In the late ‘40’s and well into the '50’s, my friends amd I attended movie matinees every Saturday. We rarely went to the Embassy and I suspect that was due to their catering more to adults in their selection of films. Supporting this conclusion is the fact that during that period the Embassy is the only Fall River theater I recall being closed by authorities for showing films that violated the old Blue Laws. However, the films managed to show for two or three days before the authorities could view the film and effect closure. The trick was to go to the first showings before that happened. My friends and I did that in the case of “The Moon is Blue”, the first film to use the word “virgin”. We were disappointed and couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about but a day or two later police closed the theater.
In the late ‘40’s and well into the '50’s, my friends amd I attended movie matinees every Saturday. We rarely went to the Embassy and I suspect that was due to their catering more to adults in their selection of films. Supporting this conclusion is the fact that during that period the Embassy is the only Fall River theater I recall being closed by authorities for showing films that violated the old Blue Laws. However, the films managed to show for two or three days before the authorities could view the film and effect closure. The trick was to go to the first showings before that happened. My friends and I did that in the case of “The Moon is Blue”, the first film to use the word “virgin”. We were disappointed and couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about but a day or two later police closed the theater.