Dewey Theatre
126 East 14th Street,
New York,
NY
10003
126 East 14th Street,
New York,
NY
10003
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More than a century ago, on Sunday, April 5th, 1908, the Dewey Theatre was advertised in The New York Times with eight acts of vaudeville, topped by the Watermelon Trust and Ben Welch, and assorted moving pictures projected via “The Deweyscope.” The matinee started at 2:15pm, and the evening performance at 8:15pm. Tickets were priced at 25 and 50 cents. This was the last day of the engagement. Opening the next day for a week’s run, was a similar program, with the Kentucky Belles heading the vaudeville acts.
Leon Schinasi was my grandfather and his father was Solomon!
-Rob Goldsmith, son of Betti Schinasi Goldsmith
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NY Times July 13, 1915
FIGHTING TO REOPEN OLD DEWEY THEATRE; Big Tim" Sullivan’s Kinsmen to Appear Before Board of Examiners Today. REALTY OWNERS OPPOSED Building Used as Playhouse Illegally Ever Since It Was a Church, C.H. Strong Asserts.
An attempt to have the Dewey Theatre in Fourteenth Street reopened as a place of amusement will be made today, when counsel representing the estate of “Big Tim” Sullivan will appear before the Board of Examiners in the Building Bureau in the Municipal Building and seek to show that sufficient changes have been made in the theatre to comply with the fire laws.
NY Times August 24, 1915
DEWEY THEATRE CAN REOPEN; Superintendent of Buildings Loses Suit Over Permit.