Screeno to punch out the winning numbers on their cards. Apparently, on most nights patrons paid a modest fee for their cards, but one night a week was designated as “Bank Night” in which the audience would get free Screeno cards with their movie tickets. A 1937 romantic-comedic-musical movie entitled “Thrill of a Lifetime” featured a song called “Keno, Screeno and You.” Screeno Screeno (a portmanteau of "screen bingo") was a form of bingo played in American movie theaters during the Great Depression of the 1930s. To bolster attendance on slow weeknights, the neighborhood movie houses would feature the game in
Keno Province is considered by some to be cognate with the name of the Kinu River, a major river of the North Kantō region that arises in the territory of ancient Keno Province. Keno Province , also known as Kenu Province, is an old province of Japan prior to the Nara Period. Keno was located in the area of Tochigi Prefecture and Gumma Prefecture. Prior to the administrative reforms of the Taihō Code, Keno Province encompassed the area that subsequently would be divided into Kōzuke Province ("Upper Ke(no)," "i.e." the part of Keno that was closer to the contemporary capital of Japan,