UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, June 4, 1997
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New theater invades Lawrence
By Sean Demory
Kansan staff writer
Like something from a 1950s science fiction movie, a behemoth landed on the southwest corner of Lawrence this spring, silently appearing and growing with every passing day.
This invader, though, claims to come in peace.
The Southwind 12 theaters, 3433 Iowa St., has been partially open since the end of the spring semester, with seven of its planned 12 theaters screening first-run films. An adult ticket is $6 for evening shows.
The Southwind 12 is owned by Hollywood Theaters, a Dallas company that also owns the Hillcrest, Varsity and Crown Cinema theaters in Lawrence.
Upon its anticipated June 17 completion, the theater will almost double the number of first-run movie screens in Lawrence.
Jon Ratzlaff, Southwind 12 house manager, said the theater's entry into the Lawrence market may serve a useful purpose for area theaters.
"With the mass of movies that comes out now, way too often a movie that's doing well has to be moved out quickly to let the next one in," Ratzlaff said. "Now, movies can do business for a lot longer."
agreed.
David Innes, general manager of Dickinson Theater, 2339 Iowa St..
"It might be less likely that a movie will stick around for a long time. We won't see another 20-week run like 'Forrest Gump' again," Innes said. "The same number of people will be going to the shows, but they'll all be there in the first week or two."
Ashleigh Roberts / KANSAN
"If the screens Southwind 12 Theaters, 3433 Iowa St., now is open for movie goers to enjoy mainstream films. are there, the pro-The theater double the number of first-run movies screens in Lawrence.
Innes said the Lawrence market could support the new theater.
nies will fill them," Innes said. "If we build them, they'll come."
Innes said that the size of Lawrence made competition between area theaters nonexistent.
"The city isn't big enough to have the same film sent to more than one theater," he said. "From the consumer standpoint, this will just give movie goers more nice places to see a movie."
He said the theater would show mainstream films, but they are
also interested in showing art films.
"Of course," he said, "who wants to steal money from Liberty Hall?"
Ratzlaff, who was previously a manager at the Varsity Theater, 1015 Massachusetts St., said Southwind 12 had a number of features that would make the movie companies favor it at first.
"We've got stadium seating in all of the theaters, every auditorium is digital capable and I think we've got the nicest chairs of any theater in town," Ratzlaff said.
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WASHINGTON — The United States will oppose any attempt by African nations to resume trade of rare African elephant parts, said Clinton administration officials yesterday.
Some environmental groups have raised concerns over a call by Zimbabwe and two of its neighbors, Namibia and Botswana, to resume limited commercial trade in elephant ivory.
Protection of the African elephant is expected to be the most contentious issue facing the 136 delegates meeting next week in Zimbabwe at the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species. The group, known as CITES, imposed a trade ban on African elephant parts in 1989.
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"These proposals would pose unacceptable risks to elephant populations," the Interior Department said in a statement.
Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana, argued that their elephant herds are thriving and said they would ask the conference to allow a controlled resumption of ivory exports to Japan. Any change in the 1989 ban would require a two-thirds vote by conference delegates
Environmental groups contend that easing the restrictions would send the wrong signal to poachers and lead to the killing of thousands of elephants in Africa. They blame even talk of an ease for the recent slaughter of 200 elephants in the Congo.
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