 Attendees included members of the film industry, city officials from Oakland and San Francisco, and faculty and students from the University of California, Berkeley The following week, on August 31, it was also the first film shown at the grand opening of Fox's Monroe Theatre in Chicago, in an invitation-only showing involving studio executives and members of the film industry.To encourage attendance at further showings at the Monroe, the studio partnered with the Navy's local recruitment office to produce one-sheets encouraging men to see the film before enlisting.In Springfield, Massachusetts and St. Louis, it was also the debut film shown at theaters re-opening after renovations.