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Modernized auditorium (1939)
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Fluorescent murals flanked the proscenium…The firm of John & Drew Eberson handled the complete modernization of the theatre, in anticipation of the New York World’s Fair. Costs were shared by the Skouras circuit, which operated the Merrick, and Century Theatres, which owned it.