Comments from Brad Smith

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Brad Smith commented about Loew's State Theatre on Apr 24, 2010 at 2:27 pm

Thanks for your good words, Tinseltoes. Did you happen to notice that Barto & Mann were also on stage in the 1935 photographs from the New York Public Library Digital Library you posted last month?

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Brad Smith commented about Loew's Pitkin Theatre on Apr 24, 2010 at 2:24 pm

Thank you, Tinseltoes. I will update the caption to reflect this fact.

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Brad Smith commented about Kinema Theatre on Apr 24, 2010 at 11:59 am

Click here for a photograph of the Kinema Theatre taken in 1930 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Loew's Jersey Theatre on Apr 24, 2010 at 11:53 am

Click here for a photograph of the Loew’s Jersey Theatre taken in 1930 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Regent Theatre on Apr 24, 2010 at 11:19 am

Click here for a photograph of the Regent Theatre taken in 1929 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Loew's State Theatre on Apr 24, 2010 at 11:03 am

Click on the year for photographs of Loew’s State Theatre taken in 1930, 1938, and another photograph in 1938 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Indiana Theatre on Apr 24, 2010 at 10:44 am

Click here for a photograph of the Indiana Theatre taken in 1930 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Landmark Theatre on Apr 24, 2010 at 10:38 am

Click here for a photograph of the Loew’s State [Landmark] Theatre taken in 1930 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Loew's Oriental Theatre on Apr 24, 2010 at 10:32 am

Click here for a photograph of the Loew’s Oriental Theatre taken in 1930 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Wang Theatre on Apr 24, 2010 at 10:13 am

Click here for a photograph of the Metropolitan [Wang] Theatre taken in 1929 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Loew's Pitkin Theatre on Apr 24, 2010 at 9:27 am

Click here for photograph taken of Loew’s Pitkin Theatre in 1930 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Paramount Theatre on Apr 24, 2010 at 9:05 am

Click here for a photograph taken of Fox’s Great Lakes (Paramount) Theatre in 1931 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Paramount Theatre on Apr 23, 2010 at 1:54 pm

Thank you for your good words Life’s-too-short. Click here for another photograph of the Paramount Theatre taken in 1937 by George Mann. As in Tinseltoes' entry above, Martha Raye is again on screen, this time in “Double of Nothing” with Bing Crosby.

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Brad Smith commented about Loew's Paradise Theatre on Apr 22, 2010 at 5:27 pm

Click on the year for photographs taken of Loew’s Paradise Theatre in 1930 and 1932 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Ohio Theatre on Apr 22, 2010 at 3:08 pm

Click here for a photograph of Loew’s United Artists Theatre taken in 1931 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Paramount Theatre on Apr 22, 2010 at 2:31 pm

Click on the year for photographs of the Paramount Theatre taken in 1932 , 1935 and 1939 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Shubert Theater on Apr 21, 2010 at 8:20 pm

Thank you for your good words, Hank. I haven’t had time to link specific Cinema Treasures' theaters to corresponding photographs yet, but I should be able to do that within the next week or two.

Your mention in an earlier post of elephants falling through to the former YMCA swimming pool suggested to me posting a couple of photographs of vaudeville elephants at the Palace Theatre in Chicago in 1937. You can see the first photograph by clicking here and the second one by clicking here. Both of the photographs were taken by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto & Mann.

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Brad Smith commented about Shubert Theater on Apr 3, 2010 at 3:11 pm

Click here for a photograph of the RKO Shubert taken in 1936.

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Brad Smith commented about Palace Theater on Apr 2, 2010 at 3:33 pm

Click here for a photograph of Poli’s Palace taken in 1929.

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Brad Smith commented about Academy of Music on Mar 31, 2010 at 11:01 am

Click here for a photograph of the Academy of Music taken in 1931.

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Brad Smith commented about Oaks Theater on Feb 14, 2010 at 9:04 am

Cinema Treasures gets a mention in this article about the uncertain future of the Oaks Theater.

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Brad Smith commented about California Theater on Feb 14, 2010 at 8:31 am

Click here to read an article about plans to restore the Beaux-Arts style California Theater into a community performing arts center.

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Brad Smith commented about Fays Theatre on Feb 13, 2010 at 2:14 pm

Click here for a photograph of Fays Theatre taken c. 1937.

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Brad Smith commented about Warner Theatre on Feb 7, 2010 at 11:40 am

This article in Billboard (3-19-49) reports a one-time, one-week vaudeville show at the Warner after four years without any live performances. The article also reports that, at the time, Loew’s Capitol was the only theater in DC with a regular stage-screen schedule.

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Brad Smith commented about RKO Boston Theatre on Dec 17, 2009 at 4:08 pm

This photograph of the RKO Keith-Boston Theater was taken in 1935 by George Mann of the comedy dance team, Barto and Mann.