wasn’t really following the plot at that age.) My Mom said, no, this is just the intermission. A break before the second half of the movie starts. I wasn’t too excited about that until I got another box of popcorn and more sour cherry candies.
I grew to appreciate and enjoy the Sound Of Music as I got older.
I miss seeing movies on a real “big screen.”
Happy Monday. Thanks for reading and responding. You make it fun.
Mark
It's sad when old movie theatres go under the wrecking ball. We used to have some nice ones in downtown Winnipeg, but they either got torn down or repurposed.
I think the last movie I saw on the big screen was the first Star Wars film in the new trilogy, The Force Awakens. Good times.