Criterion Theatre
NE corner of Broadway & 44th Street,
New York,
NY
10036
NE corner of Broadway & 44th Street,
New York,
NY
10036
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Here’s a 1924 view of the Criterion’s corner entrance: cuny
Seventy-seven years ago tonight, MGM’s “Viva Villa!,” a huge outdoor epic with Wallace Beery in the title role, opened its world premiere engagement at the Criterion Theatre on a reserved-seat roadshow policy. Two performances were given daily, with a third added on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays. Tickets were scaled from 50 cents to a top of $2. The B&W David O. Selznick production was being promoted as MGM’s mightiest since the record-breaking (and silent) “The Big Parade.”
Interesting.
Hi Daisy you posted your comment on the Criterion Theatre that closed back in 1935. It was at the same location as the one you worked at.
Here is the right link for your theatre.
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I, Daisy Gonzalez, worked at the Criterion Theatre for almost 10years as it’s manager. We had some of the best movies open there on Fridays, Terminator, which allowed me to meet Arnold. Lethal Weapon, I meet Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, plus Michael Mann. Die Head. I walked Andy Warhol into the theatre. Played Arthur for a year. Meet Roger Moore, had my picture taken with Sugar Ray Leonard and the list goes on.
It was the best 10 years of my life. I worked with a great staff, Mr. Simmons, Ms. Esther and Effie. I loved working on Broadway and watching 42nd street change. Now it’s gone and Broadway is not the same.
Renewing link.
Paul Wegener’s terrifying Expressionist masterpiece, “The Golem: How He Came Into the World,” made it’s US premier at the Criterion (New York Times, June 19, 1921 p. 67). Also featured in that program, the third chapter of Tony’s Sarg’s Almanac; “Wandering Tribes of the Sahara,” a Kineto review and “Scenes of Prague,” a Prizma scenic. At a time when the best feature films typically ran for one or two weeks, “The Golem” enjoyed a three and one-half month stay at the Criterion.
If the images are still in the scrapbook, you should be able to view them by changing the beginning of the links thusly: View link
Well those four links are no good. And Warren deletes pictures that were once in his photobucket from time to time.
Correction to links to Warren G. Harris’s from his 5/1/2006 post:
The original interior as the Lyric (1895):
www.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/criterionlyric.jpg
The stage as re-built for the Vitagraph Theatre (1914). This permanent setting had a drop curtain in front of it that was raised just before a performance started:
www.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/criterionstage.jpg
A fuzzy image of the Vitagraph’s box seats adjoining the stage:
www.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/criterionboxes.jpg
The Criterion in 1933, showcasing a German import released by Universal:
www.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/criterionsos.jpg
Basically, you want to remove “i18” from the domain name in the links. Looks like Photobucket reorganized their structure at one point.
Did you purchase that photo?
The Criterion is on the right in this 1933 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/5kke7u
Some of my images at Photobucket don’t work because I dismantled them to make room for newer ones. But in recent months, Photobucket has given us more space, and I now have more than 800 images on display. I’m in the process of returning some of the discarded, but usually only if they show theatres (as opposed to ads, which can easily be found in vintage newspapers}.
Gents, both links work for me. The first just gives me the ad image. The second goes to Flicr.
Warren,
I am at a public library computer. Before logging in to make this comment, I entered the CT site anonymously and clicked on the March 6th link of mine you were having trouble with. It worked!!!! How come I got it (without logging in under any user name) and you can’t get it? This I do not understand. It is possible that the problem you are encountering lies elsewhere, though I haven’t a clue where that might be. I think I shall continue to post my occasional photo contributions using the direct link to them on Flickr.
I used to use Photobucket and still have an account, but Flickr has been a much more versatile way to store and share all my photos of all types and create topical sets and have people comment on them and request them for inclusion in topical groups. CT usage has actually been only a small part of it. I really do like Flickr. If I decide to use Photobucket for CT purposes, I will certainly keep Flickr, where I now have well over 5,000 photos….family, travel, cinema, old postcards etc. I’ll just have to link to the page containing the photo, rather than to the photo itself. With regard to your own great photo-posts, I’ve noticed that the Photobucket links on some of the older ones no longer work.
Gerald, I can’t enter an opinion, since I use a different scrapbook provider (Photobucket, which I find to be reliable and easy to work with).
Yes, Warren, I always hit “preview” first and the previews work. But from now on I will submit links to the whole scrapbook page rather than the actual photo’s URL as I have long been doing without problems resulting. There is something askew here, and I can’t figure it out yet, but I think Flickr is now denying certain kinds of direct links to the photos while allowing links to entire Flickr pages.
Gerald, as the owner of the scrapbook, you may see it from a perspective that others can not. I can see the link posted by “Lost Memory” but not the one posted by you. Do you do a “Preview” of your postings before hitting “Submit?”
Warren, I can’t explain it. It works for me here now.
Here is another way to access that link.
Gerald, how does one view this image? When I click on the link, the screen goes white. I had the same problem with a posting of yours several days ago.
Ad for the 1915 Italian film Christus which played here in 1917.
Actually to keep things as accurate as possible a small edit to my October 31, 2006 post. The additions or alterations to the organ were substantial enough to change the organ to Opus 32.
“I thought I made a mistake once, and then I found out I was wrong!”
Another Mighty Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ, Opus 293, a 2 Manual/6 Rank was shipped to this theater on March 19, 1920. It was reposessed and went to the Capital now Cox Capital Theater in Macon, Georgia in December of 1925. It then went to a private person in Tucker, Georiga and was “OK” as of November 7, 1975.
If you know anything else about any of the Old Criterion Theater’s organs, please email us!
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