According to the NYT it did just that while the 14th Street location still ran Vaudeville. The article specific states “Keith & Proctors Twenty Third Street”.
In 1952 Brandt sold the Palestine and Charles to Samuel Friedman who then sold them in 1956 to an unnamed company willing to install wide screens and air conditioning.
…The Cortlandt and West Street corporation in conjuction with Solomon & Khan, builders, have altered their plans, drawn by Gronenburg & Leuchtag, architects, and are now erecting on their plot at the southeast corner of Cortlandt and West Street a moving picture theatre of approximately 5,000 square feet with exits on West and Washington Street…
Does anyone have any idea what theatre this may have eventually been?
According to a New York Times June 1991 article, theatre historian Michael R, Miller claims this opened as the Pastime in 1908 and was designed by a Henry G. Harris. It was demolished in 1958.
If Manhattan theatres still get paid house nuts, it would cost Paramount more to stay on screen at the Zieg after week four than the box office could bring in. It makes more sense to stay on two or three screens on 42nd Street with staggered show times and pull the Ziegfeld print. This is reason it often goes dark between engagements.
During the Cineplex Odeon days there were several distributors willing to support keeping it open, hence the exclusives and the long runs to empty seats.
The Art opened on October 7, 1940 with the first-run of the 1933 French film “Whirlpool” (“Remous”) which was allegedly based on the banned novel LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER.
My 1934 Yearbook lists that Village as well but the Paramount Week 1923 ad lists a York Theatre at that address and a Village theatre at 15th and 8th Avenue. That latter one maps as the 115 Eighth Avenue address while the 189 Eighth Avenue location would be closer to 20th and arguably no longer in the Village.
Although as Warren has mentioned, those Paramount ads are not really reliable.
The Irving Place was a double features subrun arthouse from 1941 to 1950 with a heavy emphasis on Russian films during the war years.
Ken, thanks for keeping London history real.
According to the NYT it did just that while the 14th Street location still ran Vaudeville. The article specific states “Keith & Proctors Twenty Third Street”.
This stopped showing films in 1973.
In 1952 Brandt sold the Palestine and Charles to Samuel Friedman who then sold them in 1956 to an unnamed company willing to install wide screens and air conditioning.
Does anyone know which years this operated as the Stuyvesant and whether it showed movies as that?
A 1908 NYT article names the Keith & Proctor on 23rd Street as being renamed Bijou Dream, not this one.
The Cinema Village opened on October 5, 1964 with Ingmar Bergman’s “All These Women”, not 1963 as previously stated.
Like the Quad, it spent much of the late seventies blurring the lines between porn and arthouse.
It is operating as a twin in January 1999 and a triplex by March 1999.
Thanks for the wonderful insight into the neighborhood, Judith!
I would imagine the Golden Rule was one of the blinking fronts but the Ruby was not yet open in 1908. Any ideas on what the third house may have been?
During the leasing of the New Law in March 1922, a blurb in the NYT lists two Mayers and a Schneider as the directors of M & S.
E. Mayer, C. Mayer and L. Schneider.
The Gate showed movies here for two years (1967-68), probably longer than the Jean Renoir or the Camelot ever operated.
Gate should be added as an aka and 162 Second Avenue should finally be added as the best likely address.
This from the New York Times July 12, 1927:
…The Cortlandt and West Street corporation in conjuction with Solomon & Khan, builders, have altered their plans, drawn by Gronenburg & Leuchtag, architects, and are now erecting on their plot at the southeast corner of Cortlandt and West Street a moving picture theatre of approximately 5,000 square feet with exits on West and Washington Street…
Does anyone have any idea what theatre this may have eventually been?
For the sake of consistency, this name should be changed to The Pearl Theatre Company.
It ran as the Film Guild for a little over a year, changing to the 8th Street Playhouse in May 1930.
According to a New York Times June 1991 article, theatre historian Michael R, Miller claims this opened as the Pastime in 1908 and was designed by a Henry G. Harris. It was demolished in 1958.
According to a New York Times June 1991 article this was designed by Hoppin & Koen.
This link provides some insight into this socially unique “treasure” as well as Show World across the street.
http://dilettantepress.com/BOASNEWYORKSEX.html
The address was once the popular Oyster Restaurant but that may have been a previous building or the 8th Avenue back of the old Astor Hotel.
There was also a short-lived IMAX inside the Trocadero that may have used this same space.
Advertised as the Village Theatre in a Paramount Week ad for 1919.
If Manhattan theatres still get paid house nuts, it would cost Paramount more to stay on screen at the Zieg after week four than the box office could bring in. It makes more sense to stay on two or three screens on 42nd Street with staggered show times and pull the Ziegfeld print. This is reason it often goes dark between engagements.
During the Cineplex Odeon days there were several distributors willing to support keeping it open, hence the exclusives and the long runs to empty seats.
This intro should be corrected as follows;
The Art opened on October 7, 1940 with the first-run of the 1933 French film “Whirlpool” (“Remous”) which was allegedly based on the banned novel LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER.
There was also the small cinema on the side street.
/theaters/2582/
The Trocadero still has a cinema.
/theaters/16993/
Please do, LM. Maybe others will help fill in the gaps.
Hmmm! I am now even more confused than ever.
My 1934 Yearbook lists that Village as well but the Paramount Week 1923 ad lists a York Theatre at that address and a Village theatre at 15th and 8th Avenue. That latter one maps as the 115 Eighth Avenue address while the 189 Eighth Avenue location would be closer to 20th and arguably no longer in the Village.
Although as Warren has mentioned, those Paramount ads are not really reliable.