"The booth is open!"
About an hour later, Hendriks plunked down his twenty dollars before the efficient-looking girl in the ticket-cage and was handed a bulky envelope.
"These my tickets?"
"That's right, sir."
A little puzzled, but happy, he turned away and dug in the envelope. He pulled out, not the familiar pasteboards, but two costly-looking sumptuous engraved invitations on thick stiff paper. They said:
You are invited
To the first showing anywhere in the world.
of
ULTRARAMA
the sensational new film process
realer than life!
Wednesday, April 25, 1973
at 8:00 PM
Clutching the invitations as if they were his leases on life, Hendriks stepped into the quiktrans and moments later stepped out again just outside the door.
His wife was waiting for him with an expectant look on her face.
"Did you get them?"
"I sure did! Two engraved invitations, at ten bucks a throw."