Little Lenox Theatre
52 East 78th Street,
New York,
NY
10021
52 East 78th Street,
New York,
NY
10021
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The Little Lenox Theatre was primarily a live performance space but, through much of the 1930s, presented matinee movies for children on Fridays and Saturdays.
It was, at various times, also known as the Lenox Theatre (1917-1918), not to be confused with the uptown Lenox Theatre at Lenox Ave. and W. 111th, and the Lenox Hill Theatre (1923-1925), not to be confused with the later Lenox Hill Theatre at 331 East 70th Street. For a brief period, the performance space was known as the East 78th Street Playhouse (1963-1964).
I believe the theatre and the building in which it was situated were part of Finch College, which closed in the mid-1970s, and that the edifice still stands as a 40-unit cooperative apartment building.
More information (and inevitable argument about whether this theatre should be listed) would be welcome.
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Listed in the Film Daily Yearbook;1930 edition as the Little Lenox Theatre with a seating capacity of 251.
This advertised in the NY Times in the early thirties as the LENOX LITTLE THEATRE.
There was a Lenox Theatre showing movies in 1968.
This listed in the 1937 Film Daily Yearbook as the Lenox House.
On Friday, December 6th, 1935, this theatre had a tiny ad as The Lenox at the very bottom of the movie page in The New York Times. Booked for that three-day weekend was the subsequent-run “Ginger,” with juvenile star Jane Withers, giving matinee performances only at 2:15 and 4:15pm. Address provided was 52 East 78th Street, with telephone number of BUtterfield 8-8454 (same exchange as used in the title of a movie that earned guess who an ‘Oscar’?).