I remember the College Theater well and spent many happy hours there during the 1950’s with my little friends. My parents were friends with the woman who sold the tickets, and her boyfriend, a nice man who managed the theater. He later committed suicide in the theater and I remember the woman crying and my mother talking with her. Of course I wasn’t privy to any of that information. I saw HORROR OF DRACULA there, and years later, while attending a film festival in Cairo, Egypt, sat with Christopher Lee who portrayed Count Dracula so very well, and told him how much he frightened my friend Martin Jacobson, who ran screaming up the aisle when Count Dracula made his first appearance on screen. “But my dear boy, he said, I haven’t played Dracula in many, many years!” When I returned to the States, I looked him up on the IMDb and saw to my delight, that he had indeed played Dracula recently. The College Theater, the Flushing RKO Keith’s, and the Flushing Prospect, were the places where I learned to live and love the movies. Jay Newton
I remember the College Theater well and spent many happy hours there during the 1950’s with my little friends. My parents were friends with the woman who sold the tickets, and her boyfriend, a nice man who managed the theater. He later committed suicide in the theater and I remember the woman crying and my mother talking with her. Of course I wasn’t privy to any of that information. I saw HORROR OF DRACULA there, and years later, while attending a film festival in Cairo, Egypt, sat with Christopher Lee who portrayed Count Dracula so very well, and told him how much he frightened my friend Martin Jacobson, who ran screaming up the aisle when Count Dracula made his first appearance on screen. “But my dear boy, he said, I haven’t played Dracula in many, many years!” When I returned to the States, I looked him up on the IMDb and saw to my delight, that he had indeed played Dracula recently. The College Theater, the Flushing RKO Keith’s, and the Flushing Prospect, were the places where I learned to live and love the movies. Jay Newton